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Show SOME RELIGIOUS OLlD LEPERS. ftMCllHPi nt I :i, morality Against shakr Fillers. Boston, ,lan Si. The .fiM prints a four I column article charging immoralities and abuae against tin older at the Alfred. Me., Shaker settlement. The principal charges - m to be made bj Esther llrown of Brigh-ton. Brigh-ton. Ma-., who recently escaped from the settlement after live weeks' stay. Four other Afirla escaped recently and report Improper Im-proper proposals, and for attempting to escape and other offenses they were subject to a brutal whipping and ontineincnt for two weeks with bread and water. The . Iff raid says: Many Alfred men and women admit the truth of what the girls have said. The doctors have remarked on the Illegal operations. Boys have -oken of the wrong practices, liirls hav'i told of the in-dignities, in-dignities, and illegitimate 'frildren are now living not ten miles from tiul settlement. |