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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
COMPLICATED FRENCH
CL(C[S HAVE LEGENDS

The clock of Lyons cathedral is a
the legend describing it is as fol
lows: The cock crows, the bell
sounds the hours, the little bells
the Sancte Spiritus; the angel opens
the gate to salute the Virgin Mary.
The two heads of the lions move the
eyes and the tongues. The astrolable
shows the hours in its degree, and the
movement of the moon. Moreover,
the perpetual calendar shows all the
the bisseXtile. The hours at which
chimes are complete are 3 and 6 in
the morning, midday and 1 and 2
o'clock in the afternoon. The chimes
at the other hours are restricted so as
not to interfere with the cathedral
services.
Complicated indeed is the clock of
Beauvais cathedral. 1t is said to be
composed of $4,000 separate pieces,
sees on the % dial plates the hour,
the day, the week and the month;
the rising and the setting of the sun,
phases OF the moon, the tides, the
time in the principal capitals OF the
world. together with a series OF ter
restrial and astronomical evolutions.
The framework is of carved oak, eight
meters by five meters, or 26 by 16 IA
Geet. When the clock strikes all the
"editice" seems in movement. The
designer wished to depict the Last
Judgment. This wonderful work re-
calls the work OF Strasburg, and is of
modern construction. 1t is the work
Of Beauvasian, NJ. Verite, who was
in the engineering department of the
Nord railway. lie died in 1887.
The cock crows, angels sound the
trumpet at the four cardinal points,
imitation flames appear from the open
ings of little steeples right and left.
God the Father by an inclination of
the head announces that he has come
to judge the world A soul, that of
the impenitent thief, apears before
the Supreme Judge. 1t is condemned
"a Penfer," and casts it into the
abyss. Next comes the soul of the
just. The angels advance and con-
duct it to the next realms of day,
sacred strains being heard as the
procession moves forward.-London
Globe
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Largest College Paper.

The largest college paper ever
published in the United States was
printed the other afternoon when the
Daily Cardinal, the official publication
at the University of Wisconsin, ap-
peared with 16-page edition. Here
tofore The Cardinal has been printed
as a 4-page publication, but this year
an innovation will be made and regu-
lar daily editions of eight pages will
be the order.
The increase in the size of the pa
per is due in large measure to the
fact that the course in journalism
and newspaper writing at the univer-
sity has been extended to include
practical work in the newspaper field,
as well as it can be covered in a col
lege daily. and students in the new
course will do part of their labora-
tory work in the offices of the Daily
Cardinal.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY.

Little stress is laid upon music as
a cultivated art among the students
OF the University of Missouri We
have no School OF Music and here are
so few musical clubs that those who
have no School of Music and there are
follow their inclinations The Phi
Mu Alpha Society has done much to
mitigate this musical aridity in the
University by bringing celebrities,
singers and musicians, here at not in
frequent intervals
If sufficient number of students
can be interested a musical event of
more than usual interest will take
place in January, February and March
the coming of the ST. Louis SYM
phony orchestra. If the University of
Missouri is to have musical atmo
sphere-and knowledge and appre-
citation of music is as much a feast
of the higher education" as languages
or art-its students must support it's
musical organizations in their attempts
to obtain these advantages. The rea-
sonable price of the tickets for these
concerts makes them possible for all
who are really striving for the broad
est and best education.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Give Children Plenty of Sleep.

Let me say few words to the
mothers who forget that their growing
children need long sleeping-hours, in
order that healthy growth shall be
continued and well-organized nery
Gus system become established. 1t is
especially important that good judg-
ment shall be exercised during Du-
berty. Great physical demands are
made at this period and the wise
mother makes every effort to avoid
Tor her children unnecessary dissipa-
ton OF energy. 1t is not easy to state
definitely the number of hours of sleep
required as there are individual re-
quirements that will materially modify
any rules; still we may safely say
that in the great majority of cases
after early infancy, when the normal
child sleeps most of the time. at least
IL out of "a hours should be spent in
sleep. Until six years of age the daily
nap should be added to this. The 12
hours of sleep should continue until
the 10th year, and longer if the child
is delicate or of especially sensitive
nervous organization. From 10 to IA
years. 10 hours Of sleep are usually
required, and often IL would be ad.
vantageous; from IA until full matur
ity the sleeping-hours are, as a rule
more irregular than at any other per-
1od of life, and then the effort must
be made to compensate for the short
hours by longer indulgence when Cd.
portunity offers, remembering that few
have the endurance to cope with the
complexities of modern life and thrive
on less sleep than daily average of
eight hours.-Dr. Jean Williams in
Woman's Home Companion.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Greeks Invented COINAGE.

