Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-03-09

ol0 time practice OF calling the h0urS,
and to each of his announcements
adds the following or similar words:
Another hour is past aud u step
made nearer our end Our time runs
away and the joys of heaven are our
reward" Though the Harmonists
have come to tolerate married people
they are bitterly opposed to having
any courtiug done upon their land
They require all the fathers aud
mothers in their employ to keep
strict watch and ward over their sons
and daughters that the sexes may
constantly be kept as far apart as
possible. A young man and young
woman seen out walking together, or
jointly engaged in any other harmless
psstime, would be Immediately re-
qulred to leave Economy. To rem
der it impossible for young men and
women to walk upon the streets to-
gether in the evening without obssr-
walton, q lantern was placed in every
family, and an inviolable rule was
made by Father Henrici that every
young girl who had occasion to go
upon the street after nightfall should
light it and carry it with her. The
introduction of natural gas has now
rendered this unnecessary, for it burns
in great jets from lamp posts at every
corner, and makes the streets as light
at midnight as at MONDAY.
EDUCATING THE YOUNG FOLKS
Various methods have been devils.
ed to keep the young folks ou, of mis-
chief. A commodious school house
has been built after the most approv-
ed models. Excellent gratuitous in.
struction in German aud English
branches is given by competent teach
ers engaged by Father Heurici at
good salaries. All young people not
otherwise employed are required to
attend regularly. There is an excel.
lent military band, composed of
twenty-one of the young men. There
is singing school OF eighty young
pupils taught by Father Henrici in
person every evening Every possi.
BILE variety of iabor-ssving machinery
is used here Steam is made to do
everything that it can do One of
the most interesting features of the
place is an immense laundry, tiled
with patent washing machines run
by q powerful steam engine, where
all the women and girls assemble on
certain days of the week aud do the
washing for the entire community
The church service of the Harmon.
lists differs in no material respect from
that of other Protestsnts sects Two
prayers and sermon oy Elder Hen.
rici and the singing of two or three
hymns by the congregation comprise
their simple rituel The singing is
the principal feature, occupying more
time than it usually does in the gen.
erality of religious services On feast
days the military band, already men.
toned. occupies q small gallery at the
west end of the church and discourses
sweet music at frequent intervals.
Iu his sermon Wednesday morning
Elder Henrici spoke of how for
nearly century past be and bis CO.
religionists have been daily expecting.
as they still continue to do, the second
visible personal coming Of Christ, and
he reiterated their firm belief that His
glorious second advent will take place
before the death Of their last surviv.
ing member shall have forever dis.
solved their society.
1t does not seem probable that this
singular community will care to hold
many more annual celebrations. The
great age of nearly all of its few sur
viving members and the unlikelihood
of any important additions to their
number must almost inevitably cause
the dissolution Of the society in very
few years 1t is Elder Henrici's vast
will power and immense executive
force, more than anything else. that
still holds it together. From very
small beginnings in 1905. the possess
sions of the Harmony Society have
come to include, besides the town of
Economy and its surrounding lands,
fourteen large farms, many oil and
natural gas wells. vast tracts OF lum-
ber lands, many saw mills and coal
mines, controlling interest in three
railroads. and great sums of money
invested in Govern .nent bonds and
other gilt.edged securities.
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