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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
EDITORIAL oomMENr.
LaYing Down the Law.

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The Wisconsin.
The ST. Louis court of appeals has
decided that the Master Plumbers as
ISOLATION of that city is an unlawful
combination. The association included
all the supply houses as well ASA ma
jority of the plumbers in the city. 1t
refused to sell supplies TO a plumber
who was in business there and who did
not belong to the association The court
held that while any one concern may
lawfully refuse to sell supplies to an in
dividual for any cause or for no cause,
nation OF concerns to be permitted to do
the same thing. Such a combination is
a combination in restraint Of trade. The
decision wears something of the ap
pearance Of the decision of the United
States circuit court of appeals at St.
Paul in the Northern Securities case,
though 1t was not. like that decision,
based UDOn a federal statute.
II the st. Louis decision We're follow
ed everywhere 1t would have important
results. In many other cities than St
Louis organizations like the defendant
association have been carrying matters
with high hand. as is well known to
people who have let building contracts
during the past few years. But it is a
question how far the principle under
which the st. Louis decision has made
can be applied. Its application in
the case of the Northern Securities COM
panY TENDS to secure valuable rights
which belong to the people, and is sure
to be popular. But suppose it were APP
piled in the case of labor strikes? Sup
pose a court should say: "Workingmen
have a perfect right to quit work singly,
but no right to enter into an agreement
with each other to quit in q body-that
is a conspiracy, or that is an agreement
in restraint of trader" This is exactly
What courts did say quarters of
a century ago. The general opinion on
the rights of labor has undergone rad
zeal modification since 1925, when the
journeymen tailors who struck in the
city of New York We're promptly ar
rested as conspifators to injure their
masters business.
There is evidently great difficulty in set
ting a trap to catch the evil trusts which
will not threaten to restrict the operation
OF labor unions as well. Undoubtedly it
can be done and will The essential differ
ence between the two is that a trust is
usually indebted Tor it's charter of exist
ence to the state and derives its revenue
from the utilization of valuable franchises
granted to it by the public In the case of
the labor unions matters are different
They are exploiting nothing but the right
to work under conditions tolerable to
themselves
Let them beware then Of denying to
others the right to work. which is as in
herent in one man as in another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27

cumstance. The forms and ceremonies
necessary to maintain the dignity and
make impressive functions at a royal
court would be quite out OF place and
absurd in the family of the ordinary
person. Many of the customs prevail
ing and necessary among a leisure and
cultured class Of people, would be en-
flrely unsuitable in the family of a poor
laboring man. Nor does this infer that
the one is not just as good as the other,
only that different circumstances re-
quire different manner and conduct in
ones associations.
But at no time or place can one afford
TO act without regard to what is con-
sidered good manners. There is a cer-
tain difference due to every one with
whom we have to do A pleasing ad-
dress does much to smooth ones way in
the world and win friends Having
great talent, or ability, or wealth. does
not excuse one from being well bred. II
one lacks in educa ton or ability, good
manners go far towards making up the
deficiency Politeness adds to our pleas
ure in company and is necessary to do
nestle happiness
There is 70 form or ceremony worthy OF
observation, but has its reason for being.
In our endeayors to acquire good manners,
in considering the requirements of ETH
we should seek the reason on which such
form is based Good manners cost but an
effort and all from the most. cultured to
the poorest and most ignorant have need
of all the pleasing manners which they
can make their own Manners are not
from within and form a part of our char
acter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
TRAGEDY OF ANIMAL LIFE.
There Is Something Pathetic in the
Career of the Passenger Pigeon.

