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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
81 Remember" "

Il remember when teaching a
country school out on the prairie, -
said Miss Ella V. Dobbs, that
walked to my uncle's each Wednes-
day to spend the night with them. 1t
was far from the school to his home
and | had hills to climb and much
high grass to walk through. The
way was very hard to travel before
reached the main road. There was
certain post that stood by the main
road that | used to keep my eye on
from the time | left the SchOolhOuSe
until | reached it.
Il would lose sight of it as | went
down into the valleys and walked out
of the way to avoid the tall grass but
| soon came in sight of it again. 1t
kept ME from losing my way to the
main road. This post was the one
thing | looked for each Wednesday
evening. | have thought of it since
and il has been a lesson for me
that | should look to one main thing
in this life and strive to reach it. or
in other words, | should have one
main purpose in life"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26

Prof. II. W. POmmer of the depart
ment of music in the University. I'm
our world he was clumsy dropping
and spilling things continually, he
would go into restaurant and not
know whether he had eaten. Other
men developed music in one aspect
more than others, Mendelssohn the
form, Schubert the melody, and Wag-
ner the orchestratiOn, but in BeethO-
Ven are all these combined. He was
great yet not through the book know
ledge. Lincoln and Shakespeare also
had this elemental greatn IS which is
developed intuitively."
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
TRAINING FOR WOMEN.

No other nation has made such
marvellous strides as Germany. No
other people consider the necessity
for systematic training as do the
Germans.
They aim to give every one lib
eral education, and then train him
specially for his chosen work.
Now a German champion of wo-
mans rights advocates compulsory
domestic service for young women,
the training to be as thorough as mil
itary service for men.
Mrs. Woerner, author of the idea.
anticipates criticism. The same ar
guments, she says. were raised
against compulsory military service,
but the enormous benefits to German
manhood has brought approval, and
the same result would come of the
proposed domestic service.
1t takes as much intellect, refine
ment and training to cook a whole
some meal, wash a dish or make a
home as to write a novel or discourse
in five languages. Nine-tenths of
our women do the former. Wouldn't
it be sensible to train them for their
work?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
INSINCERITY CAUSES WAR.

Honesty is as rare as purity. Many
nations advocate peace on the one
hand and prepare for war on the
other. This dishonesty arouses 9TH
ers' animosity, and compels those
who are less warlike to spend
more money than ever on prepara-
tion for war. This is the only log
ical result. Then, the increase of ex-
penses for equipment for war will be
in geometric ratio. At last the con-
cealed antipathy will burst out and
the financial burdens for the increase
of navies and armies can no longer be
sustained. The nations either perish
of bankruptcy or survive by getting
lands and money from weak nations
through war. Thus insincerity is the
cause of war.
Are the conquering nations better
off than the conquered? The period
in which the people of the conquered
country could be sold as slaves and
their wealth, their property, and their
lands taken as trophies. is absolutely
past. At present, before a nation
can conquer another, it must expend
much money for constructing dread
nOughts, a sea of blood must be shed,
and it's national reputation must be
slandered by civilized nations. 1t
would be worth while to overcome
another nation if victory brought
some reward to the triumphant coun-
try. But the reward is nothing Thus
warlike powers are under a delusion.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
nots grows DINNER each year.


You may talk with a man these
DAYS for some time without learning
whether he is a Republican or a Dem
ocrat. People do not wear their po-
litical brand on their coat sleeves.
The intelligent man says what he
thinks whether it is in line with the
platform of his party or not. When
he finds that his views and the views
of his party fail to coincide, he quits
the party.
The sting of the party whip" is
pretty largely thing of history. Fat
politicians no longer carry wards or
precincts in their buiging vest pock-
cts" More and more. men are COM
ing to vote their own sentiments at
the polls and not the wishes of the
boss or the party. Politics, We have
learned, is not a question of party
allegiance but of governmental ad-
miniStratiOn, study of economic
conditions with the purpose of dis
covering cure for ills.
Party organization there must be.
Every plan must have head and a
body and an objective aim. But par
ty organization of the future will rep
resent the views of the many in
stead of the few; it will have for its
ideal the good of the masses, not of
the bosses; it will be democratic, not
Oligarchic.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26

