davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
PRESBYTERIAN MISSION. BOARD
ANSWERS ATTACK ON METHODS

been decided economy to the government.
They have been the agency of distribution
to the natives. This was the object in Sc
curing the reindeer. Mr.. Churchill finds the
government has not as many as he sup
poseu it should have. He regards it as an
indictment of the management OF the busi
ness. 1t is to it's credit. The purpose of the
government was not to accumulate herds OF
reindeer, but to see them transferred to ..le
natives for their benefit This has been
done. ~
1.-The special agent repeatedly af1rms that
there were reindeer belonging to the Pres
byterian and other missionary boards, and
they were not properly handled Our re-
ply is that tbs Presbyterian board has
never owned a deer nor claimed to own
deer. We have refused. DR.. Harris
states in his reply, to go into the reindeer
business in any form whatever. We have
permitted our missionary at Point Bar
row, on account of the isolation of his
station, to use reindeer belonging to the
government: but he has abundantly paid
for the loan of such deer by obtaining ma
tive supplies for apprentices and helping
them in their work.
The reindeer business has never benefit
ed our mission stations in the slightest,
but the help of the missions. In directing
in a wholly unselfish way the use Of the
reindeer. has been decided economy to the
government This seems to be also the
Judgment of Congress, for after Congress
had received and considered the report of
Mr.. Churchill. recommending that reindeer
be taken away from the mission stations
in Alaska it directed public Document
1873. page 3s) That all reindeer owned
by the United States in Alaska SHALL as
soon as practicable. be turned over to the
m ssions in Alaska. to be held and used by
them under such cond tions as the Sec
rotary of the Interior shall prescribe
Mr.. Churchill crticises the Presbyterian
board Of home missions with reference to
its work at two points:
First. Point Barrow: He refers to that
| mission as the so-called' Presbyterian
mission.
I'VE have had a missionary there since
1894 and paid his salary. Mr.. Churchill
repeatedly accuses our present representa-
tive at Point Barrow-the Rev. Samuel R.
Spriggs-of having received two salaries,
one from the government and one from our
board. There has been no such duplication
of salaries. Once for few months. Mr..
Spriggs was in our service before he knew
he had been transferred from the service
of the government That because of the
isolation Of the station. The vessel carry
ing mail goes to Point Barrow once a year.
Under the circumstances it is not remark
able that Mr.. Sprfggs was not more prompt
ly advised of his transfer.
THE special agent also accuses Mr..
Spriggs of having made a contract with
the government for carrying mails to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21

I Kotzebue and of having received s795 for
Tightening goods from stranded vessel.
AS to the mail contract, We are informed
little or nothing out of the contract. AS
to the payment for Tightening goods from
stranded vessel. Mr.. spriggs has not been
mits that Mr.. Spriggs stated that he had
used most Of the funds SO received in pay
ment Of the natives who did the work
Whether missionary Is at liberty to
add anything to his income by special la
Dor may be question, but 1t can scarcely
be question that such reflections on a
missionary are not in line with the purpose
for which the government sent Mr.. Church.
Ill to Alaska.
Second. AS to ST. Lawrence island: In
the report OF the special agent he says the
Presbyterian board claims to own buildings
on ST. Lawrence island. but that the off,
GERS Of the ship had told him that every
thing belonged to the United States. He
therefore discredts our claim. and that
too, on the statement Of the officers of the
| ship upon which he was sailing.
I'm his first supple tnental report he refers
| to the matter again, giving the impression
that the claim of the board of home mis-
| sions is a doubtful claim. But in his sec
| ond supplemental report he Is satisfied
| that the Presbyterian board paid $4,000 for
| the buildings.
"a careful investigator should not be
! obliged to make three inharmonous state
ments in the same report regarding sin
| gle matter.
Again, the Speclal agent repeatedly re-
| fers to our work the island as an 'imag
| mary mission and claims that we have
| never done any work there whatever.
I'm 1884 we began paying the salary Of a
| missionary, paying $1,000 annually until
| 1883 That year Mr.. Doty was appointed
| for part of the year, and in 1900 the mis-
sionary in charge was appointed govern
| ment teacher since which time we have as
sumed part of the salary, partly be-
cause of the difficulty of securing mis-
| sionary for that faraway station, and part
| ly because of a growing conviction that the
government teacher-an earnest Christian
| man-was in view Of other claims upon us,
! sufficient for the small company of people
| on that desolate island.
| 1.-The attacks upon DR.. Jackson we do
| not feel called upon to answer-the bureau
| of education and DR.. Jackson himself have
! made reply. The report does not charge
| DR.. Jackson with malfeasance or graft. His
| honesty is not questioned But his methods
| in the Alaskan work are discredited DR..
| Jackson needs no defense before the Pres
| byteran Church or any other denomination
at work in Alaska. The entire Christian
| public regard his disinterested patriot
| ism, his far-seing craftsmanship and his
| splendid service in the cause of missions
| for half a century, that the criticisms of
the special agent will only recoil.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
Copyright, 1906, BY

