Death of a Veteran. THE DESERET WEEKLY. Her passage from this life to the of the promise made by the Lord beyond was a complete realization through the Prophet Joseph conthat death should be sweet to them. cerning the Saints who should dieShe departed as if falling into a peaceful slumber. Jesse W. Fox, was born May 8th, Eliza Jerusha Gibbs Fox, wife of 1831, at Benson, Rutland County, Vermont. Her mother was a sister of Gideon Carter, who was killed in the battle of Crooked River, in the Missouri persecutions; also of John Carter, the first to fall a victim to cholera in Zion's Camp, of which a member. Her mother he was a issue. This I have just got from withstanding that her demise was ing, along with a row of frame Brother Dunham. I was not there; not an event that could reasonably buildings on the city hall property, got the information from others who be deemed unexpected, as her health was were. Brother Dunhan was a sol- had been feeble for several years, occupied by M. L. Green as dier in the late rebellion, received a yet it caused a severe shock to her bakery, with that occupied by Messrs. consumed. The building wound in the head, and draws a pen-husband and family, by whom she Real, sion. He was a policeman in Mount was greatly beloved. Pleasant a year or two. Indeed to were consumed. Returning to the Add, Boyle & McCloskey This correction I think is due the fectionate esteem, her disposition remaining part of the block lying to know her was to hold her in af- block where the fire originated, the deputy. JOHN H. STOTT. MORONI, Utah, June 29, 1889. feelings of all people among whom ing the street, the Boston and Wildbeing such as to win the good the north was consumed; and, crossshe mingled. and unselfish almost to a fault, her man's hardware store, the Grand She was generous er's photograph galleries, ChapAt Brigham City, Box Elder own interest and convenience be- Central livery stables, the Clipper County, Utah, on Saturday, June ing the last considerations that en- theatre, the Grand Central hotel, 29th, a few minutes past 1 o'clock tered her mind. p.m., Patriarch William Box dedwelling houses were completely the Idea office, and some twenty parted this life. The principal ailwhich are the vaults containing the destroyed. The ment that took him off was infirm county and court records, were the ity resulting from old age. Father court house, in Box was born November 24th, 1804, took an instant, when the large next buildings doomed. at Stone, Staffordshire, England. structure was a He was baptized into the Church of It only Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the same locality on the 30th of Central was a target for the flames mass of flames. street and north from the Grand The old Sherman House across the January, 1841, at the time President that were leaping madly to the Wilford Woodruff was in that part south and west. It went in a moof England. He sailed for America ment, together with four or five in September, 1842, and ended at buildings. Galloway's livery stable New Orleans in December of the went along with the rest, as also a same year, and at once proceeded to row of residences in the same block Saint Louis; removed to Nauvoo in facing Second Street. The flames 1843, remained there and passed through much of the persecutions and mobbings until 1846. In the joined the Church, in Vermont, work, but skipped across Second and were not satisfied with their deadly year 1848 he went to Council Bluffs; ized, shortly came to Salt Lake City in 1852, land in 1834, Sister Fox and organ- I streets to the Methodist parsonage in Captain Snow's company, and then three years of age. removed to Kirt- and church. The Presbyterian and settled first in Salt Lake City. He died shortly before she was born. joining were completely destroyed. being Episcopal churches then caught went to Brigham City in 1855. Deceased was reared in the Church The burned district comprises eight Her father fire, and with fifteen dwellings adwhere he was ordained a High and was identified with and passed blocks in the centre of the city, and Priest in 1856, and was set apart as a member of the High Council of through all the vicissitudes and per- about twenty-five dwelling houses. the Box Elder Stake in the same pated in the removal from Kirtland Many of them were burnt about the secutions of the Saints. She partici- The firemen year. He was also chosen to pre- to Missouri, in the exodus from face and hands, but they side over the High Priests' quorum. Missouri to Nauvoo, Illinois, and nevertheless willing did noble work. He was also chosen to be one of the was driven with the body of her themselves as much as possible. The presiding visiting Teachers of Box people from the latter place and with loss is variously estimated at from Elder and Brigham City. In the them sought a refuge in the Rocky $300,000 to $500,000. The insurance month of August, 1877, at the more Mountain region. complete organization of the Box Elder Stake of Zion, he was orOn the way here, while camped At least one hundred families have is about one-third of that amount. dained a Patriarch, which office he in 1849, deceased was married to everything they possessed; but they on the banks of the Missouri River, been left homeless, and