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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
Outlay of MANY MiIlions

trade is concerned. and we do not look
for any marked growth in that direc-
| ton.
Outlay of Many Millions.
During the last year we have spent
l$7,OOO,000 in increasing our facilities
for handling business and $1,000. 900
| more in the purchase Of new equip
ment. The outlay for the improve
ment of our facilities went into en-
larged divisional terminals, additional
sidings. reballastfng of tracks, and
| substitution of permanent bridges for
wooden structures, the renewal of
| rails and other work of that kind.
'In addition TO this we built about
21S miles Of new. track on our little
line running south from Little Rock.
We built from Little Rock to Edo
RADIO, then a short spur to Grosett and
again from Alexandria to Eunice.
where connection is made with the
Frisco line running into New Orleans,
thus forming a continuous line from
Little Rock to New Orleans. We in
Installed during the year 125 miles of
automatic block signals
I'VE have made no plans for extern
sions or improvements of any kind
during the coming year. We have de-
cfded to do nothing further in the way
of expenditures that can be avoided
until monetary conditions become set
tied.
Effect of Adverse Legislation.
"Such OUTLAWS will wait also until
the state legislatures and other law
making bodies come to their senses
and realize that railroads, any more
than other interests, can not thrive
under the continuous destructive at
lacks they have been making upon us.
This decision has not been reach
ed from piQue or enmity or Ill Will OF
any kind. but from absolute necessity.
We simply can not go into the market
and sell securities in face of the wan
ton attacks that are being made upon
US, because nobody will buy them
while there Is no assurance that we
will be allowed to earn enough to pay
the interest on them and redeem them
on maturity The law making powers
have got to learn that our expendi-
lures must stop.
"As soon as these two things hap
pen-the settlement of monetary con-
ditfons and return to common sense
by the law making powers-then we
will be prepared to arrange for furth-
er improvements, but not before"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
FREIGHT BUREAU CONSOLIDATE
f. A. Leland of ST. Louis, Chairman
of New Organization

Chicago, Ill, Dec. 30.-Traffic Of
ficials of the Southwestern lines, at a
meeting here today in the office of
Vice President Biddle, of the Rock Is
land, chose F. A. Leland, assistant
general freight agent of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, as chairman of the
Southwestern Tariff committee, with
headquarters at st. Louis George w.
Gale, the present chairman, will be
retained by Mr.. Leland as an assistant.
The change will take effect on jan
uary 1.
The selection of Mr.. Leland for
chairman realizes the plan for con-
solidating and strengthening the
Southwestern freight bureaus The
bureaus of Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Louisiana will be consolidated in the
Southwestern Tariff committee, and
the general offices will be at st. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
PROSPEROUS BUSINESS.
Statements From officials Showing
Railroad Earnings for 1907.

| Chicago, Dec. 30-Taken as a whole
1907 was prosperous year for the
American railroads. In one respect the
year was record breaker. Gross earn
ings attained a figure never before
reached in the history of railroading.
During the last half of the year net
! earnings suffered considerably from two
causes. One was a falling off of traf-
f1c, brought about by monetary condf-
lions during the last three months,
and the other was an increase in oper-
ating expenses, due to the increased
cost of labor and materials.
George T. Nicholson, vice president in
charge of traffic of the Santa Fe road,
in speaking Of the operations in 1907,
said:
This has been a banner year for u.s.
We carried a greater tonnage than ever
before in the history of the company
The business has been so great that
we have not yet been able to catch up
with 1t. With a one track system con-
gestion of traffic always results in de-
lay, and we suffered considerably from
that cause during the entire year. We
are not entirely rid of the congestion
yet.
"Our territory is developing at such
a rapid rate that 1t seems to be i'm
possible to increase facilities fast
enough to keep pace with the expan
sion of business. Take Oklahoma, for
example. 1t now includes Indian Ter
ritory. In 1905 it's products for the year
were valued at $50, 100000. The estima-
ted value OF its crops this year is $780,
O00, 900.
Santa Fe in Kansas.
THE southwestern. part of Kansas
has been the scene of the most marked
Industrial growth. 1t has developed as
one of the greatest natural gas and
oil fields in the world, and because of
that it has attracted great numbers of
large fuel using industries.
"Chief among these are Portland ce-
ment mills, glass factories, zinc smelt-
ers and clay plants. There have been
located on our lines during the year IS
new industries from which we have re
ceived 1850 car loads of freight, though
many of them have not begun to turn
out freight yet. The total capacity of
all when finished will be over 80 car
loads a day.
slightly more than 1000 900 bales of
cotton have been baled in Texas during
the year. Oil production decreased
there but an increase in the output of
coal is noticeable. The lumber cut ex-
ceeds that of last year considerably.
During the year we have built 250
miles of double track between Chicago
and Kansas City, completed the con-
struction of the Arkansas Valley road,
completed the construction of the East
ern railway of New Mexico Cor the
Belen cutoff constructed a second tun-
mel through Ration mountain $500 feet
long, built roundhouses and shops on
various parts of our lines, increased
our sidings and terminal facilities at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30

