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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
BOOK REVIEW

The new James Whitcomb Riley
book is out fresh from the press of
the Bobbs- Merrill Pub. Co. It is
Meredith Nicholson The serious
verses might be said to predominant
in this work though all of them are
in Mr.. Riley's best vein.
When Gertrude Anterior returned
from Munich in July, before return
ing to California, which is her home
state, she made a memorable visit to
Kentucky AS Gertrude Franklin
Horn Mrs. -Atherton went to boarding
school in the Bluegrass capital, Lex
ington, coming all the way across the
continent. Many Of the friends who
joined in her entertainment this sum-
mer were women she had known in
school days, and had never seen since
school days ended. One social func-
tion-a garden party--for the de-
scendant of Benjamin Franklin, took
place appropriately at Ashland, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
In THE RELIGIOUS WORLD.
What the Church Folks Are Thinking About and Doing
Religious News From Everywhere.

Jordan. God does not bestow his best
blessings cheapiy. Even heaven must
be entered through the forbidding por-
tai of death The Israelites. within
sight of their goal, found the torrential
Jordan at their feet practically unford-
able for them. Here was a test of
hardihood and faith. 80
What is a man to do when in straits
To everybody comes the experience
when he seems to be baked on every
hand, and his coveted goals shut off
from him by seemingly impossible OBJ
stacles. Everything goes dead wrong"
There appears no way out of adverse
conditions. In some form or other, this
situation. is constantly confronting a
myriad people.
Well. there is the ark. If, as in
Israels case, there is present a token
Of divine leadership, the way is sure.
And God will never let a sincere light
seeking soul remain long without a
gleam- God always has a way, which
ne will make plain. 1t may not seem
an easy way. desirable way. or a
comfortable way, any more than the
Red Sea and the Jordan seemed easy
desirable and comfortable. But if it be
Gods way, that is enough. The old
saying, BE sure you are right, then GO
ahead" has Gods own teaching to sup
port it. Once assured that he is in the
divine line CT progress. man has only
one duty, and that is to go ahead. 1t is
the Lords concern to get Jordan out of
the way. somehow.
Then the Wonders.
Some persons are greatly bothered
about miracles, and others are not. The
latter have such a rexerent confidence
in the Almighty that it seems no more
wonderful to them TO roll back the
tides of the Red Sea, or TO heap up the
torrents of the Jordan, than it does to
lift the waters of earth up into the
clouds, and then to pour them down
again in gentle distribution for the
earth's needs. That God chooses to do
the latter every day, and the former
only twice or thrice in ages matters lit
tie; because a man KEGS his watch run
ming at two revolutions of the hour
hand around the dial each day does not
limit his power to make those two
revolutions in a minute, if he so desires
The wonderful gateway through which
the Chosen People entered the land long
set apart for their inheritance was mir
aculously constructed. Yet, as Foakes-
Jackson says, 1.-THE wonderful story of
Gods chosen people is itself a greater
miracle than any exhibition of divine
power it records When the assets with
the ark entered the water of the Jordan,
the current stopped, and the down-rush-
ing flood erected itself in a heap, to
wait upon the more important business
of its Master. Dry shod, the people
passed over, because they dared to be-
lieve God, and to follow Gods man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
lSalVar Cures Blood Poison

Des Moines, Ia, Sept 5, '07.
You have asked for a statement Of
my case and what think of Salvar.
I am AZ years of age, German by
birth and since 1 was % years old
have been afflicted with rheumatism j;
my work as an agent requires out
door exposure and I have never been
comes most severe and several times
my physician had to use opiates to
relieve me. I have used about every
thing in the medicine line I could
hera about and doctored with four of
the best physicians here and in Chi
cago, used electricity and hot air
treatments for two months at a time
with but little relief.
About the middle OF April learn
ed of your medicine called Salvar
from a friend and was advised to try
it. I decided to quit doctoring entire
ly and try Salvar. In about two
weeks I noticed had no pain, some
thing that I had not been free from
for three years. also could get about
better and by the time had taken
to get another bottle and can say that
Salvar certainly cured me. am free
from pain and while I am not as
strong as I used to be Salvar did more
for me than all the treatments as they
failed to even relieve pain. l would
not take $500 for the half bottle still
have as I intend to keep 1T to remem-
Der what it did for me.
e. C. MURRAY,
253S E. Walnut st.
J. A. POLICY, General Agent.
Moved from III e. 5th st. to
los e. Fifth st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