destitute of foitunes from that time until her only the clothing they had on their Brother Fox, and has shared his will have assistance. him Many saved death, she having been to backs. The insurance agencies eshelpmeet in of the every timate the loss by the fire at about son and three daughters, two of the the W. C. Chapman building, $25,term. of the union was four children, one surance. The issue $300,000, with $75,000 to $80,000 inlatter having preceded her to the 000; insurance from $10,000 to $15,life beyond. The heaviest losers are forty years-since 1849-Sister Fox is 000; insurance $8000. necessarily and properly classed as $10,000; barely insured. Having lived here 000. The Grand Central loss is $20,Jos. Clark a pioneer of this country. terian, Methodist and Episcopal Presbychurches valued at about $15,000, burned out tonight. sible to obtain an accurate list of the with $9000 insurance. It is impos held at the time of his demise. The deceased appeared to be in his usual health, attending_to_his business, until 2 o'clock on Friday, the 28th, when he complained of uneasiness and pain the in sense a after it was stomach. He received good care were to sacrifice and W. L. Watkins, who each paid seemed to aggravate the flames till committed suicide at Reading, Pa., arch. J. B. Death of Sister Fox. At forty minutes velock on the afternoon of June past two 26th at her residence in the Fourteenth Ward, this city, Sister Fox, lying north of H. Street, but this man is credited with the authorship became so hot as to be utterly im-line: "Canst thou be Christ and the firemen were unable to do, for it of this poem, which contains the possible to get close to it, notwith- have no love for me?" The poem standing that the wind was blowing was written by Edgar Allen Poe. wife of Elder Jesse W. Fox, one in a diagonal direction. The roof of who ranked among the noblest of the city hall on the south side of H. It is probable that Shearer added her sex, breathed her last. Not-Street took fire, and that build-plagiarism to the crime of suicide. MISCELLANEOUS. Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils. The cost of the proposed Congo railroad is only 25,000,000 francs, about $5,000,000. The entire length, of the route is to be 550 kilometers, or about 300 miles, taking it from the coast to the neighborhood of Stanley Falls. It will soon be the "Dark Continent" no more. phase of the motions. It does not seem; hut the truly great lawyer Drowning. Mr. Lovejoy were once gossiping together, when Abraham Lincoln came in. The two men immediately turned their conversation upon the proper On Sunday last Eliza, the eldest daughter of Mr. B. Gibson, of Chili-length of a man's leg. whack, was accidentally drowned "Now," said Lovejoy, "Abe's while playing with some other little legs are altogether too long, and girls in Hope Slough. The children yours, Douglas, I think, are a little short. Lets ask Abe what he thinks of it." The conversation had been car ried on with a view to Lincoln's overhearing it, and they closed it by saying: "Abe, what do you think about it?" Mr. Lincoln had a far-away look, as he sat with one leg twisted the question: "Think of what?” around the other, but he responded to had been warned against going near the place, but had yielded to the Prince Bismarck's salary as temptation, and the victim of the Chancellor of the German Empire melancholy accident slipped off a is only $13,000 a year, or less than log into deep water, and one of her the Emperor receives in a week. companions in the attempt to rescue However, he is helped out some- her was very nearly dragged in. what, having a house of great pro- When the children saw that their portions, furnishings and belong-playmate was drowning they ran ings at the expense of the State. for help, but long before assistance arrived she had sank out of sight. They have found a new and very this sad story is that the very day A strange coincidence attending "Well, we're talking about the good use for castaway tin cans. The this little girl was born, twelve proper length of a man's legs. We think yours are too long, and Dougtangular pieces about three times years ago, her brother was drowned las', I think, are a little' short, and longer than broad. These are auto-almost at the same spot at which we'd like to know what you think is matically fed into a machine, which the sad affair here chronicled took the proper length." Mrs. Gibson is crazed with squeezes them up into square nail place. shape and puts a head on one end. brief at her terrible loss, and her The result is a nail stronger than gondition is considered critical. the ordinary nail, and one which cictoria (B. C.) Colonist. can be driven into hard wood without breaking. tin is straightened out, cut into rec The Future of Photography. The ease with which photographs can now be taken by any one is destined to have an important influence upon science, art and litera The Persian Gentleman. In Persia boys and girls never play together. Even at home the inferiority of the girls is insisted on, just as much by the mother as by the father. The little girls have to invite playmates of their own, but their games are never lively ones. "Well," ," said Mr. Lincoln, "that's a matter I've never given any thought to, so of course I may be mistaken; but my first impression is that a man's leg ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground."