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Show MOEMOXISM IN TAHITI. A Place With a Beautiful Climate and No Business Enterprise. Chicago, May 27. "Mormonism,' said Judge Charles Leconte of Tahiti, at the Grand Pacific hotel to-day, "is thriving in our little island. The head of the sect is Bishop Smith, one of the disciples of Brigham Young. He is the only w hite Mormon on the island. is-land. He is a pearl diver. He has a great many working for him, and last year his profits amounted to $50,000." "Is polygamy practiced?" "Not openly," said the judge. "Our climate is beautiful and living not very expensive. Three months of the year October, November and December are by the inhabitants devoted to pearl fishing, and the other months to "trading with the inhabitants in-habitants of the other island. It is a good place for a young man to go if he has monev, otherwise, unless he wants to commit suicide by starving, starv-ing, he had better remain away." The Judge is making a tour of the world for pleasure, it being his first vacation in many years. |