Louis has written number of sue
cessful books. In 1890 she published
How | Earned $4,000 in Eleven
Years story of her experiences as an
author. Later she wrote "Unfor-
given" and Between Two Worlds"
Last year Annie Lemp Konta wrote
a history of French literature.
Many volumes of poems have come
from the pen of Missouri women au-
thors. Mrs. w. l.. b. G. Allen wrote
''Bobs and Nabobs:" Ruby Archer
wrote Notes and Poems;;" Martha
Prewitt DOneghy. Feast of Skele-
TONS" Mrs. Jennie NJ. Hicks. "Olym-
plan Gods Bertha May Ivory. "A
Cluster of Roses" Mrs. Lillian Kelly
Verses" Maria Richter Nelson "A
Leaf From a Life Today" Mary T..
Roster. Pure Cold" and Mrs. Re-
becca Nichols "Moina''
In the State Historical Library are
about 5000 volumes by Missouri au-
thOrs, about 2000 of which are by
women. Many of those by women are
on technical subjects, such as cook
ing chicken culture, gardening, flow
ers. and the like. Quite a number are
on religious subjects. Writers on
these subjects seldom write more
than one volume. But the novelists,
of which there are number, have
made it their Life work. Catherine
Josephine Barton, Lila Hardin Bugg,
and Elizabeth Avery Meriwether,
all are nOvelists who have issued a
score or more each, and who make it
their profession.
NJ C..
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
UNNECESSARY "PROTECTION."

A large number of forts and navy
yards in the United States are not
only useless from the standpoint of
defense but a positive detriment to
the efficiency of the military forces.
Most of them have been established
on slight pretenses for purely politi-
cal or local purposes.
That these surplus forts restrict the
efficiency of the army would be clear
ly demonstrated in case of war with
a first-class power, according to the
Secretary of War. The troops are
now so scattered over the country that
proper maneuvers are impossible.
The opening of the Panama Canal
will necessitate several new army
posts and a new naval base in the
Gulf of Mexico. This should prove
a good opportunity to abolish some
of these useless forts and ship yards
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
A FATHERLAND CHRISTMAS DAY
The Warm Hearts of Germans Over
flow With the Spirit of the Season.


flow With the Spirit of the Season.
Germany without Christmas-or
better-Christmas without Germany,
For me the one state is as unthinka-
BILE as the other. After comparing
my experiences. l can but come to
the conclusion that there is no coun-
try in the wide world where Christ
mas flourishes with so much of it's
old truth. so much of its own true
feeling-in fact, where Christmas is
so intensely "Christmasy as in the
Fatherland. | do not want to hurt
anybody's feelings with this state
ment, and | must admit that my ex-
perience is not very wide. 1t extends
only over England, France, Belgium
and Italy, and | have no doubt that,
for instance, the Yankees make the
season an occasion for great magnifi-
cence. the Russians for pomp and
ceremonial. and so throughout the
whole Christian world. each land
imprinting its own national charac-
teristics upon the festival.
I always think of the Christmas
spirit as a little child. who would be
very happy to sing carols beside a
tiny shrub in some poor German gar
ret, but would shrink back invOlun-
tarily from the offer of gems and rich
incense. And it is that childish.
open-hearted simplicity which so it
seems to me. makes Christmas es-
German, or at any rate eX-
plains why it is that nowhere else in
the world does it find so pure an ex-
preston. The German is himself SIM
pie, warm-hearted, unpretentiOus.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
PARTISAN LINES DINNER.

1t is hardly safe to predict the
dawn of the millennium in things po-
litical. but there is a hopeful sign
in the fact that the line between
Republicans, Democrats and what
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-12-26
Great Composers
Beethoven.


