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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Iowa City Couple EIope,

Iowa City. Feb. 17.-(Special.)- 1T
developes today that Arthur Pickering,
son of leading merchant. and Star
vonia Calanze. a Greek school girl,
who recently arrived from Greece,
have eloped. Relatives have commun-
icated with the chief Of police at Seat
tie, Wash, whether they may have
gone. The young man has an uncle
living there.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Wires All Down In sandusky.

sandusky. Ohio. Feb. 17.-This city
has been cut off from the outside
world by wire since Sunday night,
when the last telegraph line between
here and Cleveland went down, as the
result Of a heavy sleet storm. Busi-
ness is at standstill. The storm is
the worst in the history of the city.
Thousands Of fruit trees have been
ruined.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Dubuque Attorney Faces Charges.

Dubuque, Feb. 17.--Attorney Clar
ence r. Thorne is cited to appear be-
fore Judge Benson today on charge
OF contempt. County Attorney Nelson
filed charges setting forth that Thorne
attempted by money consideration to
prevent the appearance Of prosecut-
ing witness in criminal case which
Thorne was defending.
Thorne has retired from the case in
question and retained counsel in his
own behalf.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
BeverIdae a Speaker.

indianapolis, Feb. 17.-Senator A.
J. Beveridge who has taken the legis-
lative lead in the effort to procure
permanent non-partisan tariff commits
sion. was the principal speaker at the
tariff conference today
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Takens as Train Robber.

Denver, Feb. 17.-Suspected of being
one of the men who held up the Den
yer and Rio Grande passenger train
near Military junction early Saturday
morning, Cooper Lyman. who claims
he Is a cowboy, and lives in New
Mexico, was arrested yesterday. When
searched Lyman was found in posses
sion Of more than $1,000.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Shocks at Smyrna.

Smyrna, Feb. IA strong earth
quake shock was registered here this
morning but there is no local dam
age. Reports from Phocea and Meme
men where the earthquakes of last
month did much damage, say dozen
houses collapsed but there is no loss
of life
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Emily Virginia Mason, Nurse, Dead

Washington, D. c., Feb. 17-Miss
Emily Virginia Mason, who won fame
during the civil war as nurse of con-
federate soldiers and who ministered
to the union soldiers at Libbey prison,
is dead in this city, aged "a years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Or. wriaht in Critical Condition.

Worchester, Mass, Feb. 17.-Dr. G.. D,
Wright, president Of Clark college and
former United States commissioner of
labor is in a critical condition at his
home here suffering from mental and
physical breakdown. All hopes Of re-
covery have been abandoned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
oskaIoosa Milk Dealer Fined.

Oskaloosa, Feb. 17.-(SpeciaD-I
test case brought by c. M. Bogess
to test the validity of a city ordin-
ance requiring milk inspection, the
court found for the city and fnad
Bogess $25 for failing to comply With
the regulation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Riot at Hat Factory; zoo Ste

FtTUN US I"e ' HSSO'J z-UV OHOTSUs
Orange. N. j., Feb. IA riot, the
outgrowth of the strike in the hat fac
tories, broke out today when fifteen
non-union men were set upon and
stoned by a crowd of two hundred
persons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
DOG ATTACKS SET OF FuRs.
Woman Bitten on Arm When Canine
Mistakes Lynx Head for Real
Animal.

Evansville, Ind, Feb. L.. While
walking along the street yesterday,
Mrs, Thomas Whitney was attacked
by dog. The animal bit her in the
arm, mistaking large lynx head on
her furs for real animal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Fripeo supervisor Guilty.

San Francisco, Feb. 17.-Former
supervisor M. w. Coffey was today
found guilty of accepting brbe Of
$4,000 to vote trolley franchise for
the United railways.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
ThIrty-Two Alive After Explosion.

New Castle, Eng, Feb. 17-Thirty-
two men were found alive, but most
OF them were injured at the second
level colliery at West Stanley where a
disastrous explosion occurred yester-
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
. . . a. =
WEATHER FORECAST. .