been discovered after the trial was
well under way.
Martin w. Littleton of Brooklyn,
who nominated Alton B. Parker for
president at the last Democratic ma
tional convention, will act as leading
counsel. He will have the help of
Daniel O'Reilly and A. Russell Pea
body, both of whom went through the
first trial. O'Reilly is ill with the grip,
but will probably be well again when
the trial starts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
ACCOMMODATION GOES.
Missouri Pacific Does Not Seem to
Comply With Promise.

Atchison, Kan. Dec. 30.-An ac-
commo dation train on the Central
Branch and the Kansas City North
western, running between Atchison
and Seneca, will be taken off tomor-
row. The Missouri Pacific will be
asked to rearrange the schedule of
other trains so as to partially cover
the service now furnished by the ac-
commodation. Atchison feels that it
has been treated worse than other
towns through railroad retrenchment,
as all city ticket Offices are to be closed
the first of the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
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their wide popularity and increas-
ing sale. The retail grocers are
learning that quality rather than
price is necessary to retain the
confidence of customers and make
a successful business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
KENDRICK MAY LEAVE.
Old Rumor Again Appears With More
Persistence

1t is reported that J. w. Kendrick,
second vice president of the Santa Fe's
Texas line and Santa Fe proper, in
charge of operation and maintenance.
with headquarters in Chicago, is soon
to take a years vacation with pos
sfbility of never resuming his position.
In the meantime. his duties are to be
assumed by J. e. Hurley, now gen
by F. G. Pettibone, vice president and
general manager of the Texas lines.
Mr.. Petitioners successor to be w. E.
Mdxson, now General superintendent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
is it?

In point of fact, it is the freedom
from poisonous and spurious in
gradients, the excellence in flavor,
that gives to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
DISPATCH BY TELEPHONE.
Burlington to Inaugurate New System
of Handling Trains

Omaha, Neb, Dec. 30.-The Bur-
lington has decided to dispatch its
trains by telephone instead of by tel
agraph and will spend millions in
1908 to install the systems, In Ne
braska the work of eduipping the Lin
The. announcement that the tele-
phone system of train dispatching
would be installed by the Burlington
is made with the statement that ex-
periments in that line have proved a
success.
The telephone is now used on the
main line between Aurora and Men
dota, I'LL, and is satisfactory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
COTTON business Paws,

Fail River, Mass, Dec. 30.-Cash divi-
dends of S2701, S75 have been paid out
to stockholders by Fall River cotton
mill corporations for the year 1907, ac-
cording to figures just compiled. On
the total capital of s25, 475,000, this divi-
dend Is about 1897 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30

If you want the family healthy. strong
and active during the winter give them
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea Twill
surely make and keep the whole family
well. 35c. Tea or tablets. Fred T. Walker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30
ORIENT EXTENDS SERVICE.
Are Now Operating Trains to AItus
Oklahoma

The passenger service on the Kan
sas City, Mexico & Orient has been
extended from Wichita to Altus. Okla.
The train leaves Wichita at $50
o'clock in the morning. arriving at
Altus at 1915 o'clock at night The
train leaving Altus at $50 in the
morning is due to arrive in Wichita
at 6:45 o'clock the same night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-30

trade is concerned, and we do not look
for any marked growth in that direc-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
THE WEEKS TALK
IN NEW YORK CITY
Rockefeller EmuIating Carnegie
in Trying to Die Poor
HIS GIFT OF S32,OOO,OOO
Harry Thaw's Trial Costs His Family
325,ooo-What He Has Spent
in GambIing-The
Dog Show
HIS GIFT OF S32,OOO,OOO
BY SEWELL HAGGARD.

