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toes. 4: • • •• • - 4 A. NEWER ECONOMY. QUAINT OLD COMMUNISTIC TOWN TO BE REFORMED. CelibliCy NO I ...ger an Article of I anti Among the itarmouyites-John I 011101 Cad GIs wite Leading the I.olitot Out of i..ror h Path. (Special Correspondence.) VERY PERSON who ever visited the quaint, Dutch village of Economy will be sorry -4o hear that the town is to be modernized -or rather that a neW town is to be built on the old. What steam launches have done to mar roma ntic Venice, and the whistle and rumble of steam cars to destroy the sacred silence of Jerusalem, the atiposed new town ot Economy will do for the old town, which just now is like no place else under the sun. Of course we know this is not the age of romance, but the \age of progress:\ thet to be up to date we must be prabilcal and keep a firm heel upon ntiment, and the senior trustee of the ts Harmony Society, which owns every htw se in Economy, a village of 300 souls, is a practical man, a progr6s- eive man, and may even be called \the new man,\ since he believes in women to such an extent as to have given them seats in the town council. This, however, is only one of several Innovations made by progressive John Duss, assisted by his equally progres- sive wife, who, reign almost 74 . abso- lutely over this communistic s ciety as ever did king and queen over an empire. Economy, as the re .Sing public every - JOHN DUSS, HARMONY. PA. where knows, is the home of the Har- mony Society, one of the most unique and picturesque communistic organiza- tions of its day. The cardinal principle of the society is the community of goods; this from the first s .has .been strictly adhered to. Celibacy was en- , ned upon all members and taught by I th Father Rapp and Father lienricl. his successor, but their successor. John S. Dues, the present leader, leaves that tenet out of his preaching. When he became the elected head of the Har- ic ony Society he set about a work of econstruction to euit hls modernized ideas and the proposed new town is only the latest added to the list. s The Economy farm land of 300-hcre1 of bottom land on a level with the Fort Wayne .rallitiad, eighteen miles below Pittsburg and overlooking the Ohio .river, as a fine tcliat site is not to be duplieated in Pennsylvania. The old • viands on a plateau, ninety feet eee,. the Ohtto-a magnificent tract of 1,200 acres, sloping down to the river just enough to afford natural drainage. A mold picturesque village with its houses all set with gable end toward the street, therefore there are no front doors. Paling fences are about each house, wooden latches on each gate, brick pavements througholl the town, each street flanked by chealy trees for Shade, and each hause ornamented with trellised grape vines, by which blend- ing of the useful and the ornamental We see typified the idea of economy which predominated with the thrifty founder and his followers, and which suggested the name of Economy ffistead of Harmony, as the settlement in laut- ler county and another in Indiana founded (and later abandoned) by these game Harmonyitee, had been called. And now it is proposed to lay out upon the new site and in vivid contrast to all this bewitching qiiaintn.s and simplicity a town on a plan en m dern. so grand and s et the same time so rac- Ural as to ranbedy - everyt that beauty and utility an possibly have in commen. The brag feature is going to be streets, a ith en.. exception. that will be 60 feet wide The sidewalke are to be proportionateep wide. anti- there will be a continuous sward and row ef trees on each side between the sidewalk and tbe.curb. .The Sate are deep enough to allow the houses to be set fes enough FATHER RAPP. hack from the street to'leavr a limn in front, and thin idea will he made obli- gatory upon buildere. , one etreet is planned to be still wider than , the 60 - foot one. it will run the eweire Malin of the to Rita be used for sfores elusively. Surveys have been made ar prepared *or the erection of system of water works, and s will t,e peered to make this new I my, which will be only thirty nt from Pittahurg, a city beautiful of the ground upon which it will ground. Mied-Aethony Wayne and hie followers twisting carnieel upon it, leav- ing behind them a cannon which only a few years ago was sold for old iron 'Isa the Harmonyites, who, as their riches w4uld seem to prove, turned everything into money and harbored no sentiment outside of their religious belief. The main plank in the religious plat- form of Father Rapp and the early Harmonyites, it may be well to mention here, was a belief that the second ad- vent of the Lord was close at hand, and teachings were, in brief, that all those who would be ready and worthy to meet Him must practice a self-denial of the lusts of the flesh, the pleasures and distractions of