Notwithstanding with rain or
snow east tonight or Thursday; warm
er tonight and east Thursday.
Illinois Increasing cloudiness and
warmer with rain Or snow north late
tonight or Thursday.
wisconsin, Threatening with rain
or snow tonight and Thursday; rising
temperature.
Local Weather.
Nine o'clock last evening ....... %
Seven o'clock this morning $685.. 16
Two O'Clock this afternoon ....... Al
Sunrise, 6:45; sunset. 5:25; moon
rise, 4:55 a. M.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
UGsBROKEN
Hopkins and stephenson Still Short
Of Sufficient Votes TO Regain
Seats

Springfield, H., Feb. 17-The thirty
third joint ballot for United States
senator today resulted as follows:
Hopkins II, Foss II, Stringer 40,
Shurtleff 16, Mason 4, Mckinley l.,
Lowden l. Vopicka 10, Gibbons g.,
Dunno /, Sherman 2. AS there was no
choice the session adjourned until to-
morrow
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18

Russian Grand Duke Dead.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 17.-Grand duke
Vladimir Alexandrovitch died this
morning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
Outlay of Money.

The question of the disposal OF the
$4,000 to be raised by the Interurban
Construction company which has
been asked of the stock selling COM
mittee, was made clear by the speak
er, who went into detail to show the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18
No choice in Wisconsin,.

Madison, Wis, Feb. 17.-There was
no change in the senatorial deadlock
today The twelfth joint ballot gave
Stephenson 50 votes out of 12S cast.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-18

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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
PEACEABLE LIVING

Do not think it over the unplcas-
ant word. the little or the great mis-
understanding the unkindness that to
you seems unbearable. but that perhaps
appears very slight to him who inflicted
it. We must remember that our assO-
ciates are not aware of all the sensitive
spots in our makeup. The hurts of
friendship. of social life. of household
familiarity, must be ignored. got over,
forgotten. as are the hurts, the wounds.
the bruises, of our physical selves. We
are ashamed to make fuss over a
scratch that wayside briar has given
us. 1t may be painful, inconvenient.
even disfguring, for while. but we
treat it as triflc, and it is soon healed
We stumble over some obstacle in our
path. we fall and get bruise-we
laugh at the pain, and hurry on our
quest of work or play. No one but a
child thinks of hurting in turn the in
animate cause of the mischief
So it should be with our heart hurts.
our soul-in juries. We should ignore
them, 90 on our way as if there were
no bruise. no sting. Perhaps it is not
too much to say that liz nine cases out
of ten the greater part of the suffer
ing is caused by our elf-cOnsciousness.
A slight irritation that might be in
stantly forgotten is changed into
wound by our thought. All! thought is
a potent thing. 1t can create a new
world of misery or JOY in moment.
The forgiving thought. the effacing
thought. leaves us free to 90 on our hu
man way rejoicing. to meet the one
who has offended" us with the heart
sunshine that sets all right. that heals
and soothes. and makes the offense as
if it had not been. But the irritating
thought. the probing thought, makes a
wound where none need have been.
causes spiritual impurity, offensive con-
ditions. Injuries the life" of which the
New Testament speaks so often and so
pointedly.-NIary F. Butts.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
Smith College Presidency.

Smith college, in choosing a successor
to President Seelye, has continued the
line of power and responsibility in the
Christian ministry, and reasserted the
principle that man should administer
a woman's college. Departure from this
path was hardly to be expected now !;
but the position will be challenged some
day. The Rev. DIR. NJ. L. Burton of
Brooklyn. who will assume office in
September. 1910, after a year of study
of educational problems and methods of
administration in Europe, is young
man. winsome and impressive in per-
Sonality. who a few years ago taught
theology at Yale. and now leaves the
historic church in Brooklyn. of which
Dr. Storrs was once pastor. He is a
Western bred man. with some admins
trative experience in minor educational
institutions there. President SELVES
record as the first and only president of
Smith. pioneering the way in a new
field of education in this country, has
been one of singular success.-Boston
Herald.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
WELCOME.