There is more catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
rether and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
MANY years doctors pronounced it q local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
bv constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable. Sci
ance has proved catarrh to be constitu-
fional disease and therefore requires con-
stftutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure
manufactur by T. J. Cheney & Co., To-
iefio o. is the only constitutional cure on
the market. 1t is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to teaspoonIul II acts d.
nf the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send
sor circuiars and testimonials
Address: F. 7 CHENEY & CO.. Tole-
10, Ohio
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

Every cup that holds a self-sacrifice
is a holy grail-Abbott.
= \ y
Ten thousand of the greatest faults
in our neighbors are of less conse-
quence to us than one of the smallest
in overwhelmingly.
4 X
Self-reverence, self-knowledge. self
control,
These, these alone lead life to sover-
eish power -Tennyson
1t Is not when a vilIainous act has
just been committed that it torments
US, 1t is when we recall it to our reco.-
lection long time afterwards: for
the remembrance of 1t lasts forever
We may believe, with the profound
est reverence, that there is no work
upon material things, faithfully done
by man, which God does not look
upon with pleasure.-Phillips Brooks.
The Hoy Supper is kept indeed
In whatso we spare with another's
need;
Not what we give, but what we share.
For the gift without the giver is bare:
Who gives himself with his aims feeds
three
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and
me- Lowell
Nothing can help our city and our
country so much as shining lives
lives of simple honesty and faithful
ness and good cheer-lives OF men
and women who will not lie nor play
the coward, who will render to all
their dues, who have clear sight to see
the right and firm will to maintain it
and make it the common law
Charles Gordon Ames
We need more women who are will
ing and capable of becoming home
builders, because they would even
tually do away with charitable organ
izations and the rapid increase of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

pauperism. Beauty does not make the
home, but moral beauty In a gift Of
God and subject to development.
There are three attributes of the
model woman-moral beauty, moral
courage and moral exploit.-Rev. J. C.
Schindel, Lutheran, Kansas City, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

First Baptist church. Thomas S.
Young, pastor. Sunday school at $50
a. M, j. S. West, superintendent
Preaching at IL a. M. and 1880 p. m.
Pastors morning topic, Expect At
Tempt evening subject, ''Longings
Satisfied" A large chorus will lead
the congregational singing at evening
service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Having been ousted from the control
of Zion City by the courts, w. G. Voliva
has been elected as the ecclesiastical
head of the remnant of Dowieites
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Mems banquets, under the direction of
the Laymen's Missionary movement,
will be held this winter in more than so
of the leading cities of Canada and the
United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

The extraordinary revival last winter
in the churches of northern Korea has
been duplicated in Seoul, the capital,
and in Taiku.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Rev. DR.. Charles M. Sheldon made a
temperance tour of several months in
Great Britain during the past summer,
delivering about a hundred addresses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
Crossing to Canaan.

The International Sunday School Les
son for October 3 is, Israel Enters
the Land of Promise" Joshua
3:5-17.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr, has resigned
the leadership of his celebrated Bible
class in the Fifth Avenue Baptist
church, Boston.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

First United Presbyterian church
Rev. J. A. Renwick. pastor. 10 a. m
Sabbath school. IL a. m, preaching
by the pastor. 1880 p. m, preaching
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

gain of $4,000 members was report
ed by the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation last year, making the present to-
tai nearly half a million. The property
value of the existing Y. NJ. C. A enter
prise in North America is 80 million of
dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Quinton~ Heights Baptist chapel
Sunday school at %. m Preaching at
7:45 o. m.E Subject of sermon, Eye
should Follow His Steps in Suffering"
Special music by the eQuinton Heights
chorus. D. w. Beanblossom, pastor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Sin," as it was first announced. to the
broader descriptive title, "Sin and So
ciety." The publication of the volume
and the discussion which is sure to
ensue are eagerly awaited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

After a successful run in New York,
1.-THE Spoilers Rex Beach's play from
his book, has started on tour of the
country. The Harpers. who published
the original novel, chose the moment to
announce new play edition of the
book. It will contain number of
page pictures made from photographs
of exciting scenes in the play, and Will
have a new theatrical cover. The
author gave his personal direction to
the performance OF THE Spoilers" dur
ing it's late run and was largely re-
sponsible for the features that made It
a success Mr.. Beach is living in New
York and engaged in writing another
book.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

FeEAtCU@
The October Book News Monthly
departs somewhat from its accustomed
form. With an artistic new cover, new
headings throughout, and a general air
of typographical Improvement. 1t bids
fair to stand apart on news stands and
book stalls as a decidedly handsome
periodical.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Children the world over will rejoice
to hear that the author of one of their
most favorite books-"Little Lord
Fauntleroy''-is to edit magazine
for them. The announcement has just
been made that Frances Hodgson
Burnett has accepted the editorship of
the Children's Magazine, and that her
son Vivian, who was the original Of
her famous ''F'auntleroy," has become
part owner and manager Of the pub
lication.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
w. G.. AGARD