the world -hence celibacy and simple living. It has been salt' the most important movements in the progress om humani- ty are controlled by some strong per- sonality, and that in spiteseof the asser- tion of philosophical students the effect of the individuality of. the - leader is often exaggerated and that the great changes which society has made would have come in some form at all events, with or without the one whose name has been made great thereby. It is, nevertheless, true that for the most part history is a series of biographies, and the leader is a factor equally potent with the popular sentiment which calls him into being. Of no one can this be more clearly remarked than of John S. Dues,. senior trustee of the Harmony Society, financial and spiritual head, president of the 'town council, musical director of the Economy Brass Band, which ranks equal to the best in the state; teacher, preacher, scholar, gen- tleman and philanthropist -a nitAny- sided man, one who impresses the stranger as just what he is -an extra- ordinary man. Only 35 years old, yet one cannot tell upon first guess whether he is an old - young man or a young -old man, but one could spend a month in the street and not meet another like him. In ap- pearance he is dramatic. His hair, as black and nearly as straight as an In- dian's, is worn a trifle long. He is near- ly six feet tall and finely proportioned, firmly built and of vigorous cgnstitu- tion. The strength of his chatfcter is plainly in evidence in the pose of the bead and shape of his prominent aqui- line nose, as well'as by the shape of his determined mouth, whien he wisely does not disguise in a moustache. His • e is as smooth -shaven as a priest's. His eyes are a clear. penetrating hazel that can either raise a blister on as enemy or warm the soul of a friend. When 13 years old he was sent to the Soldiers' Orphans' School at Phillips- burg, Pa. After he had finished there he returned . te Economy and there lost his heart. Susanna Creese, the pret- tiest girl in the village, found R. Love- making was not allowed among the liar- manyites and all thought of marriage was hopeless. Therefore, as much to try to forget Susanna as for the higher edutation s Johri Duienext enrilled him- self with the students of the Mount Union College, Ohio. While there he received an offer from the State Re- form School, of Topeka, Kan.. to teach in that institntion_and thither he went, and was soon fqllowed by Susanna, who \ha l been sent westward with an old lady who had been making a visit to Economy. When she was leaving old Father Henrici, then at the head of the commune, and who understood the un- happy state of affairs between the lovers, jokingly sa.d: \Be sure to see John before you coVe back, Susanna,\ and Susanna took him at his word and \saw John.\ and was married to him and immediately after' the ceremony continued on her way with the old lady. Two months after this the bride and groom met at Alliance, Ohio, where Mr. pees. ss',I c ta i 1 a home for them. plane ' , Per pains eine- nutes Part stand • MRS. DUSK HARMONY. PA. After six years at married life, and after two children had been born to them they were Induced to return to Economy and with their young blood infuse new life into the Harmony Society, which by reason of their being.- no new addi- tions to the membership was in danger of extinction. There had been no change in the tenets and in uniting with the society they accepted its doc- trines and agreed to live according to the new conditions. Mr. and Mrs. Dusis taught in the vil- lage school. He taught the German, she the Englleh. was elected junior trustee of the Harmony Society, which position he held until the death of Jacob Henri -l. three .sears ago, when he was elected to the senior truiteesidp, which means spiritual as well as financial head. In add lion to the secular duties, which are arduous in the extreme, ow- ing to much litigation growing out of the effort. it Of Rome disgruntled members it, have the society dissolved, Mr. Dugs must preach two sermons ettch Sunda, visit the sick, conduct funerals -in short, attend to all spiritual require- ment. of a congregation. This it will he seen, means almost unremitting labor. Still, he is a man of sunny tem- perament. and when the day's work is over he can always be found romping ith his children or discussing the latest beok with' his Wife, or tilaying the cor- net with -the three of them accompany- ing him/ This a family of culture. Vera, the gipsy-complexioned daughter, and John. Jr.. aged 12 and 9 rekrieetive- ly. read books the average boy and girl far in their teens iconlel find heavy . . They each speak German and English with equal fluency andscorreetneep. The rules of grammar are strictly adherred to, anti even their pet parrot speeke grareenetically. --- netatsees were Too Eager. A PnrtIgid