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Before Dr. D. K. Pearsons reaches
his 90th birthday , he means to have
disposed of the remainder of his once
large fortune , the bulk of which he
has given away within the last twenty
years. This announcement as made
by him recently has raised much com-
ment and conjecture concerning Chica
; o's famous philanthropist.
How muck has he been worth ?
What has been his yearly income ?
How much has he given to colle'ges
and missionary enterprises ?
1 How much has ' he given that has
never been advertised or heard of ?
How much has ; lie left to give away
before the time he has set when he
will . _ . . again . , as when a . young man ,
std before the world empty handed ,
pis coffers yoid and his bank book :
blank ? .
All these questions are being dis
cussed by the curious.
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. . All through -his life Dr. Pearsons has
maintained much reserve regarding
his affairs.
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"To listen is far better than to talk , "
has been his motto , and not even to his
_ closest friends has -he confided his ex
act financial status. But it has been
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possible get frbm a , number of per
sons who have been connected with
him in one way or another a general
astimate which , while it may not be
'axactly correct , is at least as nearly
so : ; as any one except the philanthropist
fi'lllself is capable of giving.
If twenty years ago Dr. Pearsons1
S [ 01' tone was , as it is thought. to have
4 be n * , ' in the neighborhood of $6,000,000 ,
his yearly income , at a most conserva-
tive estimate , must have been at least
300000. \
During the twenty years his known
gifts" to colleges have amounted to'
52,579,000. And to this . . - he $20,000 gift
just made to the Young Men's Chris-
} tian Association of Chicago and the
$100,000 which he has announced he
ivill \ present to Berea College in the
near future , and- which , by the way ,
will be his last college presentation ,
, and the amount is increased to $2,699-
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known gifts to charities and persons
have been in the neighborhood of
$2,000,000 , at least. He has , then ,
within the last twenty years given
away about 4699000. This would
leave him with $1,301,000 of his in-
come still untouched and his capital
intact as it was when he retired from
business. Besides this he has his
magnificent suburban home , at Hins-
dale. This , it is thought , may be made-
into a home for the crippled children
of Chicago , as Dr. Pearsons' big heart
has always had a particularly warm
spot for these unfortunate mites.
All this has been a most conserva-
tive estimate , but it shows that the
Chicago philanthropist has , to say the
least , a monstrous task before him if
he would before his birthday dispose
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ALF a century ago there died in Lancaster , Pa. , a religiously-
H minded man who had become so imbued ! with the philosophic
teachings of the mystic ; , Emanuel Swedenborg , that when mak-
ing disposition of the wealth which had accumulated he left
_ in charge of seven trustees $35,000 for the found-ing of an
. academy in which the Swedenborgian doctrine should be taught.
! The name of this follower of Swedenborg was Frederick John
Kramph. Beipg a careful mian , who took long views of life , and knowing
that the settlement of his estate would take : some time , during which other
zealous Swedenborgians would perhaps wax impat'ieat and build an academy
without waiting for his money , he had inserted in his will a clause which
provided that should such an academy be built in Philadelphia before the '
trustees gained possession of the residue of his estate , the residue should-
then go to the trustees of tile established academy. : -
. Now , whatever the reasons for delay , the trustees did not build . the
academy , but in 1877 , almost a score of years ; after the death of Frederick
John Kramph such an academy was built by. others , who , under the pro-
visions of the will , claimed the money.
' . /Before either set of trustees could dispose of the .mone ) " , which , if well
invested' ; must in the
intervening years have considerably increased , a grand-
, aughter , Mrs. Eva T. Appel , . loath to see so much good , hard
money pass .
'out of the keeping of the " = :
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e family , smarted proceedings against both sets of
trustees , claiming that neither vas entitled to the estate , because .the re-
ligious denomination of which the grandfather was a lifelong member is an ,
immoral and Illegal institution and the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg
are in derogation of the laws of Pennsylvania and are repugnant not only
to the law of the land , but to.the public policy. " I" .
Such a charge .at once enlarged interest i in suit '
the , lifting it from the.
realm.of . , : the purely . 1 ' personal ' - to , the ' , broader . field in which 'judges . .had " to . uP '
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ing the above as authority , amounts
yet to over 7000000.
