This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... as very few of the trees are suitable for sawing into lumber. Fuel and fencing material comprise the total product of the timber land. The sawmill has ceased therefore to yield much income, and stands idle most of the time. The same is also true of the flouring mill which is under the same roof. The agriculture is of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... as very few of the trees are suitable for sawing into lumber. Fuel and fencing material comprise the total product of the timber land. The sawmill has ceased therefore to yield much income, and stands idle most of the time. The same is also true of the flouring mill which is under the same roof. The agriculture is of the usual western character, corn and hay being the principal crops, and cattle and hogs the chief marketable products. The amusements of the community are not of a very gay and hilarious character, and are not so prominent a feature of the social life as they would be, were the young members more numerous. (Although we have generally referred to this branch as the " old party," it was not exclusively composed of old people; on the other hand the party of the young people contained several aged persons.) The younger members have some musical taste, and there is a cabinet organ in the hall. The library, now containing about a thousand volumes--an equal number having been kept at the other village, --consists chiefly of standard French works of literature, philosophy, history, science, and miscellany, most of them saved from the wreck of the Nauvoo library. A number of French and American periodicals are taken, and their perusal is the favorite recreation. Sunday is kept as a holiday, and sometimes the little community gathers in the assembly hall for music, select reading, a dance, or an amateur play; while on other Sundays a quiet picnic is enjoyed under the trees on the Nodaway. The standard of morality is high, and the ethical sense of the community, trained by their unselfish mode of life, is superior; but, though permitting any form of belief among their members, they are not religious. Being materialists and positivists, philosop...
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