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BOSTON’S NEW CHURCH,
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS DEDI*
< ATE TW O MILLION VOLI.AR
Mother temple.
housands From All Parts of World
Tnronged Historic v.iiy, «-hurch
Seats 5000.-Taller Than Bunker
liill .-lonuinent.
The dedication in June of a mag
nificent new addition to tlie Mother
.'liuivh of the Christian Science de- i
iotninatiou, in Boston, was an event
of the highest signiticance in the his
tory of this religious body.
Built as the result of a spontaneous
•ecoguition of Mrs. Eddy's life work and i
>f the imperative demands of the mar
velous growth of the movement, ex
pressing the liberality of thousands of
Christian Scientists, and embodying
the best in architectural design and
modern construction, this new building
was logically the central feature of
this year's gathering.
The church is one of the largest, if
not the largest in the United States,
ifs seating capacity being 5.012. Its
style of architecture is Italian Renais
sance. The pews and other interior
finishings are of mahogany. The
walls are Concord granite and Bedford
stone, with beautiful decorative carv
ings. The inside finish is> a soft gray
to harmonize with the Bedford stone
olumns supporting the dome. The
eight of the building to the top of the
nteru is 224 feet, just one foot higher
ian Bunker Hill monument. The
■me is eight.v-two feet in diameter
id is covered with terracotta to
ateh the Bedford stone. The build
g presents a stately, dignified and
ipressive appearance, and it is al
udy recognized as one of the land
arks of Boston.
The cost of the building is some
iing less than $2,000,000. The new
nimes consist of eleven bells, the
irgest of which weighs 4.000 pounds.
Fhe smallest bell weighs 400 pounds.
The organ is one of the largest and
finest in the world.
The original “Mother Church" which
adjoins the new building seats about
1,200. and yet three Sunday services
are required to accomodate the attend
ance. It is said that when this edifice
NEW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEMPLE IN BOSTON.
r as planned some of the members
ere disturbed on account of its size,
hey thought that the provision of so
irge an auditorium was entirely un
ulled for, the attendance at that time
icfng only about 550.
Mrs. Eddy, organized the First
'hureh of Christ, Scientist, in Boston
in 1879 with twenty-six members. So
slow was the growth of the movement
at first that in 1889, ten years later,
there were only eleven churches.
From that time, however, the increase
was more rapid. In 1899, there were
301 churches. There are now 657
churches and 275 societies not yet or
ganized as churches, making 932 so
cieties holding church services. In
1889 there were only 450 members in
the entire connection. In 1894 the
total membership was 2.530. Five
years later it had reached 18,134.
These figures show that the principal
growth has taken place during the
past seven years. The membership at
the present time is about 72.000.
The dedicatory exercises were at
tended by visitors from all parts of
the United Htates and Canada, from
Great Britain, Australia. Sweden, Den
mark. France, Germany. Switzerland,
the Hawaiian Islands. South America
and other foreign countries. ,
One hundred and forty-five church
edifices have already been erected by
the Christian Scientists. These, as a
whole, compare favorably with those
of the older denominations. It is
said that when funds are no longer
needed for the completion of the
Mother Church a large number of
buildings will be commenced in dis- ;
ferent parts of the country.
EARTHQUAKE RECORDERS.
They Are the Most Delicate *f All
Instruments.
The instruments invented for the
recording of the motions of the earth’s j
crust during an earthquake are looked j
upon by scientists as the most deli- ;
cate of all machines. So highly sen
sitive are they, indeed, that the very
slightest vibratory motion Is recorded
perfectly. Even the tread of feet can
ot escape this instrument, if sufficient
-> cause vibration.
There are three classes of instru
uents for the automatic recording of
earthquakes, each with its own partic
ular function. First is the seismo-j
(Tit? iHmttnmnmf Ittmtitnr.
scope, which will merely detect and re
cord tin* fact that there lias been an
earth tremor. Some of these are so
equipped as to indicate the time of
the disturbance.
Second is the seismometer, the func
tion of which is to measure the maxi
mum) force of tin* shock, either with or
without an indication of its direction.
The third instrument is tin* seismo
graph, which is so arranged that it
will accurately record the number, suc
cession. direction, amplitude and
period of successive oscillations. The
last instrument is by far the most
j delicate of the three.
In the construction of this earth
quake-recording machine the maker
must so suspend a heavy body that
when its normal position is disturbed
in the most infinitesimal degree, no re
actionary force will be developed
tending to restore it to its original
position. The inventor has never been
found who could accomplish this sus
pension of a body to perfection. The
seismograph of to-day, however, has
reached a stage of perfection where
close approximations are obtained in
the records made.
