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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20
STOCKS UP HEAVY ON
FANCY CANNED GOODS
Columbia Grocer Receives
Shipment of 700 Cases
Worth So, 500.
OATMEAL AT 4 CENTS
Believes Eggs Should Sell by
Pound Since They Vary
in Weight.

The largest bill Of fancy canned
goods ever received in Columbia, an
aggregate of 700 cases amounting to
$4,000, was received by Columbia
grocer this week. This represents
greater amount than is found in the
total stock of the average grocery.
As result of having bought in large
quantities, the townspeople may get
this highest grade Of canned goods at
/ cheaper price than the same brand
! in other towns where smaller orders
are placed. One reason for the sup
posed high prices in Columbia is be-
cause people demand better goods than
are ordinarily sold. The store which
received this assignment has three
distinct grades of goods, and the
/ prices vary on all different grades.
Persons who complain of high prices
may buy cheaper grades, but the
| higher grades are cheaper than in most
towns. The cheaper grade has ) per-
cent syrup and the fancy grade 80 per
cent.
One grocer said this morning that
a customer admitted having bought
twenty pounds of rolled oats through
a mail order. house at five cents a
pound when lie offered the same grade
at four cents. He said other things
are equally cheap, if people would
only investigate.
Canned fruit" he said ARE about
80 or 40 per cent cheaper than three
years ago. This condition is true of
the higher grades especially Califor-
mia brands of canned goods. Not only
are canned goods cheaper but every
can is guaranteed, due to the pure
food law inspection.
Il think in a few years everything
in bulk in a grocery store should be
sold by weight" He picked uptwo
eggs. Both were weighed. One
weighed IL ounces and the other 2A
ounces. The difference was approx
mately 33 1-3 per cent.
This should be law and should
apply to vegetables and fruit, espec-
tally Minnesota has such law" he
said, land Missouri will get one some
day.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Baseball men in the Minnesota and
Dakota colleges are allowed to play
professional baseball during the sum-
mer months without losing their ath-
letic standing.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Goods at the University of Washing
ton are allowed to wear the Varsity
"W" when they have attained excel
lence in various branches of athletics.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

] have sold my tailoring business to
Messrs. H. T. Seley and w. w. Evans,
who will conduct the Columbia Tailor
ing Company at the same stand, No.
18A South Ninth street. Both are gen.
tlemen of experience, and l bespeak
for them the patronage of all my
former customers and cheerfully re-
commend them.
SAMUEL BINDER. adv.
Sealshipt Oysters and fresh celery
at HetZler's.
Aluminium Cooking Utensils at New
mans.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

A course in magazine writing IS Of
fered at the University of Chicago
this year. 1t will consist of writing
magazine stories, editorials, and spe-
cial articles.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Blades for all Safety RaZors at New
mans.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Better values in Buggy Whips at
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Enders Safety RaZors at Newman's.f
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Wilson Wood Heaters at Newman's'
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Savoy Roasters at Newman's.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

All kinds of Baskets at Newman's. -
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-10-20

Carpet Sweepers at Newman's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15

From a letter from Benjamin Franklin
 to Miss Hubbard, a relative, at the
 time of the death of the philoso-
 pher's brother. John.
 Dear Child-I condole with you. We have lost a most dear and valued rela- tjon but 1t Is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter into real lie. 'Tis rather an embryo state, prepara- tion for living; a man is not completely born until he is dead. Why, then, should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals. new mem Der added to their happy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they can afford us pleasure, as- sist us in acquiring knowledge or doing good to our fellow creatures Is Kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure. in- stead of an aid become an incumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, 1t is equally kind and benevolent that way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves pru- dently choose partial death. In some cases a mangled, painful limb, which cannot be restored we willing cut off. He who plucks out a tooth parts with 1t freely. since the pain goes with it; and he that quits the whole body parts at once with all pains and possibilities of pains and diseases it was liable to- or capa ble of making him suffer. Our friend and we are invited aboard on a party of pleasure that is to last for ever His chair was first ready and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together, and why should you and l be grieved at this since we are sure to follow and we know where to find them? Adieu. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. May 12, 1790.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
TWO MUSICAL STATESMEN

From the Baltimore American.
 .rhe House of Representatives has two talented musicians in it's membership, said Col Bob" Watkins, one of the vet eran correspondents of the National Cap ital at the Rennert.
 "They are the Hon. Nicholas Long, worth of Cincinnati, and the Hon. Rich ard Bartholdt of st. Louis. Both are am- fable and joyous spirits and both are highly popular with their confreres of the House. The other night the National Press club held one of its regular Satur- day evening reunions and the gentleman from Missouri and the gentleman from Ohio collaborated in performance which was a delight, Longworth handling the violin in a way that Ole Bull would have praised Dr. Bartholdt accompanied on the piano with splendid execution. Before they got under way the grand marshal of the evening, Col. Samuel G. Blythe, had admonished the big audience that the failure to encore would be monstrous sin. but his suggestion was in reality superfuous, as the pair got laundering salvo of applause on their own merits Either of these statesmen would have won fame had he taken up music as a profes- sion, and hereafter whenever they are in town no press club entertainment will be quite up to the mark without their active participation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
Balloting for PoStmasterS