New York, February 17.-By his recent
gift of So, 900, 900 to the cause Of educa-
ton John d. Rockefeller has run his to-
tai of contributions to the public good
up to $50 600. The only other man in
this country who has given away nearly
SO much is Andrew Carnegie The con-
trlbutions of the Laird of SheebOo have
reached the enormous sum of $150000, 900.
But Mr.. Rockefeller has established a
new record in the amount given away
at one slime. If his present plans are
carried out there are many more contri-
buttons to come.
In connection with this latest gife of
Mr.. Rockefeller the unregenerate have
said that he is merely making restitution
for the millions he has extracted from
the pockets of the public. Some persons
have offered the subtle psychological sug-
gestion that Miss M. Tarbell is the real
source of the oil kings latest attack of
llberality To write of Mr. Rockefeller
is to write of Miss Tarbell. Mr.. Rookie
Teller has made his millions, but Miss
Tarbell has made his fame. Miss Tar
bell. In her writings, has left an impress
sion on the public mind with regard to
Mr. Rockefeller that he can never eface
by giving aw~s his millions even in large
patches If the reading between the lines
of Miss Tarbell's history of the oil mag
Mates operations were put in words they
would not look well in print.
Friends of Mr. Rockefeller, however,
say that Miss Tarbell is all wrong. They
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
The Beautiful In Clothes.

Ihere was something of interest to ev-
erybody who goes in for glad clothes in
the convention of the Merchant Tailor's
National exchange which was held In this
city this week The convention brought
together about 100 sartorial aesthetics
from the Eastern states. James o. Mad
lson read the principal paper. 1t was
entitled Clothes and Tailoring as Civiliz-
ing Influences" One of Mr.. Madison
salient points was that the poets of the
old days were not ashamed to mention
pants. He went on to say that a man
can be as comfortable and as decent in
hand me downs as in the real thing. but
he Will be neither so happy nor so we'll
thought of by his fellows" And 1t is q
cinch that the loss to the world would be
incalculable If, though we were to retain
IN prose the full meaning of the text of
Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare. Mil
ton and all our great poets" we were to
lose the versifed expression. The
natural inference from this is that a
world of hand me downs would get along
some way, but that 1t would be an ex-
circulating place in which to live. Sweet
ness and light would peter out and Will
liam Jennings Bryan would be as other
men, colorless, baggy and wrinkled.
Except when asleep or bathing" con-
tinued Mr.. Madison, mans clothes are at
least on his mind ITO order them is a
serious business to wear them properly
requires constant study, care and atten-
tion." To pay for them Is painful. The
speaker took up the ethics of the tailor
at this point and dwelt for some time
on the responsibility of a sinful tailor for
many failures in love, in ambition, in
the social world" Remorse would gnaw
at his soul. If he had one, frightful night
, mares would make his sleep torture,
and he would, unless dead to shame, re-
gard himself with horror.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
Manipulating In Mininu.

