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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
- ATIENCE doesn't sit on a
monument nowadays. Not
at all. She perches calmly

at all. She perches calmly
on high stool and pushes
plugs into the little holes in the wall
in front of her
There's no particular virtue in sit
ting on a monument, anyway But
try the other pedestal awhile. For
instance, how would you like to
have this sort of remark hurled at
you any number of times a day.:
Say. Central. would you just as soon
put down that Duchess novel. shift
your gum to the other side and ans
wer this 'phOne?" And although
your arms ache with their constant
weaving back and forth. reaching
high up and far to the sides of the
switchboard without stopping to
rest, and your temper has got all
snarled up, all you may say is "Num-
ber, please?" Or if raucOus-
voiced persons at the other end lets
out his morning crouch on you be-
cause he doesn't get his connection
in one minute and a half your only
answer may be THE line is busy
There is some mitigation, though, in
being able to wither some senti-
mental youth on the other end with
an acid They don't answer"
But hard as it is at first, this is
what every telephone girl in every
town of any size in the land is
trained to do. She may speak only in
set phrases over the wire, regardless
of sarcasm or foOlishness or rage
from the telephone user. Only
when the wrathful one becomes too
unbearable she transfers him to the
chief operator. who is privileged to
cut him off without further ado.
All these irOn-clad rules are OBJ
served in Columbia as strictly as in
any metropolis. But there is no
place on earth quite like a college
town, as the telephone operators will
tell you. 1t is the divine right Of
the student to know. He is here to
learn and he intends to do it. So
when his directory or his dictionary
or his neigh5ors fail him he asks
Central.
The chief operator in Columbia is
not just a telephone manipulation,
she is compendium of useful in
formation as well. And she always
gives it very willingly. These are
some of the questions asked her by
the students and others:
Hello. Central, would yOu mind
telling me who lives in that big
white house. the second from the
corner on College and Seventh?
Jones? Oh. thank YOU
Central. will you spell Umtyou-
fSkis name for ne. please; he lives
somewhere around here. think. -
What time it is?'
"Where's the fire."
Can you tell me when grocer
JOncs's daughter married that Tin
ncr Smiths son? Eve got a bet on
it."
What's the scOre?"
The telephone operator is a great
favorite for deciding wagers. If
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
Child of j. W. Griffin Dies.

Darcy Hallene Griffin, 2 years
old. died at the home OF her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Griffin at the cor
ner of Washington Avenue and
Wilkes Boulevard, at O'Clock Tues
day night.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14

Call SIS for University Missourian
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
Fifty Years Ago.

Six Columbians under military ar
rest in st. Louis were released upon
taking the oath of allegiance and
giving a bond OF 5 900 each.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
Ten Years Ago.

Three hundred detectives Were
picked from all nations to become
part OF the jefferson Guards at the
Worlds Fair at ST. Louis
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14

ha andh is
kahoman cloud snow ne air hmthe Lake region the uF o.
Over OF the nd state is al rand cold Zero
ig f h 0
AS the low b y the hpesr to tn
d al will from IN
. n;an dunngF Friday n,rnonu shoudh clear
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
Thirty Years Ago,

parnell. the Irish patriot. was Civ
en $1,000 by the people of st. Louis
To aid the famine suffers in Ire
land.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
Echoes of Yesterday


The mayors horses were put in
the stray pen and it cost him 81
head to have them released.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-03-14
Twenty Years Ago.

A white radish was found in ia
pan which measured six feet in
length.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Science Shoots at Cupid.

