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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

The fourth quarterly meeting of ST.
John A. NJ. E. church will be held
Sunday. Preaching and communion
of the Lords Supper at IL a. m. Ser
mon by Rev. J. R. Ransom, p E.
Preaching at p. m. Rev. ]. E. Ed
wards, pastor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

First Baptist church, Thomas S.
Young, pastor. Preaching at II a. m.
and 8 o. m. Pastors morning topic:
OCCUPY Till Come" Evening
theme: Taxes and Religion" Dedi-
cation service at Quinton Heights
Chapel at p. m, sermon by Rev.
T. S. Young.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Walnut Grove church. c. B. Zook
pastor. Worship with sermon IL a. NJ
and 8 p. m. Morning subject: "Ant
lead us not into temptation, but deliv9
us from evil" Evening theme: Mary
the Mother of Jesus"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

First Presbyterian church. Preach
ing services at IL a. m. and p. m.
The pastor will preach morning and
evening. Music will be furnished by
the regular choir.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

First Christian church. Charles A
Finch, pastor. Communion ant
preaching at IL a. M: evening ser
vice at o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Kansas Avenue Methodist Episco-
pal church. John w. Waldron. pas
tor-Morning service at IL a. M,
evening services at 8 p. m. The choir
will give a sacred concert at this
hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Lowman Chapel. The pastor. c.
E. Holcomb. will preach at IL a. m.
on 1.-THE Burnt Offering and joy and
at o. m. on 1.-THE Good Old-fashion-
ed Way"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Regular meeting of the Minis
at 10 O'Clock on Monday morn
ing. September 6. Mr.. Brow
Relation of the Y. NJ. c. A. to the
church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Old Newspapers SC Bundle.
For the next few days the State
Journal will sell old exchanges for five
cents a bundle, regular price 10 cents
bundle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Central Avenue Christian church
The pastor, David Lyon. will return
to Topeka and be with his people in
the IL a. M. service Sunday. The
Christian Endeavor will conduct the
8 .. m, service
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Second Church of Christ Scientist
Services at IL a. m. Subject, Man.
Mercy Anderson, reader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

First Church of Christ Scientist. Ser
vices at IL a. m. Subject, Man"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

The Church of Christ meets at 1.
o'clock a. m. for communion and de
votional services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Central Park Christian church, AL
bert 7. Fits, pastor. Preaching at 1
a. M, and p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

The w. C. T. q. mill meet at the
First M. E.. church at p. m
Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

First Unitarian church, Rev. ]. H.
Jones, pastor. Services at IL a. m.
Sermon by the pastor. Music-so1o,
Christ Our Refuge''-Schnecker by
Mrs. F. S. Thomas; Miss Bessie Paine
accompanist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

First United Presbyterian church,
Rev. J. A. Renwick, pastor. Preach
ing Sabbath morning at IL a. m. by
the pastor. Subject, Seventh Ami
versary Sermon"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

German M. E. church, John Koehler,
pastor. Preaching at 10:45 a. m. and at
8 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Leland Street United Brethren in
Christ. N. H. Huffman, pastor.
Preaching at IL a. m. and p. m. by
the pastor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Potwin Presbyterian church, Rev
H. L. Nelson. pastor. After an alb
sence of month, all the regular ser
vices will be resumed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
CHURCH NOTICES.
Westminster Pr

The Westminster Presbyterian
church, Rev. Ralph Ward, pastor.
Preaching by the pastor at the morn
ing service. There will be no evening
service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
A Great Books Great Theme.
Terse Comments for September 5,
''Life's Lesson for Me from the Book
of Romans" Rom. 12:1-21.
BY WILLIAM t ELLIS.

81 think the Epistle to the Romans
the most profound work in existence -
said the poet Coleridge. That is a
trained literary mans judgment of the
book that the Endeavorers of the world
are called to study this week. At tbs
present moment, when there is a deal
of f1abby, inconsequential and undigest-
ed discussion of new" religion and
new thought, 1t is important that tine
stimulus of this tremendous essa y
should be impaired to the minds OF
those who are learning to do their own
thinking. Especially valuable should it
faith, to have young people perceive the
shallowness and inanity of the modern
high-sounding pretensions of men WIN.
as thinkers, are to this great philos3 =
pher Paul of Tarsus, as the Chinese
astroIoger is to the late astronomer,
Simon Newcomb. The man who sneers
at the New Testament teaching as be-
ing crude, primitive and outgrcwn sim
ply writes himself down as unfamilial
with the New Testament.
1t is easier to scott at a big BOOK
than it is to understand it.
A taste vitiated by the reading of
newspapers. magazines and current fic-
ton is likely to find such book as Ro-
mans hard reading" While full of SUI
perb simplicities, and of counsel that
the least thoughtful cannot fail to COM
prehend, the main argument of the
book is on a high plane, where the az
mosphere is rather rare for feeble con-
situations. Paul here sets forth the Ii ie
of reasoning which produced the Refor-
Observation-Disclosures by faith. Sec
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Friendships, a Reward of Service.
The International Sunday School Les
son for September is "PauPs Third
Missionary Journey-F'arewells AcIs
20: 2-38.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

1t is easier to scott at a big book
than it is to understand it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

Until men have succeeded in Twins
up to even the lower levels of the Book
of Romans, there is no burning need
for any new thought"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04
Pointing to the Past.

