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Vol. IV.
No.9.
April 3,1897.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
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The Kansas University Weekly.
Vol. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 3, 1897.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor:
WALTER H. SANFORD.
Associates:
L. HEIL,
PAULINE LEWELLING,
ETHEL HICKEY,
Local Editor:
CARL L. COOPER.
Associates:
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Managing Editor.
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WE ARE in receipt of a pamphlet reprinted from the Kansas University Quarterly by Professor Hopkins, on "The Use of Analysis in Logical Composition." Professor Hopkins has
received from Eastern colleges very complimentary notices of his work, and, also, several orders. The treatise is intended to be of practical use in the class-room.
WE ARE indebted to the College of Emporia for the generous support she gave our Comedy Club at Emporia last Saturday night.
THOSE DESIRING pleasurable out-door exercise, congenial company and a better acquaintance with Lawrence vicinity should join the Walking Club.
THE Kansas University Quarterly, appeared last month in two series: A, Science and Mathematics; B, Philology and History. Professors Williston and Bailey contribute largely to series A, and Professors Hopkins and Carruth, entirely to series B, of this issue.
THE UNIVERSITY of California received as an appropriation for current expenses for the coming year a sum twice as large as it ever received before. The university has also received from various citizens of San Francisco the sum of seven millions of dollars, all of which will be expended in erecting thirty new buildings at an average cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each. The agent of the university is now in Europe securing bids from Architects and Landscape Gardeners for plan and specifications for the buildings and plans for the laying out of the university grounds. Two years ago Mayor Sutro of San Francisco gave two and one half millions of dollars worth of land in the city for the Law, Medical, Pharmaceutical, and Dental Colleges, connected with the State University, and also a half million of dollars for buildings on the same. There is nothing small about California.
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EDUCATORS HAVE not done discussing the possibilities of the new text-book law. Its chief points are: state uniformity; a commission of eight persons who shall be charged with selecting the books to be used; a maximum price, beyond which contractors may not charge; a limitation of contracts to five years; a provision by which two thirds of the voters of any school district may decide for district ownership of books; a standard of literary and mechanical excellence which all books must reach; and the required machinery for putting all of the provisions of the bill into immediate force and effect. The prices fixed on books range from five to eighty cents. The law seems of doubtful utility. It is unquestionably an economical measure; but it may be the means of introducing inferior text-books. The enforcement of the new law promises to be a costly experiment.
Superiority of the University.
It has come to pass at present that a reference to the colleges of Kansas which speaks of them as in any way subordinate to the university draws forth a chorus of indignant protestations sometimes mingled with personal vituperation. This condition of affairs is much to be deplored, for it tends to engender a public opinion which recent events have proved was fraught with much danger to the institution representing Kansas in the eyes of the educational world, and thereby the reputation of the state suffers. Not only this, but the bitterness manifested by the colleges of less importance against the central institution can not help but harm them in the eyes of an outsider.
By its very nature the State University is and should be superior to the colleges of the state both in its curriculum and the quality of its work. In the first place, it is supported by the state, which, although when in the hands of those ignorant of university needs, considerably hampers its development, yet is nevertheless on the whole, a more liberal patron than any one person or body of persons can be. Thus, a state university, having a larger endowment,
finer libraries, better laboratories, more complete museums cannot fail to be much superior to the less wealthy colleges.
But not only in library and laboratory facilities is the University superior. Much more depends upon the professors. And a state university commands men of broader culture, higher abilities and greater power than the minor colleges can hope to obtain. It is not infrequent, in fact it has lately been exemplified among us that a man will retain at much less remuneration his place in a high grade institution such as Kansas University rather than enter upon the routine duty of teaching in an academy or smaller college.
Many students of the State University enter after having themselves been teachers. They are therefore better fitted to utilize the advantages offered by the advanced course of a higher institution. The methods employed by the best professors tend to foster that self reliance and independance of spirit which is the distinctive mark of a university. There is no master or monitor, no hours when one must study or take recreation, no signal for "lights out." Those are matters which can be safely left to the student's own discretion. But he is expected to work, and is encouraged to give to his work an element of his own personality; to refuse to be molded by one book or one man's opinions, to consult all authorities bearing upon the subject, and above all to exercise individual thought and independent judgment.
The work of a university should be upon a higher and broader basis—a basis of research and original investigation, not upon that of pure mechanical study. This latter very necessary and important post it is that the high schools and colleges should fill and all honor to the one that fills it well. But the evolution from the high schools to the colleges and thence to the university should be so distinctly marked that no one should think that a class in college is on a level with the same class in the university anymore than a Junior in the high school is on a level with a Junior in college.
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The subordinate colleges of Kansas are important and necessary parts of the body educational. But there should be no exchanging with the University upon equal grounds, no
lowering of the university standard to compete in anyway with minor institutions. Each has its place to fill,but our duties are not theirs nor theirs,ours.
Literraquy.
A Rhyme.
The Romans had a joke that was peculiar; They spoke of lovely woman as a mulier.
-Ironquill.
Scaring up a Rabbit.
I remembered having read somewhere that a small boy knows perfectly well the haunts of the rabbit; so, being of an indolent nature, I decided to secure one as my guide, when I tried to scare up a rabbit in order to observe its sensations as well as my own.
I meekly asked a bright-eyed, little fellow of ten summers to please go rabbit hunting that day, and incidentally to take me along. He looked at me steadily and solemnly for some moments without saying a word. My eyes wavered and then fell before his steady gaze. In all my life I never before had felt so humble. I have often heard that woman is man's superior, but since that child looked at me with such contempt in his eyes I do not believe it. I know that I must have decreased in height several inches then and there; but that was only the beginning of a series of shrinkages.
I begged, entreated and conjured, but not until I crossed his palm with a piece of silver, through the medium of which he saw, no doubt, visions of Tutti-Frutti, Pepsin and Yucatan, did he at last consent to take me along.
We started out together, side by side, but it was not long before I was meekly following along behind. I did not notice the surroundings nor the neighborhood through which we passed, for I was too busy trying to keep up with my youthful guide. I merely knew that we were going south. The silence was becoming unbearable. I began to whistle—an accomplishment of which I am very proud. I
trilled and I warbled from pianissimo to fortissimo, from andante to allegro. I thought my companion's heart was softening, for he slackened his speed—but no; he merely turned about, pointed at a hen on top of a barn roof, who was frantically trying to crow, and then shut one eye slowly and impressively. I understood.
Then we went on, I meekly following behind, and at last reached a ten or twelve acre enclosure, known by the romantic maidens of the town as the "Daisy Field." I was well acquainted with the place, for—well, I had been there before. Then, I had had some one to assist me through the fence, but this time I had to get into the field the best way I could. I tried to crawl under the fence, but the wire was too near the ground. Then I tried to roll, one of the barbs caught the back of my jacket, another my sleeve, and I was held fast. I was too proud to call for help; besides I was afraid to, for my guide would have looked at me so contemptuously that certainly I should have become frantic. At last, with a long, strong, steady pull, I was free and on the inside of the fence; but two little patches of black cloth hung on two little barbs of wire and two little holes in my jacket corresponded exactly in shape and size to the two little patches of black cloth that were waving fantastically in the breeze.
Tears came to my eyes, and to my distorted fancy everything seemed to be either leering and grinning or staring at me in silent contempt. To complete my mortification there drove along just then two of my most aristocratic acquaintances. I did not wait to bow
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and smile; I couldn't. Instead I whirled about and ran, stumbling at every step. Once I fell, tearing a huge rent in my dress skirt; but I shut my teeth tightly together and started on faster than ever, grimly determining to "do or die."
My guide was at the other end of the field, skirting the hedge fence in search of rabbits. I called for him to wait, but he paid not the least bit of attention. Never before in all my life had I been so ignored as by that small boy. I had already shrunk to about three-fourths my natural size and was becoming smaller every minute. I realized that if that rabbit hunt lasted much longer that not even my best friends would recognize in the meek and humble creature who had been rabbit hunting, the conceited and independent girl of former times. I tried to comfort myself by quoting from Robert Browning something about "Welcome each rebuff that turns earth's smoothness rough," but every time the words came to my tongue I thought of the miserable clod that had caused me to stumble and tear my dress. I realized that Browning would be of no avail as there was no poetry for me in rabbit hunting.
Just then I heard a long drawn halloo, and I saw my guide excitedly waving his arms. There was a rabbit with great, long ears coming straight towards me. My first impulse was to gather up my skirts and scream; but that would have been unmanly, and for the first time in my life I had a burning desire to appear brave and manly, especially before that small boy. Instead, then, I stopped still. So did the rabbit.
"Howdy, Brer Rabbit," I said, "How's the folks, and where's the Tar Baby?"
The rabbit seemed to understand, for he sat up upon his haunches, his fore-paws hanging limply before him, his ears stiffly erect, and--I thought I saw a look of contempt in his eyes; but I do not know, for my companion came up just then and Brer Rabbit darted away through the hedge fence.
"Every rabbit has a habit," I said solemnly. He can not run nor jump.
He hops and stops, and stops and hops. "Tis funny; is it not?"
My companion took off his cap, turned it around once or twice, ruffled his hair, and then tapping his forehead significantly, said, "I think you'd better go home."
I meekly obeyed; and after tearing another hole in my jacket and ruining my shoes beyond repair, I at last reached home feeling very crestfallen and humble indeed, but secretly resolving that if ever I went rabbit hunting again I would take with me a much larger boy.
E. A. H.
'Tis funny; is it not?'
Starting a Rabbit.
The Saturday morning on which I was to make my first rabbit hunt was cold and gloomy and cheerless, not at all the kind of a day one would choose for a pleasure excursion. About ten o'clock, however, I started out on my expedition, with the fervent wish that all rabbits had some how escaped being taken into the ark and had perished in the flood. Not knowing in what vicinity rabbits were most likely to be found, I walked down Kentucky street, then out toward the windmill, with my note book in hand ready to jot down the characteristics of the rabbit, when he should appear. The day grew more chilly and dark; a few flakes of snow floated lazily down from the dull gray clouds. Surely, I thought, no sensible rabbit would venture out on a day like this; if I do see one it will be some foolish, weak-minded creature who will scud out of sight as quickly as possible and not do anything worth writing about. But just here my gloomy meditations were interrupted. A grayish yellow animal darted out from under the sidewalk and ran along in the tall, dead weeds by the roadside, with a lank and hungry-looking dog in hot pursuit. What an opportunity for an interesting story. Another rabbit ran across the walk just in front of me and was gone like a flash. But never mind—the first one will furnish more material for my paper; the helplessness and blind terror of the poor little bunny, he blood-thirsty ferocity of its pursuer, the—but just then my rabbit gave utterance to an ear-splitting "miaouw," and ran nimbly up a convenient tree, where from the vantage ground
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of the topmost branch, it spat back defiance at the discomfited enemy on the ground below. The genuine rabbit had passed by me almost unnoticed, while I watched the antics of a stray cat. ___ E. G.
A Fresh Catch.
Whaley was a graceful young chap about nineteen or twenty. He was slender and of medium height. His face was pink and white and soft and smooth and looked as though it smelt of good soap and French powder. His hair was soft and yellow, and one little tress persisted in falling over his forehead into his left eye, which accounted for a characteristic little shake of his head, meant to put the stray lock into its proper place again. His nose and mouth had pretty curves, just as the nose and mouth of a grown up cherub should have.
Had he been a girl away at a boarding school and far from the influence of his own sweet mother, the preceptress would doubtless have called him to the privacy of her boudoir and told him kindly but firmly that it was bad taste to paint one's cheeks. Then, like a dear young girl, he would first have denied the accusation, sobbed a little and finally promised never, never to do it again. But as he was not a girl, and really did not paint, the boys simply dubbed him "Peaches and Cream," and called him similar other epithets that were harmless but full of meaning.
His tastes were quiet and refined, and his clothes showed this; but for all that there was the air of a would-be sport about his neck-ties and fancy waistcoats. When he walked he took long slow strides that gave his shoulders a slight swagger. Wealthy cousin George, who went to Princeton, and knew a lot about the world, did this, and Whaley admired it. When he was self-possessed his voice was full and well modulated, but when he grew angry or excited it would break in the middle and cause the poor boy to turn very red, and spend his nickels for cough drops.
Among the fellows he used much slang; and had "daring" and "devilish" ideas about things, and a manly way of filling his pipe and
blowing out big rings of smoke that would curl and wind about his head, making a soft white halo. When with the girls,—mark the transition—he was their humble servant, their abject admirer, their courteous follower, partly because he thought all these to be proper, and partly because he had been taken up by the older girls—young ladies twenty-five or thirty—who liked his freshness and were amused by the contrasts of his manner, that had at times the boldness of a man of the world, and at times the timidity of a kindergartner.
Twenty years later there came into existence a legend. It was short and full of meaning and meant to warn the audacious youths of the twentieth century. It was a rumor about a young lady—a certain Miss Fisher—who, as her name might indicate, was fond of angling. Nobody knew how old she was, nobody really cared. Even half a dozen pretty youths that used to follow her around as if tied to her apron strings. never gave the matter a thought. One day Miss Fisher threw out her line, with a tempting bait on the long hook. Five different times it was bitten, but being a fastidious young lady, she flung her catches back again into their world, and sat and waited with a far away dreamy look in her large dark eyes. Time went slowly, but later on, a certain small Whaley swallowed the bait, was taken in, and was accepted * * * and * * * now * * * the matrimonial market has two Whaleys, and the junior Whaley is a Jonah.
JOSEPHINE SHELLABARGER.
A Summer Flirtation.
During several years of my young manhood I was the rector of a prosperous little church in a thriving western town. One summer after an unusually hard year's work my congregation granted me a vacation and I decided to return to the East, to summer once more at dear old Newport. As the train neared my destination visions of my college days danced before my memory. How much a summer at Newport had meant to me then! Could it be the same now—the gay yachting parties, morning strolls
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in the woods, and moonlight boat rides when "mamma" didn't like the water and waited on shore—then catching a glimpse of my image in the mirror opposite me I noted with a smile of satisfaction that I was still young and not half bad looking.
The season having hardly begun when I reached beach I discovered that the hotel was as yet almost deserted. Why had I come so blamed early? There was nothing to see, nothing to do! In a mood not altogether pleasant I shut myself up in my room. When the dinner hour arrived my humor was unchanged, and, stalking indignantly through the nearly empty dining room, I seated myself at a small table in an obscure corner. I had been sitting for some time inwardly cursing my abominable luck when a peal of childish laughter called me from my reverie.
Glancing up, I saw at a table not far from me a woman, an ethereal looking creature clad in black. Her head was turned from me so that I noted only the long, dark lashes, the delicate transparency of the skin, and the wealth of golden hair. At her side was the child who had attracted my attention. She was a chubby little mite of about four, with golden curls like her mother's. Being unusually fond of children she won my heart at once, and I determined to make her acquaintance. I could see at a glance that the woman was a widow and my sympathy went out to the fatherless child. As I watched them a gentleman approached the table, bowed elaborately, familiarly pinched the little girl's cheek, and seated himself beside the mother. He was tall and thin with yellow whiskers, a typical English dude, even to the eye glass. Disgusting Englishman! his insolence made me furious; and when the widow lifted her sad, dark eyes confidingly to his repulsive face my blood fairly boiled.
The next morning I found the child alone on the veranda and soon we were quite well acquainted. She was sitting on my knee prating innocently when a sad, sweet voice called, "Dorothy, come here!" I knew, without turning my head, from whom that voice had come.
