Church. All this is entirely erroneous. But for plenitude and exuberance in | were opened, and they have gone back the way of gubernatorial talent give as apostates from the "Mormon” us the "wild and woolly West." Nebraska has three Governors. The Legislature declared James E. Boyd Governor of Nebraska. Governor Thayer, the outgoing Governor, will not go, and says Boyd is an alien and therefore not qualified to hold the reins of government. Thayer sleeps in the executive mansion, and is guarded by police and military. The facts are these: The seven returning Kanakas are two men, their wives, and three children. They were with the colony in Skull Valley where they were doing well, but thought they could do better financially in this city, so removed here. On the farm the men received $30 per month for Governor similar work which brought them 37 cents a day on the Islands. In this city they earned from a dollar to two dollars and a half a day. But friends on the Islands wrote urging their return, and an appropriation having been made by the Hawaiian Government to pay the expenses of such persons, they thought they would avail themselves of this opportunity and go back. Boyd opened office in another part of the building and has proclaimed himself Governor. Boyd has ordered the militia to the front to fight the Indians, but Thayer countermanded the order. The janitor of the building sides with Boyd, and the intention is to freeze Thayer out of the place. The janitor won't bring any coal or light to warm and illuminate the old Governor. Powers, the farmer's man, has also taken the oath of office as Governor of Nebraska. This triangular business is bad and may result in serious trouble. Late advices from Denver show that the Colorado Legislature is in a rather chaotic condition. A regular faction fight had taken place over the offices. One member charged that bribery had been attempted. The result was that a committee, to investigate was appointed. No obstacle was placed in their way. They came here by their own desire, they returned at their own option. They applied for and obtained certificates of their membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and letters to show that they had not returned without approval. They have not left the Church were they dissatisfied with their treatment by the Church authorities. nor As to the climate, Kanakas may be seen here who feel no need for an overThe situation in Idaho is also rather coat or extra warm clothing, when complicated. This thirst for office is a white people complain of the cold bad disease, bad for the country and though clad in extra garments. No bad for the citizens. It is to be desired "cruelty" is practiced upon them unthat a little more moderation and a lit-less higher wages and better food and the more dignity and patriotism should surroundings than they ever had in characterize candidates for official their lives before is "cruelty.” positions. Office-seekers in other States should not take pattern by the six Salt Lake "Liberal" councilmen who hold office despite the law and a decision of a competent court of justice. RETURNING HAWAIIANS. END OF THE "INDIAN WAR." THE "Indian war" appears to be at an end. The hostiles have come in, they are to be disarmed in a manner likely to be inoffensive, and with present food and promises, from a mill tary officer, of redress of wrongs and the fulfilment of neglected contracts, the red men are pacified, while the advocates of bloodshed and extermination are correspondingly unhappy. We retain the opinion we expressed at first: There was no necessity for this Indian trouble. The red men had as much right to their religious exercises as had the whites, so long as they did not injure others. The "ghost dance," as the white people please to call it, is no more absurd than the shouting, jumping and falling down extravagancies of spiritually intoxicated white enthusiasts, who imagine that these gymnastics are religion and pleasing to Deity. If the soldiery can lawfully be turned loose on a band of half-frenzied Indians who think they are "dancing to Christ," by the same rule troops may be ordered to attack or disperse a mob of excited revivalists shrieking and clapping and jumping their way to "glory." What seems nonsense to us appears devotional to them, and in free America ought to be tolerated to the line that marks the rights of other individuals and of society. General Miles seems to be taking a consistent course. He is listening to the wrongs of the red men as well as enforcing the policy entered upon to quell the disturbance. Orders to this effect There are seventy-three of these bave doubtless reached him from Washpeople in the Hawaiian colony. They ington. These have been prompted by are doing well temporally. They are the voice of public opinion, expressed perfectly free to come and go as they freely through the press. It is encourplease. They were not "induced" to aging to see the change that has come come to Utah. They joined the upon the views of leading writers in Church in their native homes. They this country on this important ques wished to be with the Saints in these tion. valleys and were permitted to emigrate. Their "sufferings" are either imaginary or fabricated to frame an excuse for misrepresenting the "Mormons." THE anti-"Mormon" press will catch at the smallest straw which appears to their prejudiced vision a pointer for a vindictive article. Seven Kanakas Two men who returned previously have recently started on their return to this departure are now clamoring to from Utah to the Sandwich Islands. come back. These natives do not This circumstance is seized upon as a apostatize, unless