November 8, 1894. THE WEALTH MAKERS LIVING IN ALTRURIA y' Peace and Pleasure of Community Life is The Howell Mountain THE OAEES OF THE WORLD SHUTOUT . Absolute Equality Exists Among allMem- bers of the Community and Seren nity and Kindness Per. vade Everywhere Mrs. E. Buckingham of Vacaville, who is known as the queen of California fruit growers, is at the Palace hotel, after visit to the mountains of the north, says the 3an Francisco Examiner. She tells of a strange community residing on Howell mountain, a few miles back of St. Helena, so singular that she cannot get over the impression received of it The community, which is Altrorian in character, consists of about 100 people of all ages, but mostly adults. It was fouuded some time ago and has got up on a prosperous basis, but owing to the quiet ws of the community and the secluded mountain vale in which they live apart from the rest of the world iittle has been heard of them. . The little cluster of houses of all kinds wnicn lorra toe location ol tne queer colony are at the end of the valley on the fgreat mountain. Two or three large mounds rise in the open valley, and all about are pine and fir trees. So undulat ing and picturesque is the valley, that looking from one of the buildings on the brow of the mountain upon it the undula tions seem like the waves of the sea. There Is an abundance of the sweetest clearest water there. It gushes from springs and comes down the mountain in brooks, but none of the water is mineral. There is one very large house, which is used asa hotel, and six or eight cottages, besides any number of tents which have been utilized by the Altrurian settlers. The buildings are heated by steam. There is an elevator in the hotel for the convenience of guests. There is also a steam laundry in the village. "There is no ambition, no malice,' no harsh words for anybody or anything, and no restlessness of spirit," said Mrs. Buckingham. "All is quiet and peace and contentment. They seem to know nothing of the great outside world nor care for it. It is such a calm, such a state of contentment, as I have never seen or heard of before. WHERE ALL ARE ON AN EQUALITY. "Everybody is treated with perfect equality, no matter what his position. When I went there I was conducted to my room and pleasantly made to feel at home by one of the ladies. Prettv soon a fair, fresh-faced girl came in and I was "I went down for prayers. I was strangely impressed in this new and quiet atmosphere of this place which seemed more restful than any other I had ever been. However little or much you might be. inclined to be skeptical of their judg ment outside, you could not feel it right to indulge in it there. "Finally I missed the tapping and the strange voice which had in such a win ning way said, 'elevator for prayers,' and do you know, I really felt disappointed, somewhat forgotten, and ventured to in quire about it. 'Oh, we didn't want to obtrude in any way,' was the kindly re sponse, 'but hoped, if you felt like it. you would come anyway, but we were afraid you might not be quite pleased and so we let it go." "I told them I wanted the elevator to stop and to hear the voice and the kind ly tapping every morning, and when it continued again I felt almost as though I was myself one of the community, with something of the same purposes. "There was another voice that used to be heard in the halls at each door. It was very kind, too, but not so winning as the other. It merely said 'hot water! hot water!' ' TJIE BODY IS NOT FORGOTTEN. "There is a gymnasium intheplaceand every evening the help, as the employes are called, would assemble with all the others. There is a skilled teacher of gymnastics there and he gave sundry in structions of interest. They do not dance, properly speaking, but on these occasions they indulge in marchinir and countermarching, and they also formed we grand right and left. IRRIGATION MILLS. There is no more important question be fore the farmers of Nebraska today, than that of irrigation. Irrigating from the rivers can be done only to a very limited ex tent, and even when this is done there are not many who like to deal with large com panies owning ditches and be governed by the many conditions that are usually agreed to. Those having an irrigating plant of their own are independent, and irrigating with wind power is no longer an experiment, bnt a tested suceeoss. The Goodhue Windmills have long been known for their great success in running machinery, a number of sizes being made for this class of work. They have for some time been making large mills for irrigating which have demonstrated the fact that an irriga ting plant can be installed that will be per fectly permanent. One 18-foot mill will irri gate from 20 to 40 acres, according to bow high the water is to" be raised. They have located special irrigation agencies in this state covering the territory where this kind of irrigation can be best used, and from them anyone can obtain complete equip ments and make their land very valuable and produce abundant crops. These agencies are as follows: E. A. Smith, Chappell, Deuel county, and west to state