The little girl slipped off my lap and hurried to her mother, and I heard that same voice say very gently, "Dorothy, has mamma not told you not to talk to strangers?" and I felt the dark eyes resting on my face. "Why, mamma," returned the child wonderingly, "He not a stranger, he love you baby girl." I offered my humblest apologies for my seeming rudeness and felt at once that I was forgiven.
From that time Dorothy and I were the best of friends. Often the mother joined us on our strolls; she could not endure to be separated from her child. Soon the large hotel filled with guests, but the widow in her solitude preferred the quite moonlight lake with Dorothy and me to the brilliant ball room, thronged with the gay crowds from the city. Thus the summer passed away all too quickly.
One day as Dorothy and I were returning from an unusually long stroll we found her mother awaiting us. She sat leaning against a huge rock, gazing out at sea, with a sad far away look on her beautiful face. I seated myself beside her, the little girl on my knee, and for several minutes neither spoke. What a picture she made against the white rock! It seemed to me, on that August morning, that she looked paler than usual.
"I leave Newport tomorrow," I said at last, "and you have no idea how I shall miss little Dorothy. She has become very dear to me." "Dorothy will miss you too," she answered, still gazing out at sea. I laid my hand gently on the small white one. "Let me take Dorothy with me," I pleaded. Her great dark eyes met mine as she softly murmured, "Where Dorothy goes, there I must go also."
This was many years ago, but often as I sit alone in my bachelor apartments there comes to me the memory of a still morning by the sea—golden hair and black draperies outlined against the white back-ground of a huge rock. PAULINE LEWELLING.
He entered the editor's sanctum,
And vended his views unsought:
And next day was hanged as a bandit,
For wrecking a train of thought.—Ex.
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Locals.
F. A. Gray went to Topeka Thursday.
Prof.Dyche lectures at Cawker City to-night.
Ed. Copley is visiting friends in Junction City.
Miss Florence Clark visited in Topeka last week.
Roy Osborn was in Kansas City last Saturday.
John H. Fletcher, Arts '99, is wearing Phil Delt colors.
Miss Clara Lynn is spending her vacation in Kansas City.
Fred Bates went to Kansas City Wednesday for vacation.
John Nowlin spends his vacation at his home near Eudora.
The Phi Delts gave a dance at their hall last Saturday night.
Thos. Harley has gone to Neodesha for a week on business.
The Schumann club intend to give a concert in the near future.
Miss Beatrice Maxwell is spending the vacation at her home in Keokuk, Iowa.
Clyde Nichols, of Olathe, has been visiting E. C. Alder the past week.
Geo. W. Nimocks is visiting his parents at Great Bend for a few days.
The Pi Phis will give their spring party April 23rd. and the Thetas April 30th.
Hon. Washington Gadden has been solicited as the orator for commencement day.
Miss Issie Potts is much improved in health and will return after the spring vacation.
Prof. Blackmar's advanced class in Economics has finished the study of the land question.
Good reports of the work of D. D. Gear as pitcher are appearing in the Cleveland papers.
Prof. Bailey lectures at Haskell Institute next Friday, subject "Air we breathe."
The University orchestra will render several selections at the entertainment next Friday night.
Miss Ella Anderson has been compelled to return home for a short time on account of sickness.
R. L. Stewart, a member of the Senior class, has accepted a position with a Kansas City real estate firm.
The Freshman classes have completed Trigonometry and will begin the study of Chemistry next Tuesday.
A. A. Ewart, who has been sick at his home in Kansas City, has gone east in hope of benefitting his health.
Miss Pauline Lewelling is spending the vacation at her home in Wichita. Miss Virginia McCrory is her guest.
Miss Lallage Hall, daughter of Rev. Dr. C. J. Hall of Hutchinson, is here visiting her cousin Miss Mildred Hall.
Professor A. G. Canfield's house on Tennessee street caught fire last Monday night. But little damage was done.
The Senior Annual of the class of '97, will contain half-tone engravings of each fraternity, the faculty, and the University buildings.
Prof. Hunter will present a paper before the North Eastern Kansas Teachers Association which convenes at Horton April the 15th.
The music committee have prepared an interesting program for the song service of the Y. W. C. A. next Tuesday at five o'clock.
On account of the bad weather the class in Elementary Chemistry will meet at the chapel instead of the campus as was stated sometime ago.
W. H. Olin principal of the Ottawa High school, and a large number of his pupils visited the University last Saturday on their way home from the High School oratorical contest at Topeka.
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The young ladies of the University intend to have a field day soon, probably the first of May.
Earl M. Carney left Lawrence Thursday morning for Emporia where he expects to do school work for the remainder of the year.
The Misses Marion Innes and Augusta Flintom were initiated by the Thetas at the home of Mrs. Paul Learnard last Saturday night.
A. L. Burney and wife, formerly Miss Edith Haskell, visited friends here the early part of the week. Mr. Burney is now practicing law at Harrisonville, Mo.
While wrestling in the gymnasium last Saturday Will Reed had the misfortune to strain one of the muscles of his back. He was unable to attend school this week.
The University Comedy club has played at Junction City, Manhattan, and Clay Center is week. They were at Osage City and Emria the Friday and Saturday before.
The course of lectures in Toxicology for Prep. Medics finished last Wednesday, but a course of reading has been laid out for them which will probably prove of great value to them.
The next attraction of the lecture course will be "An Evening with Tennyson" by Eleanor Gertrude Stephens. It will be given in the chapel April 9th. The entertainment is said to be very meritorious.
Nearly all the classes were treated to quizzes this week and as a result much midnight oil has been burned. It is safe to say that more studying has been done during the past week, than during any other of the half term just ended.
Prof. H. B.Newson has received a communication from Prof. Emch. He arrived safe and is teaching classes in Descriptive Geometry and Mechanical drawing at the University of Zurich. He is required to teach in the French and German languages.
last Saturday. The score was 11 to 3 in favor of the former. A number of games between the members of the different boarding clubs will probably be arranged.
The clubs of C. E. Rose and J. F. Hall engaged in a game of baseball on McCook field
The annual roll for the catalogue has just been posted on the bulletin board. It attracts much attention because of the rule recently adopted by which all members of the school of Arts who have deficiencies in their work are classified as Freshman. Several Seniors and one Phi Beta Kappa are so classified.
The "Foot Pads," a new walking club, made their second excursion Saturday morning. Their destination was the suspension bridge over the Wakarusa, four and a half miles south east of town. One of the most attractive features of the trip was a picnic luncheon served on the the steps of a school house. They expect soon to walk to the lake.
Editorial Board Meeting
A meeting of the editorial board was held Monday noon at which W. C. Clock resigned the position of local editor. Mr. Clock has long been identified with the WEEKLY, first as
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managing editor and later as local editor, and has contributed much of his time and ability to its welfare. His resignation was accepted by the board and Carl L. Cooper elected his successor.
Base Ball.
Much interest is being taken by the students just now in base ball. Nearly every afternoon finds a number of candidates for places on the first nine practicing on McCook field. Mr. H. M. Blackshire has been appointed captain of the nine and is superintending the practice Manager Fletcher has arranged an extensive schedule of games which was published in the last WEEKLY. Efforts are being made to form an inter-fraternity league and play for a suitable trophy. The Phi Gams have already elected Frank Curry captain of their team. The members of the different boarding clubs are also arranging games.
Chapel Notes.
Rev. Dr. Howland, pastor of the Unitarian church, has led this week.
The subject Monday morning was the value of a complete education which included the moral as well as the intellectual side of our nature; Tuesday morning, the power we have of making the world around us an Eden or its opposite; Wednesday morning, the eternal character and power of the highest impulse of the heart, love.
Prof. Olin will lead next week.
A Novel Party.
Prof. and Mrs. Green entertained the faculty and others at a "poverty" party last Thursday night. The invitations which were quite unique, were in the form of a subpoena summoning the recipient to appear in old clothes at the home of J.W. Green as a witness in a case wherein Poverty was the plaintiff and Low Salary the defendant. Those present report a merry time, the costumes being very amusing.
On Thursday evening April 8th. the final debate preliminary to the Kansas-Nebaaska debate will take place. There will be six contestants, three of whom are to be chosen to represent the University in the debate. The program will be entertainining and the speakers should be greeted by a full house. They should be made to feel that they have the enthusiastic support of the student body in this debate and the chances of winning will be greatly increased thereby. Let every loyal student attend.
The Final Debate
Notice.
Two more lectures in the course given by the two Christian Associations have taken place. Room 14 was scarcely large enough to accommodate the number of students and town people who gathered each time to hear Prof. Dunlap explain the structure and the beauties of the book of Job.
The next lecture will be "Hebrew Institutions" by Prof. Blackmar, Wednesday, April 7th. Everybody is invited.
Prof. Blackmar lectures next Wednesday afternoon at five o'clock on Hebrew Institutions.
Religious Census.
A late religious census of the students of the University reveals the interesting fact that a very large majority of them are either church members or adherents of churches. In fact a considerable number over 800 state that they are members or adherents of the various religious denominations represented here at the University. The Methodist church alone is represented by 125 members and 96 adherents, the Congregational by 90 members and 62 adherents, the Presbyterian by 90 members and 54 adherents, the Episcopal by 44 members and 23 adherents, the Baptist by 31 members and 18 adherents, the Christian by 37 members and 11 adherents, the Unitarian by 8 members and 30 adherents, the Catholic by 18 members and 5 adherents. Other denominations to the number of 18 are represented, making a total of 27 denominations with a following, including members and adherents, of 830.
In the School of Arts seven of the leading denominations are distributed as follows: Meth-
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odist, 157; Presbyterian, 98; Congregational, 87; Christian, 38; Episcopal, 35; Baptist, 31; Unitarian, 25. The preceding distribution embraces both members and adherents. In this school 71 per cent of the women and 58 per cent of the men are church members, the total percentage of members being 66.
In all the schools of the University 45 per cent of the men are church members and 75 per cent of the women, while 58 per cent of the whole student body belong to churches.
School of Fine Arts.
Miss Mattie Brown went home for the Spring vacation.
Miss Gertrude McCheyne has been visiting in the country.
Many of the piano students are making up back work during the Spring vacation.
Mr. Elvis Marshall will have charge of the music for the class day exercises to be held on the campus.
The Seminary last Wednesday was led by Miss Lottie Skofstad. A number of interesting music articles were read.
The students are expressing themselves as very grateful to have had two entertainments such as Camilla Urso and Madame Genevra Johnstone Bishop.
The Great Concert of the Year.
were given a bountiful repast in Mr. Wiedemann's ice-cream parlor. The pretty tables, the beaming faces and the charming hostess made a lasting picture.
Gaul's "Passion Play" under the direction of Miss Lichtenwalter and Prof. Penny is being in parts at the Episcopalian church, Sunday afternoons at five. The chorus is an extra good one. The organ playing by Prof. Penny is receiving much commendation.
The Euterpe members were delightfully entertained at their last meeting, by Miss Louise Wiedemann. After a much enjoyed program, the club with the Professors of Music School
The School of Music has introduced many worthy artists to the public of Lawrence, but never one that gave the artistic pleasure that Madame Genevra Johnstone Bishop did at Music Hall last Wednesday evening. Artists of the first rank come high, but an arrangement so favorable was made with Madame Bishop, that the price of admission was made unusually low, and the sum of nearly $25.00 realized over expenses, to go towards the rental of the grand piano used in chapel. Madame Bishop is America's leading singer in Oratorio, and in her program the other evening she convinced everybody that she ranks with the greatest in all kinds of vocal interpretation. Her tone is the purest, her range extensive, and her voice equally delightful in the high, low or medium register. More beautiful phrasing, more intelligent conceptions of the character of each composition could not be conceived. Enthusiasm ran high from the first number until the last, not only for the vocal artist, but for Miss Cook the pianist. Miss Cook also presented an interesting program and was equally successful in the various styles presented. Encores were numerous and usually equalled in importance the regular numbers. Space prevents us from specifying the successful features of the concert. We understand however that an effort is being made to secure Madame Bishop for the coming rendering of the "Creation" by the Oratorio Society. If this is possible the seating capacity of University Hall will surely be taxed to the utmost.
We will show a good line of Spring Boots and Shoes. AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
MASON'S.
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Alumni Notes.
C. C. Brown, 196, has been re-elected to his position in the Olathe High School.
W. M. Curry, '93, is now pastor of the United Presbyterian church in Linesville, Pa.
The present corps of teachers, including W. D. Ross,'93,and Kate Blair,'93,has been retained for the ensuing year.
Since graduation J. L. Cramer, Law '95, has been book-keeper for the Brown, Cooper Type Setting Co., 194 South Clinton, Chicago, but expects soon to start out in the legal profession for himself.
R. L. Hoff, '94, is spending his second year as principal of the Stella High School, Stella, Neb. Mr. Hoff, with Mr. McMurray, will instruct in the summer session of the county institute at Falls City, Neb.
J. E. Dyche, '93, is president of the Northeastern Kansas Teachers Association. The next meeting of the association is to be held at Horton April 15, 16 and 17. Prof. S. J. Hunter,'93, is on the program for a paper.
Mr. Arthur McMurray, '96, is spending a week's vacation in visiting old friends at the University. He has been assistant principal of the Humboldt High School, Nebraska, during the present year and has had charge of most of the literary classes. Mr. McMurray will instruct during the summer in the county institute at Falls City, Neb.
The East Side Literary society at its meeting last night took up the subject of "Knockers" and severely criticised their actions in both prose and poetry. The smoke question was also touched by original poem. Among those who took part in the program were: Frank E. Lott, Herbert S. Hadley, W. F. Richardson, Frank H. Dexter, I. W. Bigger, W. H. Cline and others. The officers elected for the next
term are: Herbert S. Hadley, president; Frank E. Lott, vice president, and Miss Laura Lee, secretary.-K.C. Star, March 27.
Notes from the College World.
Candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania University hereafter will not be required to write a graduating thesis.
The Board of Trustees of the Illinois state university have made provision for that institution to have an exhibit at the Illinois state fair to be held at Springfield next fall.
The board of editors for the Oberlin Review are selected in consideration of work which they have handed in for the Review previous to the time of their appointment. Each person desiring a position is required to hand in at least three thousand words in all before his appointment.
Princeton's new athletic field is rapidly nearing completion. It will be the largest in this country, for on it will be laid out eight tennis courts and three base ball diamonds, which in the fall will be converted into two foot ball fields.-Harvard Crimson.
Guest—"Waiter, look here! There's a collar button in'my hash."
Waiter — "Well, suh, I guess you gits it'caze you seen it fust."—Cornell Widow.
Dollie: These parties are like my little brother Billie: how's that?
Dollie: They tell on me so.— Wrinkle.
"Master at home?" "No, sir; he's out." "Mistress at home?" "No, sir; she's out." "Then I'll step in and sit down by the fire;" "That's out too, sir."—Ex.
The Tipton Barber Shop and Bath Rooms. Stewart & Wagner, Proprietors. 838 Massachusetts Street.
Before You Buy any Shoes.
SEE OUR ROYAL $3.00 SHOE FOR MEN AND OUR PRINCESS $2.50 SHOE FOR WOMEN. NEW COIN TOE, LACE OR BUTTON BULLENE SHOE CO.
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We don't want to buy your dry goods,
We don't like you any more.
You'll be sorry when you see us
Going to some other store.
You can't sell us any plaid waists,
Four in hand or other fad.
We don't want to buy your dry goods,
If you don't give us your ad —Ex.
Students, save a dollar by having your picture taken at Goodnight's gallery. You can get a dozen first-class cabinets for $2.
Students get your shoes repaired at Lindsay's. First door north of Tiptons Barber Shop.
Copying on typewriter, M. F. Laycock.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Give your shorthand and type-writing work to Miss Kate S. Soule, 1105 Mass. St.
