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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05

day. He may not ask to see her nome
from meeting, and burning, coal in the
parlor CRATE on Sunday evening is con-
sidered rank ileresy. After a rustic
swain among the Omishes has in some
way picked out the girl he thinks ne
might like to marry, he conhdes III one
of the elders of the church The eicer
in turn tells the father of the girl. ana
the father, if he approves of the match,
gives the elders message to the dauSh-
ter. If her answer is favorable the
prospective wedding is announced IN
church the next Sunday. IL her dH-
swer is unfavorable, the young man Is
supposed to renounce all hope In tndl
direction and look somewhere else lol
a marital partner.
The only proper way to salute one an
other among the Omishes is by kissing.
Shaking hands is considered cold ana
soulless method of greeting, and IS one
Of the forms of punishment visited upon
a recalcitrant church member. ON sun
day mornings a. cody disciple, not TOO
young and goOd-looking, stations MN
self at the outer door of the cnurcn
and kisses all members in good stand
ing as they go away. IL he sklps
brother or sister it is the cause OF gos-
sip Immediately, and it is understood
that there has been a grave ln1rac-
ton of rules.
A CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE
Saturday is market day, and then
there is a continuous osculatory per
Torrance going on in the streets OF the
little village. The men embrace anu
kiss each other, and the women nAsu
wise kiss only the members OF their
own SEX
Sunday service at the church begins
early and lasts all day. The food IS
cooked and served at the meetlng-
house, and strangers are always wei
come. The elders are very strict IN
enforcing their church discipline. Ihey
order penances for all offenses. one OF
the most ordinary punishments, inf1lct-
ed for minor offenses, such as PRIDE,
boasting, ETC., is to condemn the cui-
prit to attend meeting on foot. NO
matter what the condition of the ROADS,
if the elders so decree, any toplofty
young man who persists in wearing
neckties or patent leather shoes VIII
be compelled to trudSe to church on
foot The girl that he had decided 10
mention to the elder may drive by III
a carriage, and she may look at him
with scorn. but ne has to grin and bear
it in silence.
If a member falls under the ban OF
the elders he is boycotted by his fell
Iow-members. They refuse to buy his
corn; they won't attend his wife's
quiltings, and refuse to hold any inter
course with him until he expiates MS
offense.
The members of the Omish sect take
no part in politics, and never vote. They
do not employ physicians. They never
use tobacco, but drink a good deal OF
wine and beer They abhor secret So
cieties. Reading newspapers is not
strictly forbidden, but is considered
frivolous and risky. They are opposed
to war under any circumstances. Near
ly all of the Omishes are PROSPEROUS
farmers, many of them wealthy, and
all extremely careful to live up to their
contracts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05
EXTENSION OF LAcKAwANNA.
Trunk Line to New York Will Utilize
Hudson River Tunnel.

New York, March 4.-The Tribune
says: Rumors of far-reaching plans Of
improvement and expansion of the
Lackawanna system are afoat in finan-
cial and railroad circles, pl-s which
are said to include the extension of the
road westward as a trunk line and its
entrance into New York City as the sole
owner and user of the uncOmpleted
Hudson river tunnel There is owing
on the tunnel 100000, and the prop
erty is to be advertised for sale within
one month. 1t is rumored that the D.
L. & w. railroad may outbid the tunnel
reorganization Company and secure the
tunnel for its own use.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05
Bigmarck's Iron Nerve

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05
N. C. & o. PROGRESS.
California Road Is Now at a Point
Beyond Amadee.

Redding. Cal, March 1.-The con-
struction crews on the Nevada. Califor-
MIA & Oregon railroad have reached a
point twelve miles north of Amadee,
Lassen county, and are rapidly extend
ing the roadbed across the Madeline
plains toward Alturas and southeastern
Oregon.
The haste of the narrow guage peo-
pie in throwing their road forward is
said to be occasioned by the approach
of a road southeastward from Grants
Pass, Ore, which is making for the rich
stock regions of Klamath and Lake
counties, Oregon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05
A PECULIAR PEOPLE.
omish Sect Has Many Queer Practices
and Customs.
Chicago Record.)