Following is a list of the colleges
and other institutions which have bene
fited by his generosity :
Beloit College , Beloit , WIs. . . . . . . $235,000
Chicago Theological Seminary. . . 280,000
Colorado College , Colorado Springs ,
Colo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,000 .
Mount Holyoke College , Massa-
chusetts . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,000
Berea College , Kentucky . . . . . YO' 150,000
Lake Forest University , Lake For-
est , 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,000
Whitman College , Walla Walla ,
Wash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.000
Knox College. Galesburg . . . . . 100,000
Drury College , Springfield Mo. . . 100,000
Yankton College , Yankton. S. D. . . 100,000
Presbyterian Hospital Chicago. . . 70,000
Pacific University , Forest Grove ,
Ore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,000
Carleton College , Northfield , Minn. 50,000
Fargo College , Fargo , N. D . . . . . 50.000
Pomona College , Pomona , Cal. . . . 50,000
Fairmont College , Fairmont , Kan. 50,000
McCormick Theological Seminary ,
, ,
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
Chicago Young Men's Christian
Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000
Olivet College , Olivet Mich : : . . . . 25,000
Marietta : College , Marietta Ohio. 25,000
Sheridan College , Sheridan Wyo. 25,000
McKendree College , Kewanee , 111. 25,000
Presbyterian Board of Missions. . 20,000
Grand Prairie Seminary , Onarga , .
111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 i
Anatona College Turkey . . . . . . . . 20,000 . ;
Women's Board of Foreign Mis-
slons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 r
Chicago Art Institute . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 c
Chicago Missionary Society . . . . . 12,000
First Presbyterian Church , Chi- C
cago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000 r
Public Library , Bradford Vt. . . . 2,000
Unknown college . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 a
Northwestern University Evans- c
ton , Ill. . .J..J..J. . . . . . . . . . . . 30,000
Colorado College , Colorado Springs , L
Colo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
Guilford College , Greensboro N. C. 25,000
Piedmont College , Demorest , Ga. . 25,000
Washington College , Tennessee. . 25,000 i
Grant University , Chattanooga ,
Tenn . . . . . . . . . > . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000
West Virginia Seminary. Mor-
gantown W. Va. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000
Huron College , Huron , S. D. . . . . 15,000
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hold or condemn a philosophy which many thousands of people in this land
and elsewhere have embraced as a religion.
The orphans' court decided in favor of the granddaughter , this condemn-
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ing the work ' of the Church of the New Jerusalem , which is based on the
teachings of Swedenborg. Carried to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court , the
opinion of the lower court was reversed , the Supreme Court deciding that t
the works of the Swedish mystic are not in derogation of. the laws of Pennt
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sylvania or repugnant to public policy. . '
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In many instances men instrumental in giving to the world what at
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least a portion of its pelbple accept as religion have been of lowly birth , of'r
little learning. Samuel Swedenborg , ennobled with his family by the queen , tJ
son of a bishop whohad the confidence and favor of the king and was himb
self a learned man , was born into a world of intellectual rather than of emorl
tional interests. That the works of such a man should have attracted and s
held the attention of thinkers like Emerson , Coleridge and Herder is not t1
strange. He was of their class-as fine , , an intellectual Brahmin as any of s
them. But _ that at the same time there should be found In his writings the a
basis for a church to which the less learned could come and find * comfort- n
that is the amazing thing.
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Jesper Swedberg , bishop of Skava , preacher , teacher , reformer , writer
and scholar , was the father of nine children , all born to the first of three G
well-beloved wives. "I am fully convinced , " he wrote , "that children ought
to be called such names as will awaken in them and call to their minds
the fear of God and everything that is orderly and righteous. ? * The
name of my son Emanuel signifies 'God with us , ' that he may always re-
. member God's presence , and that intimate , holy and mysterious conjunction
with tmr good and gracious God , into which we are brought by faith , by
which we are conjoined with Him and are in Him. And blessed be the
Lord's name , God has to this hour been with him. "
Perhaps the good bishop was right and the name 'did play its part in
making the son the mystic which he became. The father was a good bishop.
Son of a mine owner whose , large wealth was not so large when , divided
among , many members of a large family , Jesper Swedberg , whose father
was Daniel Isaksson , followed a custom of his country and tdok his name j
from the" homestead , called Sweden. It seems a curious custom which thus
gives each generation of the same family a different surname , for after the ' \ :
Family was ennobled "Emanuel , the son of Jesper Swedberg , became Sweden- '
borg-his father was Swedberg his
; grandfather , Daniel Isaksson , son of '
Isaac Nilsson , who was the son of Nils Ottesson , son of Otto of Sundborg.
