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LAWRENCE, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879.
VOL. 2.
NO.1.
THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Interests of the KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY.
CONDUCTED BY AN ORGANIZATION OF STUDENTS
Price of Subscription, Fifty Cents per School Year.
SCOTT HOPKINS, Asst. Editors. COLIN TIMMONS, Editor.
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Address UNIVERSITY COURIER.
FELLOW-STUDENTS and friends, the editors of the Courier are happy to express their thanks for your assistance and encouragement heretofore, and trust that they shall merit and obtain the same the coming year. Our present number contains but few articles of thoughtful composition. We have spent the summer as students should, in healthful recreation, and not in deep studies. Our columns are largely filled with personals and light paragraphs, but hereafter we promise to furnish articles by the best talent the University and its graduates can produce.
PROF. PATRICK returned from Colorado last week, and brought with him some new ore worth $1,000 per ton, from Jamestown. The ore contains gold and tellurium. The Professor has every requisite, and proposes to make his scholars thorough chemists and assayists. The country is demanding more and more young men skilled in the applied arts, and there is no place in the West equal to the University to obtain this skill.
PROFESSOR SNOW, L. L. Dyche and Annie E. Mozley, '78, made a successful tour among the animal world of Colorado. They were especially fortunate in the number and variety of Lepidoptera taken. Prof. Snow, who never overestimates, thinks they have about 10,000 specimens. Among the rare captures are a magnificent porcupine, conies from above timber line, long-eared bats, and 500 specimens of Artic plants taken high up in the mountain. The Professor's museum grows more important and valuable every day.
A committee of Regents met last Monday a week to complete arrangements for the plat of land back of Judge Thacher's, known as the "old fort," donated to the University by ex-Governor Robinson. The intention, as soon as the necessary funds are appropriated, is to erect on the extreme point of land to the south a model observatory, with a fine telescope and mountings. At the present a temporary building will be put up for the placing of the instrument, which we now have.
A COMING CONTROVERSY.
No question has arisen of greater importance in its bearings in the life of man than the doctrine of evolution, and now that it has taken such a deep hold on the minds of the majority of the world's naturalists, there will surely be a long and spirited discussion as to the manner of teaching this doctrine.
In Germany the discussion has already begun. Scientists, theologians, teachers and laymen have all engaged in battle. The two leaders in this mighty struggle, who have spoken clearly and decidedly, are Ernst Haeckel and Rudolph Virchow. The former declares with firmness and emphasis that evolution should be taught, the latter that it should not.
On the 25th of last September Virchow delivered an address at Munich on 'The Freedom of Science in the Modern State." In the course of the address he made this demand : In all schools, from the poor schools to the university, nothing shall be taught that is not absolutely certain. None but objective and absolutely-ascertained knowledge is to be imparted by the teacher to the learner. Nothing subjective; no knowledge open to correction; only facts; no hypotheses.
When he came to the most discussed point of the entire theory he said: "We cannot teach the doctrine that man is descended from the apes, or from any other animal, for we cannot regard it as a real acquisition of science."
From these two propositions Haeckel dissents. He does not believe there is any boundary line between the speculative departments of natural science and those that are actually conquered. An objective science that consists merely of facts without any subjective theories is inconceivable. In a hurried survey of the whole domain of science he tests them to see how far they contain on
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the one hand objective facts and on the other subjective knowledge and hypotheses.
Beginning with Kant's assertion that in every science only so much true—that is, objective knowledge is to be found as it contains mathematics, Haeckel says that unquestionably mathematics stands at the heap of all sciences in point of certainty. But how as to those deepest and simplest fundamental axioms which constitute the firm basis on which the proud edifice of mathematical teaching rests? Are they certain and proved? No. Being axioms, they are incapable of proof. But, granting that mathematics practically constitutes an absolutely certain and objective science, how is it with the rest of the sciences? Those sciences called "exact sciences," it is true, are capable of mathematical proof. They, however, form but a small part of all the sciences. Newton's theory of gravitation is regarded as the most important and certain theory of physics; and yet gravitation itself is a hypothesis. Electricity and magnetism rest upon the hypothesis of imponderable matter. The undulating theory of light postulates an ethereal medium, whose existence no one is in a position to prove objectively in any way. In chemistry the atomic theory is taught, but that theory is unproved, and is as unprovable as any theory can be. No one ever saw an atom; yet we talk about atoms as though they were tangible realities. In geology we meet, in regard to certainty, the same obstacles. The evolution of the globe rests on an unproved hypothesis. How can we be sure that fossils are the remains of extinct organisms? Experiment, "the highest means of proof," has not and cannot produce a fossil. Scarcely anything, if anything, in geology is capable of mathematical proof. The same may be said of history, philology, political science, and jurisprudence. Therefore, when we omit the problems, the theories, the hypotheses by which we seek to explain masses of facts, we have but little left, and that little of no value whatever.
Haeckel, in reply to the attack on evolution, affirms that the origin of species can be explained in no other way. His first great principle is that all natural phenomena, without exception, from the motions of the heavenly bodies to the consciousness of man, obey one and the same law of causation; that all may be ultimately referred to the mechanics of atoms. He next asserts that the doctrine of derivation or theory of descent, as a comprehensive theory of the natural origin of all organisms, assumes that all compound organisms are derived from simple ones, all manycelled animals and plants from single-celled ones, and these last from quite simple primary organisms—from monads. Finally, he holds that the doctrine of elimination assumes that almost all organic species have originated by a process of selection, that the transformation of organic forms has taken place through the reciprocal action of the laws of inheritance and of adaptation. These principles, in Haeckel's opinion, are based upon indisputable facts, and their truth cannot be denied.
Being true, the existence of man can be explained only by assuming that he was developed from the lower forms of life, and the statement that "man is descended from the ape" means nothing more and nothing less than that the human species as a whole was long since developed from the order of apes—indeed, actually from one long since extinct form of ape; that the immediate progenitors of man in the long series of his vertebrate ancestry were apes, or ape-like animals. Virchow denying this, Haeckel asks him to explain how man did appear. If the evolution of man is not true, what is true? If there are no facts to prove that this is true, where are the facts to prove any other conceivable hypothesis? Haeckel quotes the statement of Huxley that "in every single visible character man differs less from the higher apes than these do from the lower members of the same order." He does not believe that Virchow knows what he is talking about when he dissents from the truths established by Darwin. It is possible he thinks that Virchow has run over the works of that great naturalist, but never studied them. To his mind evolution is a fact, and the genesis of man, being shown by such a mass of evidence, he thinks that both have been reclaimed from the domain of speculation and should be freely taught. It being true, there can only follow therefrom the very best of results.
DR. MARVIN has received 400 new chairs for the University. These chairs are models of convenience and usefulness, and were designed according to a plan of the Doctor's. They are large and roomy, and besides have on the right side front an inclined writing-board for taking notes.