With arms Outstretched the Univer-
sity of Missouri welcomes the High
School students. The old campus
swells with pride and puts on her best
dress when her future children visit
her on this day. To make you hoy
yourself and show YOU the advantages
Of the University of Missouri is our
object; TO instill spirit, fellow feeling
with other high schools and teach you
what higher education really means is
our ambition. We want you to come
back and know the columns as we do
We want YOU choose Missouri to be-
come your Alma Mater. not because it
is Missouri, but because it is the best.
We are always glad to see the in
crease in the numbers that come from
year to year. and we want each one
to feel that this great cosmopolitan
place is sort of big brother keeping
its eye on all the educational institu
tions of the state.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
NEWSPAPERS THAT
ARE BOUGHT

Ii seems not to have occurred to DIR
Hamilton Holt. editor of the New York
Independent. that the purchased news.
papers which he regards as fruitful
sources of danger to the country, carry
with them their own antidote. If the
power OF the newspapers that are con-
trolled by the special interests were at
all propOrtiOnate to their intent for evil
then they would be indeed serious
menace to the body polite and to the
body social
But newspaper which lacks integ-
rity and is committed to base stand
ards is no more able to conceal it's real
character than is any individual whose
acts pass in daily review before his
nei@hbOrs and fellow townsmen. To
borrow pertiI.ent illustration from
nature. the alieato or bird. which is held
as certain tokeE of the. presence of
the alligator, hovers over every corpo-
ration newspaper. and serves as a
warning to the people.
Through the newspaper that is
honght the public may be continually
advised of the desires and purposes of
the particular interests behind such
journals. and thus be placed in position
to protect itself against their selfish
and grasping designs.
Without in any sense discounting the
entire sincerity of DIR. Holt's Judgment
as to the harmful and mischievous in
f'uence of purchased newspapers, it is
doubtful should he set about that
task-if he could point to a single
newspaper of that stamp with any ap-
preclable power to affect public
thought. or with even a patronage re-
quisite to the maintenance of an ex-
panding and fourishing institution.
The popular distrust of such journals
is not confined to its expressions of
opinion. 1t extends even to what those
papers call their "news"-which is per-
petually distorted and vitiated by the
oblique motives which prompt its pub
licatiOn.
DIR. Holt must also remember that in
a country like the United States there
exists among the great multitude of
newspaper readers a keen and intelli-
gent sense of proper self lf-interest which
enables them, without harmful delay,
to recognize the spirit and purpose of
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR

Apr. 80. Band concert on campus.
May /. High School day.
May ). Girls PanIIellenic dance
Kappa Kappa Gamma house
May Z. Glee club minstrel show.
Baseball Missouri VS.. Wash
ington.
University girls May day cell
ebration.
May s. Baseball, Missouri VS.. Wash
ingtOn.
May IA. Town and Gown club dinner.
May Is. Christian College commence
ment
May 10. Baseball, Missouri VS.. Kansas.
May 20. Baseball, Missouri VS.. Kansas.
May "a %. Final examinations.
May %. Stephens Medal contest.
May 80. Baccalaureate sermon.
May 81. Class day.
May 81 June |. Entrance examinations.
June L. Alumni and Phi Beta Kappa
day.
June ,. Annual meeting of curators.
Commencement day; address
by DIR. Charles w. Eliot
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
THE SPRING FEELING

