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The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Fe on it's rate to Kansas City? Does
Mr. Ripley admit that the railroads
have an association or trust that agrees
on rates? 1t has been supposed that
this is the case, but no high railroad
official has come so near admitting 1t
as has President Ripley.
It is not contended that the Kansas
City rate was too low. 1t was simply
advanced to maintain the seven cents
ldifferential between Kansas City and
st. Louis, when the roads reaching st.
Louis advanced the rate to that place.
Mr.. Ripley says it was quite imnaterial
to the Santa Fe what the rate was be-
cause it felt that it could not compete
with the Standard pipe Tine. SO in
stead of leaving the rate as it was, or
attempting to compete as best it might,
it nearly doubled the rate for the short
haul from the oil fields to Kansas City
doing so apparently in combination
with, and at the behest of. the St. Louis
road.
The oil producers say that they had
contracts whereby they could have
done business by rail to Kansas City
and other points had the rates remain
ed the same, but when the railroads
showed them up they were shut COM
pletely out and placed at the mercy of
the Standard That business the Santa
Fe would have secured had it kept its
rates the same and the other roads had
advanced theirs.
Mr. Ripley attempts to defend the
advance in the st. Louis rate by saying
that the Standard was the only shipper
to St Louis both before and after the
rate was advanced. But the Santa Fe
is in no way legitimately interested in
the ST Louis rate. 1t was in Kansas
City that the Independents were doing
business, and it was the advance in
the rate to Kansas City that placed
them at the mercy of the Standard.
The Standard could very well stand an
advance on what little oil it would ship
by rail to st. Louis after the completion
of it's pipe line if thereby it could Sc
cure a monopoly on the entire Kansas
Indian Territory oil field, as it did.
1t sounds very much as though Presi-
dent Ripley has not only pleaded guilty
to the charge that there was some con-
pection between the completion of the
Standards pipe line and the advance in
the freight rates of oil, but that he has
also pleaded guilty to violation of
the antitrust law on the part of the
Santa F'e in combining with the St.
Louis roads in advancing the rate.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

TFron the Chicago News.1
Love that lacks simplicity isn't love.
1t doesn't pay to own anything you
can't pay for.
An honest man never speculates
with other mems money.
It takes a woman's will to convince
a man against his will.
A dead man is soon forgotten-un-
less his. widow marries again.
Some men would be more likely to
take hints if they could pawn them.
Too many people are interested in
business that is none of their business.
Don't pass up the certainty of today
for the uncertainty of tomorrow.
When a woman drives a man to
drink he never stops until he gets
there.
When a shiftless man gets sick his
neighborS seldom lose any time worry
ing about it.
When you greet misfortune with a
smile it comes back at you with
iendish grin.
Some peoples attempts at being
good natured are about the funniest
things that ever happen.
If it were possible to amputate ones
conscience the surgeons would have to
work overtime.
1t is the easiest thing in the world
to convince the average man that he's
far above the average.
There is something wrong with the
girl who doesn't know that a young
man is in love with her until he men
tions it.
Before her marriage a woman
thinks all men are alike. but few
months after she is firmly convinced
that at least one is worse.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
A PLEA OF GUILTY2

