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A Swiss Seamstress Worshiped for Fifty Years Under the Nameof Mira Mitta Her Followers Faithful Even After Her Death

The Sects Existence Revealed by an Aged WomansThree WeeKs Vigil Qver a Corpse Only Two

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KWation of the House of Lords whichfor thy yean waa the shrine of the GoddessMil Mltta

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tnly two remain and these are hardly morethan ghosts haggard emaciated by yearsof fasting and of penance mere humanbells but still clinging with a wonderfulfaith to the memory of the goddessat whose command they gave up familywealth and all things of the world

Their temple has been solditsbeen desecrated and Its hulls which

for half a century had echoed only totread of believers have been trodden bythe profane called lo remove the dead bodyof one of Mlra MlttAs peopte which forthree weeks had lain there unburied

It WM the discovery of Jhl corpse thatunlooked the endrevealed to that for fiftyyears unknown and unsuspected by It

there had lived and worshiped here astrange sect Because she had told themthat of her believers oould die herbrine bas been laid open andher mysteriesunveiled

Soon the two worshippers who are leftone John Rapp a bent withered manof84 the other Mrs Caroline Lang a toath-

leu shrunken woman of 00 must dieThen lave for a group of grave In WestLaurel mil Cemetery there will be nothingleft of the sect

Some time about the year 1848

to Philadelphia seam tro3sAiina-Meister She wo comely Industriousmuch given to the reading of Swedenborg Day after j daJ she herlieedle sending most of her wafiesfdrek tqllwitzerland where had lefC a parulyzed mother arid a hungryImall brothers

For seven years she worked and thenone day in 1855 while sowluK bn-

h brides dress she yrpppoHihe needletier body became rigid for a few momenta she remained still as one dead

Then she rose tonerteetdri3 cried loudly-

I am the Goddess Mira Mitta the daugh-ter of the Holy Ghost and of God and ofHis Son Believe in me and worship meThis ihe command of the Holy Ghost

Forperhapa five minutes she stopd soend tothe fldorTlriconaclous

Two daysAnnaMelsler lay asleep andwben she wakened she put aside her workand wentout preach

8heliaiJhad a revelation she sAloT Shewas thef daughter of the Holy Ghost Shehad been told to work no

hurler the Lord AllIn her should be saved and should be ofthe elect in heaven To her had been

herfdlNone but those who worshiped

her should go to heaven All the rest of thoworld was damned

There had come to the woman a strange1ft of word Rapidly her followers grew

In numbersa house at Twelfth and Els worth

streets that had been given her by oneof her followers August Wiener a wealthytnercbant she prayed andpreached Fromall parts of the city came German folk drawnby tales of her powers

Merada the Blessed she calledherself during this year of probation Fibally had as worshipers one hundredmen and women young most of themhome of them married some with familiesThen she announced the time had cometo build her temple

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Intp this temple in the fall of I8S6 SisterMerada entered With weird ceremoniesshe was enshrined OH a deity namingherself Jehovah Ellraar Mira MlttaMIraMitta the daughter of Ood

Seated In a nlirine encrusted with jewelon her Jiead a crown studded with dia-monds her waist encircled by a girdleblazing with gems and clad only In a loosesLiken robo the Swiss seamtress become-a goddess received the worship of herfollowers Mrs Lang wan installed as highpriestess and Rapp as high priest

At once Mlra Mltta gave out er com-mandments There were to be no mar-riages Those who were married mustseparate

There was no such thing as death Intothe temple would always come the fol-

lowers of the Daughter of tho Holy GhostThe world would them deadIndeed their bodies might be buried but

would not be dead Eyery Sundaythose who wore left and those wereresting would meet together In the templeand each would see and know eaoh other

Her followers were enjoined to fast andpray from midnight to midnight on Sunday They were forbidden to eat the fleshof animals fowls and fish and all

and of fruits they were permittedto eat only oranges

For years unsuspected by the outsideworld the worship of the woman went onIn the temple Steadily her riches grewyet it is not on record that she ever sold ajewel or used for herself one cent of thewealth her worshlpora heaped up forher

Then one day the Goddess JehovahEllmar Mira Mltta At least the worldwould have called her dead but not so herfollowers

