davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-13
HUG AND KISSES, $4,000

Woonsocket, X. l., March l2-Al-
lesing that ne did violently mug her
and purloin kisses against her viii,
Marguerite Delcourt has brought suit
against Godfrey Daignault, q promi-
nent young business man Tor 5000
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-13
STOCKMEN IN
FORT WORTH

Fort Worth, Texas. March l2.-Hun-
dreds OF additional visitors arrived to
day TO inspect the National Feeders
and breeders show, now in progress
here. The Judging Of cattle, horses
and mules was continued this morning
in the great arena at the coliseum.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-13

Let as press and clean yoa. clothes.
Satisfaction guaranteed y Hl,stein
& Son 3-+-tt
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Common Sense at Weddings.

According to the Colorado papers the
craziness of wedding pranks is the di-
rect cause of the untimely death of a
girl recently one of the Moberly's citi-
zens and most respected and beloved
by all who knew her. The extent to
which these pranks are carried is a dis
grace to civilization, to refinement and
the sacred relation of the marriage con-
tract. 1t has come to pass that decent,
refined, quiet and respectful wedding
cannot be held without it being prac-
tically disgraced by number of we'll
meaning, but almost criminally, mis-
guided friends. 1t would seem that a
few such instances as the one here cited
ought to be enough to break up this
miserable custom that even hOtentots
and savages would regard as disgrace
full and demoralizing. 1t would seem
that it was time to get back to decency
and common sense in the matter of we'd
ding lebrations.-Moberly Democrat.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
An Example in Sensationalism.

In the year 1889 the whole French
people was in state of political ex-
citement. They seized eagerly upon
everything sensational. A young jour
nalist named Camille DesmOnulins shar-
ed this feeling. and took advantage of
it. He wrote a series of articles called
Lamp post Talks to the People of
Paris" in which he urged that anybody
who was not a friend of the people
ought to be taken to the nearest lamp
post and hanged. He was not himself a
man. He chose his title
chiefly because it sounded so pictures
que. After time he saw that they
were executing great many innocent
men and women, and began to tell men
so. Then they said that he was not a
friend of the people any longer, and
executed him. This story has moral
for us in America to-day. 1t shows
the danger that comes to a people which
reads newspapers for the sake of ex-
citement instead of for the sake of in
n.--President Hadley, in Youths
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
WHAT EDITORS
ARE SAYING
Palma And Cuba,

Thomas Estrada Palma, ex xpresident
of Cuba, deserved kinder fortunes than
befell him, since he was well meaning,
patriotic and unselfish. He failed as
president, was compelled to invoke the
intervention of the United States, and
passed the last two years of his life in
great popular disfavor, regarded by the
NOderates as one who had mismanaged
their cause and by the Liberals as hav-
ing brought in the stranger, after de-
frauding them OF victory at the polls.
Whether Palma deserved all the criti-
cism passed upon him by errors or faults
Of commission, no doubt exists that he
was not qualified to be at the helm of
the Cuban ship of state on it's first voy
age under its own flag A ripened
scholar, he had been absent from Cuba
twenty-fOur years when he entered upon
the presidency. He came from cloistered
calm to be the executive of a people
naturally turbulent and flushed by re-
cent deliverance from hostile rule He
confronted crisis after crisis, and finally
succumbed under circumstances so humi-
liating that recollection of them will
probably long obscure to Cubans his
self sacrifice his mquestionable services
and his unquestionably good intentions.
Boston Transcript.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Spirit Not Quotation.

Mr.. Charles p. johnson regrets the
disappearance of eloquence. He says no
great criminal lawyer ever lived who
did not study Shakespeare as diligently
as he studied Blackstone, and every
appeal to jury was full of quotations
from the great dramatist.
Perhaps the great lawyers and politi
cal spellbinders of the past worked the
poet too hard. Oratory is like a good
dinner. Substantial dishes make the real
meal. Angel food and lady fingers are
well enough in their way, but they don't
fill up and make a man feel satisfied
with himself Shakespeare has fed many
great minds, but probably, to the ma
jOrity of orators, he is never anything
but book of quotations from which
the speaker takes pretty poses but no
thought. Such oratOry became conven-
tiOnal. The quotation marks We're too
plainly visible. 1t was sometimes pleas
ing, occasionally persuasive, but never
compelling. Bob IngersOll was the last
of these orators. He picked pretty flow
ers from all the poets. Some he used
fresh, some he painted bit, all of them
he scattered about with a generosity
born of the perfect knowledge that there
were plenty more where they came from.
But nobody ever took Bob seriously. 1t
is doubtful if he ever produced any last
ing impression on any human brain and
certain that he never carried conviction
to a single human heart. Habitual quo
tiers seldom get below the surface of
things. And your plain, average man,
while he may be amused by pretty out
side has a healthy suspicion that there
is nothing but wind inside the gorgeous
bubble.
A speaker who sleeps his soul in Shake
speare and Milton until he makes their
thought his own will utter it with his
own vocabulary. The poet will not be
a crutch for him to hobble about on,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
OUR OLDEST
FAMILIES

The Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches
held their inter tribal council on Oct. l..
Chief Ahpeaton was reelected chief of
the Kiowas, Quanah Parker of the CO.
manches, Apache John of the Apaches.
Paul Corbett, of Kamiah, is full
bloOded Indian, but he is a stOckhOlder
and director in the kamiah Bank,
stockholder in the Kamiah Bridge Com
pany and a landed proprietor of no
small pretensions.
A descendant of Tama's band of
Musquakie Indians is now the engineer
of fast passenger train on the Bur-
lingtOn road. He is here on the same
ground where his ancestors lived for
many generations. Few passengers who
ride behind him know that Tama In
dian sits in the cab of the engine as it
speeds over the prairies.
Hollow Horn Bear, chief of all the
Sioux, returning from a visit to Sen
ator Gamble at Yankton, found himself
broke" and through Interpreter Ellis
ton sought Judge Witten, in charge of
the Tripp registration, and asked for
loan of S. to buy food for his family.
When the Judge presented So bill FL
IistOn pointed out Hollow Horn Bears
picture on it. Judge Witten kept the
bill and gave the chief specie. He wished
to retain the bill which contained the
picture of the only living man ever
in that manner. Hollow
Horn Bear made a speech in Congress
in 1899, and as he is a goOd-looking
speciment of his race his picture was en-
graved on both the S. and $40 bills
Indians Friend.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
GET BUSY AND WIN.

Every student should have his voice
in good condition for the cheering
Thanksgiving. The report of the game
will be read by everybody in Missouri
and Kansas and we won't like to have
it said that the Jayhawks outcheered
their opponents. The student should
tie his hat or army fashion, else he
will find it has gone up into the air
and fallen under the bleachers when
Missouri makes touchdown. He
should stand next to a small person so
that when his neighbor gets excited and
hits him on the back the result will
not be severe.
Everyone will stand up when the ex-
citement begins, hence the small stu
dent should be there at daylight (more
or less) to get front seat. The stu
dent should tie a string around his fin
ger to remind him that he brought his
girl to the game. He will forget all
about her during the game land she
about himl but when it is over she will
need his help to get home through the
crowd at the park and on the car. When
the game is over the student who came
alone should walk down town to wear
away his joy and surplus energy.
The crowd coming back to school will
be tired but happy bunch. They will
have had the time of their lives and
would not have missed it at any cost.
But now and then their thoughts run for
ward to the football reception, and they
remember that there is good time in
social activities as well as in athletics.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
RULES is RULES

Germany, as is well known, is much.
governed country. The policemen there
not only keep order, but go far out of
their way to make people tread the
straight and narrow path. Bicycle reg
ulations, for instance, are very stringent
in German cities. A bicyclist, after
proving that he can ride by means of a
test under the eyes of solemn judges,
must furthermore, after he has obtained
his official permit, subject to voluminOus
and complicated regulations! To be
gin with, he must have a number. This
number, according to his rule book
(which he must always carry), ''is to
be affixed to the bicycle in plain view,
both on the front handlebar and on the
tool box under the saddle" Once an
American, who had just obtained his
permit, decided that it would be more
convenient for him to carry his tool
box on the front handlebar. But know
ing that his number must be affixed
under the saddle, in order to be seen
from behind, he carefully hung it there
by means of couple of wires. Then he
sailed eourageously forth. He had
hardly travelled half dozen blocks be-
fore he was stopped by stern police
man.
You are not observing the rules of BIZ
cycling" said the latter solemnly.
The foreigner looked bewildered.
But 1 have the number in front of
my bicycle and behind, too
The regulations read that the num-
Der in the back should be affixed to the
tool box" said the officer, eyeing the
number hung from the two wires with
immense disapproval.
''And do you mean to say that, just
because the rule is worded that way.
am obliged, whether 1 desire it or not.
to carry my tool box under the saddle?"
Il do"
Argument was useless. The police
man would not allow the foreign BIZ
eyclist to proceed until the latter had
promised to restore the tool
box, duly numbered, to its proper posi-
ton as soon as he reached home.-New
York Times.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