Cissna Park. Ills, has an eccentric re-
ligious sect which forbids its male
members. to wear neckties, cultivate
moustache, smoke, vote or go court
ing. Women are enjoined from wear
ing trimming of any kind on their hats.
Not even a very little ribbon or chick
en- feather is allowed, Fashion maya
zines are looked upon as tempting
lures sent out by the evil one, and any
sister who dares 10 sew a ruffie on her
skirt is disciplined and made the SUD-
ject of special prayer.
BY outsiders this strange sect is call
ed Omish. The members resent this,
however. and call themselves the Chris
tan apostolic, or German church. There
are about 1000 members of the church,
nearly all farmers, and all noted for
their sobriety, frugality and strict hon
esty. They live as q distinct little COM
monwealth set down on the Illinois
prairie, and governed entirely by
church law. In fact, it is grave mis-
demeanor for any member of the con-
gregation to appeal to the state au-
thorities in the settlement of disputes.
Differences which, among other people,
would lead to lawsuits, are decided by
a council of the elders of the church.
The members dress in the plainest of
clothes The women wear small black
aprons over calico dresses. Their head
gear consists of a black straw sailor
hat, entirely devoid of trimming. The
men are nearly all clean shaven- They
are permitted to wear boards, but no
moustaches. The moustache is under
a ban, as the elders say it conduces to
vanity and the dreadful pride which
goes before a fall.
NO CHANCE FOR COURTSHIP.
Courtship is away below par among
the Omish of Cissna Park. The only
opportunity young man has of choos-
ing partner for life among them IS by
casting sleeps eyes across the broad
aisle which separates the men and
women worshiDers in church ON Sun
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05
TRAFFIC RESUMED.

Denver & Rio Grande Open On All
Branches.
Denver, Colo, March 4.--The Denver
& Rio Grande railroad is again open to
the west and trains are moving today
on all divisions of the road except the
Blue River branch. The Colorado Mid
land is also making better progress in
opening its road west of Leadville than
at any time for the past three weeks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05

BY the ernperors orders the Thier-
garten, which is crown property,
though it is the chief park of Berlin,
is to be modernized, About 10000 trees
are TO be feIed, ornamental shrubs are
to be planted, new walks, children's
Fairgrounds and tennis courts are to
be created, and other improvements are
to be made.
On Wednesday next the emperor Will
give a diplomatic dinner, the guests in
Guiding the wives of the military at
taehes and others.
There appears to be strong Droba-
bility that the minister of agriculture,
Baron Won Hammerstein-LiXten Will
be forced to resign because of the meat
inspection bill, which he disapproves OF
as being anti-Agrarian.
Prince nlohe-Langenburg, it is
understood. viii shortly resign the i'm
portant Office of governor general of the
reichsland (Alsace-Lorraine) and will
be succeeded either by his son, Prince
Ernest, or by Prince Adolphus of
Schaumberg -Lippe, Emperor Williams
brother-in-law. The Office is lucrative,
with a residence at Strasburg
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-05
EMPERoR AT BREMEN.

Emperor William arrived at Bremen
this afternoon, and was received at the
railroad station by the burgomaster
and the principal civil and military au-
thorities. He then drove to the famous
Rathskeller, among the hearty cheers of
the crowd assembled.
The reichstag agreed today by a large
majority to the bill providing for the
establishment of a special Bavarian di-
vision of the military court in Berlin.
This is an outcome of the arrangement
made by the emperor when he was
passing through Munich on his return
from Palestine, with the prince regent
of Bavaria concerning the procedure Of
military courts.
Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chan
cellor, said the federated governments
had agreed that no further modification
of the law should be made without a
fresh arrangement with Bavaria. The
Bavarian minister. Herr Lorchenfeldt,
said Bavaria adhered to the view that
Bavaria possessed special reserved
rights in the matter which were pro-
tected by the bill, adding that Prince
Hohenlohe's statement furnished the
guarantees which Bavaria demanded.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20

