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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
RAILROAD EARNINGS.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
past year was an exceptionally bad one
| in the business world, and that no class
| of individuals or industries complained
harder of it's effects upon their reve-
nues than did the railroads, it has been
quite evident from the annual reports
of most of the railroad companies for
the past year that they did not fare
quite as badly as it might be expected
that they would have from the talk in
du1ged in by their officials. Most of
the big railroad systems, which have
been on a dividend paying basis for the
past few years were able to maintain
their regular dividends despite the
paucity of freight and the imposition"
of passenger fares at the rate of two
cents a mile. OF course in several in
stances, these dividends were made
possible by the greatest of retrench-
ment in the management of the rail-
road properties by the cessation OF
new improvement work that had been
planned and in variety of other ways,
and the likelihood is that several of
the railroad managers have learned
through necessity some valuable les
sons in economy which will serve them
to a good purpose in all future times.
But none of the railroads have made
quite the excellent showing during the
past year that the Union Pacific has,
the annual report of whose operations
was filed recently with the state board
of railroad commissioners. This report
shines in various particulars but is
most brilliant in the respect where 1t
shows that the operating expenses of
the system were only Sc. 80 per cent of
its operating revenues. And this re-
markabIe showing can be credited to
nothing else than the almost wizard
like way in which Mr.. Hartman
handles railroads. Perhaps if the adj
ministrative officials of some of the
other large railroad systems could get
onto his tricks in the trade there would
not be much necessity for talk on their
part of increasing freight rates, having
two cent fare laws declared null and
void and doing other things to increase
their revenues so that stockholders
would be assured of reasonable dlvl-
dends. Mr.. Hartman might confer
of a blessing on the peo-
pie of the country if he would open a
school for instruction for the executive
officials of other railroads, where they
could be taught the essential elements,
which he seems to have mastered, or
operatins a railroad property econom-
ically.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.


CFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Dry reading is hardly the kind we
pour over.
The lion at the zoo thinks he is the
name thing.
The fellow who always has a skate
on doesn't cut much ice.
The fellow with a club foot ought to
be a good golf player.
AS a rule the less man mas 10 90
the less time he has to do it.
It's all right to love your enemies
but don't slight your friends to do II.
Many a girl has a poor compiexion
who is rich enough to afford better
one.
When a waiter speaks of his pleas
ant quarters ne probably means 20
cent tips.
No. Maude, dear, all the girls who
work in a spinning mill are not spin
sters.
The Lawyer shall merely charge
Won a nominal fee. The Client
sIIow phenomenal"
@Wigg-"Do you consider it lucky to
have a rabbits foot?" Waeg-"Well.
I should say it was mighty unlueky for
the rabbit"
Blobbs = when Wigwag was
abroad he visited the interior of
wales" Slobbs-"I always thought
that fellow was inclined to be
j OQdn.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
FRON OTHER PENS
BIRD SLAUGHTER.

Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
nessee have the undesirable distinction
of being the only states in the Union
in which the slaughter of robins is
permitted by law, and recent inVest1-
CATIONS show that not less than 9,0OO,-
900 robins are killed by some 10000
pothunters in these three states during
the winter months. Patient investiga-
ton by ornithologists has proved that
a robin in a year earns 81 in the de-
struction of insects injurious to crops.
The pothunters sell them for cents
a dozen. This wanton waste of mil
Ions of dollars is something which
should appeal to the hard, common
sense of every southern farmer.
In an investigation of this deplor-
able bird slaughter, writer in Re-
creation brings a sweeFng Indictment
against the sportsmen of Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee, declar-
ing that they are responsible LOT the
lack of legislation for protection of the
robin. 1t is asserted that as a class
they have for years opposed the en-
actment of laws putting robins on the
forbidden list, on the ground that II
the shooting of these birds were made
unlawful the negroes ands other pot
hunters would soon wipe out the quail.
It is a fiimsy argument at the best,
and will not stand the test OF analysis.
Post.
ONE PHASE OF MILITARISM.
For years the sanitary condition of
Havana was a menace TO the nedlIH
and the commercial progress of all
of the gulf states. A yellow, fever
epidemic or a threatened epidemic of
yellow fever would cost the American
people more than the Spanish war
cost them.
After the Spanish war the American
army took possession of Havana, and
went to work to eradicate yellow
fever, and they have done 1T.
1t will be fortunate if every south
ern city can place itself in as healthy
a sanitary condition as Havana is un-
der American influences.
In Manila the problem was to Sc
cure a supply of pure water, in or
der to avoid cholera epidemics that so
often visited that island American
engineers set to work to solve the
problem. and by an expenditure of
100000 the problem has been
solved.
These are great achievements for
civilization. Let US credit them to the
account of miIitarism, about which
we hear so much. It is the kind of
that has no terrors for in
telligent people. The militarism of
Caesar or Napoleon may have their
historic lessons, but these are lessons
that the American people understand
as well as their teachers.-Lou1svHI
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many men learn to do things by do
ing but more learn how quicker by
being done.
x X
No man ever objects to his cattle
straying into a pasture if it is better
than his own.
X X
1t is hard work to explain things
to 2 woman who is certain that she il
never in the wrong.
X
Young boys who go hunting these
days for redskins are never successful
in getting one until their mothers use
a slipper on them.
X X "
Here's suggestion: Why wouldn't
it be good plan for women who
want their letters mailed to put them
in their husbands cigar cases?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
JAYHAWKER JOTS

