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Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
General Markets.

BUTTER-Creamery, specials. 5a25kc.; |; extras, 94izc; firsts 23a2ic. seconds, 19a 22c. thirds. 17a1Sc.: held, 17a23o.; state dairy, good to choice. 22a24c.; common to fair, 17a21c. process, specials. 22lkc.. ex- tras, ahc.; firsts. 19a20c. seconds, 17a1Sc. 1; thirds, 15a16c.
 CHEESE-Full cream. old. specials, 15c.; state full cream, old. small, white, fancy. l4Ac: large and small. colored. fancy. 1451c.; fair to prime, 11lha13c.; common. Sa9Iac.; full cream. new, 9Iaa10lhc.: skins, 1h pound specials. sac: fine. 6iha71sc.: fair to good S1ka5Ihc. common, 2aSc.; full skins, 1a1hc.
 EGGS-State, Pennsylvania and nearby selected white. fancy, 19c.? prime to choice 1Sa1Slkc.; brown and mixed 17tSa 1SIbc.: fresh gathered, storage packed, 17AalSc.: regular packed, extra firsts, 17Ao1Sc.; firsts. 161ka17c.; seconds. 15a1ec.; thirds, 14a14Ihc. dirties, 1Sa15c.: checks, ga13c.
 PoTAToES-Steady: choice. per bush el. S3as5c.; fair to good. 7basoc.
Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
Iiun Stock Marknta-

CATTLE-Supply light: market steady, choice, s7a725; prime, s670a6.s0; veal calves. S5a6.50.
 HOGS - Receipts light; market active and higher prime. heavies, s5.e6a6; heavy Workers s5.9; light Workers, S.7ba5.S0; pigs, S550a5.60; roughs, S4.50a5,
 SHEEP AND LAMBS - Supply light. market steady prime wethers, $b.50ab. 7b , culls and common, s2.50a3.50; lambs, s4a 7A
Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
Potato EnpermAnt.

Our East Canaan correspondent writes that G. K. Goodwin is putting in test peice of potatoes under the direction of the German Kali works.
Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
MARRIED
DIE D
Hail Storm

Our Cornwall Hollow correspondent says: There was hail storm. here May Q. Tho ground was nearly covered with largo hall stones Cor short time.
Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
To Enforce Liepor Law

A liquor law enforcement league has been organized with fun. us about &t0c0 in Grcat Barringt0e.
Connecticut western news., 1908-05-14
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BORN

PERKINs-In Norfolk, May II, son to Mir. and Mrs. Edward Perkins. SCEEREY-In Norfolk, EMay 6, alison to MT. and Mrs. William Sceerey. FERRY-In Salisbury May 6. a daughter, to MT. and Mrs. Harry Ferry. MILLsPAUGn-In Lakeville May II son to MT. and Mrs. Harry Mills paugh. a... ..a-.Nr
 MARRIED MAYEs- -BARTLE-In Lakeville May 12, by the Rev. s. Stephens. Percy Mayes of Orange, N. J. and Lottie Bartle of Ore Hill, Conn.
 DIED Wncox-In West Cornwall Nnyi1o, O. E. Wilcox, aged 64 years. ENsIGN-In Lime Rock, May 10. Miss Harriet P. Ensign.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

standpoint of profits; and about the
monthly receipts in Columbia, which
average, it was shown, $l4,7OO a month
to $4,000.
Interviews with COuncilmen, with
Col. j. A. Hudson, president of the Com
mercial Club; chairman L. NJ. Defoe Of
the Board of Health, and w. B. NOVEL;,
the chief complainant against the rail
road. indicated the public temper. Co.
lumbia was weary of inadequate service
and poor equipment. 1t was glad OF an
opportunity to express its discomfort.
Students in the Department of Jour
nalism, who did a large part of the
work in the campaign, obtained from it
valuable lesson of the power of the
press and of how publicity triumphs
when it has right on it's side. They
learned also what facts are pertinent
to such publications, and how public
sentiment may be effectively aroused
and expressed.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
TIPPING" IN
NEW YORr

