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Vol. III.
No. 13.
Dec. 5,1896.
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VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 5, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief.
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THE NEBRASKA State Oratorical Association is in a very bad condition. People up that way seem to have lost faith in oratory since election.
Now that the larger universities of the East have abandoned the playing of foot-ball games on Thanksgiving day it is to be expected that smaller institutions will do likewise, and thus avoid the popular criticism which has been aimed at this feature of the sport. It is no discredit to follow a good example, and we believe that the management of the University team should not make any more Thanksgiving dates.
PRINCETON is said to have a stuffed tiger which presides over the destinies of her foot-ball team. And we have been expecting to hear that the Missourians had decided to use taxidermical means to preserve the Columbia tiger which died so suddenly on Thanksgiving day. But the fact is that the tiger in question was entirely too dead to skin, and not even Prof. Dyche could have straightened out the kinks in its much twisted tail.
IF WHEN reading the newspapers on file in the library a student finds anything that pleases him, he should at once proceed to take his knife and cut it out. He will always have it then where he can refer to it. To be sure there are perhaps a hundred other students who will wish to read the same paper and who may be so unreasonable as to think that it ought to have been left unmutilated; but since the papers are kept on file for this one student's especial benefit, and since, in order not to set a bad example, he was careful to do his clipping when nobody was looking, there is really no ground for them to complain. If people knew who he was they might make it uncomfortable for him, but they don't know, and their foolish wrath is as harmless as an ultimatum of the Allied Powers. So let this privileged youth make himself perfectly at home in the newspaper room, and be just as much of a nuisance as he pleases.
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THERE ARE a few alumni—perhaps more than a few—who are always interested in what is being done at the University. We are glad to hear from such, especially when they have suggestions to make on affairs of the day. The following "plea" is especially pertinent at this time.
Editor of the K. U. WEEKLY,
Dear Sir: It does an old Alumnus good to get your eighth-day comments upon current events on Mt. Oread, and to know that the faithful are still combating the powers of darkness from that vantage ground; but once in a great while it does appear-to an old Alumnus--that you have failed to recognize a camp of Sweetness and Light.
Now improvement is a very good thing, and so is blue grass, and a brass band no doubt accompanies the onward march of civilization; but really, Mr. Editor, North Hollow is not of a piece with darkest Africa, and the Kentucky Cardinal himself would tell you blue grass is not to be secured at the cost of violets and anemones, besides giving proof from his own sweet throat that there are other sounds than the croaking of tree toads and the singing locusts to be heard in North Hollow. Did you never hear him there, Mr. Editor? nor the robin, nor the blue bird, nor the wood thrush? For a moment I thought the printer had played you a trick in paragraphing, and that the "Verily it may be said of us also" should have begun at the bottom of the page.
Now far be it from me to oppose improvement. Let there be a University band, by all means—but wouldn't the hill-top, where the players would never get out of wind-be the best place for the band stand?
And improve North Hollow if you know how. But there's a deal of sweetness and light there now, Mr. Editor, and it would go hard with some of us to see it turned into an end-of-the-car-line park. What we old fogies beg for is conservatism, and should we come back some spring to find the violets beheaded by the lawn mower, the wild crab apple thickets thinned out of existence, and not a nodding anemone head out of all the hosts of former years to give us greeting, I very much fear we should find no consolation in smooth green turf blossoming into such sentiments as these: "Please keep off the grass." "Lunch boxes and papers must not be left in the paths."
or a mourning dove deep in the underbrush. In short our education might not prove liberal enough to keep us from preferring the beauty of nature to a certain sort of artificial beauty.
And even with a brass band in full career we might long for a red bird tilting in the elm top,
Think it over, Mr. Editor, please, and see if you aren't after all inclined to use your influence to keep North Hollow from being civilized off the face of the earth. M.
THE Hesperian of Nebraska University calls its local oratorical association a "ghastly white elephant." This expresses the condition to which our own Association will degenerate if some means is not found to secure more support for it from the students.
The present officers of the Association are doing all they can to awaken interest in the coming contest, but they meet with very little encouragement from anyone. Has not the time arrived when an entire change in organization is advisable? Are not the share-holders in the Association willing to sacrifice the small amount which they have invested in a share, and which they will probably never see again anyhow, for the good of the cause of oratory? If they are, then why not throw the membership open to everyone in the University, reduce the fee for admission to one half or one fourth what it now is, and admit stockholders to the contest free? Nothing could be lost by this, for as it is no student ever thinks of going to a contest unless he has a "comp."
On the other hand much would be gained. There are surely two hundred in the University who would pay twenty-five cents each to place the Association on its feet again, and out of debt. We are aware that this scheme will not meet the approval of the politicians, who would not be able to "fix" things so nicely under the new system; but anyhow they will soon have nothing left to "fix" unless a change is made. We invite suggestions and discussion in regard to this matter.
SPENCER INSISTS that it is a man's duty to live long, and be healthy. There is such a thing, he says, as physical morality. People do not usually look at the matter in this light; but Spencer may be right nevertheless. If he is, the world is a good deal more sinful than the common belief would indicate.
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An Unwilling Offering.
On board an Atlantic steamer a party of us had been telling stories. Our party was quite cosmopolitan in its make-up, accordingly the stories varied considerably and covered a moderately wide range of subjects. There were hunting yarns, detective stories, war anecdotes, and some tales bordering on the mysterious and supernatural. The story that interested me the most was the following, told by Powell, a tall, fair-haired man with rather melancholy blue eyes and rosy cheeks.
"In the first place," he began, "you must know that I am a native of Wales, that rugged but beautiful little land on the west of England about which so little is known and less is understood; the land of poetry and romance; of legend and fable; the home of the stories of King Arthur and his doughty knights of the Round Table; and the native haunt of the last descendants of the ancient Britons, with their language, customs, and religion.
As I said, I am Welsh by birth and belong to a good family, in fact I can trace my lineage back to Llewelyn, the last Welsh king, who so long resisted the efforts of Edward I. to conquer the country. I was born and passed my youth in a little village among the mountains, far removed from the bustle and activity of the outer world. The village is situated at the extremity of a long narrow valley between two parallel mountain-ranges of moderate height, and seems to be so overshadowed and hemmed in by cliffs and precipices as to be utterly isolated from the outside world. Through the valley runs a shallow stream which rushes musically along a course strewed with rocks and boulders. The people live lives of simplicity and contentment, pay their taxes like good citizens, and care little about what is going on elsewhere. Yet sometimes in the evening the old men tell stories of former heroes and of glorious deeds done in battle, tales of the time when Cambria was free, and a native prince ruled over loyal Britons.
Amid such surroundings I grew up, happy and cotnented, and finally reached the age of eighteen. About that time there fell into my hands
some books which materially altered the tenor of my whole life. They were books of travel, some scientific works, and histories. Thenceforth I began to have vague desires to be different from the people about me, to rise in the world, and to come to be somebody. I wanted to have all my fellow-countrymen know me and revere my memory as they did those of the heroes in the books. All these influences led directly to the adventure which I started out to relate.
As I was one day walking down the single narrow street of the village I met an old woman who was called 'Old Nancy.' She was a queer character who made her living by collecting rags; she was reported to be a witch. Her back was bent, her face was wrinkled, she had very bright eyes and a fierce hooked nose; on her head she wore a red turban, and she always carried on her back a large sack which the children thought was for the express purpose in which to carry them away. We all stood in some awe of Nancy, so I was a little uneasy when she stopped me in my path by laying a skinny hand on my shoulder.
For a moment she stood silent, while her bright searching eyes scanned my every feature. At length she gave vent to a low chuckle, and said,—"Aha! you'll do, you'll do." Considerably mystified I asked,—"What is it, Nancy? what do you mean?" "So you want to be famous, do you?"—said the old hag with another hideous chuckle,—"want to be remembered and praised? All right, you shall have what you want; meet me at the Tower at nine o'clock tonight. Fear nothing, but be there or it shall be worse for you." Emphasizing these last words with her long, bony forefinger, she passed on, muttering and chuckling under her breath.
All the rest of that day I was in a state of great wonder and curiosity as to what 'Old Nancy' wanted with me away out there, at that time of night. The Tower was a dismantled, ivycovered old ruin that stood in a lonely spot on the mountain side near the river. The old woman could mean me no harm, for I had no valuables worth taking; and yet why had she pitched
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on that peculiar time and place, and what could she have to tell me anyway? Three or four times that day I made up my mind not to go, and as many times I changed my mind again. Finally as the appointed time drew near, curiosity and hope got the better of fear and caution, and I determined to go.
I left the house without attracting any attention at half past eight, as it was a little less than a half an hour's walk to the Tower. It was a dismal night. The sky was overcast, and dark lowering clouds were rolling up from the horizon. The wind was rising, and as I reached the open mountain side I began to feel its force. For most of the distance my way lay along the bank of the river, and the dreary splash and gurgle of the water did not tend to make the situation more cheerful. A sense of fear and a presentiment of evil settled over my spirits like a pail. I quickened my pace, and it was almost with a feeling of relief that I at length beheld the dark and gloomy outlines of the Tower rising before me.
This old Tower had once been the residence of a noble family, but it had long since been abandoned and left to decay. Most of the walls had fallen in shapeless ruins, but the old keep still stood firm, its stones covered with moss and its walls draped with ivy. Toward the keep I made my way and had almost reached it when I was startled by a figure which seemed to rise out of the ground beside me. At a second glance, however, I recognized 'Old Nancy.' "Well, you're here on time,"—she said rather slowly,—"now follow me."
She led the way toward the keep, and I followed in silence. We went around the foot of the building until we came to an angle in the wall, and here Nancy stopped. By this time the sky was entirely covered with black clouds. On the horizon lightning was beginning to flash, the rumbling of distant thunder could be heard, and the first big, scattering drops of an imminent thunder-shower were splashing down on the gray stones. Stooping down in the angle of the wall, the old woman worked busily for several minutes with a large rock in the foundation
close to the ground. Suddenly the rock swung back with a harsh creak revealing a dark hole, which, after a number of loose stones had been removed, was large enough for a person to squeeze through. 'Old Nancy' immediately entered the opening, calling on me to follow. I hesitated a moment and then obeyed.
A flash of lightning revealed a flight of stone steps which seemed to lead down under the keep. We followed this down until it led us to a massive door. On this Nancy gave a peculiar tap. Suddenly the door swung open letting a gleam of light out into the darkness, the old woman pushed me inside and the door clanged heavily shut behind me.
For a moment I was so dazzled by the sudden transfer from the darkness into the light, that I could distinguish nothing. Then as my eyes grew accustomed to the glare, I took in the details of my surroundings. I was in a long, low room the sides of which were composed of the bare stones of the building. The light was furnished by a large number of wax candles stuck in holders on the walls. These walls were profusely decorated with mistletoe. In the very center of the room stood a large stone altar, near which was a brazier of hot coals. All these details my eye took in at a glance, and then my attention became fixed on the persons whom I saw in the room.
At the other end of the hall was a group of about twenty old men of venerable appearance. They all had white hair and long white beards and wore flowing white robes. The one who seemed the most venerable of them all sat in a chair on a dais in the midst of the group, and on his head wore a chaplet of mistletoe. On my entrance they all regarded me in silence for some moments, during which interval it suddenly flashed upon me who they were. I was in the presence of the Druids. I had heard since I was a child that there were remnants of that ancient and powerful order scattered through the country, who still preserved the ancient traditions and religion, carried on the old ceremonies at intervals, and cherished the hope of freeing the country from the English yoke. But here I was evidently in their very presence, and a chill of dread crept over me as I realized the fact.
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doubtedly the Arch-Druid, addressed me in my native tongue: "Youth, we have summoned thee hither for a grave and solemn purpose. An oracle hath declared that if a lineal and unblemished descendant of our last great king Llewelyn be sacrificed with our ancient rites and ceremonials the people may rise and drive the accursed Saxon from the land. Great glory is thine, for thou art destined to be the offering. Thy desire hath been granted, and thy name shall ever be sung of bards and held in blessed remembrance in Cambria. What sayest thou?" As he ceased, those about him gave a murmur of approval and assent and looked at me expectantly.
For a moment I was too much stunned to reply. Here was my opportunity of becoming famous, of having my name held in renown by generations of my countrymen. I could become such another as Iphigenia. Why did I hesitate? But I was young and life seemed very sweet. I thought of home and friends and all I held most dear, and renouncing all hope of posthumous fame I cast myself down before the Arch-Druid and begged for mercy. A heavy frown overspread his features, he gave me a look of contempt in which I read that my fate was sealed, and then turning to the harper by his side he said,—'Bard, awake the harp!"
As the venerable musician struck the first chords, the sound of the storm could be heard on the outside. The rain was now coming down in torrents, the wind was shrieking about the building in powerful gusts, and the thunder sounded in great pealing crashes that jarred the walls. With such a terrible accompaniment did the bard begin his song. He first sang in lofty strains of the ancient freedom and independence of the country, of noble warriors, of valiant deeds, and of mighty victories; the tones swelled out clear and triumphant. Then in soft minor chords he told of defeat and disgrace, of treachery and faithlessness, of overthrow and ruin. The harp seemed to moan forth its heart- rending story with sobs and tears. Once more the theme changed. This time he sang in stirring tones of a coming time of retribution, of victory and triumph over the Saxon foe, and of revenge—revenge stern and terrible. The harp was now changing into martial strains; and the harper finished by calling upon all as worthy Druids to carry out the sacrifice and insure the righteous cause.
During the song the old men had listened with intense and strained attention and now at its close they rose and advanced slowly and solemnly toward me. I gave a last despairing glance around, and noticed an opening in the rocky wall opposite the massive door through which I had entered. Toward this I ran, but had not taken a half dozen steps before I was seized by the determined old men and dragged, screaming and frantically resisting, to the altar. On this I was stretched almost senseless from fear, one man holding my head and another my feet. They crowned me with mistletoe and scattered sprigs of the same plant over my body. Then they laid bare my chest, and the Arch-Druid drew near with a golden knife in his hand.
Terrible and majestic, with his flowing white robe and gleaming snow-white hair, he stretched out his hands over me and prayed, while the rattling thunder outside seemed to make response. Mightily did he pray to the god of the thunder to accept the sacrifice and rescue Cambria from subjection. As he ceased a murmur ran over the assembly, and then came a great awesome hush. The fatal moment had come. The Arch-Druid laid his left hand on my bare chest and poised the knife in his right. I made one last mighty struggle for escape, but in vain. Then, numbed and almost paralyzed, with all hope gone, I closed my eyes and awaited the stroke. Just then there was a crash of thunder that seemed to shake the earth, and the room was filled with a red, gleaming, blinding glare. All the Druids in the hall were hurled violently to the ground. Half-stunned but spurred on by hope I sprang to my feet, and leaping over the body of the patriarch,ran to the opening through which I had formerly tried to escape. Into it I rushed, and frantic from fear dashed wildly along a subterranean passage, falling over sharp rocks, bruising myself against projecting angles, stumbling into crevices, but ever up again and on, until I saw the blessed daylight once more, and I emerged into the open air, scratched and bleeding, my clothing in rags, but free.
I had come out under an overhanging bank by the river side, at some distance from the Tower. How I ever got home I don't know, but it was months before I recovered from my flight; and I shall never forget my experience of that fearful night."
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LOCALS
Frank Case spent Sunday in Topeka.
Ed. Lupfer visited his Beta brethren this week.
Miss Ruth Sackett is visiting Laura Thorpe and Willie Hoch.
Miss Mary Goode spent Thanksgiving at her home in Olathe.
Frank Jewett visited his folks in Olathe during the vacation.
Miss Caughey spent the Thanksgiving recess in Emporia.
Miss Helen Metcalf spent Thanksgiving in Topeka.
Dick Rogers spent his vacation recess in Kansas City and Topeka.
Miss Mendenhall and Miss Pollman spent Thanksgiving in Kansas City.
F. W. Brewster has just assumed the duties of manager of the Bronson Record.
Prof. Smith of the Wichita High School visited D. P. Woods during vacation.
Mrs Maxwell of Keokuk, Iowa, visited her daughter Miss Maude Maxwell this week.
Miss Pearl Dewey entertained a few friends Saturday evening, in honor of her cousin from Kansas City.
Mr O'Leary is spending the week in Topeka. He is there for the purpose of having his eyes treated.
From reports it might seem that basket ball was also acquiring something of that "professional" spirit.
At the last meeting of the State Board of Education, state certificates were granted to the following University graduates; Miss Harriette Fellows, Miss Carina Cooke, Mr. J. R. Thierstein. Miss Anna Edwards, Mr. G. L. Spaulding and Miss Lula Hoover.
Mr. M. V. Hester is taking special work in Pedagogy.
Clyde Mead was visited by his brother from Fort Scott this week.
The Phi Delts gave a hop in their hall last Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Stevens have resumed their studies in the University.
Miss Ella Anderson will not return to Lawrence until after the Christmas holidays.
Miss Cooke class '96, and Miss May Cooke spent the Thanksgiving in Leavenworth.
About twenty of the University girls gave an oyster luncheon in their lunch room last Friday noon.
Miss Hale of Kansas City visited her friend Miss Crawford during the Thanksgiving recess.
John Thomas the humorist gave one of his recitals in Music Hall Wednesday evening.
Mr. Frederick Northrup of Kansas City, Kas visited friends in Lawrence during Thanksgiving vacation.
Ann Arbor has recently founded a sociological scholarship for the support of a graduate student in the Chicago Commons.
Ed. Pendleton, more widely known as "Rock of Ages," passed through Lawrence Tuesday, for his home in Baldwin.
At the Sociological Seminary last Wednesday Mr. Price gave an excellent review of Carroll D. Wright's "Evolution of industry in the United States."
At the last annual meeting of the Southwest Teachers' Association of this state, a resolution against the game of foot-ball in our public schools was defeated by a vote of thirty-seven to thirty-five.
Prof. Templin addressed the North-Central Kansas Teachers' Association at Clay Center on Friday of Thanksgiving week, and the Southeast Kansas Teachers' Association at Ft. Scott on Saturday. At the former convention were several alumni; Harold Barnes, J. H. Mustard, H.C.Riggs,and S.M.Cook being among the number.
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Frank Banks spent his on vacation in Kansas City.
The Betas will hold an initiation Saturday night.
There are 12 men in the University from the town of Newton.
Miss Virgie McCrory entertained at cards last Monday evening.
Many University young people attended the K.P.Hop Friday night.
The students have been well represented in in the skating afforded this week.
Miller, Smith and Spellman, go to Topeka Saturday to hear Sol Smith Russell.
Several students went to Topeka to attend the Charity Ball on Friday night.
Judge Alden of Kansas City, Kansas addressed the Junior Law class one day this week.
The Y. M. C. A. has issued a circular letter calling for increased activity among the men of the school.
Mr. Anderson Ewart has returned to school after quite an illness at his home in Kansas City Mo.
Miss Marion Innes will shortly enter the University to take up the study of French and German.
Joe Smith returned from the national Phi Delt convention, recently held in Philadelphia, Wednesday.
A committee of the State Bar Association inspected the law school Wednesday and were quite favorably impressed.
Miss Mayme Monroe entertained some friends at whist last week complimentary to Mrs. Jas. Challiss of Atchison.
Professor Wilcox lectured before the Greek Symposium Thursday afternoon. His subject was "The Excavations of Tiryns."
Tne "deutsche Verein" met as usual last Thursday afternoon from 5 to 6. The meetings are becoming very interesting and the attendance so far has been exceptionally good. It is hoped that every German student will avail himself of this opportunity.
Cat season is on!
The Becker Club gave a party at the house Friday evening.
Every University student should hear the Chancellor lecture tonight.
Mrs. Van Fleet of Kingman spent Thanksgiving with her son and daughter.
Treasurer Moody reports $920.25 as the net profit from the Missouri and Minnesota games.
Miss Elizabeth Stone spent Thanksgiving in Kansas City, a guest of her sister, Mrs. E. D. Ellison.
Mrs. S. P. Ruble spent a part of last week in in this city, a guest of her son-in-law Mr. George Stevens.
Miss Lou Nash and Miss Coon spent their vacation with friends in Paola. They report a delightful visit.
Miss Mable Scott, class '95 passed through Lawrence last Wednesday afternoon on her way to Helena, Montana where she will spend the winter with her sister.
Edward P. Lupfer a former student has been visiting his Beta brethren and other friends the past week.Mr. Lupfer has just returned from a long surveying trip in Utah.
The English department is again unfortunate. Mr. O'Leary has not returned to school; as his eyes are not yet well Prof. Hopkins and Miss Smith have been teaching his classes.
The Ventura club opened its program with a review of Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame" by Miss Alice Rohe. This was followed by a discussion of Victor Hugo's two novels, "Toilers of the sea" and "Notre Dame."
