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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-28
1912 AMENDMENTS.

There promises to be no dearth OF
constitutional amendments before the
voters of Missouri at the 1912 elec.
ton The last Missouri legislature
left a legacy of five amendments to
go before the people. and the State
Teachers Association has launched a
movement for a sixth. If the Repub-
lican State Committee revives its
demand for senatorial redistricting,
and the slaughtered amendments of
1910 are brought to life, the list will
become quite long.
The teachers association amend
ment is the well known mill-tax
movement. Petitions will doubtless
be out next spring in time to get this
amendment on the ballot. OF the
five amendments, the state legisla-
ture urges. one provides that public
school funds may be used for educa-
ting children between the ages of
and years and persons over 30
years. Another amendment pro-
vides that cities of between 10000
and 10000 inhabitants may levy tax-
es as high as 100 cents on the S1OO
valuation and that cities of from L.
900 to 10000 inhabitants may levy
taxes as high as 80 cents on the 500.
valuation. A third proposed amend
ment would permit the county of St
Louis to add an additional per cent
tax levy for the purpose of construct
ing sewer districts, or purchasing or
constructing water works. A fourth
proposed amendment provides that
male citizens of foreign birth shall
have easier access to the franchise
than formerly. The last of the
amendments provides for registra-
ton in all counties of $4,000 pOpula- |
tion or more. and those which adjoin |
city of 300. 900 population or more. +,
The last amendment applies only to |
st. Louis County.
The initiative and referendum has
been resorted to frequently since its
establishment and has come to be
popular in Missouri The require !
ment that per cent of the voters
sign the initiative petitions before
they may be submitted to a vote, does
away with the dangers of too free re-
courses to the plan. The amendments
by the state legislature are
not subjects to this rule. The Uni
of Missouri is particularly in
terested in the amendments to be
submitted next fall for the mill-tax
by the teachers asso-
citation which includes permanent
support for the University.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-28

\. T. Gentry to Mexico.
n. +. Gentry went to Mexico today
on legal business.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-28

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
MIR. BOWSER'S DIGNITY.
There Are Times When He Has 1t
With Him.

A little fresh snow had fallen, and
Mrs. Bowser was sweeping it from the
front steps and enjoying a Whit Of
the evening air, when Mr.. Bowser
turned in at the gate
"Hello!" was the greeting, as she
smiled and leaned on the broom.
He assembled the steps and passed
her without word.
ANYTHING wrong" was asked. as
she followed him into the hall.
your name, please %
my name? What do you mean ?"
Are you Mrs. Samuel Bowser or
some other person? If you are Mrs.
Samuel Bowser, I should like to fur
Their ask what you are doing out on
the steps with a broom in your hand,
as if you were working fo- wages ?"
"Why-why, a little snow fell, and
was afraid you might slip up on the
steps. The cook was busy with the
dinner, you see"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

The Western Sorosis will meet
Saturday, January %, at ESQ p.
M, with the president, Mrs. A. A.
GODDARD, at her home on Boswell ave-
nue.. Each member has the privilege
of inviting one guest. The paper for
the afternoon will be a short story,
"Hesper on the CROSSROADS" by Mrs.
Margaret Hill McCarter.
The Minerva club met Monday. jan
uary 16, with Mrs. Charles A. Moore
and Mrs. w. F. Axtell, at Mrs. Moore's
home, 1416 West Sixth avenue. The
program was as follows:
Paper-"Johnson and His Circle"
Mrs. Paxton.
Review asselas' Samuel John
SOM, Mrs. Blalkely.
Paper-"Music of Ireland and
Wales" Mrs. Curtis
Piano-"Garry Owen" (Pope). Mrs
Heym.
| Melody, Mrs. Foster.
Vocal-'-The Last Rose of Sum-
mer' (Moore), Miss McAfee.
Piano-"Caprice'' (Mrs. Albaugh).
Mrs. Albaugh-
Vocal-"Sweet Eyes of Irish Blue"
(Canning). Mrs. Foster.
Vocal =. Kathleen Mavourneen"
(Crouch), when Love Is Kind"
(Moore), Miss McAfee.
Violin = "Legende" (WieniawskD i.
Miss Waller.
The guests of the club were: Mrs.
j. B. Eames, Miss Bailey and Miss
Tinker.
Two committees of the Monday
Tourist club entertained jointly on
guest day at the home of Mrs. J. B.
Carnahan, 1927 Buchanan street,
Monday. January 16. The assisting
hostesses were: Mrs. George Beach,
Mrs Ralph McEntire, Mrs. c. B.
VanHorn, Mrs. C. E. Barber, Mrs. E.
e Brookens and Mrs. Robert Heinsel-
man An interesting program con-
sisting of a vocal solo and q reading
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