The Bishop of Chicago started some
thing when he issued the decree that
cIereymen of his diocese must demand
health certificates from both contract
ing parties as an essential preliminary
TO the marriage rite. Dismay and in
dignation mingled with the aeknowl-
edged advantages of such a departure
should il take ON legal authority. Dis
cusslon is rife. The Christian Herald
SAYS
"Disease transmitted to offspring WIS.,
it's the sins of the fathers upon the
third and fourth generation of the chill
dren. There are few of us who have
not witnessed the spectacle of an in
herited malady invading a home and
sweeping one victim after another into
an inevitable grave.
.'on the other hand. one hesitates to
be quite satisfied with the elimination
of sentiment proposed in this cold and
scientific way regarding love. A man
meets beautiful woman and is ready
to barter the world for her hand. A
girl may be in apparently perfect
health. and yet may have concealed in
the recesses of her physical nature a
tendency to consumption or some other
heart breaking malady and be unaware
of her peril The man who loves her,
should he discover that there was a
lurking germ, her legacy from her
mother or grandmother or grandfather,
would seem to the common view ruth
less in cruelty, if he set his love aside
for a reason like this
We fear such a law would be pro-
ductive of more hypocrisy than that
of which the prohibitory law is accused
by the distillers and brewers. The
Charles w. Morse demonstration would
be reversed. Love cannot recognize
tuberculosis or other deadly germs of
which scientists are prating. Some
times, love knows, one class of germs
are antagonized and swatted out of ex-
istence by the Introduction of more
strenuous strain from another source.
Love is willing 10 take chances on that
score, and to gamble on off spring.
suppose the Chicago bishop devote
himself and his clergy to the downing
of disease-creating evils, while giving
little Dan Cupid the benefit of fatherly,
scientific advicel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

for economy" purposes? Isn't it
beautiful, the way they "equalize"
taxes by doubling the State tax rate?
Have you heard that they were
paying the States debts with five
mills and six mills State tax levies?
That is what they say. And they
boast that they are doing it because
Mr.. Fernald could not make ends
meet while expanding a million in
permanent improvements, on a State
tax rate of mills each for his two
years.
Wonderful, isn't It, how the Demo-
cratic financiers are able, while not
laying out dollar in improvements,
and an available tax rate almost
double the last Republican available
State tax, to make a showing of more
than expenses?
Every small property holder
should be delighted with the assur-
ance that corporation taxes have been
increased.
Why does not the Democratic press
agent tell how much Mr.. Small Prop
erty Holders tax was increased?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

after the army distribution of ra-
tions ends and before the flood vie
Tins have had time to produce any
kind of a growing crop, there will
come an interval which all are antici-
pating with dread. In that interval
the substantial planter with good
credit viii go in debt for food for his
family. his labor and his animals. but
what will the small farmer dc whose
assets are so reduced by his flood
losses that his credit is gone?
Some small farmers own their
lands-more are tenants. IN the great
refugee camps at Baton Rouge and
Port Hudson and Harrisonburg about
fone-ffth of the population are small
farmers. II this proportion holds good
throughout the flooded district, it
means that approximately $4,000 per
sons whose homes have been sub
merged belong to the class which has
slight credit even in normal times.
Some of this class can weather the
period between army rations and
crops. but large proportion cannot
do so without help from the outside.
First after the water goes comes
the expense, heavy in most instances,
of gathering the horses and cattle and
hogs from the hills to which they We're
hurriedly removed and returning them
to the farms With the roads and
bridges destroyed and the low lands
sea Of mud. this is a serious pro-
blem, as the distance To be travelled
win be from Is to 40 miles. Further
great many thousand farm animals
haA Il cd nd Ia
placed only at large cost.
when the farmer reaches his home
he finds the house in bad condition,
outbuildings carried away, fences de-
stroyeed, not a pound of food or
bushel of grain for his live stock re-
mains. Thet grass is all gone from his
fields and even the leaves on the
bushes and trees are killed to height
beyond the reach of the animals. The
farmer has no cotton seed or corn or
peas for planting, lie is in truth al
most as helpless as when in the re-
fugee camps, and is cut off from the
support which he received in camp.
His family is subject to the scourge
of malaria and typhoid which usually
follows in the wake of flood.
"These are some of the reasons for
the widespread sense of dread encoun-
tered wherever one goes in the flood
districts. The army has performed its
tremendous emergency work with adj
mirable promptness and on scale of
astonishing magnitude, but the army's
work must end with the passing of
the emergency which required the
saving of lives and provision for the
temporary maintenance and shelter
of the people. Upon local authorities
and committees and the Red Cross,
the rehabilitation part of the great
task must fall For its proper per-
Torrance this task will require many
thousands of dollars and such intelli-
gent and impartial distribution as will
insure a fair show for the remote and
the less accessible districts as well as
for the larger and more conspicuous
communities. In fact the more remote
regions are the more helpless and
needy.
"The army will soon have completed
it's part now the public must assume
the BURDEN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Way Democrats "Eaualize" Taxes.

