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The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09
Coeeluoetlon.

Following the lead of one of the
great western universities, and of an.
other college in the east, the president
Of one Of the best-known New Eng.
land institutions of learning, in his re-
cent annual report, expressed his dis
approval of the form of coeducation to
which the college has long been COM
mitted. He wishes the institution to
continue to educate both sexes, but
separation of them in classroom and
curriculum is recommended The re-
port comments upon tendency which
has been noted by other educators as
manifested in other institutions, name
ly, the tendency of the girls at coedu-
cational colleges TO increase in num-
bers, and Of the boys at the same col
lcSes to decrease; so that the ulti-
mate destiny of such institutions
seems to be college exclusively for
girls. 1t is rather peculiar, says the
Youths Companion, that with single
conspicuous exception which has been
mentioned, most of the colleges which
have begun to question the wisdom of
coeducation are in the east. Through.
out the west, where nearly all the uni.
versities are state institutions, coedu.
cation not only exists, but Is taken as
matter Of course; and the young
men and young women appear to get
on well together. Much of the opposi.
tion to the admission of women comes
from the young men students, who
maintain that the college courses are
being feminized; but there are those
who shrewdly suspect that athletics
has something to do with the matter
A college which has 600 students, OF
whom one-half are young women, has
less material from which to choose an
eleven, nine, or a crew, than a col
lege of equal size made up wholly OF
men; and the roar of ''rooters" is more
effective when it is bass and barytone
than when it is soprano. The problem
is difficult one, for the number OF
girls who want college education is
constantly growing; and the place
whore they shall seek it must always
be determined, for many of them, by
the considerations of cost and convent,
ence.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

really we was seven cents ahead OF
the game"
which of course ye held in trust
for him agin another year." said the
Postmaster.
Not accordin' t. due process O the
law" replied the Captain. Il never
drawed up reglar morgidge on my
place in his favor for that amount.
but I tell ye right now, II he ever
comes back an asks for that seven
cents, ! gorry, I'll give it to him. But
that amt the pint. The pint is that
they is, or has been, one honest hawk
in the world. an guess maybe that
If they's one like that they's lot
more If ye only have the luck to find
EN-"
81 never knew chicken-hawk to go
near the water before" said 81 Woth-
erspoon.
me neither agreed the Captain.
Il guess maybe this feller was a cross
breed O. chicken an fish,hawk While
he paid his bills reglar. an always In
advance, ] never got close enough to
him to ask him about his father and
mother"
Its pity" said the Postmaster
"lf We could only get an afterdavy
shown that his father an mother was
O. different families the story d have
a better chance when the president
hears about It,"
That experience got me interested
in hawks" said the Captain, IAN ex
plains how come to find the crooked
est hawk In the business the nexi
summer. or course, after meetin' Will
the first feller ! kind O welcomed EN-
when they come the year after.
didn't want to shoot 'em for fear o
KILN good customer, SO for a little
while gave them free hand on in,
place. an set around maxim notes 9
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

their habits Well one rnyrza III
June the followiii year up comes
tremendous big feiier an, begins 10
take the usual bird'seye view B. the
chicken yard and then, gorry. he
sswoops down an grabs settin' hen
right on her nest, ana fies away with
her. follered the cnss, an discovered
where he lived, up on q big rock back
o. Pete Nichols woods wls 20
derned interested In the species that
1t sort O. fas'nated me to watch him,
He eat up the old mother hen, and
then flew off to the westward some
place, an went back home. Next
mornin bright an early was walked
up by an awful cacklin' goin' on down
there In the chicken yard, an, i gorry,.
what d. ye suppose found when I
got down there?"
"a check for four dollars to pay for
the hen," put in the Postmaster.
mo, sirree!" calculated the Cap
tain. There wasn't nothin' SO honest
about that second hawk. He was q
pirate, he was. He'd Gomez back for
the eggs the old hen had been settin'
on, an by the. time I'd got my clo'es
on an got down to tn yard, he'd got
his claws on the nest an was speedin'
off home with 'em, an he never spilled
an egg. / follered after him again, an.
when got up to where his nest was
I climbed tree. sos could look down
into 1t an see what he was doin', an,
by gum, sir. he was settin' on them
eggs hisself! Yes, sir, Jest like an
old mother hen, an he set there till
he'd hatched them all out, an as fast
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