| the newest scheme with the heads of
and take a new tack.
Recently Brigham Young in an inter
view printed in two Chicago newspapers
thus delivered himself: 'Polygamy
was abandoned in 1890, when the late
President Woodruff issued a manifesto
advising that the contracting of poly
gamous marriages should cease. and
that Mormons comply as closely as
possible with the laws of the country.
This we, who have more than one wife,
have tried to do, but we have not aban-
doned our plural wives, and will not.
The law requires that a polygam1st
shall abandon all wives but his first or
legal wife. 1 would be recreant to ev-
cry sense of honor if 1 did so. l en-
tered into covenant with those women
in good faith. There is nothing in the
constitution of the United States which
abrogates a contract, and my covenant
with these women is a contract which
no one can force me to break. You can
Jail me if you please. I can stand
that"
That's all right, but on a former oc-
casion when this man was threatened
with Imprisonment for like cause, he
quietly skipped away to Europe. The
Cannon case is going into court; it's
outcome will be significant If 1T Is true
that these Mormons are seriously pro-
posing a return to Illinois or to Mis-
souri-where Brigham Young says they
will build finer temple than the one
at Salt Lake-if they try that course
they are likely to verify the prediction
of the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat, which
is that their days will be short and
| full of trouble"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
The Chinese Wall.

~ HE Chinese wall must CO. That
is the decree of the dowager
empress, and what the dowager
empress says always goes. Presumably
the great majority of the 400. 0O0, 600
Chinese people hate to part with it. but
the dOwager empress doesn't have to
consult their wishes. She feels that
China has been pushed to the wall by
European civilization and that its vio-
lent removal will have a good effect in
breaking down the barriers of pretu-
dice and superstition. If we had the
wall in this country we would keep it
intact with religious care. Think what
an excellent backstop it would make
for baseball games, and how service
able it would be for bill board purposes.
Inside of a year we would plaster it
from end to the other with circus post
ers. book beer signs and lurid adver-
tisements of Bears soap. Thrifty
Americans would find more than one
way 10 use that wall in their business
In a sentimental sense it is a pity
that the Chinese wall must go-that
modern dynamite must destroy in sec
onds the work of centuries. The earlier
sections were built 1882 years before
Christ. but the wall did not receive it's
finishing touches until 204 B. C. Off
and on millions of men Were employed
! in its construction-more labor was
spent upon it than upon the pyramids.
All told there is nearly two thousand
miles of it. 1t was built for the purpose
of keeping out hostile tribes, but it
rever served that purpose to an appre-
cable extent-certainly not in recent
years.
The dowager purposes to take the
stone to build new cities. There is said
to be enough material in it to build one
hundred cities the size of Picking. How
the civilized world would be startled
by a serious proposal to pull down the
pyramids in order to get a vast guam
tity of building material! But for some
knocking the Chinese wall to pieces.
Little respect is shown for its age. On
the contrary, for centuries it has been
held in contempt everywhere outside
of China Doubtless the Chinese them
| selves are feeling spasms OF indignant
| horror. But tine old dowager has pu,
her foot down. It's an exceedingly lit.
| tie foot, but oh my!
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20

scale than in the East, and It is quite
within the range of possibility that
Idaho has developed a larger, more
quito than the celebrated New Jer-
sey species. There have been stories
of New Jersey mosquitoes as big as
humming birds and as persistent as
Alger has been holding his cabinet
job. But we do not remember ever
having read of the New Jersey mos
quito breaking up church services
and compelling people to flee to the
mountains. The Idaho mosquito is
clearly entitled to the heavyweight
championship.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20