- Youth's Companion. The Field of Invention _Unbounded. The impression is very generally ture. It must not be supposed, They generally prefer to sit by them. prevalent that the field of invention however, that with the cheapness of selves under the shade of mulberry show them many little kindnesses.- ments of the thousands of bright inis being reduced by the achievetellects that are now working upon its various problems. As each cirishes the area of grass to be cut in cuit of a mowing machine dimina meadow, as each furrow turned by done on a farmer's arable acres, so the plow lessens the work to be cation of science, or device for proit is supposed that every new applior profit of mankind, brings nearer moting the comfort, convenience, ments in photography have resulted a coming time when invention will from the labors of the chemist rather be compelled by lack of room to than from those of the optician and come to a halt. This is natural, bethe makers of lenses. Indeed one cause we are accustomed to compare Snakes Stop a Ball Game. of the most remarkable features of the immaterial and intangible with photography is the simplicity of the A well-contested game of base ball material and tangible things. When apparatus which is necessary. This between the Cities and Round we speak of a field, whether it be simplicity perhaps might have been House teams at Long Branch, N. for the plowman, the poet, or the inforeseen by a careful study of the J., was suddenly terminated the ventor, we naturally think of meashuman eye. The eye of every perother day when the center-fielder, ureable space. But the field of son may be said to constitute a de- in fielding a fly ball, fell head fore- mental effort is not measureable, tective camera. The retina is the most into a nest of thirty-two garter-and. so far as we know, is undry plate upon which all objects are snakes. The young man picked limited. To fix its bounds would focussed by means of the crystalline himself up, but again sank to the be to set an arbitrary limit lens; the cavity behind this lens ground, almost prostrated by fright to the progress of the human constitutes the camera, the iris and The players with their bats succeed- race. In science, art, literapupil the diaphragm, and the eyelid ed in killing twenty-six of the rep- ture-in all that exalts and embellthe drop-shutter. The latter, it is tiles. Some of the snakes measur-ishes life-the space yet available true, is a slow drop-shutter-noted three feet in length. It was for progress comes as near infinitude faster than a tenth of a second- fully half an hour before the young as anything we are capable of conwhereas the drop-shutter that is emman who fell into the nest recovere¦ceiving. To one who stands in a ployed to take an express train may sufficently to walk. The game was valley the horizon is near; let him move as fast as the one-hundredth postponed.-St. Louis Globe Demo-climb a hill, and his view is expandof a second, or ten times as fast as ed. When he attains a greater the eyelid. The eye gives the brain height the prospect appears still a number of composite impressions A Good Story of Lincoln. wider. The inventive genius of of an object in motion, while the A lawyer is presumed to be always the world is rising higher and highsensitive plate and the drop-shutter able to suggest a difficulty, no mat-er every day. Its prospect never apof the camera can give but one ter how self-evident the case may peared so utterly boundless as now. crat. All that has been achieved, all the grand conquests that are recorded, are but an atom in the balance weighed when brought against the possibilities of the future. Every victory suggests new lines of effort and equips the victor for further and better work. The supplying of one want suggests means of supplying others. So long as there is work for man to do, the inventor will find employment. Unless the Author of nature has fixed an impassable barrier to the progress of man. invention will never have a vacation.-The Inventive Age. LETTER FROM TURKEY. brings new ones to light. This peo- en order that they may also partake of the heavenly blessings so richly vouchsafed to us from our Father in heaven. Therefore to my brethren of the Seventies and others who may be called to labor in these eastern countries I would say-be prepared for a new work, one much different from that in which we have formerly engaged; prepare yourselves with plenty of patience, so that when you meet with reverses and things that do not go just as you expect, you may not be discouraged. Rather be filled with the Spirit of the living God; start in again with a firmer determination to accomplish every duty and overcome every obstacle laid in your way, until the power of Satan is broken and all who will be saved may have a full chance and none be left without a warning. Our friends in Zion can do a great work by writing kind letters, filled with exhortations and good news calculated to strengthen our young Elders and thereby furnish food for proper reflection, which will eventually terminate in strength to the young Saints here, who are eager