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The Mormons In great numheii* ¡in* 1
settlin g In N orthern Mexico and »
grow ing proaperoiiM In the colon
which they have planted. T here are
now nearly 5,(MX) of them In N orthern
Honors ami N orthw estern C hihuahua.
T here I n a «teady Ntream of Im m igra­
tion from I'tali and the colonlea are
rapidly Increasing In population. The
MormoiiN are going Into the Mexican
republic a* rapidly im farm laud» can
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crop. T hen they began to erect their
homes. Besides their team s and cam p
lug utensils am i a few ag ricu ltu ral Im­
plem ents, they had nothing but muscle
and religious enthusiasm . At that
tim e tin* n earest railroad was El Paso.
T exas, while a sandy desert, alm ost
Im passable, Intervened. The m oun­
tains, too, held roving b ands of rene­
gade Apaches th at occasionally raided
the new settlem en t and drove aw ay
cuttle and horses.
As to the practice of polygam y In
tin* republic of Mexico, It may be said
th at the law of the land recognizes but
out* legal wife. T he second or third
wife has no legal statu s, and her ch il­
dren, In the eyes of the law, are not le
gltlm ate. A fter tin* first m arriage the
law has nothing to do with the m atter
of a M ormon's increasing the num ber
of bin wives, except th at a second ami
third wife may not be taken unless the
first wife gives her consent. But the
Mormons are guided by their religion,
not by the law, in the Institution of
m arriage. A Mormon lu Mexico never
or seldom takes a second or third wife
until In* Is able to support more than
one family.
A c t iv e 1’ ro s r l j r t i n i r .
T I P IC A L . A l ’ OIIK IIOCNK.
Mormon converts are gained Invaria­
bly from am ong the most hum ble
classes. Two thousand m issionaries
are a t work all the tim e In the
United S tates and C anada and in
Europe, adding
to
the
Mormon
fold.
In Justice to the Mormons
It m ust be said th at the converts
they m ake are usually bettered In every
res|H*ct. T h rift Is a cardinal principle
in the Mormon creed and it Is exem ­
plified now here better than lu the col-
otiies of N orthern Mexico. C om fortable
homes, cultivated Helds and abundant
crops show th at the Mormons on tin
whole are Industrious, frugal and eco­
nom ical. They are obliged to m ain­
tain a com m unity of Interest. They
labor together and assist one another
lu everything th a t Is to be done.
At present there an* eight colonies of
Mormons In Mexico, w ith a combined
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ft
ami each Mormon eontril>u‘es 10 per
cent, of his Incom)* to tin* support of
the church. H e gives labor, lum ber,
fruit, m eat, milk or honey, depot-ong
io per cent, of w h atev er In* may have
a t the tith in g store. <u addition to
tills taxation the Mormons of .tu lo an
have a self-im posed Income tax i f 8
per cent., w hich Is to he- used to build
and equip th e ir academ y.
The Mormon colonies are socialistic
com m unities. E v ery th in g Is done on
a system >f co-operation. They use
little money In th eir dealings w ith un*
another. O bligations are paid in labor
or the products of labor. If one Mor­
mon builds a house Ills neighbors assist
and charge th eir labor ag ain st him.
Tin* debt Is settled in kind. T hey have
differences of opinion som etim es ami
occasionally there occurs a dispute, tint
tlii* elders ami bishops settle tlx* tr.m-
bh* or If they do not, then the presl
dent does.
H u r p r is e d by th e E n g in e.
The natives of a wild country neve
full to w ouder over the coining of a
railroad, with Its sn o rtin g locomotive
ami ra ttlin g cars. The an tics of the
native E gyptians am i Arabs, says
Owen K. W atkins, who was with
K ltcbeuer In bis Sudan cam paign, af-
forded not a little am usem ent to the
railw ay battalion tinder Lieut. M idwin­
ter.
The q u an tity of w ater consum ed by
the locomotive was a con stan t source
be secured for them . They are an a g ­
ricultural pe iple and occupy only the
valleys where Irrigation I n poaalble.
