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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

Il can get enough more out of
stock above the amount received by
other auctioneers, to pay my fee,'' con-
tinued the big auctioneer. "You know
an auctioneer is born, not made" 1t
is truly the case with the Fishers
Grandfather Fisher was an auctioneer.
w. r. Fisher is an auctioneer and
Bert Fisher is the son of an auctioneer
and has the benefit of his fathers and
Prandfather's experience, at least 800
pounds of it. Bert is a graduate. an
expert. so to speak. as an auctioneer.
w. r. Fisher, the father, has been
in tho business for thirty ayears and
knows what he is talking about when
he says, prejudice has lost thousanSA-
Of dollars to the owners of live stock.
IS result of employing the wrong
auct1oneer. When the auctioneer's
hammer falls it is the last chance the
owner has to get his money out of
the stock and care should be used in
the selection of that salesman"
While not soliciting work along that
line, the owner Of stock contemplating
a sale would secure some valuable in
formation from that man who has sold
at the third and last call for thirty
years.
w. r. Fisher is not alone an auc-
lloneer. He. organized the National
rank OF Norton and was president of
that institution for years until he sold
his banking interests to accept with his
SON the general agency for the Inter
rational Life Insurance company.
This is the strongest life Insurance
company west of the Mississippi river
said Mr.. Fisher, NOW since the In
fernat1onal took over the Great Amer
Il an Insurance company with all its
assets, risks and policies
Together the father and son are
working in the insurance business
with their offices On the third floor in
room 301, Bank of Topeka building.
rushing the company with million
dollar surplus in the new field, kan
as.
When w. R. Fisher left Norton he
came body, soul and silver to Topeka.
He has been adopted as a Topekan.
f-ss invested his capital in Topeka
property. and is imbued with the To-
Deka spirit.
He has transformed. the propertv ar
e15 King street into one of the most
modern and convenient homes in To-
neka at an expense of about $4,000.
Mr. Fisher has his peculiarities' ex
ectly the same as any other man who
IS worth consideration. He has never
lost his respect for the equine fam
1ly- On the other hand he has sold
lis automobile and now holds the reins
over the noblest team of sorreI coach
horses ever driven on Topeka avenues.
His keenest delight and greatest pleas
ure is when he tightens the lines over
that splendid span.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

from basement to top floor togeth-
er, but neither is sure of the 9TH
er's identity.
From the basement to the top
most pinnacle, where the weather
vane whirligigs the weather indica-
tons to the crowd below, that
building is the scene of activity.
Fortunes are made and lost in
that building. The highest of
hopes or the deepest despair are
realized or encountered there. Two
weeks with those people, however,
is long enough to convince one that
the favored few who are conduct
ing their business from their Of
fees in the Mulvane building are
generally successful.
Inquiries about the increase in
business of the various companies
and institutions located in the big
building brought forth the crafty
ing information that the increase
is considerable above the amount
of business done in other offices
and locations formerly occupied by
the same men and firms elsewhere,
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North" "a Lovers Diary" "Pierre
and His People, "a Romany of the
Shows" and when Valmond Came
to Pontiac" Harper & Brothers were
already the publishers of "The Right
1.-The Weavers," and these, together
with the collection of short stories by
Sir Gilbert just published, Northern
Lights make eleven of this authors
books to bear their imprint.
In political Issues and Outlooks, -
published by Doubleday, Page G. Co.,
President Taft includes his public ut
terances on many diverse subjects, all
of them of interest to Americans.
The contents of the book are:
The Federal Courts.
The Present Issues of the Two
Great Parties.
The Republican View of Labor
Mr. Bryan's Claim to the Roosevelt
Policies
The Future of the Negro.
In Defense of the Philippine Pol
The Republican Party; What 1t Has
Done.
The Railroads and the Courts.
A Pledge of Tariff Reform.
Postal Savings Banks and the
Guaranty of Bank Deposits.
Labor and the Writ of injunction.
The Debate of Lincoln and Doug
lass: a Look Backward.
The Solid South and Its Political
Past.
Party Plans and Principles.
Mr.. Gompers, the Courts and La
A Few Words to Southern Demo
Gratis
The Winning of the South
Hopeful Views, of Negro Difficulties
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Notable among biographies of the
time will be Nine. Helena Modjeska's
Memoirs which will be published in
The Century during 1910. The story,
written by herself, of one Of the
greatest actresses of our times, and
in "reminiscences of the great in many
arts and walks of life, and includes
wise and useful observations on the
art of acting in general, as well as
on the characteristics of contempo-
raries in both Europe and America.
The December Worlds Work treats
editorially the following topics: s'The
Presidents Plan of Action 'Notes
Made on the Journey With Mr.. Taft,
t"The Water Powers Now or
Trouble Later" "Mr. Cranes Dis,
1.-THE Enfeebled Supreme Court" '.Dr.
Cooks Difficult Position after Mr..
Hartman" "Hints of Good Industrial
Leadership Comfort in Old Age by
Government Help" "a Good Result
of the Corporation Tax" "a New
How Dreadnoughts Have Already
Brought War" peace for Business
Reasons" "a New Emancipation for
the South" 1.-THE Social Revolution in
England" "How Anarchists Are
Made" and American Colleges in
ASIA
Hamlin Garland. by reason of his
interest in 1.-The Shadow World
subject upon which he wrote the book
which the Harpers published, should
be interested in the arrival in this
country of Eusaoia Palladino, the
Italian peasant woman. known as the
despair of science" Mr.. Garland who
was at one time president of the
Psychica1 Research society, represents
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BOOK NOTES.

