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University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26

nerves are his vassals instead of mis-
being theirs. A system of thirty
one exercises, so simple that he takes
them in his own bed, wrought the
change. For twenty-one years he has
not neglected his exercises. Perhaps
his steadfastness and his faith may
have had something to do with his
success. At least, he has found the
fountain.
The fountain of youth has been dis
covered on the tennis court, on the
golf links, in the saddle and in the
waters of streams. 1t has never been
found rushing about the stock ex-
change or lurking in an Office desk.
Youth is carefree, youth stretches its
legs and expands its lungs and laughs
and never worries.
Ponce de Leon did not know this,
but Twentieth century civilization is
finding it out. Every man is his
own magic fountain. He can grow
cid or stay young. No man has yet
discovered the fountain of immortal
ity, but who knows but that our old
friend Methusaleh is to lose his rec
ord?
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
A Legal Mind.

Harold, 9 years old, came home
one day so bruised and dirty that his
mother was thrown into a state of
marked perturbation.
Mercy she exclaimed. in horror
How on earth, my child, did you get
your clothes and face into such a
state?"
81 was trying to keep a little boy
from getting licked" was Harold's 8
virtuous, if hesitating, reply.
We'll, that was fine!" said his
Eiollified parent. 81 am proud of you,
sonny. Who was the little boy?"
ME. Chicago Record-Herald.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

Weary and old. grasping at the de-
parting shadow of youth. Ponce de
Leon wandered over a large part of a
continent wilderness. seeking a mag
ic fountain. The figure is one of the
most pathetic in history.
Ponce de Leon never found the
fountain. Since that time others
have found it:not the fountain of per-
petual youth but the magic formula
that slaves off senility. A Californian
found it. He was 80 years old and
physicians termed him a physical
wreck. But the spirit of Ponce de
Leon was working in him and he set
ont on mental journey for the
fountain.
At Il years old this same man is
an athlete and his stomach and
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
Thirty Years Ago Today.

G.. c. Swallow, dean of the Missou-
RI Agricultural College, had two ar
ticles in the Columbia Missouri Her.
aid on PLANT Food in Missouri SOil''
and How t6Get Seed Corn"
The, Herald agreed to give back the
money to those who regularly used
its advertising columns and were not
repaid for doing so.
Jefferson City had a telephone ex-
change of twenty-five members.
The round trip rate from Columbia
to st. Louis for the fair was S4.35.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
HE TALKED OF FLORIDA.
And the Discourse of the Flowery
Mr.. Clark Lasted Fifty Minutes.

And the Discourse Of the Flowery
Mr.. Clark Lasted Fifty Minutes.
Mr.. Clark, of Florida-to be spe-
cific Frank C. Clark, representative
in Congress from the state of flowers
and oranges-is a man of much lin
guistic fervor; or perhaps one should
say fever. His words soar to heights
of ornateness that astonish less gift
ed members of the national legisla-
ture. Speaking August Is in sup
port of his bill to institute celebra-
ton of the Florida East Coast Rail-
ways completion to Key West, he
said:
"In the extreme south of this great
Union of sovereign states, between
the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic
Ocean, lies Florida, the fairest flower
in the garden of statehood. Gap
plause.) Her balmy climate, her
healthful ocean breezes. her delicious
tropical fruits, her wonderful palm
trees, her tall pines, her majestic
oaks, her silvery lakes, her wonder
full rivers and her youth-preserving
springs have made Florida famous
throughout the civilized world. Gap
plause.) Nowhere in all the habita-
BILE globe does the sun shine with
such resplendent glory as in Florida;
no painters brush can transfer to
canvas the ravishing beauty of a
moonlight night in Florida; no pen
can picture, nor can any imagination
conceive, the transcendent beauty
Of her landscape, the fertility of her
soil, the luxuriance of her tropical
fruits and flowers, the rich perfume
of which is borne in riOtous profus-
ion on every passing breeze"
Mr.. Raker: "Will the gentleman
yield?"
Mr.. Clark: mo; l cannot, Mr..
Speaker"
| The Speaker: "The gentleman
declines to yield"
| Mr. Clark: while Florida. as she
fell from the fingers of the Creator,
bore the stamp of the beautiful and
the lovely and seemed to be all that
could be desired in the way of an
earthly abiding place for man, it
must not be understood that she is
nothing more than a garden of love-
ly flowers and delicious fruits. Gap
plause.) Untold wealth is embedded
in her generous bosom. In agricul-
ture her soil makes bounteous res
ponse to the friendly touch of the in
dustriOus husbandman; her rivers
and lakes and the waters of the sea
which lash her coasts are teeming
with the best food fish in all the
world (applause); her forests yield
annually millions of feet of the
finest yellow pine and cypress lumber
produced anywhere; her Mines
And so Mr.. Clark talked of Flor;-
da for most of his fifty minutes. -
New York Post.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
What the Old Grads Saw
Five Years Ago Today.