The students who went home Thanksgiving could be picked out by the way they didn't show off in the class Tuesday. One boy of the Century class was seen smuggling a small piece of "grand mother's cake" from his coat pocket to his mouth; but he put it back into his pocket again, accompanying the act with a long drawn sigh. And such an impenetrable cloud of gloom settled over his face that the professor was unable to see him, and marked him absent.
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The Young Men's Christian Association met Thursday evening in the Watkins block at 7 P. M. Ex-Chancellor Marvin conducted the meeting and a most profitable hour was spent.
The People's Voice of Wellington devotes considerable space to the election of Ed.T. Hackney to the legislature. Mr.Hackney was elected to the legislature from the 70th legislative district by a clear majority of 214.Mr. Hackney will be remembered as the editor of the Student's Journal and also as one of the most prominent members of the class of '95 Few graduates of the University acquire such political distinction so soon after leaving their alma mater. His many friends in the University will be glad to learn of his political success.
The committee on the Kansas and Nebraska debate has for some time past been engaged in making plans for the successful management of the debate this year. After long deliberation the following questions were selected and transmitted to the committee at Nebraska.
1. Should it be the policy of the United States to extend her dominions?
2. Is a co-operative system of industry superior to a system based on competition?
3. The novel is the strongest of all moral influences today.
4. Does criticism of courts of justice tend to the public good?
5. Resolved that the standing army of the United States should be increased.
The committee has endeavored to devise means by which a greater interest in debate among the students may be aroused, and it found that if this subject is to engage the interest of the students to a greater extent, a better opportunity of entering debate must be given. A clause in the constitution governing the selection of debaters reads thus: A University debating society shall be defined as either of the existing organizations. The Adelphic, the Kent Club or any other debating society that shall be organized in the University before December 1st.
In order that the members of the School of Arts may have a larger representation in the contests, and that they may have an opportunity of organizing into a debating society either as classes or as a school, the committee has changed the constitution to read Jan. 1st. instead of Dec. 1st.
It is hoped that the classes will take advantage of this change and that through their cooperation it will accomplish the result desired.
Chapel Notes.
Prof. Miller has led this week. Tuesday's talk was on the correspondence of the Bible with nature and humanity. The subject Wednesday was the progress of the world toward the goal proclaimed in the Bible.
Prof. Hopkins led the music Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Prof. Adams will lead next week.
Science Notes.
Prof. Dyche will give his first lecture on Alaska at Argentine next Friday evening.
The lantern slides of the views of Alaska are finished with the exception of the coloring which is being done by Miss Crew.
The London Entomological Society has just published Dr. Williston's investigations of the Diptera of the island of St. Vincent.
The sneak thieves of the University have branched out into a new line of business, as a consequence the Botanical department is minus two valuable lenses.
Mr. J. W. Beede of Topeka, who was on the Geological Survey this summer, was up the first of the week to prepare a map which will illustrate a geological puzzle upon which is working.
The Paleontological department has discovered a new species of Cirripede belonging to the Crustacea. It was found in the chalk formation and is the first of its kind that has been found in Kansas.
The Entomological department has received from Mr. Andrews of Kinsley several specimens of the Coccidae which are attacking his plum orchard. If this insect is not soon destroyedit
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will develop into a formidable pest, doing thousands of dollars worth of damage. Fortunately the winter is the best time to combat them as they are young and tender and outside of their scales. Chancellor Snow has taken the greatest precaution in dealing with them and there is no doubt but that their ravages will soon be stopped.
School of Fine Arts.
The Christmas concert will be Dec. 15th. Miss McShea has been visiting in the country. Prof. Penny went to Kansas City last Tuesday in the interest of the coming fair.
The Euterpe Club is very much interested in their X-mas booth in the fair.
The soloists for the Oratorio, "Joan of Arc," which will be given Dec.17th, are Prof. Farrell, Rev. Rogers, Misses Daisy Starr and Cecil Stanford.
Music school was well represented at the Music Club last Tuesday evening. Those taking part were Prof. Preyer, Misses McCheyne, Wiedemann, Starr, Lichtenwalter, and Prof. Farrell. The composers studied were Heller, Hyllested, and Sternberg.
The sixth recital was given last Wednesday. The attendance at these afternoon recitals is larger than ever before, and it is indeed interesting to watch the progress of the students from time to time.
Following is the program:
Grieg—Sonate Op. 7. Allegro moderto, andante molto.
MISS LAPHAM.
Brahms—Scherzo from Sonate. Op. 1.
MISS SKOFSTAD.
Liszt—Consolation. No. 3,
MISS RIGHTRR.
Nevin—"Little Boy Blue,"—vocal solo.
MISS BABCOCK.
Schumann—Concerto in A minor, First Movement.
MISS LOUISE SMITH and PROF, PREYER.
Orchestral parts taken on second piano.
The University Pipe Organ Fair. Although everybody knows that a grand Fair is soon to be held to raise money for the purchase of a pipe organ for chapel, nevertheless the details are not familiar to all. The Fair is to be held at the rink week after next, Dec. 16th, 17th and 18th. There is to be a series of
The University Pipe Organ Fair.
entertainments in connection with the Fair as follows—Tuesday night Dec. 15th the annual Christmas concert. This concert has been made more of a Faculty concert this year instead of a students, concert, and tickets will be required for admission. The tickets are sold at $1, and include all of the entertainments, as well as admission to the Fair at all times. The other principal musical event will be the cantata "Joan of Arc" by the Oratorio Society on Thursday evening Dec. 17 th. This will probably be given at the Baptist church. Elaborate tableaux of scenes in the career of "Joan of Arc" will be given in the rink under the supervision of Miss Georgia Brown.
Mr. Farrell's University orchestra will be heard for the first time. Mr. Marshall's men's chorus will be heard in some glees and part songs. The musical lectures are to be announced later. The booths already taken are K. K. G.-Lemon Ice, Pi Phi-Candy K.A.Theta-Post-office, Art Club-Poster Show and Art Exhibit, Y.W.C.A.Oysters, Y.M.C.A.Books, Euterpe Society —Christmas booth, Medical Club and Pharmaceutical,Society-Dispensary booth, Engineering Club-"Dyche"booth,Engineering Club Electrical booth,a Japanese booth and a "Freak"booth are yet to be assigned.Many novelties are yet to be announced.The Executive Committee of the Fair consists of Mrs. Snow,Miss Blackmar, Mrs Hodder,Miss Lynn Miss Lichtenwalter, Miss Snow,Miss Eva Brown,Mr.Kenyon,Mr.Harold Smith, Mr.Davies,Prof. Clark and Prof.Penny.
Look up
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What you want for Xmas at Rowe's Jewelry store. A full line of new goods, low prices and everything sold on guarantee.
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Library Notes.
Mr. Thomas and Mr. Cloyes, of the Library force, spent the Thanksgiving vacation at their respective homes, Emporia and Atchison.
One thousand books have been added to the Library since September 1. The number in the accession book has now reached 26000.
Miss Dougherty, librarian of Washburn College, and Miss Matoon of the Topeka Public Library, spent Saturday last visiting this Library.
Two boxes of books have been received this week-one from A. C. McClurg & Co., of Chicago, the other from G. E. Stechert, New York. Some of the books they contained are mentioned below:
History of Oratory and Orators, by Henry Hardwicke, member of the New York Bar.
Talks on Writing English, by Prof. Arlo Bates, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A Tennyson Primer, with a critical Essay, by William Macneile Dixon.
The Life and Writings of Turgot, Comptroller-General of France 1774-6. Edited for English readers by W. Walker Stephens.
The fifth volume of Traill's Social England, of which the first four volumes were received last year. This covers the period from the accession of George I to the Battle of Waterloo.
Shakespere and his Predecessors, by Frederick S. Boas; and The Women of Shakespeare, by Louis Lewes. Translated from the German by Helen Zimern.
The Epic of the Fall of Man, a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante, and Milton, by S. Humphreys Gurteen. This is a sort of companion book to his Arthurian Epic which was received last year.
The Laureates of England, from Ben Johnson to Alfred Tennyson, with selections from their works and an introduction dealing with the origin and significance of the English laureateship, by Kenyon West, with numerous illustrations by Frederick C. Gordon.
the Sacred Writings, by Prof. Richard G.Moulton, of the University of Chicago.
The Literary Study of the Bible, an account of the leading forms of literature represented in
Two more books by Alice Morse Earle—Curious Punishments of Bygone Days, well illustrated by Frank Hazenplug, and Colonial Days in old New York. Mrs. Earle has struck a rich vein in the customs and manners of our greatgrandfathers of the colonial period, and she is working it very successfully.
Literary Kit-Kats, by Edmund Gosse. This singular title, he tells us in the preface, is "borrowed from graphic art." Kit-Kats were a form of portraiture used in the last century which "emphasizes the head, yet does not quite exclude the hand of the sitter." These, then, are "condensed portraits, less than half length," of a number of literary characters. Among them we notice that Edward Fitzgerald, Walt Whitman, Walter Pater, and Robert Louis Stevenson appear.
Chemical Notes.
Mrs. F. H. Dinsmoor has presented the Chemical department with a fine specimen of a furnace product from Missouri.
C. B. Highbargin, '87, A. B. and Ph. G., is in the wholesale commission business atCripple Creek, Colorado.
The Pharmacy department presents a busy scene now at almost any time of the day. In the north laboratory the students are doing microscopical work and in the south room they are working on Physiological Chemistry. In the private laboratory Prof. Sayre and Mr. Whitten are struggling with resins, glucossides and an obstinate combustion furnace.
By inadvertence credit was not given Mr. Warren Miller of the Law School for his excellent review of "Callista" which appeared in the last number of the WEEKLY.
Several enterprises are upon foot for the benefit of the Athletic Association, a production of Sheridan's "The Rivals" will probably be among the first.
The theatre going students are patiently waiting the re-opening of the Opera House.
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To Take a Vocal Studio.
Mr. J. B. Stevens, baritone, announces that owing to the continued illness of Mrs. Stevens he is unable to return to his studies, and will, therefore, take a studio and receive a limited number of pupils in vocal instruction. He has secured the northwest room, second floor, in the Opera house block—just the place for a studio—which Mr. Bowersock is having newly papered and painted.
Mr. Stevens studied in this country at Boston with Mr.W.L. Whitney for two years. Then Mr. Whitney advised him to continue his studies with his master at Florence, Italy,the Signor Vannuccini, which he did,and was there about six months,when Mrs. Stevens became ill and he was called home.
It is not necessary to say anything in commendation of the instruction Mr. Stevens received from these two great masters of singing. They are known throughout the entire musical world. Mr. Whitney has but recently had the position of professor in the London Royal College of Music offered for his acceptance. He taught for one year at the Royal College while in London. In speaking of Signor Vannuccini to Mr. Stevens, Mr. Whitney said he had seen many of the great masters teach, and that he considered him (Vannuccini) head and shoulders above them all.
Mr. Stevens is full of music, and is prepared to help earnest pupils with something that is genuine. Those wishing lessons will find Mr. Stevens at his studio Saturday from 2 to 5 o'clock, and daily thereafter.
At the opening of the renewed Bowersock Opera house next Thursday night, December 10, there will be an exemplification of drama that should be most pleasing to play-goers, and especially so from the fact that the interpretation will be made by that gifted artist Mlle. Rhea, whose position in the drama is pre-eminent. Mlle. Rhea will, for the first time in this city, present her new play by Paul Kester, "Nell Gwynne," a historical romance in five acts, depicting life during the reign of King
Charles II. The play is said to be one of the very best in which Rhea has ever been seen. It is one which gives her ample scope for both the display of histrionic powers and also for comedy, in the latter of which little has ever been seen of her. It is an undoubted fact that Rhea is consciously a comedienne of rare gifts and charm. In this play she has the widest scope for her new impersonation, and there is yet the first critic to say that she has not succeeded beyond her greatest expectations. Rhea is gifted beyond that of most any other actress on the stage today. The Gallic inflection which lends such a peculiar charm to her every utterance, that sprightliness which adds grace to her every movement, and that dash and French chic which has made her so long a favorite are brought out to the fullest extent in the title role of "Nell Gwynne." Rhea says: "I am more delighted with this character than any in which I have ever played," and this fact is a paramount.
On Monday, December 14, Louis James and his company will give the great scenic production of "Spartacus."
Lawrence is favored in securing both of the above attractions, each of which is among the best of its class.
JOHN B. STETSON Co.
HOLIDAY STYLES SOFT AND STIFF HATS. WM. BROMELSICK.
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ATHLETICS
Iowa wins the pennant.
McCook field looks deserted.
"Doc" Palmer has left the city for a nine months' vacation.
Although we lost the coveted pennant the score of 30 to o is decidedly consoling to our injured feelings.
Will T. Reed was elected football manager for the year of 1897 at a meeting of the Athletic Board, held Thursday noon.
Results of recent games: Iowa 6, Nebraska o; Leland Stanford 20, University of California o; University of Colorado 8, D. A. C. 6; University of Virginia 46, University of North Carolina o; Minnesota 12, Kansas o.
Now that the foot ball season is past and the river is frozen over, would it not be well to organize a number of polo teams. Let them be inter-class,inter-frat., or between University and city teams.
The game between Iowa and Nebraska, to play off the tie, resulted in a score of 6 to o in favor of Iowa. This game gives the pennant to Iowa for this year. Iowa has not been scored against this season. She shut out Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, after playing a no score game with the latter on Thanksgiving.
Minnesota Defeats the Jayhawkers.
That too much foot ball is "a weariness of the flesh," was clearly demonstrated in the game with the strong Minnesota team at Exposition park last Saturday. After winning the Thanksgiving day game to the tune of 30 to o, Kansas did not care to share her laurels with the men from the north, and so it was with a feeling of "win or know the reason why" that they arranged themselves for the first kick off of the game.
The day was cold with a piercing wind from the north, consequently there was but a small crowd gathered to witness, what proved to be, a much better exhibition of foot ball than the Thursday game.
In the first half Kansas played as though the men were stiff and sore, and it was not until the second half, that, encouraged by the magnificent work of Captain Hamill, she seemed to wake up and play the hard, scientific and plucky game which kept the Norsemen from scoring a third touch-down.
Minnesota made both her touch-downs in the first half, and Kansas also made one but it was not allowed by the referee. Several times during the game the ball was carried to the Minnesota 10 yard line, but lost on fumbles or given to Minnesota for off side play.
Minnesota won the toss and chose the north goal. Baine kicked off for 35 yards, Bagley returning the pigskin to the center. The play by the Minnesota team was fast from the first. Within four minutes Harrison carried the ball around the left end for a touch-down and then kicked an easy goal. Score, Minnesota 6, Kansas o.
Baine kicked off for 55 yards, Bagley returning it 15 yards. From this time until the end of the game the play of both teams was furious. The ball was worked back and forth across the field. At one time Loomis fumbled the ball on the Minnesota 30 yard line. Baine picked it up and sprinted over the goal line for a touch-down, but referee Lieut. Smith decided that the ball had been whistled down before the fumble, and it was given back to Minnesota.
Bagley scored the second touch-down. Harrison kicked goal. Score, Minnesota 12, Kansas o.
In the second half Jones took Crook's place at end, while Christopher went to right half for Minnesota.
During the second half neither team was able to score, although the work of both was clean and fast. The play of the Kansas team was
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fully up with her opponents in defensive work The quarter back play and the center kick, in which the ball, after being touched by two men, was kicked directly through the Kansas line, netted big gains for the men from the north.
Hamill clearly did the star playing for the Jayhawkers, while Hester, Baine and Kennedy were decidedly in the game at all times. Harding, Finlayson and Harrison did the work in the line for the visitors, while Loomis and Bagley played the game behind the line.
The officials were Lieut. Smith, referee; Lieut. Stacy, umpire; Lieut. Reber and Mr. Patterson, linesmen.
EXGHANGES.
"Depot."
Sald Master Jones, "Now we must go Without delay to the depo." Laughed sweet Miss Jones, "I should say so, Let's start at once for the daypo." Snilled Mrs. Jones, "In quick step, oh, We'll all run down to the depo." Groaned Mr. Jones, "It's mighty hot To drive you all to the deepot." These conflicts of pronunciation Would not be if they called it "station."--Ex.
"May I kiss you, Miss Jane?" "I am sorry to see, Mr. Briggs, that you, too, are affected by the prevailing cause of business depression." "And that is?" "Lack of confidence." Then he kissed her.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"You are getting well past forty; why don't you get married?" Well, you see, I don't want an elderly wife, and a young girl would be foolish; but I don't want a foolish wife ! "—Fliegende Blaetter.
"So you want to be my son-in-law, do you?" asked the old man, with as much fierceness as he could assume. "Well," said the young man, standing first on one foot and then on the other, "I suppose I'll have to be if I marry Mamie." Cincinnati Enquirer.
The prodigal son without the fatted calf—the runaway bicyclist with pipe stems. Princeton Tiger.
Math—Tute—How do you make V equal to X? Sporter—Well if I knew I wouldn't be busted so often. -U.of M.Wrinkle.
Katrina—"Why is our cornfield like Germany?"
Heinrich—"It is our fadder land."
The University of California will offer a course in the Chinese language and literature for the ensuing year. —Ex.
The graduate who has not had enough of Latin, Greek, French, German, Sanskrit, etc., during four years at college, will be delighted at this opportunity to quench his linguistic thirst. The Hustler (Vanderbilt.)
A New York father who has a son in Yale at an annual expense of $1,200, fears that he will be obliged to say with Aaron, "Behold I have thrown gold into the fire, and there has come out this calf."—Ex.
A schoolmaster in Cleveland offered a prize of one dollar to the pupil who produced the best aphorism. Here is the wise advice that won the prize: "If you have a good temper, hang on to it; and if you have a bad one, don't lose."—Ex.
STUDENTS
1250
ALEXANDRIA
GREECE
2014
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Don't fail to see our
IMMENSE STOCK OF XMAS PRESENTS
Before going home. University Book Store, L.M.GIBB, Proprietor.
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I know there's a cross about Norah's blue eye. But that fact me love cannot smother; For her eyes are so pretty. No wonder they thry To be gazin' round into each other-Ex.
Christmas Carols.
Long headed Customers take advantage of early buying for Christmas-instead of putting it off until the last hour.
The Best Place to buy Handkerchiefs Gloves—Fancy Articles, Silk Dress Goods and Coats is at INNES'.
Every student on entering Kansas Wesleyan University is required to add the price of the college paper when he pays his tuition.—X.
She—"Did you know that Maud has a dark room on purpose for proposals?"
He—"Well, rather. I developed a negative there myself, last night."—X.
Boys and girls buy your shoes at The Racket. Satisfaction guaranteed.
American Club skates for ladies and gentlemen in all sizes and kinds, full stock on hand. Padlock Hardware Store, Chas. Achning, 822 Mass. St.
Freshleigh-How many men are there on a foot-ball team?
Senior—"Ten and a quarter."—Cornell Widow.
The Racket has purchased the samples of holiday goods of three large houses, and are selling them at fifty cents on the dollar.
"Yes, grandma, when I graduate, I intend following a literary career—write for money, you know."
"Why, Willie, my dear, you haven't done anything else since you have been at college." Ex.
A good four-ply linen collar at The Racket, only 10 cents.
The Racket sells stationery and school supplies fifty per cent less than any other store in Douglas county.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's.
Prep—after answering a question in grammar, "Well, that's what the book says." Prof.一“I don't want the book, I want you.” Prep- “You've got me."
Mandolin, guitar and banjo lessons given by Frank Robertson at Music Hall.
Go to Jaedicke's for skates.
New line of skates just received at Jaedicke's.
Mrs. Elderleigh—"Do you love your teacher, Johnny?" Johnny—'Yes, ma'am." Mrs. Elderleigh—"Why do you love her?" Johnny— "Cause the Bible says we're to love our enemies."-Puck.
Barney & Berry skates at The Racket for 33 cents.
Enthusiastic young football player to his dad: "Papa, what system of interference do you consider the most effective in football?" His papa: "Parental interference, my son." Now Willie's canvas suit adorns the clothesline. - Capital.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices.
Offices: 1007 Mass. Street and West of National Bank.
Jackson's Steam Laundry, Kansas City, Mo. If you send your work to us it will be returned to you Friday, in season for the entertainments.
ALVAH SOUDER,
OREAD PLACE, Agent.
Give your typewriting work to C. E. Rose, 716 Miss. street.
GREAT
GREAT FORCED SALE OF CLOTHING.
Stylish Suits, Overcoats, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, etc.,
NOW GOING ON AT
STEINBERG, THE CLOTHIER.
WE DO ALL THE GOOD WE CAN
For this reason we keep calling attention to our
Stub heel, Coin toe Shoes in Kid and in Calf Skin.
For school shoes they are the best, the very best.
Faxon the Shoe Man.