After- Jesper Swedberg had taken his theological scholarship at the Uni , , .
versity of Upsal , he married a wealthy widow and , w'th the aid of her for-
tune , traveled extensively , meeting men of learning and profiting thereby. th
Returning to his native land , he was made chaplain of the king's regiment St
of r life guards. So ardent was he in the performance of his duties that he bI :
promised to give a catechism to every soldier , of the regiment who could go
read it at the next annual inspection. The first
year there were 300 who th
demanded catechisms and the next. 600 , so the poor preacher had to beg asgo
sistance from the king. & A little later he was appointed by the king memto ,
ber of a commission to revise the Swedish Bible and toim
was so eager to hasten m ; :
the work that ' he advanced money -belonging to his wife and children to imaD
port .the materials and workmen for printing. ' fle
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Careful Methods Washington
Naval Observatory to In-
sure Accuracy.
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DELICATE MECHANISM IS USED
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'Eow Mean Time Is. . Obtained and the
Part Performed by Riefler's
Sidereal Timepiece.
. A few moments before 12 o'clock
nobn every day in the year a young
man walks into a certain room of the
main building at the naval observa-
tory , which is set up on a hill , in the
northwestern part of the District of
Columbia , the Boston Herald says. He
glances at .the various clocks in the
room and then goes over to a table
covered with electric apparatus. .
He watches the clocks to his left
closely and waits for the hands to
reach 11:55. As the second hand ap-
proaches the 60 on the dial he pre-
pares to shift a switch. The clock is
so finely adjusted that when the sec-
ond hand points to 60 it exactly marks
the beginning of a new minute and the
end of the old.
As it touches the 60 the switches
are thrown on. That starts a signal
that goes out instantaneously over
900,000 miles of telegraph lines. In
Washington , New York , Buffalo ,
Cleveland , Newport , Baltimore , New-
port News , Norfolk : , Savannah , New
Orleans , Key West , Galveston , Chica-
go and elsewhere the time balls go up
on their poles. People know that it
is five minutes before noon , Wash
ington time.
The clock which keeps the time in
the observatory ticks on. With each
tick there is a contact of electric
points. A circuit is clos tJd and an
instrument on the table .similar to a
telegraph sounder ticks away loudly.
It goes on to the twenty-ninth sec-
ond , then skips one tick , then resumes
its steady soundings until the , last
five seconds , then there is another
gap. These gaps are for the purpose
of giving listeners at other ends of
the great system of wires a chance
to know what part of the minute the
clock is on. And so it goes up to the
last minute.
At the thirty - ' ninth second there is
again the skipping of one second. Fi-
nally the clock gets around to the fif-
t :
tieth second. Then the circuit re-
mains open for ten seconds. There is }
silence all along telegraph wires. '
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The mean time is determined by as-
tronomical observations. When cer-
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tain stars pass the seventy-fifth meri-
fe
dian : , caIled "the meridian of WashingI
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ton , it is a certain time. The oper-
ator watches for the stars through a
fca
telescope : , the field of which is covered .
with fine wires.
As the stars reach a certain point
in transit the operator presses a key
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in his hand. A contact is made and
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recorded on a. chronograph. The
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covered : with a paper. A fountain pen t ;
rests on the paper. It is held' by an :
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arm attached to the mechanism. The
cylinder : revolves once a minute and
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observatory. With each tick of the
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clock : there is a contact , of two points.
These two points are attached to
vires that lead to an electrogramnet
attached to the arm that holds the pen
of the chronograph. The clock is so
adjusted that each minute the pen is
made to jump to one side. Conse-
quently there is no break in the line.
There are other breaks : , too , when
he observer watches the stars cross
he lines IB. , the field of the telescope.
The mean times thus recorded for
ach star after being corrected for
er
ors is the clock time of the star's
transit. Whatever difference there' is
etween the clock ' ' time and the side-
real time marked by the transit o'f the
tars is the error of the clock. From
these astronomical observations the
idereal time is obtained. The error . .
mounts -to - but little , rarely being
more , than from five one-lmndredths
o ten one-hundredths of a second.
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ouths and young women to shame.
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ducation and who gave a college to
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