porary with Napoleon and his wars
and his life is nearly as stormy as the
times which surrounded him. He
had a miserable start in life. yet the
genius in him could not be stifled by
the adverse circumstances of birth.
His father was tenor singer, a
rough violent character, made worse
at times by the use of strong drink,
The poverty under which the family
existed did not aid to sweeten this
irascible man. Early did the parent
see the talent in the son, resolving to
profit financially by it; hence at a
premature time in the life of the boy
was he put through the rudiments of
music.
At ten years of age appeared his
first composition, ''by Louis Van Bee
thoven. young amateur. In 1897
his mother died-then fell on his
shoulders the full responsibility of
the family which he had practically
borne since he was fifteen. He even
had officially to be responsible for his
fathers salary because he was not
able to manage it himself.
His life outwardly was unevent-
full. but on the inside it was full of
pathetic tragedy. His playing won
for him a place in the musical aris-
tocracy of Vienna. but his poor and
plebian nature was out of joint with
the upper world and was continually
at variance with them, which was
for the nobility who
tried to make life easier for him.
Vienna was made his home
the influence of his friends
there. and it was there that he made
his name. After the congress of
Vienna he composed some music that
sprang into fame; he was given two
big halls in this capital and permit
ted to invite the mOnarchs of Europe
to attend. In England this was
known as the Battle Symphony.
Signs of deafness gave him anx-
iety as early as 1889. but he con-
cealed this from all but his most in
innate friends. In a document to his
brothers he reproached mankind for
their injustice in thinking him pug
nacious and stubborn. They knew
not of the sufferings both mental and
physical that medicine could not cure
Across the water in England there
were those who remembered him to
the extent of sending him $500 on
his deathbed, to which he replied
God bless them" This was the Lon
don Philharmonic Society. Broad
wood, the leading manufacturer of pi-
amos, sent him an instrument with
which he was much pleased.
He died March 26, 1927 from a
,hill caught while driving in an open
'haise. Few of his friends were near
him at the time. and the last possible
comforts that might have been his
were lacking. His personal belong
ngs realised a pittance, the money
rom the English Musical society be-
ng largely used for funeral expenses.
No artist has ever left more author
tative documentary evidence of pro-
yress than Beethoven. To measure
his mans influence would be like |
measuring the influence of Shakes
,eare upon the English speaking |
world. His symphonies are regarded |
is masterpieces, the Ninth and last
,eing perhaps the acme of his pro-
,ress in these.
IN person he was middle-sized, |
tout and strong. His statues give
lin a massive head, broad brow. fea-
ures of hard but heroic effects.
Beethoven lives in a world of his
wn. and in this sphere he is 1T" said
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

Santa Claus Will Arrive Friday Afternoon
on the train reaching Brattboro at 35O
be at station the
children and the
TO meet him When he reaches Brateboo he wants all to
f. j. Fenton Co.'S AZ the
store he little boy and girl and he would like
to hearfr of them, too
Santa give Autographed Photo of himself nice picture ike
him depot lie
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
CHURCH NOTICES.

Unitarian church, Rev Z. g. S. Osgood
pastor. Service Sunday morning at 1890
Subject of sermon, Foundation Stones Of
Pilgrim Character. Sunday school at ll.4o
All are welcome.
First Church of Christ, Scientist. Sun
day morning service at 10.45. Sunday
evening service at 100 Subject, Is the
Universe. Including man, Evolved by
Atomic Force? Wednesday evening testi
monial meeting at 7.45 Reading Room is
open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
from go to 400 All are welcome. En-
erson building, Elliot street
Centre Congregational church, Rev. Roy
NJ. Houghton, minister. Sunday services
1890 a. M, Divine worship with sermon
by the pastor, subject, Obedience the Test
of Religion; II 40 a. m, Sunday school
Union Brotherhood meeting in the church
speaker Rev " V. johnson of Spring
field Mass. :. 100 p. m, stereopticon lee.
ture in the church. subject, Ben Hur, a
Tale of the Christ. This friday evening
at 40 o'clock, devotional service and
bible lecture in the chapel, subject, Saul
and David.
First Baptist church, Rev. John r. Cow
D. D., minister Worship with sermon
both morning and evening. Morning ser
mon by Rev. Virgil V. johnson, executive
secretary of the Springfield Centre of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement
Evening topic, Are You Ready for Christ
mas? Bible school at ~ m. Mass meeting
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Deaths

In Putney, Dee. IA, Harvey H. Brainerd.
In Westminster, Dec II, Louis Whitton,
In Springfield, Mass, Dec. 10, James R.
Ripley, 6S, a native of Hinsdale, N. H.
In Mortified, Mass, Dee s, Charles
Chapel, 67.
In Lyford Tex, Dec. II, Mrs. Sophronia
Houghton, S4, mother of Mrs. o. II. Stick
ney of Brattleboro.
In South Deerfeld, Mass, Dec 10, Joseph
Dustin Reed, ~.
In South Deerfeld, Mass, Dec. 10, Giles
f. Reed, SO.
In Brattleboro, Dec. 10, Charles Edward
Sturges, 6S.
In West Swanzey, N. H., Dec. -, Miss
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Some Red Cross Figures.