Examination and consultation free by the
OSTEOPATHS
Every afternoon in their new quarters, corner of Warren and New Hampshire.
BIGSBY AND BECHTEL.
H. H. CRADDOCK'S
Bargain Store.
Gent's Furnishings, Hats, Caps and Dry Goods, Shoes etc.
818 Mass. St.
Young Ladies of the University are invited to call at La Mode.
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Sweeping reduction on all goods in stock and special reductions on all trimmed goods Goods the best. Prices the lowest.
Goods the best. Prices the lowest.
To the Students of the University.
I have just received a new and carefully selected stock of school supplies, and I shall sell them at the very lowest possible figure. I shall also give a ticket to my customers, showing the amount of their purchase, and for these tickets I will give FIVE CENTS in trade for every dollars worth of tickets, provided they are presented before January 1. '97
If besides dividing the profits with my customers in this manner I do not sell you goods as cheap as you can get the same class and quality elsewhere bring them back and I will return your money. I want your trade, and if good goods, low prices, honest dealing and courteous treatment count for anything, I shall get a share of it.
Besides school supplies, I have a well selected stock of general stationery, correspondence paper, and envelopes.
J, S. BOUGHTON,
Telephone 103.
1027 Mass, St.
J. B. STEVENS Baritone=Vocal Instruction.
Services may be engaged for Concerts, Receptions, Funerals, etc. Studio Opera House block.
In Bourbon county the Republican county commissioner was saved by one vote, and a Baker student cast that one vote. In Dickinson county the Republican representative was elected by eight votes. Baker students cast five of those votes and K.U.three.Baldwin Ledger.
Go to R. Lindsay for fine shoe repairing Prices reasonable. 914 Mass street.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply student with coal and wood at the lowest prices.
All kinds of fine stationery at 710 Mass., st.
Buy your Teas and Coffees of W. S. Everett the only Tea and Coffee house in the city. 745 Massachusetts st.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
For sale only at Barber Bros., Drug Store.
The Smith News Co. is headquarters for athletic supplies.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
Typewriting, W. F. Laycock, 1032 Vt. st.
Go to Tracy Learnard's for School Supplies. Well selected stock. Low prices. 710 Mass., street.
Views of the University buildings, and campus for sale in the Basement.
Miss Brown's dancing class is open Mondays at 8 p. m. Admission for gentlemen with lady 50 cents. Private lessons taught at residence 1217 Rhode Island street.
Copying on typewriter, W. F. Laycock.
Tracy Learnard sells quiz books. Freshmen, what are quiz books? Tracy will tell you.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Stop at the University Barber Shop for a first class shave, hair cut, etc.
WILL SPURGEON,
Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable. 818 & 820 VERMOMT STREET, First Door South of Beal & Godding.
SILVER Novelties Jaccard's 25 cts. to $5.00. KansasCity
KansasCity
RICH JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, SOLID SILVER. 100 Engraved visiting Cards and Plate only $1.50.
KANSAS CITY, - - MISSOURI.
C. L. EDWARDS,
INSURANCE AGENT
AND DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF COAL. WARREN ST., 2D DOOR WEST OF MASS. ST.
WILLIS'
PHOTO STUDIO,
933 MASS. ST.
Suits $18.00
That knock the shine off of anything else that ever shone in Lawrence at Mc Connell's.
CRISS EPLEY
Has the best Restaurant in the city. Students give him a call.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS'SHOEMAKER JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 915 Mass. St.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
并
Football and Athletic Goods
...AT...
Schmelzer Arms Co.
The largest and cheapest Sporting Goods House in the West.
710=712 and 714 Main Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
CULBERTSON & THOBURN.
COAL AND WOOD.
OFFICE: Basement of Merchants Nat'l Bank.
GIVE US A CALL OR TELEPHONE NO. 84.
ZUTTERMEISTER'S
OYSTER PARLOR.
For fine confections and home made candies give him a trial.
Wm. Wiedemann
Oyster Parlor.
米
米
Fine Confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
SHIRT MAKERS --- AND --- GENT'S FURNISHING.
Rules for self measurement and samples sent on application. All measures registered. Our laundry work is not surpassed in the West.
SIMPSON & KELLEY. University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
MORRIS THE PHOTO ARTIST.
EVERYTHING THE LATEST SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS. 829 MASS. STREET.
STAR BAKERY, ★★
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S.
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. . .
W. W. SAVAGE,
BAKERY. Call on him at 719 Mass. Street.
Good Work and Cheap.
SHOES NEATLY REPAIRED.
O. F. HARSHMAN.
1017% Mass. St. (Deaf Mute. SECOND HAND BOOTS AND SHOES BOUGHT AND SOLD.
J. J. Johnson & Son,
DEALERS IN
French and Salt Meats, Staple and Fancy Groceries. 633 Massachusetts St.
R. B.WAGSTAFF,
DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
CLUB TRADE A SPCIALTY 947 Mass. Street. Telephone 25.
JONES & MULLANY
MEAT MARKET.
Telephone 63. 830 MASS. STREET.
CHAS. HESS,
MEAT MARKET.
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats Always on hand . . . . . . 541 MASS. ST.
Telephone 14...
DONNELLY BROTHERS, LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No. 100.
THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE
Gives better results than any other American Company.
J. R. GRIGGS, Agent,
Lawrence. Kansas.
HOME BAKERY,
J. H. JOHNSON, Prop.
West Warren St., - - - Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers,
808 AND 810 MASS. ST,
K
ome and see the correct styles in Ties
ABE LEVY AGENT.
AT
WOOLF BROS.
ABE LEVY'S.
LAUNDRY GO.
A new lot just in.
WILL
. McMURRAY, Solicitor Goods called for and delivered.
OUR AIM: THE BEST QUALITY AT CHEAPEST PRICES
McClure & Simpson.
Special Attention to Club Trade. 1023 Mass. Street. Telephone 15.
BEAL & GODDING
KEEP THE
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
Telephone 139.
1905
'OLIN BELL,
Western Distributing Agent for
Shaw Pianos, Bay State Russell Pianos, Washburu
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
Mandolins and
Easy Payments if desired.
Easy Payments if desired. PIANOS TO RENT. Special Prices to K. U. Students. 'OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, Ks.
Guitars.
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE,
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES.
LAWRENCE. KAS.
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
LAWRENCE CASH GROCERY. Corner Kentucky and Lee Streets.
Fresh and Salt Meats.
ORDERS SOLICITED. PROJPT DELIVERY.
J. E. DAVID, Prop.
NIC KUHN.
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
PRICES AS CHEAP AS ANY PLACE Corner Warren and Mass. St., Over Wagstaff.
Hollingberry & Son.
THE PRACTICAL TAILORS
Can dress you in the Best Materials and most approved style for the least cost. 841 Massachusetts St.
AS ABINA PER ASPERA
Vol. III.
No.14.
Dec. 12, 1896.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
JOURNAL FINTING DO LAWRENCE.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
DR. W. S. BUNN M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE—Corner Warren and New Hampshire Sts.,
Telephone 195. WALNUT PARK PRIVATE HOSPITAL, Telephone 44. Office Hours, 2 to 4 P. M.
F. D. MORSE, M. D.
Residence, 1041 Tenn. Street Office, over Woodward's Drug Store.
DR. WHEELER,
DENTIST.
829 Mass. Street, Lawrence, Kansas.
Best Artificial Teeth, upper or lower, $9.00. Amalgam Fillings, 50 cts. Gold Fillings, half the usual price. Extracting teeth, each, 25 cts. Open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
A. W. CLARK, M. D., (Harvard '84.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence 1224 Tennessee Street. Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
E. D. F. PHILLIPS, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office 745 Mass street. Telephone No.82.
Residence 1301 Conn, street.
A. J. ANDERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence 717 Vermont St. Tele. 124.
C. E. ESTERLY,
DENTIST.
Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
EDWARD BUMGARDNER, M. D., D. D. S.
DENTIST
809 MASSACHUSETTS STREET.
A. L. ASHBY
No. 819 Mass. St.
Telephone 16. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
HAROLD McCRORY, D. D. S., SURGEON DENTIST.
Office over Faxon's Shoe Store.
DENTIST.
J. W. O'BRYON,
Over Bell's Music Store. 845 Mass. Street Lawrence, Kansas.
WHEN IN KANSAS CITY
Stop at the St. George European Hotel. Connected with J.A. Staley's Restaurant.
STEAM HEAT. 932 MAIN ST. POPULAR PRICES.
A full line of fall suitings just received. Call and see him before investing. At the old stand.
DAVIES,
THE STUDENTS TAILOR.
H. CARLISLE. W. T. PETERS. CARLISLE & PETERS,
MENS' FURNISHING GOODS.
818 Main Street. 0- Kansas City, Mo.
CUT FLOWERS, PLANTS.
SPECIAL PRICES TO K. U. BOYS
BIRD & GIMLER,
FLORISTS., 1112 MAIN ST., KAN. CITY. With STRAUSS-LIPSIS MILLINERY CO. TELEPHONE 2396.
PROF. SAMUELS,
The Great Occulist.
606 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Persons having trouble with their eyes will do well to consult him.
WATKINS NATIONAL BANK.
Capital, $150,000. Surplus, 15,000.
A general banking business transacted. Exchange on all principal cities of the world.
- - DIRECTORS: - -
J. B. WATKINS, President,
C. A. HILL, Vice President,
PAUL R. BROOKS, Cashier.
W. E. HAZEN, Asst. Cashier.
JACOB HOUSE, J. L. JONES, ALBERT HERNING.
LAWRENCE + NATIONAL + BANK.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.
CAPITAL, $100,000.
Does a general banking business and issues bills of exchange on all the psincipal cities of Europe.
J. D. BOWERSOCK, R. W. SPARR,
President, Vice President.
WALTER L. HOWE, H. E. BENSON,
Cashier, 2nd Vice President.
DIRECTORS:
J. D. Bowersock, R.W.Sparr, F.W.Barteldes,
H.L.Moore, F.A.Bailey, H.S.Hall.
J.H.Glathart, A.Henley, W.R.Williams.
The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 12, 1896.
No 14.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH.
Literary Editor:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E. M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Associates:
PERCY PARROTT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
JOE SMITH.
Managing Editor. W.C.CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or the secretary, Percy J. Parrott. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to W. C. Clock, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
WE ALL know what fun it is to work in a chemical laboratory; to fix up unheard of mixtures, and produce unsmelled of odors, but it is pretty hard to be obliged to take the odor without having a finger in the caldron. This fact is very well appreciated by the classes which recite in the south wing of the main building.
THE HARVARD overseers have started a crusade against bad English. They threaten to publish the entrance examination papers which are the worst in this respect, together with the names of the schools from which the writers of bad English are graduated. President Eliot has always laid great emphasis on the importance of teaching every student how to use the English language, even if he isn't taught anything else. To be sure the majority of people can express their thoughts after a fashion, aided by a more or less elaborate system of signs, but the ones who can really speak or write English correctly and fluently are lamentably few.
DURING THE latter part of next week everyone will be afforded a pleasant opportunity to help swell the pipe-organ fund. The financial success of our coming Fair depends almost entirely upon ourselves. We university people must be the first to attend it, the foremost in patronage and the chiefest of its advertising agents.
It is refreshing to see college spirit expressed as it is unmistakably in the work and persistency of the promoters of the pipe organ scheme. Let us show that we too are not lacking in loyalty to our University. The fund has grown to a goodly size; our organ is almost a reality; one mighty effort and the long sought prize is ours. Let every student enforce upon himself a personal responsibility for the successful outcome of the event of next week. Let us put ourselves to some slight pecuniary inconvenience, if necessary. To succeed we must work unitedly. A little unselfish competition in the way of canvassing will help on the fund and at the same time create an active interest in the Fair. Perhaps, our most effective work can be done before next Wednesday. It is our business to solicit.
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FROM several quarters come reports of heavy losses by college athletic associations on their foot-ball teams. This might be accounted for in two ways: by a loss of interest in the game on the part of the public, or by extravagance of the managers of teams. That foot-ball is going out of favor could hardly be proved, though the attendance at games in several western cities, such as Chicago, Omaha, St. Louis has been small as a rule, and even Kansas City people were by no means as liberal in their patronage of the games this year as they usually are.
In discussing the other explanation it is necessary to decide what is extravagance. How much ought a training table to cost? How many coaches ought a team to have? etc. The answers to these questions depend on what it is agreed that an athletic team is for. If its only purpose is to win games, then perhaps the management is justified in spending every cent in sight in order to make the team a winner. It does seem, however, that even in this case debts should not be contracted to an amount greater than that of the estimated minimum receipts of the season.
But if the sounder principle be adopted, that an athletic team does not have to be perfect in order to be a good team, nor have to win in order to play a good game, then there is evidently no call for lavish use of money.
THE WEEKLY does not like to criticise. Its happy moments are not those in which it is finding fault. But we believe that the time has come when those who have the welfare of University athletics at heart must demand a change in the manner of conducting the affairs of the foot ball team. From a financial standpoint the season has been a woeful failure. Not that success is to be measured in dollars and cents; not simply that there is a deficit of something like a thousand dollars; but because of the looseness, and general lack of good business judgment which has characterized the administration of the affairs of the team. Now we do not believe that any one individval is responsible for this lack of good management. It is precisely because there is no one who can be held responsible that we are making this complaint. The root of the whole evil lies in this very fact that the expenditure of money is not restricted in such a way that any one man or committee is responsible for the bills contracted, or even knows what or how great these bills are until they are presented at the end of the season. Under such circumstances, and with the credit of the Association lying ready for any one to use, what but extravagance could be expected? A careless and needless use of money, or credit, was the only logical result. No business man who would use such methods could remain solvent a day.
This matter is not a difficult one to adjust. The same trouble, growing out of the largeness of the receipts from foot-ball games, has been met and removed in other universities. What is needed is a vigorous application of business principles to the affairs of the athletic association. The creation of some officer or committee with the responsibility and power of controlling athletic finance.
"At WESLEYAN every student is required to add the price of the college paper when he pays his tuition." Wesleyan must be the college paper's alcove of heaven. There is liable to be a sudden migration of college papers Wesleyanward, unless the authorities up there establish some sort of protective tariff or immigration law. By the way, Wesleyan, won't you make all your students subscribe for our WEEKLY, too?
NOT FOR some time has a more definite step in advance been taken by the University than in the recent action regarding the establishment of a Summer school. Nothing now remains to insure the school but the approval of the plan by the Regents. An opportunity will then be afforded to high school graduates, and to the teachers of the state to do work which they would otherwise be obliged to make up after entering the University or which in the case of teachers, could not be done at all.
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Flight of an Arrow.
The life of a man
Is an arrow's flight
Out of darkness
Into light,
And out of light
Into darkness again-
Perhaps to pleasure.
Perhaps to pain.
There must be something
Above, below.
Something unseen,
A mighty bow,
A hand that tires not,
A sleepless eye
That sees the arrows
Fly and fly;
One who knows
Why we live—and die.
Good from Evil.
Springtime had come again, and the days were slowly expanding in the warmth of the returning sun. Nowhere did the fresh blue sky the warm south winds, and the first born violets and buttercups receive a heartier welcome than in a small university town in one of the prairie states of the West. The students especially took delight in the long pleasant days, and even the prosaic, matter-of-fact professors, notwithstanding their knowledge that classes would be interrupted and work slighted, were glad that spring was at hand, and felt a strong impulse to escape from the monotonous routine of their lives and be boys again. The members of the senior class in the University were counting the weeks that remained before commencement, and looking forward with pleasure to the end of their labors as students.
But not all of them had this feeling in anticipation of leaving school; at least there was one who did not. Henry Rockman had always been a student. From early boyhood he had been in love with books, and he had come to know and feel towards these best embodiments of great minds, as he knew and felt towards nothing else. By nature he was retiring and thoughtful. He endeavored to be agreeable when the occasion
required, but he did not seek the companionship of his fellows. The two things necessary to his happiness were leisure and books, and it was the thought of losing these which cast a veil of melancholy regret over the last few weeks of his college course; for he had no hope of going to any of the great universities. The uncle with whom he had lived until he came to school was poor and not able to support him longer, and Henry was singularly lacking in that energy and ambition which resolves to triumph over all difficulties and attain the goal in spite of every hindrance. His was not a weakness, however, to be harshly criticised for it was more than atoned for by his unusual abilities as a scholar.
It was in the latter part of April, as Henry was approaching his lodging house one day that he met a stranger coming down the narrow cinder path.
There was something about the man that attracted Henry's attention. He appeared to be slightly past middle age, was tall and well proportioned, and very well dressed. But it was the expression of the stranger's face which caused Henry to look at him with more than ordinary interest. Perhaps it was the distinctly foreign style in which his mustache and whiskers were trimmed; perhaps it was the evidence of great suffering which was stamped on the broad, massive brow; or it may have been the searching, anxious look with which the stranger regarded him as he passed.
At any rate Henry took the trouble to ask his landlady who it was that had just called, and he learned that it was a new roomer who had arrived that afternoon and whose name was Mr. Mentz.
For a few days Henry saw little of the foreigner, and had almost ceased to wonder about him, when one evening they met on a lonely country road and finished their walk together. From that time they began to be friends. They spent many evenings together in pleasant conversation, and Sundays took long walks into the country. Mr. Mentz was a good companion, he was kind, sincere, and interesting. Henry told him all about himself, which, indeed, did
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not take long as he had lived a very uneventful life at his uncle's home, where he had been left an orphan when only two years old. Mr. Mentz was a German; he related the story of his life in his native land. He had attended several universities, and he pictured vividly the life of the students there. He loved especially to dwell on the scenes about his own university, as he called it, at Bixen, where he had spent many of the happiest years of his life.
Henry became more and more attached to his friend, but at the same time he felt that there was something of mystery about the man; something strange even in their friendship. Several weeks passed, and it was well along toward commencement time when one day Henry learned from his landlady that Mr. Mentz had gone away. She said that he had come home from town in the morning, packed his valises and hurriedly taken his leave. Henry went up to his room wondering at the strange conduct of his friend. He looked on the table for some word of farewell, and saw a little package and a note. Upon opening the note he read these hastily scrawled words: "Dear Henry, I am called away. Accept this present as a testimony of my regard for you, and use it to make of yourself what you have so much desired to be. The only condition is that you spend your first year at Bixen. Goodbye, Mentz."
Henry sat down bewildered, and untied the package with trembling fingers. It contained a small casket. This he opened and beheld it full of brilliant jewels. He poured them out on the table and gazed at them in ecstasy. But ere long a strange fear began to trouble his mind, grave doubts oppressed him. Why should this almost unknown man, the friend of a few weeks, bestow upon him such a treasure. He could not explain it, and he resolved to say nothing about his present, at least for a day or two, and perhaps he would first write to his uncle about it.
The next day as Henry was reading the paper he saw an item which made him grow sick at heart. It said that a certain man, wanted for a crime committed in Ohio some years before, had been traced to the city but had there disappeared. A brief description of the man was given which forced upon Henry's mind the terrible conclusion that his friend Mentz was a criminal, and that the jewels were the fruit of his crimes. His first impulse was to deliver the casket and its contents to the authorities. But on second thought he decided to go first, and see his uncle.
He made preparations to start at once and on his way to the depot he received a telegram saying that his uncle had met with a serious accident and wanted him to come home. All thoughts but those of his uncle were driven from his mind, and on reaching home he found old Mr. Rockman in a critical condition from injuries received in a fall. For days and weeks Henry watched by his bedside and and then the end came.
It was the day after the funeral that thoughts of the jewels began to trouble Henry again. And he was on the point of giving them up to some officer of the law when a message came to him from the sheriff of Wayden, Ohio. It was dated at the Wayden jail and ran as follows: Mr. Henry Rockman, Dear Sir, James Wagner, alias Mentz is to be hanged for murder next Friday. He begs you for the love of God to come before he dies. Yours respectfully, Sheriff.
It were useless to attempt to describe the feelings with which Henry read this message, and the tumult in his mind during the hours that followed before he finally decided to answer the call, and yield to the strange fate which seemed to link him to this man.
It was Thursday night when Henry reached Wayden. He went at once to the jail and asked to see the prisoner. He was conducted down a long corridor and admitted to a small cell at the end. A man arose in the dim light and came to meet him. "Henry" he said "I am glad you have come. I was afraid you wouldn't." He sank down on a rude wooden chair and Henry stood silent before him. "Maybe you'll read it in the papers but I would rather tell you myself," he continued almost calmly, and Henry wondered that he had changed so little since the last time they had seen each other. "It
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was twenty-five years ago that I was married, and for two years I lived in heaven itself. Then in a day all was changed. I met a fellow leaving my house. It was not the first time. In a moment the madness which I had striven to control overpowered me. I sprang upon him; I struck him down and killed him.