woman who is advameld In years has Poine attentive relit - Ives. During a recent Hines. nne relative went was Purchased by Father Rapp from I to an Undertaker end paid ell bine for thg grandfather of Jame. ti Slain& the funeral expeneee The lady is now Ta t present Economy occludea historic able to do her own haute% erk. , MUSIC AT THE NORTH. NORWAY AND SWEDEN MAY GO TO W A kiag .6 1 A.. of Reversing the A rt I. of I 'don -Norwegians May t'si.lititi it. t intille -Russia and tier - fitly 114trli11lg. (Copenhagen Correspondence.) LOSE students of the political situa- tion among the Swedes and Norwe- gians, the two na- tions dwelling on opposite sides of the rocky range of mountains which di- vides the Scandi- navian peninsula from north to south„ fear that be- fore long the bickerings between the two will become so serious as to scare away from Europe the white -winged peace angel that has hovered over the continent ever since the Franco-Prus- sian war. If war should be declared between Sweden and Norway, these observers predict, the trouble would by no means be restricted to the Scandinavian penin- sula. So restricted, it would not be of very serious import to the world at large; but of late it has been apparent that Germany has great sympathy for the Swedish side of the controversy, while Russia has been manifesting equal interest in the Norwegians. So far has the matter gone, in fact, that that the newspapers of Berlin have more than once hinted at the advisibil- By of sending a fleet of German war ..vessels to the Bay of Christiania, on which the capital city of Norway Is io- dated, while the journals of St. Peters- burg and Moscow, which are never al- lowed to print a line disapproved by the official censors, have alluded quite as directly to the possible necessity of dis- patching a Russian squadron to §tock- holm, the Swedish capital. If the Swedes and Norwegians should, come to blows while Russian and German ships were in their waters watching to keep the peace, there seems to be little doubt that Russia and Germany might both bear a hand, and it does not need great insight in to the existing strained rela- tions between the powers to perceive that after that the red deluge of war would be apt to flow over all Europe. It would require many newspaper columns to adequately explain the de- tails of the dispute that have arisen between the halves o the Scandinavian t.fisspitanimillerie OSCAR II., SWEpEN. originally one, but s differences of envie w ronment have developed Marked differ- ences in language, customs and char - aster. In the eigl - th, ninth and tenth centuries, the vikings of Norway were known and feared in many lands, but, with the introduction of Christianity in the eleventh century the Norsemen lost ,their fierce and warlike character and the smell chiefs were at the same time brought -into subjection by King Olaf the Saint, who reigned fram 1015 to 1030, but was killed in a war with King Knud of Denmark. In 1036, however, King Knud died, and Olaf's son, Magnus, re- established Norwegian independence, which was thereafter maintained till 1319, when Norway again fell under Danish derninathiff. In 1387 Sweden alito became practicalliallubject to Den- mark, though until 1450 the three na- tions were nominally on equal footing. Subsequently both Swedes and Nor- wegians were greviously oppressed by the Danes, and after many efforts, which were only partially successful. Sweden , in 1511, threw off the Danish yoke forever. Norway, however, re- mained virtually a Danish province for more than 300 years longer, or until 1814, when the allied powers by the treaty of Kiel, adopted in January, to punish Denmark for espousing the cause of Napoleon, presented Norway to Sweden. The Norwegians, however, refused to recognize this arrangement, and, on May 17, declared themselves a free and independent nation, adopting a limited heritable, constitutional, monarchical form of government. Christian Freder- ick was then made king. but his rsign did not last for long, since the Swedes objected to giving up what had been al- lotted to them by the treaty of Kiel. and, after some fighting between the two peoples, the Norwegians, on Nov. 14, following the adoption of their con- stitution, entered into a voluntary union with Sweden. It was agreed that the two nations should be equal In every respect, and that the throne of the united kingdoms should be occupied by Charles XliI., king of Sweden. It was in this way that the celebrated Bernadotte, a marshal of France under Napoleon in 1810, who had joined in the coalition of 1813 against the Little Cor- poral, and, on the death of the adopted son of Charles XIII., had been chosen crown prince, came to be the first real ruler of the United Scandinavian pen- insula. For, even before the death of Charles XIII., which occurred in 1818, the royal