MRS. Bowser. if that is your name.
I never slip up or slip down. Please
remember that. Never again parade
yourself out on the steps with a
broom. I am surprised at your lack
of dignity
But you have painted the front
fence" she protested.
Certainly, but 1 painted it with dig
nifty: No person had the hardihood to
come along and joke with me. Had a
tramp passed while you were out
there he would have felt free to call
out to you. Don't let it happen again,
madam"
At the dinner table Mrs. Bowser no.
ticed that he had a stern, set look,
such as she had not noticed in months
and after a bit she tried to soften it
by saying:
There was a big dog fight in front
of the house this afternoon, and an
old woman got bitten in the foot"
Mr.. Bowser waited Just 60 seconds
by the watch and then turned on her
with
'And you speak of dog fight as
terested. The idea! The absurdity!
Woman, how can you think such
chatter of account to a man like me?"
But there were five dogs, all fight
ing at once
"But if there had been 500 dogs?''
"And the old woman tried to stop
the fight. She kicked one of the dogs
and you ought to have heard her yell
when he gave her bitei"
Enough, Mrs. Bowser-enough!
he said as he waved a hand at her.
Here is great world around US, go
ing on night and day. There are a
thousand problems to be solved. There
are a thousand great enterprises under
way There are thousands dying and
thousands being born. There are old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

have appeared in magazir es or news
papers, but have not been put into
any volume.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

Mrs. Noble Prentis. who is an en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

nave appeared in magaZiT eS or news
papers, but have not been put into
any volume.
Mary Ga den in the February Cen
fury Will give her views of Acting in
the Lyric Drama" Opera" she
says, 1.-The drama that is told in music,
can make a stronger appeal to the
emotions than the spoken drama Nor
is it necessarily less human. 1t is a
wider employment of the resources of
art, and therefore, in my opinion, a
higher form of it. But the human
ern opera; it was not considered in the
works of the earlier composers
1t seems only a few years ago that
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was writing
stories, and yet his early editions al
ready command a large premium. At
the sale of Edmund Clarence Sted-
mans library in New York last week,
copy of Aldrich's 1.-The Story of
Bad Boy went for 1926. This was
OF which only twelve copies were pri-
vately printed with Aldrichs auto
graph inscription:-"T is one of an
edition of twelve copies and is en-
rlched by all the original typograph-
zeal errors. T. B. A" A presenta-
sold for SCI, and a first edition of
Marjorie Daw" went for $37.
Zane Grey, who wrote 1.-THE Hertz
age of the Desert" opening up a
fresh field for romance in the canyon
country of Arizona and Utah, has put
part of his very extensive knowl-
cage of the West, and a great deal of
his skill and imagination as writer.
into story for boys called 1.-THE
Young Forester" The book has Just
been issued in an attractive and sub
stantial form by Harper & Brothers.
Ian Hay. author of "a Mans Man"
and The Right Stuff" returned on the
Megantic last Friday after short Wis
II IN Boston and New York He is at
work on a new novel which Houghton
Mlfflin Co. expect to publish next
autumn. Like THE Right Stuff, and
"A Mans Man." it will deal pleasant
ly with English life of today
E. Phillips Oppenheim's forthcom-
ing visit to America has been pre-
ceded by tbs publication of an unusual
novel from his pen. for in "Berenice'
he has told the story of the passionate
love of an English novelist for an ac-
tress whose husband is living How
this weaver of the tales of mystery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

