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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1911-01-19

Mr.. , P. Flarfeu. or Norge. was
in town Monday vita a lot OF fac
fzt dressed snosts which &c so.c az
10 cents q pound delivered.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1911-01-19

Hudnuts Violet To let Water 75c
--Waliansbuzg Drsg CO.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18

found in popular authors analy-
sis of many good editorials, from
which he deduced the following
rules. literally paraphrased:
!. Use a wide range of concrete
topics, many of them apparently ex-
tremely trivial. (Ware abstract prin-
ciples.)
2. Best-best liked articles are Of
purely local or ephemeral interest.
8. Never go deeply or exhaustive
ly into any group of facts, but with
broad, simple hypothesis as text,
hammer It over and over, saying
the same thing again and again in
different ways, but always with a
wealth of imagery and picturesque
phrasing.
4. Get humorous effects, when you
can afford it, by good-natured, but
sometimes sharp ridicule; exagger-
ate the argument or travesty the
c. use you attack till it becomes abb
strd.
s.. No matter what your subject,
OF where located, always write with
that heat and color which shows
your real interest.
But the most telling of all is the
flash of lightning after long roll Of
trunder.
From this it is easy to see that
journalese is neither chronic dis
ease nor a spasm, but an all-around
growth-the wisely selected state
ment of fact and opinion expressed by
one of the people about, and
for the people. You must have inter-
est to arouse interest. But do it for
tie public veal. and never merely
to crafty your private malice, or to
put money in your purse.
The ability to do all this is worth
from s75 per month to $4,000 per
lyear, according to time, place anu
the editors race, color and previous
condition of mental Seryitude.
Caution: Avoid the reputation of
being funny, unless you can be fun
ny-very funny on demand. That is,
on demand of publishers who are
able and willing to pay we'll for it.
Some one said this nation consists
of one hundred million people -
mostly unwise. The less wise the
people the greater their contempt
for the man who makes them laugh; !;
they feel superior to him. The man
who would lead the people must indi-
rectly impress them with-Eot so
much a sense of his superiority as a
sense of their own inferiority. Just
why this is true is not so important
as the fact that it is true.
Ito be Concluded).
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
PLACE FOR EX.AMBASSADOR?
Hr. David Jayne Hill Offered Posi-
tinn at Cornell. il is Said.

ITHACA, N. Y, September To-
That the post of head of the depart
nent of politics and economics at
Cornell University has been offered
to DR.. David Jayne Hill, who recent
Iy resigned as ambassador to Ger
many, is the well-grOunded report in
Cornell University circles. Thoueh
President Schurman would not con-
firm the report, he admitted that the
university was looking for a man
to fill the place, owing to the absence
of jeremiah Whipple jerks, who
has a years leave of absence. He
irtimated that DR.. Hill would be
highly acceptable to Cornell.
At the same time it is reported
that Prof. j. W. jerks, who is at
work in the headquarters of the I'M
migration Commission in New York,
was going to China on some business
il, connection with the so-called Chi
nese loan. 1t is understood his mis-
sion will be in the interest of the
Morgan syndicate.
Prof. jerks is familiar with Chi
nese affairs, having served a year
there working out monetary sys-
tenn for the Chinese Empire. He has
also represented the government in
financial and monetary missions in
Europe and has served on a number
of commissions. - GlObe-DemOcrat
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
DUTY TO THE UNIVERSITY.

That every student of the Univer-
sity of Missouri owes a debt to the
University and to the state was dis
tinctly pointed out by President Hill
at the Y. NJ. c. A.. conference and
dinner Saturday night. There are
two aspects to this debt-financial,
which is the less significant. and
moral.
1t costs the state much more to
educate each man and woman who
CON es to the University than is paid
in the way of tuition, fees. etc. That
clearly puts the student in the debt
or class.
But the state and the University
90 not want the debt paid in so much
money. Indeed President Hill en-
phasized that if he could he would
gladly cut down the tuition and fees
required The duty OF the student
takes the form of moral support OF
the various rational interests. To
make the University community a
better place to live in. to promote the
ideals and standards set up. to ally
oneself with constructive forces and
tendencies these are the points OF
duty which are presented to the stu
dents.
Recognition of the vast service
immeasurable in pecdniary terms
which is rendered the individual stu
dent by the University should leaC
every man and women TO return thei
loyal support and upbuilding infu
ence.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
GRAND OTERA FOR WORKERS.
WOmen's League President Thinks
LabOring Girls Should See 1t.