to know how they are regarded by their brethren in "the land of promise." A few thoughts regarding our labors here, and what may be required of the Elders of Israel in preaching to these non-Israel nations, have quite forcibly presented themselves to me of late; and thinking they may be of general interest among the Saints, I take the liberty of sending a few Money also bought many conlines on these subjects. As an inverts. Some sought a temporal adtroduction, I will make an extract vantage, and a less desirable element from a letter which was shown to has replaced the first love of reform. me by one of the Elders here, The example became bad, and the wherein an experienced Elder in churches lost their reputation, so Zion gives some valuable advice. that at the present there is no adThe inhabitants of this place are The words are so applicable that I vantage in boasting that one is a generally kind-hearted and generous. begged the privilege of copying Protestant. Still, the labors are not Much that is good can be said of them for this special purpose. The all in vain. Many are now them, and their mental faculties are words are as follow: lightened, and really seeking for by no means below the average. "Your mission is an important something better; and undoubtedly They are smart, perceive a point one, and you will doubtless have our Elders will have here to pro- quickly, and learn very fast; but many difficulties to meet, but if you duce that reform which is necessary they are not of a very solid characwill keep a stout heart and trust in to bring the people to a position to ter. Hence they may soon be found God, He will uphold you in every understand the pure Gospel of Jesus leaning to the wrong side of the balextremity. Pardon me if, as a Christ. Protestantism has intro-ance. Our impression, however, is friend, I caution you against a mis- duced no new doctrine, so to speak. that under good leadership they will take often made by our missionaries. The missionaries have stopped all yet be found to possess fine qualities, They get to imagine, because the avenues to discussing doctrinal-jewels that will in the future fruits of their labors do not appear points when these would lead to any-shine prominently in the great latas fast as they would like, that they thing different than a common Meth- ter-day-work. are of no use. Remember that you odist idea, i.e., "Believe in Christ, are a servant of God, and you are of read the Bible, and you may be saved use, and it is possible for a man to by any mode of baptism you like." do a good work even if he should not succeed in baptizing a single soul." The work here in the Orient has required a great deal of patience. We have met with many reverses based upon several causes. We do not know the language of these people, neither heir character nor their customs. These had to be learned first, and to do this takes time, besides being imposed upon by certain Scoundrels who feign a complete faith in our doctrine in order to gain some personal advantage. Hence we often get a little impatient and allow the future to be clouded over by such gloomy forebodings as "We are of no use," Now, this is surely a mistake. We are sent out to warn the nations as well as to reap the souls of men, and in patiently performing this duty we shall have performed a great work, though we may not bap tize a soul. Here in Turkey there is at present a chance to fulfil this work. The Armenians are, as a rule, very curious to know and to learn, and in warning people of the troubles to come we shall certainly find a few honest ones. We have already discovered some; and every month Hence the people here are not as those of America and Europe were found by the first Elders. There the people through three or four centuries of public discussion of Bible doctrines had brought the real seekers and the "salt of the earth" to the front. Hence when they heard the Gospel it was to them as FRIIS. AINTAB, Turkey, May 30th, 1889. A FINE COUNTRY. This time of the year is our closest time in the season, and at present people are unable to raise money, but trust that after harvest and threshing are over, which is fast approaching completion, there will be a little loosening up of the closeness of money. Our crops are splendid, and fruit is abundant, but the voice of the Good Shepherd;" | Here, then, comes the patience We have one of the finest districts of country for everything desirable in the way of fruit, milk and honey that is known on this continent; a place where a man can sit under his own fig tree and vine unmolested during the short season of unpleasant, warm weather. During nine months of the year, there is the most pleasant weather known in any land. Apricots and strawberries are about gone. Peaches, figs, melons and other fruit, with no end to grapes, are coming in in abundance. Now, all that is needed here to complete our security and peace, is some of our brethren with capital to help hold the fort. As yet few are coming, and much of our valuable possessions will soon pass into other hands. It would be a splendid time for any with money to invest, or those seeking homes, to come here and improve; an opportunity that seldom presents itself to those seeking good homes, or the increase of their