After reporting the London divorce
court for the London Daily Telegraph
for a generation, Henry E. Fem has
written book on the subject called
''Thirty-Five Years in the Divorce
Court" Some of the most famous di-
vorce cases of the past generation
came under his observation. and both
lawyers and laymen will find his
comments most Illuminating He gives
character sketches of many of the
foremost English lawyers, and the
book, which is published in this coun-
try by Little, Brown & Co., is replete
with anecdotes.
Harper & Brothers announce the
publication this week of a new novel,
The Lever" by William Dana Or
cult, author of THE Spell" They are
also bringing out this week a revised
edition of 1.-THE Expert Waitress" by
Anne Frances Springsteed.
o. Henry wrote several hundred
stories in his lifetime. He was not
careful to ,-eep a record of them
and frequently could not tell a few
months afterward where a story had
been published. His literary executor.
Harry Peyton Steger. of Doubleday,
Page & Co., Garden City. n. Y. is
getting together all the unpublished
material he can find for use in a last
volume to be published during 1911.
He would like to hear from anyone
who knows of stories by o. Henry that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

by Mrs. Heinselman, and a talk on
Shakespeare's Italian women, by Mr..
H. G. Larimer, was given. Guests of
the club were: Mrs. ARA Clark, Mrs.
G. W. Wetherton, Mrs. L. V. Sans,
Mrs. Edwin Oman, Mrs. P. J. Clev-
enger, Mrs. L. G. Treleaven, Mrs. NJ.
M. Blinn, Mrs. Harvey Hull, Mrs. w.
R. Johnson, Mrs Ernest Tucker, Mrs.
Jay Henderson, Mrs. John Kleinhans,
Mrs. j. D. Gossett, Mrs. B. H. Pugh,
Mrs. John Sargent, jr., Miss Inez Tut
tie. Mis- Edith Atwood, Miss May Hill,
Miss Jessie Beal, Miss Blanche Carna-
han, Miss Jennie Carnahan, Miss Mar
jory Whitney and Miss Madeline Whit
ney.
The meeting of the Good Govern
ment club was postponed this week on
account of the illness of a number
of its memb ers. Miss Maude Mary
Kline, the president of the club, has
been i'll with the grip for some time,
and other members of the club are
suffering from grip and severe colds.
There is some talk among the man.
ayers of the Mid-Winter fair of hav-
ing one day next week at CLUB day
at the exhibition. They have not set
tied what day it will be, but it will
probably be announced later.
Mrs. Noble Prentis, who is an en-
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thusiastic club woman, is back in To-
peka after an abesnce of about two
years. She has spent a good deal
of time in Chicago and has inter
ested herself in the movements of
progress in that city that look to-
ward the betterment of social and
industrial conditions. particularly in
sofar as they concern women and chill
dren. Indeed, it seems that all that
comes within the purview of social re-
form is of first Importance to women.
Among other things, Mrs. PrentiS has
noted the effects of the plan of in
Producing gymnastic dancing into the
is working out admirably and while
the children are learning the social
amenities, being taught to appear be-
fore people without the embarrassed
awkwardness of early youth, they are,
at the same times taking what is con-
eeded to be the best possible physi-
cal exercise, and the results show
that their brains are clearer and more
active than before the system came
into use.
The wives of the legislators who
are here during the session are many
of them club women, and their gath
ering together in the social affairs
that are being given for them and by
them, gives an opportunity for an in
terchange of ideas on the subjects
that are interesting them in their To-
cal club work. The suffrage cam
paign is of prime Importance, and
I learn that a great many women, who
are not actively engaged in suffragist
work, have gone to register as fav-
oring the measure, thus lending their
influence to the passage of the bill for
the constitutional amendment, en-
franchising women
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

handsome suit, plain but rather
unusual in design shows a hip-length
coat, semi-fitting and cutaway. and
fastened Just below the bust with
frog. A wide shawl collar of fur fin
ishes the neck with two plain pieces
Of the cloth filling the neck-opening.
The cuff is of cloth and lace. with a
row of small velvet buttons as finish.
The fronts and lower part of the back
of the coat are cut in one. In the skirt
this is reversed, the back and front
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

The Nineteenth Century club will
meet Monday afternoon, January %,
with Mrs. D. P. Paxton, 315 West
Tenth avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

and international intrigue handles this
theme has excited widespread curios-
ity. Mr.. Oppenheim will probably
reach "the States" in May and he will
undoubtedly remain here long enough
to try some of the best golf links
around Boston. Mr.. Oppenheim's wife
is the daughter of Chelsea (Mass.)
manufacturer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