Eleven hunters are to be sent this
winter after the wolves and other
predatory animals that infest the
stock-raising country. The depart
ment of agriculture began in October
an inquiry into the hunting ability of
various applicants for the positions
for it wishes to employ only skillful
men. 1T is estimated that in certain
parts of New Mexico each full.grown
wolf kills Il yearling steer or a calf
every three days. If the wolves can
be exterminated, hundreds of thou.
sands, if not millions, of dollars worth
of cattle will be saved every year. The
eleven hunters to be employed will be
sent to the Sawtooth forests in Idaho,
the Wind river division of the Yellow
stone forests in Wyoming the High
wood mountain forests in Montana,
the northern division of the Grand
Canon forest in Arizona, the Park
Range forest in Colorado, the Dixie
forest, Utah, the Trinity forest, Cali
fornia, the Imuaha forest, Oregon, and
the Montozuma forest in Colorado.
Other hunters will go to western
Texas and New Mexico.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

Scientific gentlemen should be the
last to say what kind of flying ma
chine is best for the purpose of carry
ing on war, for they never know what
some inventor is going to do in the
next few minutes in the way of build
ing stable and practicable airship
which will mako the rest look like
inflated sausages. At a convention in
Washington the airship men declared
the balloon the only practical air
agency in war. Let them not be too
cocksure. Some lively little flying
machine may dart out at the puffed-
up war balloon the first time 1t goes
to battle, as a king bird goes after a
crow, and by the time it has rammed
the side of the monster with its
swordfish point the big gas bag may
have all the fight taken out of 1t,
as we'll as several other ingredients.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

self to his dinner. That night after
we'd eat the shad for supper mother
remarked that 1t was sort OF Inn
pressin' itself upon her mind that
that there bird wanted to do the
square thing by us' an was tryin to
pay. for the chickens he teok In fish,
an bein' as / was thinkin' very much
the same thing myself ! didn't see no
cause to dispute 1t, an we decided not
to shoot him the next time he came
round, but jest to lie low an see
Well, sir, sure enough, the next week,
near sundown Thursday night, we
heard peckin' at the door an on
openin' it there on the sill we found
jest about the slickest lookin' Spanish
mack'rel y ever sot your two eyes on.
He was perfect beauty an so fresh
that he was still drippin' water an
fioppin' his tail, shown that he'd
only jest been caught. I'd hardly
picked him up from the doorstep
when terrific squakin' down in the
chicken yard showed that Mr.. Hawk
was goin' keerfully over my poultry
stock like first-class housekeeper
doin' her marketin', an bimeby we
see him flyin' off through the air
with another pullet in his claws.
1T went that way all summer long.
Every time he took bird he brought
Ash, an when the season was over,
an mother an me come to f1gger 1t
out, 1t wasn't ten cents one way or tn
other whether him or us had the best
O. tn bargain. AS remembered it,
he'd took s27.6S wuth O. poultry an
had left us $27.75 wuth o. fish, so that
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

Business was practically suspended
in all lower New York not long ago
while the people watched man G72
feet above the ground put gold ball
on top of the Flagstaff on the new
Singer building--the tallest building
yet erected. The streets We're iammed
SO thickly with people that the cars
had to stop running. 1t was as If the
business heart stood still for mo-
ment out of terror for what might hap
pen should the rope break.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

hawks, an they's dishonest hawks,
just like they's honest men, an men
that's crooked"
AN honest hawks a new one on
me-" said the Postmaster with dubi-
ous laugh, "'F could ketch one O.
them I'd give UP runnini the country
an open circus
"As hev often had occasion to re-
ERtk before" said the Captain calm
ly, i; intelligence was in demand in
runnin tn affairs o. this nation there's
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09
Being the
"reminiscences
of a
Nature Fakir
Copyright, by Joseph 5. Bowlos.)
By
John Kendrick Bangs