To him who knows the story of the
passenger pigeon, this group of beau
tifui crayish brown birds with the iri-
descent golden sheen upon their Threats.
is the last word of tragedy of animal
life. America was once the land OF the
wild pigeon Early American writer's
are full of references to it. Alexander
Wilson, the father of American ornl-
thology. estimated that a flock seen by
him in 1903 contained over 1000 600 IN
dividuals. It stretched from horizon to
and was over four. hours in passing 4
given point. He saw a nesting colony
forty miles long and several miles IN
width.
In 1905 Audubon saw schooners at the
wharves in New York loaded. not in
package but in bulk with wild
pigeons caught up the Hudson river
and sold for cent apiece. Up to 1860
the bird continued fairly abundant
Then a frightfu1 slaughter began TO
supply an increased food demand Gun.
pole, club. net and sulphur pot We're
employed. Thirty dozen birds were cap
tured at one spring of the net One man
netted 500 dozen in one day. In the nest
ing season trees were shaken or felled
and wagon loads of SQUAD taken night
utilize what the hunters" had left
Wherever the distracted fOcks appeared
the slaughter began. AT the last known
large pigeon nesting" in 1878, billion
birds were killed during the season
Like the bison. it was effectually ex-
terminated. showing the terrible eff
cheney of man when he sets out Sys-
tematicaIly in pursuit of a lower spe-
cies.-NeW York Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
/ From the Chicago News.l

lEIOIl lu0 AulCd5O ANCWS-l
Lend man thine ear. but not thy UNI
brella.
An air of mystery is about all there is
to some men.
Inhabitants Of New Mexico believe il
a future state
Women may be outspoken, but they
are never out-talked.
Some people never seek religion as
long as there is a dollar in sight,
What some men owe worries them
much less than what they would like to
oWa-
When one man tries to do the work
of three the work of two remains I'M
finished
A homely rich girl is prettier than a
beautiful poor one-in the eyes of some
men,
It isn't necessary for man to know
enough to go in when it rains if he has
a borrowed umbrella.
The average man clings tenaciously to
his own opinions but he expects other
people to change theirs
Nothing short of true faith win sepa-
rate a bald-headed man from the hard
earned price OF a bottle Of hair restorer
Some men would get along much
faster if they didn't waste so much time
telling other people what they would do
If they had a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27

buggy But 1t wasn't a bass it was a.
joke.
A coIored woman recently applied 10
Church White, the poor commissioner,
for aid. Until am able to dress as
well as your son. said White, I will
not issue requisition to you for "a
tions.''
A man who has been married two
years, was looking very gloomy this
morning. After gazing at nothing Tor
a long time, he said: Did you ever
think how completely a man is done UP
after he is married?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
WOMEN COLLEGIANS.
Tendencies Toward Rationalism DIFF
fer Greatly from Those of Men.

The people Of England are beginning
to open their eyes to the ethical culture
tendencies of the young women gradu-
ates Of Newman and Girton. Herbert
Burrows, one of the leaders of ethical
thought in England, says that the bril-
liantly educated girls of that country
were manifesting pronounced atheistic
tendencies.
1T is a curious fact" Mr.. Burrows
said, but Oxford and Cambridge men
are for the most part q mean those
who go in for religion at alb extreme
ritualists, while university women gen
orally go to the other extreme and APP
proach rationalism of one degree or an
other. I suppose this is accounted for
by the fact that as vet only reasonably
clever women go to the university, while
college doo~s have long been open to
men of poor talents.
People can laugh at Englishwomen
all they like. make fun of their dressing
and their conventionalities. continued
Mr. Burrows rbut when it comes TO
real intellectual attainment and pro-
gressive thought the Englishwoman
holds second position to none. In the
ethical culture movement she is still IN
the minority as compared to man, bat
ii is a very fair minority l am Will
ing to make the general statement that
the English college woman's outlook on
life is distinctly broader than that OF
her brother VINO is educated in the same
university 's-Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
LOCAL MENTION.

