The Monticellonian., 1903-09-17
A UNIQUE COLONY.
Notable Vegetarian Selects Arkansas
 As Real Garden of Eden.

 Globe-Democrat at Rogers tells of the founding of a unique colony in this state. The writer says:
 Judge Edward Wallace Conable. known as the founder of the original vegetarian colony in Roswell, Col, a number of years ago, has just bought 5000 acres of rough land near here and founded an original colony of non-meat eaters. Outside of this feature there are others which com mend the colony to those seeking things curious. Any man who eats nal packages for his morning meal is banished from the colony, and one who sWears or ehews tobacco must forfeit his citizenship, and To and be- hold, the man who looks upon a wo- man and loves her at sight is doomed to everlasting disgrace.
 Judge Conable has laid down some strict rules to follow if one wishes to enter this earthly paradise, as he is pleased to term it. He says he will make his Pathfinders' park the real Garden of Eden. That the idea is a popular one is evidenced by the un- usual activity in the sale of his blocks of stock to followers of the principle set forth in his bylaws. There are 1000 persons in the United States, says the judge, who believe in this same doctrine, and he thinks he is going to get his share of them.
 "I travelled the United States over he told the writer, in search of a col ony where l thought the climate and the soil was all to make one happy. And then l came to north Arkansas. Here the north and south seem to meet, so far as the climate is con eerned. This tract of land in the woods is all that could be wished for an earthly paradise, and with the right kind of people we can have the most entertaining colony in the Unit ed States
 When your correspondent reached Rogers all the talk on the streets of that little village was about the vege- tarian colony on the Frisco system not far from town. The writer, ac- companied by several citizens of Rog- CTS, drove to the place. The 5000 acres are covered with a growth of tall pines and oak trees, while on the mountain sides. according to the natives, is the best kind of soil upon which to grow apples. peaches and small fruit. Only few inches be- heath the soil lies the rich black earth and the rock which serve to hold the moisture during the dry weather
 "To quote from the judges own mouthpiece, the Pathfinder, let the doctrine of this sect be told: I pro- pose to teach the people how to live to attain the highest state of physical and mental culture This embraces all the extended periods of fasting for the purification of the body and soul and the elimination of disease
 The most extraordinary feature of the colony is that not even a snake may be killed upon the premises. If one IS sick, they fast. The services of no physicians are needed or ac- cepted. Often when the judge him self feels disease and sickness ap- preaching he leaves off eating even a simple fare and staryes out the ap- preaching illness.
 No meats of any kind are eaten by the followers of oonable No breakfast is eaten except raw prod ucts, such as whGIe wheat, sliced to. matoes, etc. As rule, the members of the conoly do not eat any morning meal at all. Conable himself says that he never eats a meal of cooked food.
 Their religion is likewise e~traor. dinary. Conable says:
 The Pathfinder (name of secD does not believe in the existence of personal God. It believes that God is the universal life force that perme- ates every living thing. It believes that It is possible for man to so per feet himself physically as to come in absolute harmony with the soul and live eternally in flesh
 This latter statement that one can live forever if proper treatment is taken of ones self is sincerely be- lieved by many members of the col ony and those who are taking up their homes on the crest of the Ozarks think that they will be here when Gabriel blows his horn At least they profess to have such belief.
 No animal, fowl or fish, will be permitted on the premises of this unique colony for either selling, kill ing or food purposes. Of course, says the bylaws, this has no reference to the keeping of animals for work pur- poses or pets. The intent is to bring people into the uncooked dietry as quickly as possible. Fruits, nuts, ce- reals and vegetables that are palta- ble will be the only products of the colony. A few cattle have been bought by the judge, the milk and butter to be used in the beginning by those tenderfeet who can not live without some grease. But within the next few months or by the time the fruit and garden truck is ready for consumption next spring, it is ex- pected that all animal life will have vanished from this s,000acre tract, even to horses for driving purposes and use in the fields. The work of plowing-what there is to do-will be