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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-12-26
ADVENT|STS RAJ
THE SUNDAY LAWS
Opposed to Legislation
Pending in Congress.
SUNDAY NOT SABBATH DAY
Purpose of Bills Declared Covert
Plan to Effect Union of Church
and State.

Seventh Day Adventfsts are up in
arms over the proposal of Protestant
ministers in Washington to bring
about a stricter observance of Sunday
They have addressed an open letter to
the Protestant clergy protesting against
the movement which was inaugurated
at a meeting of seventy-five Protestant
clergymen held at Rauscher's, on De-
cemper u.
The Adventists' letter consists of a
series of scriptural quotations selected
with a view TO showing that Saturday
instead Of Sunday is the real SABBATH
and that, therefore both Sunday OBJ
servance and Sunday legislation are
wrong.
Special Exception Taken.
Special exception is taken to the an
nouncement of the Protestant clergy
men that the campaign is aimed at the
governmental practice of making en-
ployes work on Sundays This, accord
ing to The statement of a prominent
Seventh Day Adventist, is Something
that does not exist. Ter the Govern
ment does not make anyone work ON
Sunday.
x. c. Russell, one of the leaders in
opposition to the campaign, made this
statement to The Times:
Tine real issue in this Sunday crusade
Tor the District of Columbia evidently
does not appear in the public ANNOUNCED
ment or the proposed campaign. 1t will
be remembered that last spring a vlg-
orous EFFORT was made 70 have Congress
places of business IN the Dis
trict to be closed on Sunday. Two
bills were introduced into the national
legislature, one OF which is now pencfne
is, third reading before the Senate, and
IL passed VIII open the way for the
other one. which is much more rigid
Design of Reform Bureau.
-ha
tional Reform Bureau is to secure a
District Sunday law. and thus create an
influence to have Congress enact a ma
tloHal Sunday law, and thus give effect
TO the State Sunday laws. TO secure
this end. they are seeking the aid Of the
occasion
All must see that such legislation is
dangerous; for il means nothing less
than a union OF church and state and
Is IN fragrant contradiction to the first
amendment TO the Constitution of the
United States, which says Congress
shail make no law respecting an estab-
Ii hment OF religion or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof
Sunday Net Sabbath.
/ Even though 1t were right to legis-
late upon the Sabbath question. Sunday
would not be the day, for it is not the
Sabbath of the Bible. The only day that
was ever enjoined by the Lord for an
KIND TO observe is the seventh day of
the week, commonly called Saturday II
was the day upon which the Lord rest
ed after the world was created If six
| days. 1t was commanded by God and
/ written by his own finger upon the
"a bles OF stone It was also observed by
| Christ and the apostles
But Sunday is without any founda-
ton in the Bible. II was first observed
| in honor of the sun: hence its name.
sunday, not Son-day. Constantine made
the first Sunday law, and the day was
later enforced as the Sabbath or Lord $
f, day by the Roman Catholic Church
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
MURDER REMAINS UNSOLV WE'D
Authorities at Bedford, Ind, Have
Made Many Arrests.
All Sorts of RumOrs Are Afioat ana
the People of the Town Are
Much Excited.

Bedford, Ind, Jan. 25.-The mystic
rious murder of Miss Sarah Schafer
remains unsolved, and few develop
ments have aided in establishing any
clew. A well-known young man or
this city, who is member OF the
senior class at the state university at
Bloomington was closeted Sunday aft
ernoon with Detective Hathing and
other officers. He explained his
whereabouts on the night of the muir
der. The reason for the investiga-
ton, it is alleged, was story told by
Miss Schafer's roommate and corrob-
grated by Mrs. Smith, that the young
man was requested on one occasion
to leave Miss Schafer's room because
of Objectionable conduct.
telephone message was received
Sunday by the officials from a woman
in Louisville, the purport of which was
that if they would see her she would
"give them information concerning the
murder of Sarah Catherine Schafer."
Marshal Russell and Sheriff Smith left
for Louisville. An effort was made
to conceal their movements.
The police and detectives, together
with Mayor Smith and Prosecutor
Stephenson, are of the belief that they
have the murderer of Miss Sarah
Schafer in the person of a man ar
rested at Crothersville, whose clothes
are spotted with blood. His face
bears numerous scratches, and upon
the back of his head are several
wounds inflicted with some frail in
strument, probably an umbrella. In
his pocket was a letter so old that 1t
is hardly legible, but on the back is
a picture resembling those published
of Miss Schafer.
The gave his name as Fred Bran
ham. He was arrested after attempt
ing to hold up a saloOn-keeper at
Crothersville. Branham asserts that
his home is Columbus, Ind, but he
says he has not been in Indianapolis
for several years.
At least twenty-five unimportant
witnesses and suspicious Characters
have been examined and discharges
by the board of inquiry. ---->
Rumors of all~sorts are afioat, and
the people of the town are much ex-
cited. Quarrymen have focked into
town in crowds, and it is believed that
IL the murderer is arrested he will be
lynched.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
BROTHER KILLS HIS SISTER.
Shot Her While She Was Asleep,
Then Cut Her Throat and Final
Iy Beheaded Her.