line. Hershey & Co., North Platte, Lincoln, Logan and west to the east line of Deuel county. Patterson, Dunn & Gunn, Leiintrton, Dawson south part of Custer, western part of Buffalo and northern part of Phelps and Gosper counties. G. W. Codner, Gibbon, eastern part of Buffalo and northern part of Kearney vuuuijr. C. W. Hodgin, Bartley. All of Red Willow countv, W. B. Votaw & Bro.. Mavwood. Frontier and eastern nart of Haven conntira. Call on the nearest agent or write the manufacturers stating the distance to J. W. Cams, lme. t. r, Raima, TUa-Praa. W. B. Lima, , O. U Lues, tut Ami A. flauUAirm, Tra it was a queer, swinging kind of a water, and highth that water must be raised from level of water in well, or its na- motion, all done to the music of a piano. In many respects the men and women were like children, yet children in school are interested in parties and things of that kind. These crown children had other things to talk about, yet they were so simple and quiet as to make them re markable as subjects for contemplation. "What seemed to me a Deculiaritv of striking character was the way they treat their people they call the helpless. They were all simply like a lot of cood children. They were not like actual men and women in the world. "Among the members of the community I saw one old man, who beinir a native of Smyrna, in Asia, was supposed to know something especially about figs, and part of his work was to employ himself in the orchards. He was an Armenian, and had been a trader in Constantinople. It appears that some years ago some of the adventist missionaries, who have been scattered to all parts of the world, had fallen in with him and he had been con verted to their faith. "There is a board of directors that rules the affairs of the community. One Dr. Maxon is manager of the affairs of the hotel, but there are three or four other physicians about there. Everv conceivable kind of a bath may be had. "Take it all in all it is the strangest community of which I have heard or read a colony of Altrurians in fact, who seek not of the things that are beintr one outside of their own habitation on the great mountain. It surpasses any thing in the books, and altogether furnished me much to think of for manv day." introduced to her as Miss So-and-So. JSlie will take care of your room, you Tmiow,' said the former. Thereupon the girl, who was the chambermaid, came forward and reached her baud. I shook nanus witn ner ana tnen she, as pleasantly as possible, but exactly as one's solicitous friends might do, asked me wnat sne could do lor me, Thereupon she made all the arrange ments even down to details, as to ray hour for baths, for meals, for hot water, and everything of that kind. Her man- , ner was very pleasant, and evervone about the retreat ii the mountains was as kind and considerate as possible. 1 found the Rev. Dr. Lathrop there, who used to be an Episcopal clergyman here; Mrs. Judge Mee, and others. They had found it, as I had, a wonderful place for a nervous person, lor the atmosphere ol the place precludes worry or excitement. The girl who took charge of my room was one of the helpers, the man who ran laundry was another.and the elevator boy another, yet these anil other helpers were always reierred to as brother and sister, and were so introduced, and were treated ion a perfect equality with everybody else. They likewise talked as freely and openly ' : with everyone as though such a thing as caste and class had never existed or been thought of. Thus it was that they were all brothers and sisters in fact. The elevator boy one moonlit night stopped his eleVH tor to look out of the window and talk. 'O, I .thought," he fluid, 'as I saw this bright moon, how 1 would like to go out and sit and be " bathed in its light.' He talked on, entertaining me thus, impressing me singularly with the great contrasts be- tweed this and the outside world. " "Likewise I happened to meet and be 'fctroduced to the man who ran the laundry. He was introduced as brother, and he reached his hand to shake hands. I took it; then he said, perhaps I would like to see how the laundry worked. So I went down aud he showed me every little part, taking as much interest in it as could be imagined. He was so nice and gentle and . he and all the others eemed so sincere that it wad not in my heart to meet this sincerity in any other than in the same manner it was given. "So all through this spirit of kindness and goodwill pervaded everything. CONCERNING RELIGIOUS MATTERS. "The community has about 130 acres of land. About the buildings are beauti ful grass plots and flowers of all kinds. These are vuriegated- and so beautiful that whether near or remote the place at the head of the mountain vale looks like an e'yrttinv... . - "There is an orchard of fig, pear, peach and other trees, and vines producing berries. There is also a duiry connected with the place. Dairying is one of the industries. The members of the commu nity also make hay from the wild lands of the valley. "They require no conformity to exist ing religious beliefs, but let everyone settle it according to his own conscience. Most of the founders are Seventh Day Adventists. but they - never engage in anything like proselyting. "The first morning after I got there the elevator stopped on my floor and pretty soon there whs a gentle tap on the door. ' 'Elevator, for prayers.' , And lay over that floor 1 could hear that :gentle tapping and that unobtrusive kind voice saying. 