Then came the trial and I was sentenced to prison for life. In a moment of madness at the thought of staying there so many years I killed the jailor and escaped. I crossed the ocean; and there I have wandered and labored all these years, and become rich. But some time ago I began to want to come back; I came, and I am going to die tomorrow. You are the only friend I have in this whole land, and so I sent for you. You must take what money I have and the jewels. Then you must go to Germany and to Bixen. Yes to Bixen that I've told you so much about." He was leaning forward with his head buried in his hands. Now he arose and took from his couch a letter. He gave it to Henry and then placed his hands on the young man's shoulders and looked long into his face.
"Now you must go away, you must go away tonight. You must go and be happy. Goodbye" He stooped and kissed him.
Henry's eyes were filled with tears. He threw his arms about his friend and begged to be allowed to stay with him through it all.
A look of great tenderness came into the face of the prisoner, and he kissed the boy again. Then he led him to the door which the jailor was holding open. "Goodbye" were his last words and then the massive iron door clanged shut and Henry passed through the corridor and out into the night, receiving at the door a package which the jailor said contained the property of Mr. Wagner.
He hastened to the depot for he felt that he must escape from this terrible place. After he was far away on his journey home, and as he was recalling for the hundredth time the incidents of that last interview he thought of the envelope which he had received in the cell. He took it from his pocket and broke the seal.
There was another sealed envelope within, and on it were these words: "To be opened by Henry Rockman in the Founder's Hall of Bixen University." This seemed to be but another expression of Wagner's oft repeated hope that Henry would go to that university, and the strangeness of it affected him little, especially as he could see through the car window where the Eastern sky was brightening by the rising sun, and he shuddered as he thought of the tragedy which that rising sun was witnessing in the Wayden jail-yard.
At last he reached home. How long it seemed since he had left it a week before!
The month which followed was spent by Henry in disposing of his old uncle's property, and preparing for his journey abroad.
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It was a clear cold day in autumn when Henry arrived at the little village of Bixen in the south range of the great Steinwey mountains. The town lay at the foot of three towering snow capped peaks, and looked over a charming valley to a broad river, winding down from the snow-springs above to mingle with the mighty Rhine.
Henry viewed the beautiful scene with the keenest delight, and then his eye sought out the cluster of large buildings on the hillside which he had no difficulty in recognizing as those of Bixen University. He alighted from the coach at the door of the little inn; but he waited only to see his baggage safely deposited in the small dining room and then set out for the university.
Henry had endeavored during his journey to put from his mind all thoughts of the many unpleasant occurrences of the last few months, but he had never been able to do so.
There was always the feeling that something remained unexplained, and, as he now climbed the steep ascent, a strange foreboding took possession of his mind. He could not but feel that the letter which he bore and was soon to open would contain something of vital interest to him, and yet perhaps it was only a last word of farewell from his benefactor.
He entered the grounds and passed several
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noble buildings, and, inquiring the way, came to the beautiful structure called Founder's Hall. He mounted the marble steps, and passed through the high arched doorway into a large vestibule, and crossed this towards the entrance to the Hall. But suddenly he stopped, and uttered a low exclamation of surprise. His eyes were fixed on a large portrait above the door. He approached and read the inscription in German below the picture: "Henry Mentz, Founder of Bixen University." Then he drew the envelope from his pocket and broke the seal. His hands trembled as he unfolded the letter, and with some difficulty, and half blinded with tears he read its contents:
"Dear Henry:
"After my escape from prison my young wife went to a Western state to find her brother. She found him only in time to die under his roof and leave our son to his care. I came to America to find that boy. I found him and grew to love him even more than in banishment I had loved my dreams of him. How I wished to reveal myself to him; but it would have been useless, yes cruel. When I sent for you last—yes my son, for you—I thought—that I must tell you all before I died. But why should I make you suffer needlessly? I will tell you only a part, and let you learn the rest when you are far away from these awful scenes, and in the midst of those things that I knew and loved. Use them my boy. For my sake use them and be happy. Do not change your name, no, keep your adopted one, for it is unstained. Farewell. Your father, Herbert Wagner."
A picture had fallen out of the envelope. Henry picked it up and looked at it long and tenderly. It was like his own faded picture of his mother.
EXCHANGES.
A Lawrence boy was badly injured while skating yesterday. The question that will come up for discussion is whether skating shall be abolished, or shall we reform the habit.-aLwrence Journal.
A Modern Miracle.
They say the "Miracle Age" is past I think they hadn't ought'er, For I dropped a burnt match from my boat And it lit upon the water.---Ex.
Not a Mystery.
As he stood in admiration,
Looking down along his fide,
With his watch just half way open,
He betrayed a look of pride.
From the stealthy way ne did it
And the bright'ning of his face,
I'm certain that there must have been
A woman in the case.
- Notre Dame Scholastic.
Thomas Jefferson Jones, Jr.—"Daddy, wha' foah is the 'D. D.' after Washington ?"
T. J. Jones, Sr.,—'Why chile doan you know? Dat means 'Daddy of his Country,' for suah."
Prof.:—Now, Sprockets, give me some account of Atlas.
Sprock:—He was a mythological god with a bicycle stoop, and the originator of the ball bearing. —Ex.
To ride a bicycle built for two,
Perhaps is lots of fun;
But many a pair
Have found pleasure rare,
In a rocking chair
Build for one.—Ex.
"I swear by those tall elms in yonder park, he commenced, but she interrupted him. "Swear not by them,"she said imploringly. Why not ?" Because those trees are slippery elm,"she said simply.—Ex.
They pressed forward closely and examined the Roentgen photograph. "His liver," they said, "is the image of his father's, but he gets his lungs from his mother's folks."—Ex.
It is charged that Princeton wants President Cleveland for advertising purposes. This is only a ,neer, but granting that it is true,it proves that Old Princeton has a pretty good eye for advertisements.
Maud: Poor fellow! He got his arm broken.
Lulu: Oh dear! How?
Maud: In a "touch-down."
Lulu: How strange. And down is so soft too.
Ex.
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The Barbs gave a pleasant hop last evening.
Mr. C. J. Wilson is wearing Phi Psi colors.
The Phi Delts gave a stag banquet Friday evening.
A new Sturtevandt heater has been placed in the shops.
W. E. Griffin of Kansas City has re-entered school.
Prof. F. N. Hair of Baldwin was in Lawrence last week.
The Sigma Nus gave their first party of the year last evening.
Last evening Dr. and Mrs. Holmes entertained the Latin Seminary.
Miss Leedy paid her first visit to Mt. Oread on Wednesday of this week.
Rhea was seen in Nell Gwynne by a number of students Thursday evening.
The wife and son of Prof. A. S. Lough, of Baldwin, are visiting in the city.
Prof. Miller will lecture at the Presbyterian church on Monday evening Dec. 14.
The foot ball men were entertained at the Y. W. C. A. house last Monday evening.
Miss Ruth Whitman was absent from school for a few days this week on account of illness.
Miss Florence Johnston and Miss Eva Scholler of Wamego have been visiting old Lawrence friends for the past week.
Charley Fay left for his home in Wichita last Tuesday morning. He probably will not return to Lawrence this year.
The following men were elected to Sigma X; Monday evening: undergraduates, C. A. Kraus, B. L. Miller, Percy Parrott, H. P. Cady; graduates, E. S. Riggs.
Last Monday, Dr. Holmes gave his second annual address before the Latin Department. The subject of his lecture was “What is the Use in Studying Latin?”
The Chancellor’s lecture, last Saturday evening was extremely interesting. If the audience was not so large as might have been desired it was certainly an appreciative one.
The Barbs gave a pleasant hop last evening. Mr.C.J.Wilson is wearing Phi Psi colors.
The Phi Delts gave a stag banquet Friday evening.
A new Sturtevandt heater has been placed in the shops.
W. E. Griffin of Kansas City has re-entered school.
Prof. F. N. Hair of Baldwin was in Lawrence last week.
The Sigma Nus gave their first party of the year last evening.
Last evening Dr. and Mrs. Holmes entertained the Latin Seminary.
Miss Leedy paid her first visit to Mt. Oread on Wednesday of this week.
Rhea was seen in Nell Gwynne by a number of students Thursday evening.
The wife and son of Prof. A. S. Lough, of Baldwin, are visiting in the city.
Prof. Miller will lecture at the Presbyterian church on Monday evening Dec. 14.
The foot ball men were entertained at the Y.W.C.A.house last Monday evening.
Miss Ruth Whitman was absent from school for a few days this week on account of illness.
Miss Florence Johnston and Miss Eva Scholer of Wamego have been visiting old Lawrence friends for the past week.
Charley Fay left for his home in Wichita last Tuesday morning. He probably will not return to Lawrence this year.
The following men were elected to Sigma Xi Monday evening: undergraduates, C. A. Kraus, B. L. Miller, Percy Parrott, H. P. Cady; graduates, E. S. Riggs.
Judge Green was unable to meet his classes last Tuesday.
The foot ball team paid their respect to the new Governor last Saturday evening.
Chancellor and Mrs. Snow entertained the foot ball men at dinner one evening last week.
State Secretary Baird of the Young Men's Christian Association was in the city Thursday.
The Y. M. C. A. gave an informal reception at the residence of Prof. Wilcox, Friday evening.
Prof. Templin addressed the city teachers' meeting at the High School last Saturday morning.
The second of a series of lectures by Prof. Wilcox was given at the Unity Club last Sunday evening.
The Juniors held a class meeting Monday for the purpose of selecting debaters to contest with the Seniors.
Some young ladies of the town and University will give a leap year party at Pythian Hall this evening.
The Betas initiated Brewster and Felgar last Saturday night. An enjoyable time was had—by the older members.
Mrs. A. L. Burney, class '95, better known in University circles as Miss Edith Haskell, spent a part of last week in Lawrence.
The Young Women's Christian Association will give the second of their series of monthly parties at the Y. W. C. A. House this evening.
Last Monday evening Miss Snow entertained the cabinet officers of the University Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations.
The advisory Committee held a meeting Monday, at which the much vexed question of foot ball as now played was discussed. Several recommendations were submitted to the Council and these will be considered at the next meeting of the Council held after the holidays. The trend, we understand, of these recommendations was the elimination of the professional features of the game.
Last Monday, Dr. Holmes gave his second annual address before the Latin Department. The subject of his lecture was "What is the Use in Studying Latin?"
The Chancellor's lecture, last Saturday evening was extremely interesting. If the audience was not so large as might have been desired it was certainly an appreciative one.
Judge Green was unable to meet his classes last Tuesday.
The foot ball team paid their respect to the new Governor last Saturday evening.
Chancellor and Mrs. Snow entertained the foot ball men at dinner one evening last week.
State Secretary Baird of the Young Men's Christian Association was in the city Thursday.
The Y. M. C. A. gave an informal reception at the residence of Prof. Wilcox, Friday evening.
Prof. Templin addressed the city teachers' meeting at the High School last Saturday morning.
The second of a series of lectures by Prof. Wilcox was given at the Unity Club last Sunday evening.
The Juniors held a class meeting Monday for the purpose of selecting debaters to contest with the Seniors.
Some young ladies of the town and University will give a leap year party at Pythian Hall this evening.
The Betas initiated Brewster and Felgar last Saturday night. An enjoyable time was had by the older members.
Mrs. A. L. Burney, class 95, better known in University circles as Miss Edith Haskell, spent a part of last week in Lawrence.
The Young Women's Christian Association will give the second of their series of monthly parties at the Y.W.C.A.House this evening.
Last Monday evening Miss Snow entertained the cabinet officers of the University Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations.
The advisory Committee held a meeting Monday, at which the much vexed question of foot ball as now played was discussed. Several recommendations were submitted to the Council and these will be considered at the next meeting of the Council held after the holidays. The trend, we understand, of these recommendations was the elimination of the professional features of the game.
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E. P. Lupfer returned to his home in Newton last Saturday.
Miss Madge Bullene entertained at whist Tuesday Evening.
Mr. Theo. Poehler Jr. entertained a bowling party Wednesday evening,
Miss Edith Thacher has been in Lawrence all week and is not reported as having entertained any out of town young ladies.
Mr. O'Leary's sight is improving somewhat but he will not be able to assume his duties in the class room till after the holidays.
Mr. Harry Kohn, a senior took the prize at the Fancy Dress Carnival at the rink Monday evening. He represented Lord Fauntleroy.
Merrill Hayes of Kansas City Kansas, well known to many of us is a nephew of Governor elect Leedy and visited the latter and his family over Sunday.
The young ladies have arranged for a final Leap Year party to be given Saturday evening. Misses Rohe and Frances Barker have it in charge. Many out of town guests will be in attendance.
Chancellor McLain of the University of Nebraska, has decided to make the regular appeal for funds, by simply sending to the state legislature an itemized statement of the University's needs.
The University of Chicago has again moved out on a new line of college work. Sunday classes are to be organized after January 1. They will be conducted Sunday mornings from 8 to 10:30 a.m. and Biblical subjects will be considered. President Harper will conduct a class on Prophecy.
The interest in the joint debate at the University of Nebraska is very intense. Indeed, so intense has it become that the librarian reports that about half of the reference books on the subject are missing. The editor of the Hesperian in commenting remarks that he hopes the man who swipes the fewest books will win.
Law Notes.
Nothing has happened to Mr. Clyde Miller this week worthy of note.
Willie Rodgers '96, is conducting the iceplant at his home in Wamego.
Adna Clark visited the class in Pleadings a few minutes Tuesday night.
Major Wilder Metcalf returned Friday from an inspection of his regiment.
The Seniors are busy preparing Petitions for Judge Benson. It is their first offense.
Galen Nichols '95, of Topeka has been chosen Assistant County Attorney of Shawnee County.
Two Seniors Harley and Hoffman have arranged to form a partnership and practice at Pittsburg.
The Seniors will take up Torts soon after the holidays. They hope to have finished Pleadings before that time.
The Senior's Mock Court met for the first time Monday, Atty's Alford, Anderson, Ashwell and Bates argued a case before Judge Brownell but owing to a difference as to the point at issue a rehearing will be had.
Prof. Blackmar has recently published, for the benefit of the Kansas Reading Circles, a book entitled "The Story of Human Progress." It is a condensed history of civilization in which is recorded the principal steps of human progress.
Part first treats of "The Nature of Civilization," discussing the meaning of the term civilization and the methods of recounting human progress. The second part, "The First Steps of Progress" gives an interesting account of the antiquity of man, his primitive social life, the origin of the languages and the growth of aesthetic ideals. Part third "The Dawn of Civilization" traces early civilization down to the American epoch. The fourth part is given over to "Western Civilization" while the fifth describes "Modern Progress" including that of political liberty and social evolution.
The whole subject is treated as concretely as possible, thus bringing it within the easy comprehension of all and making it interesting as well as instructive.
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Oscar Schmitz spent Sunday in Topeka.
H. G. Swayze is thinking some of entering the Senior Law class.
Mr. E. C. Marshall '97, attended a Masonic Banquet in Topeka Thursday.
J. D. Dickirson of the class of '87, is the attorney-elect of Marion county.
Agnes Lee has again returned to Topeka to keep company with her mother who is sick.
Scott Bloss a student in '95, at the University met with a serious accident at his home in Clay Centre.
There were quite a number of the University students at the Knights of Pythias dance last Friday evening.
Anderson A. Ewart was overtaken with a second attack of malaria and left for his home in Kansas City, Wednesday.
Certain Freshman are very wrathy because their bulletin was torn down from the bulletin board Wednesday morning.
Miss Ella Anderson, who was called home on account of the sickness of her mother, will return to the University after the holidays.
Quite a number of the students, who are expecting to teach next year, will attend the Teacher's Conference in Topeka the last of this month.
Hansman is the oracle of the Junior Law class.
The members of the Senior Law class are competing for the honor of reading the best paper before the State Bar Association which meets in Topeka in the month of January.
Prof. Engle is expecting his parents from the western part of the state to spend the holidays with him.
Dr. Chas. Simmons, a graduate of Belleview Hospital, New York, addressed the Medical Society last Tuesday afternoon.
The invitations which were sent out to the foot-ball men for Thursday evening were recalled owing to Prof. Cowan's illness.
The French society met again last Tuesday afternoon at five o'clock. The interest in the society is rapidly increasing and much good will be obtained from this practice. All French students are invited to come and take part in the meetings.
Geo. I. Adams A. B. A. M. 93, now in Munich, Germany, writes that he has almost recovered from his "sea-sickness" and is very comfortably situated in his new quarters. Mr. Adams will continue his studies there for some time to come.
Professor Emch has received from his father, State Counselor Emch of Soleure, Switzerland a copy of his new play entitled 'Die Patrioten." The play has but recently been published and gives a true picture of the political and social life, in Switzerland, shortly after the French Revolution.
When you are looking for a present to take home with you, call at J. S.Boughton's, 1027 Mass. street.
STUDENTS
S
Don't fail to see our
IMMENSE STOCK OF XMAS PRESENTS
Before going home. University Book Store, L. M. GIBB, Proprietor.
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Fine Arts.
Mr. Marshall went to Topeka Thursday to sing at an entertainment.
Remember the Euterpe club will sell holly and mistletoe in their X-mas booth.
The Christmas concert will be given in University hall on Tuesday evening.
Miss Lichtenwalter will play the organ part to "Joan of Arc," Prof. Preyer the piano.
The Oratorio chorus is practicing twice a week, in preparation for giving "Joan of Arc" next Friday evening.
Chapel Notes.
Rev. Mr. Griffith, pastor of the English Lutheran Church, will lead next week.
Services were conducted Monday morning by Rev. Dr.Dinsmore, of San Jose, California.
Prof. Wilcox led the rest of the week. His subject was the Revised version of the Bible.
Tuesday morning attention was called to the improvements of the Revised version over the Old, due to a better Hebrew and Greek text; Wednesday morning, the improvements due to a better translation, resulting from our present improved knowledge of the meaning of words and of the force of grammatical forms and expressions; Thursday morning, the improvements made by translating the same word or expression always in the same way; Friday morning, those due to the necessity of replacing words or expressions no longer understood or understood differently.
Science Notes.
The class in Invertebrate Anatomy has commenced to study wing venation.
Mr. Tucker is preparing a number of lantern slides treating on Grecian subjects.
The Entomological department has received a large consignment of books for its library.
Mr. Marcy has made a number of transparencies of the view that he took from the water tower. They are splendidly colored and finished and are by far the best pictures of the University that have as yet been made.
Mrs. Hunter returned to her home at Pleasanton last Monday after a week's stay in Lawrence.
Chancellor Snow has exchanged with George A. Ehrmann, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, a number of coleoptera for some rare staphylinidae.
The Paleontological department received from Kansas City the remains of new species of moose. The dentition is remarkable, indicating that the animal must have been of an enormous size.
Chemistry Notes.
Prof. Sayre is working on coffee bean and methods of detecting adulterations in powdered coffee.
At the Chemical Seminary last Monday Mr. Whitten explained the Geneve system of nomenclature of organic compounds and Prof. Bailey talked about the explosive properties.
The Kansas Acadamy of Science will hold its meeting in Topeka during the holidays and a number of papers will be read at this meeting by members of the Chemistry and Pharmacy departments.
Mr. Logan McKee has been in correspondence with Dr. Emmens the man who claims to have made gold out of silver, and has received several letters and papers from him describing his process. All of these have a strangely familiar sound and by turning back to the old alchemistic writings we find that Dr. Emmens has simply substituted "force engine" for Philosopher's stone, gold seeds, a medicine of the third order of the old alchemiists. It is the same thing that has been making its appearance ever since the eighth century. Of course no one will say that it is impossible to change silver into gold and when Dr. Emmens shows that he can make the transformation we will be ready to believe it, until then we are inclined to be conservative for "man is a conservative animal but to be conservative is often to declare oneself an ass and an ass is an even more conservative animal than a man."
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Notes from the College World. Out at the University of Utah, the boys black their tan shoes.
The Missouri "Tigers" have abandoned St. Louis as a foot-ball town because of heavy financial losses.
Washburn has a college barber shop. College Life. And yet they claim to play foot ball up there. Well, yes, the shop may be just for shaving, though.
The Baker boys are abandoning their mustaches. You can't tell a Senior from a "prep" there anymore.
Washburn has played with almost every fourth class team in the state and now boasts of having only 59 points scored against her. Doane college is not as large as Washburn but is able to score against the best teams of the West.
The Wrinkle of Ann Arbor has come out in in favor of one Prentiss for Secretary of Agriculture. That don't belong to Michigan, it should go to Kansas. Washburn and Baker having such excellent material would naturally come first if they had not deserted the straightticket, and worked so heroically for the Rev. Kepford. But being as it is, Kansas University certainly has the first right. Now if the "barb" politician will only consult with the fraternity leaders and decide exactly who we want, the rest of us will hold a formal endorseand the office is ours. Just remember in what glowing terms Mr. McKinley spoke of Kansas University when he was here.
