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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
THE COUNTY DISGRACE.

A speaker Sunday night for the Soci-
ETY. of the Friendless said that he had
visited practically all the jails in Mis-
souri, and that with the exception of
one, the Boone County Jail was the
worst. In some of the cells the only
light and air comes through a hole
in the wall about six inches wide. In
the winter there is no protection from
the cold coming through this hole
The cells are dark and unsanitary.
Each grand jury that visits the Jail
reports that the conditions are bad
and that new building is needed
Why does not the sentiment of the cit
isens of Boone county back up their
recommendations? 1t will soon be
tine to quit boasting about other
buildings AID showing pictures of the
fine courthouse if we don't get a de-
cent place for the detention of Boone
county criminals.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

the idea that he needed to be taught
how to manage his business, but the
coming of better business methods
and the keenness of competition have
shown him the need of such training.
The tremendous volume of business
done. which has made necessary the
typewriter and the stenographer, have
also contributed to the Importance of
commercial training.
The Missouri Valley Commercial
Teachers Convention, which met in
st. Joseph last week, is an indication
of the extent to which the commercial
school has grown. AS the latest ad-
dition to the educational machinery of
the country the commercial school is
filling an important place and the
movement for business training has
even spread to the high schools. where
bookkeeping and stenography are now
being taught alongside history, alge-
bra and English.
To Columbia belongs the credit for
being one of the first towns in this
state to include commercial training in
its high school curriculum. The de-
partment here has already demonstra-
ted its worth and will give the gradu-
ates of the school training which will
be invaluable to them regardless O.
what line of work they may choose
to follow.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

even temperature during the whole
winter. The seed should be soaked in
warm water for about twenty-four
hours. Then drain off the water and
spread the oats out in tray to depth
OF about two inches.
Trays may be of any size, but three
feet square and three or four inches
deep are the most convenient. Stats
are nailed over the bottom and gun
ny sack nailed on them. This allows
the water to drain off and the air to
circulate. A solid bottom may also
be used but it should have number
of holes bored in it, The trays are
placd on rack in front of cellar
winow.
Each morning and evening the oats
are sprinkled with tepid water, and
are stirred once each day until the
sprouts are at least one-half inch long
By treating in this manner oats from
four to six inches in length can be
grown in eight to ten days.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
BREATHING ROOM,

Kansas City Will profit by the ex-
paFieaces of Eastern cities if the ne
housing code is passed by the coun-
Gil. The advocates of the plan propose
to eliminate from Kansas City the
crowded tenement system which pre-
walls in New York. Chicago and other
crowded cities.
The labor organizations, working
people and charity societies have in
dorsed the code The tenement sys-
TEN would be difficult to eradicate
from New York. Kansas City is COM
paratirely young and has plenty of
room to grow. The custom of crowd
ing dozens of families in close quar-
ters is not practiced generally there.
Now is the time to prevent it in the
future. A little discretion on the part
of the council will build toward a
lower death rate, a healthier popula-
ton, a more prosperous working class
and greater city.
And there are scores of cities in the
Middle West which would do we'll to
adopt the same plan. An ordinance
preventing the herding of people in
cellars and basements-a little fore
sight and little horse sense-will re-
lieve great deal OF future misery and
eliminate half the problems with which
charity organizations have to deal.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
FARM AND GARDEN
News and Views by Students in
Agricultural Journalism.
How to Treat Canker,

To trim out canker in apple trees
ne should always strive to free tree
rom old and infected wood. This is
lone by means OF a scraper of some
sort, which has broad cutting edge.
Special scrapers are made which have
L triangular blade with three cutting
edges.
All the old and brown looking limbs
must be carefully scraped and the
infected wood cut back to where fresh
growing bark is found. Following this
operation, an application of about one
tenth solution of bichloride of mercury
S made, and when this is dry, the
scraped places are 81 en- a good coat
ing of white lead paint, which keep
out more canker infection. C. W.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