Dunkirk, N. Y, Jan. 25.-Miss Han
nah Hall, 80 years of age, was MUIR
dered Sunday at her home in Van
Buren by her brother, Isaac Hail. who
gave himself up to the police. Hall,
who is 33 years old, declares that he
obeyed the divine behest when he
killed his sister. He attacked her
when she was asleep, first shooting
her. Then, dragging the wounded
woman through the house, he cut her
throat, and finally placed her neck
across a chopping block and COM
pletely severed the head from the
body. Hall and his sister lived alone,
both parents being dead. Until this
time Hall was considered a model
farmer, and his sister was a great IA
vorite. Hall was religiously inclined,
and there was no doubt that he sud-
denly became insane.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
FIRE WIPES OUT
SOUR LAKE, TEX.
Four Business Blocks of the Town
Reduced to Ashes.
LOSS AGGREGATING $500, 1000
The Flames Swept Through the
Frame Buildings Like ktndlinE
WOOd-No Fire Department
Renders Citizens PowerIess.

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 25.-The business
portion of Sour Lake was wiped out
by fire Sunday night. The flames
caught among the frame buildings like
they were kirdling wood and swept
on through the town, which was help
less. There is no fire department, and
it was only by almost superhuman ef-
forts that the citizens checked the
flames and prevented the destruction
of the residence section. Four blocks
in all were reduced to ashes.
For a time it was thought the oil
fields would be ignited, but they are
so far from town that the flames did
not communicate.
The losses are in the neighborhood
of 100000, only partly covered by in
surance, as the companies would not
write large risks because of the in
f1ammable environment of the oil dis
tricts and the character of the build
ings, which were all frame.
The principal business institutions
in the fire district were the First ma
tional bank, the Sour Lake national
bank, post Office, telephone exchange,
Oriental hotel, Spencer Drug Co.,
White Oil Co.'S building, Southern Pa
cif1c station, electric light plant, and
a score or more of small business con-
Germs in tents, all of which are be-
lieved to have been burned. The town
had about 10000 inhabitants.
Telegraph wires are down and in
formation from there is meager. A
telephone message from Sour Lake at
1O:3O verifies former reports. Four
blocks of business concerns were
burned.
Sour Lake is in darkness, and
strong patrol of citizens is maintained
around goods piled upon the ground
to keep away thieves.
The origin Of the fire has not been
definitely determined. Some attribute
it to incendiarism, others say it was
from a defective flue, and still others
declare a gasoline stove exploded and
started the flames.
There was no loss OF life or serious
injuries. The people had to fight the
fire almost exclusively with water
buckets. Fifteen hundred feet of fire
hose had been purchased by the city,
but no water system or general ap-
paratus for it's use had been provided.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
THE SERVICE PENSION BILL.
1t Proposes to Give Every Soldier
Who Served Ninety Days in the ,
Civil War S12 Per Month.

