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A QUEER UNIVERSITY.
Calro Has the Worlds Oldest Educa-
 tionaI Institution.


 "When We think of Harvard or Yale, the former dating from 1898 and the latter from 1701, we think of them as old universities" says q writer in the American Educational Review; but when we pass to the other side of the world We discover that even the oldest American universities are ln reality very young Institutions.
 "The oldest educational institution in the world is taa University of El A-shar, Cairo, founded l1 the year 933 by the grea. Sai3,I4A. It Is the central seat of learning for the whole Mo ] hammedan world. as well aa q foun-
 tain of spiritual life. It occupies an ancient mosque In the Arab quarter of Cairo, surrounded by confusing maze of nArrow streets where the population is made up of representative of every race that follows the prophet
 ''The old mosque covers several acrea and consists of series o9 courts sur l rounded by long cloisters with low roofs supported by forests of columns. The floors of red tiles are covered daily by multitude of men and boys, squat ting in semicircles around their teach ers, who sit with their backs to the columns featuring In monotoaes.
 '4The chancellor of the university is always a descendant of the prophet i and is usually a man of ability and learning. He occupies apartments In Fl Asha- and Is not only the supreme educationa. but the ecclesiastical head of the church of Egypt
 There is no organization similar to that In modern universities. Any rep utable man who desires to teach can obtain the privilege by application and Is assigned a column where he may sit and impart the truth as he thinks proper Ills fame or ability will at- tract more or less students and dis ciples. who pay him fees according to their means"
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Raiterated.

Edmund Kean was playing in Rich ard Ill.," and the part of Catesby had to be taken by a low comedian, who sauntered on to the stage at the wrong moment and uttered the famous words. "My lord, the Duke Of Buck fngham is taken" h the wrong place.
 Edmund clinched his fists h rage, but otherwise took no notice of the re- mark.
 Later the comedian repeated the words in the right place, and when the king expressed surprise at the news Catesby folded his arms, walked boldly down the stage and remarked to the great actor in loud tones:
 q told you so before, MT. Kean. but you wouldn't believe me-"
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Tha Ta-ritaIe PaIice.

When the scheme was first broaeFfed fierce opposition eereloped 10 th" e@ tabIishment of LonGon's metropolitan police in September 1899. Police to patrol the streets of London? Such 2 scheme was ''repaanant to the spirit Gi Encltsh law and to the theory Of free government, according 70 an editorial t0 t1a sseI75'ari 5f the 6aT. "3s 2 sgs- tern of clandestine intelligence tha thing is complete - 1t went on. ."Fhe low constable is instructed to make himself acquainted with the fnhabit- ants Of every house within his beat And how is this information to be ob- tained but by the pumping of the sery- ants?''
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A Eiot Of Ink.

Canon Nicholl used to tell how on one occasion he had visited the famous house of the Thrales in that suburb of London where Dr Johnson was at home. Johnson, said the canon in recalling his visit, had occupied two rooms, and these were left as he last ased them. The sight was an extraor- dinary one, for ink was splashed all over the floor and even on the walls. It was one of the doctors habits to dip his pen in ink and then shake it"
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A Stubborn Opening.

The head of the household was go- Ing through her husbands pockets the next morning.
 -eWhut kept you out so late last uieht?' she suddenly demanded.
 Tt was the opening of the cam- paign, my dear" the lesser half re- pied.
 "wei.. # didn't take three cork screws t0 open it. did ll..'
 And she Graw the offending articles from his side pocket and waved them before him.-C1eveland Plain Dealer,
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kaavie RUGS.

With what greed does the lover of beautiful weayings handle the cream white fabric, with it's blue, jewel-lize, intricate border, or the all over figured rug, indigo blue figures with but Iitrie white showing, the blue intersDersee with bits of fine red and yellow, se small in quantity as compared to the blue that it only serves to warm and mellow it, but seen near one hnds that there are iauunerahte tiny pat terms in color running through til& blue, which sparkle as Go 5ke reei aes. blue lights in the black epai.-Iaadf craft.
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NOBILITY OF PURPOSE.