The directors of the Ashland and
Columbia road proposed spending
1000 for improvements on it.
The Columbia Statesman wanted
the Jayhawkers wiped off the grid
iron in a moral way.
FOunt NJ. Pitts, who was gradu-
ated from the University of Missouri
in 1869, wrote a letter to the Colum-
bia Statesman telling of his days at
the University when he lived on
black bread, molasses and coffee al
the University Boarding Club. A cut
of the Columns in the St. Louis Re.
public reminded him of his school
days.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
STUDENT INSURGENCY QUIT.

What has become of the student
insurgent?
Graduated? Quit school? Changed
his viewpoint? Anyway, he is no
more in evidence at the University
c. Missouri.
The age of undertaking at Mis-
souri, seems to have faded. 1t lives
only in the blurring memory of the
older students. 1t is not pointed
back to as a golden age" or as
condition to be revived. The old
spirit of opposition to change, agita-
ton against systems of discipline. re-
volt against authority, are things that
once were but are no more.
The student insurgent of the old
type has no place at the new Univer-
sity. AS an alumnus he is more in
tereSted in whether We beat Kansas
than whether holidays shall be de-
clared by the Board of Curators or
student mass meetings.
Gone are the days of the old an
onymous "brOadsides." bristling with
libel in every line. They were usu-
ally the result of personal grudge
and were not a reflection of student
sentiment They were not legislated
away by any authority of faculty or
curators. They died natural death
because the students themselves did
not indorse the system. Student privi-
leges at the University of Missouri
were never greater than at present
insurgency was never a deader issue.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
His Irish Wit.

George ~, on his visit to Dublin
in 1921, met at reception Sir
Philip Champion, Ireland's greatest
surgeon.
I'm what branch of the service is
that Misunderstanding man.
asked His Majesty.
The gentleman to whom the gues-
ton was put was too polite to hint
that the King was mistaken in sup
posing that the distinguished sur
geon was naval or military officer.
Sire" he replied. "he is a general
in the lancers. "-Tid-Bits.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
is COLLEGE, LIFE SO BAD?
X. T. Cranes. Explanation Not True,
Says New York World.

