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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1906)
MAGAZINE SECTION. 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. frUm-JO.! ■■ ■ ... I . _W-j. ■■JJ J« M I % & 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 j_ PALISADE PATTERNS. A DUSTING OUTFIT J, I Designed by BERTIIA BROWNING. No housekeeper can afford to be without a l#, V\ &J|r J ] useful apron, cap and sleeves for the time when VV\\\ wV W the house must Deiwwtiod dusted and tlu V ,s no onc else to do it. These are Invaluable i on other occasions when there is other work to ’ /futtk wHUH V do which would sod Milady's gown and the ilinii ll l l l models sketched are designed especially for l l f home construction and very easily made. The In Jilt . I'-i il/Jr/ a P r " n consists of a narrow square yoke fn m iME/ iFi jlfUujf' which the full straight portion depends. 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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.
