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sANDRA ASSERTS HER RIGHTS.
EHO could the original of all these
w pictures be? l had deciphered a
name on the back of one of those I
found in the bureau drawer: 'Leola'.
What an odd name. Did Everett al
ways know women with odd names?
l can't explain the emotion that inn
PEELED me to say over and over:
,"Leola and Sandra, Sandra and
Leola."
Then it came to me. This Leola
must have been Everett's wife, the
first Mrs. Graham. But why had he
not taken her pictures down. l
would not stand it. I would ask
him who she was, and If 1 was right,
every single picture of her should be
banished. 1t was bad enough to be
the second Mrs. Graham without hav-
ing to be reminded of it all the time
by pictures of my predecessor.
| was sitting in the library when
Everett came in. had tried to
read, and also to practice little,
but could do neither. All | could
think of was that lovely pictured
face. At first thought I would ask
Hetty. But he had warned me not
to question the servants, so made
up my mind to wait up and ask him
when he came in.
what are you sitting up for?" he
asked, 1 was so absorbed in my
thoughts l had not heard him. 81
thought 1 told you to go to bed" He
spoke exactly as he might have
done to some ten-year old child who
had displeased him.
81 couldn't go to sleep when you
were out"
"Why?"
81 guess because was lonely. The
house is so quiet. l never have been
alone, you know"
afraid of the dark?" The sneer
was unmistakable. 49,
"No-not of the dark"
"Go to bed at once and remember
Sandra, l won't have you sitting up
when l am out. Do not let it occur
again" He opened the door into the
hall "Good night"
Meekly l arose and went upstairs.
Not until was in my room did l re-
member that l was going to ask who
Leola was. l crep shivering into
bed wondering why Everett had
wanted me for his wife, if he were
going to treat me like child.
But was young and reacted quick
ly to pleasant influences. Some mail
Everett received in the morning
pleased him and he was SO nice all
through breakfast that felt quite
happy and almost forgot my long
lonely evening and the-pictures.
That is / did until he left the house
and | was alone again.
Then l remembered. Slowly I
went upstairs and into his room.
Once more / took out the pictures
and studied the face. There was
something now that had not no
ticed the night before-a strength
of will, as denoted by the firm chin
as well as beauty.
"She wouldn't be afraid of him."
I said to myself as I gazed. "She'd
ask all the questions she wanted to,
even if she did make him angry"
l heard some one in the hall and
quickly tried to put the pictures
Americus times-recorder., 1919-07-11
Not eoinu to Withdraw It.

A man who had very bad i'm
pediment in his speech once got into
an argument with an acquaintance to
whom he had taken a great dis
like. The dispute became hotter and
hotter until the unfortunate stam-
merer completely lost his temper
you're a f-f-f-f-foolw he shouted fu-
riously. "Sir," replied the acquaint-
ance coldly, "you must retract that at
once" "NeverW retorted the stam-
merer. "I'm only too glad to g-g-g-get
it out :"
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ONLY 1860 FANS SAW
DEMPSEY BEAT WILLARD

TOLEDO, o., July 1.-THE Tole-
do boxing commission, under whose
auspices the Willard-Dempsey heavy
weight bout was staged July a, will
be obliged TO turn back to the pro,
moters the sum of $1,248.75, it de-
veloped yesterday after government
revenue men had finished checking
up the figures.
According to official reckoning the
proceeds of the fight after the gov
ernment tax had been deducted, to-
Americus times-recorder., 1919-07-11

tailed $41O,732. 16.
More than two weeks before the
bout, Tex Rickard, the promoter, gave
the commission $4,000 as the city's
seven per cent exacted before the per
NIT was issued.
The cheek-up shows that the sum
the commission should have received
was $28,751.25.
Frank B. Flournoy, Richards as
sociate in the venture, stated that the
promoters profits would be nominal,
probably less than 100000, when
other expenses are figured out.
Work of razing the arena that cost
Americus times-recorder., 1919-07-11
Natures wonderful WORK.

Nature gives to every time and sea-
son some beauties Of its own; and
from morning to night, as from the
cradle to the grave, Is but success
sion of changes so gentle and easy that
we can scarcely mark their progress.
Dickens.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-07-11
Old Ace Unhealthy.

