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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28
Wasn't Sure Of His Facts.

Down in a little town in Southern
New Jersey there is cetrain editor
who is very blunt of speech. And
this bluntness he carries with him
when he takes his pen in hand to
record the news of the week in his
paper. Inasmuch as he is the owner
as well as editor of the weekly that
he has made famous he can say just
about what he pleases without fear
of a "call down" from the front" :"
And sometimes he is pleased to write
a great deal.
Recently there was a social event
of more or less importance in the
town, and when tho invitations were
sent around "the colonel" was over
looked.
Thereupon he thought much and at
length note appeared under Hap
penings in Our Town." which read as
follows:
"Mr. and Mrs. So and So enter
tanned a number of their friends at
their home last night. We under
stand that very enjoyable time was
had by all and that the house was
decorated fo- the occasion. How
ever, as the editef of this paper did
not receive any invitation, we can not
youch for the truth of the-matter
For the same 'eason it is impossible
for us to give any details in regard
to the affair."-Philadelp Times.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

The Employment Bureau Of the Y.
w. GA. has more positions to fill than
it has applicants to fill them. Girls
who wish to work for room and board
or to take care of children or to do
sewing, etc., either regularly or oc-
casionalG, please hand in their names
to Miss Mary Powell, Read Hall.
Esther Chapman, General Manager.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28
LARGEST CIRCULATION
IN BOONE COUNTY.
AGE NO BAR TO, EFFORT

{. Seventy-five men, many OF them
yerging on middle age, enrolled the
first night with tire educational de-
partment of the Y. NJ G. A. in Kansas
City last week, to fit themselves for
better positions and larger usefulness
in life. At the University of Mis-
souri, are many men at middle age or
past striving to gain the education
that was denied them in their youth
or the advantage of which they failed
to appreciate when opportunity was
theirs. Every university in the coun-
try probably. could show similar ex-
amples. A woman of eighty entered
one of the Eastern universities re-
Gently, full of hope, it may be, of the
larger life the future held for her from
such step.
That trite phrase, never too old to
learn" seems to be acquiring q new
and. practical. Interpretation Or aDpli-
cation, for not only are these middle-
aged men and women learning" but
they are pursuing knowledge with the
purpose of putting it to practical
use in their life-work. In other words,
they still have grip on the future.
The world needs these ambitious
men and women, not alone for the i'm
provement they bring to themselves,
but for the example and encourage
ment they provide for others. Many
man at sixty, at fifty, or even at
forty, by reason of disappointment and
discouragement, considers himself
down and out" and loosens his grip
on life. To such as these, the knowl-
edge that others in their class are un-
dismayed by failure, undaunted by the
passing of youth, must bring renewed
hope, and stimulation to attainment
OF life's purpose.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28
Ben Jonson to St. Louis.


One of the choicest gems Of Eliza
bethan literature was reproduced upon
this page day or two ago-Ben Jon
sons exquisite lyric Of The Noble
Nature" It will bear printing again:
1t is not growing like tree.
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak. three hun
dred year. Il
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and
scar;
A lily OF a day Il.
Is fairer far in May.
Although it fall and die that night,
1t was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beau
ties see;
And N short measure life may per-
feet be.
This lovely poem comes with special
timeliness in the year of a Federal
census, when the national habit of
bigness ceases for a time to be taken
quietly for granted and is emphasized
flagrantly.
st. Louis is bigger than Boston. But
look at Trinity Church, the frescoes
in the Public Library, the Symphony
Orchestra. the Shaw Memorial, the
new Opera House, the Turner's in the
Fine Arts building! We cannot have
here the Common, the Old State house,
or even the Back Bay or the sacred
Goldfish, but things such as those men,
toned first we can grow, buy or re-
produee-if only we remember that
the test of life is, after all, qualitative
and not quantitative. We can culti-
vate a new sensitiveness to the worth
of the great men who have woven the
golden threads of their lives across
the homespun Of the history of a busy
manufacturing town-De Smet, Ben
ton, Grant, Schurz, Sherman. We can
provide temples of art and music and
trust to the invisible powers to intro
duce the gods after we erect the
shrines., We can buy masterpieces
and set them up here-even as the
Bavarian Kings did in Munich.
We need maks no fewer pairs of
shoes, turn out no lesser number of
cars; our furnaces will roar and our
crucibles overflow then as now. But
the spectacle of a big town which had
forgotten that it was big, in the joy
of it's possession of things perfect in
quality, whose size could not be in.
creased; the appeal to men of COM
munity which was as instant to re-
spond to the needs of the souls of it's
people as to minister>to their bodies
this thing would mean more to Amer
lea and more to that Southwest SO
much of whose destiny is committed
to st. Louis than the gain of the lack
ing 100000 people to make million, or
the doubling Of that when gained.
We do not despise. statistics, nor
will they go out of fashion. But along
with the. man whose eye is ION the
statement for the corresponding month
last year we need the man who works
not for things that are bigger and al
ways bigger-but to realize beauty
and goodness in undying forms, the
man who cares not how small thing
may be nor how transitory, SO that it
is perfect of its kind.-St. Louis Re
public. ..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