The complementary part of the in
strument is composed of a system of
levers connecting an astatically sus
pended body with various surfaces
that are moved by clockwork. These
surfaces are constructed of highly sen
sitive material, on which needles play
as the suspended weight responds to
the vibrations of the earth’s crust.
The most elaborate of these ma
chines are capable of recording the
vertical and two horizontal motions
of the earth in the case of a seismic
disturbance.
HAD A GOOD SPANKING.
Boy, Rescued From Drowning,
Mother Administers an Addi
tional Lesson.
An interesting little story of very
human interest comes from the river
front on the outskirts of New York
City where Signora Genaro, who re
ct ntly came to this country from
Naples, was walking the other day with
her seven-year-old son. Antonio, f»r an
airing. While she was watching a
passing steamboat the little chap
frisked along the pier and then—
spiash, into the river.
The mother's shrieks were heard by
a patrolman. He jumped Into a boat
and fished out Antonio. The police
man had only one oar, and it was
awkward work getting to the boy and
lifting him into the boat.
When the signora saw that her son
was safe the anguish in her face gave
way to a look of resolute purpose, and
as the dripping Antonio was placed on j
the wharf she laid him across her knee
and did what Neapolitan and other
mothers have done to their erring
jewels ever since boys wore pants.
Her Muster Was a Gentleman.
A Boston couple were recreating
near Augusta, and met an old negro
woman to whom they took a fancy.
They invited her to pay them a visit,
and the colored woman accepted, es
pecially as her expenses were to be
paid.
In due time she arrived in Boston
and was installed in the house of the
white folks. She was given one of the
best rooms, and ate a’ the same table
with her host and hostess.
At one of the meals the hostess said:
“Mrs. Jones, you were a slave, weren’t
you?”
‘‘Yes, mum,” replied the old colored
woman. “I belonged to Mars Robert
Howell.”
“I suppose he never invited you to
eat at his table?” remarked the Bos
ton lady.
“No, honey, dat he didn’t. My raar
ster tas a gemmen. He ain’t never let
no nigger set at the table ’longside er
him.”
Eschew Teeth Examinations.
Never look a gift horse in the !
mouth; but if he’s spavined or knock
kneed there’s nothing to hinder your
taking account of these accomplish
ments.
Could Tulk United States.
A Unban negro, who came to Ala
bama shortly after the cessation of
j the Spanish-American war, became in-
I volved. says General Fred Grant, in
a quarrel with a native colored citi
zen of the State mentioned. In his
Imperfect English, the Cuban darky
contemptuously referred to the Ala
baman as “an African.”
“Maybe I is,” quickly rejoined the
offended one. “but es I is an African, j
I thank de I.awd I ain’t no Spaniel: an’ j
what’s more. I aint no black Philis
tine! I kin speak United States, I
J kin! I’
•MOUNT VERNON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906.
RENAMING THE SIOUX.
SOME TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
INDIANS ARE RECEIVING
CHRISTIAN NAMES.
LducatcU Indian tribesmen Selected
by the "Great Father” 10 He*
christen Braves Bob-tailed Coyote
Becomes Robert T. Wolf.
Uncle Sam has recently inaugurated
a unique and ingenious project in con
nection with his Indian wards —or
at least the. most populous division j
of them. This is nothing less than a |
scheme for renaming every chief and |
brave, every squaw and papoose of 1
tin 1 Sioux tribe. The object of this
wholesale rechristening is to insure the
right descent of property, something
that lias been attended with much
difficulty under the old condition of
affairs when the Sioux had uo family
name, and each redskin could be
identified only by his own individual
fanciful name, a cognomen which most
likely had not the slightest resemb
lance to those of any of his relatives.
The renaming of the 25,000 mem
bers of the Sioux Indian tribe was or
dered by President Roosevelt on the
advice of Ilamliu Garland and George
Bird Grinnell, well known authors,
and other persons who have made a
study of the needs of the Indians.
To decide upon the r naming was
however an easy matter in comparison
to tlie actual carryingvout of the
strange undertaking.
SUSPICIONS OK THE INDIANS.
The President and his advisors real
ized from the outset that it would be
one thing to give the Indians new
names and quite another to induce the
sons and daughters of tin* forest—
ever suspicious of the white men—to
accept and use these new names.
However, the Great Father tit Washing
ton was fortunate cnougli to enlist the
cooperation of Dr. Charles Alexander
Eastman, a highly educated physician
and clergyman, who is a full-blooded
Sioux, and who came into national
prominence some time since when he
married Elane Goodale, the talented
young New England poetess. At the
President’s solicitation Dr. Eastman,
who is considered the best educated
Indian in the world, agreed to person
ally undertake the task of inducing his
people to adopt the system of family
names desired by the government.