4 TOT long since some of the NJ.
IN York papers undertook to inye..
tigate the matter of tipping. Tb;.
was at the time of the str;ta :.
the walters in Paris and when so,..
wiseacre had suggested-for the sake -
a good stOry-that the walters in N.-
York might follow suit. The concl,
sion the papers came to was that II.
walters would not strike, because h.
ing a waiter was far too profitable a,
occupation to be scOifed at. The wait
ers in Paris struck because thew h.a
to pay for their positions and then ii.
vide their fees with the owners .,a
head walters of the places where thsv
worked. The newspaper reporters wise.
ly concluded that no such conditions sr-
isted in Manhattan. This was espec;al
ly a wise conclusion for them to com.
to, because of the large amount of ad.
vertising carried in their sheets by th.
hotels and because of the special indul.
gences which most OF the hotel nro.
prietOrs are sagaciOus enough to grant
reporters. As a matter OF fact, il ia
probably true that there are some
strictly honest restaurant keepers and
head walters. But none of them are so
foolish as not to take advantage of a
public which is willing to pay their ser.
wants for them. The waiter in the ava.
rage first-class hotel or restaurant, such
as Sherry's or the Knickerbocker or thu
Holland House-and most of the other
mice" places--receives from the propri.
etor about 81 day. The income of the
walters in these places averages from
$25 to $50 week. The public smilingly
pays the difference. The trouble with
some of the large places is that the
work of engaging walters and SUPER
vising them is handed over entirely to
the head waiters-and favoritism takes
the chance to creep in via the vest
pocket. The head waiter has the same
chance for graft" from his own
large tips for special attention-that
comes to any other subordinate boss
in any other position. Because the Pc
culiarity of his occupation forces him
to indulge in the singularly bad taste of
wearing full dress in the morning, his
morals are not essentially different from
those of other petty tyrants.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
MISSOURI VS.. KANSAS.

The rivalry between Missouri and
Kansas over football is in some degree a
survival of the border warfare between
the two states during the time previous
to the Civil War.
In 1854, when the race for Kansas be-
tween the anti-slavery and the pro-slav-
cry parties was made, Missouri was very
active on the side of the prO-slavery
party This jealous spirit between the
Border Ruflians" and the Black Repub-
licans" has not entirely subsided, for
each state is envious of the progress
made by the other, either agriculturally
or physically.
Educationally, each state boasts of its
better public school system and better
University and other higher institutions
of learning; agriculturally, each boasts
of its superior lands and crop produc-
ton; physically, Kansas has the field to
herself, if football in the past is a crit
erion.
Kansas and Missouri have met on the
athletic field and matched their strength
and skill in hard fought football games
for the past seventeen years. The Tigers
and Jayhawkers met for the first time
on the football field at Kansas City on
Thanksgiving Day in 1891. Out of seven
teen consecutive contests Missouri has
won only three. Kansas has been victo-
rious in twelve games and twice neither
could claim victory.
Characteristic of Tigers, courage never
fails. Each year Missouri enters the
field of battle enthusiastically. This
year there are reasons for believing that
Kansas will 90 down in defeat and Mis-
souri, will shout, I'VE have met the
enemy and they are ours
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

ism, represented Columbia as a young
woman, receiving gift of a station
from one suitor, while the other looked
on gloomiIy. This aroused laughter.
And at the end of the laugh Columbia
merchants routed their goods over the
Katy" when they could, instead of
over the Wabash.
The appreciable decrease in Wabash
business here while the publications
were being made were due to an arous-
ed public sentiment, and clearly indi-
Gated to the officials the necessity for
improving the service to Columbia.
The publications included the facts
about the present Wabash station,
which is regarded as dangerously un-
sanitary; about the coaches in use on
the branch passenger train, which are
of the type in use half century ago,
lighted with oil and fiimsily construct
ed; about the Wabash earnings on the
branch. which is said to be the richest
stretch of track in its system, from the
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

THE accompanying reproductions of
clippings from the University Mis-
sourian Illustrate steps taken in its
publicity campaign for better service on
the Columbia branch of the Wabash
Railroad. The success which crowned
this crusade" when General Manager
Miller and Vice President Delano came
to Columbia and personally pledged
themselves to the University Missourian
that a new station would be built and
new rolling stock installed OH the
branch, has attracted widespread COM
ment.
The fact that the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad promised while the
publications were in progress to build
a new station here, and to spend $25,-
600 on the improvement, was utilized
in cartoons, and in the editorial and
news columns, as showing the attitude
of another railroad corporation toward
Columbia. One cartoon, drawn by
student in the Department of Journal
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
TOLD ACROSS THE
BREAhFAST TABLE

