The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-20

art. and other branches are taught by competent persons.
 "A practical surveyor demonstrates hts art by taking boys into the fields and woods for actual practice; while carpentry. boat building, furniture making, pattern making. printing mechanics and other useful industries are taught in shops to youths and adults as a part of the daily routine Books scattered about in different places are to be collected into a library building in the near future. noticed some 250 volumes In a bookcase in the visitors room. including the works of such authors as Gibbon. Burns, Elmer son. ShEkespeare. Goethe. Toistoi. Dick ems, Cooper. Smiles Spencer, Max Null Ter and Swedenborg, besides concord ances. cyclopedias. and medical works.
 Varied Industries.
 Besides agriculture. this industrious community Is engaged in growing cit- rus and other fruits. Almost every Kind of fruit which will grow in Flor ida Is raised here. Most of the crop Is consumed by the c6lonists. The buildings and equipment af electric launches. for use in surrounding waters, is growing industry at Es- tero, where splendid facilities are at hand, including q dry dock. A. saw
 
 furniture making, and kindred indus tries. A compiele outfit for the manu facture of concrete building blocks Is in successful operation. The publish Ing house. containing two large pres ses, folders. Sc, employs 6 number of the colonists in editing and publish ing a monthly magazine devoted to the dissemination of their religious and social ideas and political week a.. 1< A. ka. aEz cation of local and national politics. "A commodious well-equipped ma chine shop affords employment to those of mechanical turn while an electric plant is iff process of develop ment These varied industries are conducted by persons who receive no wages for their services. Those who had property, on joining this, institu- tion. sold 1t and placed the proceeds in the common treasury. The Kore~ shans have a novitiate order called the Society Arch Triumphant. which all- persons aspiring to the communistic order must first join. This is similar to the noyitiate order of the Shakers and other societies. Persons living In their own homes may become members Of the Society Arch Triumphant, and 1t does not involve giving up private property. The Koreshans. also have the initiative and reHerendum.
 Yictorfa Gsratia.
 Going to the building in which fresides Victoria Gratia, pre-eminent of the Korashan Unity and female head of all orders of the system, we passed through commodious, handsomely, furnished room on the first floor and ascended richly carpeted staircase to the floor above. where we were enter tained by Mrs. Annie Ordway tVic- toria Gratia). Mrs. Ordway, q tati. stately woman. past middle life, seem ed we'll qualified for the duties of her position.
 " Yes she replied. in answer to my congratulations. we are now making considerable headway. It is now just twelve years since another sister and myself landed at EsteFo with little of this worlds goods and started the set clement here. We lived In a one-room cottage, and a dry goods box served very we'll for Q seat in those days. We had few of the comforts. not to men tion Iuxurfes. to which va are now ac- customed.'"