Mini Mltta could not die mumblesthe high priestess concerning this eventShe was but resting Neither pur body

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Homeless in New York With 18000 Cash

Plight of a Man From Hawaii Who Came to Town for a Good Time

and Got Himself Into a Curious Predicament

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J i bite to eat is something that may not seempossible but I can make my affidavit of a

kY tan to that effect remarked the man

t with the tan shoos and white spats as he

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f bIt was in the days whan I was in Now

jf York fresh from the land of superfluous

J vowels Hawaii Just this season of theyear cwhen vacation stalks wide throughthe land-

I wu walking across Madison Squaresoliloquizing the bench population of themetropolis when a dirty figure jumped upfrom a seat and grabbed me frantically-by the hand I wasnt feeling any too

i ohserful and was about to shove the fellowaway when I caught a fleeting familiar

i look in the grime of his faceIt took me a second or so to make proper

f boundings and when I struck bottom Inearly fainted away It was ono of thobiggest sugar planters in all the Islandsa man worth his millions today

Dont ask me to explain he saidbut lead me to a place where they have

soap and towels and beefsteaksI thought my hotel filled the bill pretty

well and curbing a curiosity that nearlyme apoplexy took him with

an had finishedand was looking more Ukohisoldself

time I blurted butWhen the suspense had become too great forme any t-

Thenhe a that IwouldntA have believed from any other inJ th world oven my grandmotherH coino seethe

a fortnight boforo nndliko ov ottfYfom5 his Idea of New York

was two wooks composed if days aboutjJS Vet fanled with Idea ofw his ownability earnof himself hewU liu wisely went to a

ordinary manner After that he startedout to see what might be teen an onservant a pocketbookof abnormal el

Two ho found thatho hadeight dollars In his clothes and he had notseen his hottlsinee he bade farewell to theregister clerk he made his

to the hank and made out acheck for a in order tosavoelf the trouble of another visit in a day

or soHe up ta the raying tellers

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took account said the planterTho cashier came but

nize He was not however theman who had taken the account

The officials began to be suspicious-but after an effort

the person with whom he haddeposited his So graphic were his

tho cashier both

The Hawaiian was relievedThen trot out Mr Billings he said

To his horror he was told Billingshad left on vacation

That ended his attempt to cash thecheck and ho to to his hotelThere another confronted himHo had found the bank the address onhis check book but he had no way of Identi-fying his hotel

As the places he knew were the bankand Madison Square he went to the latterand the on one of the benches

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at the bank where he wasforcefully a porter

Penniless he to a telegraph officeand tried to a wire toin Frisco unluckily his clothes had beentorn and the affair attha bankand the telegraph official would not send the

centThe remainder of the time until he

met me was in visiting hotels telegraph offices and lawyers latter toa man would have to do with him

His clothes were traded for others ofa and a few cents to boot Eachday lessened his chances of pulling out of

hole he was inwas nothing of the in his

makeup he determined to

summer month buton the morning whenmanaged to got a place

tending a switch on one car

It took mo minutes tosome one Identify him and ten minutes-to find the was In a part ofthe city he had left untouched In wan

I dont think he went a blookduring the whole

timeThe way he finished up was-a He chartered a andpair with footman and coachman and

himself out In jewelry ns aSouth Sos man can do he paidpersonal visits to each of tho places

downH was orm of the most nrtlMlo things

Lever listened to and some of the peopleworn soared to throw uppositions After he had thosuocOHOor to hU job as switch tender 50 he

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nor our soul could die But a wicked undertaker came and 10 poured poison in

her veinsThis killed her Ixxly borause the bodily

presence was not strong enough to resistthe poison But her soul dwells on highand it was all powerful-

So powerful i the soul that Itresurrected her body

We prayed night and day Beforeher shrine we prayed And then five daysafter her burial we went to her grave-to the bed where her body was resting

They intended to ell up the body thiscompany of worshipers They went outto West Laurel Hill Cemetery at night andwithout light groped their way to the plotthey had bought for the resting place ofMira Mitta It is gathered that theyprayed uponthe grave for hours and thenstarted to dig

Then says the high priestess MicaMitta sent us a message to be comfortedthat had been too much for herbody and to leave It to rest