Hark yel oh, men of the. country
side and of urban homes-the Demo-
cratic publicity agent is speaking.
The Democratic Taxation Record" is
being reviewed. 1t is interesting
from more than one standpoint--it
pleases Democrats who see only the
figures presented and have no use for
the other side of the account. eve
would not hint that it is incorrect as
far as it goes.) 1t pleases Republic
cans who therein discover the ex-
tremities to which Democratic econ
omy experts are driven for public
fuddle. II pleases Republican edi-
tors because il serves as an excuse on
which to hang some facts for public
perusal
Here is the way the latest in Demo-
cratic tabular work is introduced, in
the Democratic dailies on Wednesday,:
For years In Maine there has been
complaint that corporations have not
been paying a just tax, while the small
property holder has been paying more
the Democratic legislature did nothing
10 equalize taxation, and yet the figures
show that corporation taxes We're in
creased $224 s66 Al in 1871 aud of this the
railroads paid 2ll.G0Z41. Rebates on
railroad taxes in 1910 amounted to $93 :
48s.Sl, these having been granted for the
agreement on the part of the roads to
carry troops ffee In case of war. These
rebates were reduced TO 49, &C in 1911
and will be entirely wiped out this Year
Taxation Of wild lands has been an
other fruitful source of complaint in
years gone by. The Democratic legisla-
ture Increased this tax S56, SIS % while
the income from grass and timber OH re-
served lands was increased $l.s5e.1S."
Every farmer and every city prop
erty holder knows how taxation was
.eaualized" by the Democratic Legis-
lature. 1t was a star performance,
as the Democratic press agent claims.
Let us grant him that corporation
taxes WE'RE increased s225,00O.
How does il compare with the way
your tax was increased?
You, Mr.. Real Estate Owner, know
how much your tax was increased
last year over any previous year, how
does the proportion Of your increased
taxes compare with the proportion oi
tax increase to corporations
Mr. Small Property Holder. youiare
specifically named in the Democratic
Taxation Record how much was
your tax reduced last year in this
glorious Democratic demonstration o.
sleyeilng up taxation
Aren't you delighted with the meth
DDS adopted By Democratic leaders
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
$4,000 Flood Suffersrs.

The Red Cross is making urgent APP
peal TO the whole country for aid for
the Mississippi flood sufferers. These
people. who are destitute of food, fod
der and seed, their lands a sea of mud,
are nearly all Americans. They must
have brotherly aid to get back on their
feet at the same time sanitary con-
ditions are corrected to preserve the
lives of thousands of refugees. Condi
lions are ripe for spread of cpl
denies. Camps must be promptly es-
tablished to assist in warding off this
menace.
Contributions of any amount are
welcome, and may be sent to the
mayor Of your city, the governor oi
your state, or to Jacob II. Schiif
Treasurer of the American Red Cross
81 William St., New York.
Director Bickneil of the Red Cross
Is IN the flooded district and sends a
graphic appeal for assistance of the
sufferers. In part he wires:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Thursday, May 80, 1912.
The Old Story of Love and Honor.

The Old Story of Love and Honor
Today we pay one more tribute to
our war heroes. What is there new
to be said by orators or editors? How
can we. in a new way, express our
LOYALTY and devotion to those who
saved the nation for us? It is the
old. old story of love and honor that
we offer, and ii is ever new to the
hearts Of these men who We're the
strong right arm Of America half a
century ago. Let us not lack in
earnestness IN the telling. Let our
hand clasps be warmer and our
greetings more heartfelt if possible
this year than ever before.
e.The boys" are marching feebly
these days; let us hearten them with
good cheer. good music and generous
floral tributes ON the graves of the
comrades Who have answered the last
roll call.
Perhaps among those gathered to-
day viii be some of those big souIed
fellows who. after the horrors of An
dersonville prison, spurned the offer of
liberty if they would join the con
federaey. They were of the stuff that
meets death with smile while turn
ing from the reckoning hand of dis
honor
Observance of the day is general
throughout the country. and we note
with pleasure the growing tendency of
other organizations to have Grand
Army Days. where the veterans are
dwindling and cannot longer maintain
a post. The Grange is coming for
ward periodically and devoting ses-
sions to the entertainment and visits
of the G. A. R. boys.
1t is good to see the spirit growing.
Long after the sons of these veterans
sons have passed away. Memorial Day
viii be more sacred than today; viii
be more universally observed when
wars have become impossible.
The veteran who stands today by the
side OF comrades grave may know
that five hundred years from today,
people who then know as little of war
as we know of the siege of Troy, will
stand by his grave scattering flowers
and breathing thanks to the sleeper
who helped to have the life Of the first
great republic and taught the world
never TO- be forgotten lesson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Coming Events