Jefferson Jones in Leslie's Weekly.
II those who seek desirable investments
in mining stocks would only bear in mind
the fact that great fortunes are made in
none but good properties, and that the
value of properties can only be fixed by
expert mining engineers, they would save
themselves from losses. Many people buy
shares in any mining company that is
able to print an attractive prospectus
filled with glowing promises and all kinds
OF guarantees. This is nothing but
gambling on possibilities. with very re-
mote chances of ever getting anything
back.
The investor in mines who is looking for
a handsome profit knows better than this.
He watches for the development of new
mining camp, and then seeks to obtain
an opinion of its value from some expert
of such high reputation that he would not
dare to risk it by making false state
ments. If he cannot get such an opinion
he inquiries carefully as to the manage
ment of the property and the character Of
those principally connected with it. If he
finds that it is in the hands of gentlemen
of acknowledged and approved integrity.
who have had successful careers and who
have thus won a large following among
persons who have profited by their sug
gestions and advice he reels safe in max
ing an investment on his own account.
If a purchaser of mining stock finds that
the company has an honest management,
and that the character of it's mines has
been attested by high authority, and if,
beyond this the management in a spirit
of fairness offers to take back any stock
it may sell a purchaser and refund him
his money. with interest, within six
months after the purchase. in case of dis
satisfaction. no question cal possibly arise
to the good faith of the management
and its sincere belief in the value of tho
propertV
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
A Couple at 2 A. M.

Parson Warren was In deep slumber at
a. m. when the bell rang. He went to
the door and conversed through a crack
with two very determined young women.
In the background he could discern very
dimly, a very young girl and very
young man.
This marriage" said the eldest woman.
"must take place tonight. We've been
looking for this young man-hes only
a boy of 1S-for a long time, and We
found him tonight. He's willing and
our sister must be his wife tonight"
Very WE'LL said Dr. Wrraen; you'll
have to walt until put on my bath robe.
I'm not going to dress up for wedding
at this hour"
AS they were going away after the
ceremony, the eldest sister said:
We've spent all our money, or nearly,
on cabs and telephones, but We'll send
you something, doctor, and were very
grateful"
Mr.. Warren's suicide prevention bureau
is just as busy as the matrimonial bureau.
Sometimes they cooperate with each
other At least they did in this story that
Mr.. Warren tells:
~ got a letter some time ago from a
young man saying he intended to kill
himself on a certain day at a certain
hour, unless the circumstances turned out
better for him. The date was so near
that | telegraphed him to come to me at
once. You know, | write all who con-
template suicide to come to me first. |
have saved many.
"Thls young man came just as | was
about to marry a couple and l made
him act as witness. He told me that a
year previous a friend of his had killed
himself by getting into the way of a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17

and speech of the age. Richardson's
Pamela" and "Clarissa Harlowe' lead
the long train
Historical fiction swan into our ken in
the gallant fleet of the thirty-two WAY
erley Novels" Here romance and ad-
venture are in full sail Occupied with
pomp and pageant with the purely emo
tional, the historical novel of this time
allows its teachings to be merely Incl
dental; perhaps the best of all ways of
teaching, If the people ring true and the
situations square with ethics.
About the beginning of the Victorian
era swept in the novel of street and
trade and club-pre-eminently the novel
of city and town. Here social scenes and
social themes are woven in with stories
of home and the common way; all re-
fleeing the life of this period of Eng
lands greatest material prosperity. Dick
ems takes for his material the middle
classes and the off-scourings of society.
Thackeray chooses the upper classes and
their servants and hangers-on. In Hard
Times" Dickens twines a story around
a phase of trade-unionism; for labor
troubles were in the air of that day. His
works are crowded with characters. His
exaggerations and sentimentalties are
palpable; but his compassion for the
multitude made a deep impression upon
a reading public that had been accus-
toned for years to sorrow only over the
woes of prince and page.
Thackeray was not touched by the
wrongs of the common people. He was
inclined to sneer at Dickens treatment
of criminals and incompetent. But he
had wholesome contempt for snobbery
and injustice, and he helped to brush
away aristocratic pretension with laugh
ter as Dickens helped wash away in
justice with tears.
But it was left to the greatest woman
novelist George Eliot, to give the most
artistic and the most searching of the
social studies of the century With
George Eliot a new strain comes into
novel writing. She is not content to
merely tell a story; she seeks for the
relation between the life of her charac
ters and the life of humanity. She builds
into fiction the conflicts and questionlngs
that Mill and Darwin and Spencer were
voicing in economics and science and
philosophy. Evolution, heredity, environ
ment-the new-risen doctrines surging in
the thought of the day-these gave the
sense of social responsibility. The vast
sympathy of the author makes her char
acters intensely alive, and holds our in
terest in their fortunes. Felix Holt, the
Radical" is a story involving the labor
movement. One of the speeches of Felix
is so up-to date that it could be printed
in our newspapers as an editorial against
graft"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
AVERAGE STATE LEGISLATURE
Lot of BungIing, Goodhearted ANA
teurs, With LeaVening of Crooks.