| A former citizen of Dighton bearing
| the name of 'Stubb'' Burt has been
elected to the legislature in Iowa.
A farmer living east of Douglass must
have a bee or two around his place. He
| advertises for sale no less than 1900
pounds of fresh honey.
1t isn't always the editor who gets
the worst of it. A Larned preacher
was soundly thrashed not long ago by
| a citizen whom he had roasted in a
sermon.
good many of the metropolitan
dailies have sent specials men to- Leav-
enwOrth to write up the 3tOwn'S expert
ment with the commission form of gov
eminent, and not one esof them has
found any fault. Which leads the Leav-
enworth papers to reprint some of the
comments under the head of "Unani-
nous Approval"
Clark Thomas of the Moran Herald
promised his foreman that If Taft was
elected and Clark was able to keep the
postoffice in Moran for another year he
would buy linotype. The foreman was
a Democrat, but he promised Clark that
in view of the fact that they weren't
able to set enough each to Zip he
would vote for a linotype for president,
and he said, ST believe will vote for
a new stapling machine for vice presi-
dent"
The death of Grand Duke Alexis re-
moved from the earth another member
Of the fraternity whose motto is 1--WE
toll not, neither do we spin," says the
Lawrence World, which would almost
lead one to believe that perhaps Editor
Brady was not invited on that buffalo
hunt along in 1S72-or whenever it was,
says the Salina Journal.
Count your blessings, count your
blessings, count them one by onei Do
not measure all your blessings by your
pile of mon; if your appetite is husky,
so that you can eat, half the bosom of
a turkey gobbler and repeat; if you
never feel the need of Pinkham's Pur-
pie Pills; then your blessings. gentle
reader, far outweigh your ills! If you're
free of litigation, and are out of Jail, If
you have no hungry lawyers camping
on your trail, if to gain some trif1ing
office you have never run-count your
blessings, count your blessings, count
them one by one!-Walt Mason in the
Emporia Gazette.
Out at Attica in the little burying
ground is the grave of Nathaniel Grigs-
by He died in 1880 and was man
of much force. He had a war record.
served as second lieutenant in Com
pany G. Tenth Indiana cavalry Grigs-
by was an ardent Republican. He stood
by the G. o. P. at all times and even
in death. This epitaph is on his tomb
stone:
Through this inscription
/ wish to enter my dying
protest against what is
called the Democratic party.
1 have watched 1t closely
since the days of Jackson
and know that all the mis-
fortunes of our nation have
come to it through this So
called party. Therefore be-
ware of this party of treason"
Grigsby's heirs did not want this in
scription to go on the tombstone, but
the lawyer declared that the will pro-
vided that it must be used, and the
family had to agree. But the inscrip-
ton is headed with line that Grigsby s
will made the epitaph mandatory.-Ar-
kansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

Evidence has piled up during the
past few days that if Mrs. Bella Gun
ness, the famous murderess of La
porte, Indiana, is alive she is well nigh
omnipresent. She is reported to. have
been seen in a city in Michigan, in
Kansas City, Kan, and also in several
other places at the same time. The
probabilities are, though. that she is
dead and that what is left of her is
in that place from where souls fail to
return and where fierce fires burn
bright eternally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

[F'rom the Atchison Globe.J
Most girls names sound as if their
mothers named them.
Women talk too much about mar
riage to suit the men.
Two things that never seem to be
good: Times, and fishing.
In cumming around, a man strikes
many a trail that he recognizes.
Every mans horse, II you believe
what he says, won a race at some
time.
When a man says you are1too smart
to be fooled, look out; he is about to
spring a scheme to fool you.
If a woman will give a man time,
she will hear him say of other women
all the nice things he has said about
her.
Someone should devise new style
of nightshirt for the men. They are
so ugly they are enough to make
bride sit up all night.
If girl won a husband by making
a special dish that he liked, it is the
usual experience that after marriage
she stopped making it.
If a woman makes a cake for
church provision sale, that means a
gem in her crown, and if she buys it
back, it means another gem, but
where does her. husband come in?
The right person to visit when you
take vacation is the landlord of a
hotel, who will charge you regular
rates and not say afterwards that you
sponged on him.
Brides are seldom good cooks, but
it is not on record that their poor
cooking ever made a man sick; an
other proof if a man is happy at his
meals, his stomach isn't going to mind
an overdone steak, or underdone
A bride may be proud of her
choice. but she doesn't greatly blame
her friends for thinking she is throw
ing herself away for such a man as
the groom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
Additional disgrace has been heape