salaries to be pitched higher? The
best brains of the country are go
ing into BUSINESS because in busi-
ness the scale is pitched higher. The
teaching staffs Of colleges ought to
command the services of the most
highly educated and efficient men.-
New York Times.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28
UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dramaties at University High.
A literary, musical. and dramatic
society will be formed by the students
in the University high school. They
will have their first meeting in the
high school assembly hall Friday af-
ternoon at o'clock.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

Pemberton Hail Dining Room is
now open to the general public, cor
ner Conley and Missouri Avenue. Ta,
bls 6oafe 81 per week. Single meals,
breakfast and lunch <25 cents. Six
o'clock dinner IS cents. !. Breakfast
7:3otoS:30. Lunch 1 to Q. Dinner
s tes7sa ..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28
To New Subscribers.

Owing to the fact that nearly I'VE
hundred new subscribers have been
added to the MissourIan subscription
list during the past few days, the de-
livery by carriers has hardly been good
as usual, and several new subscrib-
ers have been missed; however, we
are giving the matter our personal at.
tentlon and will be pleased to hear
from any who. have subscribed and
failed to receive the paper. Phone
IS.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

1t will cost the fair coed at the Uni
yersity of Minnesota something to
make a date" over the phone here
after. She has been accustomed to
hold long discussions over the hello
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

Stern Parent-Learning to dance,
cha Well, four hours every evening
is too long for you to be on your feet,
young man.
son-But, pa, am only on my feet
two hours.
j. Stern Parent-Two hours? How do
you make that out?
son-Why, the rest Of the time
am on my partners feet.-Chicago
News.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

1t may be mere coincidence, of
course, but Emperor William has not
been well man since that meeting.-
Pensacola News.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

Boiled tongue for cold suppers at
Hetzler's. o.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-28

Boiled tongue for cold suppers al
Hetzler's. ~
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
COURT FOILs DEEP LAID PLAN
Couple Thought Sons Would Get
Higher Education if Sent Away.

Confusing the Italian word "collegglo-
institution-with the English word col
leee" an Italian couple who wanted thelr
two sons TO receive a good education have
been fostering Judge Hoyt in the Chill
dren,s Court to have them sent TO a re-
formatory.
Mariana Amato, a porter living at NO
2Glb Macdougal street, and his wife de-
cided that their boys Louis, who is four
teen, and James, who IS fifteen, ought to
keep up with the trend of the times and
get a higher education. James plays the
violin. and his parents hoped that he
would be able to continue his musical
studies but as the family was not well
off they did not see how this was going to
be done. A friend told them that a few
words with the judge in the dingy court
building at 18th street and Third avenue
would settle the matter of an education
easily
A few days ago Mrs. Anato led the two
bows to the court and made formal charge
of incorrigibility against them The only
trouble was that the judge couldn't be
convinced that Louis and James were bad
boys Yesterday morning they appeared
once more. but Justice Hoyt finally got to
the root of the trouble and explained the
difference between 'coleggio" and ''col-
fep
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
TO HALT INFANT PARALYSIS
Spread of Disease Has Aroused
Department of Health.