June 3-5-State Universalist Conven-
tIon. Pittsfieta
June 4-Waldo Pomona, Belfast
lime 4-Maine Federation OF Labor.
Lewiston.
June 5-E. Somerset Pomona, Pittsfield
Iune 5-6-Divinion t.ncampment, Sons OF
Veterans, at Gardiner
lime 5-6-Maine Division, Sons OF Vet
Grams Hangor.
June 6--York Pomona, I.mington.
june 6-Somerset County Veterans and
Ladies A9Xlliary; az NoIridgsweck
.Iunes-11-IJnjversitv of Maine Com
mencement, Orono.
lime g-t2-Bridgton Academy Cradua-
tion.
lime I2-Patriarchs Militant / O. O.
II brunswick
June i2-1s-Mafne Department. G.. A. r..
nj bangor
q, June i1i"' i99.iis-Nat1 w. r. Cs Bangor.
lime l4-Meetiug of the Governor and
council. ss''"e' ''' any
lime 14-Flag Day.
June 17-22-'The Bangor Street Fair and
Carnival.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

and shopmcn threw up their jobs in
Cincinnati and moved their families
out to Kansas. 1t took nearly every
dollar they had to make the move and
when they lad established themselves
ON government claims in Ford county
they were left almost broke. The col
ony settled mostly around Windhorst,
fourteen miles southeast of Spearville.
Those thrifty German factory hands
and shopmen freed themselves from the
slavery of working for wages and to-
day they are. the richest farmers in the
Kansas wheat belt.
II was a struggle. 1t took pluck. But
they had the pluck; they had the land
that would bring results; and "the
settlement" as the country settled by
these Cincinnati Teutons is known, is
the ricest community in the Arkansas
valley.
Among these Cincinnati shops hands
were Joe Pientner and his kinsmen
Peppercorn and Klinke. In those hard
days, when even the slightest crop fall
ure meant real disaster, Pientner and
his kinsmen took turn about working
tie fields while the others went to
Dodge City and worked for wages in
the Santa F'e shops and roundhouse. !
Today Joe Pientner owns eighteen
quarter sections in the Windhorst
neighborhood, nearly three thousand
acres Of land. "And there isn't a quar-
ter worth less than $6,000.'' declared q
Spearville real estate man. Pientner
is worth something like 100000 Pep
percorn and Klinke are worth nearly as
much, Henry Knobler, another Ger
man Of the Windhorst settlement, is
worth 100000.
These wheat growers of Ford county
are mighty independent folk, says Fred
Honey. Last year was generally Il
poor year, and yet they We're able to
lin their wheat, hold 1t all winter and
are NOW hauling it to market for $l.of
to s1.05 bushel.
"Py golIy. if they don't want to give
me my price. | put him back in the
bin declared one iovial German farm
or. And he could we'll afford to hoid
lis wheat or dump it into the Arkansas
river if he desired for he has %o,eoo
sailed down, besides a farm worth as
much more. And only a few years ago
he was pounding rivets in the round
house at Dodge City for 500 a day
Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Maine Gossip
Game Is Worth the Candle.

If still there bide Within your breast,
One dream or one Illusion,
Then wake each day and 80 your way
And live without confusion.
If still there be one soul you love
Without or blame or scandal
Then life's game worth While, my
friend.
And the game is worth the candle!
If still there be a song you prize
Soar skyward with the linnet.
And though you weave a winding sheet
o live the while you spin IL,
If still there be a task you love
OR tool YOU like TO handle,
Then life's a game worth while, my
friend,
And the game is worth the candle!
If stiI there be in earth OF sky
one daisy or one planet
You've still the right to drink its light
If joyously you sean it,
If still there be n peak TO climb
Or babe You care to dandle,
Then life,s game worth while, my
friend,
And the game is worth the candle.
National Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Curses!