tallest and shortest races in Europe are
respectively the Norwegians and Laps,
living in almost the same region In Africa,
also, the diminutive Bushmen and the tall
est race of the country. the Kaf1rs. are
close neighbors. The natives of the Anda-
man Islands and those Of many islands Of
the equatorial region Of the Pacific, In
which the conditions are similar, are at
opposite ends Of the scale of height
That the custom Of the Semliki Pigmies
in building their little mites Of houses. only
four feet in height. near the larger dwell
ings OF the big people is one of long stand
ing, may be considered as established by
the finds made in Switzerland, where the
remains Of two different types are found
side by side, from which we may con-
clude that the people lived together peace
ably, Notwithstanding their great difference
in height.
These semliki citizens are prodigious
meat eaters. They are also fond OF
bananas Here are stories about them that
should be taken with grain Of salt" For
instance, a white man said to me that a
Pigmy will take stalk containing sixty
bananas and. besides other food, eat them
all at one meal. Then he will He and groan
through the night, and when morning comes
he Is ready to repeat the operation. While
some Pigmies have grotesquely distended
abdomens. it is impossible to put a quart
IN a pint measure. This banana
business In one Pigmy's stomach does we'll
to show that moderns are like ancients, in
accurate when describing Pigmy popula-
tions.
The Pgmies wear a simple wardrobe The
men are satisfied with a strip of bark cloth,
and the women with leaves and grass. They
wear a few ornaments, but in that are
more refined than their large neighbors.
The Pigmy hut has little furniture and Its
music is all vocal.
The best archer in the vast woodland is
the Pigmy. Wonderful, fairy-Hke tales are
related on the margin of the forest; of how
these quaint and curious elfy folk perform
foot -
ship with their little bows and iron-tipped
arrows Indeed. in this matter of archery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
Sunday Morning Talk
The Tongue as a Destroyer Of Repu-
tations