Just what this responsibility meant
will be better understood when it is
explained that not only was Dr. East
man to visit all the Indian villages of
the Sioux tribe and personally bestow
names but he must also devise or in
vent the new names. Just imagine
selecting given names /or 25,000 per
sons of both sexes and apportioning
perhaps half as many or one third as
many different family names in ad
dition.
In this portion of his novel mission
ary work for Uncle Sam the Name
Giver, as the Sioux now term their
educated tribesman, has displayed rare
judgment and a fine regard for family
history and tradition among the Sioux
—a thoughtfulness that has done
much to win the good will of these ■
intelligent but conservative Indians
for the new project. Whenever pos
sible he has perpetuated an Indian's
old name in his new one. For instance
High Eagle becomes Mr. Iligheagle, j
Bob-tailed Coyote was changed to
Robert ’l’. Wolf, and Rotten Pumpkin
has been transformed into Robert
Pumpian
Dr. Eastman has been making a
j round of all the Sioux reservations
which are located for the most part
in the Dakotas and elsewhere in the
Northwest. When he arrives at a
branch agency, or tribal headquarters,
for the purpose of rechristening the
inhabitants his first move is to have
1 a conference with the chief men or
counselors of the place. They, In turn,
EAGLE TRACK. BLACK THUNDER. [
send out a herald or town crier to |
j summon all the people to a sort of
' mass meeting and at this the “Name
Giver” explains the President’s wishes
at length.
THROUGH INDIAN SUBTLETY.
At the outset many of tin- assembled
Indians may is- prone to grumble
against the new system, but grad
ually Dr. Eastman will win them over,
and in his labors thus far he has not
encountered more than half a dozen
Indians tvho have steadfastly refused
change their names However,
j hundreds of the Indians have con
fided to him that they would accept
| the new system of names only because ;
they had the assurance of a fellow
tribesman (Dr. Eastman) that it was
! a good plan, and that they would
never have tolerated it had a white
| man come among them and broached j
the scheme. •
Although the renaming of the Sioux
is not yet completed It has already
been proven that the new system of
j names will lie of the greatest
benefit and value in insuring tin* cor
rect descent of Government allot
meats ol’ land from generation to gen
eration. Incidentally it may be noted
that even thus early this untangling
of lines of descent has won for some
Indians valuable property rights pre
viously denied them. As a ease in
point it may be cited that only a few
weeks ago Dr. Eastman was intru
nicntal in securing for a young squaw
(140 acres of rich land of high value
which had boon temporarily lost to
her owing to her separation from her
| own tribe, and which an unscrupulous
I relative was on the point of selling
when President Roosevelt’s special
I commissioner stepped in aud set
things right.
’Phoning Through Flesh.
To talk through the human body—
or a row of human bodies, for the
matter of that —is one of the weirdest
lj 1
THE NOTED SIOUX CHIEF, "BLACK CHICKEN.**
of the electrician’s feats. If a tele
phone wire be severed and the two
ends be held by a person, one in each
hand, but far part, it is quite possible
for a conversation to be carried on
through the body, as readily and as
distinctly as if the line had been
properly connected.
Their Compass Points to the South !
The Chinese do everything back
wards, from a Caucasian point of
view. Their compass points to the
South, instead of the north. The men
wear their hair long, while tiie women
coil theirs in a knot. The dressmakers
are men, the women curry burdens.
The spoken language is not written,
and the written language Is not
spoken. Books are read backwards,
| and any notes are inserted at the top.
White Is used for mourning, and
bridesmaids wear black.
—■
An Argument.
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin.
One bunch of grafters takes the whole
world's skin:
One touch of humor makes the whole
world grin.
Arid food adulteration keeps the whole
world thin.
—Kansas City Times.
Same Ohl Game.
The angler sallies forth again.
And by the brooklet’s shore
Doth idly lie and fish and then
Goes home and lies some more.
There are in round numbers one mil
j lion inhabited bouses in Greater Lon
don.
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& THE BLACK
i|Mr SEAL PURSE.
. ■''■unfits'
"Snatch it! Snatch it!" whispered
Reddy the “lookout," pal to "Jimmy
the Swift,” who won tills title from
the lightning rapidity with which he
was known to relieve men’s pockets
of their contents.
In a moment the practiced fingers
of Jimmy had skillfully extracted a
fiat seal purse from the pocket of a
slight young ntan who was busily'
elbowing ids way tli ougli the crowd
that was besieging a belated Broad
way car.
The day had not been a rich one for
the "pickH," and Swifty eyed the thin
purse rather suspiciously.
