Show I I A The Rich Ric Rap Bap ear Pittsburg Have Only K 1 I Left i Pittsburg Dispatch A few j Ohio from Pitts Pittsburg Pittsburg burg is isa a station marked Economy On the top of oC the steep bank you discover di coer a quaint brick village embowered in trees and pleasantly plea diversified with willI gar gardens gardens gardens dens This village is the thc abode of the tle or whose whO e society was founded in by George Rapp Raw or Father Rapp as he is called among his followers follow rs a Wurtemburg farmer who came ca me to ca with wIsh about Out 1060 1001 At tn l In jn Harmony Pa Where here tIe ke a L farm farni OF Sf 14 After a while they moved moed into Poey o y Indiana But Bat thew the site proved a rough UH us healthy place so the shifted eastward again arriving in their present n t village in 1825 iss Here they acquired 1000 acres of land built comfortable houses and several beveral mills and had the advantage e of or touch with whit the markets for Pittsburg is only onty seventeen miles away aWRY Money making Is apparently as pleas leas pleasant ant an occupation for communities as aH It Itis ItIs is tor others and ana an these shrewd Germans made marle as much of iv i it as they could The shops S and mills were w run on full lull time outside tide hands h were w e engaged d to work ork in inthe Inthe the farms and vine vineyards ards and at one per 1 iod th the industries of the place were so o 0 considerable d that the t employees outnumbered f the blo society ten tan n to otis one Then Thee Th tW the society began to speculate P culat There was discontent more losses in speculation H it decline in the market the mills were closed Outsiders were hired to keep keel the place going but the wages paid to them themi i were bo so that me uie treasury was waH depleted and they had to b dismissed I Then came the trouble that almost I every community suffers sooner or later Several of the members mem rs sued the society to 10 get larger shares or to bre break k up UI the I and make it sell out and anti i i i the profits In other cases caes heirs from the outer world t sued to draw drav out the shares of dead dEul relatives The courts have been invariably on the side si e of the society but law suits are financially exhausting and after aft r several beveral of them together with dull trade and desertions the profits hud hued practically disappeared and there was a R debt of although the money moue was borrowed from itself Its that Is from the UMI bank it owns owna in Beaver Falls Fall and which had advanced large larg s sums to p y for out outride outside side ride labor l The T e debts have been mul re JP reduced reduCed by judicious ju manag It and by th Ut thIld yield Ild of the dozen or twenty oil welts wells 10 a K that the society is now regarded as HS in inI I i good g shape la again 1 There e are e only nine nine communists O muIl st left leCt I and mos most t of them are old They control I the village mage however so that the tb hun hundreds hunI hundreds I ef of others who rent houses and l d shops 8 I and farms have to te conform in lii a measure m ur urt J t to their ways of or life I The aims to make his religion his life In the matter maUer of creed greed Jt it can J hardly be said that he has one ole A dozen i years ago the included ted not only Protestants Prot but Catholics and agnostics I Anything may be preached in the church that is in accordance with public and private morals I Like the the are de descended descended from the and live simple upright lives Their neighbors testify to t 0 that effect and like to deal leal with them They are sober in their recreations r and andI until lately did not even een smoke The boys bos I play ball bali and the girls knit tidies tidied but bue there are no picnics no dances danca s no spark sparking sparkIng ing in no shows nothing nearer than per permission permission permission mission to a circus agent to use u the sides of one barn for his posters post and no late hours hour The present header h the com coin community community is John Samuel Duss Dues who has a family and Is young and He tIe entered the society IOlet only eleven years ago at the age of 30 20 and found himself con confronted COnfronted confronted fronted by several pretty serious problems problems problems lems There was wa a debt the desertions had been rapid and it seemed to be a at t matter of only a few years before there would not be a member of the th community I left Some of the deserters had received money from the treasury after a H lr and andi pleasant i h fashion established years ago which was based on the supposition that thata I a man reared and living away awa from th the world would require a few to spend till ho he should hould fall into the worlds wave and this drain on the reserve Serve rl had helped to exhaust tit it Several of the people came home again apin presently pre saying that the world was toeS W a failure fallu and asked fo to be e taken t They were once more admitted Mr lr Dues DuBS is a man of business he Is also the heed head of the church he preaches he leads the brass bragg band indeed the band is known by his name he writes music for forit it he mu must mUM t keep in touch with the various vaTious department of the society he is In fact the father of a family WHO wo who must pre preserve Ir preserve serve the peace satisfy religious faith thith t and keep his charges occupied lest they expend fl their forces on evil and their time in lit fruitless gossip Naturally the Ule dwindling of the com corn community community to only nine members ha has nar narrowed narrowed narrowed rowed Its functions The Th factories in i which they the used to work have ave been be en closed Cl Nied and the looms logins have been alc it f fim m them their fields are b tAd and by strangers even the I Is consigned to paid 1510 agents still it is required of all an who are permitted to settle here bere that they shall shan live lives of ot moderate usefulness and excellence that they shall not be noisy and antI rude In Inthe Inthe inthe the streets streett and although the lamps in inthe Inthe inthe the streets burn b um all a 1 night against elI reng it is i understood unde tood that the windows shall be bt dark after the rhe bell rings 3 s Every amber of or the th s society ocl t Is 18 abed hy by that hour hou As In oth other r the j pan paui an of life UI e eis is long Most of or the members wh ave died i Ion in Vr t mi ba 1 hata ft Keen pon n tho t tl t 1 1 I I threescore and aJ d ten years and have done lono better They make claret also a Rei t i or ur wine and wine of straw strawberry stra strawberry w berry blackberry raspberry currant crab cider catawba and boneset bones t cordial I The wines are fight IT lii color and body a little raw of undoubted purity entirely wholesome according to report and the I wine house is one of the most extensive in the village I No new member can be admitted to the i society except on the action of the tho th noard DOard of ot elders elden It takes most moat of O f the members to make the board now and an I election eJection is 18 the choice of ones self to office there being few f v opposition candi candidates candidates candidates dates If a man joins the rite society he turns in what property he has but if he has I none it is all the same so long as heis personally acceptable Though communists in a fairly strict sense ense enogh h of personal PE onal property pro perty is al at allowed allowed I lowed to each member to assure sure a personal and to satisfy what is a reason reasonably reasonably ably abI common wish to own the me clothing on ones back and the chair on which one takes his ease after work The members own their furniture and carpets and clothes and anti a few books and such belong belongings tags ings personally but other matters are owned together It is a matter of history that the first silk made in America Am rica came from the looms of Economy Econom and the people wore it They had mulberry trees for the silk silkworms silkworms silkworms worms they imported experts and for awhile they a considerable om trade |