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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12


Lincoln had a host of good stor-
les. One of his best was that
about Andy Johnson and Col.
Moody. the fighting Methodist par
son.
Moody was in Nashville" said
Lincoln, when 1t was reported that
Buel had decided to evacuate the
city on account of the threatened
approach of the confederates. At
last Moody found Johnson in his Of
fee.
Moody, said Johnson, can you
pray?
THAT is my business, replied
the colonel.
"'Then pray commanded john
son.
"They knelt down and Moody
prayed fervently, to which Johnson
subscribed a hearty amen.
"T feel BETTER Johnson said.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
HARRY TIA w NOBODY ASYLUM SOCIETY

Special Correspondence to The Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.--Who is
Harry Thaw? Oh, nobody In parti-
cular at Matteawan asylum for the
criminal insane.
In the Tombs he had said, IL am
Harry Thaw!" and because Harry
Thaw" meant famous prisoner,
white hands, an aristocratic world
left behind for few brief months;
because 1t meant handsomely
dressed women who came as visi-
tors, packages of delicacies, unlim-
tied money and the indescribabie
swagger of veneered wealth; be-
cause these words meant supreme
and self conscious egotism which
was almost magnificent, they were
recognized as magic worda by law
yers and by turkeys and by keep
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

But oh, Moody, I don't want you
to think have become religious
man because l asked you to pray.
I am sorry to say it. but am not
and never have been religious.
No one knows this better than you;
but. Moody. do believe In God!
And I do believe in the bible! Ana
I do believe in prayer, and say
d--n me. if Nashville shall be sur
rendered."
And Nashville was not surren-
dered.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
C0LORED FOLKS KEPT
LATE HOURS

viii Burgess and Robert Glaze,
and bartender of the
colored club on Washington St,
were arrested at 4 O'Clock this
morning by Patrolman Miller. who
charged them with a violation of
the 2 o'clock closing ordinance.
Burgess deposited 800 and Glaze
$50 tot appear in court Thursday
afternoon.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
SHELTON BACK WITH WAD

Ed Shelton, the local sporting
man who has a book at the race
track at Emeryville, has returned
from Frisco. He witnessed the
Attel-Neil and Scaler Murphy
fights. He says that in a long
fight Scaler will beat Murphy. who
was given a decision over Scaler
in 10 rounds. Skeletons book is
winner about $1,000
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

Some Of those around him, re-
Numbering that heavy firing in the
direction of Knoxville probably
meant a good deal Of peril to Burn
side, asked him why he said he was
glad.
"Well," replied Lincoln, ut re-
minds me of good neighbor Of
mine, Mrs. Sallie Ward She had a
very large family but whenever
she heard one of her numerous pro-
geny crying. she would invariably
say. Thank goodness, there's one
of my children that isn't dead
yet"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
We Sell Dr.. Peter Fahrney's
Kuriko $l.25
Ole-Oid SOC
WATSON DRUG CO.,
233 Riverside Ave.
NOTICE

THE STOCKHOLDERS ANNUAL
meeting of the Oregon Mining
Company will be held on Feb. IT,
1908. at $3.50 O'Clock p. M. at the
office Of the Company, rooms 14-15
Written block, Spokane, Washing
ton, for the purpose of electing a
board of trustees for the ensuing
year and to transact such other
business as may legally come be-
fore the meeting.
Also to consider a plan Of bond
ing the Company for a sufficient
amount to defray the expenses of
further development and place the
necessary machinery on the prop
erty. Respectfully,
Oregon Mining Company.
f. NJ. Corbus, Pres.
Attest: A. Herman. Secy.
Feb. 4, 1908.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
TO BOWL IN IDAHO

The Occur d'Alene bowling team
left this morning for Wallace. Ida
no. where it will meet a picked
team on the new Wilson alleys.
Dutch Jake's Stars" compose the
following pin artists: Frank Dob
kins (big smokel. Grover Ballard.
Ed Terry, Andy Wynia and Owney
Patton (boss).
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
HEiNRiCHS GETS MATCH