WOmen's League President Thinks
LabOring Girls Should See 1t.
Grand opera is the newest attrac-
tion which Mrs. Raymond Robins,
president of the Woman's Trade
Union League, is to provide for work
ing girls.
The season" will open at 331
South LaSalle Street, with "Pars;-
fall Arnold Dresden, a professor
at the University Of Wisconsin, who
conducted the musical evenings CIV
en- by the league last winter in the
small parks, will have charge of the
program.
At each OF the regular monthly
meetings of the Woman's Trade
CnioE League this winter Mrs. Rob-
ins plans to give the girls selections
from the best. operas.
She has no intention of entering
into competition with Andreas Dip
pei, uuI dS mcHs VI tEC WI hiA6
girls cannot afford to go to the opera
A,rs. Robins proposes to bring the
opera to them.
We mean to combine business
and the social side of life" said
Mrs. Robins. MANY of our girls
are hungry for good music and all Of
them cannot afford to go to the
opera We gave them concerts in
the small parks last winter, but
found the expense too great This
winter We intend to give them selec-
{ Frions from the best operas IN their
union hall.
: 1T will be enjoyed by those who
cannot go to the oper1 and by those
who can as well, for Mr.. Dresden
will interpret the music and explain
| to them the meaning Of it. Those
who can attend a performance at the
Auditorium Will appreciate it more
after they have listened to Mr.. Dres-
den's Interpretation of the great mas
terpieces. l look for large atten-
dance when our opera season opens,
as the girls are talking of nothing
else.-Chicago RecordHerald.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
DO FOR THE SAKE OF DOING.

The man who does things that
count doesn't have any use for a
press agent. Talent and virtue are
self-revealing lights. Achievement
is its own reward.
The grand-stand player soon comes
t. grief. Often the man who courts
popularity weds disappointment.
Even the fop appreciates modesty to
the extent of his ability to appreci-
ate anything.
Obscurity rears many a genius
"Oblivion wraps many greater than
Napolen or Caesar. Even the un-
known, uncounted slum-dweller has
a place in the great universal order.
Some village-Hampden that with
dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields with
stood,
Some mute, inglorious Milton here
may rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his coun-
- try's blood
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
STUDENTS AND CIGARETTES.

The fight against cigarettes not
only continues but it becomes more
determined and extended. The
smoking of cigarettes has been Off
ciaIly prohibited at Notre Dame Uni
yersity, and no disobedience to the
rule will be tolerated. Anyone found
indulging in the use of cigarettes will
be suspended.
Such a move seems sweeping but
not more so than has been made by
some railroads and other enterprises
which employ a large number OF
men who have a good amount of res
possibility in their hands.
Cigarette smoking as a habit is as
had for one man as another, but for
one who is required to do mental la
boz the clouding effects of brad smok-
irg are especially injurious. Then
the superior advantages of students
as a class bring upon them a greater
responsibility in regard to freeing
themselves from destructive and de-
generating habits and influences.
If the student is to become a lead
er in the business of the world it is
his duty to prepare to be an example
in the moral and social life.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18

Dancing lessons given privately.
S13 Range Line. Phone number 713-
white. (Adv.)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18

uemeS; when We strip STANDARDS ana
rewards of their disguises; when We
measure the limits OF incon&ruity,
the mutations of contrasts and para
doxes, We need must realize that hu-
nan nature then differed but little
from human nature now, that all
types Of conduct in all ages are but
different expressions Of our natural
growth, assisted to a great degree by
the very kind of education that the
newspaper gives. 1t is worth while
to believe that, for We are what We
believe. Then as Hans Breitman says
Den if you haf learned belief, you
haf learned something's
Philadelphia boasts of the first
daily paper published in the United
States-the American Daily Adver-
tiser, issued in 1884 by Benjamin
Franklin Bache, afterwards of the
Aurora.
Then came the New York Daily
Advertiser, the second real journal
in the United States, March /, 1855.
There were but thirty-seven news
papers in the whole country at the
breaking out of the Revolutionary
War. in 1875. Now there are about
(23.500) twenty-three thousand, five
hundred. Think of the amount OF
money. machinery and men re-
Quired,
The basic principles of successful
journalese are supposed to have been
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
Journalism
This is q letcure from a series on
business efficiency, by Walter l..
Church.

