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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23
Newspapers as Educators.

Newspapers are our best educators,
if they live up to their highest func-
tons" Prof. Richard Burton, of the
University of Michigan. is reported to
have said. 1t is the professors con-
tention that this is the ''scrapbook age"
and he is pretty nearly correct in say
ing that "the country is flooded with a
lot of cheap literature unfit for read
ing"
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23
O. U. Kidd.

A Pennsylvania named Kidd has
named his youngest baby Orville Up
dyke. We can see the finish of that
youngster when he ages few years
and gets out among the other boys
Chicago Tribune.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Sept 23-
1t was a pretty stiff bunch of athletes
that turned out for football practice
at thhe University. All the men real
ize that the time is short before the
first game and every one is doing his
best to make the team a winner. The
men put on gym shirts and spent most
of the afternoon in signal practice.
Punting the ball is the schedule for to-
morrow.
News from Lawrence seems to indi
cate that the little university has sad
lack of good material. The captain is
the only old man back as the star end,
Nelson has been ruled out as ineligible
by the Board of Control. The team will
be heavier than last year, the center
weighing over 200 pounds.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23

MADISON, Wis, Sept. 23.-Owing TO
heavy rain storm the opening foot
ball practice at the University of Wis
consin was light and short The small
squad was put through some elemental
ries of the game and then taken to
the gymnasium, where Coach Barry
gave a short talk. There were no i'm
portant additions to the squad, though
several are expected tomorrow
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23

be delayed in rounding into shape.
Spring, the big freshman tackle, expect
ed to be varsity man, has also been Ill
and is down in weight.
Heavy" Twist, the huge guard, will
not be on deck for several days.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind. Sept. %.
Coach Jesse Harper, the former Chi
cago University star, met his first piece
of hard luck today with the definite
announcement that Newton Bowman,
captain elect of the Wabash College
eleven, would not be eligible for the
team this fall. Bowman will be out
on account of studies and his success
sor will be named this week by the
wv" men of the squad.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23

rs she wearing black for her last
husband"
No, for her next. She looks stun
ming in it."-New York Tribune.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-09-23
Missouri Elks to Meet October ~.

MEXICO, Mo-. Sept 23.-There will
be a State meeting of Elks here October
II. Already notification has been re-
ceived from twenty-three of the thirty
four lodges in the State that they will
send delegates. This meeting is for the
purpose of perfecting preliminary ar
rangements for the state association
and choosing meeting place for 1911.
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07
Rornances Of Progress
By Albert Payson Terhune
GUTENBERe-Father Of Newspaper and Book.

letters on the paper. 1t was simple,
primitive affair, but it revolutionized
printing and made possible all later
books and newspapers. And, like most
steps in progress, 1t was achieved
through suffering.
The plan dawned on Gutenberg
about 1446. He was then 36 years old.
For four years he toiled at his inven-
ton. He mortgaged or sold every
thing he owned, squandered his whole
fortune, borrowed every penny he
could lay hands on. He was reduced
to poverty. Still he worked on. His
wife was forced to scrape together
enough funds to keep her husband
and herself from starvation. The
wives of geniuses have seldom had
an especially pleasant time in life.
They have usually borne the brunt Of
worry, work and unspeakable hard
ship. while their husbands finally
reaped all the credit and fame.
Gutenberg induced goldsmith,
John Faust by name. to advance him
1000 guilders to perfect the labor of
making press and type. Then, in
1450. he set to work printing Bible.
This was a labor
nooneo OF rro'ts of FIVE years. 1t
" ms '"se"''o" was the first book
ever printed, and came out in 1455.
The experiment was proved success.
Printing was at last known art. But
no one was especially enthusiastic.
The public did not realize that the
discovery amounted to much. Faust
demanded the return of the money he
had lent. Gutenberg could not pay.
Faust seized all the inventors prop
erty, including type, presses and 9TH
er machinery, and set up a printing
establishment on his own account.
Thus, at SO, Gutenberg was broke"
robbed OF his invention and obliged
to start life all over again.
He began afresh, with more bor-
rowed money, on a new set of ma
ehinery, and was finally able to re-
sumo printing books. But now a new
difficulty arose. Heretofore a guild
of copyists had made living by writ
ing out copies of books for public SAFE.
Monks also had gained large sums by
Illuminating such books. The inveD
ton of printing. of course. robbed
both these classes of employment
Hence artisans and churchmen at
tackled Gutenberg viciously.
Worn out, childless, alone. impov
erished, friendless, other men enjoy
ing the fruits of his lifetime of labor.
poor old Gutenberg, in 1868, died, hav-
ing won the usual earthly martyrdom
and immortal fame that seems the
dual reward of nearly all great Prog
ress-Makers.
(Copyrighted.)
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