Joe Heinrichs, the wrestler who
developed out of the S. A. A. c..
into a professional of much prom
Use in the middleweight class. has
been matched to meet husky
young farmer of Newport, Wash.
Heinrichs guarantees to throw the
novice three times in one hour.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

favorite ruse.
In the larger cities, where beg.
ging still flourishes under tho
guise of peddling. this deception is
resorted to daily. 1t is an old dodge
to pose as one-armed man. A
false stump is attached to the
shoulder and the real arm is tied
to the side of the body. A loose
fitting coat or a full blouse does
the rest.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

There are tricks in every trade,
but the professional beggar is
about the trickiest individual at
large, His success depends entire
ly upon his ability to awaken sym
patty. Yarns of misfortune alone
are not always sufficient. so he re-
sorts to deception in makeup.
usually running toward defOrmity
of some sort. Playing cripple is a
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
''Prince Cupid" Is
Truly a Rare Bird

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. H.
A congressman who has never
given out an interview. Think Of
it! What a rara avis he must be!
Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, repre-
sentative of Hawaii, Is it.
He is known as prince Cupid"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
APT YARNS BY LINCOLN, WHO
WAS BORN 80 YEARS AGO TODAY

Abraham Lincoln, civil war pres
ident of the United States, was
born 80 years ago today in Hardin
county, Kentucky. He was fatally
shot by J. Wilkes Booth at Wash.
ington on the night Of April IA,
1866, and died the next day. He
was popularity nicknamed the Rail
splitter"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
Slot Machine Sells
And Makes Change

Special Correspondence to The Press.
WASHINGTON, D c., Feb. 12.-
Uncle Sam is going to invest in
slot machines that the postage
stamp using public may be better
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
Columbia Theater

Geo. M. Dreher, Manager
TONIGHT AND ALL WEEK
THE CURTISS COMEDY CO.
In Mr.. Ralph Stuart's Greatest
Success
BY RIGHT OF SWORD
Augmented Cast. Beautiful Cos
tunes. Special Scenery
It's a grand production, but the
prices are just the same. Gallery
10, balcony 20, lower floor 80, box
or loge seats so. Phone 311. We
sell seats six days ahead, so ring
up any time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
Much Noise, Good Sign.

During the war a certain tele-
gram was handed Lincoln which
stated that heavy firing was heard
in the direction of Knoxville, at
which Lincoln expressed consider
able qualification.
'Pm glad to hear that" he said.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

banks might be asked to accept
term. If the West desires
the place the fight for the honor
is yet to be made.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
FOR RENT.

Light housekeeping and sleeping
rooms recently renovated. Jack
son Hotel, 31Sh Main av.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

Furnished room in private family,
81 per mo. Wis Mission.
Phone 1857. -13
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
Classified Ads
Miscellaneous
e Real Estate
LYNNE HOTEL.

319 Wall st., right by the river:
no nicer place in town for regu-
lar or transient roomers; coy.
quiet and respectable: secluded
but close in; only 2A blocks from
Riverside av.; rear entrances from
Post ST.; hot water all the time;
moderate prices.
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DESK ROO INTO RENT. 410 CO.
lumbia. 1T
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-LOTS %, "a, BLOCK
SO, Lidgerwood, $3.50; lots 81 and
%, block 95, Lidgerwood, $500; lot
IT, Lidgerwood, SITS.
GRAY & McCUNE co.
Phone 800. First Ave. and Wall st.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12
lincoln,s Mhoss" Trade

When Lincoln was practicing law
in Illinois, he agreed with certain
Judge that they should make
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-12

The Mason & hdmIin. IyerS K Pond
Kurtzmann. Gabler. Kroger, Starck,
Capen and other good pianos; all
strictly high grade, at reasonable
prices and terms to suit.
SPOKANE PIANO HOUSE
D. L. Bowers, Manager
Heath Block, 20 Monroe Street
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The Press. rs cents per month.
University Missourian., 1908-12-11