functions were actually per- formed bx the elected crown prince, wko took the title of Charles XIV., when he actually ascended the throne. It Is claimed by the Norwegian radi- cals of the present day that. in the face of the agreement that Norway should be in all things the equal of Sweden, the first king after the union did all in his power to reduce Norway to to the con - QUEEN SOl'IIIA, SWEDEN. peninsula, whose peopie are 'of kindred race, speak practically the same tongue and have been bound together in,politi- cal union since 1814, but the immediate disturbing cause is the refusal of King. Oscar to dissolve the present conserve,' tive ministry of Sweden and form a new one, the members of which shouldelse chosen from the leaders of the radicals or extreme left. He gave his decision in this matter to the Norwegian con- gress, in February of the present year, and, though the severest pressure has since been brought to bear upon him. has resolutely ,adhered to his ul- timatum ever since, though so critical has the situation now become that be- tween the writing and printing of this article the eituetion may have changed materially Until within two or three years King Oscar has been able, by reason of his powers of diplomacy and unusual level- headedness. to maintain excellent re - lathing with both parties, and his dis- inclination at this time to form a radi- cal ministry is said to be based more upon personal than political grounds. Some time ago Deputy Rand, in the course of a heated discussion in the Norwegien congress, alluded to tne /O. Ve 4 ) vp. lea bef t ( S..ets g . t ) esse11 EX -PREMIER STEEN. monarch in the most slighting fashion, averring that \the supreme defense of Norway was in the hands of a foreign man frore a, a foreign land. \ Deputy Neilson. president f th• etorthing, or ?'ongresst, and leader i4 the Left, re- fused to call Rand to order Mr this characterization, and this refusal has caused King oscar to declare that theee is no provision in the Norwegian consti- tution making it mandatory u ‘ pon the Monarch to change his ministry at the dernarid of the legislative branch of the government In order to make the radical demand.. clear 'It will he neeepeary to devote a few lines to the Part,- hiatnry of the Scandinevians. Undoubtedly the Dan lab, Swedish and Norwegian races were dition of a Swedish province. His son, Oscar I., and Oscar's son. Charles XV., changed this policy, giving Norway every privilege exercised by 'Sweden, and so won great popularity in Norway. But the radicals claim the present mon- arch, Oscar IL, grandson of Bernadotte and brother of Charles XV., has re- turned to the policy of his grandfather, In persistently putting ddwn the efforts of the Norwegians to maintain perfect equality with the Swedes. Specifically put, the chief grievances of the Norwegian radicals, as stated, are partly sentimental and partly of a more meterial nature. Although Bjeanstjerne Bjornson, the journalist. novelist and poet, Is not a member of the storthing, for twenty years he has been the voice of the Norwegians who desire separation from Sweden. In his writings he calls attention to the dif- ferences between the two nations in a manner that invariably arouses the radical element among his countrymen, aweden, he says. is an aristocratic cu'sltry. while Norway is the most democratic land in Europe. Between the two people. there exists but slight sympathy, and !hie is largely due, he claims, to the fact that during the. reign of Oscar II. the monarch's sympathies have clearly been with Sweden, so that by all foreign nations Norway is re- garded not as equal with Sweden but In the light of a dependency. This foreign view, and the growing - 11VMM reThitar II. as a king by the Norwegians, he adds, are augmented by the fact that whenever the monarch goes abrSad he travels as king of Sweden only. never adding the name of Norway to his title. It Waft not until R comparatively re- cent date that their present stand was openly taken by Bjornson, Engelhart. Neilson, Steen, Rand and others who now advocate separation. For a lane time they claimed to believe that their demands would be granted it only they could show sufficient atrength in the etorthing. Now, gowever, they frankly advocate not only separation hut the establishment of a Norse republic and Merin for their side the sympathy of the common peeple and the middle classes of Norway, even as the conservatives claim the sentiments of the Malagas to be with them It is hard to see what chance the Norwegians would have in rase of a war with Sweden, since on Fijornison's own showing. although there Is a Norwegian army and • Norwegian navy separate and distinct from thp Swedish army and navy, the Norwegian war like Locos are Inferior to thitae of Sweden It is also possible that not all the Norwegian fighting men waxed turn against the Swedish forces, so that un- lea, helped tiv some outside power, like its.ela. for ineptness Norway week* be at R grwat dieadventage in a net The first ingredient in conversation is trill h. the next, good sense, the third, 5,0,1 homer. and the fourth, wit. -Sir W. Temple% ELLESLEy GIRLS. EIGHT YOUNG WOVEN EXPERTS AT THE OARS. coached by Miss LuellIts Hill, Who Is „Greatly I,, 'rested In Sport. and Pas- times for Ill' Sex -Watching Famous Crew• OM.E, girls; out with tne boat. Live- ly, now!