The committee appointed by the Junior class to organize an inter-class debating society is composed of the following members: L. B. Olson, Herbert Wing, Miss Ethel Hickey.
Prof. Dunlap addressed the 8 o'clock German class Friday morning on Wolfenbuettel in connection with the life of Lessing. Lessing was librarian there the last eleven years of his life. Prof. Dunlap spent the summer of '95 doing special work in the same library.
Mr. Louis James will be seen at the Bowersock Opera House on Monday, December 14, in a superb scenic production of Dr. Bird's great classic masterpiece "Spartacus." The version used by Mr. James is the same one in which Forrest and McCullough appeared in former times, and it will find in Mr. James an interpreter worthy to succeed the great exponents it has had in the past. Mr. James is less subject to limitations in his art than any great actor of the past score of years, and he excells in the portrayal of those roles that require heroic treatment. Massive and leonine in presence, graceful and scholarly, and with rare vocal gifts he cannot fail to realize the ideal of the old Thracian warrior. Messrs Wagenhals & Kemper will continue as in the past to manage Mr. James' tour, and have provided him with a wealth of scenery which will eclipse any former production of the play.
The scenes in and about Rome, the camps of two hostile armies, the Campania, with Mount Vesuvius rising on the distant horizon, and the Arena, are all wonderfull examples of the scene painters art. The support of Mr. James this season will be stronger than ever, Mr. Guy Lindsley the excellent leading man of last year, has been retained and Miss Alma Kruger and Florence Everett will also appear this season with Mr. James. Seats on sale Friday Dec. 11.
HORSE FLOWER
Look up what you want for
CRISTMAS at ROWE'S
JEWELRY STORE.
A full line line of new goods, low prices and everything sold on guarantee.
Christmas Chimes. THE = HOLIDAY = SPELL
Falls upon all visitors to the store.
Keen enjoyment of the store's Christmas attire mingles with the generous impulses of gift buying.
We make the latter easy for you by a display of Merchandise never equalled in Lawrence.
V.C. LENG-PROC CO.
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Prosaic presents in practical things and poetic gifts in fanciful things greet you.
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FASHION
A walk through the store will help your thinking.
The Stock is an open Book for Christmas Suggestions.
The business is new each day. You are invited.
Weaver's.
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Library Notes.
Mr. Emch has presented the Library with a copy of Die Patrioten, Schanspiel in 5 Akten, von Albrecht Emch. The author is Mr. Emch's father.
Some new and valuable books for the departments of Natural History have recently been received. A few of them are mentioned below:
Romance of the Insect World, by L. N. Badenoch.
The Physiology of the Invertebrata, by A. B. Griffiths.
The Natural History of Aquatic Insects, by L. C. Miall.
Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders, J. Traherne Maggridge.
Farm Insects, being the natural history and economy of the insects injurious to the field crops of Great Britian and Ireland, by John Curtis.
Text-Book of Comparative Anatomy, by Dr. Arnold Lang, professor of Zoology in the University of Zurich, translated by Henry M. and Matilda Bernard. Two volumes.
L. Histoire des Insectes Fossiles des Temps Primaires, précédées d'une Etude sur la Nervation des Ailes des Insectes (accompagnées d'un atlas de 37 planches) by Charles Brongniart.
Petrology for Students, an introduction to the study of rocks under the microscope, by Alfred Harker. This is one of the "Cambridge Natural Science Manuals."
The Natural History of Plants, from the German of Antora Kerner von Marilaun, professor of Botany in the University of Vienna, by F. W. Oliver, with the assistance of Marian Busk and Mary F. Ewart, with about 1000 wood-cut illustrations and sixteen plates in colors. Four volumes.
Three works on Biology, Lessons in Elementary Biology, by T. Jeffrey Parker; Introduction to Elementary Practical Biology, by Charles Wright Dodge; Geological Biology, an introduction to Geological History of Organisms, by Henry Shaler Williams.
The third and fifth volumes (all that are completed) of The Cambridge Natural History, edited by S. F. Harmer, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and A. E. Shipley, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Vol. 3 treats of "Molluscs," by the Rev. A. H. Cooke, "Brachiopods (Recent)," by A. E. Shipley, and "Brachiopods (Fossil)," by F. R. C. Reed. Vol. 5 contains "Peripatus," by Adam Sedgwick, "Myriapods," by F. G. Sinclair, and "Insects," by David Sharp.
THE INJURY done to the University by the attempted sale in England of degrees, purporting to come from a music school connected with the University, has probably not been very great, as the fraud was discovered before any degrees had been sold and the University easily disproved having of anything to do with the college of Church Musicians. Nevertheless it seems that legal protection should be given the University against any similar occurrence in the future. There are some forty purposes for which, according to Kansas statute, five persons can secure a charter from the state. Among these are the giving of musical instruction. What is needed seems to be some modification of these privileges so as to place restriction on the granting of degrees.
For Christmas presents go to Tracy Learnard, 710 Mass. street.
+ HOLIDAY GOODS +
NECKWEAR, MUFFLERS, SUSPENDERS,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
GLOVES,
UMBRELLAS.
Bromelsick's.
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Sterling Silver Novelties,
ENGRAVED CARDS, ETC.
AT COSLEY'S, 828 Mass. Street.
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Once while I sat napping, napping,
Fortune came a-tapping, tapping.
At my chamber door:
But I kept on snoring, snoring.
Her attendance there ignoring,
Till her rapping, raping, rapping,
Ceased forevermore.
Ex.
Christmas Carols.
Long headed Customers take advantage of early buying for Christmas-instead of putting it off until the last hour.
The Best Place to buy Handkerchiefs Gloves—Fancy Articles, Silk Dress Goods and Coats is at INNES'.
American Club skates for ladies and gentlemen in all sizes and kinds, full stock on hand. Padlock Hardware Store, Chas. Achning, 822 Mass. St.
Professor. The chief charm in reading Horace is that you are taken soaring and then suddenly dropped.
Thinker (sotto voice). Yes, I've noticed that; but I would hardly call it a charm.
— Yale Record.
The Racket has purchased the samples of holiday goods of three large houses, and are selling them at fifty cents on the dollar.
Woman is not perfect, of course, but so long as man is, it doesn't matter much.
The Oneontan.
Jackson's Steam Laundry, Kansas City, Mo. If you send your work to us it will be returned to you Friday, in season for the entertainments.
ALVAH SOUDER,
OREAD PLACE, Agent.
Give your typewriting work to C. E. Rose, 716 Miss. street.
The Racket sells stationery and school supplies fifty per cent less than any other store in Douglas county.
Possesion.—"My own," he whispered soulsfully. As for the girl she acted like one possessed. -Detroit Tribune.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's.
Barney & Berry skates for sale at Jaedicke's. Mandolin, guitar and banjo lessons given by Frank Robertson at Music Hall.
4,000,000 books are said to be drawn annually from the public libraries of Germany. Wesleyan Advance.
Go to Jaedicke's for skates.
New line of skates just received at Jaedicke's.
J. B. Shearer & Co. are offering any cape in their Store at just one half former price, what more can you ask, better come quick for choice and size. They are Leaders in Price for all kinds of desirable goods, give them a call.
If there is anyone who should be "rapped in slumber," it is the man that snores.
- Our Dumb Animals,
These cold nights unwrapping might be effective. —College Life.
The Misses Edmondson are making a sweeping reduction on all their millinery. (Over Faxons.)
A "prep." asks the question, "If a man from Portugal is a Portugese, is the boy a Portugosling?" —Ex.
Barney & Berry skates at The Racket for 33 cents.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices.
Offices: 1007 Mass. Street and West of National Bank.
GREAT FORCED SALE OF CLOTHING.
Stylish Suits, Overcoats, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, etc.,
NOW GOING ON AT
STEINBERG,THE CLOTHIER.
WE DO ALL THE GOOD WE CAN
For this reason we keep calling attention to our
Stub heel, Coin toe Shoes in Kid and in Calf Skin.
For school shoes they are the best, the very best.
Faxon the Shoe Man.
Examination and consultation free by the
OSTEOPATHS
Every afternoon in their new quarters, corner of Warren and New Hampshire.
BIGSBY AND BECHTEL.
Young Ladies of the University are invited to call at
La Mode.
Sweeping reduction on all goods in stock and special reductions on all trimmed goods
Goods the best. Prices the lowest.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply student the coal and wood at the lowest prices.
All kinds of fine stationery at 710 Mass., st.
Buy your Teas and Coffees of W. S. Everett, the only Tea and Coffee house in the city. 745 Massachusetts st.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
For sale only at
Barber Bros., Drug Store.
Professor—What is the difference between idealism and realism?
Views of the University buildings, and campus for sale in the Basement.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
The Smith News Co. is headquarters for athletic supplies.
Go to Tracy Learnard's for School Supplies. Well selected stock. Low prices. 710 Mass., street.
'Varsity Girl-Idealism is when you contem plate matrimony.
Professor—Yes; and realism?
'Varsity Girl—You get that afterward.
— Ex.
See Keeler's holiday goods.
Typewriting, W. F. Laycock, 1032 Vt. st.
Holiday goods at Keeler's.
Copying on typewriter, W. F. Laycock.
Tracy Learnard sells quiz books. Freshmen, what are quiz books? Tracy will tell you.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Custom compels an Icelander in his native island to kiss every woman he meets. Now we understand why the men of Iceland never emigrate. -Ex.
Stop at the University Barber Shop for a first class shave, hair cut, etc.
If you want a suit or a pair of pants made by tailors only, no sweat shop work or connection with any factory, go to Wahlstrom and Parker's, 829 Mass.
Buy your Christmas presents at Keeler's.
Prof. R——. "Give the 'sentence, 'John flees,' in the present perfect tense."
Student: "I can't."
Prof. R.——,(much exasperated:)
"Why put a 'has' in it."
Student (slowly): "John has flees (fleas)."
Buy your "friend" a beautiful Brush, comb and Hand Mirror, or a nice box of perfume for Christmas! Woodward's is Headquarters for all such goods.
"I'm very fond of little boys," she said, as she tripped on a string streched across the the pavement. "I feel as if I could eat a couple of 'em, this minute raw." —Ex.
The following is a Freshman's reason for studying on Sunday: "Is not a man justified in helping an ass out of a pit on the Sabbath? Then, how much more justified is the ass in helping himself?"
SILVER Novelties Jaccard's 25 cts. to $5.00. Kansas City
Kansas City
RICH JEWELRY, DIAMONDS SOLID SILVER. 100 Engraved visiting Cards and Plate only $1.50.
KANSAS CITY, - - MISSOURI.
C. L. EDWARDS,
INSURANCE AGENT
AND DEALER IN
ALL KINDS OF COAL. WARREN ST., 2D DOOR WEST OF MASS. ST.
WILLIS'
PHOTO STUDIO,
933 MASS. ST.
Overcoats.
We are closing out the finest line of overcoats ever brought to this city.
M. J. SKOFSTED,
THE AMERICAN GLOTHIER.
824 MASS. ST.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 915 Mass. St.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
HAND GUN
Football and Athletic Goods AT..
Schmelzer Arms Co.
The largest and cheapest Sporting Goods House in the West.
710=712 and 714 Main Street,
KANSAS CITY, MO.
Suits $18.00
That knock the shine off of anything else that ever shone in Lawrence at
Mc Connell's.
Try Craddock's $2.50 Shoes.
"The Best in the World" every pair guaranteed.
H. M. Craddock's Bargain Store, 818 Mass. St
Wm. Wiedemann
Oyster Parlor.
Oyster Parlor.
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Fine Confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
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Rules for self measurement and samples sent on application. All measures registered Our laundry work is not surpassed in the West.
SIMPSON & KELLEY, University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
MORRIS THE PHOTO ARTIST.
EVERYTHING THE LATEST. SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS. 829 MASS. STREET.
★ STAR BAKERY, ★★
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S.
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. . .
W. W. SAVAGE,
BAKERY. Call on him at 719 Mass. Street.
SHOES NEATLY REPAIRED.
Good Work and Cheap.
O. F. HARSHMAN.
1017$ \frac{1}{2} $ Mass. St. (Deaf Mute.
SECOND HAND BOOTS AND SHOES BOUGHT AND SOLD.
CRISS EPLEY
Has the best Restaurant in the city. Students give him a call.
R. B. WAGSTAFF,
DEALER IN
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
CLUB TRADE A SPCIALTY.
947 Mass. Street. Telephone 25.
JONES & MULLANY
MEAT MARKET.
Telephone 63. 830 MASS. STREET.
CHAS. HESS,
MEAT MARKET.
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats Always on hand . . . . . .
941 MASS. ST.
Telephone 14.
DONNELLY BROTHERS. LIVERY, FEED & HACK STABLES
Corner New Hampshire & Winthrop Sts. Telephone No. 100.
THE NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE
Gives better results than any other American Company.
J. R. GRIGGS, Agent,
Lawrence. - - - - - - Kansas.
HOME BAKERY,
J. H. JOHNSON, Prop.
West Warren St., - - - Lawrence, Kan.
Short Order Meals a Specialty. Fresh Confectionery and Cigars on hand.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers,
808 AND 810 MASS. ST,
HOLIDAY
ABE LEVY AGENT.
NOVELTIES
ABE LEVY'S.
SMOKING JACKETS,
LADIES AND GENTS. UMBRELLAS, NECKWEAR AND MUFFLERS.
WOOLF BROS. LAUNDRY GO.
WILL McMURRAY, Solicitor. Goods called for and delivered.
CUR AIM: THE BEST QUALITY AT CHEAPEST PRICES Special Attention
McClure & Simpson.
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Special Attention to Club Trade. 1023 Mass. Street. Telephone 15.
McClure & Simpson. OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Chaepest Prices
ZUTTERMEISTER'S OYSTER PARLOR.
Special attention to club trade. 1020 MASS. ST. TELEPHONE 15.
For fine confections and home made candies give him a trial.
1020 MASS. ST. TEL
'OLIN BELL,
Western Distributing Agent for
Shaw Pianos, Bay State Russell Pianos, Washburn
Other First Class Pianos.
Mandolins and
Schwarzer
Easy Payments if desired.
PIANOS TO RENT.
Guitars.
Special Prices to K. U. Students. OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, KS.
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE,
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES,
LAWRENCE. KAS.
CULBERTONS & THOBURN.
COAL AND WOOD.
OFFICE: Basement of Merchants Nat'l Bank.
GIVE US A CALL OR TELEPHONE NO.84.
NIC KUHN,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
PRICES AS CHEAP AS ANY PLACE
Corner Warren and Mass. St., Over Wagstaff.
Hollingberry & Son.
THE PRACTICAL TAILORS
Can dress you in the Best Materials and most approved style for the least cost.
841 Massachusetts St.
'VARSITY, SEASON OF 'q6.
PARKER'S PARKS
Voights. Hamill, Capt. Mosse. Cowan. Speaks. Walker. Hess. Sherman. Fitzpatrick. Kennedy. Simpson.
The Kansas University Weekly.
VOL. III.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 19, 1896.
Editor-in-Chief.
L. N. FLINT.
Associate:
HAROLD SMITH,
No 15.
Literary Editor
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Associates:
CLARA GATTRELL LYNN, SYDNEY PRENTICE,
PROF. E.M. HOPKINS.
Local Editor:
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Associates:
PERCY PARROT, - - - - Snow Hall.
L. HEIL, - - - - Exchanges
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - Law and Social.
WILL McMURRAY, - Athletics.
E. C. ALDER,
H. P. CADY,
JOE SMITH.
Managing Editor. W.C.CLOCK.
Associates:
C. A. ROHRER. SYDNEY PRENTICE.
Shares in the Weekly one dollar each. Every student and instructor may purchase one share upon application to the Treasurer, Charles A. Wagner or the secretary, Percy J. Parrott. Subscription 50 cents per annum in advance. Address all business communications to W. C. Clock, Lawrence, Kansas.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
THE UNIVERSITY sends out no glee club this year to carry music through the land during the Christmas holidays. It is too bad that this is so. There is musical talent enough in the University to make a first class club, but there has not been enough interest shown in the matter to justify any attempt at organization. We can only hope that it may not be so next year.
THE NAME Country Club seems to have been only provisionally adopted by the band of peripatetics who took their first trip over the untrodden landscape last Saturday. The WEEKLY appreciates the difficulty which confronts this company of intrepid perambulators in their nameless or misnomenical condition, and hereby offers to send the paper free from now until June to the one who shall furnish this ? with a suitable name. All names must be left at the WEEKLY office, with the composer's name also on a separate sheet of paper. "The committee" of the—? will judge as to which is the best.
THE Forum for December has an article on The Drawbacks of a College Education, which contains a number of points worth considering. One drawback is that the student is apt to acquire a love of doing the agreeable. His freedom in choosing what he shall do while in college; the ease with which he may get through if he is so disposed, are likely to make him incapable of doing cheerfully the hard and unpleasant things which he is sure to encounter in later life. Again, an education is apt to train the judgment at the expense of energy. Clearness of vision brings to light so many difficulties in the way that action is discouraged. Thirdly, the knowledge gained is said to be generally not practical—a statement now pretty well disproved. And lastly, education develops individuality, but not social efficiency. It creates an exclusive class, unwilling and unable to take an active part with their fellows in the business of life.
It is well that we should be reminded of these dangers which beset us, for it is in the student's power to avoid most of them if he will, and it is the duty of a college not to destroy freedom, or train the judgment less, or discourage the
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development of individuality, but to direct the use of that freedom, to stimulate energy along with judgment, and to teach the student that individuality is only a means to greater social efficiency.
No PERSON has more reason to rejoice at the coming Christmas tide than the student; we hope for rest: we pray for strength: we shall enjoy the fulness of a love which is the mainstay and guide of our college life—a love which does not quite pass understanding, and yet is infinite—the love of home.
We all need rest. Some have overworked; some, overplayed; and some, perhaps have avoided both extremes. But, in any case, rest will be welcome. Opportunity will be afforded us for thorough self examination. Possibly we are in physical or mental danger. If the diagnosis discovers no ailment, it may reveal newly acquired strength. Let us take a look at ourselves. How shall we rest? It would be rather difficult to prescribe a method suitable for all students. Suppose that we all rest by doing the things most agreeable to ourselves and to those immediately interested in us. Yes, but there are some who cannot rest; unpleasant tasks await them. May these unfortunates receive a speedy compensation. Activity might be rest for some of us.
Our chief delight this week is in the thought of home. We shall breathe its sweet atmosphere, feel the glow of family pride, and experience the fond assurance of family approval. Once again we shall be understood; we shall not feel the need of being constantly on guard; no one will antagonize us; our puny cares will be temporarily forgotten. Parents to please, brothers and sisters to make glad—what blessed employment for the vacation weeks!
Lastly, Christmas tide should remind us of life's supreme duty,-unbounded gratitude for the life that is ours to live. We students are peculiarly beset with distracting influences; we take little time for religious thought; but now may the spirit of Christmas time descend in
radiance, dispersing the darkness in which so many of us have been helplessly groping.
We wish you a joyous Christmas.
THERE is one theme upon which every college editor loves to talk: namely, examinations; their abolishment or the proper method of conducting them. This happens we think because the college editor more than most students is called upon to form in his mind a picture of the ideal university. He finds many discrepancies between the ideal and the real and one of them is in this matter of examinations. The phase of the question which is now being especially discussed is the honor system, and this discussion has been precipitated partly by the recent action of the Harvard Overseers in deciding to suspend any one caught "cribbing." The danger is that such a rule may excite sympathy for the offenders.
The true and only really effective way to attack the evil is through a strong sentiment of condemnation on the part of the student body. As the editor of the Harper's Weekly says, "The body that settles what is deemed honorable and what is not in a college is the undergraduates."
It is because we believe that the honor system has a strong tendency to develop a sentiment for fairness and honesty that its adoption by universities seems to us not only feasible but highly desirable. Indeed we are ready to prophesy that it will be in general use within a very few years. It may be just as bad to cheat under the system at present used in the University, but somehow the student feels a greater obligation to be absolutely fair when he is put on his honor left without any surveillance and merely required to certify that he has neither received nor given any help during the examination. It is to be regretted, of course, that any such methods have to be used in a university but certainly a university should use that method which places the student as much as possible on his own responsibility and amenable only to his own conscience.
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HOLLY AND IVY.
Holly standeth in ye house When that Noel draweth near; Evermore at ye door Standeth Ivy, shivering sore In ye night wind bleak and drear; And, as weary hours go by, Doth ye one to other cry.
"Sister Holly," Ivy quoth,
"What is that within you see?
To and fro doth ye glow
Of ye yule-log flickering go;
Would its warmth did cherish me!
Where thou bidest is it warm;
I am shaken of ye storm."
"Sister Ivy," Holly quoth,
"Brightly burns the yule-log here,
And love brings beauteous things.
