| Show II I i I j f I I MIIIn it MlIIITIn I I I It I B I Nearly a cent U ry it go tile village oft 1 of-t I 11 Zone In Ohio was settled hv a religious I I 1 e 9 community which called Itself tho 10 I I 4 ii t I I Ietv of the Separatists II name deatrip five 01 viltat wo Intended to ho Its I I I chler feature mbich was n separation I I 41 iii g I 1 1 am the rest of tile m orld so far as Aram I pract able while living In the 1111010 I 4 I or Its vailed social rcllelo unit po lo I I I Iltlcnl classes and divisions The com I unity owned Its property In ommon 0 and originally numbered about live I I hundred souls 11 Itl I I i But It has round the problem or self 1 I perpetuation Impossible to solve and Its I I numbers have dwindled until only 1I nlnetIwo are left 11 01 lid 7000 1 I I I I acres of very lublo land and r I 11 It lot or blooded live stock III I besides other piopeity The sin I vlvltig members or the society hae agreed to disband and n division or I I their common propertj has just been LF Thus termtnat one more ex I I Jift I L111111111111L 11 MN0WA0Wiri64U X Q lelrnenl In Ihb war 01 Comm unlpm otnlbl modeled niter the socla order which the ApolI of the olor < established among the early Christian The dissolution or this society Is I not without features or sadness Undoubt PIly Its ollgln1 members were devout People mho ollfnestl sought II better nay or lire than the contending sect that I make up modern Christendom could tra h them The > realized the necceilty nr Bnbrtulnt the relllnhnes9 that Is I Innate In man and according to the highest light they had they get about accomplishing thin result And they succeeded lu a considerable extent for the people 01 Year who for nearly a hundred years have hell all their ltroperty In common hllve johown less nf nelflPhnoom than hfte mOat fire fesslng Chrlstlani Hut the superstructure superstruc-ture of union and brotherly love they ought to establish has fallen to ruins The village ot Zone was a quaint and harming place > Us low redtiled cottages cot-tages Its tile or peacefulness and Its many plctunsaue effects combined to lake It 1 Mecca for visitors and crlally for artists Hut the dava or Its Charms ate 1Irnbrel Now that the land on which It tnd3 have bc mine Indhldual property they will be Improved with mod rn structures and thc village of 7oar as It has been for nearly n century like the social and religion re-ligion order or Its first Inhabitants I I will recede Into the historic tact und belo be-lo > t to the view ot tiling men |