'Elevator for prayer j The new song book, now ready for de livery: is immense. -Fire in your orders. ! Thirty-five cents a copy.' Tyranny of Mind. BY FRANK A MYERS. The supremacy of intellect has long been acknowledged, and praised. And this supremacy and acknowlegemeut thereof were right as long as mind was directed towards the study of 'thoBe things that bettered mankind and ad vanced the general welfare and inter ests of men. When intellect wrought for men instead of self, they were better, the circumstances of life were different, the opportunities of labor self-made, and the chances of living more equal. But to-day the pressing commercial world has directed the powers of mind into gainful channels, and that begets trust-barons and slave-drivers and pinched poor.. At this time mind is used to coerce physical powers to the end of gam and greed. The mental tyranny of the captains of trade is worse now, I be lieve than the condemned thraldom of slaves. Men are now slaves of necessity, bound hand aud foot by the chains of soulless trade which has been absorbed by a few money kings. Labor is no longer free; it must work or perish. The avenues of existence have been largely taken by money power and brain skill, and labor is reduced to the necessity of engaging itself to accumulated wealth or starving. It is Hobson choice. While it is a generic fact that no one is under any obligation or economic law to employ another against his will, it ought to hold ' good by parity of reasoning that no one should be obliged to work for another against hisinclination. That is, the circumstances governing existence should be alike to all when they are born into the world. And here the right of accumulating fortunes is seriously ques tioned.. We would not impair the rights of iudividualism, but going back to the root of the evil we do condemn the tyranny of intellect. The unholy law of competition has sharpened men's mental powers to prey upon one another, and has de veloped the, sense of selfishness instead of altruism! Hence, when the poor man is born into the world today he discov ers that competition has robbed him of his birthright and absorbed the avenues of labor. It is unnecessary to argue the plain fact that the means of labor ought to be open to all alike; but mind has, by the right of squatter sovereignty, practi cally taken all the avenues of labor and left nothing for -poor man. He is upon the earth the same as the rich man, and is entitled by divine right to as many privileges to live as the more favored. That he does not get them clearly exhib its a wrong somewhere. As said before, mind tyranny is at the bottom of it all. It has cornered the rights of toil, lob bied through legislative bodies laws for tifying its own unjust claims, and the poor employee is left with barely the privilege of living upon the legally fenced face of the earth. It has come to be that he is always treading on some body's "grass." If rnisdirected mind goes on enslaving him he will soon be asked, "What right have you to live?" And then the pathos of the situation will be that he has no answer and per haps ewn no right to answer. lo regulate this Idea of mentel tyran ny will touch the assumed prerogative of tural level, and whether water is found in sand and gravel beds, or from open wells, or draws mar nave Deen dammed no. Aney can then give all particulars in recard to size and style of pump to be used and amount of land that can usually be irri- guiu Klin uie uinerent gizeo mum. These mills and pumps for irrigating are made by THE GOODHUE WIND EN GINE CO., St Charles, Illinois. . men to accumulate property beyond their ueeds and physical comforts. Aot every prescriptive right is an economic right. J herefore, prescriptive rights and sel fish made laws are not of necessity eco' uofnically or divinely right. But we are not ready here to suggest a remedy, or say how accumulations should be regulated. It is but trite to say that without accumula tions the ave nues of labor will be firmly closed. There will be none at all. But as things are, there is something wrong somewhere in our mental and social framework that will allow one to abstract what belongs to another and retain it by reason of difference af social position and mental superiority. merienn Federationist. Would Have an Industrial Common wealth . : Very few men, I think, understand the why and wherefore of the quest ions which vex and agitate society. Not one in a thousand know the cause nor the remedy. To my mind the whole thing is as the weaver's shuttle our country and the whole civilized world, is in a transition state. Everything is in the mill and is being ground over. The philosophy of the whole thing is this: Since some of us old men were born there has been more labor-saving ma chinery invented than