I'VE have found ourselves more or less
consciously striving toward the stand
ard set up by Huxley when he said,
No system of public education is worth
the name of national unless it creates
great educational ladder, with one
end in the gutter and the other in the
University" What legislation failed to
provide for has been supplied in our
tate system of education by the CO.
operation of those parts of the system
that were established by law, and the
university has recently come into its
birthright as the crOwning member of a
state system of education that is all
but complete. And this position deter
mines the chief functions of the uni
versity in state economy.
AS the university is an organic MEM
ber of the state system of public edu-
cation. the work of its fundamental
departments must rest solid and secure
ly upon sound basis of secondary and
elementary training 1t must be SO
based upon it that there shall be no
gap between the university and the
school. that do the more elementary
work of the system. The State Uni
versity cannot require for admission
what the schools of the state cannot
give, either in total quantity OF pre-
paratory training or in specific phases
of subject matter. This does not mean
that the requirements for Admission
must be SO low that the weakest
school in the state can meet them. but
that the general standard maintained by
high schools of the first class mus: de-
termine the standard of admission to
the fundamental departments of the
Furthermore, since the other
parts of the educational system have
as their primary function something
else than preparation of their students
to enter the university, it follows that
the entrance requirements to the funda
mental depart ments must be SO flexible |
that the youth who has been trained to |
sound habits of work and of thinking |
will not find the door to higher educa-
IiOn closed against him because he has
not pursued intensively some particu-
lar subject in the secondary school. But
this situation need not prevent the
state University from maintaining
of graduation that equal
hose of the best privately endowed in
'titutiOns.
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
"GROWING PAINS" OF
INTELLECTUAL LIFE

But the Young man or woman IN the
university while still partly creature
of influence in the social environment.
j. possessed of measure of self d.
rection i'm thought and action. is ex-
periencin. heightened sense of mental
independence and doubts regarding the
validity of those judgments which have
been naively accepted through social
hercdity. is subject to the growing
mains, of the intellectual life. and the
way through all this to stability and
sobriety of Judgment is more thorough
thinking. If the state is to attain the
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
COLLEGE OF ARTS is
IDEALIZING FORCE

Turning from general statement of
the functions of the University in state
economy. let me refer to the several
colleges and schools as organs by which
she seeks in a variety of ways to rem
der the services expected by the peo-
pie. May ] not put first the College
of Arts and Science which aims to
omplete the general culture of youth
as they come from the secondary
schools and to provide for speciaIiza
ton in those fundamental branches
which underlic all advanced technical
study. without which the professional
schools would be empirical and super
ticial rather than scientific in the train
ing they could offer. Without aiming
to equip its students for the
practice of any particular vocation. this
College. with its varied programme of
and scientific studies. fur
nishes the key to all professional
courses: and with its encouragement of
pursuit oI tTutn ana IN
sistence upon fundamental insight. it
stands a, an idealizing force in the
antire life Of the University. True to
he genius of Missouri people. who
place higher value upon virtue and
he cultured will than upon mere eco
lomic efficiency. this State established
he College of Arts long before she pro-
'ided the facilities for direct profes-
ional training at this University, and
he life OF her early pioneers in higher
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
HOW STANDARDS OF
EDUCATION ARE ELEVATED

Through its system Of visitation and
sccrediting OF schools. this university
has stimulated local pride and initia
tive. greatly elevated the standards of
secondary education in the State and
while constantly raising its own re-
4uirements for admission, kept the
unity of the educational system intact.
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
THOMAS JEFFERSON FATHER
OF STATE UNIVERSITIES