Philip Becker one of the first of theworshipers and an exceedingly wealthyGerman merchant had died shortly beforethe goddess In response to what theythought was a command of Mlra Mittathey turned to his grave

He had not been poisoned by any undertaker and his body was thehigh priestess We took a pick andshovel and loosened the earth from hUcoffin Then we opened a place in tho lidand left a little hole up to the top of thegrave so the body could breathe Wetalked to him all the time and he tolduahe would be with us on the next meetingnight at the temple

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ring of the coffin of Becker and the break-

ing of tIm lid the filling of tho grave andthe making of the air shaft down to the lips

of thA corpseThen the believers made their way back

to tho temple there to pray unceasingly fortheir goddess

It was on the next night that the high

priesto stole out to her goddesss grave

She had not been satisfied with the mes-

sage of tho night beforewas railing and she was all alone but

she heard Mira Mltta calling She says-

I knelt upon tho grave and then withmy bare hands and a spade I dug until thecoffin lay before me It was sunrise be-

fore I pried open the lid of the casketThe goddess lay asleep Ispoko to her

and she openpd her eyes and reproached-me for not having faith She rose fromthe coffin and took me by the hand Shotold me to go back to the temple and to havn

faith that she would rejoin us tho nextnight

Mrs Lang was caught beside tile opengrave and was arrested Influence wasbrought to bear the case was quashedanti beyond tho mere fact of the arrest itnever became public

The next night all the worshipers gath-

ered in the templeVo had praying cays Mrs Lang

hull suddenly the spirit of Mica Mittaappeared

She wcrs a pale blue gown interjectedHigh Priest Rnpp his voice quivering andhis head trembling Her profile wasperfectly visible to every one Her wholebody had a bluUh tint as though some divinelight burned within her She was divine

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Behold I the Daughter of the HolyGhost come down again to you that youmay know now and forever that yours shallho the life everlasting In me you shallfind all conjfort which heaven bestows tomortals All those who believe in me shallhave peace on earth forever and ever

After this says the high priestess thegoddess came each Sunday night to hertemple With her were the bodies andthe of all who had gone to rest

Years crept on One by one the believerspassed away and wore taken to the pint inWest Laurel lull Cemetery where MlraMitta lies

Xight after night the dwindling bandof those left behind crept out to the gravesand talkedas they the tenementsof clay within the coffins Night after nightthey saw to it that tho dead mouths had airto breathe Week after week the Temple-to their eyes was filled with the actualbodies of those who lay beneath tho mold

And week after week her body shiningwith that bluish light tho Goddess MlraMitta in her tihrino and counseledand comforted both the quick and thedead

Then camo the time when of nil thatband only three wore left

There was the high priestess Mrs Langthe high priest Rappand Mrs Julia Hudmanwho had been one of the first to kneelat the feet of Mini Mitta Tho high priestdid not live in the house Only the two wo

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The Hudsons Awaiting ExplorersIn spite of the fact that Kqw York Is

favored more than most cities in tho eXttent of wild country nearby said a manwho much of his leisure time inexploring the citys wild suburb theHudson Highlands region Mill remainsprnotloill undiscovered by the averagecity man who goes acnmping

Among the two score lakes clusteredwithin a radluH of ten mil just back ofWest Point are seine unite remote enoughto satisfy the lover of North Woods scenerywho cannot Hpuro thin time or money toreach the Adirondacks yet whose summerwould not he complete until ho had Htnellcclthe birch log burning before bis tent in abit of real wilderness-

The tract included in the triangle whouoapexes are at SulTern near the Joreoy Stateline and Cornwall and Jones Point onthe Hudson is practically as unsettled aait was a Yet oventhe re-moter mountain ponds have been thefavorite resorts of a few lovers

these enthusiastsDr Henry van one of those who

have a knowledge of theseHighland lakes lion

his stories about their shoresThe main characteristic of the region inrevealed in the opening sentence of one of

statement that it must have been somewhere near Sutherland Pond that thowriter rambling through tho forest hadlost his

There is not much doubt that that isjust where it was for there are few places-in Highlands whore It would be more

for one to grow confused overpoints of the compass or right to

of the shoresof Sutherland Pond

In addition to being of the wildest charac-ter the hills along mountain lakeletwhich in the highest of the chain of

lakes to form a region ofunusual

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attitude of over liOO feet above the Hudson

a milo in length It no inlet but itempties a never brook

down the mountain sideIn a series o waterfalls in a

its western shore rises almostprecipitously to form one of the highest

Thethere with the little sheet of water In thecentral foreground has a radius of nearlyfitly miles