w. E. Connelley's book. "Quan-
treI," will soon be on sale. The vol
ume will be of especial interest to
Kansans because of the connection of
Quantrell with the tragic history of
the state. Quantrell led the raid and
directed the massacre at Lawrence in
1853. People of Kansas know Guam
trell as an arch f1end and Mr. Con-
nelley's book tends to strengthen the
popular opinion of the border ruffian.
He has exhausted the lines of histor-
ical research and his story of the man
who terrorized the free state people
is the only authentic story of his life
ever compiled.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter will
go to Chicago next week in search of
a publisher for her new novel. which
is not only the most pretentious, but
much the best effort of that brilliant
writer. 1t is a story of the prairies.
William Allen Whites "a Certain
Rich Man" has now reached a sale
of $4,000. a remarkable record, even
for a popular novel.
The December Century is a maya
zine of promise and fulfilment-prom-
Use of notable artistic and literary
features in the first paper of 1.-THE
Holy Land" series by Robert Hlehens
and Jules Guerin. in the beginning OF
Helena Modjeska's Memoirs. and in
the second instal1ment of Nav Sim
clair's 1.-THE Creators: a Comedy
in color reproductions of Guerin's
marvellous paintings of 1.-THE Temple
of Bscchus. Baa1bec." and THE Col
umns Of the Sun. Baalbec," and OF
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Insures the Farmer.

For the past nine years the Shaw
nee Fire Insurance company has been
represented in Shawnee county by R.
P. March and his team of ponies
From Chicago Heights to Grand
Haven, from Richland to ST Mary
college, up and down throughout the
county March has written insurance
on everything on the farm from the
pig sty to the. farm mansion. During
that time March has constantly in
creased the amount of insurance writ
ten until this year he will reach over
the million mark. March receives his
mail in room 1912 of the Mulvane
building. but he is seldom there.
The strength Of the Shawnee Fire
Insurance company and the fact that
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representatives, appreciated the
value of the favorable location and
leased offices and suites of offices.
The Mulvane building stands
monumental at that busy street
corner, is easily located and the Of
fees therein are easily accessible.
Persons directed to the offices of
business men in that building can
not go wrong. From northtown
to Brooklyn Heights, from Oak
land to Potwin, the Mulvane build
ing is plainly visible and easily
distinguished as it thrusts it's col
umn of high light against the dull
dark, somber setting of the sur
rounding brick and stone struc-
lures.
Seldom do the busy men and
women hesitate to take a survey
of their favorable surroundings,
nor bother to become acquainted
with their next door neighbors. The
broker or the banker with offices
in the east corridor may pass the
lawyer or land agent as they hur-
ry here and there, may be hoisted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

Two years ago when John R.
Mulvane, president of the Bank
of Topeka, confided to some of his
intimate friends that he intended
to remodel the building at the
corner of Sixth and Kansas ave-
nues, then occupied by the bank
and a few business men, few peo-
pie realized that when completed
that building would be one of the
most excellently arranged and
well appointed office buildings in
the state.
Right at the basement the re-
novation began. Story by story
the grey brick building mounted
skyward. When completed every
Topekan was proud of the six
story structure, the landmark of
the town.
Some of the present tenants oc-
cupied offices in the old building.
They remained and took early bird
advantages in the selection of the
best offices. Other business inter-
ests, other agents and companies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
TO MAKE IRON POSTS.
American Post and Pole Company Has
Representative Here.