it be by transgressing subject for anti-"Mormon" animadversions, and a number of mistatements are made to justify the illna tured comments. Remarks are made about the cruelty of bringing natives of the Sandwich Islands to this climate. It is asserted that these people were half-starved, and the inference is made that they were deceived by "Mormon" emissaries, induced to come to Utah, and then through ill-treatment their eyes the rules of the Church as to chastity Fair investigation will show that all The position taken by the DESERET NEWS on the Indian question years ago, was scouted by journalists who now occupy the same ground. The Indians have rights which ought to be respected. All agreements with them, formal or informal, ought to be fulfilled. They should be dealt with according to their peculiarities and grade of intelligence. Peace should be encouraged. Red men as well as white men should be protected in their guaranteed privileges. And when it becomes necessary to chastise them, they being in the wrong, it ought to be done thoroughly, leaving no ground for them to expect hesitancy or retreat. "It is cheaper to feed the Indians than to fight them," was a saying of a sound statesman-the late Presiden Brigham Young, and there is more in it than many people understand. At the same time he advocated stern jus tice in punishing the villainy of the savages when the due claims of mercy had been satisfied. We hope this cruel war is really over, and that a wiser, more humane and more consistent policy will hence forth be pursued in the nation's treatment of the primal owners of American soil. PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS THE investigation as to the disfigurement of the body of Richard M. Johnson ought to be very thorough. The relatives, as might be expected, feel profoundly indignant at its condition, the hasty burial and the indecent keep the record and compile the statistics. This is a fearful exhibit. The causes of these tragic occurrences for 1890 may be classified as fol 2184 486 484 396 217 Jealousy.... Insanity Duel.. .... RUSSIAN NIHILISM. 149 74 67 59 95 1 has been taken were in error. There is no denial, however, of the fact that after the refusal of the Council to grant a license the saloon was opened and conducted, although it probably lows: has been closed since. The proprietor Quarrels... was arrested on a charge violating the liquor law. Should this point be proved on the trial, the action of the Council will be shown to have been eminently proper. This Self-defense............................................................................. contravention of law would show that Outrages............................................................................. the applicants do not belong to the class legally entitled to a license; or at least it ought to show that since that occurrence they have no right to such a permit, having vitiated whatever claim they may have previously had. The speakers of Monday evening were Russia. evidently right so far as an act of viola-much talked of Russian nihiilist, in tion of law was concerned, although the United States at present, adds to manner in which the corpse was connot correct in asserting that the crimi- the public interest in signed to the rude coffin. Whatever blame attaches to this should be placed nal offense was continued after the ar- George Kennan, the newspaper corresrest of the parties concerned. pondent, has done a great deal by his At the first meeting of citi-writings and lectures in illustrating enforcement of the laws in this city mony was entirely ex parte, because he zens interested in bringing about an the situation in Russia. But his testi and the keeping down of the causes of has dwelt solely on the brutality of vice to the lowest practicable legal the ruling classes there. Judging limit, Mr. Wanless stated that a con- from his accounts the Russian people cern which vomited out of Denver had found slave estate. But the Russian officials had been practically are governed on the principle of a vast official favor here. Probably his in their treatment of the Jews are as brutal and intolerant as any despotism could be. where it belongs. Our evening contemporary states that when the death was discovered in the jail, the body was taken to Joseph E. Taylor's. This is a singular mistake to be made by one who heard or read the evidence of the undertakers that handled the body. The inquest has been held at Mr. Taylor's, but he has no business connection with the Coroner, and had nothing to do with the disgraceful interment. The Coroner has his office with Evans & Ross, and it was to that firm that he sent the body when he concluded that no inquest was necessary. We do not think the Times intended this injustice to Mr. Taylor, and when it perceives the mistake will probably make the necessary correction. THE "VARIETY" LICENSE. knowledge in that regard renders him evidence of a deep interest in the sub- INCREASE OF MURDERS. PUBLIC opinion in America is being attracted to the political condition of The presence of Stepniak, the the matter. Stepniak is a pronounced Nihilist. He made his escape from Russia by almost superhuman means. He is now on a lecturing tour in the United States. His object is to expound what nihilism is and what it demands. Etymologically speaking the word nihil means nothing. In its adoption IT IS claimed that the people of this by Russian politicians it has a history. country live under the benign influ- The Russian writer Turgenieff wrote a SOME indignation has been mani-ence of Christianity. That this pre- novel entitled "Fathers and Sons.” fested by the variety theatre people