X. T. Cranes. Explanation Not True,
Says New York World.
College life among men students
which R. T. Crane, Of Chicago, re-
Gently condemned in harsh terms, is
not altogether bad in the opinion OF
some of the larger newspapers. The
New York World said recently:
"R. T. Crane of Chicago says tina,
80 per cent of Harvard boys drink
in their first year, 95 per cent in
their senior year and Is per cent &c
irretrievably to the bad. Yale
Princeton and Cornell are a shade
better, but Columbia worse; and
take them collectively, colleges dc
more harm than good.
at is easy to explain Mr.. Cranes
facts. The explanation is that they
are not true. If he had conducted
his business of making elevators as
carelessly as he complies statistics
he could not have achieved success
His conclusions might be reached by
hanging around New London after
Yale-Harvard boat race, or New
YOrk'S tenderloin after q big foot.
ball game. But not all students dc
what some students do; and few stu
dents do all the time what many stu.
dents do sometimes.
"The average college boy cannot
srell correctly or write a letter In
good English; as Mcdowell, the
composer, discovered, he had little
use for the fine arts; being young
and naturally barbarian; he is fire.
quently coltish and a nuisance iI
public. But he has a high sense ol
honor along his own lines, prodigiou!
energy and often surprising
amount of practical learning. HI
often attends church. He has de
batting and literary clubs, language
clubs and other admirable co-opera
tive interests. Even in behavior h,
is vast improvement upon his kline
IN previous generations. He "goei
wrong" nearly as often as the gen
eral average of young men; an(
when he does, people are likely t.
hear about it.
college and technical students
young men, are about one-fifth of
per cent of the community. Gradu
ates are numerically a small elemen
among adult men. In any groupin,
of citizens of eminence, from Con
gress to who's Who" they are al
ways numerous. usually respectable
and frequently a. majority"
The Chicago Record-Herald says
'The universal testimony of col
lege educators and others who hav,
followed closely the trend of stu
dent life is that conditions are grow
ing better, not worse, in the largel
as we'll as the smaller institutions
Mr.. Crane overlOoks the many thOus
ands of students who live quietl!
and are moral, conscientious an(
hard-working. He sees only thOst
whose faults are publicly displayed.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
THE "MISTAKES OF NOSES"
However, They Have Been Found to
Coincide With Modern Discoveries.

However. They Have Been Found to
Coincide With Modern Discoveries.
We have often heard 1.-The mis-
takes of Moses" in the first chapter
OF Genesis commented upon, but
what especially strikes us in that
chapter is not it's contraventions of
science. but it's harmonies with late
discoveries. How did the writer,
many centuries before the story of
the rocks had been deciphered, know
that there was a beginning and then
a pause before life appeared on the
earth? Who taught the writer that
the earth was without form and
void" before it was divided into con-
tinents? How came it that the long
delayed, slow emergence of land
should be set forth as it is? Was it
mere guesswOrk that prompted the
writer to say grasses were created
before animals, and not for animals
already existent? Is it a happy ac-
cident that life in the water appears
before life upon the land? And ages
before the scientist dreamed of pa
leontology We find man last in the
series just as he appears today by
his remains in the drift instead of in
the stratified rocks? Further inves-
tigation may explain discrepancies,
but what except inspiration can ac-
count for these coincidences?-The
Advance.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
Ten Years Ago Today.

A negro at the Jail, under hun
dred day sentence escaped by dig
ging under his door.
The Indutrial School met in
the Fisher Chapel of the Presbyter-
ian Church to begin its years work.
The Baptist Church gave recep-
tiOn to the new students. The build
ing was decorated with pot plants
and the University colors.
The Boone County ShOrthOrn
Breeders Association met in the
court house to elect officers.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
BLAZE A TRAIL FOR OTHERS.

The real benefactors of this world
are the men who make things easier.
The purpose in life is not to see how
many obstacles We can overcome; nor
how many mountains We can scale.
There is little glory in accomplishing
feats We applaud for awhile, and
soon forget it.
There is more lasting honor to the
man who can point out new way, if
that way is easier and accessible to a
greater number. If it is our desire
to make ourselves useful to our fel-
low creatures we must do that. We
must level the mountains and macad-
amize the road for the generations
who are to travel it after us. And
this we can all do in our own little
way.
The college professor who is trying
to make hard course easier is serv-
ing society. He is useful man. He
is in reality getting more out of his
students. Moreover, he is not monop-
olizing their time. He accomplishes
two things-he makes a broad trail
over the mountain and does not tire
his charges while they journey to-
gether.
Diminishing the amount of outside
work is one way of making course
easier. 1t is one way of making life
happier. If there is any well-defined
purpose in life it is to do that. If
We cannot do it, We are not one of the
benefactors. We are useless. The
space We occupy on this earth is vast
ed. 1t bears no fruit. We are moth
ing more than a weed, only in the
way of more useful growths.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
SAYS HE'S WRONG on DIVORCE
Illinois Man Takes Issue With Taft
On the Question.