The University, now as heretofore, is too careless of athletic sports. It would be profitable to organize a ball club. There are yet six weeks of good weather for out-door sport. We have the boys, and all that is wanting is a leader.
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H. H. Jenkins is on the K. P. survey.
Dana Lawrence is in a bank in Atchison.
Sarah I. Stevens will teach near Lawrence.
Lizzie J. Miller will teach in Gardner, Kas.
Albert Molei, of Anderson county, is back.
Bertie Niesley reported for duty on Friday.
Solon T. Williams will not attend this year.
Gracie Houghtelin spent vacation in Topeka.
A. P. Way spent the summer at Les Cynges.
Eudora A. Wade will teach in Douglas county.
Chas. B. Cramer will teach in Douglas county.
Alma Richardson will teach in Junction City.
Samuel M. Smith is at home near Florence,
Kas.
Jessie A. Austin will teach school in Neodesha.
Stuart Henry has a position in a bank of Abilene.
Miss Flora Hadley spent the summer in Chicago.
Al. P. Connor spent the summer at Dodge City.
The Misses Miles returned to the University Friday.
Miss Helen W. Bay will visit Lawrence in October.
H. S. Tremper, '76, is practicing law in Stockton, Kan.
Wm. E. Stevens will teach school in Spring Hill, Kas.
Wm. T. Byrd will remain on his farm near Lawrence.
Joseph W. Brigham will teach in Independence, Kas.
C. S. Gleed, of Kansas City, spent Sunday in Lawrence.
Al. Caldwell, of Allen county, has entered the University.
Howard Fee returned from Pittsburg, Penn., last week.
N. A. Boles is the teacher of the sixth grade, city schools.
Gertrude Eaton will remain at Russell the coming year.
Howard Smith has returned from his home in Mound City.
A. C. Scott, '77, is first assistant in the public schools of Iola.
PERSONALS.
H. H. Jenkins is on the K. P. survey. Dana Lawrence is in a bank in Atchison.
Sarah I. Stevens will teach near Lawrence.
Lizzie J. Miller will teach in Gardner, Kas. Albert Molei, of Anderson county, is back.
Bertie Niesley reported for duty on Friday. Solon T. Williams will not attend this year. Gracie Houghtelin spent vacation in Topeka.
A. P. Way spent the summer at Les Cynges.
Eudora A. Wade will teach in Douglas county.
Chas. B. Cramer will teach in Douglas county Alma Richardson will teach in Junction City.
Samuel M. Smith is at home near Florence, Kas.
Jessie A. Austin will teach school in Neodesha.
Stuart Henry has a position in a bank of Abilene.
The Misses Miles returned to the University Friday.
Miss Flora Hadley spent the summer in Chicago.
Al. P. Connor spent the summer at Dodge City.
Miss Helen W. Bay will visit Lawrence in October.
H. S. Tremper, '76, is practicing law in Stockton, Kan.
Wm. E. Stevens will teach school in Spring Hill, Kas.
Wm. T. Byrd will remain on his farm near Lawrence.
Joseph W. Brigham will teach in Independence, Kas.
C. S. Gleed, of Kansas City, spent Sunday in Lawrence.
Howard Fee returned from Pittsburg, Penn., last week.
Al. Caldwell, of Allen county, has entered the University.
N. A. Boles is the teacher of the sixth grade, city schools.
Gertrude Eaton will remain at Russell the coming year.
Miss May Anthony returned from Mound City on Monday.
Miss Lou Jones, a student of '78, enters school again this fall.
Hosea Chamberlin, of Humboldt, is expected in a short time.
Miss Jessie King, of Burlingame, attended camp-meeting.
W. G. Raymond has returned from a three months survey.
Miss Alice A. Collier spent the vacation at Longmont, Col.
Charles K. Douglas is visiting the crowned heads of Europe.
Miss Josie Brown, one of our fair Preps., will return to the fold.
James De Moss and sister are among the old students returned.
Misses Lizzie and Sadie McCann will not return to school this year.
Miss Carrie Hayward, of Burlingame, will attend the K. S. U.
J. W. Gleed, '79, went to Denver last week to look after his sheep?
Mr. D. J. Rankin, the champion walker, is home from the West.
Frank E. Bristol, of St. Louis, will enter the University in October.
Frank Smith, of Carlisle, will enter the Junior Class in November.
Miss Hattie Baker will resume her studies at the K. S. U. in October.
Mamie Woodward spent the summer with friends in Philadelphia.
James W. Gleed is assistant professor in Latin in the State University.
C. W. Stevenson is visiting his cousins and his aunts in Wisconsin.
Harry Walker is a new student from Greeley, Anderson county, Kas.
John Walker is engaged on the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern.
Effie Houghton, of Lee's Summit, Mo., has come back to Lawrence.
Mary J. Williams, of Darlington, I. T., has come back to enter school.
A. L. Perry and Pliny L. Soper came in on the A., T. & S. F. Saturday.
Frank Day Hutchings spent the summer at his home in Osage Mission, Kan.
Howard Smith has returned from his home in Mound City.
A. C. Scott, '77, is first assistant in the public schools of Iola.
Miss May Anthony returned from Mound City on Monday.
Miss Lou Jones, a student of '78, enters school again this fall.
Hosea Chamberlin, of Humboldt, is expected in a short time.
Miss Jessie King, of Burlingame, attended camp-meeting.
W. G. Raymond has returned from a three months survey.
Miss Alice A. Collier spent the vacation at Longmont, Col.
Charles K. Douglas is visiting the crowned heads of Europe.
Miss Josie Brown, one of our fair Preps., will return to the fold.
James De Moss and sister are among the old students returned.
Misses Lizzie and Sadie McCann will not return to school this year.
Miss Carrie Hayward, of Burlingame, will attend the K. S. U.
J. W. Gleed, '79, went to Denver last week to look after his sheep?
Mr. D. J. Rankin, the champion walker, is home from the West.
Frank E. Bristol, of St. Louis, will enter the University in October.
Frank Smith, of Carlisle, will enter the Junior Class in November.
Miss Hattie Baker will resume her studies at the K. S. U. in October.
Mamie Woodward spent the summer with friends in Philadelphia.
James W. Gleed is assistant professor in Latin in the State University.
C. W. Stevenson is visiting his cousins and his aunts in Wisconsin.
Harry Walker is a new student from Greeley, Anderson county, Kas.
John Walker is engaged on the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern.
Effie Houghton, of Lee's Summit, Mo., has come back to Lawrence.
Mary J. Williams, of Darlington, I. T., has come back to enter school.
A. L. Perry and Pliny L. Soper came in on the A., T. & S. F. Saturday.
Frank Day Hutchings spent the summer at his home in Osage Mission, Kan.
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Homer J. Hendricks, the festive Junior, is again on the war path.