John Gutenberg, son of an exiled
nobleman of Mainz, had an idea. The
good people of Strasburg. where the
young man lived, early in the fifteenth
century, gave little credence to any
Of his theories. For Gutenberg was
what would nowadays be known as
'get-rich-quick" crank. He had floated
several schemes, borrowed money to
perfect them, and had in every case
failed to accomplish more than the
impoverishing of himself and his
hackers.
Gutenberg's newest idea had come
to him on seeing full set of playing
cards which had been constructed by
means of stamps, or dies, instead of
by hand. To the world at large this
labor-saving process seemed wonder
full. But 1t meant nothing more than
that to any one except Gutenberg. 1t
set him. however, to thinking.
If collection of blocks with vari-
Gus designs carved on them could be
used to mark So cards, why could not
similar set of blocks be made, each
bearing one of the letters of the al
phabet, and used for printing words,
sentences. even whole pages?
For centuries a process had been
in use whereby such words, phrases
and pictures were carved upon large
blocks of wood, smeared with ink,
covered with paper and subjected to
squeeze from a sort of cider-press
A Discovery and NE ns issu III was
uow n w,. more or less smud-
gy reproduction of
the carved letters
or figures. Kings had been wont to
use monograms carved on wood or
metal to stamp signatures to state
documents. In China, as early as IT'S
A. d. a far more advanced form of
printing flourished than Europe was
destined to know for more than 1000
years thereafter
But Gutenbergs idea far outstrippee
anything thus far dreamed Of For he
planned (by means of many dupli-
Gates of each letter of the alphabet)
the first form of movable type" BY
placing, or setting" these block let
ters in correct position he could make
quickly in his form"
The press he devised was of two
upright timbers, with cross-pieces con-
Meeting them at bottom and top with
two other cross-timbers. of which the
lower supported the form" of type.
A large wooden screw ran from the
upper timber down to the center of a
wooden block or platen- When the
form" was put in place and linked a
sheet of paper was damped and laid
over it and the screw turned until the
pressure stamped the linked printing
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07
SHAKESPEARE - The Man Who
ReUolutionized Literature

A youth of 20-the official bad
boy" of the sedate town of Stratford-
on-Avon-was again in trouble. This
time on more serious charge than
the beating of night watchmen or pill
fering of fruit or other time-honored
customs of the place. He was ac-
cused of no less an offense than the
stealing of deer from the park of Sir
Thomas Lucy, chief magistrate of the
community. Not SO very many years
earlier this had been crime punish
able by death. Even now-in 1856
it entailed heavy penalty
The youth thus accused was Will
Shakespeare, son of formerly we'll
TODD merchant who had fallen on
such financial ill-luck that this eldest
son of his had been obliged to leave
school at 13 and go to work.
Young Shakespeare was accused
not only of stealing St. Thomas deer.
but of writing a scurrilous poem con-
corning the august magistrate him
self. Altogether, Stratford became too
hot to hold him. He ran away to
London. But for that Devastating
episode the world might never have
heard of Shakespeare. And the march
OF progress-in literature and Ian
guage as well-would have lacked it's
greatest impetus. Though so young,
Shakespeare had been married for
about two years. His wife, Anne Hath
away, was eight years his senior Per-
haps for this reason. perhaps from
poverty, he left her and his children
behind when he went to London.
Practically ,penniless, the fugitive
reached the metropolis and cast about
him for some means of livelihood
But he had no love for routine drudg-
cry nor experience in higher occupa-
The Fight with ~ d,.,f,ed ~ tha
oseS' theaters and re-
newed acquaintance with some of the
actors with whom he had caroused at
Stratford. He picked up few pence
by holding the horses of men who
came to see the plays. Later he leased
out this hostler job to number of
SIIttI uICutnS, WHO UtCdlltc hllON0 DIS
Shakespeare Boys" From holding
horses to picking up bits of work in
side the theater was but a step. And
in time he was playing small parts in
various plays of the day And SO,
for five years, went on his hand-to-
hand battle against poverty. Play
writing at that time was the crudest
sort of art. Indecency, illiteracy,
wretched English, poor plots and
dreary stupidity were the dramas chief
characteristics. England. in fact, was
far behind many other civilized ma
tons in culture and literature.
Among the tasks allotted to Shake
speare in the theaters where he acted
was the rewriting OF ol0 plays for use
ON the stage and the adapting and
building UP" of parts to suit certain
famous actors. At this he achieved
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07
Who

