White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-22
Seeking Dissolution of White Man
Marriage.

ton two Indian madens are wear
ing their hearts away" because they
cannot become as they put 1t. "un-
divorce from two stalwart braves
to whom they are legally attached
according to the custom of the white
man. And therein lies a little story
of broken hearts, says the Herald
Republican.
II was not SO many moons ago that
the maidens became infatuated with
two young braves on the reservation.
They loved. ever as the young white
girls love, but it had been decreed
that henceforth there must be moth
ing but legal marriages on the reser-
walton; that is, legal after the canons
set forth by the white man. The law
did not appeal to them. True, the
white brother had shown them many
ways that lifted them from the crude
methods of their long ago ancestors,
but why, they asked, should the white
man step in and take from them a
custom that had been handed down
for 10, so many years?
The summer days passed and final
ly arrangements for weddings
made. They consented to the white
mans way; they would stand up and
say Il promise" But they could not
forget tribal rites. And in view of
that the braves paid something like
$40 cold cash to the parents of their
brides.
Now. the tale of woe. More
moons passed and with their waning,
love also waned. The maidens claim
es their husbands were cold, ofttimes
brutal and always Indifferent. Also,
they were "unsupportable." Then it
was that they applied to their agents.
oyerseers, and even to the Great
White Father at Washington for re-
lief. They wanted freedom, and
when 1t did not come they became
hysterical through their own efforts
and they lay as If death was upon
them Cold water was drenched upon
them. Their locks dripped and their
lips became blue. And it was then
that the soothsayer, Mrs. Laura d.
Holderby, assistant 10 l., d. Creel,
special agent to the Indians OF Utah,
came to the rescue and ordered an
armistice. The cold water was to
keep away blue devils" things t. the
Indians that are supposed to hover
only over the dying.
The government is considering the
applications for divorce.
Eve Badly Maligned, Noah Ate
That Apple.
Who ate the forbidden fruit and
by that act condemned all mankind
to suffering and death?
No, you're wrong. 1t was Noah,
heretofore known only as the faith
full skipper of the famous ark. Poor
Adam and Eve, who have been ma
1ighed for that calamitous deed
throughout these e aeons, at
last indicated; they lived and died
in their idyllic Eden without even
thinking of making a banquet of the
cassia trees yield. 1t was Noah,
Noah, the grandiose, praise of the
world. 'N"t~
At least that's what Or. Steven
Langdon, professor of Assyriology in
oxford university, will have us be
lieve. Nor does he make this revolu-
tionary assertion idly; it is to an an
Gent Samaritan tablet now reposing II
Museum of the University of Penn
sylvania that he points for proof
He has translated the mystic hero
glyphics thereon and written a bool
about them which was issued by tn
museums people.
According to the Samurian theolo'
Ky found on the tablet, which is SAT-
to have been written before the day
of Abraham. and translated by Dr
Langdon, Noah was ordered not t.
eat of the cassia tree in the Garden o
Paradise and when he disobeyed thu
curse fell upon him.
The curse was that he should hav
I'll health and an early death instea'
of living to be $4,000 years old, lik
his ancestars.
According to the announcement
made, DIR. Langdon bestowed niue
labor on the subject of the fall G
man. not only in translating the tai
let. but in comparing it with ever
known tablet or historical account
N kind as we'll as with the accoun
given in the Book of Genesis.
DR.. Langdon, according to the al
announcement, says that this tablet
M least 1000 years older than tn