S. O. Henry attended camp-meeting as a member of the Abilene band.
J. W. Wallace, the great lemonade man, will probably not return this year.
Miss Mamie Grew, of Independence, Kas., has spent the last week in the city.
Miss Eva Taylor, of De Soto, will not return to school until the second session.
Prof. Schlegel returned to Lawrence, from her extended Eastern trip, Sunday.
Ed. Messervy spent a few days in Kansas City with W. G. Raymond last week.
Mina E. Marvin has returned from a visit at her former home in Pennsylvania.
Wm. Osborn, '77, is now preaching in the M. E. Church, West Las Animas, Col.
Willie Arms, of Humboldt, expects to return to the University after the holidays.
W. G. Raymond, transit-man on the K. P. survey, has returned to the University.
Miss Hattie Reddick returned from Solomon City, and will attend the University.
Frank Webster rambled over the Rocky mountains and came back strong as a lion.
Miss Gertie Bullene, '77, and Miss Kate Morrow, spent the summer in Wisconsin.
R. A. Ballinger, formerly of the University, attended the Liberal meeting Sunday.
Misses Mary and Sadie Schumucker, of Ellsworth, will teach school during the year.
Andrew Reddick returned from Abilene to take up his cross and follow the Faculty.
A class for gymnastics is being organized to meet Friday afternoons in Turner's Hall.
Col. Nelson McClees, Jr., the gentleman of many titles, spent the summer in Wichita.
Walter E. Tostevin, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, joins us this year. A capital good fellow.
The official business of Charles McCoy has kept the young man from town all summer.
Prof. Snow, Miss Annie E. Mozley and L. L. Dyche returned from Colorado last Monday.
Harry Downs, M. D., and A. H. Cobb, former students, were in Lawrence during the week.
Carl A. Peters left Lawrence for St. Louis on Thursday. We understand he will not return.
Pliny L. Soper, Assistant District Clerk of Doniphan County, will continue his slow walking matches.
Homer J. Hendricks, the festive Junior, is again on the war path.
S. O. Henry attended camp-meeting as a member of the Abilene band.
J. W. Wallace, the great lemonade man, will probably not return this year.
Miss Mamie Grew, of Independence, Kas., has spent the last week in the city.
Miss Eva Taylor, of De Soto, will not return to school until the second session.
Ed. Messervy spent a few days in Kansas City with W.G.Raymond last week.
Prof. Schlegel returned to Lawrence, from her extended Eastern trip, Sunday.
Mina E. Marvin has returned from a visit at her former home in Pennsylvania.
Wm. Osborn, '77, is now preaching in the M. Church, West Las Animas, Col.
Willie Arms, of Humboldt, expects to return the University after the holidays.
W. G. Raymond, transit-man on the K. P. survey, has returned to the University.
Miss Gertie Bullene, '77, and Miss Kate Morrow, spent the summer in Wisconsin.
Frank Webster rambled over the Rocky mountains and came back strong as a lion.
R. A. Ballinger, formerly of the University, attended the Liberal meeting Sunday.
Miss Hattie Reddick returned from Solomon City, and will attend the University.
Misses Mary and Sadie Schumucker, of Ellseth will teach school during the year.
Andrew Reddick returned from Abilene to be up his cross and follow the Faculty.
A class for gymnastics is being organized to not Friday afternoons in Turner's Hall.
Col. Nelson McClees, Jr., the gentleman of new titles, spent the summer in Wichita.
The official business of Charles McCoy has kept the young man from town all summer.
Walter E. Tostevin, of Council Bluffs, Iowa joins us this year. A capital good fellow.
Prof. Snow, Miss Annie E. Mozley and L. L. Dyche returned from Colorado last Monday.
Harry Downs, M. D., and A. H. Cobb, former students, were in Lawrence during the week.
Lillie B. Nason, the accomplished young lady from New York City, will attend the University.
Miss Carrie Watson, '77, and Miss Julia Watson, returned from a long visit in New England on Saturday.
C. S. Walker, having taken a position in Bowman's grocery house, will not attend the University this year.
Prof. H. S. S. Smith visited the engineering boys in camp on the Blue. He sleeps sound on a shake-down.
J. O. Hays and George T. Scott, of Ottawa, and Erasmus Hayworth, of Lostine, returned during the week.
George C. Smith, the sweet singer, whiled away the summer hours looking after the Bismarck Tabernacle.
Frank Finney, a former student and commercial traveler for Himoe & Co., will attend the University this year.
Austin Hawley and W. C. Spangler, of Girard, Kas., after attending commencement, have decided to stay with us.
C. W. Smith, '76, spent a few days in town last week making himself agreeable. He is now a rising young lawyer.
Frank Todd, J. Gabriel Smith, H. M. Lewers and Harry Bullene, helped along the temperance cause by their presence.
Mr. R. H. Wright, of Dodge City, Kas., formerly of the Agricultural College, will attend the University this year.
Ed. F. Burnett, the distinguished artist of former years, is now traveling agent for the Kansas City Journal of Commerce.
Norris M. Grist, who attended the University in '77 and '78, will study at the Manhattan Agricultural College this year.
Mr. W. L. P. Burney will not return this year, but will enlighten the natives of Illinois in the immediate vicinity of Lincoln College.
Mr. W. H. Carruth, who has been pursuing special studies at Amherst, has come home to engage in his work at the University.
Miss Carrie Cain leaves on Thursday for Cincinnati, where she will continue her education, devoting herself especially to music.
Bert and Charles Casmire and Howard Powers, of Iola, enter the University. This makes eight in all from Iola, which gives that place the greatest number, proportionately, of any town in the State, Lawrence excepted.
Carl A. Peters left Lawrence for St. Louis on Thursday. We understand he will not return.
Pliny L. Soper, Assistant District Clerk of Doniphan County, will continue his slow walking matches.
Lillie B. Nason, the accomplished young lady from New York City, will attend the University.
Miss Carrie Watson, '77, and Miss Julia Watson, returned from a long visit in New England on Saturday.
C. S. Walker, having taken a position in Bowman's grocery house, will not attend the University this year.
Prof. H. S. S. Smith visited the engineering boys in camp on the Blue. He sleeps sound on a shake-down.
J. O. Hays and George T. Scott, of Ottawa, and Erasmus Hayworth, of Lostine, returned during the week.
George C. Smith, the sweet singer, whiled away the summer hours looking after the Bismarck Tabernacle.
Frank Finney, a former student and commercial traveler for Himoe & Co., will attend the University this year.
Austin Hawley and W. C. Spangler, of Girard, Kas., after attending commencement, have decided to stay with us.
C. W. Smith, '76, spent a few days in town last week making himself agreeable. He is now a rising young lawyer.
Frank Todd, J. Gabriel Smith, H. M. Lewers and Harry Bullene, helped along the temperance cause by their presence.
Mr. R. H. Wright, of Dodge City, Kas., formerly of the Agricultural College, will attend the University this year.