The Native Sons and Daughters of
Kansas viii meet at the Commercial
club rooms this evening
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. Swanson have return
ed from a two months pleasure trip in
Old Mexico and California.
H P Miller. formerly city employee
under Mayor Parker. is working at his
trade of barber in Councilman Joseph
Griley's shop.
The Washburn College Literary soci-
ETY. has just purchased fine new piano
for its society room in Rice hall. The
piano is an expensive one.
At 1880 Saturday night there was q
small fire in dwelling at Up East
Seventh. The fire started from a lamp
explosion, and the damage was trif1ing
The Twenty third regiment band will
lead the procession Of colored Odd Eel
lows in Kansas City on May 10. The
occasion will be the annual reunion at
which viii be present colored Odd Fell
lows from Kansas and Missouri.
George Byl1e. a prisoner in the county
Jail for burglary, became the subject of
something resembling a fit Sunday and
Jailer Lawson had to secure help to
subdue and place him in dungeon.
Byke came to Topeka with the Sells &
Downs show last winter.
Mrs. Charles G. Miller. who has been
engaged in social settlement work in
Kansas City for a number of years past
is visiting her mother, Mrs. F. L. CIR
nell Mr. Miller has been forced to re
linquish his work in the Kansas City
social settlements from bad health and
has taken pastorate at Osborne, Kan.
It is probable that Henry Engle, who
was let out from the employ of the city
as pavement inspector, will be re-eTn-
ployed to take charge of the inspection
OF some of the new pavement to be
laid. Henry Engle Is probably the best
Inspector the city ever had, and he IS
thoroughly honest. He was dismissed
from the regular force for political rea-
sons. though it is difficult to understand
why.
Sunday night there was quite a Sc
rious fire at Al Kansas avenue. The
fire started in Joe Reeds law Office.
burned big hole in the floor. and was
getting a good start on the Powell &
Petrie grocery store when discovered.
The origin of the FIRE is not known. Joe
Reed lost a good many papers and some
furniture J. T Ward had his desk con-
siderably damaged. The entire damage
Is estimated at SIS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
oUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.I

lF1ofn the Fh1laQelpaia ttecOrd.1
Adam didn't believe IN heredity.
Lots Of regulations are lost, strayed
or stolen.
People may not believe in signs and
still refrain from writing anonymous
ietterz.
II you would acquire popularity, laugh
loudly at all the moss grown stories you
hear
Familiarity breeds contempt, and
there is such thing as knowing our
selves too well.
A man may be too proud to beg, too
honest to steal and too lazy to work,
and yet manage to exist.
Hoax-"He is man of many call
ings. Joax-''A jack of all trades. en-"
Hoax-'No: train announcer"
When Cupid deals the game OF hearts
We get it in the neck,
And oft we find he's dealing from
The bottom of the deck
Blobbs-. Scribbler has had no less
than nine plays rejected" Slobbs--
What is he doing now?" Blobbs-
Writing essays on the decline Of the
drama"
Now here is hairpin. said the
kindergarten teacher. What is it used
for2" ITO button your shoes with" re-
piled the little girl at the foot of the
class
There once was a Chinx with a queue,
Who wanted a maiden to VOGUE:
But the maiden so fair
Didn't fancy his hair.
SO she said: I viii bid you adueue."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
IAYaAWKER JoTs.

The Rice county jail is without a
prisoner.
The "swellest" man in Sterling rides
in q borrowed rig.
Ellis shops have a new whistle which
viii be tested when Teddy comes to
Wheat around Bazine is now high
enough to hide rabbit standing on its
hind legs
The tax collectors at Dodge City are
putting worthless unowned dogs out OF
circulation.
Hiawatha's Chinaman will return to
his native land. It's case of home
sickness.
At junction City the dog taxes col
Iected just pay the salaries of the dog
catchers-
Lyons has the humps. AS yet the
epidemic hasn't been styled the bu-
bonic plague.
The woods were green enough last
week for the Spearville school to close
with a picnic.
The apple tree blooms around Troy
came out in the wrong time of the moon
to bear any fruit.
At the age of 50 a Brown county farm
er has purchased his first set of harness
Did he use oxen before?
How many new tracks the Boss Bust
ers' are being compelled to make to
cover up their old ones.
Dodge City is to have a large new
brick theater. The management prom
ises not to open it with Uncle Tom.
A Tonganoxie farmer complained be-
cause the stock buyer would only pay
him $z6.09 for one Of his ordinary pigs.
In tearing up a porch built forty-two
years ago a jefferson county citizen
found q purse containing a paper five
cent piece.
If the farmers would quit throwing
in old axes with the grain they sell a
McLouth elevator. the proprietor says
his machinery would last longer
The son of Rice county farmer is in
luck In the stomach of a COW that
was butchered forty-tWo pebbles were
found, round and smooth like marbles
Dodge City's claim for superiority
over other short grass towns is having
the best park in western Kansas and a
man who has invented a perfect voting
machine.
A tramp kicked from a Rock Island
train near Wathena says it was 100 feet
through the trestle to the water below.
AS a matter Of fact it was only half
dozen yards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
rhe Presldant q q asettler.''