In the same year in which this de-
cisiOn was handed down, 1919, the long
and varied efforts of Thomas jefferson
to secure the establishment of a uni
versity under public control in the Old
Dominion We're crowned with success :;
and the fact that the University of Nir-
ginia held the chief place in Il well
thought out plan of education which
was vitally connected with a democratic
scheme of society, and that it was the
cherished project of SO illustriOus a
statesman, compelled the attention of
the builders OF the new cOmmOnwealths.
Then too the intrinsic character of the
new institution was such that its estab-
lishment marked an epoch in Americas
educational development.
In the following year the State of
Missouri was organized out Of the Ter
ritory of Missouri. and Congress deem
ed il eXpedient to devote two town
ships of land (46.O3O acres) to uni
versity. and l-36 of the entire public
domain. together with saline and swamp
lands. to district schools. The mainten
ance and promotion, alike of the uni
versity and of the public schools. were
deliberately and solemnly assumed by
the State of Missouri as one of the
conditions on which she united with her
sister States in the federal compact,
as is shown i'm sections | and III of the
sixth articles of her first constitution.
schools and the means of education
shall be forever encouraged in this State
etc The General Assembly shall
take measures for the improvement of
such lands etc. to support university
for the promotion of literature and
the arts and sciences etc" The uni
versity and the district schools of Mis-
souri, were thus at the very outset
planted together as constituent parts
Of the public school system of the State
and the later constitutions of 1853 and
1873 re-affirm this organic connection. |
the latter providing that
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
Says the Way Through "Growing Pains" c
Intellectual Life to Stability of judgment
is More Thorough Thinking.

President Hill spoke at his Inaugural
ton on The University and the State.
He said, in full:
The state universities of America are
the earliest product of a movement in
favor OF public control Of education,
which began to show itself even before
the close of the colonial period. The
colonial colleges. though in most cases
at the outset largely supported by
grants from the colonial governments.
were controlled by boards OF trustees
who were neither teachers in the insti-
tutions they controlled nor in any way
responsible TO the people, and these
boards were self perpet tuating bodies
The rising democratic spirit and the in
creasng interest in civic affairs which
were manifested about the time of the
Revolution, tended to accentuate feel
ing of d>trllSt in the existing colleges.
which it was claimed. did not fully an
swer the public need "a regards higher
education.
Efforts were made at different times
To secure for the colonial governments
a larger participation in the manage
ment of Harvard. Princeton. Yale, and
other colleges; and in the case of Kings
College now Columbia College of New
York. for whose establishment funds
were raised under the uthority of the
colonial legislature. strong effort wa>
made to prevent the issuance of its first
charter because of certain ecclesiaSti
cal conditions that were embodied in it.
When the protest failed and the Col
lege had been Incorporated. Il bill was
brought into the Legislature providing
for the establishment of Il rival inStitu-
ton under the control of the colonial
government Though the bill did not
pass the result of the controversy was |
10 take away half of the original en-
dowment from the chartered institu
tion. and it represents about the earliest |
distinct American uttcrancc in favor of |
thr support and control of higher edu- !
cation by the State. 1t enunciated the
doctrine that societies have an indis-
putabe right to direct the education
pi their youthful members
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
PRESIDENT SHOWS STATES EDUCATIONAL OBLIGATION

goal which may be described as a rat
iOnal ethical democracy, it needs pre-
eminently the leadership of the larg-
est possible number of greater insight
and larger social efficiency than the ele-
mentary and secondary schools, with
their necessary limitations, can hope
to develop. Such leaders must not only
have the habits and sentiments that are
demanded by the civilization they are to
serve, but must have an adequate sense
of values, secure point of view from
which to meet emergencies, and intel
lectual resources to deal with new sit
uations.
| The scientific character of the train
| ng afforded should be the distinguish
ng quality of the University in all
| its colleges and schools. The best way
to prepare a person for leadership in
ar as that can be done i'm school. is to
rain him to be an Independent thinker
and investigator in the domain of that
profession. The great lawyer must be
possessed of more than Il knowledge of
facts and precedents i'm law. he must
have a power of Independent Judgment
on any legal question he may have
to meet; the engineer must have more
than the mechanical skill in doing
things" which he can learn from expe
rience in doing" he must also be in
possession of the fundamental facts
and principles of physical science and
be so trained in their application that
he will be able to master difficult and
Unexpected problems in his line; and
he teacher must be more than ped
mt whose mind is stored with knOwl-
edge of books and empirical methods
of teaching, he must have insight into
the deeper springs of youthful impulse
and curiosity. and must be living
of the spirit of discovery,
so that he can kindle in his pupils
the sacred flame of aspiration, and be
a power and vital force in the life of
the community which he serves This
is the feature of the German univer-
sites and their professional schools
which gives them such high standing
among educational institutions and
gives the Germans their pre- eminence
in the world of science. scholarship |
and industry.
University Missourian., 1908-12-11