automobiles are considered too slow
for Parisians; they are ordering sup
ply of aeroplanes," began the man who
reads the Missourian. Even the staid
old Londoners are kicking because their
underground trains stop more than fif
teen seconds at a time. Where will
this speed mania end?"
Right here in Columbia" finished the
red-headed ''Soph" with the wart on his
nose. THE Wabash branch will see to
that"
Talking about speed" interrupted
the Arts student, Teddy will soon be
taking his flyer through Africa to twist
few tigers tails
Dangerous business" commented the
Freshman. 'As the Drake team discov-
cred, the Tiger might do a little twist
ing himself"
Not if he knows his business" re-
piled the ''Soph." Its all in the way
the hunter aims"
That's true" gravely nodded the
wag. "Ames exterminated some Ii
gers"
They came near turning the trick
on Nebraska, too," said the man who
reads the Missourian.
by the way" remarked the solicitor
for the Oven, did you hear about the
new fraternity started here? Anyone
who receives undue attention from the
discipline committee may become
member. If you were ever canned you
will be received with open arms"
Suppose you could call that can
opener" fastened the wag before any
body could stop him.
Il wonder if the Oyster Bay police
man who disappeared the day before
election was hunting up the Mysterious
Stranger" mused the Junior Medic"
Think not" replied the solicitor,
reaching for the cream. If he's working
for Teddy at all he's investigating Af
rican nature fakes"
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
EDUCATION Is '
CHARACTER-MAHEp

The November issue OF the Masonic
Constellation publishes the address Of
Joseph S. Mcintyre, District Deputy
Grand Commander of Masons in Missou-
ri, delivered upon the occasion of the
laying of the cornerstone of the Kings
Highway Presbyterian Church, st. Louis.
Mr.. Mcintyre said in part:
THE meaning of life is education.
The end of life is character, manhood,
in a single ord-righteousness. The
value of al institutions depends upon
what they accomplish in the upbuild-
ing of the individual character which
necessarily must result in the eleva-
tion of the social life of the commu-
nifty.
The Church and Masonry have
much in common. Both aim to build
character; both teach and believe in
God, and both conduct their services
with the open Bible always upon the
altar, and both reverently invoke the
blessings of the Deity on all occa-
sions. Both are searchers for the
truth, and believe that truth is right
eousness. The Church teaches that it
is wrong and sinful for one to give
way to the appetites of the flesh or
the lust of passion, while Masonry
lays down as its cardinal virtues
temperance, fortitude, prudence, and
justice. Masonry and the Church
alike insist that there are certain
moral ingredients which are essential
to true manhood, as every Mason pres
ent can testify"
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
SEWING FOR
BACHELORS

How much money an uneducated
woman, without cent of capital, can
MAKE by conducting as business what
many other women have long made a
makeshift of is shown by the success
met by a certain wagon drivers widow
who is visiting every young bachelor
business man she hears of with the offer
to wash, iron and sew buttons on all
his clothing for the sum of 81 week.
From the day she gets mans business
she washes his sOiled clothes so immac
ulately, knits up the rents so neatly.
sews on the buttons so firmly. and
brings each weeks consignment back so
promptly that her many customers now
look back on their slovenly public laun
dry days as a nightmare. The woman
began soon after her husbands death
with only one customer, and struggled
on for long time with only a few.
Then she got the entire into one of the
big Young Mems Christian Association
buildings, and by doing perfect work
came out victorious in competition
with the basement barber, who gets a.
commission as agent for an unusually
vicious laundry in the neighborhood.
Now the woman's son is busy all day
making collections and deliveries, her
neighbor's eldest daughter is employed
as her assistant, the family income is
about twice as large as when the wom-
ans husband was alive, and the woman
herself devotes her energies to getting
new business in other Young Mems
CHRISTIAN Associations and bachelor
apartments and boarding houses.-New
York Times.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
GAIN IN COLLEGE MEN.

Six leading universities of the East
Harvard. Yale. Columbia, Cornell. Prince
ton, and Pennsylvania-are holding their
own, both in the North Atlantic section
and elsewhere This is the conclusion
of Rudolph Tombo. Jr Registrar of
Columbia, who has compiled census of
the college men of America. He finds
too, that they are making their greatest
gains in the North Central States. where
competition of state universities is clos
est. Eastern students. however, are
coming in increasing numbers to the
colleges further west: Michigan showing
a gain of ll6 since last year.
Harvard and Columbia are ahead in
the Eastern States, but none of the six
draw as many as two thirds of their
students from their home states, except
Pennsylvania which has 67 per cent.
The percentage i'm the Middle West is
much larger, reaching S3 per cent in Ill
inois and Missouri and 81 per cent in
Ohio. Columbia is attaching rapidly
growing body of students from the
South. while Harvards greatest gains
last year were in Missouri.
Next to their own universities. Ar
kansas and Oklahoma send most students
to the University of Missouri. Kansas
sends most to Michi gan, then Missouri.
From Missouri the greatest numbers go
to Michigan. Yale. Harvard. Illinois. and
Columbia. The North Central States. in
Guiding Missouri, sent 22S2 students to
the six eastern universities last year.
Michigan leads in Illinois, Indiana, Kan
sas, Missouri, Nebraska. Ohio. South Da-
kota, and the far West where Harvard
is second.
There is a remarkable increase in the
foreign students in American colleges.
Except Great Britain, few come from
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
Right Kind of Spirit.
To the Editor Of the University Missourian:

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
An article recently appeared in HOard's
Dairyman in which the writer tells of a
legless man who is successful in person
ally conducting farm in Calhoun
county Michigan. This mans name is
Myron l.. Briggs and he has been con-
ducting his farm of 90 acres for about
seven years. Eight years ago he was
a mOtOrman and as result of a trolly
car accident both his legs were ampu-
tated just below the hip joint. The fact
that this man does nearly all of his
work. milking cows, handling horses.
blowing. etc, is remarkable and his ac-
tivity and optimism. according to this
article. merit the attention of every
one interested in human affairs.
The writer speaks of this mans cheer
fulness in his work. the great amount
of farm duties he accOmplishes and
points with pride to his neat, well kept
farm: then he points with scorn to
fault finding farmers who are the un-
fortunate owners of a diabOlical ar
rangement called stomach and are
suffering from some form of dyspepsia
or are triile lazy in their underpinning'
and wonders what would become of
them if they had no underpinning at all"
The fact is, this man is one of a
thousand. He is not wonder but sim
ply represents the right type of human
spirit and should be an inspiring object
lesson to his more fortunate brethren
whose physical faculties are unimpaired,
but need a little ginger. F. L. A.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
Which Is Best Yell?

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
The "Bek yell' reminds one of an old
established college with UNCOVERED
walls and tender memories. The "Rah-
rah" yell makes one think of newly
built college with CARING paint and an
unshaded campus. Let's have as our
leading yell at the Tiger-Jayhawk
game: Nilsson, Nilsson, Missourah."
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
DAN TREES IN
CHINA BOWLS

In the window of a florist stood some
quaint china bowls, in each of which
grew a tree-nOt shrub. but full
sized tree, dating back many years.
YES" replied the florist to the writer's
inquiry, they are real trees. oak, ma
Piles and beech trees. We get them from
Japan, where the secret of how to rea'
them is known only to few. They are
raised from seeds, or specially selecteU
cuttings, which are watched and tenaea
with that marvellous patience inheren'
in the Eastern races. Fifty years may
pass before the tree is considered SAN
bic.
During this period the plant is tram
ed, and its natural tendencies subjues
ted to the will of the rearer. The gaf
dener prunes and trains and rears an'
directs with what Carlyle called genlo.
-'an infinite capacity for taking pans
A wayward twig may be bound up !"
two or three years to insure its eof''s'
growth. Periodically the tree IS rep"
ted.
Each time this happens the roots ~
carefully examined and useless flofe GU
away. Everything is done to concs
trate the life of the tree in the smai'os
possible space. And in time, after ye
of labor, the plant loses its aolnty
send out long, lusty shoots, and bec0n
delightful miniature of its larger D'
Standard.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

Europe, the majority being drawn from
America and Asia. Out of l206 at fif-
teen leading universities, including the
six in the east and Missouri, Canada
set 2lO; Japan l42, China l39. Mexico
80. Cuba g., Great Britain and Ireland
60. Argentine So, and India "a. Harvard
has most from North America, Columbia
from Great Britain, and Missouri from
Mexico
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

Nov. 10. Japanese Tea, Y. W. c. A
house, afternoon and evening
Nov. IA. Football-Missouri VS.. Wash
ingtOn.
Athenaean Literary Society.
tnion Literary Society.
New Era Debating Club, Room
IA, Academic Hall, 7:30 p. m
NJ S. L. Debating Club.
Nov. l6. Polk Miller, entertainer, Au-
ditorium, p. m.
Nov. 10. Lecture by George Z. I.
Sweeney, Auditorium.
Nov. 81. Athenaean Literary Society.
Nov. 25. 4 p. m. to Nov. 80, at s a. m.
Thanksgiving Holidays.
Dec. 4. Lecture, John T. McCutcheon,
Auditorium.
Dec. Is. Lecture, dorado Taft, Audito-
rum.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
VIEWPOINTS

