Show queer sects A bioni town pa writer to hie new york S under date june ohp aliver brethren of lin yli resemble alie alil dunkard the and alio seventh day baptist ahw arid sim cm tred t red nil ii r EKI aern ahey recently lidid their annial lovo feast in non county near tins had an ox roast public a and a penarah rp union about six hundred were prea ent to the stronger theae look alike but upon clow in injury iury llxie belief forms of worship hair iti and costoma anro found to M bijl orent une sect bapties bap by ing the convert three binim into lie anler forward sect i luangp it converts into the water backward one uses no buttons on ments another aci buttons tho ton people hooks and cea only the aroas of ono of these farmers is usually a very broad brimmed black wool hat stiff and strong a dark brown cutaway cut away coat a dinall collar and no lapels hooks and eyes in a row down in front dark pantaloons cut straight up and down no pring bottoms ilia hair is always worn very long and cutout straight like a bruah generally aliey are flirk lairid and daik eyed their dress hits not changed in a hundred years and their tailors leayo used nothing but the regulation pat tarns since their ancestors first cross the sea young men v clinely in the path of their fathers and ho makeup make up of a 10 year old boy is generally pene rally alio sanio as his 50 yew old sire the women wear the plainest of garments coarse brown or dark gr ly fi with very narrow i kirts dark il handkerchiefs over their shoulders back silk and pasteboard bonnets stiffly made on the pattern a pair of rough calfskin cal fakin shoes thus attired they are ready for a meeting the market or a marriage as tho case may be the 17 year old girl dresses like her mother and grandmother only alio child wears a silk chief ot a color brighter than that worn by her mother to tec the alace etea it is necessary to get a look at them from the front the adem blage at tuo love feast was made up of just this class of people some of them came twenty miles and conveyances covered several acres these farmers generally own first class horses and they take a pride in driving to tho feast in their very best turnouts an ample stock of fiwel is brought thon and the are tied along alio fences four ministers or speakers were present the feet washing was at night tefie services take place once a yen r bebon harvest and are held to give praise to the lord for his goodness in f nd ing them abundant crop wie earp mony of washing feet is usually private the men gird t with towels a lwin in li li te feet of the brothers as a lesson in humility the women wash oab other s feet in the same manner the are public then fol tows a general rejoicing and a roasted ox u etan you are welcome sid a to his city you are welcome to partake or what we have all strangers are conversation that followed alie old gentleman said we very rarely engage in lawsuit lawsuits s never among oure elros ve dettlo our own between w stick together intermarry keep and oliata about the way we gut along if vou want to find aie people you must go down into the con eloga talley in the live over in berks and ater counties the h daiy diy Dap tisa about ephrath ephrata Eph rata which is sometimes called dunkard t WD tho over in bethlehem and also in ter county we are all pretty much cut over alio anio cloth but them are writers who get ii mixed up in their descriptions yesterday I attended the funeral of a very old moravian over in both leliam hiis name hii bickel and he win nearly of age for fiffy years lie wag a member of the trombone quartet of he church their trombone plym every crigier morning before daylight go aboul the villace playing in their graveyards arc no inonia menag ancy railia gc or fences they are buried in rows rich and loor alike men with men and women with women A flat piece of marble is placed ou each araie are numbered wd the record in kept in the church book As they die they ore buried so thai I are in the burying ground at first sight alit iscem irn i rn altok like mity gras fields alif hii h people are very it frici aliey have no churche but chev ut one another farraf and cinc as lapir dou alio bleir drea is very bim cac with y tsi or the ion so gocel ilio bosti if a on or daughter marries out bcd of thair sacta ho or alia ildi owned in thi they in very kurir they anil barns are lan tiuis haiir than honsick hon no pt fon in alio world ia more honeas laic no w il cc tiona but any heir mi I tw t w alio of i oun caho lio just by a in alios wry n lili awo pairlie pi irlie in ft men jonii cre for the galit le beruk ator alo aley mr reA to appear in i in regulation coat the coat in ono that liaa but ii i bide only anil no collar the alev OLer hojer went lo 10 conre renco in si remi lation coett to tate ins CW lii liri lir i t ail then lio new sect ellins it tho kew the atory of kerston boft never found its wy into tho print that I haro of sho was the only child of a rich and be cami or tho plain and primitive prim ilive castrina cast fina of r erpole bac informed her thi and asked to be allowed to travel and ee texi world ller bacsa i angry j ona word brought on she taft homeland her ifft awn in fending alia binl ken mh ft triad in a ciui k ican to wiand when art ceofred att wa floii raw ebi sho watt alcon i ait S at ff r aa i w y j iff in lil the love featt ulel alire ilas alicy nrc in the air and often in a very inage franie ajac dalion for of people cuili for the purpose small tOino times halil love t on alic clean floore of u r i larn alir arvic vr vic of song prayer by un morion loot anil in alo go to alio feasts in the morning to their at nightfall |