Il PLAGUE of mosquitoes rivaling
the plaques that were visited
upon Egypt in the days of
Pharaoh has fallen upon the town
of American Falls, Idaho. According
to Boise dispatches to the Standard
people are being driven from their
homes by mosquitoes" and are 'Ieav-
ing for the mountains as fast as pos
sible in order to escape absolute tor
ture." Sunday there was IAN attempt
10 hold divine services. but the mos
Ruitoes broke up the meeting. preach
sr and congregation feeling from the
building covered with spots" Ameri-
can Falls is a town on the Snake
river, but this is not necessarily a
snake story. In the West pretty
nearly everything is on a grander
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
Here and There.

The stairway leading to the tower of the
Philadelphia city hail contains sos steps,
and is said to be the tallest continuous
stairway in the world.
English naval engineers have lightened
the machinery in their third class cruisers
by $50 tons. Their torpedo boat destroy
ers make 400 revolutions per minute.
An old-fashioned fiddling contest was
held a few days ago at Dyersburg, Tenn.
and there were more than 200 contest
ants. Ex-Governor Bob Taylor awarded
the prizes.
The English Bible society. which in
these matters acts with the American BIZ
BILE society, has translated the Bible into
Tagal, Vicol and Ilaeuno, three languages
in the Philippines.
new law has just gone into effect in
Massachusetts, forbidding the performance
OF the marriage ceremony by justices of
the peace unless they have been specially
designated for that purpose.
Since Jan. 30 colleges, academies and
seminares and eight art galleries in the
United States have received gifts amount
ing to $27, 072,35S, not counting contribu-
tons of less than 5000.
The Russian government has decided to
pay the dues for passing the Suez canal
on all Russian merchant steamers for the
next 10 years. The object of the govern
ment is to increase Russian trade and
navigation in the Pacific.
A girl who came from Saxony two years
ago, and knew only her native language.
has taken first honors in a public school
in New York with an average of 94.S. She
ranked third among all the grammar
school graduates in the city.
Admiral Dewey's salary amounts to
so a day; President McKiney's is
equal to sl31 a day; cabinet officers. the
vice president and the speaker of the
house get s22 % day; senators and con-
gressmen 1880, and the chief justice of
the supreme court s2s day.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20
Civilized Cruelty.

~ CABLE message from Vienna
brings fearful story of official
! cruelty at Moesa, in Hungary
The local officials, including the judge
of the court, are accused of torturing
six prisoners, three men and three wom-
en-, in a manner that is shocking to hui
manity. So horrifying is the account
of the various tortures applied to one
of the prisoners that we shrink from
be hoped that the story as cabled is
greatly exaggerated. But, as the Off
Gals are reported to have been sus-
pended, and the matter is said to have
been brought up in the Hungarian diet,
there seems little reason for doubt that
there is some truth in it.
The worst feature Of the affair is the
alleged fact that the parties had been
convicted of no crime. They were mere
ly suspected of having robbed the com
munal service. and the tortures were in
ficted to eXtort a confession. In one
case the victim, in the midst of his suf-
ferings, actually did confess, and des-
stolen money was secreted. A search
| failed to discover it, and later another
man confessed the crime and restored
| the money. If the story be anywhere
near true, it rivals the worst barbar-
tiles of the dark ages. and is scarcely
| surpassed by a we'll authenticated case
| of cruelty even among so-called savage
| tribes.
| We do not refer to the matter for the
purpose of questioning the standing of
Hungary among civilized state, but
| merely with a view of suggesting
how very far modern civilization falls
short of perfection. In the war now
progressing in the Philippine islands,
no one has ever expected the Filipino
to rise to our ideal of the civilized SOL
der in war. But even in the midst of
actual hostilities, when the natives, ii
might well be supposed, were thorough
| ly aroused, with all their worst pas
sions excited against foreign foe, we
have seen no reference to any act OF
theirs which approaches in it's revolt
ing cruelty, this tale of horror from the
heart of the great Austrian empire.
In view of the alleged inferiority o,
Filipino civilization, which is no doubt
true in a measure. the reports of then
cruelty upon the battlefield and to theil
prisoners have been really fewer thar
were to be expected and less shocking
in character. 1t is not in the leas
surprising that people who are said Il
stand so close to the line of barbarisn
as to be unfit for self-government
should depart more or less from civi
lized methods in warfare.
But in this affair as reported from
Hungary. the only excuse or palliatiol
to be offered is that the guilty official
are not fair type of the people as
whole. just as it may also be SAT-
that an American mob lynching SOM
unfortunate suspect, does not repre-
sent the better class of our citizenship
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dian insane asylum. In an interview on
the subject of demented redskins, he de-
clares that a full blooded Indian lunatic
never lived. 1.-THE occupants of this hos
pital will all be mixed Breeds" he said.
News has been received in London of
the death of John Whitehead, the collec-
tor and explorer, while on scientific
mission in the island Of Hainan. He left
England in the autumn of last year for
the purpose of exploring the less known
islands of the Philippine group and OBJ
tanning a collection of their fauna for the
British museum. On his arrival Mt Manila
he found the condition of things too dis
turbed to permit him to go into the in
terror and so made his way to Hainan.
As collector of birds Mr.. Whitehead had
few rivals
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-20