Il kind O think 81 Wotherspoon
was saying as Joined the company at
the post Office the other night, that
all birds is highway robbers whether
they he the human kind that we calls
Jail birds or jest plain crows like that
feller Jim, the Captain was tellin' us
about little while back. They'll all
steal if ye give 'em chance
That all depends on the way ye
look at it, ST." said the Captain "The
way / measure thief is whether he
steals jest for the fun O. deprivin'
somebody else O what he's got, or
does it because he needs what he
takes in his business.
We'll, now, s'pose ye take em
pigeons o Joe's," said 81. Il sowed
my back lot with oats three weeks
ago, an hadn't more'n got 'em on
the ground when them derned critters
come foppin' acrost tn road, an sot
down there, an eat up every. blamed
oat Id put out. D. ye call that steal.
i'll or jest material enterprise?"
It's enterprise said the Captain.
Mature has provided them pigeons
see you sort o settin the table for
'em to come over an have snack O.
lunch, they come, an they take what S
set before 'em without grumblin, an
with no more idee in their minds that
they amt doin' what you expected 'em
tn ,IO lot ~
took it to EN-. Now if Joe hisself had
come over, an swep' those oats up
into bag, an took 'em to his yard an
fed EN- to his pigeons, that d ha'
been stealin', because Joe knows bet
ter, even if he is fedra office hold.
err"
II see," said 81, but think he
owes me peck of oats jest tn same,
an gorry, if them pigeons shows
their pesky bills on my lot agin I'll
Ill"
You'll receipt EN-, eh?" laughed
the Captain.
I'll blow their derned heads off. "
said 81, with considerable heat.
"That'll be jest right" observed the
Postmaster, quie ly. I've told them
pigeons to keep off your place, an If
they don't do as tell 'em to, shoot
'em ST. I'll sell ye the gunpowder to
do it with"
And thus was truce declared.
Birds has got 10 live," said the
Captain after good-fellowship had
been restored in a dipperful of root
beer all around, "an' while 1t makes
me madder n a hornet sometimes tn
way they have of swoopin' down on a
! days work, an spjlin' it, I'm blamed
| if l can blame 'em. The bird ketches
the grain, the farmer ketches the
birds, an the tax assessor ketches the
farmer, an the grand jury ketches the
tax assessors, an so it goes"
Then ye wouldn't shoot hawk
that come down an took couple o
your best spring pullets, eh?' said the
! Postmaster.
We'll, they's hawks an hawks,
said the Captain. "They's honest
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09

as them baby chickens d pop out O.
their shells. he'd eat 'em. an when he
got through with that bunch he went
back an tried the game all over again.
but I was too smart for him. put
lot O. chiny eggs In the next nest.
an tell We / had good laff when
see him soarin' away with Them
What become of him finaily?"
asked 81 Wotherspoon. ID ye kill
him."
Il didn't need to-" said the Captain.
'"The pesky old cuss died o. starya.
tion waitin for them chIny eggs to-
hatch"
At this point the mail came In and
the Postmaster's business caused the
adjournment of the meeting.
"Well,'' he said, as he unlocked the
bag. III them stories is true we've
proved your pint They is hawks an.
hawks!"
"You bet they be- said the Cap
tain. "An'.like us human bein's they's
divided up between the common peo
pie an the frenzy finance crowd--a
pint thSt had ought to make my dis
covery most interestin' one to ths
present honored lessee O the shoes O.
Washington, jefferson an Grover
Cleveland,
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09
THE JASPER NEWS
ROLAND B. GRIFFITH, Editor.

JASPER. ........, ...... MISSOURI
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1908-01-09
Encouraged.

Encouraged.
Mamma--Oh. papa, what do you
think! Baby said three words. to-day!
Papa-Were you with him, dear2
Yes. was"
"Really?"
Really"
That's encouraging. You may give
me chance to say three words some
time Yonkers Statesman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.