Or. Walter Bensel, sanitary super1n-
tendent of the Department of Health, IN
timated yesterday that the question OF
how best to treat cases of infant paralysis
would take effective form, although he
was not prepared to give out any state
ment as to the probable action of the de-
partment. He said, however, that In MS
opinion infant paralysis was contagious
and all cases should be placed under quar-
antine.
1T is very hard to investigate the raw
ages of the disease. as we have only
those which result in death to examine
AS very few children infected by infant
paralysis die 1t is not the fatalities put
the crippled condition in which 1T gene
orally leaves it's victims that Is the worst
thing about the disease"
The attention of the entire country has
been drawn to the spread of the disease
Numerous cases have been reported IN
Seattle, where It is said that hundreds or
cases are now under quarantine. The dis
ease Is also said to be spreading IN DeS
Moines Iowa, and in South Dakota and the
western part of Massachusetts,
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
UNWILLING TO LEAVE JAIL
Staten Island Prisoner Persists
in Being Arrested.

William Muir, about ffty-five years old,
who has spent the best part of the last SIX
years in the Jail at Richmond. Staten
Island. has become so attached to the
place, the officers at the Sheriff's office
state. that he is determined they will not
get rid OF him. He is the only one of the
sixty prisoners in the place allowed the
freedom of the neghborhood. and for this
there's a reason"
That reason is the garden laid out around
the building. Having been an expert gar
dener Muir was put to work on this gar
den when he was first sent to the prison.
when he was discharged from the jail
only two days elapsed before he was back,
sentenced to nine months for disorderiy
conduct Discharged again. he repeated
the offence of acting in a disorderiy man
ner, and has done so every time that ne
has had his freedom. Immedia tely upon
being resentenced and taken to the fnst1tu-
ton he gets TO work on the garden, ana
that is believed to be the object for which
he is always anxious to return to prison
Muir will not talk of his confinement
but will speak on numerous other SUBJECTS,
such his fondness for George Goulo
who was a fine boy when l worked Tor
his father" and of his service in the Eng
lish army, when, he says, he was on nlne
battlefields during the nglo-Egyptian war
He was born in England. He says he was
once the gardener in charge Of Jay Gould S
estate, Pinehurst, at Tarrytown, n. y.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
MORPHINE SELLER GOES FREE
MAGISTRATE Finds No Law to Hold

Because there was no provision in the
sanitary code prohibiting the sale or NOR
phtne Magistrate Steinert, IN the West Side
court yesterday discharged George a
Candy. a clerk employed in a drug store
near 35th street and Seventh avenue For
the same reason the court also discharged
Thomas Gri-,en. charged with unlawful pos
session of the drug. Griffen had bought
an ounce bottle of the drug from Gaudy.
Mr.. Medalia, Assistant District Attorney
told Magistrate Steinert that the law only
prohibited the sale of morphine so far as
the rehlling of prescription without an
order from physician was concerned he
said the Board of Health had full power
10 amend the sanitary code so as TO make
Il a crime and as difficult 10 purchase NOR
phine as II Is to purchase cocaine. When
Mr. Medalia requested the discharge of the
prisoners the magistrate released them ana
agreed with the Assistant District Attorney
that the Health Board should act In the
matter.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
SAYS He GAVE HORSE POISON
Wagon Helper Arrested After Watch
Was Set for Miscreants.

Samuel L. Baigle, employed as wagon
beIper by Teller & Freedman, Of No IS
Suffolk street, was held in 500 bail by Mag
istrate Kernochan in the Essex Market
court Yesterday morning on a charge of
cruelty to animals Baigle is accused by
James D. Mesick, an agent for the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
of attempting to poison one Of the horses or
his employers yesterday
Teller & Freedman complained that sew
eraI of their horses We're killed recently by
poison, and that several others were suf-
fering from the effects of drug. The case
was taken up by the society and a watch
was set Mesick in his affidavit says that
he saw Baigle drop pill into the horse S
feed, and then he placed him under arrest.
and that when his room. at No 2O3 Broome
street, was searched. a number of similar
pills were found.
Baigle's employers said that the wagon
heiner complained recently that he did not
gel 81 % which he said was due him for
extra work Baigle had nothing to say In
his defence
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
DOG BITES -FOUR
Boys Tease It, and InfurIated
Animal Jerks Free of Leash.
PATROLMEN QUIET NEGROES
Bow Is Shot in Gunplay-Sur-
geon Dresses Wounds, ana
Dog Is Killed on Roof.