The American Post and Pole COM
rany, manufacturers of steel fence
rosts and transmission poles, with
headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah,
rave opened an office in Topeka in
the Mulvane building under the man
agement of L. C. Gordy The object
of the maintenance of the office here
is to dispose of some of the stock of
the company, as we'll as receive orders
for the patent posts.
The posts are made of an angle iron
OF rolled steel, with a patent fastener
to be driven into the ground, thus elm
mating post hole digging. The posts
retail at about the same price as the
round cedar posts. Mr.. Gordy respect
fully invites the public to come in and
COX over the post that is sure to
supersede the fast diminishing wood
posts.
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two notable paintings by American ar
lists, Mrs. j. Francis Murphy's
Eleanor" and Ernest L. Blumen-
schein's portrait of Mr.. and Mrs Ellis
Parker Butler and child.
The recent publication by Forbes &
Co. (Chicago) of a beautiful i1lustrat-
ed collection of Ben Kings poems I'M
der the title. Jane Jones and Some
Others" recalls the life of this many
talented genius and the history of his
fame. unique in literary annals. When
Ben King died suddenly in 1894 at the
early age of 81 he was wholly I'M
aware that he had left single line
which would be remembered. But
soon afterward Nixon Waterman
gathered Kings work into a volume
which the Press club of Chicago (of
as a memorial in limited edition for
private circulation. This was i'm
mediately acquired by his friends in
the club. During the four years en-
suing Kings work was not available
to the public, although it was offered
Forbes & Co, in 1898, made ben
Kings Verse" their initial publica-
ton. The press and public received
the book with instant approval and
for the past eleven years it has con-
stantly been among the leading books
of humorous verse in point of circu-
lation, each succeeding year requiring
| more frequent and larger editions.
Sir Gilbert Parker's novels in
America will hereafter bear the inn
print of Harper & Brothers. The pub
been acquired from the Macmillan
company, Houghton Miffin, and
Doubleday Page. namely, 1.-The Lane
That Had No Turning THE Battle
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He Rests the Face,

After business man has wrestIed
over business proposition for a weary
day, it's a relief to go down into Mat
rarmons Diamond barber shop in the
basement of the Mulvane building,
have the stubble removed, the
wrinkles smoothed out and the dust
and dirt OF the fray washed away Six
chairs, six expert BARRIERS, and as fine
an equipment as any in Topeka is at
the service of-all. Good work and gem
teel treatment is Mat Harmon's slo-
gan.
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Away Above Par.

Topekans need stock and bond
broker. They have one honest. earn
est and reliabl, in Alvin E. Strauss.
room 40S Mulvane building. 1t is
Strauss who is representing the
United Wireless Telegraph Co., whose
stock is now worth $37. purchased but
two years ago at $40. 1t was Strauss
who sold the people of Topeka the
Inspiration Copper stock that sold for
twenty-five cents a share at the start
and now selling for several dollars a
share.
At present he is prom citing the King
Manufacturing Company's stock for
which he is the fiscal agent. Strauss
investigates each and every propo-
sition he handles as thoroughly as if
he is purchasing the stock for him
self Then he throws his energy into
the work to win.
The -Hepworth Land company
occupies rooms 205-6-7 in the Mulvane
building, having been tenants of the
tuilding since its completion. Their
business is confined almost exclusively
to selling land, although they have
gently added a department to handle
city real estate. Their operations ex-
lend over a wide area, including the
Texas Gulf coast, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Colorado. This firm is perhaps
the only firm in Topeka who keep a
.orce of travelling men in addition to
local agents for the purpose of selling
land
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The last novel from the pen of the
late Marion Crawford has been pub
lished under the title ''Stradella." 1t
is the second of the two novels which
at the time of Mr.. Crawford's death
had not yet been put into book form
The other, 1.-The White Sister," was
published last spring, and has since
been having a remarkable sale. That
was a novel of modern Rome; 'Strad-.
ella is a historical romance of the
Italy of the seventeenth century, cen
tering around the love of the great
musician Stradelia for the daughter
of a Venetian nobleman. The barest
outline Of his plot Mr. Crawford
found in the old chronicles of which
he was an Unsuitable devourer. In
cidentally, it may be said that he de-
scribes in the novel the genesis of the
great song, "Pieta Signore," by which
Stradella is today best remembered.
How he came to write it and to sing
it before the Pope is the climax of
this story of love and courage.
The following description of IL base
ball game is taken from Meredith
Nicholson's new novel, 1.-THE Lords of
High Decision published by Double
day, Page & Co.: "And is there in the
history of sport another game SO ex-
acting in its demands on skill, judg-
ment, and strength; so prolific of sur
prise, as our national game? Or did
ever Greek athlete bend his 1.-the body
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

