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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
ZEE Q. G. 2. ~ ToPRKA.

Hello. Mr.. Travelling Man! Glad to
see you. Topeka is here to help you
have a good time, 50 make the most of
it,
They may talk of the lodge conven-
tions, with their long parades, and the
religious conventions with their Inn
mense mass meetings, and the political
conventions which mill around in the
Copeland lobby, but take it all around,
there are none Of them which let the
public get in on the ground floor like
the travelling men do. We have had
them ALL and we know
Topeka enjoys the travelling men as
much as we hope they enjoy Topeka.
They have hired lot of the crack
bands of the west, and have paid them
to play for the public right down on
Kansas avenue. They have fixed up
lot Of highly interesting things for the
public to look at in the Auditorium.
They have been generous with their
cigars, and have generally confirmed
the established reputation of travelling
men as good fellows
In return, Topeka has hung out its
flags. opened up its hearts and its Au-
ditorium, and tried to steer the visitors
up against any old thing they asked
for. We are sorry that we had to tell
the buckslxin boys from the bad lands
to refrain from exercising their Colts
on Kansas avenue. but it seemed nee
essary. as a few of our backward citi-
zens have not bought their automobiles
yet, and some of the new street cars
are inclined to be skittish.
There is probably no class of people
who are so typieally American as are
the travelling men. Every one of them
is smart, and you can bank on it. They
are good takers. because that's half
their business. They must have energy,
tact and reasonably good health. Church
membership is not an essential, but
when a travelling man gets right down
to business and talks to you, you can
count on him. But beware. for there's
no man on earth loves a joke better
than the man who is ''on the road
A Topeka man once wrote a poem
which is known and loved by every
travelling man. A few lines of it ought
to be quoted on this occasion. It runs
as follows:
Gould I drink of the nectar the gods
only can
I would fill up the glass to the brim
And drink the success of the travelling
man,
And the house represented by him.
And could I but tincture that glorious
draught
With his smiles as I think of him
then,
With the Jokes he has told and the
laughs he has laughed
I would ill up the glasses again
And when he has finished this earthly
abode.
And made the last town that he can,
Mine Host of the Inn at the end of the
road
VIII welcome the travelling man..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
Many a fat pocketbook is filed with I'M
receiDted bills
The natural gravity of mankind is to-
ward the crave
An unresponsive ante has driven many
a man to his uncle"
When a man gets tired of doing nothing
there is no hope for him.
From a. feminine point of view a bird
on the hat is worth two on toast.
The dentist is one man who believes that
it pays to hurt peoples feelings
1t is just as disastrous to live beyond
your reputation as beyond your means.
The swindler believes that if man Is
worth doing at all he us worth doing well
You can't tell much about a family's
religion from the size of the family Bible
A little charity while you are alive is
worth a dozen tombstone Inscriptions af-
ter you are dead.
Nell-"I hear you and Jack are going to
be married Belle-'-CfracIouss Who told
you that2 Why we are merely engaged
The poet sang of single bliss
Then met 4 maid and kissed her.
He's married now, and knows a kiss
May turn ones bliss to blister.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
JAYHAWKFR IOTa

greenwood county has a petrified man,
and 1889 other citizens
All the fruit around Robinson was killed
except the young onions
A hourishing industry in Meade county
Is the raising and selling of Angora cats.
Two sold this week for SIC.
A serviceable umbrella has been left at
the Meade depot for week without any
aiIeSed owners calling for it.
seneca sports are induging in ping-pong
thls season Their salaried ball team
came out $500 behind last year.
Two small Cowley county boys who stole
q BOAT VIII take their outing IN jail rather
imam on the Walnut, as they expected.
One great trouble with the new boss
busters IS that they waste too much val
uaple time patting themselves on the back
The handwriting of a woman deputy in
the Ell Dorado register of deeds Office is
IKE copper plate declare her enthusiast
tic admirers.
A Winfield man who had just dropped
MS accldent insurance dropped 80 feet from
cracked his skull
Not single arrest was made in Parsons
last winter for stealing coal, but the ice
men are not so certain of getting off so
easily this summer.
It seems that the Woodmen at Emporia
didn't use their saws altogether. From the
amount or splitting there must have
been few axes out
An Abilene ex-railroad conductor has
started out in charge of a merry go-round
He should be competent when to signal
a stop, to start and to collect fares.
Down at Neodesha when the boys s'are
out IN a friendly game of poker and are
compelled to put up their watches 4 nervy
tale of being held up seems to 90.
An Oswego family forgot to take a cent
OF their $500 loose change to church Sun
day night and 50 had to pass up the col
ing to the big outside church called and
attended to the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