Manufacturer OF Sash. Doors and
holdings, Brackets and all Interior
Finish. All kinds of Turning, S,air
Work a speciality. Send for Estimate
Bell Tel. $50 212-214-216 Jackson st.
Ind. Telephone S41. Topeka. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

We need more women who are will
ing and capable of becoming home
builders, because they would even
izations and the rapid increase of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

First Church of Christ. Scientist.
Services at IL a. m. Subject, DOC
trine of Atonement." 'Children's Sun
day school at $3.50 a. m. 5.-ts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12
Topeka Jobbers and Manufacturer

Get our prices ON Lumber. Mil
Work, Sewer Pipe and Paint. Our
prices are right and grades guar
ranteed
GILLETTE & NICHOLSON
100 Kan. Ave. Tel. 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

A correspondent of the Tablet. the
leading Roman Catholic paper In Great
Britain, proposes that all Catholics be
required to abstain on Fridays and other
last days OF the church from alcoholic
drinks instead of meat The archbishop
of Dublin thinks well of the suggestion
A reproduction of scenes in Palestine
mas just closed a successful season in
London having been visited by 300, 900
persons. Several hundred persons were
employed and the expense of the exhibi-
ton was large. Yet the net profits were
$4,000. Apart from Christianity and
the religion from which it sprang Pal
estlne would be an uninteresting eoun-
try. What other theme than religion.
comments the Congregationalist, would
attract so many persons to an exhibit
OF the scenery connected with it,?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

First Unitarian church. Rev., J. H.
Jones, pastor. Service at IL a. m.
Subject, mot By Bread Alone" Sun
day school 10 a. ~, O So s1lE e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

home of another great American,
Henry Clay. Mrs. Atherton stopped
only long enough in New York to
make final arrangements with her
publishers, the Harpers. for her new
novel, just issued, called Ancestors.
She will probably not come to New
York at all this winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Second Church of Christ, Scientist
Services, Sunday at IL o'clock, subject
Doctrine of Atonement." Sunda.
school Sunday at 10 o'clock held a
1OS West Ninth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Kansas Avenue M. E. church, G. w
Stafford pastor. Sunday school $685.
q. m. Preaching 1 1 a. m. No evening
service on account of union meeting a
the First M. E. church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

First Congregational church. Rev.
Francis L. Hayes, D. D., pastor. Sun
day school at 9:45 a. m. Regular ser
vices at IL a. m, and 1880 p. M Rev.
L. G. Schnacke, superintendent OF
Home Missions for Kansas, will
preach both morning and evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

There's one more river to cross" ran
the plantation melody. There generally
Is Before every promised land rolls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-12

Large editions of 1.-THE Turn Of the
Balance" have just been sold both in
America and England. This book
seems to belong to that small class of
books that get a second lease of life
and make for themselves the steady
and constantly increasing sale so graft
fying to author and publisher alike.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
WOMEN AND BASEBALL.

One of the Sex Explains Why She
Doesn't Know Game Very Well.
II don't see that it's much wonder IL
women don't know a great deal about
that game of baseball" remarked a
Cleveland woman in the role of an
abused wife the other day to a Plain
Dealer man. "If all men were like my
husband it would be a fine chance any
wife would have to learn anything be-
sides household drudgery. I think it's
absolutely absurd the way some men
seem to lose all control of their senses
and all idea Of ordinary courtesy when
they get within sight of a crowd OF
men knocking a ball about big pas
ture
I've always been so bored to death
by baseball games the few times my
husband has persuaded me to go, be-
cause l never could tell who was win
ming, that told my husband wouldn't
go to any more Of the old games with
him. Then the other day he told me
that If I'd go he would Just make 1t his
business for that one day to explain
the game to me.
"Well, he started In to explain things
to me, and his mood lasted just until
some one hit the ball, and then he be-
gan to shout and jump up and down as
If some one had hooked an electric
wire to his seat. | thought something
very unusual must have happened and
! l tried to get him to tell me what he
was acting so foolish abont, but he
Just snapped out This Is too good a
game. III tell you all about it when
we get home And that was all
could get out of him during the rest of
the tiresome old game. I'll never 60
to one with him again."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
Pet of the Permian DAYS.