If either man or woman would realize the full power of personal beauty it must be by cherishing no- ble thoughts and hopes and pur- poses, by having something 10 do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity and which by expending the capacities Of inc soul gives expansion and symmetry to the body which contains is.-Up- ham.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-25


 One noon Charlie informed his par ents that ho tfalt too Il to return to school
 .'uadn't I better send fer the ftoe- .or?" asked his mother. hoping to test the genulHehess of his IHHe4s. s'OIl, 10; you don't nead 5o,7 repiie5 Charlie. .'JIc,H hc p9 l5retig soon. ! just stopped in i..s e.zss. 4A t.-e 43s home and told him to come up 70 sec me er--Delineator. long and four inches wife Paste fhe lining on th. other side and turn ln the edges Then stiteh aero.,s boea short ends and turn u2 TWO Inches on each end te form the pockets ;.l:3 stitca down the siGes
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Teaohinn the w@aoher.

Teacher-Johnny, what part of speech is .nose?' Johnny any. Teach er-Ah. but it must be. Johnny-May- be yours is, because you talk through it, but the only part of speech Pve got is my mouth
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Same Old Story.

Docs he pay his alimony promptly?'
 "No He has to be urged and threat. ened every pay day: but, then, of course, I got used to that when we were living together Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-01-25
Masculine o4rVersity.

Men are funny creatures to cater ter A woman will buE the things slaa wants, but q man will only buy the things he needs.-F,xchan@e
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Putting In the Time.

A gentleman was engaging q general man and telling him what he wanted him to do You will have to clean the windows and the boots and the knives and go messages, chop wood, cut short grass, mind the horse and pony, look after the garden and keep the house supplied with vegetables and do any old job that is required, and if suitable you will get 10 shilIings a week.
 'Is there any clay in the garden?" asked the man.
 What makes you ask that?' asked the gentleman.
 T was thinking I could make bricks in my spare time," said the man. London Mail.
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For SoiIed Handkerchisfs.

A handkerchief bag is fashioned from half fringed towel twenty three Inches long and twelve inches wide This is first embroidered in with small flowers, such as vioiets or forgetme- nots Damp and iron on the wrong side. then sew it up and stitch across the bottom. The hoop at the top is half of an embroidery frame six inches in diameter. which is hemmed in by hand. To suspend 1t use inch wide satin ribbon.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
SPORT.

JinAFlynn and Carl Morris finally
signed articles to fight fiften rounds
in Tulsa, Okla, on the afternoon OF
July 4.
The University of Washington eight
oar crew defeated the varsity crew OF
the University of California on Lake
Washington at Seattle. by ten lengths.
At the end of twenty rounds of vi
cious fighting frankie White of Chi
cago was declared the winner over
Kid Ross of New York at Cheyenne
Wyo.
Jack Irwin" Sullivan and "Porky
Flynn boxed ten rounds to draw be-
fore the new Star Athletic Club in
Milwaukee. Both men finished strong
Sullivan showed himself to be more
clever than his opponent.
Outfought, outpaced, outgeneraled
everything but outgamed, frankie
Burns of Oakland was forced to hoist
the white towel of surrender as the
gong rang for the beginning of the
seventeenth round of his fight With
Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
FOREIGN.

Rumors have reached London from
Paris that Emperor Francis Joseph OF
Austria had died suddenly,
Ireland has a population of ,SSl.95l,
decrease of 7G,s2i since the last cen
sus was taken ten years ago.
Cloudbursts, accompanied by heavy
hail. caused great damage in South
Germany. Many lives were lost.
TIE Italian aviator Cirri, while max
ing an aeroplane flight near Voghera,
fell ESQ feet and was instantly killed.
J Pierpont Morgan and several 9th
er Americans we're presented by Am
bassador Reid to King George at Il
levce held at st. James palace in Lon
don.
The chief task confronting Francisco
|. Madero at present will be the selec-
tion of the provisional governors OF
fourteen states in Mexico as was
agreed upon in the preliminary peace
negotiations.
Subscriptions of the issue of $12,.
100000 bonds of the Oregon & Wash
ingtcn Railroad & Navigation Compa'
ny were closed in London within an
hour after they were opened. The
were quoted at ~ per cent premium
Enveloped in heavy wraps, trem
bling with weakness, fear and old age
Porfirio Diaz, long dictator of Mexico
in the darkness of early morning
stole out of his home and in a bor
rowed auto was whirled away to a
remote suburban station to board a
special train for Vera Cruz. There he
boarded a steamer which is making q
trip to Coalzacoalcos and will return
to Vera Cruz soon and sail for Eu
rope.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
GEN RAJ.