Washington, Jan. 25.-The effort to
pension every surviving union soldier
of the civil war continues. Another
measure in that behalf has just been
introduced. 1t proposes to give $12
per month to every union soldier who
served 80 days in the civil war, but
not until he has reached 62 years of
age. Within three or four years this
age limit will have run, and let in the
last survivor. The pension is also for
go to the soldiers widow if they were
legally married prior to 1890. The
bill is said to meet the very general
approval of the old soldiers. The sol
dlers of long service grumble because
those who served only 90 days are put
upon an equality with themselves.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
FORMER ST. LOUISAN DEAD.
James Clark, Former st. Louis
Leather Manufacturer, Dead
at PIainAeId, n. j.

st. Louis, Jan. 24.-James Clark, who
prior to 1860 resided in this city, and
who was prominently identified with
the leather manufacturing business in
St Louis until 1897, died, Friday, Of
pneumonia, at his home in Plainfield,
N. j., at the age of SO years.
Mr. Clark was born in Westfield, N.
j., in 1921, and was a descendant of
Abram Clark, one of the signers of
Declaration of Independence. In his
early twenties he came to st. Louis,
and at the time of his death he was
the head of the James Clark Leather
corporation, which is known through
out the country.
His fortune is estimated at $10,000,-
600. and consists largely of st. Louis
real estate.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
COLONEL LYNCH LIBERATED.
The Irish Commander Was Tried
and Convicted of Treason and
Sentenced to Life Term.

London, Jan. 25.-The Daily Tele-
graph says this morning it under
stands that Col. Arthur Lynch, who
commanded the Irish brigade against
the British forces during the war in
South Africa, and who was afterwards
convicted of treason and sentenced to
Imprisonment for life, was Sunday
morning liberated ION license" Lynch
mas not received the royal pardon.
Col. Lynch will enjoy personal lib
erty and may even leave the coun-
try should he care to do so, but not
having received the royal pardon, he
is disqualified from sitting in parlia-
ment and from holding any public of
fee.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
SENATOR BURTON INDICTED
The Senior Senator From Kansas
Indicted in Federal Court.
He is Charged, I'm Nine Counts, With
Selling His Official Influence
With the Postal officials.

st. Louis, Jan. 24.-Joseph Ralph
Burton, senior United States senator
from Kansas, was indicted by the fed
eral grand jury Saturday morning.
He is charged with accepting $500
$500 a month for five months-frCm
the Rialto Grain and Securities Co.
while a senator, for his services in in
terceding with the postmastergener
the chief postoffice inspector, and 9th
er officials high in the post Office de-
partment to induce them to render a
favorable decision on matters affecting
the permission of the Rialto company
to use the mails.
There are nine counts in the indict-
ment against Senator Burton.
Specifically, he is accused of accept
ing the money from the Rialto COM
pany, of which Maj. Hugh G. Dennis
is president and which has been classi-
fed with "get-rich-quick" concerns, IL
the form of check on the Common
wealth Trust Co., November %, 1902.
Hugh C.. Dennis and w. B. Mahaney,
associated with him in the Rialto COM
pany, are named in the indictment as
the men who made the check to Sena-
tor Burton.
The Rialto Grain and Securities Co.
las been under investigation by the
state and federel authorities for sew
eral months, on account of internal
troubles and the complaints of men
who invested" through it that its
business methods were irregular
Senator Burton's name was used as
reference by the National Securi-
ties Co., with offices in the Equitable
building, which were closed after be-
ing raided under the personal supervi-
sion of Circuit ATTORNEY Folk.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
THIRTEEN MEN RESCUED.
cade After Severe Battle I'm
Snow Storm and Ice FIOes.

Lorain, O., Jan. 25.-In an effort to
save some of the craft swept into the
lake by Fridays flood, the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Co.'s tug Cas-
cade was sunk about a thousand feet
off this port Sunday afternoon, after
a severe battle with a heavy wind
and snow storm and great ice foes.
The Is men of the crew were rescued
from an ice pack, where they had
jumped when the tug began to go
down. They had been under exposure
for an hour and were in distress.
There is about 40 feet of water where
the tug sank, and an effort will be
made to raise it when the weather
clears. The tug was value at $4,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
NORWEGIAN TOWN BURNED.
way, IL Busy Seaport, De-
strOyed by Fire.

Trondhjem, Norway, JAM 24.-The
small town of Aalesund was practical
ly destroyed by fire Saturday, but so
far as ascertainable there was no loss
of life. Church, schoolhouse, shops
and three-quarters of the town have
been burned
Aalesund is busy seaport trading
town of Norway, with over 5000 inhab-
itantS.
The destruction is complete. The
entire population is homeless. The
loss is estimated at Sf000,00
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.
Wreck of the FOur-Masted Schooner
Augustus Hunt on West
hampton, Long Island.