Is hard to reach even on horse-back fhereln consists one of its greatestcharms Them Is excellentgood shooting in the fall

To the are two nearbyascents besides tills cliff which aremaking Rascal Mountain affords a viewof three of which Xew YorkNew Jersey and Pennsylvania meet at acommon near Port Con-

necticut Is not far eastward and far in thenorthwest Massachusetts shows in the

of Mount Everett From the Hackensack Meadows southward to the Catsltillson the northern horizon is a stretchof Xow York territory of an oven hundredmiles

The other viewpoint referred to consistsof a series of rocksalmost the final crest of the Highland rangefile climber here looks down on nearlythe entire of hills which

HudsonThe outlook is remarkable for the lako

views afforded and for the fact that scarcelyanything but forest land can be seenthe sweep of the vision which is awide one

Everywhere rise hilltops on hilltopsthis

conception of the broad extent of Newplayground-

A few trail fromSutherland lied Dog Meadow Pond whichis not a hut a fine lake whoseextent In realized only when ono hiss ex-plored coves In one the two old boats

about at will and belong to nobody in particular One drive to this

a passable road throughthe woods from the

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tho to tIme east gives a sweepingview of the Hudson

Cranborrv Pond reached a woodroad from Fort Montgomery station liesunder the shadow of Bare Mountainand the Torn Hero the camper may findnil the seclusion ho desires will haveto bring his bunt with him

most beautiful as it is the largestlake in the Highlands In seven oreight milt tack of Falls on time

Hudson or about live miles over thefrom Central on the Erio Rail-

road Tills is becoming very popular as acamping spot being yet

a good roadTho blisS fishing is excellent The shores

are highly picturesque consisting of highand

islands serve to break up its two miles oflength affording fine sites A number of cold streams down the moun-tain sides one of them entering the lakeunder a natural bridge fortyfeet wide

From North Mountain at the head ofthe lake one seven lakes and along stretch of Hudson River Nearthe summit on tht western side nestlesWood

Forest of Dean Lake lies belowin tho little clove where the old

abandoned Iron mines 1500 feet deepfurnished ore for Revolutionary purposes

The fun of tho notin the being told of all these but inthe out by personal exploration recently was no acoMrate

of this but the UnitedGeological Survey now has a topographi-cal map from one may notlow the roads and some of the trailsbut even see the shape of the

lost with perfectThis Is one regions

which Thoreau might have had mindwhep he wrote of the unknown local wilder-nesses we leave behind In our eaitorto explore far westward Even he how-ever no knowledge of thisregion his nearest approach being on theoccasion when he for Illsdaring expedition Into the recesses ofStaten

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men occupied the templeRegularly every Sunday an old man would

ascend the steps ring thrice at the doorand would he seen no more until nigh-tIt was the high priest and all day theyspent upon their knees before the shrine

But the shrine was empty It was fouryears since the goddess had shown herselfIt was empty too of the jewels that hadencrusted it when Mica Mltta sat within

years ago some eighteen years afterthe passing of the goddess one of her followersa woman had stripped it of allgems the house of all thecostly ornaments of gold and sliver thatshe could take with her and had tied to theWest where sue is living now Those lefttook counsel and decided that the womanshould not be pursued

Mira Mitta will punish her and she willbe denied eternal life they said

Eut before this shrine stripped and de-

serted the three still knelt They hadfasted for years for years neither meatnor fish had passed their lips Grownold wan and pathetically shrunken withtile fasting and penanoe theyprayed to thegoddess to show herself again in her shrine

Then there cams a day when there werebut two worshipers before the shrineThe outside world did not know this thenany more than it knew that there was ashrine there but the absence of Mrs Rudman from the windows made the neighborscurious

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There are New York business men whoseday is passed in halt a dozen differentplaces Such men perhaps begin workat homo with a private secretary at handand the telephone within easy reach

The man who has boon intensely occupied-at hdme for the two hours after breakfastperhaps stops for another hour on his waydowntown at some one of the four or fiveoffices where be is consulted by businessassociates and does not reach his privateoffice in the financial district till towardnoon