an instant and marvellous success
success that none but the greatest
genius of his country could ever have
achieved, for he not only revised the
plays in question, but transformed
them into vital, brilliant productions
classics for all time-couched in
sublime verse and diction and 60
wholly changed from their original
form as to be practically new Many
of the best plays attributed to Shake
speare we're thus rewritten by him
from others manuscripts. Nearly all
the rest were taken almost bodily
from old books, stories, poems or
legends. This is not regarded as pla-
giarism, since to each borrowed" plot
Shakespeare gave new setting and
treatment and new diction and clothed
it in his own beauty of style. In fact,
of all his plays. Loves Labor Lost"
(perhaps the poorest of the lot) is
said to be the only one that was Who'll
ly original with him.
How the half-educated, harum-
scarum country boy ever amassed the
education to write such classics has
always been and always must remain
usso. a mystery. But the
writing of them
only the drama but all literature az
well. England took and held a posi-
ton In culture equal to that of any
nation. Queen Elizabeth delighted to
do the new genius honor. Great men
We'd for the chance of becoming his
patrons. His fellow actors and play
wrights in turn envied and hated him.
But he pursued his chosen way un-
needing. continuing to write Cor re.
write) great plays and to act in them.
He was an Indifferent actor and was
intrusted with no great parts. For
instance, he played the Ghost n
Hamlet" Adam in "As You Like It."
and similar minor roles. His salary
as an actor was about $500 a year.
For the first few years his annual re-
ward as a playwright was barely 500.
But as his plays grew in favor he
waxed rich.
In 1899 he left London and return ed
to Stratford, where he wiped OF old
scores and earlier disgrace by buy
ing the finest estate in the town.
There. until the his death in 1916, he
lived in luxury, courted by the chill
dren of the men who had once perse-
cuted him. Even in death his genius
showed itself, for he hit on a clever
plan to save his remains from the dis
interment SO common at that time.
This four-line verse, said to have been
his latest poem, was cut on his tomb
stone. and its wording has ever since
guarded his grave from molestation:
Good friend. for Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust inclos-ed here.
Blest be the man who spares these
stones,
But curst be he who moves my bouesr
lCopyrightedJ
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

A professor OF political econon.y and
sociology in a prominent university
has been sued for divorce by his wife
on account of his peculiar theories.
He holds the wife ought to share in
the breadwiDning, take care of the
children. and do the homework, but
remains discreetly silent on whether
the husband should wash the dishes
and do the FAMILY laundry by way of
sharing the wife's work. Such domes.
tic problems, thrashed out in court,
would make this the most interesting
divorce case of the season.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Chicago labor leaders convicted of
calling strikes solely for the purpose
of extorting money escaped with a
fine and can count themselves mighty
lucky. True friends of labor can only
severely condemn the conduct of such
men as these who. for their own en-
richment, make others their tools and
lead them to course which entails
heavy loss and suffering upon them
and upon their families.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The estimates for the fiscal year
1910 call for appropriations OF $685..
100000 for the Panama canal That
sum will represent total expenditure
Of s250,000,000 on the great interocen.
ic waterway up to the close of that
period. The enterprise comes high.
but it will be worth the money. The
United States will be the first and
greatest beneficiary, but the new route
will be boon to the commerce of the
world
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

1t is gratifying to hear that the
shipbuilding business at several cen.
tiers of industry in this country is
fiourishing. Bath, Me, appears to be
especially busy, and in one day had
two launchings, a monster ferry boat
to be used in transferring railroad
cars being one of the vessels and a
big four-masted schooner the other.
All this Is very well. But how much
better il in addition to these craft for
use at home or in slow-sailing foreign
service our yards were turning Out
first-class steamers for ocean-goina
trafiic!"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07
Farm
Learning
In Public
Schools
By s. A. MINEAR

te but after realizing that agriculture is the greatest all
cangs find the subject required to be taught in
schools by law. The legislature has Just passed bill of
the progress of this movement This bill provides for appropriation
for 1911 establish
departments high schools for giving instruction agriculture with
subsidiary subjects The board of trustees seeking this aid shall provide
Of land adapted to the production farm and garden and
employ teacher who has received special training agriculture and
The of instruction shall make
full Investigation and report the result 10 the board of du-
If provisions of the complied with and shall be granted
have opportunity 10 advance industrial education and the
patrons should hesitate do all their power We gill
thus leach the youth that point nobility independence cleanliness Of
living happiness moral and physical heafulnes purity Of citizenship
agriculture second vocation earth
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07
Duty of
Moving
Picture
Censor
By LEWIS E. PALMER