President Ripley, of the Santa Fe has
issued another reply to Miss Ida NJ.
Tarbelrs article in the September num-
Der of McClure's Magazine, in which
she refers to the increase of freight
rates on oil out of the Kansas fields to
a prohibitive point just at the time the
Standards pipe line from the Kansas
fields to Kansas City was completed.
This increase compelled the oil produc-
ers to sell all of their oil to the Stand
ard at whatever price the Standard
chose to pay, and the inference was
natural that there was some connection
between the completion OF the pipe line
and the increase of rates by the rail-
roads, inasmuch as the roads thereby
threw away their oil traffic, and mas
much, too. as the same thing had been
done in aiding the Standard to secure a
monopoly of the eastern oil fields.
Some of the explanations Mr.. Ripley
makes are clear and his points are well
taken, but he might better have kept
silent concerning the main contention,-
the relation between the completion of
the pipe line and the advance in freight
rates. 1t sounds very much like an in
advertent plea of guilty to the charge
that there was some connection between
tACAAs AACAC 10 what III. 1Atpl0J says.
Miss Tarbells second charge is that
in August, 1904, the rates on crude oil
and all its producers were raised from
10 cents per 100 pounds to II cents. This
statement is Correct: but SO far as the
Santa F'e Railway company Is concern
are that there exists, by custom, a fixed
difference between the rate from Kan
sas oil fields to Kansas City and the rate
to st. Louis, which difference is cents
nc i.
able by the lines reaching st. Louis to
advance the rate from Kansas oil fields
to that point to % cents, and the Kan
sas City rate naturally advanced with
it So far as the Santa Fe is concern
ed, and I believe so far as the other
roads also were concerned, the advance
was consented to for the simple reason
that no oil was being carried to the
Missouri river by rail, and it made no
difference whatever what rate was quo
ted, because the pipe line, which had
then been built, sa considered to be an
institution with which the roads could
not compete Our people felt that it
was quite fmmaterial so far as actual
business was concerned whether the
rate was 10 cents or 80 cents. No bus
ineSS could be done on either rate and
to maintain a 10-cent rate would be
fSimply to set a precedent for a de-
mand for similar rates in other states
for similar distances, without resulting
in any good so far as concerned our
revenue 1t is worthy OF notice, more
over. that the only party shipping to
ST. Louis at that time, and, as lam
informed, the only party now shipping
to ST. Louis, is the Standard Oil COM
pany. So far as anyone was injured by
the advance in rates, it would seem to
be the Standard Oil company
Mr.. Ripley says .'it was thought de-
sirable by the lines reaching st. Louis
to advance the rate to that point to %
cents" Supposing they did. what diff
| ference should that make to the Santa
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
fFrom the Philadelphia Record

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
The fellow who travels on his face
naturally has a hard cheek.
The man who keeps a drug store
always does business on a small scale.
Blood may be thicker than water.
but it takes a funeral to bring lots of
families together.
The fellow who leavs the parental
roof generally takes uD his abode un-
der a pay rental one.
Contentrnent may be better than
riches. but give the average man the
riches and he'll be content.
The girl who powders and paints
NAV have her faults, but she Is never a
coward. She sticks to her colors.
Lightning never strikes twice in the
same place, unless 1t happens to be
that liquid variety known as Jersey
lightning.
Blobbs-isThat fellow is rather in
teIIigent, isn't hep Slobbs-' Rather.
At any rate I've never heard of his
serving on jury
.swhat.s in name? That which we
call
A rose exclaimed the ancient bard.
ssF3v other name would smell as sweet"
Likewise mule would kick as hard
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
JzYHxWKE JOTS