We can't help thinking, that the
business of a centenarian is very I'M
healthy. We rarely hear of them I'M
less they are dying.
Americus times-recorder., 1919-07-11

s15e,o0o and contains two million
feet Of lumber was started today It
was sold for S25, ,00U.
Exactly 1850 persons paid their
way into the Bayview Park arena on
July 4, to see the bout
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
A IuST WAGE SCALE

Physicians, lawyers, and other pro-
fessional men have educated the pub.
lie to understand that it isn't the few
minutes of consultation and the few
words of advice for which we pay a
large fee. 1t is the years spent in
preparation, the innumerable hours OF
hard work necessary to fit him for his
profession for which we pay.
The school teacher spends as many
years in preparation as the doctor or
the lawyer. The school teacher is an
expert in his line. But the teacher
can't give the pupil few minute S
advice and then demand a similarly
large sum.
The school teacher must work for
az least six hours a day-work which
is admitted to be among the most
nerve-racking. Often the monthly
wage is not half the doctors or law
yer's fee in one case.
The evil is at our door-at the door
Of the tax payer.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
RACK DOORS

There are back doors and back
doors. The former is what is COM
monty known as a back door.
One admits those interested with
the service part Of the house and is
the haunt of the empty ice-cream
freezer, the garbage can, the mop, the
reIegated broom and a variety OF
shocking but sometimes useful arti-
cles.
Another is respectfully called the
rear entrance. 1t admits those in
terested in the service part of the
house also. But it does not tolerate
any of the articles commonly asso-
ciated with back doors. 1t is free
from flies, bad smells and ash piles
1t is associated with clean swept
walks, rambler rose vines, flower beds
and garden plots. 1t welcomes
healthy laughing children. 1t is a
thing to be designed rather than hid
den. 1t bespeaks of thrift, culture and
refinement.
Next week will be Cleanup Week
in Columbia. II your back door and
it's environment has been neglected
use a few hours of the saved daylight
to make fit place to welcome anyone
who may enter your home.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
,4NTELLECTUAL INDIGESTION

Various attempts have been made tc
account for the low grades of Univer-
sity students in Columbia and in col
leges about the country generally
since the beginning of the war in 1914
In referring to a quoted editorial in
the last issue of the Literary Digest
we may fiatter ourselves and ease our
representative counsciences by laying
the blame to intellectual Indigestion y
While the symptoms and cure for the
malady are not specifically discussed,
the holiday, properly applied, seems
to be the most popular form of relief.
The Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association says, there is such a
thing as intellectual Indigestion re-
sulting from inordinate concentra-
ton" 1t further remarks that "the
efficiency of a mechanical or auto
matte performance can doubtless be
increased in large measure by per-
sistantIy continued practice; on the
other hand, there are more distinctly
intellectual processes which become
impaired unless a reasonable period
for reflection and mental recuperation
is allowed"
But this does not mean that we are
to take too much for granted and sleep
late, lounge around, or do whatever
else pleases our fancy whenever we
have an hour or a day of leisure, for
the author states that merely "a
change of work may become a holiday
in essence" and "the best holiday is
not the one spent in languid idleness,
but the one that contains the largest
amount of new experience"
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
FIRST PAPER 100 YEARS AGO
This Is the Anniversary Of Founding
of Missouri Intelligencer.

One hundred years ago today, April
%, 1919, the first number of the first
country newspaper was published in
Missouri. 1t was the Missouri Inteli-
gencer and the Boon's Lick Advertis-
er, established at Franklin.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the establishment of this paper will
be celebrated by the state editors
when they come to Columbia early
next month to attend Journalism
Week. The closing day of the weeks
program, May 9, will be spent at New
Franklin and Old Franklin where a
program has been arranged by a spe-
cial committee of the Missouri Press
Association, of which E. W. Stephens
of Columbia is chairman.
Walter Ridgeway of Fayette, a
member of this committee, who was
in Columbia yesterday, said that plans
were progressing well for the basket
picnic which the people of Howard
County are to give to the visiting edi-
tors. Citizens from every part of the
county are planning to be in New
Franklin to help entertain the visitors.
In the morning, after the editors
arrive at New Franklin by special
train from Columbia, there will be ex-
ercises at which Dean Walter Williams
will deliver the chief address. In the
afternoon the editors and all other
visitors will go to the site of the pa
per in Old Franklin where Ira Davis
of Columbia is DOW erecting marker
to commemorate the founding the
paper. There will be short pro-
gram there in the afternoon
The editors will return to Columbia
late in the afternoon.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
COLONEL CLARK MISSES BOAT
M. q. Graduate Is Now On Duty in
Paris.