had been in thous ands of years before so that now 85 or 90 per cent of the labor of the world is performed by machinery, and every day almost some one is bringing on the stage otherlabor-saving devices, making the demand for wageworkers less and less while on the other hand the army o' wageworkers grows larger and larger every day, so that the gulf between Dives and Lazarus, or capital aud labor, gets wider, deeper, and darker every day. This is the whole question in a nutehell Now the next step to take in order to understand the vexing problem is this; Our competitive system (every fellow for himself if the devil does get the balance) founded on interest or usury has created a class of men called capitalists. They own the labor-saving machinery ana get all the benefits, and with 10 or 16 per cent of the army of wageworkers they can, with the ma cninery, produce an mat can De sold in the markets of the world, and the bal ance of this army of wageworkers are left out in idleness to starve or steal or fight, and they are doing a little at it all now. The foregoiug explains the whole ques tion. Society boils like a tempest-tossed sea, and under our present system it will continue to boil until an explosion takes place. We must have a change of sys tems. We must have a system under which every member of society will share a just proportion of the benefits ot labor- I saving machinery. If it can't be ma le to benefit the whole of society then the world would be in better condition without it. Hut if society can be made partakers of its benefits then no one would need to lubor more than three or four hours a day, or less than that, because machinery does three-fourths or more of the labor of the world now. That system which the world needs, and must have, Is a co operative commonwealth. . The capita lists control the governments of the world, and they resist any change. Society and business systems are now exactly as they want them. It is like the foolish father that tries to make his 15-year-old boy wear the same pants that he wore at 10 years of age. Uncle Sam has outgrown his boyhood clothes and is going to kick out of them. The two old parties are trying to make him wear the boyhood suit, but the People's party propose to dress him out in manhood's clothes, splinter fire new. The coming system is sometimes called nationalism, sometimes the co-operative commonwealth, sometimes national socialism. The name doesn't amount to the ashes of a rush. It is the thiKu rtikh thewoFid needs, "must and will have. The outline of the system is this; Every thing that is for the public good will be owned by the public, such as railroads, telegraph, telephone, coal mines, etc. The government has operated the postal service for a hundred years and there never has been a strike in connection with it. If the government alt the peo ple owned and operated the railroads and coal mines there would be no more strikes. We may turn up our noses in contempt. We may cry out crank. We may kick and revolt, and cry anarchy and communism, but it won't amount to anything. We are. at the fork of the road. We may in our blindness and cus sednesa stick to the old road and land in .violent revulsion ending in barbarism, out ii we are wise we win take the new road and it will lead us into the paradise of peace Ged's millennium. , : There can be no permanent peace under tne old, musty, moss-grown, worm-eaten system of competition. The reason is this: Wageworkers labor for wages. They only demand pay for what they earn. They bow to God's law of labor. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." But the capitalist works for per cent. The merchant or manufacturer marks up his selling price so as to make the desired percent. He takes no account of his labor any more. God's law of labor is knocked out. He bows to com merce. It is mammon worship. The dollar is the god of commerce. This idolatry of mammon-worship can be overthrown in no other way than by knocking out competition and bringing in co-operation. D. Oglesby, in Chicago Times. , Admires the Higher Stand We Take Arapahoe, Neb., Oct. 21, 1894. Editor Wealth Makers: I am one of those who admire the high er stand you are taking in the political arena, that "principle" and purity of life should be the great elements in the con stitution of the Independent party, actu ating and guiding every thought, and action. It is painful and discouraging to hear a Christian say, when charged with in consistency, well: Politics is one thing, and religion is another. There has oc curred Iwo instances during this cam paign, of moral decrepitude in speakers nr, the close of meetings at which "Shv. lock" and other oppressors of the people J have Deen severely rated, viz., winding up in the following manner: Well, if I were a banker I should do the same way. I should be foolish if I bad the power, not to make laws to suit myself, &c, &c., &e. If that is so, where are we to better our selves by elecsing or supporting the Pop ulist party, say the listeners, and well they may. I condemn such operations, as unworthy of the party. Faithfully yours, John Harris. Tne