The oats are fed, when from four to
six inches in height, at the rate OF one
square foot of the matted material oats
to one hundred hens each day. This
matted mass should be broken into
small pieces so that each bird has a
chance to get its share at feeding. At
this rate the material never causes
bowel troubles.
When the tray is emptied it should
be thoroughly aired and dried in the
sun. By using two or three trays the
average farmer will be able to keep
green sprouted oats for his poultry at
all times. B. F. G.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
Farmers Should Breed Better Horses

Good horses usually distinguish
prosperous farmers. Farmers do no.
own good horses just because they are
prosperous, but because their prosper
.ty is due to good horses.
Such animals are as necessary to
successful farming as are the various
machines that are used for the sowing,
planting, cultivating or harvesting OF
crops
The value Of a machine depends
largely upon the amount of work that
can be done with it. Farm machinery
cannot do the maximum amount O.
work unless the most efficient motive
power is supplied. To get the best re
suits, then, from farm machinery one
should use horses that are of the best
kind unless such machines are opera
ted by some other power
A cheap, poorly constructed, unreli-
able engine will not do satisfactory
work.. Neither will light, crippled or
poorly built horses do the most salts
factory labor. Two good, sound hors
es with the bulk, vigor and endurance
to handle modern machinery ably,
steadily and regularly can do almost
as much work as three lighter horses
on the average farm.
1t is sometimes hard to obtain good
farm horses. This is partly due to the
farmers negligence and carelessness.
By breeding his mares-they make the
best farm horses anyway-to a good
stallion, farmer can raise his own
horses and always have new ones to
take the place of the old. Breeding
the mare does not greatly impair her
working qualities, so colts can be made
a profitable side line on any farm
Purity of breed is important but con-
formation and type must be considered
before any attempt at breeding are
made E. H. H.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
Spreuted Oats for Laying Hens.

SprGuted Oats for Laying Hens.
A hen must be fed certain amount
of green, succulent food in order to
produce greater number of eggs dur
ng the winter. Turnips, mangels or
cabbage are good, but green sprouted
oats are much better and cheaper. The
leen food functions largely as a di-
gestive stimulant, keeping the hens in
good condition, and making for quality
md quantity in eggs, and for fertility
IN the breeding pen.
To get a satisfactory green food
rom oats they must be grown quickly.
That means that warmth, plenty of
moisture, and sunlight are necessary
f the oats are grown slowly they are
art to become infected with mold.
The cellar is probably the best place
,or the farmer to grow oats, because
it is fairly warm and has relatively
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
THE INDIANS LAST STAND.

After nearly fifty years of peace the
Navajo Indians of New Mexico are
again on the war path. Fifteen hund-
red of them have taken up arms in
defense of band of outlaws and have
made their stand in the mountains
near Shiprock. n. NJ.
The Navajos are the most independ-
ent of all the Indian tribes. They
are the only red men who live without
Government rations and other help,
the only Indians to preserve their old
crafts and make them profitable. The
wonderfully artistic rugs and blankets
woven by the Navajo women have
never been equalled by the mechani-
cal apparatus of the white man. From
the proceeds of their handiwork and
the agricultural products snatched
from the sands of their desert reser-
vation the Navajos have won a living
and preserved their tribal characteris-
tics.
The NaVajos were once a strong and
warlike people. For eighteen years
prior TO 1867 they waged almost con-
stant warfare with the whites, costing
the government about 8 million dol
lars year for protection. The last
battle with the Navajos was in 1867,
when the savages were finally sub
dued by the famous Kit Carson.
The present uprising Is the last re-
volt of dauntless people against the
conquering white man.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

