The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-04
DARK SIDE0F HEAVEN"
ONE OF sCHWEINFURrF5 apps
TIES MAKES CONFESSION.

prne "Messiah's" Favorites Lodged
Like Queens-Common Agels Starve
While the "King" Revels in Luxury,
schweinfurth Crowned and Hailed
as oGod"-"Angels" in Short Skirts
Dance for His Pleasure.
From the NetU York World
CHICAGO, ILL., May 29.-George F.
0strander, an associate Of George Jacob
Sohweiufurth, the false Messiah, who has
set ND heaven" at Rockford, Ill, has
made a startling confession OF the secret
life of the Messiah" Ostrander lived
seventeen months in heaven" He says:
1.-THE first meal got did not impress me
fsvorably with the heavenly food. 1t con-
sisted Of cold mush, cold potatoes, cold
water and bread. Butter sugar and milk
had no place Oh the table, and during the
seyenteen months l lived there 1 never saw
them except in Schweinfurth's room.
"Our bill of fare-and by that mean
that for the unredeemed workingman-was
strictly vegetarian. The life of a working
believer was hard one, too. The first bell
would ring at o'clock in the morning and
we worked until 8 o'clock at night.
"Schweinfurth never rose until 10 O'Clock.
He breakfasted on the finest viands aud his
dinners we're marvels. The finest wines
were on his table.
"There we're dances in the parlor once q
week and Mary Weldon was the star dancer.
and as Schweinfurth likes Mary he selected
her as the one to teach his sacred feet the
mysteries OF the quadrille. waltz and other
terpsichorean revelries. But he couldn't
swing his partner worth cent.
ave had tableaux, and the first one was
surprise. When the curtain went up
there stood three or four girls in tights.
They wore no skirts, and stranger drop
ping in at that moment would have thought
the scene far from heavenly. forgot what
they represented, but l know that Miss
Teft and Norma Coudry represented
statues.
his favorite angels were Miss futile
and Mary Weldon, and they occupied the
finest rooms In the house. 1t took $25, 600
TO furnish the apartments
Every one i'll heaven makes a confess
sion to Christ every day. l resolved to
write mine and take 1t TO Schweinfurth's
room every night after heaven was sup
posed to be wrapped in slumber Well the
first night l went up there it was about
o'clock. l, of course, made some little noise
in going up the stairs and in opening the
door. When got into the Office l heard a
noise in the bedroom and moment later
the bedroom door opened and Miss Weldon,
clad in a loose wrapper, came outside. She
looked surprised to see me- although / was
not exactly surprised to see her.
"She said: Isn't this pretty late for you
to be upF
II told her that had come to bring my
written confession, which 1 laid on the
desk, and then walked out, leaving her in
the room.
Time and time again have seen Mary
in that room at all hours Of the night, and l
have also seen Mary Barr, Lizzie Weldon,
1NakM 49, i
Mrs. Welch, whose husband has secured a
divorce from her, leaving the room under
similar circumstances.
but greater surprise was in store for
me. One afternoon, three months before
Myrtle Weldon was born, Miss futile called
seven OF US into her sitting room, saying
she had something important to tell US. For
fifteen minutes she delivered a lecture on
the Virgin Mary and the birth Of Jesus, and
then said that she, too, had borne two
children, Birdie and Ariel, OF the Holy
Ghost
"Schweinfurth's return from the famous
Kansas City visit was memorable. The
morning of his coming dawued bright and
fair, and one hour before he was expected
the prettiest damsels, decked in gala attire,
literally carpeted the road for q mile with
flowers
THE entire heavenly host met him
nearly two miles from the house, and the
boy-and | was with them-unhtched the
horses from the carriage that bore this
sacred person, and, attaching a long rope
covered with evergreens, hauled him to the
abode that had been lonely while he was
away. Cheers rent the air as the procession
moved over the flower-strewn road, but
they weren't marker to the vociferous
applause that went on when the house was
reached
odd Deacon Weldon was standing on the
'front.' and whiln hA wQUa1 hand
vigorously, kept the other behind his back.
AS soon as q halt was called the deacon ad-
vanced with stately step to the carriage,
and then we all saw what he had been hid
ing. 1t was big gilt paper crown. and as
he placed it over Schweinfurths pompa-
dour he made low bow and shouted:
hail, thou mighty king, thou, the al
mighty Godr
Then revelry and rejoicing broke loose
with vengeance. All the pretty girls. in
short dresses-very short Ones too-danced
until they could dance no more.
"Fi6dlers flddled; an angel who expected
to be chief harper in the new Jerusalem
harped until several strings broke Paeans
OF thanksgiving went up and In every way
the poor fools showed their devotion to the
prodiga boss.
He really possesses hypnotic power, and
TINS Is one secret of his success. He hyno~
tized me three times and all of the women
His birthdays are great occasions for
celebrating. The angels in short dresses
iorm 10 line and await the footing Of the
norm which announces the coming of the
King He generally comes in on the arm
OF Mrs. futile, and they make gorgeous
par, Tor she is always gotten up regardless
OF expense.
She leads him to big armchair dec
GRATED with flags and flowers and places the
gut paper crown on his head Then the
music breaks forth and we march and
march, until the musicians can blow no
enore, and then the prepared speeches are
nred at the benign individual who sits there
smiling on his faithful people.
4, hen the oratorical outburst subsidies
the marchers step aside and the abbrevia-
'eu Sklrted angels do their turn.
It, me male apostles slept two in bed aud
elsnt IN room. As soon as had my eyes
open determined to escape"
FAIR WEATHER AT SEA.