The authorities of Harvard college in
the very early days 27O years ago, had
the idea of inveighlng the children OF
Nature. the Indians. out of the woods
OF eastern Massachusetts into the
@loveS of Academe. They persuaded
only two of the red men to enter the
huidin" set apart for their occupancy
and one of the two. when the spring
tide of the year arrived, said he heard
the Great Spirit calling to him out of
the woods. and then it was case of
/ Farewell my books and my devotion.
lie took to the tall timbers. and it is
not on record that his father ever came
/ to see the dean and urge his reinstate-
ment.
The aboriginal impulse, to find fresh
fields and pastures new, to take to the
woods when spring comes 'burgeOning,"
aS the poetasters say, is not peculiar
to our brother Lo, the redskin. Spring
steals invidiously into the system and
effects lodgment in the blood ere
one is aware. We think we have
learned to say, Duty, behold. | am,
all over. thine" when we find sud
denly that our resolution to stay at
work has crumbled and is gone, and
our feet are taking lis in the direction
Of the baseball grounds. There is some
thing in the fresh. resilient air of the
morning that intoNicates. and we find
ourselves in sympathy with our Aryan
ancestors. who lived out of doors and
followed the green grass and the course
of the river brooks from place to place.
If. as the savants tell us, man is
but the summation of all his fOrebpars.
must have been gypsies, so powerful in
the spring the obsession of the nomad
spirit the 'wanderlust."
Spring-like the darkness at sea in
the Rhine of the Ancient Mariner
comes ''at one stride;" it gives us no
time to prepare; we never are quite
ready for its miracle TO happen. We
become suddenly conscious that the
bare ruind choirs where late the
sweet birds sang are again efflorescent,
and that the liuid notes of the feath
cred choristers are heard again amid the
little leaves new born We begin
to think of the tribulations of the
spring housekeeping. and to be wish
full that the price of asparagus and
strawberries would come within the
scope of slender purses. We fit our
tongues to dialog of spring raiment, and
gradually discard our sober winter trap
pings for gay and Haunting idiosyn-
crasies of apparel. Visions of the sea-
shore and the mountains allure and
beckon. On every hand. and by every
sense perccptible, are the harbingers of
spring.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
A Needed Lesson.

\ Massachusetts boy mas learned that
there is more tolerance of the eccentric
tiles of boys in his native state than at
Washington. and on account of this he
soon came to grief at the capital of the
nation.
The following dispatch tells the stO-
ry: Howard Blake. an lS-year-old
schoolboy from Marlboro Mass. who is
in Washington upon sight seeing trip
with a number of companions. was
fined $50 in the police court upon a
charge of attempting to carve his name
on the Washington monument. We
have the privilege of carving our ini-
tials on the Bunker Hill monument
he explained and l didn't think there
would be any harm in doing the same
thing here"
There are too many adults to whom
this Juvenile habit clings. and they are
leaving their initials about unmindful
of the damage they do or the disfig-
urement it is to public or private prop
erty. and they feel hurt when it is re-
garded as vandalism. 1t is well 'the
lS-yearold schoolboys" are taught bet
ter manners than home manners some
where-Norwich Bulletin.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30

newspapers that are newspapers. that
are circulated for the purpose of telling
what is going on i'm the world. and to
furnish the public with the sort of in
formation essential to their protection
from misguidanee and imposition.
In the clear contrast radiated bv pa
pers of this class in comparison with
those that are "OR the market and
that are devoted to the development
and reinforcement of Influences which
trench directly or insidiously upon the
rights of the people, there is an am
pie saving clause" that makes such
apprehension as DR.. Holt expresses
more or less gratuitOus and that has
been sanctified, so to speak. again and
again to the influence. the profit and
the profound satisfaction of the inde-
pendent press, of which Kansas City,
let us be thankful, affords an ilIumintt
ating and felicitous example.-Kansas
City Star.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
Field of Journalism.

The modern newspaper has become an
indispensable feature of our daily life.
In its great work of disseminating the
news OF the world it naturally exerts
powerful influence in the molding of
public opinion. 1t is. therefore. not
strange that there has developed live
ly public interest in the press and its
functions, and that young men are pre-
pairing for journalism as a profession
Of the many utteranccs on the subject
none has been more Illuminating and
edifying than the lectures delivered at
Yale by Hart Lyman, editor in chief of
The New York Tribune. They had, pri-
narily, the seal of authority upon them,
tor MIR. Lyman is one of the country's
foremost editors and speakers from
wealth Of valuable experience. He un-
dertook no defense of journalism-for it
needs nOne-but pointed out the won-
derfuf influence exerted by the anony-
nous articles of editor or reporter that
make up the newspaper and invited the
college men to consider it field worthy
the best brains and manhood that edu-
cation can produce. Such scholarly en-
phasis of the opportunity which journal
ism offers the thoughtful, talented and
earnest man was seed sown on fertile
soil and suggests that colleges and uni
versities may we'll lay greater stress on
this field for public service.-Baltimore
American.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30
Modern Children.