key should begin now and those birds
that were not fattened for the Thanks
giving market should be rounded up
and fed a good, substantial grain ra-
uion each morning and evening.
Care must be taken in starting the
fowls on a heavy ration, for turkeys
are the most susceptible of all animals
to digestive troubles. They have di-
minished greatly in numbers in the
last few years, and have taken slowly
to the methods of care and manage
Gent practiced by poultrymen. The
fist essential is TO provide conditions
as nearly like those under which they
thriyed before domestication. Give
hem the free range of the farm, allow
ng them to run at large until market
n5 time.
Feed them ration of grain-corn.
oa.s, wheat or barley-miXed with
sweet milk to form a dry, crumbly
mash, which they will clean up in a
few minutes. Turkeys show liking
or oats and wheat more than for
other grains but these feeds should be
gradually supplanted by corn toward
he latter part of the fattening period
add that gilt-edge finish which only
,orn can produce.
Old corn, shelled or on the ear,
hould be fed in preference to new
corn. They will be less apt to have
digesti"e troubles and they have a
larger capacity for the mature corn.
The roughages that they pick up about
the farm keep up their capacity for
larger quantities of food and in addi-
ton they get enough mineral matter
to supply the ash requirement of the
5ody. They will eat great amount
i crushed oyster shells, but if these
are not to be had fine sand will suf-
fee. ]. McC. H.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
COMMERCIAL EDUCATION,

The commercial school is a product
OF modern business methods, more par
ticularly of the last twenty years.
Thirty or forty years ago the average
business man would have scoffed at
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
Miss Ruth Hoge Visits Here.

Miss Ruth Hoge of Chillicothe, No.
student in the University last year,
is visiting the Kappa Alpha Theta
Sorority, of which she is member.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03
LOST

LOST-Pocketbook between Post
office and Sampson Hall. Money and
meal ticket Please phone 635 White.
Il, 3tp)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

LOST-Between Stephens and
Christian College, small silver watch,
name engraved, Vera Carey. Return
or phone Stephens College. Q,3tc)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

Your next dance call one of Will
Meyer's cars. Phone 576. (adV)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

BEAUTIFUL furnished rooms, new
ly decorated, including two suites
with or without board. S04 Hillcrest.
19-tf)
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WANTED.

WANTED-All kinds of second hand
furniture; we also do repairing W.
H. Leebrick, S03 Walnut. Phone 394
green. (25 tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

DIAMOND Sparkling Ginger Ale 65
cents per case. Just the thing for the
bunch. Columbia Bottling Works. 54S-
Black. Q9,tf)
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WANT COLUMN
MISCELLANEOUS

Shoe Repairing while you wait.
Parsons Shoe Shop. South Ninth.
Q3c)
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TO RENT

FOR RENT-Room, 600 South Ninth
street. Phone 245 White. (26
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

Shoes that have been run over are
very uncomfortable and look the same
way. Let me repair them. W. w. Nor
rison, Eighth and Walnut. (24tf)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

Shoe Repairing while you wait.
Parsons Shoe Shop. South Ninth.
Q3c)
Shoes that have been run over are
very uncomfortable and look the same
way Let me repair them. W. w. Nor
rison, Eighth and Walnut. (24tf)
DIAMOND Sparkling Ginger Ale 65
cents per case. Just the thing for the
bunch. Columbia Bottling Works. 54S-
Black. Q9tf)
All kinds of soft drinks 65 cents per
case. Columbia Bottling Works. Phone
54S-Black. Q9,t)
Learn to read your light, gas and
water meters. 1 saved S11 in two
months by knowing how to read mine
| can teach you. NJ R.. TIA Missouri
ave. G,mo.c)
Dressmaking and tailoring done at
reasonable prices. Miss Perry, 2O7
Guitar Bldg. Phone 246-White. Q1,c1m)
Patronage of Missourian patrons de-
sired. Scurlock Transfer Co. Phone
y. Q0,tD
OLD clothes made new and new ones
made too. Who tailors best in Co.
lumbia? Machaelson Bros. Above
University Barber Shop. (5,1m,c)
WANTED-Men's clothing and shoes
Miller's Second Hand Store. 26 N.
Ninth Street. Phone 70S-Black
(5.1mo.c)
Dancing lessons given privately at
eos Conley. Phone 448 White. (29.tfc)
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

Fattening Turkeys for Christmas.
Preparation OF the Christmas tur-
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