tfmore & Ohio. The stock in these cases
was bought on the open market. the
money being borrowed on notes Of the
company, afterwards paid off through
issue Of sticks or bonds. The Morgan
interest paid cash to the Gates pool
in Louisville so. in substance. at any
rate, did the Reading in its purchase OF
the Central of New Jersey in January,
1901, and the Pennsylvania in its indi-
rect acquisition of the Reading last
year The Sugar Refining company has
been before the supreme court, under
the antitrust law of 1890. and won its
case The court ruled that the cOmbi-
nation created no monopoly and was not
in restraint OF trade
1t must not be forgotten that it is
possible to keep to the letter of the law
while violating its spirit, and in such
case II IS scarcely possible for the
courts to interfere. Two parallel roads
controlled by the same stockholders may
nave each different directors elected to
carry out the behests of those stock
holders, and these directors may estab-
hsh ike rates for like distances between
competing points, so that there is no
choice Of rates and no competition, but
unless It can be shown that this is done
by eollusion, it does not contravene the
antitrust laws
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
EpIroRIAL ooMMENr.
Enforcing the Law.

MINNEAPOLIS Tribune:
The Northern Securities people expect
the supreme court to reverse the decl-
sion OF the lower court in the merger
case, because they expect to be able to
show that there has been no restraint
of trade. They assert, on the contrary,
that trade has been stimulated since the
merger by lower rates and greater facil-
tiles Of transportation They point to
lower ton-nile cost and increased earn
ings on reduced rates to the shipper to
show that trade has been encouraged
instead of restrained by the merger.
This looks like a good defense to the
lay mind, if they can prove the facts;
but we think it does not quite get the
point of view Of the court of appeals de-
cisiOn. That was. in effect, that the
power and a combination possessing it
is an unlawful combination, even if the
power be not exercised; even if it be
exercised to stimulate instead of to re-
that the merger was not good thing;
1t only says that it is an unlawful
thing. The court thought it was its
duty to enforce the law as it found it
If the law forbids a good thing. it is the
business OF congress to change it. This
is pretty common American view till
you come to the enforcement of mu-
tuOus
There is not the least assurance that
the supreme court will sustain the mer-
ger on showing that it is not hurtfuL
though unlawful. The Sherman law de-
clares every combination in restraint OF
trade to be unlawful. In the pooling
cases, the minority of the supreme court
held that this meant only unreasonable
or hurtful restraint of trade; but the
majority held that the law meant Just
what it said So it broke up all the
pooling associations. though not disput-
ing that they might be in the public in
terest, leaving congress to change the
law if it thought best.
No one need be surprised if the su-
preme court take the same view in the
merger case. The supreme court does
not make the law and it is rather SLOW
to change it, even for constitutional
reasons It's business is to enforce the
law as it finds it. unless it is contrary
to the constitution, leaving the question
of what ought to be the law to congress
and the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
Merger Trust Cases.