Des Moines Capital:
President Roosevelt is a man Of clear
head and prompt action.
lie is noted for settling things. When
disputes have gone on long enough he
takes a hand.
it win be remembered that after the
Sampson and Schley controversy had
ragged in the press and in naval circles
ton. He reviewed all the evidence, dis
tributed the honors where they belonged
and nothing has been heard OF the con
trOVerSy since.
The president settled the Sampson and
Schley controversy
The dispute between capital and labor
in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania
had gone on for months and neither side
would yield The president made up his
mind that something must be done And
coal mines to submit their case TO a board
of arbitration Then he appointed a board
of such high character that neither side
could object and when the board rendered
its opinion the battle between the capital
and labor in Pennsylvania was at an end
The president settled the coal strike.
When three railroads running parallel at
temDted to consolidate for the purpose OF
controlling rates and the manner OF con-
Quoting business the president ordered At
terney7 General Knox to bring suit to dis
solve the Northern Securities company.
The attorney general brought the suit and
by great ability won it,
The president settled the Northern Seeur-
tiles company.
For a year the president witnessed The
campaign in Iowa for immediate tariff
revision and for tariff revision to de-
stroy the trusts When the proper time
came the president made his Minneapolis
speech and from that hour forward the
Iowa idea" was dead.
The president is q settler and when ne
settles things they remain settled.
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ANOTHER srINeY PENSION
COMMISSIONER.

LFrom Rochester Union and Advertised
1t is gratifying to learn that MI
Ware. the new commissioner of pen
sions. is mourning the displeasure Of the
same men who were hostile to his able
and honest predecessor. Mr.. Evans. The
professional old soldiers" never tired
of attacking MI. Evans on the ground
that he was not liberal with the peo-
pies money and was therefore the old
soldiers enemy. 1t appears that Gen.
Dyrenforth, chief of the Union Veter-
ans union. is deeply dissatisfied with
Commissioner Ware. He declares that
there has been mo Improvement in the
treatment of veterans over the Evans
regime" and describes that treatment
as Infamous" We confess that we
are surprised to find Mr.. Ware follow
ing in the footsteps of Mr.. Evans. The
circumstances under which he became
the successor of Mr.. Evans were not
such as to justify expectation that he
would do so. There is good reason to
believe that Commissioner Evans left
the pension bureau because President
Roosevelt made him understand that
his retirement might save the president
some embarrassment in his long cam
paign for the capture Of the Republican
national convention in 1904. The old
soldiers were clamoring for the removal
of MIR. Evans. They had clamored for
his removal by President Mckinley, but
that conscientious man had resisted
them. Mckinley said that Evans was
the right man for the place and that
nothing was to be gained by his retire
ment. When President Roosevelt per-
mitted Mr.. Evans to go it was natural
that the country should infer that his
successor must hold more liberal
views in regard TO pensions than Mr..
Evans held. Possibly he does. and it
may be too early yet to congratulate
the country on Mr. Wares adoption of
the Infamous" nolicy of his predeces-
sor. but 1t is good omen that the
professional old soldiers" are begin
ming to attack him. AS long as they are
dissatisfied the rest of the American
people win have little cause for COM
plant. We think there is reason to
hope that the business OF the pension
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ANNUAL SALE, TEN MILLION BOXES