Few people have any conception of the
magnitude Of the red cross Christmas seal
campaign. The following figures will show
what a gigantic movement this is. Already
So, 100000 seals have been printed and
practically that entire number distributed
to agents. Probably 100000 more will
be needed. Advertising circulars, posters,
cards. etc., to the number of several million
have also been distributed. 1t is estimated
that the army of paid and volunteer work,
ers engaged in selling the seals will number
over 100000 The advertising and publicity
donated to the campaign will amount to
several hundred thousand dollars. Every
effort is being put forth to sell 10O,OOO,O0O
seals or about one for every man, woman
and child in the United States.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

for men at II M in the Centre church, to
be addressed by Rev. Mr.. johnson, Young
peoples meeting on Tuesday evenings Meet
ing for conference and prayer on Friday
evening, topic for tonight, He Findeth His
Own Brother.
Universaist church, Rev. d. r. Trout,
minister. Divine worship at 1880 a. M,
with sermon. Subject, Leaving the Nets
Sunday school at Las a. m. The men are
asked to meet in union service at the Con-
gregationa church at u o'clock, to hear
a speaker from Springfield, Mass, upon
Men and Religious Movement, Stereopti-
con lecture at Z p. M Quo Vadis, thrilling
story of early Roman and Christian life
illustrated with colored slides. There will
be special music Preaching service at
Vernon at go p. m. The Mission Circle
will meet in the church parlor, Thursday
Dec. 81 at 3 D. m. Devotional meeting
Subject for afternoon, Our Favorite Poems
G. Arthur Pearson, editor and owner
Of the London Express, wealthy beyond the
dreams Of avarice, and reported suffering
a complete breakdown from overwork, was
poor lad % years ago, but full of force
and ambition. At 10 he became editor of
Tit-Bits and made good After the first
year, refusing an increase in salary, he Dor
rowed small sum and started Pearsons
Weekly, which in few years poured a
golden stream into his lap.
Red cross seals will be sold this year in
Rhode Island by 10 automatic vending ma
chimes. To get a seal one must drop pen
IL
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
WEST CHESTERFIELD.

Next Sunday Rev W. B. Watson will be,
gin a series of topics. The first subject will
be, The Men That Have Made and Nodded
Modern Thought. He claims that Mark,
not Darwin, was the original exponent OF
the theory Of evolution.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Marriages

In Brattleboro, Dec ., by Rev e. @. S,
Osgood, Albert c. Buzby and Miss Daisy
l.. Clough, both of Brattleboro.
In Brattleboro, Dec IL, by O. S. Hop
llins, justice of the peace, Prucius W. Man
ley of Brattleboro and Miss jeanette Eve
lin Robbins of Cambridge, Mass.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

Abigail Dunklee, GO, native of West
Brattleboro.
In Brattleboro, Dec. ), Miss Mary E,
Slason, 6S.
In Hubbardston, Mass, Dec. 8, Florence
Deyo, %, wife of Abram Rosberry.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

William E. Watson visited his sister in
Keene Sunday.
e. J. Richards and +. w. Tilden were in
Boston this week.
George Holland of Holyolle, Mass, was
in town the past week,
Mrs Hartwell of Brattleboro spent sew
eral days in town this week.
Mrs Nellie Worden went Monday for a
visit in Newton and Boston.
Mrs John Conway of Winchester visited
at William Lynchs Saturday.
Miss Ada Hill came home Wednesday
from Meriden for short stay.
John f. Scott was in Boston on a bust
ness trip couple of days last week.
James Rourke of Haverhill came home
Wednesday for visit with his family
James OBrien and Ezra B. Pike attended
the road convention at Concord this week.
Leon B. Merritt attended the funeral of
an aunt in West Warren, Mass, last
Monday.
Little Dorothy Hudson Of Schenectady,
N. ", is visiting her aunt, Mrs. G. E..
Stevens.
Frank A. Fuller of Hartford, Conn, has
been visiting his son, Frank M. Fuller, the
past week,
Mrs. John Abbott of Nashua, n. H.,
has been visiting Mrs. Charles Weed the
past week.
Miss Sophia Doolittle and Miss Boldt
Of Binghamton, N. Y, are visiting at A..
A. Boldt's.
Miss Mary Watson and two nieces,
Marion and Ellen Watson, spent Sunday
in Winchester.
Mrs. George Abbott and two sons went
Tuesday to Gresham to visit her sister,
Mrs. Casper Bemis,
Edwin Davis of Fitchburg, Mass, spent
several days last week with his mother,
Mrs. Charles Davis.
E. G. Robertson attended the Fat Mems
banquet held at the Brooks House in Brat
tleboro Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Charles Stafford was called to Brat
tleboro Wednesday by the illness of her
sister, Mrs. Luther Kaye.
Mrs. Ella Smith of Claremont, n. H.,
came Thursday for visit of week with
her son, Dr. o. L. Smith
Mrs. Matte Curtis of Dorchester, Mass,
is expected next Monday at j. G. Shows
to remain over Christmas.
Misses Grace and Laura Saben of Had
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15
Births