wealth. We have been slow in the past to parade the advantages that this country affords, fearing that we might induce some to come that would be dissatisfied, and do injury to the country. We should be pleased to have you say that we have a good country and room for hundreds of families, and that all who desire good homes should come at once while they are now in the way and on the verge of passing beyond the means of many of the people. JAMES JOHNSON. Our hopes are, that through gov-bare. Articles of furniture were ernment means, something may be few and cheap. There was absodone for our relief in the near future. lutely nothing about the whole By order of the mass, meeting. wretched community with which to Respectfully yours. occupy mind or hands. There JOHN TUCKETT, never had been anything-never Chairman. any money, except what was needed to satisfy the craving of hunger and furnish an insufficient covering for the body. O. B. HUNTINGTON, Secretary. OUR CHICAGO LETTER. The Cronin case its slow length along. The Winnestill drags Peg suspect, Burke, is causing much comment. There are many who hold that he knows nothing of the case, while others maintain that he MESA, Maricopa, County. A. T. the police. The Chicago police have is merely a dummy used to mislead June 25th, 1889. a valise key belonging to Burke, but where the valise is, is the question. The State attorney has a fine theory, but it is no good without evidence, and he is advertising for an informer The following letter has been re- and promising him immunity. ceived by Governor Thomas: Cooney, the fox," has gone. He was at the door of his lodgings when an officer called and asked for Pat Cooney. Pat asked the gentleman inside and then went to call Cooney. "The fox" never came RELATIVE TO IRRIGATION. SPRINGVILLE, Utah, To His Excellency, Governor Thomas, Dear Sir-The following explains itself, though different from the forms sent out for reports on irrigation necessities, and hope it will be considered with the attention it deserves. The mine owners claim that the men were improvident, extravagant and drunken; but the correspondent and who owned their own homes has found persons who are not such, and little bits of land. The homes are now valueless; nobody will buy them. The land is worthless; so the thrifty and unthrifty are in the nouncing capital, and wishing etersame position. All unite in denal perdition would take the government and State of Illinois. insect known as the "green midge" From Michigan we hear that an has taken possession of the wheat fields, and that the complete destruction of the crop is probable. Some of these insects are described as of a reddish color, with a shell like a potato beetle, and others with long, gauzy wings. The From Indiana come similar reback. ports. The "green midge" and On the whole, the news all around plant louse are both working inus is not reassuring. From Harvard dustriously to produce a famine in comes the report that the students the country next winter. Already attempted to blow up the college in the coal-mining centers of Indiwith dynamite. The anarchists and ana there is great destitution. the Clan-na-Gael have a formidable Governor has issued an appeal for rival in the dynamite field when funds to relieve the hungry and Harvard embarks in it. starving. Strikes and lockouts are causing the most intense suffering; Children and women are reported to be dropping off through hunger. A series of mass meetings, held in Springville on the 12th, 27th and 31st of May, 1889, also one on the 17th of June, consisting of citizens From Iowa the news reaches us of what is known as Mapleton that a forger and embezzler has been Ward, which embraces an area of waited on in jail by the "best young about nine square miles, and is the ladies of the place," presented with Notwithstanding the abundance southern and eastern portion of bouquets of flowers, and encouraged of money and provisions forwarded Springville corporate limits, resulted with wreathed smiles. When an to Johnstown, yet the victims of the in the appointment of John embezzler obtains such approval as flood are almost as badly off as if one Tuckett, chairman of a committee this. Cronin's murderer may be ex-cent had not been contributed. to represent to the "Senate commit-pected to get ice-cream. Yet in There is no wisdom, no honesty distee" on irrigation, in the Territory, Iowa the Rev. Mr. Haddock's the necessity of irrigation to the grave is unmarked, and covered aforesaid portion of Springville City -Mapleton Ward. The object of this communication is to show through said committee the result of the labors of a previous committee appointed by said series of mass meetings, to ascertain if the waters of Strawberry Creek, in Strawberry Valley, and lying in the Indian reservation, could be brought into Springville through Spanish Fork canyon for irrigating purposes. with weeds and roots. played on the distribution of the goods. The matter fell into the hands of professional alms-distributors, and it is found that with them charity begins at home. Everything of value they appropriated for their own use or for the use of friends. The contractors took up the charity food and then charged their laborers board money. Some good Christians will come