T he enactm ent of law s in the t ’ulted
Ktatea ag ain st polygam y brought the
ItrHt Mormon Im m igration to Mexico.
When plural m arriage was prououuced
Illegal there were m any Mormoua who
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preferred to leave I'tiih ra th e r than
su rren d er any of their rellgloua princi­
ples or relinquish any of their wives.
Mexico appeared to them an inviting
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country lu which to settle, provided
they could procure the assurances they
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needed from the Mexican governm ent.
T he clim ate of C hihuahua ami Sonora
being sim ilar to th a t of ('ta b , only
m ilder, and the topography being tin*
same. It only rem ained for those who
proposed to em igrate to secure In a d ­
vance the necessary concessions from
th e au th o rities of the country luto
which they were alanit to move.
Tin* proposal of the Mormons to set­
tle In Mexico met with Instant approval
and encouragem ent from the officials
of th at governm ent, since they were
JUST ARRIVED EROM UTAH.
known to he th rifty and adapted to the
work of developing a new couutry.
Mining com panies and ranchm en es­ IMipulatlou of uearly 5.<MM|. They are of wonder. Tlu* A rabs hail never
pecially welcomed them liecause they Colonia Ju arez, the capital colony; Col- dream ed of such a th irs t as th at mon­
wonld readily supply the cam ps and 1 o u ,a nillz | )ublau. Oaxaca. I’acheo, ster seemed to possess. One day, wlieu
cattle haciendas with provisions ami
C hulchupa ami the recently es- the w orking p arty clim bed abroad a fte r
farm products, form erly Im ported at tMbn„he<j colony of Morelos. Colonia loading all the trucks, the E g y ptians
considerable cost. Mexico encouraged Ju a re z is situated in a narrow valley, cried, "F o r sham e!” charged them with
th eir Im m igration by ad m ittin g all and the land Is Irrigated with w a te r overloading the pisir engine, ami asked
th elt household effects, building m a­ from the C asas G raudes River.
The if they thought them selves men.
terial ami o th er articles of use In the neat brick residences of tlu* settlers are
Once the d riv er of an engine was nak­
bidden gravevlnes aud thick clusters ed by an Aral» to perm it bis young wife
of pear, plum , peach and apricot trees. to craw l u n d er tlu* engine, as she was
Tlie w ater runs In a clear stream sure If she could do th at, her m arried
through all the cross streets, am i Is life would be blessed.
«BOIMUCax
turned
Into yard or garden at will.
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H ere the president of the “ stak e,” S a le s D r o p O (T W h e n A u t h o r s .M a rr y .
Some one asked q u ite seriously tlu*
which em braces all the colonies, re­
sides. He lives In a liandsopie brick o th er day If I thought th at tlu* a n ­
residence th at cost $1<),1MM). He guides nounced engagem ent of Mr. P au ' Lei­
tlu* destinies of the M ormons in Mex­ cester Ford would Interfere w 'J i the
ico with the head and hand of a ca p a­ sale of his novels. 1 smiled the smile
ble captain. lie Is a man of education of Incredulity.
“ You need not sm ile." said the lad)
and of unusual intelligence, and was
i one tim e a candidate for G overnor ” 1 know th a t R ichard H arding Davis
of U tah. He Is the first and last court m arriage has greatly Interfered witii
of resort for all Internal troubles and the sale of his novels. His readers,
who are largely young girls, like to
disputes.
MORMON T l r t l l N O ST O R K .
think
of him as an unm arried man.
E d u c a tio n N o t N e g le c te d .
erection of th eir homes free of cost.
They find his liooks more interesting
The Mormons build schools In th eir
They also received m any other conces­
when they so regard him .”
com m unities even before they erect a
“ W luit about K ipling?” I gasped
sions and privileges.
church. All of the colonies have schools
"H as Ills stock depreciated because of
T h e W ild e rn e s s T r a n s fo r m e d .
