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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 10, 1907 s in I Hi n- ' -'' . I iilV III' - 12' '' rT' Tsv sat. - ?teTv 10RN from the arms of their mothers many of them before they could talk-r-ani whisked half across the continent, from Denver to a farmhouse near Bound Brook, N. J., ihirtychildrenarebeing tratnea tn the teachings of an oaa reitgious sect. . : '. '.' I :. .v.- . They are Utile 'Jumpers' 'ithe name v.as earned by the fadt that members of the sect give evidenced f their faith and proclaim their religious ecstasy by jumping and shout ing. Rearing of the children in an isolated place if for two reasons -that they viay not impede their parents in the tatter's work of , spreading the new gospel, and that, by re maining aloof from the world, they may the more readily attain "holiness. ' Among the,things these children are 1 taught are, that they must shun public school ; and .rely principally upon .divine aid for an education; that they must not work for others, 1 but trust their Creator to provide for them, itven though they be half naked and starving; ihat they must have no physician when ill, and that they must not yearn for their moth ers and their homes, lest they be thrust into a fery pit. v ' Ml " m t ' tea if c nv in cue uttiny w& tew. Coryl G'yl'theyJupwhen-MSured b h!r AAfrt thnt rasr and iumtiin thf w.. -j r--J-' ' J A J 7iave overcome the demon of sin, for, young as they are, they are taught to believe them selves sinners until "sanctified." : . . c uWc have vicryl IV e get 'way fum iJebbilFr exclaim, in nervous exhilaration, lit tle ones scarcely out of arms, as they swing their delicate arms, turn somersauhs or roll . on. thegrountL At this training school ' hundreds of miles 'from their parents in the West, the little ones of Denver "Jumpers" are to, remain until they . reach maturity, when they will be sent out as . "Jumper" proselyters. '. TO THB average mother, who has not been con verted to the "Jumper" sect one- of the new est "holiness" societies the Idea of giving up ' her babe of placing the greater part of the continent between her and It must seem cruel and Inhuman. ' The . "Jumper" mothers don't think so. ' They be ll v the separation an aid to salvation, and are recon ciled. For the members of this sect profess to hold all human tics, no matter how strong,' subsidiary te the vplriu It la partly because they wish to show how they csn overcome all earthly Interests, and partly because they think they can do better missionary work unincumbered, thst they give up their children. And (herein ll the reason foe Znrephath'e ex istence. Karephath Is the name given by the "Jump em" to the bis; farmhoue nesr Bound Brook, N. J. the scene of many a spectacular affair In which chil dren figure. . a, Headquarters of the society are at Denver, Col., where the founder, Kent White, and his followers tuitlt and lipid for with money contributed by the pub lic a 160,000 house, after they had secured a charter for the "Pentacoetal Union." The term "Jumpers" ..was npp!l-d to them In derision, but, like- Klcbelleu. tb-r "liked the nickname," and adopted It) Then tame the announcement "by divine Inspira tion" thst it was inwt for the children. to be kept e.lnrte and at a distance. Mrs. Uarretson, a worru.n rril.ilng nwtr- Hound Brook, who had . been reading their literature, gave them a farm. 'J liis and many other Instsnces are cited by the 'Jumpers" to show that fhey have only to pray for a thing and ity will get It. t In Judea.tbe word "sarephath" referred to a jlc- for refining metals. F.vidently, In adopting It. the Peiitsrostxl In Ion viewed these little children of rnm 3 to 14 joare as crude metal, whtrh requires con M.ivraMo in-itlna: and rolling and. twisting before It inn be riinnldertd "tit." ' If three tots were hsrdened old rogues, escaped . ftom Mug Wing, they could not be more thoroughly 1 -.-,l W illi their unworthlnesa: bnt thev are made t.i iinili'i-Kiiiinl that there is hope for .them If they will .Mt ,...(. l-ivly.