In a Hudson river district Congressman Hamilton Fish saw that the local party leaders could not agree upon candidate For postmaster, and he therefore sug- sested a primary as the best means of ascertaining the will of his party on the uuestion of succession. The primary was ralled, and four aspirants appeared to contest for the postmastership of the place, Fishkill Landing. liveryman and wagon dealer received 371 votes. and the other three aspirants stood defeated.
 As the primary system gains strength and public favor from one end of the \country to the other, so far as offices not requiring specially trained or technically equipped men are concerned, postmasters will doubtless be selected in this way The people of every locality know best whom ]. they want to handle their mails and to- day every congressman who belongs to the administration party is free to adopt thc plan of direct choice by the people, eund many doubtless will do this. Public Sentiment fayors direct action wherever it can be applied, and the limitation of pc rIitical patronage to the greatest possible exfent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
A WOMAN FLOORED.

A woman who has been married seven years recently cleaned out writing desk drawer that belonged. to her father, whose death occurred few months ago, and came. across a bundle of receipts as big as mans arm, tied with red tape and marked on the outside. "F'or Mary" She opened them and saw that they were receipts for her rousseau bills. The wo- mans best dress now is a 50-cent wool. made by herself and she has worn it two years When she read in the receipts of lace she had put on a corset cover that cost $1 a yard. she grabbed for fan, but had fit before she reached 1t. She revived somewhat, but again scat tered rugs over the floor when she read that her wedding gloves cost her father $36 and her hose cost him $47. She wears 15-cent hose now and fairly loaned at the mouth when she realized that some of her wedding hose cost $3 a pair. And when she came across a receipt of $17 for embroidering a sheet, she tore out all the hair she had pinned on her head and was beginning on that which grew there. when a merciful inconsistencies overlook her. Her last thought was of the sum total of the rousseau. and those figures swimming before her eyes, and her husbands voice grumbling in the next room because the monthly gas bill was 30 cents more than a month ago, proved Too Much She Was Nineteen Hours. Coming, To.
 -Atchison Globe.
 r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
ON THE MONUMENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG

By Lord Byron. When some proud of man returns to ,-.a earth, Unknown to glory but upheld by birth. The sculptors art exhausts the pomp of
 woe,
 And storied urns record who rests below; When all is done, upon the tomb Is seen. Not what he was, but what he should
 have been. , 1s But the poor dog in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his masters Who la bors, fights. lives, breathes for him 4 alone, ,. .s IJnhonor'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on
 earth;
 While man, vain insect! hopes to be for And claims himself a sole exclusive
 heaven.
 0 man! thou feeble tenant of an hour, Debased by slavery or corrupt by power. Who knows thee well must quit thee
 with disgust @ Degraded mass of animated dust! Thy love is base. thy friendship all a
 cheat. By nature vile. enn0bled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush
 for shame. h
 Pass on-it honors none you wish to mourn; s-isfs ts To mark as'friend's remains these stones never knew but one--and here lie liea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
BLIssFUL IGNORANCE

From Judge.
 The opera was just darling. Mrs Smith," declared Mrs James Orphing- ton Rex, as she felt of her diamond earrings to make sure they were at the proper angle.
 'I know I would have enjoyed it. answered Mrs. Smith.
 "You would have had fits over it, Mrs. Smith. Calf was so cute and they all sung in Latin."
 A sneeze saved a snicker, after which Mrs. Smith asked. What opera did you hcaf Mrs. Rex?"
 'I have 1t written down on a card here in my bag. I wanted to get il just right. You see, the name was or; the curtain and l copied from that. IL was 'Asbestos.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
One Viaduet to Be Built