The invention of coinage is due to
the Greeks. most probably to the bank
ers of Halicarnassos and adjacent
Asia Minor Greek colonies, who to-
ward the end of the eighth century B.
{. began stamping the small gold and
electron ingots which passed through
their hands as currency with a mark
OF some sort intended to guarantee
the weight and purity of the metal:
such lngots very soon assumed
round and more regular shape, which
we find already in the old silver coins
with the Asia Minor beans" Curl
Gus to say, none of the surrounding
peoples with whom the Asiatic and
European Greeks were in constant
communication, political or CONNER
clal, took up the wonderful invention
which at present seems to us of such
obvious necessity that we scarcely
realize how the civilized world of old
could ever have got on without it; as
matter OF fact, however, neither the
Phoenicians, with their practical COM
merclal sense, nor the Lyrians or the
Perslans, who claimed the supremacy
over the cities where the new cur
rency was initiated nor, of course,
the Egyptians, ever had coinage, till
the conQuests of Alexander dissent
mated the Greek civilization all
through the eastern world. The
Romans came to know it through the
Greek cities in Sicily and Magma
Graecia, and began striking silver
coins toward the beginning of the
third century B. c. In the meantime.
with the Greeks, die-sinking, like
everything else, had fallen within the
domain of art and their coins,
struck during the fifth and fourth
centuries B. c. by the Dorians
OF Sicily at Syracuse and Agrigentum,
have never been equaled and remain
forever a standard of beauty for the
artist and model of perfection for
the die-sinker.-London Saturday Re
view.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Keep Him There.

John is at collge. Several hundred
thousand mothers have become
aware of this fact by means of more
or less lengthy epistles from the fam.
ily's pride. An equal number of faith.
ers, perhaps, have simultaneously ac-
quired the same information, couched
in terms of absolutely necessary"
dollars and cents. A large number of
professors are again becoming prof.
clent in the art of gazing severely
over the tops of their noseglasses at
erring freshmen. Gridiron warriors
are breaking few ribs in preparation
for the battles to come. The college
world is wide awake.
That this is so is good. 1t is in
disputable proof that America is
awake to the doctrine of equality of
opportunity. Until this doctrine is ac-
cepted as universal maxim, of uni
versal application, the Jeffersonian
principle of equality will represent a
nope, not reality.
Education has long been recognized
as the first essential to progress.
Formerly enjoyed by few, it is now
obtained by many. To youth this fact
renders its necessity greater. An un
educated man was among the major
ity bare generation ago. He is now
in the hopeless minority. Then, he
might, by reason of superior endow-
ments, have overcome the handicap,
No such hope may now be his Con.
sequently, it is well that Johns at col
lege.-Joplin Daily Globe.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
University Calenda,

October lG. Football: Missouri vs.
Rolla. at Columbia.
October 23. Football: Missouri VS..
Amcs, at Ames, Iowa.
October 80. Football: Missouri VS..
Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa.
October 31-Dedication of new Y.
NJ. {. 4. building.
November e. Football: Missouri VS.
Washington, at st. Louis.
November p. II m. to November 90
S a. m. Thanksgiving holidays.
November l3. Football: Missouri VS.
Drake, at Columbia.
November p. Football: Missouri VS.
Kansas. at Kansas City.
December %. 4 p. m, to January 4,
S a. IN. Christmas Holidays
January 81 to February 5. Mid-year
examinations.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
The Seuenth Column
Diary of An Aero "Bo."

Oct. 4, 2909-Landed on Mars all
in and hungry as bear. Came near
getting pinched. A bull was watching
the station, but as long as they build
air trains with two sides to 'em your
uncle need not worry about doin'
time. The proper caper here is to
have a pair of wings to strap around
you, and hop Off soon as the train
slows down, but it is a risky business.
bo | knew had the art down pat
He'd been on pretty nearly every star
simply because he could snag the fast
est trains. One dark night he jumped
Off at one of those stations in the
Milky Way country, and bumped into
a wireless telegram speeding the other
way. His wings, which had helped him
all his life, killed him now. They got
tangled up with the words and swung
him under the rudder of the last
coach. Saved the coroner the trouble
Of holding an inquest, they say 1t
gives me the blues to think of it. and
everywhere | see the nothing doing
signs Oh the gate posts. I'm afraid
Mars is a punk hangout for bos.
Go be continued
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

city and the Indifference of citizens to
municipal affairs. Until some news
paper lays bare the rottenness, and
the city experiences spasm of reform
which results in the cleaning up of the
muck, everyone seems content, if he
can avoid going to the, polls for pri-
mary elections or avoid jury duty.
But does the new form of government
adopted change conditions inwardIv I?
The situation is the same-the public
against the politician. And upon this
politician depends the quality of the
administration. AS long as men make
laws other men will twist those laws
to suit their own ends. In the last
analysis it is still the man-not the
government.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
COLUMBlA-A CLEAN TOWN.