New Orleans Picayune.
The recent decision in the case of the
merger of the Northern Pacific and the
Northern Railroad companies, two
parallel competing lines, which the
United States circuit court of appeals
at St. Paul declared it to be unlawful
to place under the same management,
has aroused no little speculation as
to what other roads may be effected.
That there are other such parallel
roads is well known. The list however,
covers only such as have put through
their deals since 1890, when the anti
trust law was passed. 1t would include
on such a basis the Pennsylvania,
which holds a controlling interest in
the stock of the parallel Baltimore and
Ohio; the Union Pacific, which controls
the parallel Southern Pacific, Atlantic
Coast Line, which is contron-
ing investor in the parallel Louisville
and Nashville the New York New Ha-
possession of the parallel New York,
Providence and Boston in 1892, and of
the New England road IN 1898. 1t might
be construed to apply also to the United
States Steel corporation. which is
holding company for manufacturing en-
directly, and which was formed to pre-
vent aggressive competition. There are
also other companies which could be
enumerated.
This assumption is conditioned on the
suppOsitiOn that the supreme court of
the United States will sustain the deci-
sion in the northwestern mercer case.
writer on the subject notes that the
combinations above referred to. except
the United States Steel. differ from the
actually paid for the stock acquired.
This was true of the Union Pacific'S
purchase Of the Southern Pacific and
the Pennsylvania purchase of the Bal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.


IErom the AtchiSon GlObe.I
This is the season when people say to
their friends: Wheel OnionsHF
The season is rapidly approaching when
you would rather fish than work.
The town is full of good looking girls.
Most of them are school teachersi Some
body parse that.
You all know how girls fade as soon as
they marry. Some girls begin TO fade as
soon as they are engaged.
When a woman's dress isn't pretty, she
blames the dressmalzer. and when 1t is
figure to fit.
When violets are in bloom in the woods
the pretty school teacher is the first in
town who gets any without going out af-
ter them
We We actually met man today who said;
outside of books and plays. The man lives
in Missouri
,Atchison young. man who was married
last fall hasn't had a change from boiled
eggs for breakfast in all that time.
Suggested as feature of the teachers
convention: make the 80 from IeaVenwOrth
stand up IN spelling match and give out
Przybylowzyw iboclz.
Some people who say they are fond Of
music have a funny way of showing il:
as some people who say they love each
other, have d funny way of showing it.
Girl school teachers are of a superior
class. It is a good sign when a Girl de-
cides to fit herself for a teacher and a
better one when she is able to get a Ger
tificate.
Although people make Jokes about the
old maids, they are the salt of the earth.
and generally admired. And if an old maid
for it.
It is said of an Atchison child months
that he is so bad when given a bath that
his mother has to put on a bathing suit
and go in with him to avoid getting her
clothes wet
An Atchison woman says she doesn't
need a barometer to tell her if a storm is
coming. The manner in which her hus-
band slams the gate after him when he
comes home is barometer enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
A wALK IN ~ YoRK.

I've strolled in Maiden Lane without
I've walked the length of Church with
out a pew;
I've been in Pearl and had no other jewel;
I've walked ia State-and very stately
too.
In Lispenard I've lisped the name of
Met many reuton lunehing in old
If sfter Gold. I've wandered down near
Jacob.
Then on through Frankfort, Ferry, Peck
and such.
If on a tour 'ycleped photographic.
I've turned my face from Park Row to
Then sought the haunts of quaint and
charming Nassau,
To turn again and see my dear old Ann!
with Grand now losing something Of its
grandeur,
] felt, indeed. my Greenwich not too YER
For Gansevoort belle Of whom I'm very
fondi
In Prince street, though, did not look
Il had with me dustpan and Broom).
] hoped that. should the weather grow no
might in regal Courtlandt very sooni
At Liberty I was in time for dinner
(The. cash to pay for it came through the
From th8t day I resolved no Moore to
wander,
And the Rector Of ST. Anne says I'll not
ARTHUR b. BARTEAUx
New York City, April 30 1903.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.l
Money talks and whisky makes a man
talkative.
There is no economy If going to Florida
to eat oranges
Lady-hngers are the prevailing fancy in
engagement rings.
Might doesn't maks right-but it usually
succeeds in making good.
Common sense is plentiful. but it's the
uncommon kind that counts.
The swindler finds it difficult to secure
a partner that Is trustworthy.
It is far easier to escape a shower than
it is to dodge sprinlzling cart
Just as the average man is about to get
a strange hold on fame his pipe goes ont
Love sneaks out at the back door when
young man discovers that his best girl
likes onions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