A viaduct Is to be built, glory be. one vtaduct is something. even if a 6o,er more are imperatively needed. Seven miles of good people in the rls- irg sun section of the city are isolated hv conditions of iron rails, but no re- iiof is held out to them. The North side, which is becoming more populous every day. is left at the complete mercy of switch engines and freight cars.
 But let us be thankful that one via duct is to be built---this time from Second avenue to Avenue B. It is need cd. and as fl is to be built at Twenty eighth street it will serve as an ob feet lesson to hasten the building of a viaduct in First avenue from Twen- tv-sixth to Thirty-third streets. Along in the tail of the century no doubt relief will be furnished to the North . able, at least to the extent of a single yiaduct.
 Patience is great quality in this orld, and the people who are stayed morning, noon and night by the shift | ing of box or flat cars should culti- vate 1t. They need a large and con tinuous stock of it, and few indeed will be able to maintain such a stock until this city secures a supply oi v!aducts equal at any rate to the To that Atlanta readily got
 | Let us be thankful that one is to b, built at Twenty eighth street. It i needed. As to that need no doubts ar felt None ever will be. The doubt that exist relate to the time when tn other viaducts needed in this city wi; ] be built.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15

 ary bath, and a like result may safely be predicted for the earth.
 The appearance of comet whose orbit around the sun consumes i5 years IS no ordinary event. The prediction of its com ing and the science that enables men to ascertain it's course and time of appear ance is more extraordinary still, and it is not at all strange that a deep, pop ular interest is felt in this rare old whirler with fiery head and a luminous tail. Never before, however, had the as- tronomers been able to predict with ac- curaey the appearance of Hal1eys comet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
Summer Amusements

Birmingham will be strong on summer amusements this year, with East Lake running and big musical comedy stock company at the Bijou, in addition to the numerous picture shows" said a theatre goer Many Improvements have been made at the lake which will make that a more popular resort than in by-gone years, and everything indicates the big gest year in the history of the lake.
 Manager Semon is bringing Boyle Woolfolks "A Winning Miss company to the Bijou for an indefinite run of musi- cal comedy. playing Richard Carle's suc- cesses with Richard Carles stage man. ager to produce the plays. This company Is probably the strongest that ever played the Bijou, and this move should be a pop ular one. The company will open here with the big musical comedy, 'Hoity- Toity,' than which there are few better to be had. The Travelling Salesman will probably be another of the plays, and that will be the class of attraction of fercd for the summer run. If the people take to this amusement in the hot months, Manager Semon will probably run the Biiou all summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
Looking for the Comet
extent.

Thursday of this week the comet is billed fo mass between the earth and the sun. On that day the comet and the sun will rise together. After Friday next the comet will appear in the western sky after sun set. The dmming influence of twilight may at first prevent clear view of the Interesting celestial traveller, but before May is ended everybody will have seen the comet and the fears of the super stitious will have been dismissed The head of the comet at least will be seen. and possibly long and luminous tail. As to the length of the comets tail the as- trpnomers are not agreed, but the weight of authority seems to hold out a bright display in that respect
 Venus recently went through the comet s eail and it has emerged from it as bright and fine as before. So will the earth. Venus shows no symptoms of it's comet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
HARRIMAN,s AMBITION
be Metropolitan Magazine.

From the Metropontan Ma8azHe'
 The achievements of the late MT. liar riman in the ten years preceding his death were tremendous. But when he left Munich last August on his way home he said to one of his closest associates: T have only just begun I hope to do in the next ten years as much as have done in the past ten." And that he would have done SO had he lived few. who knew the real Hartman doubt. When he died the vastness of his power. the extent of his possessions. the strength of his position which even yet the public does not know startled his closest friends. Harriman'i ambition was populnrly supposed to be the acquisition of an American transcon' tinental railroad. How little the Harri' man mind was known! Harrimans am bition. was not only to be arbiter of tht American railroad field, as much as pri' vate citizen could be arbiter, but to havs a railroad around the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT POLITICS
 OF THE NATION AND OF THE CITY

chief of police voted, for by the people then we get to system of destruction of good government. Nobody wants political hand-shaker for treasurer or city clerk nor should chief of police or judge have to put himself under obli- gation to any particular set or clique of voters. Yet. this primary system forces them into it.
 am rather glad that the people of Birmingham have made up their minds to try the Commission form of govern ment. Let there be three commissioners selected as the people see fit; or let us select Mayor and then let the Mayor and the Governor of the state meet to- gether and call in third citizen. whom the two can agree upon. and let these three then select and appoint from the citizenship of Birmingham two men to act with the Mayor as Commission of three to govern this great city. One should have knowledge of engineering and one of financing. Let the salaries be from s5OO0 to ssOOO each, and let them be as fully responsible for the government of the city as is the District Commission of Washington.
 The people want this form of govern ment. Let us try 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
BIrmIpebam AS An Insurance Center

