Show correspondent of travel among a peculiar sect alfred elber a german student nd newspaper correspondent Is in aden on a he ha recently returned from a trip to the province of northwest territory and tells of bis experiences among the the peculiar religious act that inhabits that territory mr elber left germany tor the purpose ot investigating the agricultural conditions of the north american continent upon arriving there he learned that the fenest wheat grown la the world is rafael by the douk hobora on the saskatchewan river he proceeded that province going direct to petronlla Petron lka where Douk hobora are to be seen in all their peculiar and astonishing customs there are about of these people under the direct leadership ot peter Verc gan known as the apostle and looked upon with reverence there are sixty towns populated by these people at the place mentioned the inhabitants are seen in their most primitive state they are notorious from the fact that they worship in a state of absolute nudeness mr elber became possessed of a desire to study the habata of this strange people and presented himself to apostle Verc gan the latter took him into his household and he was a guest there for eight days during his stay with the family of the apostle he learned the remarkable life of these peculiar people the house of the apostle contains only one large room in which the entire family consisting of about forty people reside the people wear no clothing whatever while in the house and the young german was compelled to follow the custom when he arose the next morning he was served with a breakfast composed entirely of vegetables the bors using no meats or fats so strictly vegetarian are they that they will not wear leather or wool because it means that some animal must have been sacrificed to supply it they kill neither animals nor birds and wear nothing but cotton clothing the young student was possessed of a kodak and when ho took his first picture of these simple people he be 1 came in their eyes a sort of deml god they had never seen such a thing and he soon found himself looked upon ax the entire population children would follow him on the streets and the population of the town headed by the apostle called upon him and requested that he stay with them and teach them for they considered him a superior being the young student asked permission of the apostle to attend their religious services and although no foreigner had ever before been allowed to do so permission was granted he was admitted to an anteroom in the bouse of worship whore he was told that he must remove clothing before he could fitter the church hesitated but finally decided that he had gone that far and be would see it through the building was full everyone being as naked as the day they were born they knelt on the floor bending forward until their foreheads touched the floor during the service they shake hands and bow three times and wind up the salutation by kissing each other sir schreiber Is the guest of the in this city and will leave in a few days tor oregon to pursue his agricultural researches |