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.
Students can have their negatives taken by Mrs. Shane at the Old Home gallery near the river, or by J.B.Shane at the Iron Clad on south Massachusetts street.Work will be satisfactory in either case.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market. For sale only at Barber Bros., Drug Store.
Popular Low-Price California Excursions.
The Santa Fe Route personally conducted weekly excursions to California are deservedly popular. About one-third saved in price of railroad and sleeper tickets as compared with first-class passage.
The improved Pullmans occupied by these parties are of 1896 pattern and afford every necessary convenience. A porter goes with each car, and an experienced agent of the Company is in charge.
The Santa Fe's California line is remarkably picturesque, and its middle course across the continent avoids the discomforts of extreme heat or cold.
Daily service, same as above, except as regards agent in charge.
For descriptive literature and other information; address M. J.BLACK, G.P.A., A., T. & S.F.Ry., Topeka.
Prof. G. B. Addicks who lectures at Music Hall next Friday night is an eloquent speaker.
Goodnight will give you a dozen good photographs for $1. Call and see him. He will give you first-class work at low prices.
A. J. Griffin will continue to supply students the coal and wood at the lowest prices.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
Prof. G. B. Addicks lectures at Music Hall Friday night April the 9th on "The March of Mind" admission 25 cents.
Just what you want: those gymnasium suits sold at Smith's News stand.
MRS. S. E. LUTHER, Telephone 26.
Orders by Mall or Telephone Promptly Filled on Short Notice.
Florist.
Plants, Flowers, Floral Designs and Decoratiens.
Greenhouses South Mass. St.
Lawrence, Kans.
STUDENTS
Here are a few Regular Prices Not Leaders.
Genuine French Ballrigan Underwear, 23c per garment.
4-Ply Linen Collars 10c.
4-Ply Linen Cuffs 10c a pair.
A first-class Laundried Shirt 48c.
Finest assortment of Four-in-Hand Teck and Bow Ties, only 19c; same as you pay 25c elsewhere.
Good Socks 5 and 10c a pair.
828 Mass. St.
The Racket.
FAXON
The Shoe Man Solicits the Shoe Trade of the Town.
W. F. WEISE'S New Barber Shop
720 Mass. LAWRENCE, KANS.
Razors Honed, Ground or Exchanged.
Everything Strictly First-Class.
Its Springy
Yet Has no Springs.
Continuous Laminated Frame.
"WOOD WILL WIN."
"Old Hickory' Bicycles.
E. EBERHARDT, AGENT. At Bell's Music Store.
SOLD ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
--in STATIONERY at 1027 Massachusetts St.
A Thing of Beauty.
Twice as Strong as other Wheels.
You can get BARGAINS
We are closing out. J. S. BOUGHTON, Agt.
Cleaning Time = = =
Suits made to order, as low as the lowest, and no snob work done at MCCONNELL'S.
is at hand. Wall Paper days are here. We have the best stock of new wall papers that you ever saw. Paper made for every room you have, and the prettiest patterns ever shown.
Tracy Learnard.
Geo. Hollingbery & Son,
THE PRACTICAL TAILORS,
AFTER 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN LAWRENCE
are better prepared than ever before to give their patrons the best the world's markets afford-at prices that
Defy Competition
They are as careful that no shoddy or mixture of cotton shall be in any cloth they sell, even at $7 a suit as they are for a $40 suit.
KLOCK'S RESTAURANT, HEADQUARTERS FOR STUDENTS.
BOARD per week $2.50, MEAL TICKETS $3.
LUNCH COUNTER.
GIVE ME A TRIAL. 816 MASS. STREET.
GYMNASIUM OXFORDS and TENNIS
OXFORDS
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Complete assortment of New Styles and Shades in Ladies Oxford as well as good assortment of
MEN'S TAN SHOES
Chocolate and Red colors.
FISCHER & SON.
--is within the reach of every K. U. student. The prices are reasonable, the boats clean and perfectly safe.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY. TELEPHONE 77.
Winship Teachers Agency (New England Bureau of Education) 3rd. Somerset St. Boston. Oldest, and most reliable in New England. One fee registers in both offices H. C, FELLOW, Western Manager. TOPEKA, KANS.,
WHO GOT YOUR REDUCTION
HO WILL YOU SUPPORT?
Shirts 8 cts, Cuffs 4 cts, Collars 2 cts.
EMPORIA STEAM LAUNDRY. E. B. SIERER.
GOOD BOATING..
See us at the BOAT HOUSE.
Caldwell's BARBER SHOP,
812 Mona St.
812 Mass. St.
Come and see us. You don't have to wait long for your turn, as we run four chairs, we guarantee first-class work. If you have any preference in barbers in our shop don't fail to wait for him, we are here to please customers not the workmen. Hair cut 15c, Shave 10c, Sea foam 10c, Shampoo 25c, Razor honed 25c.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
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.
Wm. Wiedemann
米
Oyster Parlor.
米
Fine Confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
O
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.
O
SIMPSON & KELLEY, University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
STAR BAKERY,
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE
QF UNIVERSITY PEOPLE. . . .
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.
WILLIS THE PHOTOGRAPHER. 933 Mass. Street.
W. W. SAVAGE,
Successor to KIRBY & HILL,
Will gladly furnish anything you want in
FINE AND STAPLE GROCERIES
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER, JAS. E. EDMONDSON, 915 Mass. St.
CIGARS,
PIPES,
TOBACCO,
PLAYING
CARDS.
Brooks,
825 Mass. St.
THE HUB
is now ready to show you the best and cheapest line of Spring Suits and Furnishings. Come and see them. THE HUB.
Wanted—An Idea Who can think of some simple thing to patent? Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO., Patent Attorney's, Washington, D.C. for their $1,800 prize offer and new list of one thousand inventions wanted.
C...
The New . . .
ABE LEVY AGENT.
GUYER...
$3.00 Hats
at ABE LEVY'S.
WOOLF BROS.
LAUNDRY GO.
LAUNDRY GO.
WILL McMURRAY, Solicitor. Goods called for and delivered.
BEAL & GODDING KEEP THE
KEEP THE
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
Telephone 139.
McClure & Simpson. OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Cheapest Prices Special attention to elent
Special attention to club trade.
THUDIUM BROS.,
1023 MASS. ST.
TELEPHONE 15.
DEALERS IN Fresh and
Salt Meats.
Telephone No.121. 802 Mass. St.
'OLIN BELL,
Shaw Pianos. Bay State
Russell Pianos, Washburn
Other First Class Pianos.
Mandolins
Schwarzer
Easy Payments if desired.
and
Guitars.
PIANOS TO RENT. Special Prices to K.U. Students. OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, KS.
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE, WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES,
LIFE
FIRE
LAWRENCE. KAS.
FOR RELIABLE
INSURANCE
Go to A. L. SELIG.
TORNADO ACCIDENT
COONROD & SMITH BUSINESS COLLEGES
Four schools under one management. summer. Work is practical and complete. Kansas City, Mo.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Atchison, Kas.; Lawrence, Kas Students may enroll at any time. School is in session throughout the
BUSINESS, SHORTHAND, PENMANSHIP AND ENGLISH COURSES.
Handsome catalogue giving full information mailed free upon application at either school. Address COONROD & SMITH
AS ARTEA PEN ASPERA
Vol. 1V.
No. 10.
April 10, 1897.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
JOURNAL PRINTING CO.
LAWRENCE.
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W. S. BUNN, M. D. ALFRED HULTNER, B. S. M. D.
DRS. BUNN & HULTNER,
Physicians and Surgeons.
Office: Merchants Bank Building. First Floor.
Telephone 195. Lawrence, Kansas.
F. D. MORSE, M. D.
Residence, 1041 Tenn. Street.
Office, over Woodward's Drug Store.
PROF. SAMUELS,
The Great Occulist.
606 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas.
Persons having trouble with their eyes will do well to consult him.
A. W. CLARK, M. D., (Harvard '84.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence 1224 Tennessee Street.
Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
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.
HAROLD McCRORY, D. D. S., SURGEON DENTIST.
Office over Faxon's Shoe Store.
A. GIFFORD, M. D.,
ASSISTANT SURGEON OF U. P. R. R.
Office 917 Mess. Street. Te ephone No.24.
Residence 116 Quincy Street. Lawrence, Kansas.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers,
808 AND 810 MASS. ST.
DAVIES,
THE STUDENTS TAILOR.
A full line of spring suitings just received. Call and see him before investing. At the old stand.
Zuttermeister's
is the place for Confections Soda and Ice Cream.
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.
SILVER
Novelties
Caccard'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.
LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK. UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY CAPITAL, $100,000.
Does a general banking business and issues bills of exchange on all the principal cities of Europe.
J. D. Bowersock,
President.
R. W. Sparr,
Vice President.
Walter L. Howe,
Cashier.
H. E. Benson,
2nd Vice President.
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. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 10, 1897.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor:
WALTER H. SANFORD.
Associates:
L. HEIL, PAULINE LEWELLING, ETHEL HICKEY,
Local Editor:
CARL L. COOPER.
Associates:
ARCHIE HOGG, - - - - - Alumni.
PERCY PARROTT, - - - Snow Hall.
WM. H. CLARK, - - - Exchanges.
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - - Law.
WILL McMURRAY, - - Athletics.
H. E. DAVIES, - - Pharmacy.
ALVAH SOUDER,
C. A. ROHRER. - - Arts.
Managing Editor.
C. E. ROSE.
Associate:
TOM CHARLES.
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 C. E. Rose, Lawrence, Kansas.
No. 10.
Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association.
Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
THERE is an excellent discussion of the educational value of examinations in the March number of Current Literature. The writer discerns a little seed of good even in that educational evil called "cramming." The article is mostly a discussion of the moral value of examinations.
WE wish to correct a statement inadvisedly made in a recent issue of the WEEKLY in regard to the "honor system" in examinations as practiced at Harvard. Harvard has always pursued a most vigorous course in the conduct of of examinations, and entertains no idea of adopting the much-discussed "honor system."
Why not revive the old "triangular league?" There used to exist among Baker, Washburn and Kansas a base-ball association known as the "triangular". Since the discontinuance of this local league, base-ball has been on the decline at Kansas University. A renewal of athletic relations with Baker and Washburn should be effected straightway. There is no contest more invigorating and spirited than that with neighboring schools. In foot-ball and baseball has this held especially true. Games between Baker and Kansas were fraught with anxious interest on the part of all connected with both schools. Our present schedule of baseball games is of little interest to the student body. With one or two exceptions the games arranged for the ensuing season deserve the meagre support which in all probability, they will receive. The easiest and readiest means of quickening our base-ball interest is the reorganization of the "triangular league."
A CERTAIN Kansas City preacher has worked out a unique table of statistics to show definitely the chances of the well-schooled man has over his competitors in business life. A hundred young men, recognized as successful, were individually interviewed on their respective educational qualifications.From the gathered in-
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formation it was calculated that the boy who attends college, even if he is unable to graduate, has about forty times the chance for lucrative employment that the average boy from the common school has. The compiler of the table under discussion has been giving the young people of his own flock the benefit of his investigations. The lesson taught by his comparative table is on the whole sound and stimulating. But how much better would it be if young men could be induced to seek a college education not for the single purpose of fitting themselves for professions but rather to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the best things in life.
Now that the university's dependence upon legislation is no more a matter of immediate concern, there can be no harm in a frank discussion of the various attitudes of different onlooking classes towards the recently settled appropriation bill. We (university people) are mildly criticized for having overdone our lobbying at the last legislative session. We are informed that in our solicitous attempt to extricate the university from political embroglio we employed ordinary political methods, and weakened our cause by seemingly inconsistent action. Perhaps, the above charge is well grounded. But, let us say in defense that our political manoeuvers were actuated by motives of mere self-preservation. Where were our champions,—our Robinsons and Thachers in the recent legislative crises? They have gone and others are apparently dumb, or unborn! When adverse legislation was most imminent our
partisans were most silent. We were forced to drastic measures. As there were none to volunteer in our behalf we spoke for ourselves. An acquaintance with certain facts relative to the university was absolutely essential to clear headed voting upon any bill pertaining to its welfare; the pity is that we alone could and would furnish the legislators with this qualifying information.
Facts, although modestly and worthily set forth, might have gained greater credence and weight had they come from less interested sources. However, their utterance was rather a matter of necessity than of taste and policy.
Lawrence people have, of late, acted very strangely towards the University. Their position is inexplicable. In crises where the university's life has been actually at stake they have preserved perfect equanimity; nay, more, they have chuckled with secret satisfaction at our discomfiture.
The reduction of professors' salaries appealed to them as a huge joke. While they profess a love for our institution they seem to bear some ill-will towards its members. Lawrence would not be a respectable shadow of its present self were it not for the state university and its commercial interests will feel the effect of the salaries bill. We trust that, at least in their fits of rationalism, our town friends realize this fact. It is a melancholy state indeed,—this of discord between the university and its erstwhile adhererents. We lament the condition and hope that the support which the citizens of Lawrence have temporarily withdrawn from us will be speedily re-enlisted.
Litraqy.
Wool-Gathering.
A WELSH RAREBIT IN BOHEMIA.
"Let's have a Welsh rarebit," said Grubb one fine evening as he tilted back in his chair and blew great puffs of smoke toward the ceiling.
"Agreed!" said Daub, "but you'll have to fnnish it. We haven't any more facilities than a rabbit. Besides how are we going to cook it?"
"Oh, that's easy enough. If you fellows will bring the materials, I will contribute a chaf-
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ing dish and do the cooking. It's easy as pie. I've read a great deal in the papers about how it is done."
The Bohemian air of doing a little cooking on our own account pleased us mightily, and we gave a ready assent to Grubb's plan. Grubb prided himself on his epicurean tastes, so that we felt entire confidence in his ability to bring the thing off successfully.
"Now Daub, you go out and bring a loaf of bread, a big hunk of cheese, some butter, pepper and salt, and a tankard of beer. Beer is better than these high-flown liquors, and far be it from us to rise above the accepted Bohemian beverage. While you are gone I will get the chafing-dish and other material."
"But who's going to bring the rabbit?" I asked in my ignorance.
"Rabbit! Rabbit! Who ever said anything about rabbits? You young ignoramus, this is not a rabbit, it is a rarebit, a rare bit of eating, something out of the ordinary. I think it would pay you to spend a few hours each day looking things up in an encyclopedia."
"Or a cook book," suggested Daub.
Squelched, but still ignorant, I retired to a corner where I could watch the proceedings. Daub and Booth went out together, and soon returned with their arms full of packages. Grubb at once set about putting together his chafing-dish.
"Let's see, is everything here?" said he as he counted over the packages on the table. "Why Daub, where's the beer?"
"I sent a man after some," said Daub. "He will be here in a jiffy. Here Booth, you go down stairs and meet him when he comes."
Grubb filled the hot water pan and began by putting in the butter and cheese. As it began to melt he stirred it with a large spoon.
"I wish that beer would hurry up," said he. Its pretty near time for it."
"Yes, I would like a few drops to quiet my nerves," suggested Daub.
"You confounded—"
"Does it make any difference whether you drink it before or after the rarebit?" I asked, feeling sure that my question was a safe one.
His answer was cut short by Booth, who appeared in the doorway and said, dramatically: "My lords, there is a gentleman without."
"Without what? Without the beer? asked Grubb, whose spirits seemed to have been dampened by something.
"Without his money," said Booth. "And if you gentlemen want any beer in your rarebit you had better be feeling in your pockets for some change."
"How much is it?" queried Grubb, putting his hand in his pocket.
"Three dollars," said Booth.