APPETITES

The AnglO-SaXOn race is prone to pc
culiarities and eccentricities of diet. At
dinner table it is interesting .
to watch ones fellow guests and note
what they take and what they decline,
and the most striking results are OBJ
tanned by observing a party of English
men and women at the table dhote in
a .Oreign land. One section abhOrs ON
elets, another is equally emphatic in re-
fusing Italian pastes, macaroni, and the
ike. while others declare that the sight
of oil-dressed salad inspires nausea.
Some take cheese and fruit, others do
not. But the noteworthy feature in
this pick and choose dietary is the sol
emnity with which the idiosyncrasy is
asserted, with an accent of sincerity
merit 1t is not merely a question of
disliking this or that article of food,
the tone is such as to cast aspersiOns
on all who think otherwise. If. by way
of contrast, we watch foreigners at
dinner we shall be struck by the fact
that while they may vary as to guam
tity, old and young alike Partake OF
the dishes in due sequence. Why is that
the English stomach in general shows
such antipathy to olive oil, which is
the ordinary culinary fat in SO many
parts of the world? How is it that the
Englishman, who revels in such light
delicacies as roly-poly pudding. fights
shy of nouilles and vermicelli? One ex-
PLANTATION may be that children in many
families are allowed to pick and choose,
or, at any rate, to express approval or
dislike, license which bears perniciOus
fruit in later life. 1t may be added
that in no country is the culinary field
as limited as in England. In France
they make use of numerous vegetables
and fOodstuffs unknown across the
Medical Journal.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
TYRANNY
OF GRAMMAR

For most of those who deliberately
seek to learn to write, words seem gen
orally to be felt as of less Importance
than the art of arranging them. 1t is
thus that the learner i'm writing tends
to become the devoted student of
grammar and syntax. That is indeed
a tendency which always increases.
Civilization develops with conscious
adhesion to formal order, and the writer
writing by fashion or by ambition,
and not by divine right of creative in
stipct-follOws the course of civilization.
1t is an unfortunate tendency, for those
whom it affects conquer by their num-
Der. As we know. writing that is real is
not learned that way. Just as the
solar system was not made in accord
ance with the astronomers laws, so
writing is not made by the laws OF
grammar. Astronomer and grammarian
alike can only come in at the end. to
give generalized description of what
usually happens in the respective fields
it pleases them to explore. When a
new comet, cosmic or literary, enters
their sky, it is their descriptions which
have to be readjusted, and not the com
ct. There seems to be no more pro-
nounced mark of the decadence of peO
pie and its literature than a servile and
rigid subserviency to rule. 1t can only
make for ossification. for anchylosis. for
petrifcatiOn. all the milestones on the
road of death. In every age of Demo
cratic plebeianism, where each man
thinks he is as good writer as the
others, and takes his laws from the
others. having no laws of his own ma
ture, it is down this steep path that
men, in a flock. inevitably run.-Have-
lock Ellis, in the Atlantic Monthly.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

Nov. a. Football-Missouri VS.. Wash
ington.
Athenaean Literary Society.
Union Literary Society.
New Era Debating Club, Room
IA, Academic Hall, 7:3O p. m.
NJ S. U. Debating Club.
Nov.l5 to Dec. l5, Art Lovers Guild,
Museum of classical archaeol-
ogy.
Nov. l6. Polk Miller, entertainer, Au-
ditorium, 8 p. m.
Nov. l9. Lecture by George 2. L.
Sweeney, Auditorium.
Nov. 81. Athenaean Literary Society.
Union Literary Society.
New Era Debating Club, Room
IA, Academic Hall, 7:30 p. IN.
NJ. S. L. Debating Club.
Nov. 25. 4 D. m to Nov. 80, at a. m.
Thanksgiving Holidays.
Dec. 4. Lecture, John T. McCutcheon,
Auditorium.
Dec. Is. Lecture, dorado Taft, Audito-
rum.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Likes Classical Plays.

To the Editor Of the University Nissourian:
l see by the University Missourian
that students are to present DIR. Gold
smiths classic comedy She Stoops to
Conquer" This is indeed laudable
undertaking. A classical play has not
been produced by University talent for
years. Instead of Shakespeare, Sheri-
dan and johnson, We have had "Jane,'
christopher, Jr.," ''Charley's Aunt y
and other ephemeral farces.
Surely ''She Stoops to Conquer is
stride i'm the right direction. l..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Animals Memory.

The elephants memory is proverb-
ial," said F. Martin Duncan, F. z. S., at
the New Gallery Photographic Exhibi-
tiOn, "but that of other beasts of the
jungle is hardly less noteworthy"
Tigers in captivity always remember a
kindness and recognize a friend, even
after the lapse of months. Lions which
have been in geological garden for
years have also been known to show
signs of abject fear when visited by ma
tive hunters from the country where
they had their early home.--London
Daily Mail.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
T II A N II s !!