Col. Bennett Clark, an alumnus of
the University; former lieutenant
colonel of the 140th, was scheduled to
come to America with division head
quarters, but he missed the boat.
Colonel Clark was sent back to the
division as assistant chief of staff for
administration and supplies. 1t is the
policy of G. H. O., to send both officers
and men back with their old organiza-
tions.
Colonel Clark is a member of the
executive committee of the American
Legion, which was to meet in Paris
April Z, s and 8. The division wasn't
expected to move for several days, so
Colonel Clark was given permission to
go to Paris on a three-day leave He
was to return the morning of April s,
but missed his train in Paris and we
sailed Unexpectedly that afternoon,
leaving him behind. He had been
trying to get back in command of the
140th so as to bring it home. but
General Wright insisted that he was
needed at division headquarters more
so than with the 14eth. But now he
will come home with the 10th Brigade,
which included the 140th Infantry.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
COMING-THE CLEANUP MAN!
April 2Sth. 1919

If you want the City to haul your
rubbish away, you must comply with
the following rules
FIRST. Be sure your rubbish is
out by o'clock a. m. Monday morn
ing April 2Sth. You may be the first
one visited, and we positively will not
pass your way but once.
. SECOND. All rubbish must be
placed in some sort of receptacle so
as to permit of easy loading.
THIRD. In the resident district the
rubbish must be placed in front, on
the street, and in the business dis
trict the rubbish must be placed in the
alleys.
We will not haul away any brush,
cinders or ashes of any kind
JAMES GORDON,
Mayor
JOHN r. SILVER,
City Engineer.
City-202
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
NO MORE s.CENT LOAyEs
New Federal Wheat Director Sees No
Chance for Its Return.

julius H. Barnes, the new federal
wheat director, is authority for the
statement that there is little chance
for the return of the scent loaf oi
bread. He says the cost of four is only
As per cent of the cost Of bread, and
with labor and other factors Of man
ufacture at high levels, there is no
present likelihood that the price will
be cut in two.
Mr. Barnes denies reports that gov
ernment agencies were urging farm
ers to cut down their acreage of
spring wheat, and regarded as for
tunate, in view of food conditions
throughout the world, the probability
that America would produce this year
the greatest crop ever grown. The
1918 harvest-second largest in the
Nations history-was consumed or
pledged, he stated. Whether the
world value would continue in the
coming year higher than the govern
ment-fixed price. he said. would de-
pend on the foreign crop, whose pros
poets field agents of Herbert Hoover,
head of the Inter-Allied Food Com
mission, were studying.
1t would be well for Americans to
appreciate, Mr.. Barnes asserted, that
five ravaging years" had created an
unparalleled world food position.
1T cannot be remedied at once," he
continued. 1--WE cannot build a wall
around our own fortunate country and
refuse to share our plenty with the
unfortunates of Europe. American
food, American shipping, American
organization and American leadership
under Mr.. Hoover, have saved a total
in actual lives and in suffering that
should stand in American pride be-
side the military record of our SOL
diers. War has broken down the
structure of international finance,
ocean transport, commerce and dis
tribution affecting millions of people.
The community shop, the wholesaler,
the railroads that distribute and the
banks that facilitate payment, are
gone or disorganized in these war
areas. Trade revives slowly, and
whether We would or not, govern
ment aid must be extended until trade
can walk upright again."
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
England's Peace Expenditure.