"Three dollars! Heavens and earth, Daub, did you order a whole brewery? The idea of three dollars worth of beer for a small Welsh rarebit! A teaspoonful would be plenty. Here," he said, addressing me, "you stir this and I will go down and straighten this fellow out. Be sure and stir this the right way."
"Which is the right way?" I yelled after him as he disappeared; but he was out of hearing. I turned to Booth and asked him if he knew which way I should stir it.
"I don't believe it makes any difference. My mother always used to beat eggs from left to right, but I have seen people do it the other way. Some of these new-fangled beaters turn both ways at once."
"I wouldn't stir it at all if I were you," said Daub. "Grubb seemed to be particular about it, and it wouldn't do to spoil it now."
We waited five, ten, fifteen minutes for Grubb, and when he finally did appear, he was the most forlorn looking object I ever saw. His coat was torn into shreds and the blood ran in a broad stream from a gash in his forehead.
"Which is the right way to turn this?" said I, still thinking of the rarebit.
"Any old way; turn it upside down; turn it around; turn it on the floor; turn it out of doors; turn it—" and he flung himself into a chair.
"What has happened?" asked Booth.
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"I went down and expostulated with that fellow for bringing us so much beer. I told him a nickel's worth was all we wanted. He said something about going a mile for it, and before I knew it he knocked me headlong into the stairway. You see the result."
While we were washing the blood from his face a strong odor as of burning rubbish became apparent and Grubb dashed to his chafing-dish and turned out the lamp.
"I am afraid this is spoiled," said he, sadly, "but we still have the bread and can make some toast."
"Yes, said Booth, "toast is more Bohemian than Welsh rarebit any how.
CYLEGICEL.
A Bit of School Girl's Romance.
In my boarding-school days, I had a special fondness for one of my teachers—I shall call her Miss Brown. My love for her was strangely intense; indeed, it was like the adoration of a lover. If only I could look at her, I was happy, while a smile from her made me radiant with pleasure. The warm pressure of her hand or a few words of pleasantry or advice from her made my joy complete; my cup of happiness for that day at least was full.
One morning, on my way to a recitation, I passed Miss Brown in the hall, but instead of the usual cordial greeting, I received a cold recognition and a look which seemed to me even reprovingly stern. I was chilled to numbness, my head swam with a sickening feeling of dizziness, and all joy departed from me. My recitation was a complete failure, for I was unable even to find the place in my Virgil, and no wonder—it was upside down. I walked out of the class room as usual with my dearest friend, Evylyn, who was bubbling over with merriment about some scheme for the afternoon, our semiweekly half holiday. At another time, I should have joined in the fun with most hearty enthusiasm, but this morning, my cold indifference was the cause of bitter words on both sides and a quarrel so serious that we passed two whole days without speaking. At luncheon, I disgraced myself by spilling gravy on the tablecloth and dropping my knife on the floor. When spoken to, I replied in monosyllables. When Susan Green stepped on my dress and said "Beg pardon," I answered "Certainly." In the afternoon, I greeted my special Freshman protege with "Good morning," and when she confided in me a dismal tale of woe, I responded with sympathetic absent-mindedness "That's good!"
When at last I was free and could go to my room, I locked the door, and threw myself upon the bed in abject misery—what had I done? I thought over all the occasions on which my love for "a good time" had carried me beyond the limits of school propriety; but nothing I could remember was sufficient explanation for the terrible calamity which had befallen me. The long afternoon was fast drawing to a close while the deepening twilight only intensified my gloom. Suddenly a knock at the door aroused me. I had been wishing I might receive a summons to go home, and with a thrill of satisfaction, I imagined a telegram awaiting me. On opening the door, however, whom should I see but Miss Brown. "Why, my dear," said she, 'how wretched you look! Have you a toothache too? I came to see if you would let me have some of your mother's medicine you were telling me about. I have suffered tortures ever since breakfast."
M. B. S.
Woman's Influence.
At a little country station two women entered the train and, looking critically at the passengers, sat down in the vacant seat in front of me.
One of them, whom for the sake of convenience we will call Mrs. Jones, was a little, old-fashioned woman whose silvery hair hung in ringlets down her back reminding me of a fashion of long ago. She wore a plain black silk dress and had a pair of heavy gold ear rings, a breast pin, and a necklace to match. Her feet which barely touched the floor she kept tapping restlessly as she talked to the young lady who accompanied her.
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The other of the two who belonged to one of the numerous branches of the family of Smith was somewhat more modern in her appearance. Her dress was stylish, her hair arranged in an upto-date fashion and as she wore no jewelry she had an air of refinement about her which Mrs. Jones seemed to lack.
As we left the station where they got on the train we could see from the car windows a group of men on the porch in front of the country store talking earnestly.
"Isn't it too bad" said Mrs. Jones "those men are wild about that horrid fight. Men are so cruel. Sometimes I just shudder to think what we are coming to. There's horse-racing and base-ball and foot-ball and so many useless things to take men away from what they ought to give their attention to and now when we are priding ourselves upon our high state of civilization Nevada permits that b-r-utal fight. I think its a shame, a shame," tapping her foot vigorously on the floor, "and those men back there at home will talk about it all day and wonder who's won, well for my part," tossing her head and shaking her curls, a way which she seemed to have of making her words emphatic, "I think that women should use their influence to elevate that depraved sex by paying as little attention to such things as possible."
Miss Smith nodded but said nothing probably knowing her friend well enough to let her do the talking.
The ladies had distracted my attention from my paper but thinking the conversation had ended I began reading again. As I sat next the aisle with my face turned partly toward the side of the car I noticed that the mirror reflected the large pictures of Fitzsimmons and Corbett in such a way that the ladies could see them if they chanced to look that way. Having relieved her mind by attempting to impress upon Miss Smith the seriousness of the mission of her sex, womanlike, Mrs. Jones turned to the mirror to see if her hat was on straight, and faced the pictures. She surmised at once who they were.
"I wonder who won" she seemed to think for she never would have inquired at home even if every one else in town had known the result. "What brutal looking men!" she said to Miss Smith. "I think we ought to read about this fight in order to know what we are going to contend against when woman begins her grand battle against the vices of man. May I see your paper a moment?" she said as I laid it down. "The daily papers are all so kind to women now-a-days and almost all of them devote a column to us."
"Certainly, certainly" I replied, "I suppose of course you know that Mrs. Fitzsimmons attended the fight."
"Did she?" she replied eagerly. Then almost breathlessly with excitement she read what Mrs. Fitzsimmons had said at the ring side. "Go for him, Bob, why don't you go for his body? If you seconds don't fix Bob up so that he wins this fight, I'll make it warm for you."
She dropped the paper in her excitement. "Good for Mrs.Fitz,good for Mrs.Fitz" she cried. "No wonder Fitzsimmons won.Woman's influence is always supreme wherever exercised."
Then noticing the smile on Miss Smith's face she added in a subdued tone of voice "but I do think its real rough sport."
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Locals.
C. W. Fletcher was in Atchison last week.
The Senior law class have had their pictures taken.
C. A. Burney was in Rantoul Friday and Saturday.
C. F. Rumold of Dickinson county is a new student.
A dance will be given by the Phi Delts at their hall tonight.
A. H. Wing and J. H. Felgar visited at Newton this week.
Mrs. A. E. Case of Marion visited her son Frank last week.
Prof. Blackmar spoke to University people last Wednesday afernoon, on Hebrew Institutions.
The Phi Gams will meet the Sigmi Chis in a game of base ball Monday afternoon, the weather permitting.
Robert Wells entertained his cousin, Chas. A. Wells, postmaster at Coffeyville, for several days last week.
The cups which are to be given as prizes to the winners in the indoor meet, recently held have arrived. They are much better than those of last year, having a quadruple silver plate.
Nearly all of the students from Topeka enjoyed their respite from study at home. Among them were the Misses Edith Davis and Josephine Shellabarger and Messrs. Will Reed, Jno. Collins, Frank Curry, and Dick Rodgers. Mr. Ted Fletcher was the guest of Mr. Dick Rodgers.
The Bowen-Merrill law-book company of Kansas City offer a prize of a fine twelve dollar set of books to the law student who submits the best thesis on the subject, "To what extent can a common carrier of goods limit by contract his liability in Kansas?" This generous offer was secured mainly through the efforts of the Messrs. Pope and Ferrell of the law school.
The Juniors are mastering Partnership.
Prof. Holmes and wife visited in Topeka last week.
P. S. Elliott spent the vacation at Topeka and Mayetta.
Prof. Blackmar was elected a member of the board of education.
J. R. Snyder and Alvah Souder were in Kansas City last Saturday.
The total enrollment for this year is 982, a gain of 87 over last year.
An informal hop was given by the Betas at their house Saturday night.
All students should read the "The House Boat on the Styx, by Bangs.
Pines Hillman, a member of the Senior Law class, has returned to the University after an absence of three weeks.
E. E. Voights, A. H. Street, Walter H. Brooks, Jno. M. Lee and Carl Cooper enjoyed their vacation at Kansas City.
Miss Mabel Rodgers is enjoying a vacation from her duties of assistant librarian and is visiting at her home in Washington.
C. G. Smith, a graduate of '93, who now lives in Kansas City has been secured to deliver the Alumni oration at the coming commencement.
Two former Kansas University students are members of the class that will graduate from the Kansas Medical College this spring. They are Miss Dorothy L. Smith and Mr. C. Cahill.
The Senior Laws have taken up the study of Evidence and Real Property, the former under Prof. Green and the latter under Hon. J. W. Gleed.
The vacation was enjoyed in a rather novel way by a party of young men. They rented a house-boat and spent several days hunting for ducks up the river.
The Juniors are mastering Partnership.
Prof. Holmes and wife visited in Topeka last week.
P. S. Elliott spent the vacation at Topeka and Mayetta.
Prof. Blackmar was elected a member of the board of education.
J. R. Snyder and Alvah Souder were in Kansas City last Saturday.
The total enrollment for this year is 982, a gain of 87 over last year.
An informal hop was given by the Betas at their house Saturday night.
All students should read the "The House Boat on the Styx, by Bangs.
Pines Hillman, a member of the Senior Law class, has returned to the University after an absence of three weeks.
E. E. Voights, A. H. Street, Walter H. Brooks, Jno. M. Lee and Carl Cooper enjoyed their vacation at Kansas City.
Miss Mabel Rodgers is enjoying a vacation from her duties of assistant librarian and is visiting at her home in Washington.
C. G. Smith, a graduate of '93, who now lives in Kansas City has been secured to deliver the Alumni oration at the coming commencement.
Two former Kansas University students are members of the class that will graduate from the Kansas Medical College this spring. They are Miss Dorothy L. Smith and Mr.C. Cahill.
The Senior Laws have taken up the study of Evidence and Real Property, the former under Prof. Green and the latter under Hon. J.W. Gleed.
The vacation was enjoyed in a rather novel way by a party of young men. They rented a house-boat and spent several days hunting for ducks up the river.
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A meeting of the Latin society was held yesterday afternoon.
Samuel Griffin of Medicine Lodge has enrolled in the law school.
W. C. Wolfe, of Garden City, is a new member of the Junior class in law.
The Seniors who will have a part in the play have begun to commit their parts.
Mr. Webb Wilder was the guest of Mr. John Collins at Topeka during the vacation.
The Seniors are busily engaged preparing for commencement. A good time is anticipated Prof. Templin will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa address at Kansas University commencement.
A talk on German history was given by Theodore Poehler in German to the members of the German club Thursday afternoon.
The program to be presented at the meeting of the Adelphic tonight is of unusual merit. There will be selections by the members of the Fine Arts school, including Mrs. Clark's pupils.
Prof. Carruth will deliver an address before the Kansas Academy of Science and Literature Thursday evening April 22nd at Manhattan. Prof. Carruth is President of the association.
The copy for the 14th annual catalogue is now in the hands of the state printer and it is expected that the catalogues will be ready for distribution before the twentieth of the month.
Ar hur Williams is manager of the Sigma Chi base ball team and H. M. Blackshere of the Sigma Nu. Arrangements for a series of games between the different fraternities for a pennant are nearly completed.
The M. S. U. Independent will issue the contest number for the Inter-State Oratorical Contest to be held in Columbia, Mo. May 6th. The edition will contain all the Inter-state orations, cuts and sketches of the speakers and a full account of the contest. The number will be sold for 20 cents per copy. Anyone desiring a copy of this issue should send in their orders early to the M. S. U. Independent, Columbia, Mo.
D. I. Davis and J. Mathias were in Kansas City during the vacation.
Prof. Adams lectured on "The Great Powers and Crete" before the Historical seminary Friday afternoon.
A Small Fire.
The wood work in the tunnel through which the pipes pass from Snow Hall to the main building caught fire Monday afternoon about four o'clock. The fire was extinguished by a number of students and employees after about sixty feet of the tunnel had been burned out. The damage amounts to but little.
The Comedy Club.
The recent trip of the University Comedy club to Manhattan, Junction City and Clay Center was in every way the most successful one that has yet been made. They were greeted by full houses and liberally applauded. Receptions were tendered them at each place and at Manhattan they were entertained at the homes of many of the prominent people. A trip to Ottawa will be made in the near future.
Chemistry Notes.
Mr. H. E. Davis, who has nearly completed the Arts and Pharmacy courses is doing special work in order to enter the Graduate school of the University of Chicago. Mr. Davis will register for his Ph. D. degree and his special lines will be Bacteriology and Histology. He will probably leave in a few weeks in order to enter the last half of spring term.
The Freshman classes in Chemistry met in the chapel last Tuesday. There was a large attendance.The classes will meet hereafter in the Chemistry building. There are about 150 students in the two classes.
The Senior Pharmacy class has fully decided neither to prepare an annual nor unite with the Senior Arts in issuing theirs. This is unfortunate for both classes.
The department of Chemistry has received a sample of water from St. Paul, Neosho county taken from a well 700 feet deep. Many important minerals have been found in it.
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Hebrew Institutions.
The evolution of the Jewish nation from a historic standpoint was the theme of Prof. Blackmar's lecture Wednesday afternoon. The seeming harshness and arbitrariness of the Providence that rules the nation disappear when careful research brings to light the deep sociological principles underlying them.
"Moses and the Law" will be Prof. Blackmar's subject next Wednesday and the event is looked forward to with a great deal of interest by those who listened to "Hebrew Institutions."
The Senior Play.
The members of the Senior class are completing the arrangements for their class play. The committee having the matter in charge consists of the Misses May Gardner and Elizabeth Warren, and the Messrs. R.R.Price, E.C.Alder, and R.E.Everett. The play will be an adaptation of "The House Boat on the Styx" by John Kendrick Bangs, and will be replete with local hits and allusions. O.T.Hester has been elected manager of the play and the cast of characters wlll be decided upon soon.
Chapel Notes.
Rev. Dr. Hosmer, of St. Louis, led last Wednesday morning, and spoke of the increased necessity in these days of universal freedom, of carefully considering the aims and objects of life, and selecting the best.
Prof. Olin led the rest of the week. His subject Tuesday morning was the desirability of a wider extension and deepening of the idea of unselfishness; Thursday morning, he spoke of various ways of overcoming selfishness, calling especial attention to a proposed plan to organize a trust for the production and distribution of happiness.
A game of base ball is being played on McCook field this afternoon between the University nine and a nine from Haskell Institute. The line up of the Varsity team is as follows: Swett, first base; Carroll, second base; Todd and Housh, short stop; Blackshere, third base; Griggs and Speaks, left field; Sherman, center field; Wells and Morrison, right field; Stanley, Peters and Phillips, pitchers; Curry, Williams and Pittman, catchers.
Library Notes.