tension is for the greater part mere Bazaroff is the hero of this novel. and a certain circle of sympathizers, profession, unsupported by the genius And as Turgenieff believed that "every because of some of the remarks made of peace and meekness is apparent by positive principle before it can conquer by speakers at last Monday night's law one fact alone-the appalling increase an ascendancy for itself must begin and order meeting regarding that un- of murders. The record kept for the with negation," he made Bazaroff the savory concern. It appears that some year 1890, by a single American news-mouthpiece of his philosophy. of the gentlemen who addressed the paper of the murders reported in its In the novel Bazaroff is made to gathering, notably Mr. Libby and Mr. mail and telegraph service, furnishes Wanless, went to some extent beyond terrible proof upon this point. It shows the facts in adverting to the question a total of 4,290 murders committed in of the liquor saloon in the basement of the United States during the twelve the variety show. There is no doubt months. This would amount to 357 however, that this was done uninten- per month, or a daily average of twelve tionally. They had not only been in- for the entire year. formed that the saloon had been opened and conducted without a license after one had been denied by the Council, but that the den was still in full blast, while the question was pending in the courts. It is denied that the saloon is now in operation, and probably this is correct, and that is, we presume, where the gentlemen to whose remarks exception The rapidity with which crimes of a violent character, fatal in their results, have increased is shown by the figures of former years, which are as follows: In 1889, 3 567; in 1888, 2,184; in 1887, 2,335; in 1886, 1,499; in 1885, 1,808. It should be kept in mind that there were doubtless many crimes of this character that never reached the columns of the newspaper which took the trouble to deny everything, including love, law, heaven, earth and religion. Bazaroff is asked by an interlocutor for a second denial of religion. He gives it calmly and says: "What we want now is to have everything abolished, and then leave things to form themselves natur. ally, without impediment, spontaneously." To this the interlocutor says: "Then you are a Nihilist.” This in brief is the history of the word. It was first uttered in a political sense about twenty-five years ago. Though Stepniak defends Nihilism as merely comprehending in its demands freedom of speech, liberty of the press, free exercise of opinion and ences that would have avoided it. They court which settles the general prinreligious equality, yet it is known by have the qualities out of which a vigor- ciple involved, six of the present alous civilization may arise. They are students of Russian politics that it still hardy, energetic and brave. They have leged City Councilors are occupying clings to its root idea. Bakemen says: a large intelligence. They are capable of places to which they were not elected. learning. They are easily made indus “God is a lie, and all injustice is hing-trious. They can be led into Christian The people of each municipal ward ed on that falsehood! We must abolish ways. Nobody doubts who has had or precinct are entitled by law to elect everything, and leave the formation of friendly intercourse with them that they the municipal officers for that ward or are entitled to better treatment than the new order to the natural genera- massacre. Nor is it, unfortunately, only precinct. These incumbents claim tion of things." This shows that in the bad Indians,' the 'hostiles,' the bands their places under the vote of the enthe new interpretation there would be who have suffered. As usual, the peaceled by Sitting Bull and his lieutenants, tire city and the provisions of a law little freedom of opinion for God be able bands, including many who were that was obsolete when they were lievers. endeavoring to farm, to build, to raise elected. That is a specimen of "Libstock, to acquire implements, and to live in the civilized way, have been disturbed eral" law and "Liberal" politics. and robbed. Many of them, in terror at Also an exhibition the approach of the troops, not which "Liberals" pay for the rulings knowing whether they would be protected or not, abandoned their of courts. property, and in the confusion Of course there is nothing new in all it has been lost, or destroyed or stolen. It is very true, as has been suggested by this. But there is something connectthe Indian Rights Association, in a cir-ed with it that seems to have escaped trouble in the present Dakota trouble cular just issued, that the expenditure of general notice. The same law which will far exceed the sum which would provides that Councilmen shall have served, if used in time, to educate elected by the voters in each ward in the Sioux to the point where they could That the movement has taken deep hold in Russia there is no gainsaying. Men, women, children, young and old, college students and professors, all alike have joined in the movement. The country is honeycombed with organizations, secret and political. Only a few years ago a young woman waved a handkerchief and the ruler of 100,000,000, Alexander II., fell a III., his successor, is now living in constant fear of death. of the respect be victim to nihilistic wrath. Alexander not have been influenced by the barbar-/ cities of the first class, also provides ous and superstitious elements among that each ward shall elect its own them. A proper education would have Justice of the Peace. As two wards made the "ghost dances" abortive and have