To the Editor of the University Missourian:
There is only one thing as badly
bred as corn. and that is human ma
trrc. Children now days are reared
pretty much their own way. They run
loose on the streets and the improper
things they say are laughed at by the
fond parent and called cute I'm the
old days the children were seen and
not heard but today the young olive
branch is very much i'll evidence and
their lung power increases as time
goes on. Today the majority of chill
dren are spoiled. When they grow
up and are sent away to college and
turn out to be spendthrifts or parlor
boarders the parents never think they
could have become anything else after
the training that they have received.
The girls are taught how to enter a
room or pour cup of tea. the boys
how to blow rings of smoke and tine
latest cut in coats. They are taught
to think that they are a little better
than the common herd 4 good Opin-
ion of yourself is essential but no
more so than good. fair opinion and
of the rest of humanity.
we have been so intensely occupied
in being men and women that we have
given small attention to the business
of being human A.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30

James \. Patten withdrew from the
wheat pit several days ago. Wheat
prices are rapidly getting back to their
previous high levels. Many believed
that the corner was directly response
bile for the high price of wheat but it
seems that a scarcity of the grain had
something to do with it, Stormy
weather in the Northwest is affecting
July prices. If Mrs. Pattcn induced
her husband to quit the game, she on
~ temporarily beat down prices.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-04-30

Long-distance running in this coun'
trv and Great Britain is likely to 1al'
out of popular favor if things 60 OIL
as they have been going. Marathon
has turned out for the Anglo-Saxon
athlete something of Waterloo. Ihe
lesson which Anglo-Saxon oarsmen
golfers. and cricket players have learn
cd at the hands of the "decadent" races,
is now being reinforced by Europe's rep
resentatives in what was undoubtedly
the most primitive occupation OF man,
and therefore constitutes the most
pleasing form of outdoor sport. Neo-
lithic man never ran away from the
cave bear as easily as Indians, French
men. and Italians have been running
away from Englishmen and Americans.
Are we wrong in connecting this sad
state of affairs with a startlingly orig
inal plan for stimulating athletics and
athletes that has been advocated Sc
riously in this country and England!
The plan is oxygen, and we believe it
has already been applied in the fight
ing ring The theory, as expounded in
the latest number of the Oxford and
Cambridge Review. is simple one.
Physical exhaustion does not mean
heart and lungs. Stimulate the heart
beat and respiration, and broken ath-
letic records will become common
place. Oarsmcn, shOt-putter, sprinter,
or pole-vaulter has only to turn on the
tap of his miniature oxygen tank, and
winged IIermes is a mere messenger
boy and Milo of CrotOna a mOllycOddle.
Or take football. Though much has
been done by coach and trainer to
principles of exact science. one factor
of uncertainty has stood badly in the
way. That uncertain factor is the foot
ball team. Here, for instance, we have
a $1,000 football coach pitted against
a $1,000 coach. In strategy. in re-
Sourcefulness, in daring. in determine
tion to win, they are almost perfectly
matched. But, unfortunately, football
victories are not always won from the
side lines. Harvard's backs, for in
stance, are heavier and quicker than
Iale's, and consequently the better
ground gamers Or Yale's ends. though
faster than Harvard's, may not have
their staying power. Or Harvard's
quarter back, dazed by blow on the
head, may not be running his team in
accordance with orders. Football bat
ties have sometimes been lost for just
such reasons. But if, by means of the
oxygen treatment, this personal factor
We're reduced to a minimum or elimi-
mated, if the coach on either side knew
that he could count upon the unflagging
vitality of his team as the engineer
counts upon his m-boiler, if every
one Of these twenty-five men were Writ
ually splendid machine, to what
heights might not the science of football
be carried? We need only recall the
marvellous change sometimes wrought
IN wOrn-Out team between halves by
a sharp lecture and an injection of
strychnine. to see what oxygen might