The eight-hour law for women has
gone in effect in California.
Drinking liquor on trains except in
buffet and dining cars is prohibited in
Illinois hereafter.
\ tornado struck Pekin, ILL.,, killing
two persons and causing property
damage that will amount to thou.
sands.
Thomas F.. Ryan, the traction mag
nate, is seriously i'll at, his home in
New York, according to the reports
sent out by his physician.
The cut in price of steel bars an.
nounced by the Republican Iron &
Steel Company will be met by the
Carnegie Steel Company.
Dreamland, one of the show places
OF Coney Island, N. Y, was practical.
ly wiped out by fire. Four lives were
lost and property loss is s2,000,000.
Theodore Roosevelt was the prin,
cipal speaker at Newark, N. j., at the
unveiling of a bronze statue by Gut
zon Borglum of Abraham Lincoln.
Cilal War veterans, 1000 strong,
Through Georgia" and other wartime
songs as they led the great Memorial
Day parade in Chicago up to the point
of review.
The General Assembly of the South
ern Pfesbyterian church has with
drawn from the federal council OF
the Church of Christ While no Off
gaI tyiu nj nG
the reason was because the council
was regarded as semi-political in
character.
Resolutions which were adopted at
the weekly meeting of the Methodist
Minister'S Association of Cincinnati
condemning the courts for allowing
George B. Cox to escape prosecution
may result in the arrest and punish
ment of those ministers for contempt
of court.
Five years of agitation and effort to
restore navigation to the Missouri riv-
er will come to fruition soon, when the
first boat of the Kansas City Missouri
River Navigation Company will start
from st. Louis to Kansas City loaded
with a miscellaneous cargo of mer
chandise. Within month two other
boats will be in regular service.
Running at fifty miles an hour
westbound train No. 9 and eastbound
tran No IL of the Burlington collided
head-on two miles west OF Indianola.
Neb. Dispatches from the wreck give
fourteen people killed and score OF
more injured. Passengers Of the train
declare that the list of dead will run
higher than this.
Judge Lovett of New York, repre-
sen ing the Hartman interests, con
firrr S the rumor that Mrs. Hartman
wiE establish on the Pacific coast an
institution similar to the Carnegie
Pitesburg foundation.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
WASHINGTON.

Theodore Roosevelt has been asked
to take the stand in the steel trust in
vestigation by the Stanley committee
of the House.
President Taft will stick to Beverly
as a hot weather playground unless
Compress selects a site and appropri-
ates the money for an official summer
White House elsewhere.
1t is announced that the Democrats
of the House will not stop with re-
vision of the wool schedule, but will
follow with a revision of the cotton,
metals and chemical schedules.
The battleship Michigan. command
ed by Captain Nathaniel r. Usher, is
the premier shot of the American
navy. In the spring battle practice
lust concluded, the Michigan scored
99,929 points of merit and will be
awarded the gunnery championship
trophy.
The government won a sweeping
victory over the so-called tobacco
trust" when the Supreme Court of
the United States held the American
w.
porations to be operating in violation
of the Sherman antitrust law. The
trust is held to be a combination in
restraint of trade-a monopoly in vio-
lation of the lawAby the Supreme
Court.
President Taft has issued a drastic
order designed to prevent the return
of deported convicts to the Panama
canal zone. ANY convict who has
served an Imprisonment sentence in
the canal zone and been deported and
then returns to the zone is to be
deemed" guilty of felony and pun
ished by Imprisonment for one year
and thereafter removed from the canal
zone.
For the first time in the history of
the service, it is said, the deficit in
the Postoffice Department has been
entirely wiped out.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Registration Bill slaned.

Donver-The registration measure
passed by the Eighteenth General AS
sembly, having been signed by the
governor is now a law. 1t provides
for the appointment of registration
committees and judges of election and
the registration of all qualified cleo
tors in cities with a greater popula-
ton than 5000 inhabitants. Punish
ments for violation are prescribed.
Senator Garman was the sponsor of it.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Poor Oil Damages Fruit.

Montrose.-That poor crude oil fur
nished by the Standard Oil Company
for use in smudge-pots has caused loss
of several thousand dollars to apple
growers of this vicinity was stated at
a conference between Montrose fruit
growers and a representative of the
Standard Oil Company.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Governor sians pistol Bill.