Samuel Merwin in Success Magazine.
The legislature couldn't make one good
law in three months, let alone three thou
sand, without turning in SOME direction
for aid and counsel Our well-meaning
farmers. and grocerymen, and manufac-
turers, are probably endowed with that
profound ignorance of basic problems
which comes out in the form of a loud
contempt for Science" and theory
But now they are, in the language of the
committee room, up against 1t. They
have got to make three thousand laws in
three months, without much of an idea,
in some cases, of what the blessed things
are all about. A good many OF our farm
ing and manufacturing friends would
really like to make good laws but prob
ably not one of them is competent to
draw a bill that will hold together. To
make it worse, these laws. good or bad,
will come down forcibly on every man,
woman and child in the state.
In view of this fact-that the legisla-
ture, made up of bungling, goodhearted
amateurs, with a leavening OF CROOKS,
is bound to turn out just about so many
laws anyway-do we citizens, the real
Interests" most vitality affected by the
mass of legislation take any adequate
measures either to put in ADLER men, or
to supply accurate and thorougl-solls
information as a basis for the legisla-
ton? Not at all We send our legis-
lators down to the capital, and go on,
serenely vague, about what we like to
call "our business" The snaips on the
thorn Gods in his Heaven, alPs right
with the world And meanwhile the at
torneys for the railroad and the pub
lie service company, and the big brew
ers and manufacturers are drawing up
bills which our farming friends don't I'M
derstand, and are crowding them through
with doubtful statistics and specious rea-
soning which our farming friends may
question but which they have neither
the time nor the resources to dispute.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
Come to Be Robbed.

Listen to the story of the hotel de-
tective. He says that strangers come to
New York expecting to be robbed The
writer sent out to dig up strange things
and his opinion has been duly and SOL
EMMY set forth. The folks who get rob-
bed according to the detective. are the
chaps who come to New York from all
over the country for the deliberate and
express purpose of taking the lid off He
continues his story thus:
about nine out of ten of these visitors
get rolled at some stage of their whoop
up-generally the final stage, when
they're about all in.
Pm interviewed every morning at diff
ferent hours by bleared. dazed and tired
looking chaps. guests of the house, who
want to be staked to a bit of advice and
the frisk thing IS always the burden of
their lamentations. Not that they lament
so anybody else can hear them. They re
careful not to do that
1T happened here or there or the other
place. or they don't just exactly remem-
Der where-their frisking. They're sore
as butchers over it-all those who don t
come here with the confident idea of be-
ing rolled that Is. They say it's a dick
ems of a town where a man can't pop in
a few drinks and go out for a little
whizz just to lop few of the gray edges
off OF life, and so forth and SO on
According TO inspector McLauBhlln OF
the Detective Bureau, there are plenty
of crooks in town to rob those remark
able persons who come to New York ex-
pecting to be robbed. He says:
Complaints pour into headquarters
every day of watches. purses, and pins
lost on street cars. We know the men
who are taking them, and we have a
number sent away when caught in the
act, but we can't touch the majority Of
than bepausa of tha ipadeQl1acV Of the
New York laws. Give ME good laws
in New York as Massachusetts has and
will guarantee to clear New York City
of pickpockets In thirty days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-17
Very Best Rye Whisk,

declare that he is a man pitiably misun-
derstood They describe him as a most
friendly and amiable person outside of
business. They even describe him as u
pious person, and lie Is pious, if going to
church regularly and giving away
punches of money makes one pious.
If Mr. Carnegie has been quoted cor
rectly he is resolved to die poor. Mr.
Rockefeller's recent benevolence would
seem to Indicate that he, too, has decided
to sit in the game. If this be true the
country may look for a nerve-rac king
contest. May neither ever get cold feet.