Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-14

and stuff gown. If SO their surprise upon
 meeting you, @ stranger, and so differently
 dressed, will not cause them to forget the
 courteous "good day" they religiously
 give you. There is nothing in the manner
 or appearance of these uncommon people
 to give you suspicion of millions, yet, in
 the language of the street, "thst is the
 size of it." Forty millions on the co-ope-
 rative or Bellamy plan; in land, gas, oil,
 and railroad and bank stocks. Only
 about forty members in the society st present, the majority having reached and
 several having passed the three-score- and
 ten limit. And what eventually is to be-
 come of the miIlionsi The very question
 asked, and was told ''The Lord would
 take care of that"
 You can spend your time uniquely here,
 seeing things of interest to be found mo- | where else. Your patronage is not solici- ted and your presence not particularly de- | sirable- Yet, if you are sweetly persua- | sive, you can find accommodation at the
 one hotel, which, like the one store, be- | longs to the society, and is not run for
 money. The town really prefers to be let
 alone, but never is at this season. The
 hotel, before railroad days, was the favor ite stopping place on one of the main stage
 routes out of Pittsburg. If you are too
 poor to pay as you go, you are as welcome
 as if millionaire, and both bed and board
 is yours without money and without price," If you are tramp you will find
 an annex hotel kept up on purpose for your brotherhood, where you will meet
 travellers from all points of the terrestrial
 compass. To the inquiry, "How do you
 know these are worthy onest' you will be
 answered, "We don't know But that
 makes no difference. Better feed dozen | unworthy men than refuse 8 deserving
 one" How's that for real charityi You will be interested in the wonderful
 wine cellars and in seeing the hundreds of
 casks containing one thousand gallons
 each, and if you are little less queer in your temperance notions than these people
 in their religious opinions, then you will enjoy testing the different brands snd agree with me that the wines manufac-
 tured here are greatly superior to Califor-
 nia's productions. IL will seem strange to you to see the little brown jugs" brought
 in from houses and fields to be filled sim ply for the asking-each family being enti- tied to so much, ''fOr the stomach's sake, |"
 per diem. No guest is permitted to depart | without a nip and souvenir bottle Their hospitality is on a very generous
 scale all the way through. Though moi
 gormandizers, they live well. Their cattle | are all blooded, many of them imported from Germany; therefore, the richest
  gether with fresh vegetables cooked to the queens taste.
 At the cooperative laundry, which, by
 the way, is supplied with modern machine | ", you will see a novel wash day. Each
 family has this day only once in three | weeks, and they go in families, several | washing the same day.
 At the store supplies are given out as is the wine, simply for the asking Each | one is supposed to have earned all he can
 consume. As each labors for all there is
 no occasion for jealousy or selishness. There is no room for waste, since there are | no opportunities for using more than can
 be eaten or worn. Your interest will cen ter in the Big House." or, as I prefer to | call it, the Executive Mansion of Econo-
 my. In this house live the religious and financial heads of the community, old Father Henrici, the present and third reli- gious leader; young MT. Duss, the present | financial manager and Father Henrici's
 successor, and several others. MT. Duss
 is scholar and a gentleman in all that those terms imply. His one. time wife, by whom he has two children, is beautiful
 and womanly. These people, aged thirty | two years respectively, two years ago took | the VOW of celibacv and became leaders in the order. Several other additions were | made about that time, tine converts being | comparatively young people, and thus the religion gathered an impetus, the first for | a number of years.
 I should like to devote a column to the quaint little church and the yet more | quaint clock in the tower-every bit made | right there by home talent This clock, | like the people for whom it tells the hours
 is not to be frustrated by any new-fangled | time in existence, but ticks of the same sun time it was first made to tick.
 Entering the church, you will be struck with its plainnes, and unless you have been living in Quakerdom it will seem odd | to you that, though these men and women l may live together under one roof, they
 may not sit together in church or be laid | side by side in the churchyard. No luxu- | " anywhere; the more luxury the less re- Ggion is the idea. Two organs are played | simultaneously during services The reli gious head of the society has since the be- | ginning conducted all church and funeral | services and remains seated the while. | Communion services are conducted only | once in a year. I think you will agree
 that the doctrine preached and practiced here is like the love of heaven, inAsmuch
 as it passeth all understanding. They l hold that God was dual being containing within his own person both the sexual ele-
 ments, reading literally in confirmation of
 this the text: And God said let us make
 man in our image after our likeness, and
 let them have dominion" &c. This, they
 maintain, denotes both the creator and the
 first created were of this dual nature, and
 that if Adam had been content to remain
 in his original state he would have in-
 creased without the assistance of female | bringing forth new beings like himself to | replenish the earth. But Adam fell into
 discontent, and God separated from his
 body the female part and gave it him ac-
 cording to his desire, and therein consisted
 the fall of man. From this they deduee
 eelibscy, that state being more pleasing to
 God.