One well known man of business whosenominal place of residence is more thaneighty miles away purposely keeps hisfamily at that distance in order that he mayescape social demands in New York He isat home two or three days a week

Here in town he maintains an office with abusy force of stenographers and assistantsof various grades The office managerand the stenographers are at their desksat tho usua1 hour of opening business downtown but the head of the concern may notshow himself until afternoon

After that he may work steadily until7 oclock In the evening and he has a hardand fast agreement with his stenographersand clerks that they shall stay as late ashe may need them Not one of them canbo certain of keeping an evening socialengagement

Meanwhile the head of the concern pro-longs his business day far beyond the hourwhen he leaves his office He has an apart-ment uptown to which ho invites men ofbusiness to dinner and there negotiations

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answer She is sleepingAn ever increasing swarm of tiles around

the ahuttersof the roomand othercircumstances at last led thneighbors to believe that Mrs Rudmanwax sleeping her last sleep

The came The high priestess appeared at an upper window Sheadmit no one

o no she said you cant come inMlra Mitta wouldnt Besides7ou would terRudtnan Dont

amotat ofpertu4soU cctold induceMrsteJig the po-

lice went back to the statipn house forfurther orders A curious crowd had

t i UjMrs Langs witchllke appearance onlyaugmented of thethrong

forehead of deepwrinkles that it wpuld be alblo to add

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Then caino trpppn orwell break in the door they

iBlessed Slater bear theml ejaculated

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inside the house the andhealth men went straight to the

third floor door was in theroom where tiles were buzzing A

shoulder brought down

contained The said that thewoman must have bOOn dead for at leastthree weeks and perhaps for more thatvarmonth

This was the of Sister RudmanMrs Lang told of her long vigil-

I in the room next to SisterRudman she said although I didntsleep much either I was for herto me and praying to Sister Meradathe to cdme her well

Twice a day I would to Sister RudIrians room to see wanted anythingand to pray with her I wouldout of would both kneeland pray to Sister Merada for half an hour

and come away Sister Rudman notspoken to mo for three weeks

was veryweak very weak butdead she was not She is pot

Rudman cannot dieThe broken voice rose to a shriek and

cracked on the high notes like a brokenfluteMrs made no to stop theauthorities when theyput intoa box tilled with carted itaway to morgue While an Increased de

to ke the-o rowd away for fear of contagion Alonein the nous was

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To her from Boston came Chorles SueIn of Freemasons Thehigh priestess would not with him

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are carried on into the small hours Sometimes the takes his the opera orthe theater but the business theapartment is likely to be all the laterf ortbjidissipation

Office hours out of office hours like drinksbetween drinks are killing a good manybusiness men The plan of maintaining bisfamily for most of the year in tnecountryand having an apartment for the midweekis one that saves the business tuna a gooddeal of social wear and tear but the ffflpphysician apt to frown upon tendingto make a day in which once hoursend

Now and then a sick man defies hia phyw-elolan and attends to business in the sick-room A busy downtown businessman brokshis leg not long ago The accident meantweeks at home in bed but be found meantof minimizing tbe inconvenience

room andthe telephone placed where hecould it without wrenching the brokenleg cams from tho downtownoffice and the sick man kept in touch withhis associate throughout the business day

Many New York lawyers of large practisework very late at their offices and someof theta go to the Bar Association libraryat night It is these late office hour quitas much as the peculiar demands of fashion-able life that make lawyers and

dine lateEven bank officers have a long day

stretching far beyond the hour when thebank doors are closed Many banks arenot actually deserted until after 5 oclockand most employees report for dutysoon after half past 8 in the

The luncheon hour for laalso notably shot and in some bonks thewhole body of employees from president

luncheon premises Theare apt to take the oppor-

tunity of this gathering to discuss detailsof business for the heads and tho subordinates take luncheon In different partsof the building

men in town praotically have hours areto be seen appointment andsuch appointments are to bypersons comeproperly accredited

a hanker waninduced to take out a largo policy of lifeinsurance a clever agent bulliedhis into the great mans presencecoolly asked him of hU

and offered him some hundreds-of dollars which he actually outfor the of a ten

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