The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [5], Ed. 1 Friday, May 9, 1902 Page: 2 of 4
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^ Capital\
the Eskimo*
ost Eypry Religion Has Re£r©se.ntaUves’W
The Most Cosmopolitan City (n the Worl<fe
»o*t cuemupollua -city. in the Jere murdered IS the.. "*fnj
i Coa*t.Btllk>pl« ,U _toLJhw' the str~*» •» * onktAntlnopl* ana
the Sheik-ul-lalsnl. the ecctei- property tooted and confiscat '
head l>f the Mrtlent tanh. ABd j have been exceed!ngly cautious
of the Patriarch* of the Greek present very few of the -aO.W
Armenian churches, and of the ! menlan* in C onstantlnop o arc
bbl of the Jew*. Every other j business tinder their owtf name*,
ha* it* repri sen tali vcs anion* 1 of them have gone tato partnc
illation It ia claimed that j with-Turks. paying the tatter *<«
» ia Conauatiuople represents- percentage of the profits of the.
Eactef' tr z rclljlo*:; ! *r>* carefully remove-i **mI preanrvefL
i bout.., uL ..the return aa.l at the time <j*/ th» Baa«x festival
the -.^WpFtrT tna»* ' arc Kfated and hang up ia the cent-
IV ami IAm t dixinl moats! •^Vi^T’iTiirTriln I ’i u Uf
-part ia it t-in* fepr**«nt gb f« <-t the xlaTn anlrr.aU continue
jr/^urmn disguised ia aitIUhU «*► to inhabit these bladders, which, later
^ it**tttie taaak'-*. on a <• :• toa> in the ire.
rt\ar ibmakk before the iMttri! d^di- j opened, and throat Into the water
fated to rtrn fan god. everybody Is under the tea. a* that the ghost* may
ala by thi Indiana of Vancouver t*-
iand roll thHreyes and snap their
JtiTTn a manner at once lifelike and
At fwV
upon the globe, and that every lan-
'ylgn* written in eight or uine lan-
guages on Uw*-.front* of the retail
•hope These -race* and religions are
all'more, or Idea antagonistic. There
IN TW£ AWFUL GRAfiP OF LEPROSY
to *ted! a person a
gfo*!.. no WSt the unfortunate • thu-i
ta nothing to unlt*rtbua» Each sus-
*y<i Only ?i An I»ol»,t»d.
What is credited wTth being the most
lo it b*ome> dt <«*a»e affecting man^ind,--
^i»rway—Had. B«J a few rtrtim* ,m the
Ui.lted SUitce. there being 27jS all.told.
Only 72 of the afflicted on** are iso-
lated. although the disease la eonta-
d« prived of hi« shad* will plnd away
and die. Naturally, a misfortune, of
this kind->1« gnwW^r dreaded........
Thd finest collection of Ebklpaa
IBISF in existence la owned by the
-National Museum. Shero the writer
i was permitted to-takP the acf.mpa.iy-
pects the other of. treachery They
jhave no relations, except In trade, and j
un their commercial dealing* they are
all trying Lo cheat one another. - —''
. Thera is a"muTtTT£Rl* at. priest*.
vlded into daa»es ami ranks. The
(lowest is the .mueagin, who is a sort |
«< aarrlstan -or sexton at*the mosque. ;
Me wall* the faithful to prayer, but !
takes no part in the. devotional exer-
cises. Softs* are theological students. J
young preachers who make up a fanat- j
leal and turbulent class aud are the .
(eause^bf most of the disturhauces in
Constantinople, as the sttidenu of uni-
versities ofteii air^Th officr^fiioropean
(countries. Next to them in rank aro-
the cadis, who. exercise a temporal as <
^well as spiritual Jurisdiction, acting as
notaries. Justices of the peace, judge*
Jof the eoorta and look after the fiuan
trial affairs of the different parishes
utnd lellfcious orders Tiu're/are ser-
Jeraj religion* brotherhood* arid or-
Iders.....like the dervishes. The mbulahs
Or regular pvnsts who couduct the
services at the mosques, may be com-
pared with the ordinary clergy fin our-
country.. One grade above- him ts the
khodjn. or professor of rheology, who
... busily tngagciTTn makipg mxx-kx Tftff
I mo*, nre born artists, and vie
with e.j n other ah to who shall pro-
due# the ronst-gro»e*que face*. Home
of tb* exceedingly elabo-{• •
HI*, having att»rm«i to thorn small |
-moodan. - image*, of. Jieal*, bears. . wat' j
ruse, . tr>r and other animals
.which are expected to lielffteddur'^j.
fog the «ppr<ve.rhing summer
ErtqmnMy little fmata arc hung i
Upon the mask*, every such append-
age haying a special oymbollc mean- 1
tng The material u*ed ia nearly al- T'
way* driftwood,‘of which plentiful
supplies are hast up by the sew ahng
tf e short* of the Arctic Alaska.