Ed. F. Burnett, the distinguished artist of former years, is now traveling agent for the Kansas City Journal of Commerce.
Norris M. Grist, who attended the University in '77 and '78, will study at the Manhattan Agricultural College this year.
Mr. W. L. P. Burney will not return this year, but will enlighten the natives of Illinois in the immediate vicinity of Lincoln College.
Mr. W. H. Carruth, who has been pursuing special studies at Amherst, has come home to engage in his work at the University.
Miss Carrie Cain leaves on Thursday for Cincinnati, where she will continue her education, devoting herself especially to music.
Bert and Charles Casmire and Howard Powers, of Iola, enter the University. This makes eight in all from Iola, which gives that place the greatest number, proportionately, of any town in the State, Lawrence excepted.
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Chas. B. McDonald, of the Fort Scott National Bank, returned Tuesday; also Edmund Butler, who has been recuperating at Eastern watering places.
Wm. M. Thacher, ex-editor of Pastime, has been quartered at Bismarck during the various camp-meetings in the interest of the Lawrence Journal.
Ed. Melville, who was a student last year, returned from Texas in July, and has been very sick since, but we are glad to say he is now recovering.
Kate Thrasher and Dora Fast, of Iola, will not return to school this year. Miss Fast is assistant in the recorder's office, and Miss Thrasher in the public schools.
TWENTY YEARS IN WASHINGTON.
How few people stop to think in the anxieties and annoyances of a busy life of the importance of events that are happening around them every day. Mankind is prone to exaggerate occurrences of a former generation, and to regard with indifference events of the highest importance that occur during their own lives. But when we go back twenty years and note what has happened under our own eyes, the human mind can scarcely comprehend the changes time has wrought.
Mr. George W. Adams, twenty years ago, sent the Washington dispatches to the first number of the New York World, and in all its changing fortunes he has remained its correspondent until now. What an eventful period in our history! When Mr. Adams, who is yet a young man, being scarcely over forty years of age, began newspaper work here, slaves were bought, sold, whipped and killed in this city, and from the steps of the then domeless Capitol the slave pens of Washington could be pointed out. Now the most lucrative local office in the city is held by a negro (Fred Douglas), himself a former bondman, and another negro (Mr. Cook) collects the city taxes. Still another (Prof. Langston) is a United States minister to a foreign government. Other negroes have sat with credit in both branches of Congress.
Mr. Adams witnessed the inauguration of President Lincoln and described it in the World. He saw and described the withdrawal of the rebels from both branches of Congress and he heard and reported their speeches, and he has seen their return. Then came secession, the flight of secessionists South, the declaration of
war, the fall of Sumpter, the march of twenty thousand, fifty thousand, an hundred thousand men through Washington whose footsteps shook the hemisphere. Great battles followed. Mangled bodies flowed back with the tide of battle and great hospitals went up like magic. Other troops came tumbling in from the North, the ceaseless tramp, tramp of infantry, the clatter of the iron hoof of cavalry and the dull rumble of artillery filled the streets. All these things did Mr. Adams see and write about.
What a place was Washington then! A city of mud and mould, with not an hundred fine buildings in town, and not a dozen handsome private structures; no school-houses, no hospitals, no markets, poor churches, no pavements, a few shade trees, mud knee deep in every street! It is not too much to say that it was the most wretched city in the country. What is it to-day? The most beautiful city of the world, with finer parks, a greater variety of foliage, wider streets, better pavements, better school-houses, costlier markets and more fine residences than any city of its size at home or abroad. An hundred thousand shade trees were set out here in two years, and they now wrap the city in a mantle of green.
The battles went in front of Washington, and all the terrible news, terrible whether victory or defeat went with our banner, was filtered through this city. Adams got his share of it, believe me. What the country owes to the Washington correspondents of those days the people never will know and certainly never will pay. Finally came the surrender at Appomattox, and Adams was again ahead, his being the first press disputed that went North announcing Lee's surrender. Bender, now night manager of the Western Union Telegraph office in this city, testifies to this fact. Then came the grand review of Grant's and Sherman's armies in this city, and then, on that unhappy April night, the killing of Lincoln, at which the world trembled in awe. Here was Adams again. He was on the pavement in front of Ford's Theatre. He saw Miss Laura Keene, who told him that Wilkes Booth had done the deed, and Adams sent the first dispatch North announcing this event. What rivalry among the newspaper men for news of the conspiracy and conspirators and the murderer and his accomplices. What sleepless nights and anxious waking moments. The details of a great battle where thousands fell were not so eagerly sought as news of these few flying fugitives. Following close were the capture, the trial and the hanging of the conspirators. Stir-
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ring times were those, and the correspondent's pencil was worn and weary when midnight came.
It was Adam's good fortune to be intimate with Andrew Johnson, and the World of the day will show some excellent work. Adams was always both lucky and skillful in the matter of Presidents' messages and reports of the Secretaries of the Treasury—in those days of sensational importance. I remember on one occasion he created a great excitement, not only among correspondents, but in the Treasury Department and in Congress. He printed, in the World, a report of Secretary McCulloch to Congress in advance of its delivery, and there was the greatest excitement for a time. Rival correspondents were reprimanded from their home offices, and McCulloch fumed and tore around like a mad bull. Investigations followed, but where the report came from was never known. It was a tremendous piece of news. Wall street operators had offered a thousand dollars for the report, and newspapers were eager for it at any price. Gen. Schenck was then chairman of the ways and means committee, and it was his copy that Adams got hold of. The following year Adams was not so lucky, but he could not get along without the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and sure enough the World came out with a column or two of the report. There was another excitement, but it was of short duration. When the Secretary came to examine the last "report" he found that it was a clever putting-together of his well-known ideas, and the insertion of figures attainable by anybody. It was at this time that Mr. McCulloch made use of the remark now so common on the "Row," namely, "What is true in that report (meaning Adams') is old, and what is new is false."
Then came the swinging round the circle by President Johnson, his intemperate speeches and his intemperate drinking, and then his impeachment. Adams, in all these stirring times, was in charge of the World's interests in this city, and responsible for the tone of the dispatches and for the news. The trial of Johnson was an important epoch in our history. It was the first time a President was ever put on trial of impeachment. Later events are well known, but in all of them Mr. Adams in common with other correspondents figured conspicuously. In the Catacazy trouble, Mr. Adams was the figure behind Secretary Fish. It is a short story. Catacazy, the Russian minister, was a rascally little intriguer, and was no doubt pecuniarily interested in the celebrated Perkins claim. He wrote
letters attacking Secretary Fish, and President Grant—going so far as to say that he was corrupt. He wanted to attack them covertly while flattering them to their faces. These letters were printed in the World. He overreached himself and told certain facts inadvertently which were known to nobody except Grant, Fish and himself. Thus Fish caught him. Mr. Adam's manly conduct in this transaction made of Mr. Fish a sincere friend. When Adams found that Catacazy was using him as an instrument to vent his private spleen and injure the relations between the United States and Russia, he told Mr. Fish who wrote the articles in the World. Adams' correspondence with Mr. Fish in this important matter, which came near severing the friendship between the two countries, is preserved in a public document printed by order of Congress. Mr. Fish, in an official letter demanding the recall of Catacazy, referred to a correspondence he had had with Mr. Adams, and alluded to him as "the very intelligent, careful and reputable head of the office in this city of the New York World."