restricted the influence of Sitting have been so far cheated out of their Bull and other makers of mischief so far legal representation in the City Counthat it would have done no serious dam-cil, so they have been hitherto swinage. This, indeed, was largely the revolt of the heathen Indians against the pro- dled out of their legally elected Jusgress and influence of the Christianized tices of the Peace. and civilized ones, and if there had been a timely educational effort made, the There is something more. The Jus weight of the former would have been tice selected to sit as Police Magistrate, trifling in comparison with the latter. It and who seems to have done very well is too soon to judge how necessary it was to let the troops loose; it is not too soon in many respects, is now absent. His to pity the unfortunate Sioux. When-place is filled by a person who has no ever the earthen crock swims with iron lawful right to act in it. ones it is sure to suffer." The political condition of Russia is deplorable, and its autocratic ruler may be brutal and tyrannical, but the Russian masses show no sympathy for Jews, and these same Russian people strain their already draconic laws to persecute unfortunate Hebrews according to law. Such a people are not fit to be freemen. It will be well to study the Russian question before venturing an endorsement of Stepniak. THE SIOUX SLAUGHTER try seems to view the conduct of the "We have now had two so-called 'bat Mr. Kesler comes from the Third Precinct to act in the Fifth. He was not elected by the voters of that precinct. Therefore he has no legal right to the office of Justice in any precinct. We do not say his official acts are THE COLORADO IMBROGLO. LATE dispatches from Colorado give a gloomy picture of the situation in the State Legislature. The dispatch says: "Every man was loaded and a false vold. He appears as the de facto offimovement, a word or a signal, aye, even the quiver of the lip will cause an explosion of the pent-up feeling and a bloody revolt." The Capitol is in the hands of heelers, cer. But it was bad taste, to say the least, to push forward into this im portant position a person who, while possessing no special qualifications for that office, has no legal right to it if les' with the unfortunate Sioux, causing roustabouts, gamblers, hobos, bullies the judicial decisions mentioned above serious losses of life among the United are of any value. But this is another indication of "Liberal" respect for public decency and the rulings of the judiciary. UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. Siates troops, both men and officers, and and such kind of hip-pocket, collarentailing, of course, the consequences of and elbow statesmen. Shooting is exwholesale slaughter upon the Indians who were engaged. We say the unfor- pected to commence at any moment. tunate Sioux, because however much This condition of affairs is disgracejustification it may ultimately appear the ful, and augurs badly for the civilizatroops and their commanders had for using the last argument of arms, it is per- tion of Colorado. It is such scenes as fectly certain that the Indians are com- these that give occasion for the supparatively innocent sufferers. They have IT IS customary for bookmakers, neither the advantage of their own mode porters of monarchy in the Old World of life nor of civilized ways. They have to curl their lips with scorn at repub- newspaper correspondents, preachers found themselves encroached upon and lican institutions. The people should and lecturers who can ninage to make were forced into settling and breaking up see to it that men are elected to repre- the tour of the continent, to call on their from the white man's point of view, was for order and some sense of legislative four hours to a week or so in resting, Fa process which,, however necessary sent them who will have some respect way at this city, spend from twenty disturbed. Their great reservations they to most of them unwelcome and pain- on A BOGUS "JUSTICE." UNDER the decisions of the Third the penalty of death. It is a gross scan- District Court, one of which is appealed dal to the American Republic that this from the Supreme Court of the Terri condition of bloodshed should arise, for the Sioux are a people amenable to influ-tory, and under a decision of the latter looking around and asking questions, and then embodying in their publications, as information gained on the spot, the stuff with which they are crammed by persons who take delight in victimizing travelers. Communications of this kind to the press are so common, that it would be impossible, even it were profitable, to notice a tenth of them. Once in a while we pay a little attention to something of the kind that calls for comment. dren whose mother was driven insane by son, So that there is really need for agents to go forth and persuade people to come in and keep up some show of life in the affair, that Uncle Sam may be periodically bled still fur sent for and viewed the remains and it as his opinion that death had ensued from acute alcoholism. The body was consigned to undertakers Evans & Ross, and by them conveyed to the city cemetery, where it was buried on Monday, Jan. 12. The first intimation that Edwin Johnson A lady who signs herself Mary Grant Major has been writing up her experiences in Utah, and these have been published with illustrations. ther for its support. But they had of the death of his brother was Among them is an account of ought not to do this under through the columns of the Monday the "home for polygamous wives "false pretences. Let the soliciting be issue of a morning paper, which anin this city, which contains