Birmingham now has two strong legal reserve life companies, one legal reserve casualty company. and two fire companies are being organized. MT. Julian. the state Insurance commissioner, says that this city is about to become an important in- surance center.
 It surely will if good management can secure to home companies home busi- ness. The drain of money from this utate to outside insurance companies is something serious to contemplate. It keeps the state poor. Especially is this trua of outside life insurance companies, for in round figures they take about 5 where they return s1-
 .There is no reason" says Commis- sioner Julian, 'why as strong and innu- ential insurance companies may not be organized and maintained in Alabama as In any other section of the country. We have men as well able financially and mentally to take care 6s large insurance corporations as any section and l see no reason why we should not become as powerful along these lines as any other"
 MT, Julian is eminently sound and cor rect. There is no reason why we can hot do our own insuring as well as our own planting or coal mining. The home folks should consider this matter. 'The home companies" says Mir. Julian, that are being formed and operated by home people and with home capital should be encouraged and patronized by the people. 1t means the keeping of home money at home. Reserve funds held by insurance companies are required by law to be in- vested in safe securities and this money naturally finds working fields at home. dt means material development of your own city and community with home cap ital.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
BOY AND SAVAGE

From the New York Times.
 .I feel certain" says Maj. James Mo- Laughlin, in his kindly My Friend the Indian" "that if the Utes had been thor ourhlv chastised after the Meeker mas sacre in 1s7s they would not be the ire sponsible. shiftless. and defiant people they are today" and his entire DOOR, both by example and precept, is directed to showing that the good Indian Is whipped Indian; that is to say, the h. dian who has been taught-taught, not merely told-that goodness is the most comfortable policy. Herbert Spencer's ..Education' ranks the boy with the sav- age, urging, in proof, his facial peculiari- ties. his natural customs, his manners. his ignorance of civilization, and his lack of sympathy with law and order. Both in England and in the United States teachers and school boards are reverting to spencer's theory, and are on the way to accept Major McLaughlin's plan of action in the case of the boy. The voice of more than one well-informed official has recently been heard in the London papers demanding a return to that dis cipline of pain which according to Spen- cer is the only system available before the power of reasoning and the sense of justice are developed. The abolition of corporal punishment in the schools Is held to have injured the boys characters by the substitution of more irritating pun ishment, and to have made thejr bodies less hardy. less capable of sustaining pain and fatigue. A London Queen edl" torial, discussing the law which enables a boy to bring his father into the police
 court for whipping him. calls the boy the
 ''autocrat of the home," and shows how
 comfortably and safely he may defy hiz parents, his teachers. and the police' and quietly educate himself for criminal life.
 .'The autocracy of the child" says the Queen, lis due to the rnaudlin sentiment tality and false humanitarianismi of the present generation" Tho American teach CT when so situated thai, he can express his feelings speaks similarly. Major Nc. Laughlin lays down the rule for the say age tribe. What should be the practice with the boy savage? Mrs Josephine Daskam Bacon exhibits good specimen
 If the home autocrat h her "Biographs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-05-15
Democratic State Convention

A democratic state convention is all
 ways full of interest, but the one which assemblies at Montgomery next Tues day will be more eagerly watched than usual. In tone and temper it will be very different in many respects from the last convention, held in 1sO6, two weeks after MT. B. B. Conner had been nominated for governor on a radical issue known as railroad rate regulation.
 Radicalism no longer finds favor in Ala bama. Sane counsels are prevailing and conservatism comes to its own again vention are fresh from the people and are therefore thoroughly representative Among them are clear-headed and patri- otic men, not a few of whom are distin- guished for their constructive ability. No convention in Alabama, indeed, ever gave promise of better results. It can be de- pended upon at any rate to interpret aright the mind of the majority and that must mean a platform in accordance with the broad, progressive, upbuildirg spirit, so strongly in evidence these days.
 Four years ago the democratic platform was sound on the liquor traffic problem. It declared, in plain, simple language. for local option, which is as just as it is democratic; and the convention this week cannot do better than to reaffirm the local option principle. The drastic pro- hibition laws from which Alabama is now suffering resulted not from genuine pub lie sentiment; not from a vote of the people in a state election, but from fabri- eated clamor and frenzied agitation. Po- ltical cunning got in it's work and for time demagogy carried everything be- 
 fore it. The local option plank in the party platform was rudely kicked aside by the present administration. Never in the history of Alabama had political trvranny been more grinding. There was a fight against capital and interruptions politicians sought to array class against class. The sumptuary legislation that had come to be a part of the administration nolicy was in violation of all ideas Of fairness and personal liberty. Thus 1t was that not since reconstruction days had Alabama's condition been SO unhappy. But all her troubles are fast vanishing.
 Emmet o'Neal. the democratic standard bearer, is a statesman of the construc- tive order He is a fearless leader and with it all he is, 1t is believed, the real embodiment of wise and needful con- servatism.
 The state convention should make platform not only friendly alike to cap ltal and to the principal of personal free dom consistent with good order. but the blanks in the Conner platform that fright ened investors should be substituted by declarations ringing with welcome to cap ital, foreign or otherwise. And the con- yention Is almost sure to do that very thing.
 Alabama is entering upon new era of prosperity and the work of the dem ocratic convention should be such, and 1t
 Is safe to say will be such, as to pro-
 mote in very high degree the best in- terests of the best state In all the south'