out millionaires by reason of the Johnstown flood. They will also be looked upon as philanthropists, though really boodlers of the meanest kind. In the coal mining centres of Illinois the direst distress prevails. Brandwood, Streator, Spring Valley, Coal City, and other places are actually starving. It is estimated 50,000 people are little better off in the way of food and clothing than were the inmates of Libbey prison. There is a suspension of work caused by a strike, some say a lock-out, and misery is the result. The miners claim that they could no ve any The last named committee, or thing while at work; that the com- We have at present a Dr. Leocommittee of investigation in Straw-pany compelled them to trade in nard here who is causing quite a senberry, reported as follows, to the stores where they were cheated; sation. Whether he is the Leonard mass meeting held June 17, 1889: that they did not get full weight for of Utah notoriety or not I cannot That "the water of Strawberry coal mined, and that an able-bodied say. At the Methodists preachers' can be taken into Spanish Fork miner could not average more than meeting last Monday he fired a River by constructing a ditch $17 a month. The miners are Ital- bomb by stating that this country twenty miles in length, with a tun- ians and Swedes who took the places was encompassed by evils of a nel through the dividing summit, of strikers a few years ago. dreadful nature. The Catholic 600 feet long. The amount of water The Chicago Tribune has a cor-Church he designated as the first thus obtained will exceed the water respondent on the ground. This and greatest of these evils. The running in Hobble Creek-or six paper is loud in favor of protected Methodist Church, which is the good irrigating streams." industries Coal is one. Here is its only true one,"must don its armor to picture of Braidwood: fight these evils. It must quit "Men rambled idly about the sending out missionaries while there house-thin, ill-fed creatures, look is work to do at home. Its ministers ing hopelessly out. Women sat idle, must educate themselves. To quote having nothing to occupy their his own words, he said: "There hands, or cared for hungry, ragged isn't one preacher ont of ten who children, whom they could neither can repeat the Lord's prayer corfeed nor clothe. The floors were rectly. The Methodist Church Nearly the whole of said southern and eastern portion of Springville is now without water in consequence of the decrease of Hobble creek-the older water claims taking precedence, and leaving Mapleton, with their grain, fruit and shade trees already perished. without religion is the poorest institution on earth." of the kings of the east might be prepared. Haik was grandson to Togarmah, concerning whom and his relatives let us consult Genises x: 3-4: "The sons of Japhet, Gomer, Madai, Javan, Mesech and Tiras-and the sons of Gomer, Ashkenar, Riphath and Togarmah." abuse you. Thus it is with Tonti and the Jews. When the order was From Baltimore also comes this weak and struggling, the Jews were cry of anti-Romanism. Baltimore sought after and caressed. Now the was founded by a Romanist, and it erder is flourishing, the Jews are sounds strange to read of the Rev. selfish and obnoxious. But this is F. M. Ellis denouncing Cardinal only another illustration of the Gibbons as "a traitor, a disloyalist, general chaos and universal anand a perjurer." His essay was archy which seem to be setting in. spoken before the Teachers' Union It is only another incident in the It would seem that in the latterof Baltimore. It was entitled "The babel of ethnology which character-days the majority of the kingdoms Bible in the Public Schools." It izes the present standing of Ameri- of the above-named sons of Japhet appears that Gibbons at one time can citizenship. will not occupy a very enviable popronounced in favor of reading the Feud and faction are not, how-sition, including Togarmah, whose Bible, but Mr. Ellis declared the ever, confined entirely to the for- representative is Armenia, which Cardinal did not mean what he eign races in this country. At kingdom he established. In short, said. Mr. Ellis maintains that present, in Texas, the Terrys and it would appear that Russia, Arme"Rome controls all her people, and the Gibbsons are at war. The sol- nia, Persia, Ethiopia, and the destherefore a Romanist cannot be a diers have been called out to quell cendants of the aforenamed princes citizen of this republic.". The Min- these Yankee Roderick Dhus. In of Japhet, and all their bands," isterial Union of Baltimore, which Kentucky the normal condition of like a cloud will come up against is composed of all the denominations society seems to be feuds, whisky gathered Israel until as "Saith the in the city, endorsed Mr. Ellis. and race horses. In our nothern Lord God, that my fury shall come Cardinal Gibbons will do one good States bosses, chiefs and leaders are up in my face," and woes overtake thing if he succeeds in getting those the rule. There is the Alger clan, them. jarring sects to unite for once. the Blaine Clan-na-Gaels, the Har"Who is Tonti?" is now the ques-rison clan-for-office, the Deputies, tion asked by many persons who British-Americans, French-Canaread of the ostracism of the Jews in