Great Britain in the seven weeks
after the Armistice had total expen-
diture Of over $40 million pounds ster-
ling, whereas the expenditures for the
seven weeks before the Armistice, at a
time when hostilities were at their
height, was just over $50 million.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
SPORT

Entry blanks for the High School
Day track meet, which will be held
here May 8, are coming in slowly this
week, but large number are expected
Saturday and Monday, Coach ]. F
Miller, who is in charge of the meet
said today. Most of the high schools
which will enter the meet will have
their final tryouts Friday and will
make up their entry lists from the
results of that days work.
Kansas City schools will take an
unusually large part in the meet here
this spring. Each of the five schools
there will enter a good-sized team,
and, judging from the work of the
Kansas City boys in the two indoor
meets there in March, state scholastic
records are likely to fall.
Kansas City sport writer's are giving
Manual and Central high schools the
toss-up for first place in Glass of
the meet here. Willie Lott of Central
is likely to star. He is one of the
fastest high school men in the state.
He lowered two records in indoor
meets at Kansas City this spring,
slashing the 50-yard dash in the NJ. IT,
X. U. meet and the 44O-yard dash in
the X. c. A c. meet.
Norton of Manual, who tied for Sec
ond place in the high jump in the K
C. A. C. meet, and who is a good
weight man, is ineligible for the hign
school day meet.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23

Perhaps to some women, the open
ing of Bellevue Medical College in
New York to women, with the accom-
paning greater recognition of their
place in medicine, will mean more
than the recent grant of suffrage.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
Notice.

All persons conducting business in
the City of Columbia and have moi
secured a license must do so before
April 26th, 1919 at noon. All own
ers of automobiles that have not OBJ
tanned a city license must obtain one
by the above date.
If in doubt as to whether you have
proper license to cover your business,
call on the City Collector.
All persons failing to obtain the re-
quired licenses by noon, April 26th,
will be filed against in the City Police
Court
]. W. SAPP,
City Collector
S-201
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
Graduation Recital at Christian.

Miss Esther May Ross an6 Miss
Hazel Kirk, pupils Of H. H. Louden-
back, director of music at Christian
College, will give recital for gradua-
ton in piano in the college auditorium
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night Miss
Zelma Smithpeter, soprano, will as
sist. The public is invited.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23

The war made 1900 millionaires-
one half the number of millionaires
in the United States previous to the
war. What are these men doing to-
ward aiding the unemployed soldiers,
buying Liberty Bonds and feeding the
hungry poor OF our cities?
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
KANSAS CITY LIKE RENO
City Is Getting Reputation fer Di.
VOrce Cases.


By United Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 23.-Kansas
City is about to usurp the place pop.
ularly allotted to Reno, New, accord.
ing to records on file here.
Eigh hundred and forty-three di-
vorces were granted here during the
last year, and judging from the num-
ber of cases on file January 1, 1919
bids fair to do even better.
The ground of indignities as provid-
ed by Missouri statutes is said to be
the most fruitful cause for easy di-
vorce. A bill has been introduced in
the State Legislature, which seeks to
eliminate the measure from the stat
utes.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
Students visit lee Plant.

One section of students in chemistry
at Christian College visited the Hetz-
Ter ice plant and were shown the pro-
cess of the manufacture of ice today.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
Q. s. Daughters of ls1s to Meet.

The United States Daughters of
1912 will meet at 2:S0 p. m. Thurs
day at the home of Mrs. Charles p.
Hale, APO Price avenue.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23

1t is up to you to buy Victory Loan
bonds with the same speed that the
boys went over the top.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
Foot and Mouth Disease in Italy.

ROME, April 23.@The critical food
situation in Italy is augmented by
serious epidemics. The foot ami
mouth disease has reappea-ed among
the cattle, which die of as they did IN
the terrible epidemic of 1905. Already
meat prices have risen fabulously.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23

Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the man
without country-truly good meth
cd of shearing him of influence.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23

There is no objection to a man
blowing his own horn but it is the
tune he selects that usually causes
the trouble.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
Keep Bowels On Schedule

Late, retarded functioning throws
the whole days duties out of gear.
Keep the system cleansed, the appe-
tite lively, the stomach staunch with
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Mild and
tonic in action. Sold everywhere. 2Sc.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23