>The largest and most complicat'd
thalks represent the most powerful
41‘dnitlM. e-pedally the sun god. who. j j
ti blmvelf a dlety of altrihuuw o-
t'Anely'formidable. It Is hi* fchtlval, j
and even the flng< F fti'dsfr*. which ,tr ’ j
h*ld in the hands of the perform >n |
diring the mysllc rites, are made_«u ;
hi* llkene#*. " f
11 Older to reallx*. the significauc
<d »l.< .x a-ks worn f If ktu,-.' vH*:
lUeir Eister festival one mis' und-r ^ ‘
stand the belief which those .h^pl ’
entertain regarding the quasi-super- | ^ * >
natural character of all animate j Ing pictures One <«f the most not-
tblngj j able specimen* represents the hegd.
Their notion Is that every llvlny neck and beak of a sandhill cranu.
thing gbaag** — a gho*t of aeml n*axly threw (set in length
human form nnd feature*.'which *D- j Jt is quite a unique curiosity In Us
! way. the top qt the bird's head being
^'lug out m'a» to botd a small lamp.
giono and deadly once it Cnstena itsetl
upon a Tietlm. The number of lepers-
In the ‘country, was ascertained by a
national medical commission sent oat
for the purpose. The cases they found
distributed by state*..gp ftrilwws:
Alafmms. >; GailfornU M; Florida
24; Georgia. 1; Illinois, 5; Iowa, 1;
males; 115 Anjerican born, 120 foreign
born, and the remainder! uncertain.
FT he commissioners say that the
foregoing figures do nvt represent the
total number of lepers in the eon-ntry
because the loathsome character of
the disease causes persons affected to
conceal it as long as pvisslbl#. They
Algo ray that it h most frequently con-
tracted by inhaling dust'witere lepers
have been living.
The commlsgioh recommends the es-
tablishment of a retreat for lepers anJ
expreeseci the opinion that it should be
in >he arid southwest or ia a similar
.jeglon further north, or an island in
Pacttlc
Sccae ra'Constantinople duiiag th e massacre of 1S90 ia- which 5,000 AK
mr.lnh.-* were buti hered. The picture representi a number of Armenians
wjo. to arnt.i the soldiery, threw them selves into the. water opnosfta the cus-
tom House. H*f* they were done to^ death by Turkish boatmen.
is so Violent that ££• name of Armenia^
has been stricken off the map and that
province is known as Upper Turkey,-*
The custom house officers will not pel^
mlt the importation of maps bearing
the name Armenia. If any such are
found they are confiscated and burned i
and every book containing the n&md
Armenia Is Matted by this censor.
The Greeks, who are next In num-
ber, are alee business men and now^
have the largest ahare of the merchan-v
tile trade ia their own quarter of* thr
city. Although Turkey was recentty
at war with Greece and the rivalry be-
.ween the two countries is bitter, there
. w. ‘ tr. , a * i . t . —
You t%m find these group3 in every j
mosque at all -hours of the day, and
they rPiiTfmi you of the story o£ Jesuit
teaching-lx» the temple Nearly ail of
the MoeSeres In Constantinople are em-
ployed etthcr by the church or the
state, or are ordinary common work-
'ng mm, They are ignorant and fa-
natiraf. dangerous when wetted by tb#
prtestsv or the soft as. who make the
the Gulf of Mexico or the
coast.
His H«pututlus WM Hart.
The prosecuting attorney at Natrona
county. Wyoming, has entered suit
ts no hatred or prejudice against them.
The same Is true of the Jews. Botht
races live at peace with their Turkish
neighbors, and are allowed to wor-
ship God in their own way without,
Interference, and are never compelled
to ensure such persecutions as have
been suffered by the Armenians Tor
centuries. The explanatlqn of this Is
that Greeks and Jews never meddle lt^
politics, while the Armenians are con
tlnually doing so.
Kaatatkyi Queerest Cltlsea.
We have near this place a man
is SO years old, was hi the ctvll
and has every dollgr of his war mi
against 171 ctttxens of Casper, that
state, for damages, aggregating 9100.-
00b. The dtlaens circulated gkd signed-
day Leo surrendered, has Slept In
died but. four nights In six year*, b
ha* had a- coat on- but once since Igi
and that was five year* ago, The TI
of last October, ifhen William Jt
nlngs Bryatt spoke In Eltubethto*
He has never been married and u
never known to go to rttnrch. Hc<
.a man If good cirromstamje. noli
borly awl ^koneaL— Kllsabethtol
(Ur.) New*.
,a petition pakIng that he employ an
assistant In n murder trial, and he oi-
lcg< | that his personal reputation wax
thereby damaged In the gum named.
HhenEm. V neathi The time effect
It obtained by snail hjjpged flap**,
which open ootwaed discioqlng the
human-like face, which Represent* the
Tho. Madders of marine mamma's
The more n man gets thq leas
nhle to nndemtand tike discoidtei
community, but, stnee the nanaancreo In
1894, when at least 5.000 of that wt
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [5], Ed. 1 Friday, May 9, 1902, newspaper, May 9, 1902; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1038781/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.