Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 25, 1919, Page 6

PUREST BLOODED JEWS ARE EXILES * . Admixture. SCORN THE PLAINS PEOPLE r Language and Many of Their Customs Are Peculiar—Date and Circumstances of Settlement in That Region Unknown. London.—Of all the scattered tribes d remnants of the Jewish people, nope. 18 less known to the world at large, and' certainly none presents & : lmore striking contrast to the common ! |eonception of the modern children of el.than the Jewish Highlanders of the eastern Caucasus. Yet there are ; |probably none in all the world who have kept the Jewish blood more pure { |and free from gentile admixture, nor apy .who have more faithfully pre- . |merved the traditions, beliefs and cus- . |toms, of the timés before the exile. {1 Indeed, they hold themselves quite L {l.locf from the other Jews of the Cav- H region, refusing.-to intermarry ! jwith them, to, worship with them, or to have social‘or commercial in- reourse with them beyond the limits of the barest necessity. No' Scottish ; [Highlander ever scorned the Lowlander * lone-half so much as these Highland- i lar Jews scorn thelr kinsmen of the {pladns and of the urban ghetto. i Traditions Fail to Explain, ‘¢ The date and the circumstances of y ‘iflldr settlement in the Caucasus high- i |lgnds are unknown, even in their own ! ityaditions, but it Is certain that they Ihave been there for nearly a thousand | ;years. -In that time their physical "characteristics have been materially - imodified’ by, their environment and imode of life. With characteristic Jew- 1gh faces.and complexion, they have itall, stalwart; muscular bodies, re- _sembling the best of the Hill men of {India, or some of the giant Highland- ters of Scotland. Their life is of course ipurely rural, since they have no con- isiderable towns, and they devote them- .selves to agriculture, and the growing of grapes and. tobacco. From the .grapes they make both wine and ,‘}brnndy, and of these beverages they _:iare heavy drinkers. Indeed they have i the unenviable reputation of being the i 'hardest drinkers.in all that part of the i |world—which might easily be, since ’'the Mohammedan tribes around them {are almost entirely total abstainers. 'However, drunkenness is little known | | k 1 ! L | » lamong them, if at.all. |4 They are also.great fighters. That { |im generally a characteristic of moun- |tatneers, and in these highland Jews '.:!t is highly developed. They always . iltve, but rather what philologists term © 'rather than back to Palestine. There is +/{go armed, as do the Montenegrins, and ‘|are never backward in using their -weapons for defense. They do not, ‘however, share in. any of the blood {feuds of the Circassian tribesmen, nor ido they join In their raids and quar- ‘rels. Peculiar: Language. Their. language is neither Hebrew raor that of the country in which they i Parsi-Tartar, or a mingling of old Per- | sian anud Tartar. From this circum-! ‘stance it is Inferred that their ances- tors went to the Caucasus from Persia in the days of Cyrus the Great, or Darius. Perhaps they were fugitives from Persian captivity; or else they preferred golng to the Caucasus indeed one ancient legend which tells that they wandered northward In quest of Mount Ararat and the remains of I Noan's ark. TRURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMEER 25, 1919 ~dia. Souvenirs ‘of Peace Treaty: From: sl accounts souvernts collects or¥ let no grass grow under their feet’ on obtaining adinission to the’famous a Dplatter, sprinkled with salt and ex- |. hibited to guests. Women go unvefled |- and speak to men as freely as {n west- ern lands, A man is permitted to have DRY CLEANING Clothes .Cleaners for Men, Women — EAT — themselves of the privilege. ly wrapped In a shroud and buried, while the women walil & dirge. Oue of. the most curious of all their customs is that of having the women of the household occupy rooms which ure accessible from the rest of the house only through semicircular holes at the bottom of the wall, not more than two feet high, for all the weorld like the entrances to dog kennels. When 2 guest calls at a house he is welcomed in a spacious reception room, and then thie host gets down em: hands and knees and crawls through a hole In the wall in search of his wife, or wives, as the case may be, and pres- ently comes crawling back, followed by the ladies of the household in the same undignified attitude. The women dress In jackets and loose trousers after the oriental fashion. SAME HONOR AS FOREFATHER Lost Battalion Hero to Get Replica: of Memorial to Revofutionary: Ancestor. Santa;Ana, Cal.