THE University Missourian invites coutr1-
''Gn Of University si 70 interest % The % name Of The
writer should accompany such letters. but viii
not be printed unless desired. The Univef-
disapproval Of these communications BY print
ing them.)
"Take Agriculture"
To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
1 was very glad to see the article in
last Tuesdays paper, entitled "Agrieul-
ture for Women"
While l cannot say that l agree with
all of Goods" statements, am always
glad to read anything which encourages
Agriculture; and most especially when
it is undersigned Co-Ed. l scarcely be-
lieve Agriculture affords as great an Op-
pOrtunity to women as it does to men,
nor do think women are suited to all
phases of Agriculture, but l do think
there are many phases of the subject
which can be pursued by the Co-Ed with
both pleasure and profit. I think this
is practically self-evident by the large
increase in the Department of Home
Economics.
| think every Co-Ed could pursue this
course with profit. l am sure a large
ma iority of the Colds will some day
change their name, and whether it be
changed to Mrs. Farmer or to Mrs.
Somebody-else, she will find most val
liable Use for her University course OF
Home Economics. Especially will this
be true if her name happens to be Mrs.
Farmer land there is no better name).
am sure that Mr.. Farmer. after work
ing hard all day will not enjoy a meal
of cold light bread and milk. Now you
say, "Oh, l am going to have more than
that" Well l hope you do, but after
all it is not so much the quantity as it
is the quality. There is no one who
should know how to prepare a better
meal or keep a nicer house than the
farmers wife.
But Home Economics is not the only
course which / think Miss CO-Ed might
pursue. She should be able to under
stand at least some of the principles of
vital Importance to the twentieth cen
tury farmer and of course Mr.. Farmer
is expected to consult his wife about
his business. 1t is not only profitable
to know many of the why's and where
fores. but it is very interesting as well.
lust for example, why is it We plow
field of corn when there is not a weed
in sight, and why does corn mix when
planted together, while wheat does not :
Again. by taking some work in horti-
culture, Mrs. Farmer may know how to
care for her flowers and ormanted shrubs
which always add to the attractiveness
of home. Also, if she takes a little
course in dairying, she will find out how
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

to make butter without churning for
an hour or more
Such courses as these l think would
be very beneficial to women. Unless YOU
have such courses as these you do not
know their value. To Miss Co-Ed and
her friends who may be likewise in
clined, l say Take Agriculture"
FARMER.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
UNIVERSITY
ANNOUNCEMENT

w. L. Howard's office phone number
is now Ia. This is in Room of the
Horticultural Building, headquarters for
the Missouri State Board of Horticul-
ture. The number is not in your phone
directory and should be inserted.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
Inspiration to Industry.

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
The picture of G. |. Birchfield ap-
peared in Sundays Republic. We hope
this will inspire other young men of
the state to make a name for them
selves. C. A.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

The eleventh of next February will be
the SEVENTEEN anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the University of Missouri.
The authorities should begin now to
arrange for the biggest celebration ever
held in the University. We should do
honor to the noble founders of the
States chief school.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

The Missouri Legislature should make
the appropriation asked by the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution for the
marking of the Santa Fe trail.
The marking will do honor to the piO-
neers who built the West. Other states
have marked the trail; so should Mis-
souri,
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

The enrolment of the 2OO0th student
and the Inauguration of President Hill
make the fall of 1908 memorable at the
University of Missouri.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

The Home Economics club has de-
cided to meet every other week on Wed
nesday night, and have debates on vari-
ous phases of Home Economies. Plans
were begun for the annual reception to
be held before Christmas.
Miss Elizabeth Let's, and Miss Hen
retta Bowman went to Mexico Saturday
where they were guests at Harden Col
lese. Miss Bowman referred the basket
ball game between Harden College and
the Mexico High School.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10

Let's forget l6 to 0 and think Of
ii to 8.
University Missourian., 1908-11-10
VARSITY NOTES

Miss Helen Weber has gone home to
Kansas City for few days.
The Kappa Gamma fraternity has
started its series of fraternity dances
this evening with an informal dance to
the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Miss Helen Clark of Neosha, Mo-, who
has been the guest of her sister, Miss
Fay Clark, has gone home.
Miss Anna Clark entertained a week
end party at her home eight miles east
of town. Those present were: Miss
Margaret Rollins, Miss Margaret Elston,
Miss Mary Paxton, Miss Helen Ross.
Sidney Rollins. Brinkley Morris, Allen
Elston, Richard Lyon, John Holloway,
Matthew Paxton.