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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-01-21

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THE CESTAUR COMPANY II MURRAY STREET. NEW Yonk CrTT
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To Force Vote on Chicsgo's New $4,000
600 Building -Pottsvile, Pa, rasrr-.
n. j., and Cumberland, Md, Also in
Line for New Structures.
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THE RINeHAMToN HOME.

ton, I think you will agree with me
that the reputation they have in certain
quarters of being a little too lively and
gay, to put it mildly, is not well de-
served You don't see what that has to
do with it? Why, that's simple enough.
You think of any class of the general
community that is relatively as large and
see if you can name one whose members
are, comparatively speaking, SO seldom
pilloried in the press for wrongdoing.
You can t do it. Nobody can. 1t is fact
that whenever a commercial man goes
wrong his misdeeds not only, but the
fact THAT he is a commercial man, are
spread abroad, and every one says at
once that it might all have been expected
and worse. too. from drummer But
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closely wasn't a profitable employee.
He didn't always get his orders in
straight even if he got the orders, and
after awhile he didn't get the orders.
Then, besides, the general sentiment Of
the public grew to be against rather
than tolerant of heavy drinking. Those
who drank too much were first warned
and then discharged. Then it got SO that
business men didn t like to employ trav-
cling men who couldn't show fairly
good record on the drunk question, and
today traveller can't more surely put
himself right off the road than to be
known as drinking man. I have my
self met more than so travellers this
week and not one of them had the ap-
pearance of a drinking man. In fact,
don't believe the travellers drink as gen
orally to excess today as the members of
any other class in receipt Of the same
average income. Yet if you can think of
an occupation more likely to make a
man believe himself in need of alcoholic
stimulant you can do better than I can.
Travelling men are forced TO lose
sleep, to be up early and late, to spend
their days, and nights oftentimes, in
whir1 of business excitement. They sleep
on wheels, so to speak, much of the
time; they are always figuring close in
order to finish their work in some town
and catch some train, and there is scarce
ly a railroad accident reported through
which one or more commercial men do
not pass. They are always from home SO
much that they are able barely to keep
up an acquaintance with their families,
and they have to train themselves to re-
gard the road as their home. Yet, as
said. they will average up extremely
well with the men Of other callings gen
orally, in the matter Of good conduct,
while as to general intelligence and
cleverness think they'll size up better
than most. -
Then the ba1dheaded travelling man
stopped for breath, and the gray headed
newspaper writer began. I should like
very we'll to write down what he said,
but it has taken so much space to report
the words of the traveller that I shall be
obliged to abandon my plan.
NJ. I. DEXTER,
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1t is fact that the Sunday school super
irtendents, of which there are not near
ly as many as there are of commercial
men, furnish more recruits to the ranks
of the crooked than we do. I don't speak
of this IN disparagement of the Sunday
school superintendent, you understand
in fact, don't quite like the tone
some of you newspaper men use in
speaking of such a one when he falls
out of the straight and narrow path
but l mention it simply to show that we
are not nearly as black as we are paint
ed. I'll go further and say that proper
tionately 1 am sure the commercial men
are of higher grade as to integrity
and general rectitude than most men
when you consider the really hard life
we lead and the temptations of the road.
cob, yes; I know. There are some
black sheep among Us. Yes, know all
about Joe Mulhatton and his wonderful
lies, and I'm sorry he's a commercial
man, because I'm twitted of it every
once in awhile. But you must admit
that he is a mighty clever chap. didn't
think SO when I began to hear about
him, but when he fooled the scientists
then I saw his real greatness. How did
he fool them? Why, surely, you, a
newspaper man, ought to remember
that. Don't you recall the statement
telegraphed all over the world a few
years ago that an astronomical chap
with genuine fake name had rediscov-
cred the star of Bethlehem that was fol-
lowed by the wise men of the east near
ly 1900 years ago, and how the late
Piol,a-l i-I. -.
starology, wrote lot of labored articles
and papers to prove that the professor
must be mistaken? Why, Proctor made
himself the laughing stock of everybody
then.
"But, as the stump speakers some
times say, 4 digress.' I was talking
about the mistake people make when
they set us all down as bad lot. AS
matter of fact, you'll find that nearly
every one when talking of our shortcom-
ings as class will say that his own
friends among the drummers are excep-
tons which prove the rule. But I will
admit there was a time when the boys
were wilder than they are now. When l
went on the road, some 25 years ago, it
was almost the rule that the travelling
man should be a hard drinker. Now,
that was quite as much the fault of the
merchants and manufacturers employ
ing commercial men as it was Of the
latter themselves. In those days it was
thought by merchants who had men On
the road that travelling statesmen must
drink heavily with their customers in
order to get their trade, and the man
who couldn't carry good load and do
business at the same time wasn't in
great demand as traveller.
well, that rule worked for awhile,
but it came to be seen after few years
that the drummer who followed it too
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THEY FAVOR HAISCH.