The Nautilus club will meet Tues
day afternoon, January "a, with Mrs.
I. D. Cardiff, 1912 Mulvane street.
Venice, the general subject for the
last meeting, will be continued at next
weeks The program will be as fol-
lows:
Roll Ca11-Suggestions for next
years work.
Old Paintings-Mrs. L. D. White
more.
Men of Letters-Mrs. Ralph Ward
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
WOMEN'SdN
H,saCIIBS.Aj

meet at 2:30 Thursday afternoon,
January 20, with Mrs. E. E. Roude-
bush, 329 Woodlawn avenue. A Kan
sas day program will be given under
the direction of Mrs. W. A. Johns
ton. AS usual come musical numbers
will be given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21

FLOWERS From Medieval History
volume of essays on the French
Gothic, by Minnie D. Kellogg, profuse-
" illustrated with mounted mezzo-
gravure prints reproducing an excep-
tiona1 collection of photographs, is to
be published in February by Paul Ell
der & Co. The authors recent death
lends a pathetic interest to the publ
cation of the book, which was under
taken to occupy a vigorous mind, con-
scious that its tenement would not
long ondnra
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03
THE JEFFERSONIAN'

(9) If what you said was true, how could
you afterwards gain your consent to "whirl-
wind" the country, making 60 talks, a day,
for Parker? $780,.
(10) Why have you dropped the Money
question, proper? The Aldrich scheme, and
the asset-currency detail do not cover the
ground. The real issue goes infinitely further:
Shall we return to the Money system of
the U. S. Constitution, or shall we allow the
Money-Trust to go on contracting real money!
circulation and expanding bank credits and
currency? Why do you not include this vast
ly important subject, in your list of ques-
tons to candidates?
1D How long have you been against
boilers?
Didn't you bolt Cleveland's first nominal
ton? Didn't you support Gen. James B.
Weaver, the Populist candidate? And didn't
you bolt the Democratic nominee, in your own
State, last year?
(12) Why have you never opposed the law
which, in your State legalizes the intermar-
rlage of blacks and whites? Have you no
objection to miscegenation?
(13) Why did you send your own children
to the mixed schools of your State, wherein
negroes are educated on plane of social
equality with the whites?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03
YOU CAN'T KEEP A
GOOD MAN DOWN

The Italian priest who is at the head
of the Federation of Catholic Societies,
has been making a great TODD about
the damage he has done us by his
little bOmbardment. We have reason
to believe that he, like many another
good Catholic, is a regular reader of
the JeffersOnian, so we print the fol-
lowing letter from one of the best
advertisers in the South. 1t is from
the senior partner in a large manufac-
turing concern:
My partner being Catholic, I sub
mitted the matter of our ad. in your
paper to him. He seemed pleased,
saying that if the paper is being read
by as large percentage of Protestants
as of Catholics, it should be a most
excellent Medium
ReQuieScat in pace.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03
Some Questions That Mr.. Bryan
MiUE1f Be Asked

W. J. Peerless is out with vard-stick
measuring Presidential timber. There are
13 questions that Peerless hath Matched. (By
the way, that's an unlucky number)
These IL heterogeneous are so framed as
to shut out nearly all the candidates who
have a chance to get the Democratic nominal
ton. If they have that effect Peerless will
himself get it, again Possibly, he had that
result in mind when he constructed his yard
stick.
But IS Bryan the only man who can put
questions to Presidential possibilities?
Hoots! To0s I'm right inquiring man,
myself; and | am going to put few questions
to Bryan
Q) Why did you drop Tariff Reform as
a paramount issue, latter winning your way
to Congress on it. and take up Free Silver
to the exclusion Of other issues?
~ How much money did the Republican
Silver Kings, of the West, put into your
Free Silver propaganda?
(3) Why did you volunteer your services,
IN q ao04 of aggression on Spain, after you
had denounced the war as inexcusably wicked?
az Why did you leave camp, at Tampa and
go to Washington, to lobby in favor of the
Treaty of Paris? That Treaty saddled upon
us the un-democratic system of Colonial de-
tendencies; as we'll as all the expense and
blood-shed of Imperialism. But for you'
t1n1ety and eHecta0e dad, the Repu6llca1l party
could not haze acquired the Philippine
Islands.
(5( Why, after your lobbying in Washing
ton had resulted in the ratification of the
Treaty of Paris, did you make anti-imperial-
ism paramount issue, in your next campaign,
q0hen y0W yourself acere more responsible
for imperialism than otsoy other one man?
(6) Why did you support Judge Parker on
Gold-standard platform, after you had pub
lished book, (The First Battle) in which
you solemnly and repeatedly declared that,
If the Democratic party ever went over to the
Gold-standard, you'd leave it? And didn't
you in your book, in your paper and in your
speeches most positively assert that you
would never support Gold-standard can
didate?
% Was it the truth, as you stated, that
Judge Parker's nomination was secured by
the Wall Street element of the Democratic
party and by indefensible means?
(8) If what you said on this subject was
untrue, why did you never retract your
chargess .<.a =. ~.~~t~.~s.>...
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03