The country Into which they re­ and an academ y Is m aintained a t Colo­ his wife and babies?"
moved was practically a wilderness. n ia Juarez. In this colony there Is a
“Oh, no!” w as are reply. “ It Is d if­
H ere and there w ere large ranches, great mill, a canning facto ry ,an d other ferent with Kipling. He w rites more
w ith now and then u m ining camp. Industries. T here is a tith in g store, for men, and then his stories are not
T h ere w ere a few M exican villages, the only one in the colony, but there Is love stories.”—H arp er's B azar.
a t Intervals of fifty or one hundred not a saloon, nor a tobacco shop, nor a
G a b rie l's T r ic k .
miles. T he country was arid, treeless policem an in this or any other of the
“ It Is tim e,” said G abriel, “to blow
an d uninviting, except In the valleys, Mormon colonies.
I.ublan Is the largest colony. It Is my last trum p!”
w here a rich soil only needed Irriga­
Saying which, he put It ou the ace of
tion and cultivation to retu rn am ple also the m ost Im portant com m ercially.
It is four miles from the term inus of spades, thereby saving the trick for
crops of fru its and cereals.
The first colony was planted In 1889, the railroad, and is situ ated In a broad him self and Kt. Peter.
*»te angels, be It known, som etim es
and called Colonia Juarez. It was es­ valley. The village, which has al>out
tablished In the VHiley of the Casas 1,000 Inhabitants, Is scattered over sev­ engage In little gam es of whist. New
Grandes River, sixteen miles from the eral square miles of territo ry . The York World.
old Mexican town of Casas Grandes, Mormons of D ublan have thousands of
H ew itt—W hat did you wife say when
the present terminus of the Rio acres of rich land, which produces
Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific Rail- ab u n d a n t crops. They have beautiful she caught you kissing the cook? Je w ­
read, constructed In 1807. The settlers orchards and gardens. They have laid e tt— O i l . » b e said it was all rig h t: th at
arrived from Utah In covered wagons. the foundation of a splendid tem ple we m ust do all we could to keep her,
They lived In tents until they dug Irri­ aud a large school building. They have and th at she knew I was acting from a
gation ditches and made their first a tithing store as In Colonia Juarez, purely unselfish stan d p o in t.— Bazar.
Kllk worms, lu F lainm arlou'a ex p ert
incuts, have attain ed th eir m axim um
productlou lu white, red and blue light.
The first tw o pluuetolds lu ItMX) were
discovered, the one by the A ustrian a s­
tronom er Paligu and th e o th er by
C hariots of Nice.
M easurem ents by an A m erican ml-
croscoplst to test the theory th a t the
red blood corpuscles vary lu size In d if­
fe re n t races have failed to show any
m arked differences.
New mines of lignite have been dis­
covered in G erm any which are of con­
siderable im portance; they are located
at Q uadrat, in the neighborhood of
Cologne. A series of soundings has
shown the presence of a com pact m ass
of lignite from forty to fifty feet lie-
low the soil; the bed ex ten d s over sev­
eral hundred acres. T he extraction
has com m enced aud Ht the present
time about GOO tons of b riquettes are
m ade per day, these being used to re­
place coal.
The first section of the great R ussian
pipe Hue has been com pleted. The
pipe runs parallel to the T rans-C au­
casian Kussiuu Ktate railw ay. The
section Just com pleted Is 145 miles long.
The pipe is of w rought Iron, lap-welded,
aud the Internal d iam eter is eight
inches. It was m ade in R ussia from
nativ e m aterials. T here are three
pum ping stations w ith tw o pum ps in
each, only one being used regularly,
the o th er being kept as a reserve. It
la expected th at 416,275,200 gallons of
oil will lie pum ped per annum .
The grow ing of Belglau bares for the
m arket in Southern C alifornia is de­
scribed by Mr. <). 1*. Wolcott, ill the
Scientific Am erican, as having recently
become an extensive industry. The
bares are Im ported for breeding p u r­
poses from England an d Belgium. A
high-bred buck or doe bare, Mr. Wol*
cott says, will bring from $50 to $250.
In the marl. *ts the price is alxiut 25
cents per pound, live w eight. From
Los Angeles shipm ents are now made
to all p arts of the U nited States. A
w arm clim ate is uot esseutial for the
anim als, am i it is said they could oe
grow n for the m arket iu alm ost all
p arts of the Uuiou.