On the Question.
CHICAGO. ILL..-John c. Rich
berg, president of the Illinois Com
mission on Uniform State Laws, de-
clares that President Taft is serious
ly mistaken on the subject of uni
form divorce.
Mr.. Richberg's statement was
brought out by the announcement
that Mr.. Taft will discuss the divorce
question freely while on a ten-thous-
and-mile tour, beginning next Fri
day, and will urge the necessity of a
uniform law.
More than 90 per cent of the
states, according to Richberg, have
uniform legislation on the crux of
the divorce question. namely, causes
for -Globe-Democrat.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
Treasury Department Clerk Returns

F. L. Moore, of Washington, d. c.,
d clerk in the United States Treas
uly Department, left Columbia this
morning after a short visit with his
sister, Kathleen Moore, who entered
the College of Arts and Science of
the University this year as a senior.
Miss Moore has attended the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin two years and Held
elburg University in Ohio one year.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
STATE FAIR LECTURE COURSE.
College of Agriculture Professors
Will Talk There.

A lecture course on Agriculture is
to be given at the state fair in Seda-
liza. The course is under the direction
of the College of Agriculture and the
State Board of Agriculture. DR.. j.
w. Connoway will give the first
lecture on Hog Cholera" Others
who will speak are: DIR. ]. C. Whit
ten on Orchards" and Prof C. H.
Eckles on "Dairying." Prof. E. A.
TrOwbridge will talk about horses
and Prof. c.. b. Hutchison about soil
and Sam Jordon about corn.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
The Dying Convict.

A gentleman who was let out of
the penitentiary recently to go home
to die has recovered sufficiently to
get married and promote a mining
scheme.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
Funeral OF An Old Soldier,

The funeral of W. NJ. Beaddle,
former Confederate soldier who died
yesterday morning. was held today.
Services were conducted at the Prai-
rie Grove church east of Columbia.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
DiscOuraoenept,

Are you going to start a garden
Lext year?'
Il am not" replied the luckless
amateur. Next year. instead of
burying good stuff. I'm going to eat
1t. Washington Star.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-09-26
Hero Without Opposition.

George Washington continues to
lie one of the national heroes to
wEcm hOnors can be shown without
danger of inviting political discus
on. Washington Star.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

The City CarlIne league. NJ a
meeting last nlght. unanimously en-.
dorsed the municipal owned tele.
phone ordinances proposed by
Councilman Erickson. Resolutions
passed last night follow
Whereas. the experience OF every
city has shown that no relief from
telephone exactions can be hoped
from granting new franchises TO
private parties. and
Whereas. n franchise granted 10
a private individual or corporation
Is always and everywhere an ex.
cuse for oppression and extortion.
aud
Whereas. the building OF a tele.
phone plant by the city govern
ment Is tho only method BY which
the citizens OF Seattle can obtain
a good telephone service az mod.
crate price. and
Whereas. municipal ownership Of
a telephone system means the best
service possible nj the lowest rates
possible. while private ownership
under any name means the poorest
service the people will stand. al
the highest rates that can be ex.
acted from them.
Now. therefore. be Il resolved. By
the city carline league. that We
unanimously aud heartily approve
OF Councilman oliver T. Erickson'a
efforts 10 have telephone line
built by the city and operated at
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

equipped in perfect shape. They
also said that the crew personally
assisted the passengers into tho
lifeboats. and that the boats wero
promptly lowered. The hearing whs
continued today.
Tho steamer Queen, which had
been on the Seattlc-san Francisco
run before. will replace the Spokane
on the Alaska cruise. beginning
July ~.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

pream--"The Russian Cypsy.
drama; Water Beetle and Its
Young" topical: 'stubb's New
Servants" comedy. Tho Wonder
ful Eye comedy.
clroult-"The Latent Spark. "
drama. The White Medicine Man. .
comedy; The Old Mans Folly, "
drama.
City - Saving the Standard. 4"
drama. The Cutie Fish," eduea.
catlonal: Trading Ills Mother. Z"
comedy. Polish and Pie" comedy;
"A Cattle Herder'a Romance" west.
orn drama.
lyeeum - "The New Faith. -
drama: "Jimmie'a Tricks" comedy;
AN Oasis in the Sahara Desert. I"
scenic. Washington Relies" edu.
cational
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07
AT the Motion Picture Shows