Four persons were bitten by a so-caiieo
mad dog at 18th street and Seventh ave-
nue. In the heart of the negro section last
night. and several hundred others were
thrown into a state Of fear bordering on
manic when the animal tried to jump into a
crowd of negroes and bite its tormenters'
Some one finally put an end 10 the oos
life after it had sought safety on the rooI
Of an apartment house.
The dog was walking beside Cnarles
bernhard, a negro well known In the neieh-
borbood who was exercising 1t for lts
owner AS It passed the Seventh avenue
corner in 195th street a crowd or young
sters. despite Bernhard's warning, starteo
TO tease It. Suddenly the dog jerked the
leash from his hand and ran toward the
group.
In the path of the maddened animal was
Rennie Clasner, a veyear-old negro poy :.
The dog grabbed him by the left leg anu
held on with all it's might Men. leo pS
Bernhard, tried to get 1t away. the men
use dsticks and clubs and kicked the am
NAL. but II held It's grip and the ooy
screamed with pain and fear. BernnaIo
vas aiming an extra hard blow When tne
dog suddenly let go of the boy and bit MIN
several times in the face.
Tn the crowd of negroes watching the eA-
element was Samuel Tobn. nineteen years
old white. The animal made sudden Turn
+ouard Tobin. who had been one or the
crowd irving to get it from the CIasheE
hoy AS II made for Tobin the negroes
broke and scattered The dog gIaopeo
TObin in the right leg and held on uiiIl
Georse Simmons, a seven-year-old coioIeu
how. got in the way. It turned on him ana
had ripped several pieces of skin OH MS
arm, when a shot from Bernhard revolver
knocked all the fight out of it. SeVeral
more shots were fired from other guns ana
II left the scene of battle with It's tall De-
tween It's legs few men chased IL anu
finally killed it.
While the excitement was greatest huriy
calls were sent to the West 12oth street
station. and a number of police soon tullieu
the corner in a patrol wagon They 1ouno
tt, crowd scattered. but a few sympatheuc
women were gathered around QUO Coie-
man. nine wears old. who had been hit in
the right foot by a stray bullet
bernhard and the others who were oltteh
soon put in an appearance, and 'he poll'e-
r,an called DR.. McCallan from Harlem Hos
pitaI. The surgeon dressed the bites ana
the bullet wound on young Coleman 1901
and sent all hands home
Men in the neighborhood told the ponce
the dog was pedigreed fighting animal
and worth a lot of money. 1t was owned
by a. negro who lives in the neighborhood-
II was never known to bother any one be
fore, and the police think the crowd OF ooys
were to blame for the trouble
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
WOMEN ACCUSE MAN OF THEFT
Seventeen Charge Herman Katz with
Robbing Their Apartments.

Herman Katz who says he lives at No.
q Stuyvesant Place, was held in Saoo bail
on a charge Of grand larceny yesterday by
MAGISTRATE Appleton In the Harlem court
He first had to go through the ordeal OF
standing in a line while twenty-five women
filed past to see if they could identify him
as the sneak thief who had robbed them
Seventeen of the twenty-five pointed him
out as the man.
Katz's alleged plan was TO call at an
apartment house on fashionable Washing
ton Heights the day after a rainy day,
aying he was sent by the landlord to re-
pair the roof. Then. it is alleged, ne
would lay his hands on whatever money
or iewelry he could find and depart.
He was arrested on Tuesday by Patrol
man Walsh. of the West 18th street sta
ton. as he was escaping from the apart
nent Of Mrs. Sarah Bloodgood, at No. 6Gl
West 12d street, after stealing several
hundred dollars worth of jewery, it is
said.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
JUDGE DID NOT KNOW GAME
"Statue of Liberty Frees Boy IN the
Ghi1dren' Court,