-4-evai-s - mur - faMiwa . ana -become, S.Hl.'t I H'Kl. A remarkable pilgrimage started eastward from Tiivrr ot Auguat 14 last Zarephath had b,een com j' i-d: 11 tv a time for the children to leave their i 1 . II I K A tar ha. been baHcred; rome sdult "Jumpers" yozy from, tm Reared as yr - - B3Ww- "' were on hand to take charge of the little ones. The U were a-t the Uenver I inlonjLlRPOt nomg 01 mum till clinging to their babes, which, they wouio-per- . naps never see again. - 1 ' There may have been some ' tears shed. Borne mother In the crowd may have been tempted to re consider to take her child home and live as before. But-the "Jumpers" don t admlt-lt. . . Miss Delia Huffman "bluler" Huffman, to be more exact Is In charge of Zarephath. When asked, a few dys s;a, whether there wtro any scenes at the part hig. she simply said "No." that there had been noth ing but singing and rejoicing. . The song which these mothers aang aa the train carried their babes away was, "I Want to See My (Saviour Face to Face." In the " fast-speeding coach the children were Induced to sing the same hymn. "How about the children; didn't they cry T" Bister Huffman was arked. "Not at all." said- she. "They were too young to realise. Then, they were elated over the ride. The younger they are. the leas trouble we have ..to get them separated from their mothers." Ho, now, while their mothers dance dally in the . streets of Penver, shout paeans of salvation and vol unteer to Idle auditors stories of their "sanctiflca tlon," "tTHr little onea are doing their test to uphold the family reputation. Miss Huffman Is a woman about SO, of rather robust build, with Jet-black hair and a rounded face of very pleasing appearance. Khe has six women assistants three ns sobcolteschers and three as house workers and alx men one to tesch In the school snd the others to work In the fields or about the buildings. SMILES DENOTE "SANCTIFICATION" Miss Huffman will receive a visitor courteously, will answer his questions about the home and will ahow him Into the schoolroom; but she will tell him at the same time that alia and the Pentecostal Union have no use whatever for the presa, but consider It mn tixeni'y ui oniun, prayers for deka hl not bn answered-r-efe-eo: the-: pupils had to do with a tew bencnes, a taoie or iwo, some chalra and a couple of deska. Two women teachera came forward with out stretched hands and beaming facea. They always smile. It's their way of showing that they are "anc . tine J." It you had seen these two, you couldn't easily have doubted the sanctity Hoth were beautiful, but It wasn't hard to pick B'nter Qortrtide Metlen aa the more beautiful of the two-. Klve feet tnchen tall, straight and willowy, with the folse and buoyancy that perlect health and attention 9 athletics Impart, she seemed to need but wings to fly. - - . -.-.. : , " Beneath a wealth of lustrous nut-brown hair her -faoe -ehinee radiantly--The flria thing you -notice Ja that tha akin la nink and nerfectly transparent, and the clean-cut featurea seem, eloquent with a sort of triumph. - ' ' .' ' A eomewhat older woman sat Instructing a child, of t years In the wonders of Bible history; a wholesome-looking young man of about 20 years he Is Miss Mctlen i brother, by the way was at the black board demonstrating to a claes In arithmetic. The dudIIs were mostly of ages ranging from I to 8 yeurs: there were a few older ones.. The very young- nnn were outdoors nlavlntf. " " Miss Huffman wit free to admit that the teachera had not been fitted for the profession by graduation from normal school or by teachers' certificates, but explained: - "To teach, one needs only an Infusion of the spirit. Jlther In teaching or learning. It Is tha help of Ood that counts it l all that la required" This, It waa learned. Is an essential doctrine of the "Jumpers," who refer to "the public-school curse" as a thing to be shunned. Indeed, Mrs. Kent White, wife . of the "Jumper" head, declares that she was abls to. take two or three grades in school, while others took' one, not because she studied, but because she bad divine aid. last fall an appeal waa sent out from Denver, tn which parents were exhorted to keep their children away from "the devil's grinding machine," meaning -the public school, and again referring to It as "the greatest monster of the age." '"- COMPULSORY EDUCATION TABOOED ' ' As a substitute! the "JumpVrs" offer Zarephath.' "What do you teach?" Miss Huffman was asked. "Oh, everything up to a regular high school course can he learned here," she replied. Vet the pupils at the time were engaged In only elementary branches. The compulsory side of publle school Is tabooed. A Child should study only when it wishes .to. Is the doc trine. Home days are given over entirely to play. singing, prayer and Jumping. There la no attempt at corporal discipline.