The Tiger relay team left this aft
ernoon for Philadelphia to compete
in the Penn Relay meet. Coach H. F.
Schultz accompanied the runners.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-04-23
COLDS INTERFERE
With BUSINESS
DR.. Kings New Discovery
relieves them and keep
you going on the Job

Fifty continuous years of almost
unfailing checking and relieving coughs,
colds and kindred sufferings is the
proud achievement Of DR.. Kings New
Discovery.
Grandparents, fathers. mothers, the
Hddies all have used and are using
it as the safest, surest, most pleasant.
to-take remedy they know of.
Sold by all druggists. 60c and $1.2O.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-28
coMPLAIsANT AMERICANS.

Some observers have commented on the phenome-
non but for the most part it goes unnoticed that not
withstanding the general howl about the high cost of lv-
ing the American people continue to pay whatever is de-
manded and get what they want to eat. Frequently it
is proposed that some necessary article of diet, the
price of which is believed to afford a particularly fla
grant example of profteering, be boycotted, the sugges-
ton being supported by the not illogical argument that
If the people quit buying the dealers will have to re-
duce prices in order TO move goods and avoid heavy
loss.
And there the business ends. We are grumblers,
to be sure, but judged by our deeds. we are a complais-
ant people, taking things as they come and going along
like sheep If We can stand it at all. We howl about our
rights when it appears that they are threatened or with
held, but the philosopher is conscious of a doubt that
we are convinced of injury suffered when he observes
that we do nothing really practical about r~emedying
the condition of which we complain.
AT a popular seacoast resort where people of mod
crate means flock in the summer some Of the hotel
keepers have become so adept in making a little food
go a great way that their board is a joke. A very
serious joke, one says when first introduced to It. But
it goes no farther than that. The present high cost Of
living has nothing TO do with the system in question.
In easier times it was the same. Portions of meats.
vegetables and desserts are doled out so sparingly that
one wonders the walters have the nerve to place them
before the guests. As for the latter, when first they see
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-28
The Passing Show


FRIEND wants to know where I'VE
would be If the laws were
STRICTLY enforced2"
OH. in jail with everybody else, we
a NICE little government bulletin
FOR which we are more than CRATE
tut
SAYS that whale meat is especially
palatable
IF we ind the %neighbor women
HALFWAY decent about it. the prob
ability is
THAT next spring will find US
RAISING whales in our war garden
IN place of erubby radishes and
WoRMY caboages.
DON'T pay any attention to what
OTHERS say about you
BUT when they begin to do things
about
YOU it's time to sit up
AND take notice.
IF Mr.. Henly had been writing these
days he would have made it
CORPORAL of his soul instead OF
captain.
WE cannot see Why the farmers
MADE so much fuss about the extra
HOUR Of daylight for it
GAVE them an extra hour to think
ABOUT 1926 wheat.
WE notice that not a few keep writ
Ing
TO the beauty editor
COMPLAINING hat the calves OF
their legs are
TOO large round and eagerly
INoUIRING what to do for the effect
AND as We note them climbing into
their
ELECTRIC limousines
WE can figure out who has been do
ing
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-28

the piece OF roast beef, say, that is placed before them
as the piece de resistance of what is denominated din
ner' they guhaw in spite of their indignation. Every
one Of them who reads jokes is instantly reminded of
the wartime humorous bit in which the restaurant
waiter asked the customer, How did you find your
steak?" and the latter replied. Il moved a piece OF po-
tato and there it was underneath"
You would suppose that at these shore hotels the
regular thing after meals would be indignation meet
ings on the porcl.es with resolutions of protest adopted
and committees appointed to wait on the proprietors
and demand that full meals be served else the guests
would leave. But there is nothing of the sort. Some
how the people manage to satisfy themselves, or else
they are content with the reflection that soon they will
go home and get a square meal. What grumbling they
do is in whispers and, strangest of all, the records show
that these people return TO the same hotels year after
year. Is not that like us Americans? What are any
of US doing really to change the food price situation?
Nothing at all, as a matter of fact. Possibly that is the
reason that prices stay in the clouds. Evidently we are
not actually deprived of food. Would we DO so com.
PLEASANT if we were?