The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-16
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Miss Cheynllicr Makes Some Shocking
Discoveries During Her Stay In tho Hur-
ris Community.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 15.-Miss Chew
%allicr, the Boston female suffragist and
reformcr, has just returned to this city
afterisix months spent in the Thomas
Table Harris community.
She visited Hurts after writing tho
letter which created so much stir in the
Phillips-Brooks controversy. She is
profoundly disgusted with community
life, which was represented to her us
pure and spiritual.
Miss Chevallier went to Fountain
Grove last June to enter tho Brother
hood OF Life, as Harris calls it. She
found Fountain Grove II beautiful place.
The estate includes 1000 acres and no.
900 vines. She found among others
in the community Mrs. Parting, the
wealthy widow OF IN East Indian coffee
planter, who had brought fer two
daughters and her young sister, all for
merly OF high English society, to the
place to live under the spiritual care OF
tllc 1flulaley ulu NllO iluu uccl.
flccccd out OF a large fortune which she
had given to him. One OF the girls, an
accomplished artist, is washing clothes
for Harris, another is maid to his mis-
tress, and another sets type for. him.
Prince Nagavaza, a Japanese, and ono OF
his countrymen, named Art, are mem
bers OF the community.
Miss Clfevallier found Harris very
wealthy, though most OF his money has
been brought to him by poor ,dupes
that have first and last numbered sew
cral 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. lie dresses in long silk robes
and wears white channels gloves, while
his dupcs wear coarse clothing, till
the soil and clean out his stables. Miss
Cheyallier was shocked by these dis
coveries, but her eyes were opened
when the prophet unfolded his vile sys-
tenn OF 'countcr-parts," that is, spiritual
aflinities.
When married people join tho COM
munity they are ut once separated and
uro given their countGrparts in the
spiritual world. When they have lived
in the community some time Harris
prctcnds that these counterparts are
embodied in the persons OF some mem
bers OF tho community, and thus they
are plunged into free love. Harris, him
self, she found, had rs q counterpart,
Mrs. Warning. She found that open vio-
~lations, Of moral laws was tho rule
among tho members whose principles
had been corrupted by Harris. She
found all the members under prophets
influence, and that she herself was not
n free agent, Us Harris hypnotized her
whenever sho came into his presence.
When she announced that she was 60
ing away, he tried every device TO keep
her. He said sill would take the place
OF Laurence Oliphant. He said he had
letters from Alice that il published
would cause a sensation in England.
Though he treated Mrs. ELEPHANTS book
lightly, its exposures alarmed him
greatly.
mass OF evidence against Harris, which
she proposes to present to President
Harrison and ask him to break up this
society, rs was done with the Oneida
community.
Among tho people whom Harris has
under hypnotic control ut the commit.
nifty are Mrs. Requa, widow OF q New
York bunker, and Mrs. Waring, who is
a sister OF George E. Waring, Of New
port.