Strong with the most unassailab:e
strength is the man whose record viii
bear inspection. Innumerable mel
have been halted in their careers ard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-04

A small portion of the book of Ro-
mans practiced is better than the
whole volume discussed. The book
was written in order to be lived
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05

A. S. Rhoane of Columbia is a Wis
itor to the city.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
ROGERS and PARTY
ARE ENTERTAINED

ROANOKE, Na., April 5.-Roanoke
is entertaining H. H. Rogers party,
just from their opening of Mr. Rogers
railroad at Sewalrs Point, and will
give an elegant banquet tonight.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
Anusenents.
DANDY DIXIE MINSTRELS
TONIGHT.

Minstrelsy has been and promises to
continue to be the favorite form of
amusement for four-fifths of the the
ater-going publc--and well it should
be-for no manner Of performance
can include such a variety of material
necessary for the edification of the
and best of all amusements. Then
there are no waits. Promptly at the
appointed hour the curtain rises, and
from the moment until the final you
have fun without a blush. Songs of
sentiment by the worlds greatest
vocalists, comic ditties by the best
comedians on earth, and also they fur
nish humor without a faint. The
songs have been sung, jokes have been
told the Adonis-like person in the
middle has his friendly repartee with
the various comedians, with the bones
and tambos Personal grace has been
shown and beauty added because OF
the handsome paraphernalia used in
the first part settings. The senti-
ment of the balladist may have caus-
ed you to be possessed Of a feeling OF
intoxication; the festive wit of the
comedians has amused you; the
charming acts of the first part, in its
entirety has possibly astonished you,
vet the glamour, frolic and fun rolls
on, without a hindrance. There's no
tiresome overture, but on the contrary
the various novel feats, gathered from
all quarters of the globe, commence
and ere the finis has been rached you
have, with your brother auditors, pro
claimed minstrelsy the king of amuse-
ments.
"The Dandy Dixie Minstrels," mead
ed by the one, the only, the original
Billy Kersands, will be at the Audlto-
rum tonight. Prices downstairs to
white patrons soc, 75c, 81.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
SUGAR TRUST TO
ASK DISMISSAL
cHEcKERs SAID TO HAVE JUG
GLED SCALES.
Government Filed Suit to Recover 81
100000, But Attorneys Ask That Ac-
ton Be Observation-Disclosures of the
Jury.
Jury.

NEW YORK, April 5.-The govern
ment having been awarded by jury
in the United States District Court the
sum of $134,116 as penalty for the
fraudulent weighing of sugar at the
dock of the American Sugar Refining
Company in Williamsburg, United
States District Attorney Stimson, in a
note of issue which he has filed with
Commissioner Shields, asks that ad-
vancement and preference be given to
another action instituted by the gov
eminent in the United States Circuit
Court against the Sugar Trust
This suit is to recover 81 5000 for
back duties since 1901, based on the
allegation that the Brooklyn refinery's
checkers iuggled with the scales used
by the customs weighers, so that the
sugar company was enabled to sell a
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
jim HEARN AGAIN.
Will lnaugurate an "Old Sports Con-
vention in New Orleans.

The Poplarville Free Press prints
this amusing story:
"Jim Hearn blew into town yester'
day and his friends permitted him to
remain until the first outgoing train.
Jim now has new scheme on foot
He proposes to inaugurate an Old
Sports convention, the object of
which is to take an annual excursion
to New Orleans in the good old fash
toned way which will wind up with a
banquet, place to be selected after
the eXcursionists arrive in the city
Jim's plans are not yet perfected, but
we would like to suggest the following
persons as suitable officers for this
convention: Emmett McInnis, Hatties-
burg, president; Jim Scarborough
Popla1ville, vice-president; Edgar Har-
ris, HattiesbUrg. secretary; New
Blount, treasurer; Jim Hearn, field
marshal and athletic advisor. Time
for first excursion just as quick a.
possible. We hereby make applica
ton for mcmbership-life member
ship-and a membership badge
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05

MORT L. BIXLER.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
zone Touch of Nature Makes thu
Whole World Kin"

When rooster finds a big fat worm
he calls all the hens in the farmyard
to come and share it, A similar trait
when a man discovers something eX-
ceptionally good-he wants all his
friends and neighbors to share the
benefits of his discovery. This is
the touch of nature that makes the
whole world kin. This explains why
people who have been cured by Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy write letters
to the manufacturers for publication,
that others similarly ailing may also
use it and obtain relief Behind every
one of these letters is warm-hearted
wish of the writer to be of use to
someone else. This remedy is for
sale by Hays C Field and Yellow Pine
Pharmacy.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
ADVERTISING COUPONS.