The worlds engineery Of destruction in
cludes no force more subtle and effective
than the human tongue. You can bring
up your great battering rams and set them
at work pounding down the walls OF build
ings that must yield to the march Of i'm
provements. You can rely on the cor
rosfve and whitening touch Of the ele-
ments to eat out and blacken the fair ex-
teriors of castles and cathedrals. But
nothing is 30 potent as an undermining
agent, nothing SO blasts and destroys the
beauty and glory of human life as that
tongue. Listen to its thoughtless or ma
licious wagging.
Have you heard that Jones and his wife
do not live happily together?" II under
stand the Smiths scrimp their table in or
der to put feathers and silks on their
backs They do say that Robin
sons habits are getting to be VIGOROUSLY
loose" ooh, yes, Brown appears all right,
but he has the reputation of being pretty
slippery when it comes to a matter of
finances" AN awful pity. isn't it, that
Amanda Black should be SO careless of her
good name"' And SO on and so on.
Now, as a matter Of fact, how much first
hand knowledge have those who pass along
cases which they discuss so glibly? And
yet every repetition of unverified rumor
helps to create a body of public opinion
unfavorable, to the person discussed until
in a short time. in spite of all one can do,
bad name Is forced on him, which abides,
and from the shadow of which the victim
seldom emerges.
And the wonder Of 1t all Is the smallness
of the instrument which accomplishes such
disastrous results. The Apostle James
marveled at what this little member could
accomplish Yet 1t Is big enough to stab
to poison to torment, to wound. to curse,
to defile and as the Scripture says, ito
set on fire the wheel Of nature" Do you
realize that you carry about with you all
the time such powerful instrument?
You would better get control of it before
1t becomes altogether unruly. And you
would better pluck it out altogether than
let it be the means of any mans undoing.
Maybe three or four simple rules will
help US either to hold our tongues under
certain conditions or else to use them as
builders and not destroyers of other per-
sons reputation.
Rule Never spread an unfavorable
statement about Anyone unless you have
frst-hand evidence that what you are say
ing is true.
Rule 2.-Never pass along what you know
to be a true statement rejecting on any,
one unless you believe that the person to
whom you communicate 1t has the right
to be put in possession Of the fact, as
warning against harm, or a help toward
desirable end.
Rule 3.-Never listen to the repetition of
what you believe to be improved or I'M
provable charges against a person with
out politely but boldly entering demurral
or suggesting that judgment be suspended
until the circumstances are fully known.
Rule 4.-Never listen to accusations which
you know to be false without politely but
firmly denying them.
Rule 5.-Utilize every chance you have
to speak well of person, particularly of
those who are misunderstood or misjudged
by the community.
THE PARSON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
VIRGINIA METHODlSTS
TO HOLD 116th SESSION
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
NORFOLK, Va, October 20.-The Vir-
ginia conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South convenes in 116th annual
session at Monumental Methodist Church
Portsmouth, November 18th, and will be
in session for week or more. Bishop
Hargrove will preside. Many things of
Importance are TO come up, but one of the
most important OF all is the "fcur-year
swing" among the big preachers at the big
churches in different parts OF the state.
There is talk of removing Rev. DR.. Will
liam ]. Young from Centenary Church,
Richmond before his four years are up
and bringing him to Epworth Church, Nor
folk. where he was once pastor. If this
Is done Rev. DIR. r. D. Smart, who came
into this conference four years ago espe-
cially to be assigned to Epworth NJ E.
Church here, will succeed DIR. Young at
Centenary Church.
1t is reported that Rev. W. B. Beau
champ, one OF the rising young ministers of
the Virginia conference will ask for
transfer to the Louisville, KY, conference.
Mr. Beauchamp is now at the leading
church in Newport News Many more
important changes are also predicted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
BIG CATHEDRAL'S GROWTH.
In Two Years Choir Of st. John the
Divine May Be Ready.


From the New York Evening Post
The Cathedral of st. John the Divine is
rapidly approaching a state of partial COM
pletion, from which an adequate idea of Its
final proportions may be gained. In two
years it is estimated that the choir and
end of the nave, from which the transept
will ultimately break off, will be completed,
accommoda ting 5000 people, beside the two
chapels of the tongues. now almost finished;
st. saviour's,s the chapel of the Oriental
Rite and St. Columba's, dedicated to the
Irish apostle.
OF these two, ST. Saviours is practically
finished rooted, with most of the windows
placed and a number Of the ornamental
statues in position. but considerable is yet
to be done before st. Columbas will be
ready for worship Both chapels have re-
ceived their Innings of creamy limestone
over the rough, but imposing walls of
granite, and some idea Of their finished
beauty may be obtained. Masons are al
ready at work hosting plaster casts OF
saints and bishops and martyrs in very
undignif1ed positions up into the inches
high in the exterior and interior walls
Some Of them are swathed in wrappings OF
cheescloth, and look, at first glance like
criminals suspended from derrick gallows
Here and there a nose is noticeable by Its
absence and more than one good bishop
has lost a good portion Of his crook while
there are rarely enough toes to go round.
Standing at the end of the nave, on the
grass-covered ground, which forms the SOLE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
DR.. WINBIGLER ON
SOME MODERN IDEAS

Rev. C. F. Winbigler, pastor Of the First
baptist Church, 10th and o streets north
west, Is preaching series Of sermons on
i've religious subjects. His topics for to-
day and future Sundays are as follows:
October a. am. Testimony" pm, Pan
theism; or, Is Everything God?": October
Il, am, service; pm, 'Materialism; or, Is
There Nothing but Matter in the Uni
verse?'; October %. am. Standing Of the
Christian-Steadfast;" Pm, "Spiritism; or,
Do the Spirits OF the Dead Return %:
November 4, am, Progress" pm, Jag.
Mysticism; or, Can We know God?";
November IL, am, Seeking" pm.
.Pessimfsm; or, Is Everything BadY";
November IS, am, Obedience nm.
'Unitarianism; or, Is Christ God?"; Noyem-
Der 20. am, Trial and Reward of Charac-
ter" pm, "Skepticism; or, The Unreason-
ableness and Danger Of Doubling
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
VIRGINIA PRESBY.TERIANS
PLANNING MEETING