Mr.. Church is graduate of the
University of Missouri. He received
an A. B. degree in the class of 81
and an A. NJ. degree in 1870. He now
lives in Richmond, Va
The Epochs of the World have
been marked by the means for
spreading knowledge. Today the
journalist is one who gathers and
distributes news and opinion by the
medium of the newspapers.
The journalist is:
The microscope of society; the tel
escope of the State; the telautOscope
OF business; the telephone of COM
nerce; the telegraph of continents;
the cablegraph of hemispheres; the
wireless of the world, and the phono-
graph of the universe.
The journalist is the highest de-
yelopment in selective, receiving and
discriminating giving; the most con-
vincing demonstration that genius is
receptivity plus expression.
But what is journalism without
printing? The old, painfully written
news slips answer that question.
Their prototypes were the Acta Di-
urna or daily happenings, written
bulletins sent out from Rome several
centuries before Christ. That labor
inus method of distributing news was
neither as rapid nor as efficient as
the gossip of the market-place, the
dress-maker's or the BARRIERS and fell
far short of pulpit announcements.
But all these in time became too
slow for awakening human interests
Necessity, being the. mother of in
ventiOR. produced the newspaper to
which all other inventions contri-
butte. Today newspaper is a print
ed paper published at regular inter-
walls, containing intelligence and
opinions about past, current and
coming events. together with the
business announcements of advertis-
ers. The Oldest known newspaper in
the world is the Peking Gazette, first
issued about A. d. 1850.
Brought from China. perhaps,
printing was introduced at Mayence
in 143S. But not till fifteen years la.
ter, in 1857, at Nuremburg, did the
first newspaper of Europe appear
the Gazette. which has been a popu.
lar name for newspapers all over the
world. 1t took England 1S4 years
/ longer to have real newspaper
Buffers Weekly News" in 1922.
BY the way, the first newspaper
printed in Virginia was in 1876, Al
Williamsburg, the twentieth news
paper-and the tenth Gazette" vi
TO that date. So far as available
records show. not for forty years Wal
anther newspaper started-agair
The Gazette" at Calcutta, India.
In this prolific century of prolii,
expression. if newspapers were no
born every month. journalism woul,
be considered a case of arrested de
velOpment.
The Boston Newsletter. 1904
usually mentioned as the first news
paper printed in America. had on
predecessor. Public Occurrences.
in 1880. seventy years after the land
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
VieWpOintS

Editor. the Missourian: At the
University of California each fresh
nan class is greeted with a big mass
meeting at which members of the fac
ulty and prominent students speak
They are taught the true University
spirit in this way. Why not have
such a meeting at the University of
Missouri?
Freshman Sympathizer.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18
Must Tell Truth There.

At a summer school of perjury
on the banks of a Wisconsin lake
they occasionally tell the truth and
have a novel record of big muskies
caught.
When the fish is brought in, if he
Can qualify for the hall of fame he
is placed upon a board and his out
line is traced. Then the board is
sawed into a profile reproduction,
lettered and tackled to the WALL
Chicago Post.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18

Cinder paths would be all right if
the rains didn't move them around
as much that one hardly knows
where to find them.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-18

Lost-Box about 4x2x3 feet, with
strap handles. tin binding. Misde-
livered by transfer company. Phone
Nissourian, 55.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09