While a guardian angel sings
To the babes that slumber near;
But, O Ivy! tell me now,
What without there seest thou?"
"Sister Holly," Ivy quoth, "With fair music comes ye Morn. And afar burns ye Star Where ye wondering shepherds are, And the Shepherd King is born: Peace on earth, good-will to men,' Angels cry, and cry again."
Holly standeth in ye house When that Noel draweth near; Clambering o'er yonder door, Ivy standeth evermore And to them that rightly hear Each one speaketh of ye love That outpoureth from Above.
Eugene Field.
Literary
And There Shall be no Night. "Is this Friday, mother?"
The face on the pillow was aglow with excitement and inquiry.
"I hadn't thought, child, but I guess it is. I see the Whites go by to prayer-meetin' last night, an' this mornin' the butcher's wagon stopped at the parsonage gate. Yes, it's Friday, an' where's all the week gone to?"
Susie May's lips curved in a satisfied smile, and her cheek pressed closer into the warm embrace of her pillow.
Ellen Greyson's oldest friends never heard her sigh; when another woman would have felt herself dissolve in the soft luxury of self-pity. Ellen's thin shoulders seemed more angular than ever in her black and white print wrapper, and the hand which young John Greyson
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had once sworn was the finest in four counties gave an extra slap to the white loaf ready for the pan.
"However I'm to make the second payment on that sewin' machine next Monday, I'd like to know. Johnsons movin' to Bethel this week, and young Mis' Calvin is goin' to bake her own bread after holidays. There goes seventy-five cents a week. An' Mis' Johnson's the only one that takes her brown loaf regular on Saturday night. Most likely they'll take the machine, an'I can't turn over my hand to stop 'em. I'll have to do Dan's wife's sewin' by hand, but I 'spose she won't much mind s'long as the girls, aperns is done neat."
"Mother!" The small face turned toward the troubled woman. "Mother, it's jest a week, aint it?"
"I guess so, child.—Mebby Mandy Elkins'll let me sew up the long seams on her machine. What was you sayin', Susie May? Jest a week till what?"
"Mother, they're goin' to be a tree to the new church an' Mary Allen's got a piece to speak about the night 'fore Christmas. Mary Allen says they's goin' to be music too. Ef I was to go, mother, I could hear the music, an' sister could tell me how the tree an' the candles looked. I wouldn't be no trouble, mother." The child's voice was sweet and insistent.
Ellen Greyson's shears slid from her lap to the floor with a startling clatter.
"Don't you think no more 'bout goin' to the church, Susie May," said she as she stooped to recover them. "They ain't none of us goin' this year. I ain't goin' to have Dan's wife sayin' as John Greyson's children went to the tree an' didn't get nothin' but their little sack o' popcorn. All the music they'll have won't be much, I c'n tell you. It ain't like it us'ta be when your pa was superintendent of the Sunday School over to the old church." The stern lines about her mouth seemed for a moment to relax. "Well," she resumed, "That clock's five minutes fast, or more, but I guess the bread's ready t'come out. Jenny Graft'll be over 'bout five to
get two dozen o' them light biscuits. Her ma's got the minister's folks to tea. Mrs. Greyson's thin form paused a moment in the doorway of the low kitchen. "You ain't sottin' much on goin' to the tree, I hope, Susie May. You ain't stout enough to go, nohow. The doctor doubted if you'd take a step till spring. Seems like the scarlet fever's never took so hard as it's done this year."
A faint convulsive movement of the crazypatch quilt grew more pronounced as the mother left the room, but ceased altogether as her firm step once more approached the door.
The day had been chill and gray enough, but at his setting the sun shone out as if to prove what miracles may be wrought on sky and snow. His level crimson rays lighted with cruel distinctness the worn face of Ellen Greyson as she bent over her heavy lap board. "I don't spose Dan's wife'd want that kitchen safe now," she mused, searching among her gingham scraps for a piece large enough to cut a little sleeve. "Most likely Dan's fixed her up a swingin' shelf for her jell', an' she wouldn't take it now. Ef she'd low three dollars for it, it 'ud help me out a wonderful sight. I'd get Susie May a cage fer that c'nary Mis' Graft's goin' to give'er. She won't never see a nother spring, an' she'd value that canary bird more'n anything—'less it 'ud be t'see t'un 'bout like Jimmy an' Ellen does. I'll jest slip over after tea an' see what shift she's made for that jill'. I c'n git on real well without that safe, though it is dretful convenient.
The room grew gradually darker; a delicate tracery of frost-work crept from edge to center of the window panes. The silence was broken only by an occasional shout and the swift whir of some late coaster's sled on the sloping street without.
Mrs. Greyson rose and went to the window. "Susie May, I'll haf to do up your geranium in a newspaper tonight, it's so frosty. I'll use the one that come 'round Dan's wife's things. Did you look at the bloom today, child?" She carefully lifted the pot of geraniums and carried it to the bed. Two eager hands crept from be-
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neath the quilt. It would be hard to say which was more fragile the blossoms or the delicate fingers of the child. Softly Susie May caressed her flowers, fingering every petal as if it were a snow crystal which might melt at her touch.
"Are they turning white yet, mother? Mary Allen says pink flowers turn white before they die. Do you 'spose my geranium'll last till Christmas?"
"Most likely, child." The outlines of the room's poor furniture grew indistinct, then faded altogether. The mother still sat, thoughtfully silent on the edge of the bed.
"Mother!"—in a faint and tentative voice, Mother, Mary Allen says they ain't no Santy Claus; she says she knows they ain't." Ellen Greyson's thoughts were busy and the silence was broken only by a gentle settling of coals in the tiny stove.
"Mother!"—still more faintly, for Ellen's children regarded their mother with no little awe, "Mother, ef they ain't any Santy Claus, then I 'spose God must 'ov brought Jimmy's sled. Does God bring everything folks ask for?"
"Yes, child, if they need it." Years before Ellen Greyson had accepted her theology, and in the bitterest experiences of later life it had never occurred to her to question its adequacy.
She rose now, and setting the geranium, wrapped in Dan's number of the "Bethel Advance" back in its place on the window sill, felt her way to the match box in the kitchen.
Susie May could have sung for joy. The good God would certainly bring her the gift she so wanted, so needed. Her little heart overflowed with rapture as she thought of seeing her mother's face and the sunlight on her pink geranium. "I c'n take the string off my kitty's neck, an' tell her from Jimmy's jest by lookin' at her with my eyes."
"I ain't goin' to tell 'em what I ask fer," she thought,—"It'll be fer a supprise."
The Christmas passed quickly. The soft influences of the happy season were not unfelt even in Ellen Greyson's home. Jimmy and little Ellen were athrob with a half doubting hope,
and the face on the pillow shone with a quiet joy.
Dan's wife, after much deliberation and attempts at sharp bargaining promised to take the kitchen safe for two dollars and eighty-five cents, and bird cages were duly priced at Graft's and Steve Elkinses. The sewing machine man decided to wait another month before taking away his property and the weight on Ellen Greyson's shoulders was perceptibly lifting, when on Wednesday morning Susie May "took one of her bad turns." Susie May's "turns" were severe, but this time she seemed to rally with surprising promptness. By Thursday afternoon she was so like her old, bright self that the mother slipped away to fetch the bird cage which, with its gay little occupant was to give her child so much joy on the morrow.
She worked late at night finishing some bright, new mittens for Jimmy and putting the last stitches on a new wardrobe for Ellen's last year's doll. Finally she rose and gathering up her scraps of cloth went wearily into the kitchen to lock the back door. She could not refrain from glancing in at the tiny cage, carefully hidden away from Jimmy's curious eyes upon the top shelf of the safe.
"I ain't sorry I spent it," she muttered, as she went softly back to the sitting room.
"Mother!" Ellen Greyson started and put down the lamp she was about to carry into her narrow bedroom.
"Ain't you got to sleep yet, Susie May?"
"I can't, mother. Won't you set my geranium in the east window where the sun'll shine on it as soon as it's up?
Most likely I wouldn't know you ef I'm to see you," she continued, her sensitive fingers caressing her mother's face as Ellen stooped to kiss her. "I want you to come an' stan' by my bed as soon's it's light. You must see the gift God's goin' to bring me for Christmas." The voice was gay and the delicate cheeks were flushed with excitement.
"You ain't goin' to wake up soon's it's light ef you don't get to sleep pretty soon," answered Ellen choking back the tide of pain and
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tenderness which threatened her composure. The morning dawned clear and radiant. The first red rays of the sun shone past the faded pink geranium and fell full upon the sweet white face of the child, her lips still parted in the smile with which she had greeted God's giftbearing messenger.
The day had come.
HELEN GRIFFIN METCALF.
Poe and Wordsworth.
In spite of the fact that Poe not only disliked, but positively hated the Lake School, his poetical theories have some resemblance to those of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Both Wordsworth and Poe laid stress on the importance of elementary feelings, but the distinction is manifest when they tell why elementary feeling is valuable.
Before illustrating this point let us quote from the theories of Poe and Wordsworth:
Wordsworth:
we shall describe objects and utter sentiments of such a nature, and in such connection with each other, that the understanding of the reader must necessarily be in some degree enlightened and his affections strengthened and purified.
Poetry is the image of man and nature, its object is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative; not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion.
The principal object proposed in these poems was above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing them, truly, though not ostentatiously, primary laws of our nature.
Poe :
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations.
The simple fact is, that, would we but permit ourselves to look into our own souls, we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists, nor can exist, any work more thoroughly dignified, more supremely noble, than this very poem; this poem per se; this poem which is a poem and nothing more; this poem written solely for the poem's sake.
All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; and if this be true, poems to which any value could be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of more than unusual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. It is hoped that common sense, in the time to come, will prefer deciding on a work of art rather by the impression it makes, by the effect it produces, than by the time it took to produce the effect or by the amount of "sustained effort"which has been found necessary in effecting the impression. The fact is, that perseverance is one thing and genius quite another.
It (the necessity of producing immediate pleasure) is a homage paid to the nature and naked dignity of man, to the grand elementary principle of pleasure, by which he knows, and feels, and lives, and moves.
The poet . . . rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. That pleasure which is at once the most intense, the most elevating, and the most pure, is, I believe, found in the contemplation of the beautiful. When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely not a quality as is supposed, but an effect—they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of Soul—not of intellect or of heart—upon which I have commented, and which is experienced in contemplating "the beautiful."
An immortal instinct, deep within the spirit of man, is thus, plainly a sense of the Beautiful. This it is which administers to his delight in the manifold forms and sounds and odors and sentiments amid which he lives.
He must be theory mad beyond redemption who shall still persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils of Poetry and Truth. In the contemplation of the Beautiful we alone find it possible to attain this pleasurable elevation or excitement of the soul which we recognize as the poetic sentiment, and which is so easily distinguished from Truth which is the satisfaction of the Reason, or from Passion, which is the excitement of the heart. It by no means follows, however, that the incitements of Passion or the precepts of Duty, or even the lessons of Truth, may not be introduced into a poem and with advantage; but the true artist will always contrive to tone them down in proper subjection to that Beauty which is the atmosphere and the real essence of the poem.
From these comparisons it is evident that the only common element in the theories of the two poets is that a poem should spring from the elementary feelings of the heart. But even here a distinction is evident when they discuss the nature of elementary feelings. A striking
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contrast is the idea of purpose in poetry. With Wordsworth a poem exists for a purpose; it should appeal to heart and intellect; it should delight, instruct and elevate. With Poe a poem exists for its own sake; its beauty is the excuse for its being; it should be feeling pure and simple; with intellect, truth or morals it has only secondary relations.
Wordsworth sees something beyond the reach of poetry. Poetry is "the image of man and nature." Its duty is to discover and express truth. To Poe the essence of poetry is the highest of all ends; it is truth itself; it is nature and not the image of nature. "He who shall simply sing, with however glowing enthusiasm or with however vivid a truth of description of the sights and sounds and odors and colors and sentiments which greet him in common with all mankind,—he, I say, has yet failed to prove his divine title. There is still a something in the distance which he has been unable to attain. We have still a thirst unquenchable, to allay which he has not shown us the crystal springs. This thirst belongs to the immortality of man. It is at once a consequence and an indication of his perennial existence. It is the desire of the moth for the star. It is no mere appreciation of the beauty before us, but a wild effort to reach the beauty above. Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of time, to attain a portion of that loveliness whose very elements, perhaps, appertain to eternity alone."
With Poe the vital element of a poet is feeling. With Wordsworth not only feeling, but book learning and intellect are necessary.
"O many are the poets that are sown
By nature; men endowed with highest gifts.
The vision and the faculty divine;
Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse
Which, in the docile season of their youth
It was denied them to acquire, thro' lack
Of culture and the inspiring aid of books."
The Excursion.
The reflective element predominates in Wordsworth's poems. Even when they express feeling the poems frequently turn from feeling to
reflection. This change from the emotional to the intellectual is a striking contrast to Poe, who never, from beginning to end, loses sight of the emotional element. Take Wordsworth's poem on the rainbow:
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So it was when my life began,
So it is now that I am a man,
So be it when I grow old,
Or let me die!
The child is father of the man.
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
Only the first two lines are emotional. The poem starts out with feelings that the sight of a rainbow arouses, but in the last three lines what has become of the rainbow? Indeed, after the first two lines what has become of the consciousness of the rainbow? It seems as if Wordsworth's intellect forbids his looking at the intrinsic value and beauty of anything.
So it was when my life began,
So it is now I am a man,
So be it when I grow old,
Or let me die!
Indirectly these lines suggest feeling, but to express that feeling they would have to be translated into entirely different terms. As they stand they are simply a matter-of-fact intellectual statement that concerns intellect only.
The child is father of the man.
We are now a long way from the beauties of a rainbow. Even the child is not a child. It has no value in the present. It is merely related to something that follows. Another specimen of intellect predominating over feeling appears in the little poem "Lucy:"
She dwelt among the untrodden ways.
Besides the springs of Dove;
A maid whom there were none to praise,
And very few to love.
This is the first stanza of the poem, the verse that should strike the key-note of the whole. We see a girl living in a solitary place. The last lines suggest a cause for sympathizing with her if lack of praise and a host of lovers is a misfortune. But the praises might have made her vain and a host of lovers might have made
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her fickle, so after all it might be well that Lucy had only a few lovers who never praised her. Wordsworth sees her relation to the whole world, but does not see or feel the effect of this relation upon Lucy. In other words he thinks of Lucy as she might be and not as she is. The entire second stanza tells us that Lucy is beautiful as well as isolated.
A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star,when only one Is shining in the sky!
The figure in the last two lines is purely intellectual. Aside from a star being fair we can see no resemblance to Lucy, and, being a single star, it is so conspicuous that it does not agree with the idea of being "half hidden from the eye." And now the last stanza :
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be! But she is in her grave and O The difference to me.
"She lived unknown"—a thought implied in the two preceding stanzas. She died without renown and was buried. So far all is fact well stated. Now in the last line and for the first time we find primary feeling.
"and O
The difference to me."
Quite a surprise. Why did he not say this before? We thought he was talking about Lucy, but evidently it was about his own feelings Here Wordsworth sings of the death of a beautiful woman, a theme which Poe declares to be the most beautiful and most poetic of all.
Compare this poem with Annabel Lee. Poe's maiden lived in the "Kingdom by the sea"—a place probably as lonely as "the springs of Dove." But the very first stanza tells us that she lived with no other thought "than to love and be loved by me." The thought of her lack of praise or lovers is swallowed up in the fact that she feels love regardless of her surroundings. Here in the start we have the theme of the poem: the love between the poet and Annabel Lee. Nothing is mentioned that has no direct relation to the theme. When we reach the line,
"My beautiful Annabel Lee,"
it seems quite as effective in convincing us of her beauty as a comparison to a violet or to a star. When the stars rise Poe feels the bright eyes of his Annabel Lee. A star suggests a bright eye before it suggests an individual, but when Wordsworth thinks of Lucy, when he sees the star Poe feels the brightness of Annabel's eyes. One is an intellectual figure, the other is emotional. Wordsworth tells us about Lucy until he reaches the last line. But the spirit of the line "O the difference to me," breathes throughout Poe's entire poem. He tells us nothing about his maiden save that she is beautiful. His theme from first to last is
"O the difference to me."
Even when Wordsworth selects a theme from nature his reflective habits soon carry him from his subject to some suggested events in the past or future. In his poem "To the Cuckoo," after he has stated his subject he begins to tell of feelings which the cuckoo aroused in his boyhood and this relation to his present mood. He closes a poem "To the Skylark" with these words:
"Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam—
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home." This figure can appeal only to the intellect. The concrete idea of the soaring bird is compared with the abstract idea of wisdom. Moreover it illustrates Wordsworth's belief that a poem should point to something beyond itself and that every natural object should carry with it some moral.
Turning to Poe's poems we find them quite free from the reflective and the intellectual element. On the other hand they have a quality that is almost lacking in Wordsworth. This quality is tone color. The beauty of Annabel Lee depends largely on the alternating refrain,
In the kingdom by the sea, My beautiful Annabel Lee.
If this refrain were struck out the thought would suffer very little, but the poem would then be a song without its musical accompaniment. Effect and not thought, beauty and not truth are Poe's aim. Wordsworth calls his maiden Lucy because it is a name familiar to common peo-
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ple; Poe calls his Annabel Lee because the two words tinkle with music. He does not hesitate to repeat a thought if the repetition adds to the pleasing effect on the ear, for Annabel Lee closes with the lines,
In the sepulchre there by the sea In her tomb by the sounding sea.
It has been said that the poetry of Poe appeals especially to the superficial and untutored. If by superficial and untutored is meant those who have not "thought long and deeply" the criticism is true. While a young man Wordsworth became convinced that he was to become a great poet. He assumed habits of thought and modes of life which he considered most conducive in developing poetic power. He strove to translate all he heard or saw into some moral or philosophic precept which would be of use to him when he had perfected his poetic power. He endeavored to store up mental treasure to be used at some future time till it became second nature with him, and thus he lost the ability to see intrinsic value in any phase of consciousness. This is why his poems seldom treat of an emotion entirely independent from other things, and why an impression is valuable only as it leads up to a higher. If one must be superficial and untutored to thoroughly enjoy Poe, on the other hand he must have thought long and deeply to enjoy Wordsworth. More than that he must think as Wordsworth thought. Both Poe and Wordsworth admit that there are elementary feelings common to all men, and that thought expressed in terms of these feelings will be understood by all. But not even Wordsworth would say that the intellectual part of man—the result of circumstance and experience—could be alike in all. The intellect is the artificial part of self, and except when they have been developed on similar lines, no two intellects can understand each other. This is why we must study Wordsworth to enjoy him; this is why we delight in Poe at first sight.
Aside from the musical and rhythmical effects in Poe's poetry, elementary feeling is the most effective force. The sole purpose of his work
is beauty. It may be a beauty of sound and rhythm as "The Bells," or a beauty of the play elementary feelings as "Ulalume," or a combination of the two as in "Eulalie," or, on a larger scale, in "The Raven."
The rhythmic and musical elements in poetry are so essential in Poe's eyes that he sees no cause for arguing in their behalf. "No error," he says (Marginalia CCIX) is more certainly fatal in poetry than defective rhythm." As to music he says, (Poetic Principle) "Contenting myself with the certainty that music in its various modes of meter, rhythm, and rhyme, is of so vast a moment in poetry as never to be wisely rejected, is so vitally important an adjunct that he is simply silly who declines its assistance. I will not now pause to maintain its absolute essentiality." Such exaltation of musical qualities is never found in Wordsworth's critical writings. Music is never an end with him. Most of his poetry could be translated into a foreign language and still retain its most important features. But a faithful translation of "The Bells" or of "Annabel Lee" would be impossible. So far as music is concerned there is no comparison between Poe and Wordsworth.
Elementary feeling was endorsed by both. This is why Wordsworth proclaimed apparently insignificant subjects worthy of poetic treatment. But he tells us that in humble life when "elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity—the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature." Here is where his view of elementary feeling differs from that of Poe. With Wordsworth feeling reflects a beauty that comes from without; with Poe, feeling is beautiful in itself. Wordsworth sees beauty in Nature entirely independent of man. Poe never wrote a poem of nature. His landscapes and natural objects are always related to man. The personal element alone is of value to him. His landscapes are haunted by spirits or demons; they are feelings materialized. We find his landscapes mostly in his poems on dreamland, but here all the objective forms of nature are but symbols of feelings.
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Wordsworth accomplished a revolution in subject matter. Poe has suggested a revolution of thought in these words: (Marginalia XLI) "If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own—the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple—a few plain words, 'My Heart Laid Bare.' But this little book must be true to its title. Now is it not very singular that, with the rabid thirst for notoriety which distinguishes so many of mankind—so many, too, who care not a fig what is thought of them after death, there should not be found one man having sufficient hardihood to write this little book? To write, I say. There are ten thousand men who, if the work were once written, would laugh at the notion of being disturbed by its publication during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object as to its being published after their death. But to write it—there is the rub." In other words a poet could revolutionize the world of thought by expressing the wonders of his own soul.
