The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-08

Tor the family, and act as an dnJfOOue
for some of the harsh criticism to
which he is subjected from time to
time. It is no secret that DR.. Aked,
who enjoyed high reputation in hiv-
erpool before Mr.. Rockefeller induced
him to cross the Atlantic resents the
suppression that he is chatelaine OF
Of the Oil King, as the disposition ap-
Darent everywhere to defer to the lat
ters Judgment in matters of church
policy would indicate. Recently there
Has been a big row on over the ques-
ton Of extensive improvements to the
4 edifice for which a large sum OF
money was subscribed. The clergy
man and some of Mr.. Rockefeller's ad-
nnirers disagreed over the plans and it
IL now proposed to return the money
to the subscribers, minus fat sum
deducted for architects fees. To add
to the discontinue of the pastor he
has been dragged into an unpleasant
controversy with Thomas A. Edison,
the wizard, over the suggestion Of the
latter that there is no soul and no
future life beyond this mundane
sphere The publicity given to the
issue is reported to have Jared Mr..
Rockefeller, who is keenly sensitive
on the subject. A newspaper man
called the minister up on the tele-
phone the other day in connection
with the dispute with Edison and his
frame Of mind was indicated by the
angry intimatfon of the dominee that
-the Americans needed some slow
crank Englishman to teach them how
to hustle" If there is a change in
church before long it will be no sur
prise to those who are familiar with
inside conditions.
Since the attempted assassination
of Mayor Gaynor last August as he
\Tas about to sail for Europe, the high
)ign of everlasting friendship is hand
ed out to all suspicious looking callers
lat the mayors Office in City Hall these
days. Gallagher, who fred three shots
at the mayor on the deck of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse, resented
more the unceremonious treatment &C.
corded him at the City Hall than he
did the loss of his job and believing
that it was inspired by the city's chief
executive resolved to kill him. When
a wandering actor called at the City
Hall the other day and proffered
check for $4,000 for the purchase of
Deep Wells" the mayors country
place at st. James, Z. l., he was re-
ceived with open arms by the attend
ants and ushered to seat while a
secret telephone call was rung in for
an ambulance. Before the actor was
aware that the cards were being
stacked against him he was escorted
to bus and in jig time was in the psy.
chopathic ward of Bellevue. There an
examination disclosed the fact that
the visitor to the. City Hall was a
sufferer from a dangerous form Of in
sanity.
No end Of hub-bub has been stirred
up over the reception of Miss Lily
Maud Allen, a pretty English girl, as
a member of the Pillar of Fire, a
strange sect which had recently form
ed a settlement outside of the city.
Through its literature which it has
circulated in all parts of the world.
the community, it is claimed by the
family of the young woman, enticed
her from her home near London.
Being of age-26-the efforts of her
father to have her intercepted by the
immigration authorities failed, and
she is now duly enrolled member of
the cult. The curious society, which
undertakes to begin It's renovation of
things material where DoWie and
Francis Schlatter left of, is the crea-
ton Of a spiritually minded woman
who conceives that the world as at
present constituted is a preparatory
department for a life of eternal
damnation hereafter. 1t is opposed
to dancing, theatre-going. divorce.
card-playing, novel reading, pretty
clothes, rouge pots, Christmas trees,
taxi-cabs, joy rides, hobbie-skirts,
peach basket hats, poodle dogs, mas
sage parlors, manicure maids, chorus
ladies, straight front corsets, artificial
teeth. make-believe hips and busts and
highly seasoned mince pies. When
its disciples are not engaged in curry
combing the seventy-fve acre farm of
the sect, insect hunting in the orchard
or milking the cows in the pasture.
they find a vent for their depressed
spirits doing the loop-the-loop and
mixing things up in the barrel of
love" much after the fashion OF the
.Holy Jumpers" Frequent recourse
to this treatment is said to be good
for the blues and likewise for obesity,
stubborn livers, locomotor ataXia, in
somnia, indigestion and epilepsy. To
date 1t is one big scream of a success
and gives promise of outshining some
day Zion City.
Lycurgus and his laws for conserv
ing the physical preeminence OF
Sparta were all right for that ancient
Greek citadel wherein the congenitally |
weak were slaughtered, but it would |
never do nowadays according to some
of Gotham's representative club wo- |
men. The suggestion of DR.. David |
Walsh, scientist of some note on |
the other side, made recently to the |
Royal Divorce Com mission, that mar
riages be regulated by law and re-
curing that all men and women con-
templating matrimony shall be placed |
in possession Of certified report of |
the physical defects Of his or her in |
tended life partner and their family |
could never be enforced, they say.