Benjamin Goodman. fourteen years Ole.
of No 80 Rivington street, explained new
game to Justice Hoyt in the Chlldreh's
Court yesterday.
He had his hand in the air" said Pa
trolman Reynolds. who had charged the
lad with playing ball in the street.
II was playing Statue of Liberty broke
in the boy, lit was not baseball
'I never heard of that game, COM
n,erted .Justice Hoyt, what is 1t like
We'll, you put your hand up ana make
the other fellows guess what you mean py
it." said young Goodman
.T bite" said the court, what do you
mean?'
oh that means never again." answered
Benjamin
"Discharged,' announced the court
As the boy stepped TO the street. ne
raised his right hand. and shouted to
crowd of boys waiting to near the ue'i-
sion.
"Believe me, fellows, it's never again Tor
me Getting arrested is no fun
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
BAD HOSE AT JERSEY FIRE
Much Of It Burst at Big Blaze on
Wednesday Night.

The big blaze in Jersey City on Wednes-
day night has thrown more than four hum
dred hands out OF work.
One Of the drawbacks that interfered
with the work Of the local fremen was the
bursting Of worn out or inferior hose, and
the Board of Finance will hold a special
meeting to-day TO appropriate enough
money TO purchase one thousand feet of
hose.
Assistant Chief Engineer Lowell. who is
in charge of the Fire Department during
the absence of Chief Conway, who Is on
vacation. estimated yesterday the loss at
sgs.00o. as follows: Independent Baking
Powder Company, $4,000; Truslcw & Fulle
Incorporated, $4,000; the Ames Company
$4,000: the Riegel Sack Company, $4,000
and Butler Brothers. damage by water
$500
President Fllle of the Truslow & Fulie
Company, however. puts the loss of his
concern at 100000 The Riegel Sack Com
pany announced that first reports of the
damage 10 its plant were exaggerated. and
that ii would be IN full operation to-day.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
WHEN PROF. PECK PROPOSED
Miss Quinn Says ION or About Sep
temher 21. 1909" in Her Bill.

Miss Esther Quinn, of Cambridge, Mass,
who is suing Professor Harry Thurston
Peck of Columbia University, for $4,000 for
alleged breach of promise. filed yesterday
the bill of particulars ordered by Justice
Bischoff on the motion of the defendant
Miss Quinn says that Professor Peck's pro-
posal of marriage was made orally at No
525 West l34th street on or about Septem-
Der 81. 1909, between I and 10 o'clock p m
II is probable that counsel for Professor
Peck will insist on more definite particulars
than are contained in the statement "on Or
before September q. 1909"
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
POLICE ELECTION WARNING.

On the bulletin board OF every s'atio
houea in the greater city was posted Cen
eral Order No. 80 last nfshI saying 'na'
members of the force are not ufoer opii-
CATION to contribute to any political 1uhd
or render any political service. under Sec
ton o of the Civil Service law. 1t is Gus
tomary for the Police commissioner "
post this notice preceding every electioi''
The order says no one is allowed 10 SOLICIT
financial or other assistance from members
of the police force and that 'heS cannot De
reduced in rank or otherwise ahhoyeo py
refusal TO contribute. Persons sulity Oh Vlo-
lating any provisions OF the civil service
law shall be deemed guilty OF Hisde-
fneanor.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-19
CAT ALMOST sMoTHERs MAN
Landlady Drives It from His Chest
Surgeon Restores Respiration.

a big cat nearly caused the death of Sam
uel Rabinowitsch early yesterday morning g
in his room at No. 14S Guernsey street,
Williamsburg. The cat lay on his chest and
SO weakened his heart that he was almost
suffocated.
Rabinowitsch sleeps near an open win
dow. through which the cat entered his
bedroom The cat prowled around the bed
and finally laid itself on the sleeper's left
side
When Rabinowitsch failed to appear at
breakfast his 1andlady, Mrs. Annie Herman,
went TO his room and found him insensible
the cat still laying across his left side. The
animal leaped for the window when Mrs
Herman entered, and in a twinkling disap-
peared.
DR.. Cohen, OF the Eastern District Hos
pitaL found the tailor nearly dead. but re-
sorted to artificial respiration and heart
stimulants and saved his life.
The ownership Of the cat couldn't be
traced. It has been in the neighborhood
about a week, and nobody could tell where
il came from.