Chase is thinking of going to the ex-
treme of putting on a home talent play
to raise money to buy street lamps.
The Eureka Herald comes forward
kernels and it dares anybody to do
better.
Westmoreland scored the first foot
ball accident reported this year. Over
a week ago a boy had his leg frac-
tured by falling during a football
game.
The editor of the Bushton News has
been feasting on grizzly bear steak re-
Gently and his neighbors have been
leaving him severely alone for fear he
may be belligerent.
Since all the farmers of Usage
county have their mail delivered to
their doors every day. the town peo-
pie in Usage City think they should be
favored the same way, and they are
trying to get the carrier delivery sys-
tenn
There is nothing like being philosopni-
cal An Abilene man who has a big
patch OS potatoes says he is digging
them himself to secure free physical
culture, plenty of fresh air, and to Gre
ate a good appetite and CAPACITY for
sound sleep. Incidentally he saves the
expense of having some one else dig the
potatoes.
Wichita Eagle: A Pratt man win sue
the railroad company for refusing to
accept ticket, which it sold to him.
The lack oe understanding as to the
system and methods of doing business
that seems to prevail among the differ
ent employees of many of the roads NAV
be endured but it is certainly not tend
ing to quiet the agitation of the people
for government supervision of the rail-
roads.
Rev. DIR. H. D. Fisher, one of the
pioneer preachers of Kansas, who has
been seriously i'll with cancer at the
home of his son in Baldwin. is said
to be near deaths door. He has been
failing rapidly during the last three or
four weeks and is now scarcely able
to speak DR.. Fisher was a resident OF
Lawrence at the time of the OuanfreII
raid and the raiders burned his house
in order to get him, but his wife rolled
him in carpet and dragged him from
the burning building among furniture
she was allowed to save.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Mr.. Speropanagrotis Pappatheodoro-
koummountourge geotopoulos, the Grecian
gentleman with the prize long name,
ought to divide up the alphabet with
Tsi An and General Ma. There is no
use in one man being a hog like that.
A scientist asserts that an electric
fan will kill mosquitoes. This is un-
doubtedly true If the mosquito tries 10
stick its fingers in the machine.
Recent reports indicate that the
edges of Topeka's lid are either badly
sprung or else the bung is leaking
copieusly.
David Overmyer says the railroad
pass question will be an issue in the
next campaign. But the railroad pass
question has also been an issue in past
campaigns-the question has been how
to get plenty of 'em.
Bent Murdoclz insists that the IT. in
Senator Chester ]. Longs name stands
for Iehabod instead of Ike. Why not
have q legislative investigating COM
mittee to settle this momentous uues-
ton? When Senator Long was an elo-
cutionist and gave entertainments in
the country school houses down in
Miami county his name appeared on
the handbills, Isaac C. Long" He
was once scheduled for recitation on
the programme of the State Teachers
dSSOCldIlOn -lHS same way. (OlOH0l
Murdock's only evidence is the testi-
mony of a woman who used to go to
school to the present senator. The
State Journal still insists that the pre-
ponderance OF testimony is on the side
of Ike"
II the promoters keep on building
trolley lines from Kansas City to To-
peka all the terminal facilities in
Shawnee county will soon be exhausted.
No, gentle reader, the strike in the
Leavenworth coal mines doesn't include
those at Lansing also.
Still, Mr.. Cleveland really ought to
tackle someone his size and not pick on
the women all the time.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

DIFFERENCE IN SENTIMENT
He sat beside her on q Moon-iit Beach.
In common parfance she was called
Peach,
He took a Book of Omar from his Coat
And read to her this charming little
Speech:
"a Book of Verses underneath the Boughs
A jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and
Thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness,
Oh Wilderness were Paradise enow.
Twas later in the Summer Season when
They read the Persian Rubaiyat again,
And she passed the sparkling Ring 10
him,
He read the Verse for Tilted Summer Men:
There was a Door to which 1 found no
There was a veiI through which I might
Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee
There was-and then no more of Thee
and Ne" Puck
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
.ison GIobe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.l
While your friends promise you big
things, the ''ife they put in the prom
Use is bigger.
City storekeepers fear strikers as much
as country town store keepers fear far
mers.
What has become of the old fash
ioned man who said, II haven't seen
you in a coon's age?"
A man hates weeping woman. A
man would as soon eat bad oysters
as kiss a weeping woman.
Keep your hands off women, par
ticularly in public. They don't like to
be handled very well in private.
About the funniest thing in the world
is a fat woman when she tries to as
sumo a pathetic expression.
1t is surprising how much less pa
tience it takes to manage a husband
than to do a dinlxy bit of fancy work.
Even if married man doesn't COM
plain, he can never sympatnize with the
troubles of a man who is unmarried.
A man who brags about having
"fine" business offers is like woman
who boasts about her proposals. A
story teller.
There is so much dirt: rain has
fallen every day for two weeks, but
after the rain today. the cutters ran
full of dirt, as usual
Decisions after mature reflection are
so often wrong that greater respect
should be PAID the decision OF q penny
coming down heads or tails.
The girls who are looking for hus-
bands should snatch them out OF the
boarding houses. A man who boards
is appreciative of the worst home
cooking on earth.
A young man recently ate half doz-
en- pawpaws at one sitting. Well bet
that fellow believes nudhens are sas
good as ducks. and that he says cat
fish are as good as black bass.
An Atchison bride who thought she
had good judgment because she picked
ON a wedding day which had good
weather, finds that she showed mighty
poor judgment in picking out her hus-
band.
Every man is warned that if he
reaches home some night and the
woman who lets him in is beautiful
beyond all dreams, he need not be
afraid to kiss her. She is his wife ali
right; she has been patronizing an
agent In town selling a complexion
lotion.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
THE EVENING STORY
Letters and a soliloquy.
FROM HER 70 HIM.