educational institutions travel on com
mutation tickets at 1-5 cents The
city also sells passes. good for one
year at $50. and monthly passes, good
on all lines are sold at a cores
ponding rate Besides street railways,
the city owns and operates its own gas
and electric light plants, bath houses,
market houses, slaughter houses. cold
storage plants. savings banks and
pawnshops, all of which, according to
Mr. Carpenter are successfully and
economically operated in the interests
Of the general public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

All things considered, failure statis-
tics for the year thus far are not indi-
cative Of any reaction in business, says
r. G. Dun & Co. although the total
defaulted of liabilities makes a poor
comparison with preceding months.
Exceptionally high rates in the money
market during the winter made 1T diff
ficult to carry weak concerns through,
and there has been somewhat more
pressure on account of the high cost
Of materials and labor. Moreover, there
is always a tendency to excess during
a season Of prosperity, and it is TO be
expected that q considerable crop of
these ill-advised ventures will be har-
vested in the near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
A Sure Thinc.

1t is said that nothing is sure except
death and taxes. but that is not alto
gether true. DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption is a sure cure for an lung
and throat troubles. Thousands can tes-
tify to that. Mrs. c. B. NanAet=e of Shep-
herdtown, W. Va says: Il had a severe
case Of bronchitis and for a year tried ev-
erything I heard of. but got no relief. One
bottle Of DIR. Kings New Discovery then
cured me absolutely" It's infanible for
Group, whooping cough, grip, pneumonia
and consumption Try it. It's guaranteed
by Arnold Drug Co., 81 North Kansas ave.
Trial bottles. free; regular sizes. so cents
HOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

At last the dirigible balloon appears to
be an accomplished fact. At Paris this
week the airship constructed for the lie
Baudv brothers made a highly success
full trip. The start was made at a.
IN. from St. Marin during a light rain
and with a brisk wind blowing. The
craft passed over number of suburban
towns At Mantez she made a circle
around the cathedral spire and left that
town going diagonally against the di-
rection the wind was coming from.
Over Limay Mantez and Rosney the air
shin was put through a series of evo-
lutions and answered her helm and ma
neuvered to the perfect satisfaction Of
all interested in her. She then returned
to her point Of departure. where she de-
seconded without accident. The dis
lance covered was 81 kilometers, in one
hour and SO minutes. against Santos
Dumonts record for the Duetsch prize
OF liza kilometers in 30 minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

Cleveland is the only man who has
been able to break the record of Demo-
cratic defeat in a half century. Per
haps this encourages him to believe that
he can also break the unwritten third
term law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

who had stood in the relation to it that
Horace Greeley did to the Democratic
party, would find little difficulty in
bringing its following to support of Mr..
Cleveland, much as he is hated by a
large element of the organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.l
There is no fool like the old fool except
a young father.
There are friendships between men: be
tween women liberation.
Any man can get married whenever any
woman makes u his mind TO-
woman's f~ure may be as long as It
pleases if it doesn't neglect to get round
once in a while
When a woman gets burned playing with
fire she can make herself believe the bls-
ters are dimnles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

Frank g. Carpenter, in his European
travels, refers to the Dusseldorf and
Cologne municipal street railways on
the Rhine, and calls attention to the fact
that in those German cities which own
and operate their own street cars he
gets as good service as in the city OF
Washington at one-half the cost Of
fares. The highest fares in Cologne
are 355 cents, while students attending
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

OF course nobody expected Russia to
turn loose Manchuria. but it seems
that diplomacy has made it necessary
for everybody to wait until she got such
a good hold on it that it win take
war to make her relax her grip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