—Nathaniel Roches- ter of Santa Ana, who was a member of America’s famous “Lost Battallon” and who was killed in the Argonne; will be honored'here in the same fash- fon that his great-grandfather, Col. Nathaniel Rochester, founder of the city of Rochester; N. Y., and one of Washington’s oflicers in. the Revolu- tlonary war, was lionored. in the city he had founded. In St.,Luke’s church, Rochester, is a bronze tablet, in memory of a Colo- nel Rochester. A replica will be placed in the Episropal church here. 1t will bear this inscription: “In memory of Nathaniel Rochester, Company B, 308th United States in- fantry, Born Nov. 8, 1897. Killed in France while fighting for the ‘Lost Battalion,’ Oct. 8, 1918.” . STOPS FLOGGING WITH: HOSE New Hampshire Governor Ordérs Pun- ishment Ended in the State Industrial 8chool.. Manchester, N. H.—Gov. Bartlett said that he personally investigated complaints that Boys had’been:flogged with rubber hose at the state: indus- trial school here and he found’ the re- ports to be true and ordered.the prac- tice stopped. The governor said hie- had been shown the room at the schiool’ where the floggings took place and the in- struments used. These consisted of pleces of rubber a foot long, with wooden handles. The rubber-for the punishment of offenses of lesser de- gree was hollow inside: That for the most serious offenses was solid: The governor added that he did not intend to bring charges against the superintendent, V. B.. Backus, believ- ing him no more to. blame than his wrodansaenrs. Lazy Husband Roufidup Due at Yakima, Wash. Yakima, Wash.—A. round-up of “lazy husbands” is threat- ened here by local officials. Washington. state has a law which puts lazy husbands at work and gives the family of such men their earnings. Offi- clals say the county Is so plagued with men: liable for prosecution under- the law that a round-up will' soon start. One case cited here was of a hus- band who rode around the res- The patriarchal mode of life pre- ivails among them. When a son mar- |ries he does® not establish a home of Aig own. He simply builds a wing on his father’s house and lives in it. In jthls fashioe. there are often three or four generatioss lving in a single {mouse. which consists of a single story spread over a large aren of ground. Each house has its own allotment of Jand. comprising grain fiell, tobacco \Sield, vegetable garden and vineyard, ‘ll’ld all are kept in a high state of cul- tivation, though with primitive meth- ieds. Each garden is inclosed within |= wall of rubble and clay about six 1{eet high. These highland Jews have no rabbis and no religious head. They have no synagogues and no liturgy. They have a scroll of the law, but it Is used only | dor reference. They observe the Sab- {bnth in the strictest Mosaic fashion, idoing no work and cooking no food, all ifood requiring it being cooked on the !preceding day. They keep the Pass- ! gver, not by eating unleavened bread. ibecause all their bread is always un- leavened, but by eating an evening meal in common in the open air. The ‘Feast of Tabernacles is similarly ob- served, and they have a special cere- tmony of their own at each new moon. Girls must always be betrothed for six months before marriags, and the ‘pridegroom, instend of receiving a tdowry with his bride, must pay her t#ather a price for her. TLis is usually ' paid for in sheep, cattle or horses, but ;always in eighteens or some muitip'e 'thereof. The price may be 18 sheep ‘or 86 head of cattle, or if the bride- ! groom I8 rich it may be 72 horses, but i for some reason, the erigin of which ‘1 lost in antiquity, the number must always be eighteen or a multiple of eighteen. There is no religious mar- riage ceremony. but a civil contract is . written and signed. When o ¢hild is born it is laid upon ervation in an automobile while his wife drove a hay rick for a laborer’s wage. Yield to Aged Wooer. St. Louils.