The Dickinson press., 1883-07-21
A HAPPY

Lead Lives of Contentment.
From the Cleveland Herald.
About eighty miles from Cleveland and
six miles south of Mineral Point, the
terminus of the Valley road at the
Wheeling junction of the Wheeling and
Lake Erie Railroad, there is a quaint
little old village known as Zoar, inhabit-
ed by a strange, frugal and industrious
people, the happiest, perhaps, in the
world. They know no care; nothing
worries and troubles them. A large
humber of them never saw the outside
of their beautiful home, a veritable
paradise, and trouble themselves little,
if any, about the turmoil and strifes of
the wicked world. The colony was first
founded in 1917 by Huber and Acker-
mann, two Germans, the former a ma
tive of Wurtemburg and the latter hail
ing from Bavaria. Shortly afterwa I'd,
in the same Year, they and Il few follow.
ers formed a community and named it
Zoar, because they looked upon their
home a a place of refuge from the
world, which they termed Sodom and
Gomarrah. The first two houses which
Huber and Achermann built in 1Sl7-
quaint, antique structures-are still in.
habited by the descendants of the two
pioneers. They are built of logs and
morton and contain but one large room,
sparsely furnished. The windows are
small, each containing nine panes of
glass about six inches square. The roofs
are covered with tiles, as are those of all
the houses erected up to about 1896,
yJbn~ fh0 .,rk al trl0 $3.50 -. AL ,-k =
Zoar.
The inhabitants, who have no desire
to amass wealth, work for one common
end-that is, for the good of the COM
entire village, including thousands of
the richest land in the Buckeye State.
The money goes into one common treas.
ury, the n~ecessaries of life, including
food, provisions and garments, are fur,
nished by the village officials, consisting
of three trustees and a committee of
five, who are annually elected by ballot.
The village contains about 800 inhabi-
tants, which number has been the same
since Island never increases or decreas-
es to any Acknowledgement. There are NO
preachers, but all the people are devont,
worshiping after the manner eff the
Friends. The marriage VOW is held
sacred and the Laws are rarely broken.
Central America Antiquities.
The superb collection of antiquities
brought from Mexico and Central
America by Desire Charnay, has been
presented to the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, Washington, by Mr.. Pierre Lor-
lizard. The prime object of the expedi-
ton, to make moulages, or casts mega
tive), in paper mache of the principa.
bas-relief and hieroglyphic inscriptions
existing in the temples, palaces, ETC., o.
the ruined cities, has been successfully
accomplished. From these, plaster casts
have been made in duplicate, one set fol
MIR. Lorillard, who has decided to pre-.
sent it 10 the Smithsonian. To these il
was deemed advisable to add the spolis
opinla of the Charnay expedition, SC
that the student and the general public
might be able to contemplate under one
roof as diversified a collection as posi-.
These casts possess the highest interest
both for the artist and for the student Of
history. They are of the monuments
WAASA SASy ASPIOauSS3 many VI
the base reliefs being ten
feet in hight and six or eight feet wide.
Effects of ornamentation, and ever
architectural effects. may be studied in
these fac SMILES quite as we'll, and
without any of the discomfor;s attending
a visit to the localities themselves
Students of history, of e~thnology, and
anthropology, and of language will have
presented to them in these monuments
materials Of inestimable value for theil
several sciences, and some one of them
may prove the Champollion to read
these hitherto indecipherable inscrip'
tions, and to fathom the mystery O
these ancient peoples. When the col
lection is duly installed in the museum
the stay-at-home traveller will be en-
abled to look with his own eyes upor
these wonders of the SEM tropical for.
ests of Central America, which forty
years ago filed the eminent American
traveller, j. L. Stephens, with admira
ton and establishment, although he hae
previously visited the %stupendous mon
uments of Egypt.-New York Times.