When they saw the star. they rejoiced
with exceeding great joy-Matthew ii:1o.
The great joy felt by the wise men
from the east has been experienced by
each succeeding generation for 1900
years. The star shines as brightly now
as it did i'm Bethlehem, and all over
the civilized world this day, made holy
by the advent OF the babe in the
manager. is given over to rejoicing and
the exchange of gifts.
All the multiplied sorrows of life and
the wounds and scars received in the
fierce struggle are forgotten this morn
ing as the fathers and mothers listen
to the shouts Of joy when the little
ones discover that they have been re-
membered by dear old Santa, whose
very existence is denied by some. but
who is living. breathing reality to the
children.
1t is well that the day should be OBJ
served. but let us not forget why. Eat
drink and be merry. but remember the
lessons taught by Him in whose honor
the feast, is spread May each and
every reader OF The Herald enjoy him
self to the utmost on this and many
succeeding Christmas days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25

followed judgments in large sums
against some OF the English unions.
and was one OF the results of the sue
cessful agitation OF the labor element
in the last general election. which re-
turned a large number of labor mem
bers to parliament and made them a
strong factor in the present Lberai
government.
Similarly, the issue made in the las:
election by Mr.. Gompers' effort to Sc
cure planks at Chicago and Denve;
modifying the law as TO contempt not
committed in the presence of the court
was due 10 the knowledge that this
case, the Danville hat case and others.
would probably result in just such rul-
ings as have been handed down. In
so far as the issue in the campaign
could be judged by the labor vote,
there was either a misrepresentation Of
its Importance or organized labor as
body was Indifferent 10 the efforts Of
its leaders TO promote politically what
il had asked for in its conventions. in
congress and before the TWO nationa:
conventions.
If the decisions in the District of CO.
lumbia are upheld in the highest court,
the boycott win be an outlawed insti-
tuition. the open shop will be triumph
and in so far as the power of the law
can support it, the unfair" list can no
longer be used safely, and union labor
will be confronted with the necessity
for new methods in its battle for the
closed shop and the limitation OF en-
ployment 20 its members The only
possible escape from that result would
be legislation by congress. and it is a
foregone conclusion that the present
congress and its successor just elected
win do even less in this direction than
could have been expected heretofore.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25

swallow as to render this plan difficult
Of accomplishment
lhere is tariff on acOrns and dan
dellon roots. Both of these are inport-
ed In considerable quantities. They
are ground and used as substitutes for
coffee. Cologne pays duty but the
tlme may yet arrive when this country
VIII produce such scented spirits in
sufncient quantities TO satisfy the COM
mercial demand. There are great dis
tricts in the United States which are
admirably adapted for producing the
requisite flowers. The latter are of the
simplest varieties, common roses and
other everyday blossoms possessing
more intense doors than the cultivated
kinds Elevated land is best An at
tempt 10 raise orange blossoms in Flor
ida proved a failure chiefly because the
land was too low.
Amber is on the free list This is a
fossil gum of an extinct cone-heartn5
tree. 1t is dug up in parts of the great
plains of north Germany, where the
tree once fiourished. The gum is found
along the shores of the Baltic. 1t is
got from mines. picked from cliffs and
good deal of it is gathered in the
shape OF nodules cast up by the waves
In the middle ages it was more VAL
liable than gold and was used nv
princes and church dignitaries for
forks. At present il is worth from -
TO 500 a pound. according to quality.
Crude bristles are not required tn
pay any duty The best of them come
from Russia, where hogs of a peculiar
breed are regularly plucked to furnish
material for the more costly kinds az
brushes. Asbestos is on the free LIST
II IS form Of hOrnblende rock. having
hbrous texture. so that il can he
woven NC
Leeches are on the free list. They
are very important animals. No sur-
gical instrument can perform the on
ration OF bleeding so delicatelv as tbey
Tnere are plenty of leeches in mis-
country, but they are mostly much hsg-
ger and too ferocious to be useful To-
medical purposes i0i
There Is no tariff on madden rb,e e.
quite an interesting substance Tt ~
oeen found that 1t viii color the bonas
OF human beings and other an+,,.a,-'
That partake OF II with their food
French chemist not long ago 49,
some experiments by feeding maddar
at intervals to growing pigeons 10
rabbits. The bones of the craat, ,.ilu
thus led when sawed through sbo--e5
IN sections alternate rings of ni,L Mea
white VI PINK and
Among other things on the frae ~.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25
Use FOUND AT LAST.