\ It was time for boating practice, and Miss Lucile Hill, the athletic mentor of Welles- ley College, . - as there to coach eight rosy-cheeked girls. Very pretty they looked as they stood about on the float, getting ready for a practice spin. One brown -haired young woman, with both arms above her head and her mouth full of hairpins, was fixing her hair; another was stooping over, 'ving her racing shoe. Two or three were gathered around Miss Hill, listening to her words of admonition, and all were filled with vigor and . an- ticipation. They all wore the bloomer costume, with short skirts, and there was not a laggard among them. \Get ready now,\ sheuts Miss Hill \I want you to catch that stroke pioperly before dinner time.\ The words are the signal for an as- . LUCILE HILL. tonishing transformation. Off come eight short skirts with a swish. Over the heal? Oh, no. Otherwise. Sixteen feet spring out of eight rings of drapery and they are ready for the water. Standing there on the float in their sweaters the eight young women pre- sent as attractive a picture as Yale or Harvard. The eight girls take their places in the shell a. ith the ease and grace of veterans. Here and there along the length of the boat flutter knots of lavender and white ribbon, the class colors. One very straight young woman has a bunch of it right on the topmost height of her jaupty little cap. In the boat are the following young women: Captain Mary G. Cannon, Cox- swain Harriet Lance, Sibyl V. Boyn- ton, Mary E. Chase, Helen Dennis, Susanne E. Goddard, Frances E. Hild- reth, Alice W. Hunt and Florah Krym. These, with another grdunp of young women who remain on the float, form the Wellesley crew of '96. \Starboard oars!\ sings out the cox - attain, who is perched in the stern. Starboard oars it is, and the' shell wheels slowly *round until it has sea- way. Then, after a moment's pause the coxswain shouts, \Go!\ Eight lit- tle bodies bend forward, grip the water with their long, spotnlike oars and swing back with a vim that sends the shell flying over the lake like a huge dragon fly. Intermittently rising and falling, the voice of the coxswain can ke heard warninethe oargirls of one - thing and another. \You are out of time there, Miss A—; your blade work is too ragged, Miss and \Your splash is horded, Miss F—.\ So it goes up and down the lake for azi hour or more until the girls are pretty tired and are panting from the severe exertion. Then they row back to the float, go ashore, bathe, and dress for luncheon. This is only a small bit of athletic life In Wellesley. The department of phy- sical training is under the charge of Miss Lucile inn, and the training is in a curtain sense compulsory. The first attempt at a training of the class crew.. which yearly made it a practice to row on the lake, was made In 1891. Since that Ume all the crews have gone into the aymnanium for regular training after having been thoroughly instructed in the scietce of oarsman- ship during the spring. Frortit 1891 up to the present time there has been OF THE WELLF:SLEY CREW. a !steady improvement in the style and an effectiveness of the Wellesleyan stroke and an Increase In the number of the crews W•11, , PleV an now launch eix right oared shells at once of ctiree the atolls are not 1iiito So nar- row as timer u,sct iv Vale and liar %era, but they Ar,• excertilngly Jaunty and not half P,. daligetolle lt has been Miss Mill's er,10,„r to secure a stroke whit h is n t I flea I I y correct, and to this en•I lapt year one of the Harvard crew went to Welles- ler as coach for Porn, time This year Miss Hill has visited quite a number of colleges, with the result that She ham been enabled to greetly Improve the stroke and Inboard work of Wellesley. She was at Poughkeepsie while the crews were in training, aod also at New 1.oadoft, BUSS Hill is a native of Connecticut. arid has been Identified with rowing at Wellea'%-y from its inception. She has made it wh.: it is. She is full of new ideas, and absolutely reft,istes to pro- nounce a thing good simply because it is stereotyped. In all her gymnastic in- structions theory and practice go hand in hand, and, though she is not herself a graduate of any women's college's, she believes in them and thinks that a u. 1 with a sound heart and strong lungs 1.