The campaign of 1876, the bitter contest, the doubt, the Electoral Commission, the countingin (perhaps I ought to say the election) of Mr. Hayes—these facts are remembered by all. It is enough to say here that Mr. Adams figured conspicuously in the political intrigues of the time. He represented the leading Democratic paper of the country, and he had to know, and did know, what was going on.
I have referred to some of the most important events that have occurred in the past twenty years and which many have forgotten and few ever refer to. People do not seem to know what an important age they live in. Mr. Adams has simply served to show how soon important history is trodden under foot in the onward march of destiny. In political life how many he has seen come and go—high in position one day, and inflated with their own importance; the next day out of office and sunk so low that none would do them reverence.
Mr. Adams, in leaving Newspaper Row, leaves behind him many good fellows who sincerely regret his departure. His form has become a landmark in that much-abused section—abused, believe me, more than it deserves to be. In the twenty-odd years of service Adams has been pre-eminent for his trustworthiness. He was never a brilliant writer, but he has always been a reliable one. He was never at a loss to state a point squarely and strongly, but he has always
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cared little for metaphors and fine writing. He was, however, in his early days a profuse letter-writer, and as a correspondent was sought on every hand. Before he entered the service of the World he was the correspondent of several provincial papers, and while serving the Charleston Courier, he received the first news in this city from its editor announcing the secession of South Carolina. He reported the Sickles trial for the Philadelphia Bulletin, and sent it in full by telegraph, an unusual feat in those days for an afternoon paper. In the early days of his reporting he took the roll-call of the House, and while acting in that capacity he witnessed the funny scene during an all-night session, when Grow, now a candidate for the English mission, pulled the wig off of Barksdale, of Mississippi, and knocked him down in the bargain. Mr. Adams has always been the most popular of men among his associates of the guild. He was twice elected the president of the Washington Correspondents' Club, which was the most high-toned affair of the kind ever in Washington. Presidents, Cabinet Ministers and Senators sought invitations to its dinners. But it was, like Mercutio, too funny to live. Its last dinner was given to Africanus Stanley, and Mr. Adams presided. Generals Grant and Sherman were there, besides Vice President Wilson, and over an hundred Senators and members.
Mr. Adams leaves the World in order to assume the presidency of the Evening Star Company, to which office he has just been elected. Ten years ago he put a few thousand dollars into that paper and that lucky investment he has never regretted. Mr.Kaufmann,the late president of the company,and an equal partner with Mr.Noyes,the editor,and Mr.Adams,retires from office, though not from ownership,on account of ill health.
In bidding Adams good-bye, the good fellows on the "Row" cannot do better than repeat poor old Rip Van Winkle's toast: "Here's your good health and your family's, and may you all live long and prosper!" and drink it in the strongest of potations.—Republic.
MARRIED.
PATRICK—LEWIS. The COURIER takes great delight in announcing that since its last issue Professor Patrick was married to Hattie Lewis, a former University student, and a young lady widely and favorably known in the best society. Professor Patrick and wife have the best wishes of all their wide circle of friends.
CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM CONEY ISLAND.
The Courier takes the liberty of publishing the following letter from a student who spent some time at Coney Island :
"Many persons, visiting the beach for the first time, are surprised at the character and variety of the visitors. The cities, of course, send nearly all the patrons of the hotels, Americans, Germans, English and Jews predominating, though one may see representatives of almost every country.
"Coney Island is about fifty minutes ride from New York City, and is reached both by rail and boat. I went to the Hotel Brighton, an imposing structure, with a front of 550 feet. Ranging along the entire front and sides of the hotel are piazzas sixty feet broad, and capable of seating some eight thousand people.
"The elevation gives a delightful view of the beach and vicinity. But the hotel itself is the greatest sight. The rooms are large, airy, and about three hundred in number. One of the features of all the hotels is the music. Some of the best performers in the country have permanent engagements with these hotels. Among the best are Newendorff, Thomas and Levy.
"But that which most interested your correspondent was the bill of fare. This is too long to print entire, so I send you a few quotations :
Roasted Clam. $ .50
" Chicken. 1.50
Turtle Soup. .40
Salmon. .50
Coffee. .15
"But here I will stop for fear the boys may become frightened at these prices, and all the patronage be driven away. ..."
QUITE a lengthy article appeared in the August number of Harper's Monthly, discussing the abuses of the eye, and more particularly the light used at night. Most all of our students do their studying at night, and a few words in this connection will not be amiss. A poor lamp should not be used under any circumstances. The light such a lamp gives strains the eyes in order to read the print at all. As a consequence a dull pain will be felt above the eyebrows after an hour or two of study, the student becomes restless, and is practically unfitted for work. A lamp, with good burners, can be purchased for $1.25, at the most, and if never "faced" while studying, will afford the student all the light he needs and a clear brain and strong eyes for the next day's work.
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THE LIBRARY OF CALEB CUSHING.
[From the New York Times.]
The late Hon. Caleb Cushing, whose wonderful mental powers were the admiration of all who knew him, gathered about him during his eventful life a collection of books widely differing from those to be found in any other private collection of the same size in this or any other country. To those who saw his library in his own home it externally presented but little attraction. Each volume was plainly and neatly covered with brown paper, and assigned to its place in the plain book-shelves which formed his book-cases, and there was nothing to show whether volumes were bound in the choicest of bindings or the plainest cloth, boards, or even paper covers, for all were clothed in the uniform covering. Himself an indefatigable worker, his books were his tools, and he took especial pains to provide himself with a full and valuable kit in the branches of literary work to which he gave his particular attention. He has the reputation of having been a remarkable linguist; not as a philologist and student of language, but as possessor of a marvelous faculty and aptness for acquiring a language and attaining proficiency in reading its literature. That he was perfectly familiar with French, Spanish (as used in Spain and also in Mexico and the South American provinces), Italian, Portuguese and German, is evident from the number of books in these languages in his collection. In it are to be found not only many first editions of Greek authors, works on Jus gentium in Latin, histories of governments from the famous Elzevir press, but Vattel, Grotius, Ortolan, Guerard, Duplessy, Martens, Pradier-Fodere, Jouffroy, Bello, Picard, Carvalho, Luchesi-Palli, Hautefeuille, Cauchy, Pardessus, Eschbach, Heff, Rocco, Wheaton, Lawrence, Atherdi, Calvo, Pujos, Mackintosh, Proudhon, Cussy, Villiaume, Pacheco, Sclopis, McCulloch, Dumesnil, and a host of other leading authors in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hortuguese, Dutch, etc., on the Law of Nations, International Law, Maritime Law, and kindred topics.