Mr.. Arthur Addison. Sir:-It is my
desire that you consider our aeuuaint-
anceship at an end I do not wish TO
ever see or hear from you again. Your
conduct has shown me that you are not
the man 1 supposed you to be. Kindly
return all my letters at once 1t will be
useless for you to write to me, for you
can never explain matters, and / shall
return your letters unopened have
also given strict orders that you are
not to be admitted to the house in case
you call personally. Yours truly,
WINIFRED MARSTON.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
THE LOAFER.
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New york Pres

IF,rom the New York Press.1
There is a good deal of energy spent
in this world trying not to do it.
The more a man smokes pipe the
more cigars he can afford for his sons
A girl has an awful nice way of
making you think you must kiss her
when you oughtpst to.
A woman calls it economical If she
saves enough money, when she is shop
ping, to pay her carfare home.
A bad thing about taking your son
into your own business is he finds out
a lot about your ethics that you don't
want him to know.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

The Democrats are very much scan
dalized over the disclosures concerning
the contributions to the Republican
campaign fund. 1t will be the Repub-
licans' turn to be seandalized when
they find out where the Democrats got
their fund.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

The Third district is already begin
ming to feel sorry for itself over losing
Phil Campbell as its congressman, al
though it is eongratulating the state at
large over his election as United States
narafnr
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

The Sioux City Times suggests that
Portsmouth change its name to Peace
City. on the ground that it will be ap-
propriate. But it might not be so. 1t
is not at all unlikely that the inhabi-
teHts will continue to fight for a gem
Grafton over how peace was brought
about
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

If Mr.. Dean is reappointed United
States district attorney he will have
the advantage of being an appointee
of Senator Long, instead of having to
bear the ignominy OF being named by
Burton
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Let US sincerely hope that these
mosquitoes that have recently made
their homes in Topeka are no relation
TO those yellow fever mosquito fami-
lies in New Orleans.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Considering our recent experience
with them it is doubtful if an airship
line weuld be successful in Topeka. 1t
would take almost as long to get any
where as it does to come in on a Vine
wood car after a band concert.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
He TO HIMSELF

That was a mighty lucky thought of
mine-teIIing her Mrs. Weston con-
sidered her beautiful Well, if she
didn't say it, she might have done so,
without stretching the truth. And
wouldn't this be a dismal old world if
women ever actually sent letters back
unopened ?-Chicag News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

The evidence that has been brought
out before the insurance investigating
committee in New York leads to the
suspicion that Tom Lawson was
shielding the Insurance companies.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

in that inquiry. How many Kansas
farmers do you know who go home
drunk when they go to town? How
about those in other states?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

It is announced that Tom Kelly will
bring out four candidates for governor
against Hoch. Very likely Mr.. Kelly
would make it five if he could find that
many Kelly men.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

In spite OF Mr. Dayhoff's decision
that no teacher has right to punish a
pupil in way that will leave marks.
Tom Cordry warns the state superin-
tendent that the next time the people
get chance they will swat him in a
way that will leave marks all over
one Dayhoff
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Paul Morton and the other directors
Of the Equitable were very much sur
prised to find that they were running
saloon. There may be still other
surprises in store for them
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

It is true. as Senator Dolley says in
defending Governor Hoch. that all
men are liable to make mistakes; but
there are some men who are right al
most half Of the time at least.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Ottawa is trying to get the state
meeting of spiritualists away from
Topeka. If the spirits themselves are
consulted the attempt will meet with
failure. No up-to-date spirit would
vote to go to Ottawa when it can just
as we'll come to Topeka
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Senator Foraker says the country
wants no railroad legislation inereas-
ing the powers of the interstate COM
merce commission. Senator Foraker
has evidently been hearing from the
country through a Wall street tele-
phone.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