AMILTON w. MABIE, author and
n journalist, associate editor of the
. New York Outlook, writes: Il have
been greatly interested in all the an
nouncements that have been made about
the Department of Journalism in con-
nection with the University of Missouri.
trust you will send me such publica-
tions as have been issued from the De-
partment. l should like to say some
thing briefly in the Outlook about the
work in the University of Missouri and
with the aid of this material l will
try to do SO before long"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Big Bequest for Yale.

The final settlement of the estate of
Archibald Blount, of Hertfordshire,
England shows that Yale University
will receive from the estate about $685.
900. The bequest is unhampered by any
conditions. Under the will of the late
F. c. Hewitt, Yale, IS, the $4,000 left
by him recently to the university, is
also unconditional.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

but an inspiring presence moving him
to expression, forceful an individual.
MIR. johnson has convinced the judg-
ment Tor added the wits) of many
iuries, but it is dollars to dimes that it
was because he had Shakspeare's
thought in his soul, not his lines in his
mouth. And this true of all men who
influence their fellow men by the power
of speech. The man who stands too
often between inverted commas is not
the man to make his hearers sit up and
take notice. He is out of fashion; and
rightly so.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Hint to The "Co-Eds."

To the Editor Of the University Missourian:
The girls should take heed that Leap
Year is almost gone. Now is the time
for the mastery girl to propose to her
sweetheart, whose bashfulness prevents
him from proposing to her. The timid
boy would be only too glad to 90 to
dance or party if some girl would only
take him. BACHELOR.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Rewards for Capture of Criminals.

On the bulletin board in the court
house are posted rewards for the cap
ture of criminals to the amount of SIS
99j. The largest amount offered for
the capture of single criminal is ST.
800. This is offered for Bert NJ. Taylor
who is wanted at Minden, Neb., to an
swer charges of murder and arson.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

Flora B. Roberts. librarian of the
Second District State Normal School at
Warrensburg, writes: I'VE are receiv-
ing the University Missourian now daily
and have placed it in our reading room,
where many of our students are now en-
joying it. We are indebted to the
Board of CuratOrs of the University for
their generosity in sending it to u.s."
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
Gentleman" Defined.

Inc gentleman is the man who is
master OF himself, who respects him
self and makes others respect him.
Inc essence of gentleman is eternal
seif-rule. 1t implies a character
which possesses itself, a self-controll-
ing force, liberty which affirms and
regulates itself according to the type
OF true dignity.-Purdue Exponent.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

One of the most practical methods
suggested to insure the performance of
duty in official positions is that of the
recall. BY this method, if public Of
fetal does not perform his duty, pc
tition signed by certain number of
voters will bring about another elec-
tion. when the official can either be
ousted or his attitude approved.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

Il. S. Douglass, librarian of the Third
District State Normal School, at Cape
writes: 1--WE are receiving the
University Missourian and thank you
for it very much. We find it quite inter
csting and full of news"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

The total vote cast for and against
the eight amendments which came be-
fore the people of Missouri at the last
election shows that presidential year
is a poor time to vote on such matters.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

Purd B. Wright, librarian of the Free
Public Library of st. Joseph, writes:
I'VE are delighted to have the Univer-
sity Nissourian in our library. Can you
not furnish me the back numbers that
our file may be complete?"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

The United States court of appeals
upholds the decision of Judge Grosscup,
that the s29,4OOOOO fine against the
Standard Oil Co. is wrong, and oil will
not go up right away.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

Cross country running is one of the
best sports and should be encouraged
here 1t does much to strengthen the
muscles and the lungs and hence the
mind OF the runner.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
VIEWPOINTS

THE University Missourian invites cootri-
buttons not to exceed 200 words, On matters
writer should accompany such letters. but Win
not be printed unless desired. The Univer-
sity Missourian does not express approval nor
disapproval Of these communications b. print
ing tbeml
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14

Cuba is electing another president.
Has the adopted child learned how to
swim alone or shall we have to 60 to
the rescue again?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1908-11-14
CHAMELEONS

~ all the various species of rep
I tiles that are kept as pets, the
chameleon is probably the most
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-12-31
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY.

The bloodless deposition of Castro
in Venezuela, the ready acceptance
of change of administration in
Haiti. and the quietness which has
prevailed for some months in other
sections Of the revolutionary hot bed
give rise to the hope that the Latin
Americans may yet be brought to q
realization Of the advantages to be
derived from fewer political upheaV-
ais, and consent to conduct their
governments in the manner of their
less volatile neighbors.
The outcome Of Haitis revolution
is especially pleasing to their breth,
rem in America, who heard with
alarm the threat Of the Washington
government to assume protecto-
rate over the Black Republic to
safeguard it's own interests. The
success of Simon, followed by the
flight of Alexis, gave to the Negro
race another opportunity to demon
strate its fitness for self-government
and we shall watch his future
course with no less soIicitude for his
governments success than the anti
Cipation expressed by its enemies
for it's failures.