There is a fine collection of early works on the history of Spain, including "La Cronica Hispana," 1495, in black letter, and a full set of "Las Cronicas y Memorias de los Reyes de Castilla," seven volumes, Madrid, 1879-'87. The history of Mexico and the Spanish Provinces is quite fully represented. The collection of books relating to Mexico, its revolutions, and its laws, decrees, and numerous governments, is very
complete, and includes a large number of Mexican pamphlets, and several bound volumes of official newspapers. The South American provinces, Colombia and the Argentine Republic, are also well represented. There are several fine Spanish dictionaries, and also French, German, Portuguese, and Dutch.
Another very interesting feature of the collection is the large number of works relating to China and the Chinese about the time of the English opium war, and subsequently. It may not be generally known that Mr. Cushing was our first minister to China, and that in about one year's time he acquired a sufficient knowledge of the language to negotiate the first treaty between that nation and the United States. In addition to the English works on China referred to, there are Chinese vocabularies and dictionaries, and several hundred Chinese books in their curious, but very neat and compact, folding-cases. These comprise general histories of China, encyclopedias, stories, biographies, statistics of geology and productions, essays, the Sacred Edict, the Four Books, with commentaries, educational books, the Bible in Chinese, etc., many of them in imperial editions and illustrated, probably presented to Mr. Cushing by the Chinese Government. There are two sets of the New Testament in the Mantchoo or Tartar language, with the Imperial Mantchoo Dictionary in Mantchoo and Chinese in forty-four volumes. This is an exceedingly valuable collection of Chinese books, and should find a place en masse in the National Library at Washington, or in some one of our college libraries. In view of the recent arrival of a Chinese professor at Harvard, it would seem eminently fitting that these books should form the nucleus of a Chinese collection in the college library.
There are quite a number of Mr. Cushing's official visiting cards printed in Chinese, with the characters "Ku Shing" on strips of red paper nine and seven-eighths inches in length by four and three-quarters in width, and many of his books have a small book-plate with the same characters below "C. Cushing," in plain Roman caps. Mr. Cushing, while a laborious student, was also a great novel-reader, and hundreds of the best French, Spanish, and Mexican novels, in the originals, give evidence of his method of relaxing his mind from arduous study. Strangely enough, there are no English novels in the whole collection, save four or five of Scott's, one by Disraeli, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin." There is also a very full collection of publications relating
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to the Alabama claims, English official documents, and many publications in French, as well as in English.
The tout ensemble of the library is unique and characteristic of its collector. It illustrates his great versatility and eminent abilities, and also those peculiarities which kept him from taking the prominent position as a statesman which his abilities qualified him to fill.
The library is now at the auction rooms of Messrs. Sullivan Brothers & Libbie, No. 2 Beacon street, Boston, where it will be sold early in October. The catalogue is now in the printer's hands, and will be ready for distribution by the 15th inst. It will richly repay examination.
CLOUD LAND.
At the risk of being called sentimental and poetical, I have chosen a subject as variable as the passing wind and as high as the heavens above us. With what intense interest and delight we have gazed in our childhood's hours at the blue sky and the cloud-curtains that sometimes intervened. In our youthful imagination we have pictured in the fleecy, floating cloud-masses many beautiful and sublime images. Now assuming the form and features of an old man who is looking serenely and complacently upon the world below; again taking the shape of a carriage which is driven by fairy hands and drawn by fairy steeds through the pathless air; or that of a fairy boat sailing upon the upper deep toward some unknown celestial harbor far away in space; at other times assuming the form and the rugged outline of a mountain range with its peaks and plateaux. Oh, how often with dreamful eyes we have gazed upon these fading, changing pictures! How we have longed to stand on those shadowy mountain peaks and to ride upon the "wings of the wind"" in the fairy boat up to the "walls of Paradise!"
This was the bright side, the "silver lining of the cloud theme. We remember, too, that when the bright sunlight was shut out, often for entire days, what a feeling of dejection and despondency was thrown around us; how we longed for the cheering rays to shine out and dispel the gloom. The life of every individual and every nation has times of joy and sorrow, the sunshine giving place to shadow, and brightness dispelling the clouds. Many an over-sensitive person has been blinded by the sunlight of prosperity or overwhelmed by clouds of adversity. The sunlight of happiness has been driven away by a
word or look which strikes the sensitive feelings too harshly.
A near friend has been carried away to a quiet nook in the cemetery, and a cloud has settled upon that household. Disease sometimes throws a shadow over our lives which shuts out the sunshine and joy of life and clouds our prospects of Heaven.
Our country has had its war-clouds, which have deluged it in blood. A storm is now brewing which threatens to be more destructive than any of our past history; which threatens to revolutionize society and take away all that is held dear to modern civilization.
Modern socialism, which has had its origin in Germany and its first great agitator in the person of Ferdinand Lassalle, is spreading rapidly. Permeating, as it does, the intellectual classes of Germany, it has spread into Russia. It has taken root in the universities of the latter country, and has assumed a threatening aspect under the name of Nihilism. It has found a lodgment upon our shores among the discontented laboring classes. By an act of the German Reichstag two million Socialists were deprived of their constitutional rights. These are secretly encouraged and aided by the German Chancellor to emigrate to the United States. They bring with them their Socialistic ideas. Every month adds fresh recruits to their ranks in America. A large majority of them are Germans, and their leaders are from the Fatherland. They are organized into a party under the name of the Socialistic Labor Party. Article X. of their platform reads as follows: "All conspiracy laws operating against the right of workingmen to strike or induce others to strike shall be repealed." It is easy to see what would follow from carrying out this declaration. Universal anarchy, confusion and bloodshed would be the consequence. A writer in the North American Review says: "To the indigent and ignorant laborer, indeed we must confess that the whole scheme of the new social order wears a most alluring aspect. It is easy to picture the Arcadian Utopia which rises in his ravished fancy. Universal brotherhood, comfort and plenty, free railways, free telegraphs, free theaters and amusements, gratuitous instruction, an end to imprisonment, an end to caste, materialism to replace religion, the State the universal, sole proprietor and administrator of the entire industry of the country; state help in every direction; all men to feed and fatten at the public crib; in fact an end to care and trouble, an era of contentment such as distinguished the home of Evan-
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geline, where the richest was poor and the poorest lived in abundance." Speaking of the dangers that may arise from this organization, the same writer says: "On the eve of grave events, our people are even more sanguine than those of other countries. It was so before the great war of Secession. It was so before the strikes of '76. We are far from disposed to predict that the Commune will rage or reign here tomorrow or next day. The industries of the country wear for the present an improved aspect. But the dark hour of commercial depression must come again so surely as the night succeeds the day. The plant which has found root in our soil must be killed before it bursts into full bloom. The powerful and growing organization which now honeycombs the country, must be laid low before we forget the smouldering fires of Pittsburg and the insurrection which extended over fourteen States of the Union." C. G. U.