A man whose mind has been blank
for 10 years. who is literally living In
the past, who can not be made to re-
alize that this is June, 1911, instead
of June. 1896. is the striking phenome-
non which Associated Chacity workers
believe they have in the person Of
Ralph W. Thompson.
On June well educated, we'll dress
ed man, apparently 60 years of age.
suffering from a stroke of paralysis,
wandered into the Associated Charity
offices in the Goul building From
whence he came or where he was going
can not be learned.
Repeated questions put to the man
during the past six days are RESPONSE
BILE for the theory that he is living in
the past; that in some phenomenal
manner the happenings of the past is
years have been torn from his brain.
leaving his memory of things prior to
that intact
This strange phenomenon is former
newspaper man, according to his own
statement, and has worked for the AS
ISOLATED Press, the Savannah Morning
News, the Washington Post and other
papers. Letters to the A. p. and to
the papers named failed to show that
Ralph W. Thompson was ever con-
nected with them. However, this does
not shake the faith of the charity
workers, who believe that Thompson
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09
THOMPSON HAS LOST MEMORY
OF IS YEARS, AND NOW HIS
MIND IS LIVING IN PAST

worked with the publications named,
but that he has forgotten the dates or
even the approximate dates of the
time when he was employed by them.
He stated that he was with the Sa-
vannah Morning News just five years
ago. and that his daughter then mar
ried a prominent Savannah man. The
Associated Charities communicated with
Savannah and found that the man
named by Thompson. who is now de-
ceased. did marry a Miss Thompson
some 20 years ago.
He gives the names OF many people
well known in the newspaper world
with whom he says he worked. Investi-
cation developed that all were dead
He gave the names of two well known
business men, one of whom is now the
president of a big New York insurance
company, as intimate friends The in
surance man is now travelling across
the European continent, and can not be
located by the charities. ThompsolA
who acts peculiarly on the point, says
that this man will honor any draft
which he presents. The other business
man named is also in Europe and he
can not be located.
The Associated Charities is very
much interested in the peculiar case,
and Thompson will remain in their care
until they can find out the truht Of his
case.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09
LABOR SLUGGER Is
CONVICTED IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, June S.-The first convic-
ton OF labor slugger in Chicago on
criminal charge in five years was ac-
complished yesterday in the record time
of four mintes p. j. Taylor, said to be
a strong arm man." employed by the
chauffeurs' union, was found guilty OF
assault with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill by jury in the municipal
court. Heretofore labor sluggers who
have been convicted have been let off
with Fines for misdemeanors or carry
ing concealed weapons. Sentence was
withheld pending a motion for a new
trial
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09
.FIANCE FLEECED FARMER
DECLARES THE COURT
Man Who Charged Girl With
Defrauding Him Wins His
Queer Suit

CHICAGO. June s.-Thomas Foulkes,
of Danberry. Iowa. the wealthy farmer.
who has bene prosecuting his former fl
ancee, Miss Lodavine Miller and her
brother. Attorney ]. Marion Miller, on
charges of defrauding him out of $1I-
SIP and two farms. won his case today
in the criminal curt.
FoulSes told a remarkable tale of
what he characterized as a finance WOO
ing"
He said he bought kisses and caresses
from the object OF his affections with
loans of from $50 to $500 and that after
he had lost the amount of money named
in his suit. and after his two farms had
followed the money. his charmer had ad-
vised him to go to California, read the
Bible constantly and marry a widow.
He added that IL took him six years
to discover that his affections We're
not returned. The brother was accused
OF having planned the alleged raid on
FouIkes
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09
MILLIONAIRE IS SHOT
BY TWO new YORK GIRLS
w. E. D. Stokes Wounded
While Artists Apartments.
Stories Are Conflicting