Holders of advertising coupons, Sc
cured during the contest recently con
Quoted by The News, will please bring
them to the office, that they may re-
ceive the signature of the new man.
ager. Without this signature they will
not be honored. These cards are
not transferable.
MORT L. BIXLER.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
PUDDLER'S WAGES CUT.

LEBANON, Pa. April 5.-Pursuant
to notices issued by the American
Iron and steel Company ten days ago,
puddlers today received 1913 a ton
instead Of $3.50, the past rate About
500 men are affected
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
Mining COMP ANY
PAYING Dividend

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April O.
The MacNamara Mining company is
paying a dividend of 10 cents per
share today amounting to 10000 II
is predicted that these dividends will
not only be continuous, but will be
increased.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05

greater amount of sugar than had been
weighed.
The lawyers for the sugar company
today asked the court to dismiss the
governments complaint
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05

Attorney D. NJ. Watkins visited il
Sumrall today.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-05
Dependent Us

If you depend us, that you will be
entirely satisfied with the way in which your wants
will be taken care of.
If is your doctors prescription which you want
filled we will attend to it in a way that will please
him and give yo1 the utmost satisfaction.
IF it is ordinary drug store article that is de-
manded, you will get what you want for stock is
carefully selected and in it is to be found prac
any article that is carried in a retail drug
Yes you depend for all your wants
which you expect to satisfy in a drug Our stock
is modern and service to customers is as good
careful attention make it.
Depend and your drugstore buying will
prove satisfactory and pleasure to you.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-24
BACHELOR OF BLACK
 ROCK SUMNER COLONY
 WEDS WEALTHY BEAUTY

Attorney Philip Van volkenburgh. aged 55. globe trotter. clubman. ath- lete. motorist. well known hereabouts as a summer resident of Black Rock and Greens Farms. has captured the finest matrimonial prize of the year. enchantingly pretty widow whose for tune Is estimated at S10.000.0O0 and whose forte is the turning down of titled suitors.
 an immense fortune. estimated at up- wards of s20.0O0. 600. He has known his beautiful bride only a month. and the news of his wedding yesterday came to light as a big surprise to all his confidants. especially to his acQuaint ances in this vicinity. who had come to regard him as inexorably set against the wiles of Cupid. The union of the two is also an alliance of two great fortunes
 "I shall aot marry until my heart tells me to do so-and it really hasn't talked for publication as yet." said Mrs. Chapman when inquisitive callers kept insisting from time to time that she disclose her matrimonial plans Mrs. Chapman has been called the most proposed-to" woman in New York. and hitherto she has steeled her self against all seekers after her for tune and heart.
 There are two stories of the mar riage. one that it took place yesterday morning at Greenwich. and the other that it was at tho Hotel St. Regis. New York. Not even Mrs. Rapello, with whom the bridegroom has made his home. knew of the ceremony until after 1t had taken place.
 Mrs Chapman was the widow of the merchant prince. William Hayes Chap man. She IS about 30 years old. She only lately returned from a long visit in Paris, where she had royalty at her feet On her homecoming she met her ideal. and the story goes that they were thrown together quite accident ally. meeting without even the formal ity of MT. Won Valkenburgh's presen- tation to the beauty. During her visit abroad, Mrs. Chapman was the heroine of many a romance that invariably ended with the hero in dismay.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-24
BORN HUNGRY; RAISED HUNGRY:
 HAD TO STEAL"
Thus Probation Officer Can field Described the Sch neider Children, Who Have Given Police Much Trouble.