Columbia should be the Cleanest
town in the state. The officials de-
serve commendation for the revoca-
ton of the license of a physician and
the fining of druggist for violating
the liquor law. Where others are
guilty they should also be punished.
The punishment of the physician and
the druggist should be a warning.
The biggest industry of Columbia is
her schools and colleges. Their life
depends upon an increased attendance
each year. The best advertisement
Columbia can possibly send out is the
fact that it is clean town. 1t mat
ters not what political party is in
power, the issue is the same. Both
sides should favor law enforcement.
The University and colleges of Col
umbia are filled with the youth of
Missouri and surrounding states. They
are here for four years during the
formative period of their lives. What
they learn in Columbia, both out of
school and in, will remain with them.
If Columbia has proper enforcement
OF the law, the students will go out
with that ideal in mind Ii law en-
forcement is farce here, they will go
out with an idea that the same is
true elsewhere Columbia owes it to
herself to make good her trust, for she
is the guardian of the youth of the
state.
Citizens who violate the law and
officers who permit it are Columbia's
worst enemies.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
The Creakinq Board,

More keen than watchdog guardians
Disturbers to assail,
There is another sentinel
Whose vigis never fail.
To keep the door of Paradise
Would need no flaming sword
If only near the Garden gate
Were placed creaking board.
Adown the halls of memory
With cautious tread we creep,
For there are those we would not rouse
Nor break their slumber deep.
In vain our care and muffIed pace,
Up springsa wakened horde,
For with fatality we step
Upon a creaking boar,l.
-McLandburgh Wilson, in New York
Sun.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
THE MAN AND THE LAW,

Agitations in several cities. notably
st. Louis. Chicago and Des Moines,
bring up the question of municipal
government. Americans are of an ex-
perimenting temperament, and among
the thirty odd cities of Zoe 900 or more
population perhaps ten different forms
of city government have been tried.
Corrupt or malgoverned cities can
trace their condition to two chief
causes, the shifting population of the
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
WHAT THEY SAY
OF CHS PAPER
Ithaca.


To the University Missourian:
Enclosed please find money order
for the University Missourian for
which | subscribed some time ago.
The paper has been coming regularly
and is always received joyfully as it
keeps me in touch with Missouri af-
fairs.
The University Missourian stands
we'll here as newspaper. Several of
the men connected with the Cornell
Daily Sun have commented favorably
on it.
With best wishes for all Mi: souri,
enterprises, am,
Respectfully yours,
PATTERSON Balm, JR.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Most Mexican Students Here.

Examination of the registration of
foreign students in American colleges
shows interesting results. The
Science Magazine makes the follow
ing statement: Harvard leads in
Canada; Pennsylvania in Central
America, Cuba. Brazil and Colombia,
Great Britain and Ireland, Holland,
Australia, and New Zealand; Mis-
souri, in Mexico; Cornell in Argen-
tine Republic and China; Columbia in
Germany, Russia and Japan, California
in India
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Little Boys Curiosity.

Little Davey was forever asking
questions. You'd better keep still or
something will happen to YOU his
tired mother finally told him one night.
Curiosity once killed cat, you
know" Davey was so impressed with
this that he kept silent FOR three min
utes. Then: Say, mother. what was
it the cat wanted to San
Francisco Star.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Course in RaiIroadinc.

four years course in railway ad-
ministration for students aiming to fit
themselves for railroad positions or
to be statisticians of the Government
railway commissions and like bureaus
has been established at the University
OF Michigan, under the direction of
faculty committee headed by Profes-
sor H. c. Adams. statistician for the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Five Thousand at Wisconsin.

The first weeks registration at the
University of Wisconsin show a total
enrolment OF 1869 students. against
2,99S enrolled at the same time last
year. This is an increase of over 10
per cent. and indicates that the whole
number of students this year will ap-
proXmate 5000.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

Fatigue of the eyes and more or less
persistent ocular troubles are pro-
duced by the rapid and brief excita-
tions of the retina by the cinemato-
graph. A French physician has given
the name of cinematophthalmia to af-
fections of this character. The troubles
are not very serious and generally
yield easily to simple remedies.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

Have you city directory" asked
the woman entering the drug store.
No. l have not" replied the pill man;
and l must say you've stumped me-"
How so?" why, l can't truthfully
say I've got something Just as good"
Statesman.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Football as She Is Played In Indiana.

A Depauw College extra in telling
about the football game with Wabash
says: Then Wabash got into it again.
and advanced the ball 10 yards in
10 downs
Moral: 1t is best to go slow if the
referee will stand for it.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Australian Ballot Used.

