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Show COMMUNISTIC LIVING li AND OLD AGE jli Jn his nrllrle, "Amnna-V Study of Hr. f H llglous ( onimiinlsin ' In Harper a for Oc- JlH tidier, I'ror Hie hard T l.ly slates that his ( Intestlkallnns seem In Indicate that llv- wfl tug lu these inminilnlsllc settlements wHi tends to Increase tho Irimth nf lire (Br "i:rrywherc In communistic settle. fSk lueiits the uiemliers freeiiieutly live lo a 1 ? Kieul nge," says 1'iof Ihv "I was Ini. ? VI i.rrss.-il with tills when I visited thn I ' Hhakeia at Mount l.ebnnon Uurlng tho j m car prreeMllng my visit Ihero hue! been ' jl threo eleiilbs, two brothrls had 1II11I agrit ! H H ami HI respectively and n sister bad , jH depirteel this life at the age of lew Daniel M I'lnseer who Is delightfully described by ) iS Ilnwells In the 'I liellseovcred C'ounlrj ' . IJ wns Hun between sound l und his Intel- ; Jl lecliml jiowers were so keen flint It was M a ilcllKhl lo converse with hlnl Tho 'MJ lender of Mount l.ebinnn wns Klde r Fred- itM erlrk llviius, 7 years of age 'How ntd do 'M vou lake this horse to her be asked me. pointing lo a horse which was drawing a. iB load of apples I should say be wan IV about IS' I replied 'lie Is SO said rider If I. vans but be has tnlovcel Shnker treat- flll menl, not the wc-hla' Mr Hinds, In his IK Ismk to which reference has been made. If te.lls us that reeentl), when he Inqulrrel, SJ bo wus lold that one member ot tho M Amana society had, not long ago, died 1 over 1(1 venra of agei Hint Hum were two Ij living meinbers uhnvo 9ii, and about twen- 9 ti-llve. Iclwecn Ml anil IX) the Shakera stieak of their 'watch-tower, and among El tlieni mm has the feeling that one Is f. standing nn a watch-tower, looking at thu r great, busy worlel through a telescope, as P It were. Hut the Shakers never marry nor I give la marriage, and their life la morn 1 Isnlntiel and separated from that nf lbs I inmiietltlvn world of Industry than Is thut I of Amana " I . |