Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-16

When They Join the brotherhood OF Liie'
Miss Chevallier Makes some Shocking
Discoveries During Her stay in the Har-
ris Community.
SAN Francisco, December 15.-Miss
Chevallier, the Boston female sutfragist
and reformer, has just returned to this
city after six months spent In the
Thomas Tahe Harris community.
She visited Harris after writing the
letter which created so much stir in the
Phillips Brooks controversy. She is pro-
foundly diSgusted with community life,
which was represented to her as pure
and spiritual.
Miss Chevallier went to Fountain
Grove last June to enter the Brother
hood Of Life, as Harris calls II. She
found Fountain Grove beautiful
place. The estate includes 1000 acres
and 10000 vines. She found among
others in the community Mrs.
Parting, the wealthy widow
Of an East Indian coffee planter,
who had brought her two daughters and
her young sister, all formerly OF high
English society, to the place to live
under the spiritual care OF the
''Primate," and who has been
fleeced out Of large fortune
which she had given TO him.
One of the girls, an accomplished artist,
is washing clothes for Harris, another
is maid TO mis- mistress, and another sets
type for him. Prince Nagavaga, a Jap
snese, and one Of his countrymen,
named Art, are members Of the commu-
nifty.
Miss Chevallier found Harris very
wealthy, though most Of his money has
been brought TO him by poor dupes that
have first and last numbered several
hundred. The "Primate," who claims
that he will never die, is an old man OF
marvellous hypnotic power, which he
has exerted for years over his subjects.
he eats oysters and drinks champagne,
while they eat bacon and bread. He
dresses in long silk robes and wears
white chamois gloves, while his dupes
wear coarse clothing, till the soil and
clean out his stables. Miss Chevallier
was shocked by these discoveries, but
her eyes were. opened when the prophet
unfolded his vile sytem Of counter
parts" that is, spiritual afhnities.
When married people join the COM
munity they are at once separated and
given their counterparts in the spiritual
world. When they have lived in the
community some time. Harris pretends
that these cOunterparts are embodied in
the persons of some members OF the
community, and thus they are plunged
into free love. Harris himself, she
found, had as a counterpart, Mrs. War
ing. She found that open violations OF
moral laws was the rule among the
members whose principles had been
corrupted by Harris. She found all
members under the prophets influence,
and that she herself was not a free
agent, as Harris hypnotized her when
ever she came into his pres
ence. When she announced that she
was going away, he tried every device
TO keep her. He said she would take the
place of Alice, the wife of Laurence Oil
phant. He said ne had letters from
Alice that il published would cause a
sensation in England. Though he
treated Mrs. Oliphant's book lightly,
its exposures alarmed him greatly.
Miss Chevallier declares that she has
a mass of evidence against Harris, which
she proposes TO present TO President Har-
rison aud ask him to break up this sOci-
ETY.. as was done with the Oneida COM
muuity.
Among the people whom Harris has
under hypotic control at the community
are Mrs. Requs, widow of New York
banker, and Mrs. Waring, who is sis
ter of George +. Waring, of Newport.