orsnd-"Anclcnt and Modern
London" scenic: "noxg WIN lie
Boys" comedy. "Hia birthday. =
comedy; Foxy izEy." comedy. "A
Sacrifice 70 Civilization. industrial
drama.
Ideal 49, Lean VOLTS End"
drama. The Baseball Star From
pingnville." comedy, Fighting
Blood" war drama
Eshlblt--"The Village Gossip"
drama. THE slccpwnlker." drama.
odeon--"The Kiss OF Mary Jane. -
drama. THE Reporter" sensational
comedy: Scenes From Our Navy.
patriotic; The Crusader" drama.
NatlonaI--"Thc Hidden Mine. I"
western drama. "The Jollior." com.
edy: "The Honor of the Flag war
drama
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07
HAT ONLY CLUE

An old hat and description IN
all that the police have so far.
toward establishing the Identity OF
the man who shot and killed Patrol.
man III. l. Harris, on the night Of
July 4.
The funeral services will be nj
o'clock Sunday afternoon. but the
place has not yet been decided
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07
LED TO CONFESS
BY A DREAM

CANON CITY. Colo. July H.
Morris Kirkland. a prisoner In the
county jail. sent for Sheriff EEsor
late last night and said he had
been impelled by dream. In which
the ghost Of his dead mother eoun.
sellcd him TO tell tho truth con.
corning the killing Of Dominlck
Magino. murdered between Port.
land and Concrete June n. Ills
story TO the sheriff Implicated John
Smith and Charles Boaley. now In
Jail. who have since confessed.
Prior TO the confession OF KIRK.
land little was known Of the crime.
Manglno had cashed n check and
was attacked by thro. negroes. who
beat him fatally and hid his body,
lie survived long enough to tell his
story.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07
SAY CREW HELPED
SPOKANE PASSENGERS

Frederick Thompson. fist mate.
A. l.. Olsen. second mate; r. d. Nc
oilivray. third mate; John Dahl.
fourth mate, and r.. II. Lacey first
assistant engineer, yesterday testi'
fled before United States steamboat
inspectors whitney and Turner that
the wrecked steamer Spokane was
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07
WENT INSANE ON SHIP.

The steamship Humboldt arrived
ut s;as last night with u large pas.
senger list from southeastern
Alaska. and With the first OF the
Yes bay salmon pack this year.
W Anderson, laborcr. who took
passage at Kecehikan. became
violently insane. but was soon over.
powered and put In irons.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

Jonathan Jackson. stood In line OF
battle waiting for someone ca
fight. But although Gen, Nc.
poweii had $4,000 troops az Wash
ington. he was not eager 20 run out
TO Martinsburg when he was ex-
pccted. and Gen. Patterson. who
was there. did not feel strong
enough to whip the united armies.
Perhaps II was just as we'll he
didn't.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

Woman Hi by Auto.

While crossing Second nv. near
Seneca ~. yesterday afternoon. Mrs.
George Moss. 24s6 First nv. W..
was hit by am automobile. driven
by L. : Woodring of the Yesler
pcstoffice. She was knocked down.
but her Injuries were not serious.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

~ y =
thasf But few
of them sc, paid
for IT, Richard
Carrie is the OK.
ception OF
course. his droll
voice and his
funny manner.
isms help some.
but anyone who
has heard him
try TO sing read
lily percelves
why the man
ager IA paying
him one OF the
biggest salaries
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

upon. Harris mother IA now on
hor way from Nebraska, and VIII
arrive Sunday morning. His sister,
Mrs. u. W. Austin. OF Oak Park.
H.. IL o. oming, but will not ar
rive In .lmo for The funeral II the
present Arrangement stands.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

DR.. n. n. Goddard ise,urod twice
yesterday at Denny hall on the
problem Of defective children. lie
has been induced 20 make two ad.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-07-07

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] OF special police protection In
! the downtown streets during
Pufiafch week. Mayor Dliling !
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