1t is said that Porto Rico is to have
university. How can an institution Of
that character succeed where the
weather is too warm to play football?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

The office Of private secretary to the
president doesn't include among its du-
ties kissing the babies. The president
attends to that himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

st. Louis Post-Dispatch: 1t is to be
regretted that in most cases where A
political party sweeps the city" at an
election it neglects to sweep the city
Afterwards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

In Buffalo murderers are finding it
necessary to give themselves up in
order to secure arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

John Coyne. bailiff of the district
court, carries more responsibility on
his shoulders than most people imagine.
He is responsible for the preservation
of order in the court. He doesn't do like
the bailiff in 'Pud'en Head Wilson" and
pound the floor and cry "o-o-order in
the c-o-t-e' every time there is a noise.
He stops the noise before it begtnss
though that may seem paradoxical.
If there is a disturbance in q corner
of the room Coyne rushes there with all
haste. He may 1ostle two or three peo-
pie, turn over a chair or two on his
way but he stops the noise.
If a trial is in progress and there is a
crying baby in the room. that the moth
er can not quiet Coyne rushes over,
grabs the baby without any unneces-
sary palaver and explanation, unless it
be give me that baby" Then the
youthful disturber is Doked in the ribs
few times. bounced in the air, trun-
died on the bailiff's knee perhaps and
put through the usual PAGES which
bring quiet to the unstrung nerves of
an infant. Coyne is a past master At
the art of quieting babies. Ought to
know how, I've brought up more than
a half dozen of 'em meself." explains
Coyne. If there is an unruly person
in the room the judge may take a hand
and issue orders and instructions but
if there is an unruly baby no orders are
given At the first cry of baby Coyne
is on the alert and a baby that he
couldn't quiet is yet to be found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-09

The best meals for 15c at Ladies' Elk
change, 119 West Sixth street.
z. Z. FISHER, Prop.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-14

. > u as5. J. ~ ii . b
rTHIs projected road is known as the
: Valdez, Copper River & Yukon
railway. Whether it will ever
be built there is not now any sub
'stantial evidence. The conditions are
peculiar. While there is considerable
gold in the Copper river country prob
ably more in the Tanana valley, ana
Still more in the Forty-Mile country
toward Eagle, the greatest known min
eral wealth along that route is be-
lieved to be the copper deposits OF the
Copper river country. During the
past summer three or four prospect
ing parties each representing dlfferent
inn ortant copper interests IN tnls
country and Mexico, visited the valley
Of the Copper river and it's tributaries
to ascertain the truth Of the reports
of great copper deposits in that re-
gion. Experts were employed for this
purpose, among them one OF the
Winchells of Minnesota, acting in the
interest of one of the copper syndi-
Gates. These explorers were very ret
icent as to the value of the copper
deposits supposed to exist in that re-
gion. One of them, however, stated
to reliable citizen of Valdez, known
personally to the writer, that when the
copper deposits of the Copper river
country began to be developed and put
upon the market the mines of Butte
and the Calumet & Hecla would have
to go out of business; that copper
could be produced from the Alaska
ores at a third or a fourth Of the ex-
pense incurred in either OF, the locali-
ties named. No copper interest, how
ever, seems prepared to commence
operations. influenced possibly by the
fact that to do so would be to lessen
if not destroy the value of the proper
ties already in operation in the States,
where large sums are already invested.
| These copper kings appear to be
watching each other, however, each to
see that the others do not get the
start of him. This country has been
prospected more or less and the best
known deposits have been filed upon
and are claimed by individuals who
set high price upon their holdings.
Some day, however, these rich depos-
its of copper will fall into the hands
of men of capital and will be devel-
oped; but until they do pass into the
hands of men of large means capable
of developing them, the construction
of the. Valdez and Eagle railroad thru
that copper region is likely to be de-
ferred. Whoever builds the road, and
| it will doubtless be built some day, will
first have obtained control of the best
"copper" deposits in the development of
which such a railroad would be almost
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