- Any pupil Is at liberty to cease study and start demonstration at any moment In fact, there are sev eral "outhumis of the spirit" every day. Should Willie the children here go by first names only) find bla spelling lesson too hard, he may go to . a corner to pray, or may ask the school to join with him In prayer; and If, perchance, he makes a aurcess- . ful showing in the recitation later, all may break off the school work and aid him in celebrating the "vic tory." ' Then, one or wther of the children Is continually discovering that he has wdn a victory over Batsn. No further proot of it man his word is required. He has hut to jump UP ana snout. "VlcioryLA Ictoryimod, the whole school Is In sn uproar. HI nee theee children do not love study any better than ordinary children, they are unanimously In favor . of this "victory," whatever It Is. Their eldere aasure them that when the victory strikes them they-oan tell right away . by the .way they feel, and so they, are -i.-:. - Group of jLiMe. . . m . j' y ; ........ .. l .- I: vv - s 'i J I I ' -"i - ' ' ' k w . x. v f -fw T : I J' "": ;..-Wi . . - .. .'. I ; ?.,.- . vr ... ... , vii ..... m, V . ' ' t , I .' v r ;-, ,..' '-'---. I ' ...... j,- , - Women Who Face the World in Queer NE is not likely to place bo much reliant! upon the declaration of the Bard of - i Avon,, "frailty, thy came is woman," when he considers how tnousanas 01 wnmon aro paminiT their living today in the United States.; . CHICAGO has a reputation for encouraging the un usual. Homo time ago a visitor Interested In clvlo betterment made a quiet Investigation of the Street Cleaning Department Passing along thoroughfare In the business . section of the elty. he topped in blank amsscment Walking about among a- gang of street, sweepers, dressed In a white duck suit, with a broad-rimmed hat on 'her bead, was an energetic woman, directing the men to, weep here, to gather a pile of dirt there, it-was Mrs. Agnes K. Paul, a ward superintendent of the Street Cleaning Department Besides keeping her home In spick-and-span order, Mrs. Paul earns ber living by keeping a number of Chicago's streets clean. Women who are afraid of mice should take to them selves tho example of Mrs. Frank woodwsrd, 01 t Charles. Mich., who earns a ConsldersMe sum of money each season ' efioftttnr woives, ljuit winter Mrs. Wood- ward received from the Bute IJUIt) fov the scalp of Ut wolves, which were killed by herself and her huahand. Becauar sne txlleved It would benefit her husband, who was tn III health, Mrs. Woodward moved Into tha tottt aod settled In a desurted lumberman's shanty Dear Q '"miMMIIlllllllt !;lllllllllllI!IM!l!PreU!li!ffllfl II!!! Pom ojT'JJttte Jumper J3ft7 tuJud Oroox.Af. t constantly applying tha gauge to find out If there Isn't one coming. . ' -- How a. child of 1, I. i or 5 years, or aven one of T, bould be abla to know too symptoms of sin especial- ljrjjnaM moral philosopher agraa, aur,h youngatara ara Incapable of wilful alo It mar ba" bard for moat peopla to perceive, but they aro all aura they can do It. , . There la a regular prograrama at Zarephato, which runt thus:- At S.30 A. M., get up; 7, pwytt, lasting from threa-quartara of an hour to an hour; i, flrit - maoli f JO, school or plan 11 noon, prayer, followed by- acboot or"playpeP.Jti"eond meal; aecret prayer, lasting an hour; T, pralaa servloa; . retire. It will ba observed that 'there are but two meals' a day.! Thla la not considered yrranous by the. man agement, and.- indeed. the fat faces of the children . ahow that they need no .mora. The meals are Informal affairs, the only rule being that the children do not ' eat too much. ? ---;- -. !.,.