“Mighty slitn-looking, hey, Red?”
In reply Reddy drew Up one Hide of
liiH fuee, cxpcwlng Ills deep yellow
ennlneH, pulled the remnant* of u hat
over his arniH, and, leaning agubmt
the Hide of a groat building In quiet
Kliudow, struck an attitude that
seemed to Hay, “Well, here I am, pre
pared for anything—go ahead and
tdiow your booty."
Somehow Swlfty was fdower than
iiHiial In bringing lilh “Hiiateh” to light,
lie felt the purse, pressed It between
Ids hands turned It over and over, and
lit last, seeing lleddy’s eyes flash Im
patience, he reluctantly opened the
poeketbook.
“Well, I’ll be smothered!’’ cried
Reddy, as Jim pulled out a faded pink !
envelope from which fell a lock of
gray hair and a newspaper clipping
bearing the seared marks of time. It
was an obituary, praising the life and
work of the deceased. The dead
woman, It said, had been an exemplary
wife and mother, and one of the
sweetest, noblest and most honored
members of the community. Her loss
was therefore mourned by every one
who had the happiness of knowing her.
She left an only son. All this the boy
read aloud, amid frequent stops to 1
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spoil the hard words *o his ohum, who
listened with a cynical smile. At the
end of the reading he was about to
shout with derisive laughter, when
.lim, springing forward, collared him,
and with a tone utterly new to him,
said sternly:
“Look here. Ued! You and I’s
friends—that’s all right; but as sure
as I’m a thief, this here ain’t no stuff
for a feller to laugh at!”
for an answer lied thrust his hands
Into his pockets, eying Jim curiously
the while, and turned on one foot with
a long low whistle.
‘‘l never had no mother,” murmured
Jim. “She died when I waa a little
chap, so 1 never knew her, but it must
be awfully nice for a feller to have
a mother like that to lie good to him,
anil learn him things. Why, who
knows, perhaps if you and me had had
mothers like that livin’, instead of
bein’ kicked 'round by tne ‘boss’, who
never gets enough out of us, we might
a bud a good schoolin' and been milk
in' an honest livin’, Instead of thievin’
In New York."
These words of regret upon the past
of bis young life, and the expressed
desire for something better, from one
whose only home almost since in
fancy had been the street, and whose
companions had been crooks and
ne’er-do-wells, was too much for the
incorrigible itedd.v, whose worship
consisted of heroes that were daring
villains, and not penitent sinners.
He could hardly suppress his con
tempt for thi‘, to him. now “Soft"
Jimmy, hence he drawled, with a
sneer: ♦
“You—ain’t gold’ to sipieal oil ac
count of Hint find, he you, Jim?”
‘‘See, there you are! IJo ahead, Jim.
Look at the hunch of greonies sticking
out of I lie old feller's coat—quick,
Jim!”
The habit of years could not lie
overcome in a moment Hooded by
his tempter, Jimmy stealthily leaped
1 forward, and In a second his lingers
would have been on tin: bunch of
paper money which the evil eye of
Iteddy “spotted” In the old man’s
pocket. Like a flash came the sight
of the purse, the gray lock of hair, tin*
words in the newspaper that made
such an Impression upon him no, he
would not, hi- ••mild not any more.
His hand dropped to his side. The
old man disappeared with the money,
safe from Jimmy’s wicked fingers.
Jim’s head sank until his chin rested
upon his naked chest, his companion
glaring at him witli eyes furious with
anger.
“Well, 'tal’nt no use,” said Jim,
quietly but firmly; “I couldn’t, lied,
somehow, after that—and I’ll never
try it again.
“You get another pal—if you want
to—hut I tell you that I ain't goin’ to
keep this here pocket book nor nothin’
what’s In it.. It’s done it for me; I've
quit the profession.”
That night a black seal purse was
j left In t.,e office of one of the great
| New York newspapers, with a note
i scrawled in pencil, as follows:
“I’lease try to find the owner of tills.
I gesH he wants it bad. The thief as
| was.”—Los Angeles Times.
In Extremis.
The four-year-old daughter of a
i clergyman was ailing one night and
I was put to bed early. As her mother
! was about to leave her she called her
! back.
“Mamma,” she sakl, “I want to see
my papa.”
“No, dear," her mother replied,
“your papa is busy and must not be
disturbed.”
“Hut, mamma,” the child persisted,
j "I want to see my papa.”
As before, the mother replied: “No,
your papa must not he disturbed.”
Hut the little one came back with a
clincher:
“Mamma,” she declared solemnly,
“I am a sick woman, and I want to
see my minister.”
PART TWO.