-s the same right to enjoy the invig- nrat.ng sports for which she is fitted thf.i a young man has. One regimen el., recommends tor strong girls, and another for weak. : She comes of a row- ing family, Ca s tain Johnson, of last year's Yale cretv. being her cousin. \Yes I have been rowing four years,\ said Miss May Cannon, captain and stroke of the senior crew, in a conver- satiozp about Wellesley boating mattere the other day. \I began as a freshman. You see during freshman year gymnas- tics are compulsory. Every student goe , s tht 'ugh a regular course of the Swedish stem. About the middle of the yea , s% physical examination is made by Mise ill and Miss Wood, and those of the clues whose heart and lungs war- rant the more severe forms of exercise are selected aael given permission to be- come candidates for the crew, the bas- ket ball team, the golf teams, etc. The freshmen usually have two or three crews in the field for the honor of being the 'class crew' and the decision in the matter is made upon the great aquatic day of the year, 'float day,' as it Is called. \I think about forty per cent of out. class went into the more a l btive sports. Every crew means twcnty girls -the eight regulars and their substitutes, the two coxswains and their substitutes. \We began on the rowing machines in February. In April or early May we went out on the lake. The crews can go out early because they are protected by heavy sweaters. \We first went out in the short boats, those wide enough for two girls to sit abreast, and without sliding seats. Of course, any sort of grace and style in these boats is impossible and the candi- dates merely get used to the water and the position. \Miss Hill gives instructions to each crew in the school and her lessons are enforced by the coxswains, cf whom there are twc for each crew, an Inboard and outboard coxswain. They are girls who have been eapecially fitted to sup- plement Miss Hill's work in this mat- ter. . \From the short boats we went into the eight -oared sly II. There are six. in the school and they are all filled by crews this year. \Whep we went out in the shells our work really began. It is fascinating sport and and those of us who have en- joyed it for four years will hardly know how it will seem to drop all thoughts of rowing.\ \What is your stroke; is it like Har- vard or Yale?\ I asked. \I think it can justly be called 'Wel- lesley stroke.' It has the body swing of the Harvard stroke, while the inboard work and coaching are modeled after Yale. Last year we had a member of the Harvard crew as adviser for Miss Hill and the was more like - Harvard. This year the influence of Yale is man- ifest.\ T. E. CLARKE. , PLAYWRIGHT HOYT. • Row He ante to Write That Comet for Capt. A. ('. Anson. N > Playwright Hoyt told a New York re- porter last week how he came to write a play for Captain Anson of the Chicags Club. He said: . \Some weeks ago one of My corn pante- was playing \The Black Sheep' PLAYWRIGHT YT. In Chicago, and I was cal el upon the stage for a speech after t e perform- ance. In Chicago 1 always u4Tn called on for a speech and the conseqtience is that I soon get dried up. On this particular occasion I was looking around the audi- ence for an inspiration and I saw Ad- rian Anson in the stalls. Mrs. Anson was with him but I didn't notice it at the time or perhaps I should not have made the break I did. Beginning my speech. I said, after a few Introductory remarks, that I was thinking of writ log a play for Mr. Anson, but that One great difficulty stood In my way. and that was that I should be unable to find an cone to take the part of the umpire The point was grasped by the andiencp who saw Anson sitting there, and then I for- got all about it. Afterwards. tneeting Hepburn Johns, of the Chicago Chron- icle, he asked me if I meant what I said. and I told him that I was only in joke, but he seemed to think there was Rome - thing in the idea, and persisted In him opinion. We .at there discussing the subject and after a while there seemed to me, too, to be something in it, for a play for Armin fashioned itself out in my mind in a vague way, and in about an hour I had half an intention to write it. Then A. M. Peinner heard of it. and Made me tin offer for the use of his thea- ter, and It being a good business offer I accepted, that's all.\ ATHLETIC. Tom Lee. the champion sprinter. Is just now on the fence. It is not known whethe; he will train., for the interim tional matches or net. \ir k has a very good positin en od has 11P adVIRed by his friends I., g.% e tip athletics and stick ta work vi•n••rions athletes re- turning from the east it ached See Francisco June 27, and were met at the railroad Ma thin by an enthmelastie throng of citizens and student. The following night a grand reception was given them at the Olympic Club of San Fre ncisco. • OK TR gut 1 th co ul lot wi to a RS Si lk vo fr th la co rl tt it I.