- .... The Mosalo law Is strictly tdhered to; there la no pork, no pie or cake. The faro la mostly vegetable, although beet mutton, fish and fruits are permitted. ' . Sometimes the children get lonesome. Then they "are told that they are doing something sinful, that they are placid- themselves la danger of "the dump" -which. Js short for the eternal Are of brimstone and are bidden to go and pfamntil -they have gained- Vlo- -tory ovar the demon of lonesomenesa. .LITTLE "SQUL TRACEDIES" -. A sln-merltlng damnation to got loneeome for your motherl ". --r , . Uow many little aoul --tragedrts have been enacted In those closet which are aupDlted. to ever'y room at ZarephathT How many children have gone Into them with tears streaming down their cheeka, and have come out, an hour or ao later; eyes still red. but tear less, meekly proclaiming. "Ma got victory!" , ' The many tots of I and I yeara are permitted to follow their aweet wills about the place. ' They ar healthy looking, except that some of them lack that stamp of neatness which wouh ba expected of a mother's' care. - ' For clothes they wear anything that eomes along, "Tit'f "fM"! In, a few instances, their appearance la shabby. ' -. . , indeed, they are taught to not expect . anoea or Claming uaiu sucu wmti cuinv 111 .ii.wn 9 yrmjwrt - no matter how long that may be. Bo, when a child does get a new dress or pair of shoes whether sent by Ita parents from Denver or received through the home there la a big praise meeting. And, Indeed, these prayers for clothing form -the burden of the children'a supplications the need la so apparent - ' The "Jumper" doctrine teachea that one must not own anything, muat give all to the union. This, how ever, seems to be not rigidly enforced, for often par ents send things to their children, and this accounts for the fact that some are dressed better than others. On Christmas, three of the children received dolls from their parents. The others 'got none. To have permitted a visit from Santa Claua would have been sinful, said Miss Huffman, for It would have been deception, and ao the children confined themselves for many daya before Christmas to praying that some one would send them presents. "Were not the -others disappointed?" waa asked it Mies Huffman.-' "No; they realised that It waa not best that their - t zs7?7pers We have become reconciled to women stenog raphers, doctors, lawyers, insurance solicitors and newspaper reporters. But few mejv when building a house ever think of getting women masons and carpentersw Yet there are women in such trades. Many are the unusual methods by. which mem Ontonagon, Mich. For exercise and amusement, Dr, Woodward took to hunting In the woods, being generally accon-.pant"d by his wife. According to government ststlstlcs, there are -tn the 'TTnited Stnte women in every occupation necessary for housebuilding. Home of them acknowledge that they V prefer such wotk to housekeeping. There sre in the country 150 women builders and contractors, 1S7 masons, Vfc carpenters, i plasterers, 17B9 painters, glnslers and varnlahcra, IJi plumbers, Ml paptrhangere and 2 slatera and roofers. There are women steamfltters and boilermakers,. and ' more than Mv,000 women farm laborers. In the great j timber reclons more than W women are engaged In the work of lumbering and rafting, and there are 11 pro . fesslonal women wood-choppers In the I nlted Rtates. Uncle Sam s record shows there are tOKS saloonkeepers . of the fair sex In the country. Engaged In mixing cock tails, whloky lours, high-balls and other such beverages are 44 rosy-cheeked barmaids. Woman siiffragiata of the country must hsve bean plmtaed when M1a Mary A. Stnhoa, of Indianapolis; waa "appointed head-of tha Indiana Slate Bureau of Statistics some time sro. : .. . Miss Btuhhs Is Only 28 years of age, quite pretty, and Is the first woman to hold such an office In the -Stale. It U to be expected that the arena of business activity Hlll..tl I v.. 4 y -. ' .- I . ... I I J -b I !, v ! I . .. . ;"": H fca-aaeaii! I' las... Hi il Ml Hi tt 1 1 ' " ' 1 ilii' ' '' awlig"- A B Ceases tt&yfngjJefJie.cZ , prayers be answered. Besides, the three who got doTta -were not selfish, and let the others play with them.: Thnt all lolned In a nralae meeting over tha dolls.' In truth, they would not dare to ahow their dis appointment" it would mean laying themselves In dan ' -ger of the "dump." - With evident aatlsfactlon. Miss Huffman told of some of the prayers made by children scarcely out, of arms. ' , ' At a general meeting of grown folks the other day boy of 4 yeara ahouted: "Praise the Lord for sal- ., 'vatlon, Jesse's going to get some new shoes." This was because Jesse's mother had written to say that' she waa sending the shoes. A "wonderful" Instance of