New York, Jan. 24.-Fifteen lives
were lost in the wreck of the four
masted schooner Augustus Hunt off
Westhampton, Long Island, Saturday.
Two others who were on board were
saved Through the dense fog the
cries of the doomed crew appealed for
help, and the live savers tried repeat
edly to reach the wreck, but without
success, the heavy seas fiinging back
the lifeboat, while the thick fog veiled
the schooner from sight and prevented
the use of any lines to reach the wreck.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
MRS. BECHTEL ACQUITTED.
Verdict of Not Guilty Rendered I'm
the Trial of Aged Mother
at AIIenfOwp, Ia.

Allentown, Pa, Jan. 25.-Mrs. Cath
crime Bechtel, the aged mother Of Ma
last October, was Saturday acquitted
Of the charge of being an accessory
to the murder after the fact. Her trial
occupied nine days, and the jury delib-
Grated one hour before rendering the
verdict of not guilty.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
HE HAS HIS CREDENTIALS
State Senator AIbcrtson, of Pekin,
ILL.,, Sergeant-at-Arms of the
Republican Convention.

Bloomington, Ill. Jan. 24.-State
Senator o. J. Albertson, of Pekin. and
who is one of the leading republicans
of central Illinois, has received his
credentials from Senator Mark Hanna
as sergeant-at-ars for the republican
naional convention at Chicago. He an
nounced his acceptance of the post.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
NEGRO SAFE BLOWER CAUGHT
Detected in the Act of Blowing the
Safe in the Office of the Louis
willie & Nashville Railway.

Lexington, KY, Jan. 25.-Sam Baugh-
man, colored, was detected in blowing
the safe in the ticket Office of the
Louisville & Nashville railway Sun
day. He had demolished and scattered
tickets and papers over the floor, and
was placing blasting powder in the
safe when detected by ]. w. West, the
ticket agent. Baughman jumped
through window, West firing at him.
The machinist who opened the safe
said the entire building and other
buildings would have been demolished
had the fuse been lighted
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
TO ORGANIZE UNION BANK.
Chicago Labor Leaders Propose to
Handle the Funds of All the
Union Organizations.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-Having $500, 900
to their credit in local banks, Chicago
trade unions have started movement
for a trades union bank, with the
union label over the door. The prop
osition, if successful, the labor men
say, will be the initiative for similar
institutions in every city and town Of
Importance in the United States.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
BANK OFFICIALS ARRESTED.
President. Cashier and Director
of the Defunct Indiana National
Bank of EILhart Arrested.

Elkhart, Ind, Jan. 24.-Justus L.
Broderick and Wilson L. Collins. pres
ident and cashier of the defunut In
diana National bank, and Walter
Brown a director, were arrested by
United States Marshal Petit subse-
quent to the action of the federal
grand jury.
Broderick and Collins were already
under $4,000 bonds having been ar
rested some weeks ago on affidavits
filed by the bank examiner.
The men have not yet succeed in ar
ranging their bonds.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
Capt. streeter Taken to Prison.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-"Captain" George
Wellington Streeter was taken to Joli-
ct penitentiary Sunday after a long
legal fight. Capt. Streeter was con-
victed of completely in the killing of
private watchman named Kirk, who,
with others. was guarding property
against squatters in the so-called Dis
trict of Lake Michigan
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
Golden wedding Celebration.

Summer, ILL.,, Jan. 24.-Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Couchman celebrated their golden
wedding, Friday. Mr.. Couchman is Is
years old, was born in this township
and always lived in it. Mrs. Couch
mSn is GO years old.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29

HE world is full of
people of splendid
m or a | character
whose ideals are
high and whose
lives are irr e.
proachable. They
have a sense of
the responsibilities
a n d obligations
and possibilities of
life. They are
ready to bear their
share of the bur-
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29

you the way to eternal life. l am In
clined to think that this young man had
repeatedly asked this question of those
older and wiser than he, and perhaps he
had obtained answers, but they did not
satisfy his soul. He must see Jesus and
hear from His lips the answer. And
you, dear friend, must seek Jesus and let
Him tell you the answer to this supreme
question which troubles every heart.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29

St Louis, Jan. 24.-William, Phillips
was found guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree, and his punishment fixed
at ten years in the penitentiary, the
minimum penalty, by jury in Judge
McDonald's court. Phillips fatally
stabbed Henry Turk.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29