Dawson & Edgar Real Estate COM
pany occupy room in the Mulvane
Guiding. During the time this COM
pany has had offices in the Mulvane
building they have sold or exchanged
100000 worth of property.
This company is the live wire in the
real estate business in Topeka. Daw-
son & Edgar make a specially of han
ding Kansas farms and city property.
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situations doing business in the United
States. The two companies are rep
resented by WILDER D. Perry. state
agent, and Harry E. stephens, spe-
cial agent for Kansas. The local
agents for Topeka are w. NJ. Forbes
& Co. for the North America and C.
G. Blakeley & Co. for the Philadel-
mia Underwriters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

by Spencer & Kesee are the Topeka
manual training school, the Y. M. c..
A., the observatory at Washburn col
!ege Central Park school, science build
ing at the state normal. Emporia and the
Central high school building at Law
renee.
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BUCKEYE BILL"
Topeka's Biggest Auctioneer, in Many
Ways, Talks of the Profession.

mo one ever paid W. R. Fisher to
cry sale" Pretty strong statement
but that's the way the auctioneer says
it is and there are several thousand
farmers and stockmen in Kansas and
Oklahoma who will verify the asser-
ton.
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With the Quaker Faith.

The Penn Mutual Life Insurance
company was organized sixty three
years ago by the sober, substantial
Quakers with equity and honesty as
the slogan. This company is repre-
scented in Topeka and the state by
James H. Todd. their general agent.
His office is room 1O4 in the Mulvane
building. The Penn Mutual is enc of
the strongest mutual life insurance
companies in the United States.
Live and sincere agents are wanted
and employed by the general agent
to carry the good work on in Kan
sas.
F N. Spencer and w. H. Kesee, con-
tractors, occupy offices in room 215 of
the Mulvane building. This firm of
contractors have under construction the
Merchants National bank building, at
the corner of Sixth and Kansas ave-
nue., the Santa F'e general offices for
motive power at the shops and the
Washington school building Of this city.
Notable among the buildings erected
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

san, armenian and Irish IaceS. TWO
cases of Italian, French and Oriental
jewelry and another of Indian goods
will all make dainty and suitable pres
entS for Christmas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

is home man is responsible to a
it is home company and that March
great degree for his exceptional sue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
"Old North America


The Insurance Company of North
America is the oldest stock fire in
surance company in the western
hemisphere. It was organized in
1892, during Washington's first term
as president. During that time the
company has paid $140.3O2.105.S7 in
losses, has assets of over twelve mil
lions, a cash capital and surplus of
$4,750, 905.66 to meet any possible
emergency or drain on the company's
funds.
The "OId North America" writes
fire and windstorm. automobile and
marine insurance and is represented
in all the principal cities and towns
of Kansas.
A farm department has JUS been
established to handle farm risks in
Kansas and Oklahoma. Frank P. Gay
of Clay Center has charge of that de-
partment. 1t is one of the companies
that has passed through the disastrous
CONGREGATIONS such as Chicago. Bos-
ton. Baltimore and San Francisco
without assessing the stockholders to
meet the losses. It has never failed
to make good the claim of every
honest po1icyholder.
The Philadelphia Underwriters of
Philadelphia, a company with assets
aggregating more than twenty mil
lions of dollars with capital and sur
plus of s7,52o.757.14, is doing -four
ishing business in Kansas and forms
one of the strongest underwriting in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27

Pror- Charles zueblin. of the Uni
verslty of Chicago. was discussing ar
of the world ieseios
me legends that are beautiful and
.InmortaI. he said. "have in them
trutns that we all. according to orr
kIno' take home. That is true. like
wise of immortal works of art-nic-
lures, poems, songs. For different
people they have different mesa pes ;;
Tor instance" said a young girl.
In r .; instance" smiled Prof zueb-
IN, IN my native Pend1eton some of
the mothers used to cut the chiIdren's
halr; They did it with shears and q
poWi. The operation was often main
1ui and the result was never eleeant
In Sunday school Pendieto,
.eacner once told her pupils the tragic
story OF Samson and Delilah. Tben
she turned to little boy.
what do you learn, Jo,' she said
from the Samson story?' o'
don't never pay piped Joe 80
nave a woman cut a feIler's hair
Philadelphia Record.
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goods. Turkish tapestry in
elegant colors and designs.
Then there are the beautiful
japanese kimonas of varied
hues. cluny laces and drawn
work. He has displayed
yards and yards of Rus
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oIe lnIerest taken in the medium by
al sluoents of psychical research.
Professor James and Professor Muen-
sterperg of Harvard. DIR. g. Stanley
Hali' and DR.. Jastrow are among the
"a OF science who will give the Pal
tbara al, al iease trial Besides these
tnere VIII be. to act as a kind of do
tectlve body, a copious presence Of
stelght-of-hand experts, among whom
the magician Keller is to be nm
peTeo; 1t can not be forgotten that
iE,alladino, who afterward Converted
.nem both, was first rejected &c
fraud by Sir Oliver Lodge and bV
Lomproso, whose recent death she
necessarily mourns. She admits She
tries TO cheat when she is tired