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THE BLACK
I’ SEAL PURSE.
“Snatch it! Snateh it!” whispered
BOSTON'S NEW CHURCE, [scope min
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Y MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1906.
RENAMING THE SIOUX, |icn,oeovs one en
| scope, which will merely detect and re-
{cord the fact that there has been an
earth tremor. Some of these are so
equipped as to indicate the time of
the disturbance.
been proven that
the new system of
names will be
of the greatest
benefit and value in insuring the cor-
: Sl y (rect descent of Government allot-
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS DEDI- SOME TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND | ments of land from zeneration to gen-
CATE TWO MILLION DOLLAR Second is the seismometer, the fune- INDIANS ARE RECEIVING eration. Incidentally it may be noted
MOTHER TEMPLE. tion of which is to measure the maxi- CHRISTIAN NAMES, that even thus early this untangling
- mum force of the shock, either with or of lines of descent has won for some
y ‘ithout an indication of its direction. Indians valnable pr y rights pre-
Thousands From All Farts of World aw Ad con 2 ad Educated Indian Tribesmen Selected | Adiahis ¥aluable sproperty rights pie
J : E {The third instrument is the seismo- REI : I | viously denied them. As a case in
Thronged Historic Lity.—Church | graph, which is so arranged that it| by the "Great Father” to Re~| int jt may be cited that only a few
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Seats 5000.—Taller Than Bunker
Hill Monument.
The dedication in June of a mag-
nificent new addition to the Mother
Church of the Christian Science de-
nomination, in Boston, was an event
of the highest significance in the his-
tory of this religious body.
Built as the result of a spontaneous
recognition of Mrs. Eddy’s life workand
of 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,
its 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
columns supporting the dome. The
height of the building to the top of the
lantern is 224 feet, just one foot higher
than Bunker Hill monument. The
dome is eighty-two feet in diameter
and is covered with terra cotta to
match the Bedford stone. The build-
ing presents a stately, dignified and
impressive appearance, and it is al-
really recognized as one of the land-
mar ..s of Boston.
The cost of the building
thing less than $2,000,000. The new
chimes consist of eleven bells, the
largest of which weighs 4,000 pounds.
The 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
is some-
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will accurately record the number, suc-
cession, direction, amplitude and
[period of successive oscillations. The
| last instrument by far the most
{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 diswurbed
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.
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HAD A GOOD SPANKING.
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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-
| cently came to this country from
| Naples, was walking the other day with
{her seven-year-old son, Antonio, for 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
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NEW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEMPLE IN BOSTON.
was planned some of the members
were disturbed on account of its size.
They thought that the provision of so
large an auditorium was entirely un-
called for, the attendance at that time
being only about 550.
Mrs. Eddy, organized the First
Church 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,
¥rom that time, however, the increase
was more rapid. In 1899, there were
801 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 2536. 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 States 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 dif-
ferent parts of the country.
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They Are the Most Delicate of All
Instruments.
The instruments invented for the
recordir f the motions of the earth's
crust durrag an earthquake are looked
upon by scientists as the most deli-
cate of all machines. So highly sen-
gitive are they, indeed, ‘that the very
slightest vibratory motion is recorded
perfectly. Even the tread of feet can-
not escape this instrument, if sufficient
to cause vibration.
There are, three classes of instru-
ments for the automatic recording of
earthquakes, eaciggvith its own partic-
ular function, «West is the seismo-
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
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 Master 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 at 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,
woman.
Howell.”
“I suppose he mever invited you to
eat at his table?” remarked the Bos-
ton lady.
“No, honey, dat he didn’t. My mar-
ster was a gemmen, He ain't never let
no nigger set at the table ’longside er
him.” :
replied the old colored
“lI belonged to Mars Robert
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 Talk United States.
A Cuban negro, who came to Ala-
bama shortly after the cessation of
the Spanish-American war, became in-
volved, says General Fred Grant, in
a quarrel with a native colored citl-
zen of the State mentioned. In his
fmperfect English, the Cuban darky
contemptuously 1a2ferred to the Ala-
baman as “an African,”
“Maybe I is,” quickly rejoined the
offended one, “but ef I is an African,
I thank de Lawd I ain’t no Spaniel; an’
what's more, I aint no black Philis-
tine! I kin speak United States, I
kin!” ~
Becomes Robert T. Woll,
Uncle Sam has recently inaugurated
a unique and ingenious project in con-
nection with his Indian wards—or
at least the most populous division |
of them. This is nothing less than a
scheme for renaming every chief and |
brave, every squaw and papoose of
the Sioux tribe. The object of this |
wholesale rechristening is to insure the
right descent of property, something
that has been attended with much
difficulty under the old condition of
affairs when the Sioux had no 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 Hamlin 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 rrnaming was
however an easy matter in comparison
to the actual carrying out of the
strange undertaking.
SUSPICIONS OF 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 the forest—
ever suspicious of the white men—to
accept and use these new names.