A R ussian Inventor, K. D auilew sky,
has recently experim ented, under gov­
ern m en t auspices, w ith a flying-m a­
chine which com bines th e lifting
pow er of a balloou w ith som ething re­
sem bling wing action. The balloon is
shaped like a projectile, anil Is small,
being filled with pure hydrogen. Its
ascensional force is sufficient to neu­
tralize the weight of the aero n au t and
the ap p aratu s. The la tte r consists of a
system of m ovable aeroplanes and a
steering tackle, by m enus of which the
aero n au t guides the course of the bal­
loon. In descending, the la tte r assum es
nn upright position. T he im m ediate ob­
ject of the experim ents is to provide a
dirigible baloon for the signal-corps of
the R ussian arm y.
V isitors to m useum s of science are
alw ays interested iu the mounted skele­
tons of gigantic extinct anim als, but
they seldom appreciate the am ount of
study and skill required tv properly
m atch the fossil bones together. Even
a t the best It seems prolmble th at m any
m istakes are made, and ex tin ct m on­
sters may som etim es be caused to a s­
sum e form s and attitu d e s unknow n to
them in life. This is indicated, not
only by the differences betw een the
restorations m ade by various nutural-
lsts. but by a recent rem ark of P rof. H.
C. Osborn, an ex p ert iu the m ounting
of fossil skeletons, th a t If we had had
ao th iu g but tbe skeleton of the ele­
p h an t to work upon, we should proba­
bly have obtained a very faulty con­
ception of tbe anim al.
PEEPS INTO THE FUTURE.
F o re c a s ts o f N o te d M e n a n d W h a t B e­
cam e o f T hem .
Just previous to the assassination of
the Empress of Austria the Euqieror
was beard repeatedly to remark, “1
fear somethiug aw ful is about to trans­
pire. 1 wish the Jubilee year were safe­
ly over.” This brlugs to mind other in­
stances of forecasts fultilled.
Just over thirty years ago a visitor to
Edinburgh was belug shown over the
High Court of Justiciary. He made
some remark concerning the dock and
Its duties, and lu reply the official Jok­
ingly said the visitor might one day
be sentenced to be hauged In that very
room. The sightseer was the notorious
Dr. Pritchard: two years had barely
passed «when In the dock he had so
closely Inspected he was doomed to
death for poisoning bis wife and moth­
er-in-law.
To many watchers of the political
weathercock the rapid rise of Mr. As­
quith to renown as a statesman was
little short of miraculous; to the late
home secretary himself, however, It
was but the natural outcome of his
own resolve. When a youth at the city
of London school he Informed all and
sundry that he meant to take high hon­
ors at Oxford, enter the House of Com­
mons, and become an Influential mem­
ber of the cabinet.
torically recorded, while passing ills
boyish years a t Eton, foretold th a t lu
th e com ing y ears he would w in the
D erby aud, more Im portant still, be
prim e m inister. Both Lord Rosebery
uud Mr. A squith prophesied th e Lhlugs
w hereof they knew.
A gentlem an conceived the idea th a t
lie would only live a certain tim e, so he
m ade a nice calculation of his fortune,
which he so apportioned as to la s t Just
the sam e period as he guessed his life
would extend to.
S trangely enough,
his calculations cam e correct to the le t­
ter, for he died punctually a t the tim e
he had previously reckoned; he had so
far exhausted his e sta te th at, a fte r his
debts had been discharged, a solitary
pair of slippers represented the entire
property he left. His relatives burled
him, a n d a rep resen tatio n of the slip­
pers was carved on the tom b; to-day in
a churchyard at A m sterdam his grave
m ay lie seen, the only Inscription on
the stone being tw o Flem ish w ords:
"Effen n y t” (I. e., "E x actly ” ).
The late George Moore cam e to Lon­
don from C um berland a poor, frien d ­
less boy. He entered a g reat com m er­
cial house, and from the beginning d e­
clared he would eventually m arry his
em ployer's d au g h ter and become his
em ployer’s partner. He accom plished
both am bitions, lieeame very w ealthy
and a m an of whom his generation
m ight well lie proud.