NEW YORK. June s.-The condition
of W. e. d. Stokes, the millionaire pro-
prietor Of the Hotel Ansonia and wide
ly known horseman, who was shot last
night by two young owmen in their
apartment, was such this morning that
his physicians say he will recover.
The young women, Lillian Graham, an
actress, and Ethel Conrad, an illus
traitor, formally charged with the shoot
ing, were taken to police headquarters
this morning on the verge OF collapse.
Three Japanese servants in the apart
ment house in West S0th street, where
Stokes was shot. are held as witnesses.
Miss Graham and Miss Conrad will
be arranged in court later and held to
await the result of Mr.. Stokes injuries.
A formal examination will be made to
ascertain whether the two bullets still
remain in the millionaire's ankles and
thigh.
Terrence J. McManus. Mr.. Stokes at
torney, says that his client went to the
girls apartment on receiving a message
from Miss Conrad, TO obtain some let
ters. Stokes denies that he had ever
written any letters. and when he reach
ed the apartment, his counsel says the
door was locked behind and Miss Ora
ham Immediately drew a revolver and,
pointing to a pad on a desk at one side,
she said. Give me $4,000 and sign this
agreement
Mr.. McManus says that Stokes re-
fused and that "thereupon Miss Graham
fired two shots at him."
Stokes got the revolver away from
Miss Graham, who then, according to
Mr.. McManus called upon Miss Conrad
to fire, Miss Conrad. Stokes lawyer
says, also fired, and as the millionaire
backed into the hallway three japanese
servants set upon him.
Miss Graham in a statement says that
Stokes came to her apartment and de-
manded letters which he admitted writ
ing. When told that she had no letters,
Miss Graham alleges that Stokes turn
ed on me in a perfect fury and caught
me by the throat and began to choke
me-"
Miss Graham then alleges that, fear
ing violence at Stokes hands, she shot
at him. whereupon Stokes wrenched the
pistol away and shot at her. Miss Gra-
ham says nothing made by Stokes coun-
sci that Miss Conrad fired a shot
Stokes says he met Miss Graham and
her sister. Mrs. John Singleton, of Los
Angeles. some time ago here. He only
knew Miss Conrad slightly. he says.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09

cessful exhibitors will. very probably
make exhibits at the county fair to be
held here again This fall
Two years ago Mr.. n. o. Nelson St.
Louis philanthropist, while on a visit TO
Eatonton and Putnam county, was so de-
lighted with the cordial and warm-heart-
ed hospitality of the people, extended
him even as a perfect stranger, that he
conceived the idea OF doing something
worth while for the county, by contribut-
ing to the advancement OF the county
schools, which far several years past
have been considered among the fore
most IN the state.
Mr.. Nelson, AT his own expense, gave a
domestice science teacher TO the county
schools, paying her salary and all ex-
penses himself This year he further in
creased his generosity by giving be-
sides the regular county teacher a special
teacher TO the Rockville academy, in
East Putnam, one Of the best known
county schools in Georgia and In fact
long since considered one OF the model
schools OF the state.
At the Putnam county fair last fall. the
county schools. under the direction of
County School Commissioner w. c.
Wright, one Of Georgia's best known ed
ucators, made a magnificent display in
their corn contests and domestic science
work. Besides the cash prizes offered by
the fair association. many citizens were
so enthused that every child who made
an exhibit was rewarded by cash or other
prizes.
The study OF agriculture was begun in
the Eatonton public schools two years
ago, and each year a medal is given the
boy making the best display of garden
vegetables and other agricultural prod
ucts. planted. cultivated and looked after
solely by the pupils making the display
and also a medal to the girl, making the
best display OF flowers planted and grown
under the same consitions. The gardens
are visited by the teacher in charge and
certificates required from the parents at
the annual exhibit, testifying that the
above conditions have been complied
with. This year. domestic science train
ing was added to the agriculture and
Horticulture.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-09

mercial orchards? 100000 in fine
condition for bearing. Number of apple
trees? 100000. Number of pear
trees? 400, 700. Amount of berries sold
this year compared to last 81 1-S per
cent
''Stock-Condition of sheep compared
to an average? 81 2-3 per cent. Con-
dition Of work stock compared to an
average? 101 2-s per cent. Stock of
hogs compared to last year? 100 per
cent What diseases, If any, have af-
fected stock this spring? A few re-
port cholera. but the vast majority re-
port splendid health among all kinds
of farm animals.
Labor Supplies etc.-Supply of labor
compared to last year? "a 2-3 per cent.
Wages paid compared to last year?
los per cent. If higher what per cent?
per cent. What per cent of farm
labor is hired for wages? 81 1-3 per
cent What per cent of farm labor lis
hired on shares? 40 1-S per cent. What
per cent of farm labor work as renters?
3S 1-3 per cent. What wages with
board is paid full hands? 1888 per
month What is the cash price per
bushel at which corn sells In your
county MAY 2Sth)? SO cents. What Is
the credit price at the same date? 90
1-3 cents. Quantity purchased compar-
ed to last year? 10 per cent. Quantity
Of hay being purchased compared to
last year? 70 1-3 per cent"