Through
shows and nspcs the structural conditions buildings
in which the exhibitions housed.
Any show with membership the association of exhibitors
urged improve its exits its seating capacity under the penalty
expulsion and addition all the shows conform
requirements.
Aside from the pictures that weekly before the board there
thousands of old subjects in different exchanges
the country which ought to be withdrawn but like the es sellers
among books their day will be short and dusty shelves
tive
with daily audiences of of million more
of half million Chicago enertans daily
people its 345 picture shows and Fhladphs 5S nickeodons
audiences of 10000 every day of the week
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The newly formed national board of
censors for moving-pieture shows consists
of governing body composed of repre-
sentatives of public organizations and an
executive committee on censorship on which
are two representatives from the Associa-
ton of Moving Picture Exhibitors of The
State of New York, two district school
superintendent and member of the Peo-
pies institute.
The only paid member is the secretary,
says Lewis E. Palmer in the Survey. The
board censors about As pictures week be-
fore they are sent to the film exchanges.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The most remarkable fish story of
the season comes from the Catskills.
1t relates the tale of man there who,
to work on a lazy streak. went out
fishing and returned within an hour
with sturgeon which gave IS pounds
of caviar, for which he received 500.
The energetic determination to work
of lazy streak is the point of the
remarkable tale.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

A Gotham club called in the police
at its regular election. This is more
than the most warlike woman's club.
not excepting the d. A. RS, has ever
done. But, still, men will go on hold.
ing up to ridicule the belligerency of
the club feminine till the end of the
chapter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The teaching of agriculture in common
schools has been making rapid progress
throughout the United States, and we now
find it in the curriculum of every progress
siye school system. The city schools have
led the movement in the form of school
gardens, but the rural districts have
grasped the opportunity and accomplished
much.
The teaching Of agriculture was first
looked upon as an experiment, and al
though successful, it took nine years Tor
the movement to spread beyond the suburbs
Of one city. TEXAS was slow in taking hold
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Russia has ordered a Wright flying
machine. After fooling around try
ing to invent one of their own all the
nations will come to it.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Dougtless a few nature takers will
go trailing along after the duke of
the Abruzzi as he climbs the Him
alayas.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

When we get talking to Mars let
ask: How old is Ann?" That ough
to test their boosted wisdom.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The cutting of freight rates goes
merrily on, and the shippers can GER
tainly stand 1t II the railroads can.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The United States has exported $751;
100000 worth of condensed milk in
ten years. Great are the cow and the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

DIR. Wiley says that 80 per cent OF
the liquor that is sold as whisky is
a fraud. Some suspect the other ten
per cent.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

An Atlantic steamship has installed
a department store and church, but
the two are kept as far apart as pos
sible, for their ethics are different.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

A Pennsylvania bachelors club has
been reduced to one member. How
did he happen to corner all the luck
In his town?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Before the international court at
The Hague can do any loud talking it
will have to get some international
constables.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Actors wife says he gets $4,000
a year. He swears he only gets
$1,000. Now do you know what is
meant by stage money!"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

1t is a pity the black spot of Tur'
key cannot be wiped of the map OF
Europe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The newest typewriters add and
subtract, but they uon't spell any bet
ter than the old ones did.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Orders for new locomotives indicate
that the railroads are again running
on the prosperity schedule.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The great and good of the ages have agreed that
beauty has inherent value. 1t is not decora
ton and ornament 1t is not merely skin deep Plato
said in his Lyss: "For l affirm that the good is the
beautiful"
OF course goodness must be lovely. OF course vir-
must attract and not repe Else it is not virtue.
Else it is not goodness Happiness is beings end
and aim. And without beauty even happiness in its
perfect Towering is impossible
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

Constantinople landlords might raise
their rents on the strength of the free
dom from ennui which residence in
that city now implies.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

The United States must give am
pie protection to all its citizens,
wherever they may be.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-08-07

An Atlantic City policeman was torn
between love and duty the other day
He arrested his wife.
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We would far rather be humbuggd We prefer pIowy ILLUSIONS 70
uncomfortable and traditions despite
their sake of their illusions We burn candles
picturesque And burn crate fires for the
glad
clothes with to having them
handsome.
choose Drawing favoSltes
always pretty things Blunt speech ruled out OF court Our words
and equally with clothes and character must De
auessy beautiful When college faenie satisfied with can
scholarship they invite him to dinner final test
And he dine like gentleman he elected In fne he must sat
isfy his colleagues of the artistic
things subject to the estheic proof We 60
graceful elegance the service for the handsome music
the eloquent not for the religious refinement Of the build
ing always enchanted ground fair blooming
gardens bliss Only pto and hades permitted for
bid with dread looks.
with reference the ehc and tolerate
acquired a Benjamin Frankln phrase he
graces beauties of virtue"
The great and good Of the ages have agreed that