A new edition of the Encylopaedic Dictionary, published by D. Appleton & Co., has been bought for the Library. The work has been enlarged and illustrated and brought up to date. The four volumes will be placed on the dictionary shelf on the south side of the reading room.
Librarian Carrie M. Watson, representing the Zodiac Club, read a paper before the Federation of Women's Clubs of Lawrence on Thursday afternoon last. The subject of the paper was "The Evolution of a Book." The history of book making was traced from a clay tablet to Gutenberg's first printed Bible. The different stages in the evolution were briefly dwelt upon: the age of epigraphy or inscriptions, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, the cuneiform writing of the Babylonians and Assyrians and the inscriptions of the Greeks and the Romans; the age of paleography or manuscripts, including the papyrus roll and the parchment codex; the age of block or xylographic, books; the final development, about the middle of the fifteenth century, of the book printed from movable type. Following the reading of the paper, forty lantern slide pictures, illustrating different points in the lecture, were shown.
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The Athletic association received $77.00 as the net proceeds of Prof. Dyche's lecture.
J. E. Smith is manager of the Phi Delt base ball team and A.W. Jackson of the Betas.
At a meeting of the Oratorical association Friday noon, the following executive committee was elected; Hilliard Johnson, John King and Mr. Smith. C.E.Rose was elected treasurer.
The sad news of the death of Miss Allie Mason at Denver was received last Thursday. Miss Mason was at one time a student at the University and had a host of friends among the students who lament her untimely death.
School of Fine Arts.
The senior meetings may suitably be called "ring meetings."
Mrs. C. O. Proud of Oregon, Mo., spent five days with her daughter, Miss Effie, last week.
Since the rule was adopted, requiring all participants in the recitals to play without their notes, the programs are more finished. The students play with a decision and confidence, that causes one to say, "She is thoroughly acquainted with her piece." The rule means more practice and applying of one's self but the students testify to the fact, that there are many beneficial results.
It was decided in the Fall that the Y. W. C. A. would give a number of song services through the year. These have been very successful in drawing a large number of the girls to attend. Another program will be given Tuesday, April 13th at five o'clock, by some of the Fine Arts students. Among those who will take part are Miss Fellows, Miss Lawton, Miss Drake, and Mr. Gilbert. A special invitation is extended to Fine Arts' students. At this service the delegates to go to Lake Geneva will be chosen.
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The Closing Debate.
The final debate preliminary to the Kansas Nebraska debate was held at the chapel Thursday night. There was a fair attendance and it is gratifying to note that there was a large number of the faculty present. Prof. Green acted as presiding officer and the Reverend J. W. Somerville and Dixon and F. L. Webster as judges. The question was the same that will be debated with Nebraska, namely; "Should it be the policy of the United States to extend its dominion?" The Messrs Layton, Coleman and Sharpe spoke on the affirmative and the Messrs Gates, Jackson and Wood on the negative. While there were many little faults of position and delivery that needed attention, their work as a whole was very creditable to those taking part. The decision of the judges gave to the Messrs Sharpe, Coleman and Wood the honor of representing the University in the final contest. This is a trio that Nebraska will find difficult to defeat and all Kansas University students are confident of victory.
Othello.
No bill in Mr. LOUIS JAMES' repertoire enjoys greater popularity than his Othello. For some years Mr. James has been one of the most notable exponents of the title character of this play, and during the past five years his conception and treatment have broadened in such a degree that he is to-day without doubt the foremost Othello on the American stage. Aside from Mr. James' acknowledged greatness in this role the theatre-going public will find additional interest in the elaborate staging that has been given the play. It is therefore with no small amount of pleasurable anticipation that one looks forward to Mr. James' engagement in this his most famous characterization at the Bowersock opera house Thursday April 15. "OTHELLO" as a stage character is a very interesting study from many standpoints aside from the analysis of the character from the Shakespeare text. He has been variously interpreted as a veritable barbarian and as a cultured Venitian. Both extremes are manifestly erroneous. Mr. James' characterization preserves the radical characteristics of the Moor and at the same time makes all due allowance for the environments of civilization he enjoyed and the degree of culture he acquired while at the court of Venice. In personality Mr. James is singularly suited to the impressive embodiment of such a character. Tall and erect in stature, massive and symmetrical in frame, graceful and expressive in action, he is ideal in the physical realization of the part. He has one of the most impressive voices the American stage has yet produced, and it is absolutely responsive to every passion that he may be called upon to express. These native gifts are supplemented by a mature art perfected in the most exacting school the American stage has afforded. To all these qualities must be added that of a
genuine love for the abused Moor, a love which existed in the tragedian from his very first acquaintance with the play and which has grown through the years of his interpretation. Messrs. Wagenhals and Kemper, Mr. James' managers, besides surrounding him with the strongest company organized in years for the support of a star in the classical roles, have given the plays in his repertoire a magnificent scenic equipment. The senate chamber for Othello is modeled after the famous chamber of tapestries in the palace of Doges in Venice and is said to be a triumph of the scene-painter's art. Another gem of the Othello scenery is the bed chamber of Desdemona. The costuming is historically correct and most elaborate, the designs are by Mme. Jahn and the execution by Herrman. Mr. James' company includes Guy Lindsley, William Harris, Collin Kemper, Harry Langdon, Miss Alma Kruger and other well known players. Seats on sale Tuesday, April 13.
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Students, save a dollar by having your picture taken at Goodnight's gallery. You can get a dozen first-class cabinets for $2.
Students get your shoes repaired at Lindsay's. First door north of Tiptons Barber Shop.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Goodnight will give you a dozen good photographs for $1. Call and see him. He will give you first-class work at low prices.
Give your shorthand and type-writing work to Miss Kate S. Soule, 1105 Mass. St.
Base ball and Tennis goods at Smith's News Stand.
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Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
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The ladies of the University are invited to call and see Misses Edmondson's hats at their parlors.
You can save money by buying your stationary supplies at 1027 Mass. street. We are closing out. J.S.BOUGHTON, Agent.
Students can have their negatives taken by Mrs. Shane at the Old Home gallery near the river, or by J.B.Shane at the Iron Clad on south Massachusetts street.Work will be satisfactory in either case.
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April 17, 1897.
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VOL. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 17, 1897.
No.11.
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LET us co-operate to make the coming Field Day one of record breaking distinction. This weather is conducive to sluggishness and a moderative amount of exercise in the way of
training for the outdoor meet would break up spring time ennui. It is highly probable that Field Day programs will be arranged with other schools or with athletic clubs. Such likely prospects call for thorough preliminary work on the part of our athletes.
FOR SOME time the Registrar has been in correspondence with the high schools through out the state, advertising the University, distributing circular information and adjusting courses. He notes a great improvement in high school curricula and on the whole a kindly attitude toward the state university. There is now scarcely a town in the State that has not facilities for giving a public academic education; scarcely a high school that does not articulate with the university. The Kansas school system is fast approaching completeness. It is for us to upbuild a splendid graduate school.
THE FOURTEENTH Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Language and Literature will be held in Manhattan Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week. Last year's session occurred in Lawrence, and recollections of that pleasant and instructive season are fresh in the minds of those who attended any of the meetings. Prof. Carruth is president of the Academy and will give the opening address Thursday evening. Mr. T. E. Dewey and Mr. Eugene Ware will take prominent parts in the program of the session. All who attend the Academy will receive entertainment in the homes of Manhattan. A reduction of railroad rates will probably be secured. The expense of attending the meeting will be slight. Here is opportunity to hear and meet the elite of Kansas. Let us avail ourselves of it.
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A CONSIDERABLE interest in the Nebraska-Kansas debate was evinced by the attendance at the last of the preliminary contests.
WE NOTICE in the April Lotus an announcement of Prof. Clark's resignation as art editor of that publication and subjoined thereto complimentary a note of regret from the publishers. Through Prof. Clark, Kansas University is particularly identified with the inception and growth of The Lotus. His enthusiasm and artistic capability were potent in bringing it to the notice of polite circles; and since its attainment of permanent popularity, he has more than sustained his reputation as an illustrator of keen and comprehensive ability. Let us congratulate ourselves upon his success.
THE WORK of dramatizing "The House Boat on the Styx" is completed and rehearsals of the same for the Senior play will begin at once. Mr. Bangs, the author has been forestalled in the dramatization of his book. The labor of adaptation has been tedious and perplexing notwithstanding the fact that the work possesses inherently the qualities of a subtle farce-comedy. The piece, as it comes from the hands of the play committee, is slightly tinged with localisms and otherwise largely amended. The plot is unconventional; there is no "star" part; the cast is large. The play is unmistakably a fit vehicle for rollicking Senior wit and jocosity, and we look forward to the event of its production with great expectancy.
THE REPORT of the outrageous action of the Agricultural College Board of Regents is almost incredible. Henceforth, nothing of partisan origin can surprise us. We are now in a receptive mood. Come on, with your harangues on the corrupting influences of politics, with your books on degeneracy, with your editorials on aberrant Kansas. With the accession of new regime the Agricultural college will cease to be. In its stead there will spring into full grown existence a school for the promotion of propagandism wherein the chief text book will be the record of party achievements. The Dothebay Hall method will doubtless be employed in the inculcation of party creeds and of the principles of political science. The wages which have customarily been allowed the student for work on the college farm will be materially reduced in order that he may feel the pinch of privation, may realize the advantage and arbitrariness of capital, and that he may become imbued with the doctrines of ultra-radical populism. A kindergarten system of political economy is certainly an innovation. Our present type of politician is a much more resourceful manipulator than any of his predecessors. As a companion working principle with the gerrymander he has lately invented the device of reorganizing state institutions. The next decade will witness the result of its application—we shudder at the spectacle prefigured. We extend sympathy to the students of the Agricultural college for the untimely loss of President Fairchild and of other professors undoubtedly beloved of all connected with the institution.
Eilqraquy.
How it Happened.
Alex struck a match on the porch railing and lighted his cigarette. He puffed at it for a moment, making the red light glow through the darkness, then tossed the burned match over the balustrade and blew out a cloud of mistily luminous smoke.
"So this is the end of it?" he said.
The girl was leaning back in a rocking-chair; the quick spurt of the match had given a glimpse of a serious, sensitive face with solemn dark- ringed eyes. "Yes," she assented.
"Well," commented Alex after a silence of several moments, "it was very amusing while it lasted."
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"Yes," said the girl again. Then her calm voice continued. "But it grew rather tiresome toward the end."
"Oh," said Alex.
"Besides, it wasn't much even in its way," she went on. "You know Southern girls consider there are degrees, 'Engaged to be married' and 'Just engaged.'"
"And we were 'Just engaged' I suppose."
"Exactly," assented the girl.
Alex flipped the ash off his cigarette. "Oh!" he said again, but this time with a lengthened intonation that betokened a sudden realization of the position. He leaned against a post as he sat on the railing and thrusting his hand into his pocket pondered a moment. Then he seemed to take a sudden resolution. "And yet," he said, with a half passionate ring in his voice while the darkness hid the amused smile on his face, "and yet that evening when you met me down by the lilacs—your hands full of the white flowers that I crushed with my kisses,—that evening it seemed more than play to us. Did it not, Winnifred?" He bent over to her.
"It was moonlight, that night," she suggested with a faint contempt in her voice that endued the words with a casual meaning. She lay back quite still in her chair but her poise was rather that of a fence on guard than of the rest it stimulated.
Alex drew back and laughed a little. "And moonshine?" he added. But his action was involuntary and in the nature of an aside, and he quickly returned to his former manner.
"Then all your promises, all your sweet words and sweeter looks were of no meaning? And you never cared for me; Winifred, do you mean to tell me that your truth and honor upon which I so relied—that the dear faith on which I builted my love was—"
"That will do," interrupted the girl coldly and decisively, "we have had a month of that already, but 'the play is played out.' Now let's return to truth and leave the—"
"Moonshine," suggested Alex.
"Yes," said the girl, "let's come down to earnest and not juggle now any more than we can help."
"Have it your own way," answered Alex. "But really I don't think it's quite fair for you to spoil my fine flow of language in that unceremonious way. I thought I was doing uncommonly well. Now wasn't I? 'Honor bright,' don't you think that's the best I've done yet?' He was so whimsically in earnest about it that the girl laughed in spite of herself.
"Really," he went on, "though I don't like to praise myself—being modest by nature—I think that really was superb. Did you notice the little quiver in my voice when I said 'Winifred.' I've often tried that repressed emotion but never got it quite so well before. Of course, there is the provocation, the environment and etcetera."
"Will you never be serious?" demanded the the girl impatiently. "Will you always be the weather-cock-changeable, mocking and insincere."
Alex slipped more ash off his cigarette. "Now I've lived a long time in this mundane sphere" he observed, "but this is the first time I ever heard of a mocking, insincere weather-cock. It appears to me—"
The girl made a restless angry gesture. "There again!" she broke in, 'quibbling over trifles when a question of deepest import is under consideration. Oh how you have disappointed me! I used to admire you, but in this short month I have learned to despise you—you inspire only contempt in my mind. Your sentiment is like false glitter on gold that deceives the receiver by its glamour but vanishes leaving nothing in his grasp.
Alex threw his cigarette out into the yard and burst into a hearty laugh. "Well," he gasped, "for a 'nice derangement of epitaphs' I must say my dear, that you have done well. The false glitter on gold is good—exceedingly good!"
Winifred looked at him a moment with rage, hate and various other deadly sins warring in her eyes. "I think you're perfectly horrid!" she sobbed at last and fled into the house.
As for Alex, he smoked another cigarette, chuckled to himself and went off down the street whistling the "Honey Moon" two-step.
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They had a church wedding and I understand that it was a very elegant affair.
FRANCIS CHAPLINE.
"She."
When I first met her she was only a mere slip of a girl with round olive cheeks and big, soft, blue eyes, and over her smooth brow clustered an array of golden curls. In my eyes she looked an ideal queen. Yet I had been warned that she boasted almost as many "scalps" as an Indian chief. In other words, she was a coquette of the deepest dye; and yet as I looked upon her sweet face, smiling in such a way as to properly exhibit two rows of pearly white teeth, and as I listened to her singing tender songs in a deep contralto voice, I was often inclined to disregard all warnings. I lured her on by every charm I could exercise; I never so much as glanced at another, I made her believe she was all in all to me, and oh! how easily I could have believed it myself.
I can see her yet, the glancing light of her eye and the glint of her hair, the proud young grace of her form, the charming fit and the exquisite taste of her garments. How her eyes grew brighter at my approach—at times I seemed to think she did love me just a little bit; but alas! that was impossible. And yet how trustingly those big, blue eyes would look up into mine and I would grow happy as I held that little hand so closely. Then the warnings would come back to me, like a dark cloud on a summer's day, and I would drop the tiny hand and think, "she's after my scalp, too; but I'll play her at her own game."
The night was rather chilly and every now and then a slight gust of wind rattled the rickety lattice work on the front porch of a large old building situated well back from the road; a dim light burned in the front parlor, and to a casual observer, the household was wrapped in slumber; but to a close observer, it appeared that the front door stood the least bit ajar, while between the light from the parlor and the darkness without stood a flaxen haired girl with her right arm extended backward through the
opening of the door and holding to the knob inside. Just in front of the frail form stood her gallant lover, holding her little hand in his and so close to her that the gentle breezes were forced to divert their courses and take a circuitous path. A gentle sob—a sound resembling that of the society belle as she coaxes her pet poodle to come to her,-a farewell, and all is still. * * * * * *
There was an awful ringing in my ears and with unconscious latent athletic power, I landed in the center of the room and siezed the alarm clock, trying to persuade it to "ring off," and at the same time I gently murmered, "that eight o'clock class is the greatest bore I ever had."