Presbyterians from all over Virginia are
completing arrangements to attend and
send delegates to the annual meeting of
the synod of Virginia, which will convene
in the First Presbyterian Church OF Staun-
ton on Thursday, october 2, for session
lasting from a week to ten days The
church in which the meeting is to be held
has recently been remodeled and thor
oughly renovated, and now presents a
handsome appearance. The Virginia synod
Is the largest synod in the Southern Pres
byterian Church, and this fact, aside from
any other, makes Its meetings Of great
Importance throughout the south as well
as in the state
Rev. DIR. A. NJ. Fraser Is pastor Of the
First Church of Staunton, and the fact
that the Presbyterians have great strength
numerically in that portion Of the state
leads prominent members Of the Church to
predict that the coming synod will have
the largest attendance in many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
NOT A QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE
IN CRAPSEY TRIAL IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, October 20.-Arguments on
the appeal of Rev. Algernon s. Crapsey,
rector of st. Andrews Church, Rochester,
NJ Y, from decision given by diocesan
court In Batavia, which found DR.. Crap
sey guilty Of heretical teachings, were re-
sumed before the Episcopal court Of re-
view of the second department here to-
day. The arguments of counsel for DR..
Crapsey had been concluded at yesterdays
session, and John Lord O'Brian of Buff
falo, counsel for the church. had begun his
closing speech When Mr.. OBrian re-
sumed today he said that he intended to
speak reverently and respectfully of the
man who follows the bent Of his conscience.
THAT do not take to be questionable
issue" said he. TT is not a question Of In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
Among The pigmie8.
Missionaries Find This Strange Little People of Higher Orde
OF Intelligence Than Their Larger Black Brothers,,
Beside Whom They Live in Perfect Harmony

the larger natives invest the Pigmes with.
an almost miraculous skill and achieves
ment. This came to such a pass that I
found myself Inclined to represent the
yarns by slightly recasting some famous
lines. to wit:
Swift of foot nimhle Pigmy.
He could shoot from him.
And run forward with such leetness
That the arrow fell behind him.
Strong OF arm nmble Plgmy
He could shoot ten arrows upward;
Shoot them with such strength and swiftneea
That the tenth had left the bowstring
Ere the first TO earth had fallen
The Pigmies are sufficiently skillful with
the bow and arrow to require fiction to
procure wonderment. Being exclusively
foresters, constantly among trees. they reAf
quire neither spear nor shield, but confine
themselves entirely to the bent wood and
CULVER. That they can shoot horizontally
second arrow, and in rare instances a
third, before the first has touched the earth
Is believable: but more In that line is TO
be scored to fiction. The wee Pigmies are
easily taught to shoot the small shaft. ana
in their play they imagine they kill the
deer, the leopard or the huge elephant. AS
the Pigmys life depends largely upon the
clever use of these natural treeland
weapons, 1t Is hardly to be wondered at
that they become experts.
The Pgmy is proud and independent. In
that grand but gloomy woodland have
seen him strut proudly with his bow and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21