Continued on Fourth Page.)
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
NEW PRESIDENT PRAISES
PREDECESSOR, DIR. JESSE

And, thanks largely to the ideals. in
sight and untiring efforts of my i'm
mediate predecessor in the presidency
and to the support which he received
from the faculties and the school teach
ers of Missouri. this University today
maintains standards of graduation fOI
the degree of Bachelor of Arts that are
not cNcelled by any university on the
American continent. Further improve
mcnt in the high schools of the state
will not likely lead therefore to cor
responding advancement in our stand
ards of graduation for that degree. but
to the elimination of some of the work
now necessary in our lowest courses in
he university. The lower schools and
the university were established at the
same time. have grown up together.
and the future of each must be deter
mined by the progress and improvement
in the other parts of the system. The
university is just the States highest
school. and expresses the corporate long
ing of the people for the higher things
of the spirit.
As the crowning member OF the
States public school system. the funda
mental function of the university l
take to he the creation of the highest
and most efficient type of citizen. We
must graduate men and women here
who will see life As duty and Opportun-
ity and not as selfish pleasure. whose
instincts and emotions have been
brought under the direction of reason.
whose Judgment has been sObered by the
lessons of the past and by the methods
md spirit of modern sicence. who have
,cquircd intellectual liberation and
social sympathy. who can discern the
ruth and dare to utter it. who have
cverence. loyalty. capacity for devO-
ion to great causes and a scOrn of dis
lonor. who have insi irht into and ap
,recation of modern civilization and
ire responsive to its manifold demands
In order to accomplish this result.
he university must first and foremost
rain men and women to think. The |
hiid in the elementary school and the |
outh in the hi gh school are just com
ng into possession of their racial and
Individual Inheritance of instructive |
nd emotional life. and the chief pro-
lem of these schools is to 80 control
hese spontaneous and more or less
lndom impulses. as to establish on this
atiy. groundwork habits and senti- l
tents that make for social efficiency.
ociaI control must prepare the individ-
al for self control in life of social
University Missourian., 1908-12-11
INDEPENDENCE
FOUND IN GROWING WEST

independence brought with it many
important economic. political, and social
changes. and the new states found
themselves in possession of Il great nat
ional domain in the West Here was a
clear field for educational experiment.
Here We're lands that could be set apart
for educational purposes. Here was an
opportunity for the establishment of
institutions which should answer to the
rising educational consciousness of the
American people But the efforts at
some sort of state control of existing
institutions was not Yet at an end.
Immediately after the Revolution. at
temptS were made in the states along
the Atlantic to make over the existing
colleges or force them to accept some
sort of public supervision. Notably in
the State of Virginia repeated efforts
were made to transform William and
Mary College into an institution which
mig ght fairly serve as the crownng mem
Der of a state system of education.
But all such attempts failed. except for
brief periods and in few instances. and
the demand for universities under com
plete state control became more pro
found and far-reaching The movement
for their establishment was nearly sim
ultaneous in the west and south.
Perhaps the turning point in the de-
vclopment OF higher education in Amer
lea. east and west. may be regarded as
the famous decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the Dartmouth Col
lege case. which declared unconstitu-
tional and void an act of the legisla-
ture OF New Hampshire altering the
charter OF the college without the con
sent ot the corporation. and which set
tied that self perpetuating chartered |
Institution is private and not Il public
corporation and beyond the reach of |
governmental interference But the
idea advanced 10y the opponents OF Col
umbia charter. that an institution of 4
higher education could not possibly be
private concern a. regards its opera
tIon and influence had gone abroad
and become a settled conviction in the
mind, OF many leaders Of public opin-
ion. The decision in the Dartmouth
College case put an end to the efforts .
directed at governmental regulation Of y
close corporations. and the ,
full force of the movement wa, tins .
turned in the direction of the establish
ment and maintenance of universities ,
under full State control. /,