a performed in a manneropen and above-nounced the fact. great many inaccuracies, not made in-board. No "brothering" and "sister- The feelings of this relative of the tentionally by the writer, perhaps, but ing" to make believe that they are resulting from her credulity and the deception practiced by persons who appeared to her to be reliable. We do not intend to take up the article seriatim, and once more refute the old false statements it echoes, but will merely refer to one item of information afforded by the writer. She gives the name of a person from whom she obtained many of the points she has presented. It is Mrs. Dykes, daughter of Mrs. S. A. Cooke, whose anti-"Mormon" proclivities are pretty well known in Utah. Woman Our reason for mentioning this is that Mrs. Dykes is spoken of as having "just returned from a tour through Utah, having gone among the Mormon people to tell as many as she could reach about the Home." We are told that this person has been traveling ostensibly as business a to introduce some dressmaking or other improvements, and has been well treated by the Latter-day Saints. That is all right, if she has not been acting with duplicity. If her real purpose was to advocate the beauties of the "Industrial Home," an institution founded and fostered in falsehood and malignity, then this business cloak was simply a cover to the real purpose she had in view. And the misinformation imparted to the writer of the article, indicates the spirit and purpose of the informant to be hostile to the people who have extended to her their courtesies. "Mormous" mingling among "Mor- deceased may be presumed by those who care, in imagination, to put them. selves in his place. At his instance the body was exhumed and an inquiry, which ought to have been made before burial, instituted. At this investigation it was developed that the body, had been consigned to the grave in a nude state with the exception of a shirt and a pair of socks, and in a filthy condition; also that there were two cuts or incisions of considerable length in the region of the abdomen. These newspaper contributors, as a rule, collect just such scraps as will probably suit the public taste. There fore they look for them in the places where they are likely to be found. If they wanted facts they would go where the truth could be obtained. But truth is usually too simple and common In a nutshell, here are some of the place for their purpose. Therefore they disgraceful and disgusting features of accept the idle yarns of the weaver of this affair: The Coroner failed in his fiction, and the highly colored utter-duty in not holding an inquest. If ances of the soured malignant and angered seceder, and spread them before the public still further embelished if not improved. anyone needs any more evidence to convince him of this than the facts of the exhumation after burial and the subsequent investigation, he must be If other communications from Mary hard to satisfy. The genius, and we Grant Major prove no more reliable think the letter of the law, also susthan this, her contributions to journal-tains this view. istic history will be of little value, and The deceased, who was a native will not have even the merit of origin-born American, had resided in this ality. It is astonishing that the papers Territory thirty-five years and had two as well as the public are not tired of brothers living in this city. It does this sort of second hand pabuilum. not appear that any effort was made to find those relatives and inform them of the death of their brother. In connection with this neglect of a plain duty it should be remembered that it THE investigation into the mysteri- was known at the city hall that the ous death of Richard M. Johnson, who deceased had a brother in town, and was found dead in the city jail on Sun- Officer O'Reilly tried to find him or day, January 11th, has developed a dis the day before the death occurred. gusting state of facts. The deceased The latter has stated also that he in was arrested on Friday, Jan. 9th, on a formed several of the officials conThere is no objection to the employ- Jan. 10th, he was, by the police justice, not only the aspect of ordinary care charge of drunkenness. On Saturday, cerned of the fact. Such neglect has adjudged guilty and a fine of five dol-lessness, but of downright inhumanity. lars was imposed. He requested Mr. The nude and comparatively filthy ment of women to go through this Territory and drum up recruits for an DEVOLOPMENTS AT THE JOHNSON INQUEST. institution that has been an igno- | O'Reilly, the desk officer in the City condition in which the body was inminious failure from the beginning, except in deceiving Congress and The terred, reflects no credit upon those to whom it was consigned for burial. Marshal's office, to notify his brother, shame of the whole 'concern. a Danish woman, who is soon to return to her own country, and three little chil- I was not necessary. Dr. Meacham was These were dreadful days. A repe tion of them in our time would be awful. God grant that such may not be the case. tively that the coroner aud city physi- tongue, which became black; burning murder immediate and horrible was With regard to those cuts discovered subsequent to the examinatfon of the body, hɔwever, there is no relief for the officials connected with the affair, whether they were made before or after death. If before dissolution an ed but created no alarm. In 1348 it A MYSTERIOUS MURDER CLEARED UP A MYSTERIOUS murder in San Fraucisco has lately been traced to its perpetrator. The victim was Samuel M. Jacobson, a young merchant, who was shot and killed on the 15th of last August, in front of