A Recommendation that he Be Given the
Contract for Removing Dead Animals.
The ways and means committee of the
city council has decided to report the
bids for removing dead animals with the
recommendation that the contract be
awarded to Joseph Haisch.
The advertisement was submitted on
the superstition that the bidding would
be made at certain price per head. but
Mr.. Haisch submitted proposition to do
the work and clean away the refuse
which accumulates around the city build
ing, police aud fire stations for $40 per
month. This was considered remarkably
low as the city usually pays from $50 to
$50 for the work of removing the dead
animals alone.
For that reason the committee decided
to recommend that the bid made by
Haisch be accepted and an ordinance
passed fixing the rates to be charged By
other persons who remove dead animals
for people who pay the bill themselves.
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STILES SURE OF SUCCESS.
Booming the British Empire Exposition
That Is to Be Held In Montreal.

Booming the British Empire Exposition
That Is to BE Held In Montreal.
The proposed Montreal exposition that
has been the talk of the Dominion Of
Canada for some time past is to be
held the coming year and will be called
the British Empire exposition. 1t will
not attempt to equal in magniicence the
great Worlds fair or the Paris and Phil
adelphia expositions, but it will endeav-
or to resemble the successful interna-
tional expositions that have been held
from time to time in Sydney, Mel
bourne, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manches-
ter, Amsterdam, Bordeaux, San Francis
co and Atlanta. The leading spirit Of
the enterprise is Mr.. J. H. Stiles. In
1894, when he was British commissioner
at the San Francisco Midwinter fair, a
large number of exhibitors expressed the
opinion that Canada should have an ex-
position, and Stiles was instrumental in
having meeting called to consider the
subject.
The exhibitors who attended agreed
that such an exposition should be held
and that Montreal, the largest city in
the Dominion, with its splendid railway
and water transportation facilities, was
the proper site. Stiles at once visited
Montreal and endeavored to get the
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equations had vastly improved since
1875. 1t was the travelling man who
spoke first upon the subject and, in fact,
longest, for, while the newspaper man is
fairly handy with his pen, he is, and
naturally, not able successfully to COM
pete with the traveller when it comes to
talking.
The traveller first mentioned the fact
that his profession had come to be of
sufficient Importance to be awarded
special day at the big Atlanta exposi-
ton Then he dwelt at some length
upon the commercial travellers home
now in course of erection at Bingham
ton and the excellent periodical, The
Commercial Travellers Magazine, that
is published there. He said, and right
", that the general public is not prop
erly we'll informed as to the merits of
either of these really notable institu-
tions.
"When completed, - said the traveller,
1.-THE home will accommodate $50 mem
bers. It is to cost $3.50, 900, and much
of this sum has already been raised by
the travellers themselves. 1t was about
five years ago, if l remember rightly,
that the project began to take tangible
form, and as soon as it was seen that its
success was assured number of cities
and towns sought the advantage of be-
ing the chosen location of the proposed
institution. BinghamtOn got it by reason
of a gift of 100 acres to serve as grounds
and SIS, 900 in cash. By and by it is
hoped to put up a fine hospital building
alongside the home and also school
81, Of dico t1od fro md
of travellers who die without leaving
provision for their families may be edu-
Gated. Already the home is becoming
one of the show places of the beautiful
and generous city which gave so much
to secure it's establishment there, and as
the years roll on it is sure to attract
more and more attention. To Bingham
ton the fraternity of business tourists
owes a debt of gratitude which is inten-
sified by the sincere interest that has
been shown in the home by Mayor
George @. Green, a prosperous attorney
who in earlier life was himself a COM
mercial man and is now the president of
the association that controls the home.
''It is quite possible, continued the
traveller, clearing his throat and light
ing fresh cigar, that you yourself,
like the majority of mankind, fail to
appreciate the Importance Of the COM
mercial travellers numerically. I have
not charged my mind with up to date
figures upon this matter, but at the
time the cornerstone of the home was
laid there were $50, 900 of US all told in
the United States, and it is probable
that the number is now round half
million. If that be so, and the popula-
ton of the country is 1000, 900. then
one in every 40 persons in this republic
men, women and children-or at least
one in every 70 or so grown men, is a
commercial traveller. Never thought Of
it in that light? Probably not, but it
seems to be straight enough for all that
''Now, bearing in mind the fact that
commercial men do actually make up
SO large fraction Of the total popula-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21

