They made it apparent that St.Louis was in a higher state of grace than she could have claimed to be in my time.

But now that I canvass the figures narrowly, I suspect that the telegraph mutilated them.

It cannot be that there are more than 150,000 Catholics in the town; the other 250,000 must be classified as Protestants.

Out of these 250,000, according to this questionable telegram, only 26,362 attended church and Sunday-school, while out of the 150,000 Catholics, 116,188 went to church and Sunday-school..