Wall street believes things are be-
ginning to look better, Notwithstanding
this is the wrong season to look for
ward to shearing lambs.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

A New Jersey minister protests
against the women of his congregation
coming to church bareheaded. This is
very eonsiderate for the men who like
to settle down behind big hat during
the sermon and take a comfortable
epooza
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

LET US be optimists," says the Chi
cago News. "and not believe a word
about those hoopskirts until we see
them. The News probably meant un-
I'll We see outward evidences of them.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
ROSES FADr.

In the early morn said
Love like ours can not decay:
Now its petals are shed,
And its fragrance passed away.
But day the beauty grew
- mat thought would ever stay;
Love at eve the sorrow knew.
Ksa-rose leaves can pass away
william Brunton in Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

After eating that roast whale in
japan, Secretary Taft ought to have an
easy time getting away with the gov
ernment sharks.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

If open saloons in town mean that
the lid is off. drug store saloons must
mean that there is a faucet doing
business.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tom Kelly's friends all say he is a
"gcod fellow" That is just what allied
Auditor Sherrick of Indiana.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
A M1Nt1s-x POWER.

Russia" says NJ. witte, remains
in the east, the great power she has
hitherto been.'' But in view of the re-
cent test, how great a power has
she really been ?-LouisviIle Courier
Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
MIGHTyER THAN THE PEN.

The Portsmouth treaty was written
on typewriting machine. The type
writer is greater than the sword or
the pen.-Knoxville Journal and Tri-
bune.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
RuMPER CROPS.

Every additional word about the
crops make it CLEARER that prosperity
has received a bumper and adversely
a bump.-New York Mail
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

What" asks the Atchison Globe.
''has become Of the oId-fashfoned
farmer who got tight every time he
came to town." There are columns
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
A Fair Deal.
Strange!

One-fourth of the membership of
the Denver Woman's club has been
lost, and Mrs Miriam Guerin, recently
candidate for corresponding secretary,
is threatening a damage suit against
certain club leaders because of a row
which attended the recent election.
Mrs. Guerin's candidacy was the signal
for the PRONUNCIATION of a series of
stories on which the suit will be based.
1.-The club has been allowing the So
cial element to creep in and ruin the
organization said one member. THE
club building is becoming a place to
show handsome clothes and to repeat
gossip, so what can be- expected but
Idissolution ?''-St. Paul Pioneer Press
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28

What course will he take in coIIege?"
"I don't know, but think it's giee club
and football."-Cieveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
THE MEN 10 BLAME.

One way of putting it is that the
men drive women into liberal arts by
monopolizing law and medicine.-Chi-
cago Reeord-Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
Peat or CornstaIks.


In Ireland and Scotland at one time
ano another the manufacture of paper
ana book boards out of peat has been
atteinpted, usually on a small scale
Two firms are now making wrapping
paper one of peat, but other material
mas TO be added, the so-called peat pa
per being only about three-quarters
peat AT present, at least, peat pulp
cannot be bleached. Consequently only
brown paper can be made out of it.
F1naIiy. straw and wood pulp papers
are cheaper. Much more promising is
OF cornstalks. If it be true, as is re-
ported, that ton of cornstalk paper,
equal to that made of wood pulp or
rag, can be manufactured for s22 to
S25-the manufacturing cost of wood
pulp or rag paper runs from $50 to SIS
a torl-then the people who owns the
patents on the new process are going
10 De among the golden gods of the
ten wofully. The farmers can find
more profitable use for their cornstalk
than to make fire or fertilizer of them.
-Everybody's Magazine for October.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-28
HE CAN DO IT.
ADVERTISING MADE GOOD.

The Clay Center Chautauqua spent
nearly $500 in advertising the event
Did you notice that it was great sue
cess? The committee closed the books
with about $1,000 to the good.-Beiie-
vile Telescope.