A. L. F.
Seraphima and the Colt.
Seraphima's elfish, gray eyes looked serious, and her tousled, yellow hair fell down over her forehead and tickled her nose. Little white streaks extending from her eyes to the corners of her mouth, said plainly that tears had been trickling their way down Seraphima's grimy face. She walked slowly up and down the gravel path, her head bowed, and her hands clasped behind her. Seraphima was thinking. She was longing for new worlds to conquer; for it was painfully real that she could not in any manner conquer the monarch of the only world she knew—her aunt. A sobbing sigh escaped her lips; the miserable lump that had been choking back the words was gone at last, and she was again able to speak.
"Ijes' b'lieve I'll g'off an' die!" she said, tossing back the yellow curls from her eyes. "I'll kill myself. Life ain't worth livin' anyhow. Ijes' can't do nothin'."
A colt that had been grazing in the front yard, came up and sympathetically thrust his nose over Seraphima's shoulder. She whirled about, and planted a resounding kiss upon his dirty, black nose.
"Pet," she said, "you're the only frien' I've got,—an I'm goin' to kill myself! Auntie sp—whipped me again, an- an- Dickon lafted at me—an' I'm goin' to kill myself, so there!"
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The colt stood still, gazing at her in sympathy. Seraphima was suddenly possessed of an idea; quick as a flash, she darted beneath the colt's body. That was fine!
"Pet, I believe I'll shoot myself."
Pet was evidently too astonished to move or even lay back his ears, for he stood perfectly still. Seraphima thought these encouraging signs, so, allowing the adventurous spirit to get the better of her, she again slipped beneath his body, and thrust her elfish, little head between his forelegs.
"Pet, I believe I'll be a—"
With a quick movement, Pet siezed the yellow topknot between his teeth, and lifted Seraphima off her feet.
“— a nun! Darn you Pet! Darn you Pet! Darn you!”
Seraphima kicked and squirmed, yelling in rage, but it seemed to have no effect whatever upon the colt, for with becoming dignity he walked up to the door-step and deposited the angry little piece of humanity in a heap upon the porch. Seraphima sat up rubbing her head vigorously, her eyes aud her mouth wide open from astonishment.
“Darn you Pet！” she cried, "I b'lieve I'll be a nun! Darn—"
But Pet kicked up his heels, and disappeared around the corner.
E. A. H.
The Undoing of the Swell.
A number of years ago I was standing at the Junction in Kansas City watching the thronging hundreds that hourly pass that center of metropolitan travel. At the east end there was a coal wagon slowly descending the steep Ninth street grade while an east-bound Independence Avenue car had just come to a stop before the Junction.
On the rear platform of the car stood a young dandy in faultless attire. His clothes, hat, neckwear and linen were of the most approved pattern; in his hand he held a large headed fancifully carved cane which he twirled playfully from time to time; he looked out complacently upon the passersby through gold rimmed glasses precariously perched on the ridge of his beautiful Græco-Roman nose. Taken all in all he was the very picture of self-satisfaction and conceit.
In the meanwhile the heavily laden coal wagon met with a mishap in its descent. When about half way down the grade the horse shied at something, got frightened and dashed ahead. The driver used all his strength and fund of Scriptural quotation to restrain his team, but all to no avail; the wagon swerved to one side and bounded with tremendous force against a fire-plug just at the foot of the grade. So great was the shock and so powerful the blow that the plug broke short off as though it were a mere pipestem. Immediately there burst forth a mighty stream of water skyward, which as it fell made straight for the car on which stood our immaculate swell and before he could do aught to save himself a mighty mass of water struck him squarely in the chest, causing him to describe a graceful parabola and land on the ground with no inconsiderable force some distance away.
In time, he found sufficient strength to pick himself up from his supine position and with a look of unutterable anguish he surveyed the ruin the water had wrought. His clothes were wet through and through and clung tightly to his body, his collar was wilted, his linen ruined, his hat badly crushed, and his eye glasses and cane gone, whither no one could tell; his whole appearance bore ample and convincing testimony to the force of falling bodies.
The uproarious shouts of laughter which came from the crowd did not tend to soften his wrath or materially diminish his mortification and finally, with a look which betokened great mental and physical suffering, he was borne away in the hands of his friends wet and wilted.
A. E. W.
The Age of Woman.
At twenty the "the young man" had his first serious "affaire de cœur." The lady of his love was a beautiful college girl "just his own age." "The young man" was madly in love. He would have left school and found work in order
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to marry the object of his affections. The maiden advised him when he needed advice She amused him when he wished to be amused. She helped him select toys for his little brother who was at home.
Ten years later the young man's little brother enters college. The maiden is still "doing the society act." He meets her—is conquered. She is still twenty and he loves her. When he desires amusement she amuses him. When he needs advice she advises him. And now she helps him select toys for his brother's little boy who is at home.
Love's Easter.
A. R.
First Easter morn the ray-starred lambent east Shot low its splintering darts into the Tomb. Deep to the stone-hewn niche, life-robbed, where death had lain
had lain
And life had spoiled him of his kingly prey.
So on this Easter morn the light of joy
Searches the hated chambers of my past
And finds no prisoner there. Thy heart's great love
Hath called my soul forth from its horrid bonds,
And so ennobled, at thy side I stand,
Having my certain hope and life in thee.
ROBERT WILSON NEAL.
Locals.
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A. Beam enrolled this week.
N. E. Higgins was in town last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Strode's sister has been visiting him this week.
Invitations for the Pi Phi party were issued Monday.
Frank McKay received a visit from his father last week.
The Betas gave a party at their chapter house Saturday night.
The Phi Gams initiated Peters and Curry Saturday night.
Joe Holdren, a former student, has enrolled in the Junior law class.
G. W. Stevens has just returned from a protracted visit at Iola.
The game between the Sigma Chis and Phil Gam's was won by the later.
L. E. Watson has returned from an extended visit with his parents at Emporia.
Miss Eleanor Gertrude Stevens was the guest of Mrs. H. W. Carruth while in Lawrence.
Miss Radford, the state Y. W. C. A. secretary has been visiting her sister, Miss Agnes Radford this week.
The Sophomore class have decided to have their annual spread Friday evening May 7th.
Prof. Blackmar delivered a lecture at Strong city last Saturday night on "Social Reforms."
Prof. Dyche lectures at Salina next Friday night and at McPherson the night following.
W. A. White, of the Emporia Gazette, was in town Wednesday, the guest of his Phi Delt brethren.
A. C. Mead is quite sick at 1131 Ohio street His mother is here from Fort Scott to attend him.
The first game of the inter-frat series will be played between the Sigma Nus and Betas Tuesday afternoon.
Frank Curry had the misfortune to sprain his ankle in a practice game last Monday and will be unable to play for awhile.
R. L. Stewart and Miss Dorothy Frederickson were married at the English Lutheran church Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock.
The third game of the regular schedule will be played with the Ft. Leavenworth team next Saturday on McCook field. We must win this game. The students should be out to cheer; the team will do the rest.
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Rolla Mitchell, who attended the university last year, is manager of the Atchison base ball team.
An interesting meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa was held at the home of Prof. Hodder Thursday night.
The University Comedy club will play at Ottawa next Wednesday night. They also expect to visit Fort Leavenworth soon.
A large number of students witnessed the presentation of Othello by the Louis James company at the opera house Thursday night.
The Y. W. C. A. will have a special Easter service next Tuesday at 5 o'clock. There will appropriate music and Mrs. Preaszner will give an Easter talk.
The Women's League will be at home to all young women of the University on Saturday, April 24, at the home of Mrs. Bowersock on Tennessee street.
There will be an elocutionary recital next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in Music Hall. A delightful program is promised. Everybody is invited to attend.
The election of a captain for the base ball nine which was to have been held Friday has been postponed to next week. Stanley, Blackshere, and Curry are candidates for the position.
The annual field day meet will take place May 5th under the direction of Manager E. E. Voights. There is every indication of a very successful contest. Arrangements have nearly been completed for a meet with William Jewell college at Liberty, Mo.
Chancellor Snow lectured at Lowell Thursday night upon the subject "A Common Sense View of Higher Education," and at Baxter Springs Friday night upon the subject "Switzerland and Paris." Both lectures were illustrated with a stereopticon.
Mr. E. C. Case, a former student of the University, who received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago last year, visited old friends upon the hill last Thursday. Dr. Case will hold a position in Milwaukee next year as professor in Paleontology and Geology.
The entertainment given by Miss Eleanor G. Stephens and the University orchestra was well attended. Miss Stephens as an elocutionist was fair, but the work of the University orchestra was better appreciated by the audience. The selections played showed much care and practice and reflected great credit upon the director, Prof. J. A. Farrell.
Fraternity Base Ball.
At a meeting of the managers of the different fraternity base ball nines Tuesday morning it was decided to have a series of games for a suitable trophy. The Betas will play the Sigma Nus, the Phi Gams the Phi Delts, and the Sigma Chis the Phi Psis. These games are to be played within the next three weeks. A small admission fee will be charged to pay expenses. The games in every case are to consist of seven innings.
Young Ladies' Mass Meeting.
Pursuant to a notice posted on the bulletin board Thursday a large number of young lady students assembled in the chapel at noon to take action concerning the proposed field day for young women. After several speeches, resolutions were passed in which the proper authorities were petitioned to permit the meet to take place. The university council has referred the matter to a committee consisting of the Misses Galloo, Scott, Watson and Oliver.
Freshmen Meet.
The members of the Freshman class held a very enthusiastic meeting in room 14 last Monday. They elected Walter Lapham manager of their class base ball team and Frank Swett captain. A class party and a class picnic were decided upon for the near future. After much discussion the following was adopted as the class yell:
We know it all
We can't be taught!
Rock Chalk! Jay Hawk!
Class of Naughty-naught!
Cock a doodle do! Crimson and blue! Century, Century! K. S. U.
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Chapel Notes.
The Chancellor led Monday and Wednesday, speaking Monday of the present realization of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in our midst here in the University; and Wednesday, of some lines in which it should be realized, calling especial attention to honor in examinations.
Rev. Dr. Cordley led the rest of the week, speaking Tuesday of the value of the thought and purpose behind the act and leading to it; and Thursday, of the unexpected value in emergencies of a disinterested friendship.
Prof. Hopkins will lead next week.
Board of Regents.
A meeting of the Board of Regents was held in the Chancellor's rooms last Friday. Besides the regular routine business and the appointment of committees, the board transacted the following business which is of general interest.
Prof. Palmer was elected assistant in Graphics, which position he has been filling temporarily.
Prof. W. C. Stevens was granted a leave of absence until next September without pay. Prof. Stevens will leave during the latter part of the month for Germany where he will make a study of Botany under Prof. Strasberger.
It was voted that no professor should receive a greater fee than $10,00 for lectures in the University extension courses.
It was also decided to establish a graduate school at the University.
Physics Building.
The Junior Electrical Engineers had their picture taken last Wednesday.
Prof. Blake lectured to the Physics class on X rays last Thursday.
A young man who had swallowed a nail was brought to Prof. Blake's X ray laboratory to have it located last Wednesday.
The Senior Electricals are testing a transformer of new design which was sent from Kansas City.
The Junior Electricals are designing a four pole generator of twelve K. W. capacity.
Prof. Dunstan was called to Topeka by the State Board of Charities this week to examine specifications for a large electrical pumping plant to be constructed at the Atchison Asylum.
Mr. Whitten talked before the Chemical Seminary last Monday upon "Phase Rule," which was of great interest to the students as well as the professors present.
Three members of the Senior Pharmacy class are making a series of experiments in percolation, the results of which will prove of great interest to the pharmacists at large.
Master of Pharmacy.
The degree of Master of Pharmacy has been bestowed upon Prof. Sayre by the board of trustees of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. This is the highest degree given in Pharmacy and very few men in this country have received this degree. This is a recognition of Prof. Sayre's contributions to Pharmaceutics Science.
School of Fine Arts.
It was the unanimous verdict of the students of the School of Fine Arts that the display of elocution at University Hall last Thursday evening was one of the poorest ever heard in Lawrence. The orchestra covered itself with glory and was of course the principle attraction.
Prof. Penny gave a lantern lecture before the ladies of the "No Name" club last Wednesday afternoon at the Physics building. His subject was "mythology as a source of artistic inspiration."
There will be a recital Wednesday 4 P. M. The spring recitals are always popular.
The lecture by Prof. Wilcox, on Wednesday afternoon to the Fine Arts juniors and seniors, on Grecian sculpture was highly appreciated. The lantern pictures made the lecture additionally interesting.
There will be nine graduating recitals this year. The dates are as follows.
May 11. Miss Gertrude M. Spaulding,
" 14. " Lottie B. Skofstad,
" 18. " Daisy O. Starr,
" 20. " Louise A. Wiedemann,
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" 24. " Bertha G. Whitaker,
" 28. " Gertrude M. McCheyene,
" 31. " Elvis C. Marshall,
June 1. " Agnes O. Lapham.
Miss Maud Miller, though a senior, has gone home and will finish next year.
The numbers on the Adelphic program, last Saturday evening, by Misses Wiedemann, McCrory, and Greissinger were very much enjoyed.
Oratorical Contest.
The University annual spring oratorical contest will be held April 30th, 1897. All candidates are required to hand in copies of their orations at least one week prior to contest.
Hilliard Johnson,
John L. King,
Matt Smith.
Executive Com.
Alumni Notes.
The resignation of J. W. Dinsmore, Superintendent of the Humboldt High School, Neb for the past five years, has resulted in the election of Mr. Arthur McMurray,'96, to the superintendency of that school for the coming year. Mr. McMurray graduated under Mr. Dinsmore, from the Washington,'Kansas High, School, in '91. His election to his new position will entail upon Mr. McMurray considerable responsibility as his immediate predecessor has had fourteen years successful experience in high school work and is recognized as one of the ablest Superintendents in Nebraska. That he will rise to the occasion, none of Mr. McMurray's friends have reason to doubt.
H. A. Peairs, Law '88, left Lawrence Thursday for Helena, Montana. For the last year Mr. Peairs has been in delicate health and has decided to try the climate of Montana in the hope that his condition may be thereby improved.
We are glad to announce a brief visit to the University of Mr. E. C. Case'93, Professor of chemistry, Geology and Physics in the State Normal School, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After graduation Mr. Case did graduate work at Kansas University, taking his A. M. degree, at Cornell, and at the University of Chicago,
from which institution he received his Ph. D. in '96. Mr. Case was elected to the position he now holds during the current academic year
R. R. Mitchell, Law '95, manager of the Atchison base ball team came over with his men Thursday.
J. G. Smith '83, who has been selected to deliver the Alumni address this year, is speaker of the lower house of the body that governs Kansas City municipal affairs.
Atchison vs. K. U.
In the opening game of the season on McCook Field K. U. was defeated by the Atchison team by a score of 14 to 3. The game was an uneven one from the start but not so much so as the score indicates, Atchison scoring but two runs after the third inning. Had it not been for the clever out fielding the score would have been larger. The in-field work was ragged but partly excusable on account of the miserable condition of the grounds.
The game was devoid of sensational plays. Beauchamp's home run in the third inning, and Brown's running catch in right field for the visitors, with Sherman's fielding and Housh's three bagger bringing in Carroll and Swett were the features of the game.
Don't forget us when you want a fine perfume. LEIS DRUG Co.
Fashionable SUITS AND TROUSERS
To Your Order.
See our Samples before Placing Your Order.
W. BROMELSIGK.
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Notes from the College World.
Ex-Postmaster General Wilson will deliver the commencement oration at the University of North Carolina.