passed on the Banks. From one of these
the white owl flew aboard the ship
AS fowls are found in even the arctic
regions, and as the snowy owl named
from its white feathers, is native to the
polar regions, the bird brought by the
Forest Castle is doubtless of the snowy
type, These birds are found in the fields
of Lapland the prairies of arctic Amer
lea, and in Siberia. The owl on the
Forest Castle was evidently on a mass
of arctic ice that broke loose from a
glacier and drifted out to sea AS the
ice field now coming down from the
arctic region and crossing the North
Atlantic steamship tracks has a south
ern edge alone OF from go to 100 miles,
the Owl was not quick to discover that
it was far from land. And when it be-
came hungry it flew aboard the For
est Castle. At the time it was much
exhausted from lack Of food, but soon
revived. Capt. Taylor presented the
bird to Pilot Henry Duff. who boarded
the ship at Cape Henry and brought
the vessel up the bay. Mr. Duff. through
Park Commissioner Edward D. Booz,
presented the owl to Druid Park. The
owl measures from is TO IS inches in
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LAC <AtCltiGOt ATAOUEsI
An Atchison man tries to make
friends. but uses an ak.
The most becoming spring hat we
have seen is being worn by an old maid
who works down town.
When a woman cries and her hus-
band is not the cause of her tears, how
indignant he becomes at the one who
isl
We don't think anything equals the
scorn of the hard working woman when
she is told about physical culture
1T is said of an Atchison man that
when he RECEIVERS from a sickness, he
thanks God to the exclusion of paying
his doctor.
1t is very discouraging to plug news
paper workers: this success which
comes TO those who use the word
"erstwhile."
Keep your secret. and you can con
troll it. But tell one person. and your
story viii be generally known. with ex-
aggerations.
Speaking of strenuous life. Frank
James who win be in Atchfson next
month with Wild West show. led one
for q years.
When you see strangers, don't i'm
agine they are trying to md out who
you are; they are probably thinking
you are wondering who they are.
After man has called one woman
Charming" he should never apply the
same word to another woman if he
doesn't want her to get black in the
face
An Atchison woman who recently
called an attorney, and said she wanted
a divorce. has changed her mind, and
says the correspondent is a low, mean
thing.
A Missouri fisherman called to re-
porter today. I've got the best one I
ever had" The reporter, thinking of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-27
CHAIRS AT $1,000 EACH.
Furniture of Francis Scott Key Sold
at Auction

Baltimore. Nd. April 27-The feature Of
the sale of the collection of antiques of
the late DR.. William H Grim was the pur-
chase by Charles H. Pond of New York
of eight Chippendale armchairs once own
ed by Francis Scott Key, author of The
Star Spangled Banner" The bidding was
spirited between Pond and Mr.. william of
Baltimore
There was a spirited cheer from the
crowd when Pond. by offering 81. 900 each
for the chairs, outstripped his opponent
and had the treasures knocked down to
him.
Another purchase by Mr.. Pond which
elected cheers was that of four old Chip
pendale chairs with carved backs at 900
each. He also secured a Chippendale Tea
table for $65. The famous Jefferson bed
stead an article designed especially Tor
jefferson. which has on the headboard a
finely carved spread eagle and columns
carved to represent cOrnstalkS, surmOunt-
ed by the full ears of corn peeping from
the husks, went to C. B. Rockwell of Bris-
toi. r. l., for $50
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WOMAN HAS A CAT FARM.
Realizes 3 Comfortable Living b.
Raising FeIines for the Market.

A woman down on the coast OF HI.
"a typical Yankee woman, too-tAro,, j.
upon her own resources. has for seyel q.
years been earning g0odly sum ~
molieS by raising cats, which she diT
:. ses Of to whoever viii buy. bayr.s
the sausage maker. In the locality
which she resides is q beautiful sneci
OF cat. called by some of the natss
Sosn cat and by others sshag cars
5'hlse cats in many cases attain - z.
considerable size, - and 20 poun'ls Les
lng not at all uncommon
They vary in color, have large heads,
and many of them pronounced mutton
chop Whiskers in addition to their
smellers.' The fur on their chests
grows very long and among liie finest
of the breed have small fur lass q g.s.w-
tzak rom the very center II Re ,'..r'i
In frequent instances these cats ma
ture with blue eyes. and 1t is not I'M
common to see a fulI-growp cat OF this
with one blue. eye and one green eye
Years ago many of the Maine sea
captains brought home from their trips
to eastern ports specimens of the beau
tiful cats of the Orient which in afteA
years developed into the present coon
cal.
The price ranges from So upward, sizs
color. etc, determining the cost She
hats a la1.'so house for them and spacious
grounds screened off with wire netting,
which prevents the cats straying off
The pro2rietress of this cat farm says
that cats are easier to raise and com
mand reader sales than dogs.-ChieagO
Chronicle