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Show ' "Can a man marry ins doceasoa wife's isistor?" has been b long mootod question, ques-tion, particularly in England. Tho fact is that a man can do it if he wants to,bul fi sometimes the consequences are not of t i tho most ploaiiant character. For in-5 in-5 etunce, Dr. Filing, an eminent Presby-, Presby-, terion minister of Pittsburg, triod it ro-.i ro-.i cently, and some of hia oongrogation raised such a disturbance ovor tho af- fair that his resignation was unanimous-j unanimous-j ly accepted by the presbytery. In Utah t it has boon the custom among a large ; clement for a man to mRrry his living i wife's sistors, if ho so douirel This cus- torn, however, is being quito rapidly J abatod by tho Unitod States govorn- J ment. |