Denver-Governor John F. Shafroth
signed the bill passed at the recent
session of the Legislature, compel
ling purchasers of revolvers to regis
ter with the dealer from whom the
purchase is made and providing that
dealers keep a complete description
of those purchasing firearms together
with a statement regarding the use
to which the weapon is to be placed.
Heavy penalties are provided-for fail
ure on the part of dealers to keep
such registers and for the making OF
false statements on the part of pur-
chasers.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Wehh Heads Texas Road.

Denver.-William A. Webb, who has
been with the Colorado Southern
arL allied railroads for the past twen-
ty years, the last two years as pur'
chasing agent and assistant to Vice
President A. d. Parker, has been ap'
pointed general manager OF the Texas
Central railroad, a Hawley road COM
prisIng 400 miles of line between
Waco, Cisco, Hamlin and Rotan, with
a branch to Great Plains, all in Texas.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
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WESTERN.

Chief of Police Seymour of San
Francisco, has been suspended from
duty by the Board of Police.
A marked English coin lost twelve
years ago in Selma, Kans.. by Mrs. e.
Parker, has been found in Cripple
Creek, Colo.
A large part of the business district
of Snohomish, Wash, burned with
loss of s150,00O. Thirty-five business
houses were burned.
Four persons were killed and one IN
jured fatally at a railroad crossing
near Rivers, Cal, in a collision De-
tween a Pacific Electric car and an
automobile.
Three men have been indicted at
Los Angeles on the charge of having
deposited dynamite in the county
Hall of Records September 8, 1910,
with intent to destroy it.
A bill providing that no woman shall
he permitted to work more than nine
hours in any day or more than flfty
hours in any week in Missouri VIII
take effect June goth.
Gov. Colquitt of Texas has been put
out of the Methodist church unless the
higher authorities or conference rules
with him that prohibition is political
and not moral question
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, Artic explor-
er, WHO is in Sacramento, Cal, an
nounces that, by hitching his ship to
an iceberg he expects to float over the
North Pole, starting in 1913 and get
ting back to civilization about 1917
Lured from his home on the pre-
tense that he was wanted to perform
a marriage ceremony, the Rev. DIR. e.
e. Fairchild, pastor of st. Paufs
Methodist Episcopal church at Hele-
ma, Mont, was brutally and possibly
fatally assaulted on the street.
Miss Eva Endurance H;Tdler, of St.
LOUIS. was graduated with class OF
thirty-five men in mining from the
Missouri School of Mines and Metal
iurgy. She is believed to be the on
ly woman who has ever received di-
ploma as a mining engineer in the
United States.
In the case of John J. Mcnamara
and his brother 5ames, charged with
dynamiting the Times newspaper
plant last October, at Los Angeles, it
has been agreed that formal motion
by the defense for delay would not
be opposed by the state. The trial ot
the labor leaders will not begin until
next fall.
James Fielder, farm hand en-
Moved by ]. A. McVittie, living near
Pawnee, Neb., angered because Nc
Vitt,e objected to Fielder's attentions
to his daughter, killed McVittie, his
wife and two children, dangerously
wounded a third child, fatally shot
Sheriff Claude Fuller, who attempted
to arrest him and then killed himself.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
June 10. II, 15-State Sunday School
Convention, Pueblo.
June 16-1S-Convention Christian En-
deavor Society Grand Junction.
June 20-30.-Western General Confer
ance Women's Christian Association.
|. Cascade, Colo.
June 2s.-Colorado Association of Let
ter Carriers convention, Boulder.
June-Meeting National Retail Gro
GERS Association, Denver.
June--American Surgical Association
Convention, Denver.
June 20-21.-National Association Tor
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Denver
June-American Trap shooters Asso-
citation, Denver.
June-National Association Real Es-
tate Exchanges, Denver, three days
then Colorado Springs two days. July.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Aspen Suited for Excelsior.

Yampa.-George ]. Kindel and son
has returned to Denver after having
spent several days investigating the
supplyof quaking aspen timber in this
vicinity. After long experiments they
shave demonstrated that the aspen is
a superior wood for manufacturing ex-
celsior used in mattress factories and
ordered twenty carloads shipped to
Denver.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Indians Object to Donation.