W hen W arren H astin g s w as a lad
his great grief was th a t his fam ily hail
lost th eir patern al e state a t D aylesford,
and he was constan tly heard to say: “ I
will buy it back.” H e grew up to m ake
lioth history anil a fam ous nam e, and
he died at D aylesford.
Among th e m any records of H arro w
school is th a t of a boy, th e son of a
poor local trad esm an in a very sm all
way of business. His school fellows
often tau n ted him ab o u t his fam ily
poverty; th eir thoughtless jeers, al­
though h u rtin g his feelings, drew from
th e lad th e re to rt: "I intend before I
die to ride In a coach and four.”
T he y ears slid by an d lo and behold!
the jioverty strick en y o ungster of H a r­
row had developed into Dr. P arr, the
g re atest scholar of his time, whose cus­
tom ary and fav o rite m eans of locomo­
tion was a coach and four.
T he seventh child of th e G erm an E m ­
peror and Em press is a d aughter, th eir
o ther six lieing sons. The house of
Hohenzolleru has a tradition th a t in
one y ear three em perors of th a t house
will reign in G erm any; th e th ird will
have seven sons and will bring ru in to
th e nation as well as the em pire to an
end.
This direful prophecy has seen the
fulfillm ent of its first p art: w h ether the
arriv al of a seventh son will tiring the
calam ities predicted the fu tu re will
show .—London Mail.
L o n g e v it y « if C a n n e d F o o d .
Tinned m eat still holds the record for
longevity, according to Good W ords,
which cites the case of th at preserved
m utton vouched for by Dr. L etheby In
his C autor lecture, which had been
tinned forty-four years, and w as still
in condition a t the end of th a t time.
Those tins had an ad v en tu ro u s career.
In 1824 they w ere w recked in the good
ship F u ry aud cast ashore w ith o th er
stores ou the beach a t P rin ce’s inlet.
They w ere found by Sir Jo h n Ross
eight years a fte rw a rd In a s ta te of p er­
fect
preservation.
having
passed
through alarm in g v ariatio n s of tem ­
p eratu re an n u ally —from 92 degrees be­
low zero to S<> degrees above—and
w ithstood the a tta c k s o f savage lieasts,
perhaps of savage men. F o r sixteen
years more they lay there broiled anil
frozen a ltern ately ; then her m ajesty 's
ship In v estig ato r cam e upon the scene,
and still the co n ten ts were iu good con­
dition. F o r nearly a q u a rte r of a cen­
tury they had w ithstood ah e clim atic
rigors, and. as w as b u t n atu ra l, some
of them w ere b ro ught home again,
w here they lived on in honored old age,
till they w ere b ro u g h t under the no­
tice of Dr. Letheby.
C o u g h s o f a n E n g in e .
The cough, or puff, of a railw ay en­
gine Is due to the a b ru p t em ission of
w aste steam up the chim ney. W hen
moving slowly th e cough can. of course,
be heard following each o th er quite dis­
tinctly, b u t w hen speed is p u t on th e
puffs come out one a fte r the o th er
much more rapidly, and when eighteen
coughs a second are produced they can ­
not be separately distinguished by the
ear. A locomotive ru n ning a t th e ra te
of nearly seventy miles an hour gives
out tw enty puffs of steam every sec­
ond—th a t Is, ten for each of its tw o
cylinders.
E very In h a b ita n t Is In sa n e .
Indo-Chlna has tbe ouly village of
madmen In the world. This village
which Is called Ban-Keune, is composeil
of some 300 families. Is highly organ­
ized as a community, is industrially
prosperous and pays yearly a goodly
tribute to France. Yet it has not a
single sane Inhabitant. To enter It one
must be downright mad—or, as the na-
tl- es call It, “plpop.” The conception
of Insanity prevailing In this part of
the world Is not that of a disease, but
of a "possession.”—Philadelphia Times.
Parent« are so unsatisfactory to deal
with, even in novels, that when a
w riter wants to treat a girl particular­
ly well he makes her an orphan and
The Earl of Roseherv. so It la his­ gives her a guardian.