CONGRESSMAN Dick BLUE has intro
duced bill in the house to pay the sum
of $4,000 to one Simon Motz for some i'm
aginary service rendered the people of
the United States in acting as the Gus
todian of Fit Hays military reservation.
Motz, it seems, has already received
$500 for doing the custodian act, which
sum is perhaps largely in excess of what
he earned. 1t is wholly improbable that
he allowed the administration of the Of
fee to interfere with his other business,
if he had any. At any rate congress
should insist on an itemized account
The position was doubtless regarded as
a snap or he would not have accepted it
knowing that there was no appropriation
available for paying him. At each ses-
sion of congress every conceivable kind of
a scheme is sprung for the purpose of
robbing the tax payers. 1t doesn't seem
to matter how fraudulent or unjust these
pretended claims may be, some congress
man can always be found to introduce
them and undertake to engineer them
through congress. Some, perhaps, take
them on percentage like lawyers take
damage cases, while others are rewarded
by political support Congressman are
not elected and paid by the people to
prosecute private claims against the
government, especially when they are
questionable.
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he is planning to go all the way on land
and ice, distance of about 16, 600 miles.
at an expenditure of small fortune and
no small amount of energy. Mr.. De
Windt expects to consume two years in
doing something that no one has ever
done before or will ever do again, and
when he proceeds through Alaska he
will be defended from the warlike min
ers who are digging for gold in snow
drifts and glaciers by 80 we'll armed In
dians and half breeds.
De Windt is young man, but he he's
already made several long trips over
land. He recently returned from a tour
of Siberia, during which he inspected the
notorious prisons Of the czar, and his
first notable journey on terra frma ex-
clusively was from Picking to Calais.
Tho idea Of travelling from New York
to Paris by land was suggested by Cap
tain James Adair, an American sealer
De Windt met at the village of Niko-
laiefska, Russia, where he had been
waiting six weeks for the appearance
of ship. De Windt was telling the
captain about some of his journeys and
asked what, in the Americana opinion,
was the longest practicable trip one
could take on land exclusively.
Adair shifted his quid just as all stage
seadogs do and replied that he had cross
ed Boring straits seven times on the
ice, and that about as long a land jour
ney as one could find would be from
New York to Paris via Boring straits.
"Can you show me the way?" cried
the impulsive De Windt.
'Betcherlife p replied the bold Adair.
And thus it came about that the present
trip was planned. Captain Adair will
meet De Windt at Vancouver with a
small army of Indians and half breeds,
and with this escort De Windt will pro-
coed through British America and Alas
ka and cross Boring straits to Yakutsk,
in eastern Siberia, where the captain
and De Windt will part, De Windt push
ing on alone to Paris and Adair and the
Indians returning to America.
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mer one.

liz reading what our congressman are
doing at Washington it appears that
there are hundreds of Kansas people
who are trying to get "gob of money"
out of the United 6totes treasury and
they don't care what pretense they Ad-
vance for getting it. It is claims, claims,
claims from morning until night All
this indicates that the internal desire to
rob the rest of the people through the
national treasury springs eternal in the
human heart We hope congress will
refuse all of these unjust claims, as it
undoubtedly will most Of thsm.
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Daily Average 9. 354.

This is the greatest showing the STATEJ JOUR
NAL has ever teen abba to make for period Of
any six months il its history.
This is a greater figure than was reached "
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894
The American Newspaper Directory, issued in
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894. gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only STA IneSS
figures were furnished by the publishers OF me
Capital, to the Directory. and are guaranteed to
be correct by forfeit of $780, which will be
paid to any one disproving their correctness.
The following figures, substantiated by sworn
statements in detail, giving every issue for the
FIRST six months in $685. 1894 and 1895, shows the
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
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IT IS DIFFERENT NOW.
Once Travelling Men Were Expected
to be the Gayest of the Gay.
NOWADAYS, HOWEVER, THEY ARE KEEN,

