The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-02

age to meet Him. They then go back
to first principles, and try to subsist
entirely on roots and vegetables, turn
ing their live stock out on the
prairies to be taken posseasion of by
whomsoever 1t pleases. They imagine
that il is wrong to eat meat, and even
to wear WOODEN clothing, as the sheep
had to berobbed of their coats before
1t could be made.
Some resort to the state of Adam
and Eve. and go naked. l have seen
photographs of Doukhobors taken at
the time of such REVEALS. Both men
and women were snapped in a nude
state, and the photographs represent
anything but pleasing groups of living
statuary.
Go Naked ON Pilgrimagey,
The Canadian government has been
trying to stop these pilgrimages. 1t
has arrested the pilgrims and made
them put on their clothes, and even
held them for some time in prison. In
1902 number of Doukhobors turned
their horses, cattle and sheep out on
the prairies, and at another time
they got the idea they should have
nothing to do with metal. and the
women cut the hooks and eyes out of
their garments. Some said that they
should not work the earth for fear they
would spoil it. and some threw away
their shoes because certain animals
had been robbed of their skins to make
them.
1t was along in May, 1908, that forty
five Doukhobors got revelation that
Christ would appear somewhere in the
neighbor hood Of Winnipeg. l have
never heard why Winnipeg was the
chosen point, although imagine that
city needs regeneration quite as much
as any place else. At any rate, those
forty-five Doukhobors, consisting of
men, women and children, stripped off
their clothes and made stark naked
march through the sixteen Doukhobor
villages gathering up recruits. The
! story OF the march, written by one
OF the pilgrims. was published in a
Russian paper, and few extracts
fro mthis will give us some idea of it
from Doukhobors standpoint. Saws
the pilgrim:
After the 18th of May we went in
the manner of the first man, Adam
to show nature to humanity, and how
man should return to his Father-Man
We were beaten in some of the
villages. and at one place twenty
men surrounded us, and would not let
us come into their town. That night
we lay on the ground clustered into
one heap. 1t rained and sryxed. The
people who guarded us put on their
sheepskjn coats, but We remained max.
ed, and 1t was really wonderful that in
| such wind We were not frozen. The
cold was great, but not one. of the
naked was frozen"
Farther on in his writing the nil.
grim tells how the gang was captured
by mounted police and put in prison
for three months at Regina. He says
that they were tortured while in
prison. but l doubt whether in thi:
he tells the truth.
Iclanders of Canada.
The Canadian government is doing
all it can to encourage immigration
1t had about $4,000 new settlers last
year. of whom more than 10000 came
from the United States. and about S..
| AAOAA Nj Cav oIlto mere were some
thing like 10000 from other parts O,
Europe. The only restriction in such
matters is as to the Chinese, who are
taxed $500 per head upon landing. II
1905 almost 100000 acres of free
lands were granted to settlers.
Among the best of the foreign i'm
migrants are the Icelanders. We Of
ten think of that country of cold anc
snow as inhabited by Eskimos or In,
dians. but the truth is it is colon,
:, of Denmark, and its people are amonf
the thriftiest and best looking of the
Danes. The men are strong and in.
telligent and the women are beauti
full. The first colony of Icelanders
cvame to Canada about twenty years
ago. They were assisted by the do
minion government and settled on thu
west shores of Lake Winnipeg, where
they first engaged in farming and fish
ing. Other Icelanders have settled II
southern Manitoba, and from time t.