All kinds of soft drinks 65 cents per
case Columbia Bottling Works Phone
54S-Black Q9,tf)
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Dressmaking and tailoring done al
reasonable prices. Miss Perry, 20I
Guitar Bldg. Phone 246- White. I'll, elm
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

Dancing lessons given privately al
sos Conley. Phone 448 White. (29.tfc)
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Patronage of Missourian patrons de-
sired. Scurlock Transfer Co. Phone
70. (10,tD
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-12-03

OLD clothes made new and new one
made too. Who tailors best in Co
lumbia? Machaelson Bros. Abov
University Barber Shop. (5,1m,c
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WANTED-Men's clothing and shoes
Miller's Second Hand Store. 26 n
Ninth Street. Phone 70S-Black
(5.1mo.c)
Evening star., 1913-03-02
MAY BE TOTAL LOSS.
Schooner Caught on Shoals of North
Carolina Coast.

Another Of the feet of coasting schoon-
ers which on numerous occasions in past
wears unloaded cargoes of ice at this city
and took coal from Georgetown to points
i'm New England has been added to the
fleet that has been claimed in the past
winter by the shoals OF the North Caro-
lima coast Advices received from Cape
Henry. Va, state that the three-masted
schooner Zaccheus Sherman stranded Fri
day two miles south Of Gull ShOal life
saving station, about twenty-five miles
below Cape Henry, and will probably be
a total loss The crew OF the vessel
were taken off by the life savers. using
the breeches buoy, and the vessel is full
of water.
The Sherman was bound from Port
ROYAL. y. c., to New York with lumber,
having sailed from her loading port Feb
ruary "a. She was built at Bath, Me-, in
1880. and hailed from New Haven. She
was vessel of 635 net and I63
gross tons register and was 171.5 feet
long, 3S.5 feet beam and 17.2 feet deep in
the hold. She carried a crew Of seven
men. The Benedict Mason Marine Com
pany of New Haven was her owner.
The two-maSted schooner r. Bowers.
another well known visitor to this city
with various cargoes, which went ashore
on Cornfield Point. Conn, will not be
lost, as was first expected. She has been
fioated by a wrecking company pract-
cally INDIANA ged.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
SOON READY FOR SERVICE.
Government Dredging Machine
Undergoing Repairs.

The government dredging machine Del
acarlia. attached to the United States
engineers Office at this city. which has
been lying at the engineers headquarters
in the upper end of the harbor for the
PAST three months receiving an overhaul
ing. is rapidly approaching completion
and will be ready for service within a
week or two. long before her services will
be wanted. The machinery of the dredge
has been given general overhauling. her
broken cutter replaced with a new one
and other work done to put her in good
trim for effective service.
The engineers snag-pulling craft, the
York, is also lying at the engineers dock
at the western end of the bridge, on the
Potomac Park side, being overhauled
preparatory to being taken, IL is said, TO
the tributaries of the York river TO re-
move snags that have been brought down
by the winter freshets. This will be done
i'm order to make the channels safe for
the navigation of wood, lumber and rail-
road tie carrying craft.
The bottom timbers have been laid for
the second lighter the engineers office Is
having built on the Potomac Park side OF
the harbor. opposite the foot of 18th
street and by the middle of next month it
will be ready for launching. lighter
which was recently built for Col. Lang
fits office is lying at the service head
quarters i'm the harbor.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
NOT A SUFFRAGE PLAN
Sale of 10000 Ham Sand
WicheS to Build Clubhouse
for Women.