Additional disgrace has been heaped
on the already much besmirched
shoulders of Tennessee through the
lynching Of three negroes at Upton
Vile. who were guilty of killing
an officer of the law. These men
were given a speedy trial, were con-
victed of the crime and sentenced to
death before the mob got hold of
them, but that does not palliate its
offense against society. Law and or
der is certainly in a terrible condition
In Tennessee. Her people should hang
their heads in shame. But better
than that, the lawless element should
be eliminated or suppressed at all
hazards and costs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

Mr.. Dolley, the representative elect
from Wabaunsee county and the
chairman of the Republican state
committee, has announced his can
didacy for the speakership of the
house of representatives. He saws
that he won't fight for it. And there
is no great chance that there will be
any sort Of a contest over this office,
for there can be little doubt that Mr..
Dolley is fitted for it in every way and
that there Is pretty near an
unanimous demand for him in this
position among the Republican repre-
sentatives-elect. They will be doing a
wise thing in selecting Mr.. Dolley for
their ruler. He displayed his spirit of
great fairness in the conduct of the
recent campaign and that is the kind
OF man who is needed on this par
ticular job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

clinging to his back. During the wild
ride Tinker thought of razor he had
in his pocket Getting it out with one.
hand and leaning over the bucks
neck, he cut its throat and it fell dead
to the ground with Tinker none the
worse for his experience except for a,
shaking up. This tale is narrated in
the Chicago Tribune for fact but all
who believe it have the privilege of
standing on their left ears for as long
as they please
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

1t may be remarked that when
John D. Rockefeller left the witness
stand in New York, after the long
est ordeal of this kind that he has ever
gone through, all of his colors were
flying high, and further that all of
the information secured from him
about the inside workings of the
great Standard OIL trust might be
placed without much crowding in the
cavity of a tooth. So much of the
story of the development of the giant
corporation as Mr.. Rockefeller cared
to tell was most interesting, but that
was all. 1t showed him 10 be a crafty
business man and the way he parried
questions of legal experts also proved
him to be as slippery in his mental
realms as an intellectual eel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
Woman Missing Six Years.

=
After six years it. has been suddenly
revealed that Mrs. Celia .whipple Wal
| lace, an aged society woman of Chi
cago, known as the Diamond Queen
because of her half-million dollar COL
lection of precious stones, mysterious
~ disappeared after visiting Plymouth
church, Brooklyn. and the home of
the preacher, DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills.
A casual remark of DIR. Hills that
the $4,000 donated by Mrs Wallace
to the Beecher. Memorial Society,
March 8, 1903; might not materialize,
as Mrs Wallace had Disappeared
within three days after making the
donation, was the first time that the
public got an inkling of her disap-
pearance. The greatest secrecy has
been maintained about it, although
the police of two continents have been
searching for her.
DR.. Hills, respecting the confidence
reposed in him by the relatives and
intimate friends of Mrs. Wallace, both
in the East and West, reluctantly adj
mitted the disappearance of the &C.
centric woman when at a meeting of
the combined church committees, it
was announced that the parish house
fund was $55, 600, instead of $65, 600.
DR.. Hills was compelled to explain
that Mrs. Wallace, after visiting the
church, dining at his home, and max
ing few other visits in Brooklyn,
naQ utterly disappeared, and that for
six years no word has come to show
whether she is living or dead. AS
she had made the donation of $4,000
orally, there is no way that the church
can hold the estate for the amount.
Mrs. Wallace" said DR.. Hills last
night, was a wealthy member of my
church in Chicago. She was an en-
thusiastic religious worker and gave
me $4,000 there as a fund to use
as 1 saw fit. When 1 came to New
York I turned the money over to DR..
Gunsaulus, my successor
Mrs. Wallace lived for many years
at the Auditorium hotel, in Chicago,
and because Of her immense wealth
and eccentric ways she was we'll
known throughout the West. She is
a member Of the Whipple family at
Wentworth, N. H, famous in Revo-.
lutionary history. After the death of
her husband, J. S. Wallace, a rich
lumberman, Mrs. Wallace resided in
Chicago.
Her collection of precious stones
has been estimated at 100000, and
includes a AZ and "A karat stone,
the last two among the largest dia-
monds this side of the Atlantic.
Mrs. Wallace. after the rescue of
Evangeline Cisneros from the Span
iardS by the New York American at
tempted to adopt the girl. At anoth-
er time she wanted to adopt Carlo
Guadibussi, sculptor who made a
study of her head. When there was
a break she refused to pay the 81
900 agreed upon for the work.-New
York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