North-Western K. K ft M. V. R. R. New Time Card A New Train , Paster Time, Better Service. For the benefit of the traveling public this line has made important changes and improvement in its train service. Note: V , A VALUABLE ADDITION. The 7:25 a. m, week day train is made a Chicago connection. Besides taking passengers for as far west as Norfolk, it takes them for Blair and all Northeastern Nebraska points; Sioux City and points on J ui verging linen; uniana, mo. v auey, una wa, Carroll, Boone, Ames, Des Moines, and all Northwestern and Central Iowa and III. points through to Chicago. The Chicago Limited leaves daily at 1:25 p. m. aud takes passengers for Chicago and East, and intermediate points; for Oma ha, Sioux City, St. Paul, Doluth and all points in the Northwest. rhlllp o. oyue of Chicago Dead. Chicago, .ov." 5.-United States Commissioner Philip p Horner- died at his home here to-day. He lad been ill for some time. The Fanners' Mntoal Insrace Company of Nebraska. Tkt Lu-gttt, Bmt mad Chetpett Farm Jfotna Iatuniu Company in tb StmU. - X,"V--vv Over Ter V,oo 14.000.000 ob hand. Insurance j Thirty -two Nowia i Losses Khet... " M ial8M, Insane against Fin MMM ... f0 rNmptly than Any Old Lin Company Dotaf BnalnaM. ana usnaun, w ma ana Tornado, at On Per Orat. Ban ran Thru yam wtthont ear A anakaMmatr l"nnilahakai lnn.. Ak.- -a. . .... - ! tj eu vaiv r arauvrai Jtciaau tjfim. All i Fftld in FU ud bo ttebta gtMdlBf igilu. tk Compia. Home Office; 245 So. 11th St, - - LINCOLN, NED. PURELY MUTUAL li g IT 6lf ' - lt a? ig a ? NEBRASKA MUTUAL FIRE, LIGHTNING & CYCLONE IN8URANCB CO MP ANY. Over half million hurared. Have paid over K00.00 In losaes. Htve had but rae asMesiMnt. 10c per 1100.00. J. Y. M. Bwioart, Secretary, Lincoln, Neb. 3TAgnu wasted. Irrigated Farm Lands IN THE . FERTILE SA1I LOIS VALLEY, COLORADO. - : i T 'BK BAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO, is a stretch of level plain about as large as the State of Connecticut, lyin between surrounding ranges of lofty mountains and watered by the Rio Grande River and a score or more of email tributary streams. It was the bottom of a great sea, whose de posits have made a fertile soil on an average more than ten feet deep. The mountains are covered with great deposits of snow, whieh melt and furnish the irrigating eanala with water for the farmers' crops. The Climate is Unrivaled. Almost perpetual sunshine, and the elevation of about 7,000 feet dispels all malaria, nor are such pests as chinch bugs, weevil, etc., found there. FLowme artesian wells are secured at a depth, on an average, of about 100 feet, and ui a cost of about $25.00 each. Such is the flow that they are being ntilied for irrigating the yards, garden and vegetable crops. The pressure is sufficient to carry the water, which is pure, all through the farmers' dwellings. Irrigation. Already several thousand miles of large and small irrigating eanala hare been bnilt and several hundred thousand acres of lands made available for farming operations. Irrigation is an insurance against failure of crops, because sue cess is a question only of the proper application of water to them. The loss of a single corn or wheat crop in Nebraska, for instance, would more than equal the cost of irrigating canals to cover the entire state, so important is the cer tainty of a full crop return to any agricultural state. The San Luis Valley willgrow:i i' :," Spring wheat oats, barley, peas, hops, beans, potatoes, vegetables ana all kinds of small fruits and many of the hardier varieties of apples, pears and all kinds of cherries. In the yield of all these products it has iteteb been ivrpasskd by amy otbeb SEOTIOII OK THE CONTINENT. v Forty Acres Enough Land. Forty acbbs enough land for the farmer of ordinary means and help. Be sides the certainty of return, the yield, under the conditions of proper irriga tion, will average far more than the 160-aore farms in the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, and the outlay for machinery, farming stock, purchase money, taxes, etc., are proportionately less. There are a hundred thousand acres ot such lands located in the very heart of the San Lnis Valley, all within six miles of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, convenient markets and shipping stations, for sale at 15.00 per acre. Most of these lands are feneed and have been under, cultivation and in many instances have wells and some bnildinRs, everything ready to proceed at once to begin farming. A small cash payment only is required where the purchaser immediately occupies the premises, and long time at seven per cent, interest is granted for the deferred payments. A Specially Low Homeseekers Rate will be made you, your family and friends. Should you settle on these lands the amount you paid for railroad fare will be credited to you on your pay ments; and bemembeb the land is perfectly and thoroughly irkioated, and the land and febpktcel water rights are sold you for less than other sec tions ask for simply the water rights without the land. No bbtteb lands exist anywhere on earth. 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