II ND Jesus, beholding him, loved
n him" l am glad that Gods Word
did not fail to record this attitude of
Jesus towards this splendid young man,
for it emphasizes the fact that moral
worth is held in high regard by God
and that He has love for the moral
ist which is genuine and tender And
here we must distinguish between the
moralist who is such at heart and the
moralist who is only such in pretense
and when the eyes of his friends are
upon him. That this young man be-
longed to the former class is certain,
for the eye of Jesus was quick to detect
any hypocrisy or sham, and He was
bold to expose and denOunce such, and
if the young man before us had not
been genuine it would not have been
possible to say that Jesus beheld him
with loving eye. The hypocritical
Pharisees were Jealous moralists, and
delighted to parade their virtues and
hide from the gaze of the world their
secret corruption and sin. And they
have left in the world to-day a numer-
Gus seed. Men and women who make
a pretense of loving virtue and profess
ing to walk in the paths of honor and
rectitude, but whose lives in the shadow
of secrecy and obscurity are sadly at
variance with their profession Men
and women who stand high in the es-
TEEN of their loved ones and friends.
but men and women about whom it can
not be said, as in the case of this young
man, that Jesus, beholding them, loves
them" But Jesus loved this young man
because of his real worth, because he
was sincere in his love for the good
and pure and the highest and best in
life. He loved him because he recog-
nized the supreme authority of Gods
law, and in so far as it was possible for
him to do, lived it out in his life. Jesus
loved him, and He has not ceased to love
those who possess such characters.
repeat it again, that we find warrant for
believing and claiming that God be-
holding the genuine moralist has for
him special and real love.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29
Chicago. Sunday

Chicago, Sunday Jan. "a, 1904
TeXt:-"Then Jesus behoIding him, loved
him, and said unto him, One thing thou
ackest. MARK 1921
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29

den of domestic, and social, and po-
llt1cal life, and are a wholesome fac
tor in the business world. The impress
OF their lives is felt upon the communi-
ty in which they. live, and their influ-
ence, like the ripples on the bosom of
the lake, extends in overwhelming cir
cles from the center of private life to
the circumference of the life of the na-
tfon. People whose lives are strength
to the home, safeguard to the COM
munfty and bulwark to the nation.
People of whom it can be said that the
world is better because they have lived,
and for whom when death has cut short
their careers there is sincere mourn
ing. Men and women who use their
time and abilities and resources to
wholesome and profitable ends; who do
not dtssipate their energies upon the
mere sensual and f1eshIy desires and
appetites. Men and women, in short,
whom the world esteems and honors,
and whom God loves.
OUCH was the young man who came
to Jesus in the incident from which
our text is taken. He was a superior
y
high moral character Unlike so many,
many young men, probably of his own
day, and certainly of to-day, he avoid
ed all of the indiscretions and excesses
and sins of youth. Notwithstanding the
fact that he was very rich, and hence eX-
posed to great dangers and temptations
which so often prove the undoing of
rich young men, he found no time to sow
wild oats, but earnestly sought the high
est and best in life. What an example
he is to the rich youth of to-day Like
Daniel of old, although surrounded by
every luxury and the means to crafty
every whim and desire, he had purposed
in his heart that he would not be defiled
with the unclean and unwholesome and
undesirable things about him. A Jew
ish youth, familiar with the law. doubt
less the words of the Psalmist: Where
withal shall a young man cleanse his
way? By taking heed thereto according
to Thy Word" had exerted an influence
over him which had made him strong
to choose the right. He knew the law
of God, for when Jesus quoted it he was
able to respond that not only did he
know the commandments, the frame
work of all the law, but he had kept
those commandments from his youth up.
He had bOnOred his father and his moth
er. What a noble son he must have
been. How proud they must have been
of him. What store they must have
set by him. He had never stolen from
or defrauded his neighbor He had
never been a tale bearer, witnessing
falsely against others. He was strictly
honest in word and deed, and he did
not forget the rights of his neighbor
That was good deal for rich young
man to be able to say. But he could
make these claims in sincerity of heart
He was your pure type of the moralist,
and, thank God. there are a good many
people in the world who belong to that
class.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-29

areaway by crowd in street opposite
the fire; taken to hospital unconscious.