Criticism Of Rev. DR.. Sheldon Jackson,
general agent Of the United States bureau
of education for the Alaskan district and
a representative of the Presbyterian
Church. by Frank c.. Churchill in gov
eminent report have aroused the board Of
home missions Of the Presbyterian
church to make a reply, which Is signed by
Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, president, and
Rev. Charles L. Thompson secretary of
this board.
In the spring Of 1905 the Department of
the Interior sent Mr. Frank c. Churchill
as special agent to investigate the con-
dition of school service and the domestt-
cation Of reindeer in the district of Alaska
December II, 1905, the special agent re-
ported to the Interior Department. Janu-
airy TO- 1908, he made a supplemental re-
port. February Is he made a second sup
Elemental report, and June 2 q third sup
Elemental report These reports criticised
the management of the bureau of educa-
ton and reflected especially Dr. Shell
don Jackson. To these various and inhar-
monious reports DR.. w. T. Harris, the
commissioner of education, under date of
May 81, issued an exhaustive and complete
reply. Congress, in publishing the report
of the special agent of the government,
directed that the reply of DR.. Harris should
be included. -
The Presbyterian board of home missions
is concerned with the report only in SO far
as it reflects on the missions and mis-
sionary management.
We regret" says the statement Of the
board, that the report bears evidence OF
prejudice almost from beginning to end. 1t
abounds in sneers at missions and mission
airy management, and reflects at several
points on our own representatives. The de-
sire to examine impartialiy would have led
the special agent to come to the home board
office and get whatever facts the board
might have to present, but we were kept In
the dark concerning the progress and find
ings of the investigation.
Mr.. Churchill called once upon our treas
urer to inquire about reindeer in Alaska.
He did not, however, introduce himself as
an agent Of the government, but in an
anonymous way asked blind questions, and
it was only toward the close of the inter-
view that our treasurer discovered that he
was a government representative. His first
duty. in view of the facts he supposed he
had discovered, would have been to come
to US and to ask what we had to say con-
corning them. This he did not do.
The report relates largely to the REIN
deer question. DR.. Harris rejoinder to Mr..
Churchill shows that the handling of the
reindeer business through the missions has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
War.
From the Internatio,

From the International Journal Of Ethics
In the so-called glorious victories of
Caesar a million men persisted on the field
Of battle. Napoleon, in the short space of
nine years, was authorized to devote to
the glory of France 100000 Of her sons.
In the ten years following the attack on
Fort Sumter the world destroyed in war
100000 lives and $6OOO,0OO,0OO worth of
property. Two-thirds Of the combined bud
gets of the various states of Europe are
devoted to the maintenance of armed forces
and to the service of a debt practically
the whole of which was incurred by wars
War expenses in Europe absorb one-half
of all the wealth created by productive la
Dor. In the comparatively Insignificant war
of England with the Beers England lost
q. 45O men and spent $1,400 100000. Three
hundred and fifty thousand men were with
drawn by her from productive industry to
engage in the destruction of war. Military
expenditures in the United States during
the last eight years have absorbed 1.5O0.-
600 600.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
By WILLIAM EDGAR CELL, F. R. G. S.
Copyright. 1905. by W. f. Cell.

Copyright, 1905. by W. f. Cell.
In Ethiopia the missionary meets that
strange little people called Pigmies. They
can be briefly described as broad-chested.
about four feet in height CASUALLY few
inches over, short-necked. brownish-black
in color and more or less covered with
stiff, black hair They live in extemporized
huts, the framework Of which is covered
with leaves. Their chief serious occupation
is hunting, and their whole makeup and
surroundings produce aversion for agri-
culture or sedentary pursuits. These dimin-
uttve men are Of far higher order of in
telligence than the blacks of superior
physique beside whose villages they en-
camp.
The Pigmy at home is a most interesting
little chap. Pigmy villages are always To-
Gated near the hamlet of a tribe OF large
natives, with whom they usually get on
very well. The fact that these two races
of human beings. different in size, dwell
in the same section Of the Basin leads me
to conclude that the prevailing size Of a
race is really deep-seated. inherited char
acteristic, and depends but little on outward
conditions, as abundance Of food, climate,
ETC., is proved by well-known facts. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21


The Bible as a book is a collection of
sixty-six treatises originally written in
three different languages (Hebrew. Chal-
dee and Creek, during a period of 1900
years. There were no less than forty
authors and compilers. differing in nation
ality, language, tastes, habits and circum-
stances Some of them were educated;
others were not. They occupied different
positions and stations in life. They wrote
in prose and poetry. They presented
varied, interesting and vital truths; they
discussed the origin and destiny of all
things, as we'll as the origin and destiny
of man.
The material universe the human race,
Gods providential government, the grad
ual development and exhibition of God 8
dealings with man and the contamination
of Divine wisdom and love in the person
os Jesus, the Christ, are themes of the
Bible
The history and fate of nations and In
dviduals; civil, sacred and ceremonial