The poem "Ulalume" is elementary feeling expressed in concrete terms. This poem is said to be the most characteristic of Poe's spirit and method. When Poe expresses his feelings he gives us the wierd, unearthly kind, but his method of portraying these feelings could have been employed by Wordsworth when singing of the sunlight on the meadows. The methods of two verses may be the same though the feeling be vastly dissimilar. Mr. Stedman says of "Ulalume" (Poets of America) "It is so strange, so unlike anything that preceded it, so vague and yet so full of meaning that of itself it might establish a new method." So far as I know, Mr. Stedman does not define this "new method." If it is true that "Ulalume" shows a new method then its beauty cannot be gauged by any of the old. Richard Henry Stoddard evidently attempts to judge the poem by the common standards. "This poem," he says "all things considered, is the most singular poem that he ever produced, if not indeed, the most singular poem that anybody ever produced, in commemoration of a dead woman, which I take to have been Poe's object or one of his objects when he sat down to write it." No doubt Ulalume was a woman. But we gather this conclusion from what we know of Poe's poetical theories and not from what is expressed in the poem, for the name is evidently coined for the occasion, and since no sex is mentioned, it might apply equally well to a man. Satisfied that this poem is about woman, Mr. Stoddard looks for "grief and intellectual sincerity" and finds none. Perhaps nobody else could. But in place of intellectual sincerity and grief for a dead woman, there may be something else that is the theme of the poem. Perhaps the theme of the poem is the poet's own feelings as affected by the death of a woman. Perhaps the poem is a work of elementary feeling and thus incomprehensible to an unimaginative intellect. This singular poem leads us into a
"Wild, wierd clime that lieth sublime.
Out of Space—out of Time."
It leads us into dreamland—into the realm of pure feeling—into a spirit world that knows neither space nor time. The poem on Dreamland where
—"the sad soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses,"
helps to explain the total lack of form and outline that predominates in "Ulalume." But it is method and not explanation that I am considering. Ulalume is like an impressionist painting—a blurred mass of color with no form whatever and yet producing a feeling in the observer that none can mistake. Where people have attempted to explain this poem on an objective basis no two explanations are alike. They agree however, on one point: that certain verses express emotions such as fear, hope or despair. It is where they offer explanations of the causes of these feelings that they disagree. And yet, I think, we can show that it was Poe's design that explanations of cause in this poem should disagree.
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The first stanza is merely an introduction. It strikes the key note of the poem, and prepares us for gloomy unearthly feelings. The second stanza begins
Here once, through an alley Titanic
Of cypress, I roamed with my soul.
Of cypress, with Psyche, my soul.
Mr. Stoddard's objection to this repetition in particular is that it adds nothing to the effect. If by effect he means thought he is right. The refrain repeats a thought but the repetition is intended to add to an emotional effect. After telling us that he roamed through an alley of cypress with his soul the poet throws the attention back to the word cypress. It is like an afterthought aroused by the associations of the word cypress. The same effect is sought in repeating the words "with Psyche, my soul." This association is suggested, not stated. Here is the first place where explanations of cause will differ. Evidently Poe sought to satisfy something other than intellect in these lines. This is clear throughout the poem whether his efforts were successful or not.
The effect of the third stanza centers in the line
"Ah! night of all nights in the year."
This line, as it stands with the context, awakes a similar feeling in every imaginative reader. Yet if the intellect asks why this night should have had such associations, it will be disappointed. The effect and not its cause is all that Poe gives us.
The fourth stanza is complete formlessness of outline. Aside from telling us that light appears in the darkness, it leaves all to imagination. The light is a "something." Beyond that we cannot define it.
The fifth stanza is an enigma to the intellect. The "something" that makes light in the darkness is warmer than Dian. These words have no literal meaning yet the contrast of warmth with the cold, misty darkness, and the idea of revelling in regions of sighs takes strong hold on the imagination. The stanza is a symbol of emotions. An unhappy and tormented spirit sees the approach of a deliverer that has come,
in spite of opposition, to lead it "To the Lethean peace of the skies." We do not see either the spirit or the radiant deliverer; we have only the emotions which the spirit feels.
The sixth stanza is a symbol of doubt, mistrust and terror.
The seventh returns to the ecstasies of hope that beamed through the fifth stanza. More than that it is hope and trust conflicting with the doubt of the sixth stanza.
Doubt and gloom are conquered in the eighth stanza but, in following its path to happiness, the soul is stopped by the door of a tomb.
And I cried "It was surely October
In the last stanza fate throws the hopeful soul back to its original despair.
On this very night of last year
That I journeyed-I journeyed down here-
That I brought a dead burden down here.
On this night of all nights in the year
Ah! What demon has tempted me here?"
These incoherent lines express terror and despair. If we look for the cause of these feelings we find none. Were the cause stated, it would destroy the beauty of the poem.
A sculptor or a painter might portray a figure in an attitude of fright or horror, but should he add the cause of this fright or horror, the effect, in most cases, would be greatly diminished. The cause should be left to the imagination. In dealing with a mystery the imagination magnifies it many times; consequently, emotions arising from an imaginary cause will seem far more forcible than otherwise. The cause of all action in "Ulalume" is left to imagination. This explains its lack of form and outline. "I know" says Poe (Marginalia CCXV) "that indefinitiveness is an element of the true music—I mean the true musical expression. Give to it any undue decision—imbue it with any determinate tone and you deprive it at once of its ethereal, its real, its intrinsic, and essential character. You dispel its luxury of dream. You dissolve the atmosphere of the mystic upon which it floats. You exhaust it of its breath of faery. It now becomes a tangible and easily appreciable idea—a thing of the earth, earthly. It has not, indeed, lost its power to please, but all which I
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consider the distinctiveness of that power. And to the uncultivated talent, or to the unimaginative apprehension, this deprivation of its most delicate nare will be, not unfrequently, a recommendation. A determinations of expression sought—and often by composers who should know better—is sought as a beauty rather than rejected as a blemish."
"Ulalume" is a poem of elementary feelings heightened by contrast, but the treatment of these feelings is far from Wordsworthian. Wordsrth would have these feelings speak some real. Poe considers them per se. Their sole her is taste which "contents herself in dising the charms, waging war upon Vice solemn the ground of her deformity, her disprovision, her animosity to the fitting, to the appriate, to the harmonious—in a word Beau' (Poetic Principle.)
Poe's attitude towards elementary feeling can be explained in part after we read his creed which he has embodied in "Eureka." He tells that the "Heart Divine" and our own are identical. "Let not the merely seeming irreverence of this idea frighten our souls from that cool exercise of consciousness—from that deep tranquility of self-inspection—through which alone we can hope to attain the presence of this the most sublime of truths, and look it leisurely in the face.
The phenomena on which our conclusions must at this point depend, are merely the spiritual shadows, but none the less thoroughly substantial.
We walk about, amid the destinies of our world-existence, encompassed by dim and ever present Memories of a Destiny more vast—very distant in the by-gone time, and infinitely awful.
We live out a youth peculiarly haunted by such dreams; yet never mistaking them for dreams. As Memories we know them. During our youth the distinction is too clear to deceive us even for a moment
So long as this youth endures, the feeling that we exist is the most natural of all feelings. We understand it thoroughly. That there was a period at which we did not exist-or, that it might
so have happened that we never had existed at all—are the considerations, indeed, which during this youth, we find difficulty in understanding. Why should we not exist, is, up to the epoch of our Manhood, of all the queries the most unanswerable. Existence—self existence existence for all time to all Eternity—seems, up to the epoch of Manhood, a normal and unquestionable condition—seems because it is.
But now comes a period at which a conventional World-Reason awakens us from the truth of our dream. Doubt, Surprise, and Incomprehensibility arrive at the same moment. They say "You live, and the time was when you lived not. You have been created. An Intelligence exists greater than your own; and it is only through this Intelligence you live at all." These things we struggle to comprehend and cannot, cannot because these things being untrue, are thus, of necessity, incomprehensible.
No thinking being lives who at some luminous point in his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding or believing that anything exists greater than his own soul." (Eureka.)
There are some lines in Wordsworth's "Imitations of Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood," which resemble Poe's belief that the soul knows its destiny more clearly in childhood than in manhood.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star Hath had elsewhere its setting. And somethin from it
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness.
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon't growing Boy:
Upon the growing Boy;
But he beholds the light, and whence it flows. He sees it in his joy;
he Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended:
At length the Man perceives it die away. And fade into the light of common day.
The point of distinction in two philosophic moods is this: with Wordsworth our spirits come from God, with Poe our spirits are God. Keeping this distinction in mind we have a key to the characteristic poems of the two poets.
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The Christmas Solitude Varied with the Christmas Streets.
Sheathed is the river as it glideth by,
Frost-pearled are all the boughs in forest old.
The sheep are huddling close upon the wold.
And over them the stars tremble on high.
Pure joys these winter-nights around me lie;
'Tis fine to loiter through the lighted streets
At Christmas time, and guess from brow and pace
The doom and history of each one we meet,
What kind of heart beats in each,dusky case;
Whiles startled by the beauty of a face
In a shop-light a moment. Or, instead,
To dream of silent fields, where calm and deep
The sunshine lieth like a golden sleep,—
Recalling sweetest looks of summers dead.
Alexander Smith.
A Momentous Story.
The shaded lamp on the table cast a subdued red light over the warm cozy library. Leaning back in a great leather chair before the open fire, was a young girl, her hands lying idly in her lap, while she chatted with the man who sat in a low chair by her side. Very sweet and dainty she looked to him, though there was a slight nervousness in her manner that was unusual to her.
"You are very restless tonight Helen," he said. "It must be because you are anxious to know what Santa Claus will bring you tomorrow. I wish I knew what the day has in store for me. Do you know I can hardly realize that Christmas is here; that tomorrow is the day that I shall always remember as the saddest or the happiest of my life."
"Don't let's talk about Christmas" she replied quickly, "I am sure we have quite exhausted the subject. I have told you all my plans for tomorrow, and what I am going to give everyone, and—and everything."
"But the subject is not exhausted with that," he returned gravely, "for tomorrow is the day when you are to give me your final answer. I know I promised not to speak of this again till Christmas, but surely, dear, you know by this time. You have had time to think, and one night means so much to me. Can't you tell me tonight Helen? If you only—" "You promised,
Fred," she broke in pleadingly, "I'll keep my word and tell you tomorrow, only I can't tell you tonight, I can't, I can't."
"Never mind dear. Don't feel badly. It's all right, indeed it is." He rose and went to the window. The street was almost deserted But as he stood there the people began to come out of a church on the corner.
"Fred," she called, "come and sit down. I want to tell you a story." She had pushed her chair back so that her face was in the shadow. He resumed his seat, saying "I suppose it is true?" "Oh yes. Too true. It is a sad story, not at all Christmas, but it happened to a—a friend of mine, and I want your judgment on the question involved. You know we used to live in the west until we moved here when I was sixteen, and I knew this girl then, and have have corresponded with her ever since. It isn't a pleasant story, but I'll let you judge for yourself. Once upon a time—you see it begins in the most approved fashion—once upon a time there lived a girl with an ambition. She was very very young and I think every one is ambitious when they are young. Her people were educated but poor, and this girl had an overwhelming desire for education and culture. She lived in the west on a cattle ranch, where of course, such things are impossible. She was very unhappy in her life there, she hated the rude uncouth people with whom she was thrown.
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She hated the narrow grinding life. Oh you have no idea how hateful it all was to her, how utterly bare and empty her life was, until—one winter—there came to her father's ranch, a man—a cowboy, who seemed to her the nearest approach to culture she had ever known. He was not an educated or a refined man, and in a vague sort of a way she realized his inferiority, but he had travelled, and had been a keen observer, and she was very young and oh so lonely. All that winter they were constantly together, they rode, talked and read together, and the girl's parents were glad of anything that would divert her mind from her distasteful life. They were very much together. I don't think her parents realized and I know she didn't, how very much they were in each others company. But he was very companionable and her life had been so barren.
But in the spring, money came to her father from an unexpected source, and they were able to leave the west, and move to an eastern town, a college town in fact, very much like this.
I don't think you can realize all that the change meant to the girl. She was considered bright, and was not bad looking, and it seemed as though she stepped right into a niche that had been waiting for her. She was immediately thrown into the atmosphere of culture and refinement for which she had always longed. And she was happy, you have no idea how happy she was, as she felt herself growing and broadening amid her new surroundings.
"But she corresponded with the man whom she had known so well, not that she cared at all but just because—oh I don't know why she did it-I suppose it gave her pleasure. She wrote to him of the progress she was making with her studies, of the people she met, and of the parties she attended. And he wrote to her of well all there is to write of there,-horses and cattle and weather. Of course she didn't care for such things, for they were just a part of the old distasteful life. But she simulated an interest in them, I don't know why, I suppose it was only natural.
It was not long before she was prepared for college, and then it seemed as though she really began to live. Then, before very long, there came into her life—a man, in whom it seemed to her, was embodied all the goodness and culture and nobility she had ever conceived of. She was older then, and she cared for him very much and knew that he cared for her, though there was no engagement between them.
But in a little while—she got a letter from this young man in the west, you know she had been corresponding with him all the time. He told her how hard he had been working to stock a ranch of his own, how successful he had been and how lonely he was, and then he told her that he loved her, and that if she would marry him he would do his best to make her happy.
It was all a surprise to the girl, she had had no idea of such a thing, and at first she hardly knew what to do. Of course even if she hadn't cared for this other man, it would have been out of the question. She tried to tell him in a letter how utterly impossible it was. She tried to make it just as easy as she could, but still show him how hopeless anything of the kind was. Well several days passed, and one evening she found in the newspaper a little paragraph, telling of how her cowboy friend had killed himself. It said no one could give any reason for it, as he had burned all his letters and papers just before shooting himself. But she knew the reason."
The girl stopped speaking. The firelight, as it shone upon her hands showed that she was nervously twisting the rings on her fingers.
"And what is the point on which you want my judgment?" he asked.
"Was she to blame?"
"Yes, I think she was," he said slowly. "In corresponding with man, she encouraged him. He was, no doubt, somewhat above his associates, and it seems to me she would be the very person to realize how much the friendship of a refined girl might grow to mean to such a man, and realizing this, it was certainly her duty to avoid anything that might result in unhappiness
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for him. But how does she feel about it?" "Of course she feels terribly, but she can't feel that she is to blame. She thought that in corresponding with him she was giving him pleasure, and she never dreamed of anything else."
"I should think she would feel terribly. How would you feel to have the consciousness that you had caused a man's death?" The girl was very still now, her nervousness seemed all gone. The man went on. "Of course she never became engaged to the other man. If she had any womanly qualities at all I don't see how she could marry any man with such a load on her conscience. I may be harsh in my judgment, but a human life is, to me, a thing of inestimable value, and that a young girl should sacrifice a man's life to her vanity, is a thing that, if I were her fiance, I should find it very hard to forget."
"But Fred you don't look at it like I do at all. It was only natural that she should correspond with him when she left the west, and you know how such things drift on. She didn't know she was encouraging him, for she didn't know there was anything to encourage."
"Yes, but it was her duty to realize where she was drifting, and her neglect of that duty cost a man's life. As I said, I may be severe, but I can't see it in any other way. But let's not talk about it any more tonight. Its late, and you are tired, I know. Why, you are dreadfully pale. What's the matter?"
"Only tired. It has been a hard day, and I am so foolish, if I am tired or anything I show it in my face the first thing."
Ten minutes later he was gone, and she was left alone. She sat there before the fire till it slowly died away. Then she arose, wearily pushed her hair back from her white, drawn face, and crossed the room to an open desk.
It was an ideal Christmas morning, clear and bright, but with enough frost in the air to remind people that a fireside at home was the pleasantest place to be.
Happiness and good cheer seemed to be in the air and were reflected in the faces of the people on the streets. Surely no one could be other than happy, such a bright beautiful morning.
But, in a cheerful room down town, sat a man with an open letter in his hand, and on his face an expression of deep sorrow.
"I am so sorry, Fred," the letter ran, "I wish I could say something to make it easier for you, but I cannot. I know it will be hard for you to realize now, but I am sure that in time you will come to agree with me that a marriage between you and me is impossible. As friends we have been successful and always will be, I hope, but any other relation would only result in unhappiness for us both. I wish it might be otherwise, but, hard as it may be for us, I am convinced that I am right, and I know you too well to think that you would attempt to move me from a decision that is final. HELEN."
His question of the night before had been answered. He knew now that it was to be the saddest day of his life.
GERTRUDE WINSLOW HILL.
Book Review.
The Real Issue, by William Allen White; Chicago, Way & Williams.
The many who have learned to look with interest for anything from W. A. White have been puzzled all the fall by the announcement of this volume. Not that Mr. White is timid about tackling campaign problems, but they wondered why he let October slip by without getting the book on the market. They know now. The Real Issue is a book of sketches, and the reason, or one of the reasons, why the title did not add the familiar phrase—"and Other Stories"—is that they aren't exactly stories. Sketches, or studies, I should call them. Most of them are familiar to the readers of Kansas newspapers. "Colonel Hucks" is already one of our people. "The King of Boyville" is an idyl equal to the best in Tom Sawyer. With much that is pleasant and true
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as it is, there is in this volume the "promise and potency" of better things to come. Some time Mr. White will write stories and, perhaps, a great novel, and we are assured by what we have here that there will be real human flesh and blood in it, and faithful observation of scenery, true local color. Perhaps, for the very reason that we are seldom given to see the whole of an episode in other peoples' histories, these flash-light hints of stories are more real, more true to life. Certainly they are enjoyable, and every Kansan, if not every Westerner, will find in them scenes and faces that he knows. "The Real Issue" is capital, despite the mild cynicism in its clever ending. "The Story of Aqua Pura" is a tragically true picture of the rise and fall of a "boom town." What important truth there is in this introduction! "People who write about Kansas, as a rule, write ignorantly, and speak of the state as a finished product. Kansas, like Gaul of old, is divided into three parts, differing as widely, each from the other, as any three countries in the same latitude on the globe. * * * Eastern Kansas is a finished community like New York or Pennsylvania. Central Kansas is finished, but not quite paid for; and Western Kansas, the only place where there is any suffering from drouth or crop failures, is a new country—old only in a pluck which is slowly conquering the desert."
Mr. White's forte hitherto has been humor. In many of these sketches he tries his hand at pathos. The pathos is genuine, and often touching, but sometimes it is a bit conscious like the love of the King of Boyville. Is it probable that Mrs. Colonel Hucks, who is fifty, and says "like it is," and calls the Colonel "Pa," would apostrophize him, in recalling his youthful appearance, as follows: "What's become of my boy—my young—sweet—strong—glorious boy?" Hardly. I knew Mrs. Colonel Hucks, and while she was capable of such feelings, she couldn't talk like that.
Mr. White has studied the art of beginning and ending, and has learned it well. Here is the end of "Aqua Pura:" "And with this the
old man went into the house. There, when the five days' rain had ceased, and when the great river that flooded the barren plain had shrunk, the rescuing party found him. Beside his bed were his balanced books and his legal papers. In his dead eyes were a thousand dreams." And thus begins "The Prodigal Daughter:" "A few years ago the Beasly girl worked in the over-all factory. She was a pretty girl then, and naturally the neighbors talked about her, for the people who live along Jersey Creek are really no better than they who live on Independence avenue, in spite of the theories that poverty and charity go together." This is making a long story short. It is artistic.
And it is a good style here, in the main: crisp sentences, phrases that tell more than they say, strong, bold words. The recklessness and too-much-ness of the newspaper man are toned down, and only the good of his language left. In "A Story of the Highlands," which has a strong resemblance to Mrs. Elia Peattie's "Jim Lancy's Waterloo," occur these touches. "All winter they would not admit to each other that they were living on aid." "In the spring many men went east looking for work. They left their wives with God and the county commissioners." But I cannot quote forever, and I want to leave the best things for the buyer of the book. Take this to close with: "It was a vulnerable aristocracy, and the scoffers made sad havoc with it. Fathers who had carried their sweethearts—now their wives—across the Big Muddy on their backs to and from the dances at Jack Armstrong's ranch, were too common, and too voluble in Willow Creek, to permit the daughters and sons of the town to assume very much dignity. If a family put on many airs, the members of a dozen families in town would tell newcomers how the would-be fashionables had received 'aid' from the committee in the grasshopper year."
"The Real Issue and Other Sketches" is a historical document. The student of the making of Kansas will have to read it. The East, which has smacked its lips over "What's the Matter with Kansas," should read it also, for here is the antidote. Get the book and take it home, for Christmas; be assured that "The Home-coming of Colonel Hucks" will touch the heart (and perchance soften that organ in some cases) of every old settler of Kansas.