Cornell has purchased a naphtha boat which will be used for paleontological research in the lakes of central New York and in Southern waters. Daily Cardinal.
The Illini of April 2nd contains a cut of the University of Illinois MilitaryBand; also individual pictures of the officers of the same. The band consists of over thirty members.
The University of North Dakota will close its doors permanently next June.
Minnesota University students are contemplating the compilation of a University Book of Songs.
The board in charge is made up of nine members, two from each of the four collegiate classes and one member of the faculty.
A bill making it a misdemeanor to play football has been introduced into the Pennsylvania legislature—Ex.
Cross country runs are being substituted for regular gymnasium class work in the University of Wisconsin.
The attendance upon chapel exercises is no longer compulsory at Wellesley college. The new condition, according to report, has not diminished the attendance.
Students get your shoes repaired at Lindsay's. First door north of Tiptons Barber Shop.
Spring Toggery.
You never before saw such lovely Silks, Embroideries, Cheffons, Dress Goods, Laces, Organdies, Gloves, Ruchings, Veilings as we are showing this spring. Our store is a veritable art gallery-an artist sees beauty in the products of the loom as well as at the brush and mind. We invite you to call and see the latest styles for the season.
GEO. INNES.
Base ball and Tennis goods at Smith's News Stand.
Give your shorthand and type-writing work to Miss Kate S. Soule, 1105 Mass. St.
No better stock of toilet soaps in the city. LEIS DRUG CO.
Just what you want: those gymnasium suits sold at Smith's News stand.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
Copying on typewriter, M. F. Laycock.
The new styles in woolens at Kunkel's are admired by all. Here you can get a stylish spring suit made for $14.00 and pair of pants for $3.00.
Students will find at the Leis Drug Co., a fine line of tooth and nail brushes. Prices way down. Try us.
Goodnight will give you a dozen good photographs for $1. Call and see him. He will give you first-class work at low prices.
YOU TOIL UP THE HILL
As
These mornings you may notice that the shoes you bought of us last fall have seen better days. Come in and see us again. We have the styles that are right at seductive prices. Ask to see our Royal $3.00 Shoe, brown or black, for men and our Princess $2.50 Shoe for women.
BULLENE SHOE CO.
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The ladies of the University are invited to call and see Misses Edmondson's hats at their parlors.
You can save money by buying your stationary supplies at 1027 Mass. street. We are closing out. J.S.BOUGHTON, Agent.
Students can have their negatives taken by Mrs. Shane at the Old Home gallery near the river, or by J.B.Shane at the Iron Clad on south Massachusetts street.Work will be satisfactory in either case.
The Tipton Barber Shop and Bath Rooms. Stewart & Wagner, Proprietors. 838 Massachusetts Street.
NOW STUDENTS GET TO WORK.
We will give two gold watches to the two best written articles setting forth the reasons why Robinson & Spalding's store has within nine months become the leading clothing store of Lawrence, Kas, no article to be more than 150 words and to be judged May 4 by three competent judges; contest closes April 30. You can see the watches in the north window.
744 Mass. Street. ROBINSON & SPALDING ONE Price Clothiers.
FAXON THE SHOE MAN
Solicits
The Shoe Trade of the town.
For your SPRING CLOTHING and HATS see... M. J. SKOFSTED.
As he has special bargains to offer you. 824 MASS. STREET.
KLOCK'S RESTAURANT, HEADQUARTERS FOR STUDENTS.
BOARD per week $2.50, MEAL TICKETS $3. LUNCH COUNTER.
GIVE ME A TRIAL.
816 MASS. STREET.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City.
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
639
MASS. ST.
K. S. U. Bouquet,
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
For sale only at Barber Bros., Drug Store.
Students, save a dollar by having your picture taken at Goodnight's gallery. You can get a dozen first-class cabinets for $2.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Hawthorne Truly Says:
"These railroads are positively the greatest blessings that the ages have wrought out for us. They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile; what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old, worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell wherever the beautiful shall offer him a home?"
The magnificent trains of the Santa Fe Route offer a facile transition to many beautiful spots in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona aud California. Free descriptive literature. W.J.Black,G.P.A.,A.T.& S.F.Ry, Topeka, Kas.
We will show Spring Boots a good line of
AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
and Shoes.
MASON'S.
"Old Hickory" Bicycles.
--is within the reach of every K. U. student. The prices are reasonable, the boats clean and perfectly safe.
Continuous Laminated Frame.
"It's Springy, yet has no Springs."
Twice as Strong as other Wheels.
None like it! None equal it!
--is within the reach of every K. U. student. The prices are reasonable, the boats clean and perfectly safe.
ERWIN H. EBERHARDT, AGENT At Bell's Music Store.
SOLD ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
A PLAIN ARGUMENT.
Standard Guage
- Tubing. -
Actual Size.
LOOK IN THIS END ... AND... THEN AT THIS.
Cross Section of Our Main Frame.
Actual Size.
A PLAIN
LOOK IN THIS END
THEN AT THIS.
GOOD BOATING..
BOAT HOUSE.
See us at the
Winship Teachers Agency (New England Bureau of Education) 3rd. Somerset St. Boston.
Oldest, and most reliable in New England. One fee registers in both offices H.C, FELLOW, Western Manager. TOPEKA, KANS.,
W
HO GOT YOUR REDUCTION
HO WILL YOU SUPPORT
?
Shirts 8 cts, Cuffs 4 cts, Collars 2 cts.
EMPORIA STEAM LAUNDRY. E. B. SIERER.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
Football and Athletic Goods
AT
Schmeizer Arms Co.
The largest and cheapest Sporting Goods House in the West. 710=712 and 714 Main Street, KANSAS CITY, MO.
Wm. Wiedemann
米
Oyster Parlor.
米
Fine Confections.
The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
O
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.
O
SIMPSON & KELLEY, University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
★ STAR BAKERY, ★★
HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S.
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF THE PEOPLE. . .
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.
WILLIS
THE PHOTOGRAPHER 933 Mass. Street.
W. W. SAVAGE,
Successor to KIRBY & HILL,
Will gladly furnish anything you want in
FINE AND STAPLE GROCERIES
90 Massachusetts Street.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS' SHOEMAKER. JAS.E.EDMONDSON,915 Mass. St.
CIGARS,
PIPES,
TOBACCO,
PLAYING
Brooks,
CARDS.
825 Mass. St.
Wanted-An Idea Who can think of some simple thing to patent? Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO., Present Attorneys, Washington, D.C., for their $1,800 prize offer and new list of one thousand inventions wanted.
THE HUB
is now ready to show you
the best and cheapest line of Spring Suits and Furnishings. Come and see them. THE HUB.
Easter Ties
ABE LEVY AGENT.
at
Abe Levy's.
WOOLF BROS.
They are new and striking.
LAUNDRY GO.
WILL McMURRAY, Solicitor. Goods called for and delivered.
BEAL & GODDING
KEEP THE
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
Telephone 139.
McClure & Simpson.
OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Cheapest Prices
Special attention to club trade.
1023 MASS. ST. TELEPHONE 15.
Suits made to order, as low as the lowest, and no snob work done at MCCONNELL'S.
Piano
'OLIN BELL,
Western Distributing Agent for
Shaw Pianos. Bav State
Russell Pianos, Washburn
Mandolins
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
PIANOS TO RENT.
and
Easy Payments If desired.
Guitars.
Special Prices to K. U. Students. OLIN BELL, LAWRENCE, Ks.
PLAIN WIRE, BARB WIRE,
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES.
FIRE
CONSOLIDATED BARB WIRE CO.
LAWRENCE. KAS.
FOR RELIABLE
LIFE
INSURANCE
Go to A. L. SELIG.
TORNADO ACCIDENT
COONROD & SMITH BUSINESS COLLEGES
Four schools under one management. Kansas City, Mo.; St. Joseph, Mo.; Atchison, Kas.; Lawrence, Kas. Students may enroll at any time. School is in session throughout the summer. Work is practical and complete.
BUSINESS, SHORTHAND, PENMANSHIP AND ENGLISH COURSES.
Handsome catalogue giving full information mailed free upon application at either school. Address COONROD & SMITH
AL ASTRA PER ASPERA
Vol. IV.
No.12
April 24,1897.
The Kansas University WEEKLY.
The only official and authorized weekly publication at the University of Kansas.
JOURNAL PRINTING CO.
LAWRENCE.
W. S. BUNN, M. D. ALFRED HULTNER, B. S. M. D. DRS. BUNN & HULTNER, Physicians and Surgeons.
Office: Merchants Bank Building. First Floor.
Telephone 195. Lawrence, Kansas.
F. D. MORSE, M. D.
Residence, 1041 Tenn. Street.
Office, over Woodward's Drug Store.
PROF. SAMUELS,
The Great Occulist.
606 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Persons having trouble with their eyes will do well to consult him.
A. W. CLARK, M. D., (Harvard '84.)
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Residence 1224 Tennessee Street.
Office over Woodward's Drug Store.
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.
HAROLD McCRORY, D. D. S., SURGEON DENTIST.
Office over Faxon's Shoe Store.
A. GIFFORD, M. D.,
ASSISTANT SURGEON OF U. P. R. R.
Office 917 Mess. Street. Te ephone No.24.
Residence 116 Quincy Street. Lawrence, Kansas.
SEE ROBERTSON BROS.
For anything in the line of furniture. Odd pieces a specialty, also practical Undertakers and Embalmers,
808 AND 810 MASS. ST.
DAVIES,
A full line of spring suitings just received. Call and see him before investing. At the old stand.
THE STUDENTS TAILOR.
Zuttermeister's
is the place for Confections Soda and Ice Cream.
- - DIRECTORS: - -
WATKINS NATIONAL BANK.
Capital, $150,000. Surplus, 15,000.
A general banking business transacted. Exchange on all principal cities of the world.
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.
SILVER
accards
Jaccard's Kansas City
Novelties
25 cts. to $5.00.
Kansas City
RICH JEWELRY, DIAMONDS,
SOLID SILVER.
100 Engraved visiting Cards
and Plate only $1.50.
KANSAS CITY, - - MISSOURI.
LAWRENCE NATIONAL BANK.
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY.
CAPITAL, $100,000.
Does a general banking business and issues bills of exchange on all the principal cities of Europe.
J. D. Bowersock, R. W. Sparr, President. Vice President.
Walter L. Howe, H. E. Benson,
Cashier. 2nd Vice President.
... DIRECTORS: ...
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. IV.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 24, 1897.
No. 12.
Editor-in-Chief.
HAROLD W. SMITH,
Associate:
RICHARD R. PRICE.
Literary Editor:
WALTER H. SANFORD.
Associates:
L. HEIL, ETHEL HICKEY,
PAULINE LEWELLING,
Local Editor:
CARL L. COOPER.
Associates:
ARCHIE HOGG, - - - - - Alumni.
PERCY PARROTT, - - - Snow Hall.
WM. H. CLARK, - - - Exchanges.
DAISY STARR, - - School of Fine Arts.
CLARENCE SPELLMAN. - - Law.
WILL McMURRAY, - - Athletics.
H. E. DAVIES, - - Pharmacy.
ALVAH SOUDER,
C. A. ROHRER.
Managing Editor. C.E.ROSE. Associate: TOM CHARLES.
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 C. E. Rose, Lawrence, Kansas.
Official Organ of the Kansas College Press Association. Entered at the Lawrence postoffice as second class matter.
The BASE-BALL team is now organized and ready for business. We expect it to acquit itself well and be a credit to the institution which it represents. Some grave charges have
been made, which are probably unfounded, but show a source of possible danger. It is hinted that gross partizanship and favoritism has been used in the selection of the team; that men have been chosen, not for their abilities, but for their connection with certain factions or even fraternities, while better men are left out. Of course this is unjust on the face of it, and is ruinous for a team which expects university support. Great care should be taken that no grounds be given for such charges.
P.
It has been suggested that in as much as the Senior class has decided to wear the cap and gown at its commencement this year, it would be both graceful and appropriate for the members of the Faculty also to don this scholastic garb. It is conjectured that a great many instructors have the gowns which they wore in their more recent college days. These could with very little trouble be brought forth from their dusty hiding places, and by being worn could help to make commencement week beautiful and impressive. Moreover this would give the occasion for those of the Faculty who are bearers of advanced degrees to signify the fact by their gowns. Especially appropriate would it be if Chancellor Snow on the morning of June 9th, should be seen by the public on the stage in the chapel, clad in the full panoply of a Doctor's gown and hood, granting diplomas and conferring degrees on a class likewise clothed in the collegiate costume. All this will be picturesque and attractive to the public and befitting the occasion. P.
THE ANNUAL Spring oratorical contest to be held next Friday night April 30 promises to be one of the best held for some time. There are six contestants who have certified the irintention
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of entering and all are working hard on their orations. But orators are not the only thing necessary for a good contest. A large audience is one of the greatest inspirations that a speaker can have. The committee is making special efforts to secure a large attendance and it is to be hoped that it will succeed. It has long been said that oratory is dead in K. U., but this is beginning to be disproved. The interest shown in the Kansas-Nebraska debate this year points to brighter thidgs for K. U. in the future in the oratorical line. We have by far the largest college in the state and it is foolish for us to take a back seat in any line. We have the material for orators in school and all it wants is to be developed; and all it needs
to develop it is for the students to show by their presence at the contests and by their support of the winner that there are honors really worth striving for in this line. In the smaller colleges of the state the oratorical contests are the events of the year and the students are thus encouraged to strive for the honors. While we cannot hope in a college the size of ours to see oratory outstrip all else, yet it is certainly a great accomplishment and deserves to be in the front rank. Then let every loyal K. U. student be present at the contest, prepared to cheer the victor, and it will not only encourage the present participants but give oratory a great impetus for next year. P.
Lilqraqq.
The Price of an old Levant.
A young Oxford student was walking slowly back and forth in front of the cases of mellow old volumes that filled the sides of one of the almost innumerable second hand shops which may be found in the side streets of London. He scrutinized the titles of such books as still had legible titles on their backs, and from time to time took down a creamy parchment-bound volume or an old brown levant and fondly turned its dog-eared pages, stained, and scribbled with the microscopic emendations of some old pedant who had died of erudition two hundred years before. At his elbow followed a young girl clerk—but evidently not indiginous to this musty old corner—who talked with him about the books and answered such questions as she could.
"I am very sorry that my uncle is not in," she said, "but he will surely return shortly. I came here only a week ago and I don't know the books very well yet, and uncle has forbidden me to sell any of them until I know better what they are worth."
"Here is one that I should like to have," said the young student as he carefully turned the leaves of a venerable tome apparently on the
point of dissolution. The title of the book was "The Spider and the Flie, a Parable." It contained a very rare full-length portrait of the author, one John Heywood and bore the date 1556. Its thick leather covers were almost black with age and handling. "What a jewel!" the student mused to himself. Then handing the book to the clerk: "Don't you suppose you could tell the price of that?" he asked. "I can't wait much longer. Perhaps it is marked."
"Yes," he answered, "nine shillings. A little high but I'll take it."
The girl opened it at the front page and sure enough up in one corner was the figure nine marked plainly with a pencil. "That must be it," she said.
"Oh, but I dont know as I dare to let you have it," replied the clerk. "Perhaps that isn't the price after all, and I don't know what uncle would do if I made a mistake. Can't you wait a little longer, or come in again?"
"I can't come in again because I am going out of town this afternoon. But I will wait five minutes," answered the student. He sat down with the book in his hands. "By George, that's a bargain," he whispered under his breath.