Alert, and Always Tending to Busis
ness-The Trials of the Traveller.
!. A newspaper correspondent whose
head is getting gray and a commercial
traveller whose head is getting bald met
on a railroad train the other day for the
first time in 90 years and fell to talking
over the changes that time has wrought
in the two occupations Of which they
were the representatives in evidence.
Before they separated they had agreed,
with all due respect to the travelling
men and the newspaper writers of two
decades ago, their own early contempt
raries, that the followers of the two &C.
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6.4o7
1880
1854

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka dailies
combined. only proves the meagerness Of its
local circulation as compared with that Of the
STATE JoURNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation Is far
and away ahead Of the combined circulation Of
al the other Topeka dailies.
The circulation of the Topeka Daily STATE
JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary "a
Topeka is very large. as the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL,
giving its readers the first and latest Associated
Press and state news of the day.
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German papers assert that gas pipes
made of paper are success. Manila
paper strips are passed through molten
and then nodded under heavy
pressure. After cooling, the pipes, which
may be Of any desired length, receive q
waterproof coating, :.
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THE bankers and capitalists sho uld
not become alarmed Mr.. Cleveland will
look after their interests. He is getting
ready to make another issue of bonds
and the panicky feeling which his mess
age has produced will of course necessi-
tate selling them at a rate still more fa-
vorable to the purchasers than the for
mer one,
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SENATOR THURsToN is earning his sal
airy as attorney for the Union Pacific road
just the same as before he resigned the
title, aud perhaps is getting it. Do the
people of Kansas want to send that kind
of a representative to the United States
senate2 They didn't want to last winter
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spend $25, 600 of
the former in Or
der to increase
his store of the
latter. It is easy
enough to pro-
coed mainly by
water from New
York to Paris,
but if there is
anything young
Mr.. De Windt
abhors it is do
ing things easily.
nH0 -<,11-1A - 4L1%
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Holiday Rates.

The Missouri Pacific will sell tickets
on Dec. gath, 25th, 31ss and Jan. 1st at
rate of one and one-third fares for the
round trip between all stations within 200
miles distance. Tickets will be limited
"a Gen- 2nd for return passage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21

THE war question is settled jake
Rothschild says there will be no war;
War cannot be carried on without money
and he has the money.
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SALISBURY seems inclined to fight it
out in the newspapers. It is said that
he will publish his version of the Ven
ezuelan controversy
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NEITHER panicky times nor prospec-
tive war causes the treasury to stop the
Withdrawals of gold, which it could do
any minute by offering silver instead.
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The free silver element in the senate
has won first blood by defeating a reso-
luton which would have permitted the
burial of all silver legislation in the
committee
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DE WINDT'S LONH TRIP

he Expects to Spend $685. 0c Proceeding
by Land From New York to Paris.
Harry Do Windt is a young English
man who has a great deal of money and
very little notoriety, and he is about to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21

JOHN J. INGALLS, sizes up the British
national character as it is and as nobody
but ingalls, could do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21

CHICAGO Dec 21.-For Kansas
Partly cloudy; colder in central and west
ern portions tonight; colder Sunday;
southerly winds shifting to westerly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21

OLD Ready Money Sage was in his
glory yesterday. Call loans went up to
80 per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-21

YESTERDAY came near being another
"Black Friday" in Wall street One of
these days it will be black all the year
round in Wall street when the people go
in there with their snickersnees.
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Dominion government interested in the
scheme. He was successful in arousing
interest, but failed to secure financial
aid from the government and finally
abandoned further effort in this direc-
ton. He secured such ragement,
from various Canadian capitalists, how
ever, that he leased the Montreal Expo
sition company's grounds, organized in
England the Canadian Exposition COM
pany, limited, and began planning to
hold big fair in Montreal in the sum-
mer of 1895. The project is being heart
lily supported at home and abroad, and
foreign agents already announce that
many exhibitors are applying for space.
There will be at least 10, 900 splendid
exhibits of an extensive and varied char
acter and numerous special features of
good moral character have been engaged.
There will be no Sunday opening, no
gambling and no questionable side
shows, and in pursuance of his plan to
furnish an unobjectionable exposition
Mr. Stiles has already refused to accept
IA reproduction of Monte Carlo, the Pas
sion play and the Egyptian dancing
girls.
No tree has yet been measured which
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Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown to
have circulation, during the first six months
as stated. of a
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND seems to be
again confronted by "a condition and not
~
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No tree has yet been measured which
was taller than the great eucalyptus in
Gipsland, Australia, which proved to
be $50 feet high.
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Wonderful Growth.

Daily average for first six
months Of 1898.
Daily average for first siz
months Of 1894.
Daily average fer first six
months Of 1895 10000.