However, the Great Father at Washing-
ton was fortunate enough to enlist the
cooperation of Dr. Charles Alexander
Eastman, a highly educated physician
and clergyman, who is a full-blooded
Sioux, and who eame 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 for 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 Sgm 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
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 hisThew one. For instance
High Eagle becomes Mr. Higheagle,
Bob-tailed Coyote was changed to
Robert T. Wolf, and Rotten Pumpkin
has been transformed into Robert
Pumpian
Dr. Eastman has been making a
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
a conference with the chief men or
counselors of the place. They, in turn, |
puis £}
EAGLE TRACK.
send out a herald or town ecrier to
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 the assembled
Indians may be 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 who have steadfastly refused
to change their names However,
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
the «cheme,
Although the renaming of the Sioux
christen Braves—Bob-tailed Coyote |
or
{Is not yet completed it has already
weeks ago Dr. Eastman was intru-
| mental in securing for a young squaw
G40 acres of rich land of high value
which had been temporarily lost to
her owing to her separation from her
own tribe, and which an unscrupulous
relative was on the point of selling
when President Roosevelt's special
commissioner stepped in and set
things right.
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*Phoning Through Flesh.
To talk through the human body—
a row of human bodies, for the
matter of that—is one of the weirdest
Reddy the “lookout,” pal to “Jimmy
the Swift,” who won this 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
flat seal purse from the pocket of a
slight young man who was busily
elbowing his way thiough the crowd
that was besieging a belated Broad-
way car.
The day had not been a rich one for
the “picks,” and Swifty eyed the thin
purse rather suspiciously.
“Mighty slim-looking, hey, Red?”
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.
tients
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 the women
coil theirs in a knot. The dressmakers
are men, the women carry burdens.
The spoken language is not written,
and the written language is not
spoken. Books are read backwards,
BLACK THUNDER.
®
and any notes are inserted at the top.
White is used for mourning, and
bridesmaids wear black.
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An Argument,
touch of nature makes the whole
world kin,
bunch of grafters takes the whole
world's skin;
touch of humor makes the whole
world grin,
food adulteration keeps the whole
world thin.
—Kansas City Times.
I AS
Same Old 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.
One
One
One
And
There are in round numbers one mil
lion inhabited houses in Greater Lon-
don,
In reply Reddy drew up one side of
his face, exposing his deep yellow
canines, pulled the remnants of a hat
over his arms, and, leaning against
the side of a great building in quiet
shadow, struck an attitude that
seemed to say, “Well, here I am, pre-
pared for anything—go ahead and
show your booty.”
Somehow Swifty was slower than
usual in bringing his “snatch” to light.
He felt the purse, pressed it between
his bands turned it over and over, and
at last, seeing Reddy’s eyes flash im-
patience, he reluctantly opened the
pocketbook.
“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
spell the hard words te his chum, who
listened with a cynical smile. At the
end of the reading he was about to
shout with derisive laughter, when
Jim, springing forward, collared him,
and with a tone utterly new to him,
said sternly:
“Look here, Red! 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 Red thrust his hands
into his pockets, eying Jim curiously
the while, and turned on one foot with
a long low whistle.
“I never had no mother,” murmured
Jim. “She died when I was a little
chap, so I never knew her, but it must
be awfully nice for a feller to have
a mother like that to be good to him,
and learn him things. Why, who
knows, perhaps if you and me had had
mothers like that livin’, instead of
bein’ kicked ’round by the ‘boss’, who
never gets enough out of us, we might
a bad a good schoolin’ and been mak-
in’ an honest livin’, instead of thievin’
in New York.”
These words of regret upon the past
of his 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 Reddy, whose worship
consisted of heroes that were daring
villains, and not penitent sinners.
He could hardly suppress his con-
tempt for the, to him, now “Soft”
Jimmy, hence he drawled, with a
sneer:
“You—ain't—goin’—to squeal on ae-
count of that find, be you, Jim?”
“See, there you are! Ge ahead, Jim,
Look at the bunch of greenies sticking
out of the old feller’'s coat—quick,
Jim!”
The habit of years could not be
overcome in a moment. Goaded by
his tempter, Jimmy stealthily leaped
forward, and in a second his fingers
would have been on the bunch of
paper money which the evil eye of
Reddy “spotted” in the old man’s
pocket. Like a flash came the sight
of the purse, the gray lock of hair, the
words in the newspaper that made
such an impression upon him—no, he
would not, he could 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 with eyes furious with
anger.
“Well, ’tai'nt no use,” said Jim,
quietly but firmly; “I couldn’t, Red,
somehow, after that—and I'll never
try it again.
“You get another pal—if you want
to—but I tell you that I ain’t goin’ to
keep this here pocketbook nor nothin’
what's in it. It’s done it for me; I’ve
quit the profession.”
That night a black seal purse was
left in tue office of one of the great
New York newspapers, with a note
scrawled in pencil, as follows:
“Please try to find the owner of this,
I gess he wants it bad. The thief as
was,””=—Los Angeles Times.
In Extremis.
The four-year-old daughter of a
clergyman was ailing one night and
was put to bed early. As her mother
was about to leave her she called her
back.
“Mamma,” she sald, “I want to see
my papa.”
“No, dear,” her mother replied,
“your papa is busy and must not be
disturbed.”
“But, mamma,” the child persisted,
“I want to see my papa.”
As before, the mother replied: “No,
your papa must not be disturbed.”
But the little one came back with a
clincher:
“Mamma,” she declared solemnly,
“TI am a sick woman, and I want to
see my minister.”
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