S~HE Brigham Young of our day,
son ofthe old, original Brigham,
has given to the people of Mis-
souri, genuine fright by permitting
the announcement to go out that it
is the intention of the Mormons to
make d new home out of their old home
in the Missouri town of independence
Sixty odd years ago the Mormons were
camped in Missouri; they had to get
out. In 1898, Governor Boggs issued a
proclamation announcing that the Nor
mons would either be exterminated or
driven from the state.
During the time of the Mormon So
journ in Missouri, the plural-wfe bust
ness had not reached it's full flower as
a modern improvement i'm social life
In description of the situation at that
time, the St. Louis Globe Democrat
| says: When the Mormons resided in
Missouri polygamy had not been openly
| practiced. The cohabitation of Joseph
| Smith, the head of the church, with
| some of the women of his flock began,
as nearly as can be ascertained now,
| about 1910, or two years after the main
body of the Mormons had been expelled
from Missouri. To quiet the opposition
of Smiths legal wife, whom he had
married in 1927, Smith had an alleged
| heavenly revelation in 1S43, in which
the practice was made legitimate, but
| polygamy was not made a tenet of the
Mormon church until 1852, under Brig
| ham Young's administration, eight
years after Smith had been killed by
the mob in the Illinois Jail at Car
| thage."
However slow the Mormons We're in
| publicly committing themselves to the
| indecences of their code, they appear
| to be not the less slow in departing
| from it, although polygamy was sup
| posed to be forever terminated by a
| law as ironclad as men like George F.
Edmunds could frame it. The practice
was made a crime by the Edmunds law
! of 1882, which was supplemented and
strengthened by the Edmunds- Tucker
act of 1887. Woodruff, the head of the
church, said in 1890 that polygamy had
| been abandoned by the MOrmOns. The
| constitution under which Utah became
a state in 1896 forbids polygamy. The
! present Brigham Young says no plural
marriages have been contracted in the
| church since 1890. Gentiles in Utah, on
the other hand, say that such unions
are still common.
For that matter. a ruction involving
| polygamy is just now getting attention.
| The cause of it is State Senator Martha
| Hughes Cannons baby. 1t is an
| nounced that this child is the offspring
of the womans polygamous marriage
with Angus NJ. Cannon of the latter
day saints. Senator Martha Hughes
Cannon is one of six wives whom Angus
Cannon is said to be living with in
wedlock relations. Mormon mssionar-
les have been proclaiming the state
ment that the Mormons have met the
law against polygamy and complied
with it. This statement is openly de-
MED by thousands of people residing
in Salt Lake. In fact, It appears to be