The vermiform appendix which is
regarded as useless except to provide
surgeons with an opportunity to show
their dexterity with the knife. has at
last justified it's existence, according 20
a London hospital physician, who
claims the appendix is a great help In
treating diseases of the lower INES
tines. AS the information has not found
its way into the books the surgeon
description is appended:
THE new operation is TO cut down TO
the appendix. just as in an ordinary
appendicitis operation. but. instead of
cutting out this organ. it is threaded
through the various layers OF muscles
in the abdominal wall and attached to
the skin. II is then opened and, by a
tube passed through its lumen passage,
any necessary medicine may be applied
directly 70 the mucus membrane of
the lower intestine. The appendix may
with safety remain open in this posi-
ton. for the muscles of the abdominal
wall act as an efficient guard.
This is matter of Importance. since
in lucrative conditions of the intes-
tines it is necessary TO continue nnedi-
cation for weeks or months. This max
ing use of the appendix does not lessen
its danger as a favorite focus for In
fiammation and abscess formation. but
at least il removes some of the stigma
which has hitherto been attached to it
by the profession
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25
FUNNY THINGS IN TARIFF.
Skeletons Are on the Free List as
Necessary Articles.

washington Cor. Brooklyn Eagle)
Revising the tariff law is not all dry.
uninteresting work. There is humor to
be got out of the schedules. as well as
solid chunks of entertainment and
even joyous information. When the
tariff tinkerers get to work to remodel
the present Dingley law it will not be
necessary for the newspaper readers to
be fed constantly on heavy. unpaIata-
bic statistics
Whoever undertakes the revision
job Will find many oddities in the law.
Take the item of skeletons. for exam
pie They are on the free list. being
regarded as necessaries- Obviously. no
one can get along without a skeleton.
10 the poor man II is even more essen
tial than TO the rich man, inasmuch as
the former is compelled to work for his
living. while the latter. If boned like a
turkey, might still repose comfortably
IN deep sea-going chair and be fed
by his valet
About 5000 skeletons are imported
INTO this country every year, nearly all
OF them from Paris, where the art of
preparing such osseous remains is un-
derstood better than anywhere else in
eNc WIN HcS cost $40 each. but one
can buy nice skull for IS.
Turtles are free, too, as well as snails
and shrimps- So are fish skins. and
fossils. 1t Is the same way with the
eggs of all kinds OF insects. They nav
no tariff. Imported varieties of bugs
are thus brought within easy reach of
anybody who wishes to raise them
Bees come in without duty under the
mead of animals imported for breeding
purposes"
Fish eggs are in the free list. and
likewise joss sticks. Congress has no
desire 10 make religion q luxury TO the
Chinese in this country Two familiar
volcanic products. lava and p,lrnice
are not required TO pay customs tax
Inasmuch as there are no active vol
canos worth mentioning in the United
States, no infant industry is Threatened
by this provision There Is no duty on
ice. though II has been suggested that
icebergs might be towed down from
Labrador to Boston or New York. to he
broken up for market. Unfortunately
the water OF the Atlantic shore Is so
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25
A RURAL MoRALIST.

CNew York Times)
Hod Graham says we amt got no more
idee
OF tn way that tn country is run
Than nothin at all. and tn whole thing
Into wreck if there amt somethin'
done:
If we Just had today men Ike Webster
and Clay
But there amt no such statesmen as
So dishonesty's rife in political life
(And he weighed his hand in with the
cheese)
Hod says nobody knows where tn tax
money goes
An tn funds of tn people an SIGH;
An what can We expect from tn men we
An III all-around craze to git rich:
So as fur as he knows from tn way tn
There amt no relief he can see.
TIL We ali learn ag'in to declare war on
(And he weighed in the scoop with the
teal
Hold says morals is slack an We ought
To III days Of our earliest youth.
When Teller vas taught 10 do just as he
ought
An tn wasn't no discount on truth;
When a mans word was good an he did
as ne should
An the Teller who served Uncle Sam
Worked as hard as though he worked for
you or for me
CAnd he weighed in his knife with the
ham,
An Hold says that tn more he runs gro
Gerry store
An the more that he studies an reads
Tn more he's afraid We are on tn down
grade,
With our morals all grown up to weeds
An IN one thing 10 do is FOR me an for
you
An for every respectable soul
To stick 10 tn ways OF tn old-fashioned
days,
80 he weighed himself in with the