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SIDE TALKS WITH FRESHMEN.
Newman-It is hard to say just what explanation should be given when one hands in his "pony" with his quiz book. Perhaps it may be assumed that the professor understands the situation so thoroughly that no explanation is necessary.
InnocenceThe wind mill cider press is as some say of Santa Claus, only a myth, which may in a measure account for your inability to find it.
Lottie—No, the writer of "Side Talks" is Anon, and he (or she) will not think of giving his (or her) picture to persons of the opposite sex.
Jennie—It was at one time thought that a "Junior Law" had studied so hard as to make himself sick. But it has since been discovered that it was only a case of plain neuralgia in the face. The annals do not report another "Law" who has been suspected of such a thing.
Dot—Yes, they play foot ball at Baker, but only "once through, not to repeat." After a successful game the players are given a vacation to recuperate.
Jimmy--You are quite right. The very fact that you have always hung up your stocking at Christmas and have got something in it, is sufficient proof to any rational mind that Santa Claus does exist whatever your professor may say to the contrary. It is possible that if we had done some of the things the professors have done Santa Claus wouldn't put anything in our stockings, either.
CuriousThe old wind mill has its origin and purpose of construction veiled in somewhat of a mystery. Prof. Carruth thinks, because of its resemblance to the wind mills of the Netherlands, that it came to us from Holland, having originated, perhaps, in the upper Rhein country. Its construction here he regards as only the natural outgrowth of the German tendency to perpetuate the institutions of the fatherland. Prof. Wilcox admits that it doubtless came to us directly from the Germans but thinks a thing of
such exquisite beauty could only have originated with the Greeks, the idea having been taken to Germany perhaps at the time of the migration of the Greek scholars. Its being built here at such an early date he regards as only another proof of the universal tendency of people aiming at culture to imitate Grecian art. Dr. Holmes concedes the triumph of the Grecian theory in the main by a good round majority, but insists that whatever is of any value from the Greek must have come to us through the Romans. His theory is that having been brought to Rome, it fell under the eye of the great Caesar who appreciated its beauty and worth: and, on one of his campaigns into Gaul, Caesar being short of elephants, took with him a wind mill to frighten the savages. In this campaign, he crossed the Rhein into "the enemy's country" and not being very successful decided to recross it. At the bridge, being somewhat hard pressed, he abandoned what otherwise might have been an elephant on his hands." The wind mill's construction here he regards as some college missionary work, for the dissemination of culture among the lowly. Prof. Dunlap thinks that he has discovered that it was constructed by the Pottawatomie Indians with the express purpose of having a kind of intellectual oasis, in the existence of a something with the tumble-down-ness of an old castle, in order to, in a measure, satiate the famishing soul of "Sweetness and Light" when he should come to this country. But alas he didn't get this far and went home displeased. Anon, thinks that the plan was taken from a farm journal, and that the wind mill was constructed by some old farmer who wished to grind corn for his hogs.
Of course you comprehend that these opinions stand only for so much as they are worth. They are given here only as pointers and it remains for your generation, dear Freshman, to discover the real origin of this old historic structure.
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Locals.
Mr. Crooks spent Sunday in Baldwin.
Ensign Bierer was a guest at the Leap Year party.
Mr. Ernest Blaker was a Sunday visitor at the Beta House.
Mr. Jus. Bowersock came down from Kansas City Saturday.
The Barbs gave a hop in Johnson's hall last Friday Evening.
Miss Edith Thacher was slightly indisposed a few days last week.
Prof. Miller has in his recitation room a new cabinet for apparatus.
Miss Josephine March entertained her Bible class last Saturday afternoon.
Miss Helen Mason came down from, Topeka to attend the Leap Year party.
Mr. Whitney was called to his home Monday on account of the death of his father.
Some sneak thief relieved Mr. E. C. Marshall of his overcoat last Sunday evening.
The Leap Year party last Saturday night was a marked success about forty couples were present.
Miss Alpha Bigley was compelled to return to her home, Warrensburg, Mo., on account of illness, last Sunday.
Several of the Profs, feeling a desire to celebrate the approaching Christmas, presented their classes with quizes.
The "Go as you please" whist club met last Friday night. The young men take company or not just as they please.
A student in one of the afternoon classes says that the easiest way to keep awake, is to watch the others who are asleep.
Monday evening a number of the University students saw Louis James in "Spartacus," his wonderful spectacular play.
Mr. R. K. Moody is in receipt of a Banquet Lamp which is to be disposed of for the benefit of the Athletic Association.
Prof. Miller delivered a lecture last Monday evening at the Presbyterian church. His subject was, "In the High Heavens."
Bicyclers who desire to visit the "Three Sisters" with the walking club, next Saturday, meet at the University at one o'clock.
The production of "The Rivals" to be given in February is progressing nicely. The parts are to be learned by the time the recess is over.
Harold Smith and Clerk Brown rode down to Baldwin Sunday. Introduced as Smith and Brown they were thought to be traveling under assumed names.
On account of the superb condition of the roads the cyclists have been out in full force and will be in evidence so long as the roads and weather will warrant.
Herb. Wing says that this thing of making election hair bets on Kansas is not what it is cracked up to be. This week, however, he broke all recognized codes of honor and really indulged in a hair cut.
Any information which the students can obtain concerning the early history of Lawrence and its vicinity will be gladly received by Mr. Flint or Professor Sterling, historical committee of the "Walking Club."
A member of the Junior Law class was heard to remark on his way home from "Spartacus" last Monday evening, "there were more Junior Laws up in that old gallery than generally attend our classes on the hill."
The Senior class held a meeting last Friday and decided to have a play, and also to get out an annual, provided, the committee appointed for that purpose, should be able to report some plan for an annual which should meet the approval of the class.
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Prof Newson will go to Chicago during the holidays to participate in the organization of a Western section of the American Mathematical society. Prof.Newson will deliver a lecture before the society and Mr. Emch will send a paper to be read at the same meeting. The session is on Dec. 31st and Jan. 1st.
A number of professors enjoyed an oysterdinner last Wednesday given under the auspices of the "Girls, Oyster Club." Toasts were required from each of the guests and the dinner proved a very successful affair. It has been suggested that at the next meeting of the club an invitation to the newspaper staff would not be out of order.
Weekly Election.
The regular election of the Editorial Board will occur on January 15, 1897. Nominations must be made in writing at least seven days in advance of the election,signed by at least ten stockholders in each case,and submitted to the advisory committee.
The offices to be filled are: an editor-in-chief, eight members of the editorial board, and a secretary and treasurer of the company.
Oratorical Contest.
The orations for the oratorical contest are due on January 5th. The contest will be held January 19.
FRANK HOUSE, President.
ADNA CLARK,
ROY OSBORNE,
Ex. Com.
Relative to the Debate.
The University of Nebraska has selected a subject for the final debate. It is one which has already roused great public interest, and which will in the future excite much discussion. The question selected is: Should it be the policy of the United States to extend her dominions? Here is a question which demands grave consideration. Each side of the question has many interesting phases. The joint debaters are to be envied. They have a live question about a live issue. It is to be hoped that all students will
unite to make the debate a success this year. Let all interested conform to the requirements of the constitution, and form themselves into Debating Clubs by Jan. 1st with a bona fide membership of not less than twelve, and submit to the committee the names of not less than six contestants.
Chapel Notes.
Prof. Sayre will lead the first week of the new year.
Rev. Mr. Griffith, pastor of the English Lutheran church, led this week.
Friday's subject was Christmas, its meaning importance, proper use, and influence.
The subject of Monday morning's talk was the influence of associations; of Tuesday morning's, the necessity of purifying all the springs of action and the various sides of our nature; of Wednesday morning's, self-denial.
Law Notes.
Limbacker '97, went home Saturday to remain until after the holidays.
Light, Senior speaker at last year's banquet visited the classes Wednesday.
Clyde W. Mlller will make a trip to the Pacific coast during the holidays.
The law students are the most confirmed theatre-goers that the school contains.
Ensign Bierer, U. S. N. an old Hiawatha boy was entertained over Sunday by A. F. Sherman.
Jno. Sullivan, '87,and wife were our visitors last Friday.Mr.Sullivan is in the Real Estate business in Kansas City.
The Seniors completed Pleadings Friday night. They will be examimed upon the subject sometime in February.
W. E. Higgins, '95, was among us last week. Mr. Higgins is now practicing the peerless profession in Kansas City Mo.
The Seniors took up Compositions again Monday. This subject taken up in October had been dropped so as to allow the class to devote all its time to Pleadings.
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Science Notes.
Mr. Hunter is making a study of the mouthparts of insects.
Mr. Kahl is making a revision of the genus, Lespa which belongs to the family Asathomyidae.
Mr. Sterling having completed a special course in Micro-technique is now making a study of the physiological changes that leaves undergo through the year.
On Wednesday afternoon at Topeka, Prof. Dyche lectured before the State Horticultural Society. The subject of his paper was "Birds injurious to fruits and fowl."
At Hays City, Thursday night Chancellor Snow delivered a lecture entitled "Injurious Insects." Next Friday Prof. Dyche will deliver at Wichita his lecture on Alaska.
Mr. Gowell received from G.M.McDonald of Sabetha, Kansas an albino sparrow, Spizella monticola; so far as can be ascertained this is the first case on record of the albinism of the sparrow.
During the past summer the Botanical department distributed between five and six thousand boxes of infected chinch bugs, and perfected a new method for checking the progress of the chinch bug.
Mr. C. W. Johnson, an eminent dipterologist of Washington, D. C. has presented through Dr. Williston a number of specimens of Diptera which he has collected and named. Many of them are typical specimens, which form a valuable addition to our collection of Diptera.
The Botanical department will publish during the holidays a report of the experiments that have been made upon the chinch bug infection this past summer. The report will be profusely illustrated with half-tones, showing the various means that were employed in combating the pest.
One of the most interesting and instructive collections in Snow Hall, is that of the Entomological department. Because of the peculiar
nature and delicacy of the materials, special care had to be taken for its preservation. For this reason the collection was put into a room by itself, and perhaps it is on this account that so few students are not only uncertain of its location but are even unaware of its existence. The collection is at all times open to the inspection of visitors. and the department takes great pleasure in showing and explaining the various points of interest. The collection though not the largest in the world ranks high, and is perhaps in several respects unexcelled by any in the United States. The total number of named species of insects in the collection is two hundred thousand classified specimens, containing about fourteen thousand distinct species, besides twenty thousand specimens not yet named and a large collection for biological and economic study. This large number of insects has been collected chiefly by the University expeditions to New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado, though many valuable additions have been made by exchange.
The department of Paleontology has recently received a lot of reptilian fossils from the Jurasic of northern Colorado. These represent the collections made by Mr. Riggs during a few weeks spent there this fall in investigating the fossil beds of that locality in connection with Mr. Reed of Wyoming University. The Kansas University geological expedition of '95, also secured several bones of these large dinosaurs, which with those just received will soon be placed in the museum.
The Jurasic fauna not only presents to the paleontologist one of the most fascinating fields of study, but including as it does the earliest known forms of mammalian life as well as the most striking development both in size and diversity of the reptilian forms, it becomes to the casual reader one of the most interesting chapters in natural history. The blue joint clays and sandstones forming in Jurasic times marshes and shore lines, but now heaved high on mountain sides as bluffs worthless for any industrial purpose, often reveal to the collector such treasures as seem almost like a glimpse
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into wonderland. There are found the minute remains of mammals, so small as to be recognized only by the aid of a magnifying glass; and there also, in precisely the same level, thrown in confusedly like logs in a drift heap, are the bones of every conceivable form of reptile from the lizard to the gigantic brontosaur which attained a length of more than sixty feet. Such are the rock-written evidences that bear witness to the character of these monsters which untold ages ago stalked the shores, the rulers and scavengers of those early seas.
The Jurasic beds at Como, Wyoming were worked quite extensively by Professor Marsh of Yale twenty years ago and from there was obtained our present knowledge of the Jurasic fauna of America. These once exhausted investigations ceased for want of material. However, new localities richer even than the famous Como Beds have recently been brought to light. During the past year the University of Wyoming has secured great quantities of valuable material and has already succeeded in making their collection in this line almost equal to that of Yale. Kansas University is not disposed to sit idly by and see such a harvest reaped by a younger institution. Knowing of another locality still unworked, Dr. Williston will make every effort to send out a party during the coming summer before these deposits, like those at Como, become exhausted and the opportunity lost. Considering the size and abundance of these specimens, even a small party could reasonably hope to secure for Kansas University such a collection as has never before been added to our museum.
Chemical Notes.
Prof. Weida of Baker gave the chemical seminary a review of some of the recent chemical literature.
It is much to be regretted that the students of the University do not attend the meetings of the Science club more regularly. The meetings are always very interesting and instructive and any student who fails to attend them is missing a large part of the opportunities which are offered to him by the University for obtaining a general education.
The Yankees of the east are aping French styles in Handkerchiefs. Sorry? Hardly, for at Weaver's are blocked and hemstitched handkerchiefs with elaborately worked corners at 50c. The French make would fetch $1.50. From every source of handkerchief goodness they come to the store—the nearly six hundred styles Weaver has gathered for holiday times. And the handkerchief department has already grown too small. Handkerchiefs pop up in various places—but always and everywhere the Weaver standard of handkerchief goodness.
Women's initial hemstitched handkerchiefs at 5c. 10c. 15c and 25c.
Women's silk initial handkerchiefs hemstitched, 15c and 25c.
Men's initial hemstitched handkerchiefs, 20c and 25c.
Men's silk initial hemstitched handkerchiefs, 25c. 50c. 75c. 85c.
Handkerchief section removed to south side near middle of the store.
The Christmas Concert.
The Christmas concert given Tuesday evening, Dec. 15th, at University hall as the inauguration of the Pipe Organ Fair, was one that is seldom heard outside of the large cities. Nothing better in a musical way was ever given in Lawrence and the hearty applause given
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each number showed that the large audience recognized this fact. The University String Orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Farrell, opened the program. "Caprice Espagnole" by Moszkowski, played by Miss Wiedemann, has been given here by artists, but her rendering of it made a good comparison and showed that she had given the music intelligent and thoughtful study. Miss Starr sang, "Murmuring Zephyrs" by Jensen. Her voice is sweet, has marked carrying qualities and shows careful training. Miss Lapham played, "Weiner Bon Bons" by Strauss-Pine-King, with a dash, spirit and confidence. Her technic is excellent. Prof. Farrell's singing and violin playing received enthusiastic encores. His voice since he was last heard in University hall has greatly increased in power and sweetness.
The finest thing in piano ever given here was was the "Consertstueck" by Chaminade, by Prof. Preyer with the orchestral parts taken on second piano by Miss Lichtenwalter. The long difficult passages were played with an ease and brilliancy that was marvelous, and a storm of applause followed.
The "Wedding Serenade" by Svendson, given by the University orchestra, concluded the program. Prof. Farrell deserves much credit for the organization of that orchestra. The University has every reason to feel proud of its Music department. Very few schools in in this country are capable of giving such a program as that of the Christmas concert.
Cameron's Bluff.
Last Saturday morning a number of the professors and students met together in room 16 and organized a "walking club," the exact name for which will be determined later. The object of the club is to be an incentive to open air exercise, coupled with the interesting task of unearthing and preserving much of the historical data in and about Lawrence, which up to this date has been sadly neglected. Upon adjourning the members decided to make Cameron's Bluff the goal of their first excursion and agreed to meet at Professor Templin's house at two o'clock.
At the appointed time, forty students had collected and the start was made. It had been agreed that all anonymous streams and gullies met in the course should be named, and soon the "walkers" were crossing "Jug Run," climbing up "Wounded Knee" and sliding down "Rabbit Slope," but of all the difficulties that presented themselves to these ardent pedestrians, none was so perplexing, none so hard to surmount (or even go around) as Cameron's "bluff."
Upon reaching the heights, some of the number immediately set out to find the owner, but failing in this attempt and wearied by their exertions, the club assembled upon the high embankment overlooking the river, otherwise known as "Barber's Fall," and were carefully arranging themselves for a "snap shot" when the proprietor put in his appearance.
Troubled by his chronic attack of dyspepsia and ill-humor the old man was simply unapproachable. He tore his hair and "stormed like Satan in a rage." Flattery, bribery, oratory were tried in vain. One after another the professors wilted and one by one the students slid down the steep embankment to the railroad track below, and after casting a final glance at their former position, picked up their canes like martyrs, "and silently stole away." Not so with Cameron; the enemy conquered his exultant rage over-leaped itself and like a roaring torrent rushed headlong against its helpless foes, and as the weary "walkers" turned the curve towards home they could still hear the old man shouting and catch at times the words "University—State Legislature—Appropriation—Teach the students—Rights of property owners."
The club will visit the "Three Sisters" next Saturday. Meet at the University at one o'clock. Every student and professor is invited.
Woodward's is Headquarters for fine Holiday goods for the least money-fancy Toilet Brushes, Perfumes, Atomizers and a hundred other things. Also sole agent for Kodak and Kodet Cameras.
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OF THE SEASON.
THE PEACH TOE,
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THE STILLETTO TOE...
A.J.JOHNSON & CO.
And all the Modern Shapes in Ladies Stylish Footwear. A Full Line of Party Slippers.
BULLENE SHOE CO.
The Misses Edmondson are making a sweeping reduction on all their millinery. (Over Faxons.)
J. B. Shearer & Co. are offering any cape in their Store at just one half former price, what more can you ask, better come quick for choice and size. They are Leaders in Price for all kinds of desirable goods, give them a call.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
Call and see our Books and Christmas Novelties before going home. J.S.Boughton, 3rd door north of Watkins' Bank.
Cough Tablets, all kinds, at Leis Drug Co's. For choice cut flowers go to Mrs. Luther's. Go to the East Warren Street dining hall for a good square meal.
Flowers for the Christmas time at Mrs. Luther's.
La Velle's Dentone for cleaning the teeth and hardening the gums, at Leis Drug Co's.
Mandolins from $2.00 up, at Straffon's Drug Store.
We have just received a large invoice of the popular brands of our five and ten cent Cigars put up especially for the holiday trade, 25 in a box.
Mrs. Luther's green house, corner University and Massachusetts streets.Call and see the flowers.
P J. LANDER, Bakery. Call on him at 719 Massachusetts Street.
+ HOLIDAY GOODS +
NECKWEAR, MUFFLERS, SUSPENDERS,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
GLOVES,
UMBRELLAS.
Bromelsick's.
S
Sterling Silver Novelties,
ENGRAVED CARDS, ETC.
AT COSLEY'S,
837 Mass. Street.
THE COONROD & SMITH BUSINESS COLLEGES
Are the best. Four schools under one management, Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo., Atchison and Lawrence, Kansas. Course of study practical. Instruction thorough. Joint system of business practice. Rates reasonable. Winter term begins January 4,1887. Write for catalogue containing full information. Address either school or I. C. STEVENSON, Principal,
LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
C. W. Straffon, the druggist, is sole agent for the Harwood Guitars and Mandolins.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students with coal and wood at the lowest prices. Offices: 1007 Mass. Street and West of National Bank.
Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos Violins, Strings and everything else in the musical line at prices that will please you, at Straffon's Drug Store.
For Christmas presents go to Tracy Learnard, 710 Mass. street.
An elegant line of Perfumery and Toilet articles at Straffon's Drug Store.
Go to Tracy Learnard's for School Supplies. Well selected stock. Low prices. 710 Mass., street.
Just received at Straffon's Drug Store our regular brands of Cigars, 25 in a box, for the holiday trade.
Give your typewriting work to C.E.Rose, 716 Miss. street.
The Best Place to buy Handkerchiefs Gloves-Fancy Articles, Silk Dress Goods and Coats is at INNES'.
American Club skates for ladies and gentlemen in all sizes and kinds, full stock on hand. Padlock Hardware Store, Chas. Achning, 822 Mass. St.
See Keeler's holiday goods.
A Merry Christmas
To all the friends and patrons of
THE HUB Our display of
HOLIDAY GOODS
has caught the eyes of the people, the price marked on them is heralded by our friends all over. We will be pleased to show you through
AND SAVE MONEY on every article.
THE HUB.
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STUDENTS
Until January 1, 1897,
EVERY GENT'S...
07,
RUSSETT SHOE
In the house we will close out at 2.25 a pair.
Former prices, $3.00, 4.00 and 5.00 per pair.
Mason's.
A. REINISCH.
Kansas Bakery,
RERTAURANT, BAKERY AND LUNCH COUNTER. 818 Mass. Street.
STUDENTS
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Don't fail to see our
IMMENSE STOCK OF XMAS PRESENTS
Before going home. University Book Store, L.M.GIBB. Proprietor.