r.nswer to prayer given -by Miss Huffman waa the eaae of a girl who prayed for fried potatoes, and got them, "although" thla with child-like simplicity "neither tha cook nor any one etae knew about her prayer." - Three boys Frank, Wesley and Willie sleep In ona room. Willie, ( yeara od, burned his leg recently, and, aa the "Jumpers" do not permit a physician's aervlce, he waa told to pray for relief. He could not aleep that night, ao great was nig naln. so he awakened his comDaniona and brayed: xiear jesus, g wani -juu iu nii my uiu w iwa Me' Wealev'a thore toe. too. I mean to DWSss wight on an' r keen the wlctory," - - Then he went to sleep. Miss Huffman said. She re- ' . garded this as proof that a physician's services are not -needed. Another boy had a finger cut off. and waa afforded no medical attention, but waa told to pray. , ' An older boy, who worke on the farm, and who had a finger out oft In a printing press at Denver, asserts -- that the stump has grown longer alnce ha Joined tha .', "Jumpers. " . . "DEBBIL" DISCIPLINE ; '.: As a means of discipline, the "debbll" makea a very : effective pereuader for the children. They are kept In a constant state of nervousness through fear that they are to be pitched Into a fiery pit the "dump.". -. TnJg a noticeable at any time Of the day wherever -. a e-rouD of the children are seen. When one feels sny qualms Inside of him, whe her It be In heart stomach lach or anywhere else, he drops on his knees and ls: "1 don't want to go to hell! Lord, defeat deb And when the "victory" Is won, all join la a re- Demonstrations, which are sometimes carried kfaf : into the night, are of very common occurrence. An inci dent will show how trivial are the causes which are some times considered reason for Jubilation. A teamster, one of the odult members of tha Zare phath colony, bad been out to get a load of stone to be used In constructing a new building. While ascending a hill his wagon broke In the sandy soil, and, to add to hla trouble, one of the horses balked.- , . But, Just at thla emergency, according to the team ster's own testimony, "the Lord Just put so much " strength Into that other horse that he plunged ahead and moved - the wbtrie load." He came m from hla trip while a number of tha chil dren were holding the midday prayer meeting; and when he told his story a wave of rejoicing broke forth, which 1 lasted all the afternoon One girl,-not- long ago -upon going to ber room,- found that the window had been broken and the anow had been blown In on her bed. Taking this as a mark of her Creator's disfavor, ah prayed all night, and at i o'clock awakened the household to help her shout the "victory." , When thane children are It. they will be sent Into the world, either aa misslonarlea or as active .Jumpers. , bers of the so-called weaker sex solve the problem of bread-winning. There are wpmcn boilermakers, farm laborers andwood-cutters. According 'to statistics, the only occupations at which they are losing something of their time-honored, prestige re sewing, tailoring and dressmaking. . will continue to attraot many plucky women. But a ' female member of a commercial exchange Is something new. Miss Iah Klein represents a Chicago grsln company In the Merchants' Exchange of Memphis, Tenn, She la ,, only IS yeara of age, yet she goes on the floor of tha exchange and buys and sella as complacently as tha oldcat member. The groin company called Its Memphis mnnacer to Chicago some time sgo and left Miss Klein In charge until s-nother mans ger should relluve her. She did so well that the firm lias now given ber tha posiUon of general manager. ' ,Thre Is a little woman In New York elty who Sams -her living by conducting blind people sbout A Held of endeavor In which women have made en viable reputations is astronomy, Mr.-J5. Waller Maun der, wife of the superintendent of the solar department of the Itoyal Obaeivatory st Greenwich, for the first time In the history of astronomy took a photograph of the O'Mcrmoat streamers of the sun's corona, Thla was In India In January. 1WW. To hnve discovered more sfsrs thin any one else In .the world Is the reputation of Miss Dorothea Klumpke, an. American girt, who won renown for-herself at Parts. Slnra iv Mlr. Klumpke has devoted herself to taking photographs of tha heavens from a balloon. Occupations i f '