dians, Christopher Columbo Italosecret societies. "The Order of Americans, and a hundred others, Tonti" is a secret benevolent organi- too numerous to recapitulate, unless zation, with headquarters in Phila- one were engaged in compiling a delphia, where its supreme presi- directory of American clans and dent, Mr. Wheeler, resides. It has secret societies. All this turmoil in Chicago twenty-one subordinate and discord must be attributed to lodges, governed by three deputy the chaotic condition of religion, presidents. The success of the order is such that it has become necessary to establish another deputy presidency to accommodate the increasing membership. and to the mushroom system of the In the original Hebrew, Ezekiel "Son of xxxviii, 2, reads thus: Man, set Thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, Prince of "Rosh" (Russia), of Mesech (Moscow), and Tubal (Tobolsk, in Siberia). The late reference Bible puts it: "The prince of the chief," or, in modern English, the "Czar of Moscoviz and Tobolski." Further we read (verse 6), "Gomer and all his bands, the house of Togarmah (Armenia) of the north quarters (due north of Palestine) and all his bands, and many people with thee," to A voluminous are battle against Israel -probably within correspondence between the supreme a few president and the Chicago authoriyears. But perhaps (Rev. xx, 7) ties resulted over the new presiden"When the one thousand years are cy. The supreme president ordered expired Satan shall be loosed out of the Chicago men not to admit Jews AMONG THE ARMENIANS. his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the or negroes to membership; that the Jew was no better than the China- Since some of our Elders have four quarters of the earth, Gog and man; that he was a curse to any been laboring for a considerable Magog, to gather them together to society; and that he was unfit for time in Asia Minor, among the Ar- battle, the number of whom is as the existence at all in the animal king- menians, who usually call them-sand of the sea, and they went up dom. selves Gregorians, that is, converts on the breadth of the earth and to the creed propagated by Pope compassed the camp of the Saints Gregory VII, it might interest your about, and the beloved city, and fire readers to know what may be truth- came down from God out of heaven fully said of them. CHICAGO, June 27, 1889. It appears that the Hebrew race constitutes fully one-half the membership of the order in Chicago. This correspondence fell into the hands of a Hebrew officer, who About forty centuries ago Togarcommunicated the matter to his mah ruled a vast district around fellow religionists. The indignant Mount Ararat, extending west, east Jews held a meeting, and now they and south of that landmark (17,112 demand the removal of Mr. Wheeler, feet in height), which country is or they will remove themselves from known in scripture as Togarmah. the order. It is not generally sup- Until about four centuries ago, when posed that Jews seek entrance to the Turks definitely overcame the secret societies. They do, and they Armeni a kingdom of that name are the most inveterate society hun- had subed, under one form or ters of any race in America. There another, which seems to have been is not an order from Masons to established by Haik (pronounced Tuckpointers but has a large repre- Hah-eak), a descendant of Togarsentation of Jews. The societies mah. Haik was to Armenia as charge the Jews with selfish and much as Charlemagne was to the business motives in entering them; Occidental Empire; and as that hence the opposition. Old Ton-western dominion which he esti was an Italian, and founded tablished shrank to Gaul, and a system which benefited the in mediæval France consisted longest livers. The Jews are at a critical turns of warfare of only a people who cling to life a few provinces, so Armenia, though with wonderful tenacity and are perhaps getting too much of the Tontine benevolence. This would be reason enough for the opposition to Jews. The average American wants to have the best of every trade. After you take him on your back across the stream, you must be sure to lay him down very gently. If you stumble at all he is sure to formerly a great country, is today not and devoured them." Thus the Armenians, if at all related to their kings, are to be anything but friends of Israel. (Read Ezek. xxxviii and ix.) How it has happened that the government established by Togarmah should be called "Armenia" I cannot as yet explain. The only name related to Armenia, in the Orient, is Aram. The Armenians sometimes call their language "Aramen." Aram was the youngest son of Shem, brother to the Persian (Elam), the Assyrian (Asshur), the Ninevite (Arphaxad), Lud and Aram, all of whom were Shemites, and, as is well known, speak Semetic tongues. The language of Aram (Aramaic) is merely Hebrew-more so than Italian is Latin. The Armenians do not speak a Semetic language. Philologists classify their tongue among the Indo-Germanic dialects. It has but little affinity to Arabic, Syrian, Aramaic, Persian or Hebrew, though necessarily it may contain words common to any of these. To me it seems slightly Greco-Slavonic, though the Armenians claim it to be in construction identical to Gothic |