LITERARY NOTES,
Scribner's Monthly for October contains a long list of well-written, entertaining articles on the following subjects: "Ups and Downs in Leadville;” “Field Sports in Minnesota;” “Edison's System of Fast Telegraphing;” “Rio de Janiero;” “Journalism;” "English Spelling and Spelling Reform;" and many other short articles.
The Atlantic Monthly, which has the reputation of being the most exclusive magazine in this country, is out for October. It is generally asserted that no one, unless he is a Boston man, or has some other distinguished characteristic, can be admitted to its pages. The contents of the present number disposes of this criticism. The articles are from writers whose reputations are but beginning to be made. However they compare favorably with older and better known contributions.
The articles of the most interest to the West are "The Attack Upon Constitutional Government in America;"" Socialism in Germany;"" Some Labor Reform Theories," and "Albert Gallatin." We say of most interest to the West, for while there are many other well-written essays on art and general literature, they are not the ones to which Western men, full of energy and business, are attracted. We print elsewhere an outline of the article on "Some Labor Reform Theories." It contains truths which in these days of mistaken notions of the relations of labor and capital should be more emphatically affirmed.
The Literary News-All About the New Books Published by F. E. Grant, 678 Broadway, New York.
The charge is often brought against college students that, however learned and skilled in their specialties, and every-day work, they are remarkably ignorant of what is now going on in the world of letters and art. It is not altogether their fault, however, even granting that the charge be a truth; for we, who are closeted with Plato and Aristotle, with Berkeley and Mill, with Gibbon and Guizot—can an amount of knowledge concerning the present be expected from us, equal to that of those freed from this thralldom? The world, before it complains, should provide a way out of the difficulty. The little pamphlet before us does this satisfactorily. It contains a list of all the new publications, as well as of old friends, in a new dress, and has copies from the critical notices of the press in regard to some of the most important of these. Clippings from some of the best writers are presented, together with two or three columns of news fresh from the publishers. Altogether this is the best thing of the sort we have yet seen. It is small and condensed; it is exceedingly cheap (25 cents per annum); it is a monthly production, and is therefore a frequent visitor, and we would advise all our literary students to subscribe to this worthy little sheet.
SOME LABOR REFORM THEORIES.
Our friends regard the production and perpetuation of wealth as being due almost entirely to labor. They often say that laboring men—as distinct from the class of capitalists and cultivated people—have created the wealth of the country, and it is sometimes added that it justly belongs to them. The working people do not generally understand how much the production and existence of wealth depend upon other elements than mere muscular exertion. They do not appreciate the part which is performed by cultivated men and capitalists in organizing and equipping business enterprises, in adapting production to the markets of the world, and in so directing the labor of multitudes of men and the use of costly machinery as not to impair the capital invested. They do not even understand clearly that the destruction of capital ruins the laborers of the country by destroying the business which gives them employment. Many laborers think they are in some way benefited by all the losses sustained by capitalists. Wealth is not so stable or permanent as our friends believe. It is of a sensitive nature, and does not bear rough
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handling. It is easy to destroy the value of any kind of property or investment by injurious legislation or mischievous municipal administration. But many men believe that by means of legislation "in the interests of labor," and by severe taxation, most of the wealth now in the possession of rich men and corporations can be transferred, without impairment, to the hands of the working people. I think the actual result, if their plans could be carried out, would be the gradual annihilation and expulsion of the wealth of the country. There would no longer be any disparity of conditions between rich and poor, because all would be poor alike. Our organized industries would be destroyed. All machinery which requires the co-operation of many laborers would be disused, and we should be compelled to return to the conditions and methods of life of the days before the introduction of labor-saving machinery, when the people of our country depended almost wholly upon agriculture and such manufactures as could be carried on in their homes. The world's wealth will not be perpetuated or reproduced if the essential conditions under which it has been created are destroyed.
Might does not make right or justice on the side of the people, any more than on that of the tyrannical few who are regarded as their oppressors. Excessive taxation is robbery, though the guilt and dishonor of it may be distributed among millions of voters. When the people make a law which compels the capitalists of a city to deliver up their wealth at the doors of the city treasury, for distribution among the laborers of the municipality, in the form of unnecessary and dishonest appropriations for improvements, the act is not more honest because committed by the people under the forms of law. It is not wise to teach the people of our country that nothing in their political action can be wrong or unjust; that robbery and injustice are to be accounted right when perpetrated by the majority by means of the ballot. -Atlantic Monthly.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S TALK TO THE SCHOOL-BOYS.
Quickness in learning, readiness and accuracy in reproducing what is learnt, industry, endurance, these are the qualities, mixed in very various proportions, which are found in boys who win prizes. Now, there is not the smallest doubt that every one of these qualities is of great value in practical life. Upon whatever career you may enter, intellectual quickness, industry, and the
power of bearing fatigue are three great advantages. But I want to impress upon you, and through you upon those who will direct your future course, the conviction which I entertain that, as a general rule, the relative importance of these three qualifications is not rightly estimated, and that there are other qualities, of no less value, which are not directly tested by school competition.A somewhat varied experience of men has led me,the longer I live,to set the less value upon mere cleverness; to attach more and more importance to industry and to physical endurance.
Indeed, I am much disposed to think that endurance is the most valuable quality of all; for industry, as the desire to work hard, does not amount to much, if a feeble frame is unable to respond to the desire. Everybody who has had to make his way in the world must know that, while the occasion for intellectual effort of a high order is rare, it constantly happens that a man's future turns upon his being able to stand a sudden and heavy strain upon his powers of endurance. To a lawyer, a physician, or a merchant it may be everything to be able to work sixteen hours a day for as long as is needful, without knocking up. Moreover, the patience, tenacity, and good humor which are among the most important qualifications for dealing with men are incompatible with an irritable brain, a weak stomach, or a defective circulation.
If any one of you prize-winners were a son of mine (as might have been the case, I am glad to think, on former occasions), and a good fairy were to offer to equip him according to my wishes for the battle of practical life, I should say: "I do not care to trouble you for any more cleverness. Put in as much industry as you can, instead. And, oh! if you please, a broad, deep chest, and a stomach of whose existence he shall never know anything." I should be well content with the prospects of a fellow so endowed. The other point which I wish to impress upon you is, that competitive examination, useful and excellent as it is for some purposes, is only a very partial test of what the winners will be worth in practical life. There are people who are neither very clever, nor very industrious, nor very strong, and who would probably be nowhere in an examination, and who yet exert a great influence, in virtue of what is called force of character. They may not know much; but they take care that what they do know they know well.