In Brattleboro, Dec II, a son to Mr. al
Mrs Louis Breslin
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-12-15

Red cross seals viii be sold this year in
Rhode Island by 10 automatic vending ma
chimes. To get seal one must drop pen
ny in the slot.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-11-24

operated on President Mckinley wher
he was shot in Buffalo, died in SAM
tarium in suburb of Philadelphia.
Harry Brolaski, former gambler,
made the charge before the Chicago Civil
Service Commission that the gamblers
of the city kept fund Of $40, 900 foI
use in easing up public officials.
As precautionary measure orders for
the departure of American troops from
the border have been revoked. Wash
ington has received reports that another
Mexican revolution is threatened.
Indicted Chicago meat packers felt
encouraged after an expression Of United
States Circuit Judge Kohlsaat during the
trial which indicated that he would grant
the packers habeas corpus writs.
The Chicago Butter and Eggs Board
claims that not enough fresh eggs are
coming into Chicago to make price
quotations worth while.
It is reported that another attempt
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-11-24

that have been lost or stolen may be
stopped by notifying the Secretary OF
the Treasury Division of Loans and
Currency at Washington. II coupon
bonds are lost the Government does not
undertake to protect the owner against
the wrongful holder, but recognizes the
bearer only. The owner has recourse
only to such means as he could use to
recover any other valuable property.
When bonds, either registered or cou-
pom, have been destroyed wholly or in
part, or defaced, a claim may be filed
with the Secretary of the Treasury UNI
der certain prescribed conditions for
their replacement Such claims will not
be allowed for coupons which have been
detached from coupon bonds.
INFORMATION RELATING TO OWNERSHIP.
19. United States bonds are issued,
transferred, and redeemed under such
regulations rs he Seer tarvof The Treas
ury may prescribe Requests by holders
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-11-24

win be made to restore the monarchy in
Portugal Two warships are said TO have
been purchased.
The earthquake in Switzerland derailed
street cars in Geneva. At Chamoni
enormous ayalanches rushed down
Mount Blanc, The caste Of Hohen-
zollern in Prussia was damaged.
Creditors Of the stock exchange firm
OF j, nj. Fiske & Co. have vowed TO ae-
cept the offer Of James r. Keene,
amounting to about 100000, to effect
a settlement
1t was officially denied ID Berlin that
Crown Prince Frederick William had
been ordered on amonth 5 detention for
his recent action in the Reichstag.
The Frisco railroad system viii have
q through route from Chicago to New
Orleans by an arrangement with the
Louisville & Nashville railroad.
Lord and Lady Decies, who was Miss
Vivian Gould, arrived at New York to
attend the wedding of Lord Camoys and
Miss Mildred Sherman.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-11-24
NEWS NOTES.

Chairman Stanley, of the House Steel
Trust Investigating Committee, had a
conference with President Taft. He
declared the Sherman antitrust law to
be a competent statute, but said he be-
lieved it could be improved by supple
mentary legislation.
Premier Asquith informed band OF
woman suffragists that he was against
their cause, but the Government would
leave the House of Commons free to
give the women votes if the members
could be persuaded so to do.
Or. Eugene wardin. Of the United
States Marine Hospital service, Who
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-11-24
Postal Savings Bonds.
DESCRIPTION OF POSTAL SAVINGS BoNDs.

DESCRIPTION OF POSTAL SAVINGS BONDS.
j Depositors Of the Postal Savings
System may exchange the whole or part
Of their deposits on January |, 1912, for
United States registered or coupon bonds
in denominations Of $40, 500 and $500,
bearing interest at ths rate Of p per cent
per annum, payable semiannuaIly, and
redeemable at the pleasure Of the United
States after one year from the date Of is
sue, both principal and interest payable
20 years from that date in United States
gold coin.
2. Postal sayinks bonds are exempt
from all taxes or duties OF the United
States, as well as from taxation in any
form by or under State, municipal or
local authority.