—Winning consent from 80 parents to marry one woman is the experience of George E. Carnes, sixty- eight years old, who recently was mar- ried to Mrs. Anna Waite, fifty-five, & widow. The couple has resided at the Memorial Home for the Aged here for two years, and lately Carnes proposed marriage to Mrs. Waite. Under a rule of the institution she was compelled to refer him to the board of directors, composed of 30 members. Carnes com- municated with each one separately and gained unanimous consent. Cashes Old Check. Omaha, Neb.—D. T. Beane, paymas- ter of the C. B. and Q., recently cash- ed a pay check for $1.12, which he is- sued to A. M. Smith, Dec. 31, 1894. The check was among the first Mr. Beane issued upon assuming the office of paymaster of the road. Where it has been for more than twenty-four years Mr. Beane is unable to state. He said he had forgotten the purpose of the check. The check came here from Broken Bow, Neb. \ Storm Cures a Paralytle, Boston.—Frightened by a crash of thunder and a bolt of lightning dur- ing a storm at North Adams, Mrs. Wil- Ham Paddock of Jacksonville, Vt., who had been a paralytic for over a year, Jumped from her chair in the kitchen and walked across the floor. Band Weighs 3}, Tons. Los Angeles, Cal.—Los Angeles slaims the world’s heaviest band. It 18 the police band of 32 members, the lightest weighing 200 pounds. Totai weight, three and a half tons. as many as three wives. at eonce, though by no means all of them avail Divoree is seldom If ever practiced. At death the body s mot encoffined but is mere- » AT Third Siret Cafe Our Waiters Do the Waiting' hall' at Versafiles - where the peace treaty was signed. It i said that 28 ash trays, 24V pens; . 43" plendlsl and 60 paper knlves-were’ 5 missing after the historic meetin GRAIN MIXTURES FOR CALVESX Among: the souvenirs which dg;xbt- less will be one of the chief treasures” Wheat Bran Is Relishod by Young Aht | fii- the cabinet of seme collector was mals and Corn Has Excellentt | the paper knife with which M. Clemen+ Physiological Effect. cenu' manifested his fmpatience duriiig —_— the' discourse of Broekdorff-Rantzaw; (Prepared by the United States Depart | The ash: tray uvsed by the chief Gerv ment of Agriculture.) - man- delegate’ also' has disappeared. ‘When the ealf s fn its second week" it should begin te receive grain; and’| when one month old it should eat | about half a pound a day. After this time the quantity of grain may be gradually increased, feeding all that the calf will' eat untfl three pounds a day 18 reachied, probably during the 1 | Electric Vapor Sulphur Intelligent. Girlk \, A’ gob had been having & hard time explaining to: his: girl the meaning of all the “hash” marks and' ratings of the navy. One' day while they were in the sabway, a cook, first class, walked Into the car. The girk selzed . A bath for all ailments for : either ladies or gentlemen: Ladies hairdressing and massages Lady attendant. . Mrs. A. R. Williams ! Piano Instructor i Studio 520 4th St. tbird month. Grain fed to supplement | ¢, rtunity. to: S e siqias separated millt should never be mixed .'m'f,w,;’(',’:& ° dlsplay:, "he — 3 Call at 1009 Bemidji Ave. with the milk. It ia questlonable | T pet:T kmow: whnt ke is;” stie re- || SPecisl attention given be- : whether the preparatfon of grain in any way, such as soaking: or boiling, is advisable under most circumstances. Wheat bran' s eatem readily by | - young calves. Corn has: an excellent pliysiological' effect and' to a great ex- tent may take the place of fat removed from' ekl or separated milk. Experi- ments tend: to- show, that eorn.fed to calves: should' be' cracked rather than finely ground.' Ground oats are good in: grain. mixtures: when available, but in many cases cost muel more per unit of feed: than: corn and: bran. . The fol- lowing- grain: mixiures are recommend- ed’by dairy specialists: of the United States -department: of agricultere: 1L Three parts cracked: corn and one part wheat: bran.. 2/ Three- parts- cracked’ cornm, one part: wheat: bran: and’ one: part ground oats. 8. Three- parts cracked' corm, one part'wheat” bran, one pard ground oats, and:one past’ linseed meak 4; Five parts: cracked’ corn, one part wheat bran,. one part ground: oats, and one part blood meal.,. 5. Oats, .ground. 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