They may not be very quick;but the knowledge they acquire sticks. They may not even
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be particularly industrious or enduring; but they are strong of will and firm of purpose, undaunted by fear of responsibility, single-minded and trustworthy. In practical life a man of this sort is worth any number of merely clever and learned people. Of course, I do not mean to imply for a moment that success in examination is incompatible with the possession of character such as I have just defined it; but failure in examination is no evidence of the want of such character. And this leads me to administer, from my point of view, the crumb of comfort which on these occasions is ordinarily offered to those whose names do not appear on the prize-list.
It is quite true that practical life is a kind of long competitive examination, conducted by that severe pedagogue, Professor Circumstance. But my experience leads me to conclude that his marks are given much more for character than for cleverness. Hence, though I have no doubt that those boys who have received prizes to-day have already given rise to a fair hope that the future may see them prominent, perhaps brilliantly distinguished members of society, yet neither do I think it at all unlikely that among the undistinguished crowd there may lie the making of some simple soldier, whose practical sense and indomitable courage may save an army led by characterless cleverness to the brink of destruction; or some plain man of business, who by dint of sheer honesty and firmness may slowly and surely rise to prosperity and honor, when his more brilliant compeers, for lack of character, have gone down, with all who trusted them, to hopeless ruin. Such things do happen.
Hence, let none of you be discouraged. Those who have won prizes have made a good beginning; those who have not may yet make that good ending which is better than a good beginning. No life is wasted unless it ends in sloth, dishonesty, or cowardice. No success is worthy of the name unless it is won by honest industry and brave breasting of the waves of fortune. Unless at the end of life some exhalation of the dawn still hangs about the palpable and the familiar—unless there is some transformation of the real into the best dreams of youth—depend upon it, whatever outward success may have gathered round a man, he is but an elaborate and a mischievous failure.
It has become a settled conclusion with those who have spent a number of years at college that fully one-half the benefit comes from the society work.
In the school you are a listener and learner in the society, a speaker and teacher. At one place you receive, at the other impart information. The one makes you a full man, the other a ready one. No student should think of going through college without being a member of a literary society.
It is the ready man that succeeds everywhere, and nothing will make one a ready man but long and constant practice. The great benefit from the society that is rarely mentioned is of the utmost importance, and that is, it strengthens the memory.
"We are learned, not so far as we have learned, but only as far as we remember." The practice of ready debating fixes facts and principles in the memory that will last for life. It calls up for instant use all the knowledge, not only of dates, facts and theories, but what is of more consequence, of human nature, how to persuade, how to convince, how to present. These are the things that the debater early learns, and the things without which no one can expect to succeed as a public speaker.
A RHYME OF THE TIME.
BY NELLIE G. CONE, IN SCRIBNER'S.
Miss Pallas Eudora Von Blurky She didn't know chicken from turkey; High Spanish and Greek she could fluently speak, But her knowledge of poultry was murky.
She could tell the great-uncle of Moses,
And the dates of the Wars of the Roses,
And the reasons of things—why the Indians wore rings In their red, aboriginal noses!
Why Shakspere was wrong in his grammar, And the meaning of Emerson's "Brahma." And she went chipping rocks with a little black box And a small geological hammer!
She had views upon co-education And the principal needs of the nation, And her glasses were blue,and the number she knew Of the stars in each high constellation.
And she wrote in a hand-writing clerky,
And talked with an emphasis jerky,
And she painted on tiles in the sweetest of styles;
But she didn't know chicken from turkey!
The Paris papers sued by Don Carlos have been acquitted. The Court ruled that, though political personages have a right to respect as regards their private life, it is not certain that a pretender endeavoring to get possession of a throne otherwise than through the regular practice of the institutions of the country, does not place himself in an exceptional position.
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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THEATRE!
26 Nights in December 26
EMMA LELAND,
The Great Emotional Artiste,
And a most carefully-selected support-company.
Mr. Wm. E. YEAGER has made arrangements with this Company to present their
NEW COMEDIES, DRAMAS, AND PLAYS
In December Next.
The high reputation of EMMA LELAND alone should be sufficient inducement to insure crowded houses. Another inducement is the extreme low price of tickets.
SEASON TICKETS Only Two Dollars,
If taken in September.
Tickets and information can be obtained at Geo. Leis & Bros.' Drug Emporium.
PUBLIC SCHOOL BOOKS
AND
UNIVERSITY TEXT-BOOKS
At the Lowest Discount Prices.
Blank Books, Scratch Books, Writing Paper. Drawing Paper and Instruments, Rulers, Pencils. Pens, Ink, Erasers, Book Straps, and everything usually needed by students, at lowest rates.
Gold Pens, Pocket Knives and Razors; also, a full line of Wall Paper, Window Shades, Pictures and Picture Frames, Musical Instruments and Sheet Music.
A. F. BATES,
99 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kas.
For General Satisfaction in SHAVING & HAIR-CUTTING, GO TO MARK ANTHONY.
Shaving 5 Cents, Hair-Cutting 15 Cents, Shampooing 10 Cents, Sea Foam 5 Cents, at
TONSORIAL PARLOR 136 East Massachusetts Street.
"STAR OF THE WEST."
Oldest Barber in the City ; 44 Years Experience. Workmen First-class Artists.
E. L. BRADLEY,
CRYSTAL PALACE BARBER SHOP
Shaving 10 cents, Hair Cutting 25 cents, Shampooing 25 cents. All work neatly done; best barbers in the country to be found here.
J. M. MITCHELL, Propr.
J. C. PENNY
Merchant Tailor.
Special Attention Given to School Suits.
67 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, Kas.
UNIVERSITY COURIER.
BRETT'S BAKERY, 121 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
THE LEADING HOUSE!
GEO. INNES & CO.
Elegant Display of
FALL DRESS GOODS!
Ribbons (Stock Unequaled),
BLACK and COLORED DRESS SILKS, Hosiery, Kid Gloves, Etc.
Particular attention is called to our stock of Corsets, embracing 25 different styles.
Our Fall importation of Shawls and Cloaks just received. A cordial invitation to call and examine our stock is extended to all.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
We cordially invite all TEACHERS, and STUDENTS of the State University to call at our immense stock of
Fashionable Clothing
Especially adapted to this season of the year, such as fine Cassimere Suits; Genuine Black Worsted and Imported Broadcloth Suits. Also Black, Brown and Blue Beaver, Worsted and inchilla Overcoats,
At ALL PRICES, and equal in every respect to the best custom make. Also a large stock of
Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, &c.
We shall always keep the Best, and the Cheapest Stock of first class Clothing ever shown in this vicinity. We consider it no trouble to show our Goods, and our motto is,
"Strictly Square Dealing."
Your obedient servants. STEINBERG BROS 87 Massachusetts Street.
J. B. SUTLIFF, Merchant Tailor.
Good Fits and Entire Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Cloths, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Trunks and Gents' Furnishing Goods.
No. 63 Massachusetts Street.
LAWRENCE, - - KAS.