Members of the District Of Columbia
Federation of women's Clubs this after
non will start to work making the 10000
ham sandwiches which are to be sold by
them tomorrow on the street and at the
big hot lunch tent which they have
erected adjoining the d. A. r. building
on 18th street. The proceeds of this sale
Of sandwiches and coffee are to be used
as nucleus for fund to provide a
modern clubhouse for the federation,
which is composed of twenty-five affili-
ated organizations. Dresses fashioned
after the style of those worn by the
Puritan maidens have been provided for
those who are to handle the sale.
A temporary headquarters of the fed
Grafton has been established on the
eleventh floor of the Woodward building.
women and others will be welcome dur
ing the week of the inauguration. tc rest,
to attend to their correspondence. or just
to visit Mrs. Edward Olney. Miss
Hill and Miss Ford of the ways and
means committee will be the hostesses at
headquarters. and will serve tea each
afternoon.
Tuesday evening from to 10 the ways
and means committee has invited all
members of the federation, with their
friends. and all other clubwomen who
may be in Washington. to a reception to
meet Mrs. William E. Andrews, the pres
ident of the District of Columbia Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs. The women of
the various committees are busy not
only with preparations for the lunch Mon
day and the reception Tuesday, but in
explaining to many persons each day
that the District of Columbia Federation
of Women's Clubs is not a suffrage Or
ganization. that the headquarters I'm the
Woodward building is not a suffrage
stronghold and that the money realized
from the lunch Monday is not for the
suffrage cause. but for a nucleus Of a
building fund to build a big clubhouse for
Washington clubwomen. to be used by
all the federated clubs, only one of which
is a suffrae association. There are many
individuals in the federation who are
ardent suffragists. notably Mrs. Harvey
w Wiley, president Of the Housekeepers
Alliance but also many others who are
just as ardent anti-suffragists.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
HAND SAILORS PASSING.
Power Engines Being Installed on
All Large Bay Ships.

Modern progress is affecting vessels on
Chesapeake bay in the matter OF their
equipment, and the day Of handling sails
and doing other heavy work by hand
power, even on bay craft, is rapidly pass
ing away. Owners are taking advantage
of the perfection of the gasoline engine
to equip their craft with power hoists,
and it is only a question OF a very short
time before all the larger bay craft will
be SO equipped.
Recently the bay schooner Richard
Cromwell was given extensive repairs at
a Baltimore shipyard. and when she left
the yard she had aboard an eight horse
power engine for raising sails. hoisting
out cargo. pumping, working ship and for
other labor that required much muscular
effort. The schooner Robert McClintock
and the big ram Richmond also are at
Baltimore yards to have power equip
ment installed and for other work. So
common are power hoists on vessels that
masters of hand pullers' find II difficult
to ship a crew their craft SO opposed
are the seamen of today to hard work of
that kind.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
NEW RADIO INSPECTOR.
A. Y. Cadmus Takes Charge of Af-
fairs in Third District.

Radio Inspector A. Y. Cadmus, who was
transferred from San Francisco to take
charge Of radio matters in the third dis
trict. has assumed full direction Of the Of
flee. relieving Inspector A. c. Pickells.
who has had charge since the passage
of the law requiring radio outfits on
ocean-going steamships. The third dis
trict comprises the District of Columbia,
as well as the whole Of Maryland and
Delaware and portions of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
Not only does the radio inspector have
charge of radio outfits on vessels. but
all shore wireless stations come under his
supervision. He has his headquarters in
the custom house at Baltimore. Inspector
Pickells, who organized the third district
office. has been transferred to the south
ern district. with headquarters at Sa-
vannah. Ga.
Evening star., 1913-03-02
NEW DREDGE FITTED UP.
Machinery From Old Hull Being
Put to Use

The hull Of the new dredging ma
chine belonging to the Potomac Sand
and Gravel Company of this city,
which was built recently in Piscat-
away creek. has been brought to the
wharf of it's owners on the Eastern
branch and the machinery from the old
dredge Dixon is being placed in the
new hull. The work Is being pushed
and 1T is expected that the new ma
chine. which has been named the Dix
on. will be ready for service in about
two weeks.
The new Dixon is somewhat larger
than the old machine of the same
name. The machinery of the old boat
has been overhauled and put in thor
ough order for the new boat. so that
IL is in as good working order as an
entirely new outfit. The new machine
is to be used in dredging work about
this city and at points on Chesapeake
bay. 1t is being constructed under the
supervision of Capt. Noast, superin-
tendent of the Potomac Sand and
Gravel Company at this city. The hull
OF the old Dixon has been wrecked as
il lay on the Eastern branch fats after
having been raised from whore it sank
the latter part of last December.