One of the most startling fossil won.
ders ever unearthed Is just now Great
Ing verltable sensation and arousng
widespread scientific and popular in.
terest in New York at the Museum of
Natural History, writes Lillian L.
Zeh in Technical World Magazine.
This is due to efforts of Professor
Henry f. Osborn, who has placed on
exhibition a complete reconstruction
of one Of the oldest, and most extra
ordinary four-footed creatures that
ever trod earth. This ancient animal
hitherto practically unknown to the
outside world, called naosarus or the
carniverous finback lizard, inhabited
the region of Texas in the Permian
age, estimated to have been, accord
ing to geological reckoning, anywhere
from twelve to twenty millions Of
years ago. The fin-back lizard was a
most formidable creature, terrifying In
appearance and possessing mouth
eighteen inches in length and armed
with terrible tusks.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
In the Wrong Church,

An absent-nlhded woman one Sun,
day morning walked into church, took
n front seat and Joined In the service
vigorously, according to the Chicago
Inter-Ocean. Then the collection bas-
ket was passed to her, and, putting n
coin into 1t, she looked about. She
cast glances in every direction, her
mind cleared, and an expression Of
amczement overspread her face. She
got up. She hurried down the aisle.
She overlook the man with the collec-
tlon basket. I'm in the wrong
church." she whispered, and taking out
the coin she had put in, she hurried
forth.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
A Plague of Clocks.

We had been settled but a little
while in our Indian clearing, and had
just acquired deed to it bearing the
signature of Andrew Jackson, saws
joaquin" II. Miller in the Boston
Transcript, when one day big. raw.
boned, hatchet-faced man In a beaver
hat come to us by way of the State
road, with load of clocks in a car
riage. He had big, lmpertinent how
with him, and pleaded sadly that both
Of them were sick.
Mother was very good to them. pull.
ed out the trundle-bed to the mjddle
Of the floor, had us children sleep ar
the foot of her bed, and treated the
strangers as if they had been her own
blood. But they both walled and moan
ed bitterly, and begged father to take
the clocks and dispose of them at his
leisure to his nelghbors.
There was whole carriage load of
them, but upon the reiterated assur.
ance that he could double, and even
treble, his money, our confiding faith.
er, not knowing one thing about the
real price or value of such wares
signed note and became "merchant {"
At the end Of the year that hatchet-
faced man came back and exacted his
money with enormous Interest. nj.
though father had not yet sold a single
clock. =.
Years later, when we set CIT TO
cross the great plains, those old clocks.
with but single one missing, took I'D
more than half the wagon space. We
hauled them from Indiana almost TO
the top Of the Rocky Mountains, and
then, one night, In, terrific snow.
storm, when the wagon had upset, we
found a use for them. Brass. wood
glass and varnish all went to feed
fire. And so peace to their sounding
brass, rest to their brazen faces!
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13

That interesting creature, the okapl,
allied to the giraffe, and discovered by
Sir Harry Johnston on the eastern
border Of the Congo forest (near the
Semliki River, which joins the Albert
Nyanza ard the Albert Edward Lake.
had never been observed and studied
by white man in its living state until
five months ago-when young calf
okapl about a mouth old was obtained
by Slgnor Ribotti at Bambilli, on the
Evelle River (about 400 miles north
west Of the original locality. The pic
ture is that of a living okapi, a calf
about a month old The photograph Is
the first that has ever been taken Of q
living specimen.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13

The hurricane blowed the big trees down,
An we saw the steeple fall;
An the airthquake swallered one-half the
town,
But it didn't swaller us all
The rain come down fer forty days,
Till it hid the pine trees tall;
But we're thinkin' O. singin' a song O.
praise
Fer it didn't drown us all
Atlanta Constitution.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
Question for Question,

"Farthest north, hey?" sneered the
lawyer. "Why don't you so cellar to
the pole?"
"Why don't you close up that win
case that you've been living on for tho
last sixteen years s?'-Washlngton Her.
aid
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
Amdavits Needed Nowadays.

why do you send two men to get
that interview" asked the managing
editor.
"One Of them" answered the city
editor, SIS notary public "-Plttsburg
Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13

Daniel Osiris, the Jewish banker and
phllanthropist Of Paris, who recently
died, left will in which he disposed
Of S1S,00O,O0O, giving S5,0OO.OO0 to the
Pasteur institute.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
Wins the Jobs.

"She is fitting herself for a position
to apply for a job as typewriter"
"Patronizlng a shorthand school?'
mo, a beauty doctor. ."-Plttsburg
Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13
Always Late.

Blacksmith-Tha knows i'm. e was
t. mayor one year.
Old Man-Nay, e never got as Ugh
as that. e wOr nobbut ex-mayor.-
Punch,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13

How thief must laugh TO read In
the papers that the s. watch he stole
the night before is valued at 5000 by
Its owner.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-13

There are 527 distinct muscles in the
human body. Of which elghty-three are
In the head and fsca