Grand Junction.-An emphatic pro-
test will be made to President Taft
against the action of Congress in CLOS
the two Indian schools in Colorado as
soon as the Indian students from here
have returned to the reservations.
The Indians object seriously to giving
the property which they say was pur-
chased with their own money to the
state
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
200 Lambs Drowned.

Trinidad.-Reports from ranchers
in different parts of the county tell
of serious damage by heavy rains to
both crops and bridges. The biggest
damage reported is the drowning of
200 lambs at the Bogback ranch of
Sam Brown, six miles from Tyrone.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
New Postal Savings Banks.

Washington.-Post General
Hitchcock has designated fifty addi-
tional postal savings repositories,
making the number to be in opera
tion before JULY 1st more than 300!
The offices designated, which viii
open for the receipt of deposits June
9th, include: Greeley, Golden, Fort
Collins and Longmont, Colo.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Taft Invited to Denver.

Denver.-PresidentT Taft, who is said
to have decided to visit Salt Lake City
in September upon the occasion of the
Utah Old Folks reunion, has been in
vited by the Chamber of Commerce
and other commercial organizations of
the city to make Denver a point of call
en- route to the Mormon capital.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Oil Promoters Busy.

Grand Junction.-The ell boom in
eastern Utah has spread to this city
and dozens of promoters are here at
temp ting to organize stock companies
to develop oil claims.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
Complete School Census.

Greeley-The school census of dis
trict No. 6, which includes Greeley,
has been completed, showing a total
of 2,404 persons between and 21,
with 1,179 males and 1,225 females.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03
coIIbran Has Water Works.

Collbran. - The municipal water
works at Collbran has been completed.
Mesa will now installa water system.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-14
PLAN FOR SUBWAYS
is MADE PUBLIC

New York, June 13.-Bive months of
conferences and controversy over new
subways In Greater New York came to
a head to-day in q plan which Mayor
Gaynor declared is. "the largest matter
before any government in the world,
national. State or local, SO far as I
Know. at the present time"
The magnitude OF the project liz mad G
most emphatic in dollars, {257,OoO. 600.
which Will be expended II the entire
program,is carried out. or moro than
three times the am cunt spent on the
present subway system
The report OF the subway commit :
tee. which was submitted TO the Board
or Estimate to-day. proposes a com
promise By which both the INTERIOR
oush Rapid Transit Company, which
operates the present subway. and the
brooklyn Rapid Transit COMPANY,
which has control of most OF the lines
In brooklyn must make concessions
TO the city. The PETERBOROUGH viii
have to permit the Brooklyn company's
invasion OF Manhattan. and the BROOK.
lyn company vii! have 10 give New
Workers scent fare to the great
pleasure grounds at Coney Island.
II is intimated that tho companies
may not accept. but should either cor
poration refuse. all the favors viii go
10 tho oposition, according to tho plan
ihe total outlay called for BY the plans
is: BY the city, sl3I.20o000 by the In
terborough, s75.SoO. 600; by tho BROOK
lyn company, s6o.4oo.ooo; total, $751;
100000 ,r t5s5 IIllsl'I
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-14

, p o. d z ak ... a. @ "a. -. q u
mined that the victorious army undo
General 0rozco shall not onter tho
city,. 0Sozco,s forces extend north
along the railroad thirty miles. with
headquarters at Sauz.
The insurrectos make no effort to
conceal their anger. They sag that
while reports come to them OF ban.
Duets being served In Mexico city
they. In spite of peace; are kept in
the Held on short rutions.
While wonder Is Expressed that Mex.
leo City does not straighten out tha
tangle. Governor Gonzales expects no
serious consequences. He says In
time the Federal troops viii evacu-
ate and the insurrectos will enter
chihuahua. Il IA
However,, General Orozco. Madero' 8
foremost military chief, when seen
ut Sauz. frankly expressed displcasurc
at the. failure of the Federal authori.
ICES to turn the city over to his forces.
Many of OroZco's followers have
openly declared that II tho Federais
DO not soon evucuato. the insurrecto
army VIII enter in Il body.
General Villnr, commanding tho Fed
erals. to-day asserted that he was act
ing undor orders from Mexico City.
THESE orders We're that ho Should pa
troll the city and maintain outpost Is
to prevent the entrance Of any armed
troops
All the insurrectos desire Is to enter
The city, led by brass band, CARRYING
their arms and with flags dying and
to march through the streets \ tri-
umphant procession Is their notion OF
a proper regard for military services