(14) What was the secret promise which
you gave to the negro delegation, in 1903,
and which resulted in SO many thousands of
negro votes going over to you?
.(15) Don't you know that your Irritation
with the negro leaders in that campaign,
IS the direct reason of so mat1aay negroes bei7aq
IN fat places, today? Taft and his managers
were scared by your desperate efforts to win
the negro vote, in the doubtful states: con-
sequently, they a0ore forced by your tactics to
make heavy promises to the negroes, to keep
y0u from getting the negro vote.
(16) When are you going to preaching?
Shades of T. Dewitt Talmage! what
preacher you'd make!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03
Am Energetic Field Man for the
JcffS

Mr.. J. j. Brown, of Bowman, Ca, is now in
the field for the Jefs. His work will be to
organize, educate and encourage. If you want
a heart-to-heart talk that will do you good
and give fresh impetus to the Jetfersonian
movement, write to Mr.. Brown at once.
The Jeffs Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-08-03
Len Broughton, Bill Taft and
Booker T.

and our clerical skirt dancer rushed to the
exoneration Of Doctor Washington, Eve been
looking and listening for after claps. such
preclpltancy in the defense of negro, by
white men, qohem the honor of a aozite qoononaa
IS concerned, didn't look good to me, and you
may remember few lines that I wrote about
it, at the time
That was away back yonder the first days
OF April. WE'LL sir, that case has never come
to trial; and the announcement is made that
1t never will. 4 secretly -eue9ted influence has
chl0rofornaed It,
Do you remember the facts? A carpenter,
named Harry A. Ulrich, was living with his
wife at No. II 1-2 West 63d street, in New
York. On the evening of April Bird, as this
lady was passing through the hallway to her
room, negro approached her and softly
said
"He1o, saoeetheart!'
She made no reply; but went to her hus-
. band and told him what had happened.
Ulrich, going into the hallway, saw a negro
man peeping through the key-hole of his
Wlfe's bed-rOOm
Ulrlch went up to the negro and asked
what he was doing there.
The man was Booker Washington, but
erich did not know it,
Now, if Booker was there on any legitimate
business, why did he not tell Ulrich his name
and his purpose. If he was in The house by
mistake, why did he not say so? WHY did
he remain silent, and strike at the white man?
Then, when Ulrich began to beat him. why did
he run, continuing his flight boct, fter block.
still silent while Ulrich was pursuing and
pounding him?
That kind Of 6ohar5or as not consistent qcath
innocence.
Policemen took both men to the magistrates
court. Not until he was there, did Booker
reveal MS identity. A charge of felonious
assault was entered against Uhich, for Booker
was badly bunged up
Ulrlch pleaded, Not guilty" The case was
to be tried next week Great pressure was
brought to bear on Ul1ich to induce him to
plead "Guilty'-with the assurance that the
sentence would be nominal He refused.
Some of Bookers rich New York hackers
white men-met in solemn and private con-
ference, and deliberated. 1t was most I'M
happy gathering, They turned the selfevi-
dent facts this way and that, and found no
comfort in them. They racked their brains
to the INIT, without consoling consequences.
Booker had better "drap it,"
To save his face Booker gave out state
ment, that he did not blame ITrich. for some
body had been trying to kidnap Ulrch's
daughter, and therefore Ulrich was justified
IN suspecting hi3la, Booker I.
rrom no other source than Booker have
| been able to learn that Ulrich has daugh
ter, or that anybody was trying to kidnap
her.
But the new York 4merico1o publishes an
amazing story to the effect that a white
woman of New Y ork mot Mrs. Ulrch) has
used her influence to have city official enter
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r e NIT ia CES

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