The Schneider family of Chester street, which has given the police so much trouble is at last broken up- Last evening Lillie. aged H. and Val entine, aged g, with Julius Ku.hey of Cherry street stole a Thanksgfving turkey from the ice box of Mrs Emma filling of 46s Clipton avenue This morning in the city court LilIie and Valentine Schneider were sent to the reform school for boys and girls They already have an old sister in the in dustrial school for girls. Julius Kul- ney was also committed to the reform school. but appealed furnishing $50 bail Charles Schneider, father of Li1- lie and Valentine was fined $5 and costs and sent to jail for 30 days This jail sentence was suspended on ac- count of his family.
 The Schneider children have grown very proficient in petty thievfng. stealing from back steps and ice boxes in the rear of houses was their spec falty- They have been arrested many times and not brought to court be- cause of their youth Patrolman Lar Kin, E. Wheeler. Probation Officers G. E. Canheld and Miss Helen King be- sides Detective Edward Cronan testi- ned to the evil ways of the children and the callousuess of the parents.
 The children have stolen bicycles. tools, meat, vegetables, money and many other things which they found within their reach One of them play ed the trick of digging in the dirt as ne nad toSt something. When a sympathetic passerby asked the tro1,- ble the boy. with tearflled eyes would say he had lost a nic1zle and his fafh- CT would whip him. Out of sympathy the older person would usually hand the boy some change This Operation would be repeated until a Substantial amount had been procured Another trick was to appeal for car fare from some one in the northern part of the city. The child would say he lived in al The children looked so forlorn that their appeal could hardly be with stood The father had been working at the plant of the Harvey HubbeH O., but was laid off a few months ago. An older son is now working
 Probation Officer Garfield safd- ssThe poor kids. They. were born hunxrv and raised hungry, and I guess they had to steal to get something to eat,
 Mr- Schneider testified that he had eight children.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-24
SHOT TO DEATH BODY CREMATED
Awful Ending of Negro Who Attacked Southern White Woman.
Special from United Press.)

Anniston. Ala. Nov. 24-For the commission of one of the most horrible crimes ever reported in the annals of this state. Roy Holston. a negro. has been lynched and his body burned.
 The details of the neEro's horrible from Edwardsville He went to the home of W. C. Cheatwood. a well known farmer. and battered down the front door. shouting as he did so:
 going to kin you" Fearing that a concerted attack was being made upon his house Mir. Cheatwood sprang through a window and fled 10 the negro entered the house and over powered Mrs Cheatwood. whom he as- saulted- The negro then seixed the unfortunate woman by her hair and literally dragged her. half conscious. several hundred yards from the house. where he again. assaulted her Then the brute assafled the woman with sticks and rocks beating her head in to a pulp with a heavy stone- Finger prints on her neck. too. show how the negro tried to choke her to death
 The special received here declares the negro then fell asleep. pillowfng his head upon the prostrate body of his victim A heavy rain was falling and the water partially revived Mrs. Cheatwood who managed to drag her self from beneath the sleeping negro and crawl back t0~her home. It took her some time to crawl the short dis ,tance. so weak was she from her ter rffying experience
 When she reached the house her husband and his friends had just ar rived. The posse followed the direc lions given by the fainting woman and came upon the negro still sleeping They literally riddled his body with bullets and then tied the remains to a pine tree and burned it.
 Three of the four children of the Cheatwoods fled to the woods when the negro first attacked their mother. They were in their neightclothing and were suffering greatly from rain and cold when found several hours later.
 Mrs Cheatwood was tenderly cared for and given medical attention. but her condition is precarious and it is feared she will not survive.
 This crime recalls the San Hose burning of 10 years ago at Palmetto, Fla San Hose. a negro farmhand. en- tered the. home of prosperous farm CT and murdered the father with an axe in plain sight of the wife and four children The woman refused to ac- cede to the negro's demands and he slew one of her children Again She refused to comply and another. was killed Rather than see her two ba- bies in arms slain the woman yield ed For this crime the negro was burned at the stake-/
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-11-24
PARENTS AT WAR OVER FUTURE OF TWO YANKEE
 BOYS NOW IN GERMANY
SHALL THE MORRILL, LADS BE RETURNED TO
 CUSTODY OF THEIR AMERICAN FATHER?
Or Shall Their Mother, Who Having Divorced Their Pater, and Wed Baron, Continue to Enjoy Their Exclusive Society-Ambition of Mother Is to Edu- cate Boys at Yale.

Evidence by deposition was produced today in the Superior court in the fight Walter C. Merrill of New York Is making for the modification of the divorce decree granted to his wife. now the Baroness Won Romberg of weis- baden. Germany, in relation to the custody of their two children. Converse and George Peabody Morrill, The dispositions came from the Baroness. the Baron, a number of the servants in their household. and officers and their wives in the regiment of the German army in which the Baron is connected
 The Baroness in her deposition stat ed that she met the Baron the latter part of January. 1907. in Berlin. and became engaged to him the latter part of February of the same year. The marriage took place in July. It was her intention to remain In Germany. At present her boys were under the instructions of a tutor in German. When their primary education had been completed she intended to turn the boys over to her father in Green wfch. and expected that they would be sent to some preparatory school and later to Yale University During their summer vacations they would return to Germany. After the completion of their education she would leave it to stated that her former husband was incorporate and had treated her bru- tally. The boys were at present en- toying good health. though when they resided in Dresden they were contin- ually ill., Most of her conversations fish. though German is occasionally spoken
 She stated that she does not speak to the children of their father, and