They were in Italy together.
IF you would let me curse them black
and blue" said the groom, 1--WE wouldn't
have to wait so long for the trunks"
'4But, dearest, please don't. 1t would
distress me so,'' murmured the bride.
The groom went off, but quickly re-
turned with the porters before him
trundling the trunks at a double quick
ooh, dearest, how did you do it? You
didn't--2'
mot at ALL thought of something
that did quite as Well / said, 'S-s-s-sus-
quehanna, r-rappahannockH .
June Iippincotts,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Nervousness and Nerve.

The more nervous a man is. the less
nerve he has. That sounds paradox
cal-but 1t isn't: for nerve is stamina
Hoods Sarsaparilla gives nerve. 1t
tones the whole system, perfeets diges-
ton and assimilation, and is there
fore the best medicine nervous per-
son can take.
II you get tired easily. mentally or
physically, take Hood's-it will do you
good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Let Us Laugh a Bit.



] cannot sip the jeweled chalice
That holds the cordial men call life
Without a heart instinct with malice.
Without a soul distraught with strife;
Possessing no redeeming feature
l am misanthropic creature.
Why? Not that 1 must needs inherit
heart that's destitute of love;
Not that j look askance on merit,
Or spurn the gods that dwell above;
have no deep and occult reason
For such insane, ill natured treason.
/ realize that 1t is folly
To cut my erstwhile bosom friends;
| would be affable and jolly,
But with the wish my effort ends;
/ mutter bitter eondemnations
On all my innocent relations.
Is hardly kind as once it was,
l now am hard and unforgiving
To all. and this is Just because
Some petty minded, low down feliah :,
Has sneaked my silver topped umbrella
New York Sun.
Dek-What part of the family tree an
I, muz?
Mother-I guess you are one of tn
limbs. Dick.
Dick-Do you suppose that's what Da'
meant this morning when he said that
ought to be trimmed about every 81
often?"-Judge
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Maine Fair Dates.
LovabIe Wellesley.

The Wellesley girls were willing to
rive UP slang. but when it was pro-
posed to prevent spooning they just
wouldn't stand for it, And that is not
at all contrary to human nature
Philadelphia Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

+ ~ }]5' + s i + 81 J. + y J. J + ! +
The Border Line !
Borde Line, which the place. d
which step the dark,
dim ones
And Death quenched Lfe's Pickering spark
on the battle field die, a
on sick beds drearY pain,
Line will lie,
he place shall meet again.
Today we a \
Who the not long
bravey native land,
Against a untiring foe. =
a host
as that fret the ::
For hot and shell claimed the most y
thosew wit land to free. !
They fought and died for Freedoms cause :
AT home waiting
Amidst applause. u
They the Border Line. !
Honor to who bravely died,
M Honor who still remain, y
Deck the stones beside a
he graves Wen meet again.
Who they still, 2
the Border Line they wait
And Creators WILL
We honor who smiled at Fate
Kenneth Fuller Lee c. H. S. IA. :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

"A large amount of liquor, the re-
suit of recent seizures, was packed
yesterday morning and sent to Au-
gusta, where il win be denaturalized
and used for experimental purposes"
--Waterville Sentinel Locals, We'd
nesday, May %.
May We ask when this liquor took
ont its naturalization papers?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30
Agricultural Help

A department compiled from the best
of our exchanges and farming reports
for our rural subscribers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

Poor appetite Is a sure sign Of Unmarried
digestion. A few doses of Chamberlain
Stomach and Liver Tablets will strength ,
en- your digestion and improve your APP
petite Thousands have been benefited
by taking these Tablets. Sold by all
dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-30

The Harry Atwood mailing cards,
bearing an excellent likeness of that
intrepid aviator and an invitation to
the Bangor Carnival and Street Far
are flooding the State. Thousands have
been sent out and Bangor citizens are
storming the chamber of commerce TO
secure more.