The senior class of Iowa has
adopted the Australian ballot system
in conducting elections.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
Faculty Condemns Cane Rush.

A so-called Cane Rush" between
Freshmen and Sophomores is being
severely condemned by the faculty of
the Ohio State University.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

Specia! Time For Class Voting.
Ohio University students have De-
titioned for special time to be grant
ed to students for voting on class cleo
ton days.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
interest in Rhodes Scholarships.

Pennsylvania and other universities
of the East are giving some attention
to the Rhodes scholarship examina-
tions to be held October IS and 19.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

Wise-Heard about the fight?
SIze-No. What was it about?
Wise-A student had a conflict in
his recitation hours.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

The fact that Los Angeles defeated
Francisco II to II in night baseball
game just goes to show that despite
all the arc lamps they had they
couldn't keep the score light.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

WANTED - Young woman (student
preferredD TO care for child occa-
sionaliy, afternoons or evenings. Good
pay. Phone 649.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
News of Other Colleges

~0S'SS VI o''o wesleyan university.
The Ohio Wesleyan University is in
receipt OF gifts amounting to $50, 900.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

WANTED - Wholesale firm wants
manager for this territory. Excel
lent opportunity for good business
woman. Address A. H., University
Mss0urian.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

ROOMS-Two rooms on first floor,
double doors between; to young men,
$40. 40 S. Ninth.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
LET'S NOT FORGET.

The person who sits on the bleach
ers with his overcoat comfortably
wrapped about him these afternoons
watching the football practice, and
who laughs or jokes when some menl-
ber of the football team fumbles tie
ball and falls on the ground in an
awkward manner, is either one of the
most thoughtless persons in the world
or is one OF the most heartless imagla-
able. a week ago every student in
the university took a mental resoly e
to take football seriously. Surely the,
are not forgetting it so soon. If they
are to remember it at games, il is more
important they remember it at prac-
tice. A candidate for the team who
stands in the wind on Rollins Field
dressed none too warmly, with his
hands so benumbed he can not hold
the ball. is not encouraged when he is
laughed at for making a tumble. The
laughing may be thoughtless, but it
hurtS just the same. Let's not permit
our good intentions to take a slump.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished room
for one or two young men near
university and boarding houses. APP
ply at 205 S. Tenth street
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

Call 55 Double 81 to get the Mis-
sourian business office by telephone.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

WANTED-Someone with experience
(also ability to serve light lunches
at The New Missouri Store, corner
9th and Conley.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14
The Tigers Saturday Menu.

The Tigers Saturday Menu.
r ough on rats.
o xygen.
L audanum.
L Gather.
A nd scrap iron.
The Red-headed Soph says: 1T is no
disgrace being held on the ten-yard
line. The disgrace lies in not getting
that far
HERMAN HOELKE.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

FOR RENT-One well furnished room.
Will give meals. Apply 6O2 Conley
Avenue.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

The best newspaper is one that
covers its tir< uIation field. prints the
news accurately and attractively. and
by fair and Illuminating comment leads
the way to progress in the communlt,
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

neatly done at POI
South Sixth Street. Rates reason
able. See Parker and Burgess.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

FOR RENT-Rooms for young men.
First class in every way; two single
beds and two lights in each room.
sos S. Fourth ST., three blocks from
campus.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1909-10-14

HERMAN HOELKE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-30
A SUBJECT
OF DILIGENT STUDY

Did you Know there are Mosquitoes up
around tee North Pole?
Well. there are and if anybody means
10 spend HE summer vacation cavort-
ing around the arctic regions a bolt Of
mosquito netting in the trunk would
not go amiss. They are there I'm droves,
living IN the water and ready to jump
out and sting the first person they meet
Just as soon as the first sun of summer
comes along.
This interesting bit of information
came out today in a statement made by
Dr. II. @. Dyer I'm describing the work
that is being done at the National NIu-
scum on the Carnegie monograph. This
is a stupendous work which is designed
10 give the full history OF the mosquito.
When il is completed, which Dr. Dyer
believes viii De done jhis summer, il
viii be published Ev Jhe Carnegie fund
set aside for such purposes. Tine work
of preparing the monograph is under
the direction Of Or. L. .. Howard, chief
Of the Bureau Of Entomology, but the
systematic work is being done by Dr.
Dyer and Frederick knah. DR.. Dyer
said today.
1--WE have been NJ THIS work five or
six years ard during that time we had
our men in every section of North
America except i'm the arctic regions.
a thorough research was made in
Panama where one OF our men spent
three months Then there was another
LONG visit made iii Cuba for the pur-
pose of studying there. The mosquito,
yea see, differs widely I'm different To-
calitieS.
1--WE are very anxious now to COM