his residence. The assassination was for a long time enveloped in mystery. At last, only a few days ago, detectives succeeded in discovering the assassin. At the About this time Europe also experiIt appears that two persons were enced climatic phenomena. The order concerned in the murder, Sidney Belf of the seasons seemed inverted. In and Edward W. Campbell, both em1342 a mild form of the disease appear-ployes of the Singer Sewing Machine Company in San Francisco. examination of the body would have broke out in its most virulent form. solicitation of the first named, Campdisclosed them; if after death, they The course of the plague was tracked bell joined him in the footpad business, were made without authorization, and directly from China by means of the as a side source of money-making. the person inflicting them would be caravan routes. It appeared first on Young Jacobson stepped from a street guilty of mutilation of a corpse. Our the northern coast of the Black Sea, car near his home, when Bell pointed theory is they were made before death, next in Constantinople, then in Italy, a pistol at him and told him to throw but not by any of the officers. Not- whence it spread to Germany, France withstanding this opinion, we also and Scandinavia, and finally to the hold, viewing the occurrence as a whole, that the officers immediately concerned are censurable for a glaring neglect of duty and for an offense against the better instincts of humauity. THE BLACK DEATH. THE appalling intelligence reaches us from Europe that "Black Death" has appeared once more in eastern Russia. In the 14th century this terril scourge desolated the world. It was given the name of black because of the spots of that color which appeared on the skin in one of the stages of the disease. The39 spots indicated that decomposition had already set in even before death, British Islands. One writer says: up his hands, at the same time calling to Campbell to do the searching part of the transaction. The latter was frightened, refused to assist and stood off some distance. Mr. Jacobson resist. ed and seized Bell. A struggle ensued, in which the unfortunate merchant was shot immediately below the heart, death resulting. THE Eleventh Census returns re The mortality caused by the plague was, however, only one of the evils to which it gave rise. Its moral effects on the survivors and the frame of society were no less momentous. Many died of fear, which among the living dissolved the ties of kindred; mothers forsook their plague-stricken children; the worldly beBell and Campbell are both in jail came quickened to a maddening schise of sin; the religious fixed their eyes more and the latter has made a full and desteadily on futurity; all rushed to sacri-tailed confession. fice their means to the Church, while the priests drew back from the gold showered over their walls as being tainted INTERESTING JEWISH STATISTICS. with death. Superstition finally banded multitudes together by common means to work Out the common safety. in Hungary, and afterwards in Germany, rose the brotherhood of Flagellants; who undertook to explate the sins of the people, and avert the pestilence by selfimposed offerings. Originally of the lower classes, they gathered to their order as it extended crowds of the highest, both No common authority binds Jews in men and women, and marched from city In Europe the period of the most to jail, robed in sombre garments, with the religious sense. There is no court terrible ravages made by this pesti- red crosses on the breast, back, and cap, in existence before which a Jew can and their heads covered as far as the lence was between 1848 and 1351. eyes; they went chanting in solemn pro- be tried for heresy. A council or synod London alone lost over 100,000 persons. cessions with banners, with down-turned has no power to decree what is Jewish Fifteen of the other European cities points of iron, with which, at stated faces, and bearing triple scourges with belief or unbelief. Any ten adult lost in the aggregate 300,000 souls. times, they lacerated their bodies. Israelites can form a congregation and veal some curious facts in relation to the Jews, when it is understood that the Jewish nation is politically extinct and in the Christiau sense of the word Judaism is not a religion. Germany lost nearly 1,600,000, while hile In place of helping to avert the appoint their own rabbi. It is not initaly lost one half of its entire popula- plague these peculiar fanatics only frequent to find congregations without tion. It is estimated that in Europe helped to spread it. They created a rabbi. Nor have the Jews any alone 25,000,000 human beings were panic and confusion wherever they authorized creed, except that written carried off by this fearful malady. went. In addition to this, a rumor by Maimonides during the middle In the Oriental countries it is calcu- was started that the Jews poisoned the ages, if it may be so considered. But iated that upwards of 40,000,000 peo- wells, and this gaining hold of the this forms no part of the Jewish ple were swept away by black death. popular mind, the most terrible liturgy. The symptoms of the disease were feature of the scourge was inaugurated. boils on the thighs, arms and face; in The people rose up to exterminate the people maintaining an individuality in many cases black spots all over the Hebrew race, 12,000 Jews in Mayence race and religion yet without a country hody. In some other cases affection of alone were murderer. All through or a creed. This is one of the strange the head, stupor, and palsy of the Europe, wherever Jew was found, paradoxes of our time. Here then we are face to face with a |