Persons with surplus money to in
vest have received a good tip from
John d. Rockefeller on how to place
their funds to good advantage. On the
witness stand in New York he de-
clared that he preferred railroad
bonds to railroad stock as mediums
for investment There is good reason
for this choice. Railroad bonds are
in reality first or second MORTGAGES on
railroad property. They bear a stated
rate of interest and If this is not met
the bondholders can foreclose on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I


The average girl could lead an aver
age man around even If he were
carrying her in his arms.
There's nothing makes a woman
feel so neglected by her husband as
for him not to let her buy his neck
ties.
The reason a woman brags about
how smart her husband is in busin ess
is it kind of helps her to believe he
is.
When a man has all he wants to
spend he doesn't have to care hang
whether you call it an estate or just
plain money.
The man who wants to put on a
girls rubbers for her before they are
married thinks she ought to want to
put on his galoshes for him after they
ara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
Used Baby AS Raseban.

Working with all the GOODNESS and
accuracy of ball players on the "dia-
mond," two policemen Wednesday, at
a fire which threatened the lives of
tenants in 1853 Fulton street, Brook
Ign, played baseball with an S-month-
old baby, one bluecoat throwing the
child from the roof of the burning
building into the arms of his COM
rade, braced on a fire escape 20 feet
below. The heroes of the rescue are
Charles Zerweck and Francis Flynn,
of the Liberty avenue station. Flynn
plays on the Brooklyn police depart
ment baseball team-an undefeated
one-and when he isn't catching GRIM
inals he's catching ball.-New York
American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
Mr.. Roosevelt

When Mr.. Roosevelt slays a
rhinoceros or two on his African hunt
it will be profitable to him if he
draws off the blood of the animals
and saves it. According to the Lon
don Standard the blood of the
rhinoceros is very highly esteemed
by certain classes of heathens as a
medicine for all kinds of ailments.
Whenever party of hunters is sue
cessful in shooting a rhrinoceros the
native beaters carefully draw off the
blood and store 1t in hollow bamboos.
The precious liquid is worth it's
weight in silver among them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

Mr.. Roosevelt will have to hurry
some if he beats the hunting exploit
of one Henry Tinker, of Superior,
Wis. Tinker was eating lunch in the
wilderness near there when he was
attacked by a buck that rushed on
him from the underbrush. Leaving
his guns on the ground he sought
safety on the branch of near by
tree. This broke under his weight
and he landed squarely on the back of
the deer The frightened buck dashed
away across a clearing with Tinker
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
Z TIIE AfEAsIIRE or nom.

It was only a step on a summer day
To the creek and the rock where the
springboard lay:
1t was over the meadows and through
the fence
And half a mile through the woods so
It was down a valley and up a hill
On a winding path past the ruined mill
And you might think it a weary way
But twas only a step on summer day
But. oh. it was far down the short
Where the weeds grew thick. with a
It was only step on a winter night
10 the skating pond where the snow lay
: 1t was past the common and through
And over the hill where the schoolhouse
stood.
It was down the turnpike and through the
That lay In drifts in the valleys low.
BUT the stars shone out and the moon
1t was only step on winter night.
But, oh. it was far through the bitter
To, the old barn door we were sent to
Of shellbark nuts. that could hold no
And each of US staggered beneath its
load.
While often it lay in the dusty road.
Til we got our breath and we made a VOW
10 carry 1t FAR as the dead tree now
Ana never was burden so gladly borne,
NOT ever were bearers so little worn.
But oh. they were heavy too far to
The pals we bore from the nearby
j. w. Foley in New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

property covered by the bonds. On
the other hand railroad stocks return
interest or dividends only out of the
net earnings of the railroads. Some
times the dividend is larger than the
regular rate of interest paid on the
bonds and sometimes there are no div
idends at all for number Of years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

The Chicago Record-Herald has in
formation to the effect that Mr.. For
aker had goose instead of turkey for
his thanksgiving dinner. The chances
are that this information is faulty for
It is more likely that he had a good
feast of crow. 1t would have been
the most appropriate, anyhow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27

In regards to the new hat which
Charles Brilliant, who is a candidate
for the chief clerkship of the house
of representatives. says he has, every
Kansan will emulate his neighbour in
Missouri by saying you'll have to
shnr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-27
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The commission plan of government
seems to have worked like a charm
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and also at
FL Paso, Texas. These are two among
many reasons why Topeka should not
be afraid to try it. and at once.