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"Can't be the price mark, but whose look-out is that. Hope the old man won't show up." And he didn't. The student kept close watch of his time-piece and when the five minutes were up he arose as if to go. The girl was looking anxiously into the street. What a pretty face she had in that dim half-light. "I'd be sorry to get her into trouble," thought the student, "but I guess the old man won't do anything worse than swear a little, even if he finds out that his clerk has been making a rather dear sale for him."
"Well?" he said.
"Oh dear. Well, I guess I'll do it up," she answered after a moment's hesitation. She took the volume from his hands and hurriedly wrapped it up in a sheet of old yellow paper, tying the bundle with a narrow strip of faded calico which she unwound from a ball enclosed in a small wicker basket. The student handed her the money and passed out of the shop. He experienced a delightful feeling of elation at his good luck, and yet he could not help being apprehensive about what the old man would do when he found out what had happened. In fact he felt a little like a thief for taking the book under the circumstances, and as he stepped out upon the sidewalk he glanced quickly up and down the street.
Not three doors away was the shop-keeper. The student knew that it was he by the manner in which he looked at him and then at the bundle in his hand. For an instant the student felt impelled to wait and settle matters; but only for an instant did he hesitate, then turned and walked rapidly up the street. The old man ran into his shop paying no attention to his hat which blew off as he entered the door. He was a queer little dwarf of a man, perhaps sixty years old. His head was as round as a ten-pin ball, and his large face was as yellow as the back of his oldest leather cover, and had an evil, crafty look. It rested in a semi-circle of reddish grey bristles which passed from ear to ear under his chin, and reminded one of the new moon holding the old moon in its arms. A dozen other grey hairs stood out on his head.
As he entered the shop he cried angrily at the girl, "What have you sold ?"
The bright color in her cheeks—which had proved to the student that she was not a product of the fog and gloom of London—quickly faded. "A book,"she answered falteringly. "The price was marked."
"Which book ? "
She indicated the vacant place on the shelf. "That one."
"That one!" he demanded hoarsely, his yellow countenance growing dark with passion, "How much?"
The girl's face was ghastly white against the dingy back ground of books. Oh that she had known her uncle better! "It was marked nine shillings," she said weakly.
"Nine shillings!" he almost howled. "Nine shillings" and he siezed from the counter a heavy volume with large brass buckles and corners and hurled it at the girl's head. Then he turned and rushed out of the store and up the street after the receding purchaser. He overtook the student near the end of the block and took hold of his arm roughly. "The book," he said angrily, "you must pay me for that book."
The student glanced back at him and stopped; the ugly face, the menacing glare in the eyes, and the jaw clenched in anger filled him with repulsion and uneasiness. He shook off the rough grasp of the shop-keeper and said firmly, "I did pay for it."
"You stole it. Pay for it or give it back." "I tell you I did pay for it. I paid the price."
"You paid the price, you thief! The price is twelve pounds. You pay or I'll make trouble for you. I'll call for somebody that will put you with the rest of the thieves. Give me back the book or you'll suffer, you'll suffer. Do you know what that means, do you understand?"
The student was trying to decide what to do. He did not want to get into trouble, and the old man was beside himself with anger and likely to do almost anything. But no more was he willing to give up the book. Perhaps if he went back to the shop and talked matters over with the proprietor and his clerk he might be able to
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get the old fellow cooled off a bit and succeed in keeping the book at a reasonable price. So he tucked his prize under his arm and started back, telling the shop-keeper to come along and see what the clerk had to say about it. To his surprise the old man again caught hold of his sleeve and held him back.
"You sha'n't go back," said the dwarf. "You sha'n't go back." The expression on his face had changed suddenly from anger to fear. The student looked at him in astonishment.
"No, no," said the little man hoarsely. "You can have the book, you can have it."
"I'd like to know why," he said. "You let go of me and come along."
The student stopped. A sudden suspicion came into his mind. Something had happened at the shop which the old man did not want him to know. It was his turn now to take hold of the shop-keeper's arm and force him along the street to the entrance of the book store. The little man broke away from him here and springing in, tried to shut the door against him, but the student thrust in his arm and foot and then made an opening for his whole body. Nobody was in sight, but a narrow stream of blood ran from under the counter to the middle of the floor. The student dropped his book, and springing upon the counter, looked behind. The girl's white face looked up at him from the semi-darkness of the gloomy place. There was a frightful gash over her brow from which the blood was flowing across her forehead. With an exclamation of horror the student got down behind the counter, and taking hold of the limp body drew it carefully out into the better light. The shop-keeper was standing near the door, his eyes fixed on the stream of blood, and as the student dragged the body out from behind the counter he looked at it with the same petrified air with which he had regarded the blood.
"Water!" demanded the student. But the shop-keeper did not seem to hear. The student felt of the girl's pulse but could detect no beating. He rushed to the door and called loudly for help. Two or three men who were within hearing on the street immediately ran to the
shop. A policeman soon appeared and blew a long call on his whistle. The shop was soon crowded. The old man had suddenly come to himself, as it were; he threw himself on his knees by the body of the girl and began frantically to chafe her hands. He seemed to be wild with grief. When the officers came in and thrust the crowd aside he stood up and, pointing at the student who was bathing the girl's head, cried shrilly, "Arrest the murderer, arrest the murderer."
A sharp blade of terror pierced the student's heart. The terrible thought had recurred to him again and again that he was the real cause of it all, and now when he looked up at the sound of the old man's accusing voice he was the picture of fear and guilt. "I am not the murderer," he cried weakly. "I only bought a book of the girl and he came back and killed her for selling it too cheap. I am not the murderer," he protested more strongly as the handcuffs clinked on his wrists.
* * * * *
"You heard about the time I had in London being tried for murder?" said the young Oxford student a year or so later to an acquaintance who was sitting with him one evening in his comfortable study.
"Yes, I heard a little about the trial and remember that the fellow who was chief prosecuting witness was afterwards sent up for the crime of which he had accused you, but how did it all happen anyhow?"
The Oxford student told his story and then going to a book-shelf, took down an old brown levant and showed where the bottom corners of the pages were stained a dark red. "That was the price," he said with a shudder.
L. N. F.
An Incident.
It was Sunday evening and the blasé young man was calling upon the young lady who was bored. They had finished discussing all their friends and acquaintances and the young man was preparing to leave.
He stood in the dimly lighted hall drawing on his gloves. The young lady pulled back the
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curtain of the great hall window and they stood for a moment, looking out upon the beauty of a perfect moonlight night.
"Really" said the blasé young man apologetically. "Really, now it is a lovely evenin isn't it?"
Just then figures came slowly across the lawn. The young man looked questioningly at the woman beside him. "Oh," she said, answering his gaze, "that is the new servant and her 'young man,' coming home from church."
The new-comers came slowly toward the house The bright moonlight shone upon the honest manly countenance of a young working man, and lighted up the simple, trusting face of the girl. They stopped for a moment under an elm tree at the side of the house. The man stooped and kissed tenderly the upturned expectant face, then walked quickly back across the lawn. The girl turned her happy, smiling countenance toward the house, and disappeared.
"Well ! " ejaculated the blasé young man, "they seem happy."
“Yes,” answered the bored young lady, "she is very young."
The blase young man drawled forth something as he picked up his cane, about "common, low folks" and "stupid, child-like simplicity."
The young woman held out a soft, white hand.
"Good evening," said the blasé young man.
"Good-by," answered the young lady who was bored. A.R.
A Critique of Halo's Constructive Rhetoric.
Mr. Hale's volume on the principles of Constructive Rhetoric is in many prospects unique in the realm of text-books. I think that our first feeling on inspecting this treatise is one of intense surprise. From the first page we perceive that Mr. Hale has abandoned all pretense to formality and all adherence to the usual Gadgrind methods of dealing with the subject. Instead of parading before us innumerable regiments and armies of dull, useless rules, the musty, rhetorical relics of the last three centuries, he talks to us quietly, familiarly, suggestively, like a cultured and loving friend. There is no
dogmatic laying-down of oracular precepts as if the author were the high priest of some mighty Deity of Rhetoric. Impossible as it may seem we have in this rhetoric a text-book that is endurable, yea, even most enjoyable reading.
The book is full of the personality of its author. It seems to the student struggling in the agonies of English composition to come from one who is himself human, who once knew the misery of trying to write when he had no ideas to express, who has himself been through the slow torture of themes and forensics and has not lost all sympathy for those who are now cutting their literary teeth. The average textbook is as devoid of personality and sympathy as is a multiplication table. Let us thank Mr. Hale for the element of sympathy that permeates every chapter of his text. We can fully appreciate it. Let us honor him that he has put forth a book which is not a mere collection of fossil rules.
The literary style of the book is easy and graceful but may be open to one objection. It here and there approaches the danger-line between pure and colloquial English, and there are expressions which are perhaps too conversational and off-hand, yet we can scarcely quarrel with the author because of the freedom and familiarity of his style for it is this very quality that makes the book so interesting and so different from the average formal treatise.
In his method of presenting the principles of literary composition Mr. Hale is equally successful. He recognizes most clearly that writers cannot be manufactured by any process of external moulding. And hence it is that he so strongly emphasizes the constructive element in the study of composition and relegates critical work to the background. He holds, and with excellent reason as it seems to me, that it is better for the student to give a large part of his time to original composition rather than to devote himself to analyzing the productions of other writers, however excellent, or to the correcting of faulty and inferior English. The absence of this last feature from the book has also much to do with making it so enjoyable and
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helpful. In my own experience no work in the study of English has been so inexpressibly dreary, so fatal to all striving for originality as
the drudgery of repairing defective sentences or of upholstering inferior themes.
PAUL ANDERSON.
Locals.
Will Read was in Topeka Friday.
Miss Mary Goode left yesterday for Olathe. The Theta invitations were issued Wednesday.
B. B. Brown has been spending the week at home.
John M. Cloyes has been somewhat ill this week.
Prof. Miller lectured on astronomy at Haskell Institute last night.
Ed Carroll had the misfortune to sprain his ankle in last Saturday's ball game.
Miss Marie Myers of Hutchinson is visiting her brother Ed and student friends.
C. E. Rose attended the Sons of Veterans state encampment at Chanute this week.
Miss Winslow Hutchinson is enjoying a visit from her sister, Miss Leoti, of Hutchinson.
Prof. Hodder lectured to the city teachers at the High School this morning on Kansas History.
H. E. Davies leaves for Chicago next Wednesday where he will attend the University of Chicago.
Miss Florence Reasoner, class of '90, was in town last week, the guest of friends. She is an instructor in the Leavenworth high school at present.
Professors Carruth and Canfield and Miss Carrie Watson are in Manhattan attending a session of the Kansas Academy of Language and Literature.
Those who ascended the hill early Wednesday morning saw at the corner of Ohio and Adams streets a tree of a very peculiar species which had evidently been planted the night before in celebration of Arbor day.
Prof. Green announced to the Law students Friday morning that the roll would be called in the afternoon on McCook field, and every one must be there.
Chancellor McLean will preach the annual sermon before the Y. M. C.A. and the Y.W. C.A. to-morrow night at 8 o'clock in the chapel. Every one is invited to attend.
J. O. Hall of the Junior class, was called home to Morse, Kans., last Saturday by the dangerous illness of his mother.
DeForest Baker, Pharmacy '93, was the guest of his Sigma Nu brothers last Thursday. He has recently been appointed pharmacist for the insane asylum at Osawatomie.
The Senior and Junior Laws played an exciting game of base ball on McCook field yesterday, resulting in the score 11 to 11. The tie will be played off some day next week.
F. E. Howard has returned from Hiawatha where he has been for the last six weeks attending his mother who died recently. He has the sympathy of all the students in his affliction.
The University Comedy Club went to Ottawa Wednesday night where they played to a very small audience. They returned Thursday morning. This is probably the last trip that will be made.
A Change in the Lecture Course.
Hamilton W. Mabie, who was to have given the last entertainment of the lecture course, has canceled his date here and the lecture bureau has secured in his place Col. L. F. Copeland, one of the veterans of the platform. Col. Copeland will be here during the week of May 3rd.
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Tuesday being Arbor Day and a legal holiday, there were no recitations at the University. This was a boon to those who were back in their themes or other school work.Many spent the day in recreation,the base ball game furnishing amusement for a large number.
"Moses and the Law" by Prof. Blackmar was the last of a very successful course of lectures on Bible subjects, given by the Y.W. and Y.M.C.A. So much interest was manifested in these lectures that a similar course is being planned for next year.
Chancellor's Reception.
On account of the Inter-collegiate debate the Chancellor's reception to the members of the Senior classes of the different schools of the University has been postponed from May 7th to May 21st. It will be held at the residence the evening of May 21st.
No Ladies' Field Day.
At a meeting of the ladies of the faculty and the advisory committee of the Athletic association, it was thought best to hold no young ladies' meet this year on account of the lack of a suitable place for training. It was decided, however, that the University council be requested to recommend to the Board of Regents that the grounds west of Snow Hall be prepared as a training field for the young ladies and that tennis courts, running tracks, etc., be there laid out.
Country Club Notes.
The members of the Country Club intend soon to walk out to Blue Mound and later to Lecompton. It is the intention to take lunches and make the excursions all day affairs. The maps prepared by the members of the club have been sent to Chicago and the plates are expected soon. The maps which will be of pocket size, will be ready for distribution by the end of next week. A large map of the country for ten miles around Lawrence has been drawn which will be suitably framed and hung upon the wall opposite the clock in the Main building.
Weekly Election.
The semi-annual election of members to the editorial board of the WEEKLY will be held Friday, May 14. Nominations must be made ten days before the election. It is to be hoped that many shares will be sold and a lively interest taken in this election. Students should remember that one dollar for a share of stock entitles the holder to a vote in all WEEKLY elections for two years, and to two years subscription to the paper. Shares may be had of the treasurer of the company or of C.E.Rose,business manager or Tom Charles, assistant.
Spring Oratorical Contest.
On Friday evening April 30th the annual spring oratorical contest will take place in the chapel. There is every reason for a large attendance of the student body. Those who are not particularly interested in the orations would probably find much to be enjoyed in the music. There will be vocal selections by the Lorelei quartette, banjo solos by Mr. Farrell and other musical numbers. The names of the contestants are in themselves a guarantee that the orations will be of a very high order. Those who will speak are Miss Read and the Messrs. Layton, Elliott, Potter, and Foster. The judges on thought and composition are Hon. J. J. Ingalls of Atchison, Thos. Doran and Supt. Dana of Topeka. Doctors Howland and Dunlap and Chas. S. Finch will judge the delivery.
School of Fine Arts.
There was no recital last Wednesday. It is expected that there will be one next Wednesday at 4 o'c!ock.
The oratorio chorus is increasing in numbers. It is hoped the number will reach 80. Word has been received from Mrs. Bishop that she will take the solo parts in "Creation" to be given May 26th. Prof.Cravens of Ottawa meets with the chorus Monday evenings.
Prof. Penny's lecture last Wednesday on "Greek Painters" was especially enjoyed by those present.His remarks on taste, color and styles brought up discussions.
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Chapel Notes.
Mr. Marshall sang a solo last Friday.
Prof. Wilcox led last Friday, speaking of the lessons from the crucifixion of Jesus that might be applied right here in the University.
Prof. Hopkins has led this week.
The subject Monday morning was the danger of partisanship and the necessity of openness of mind; Wednesday morning, the need of looking through text books to the living'soul behind them; Thursday morning, the duty of looking through the individual actions and opinions of men about us and seeing the motives.
Rev. Mr. Banker will lead next week.
Elocution Recital.
The elocution recital last Monday given by Mrs. Clark's pupils, showed there was some good work being done in this line.
Mrs. Wm. Tuttle rendered her numbers remarkably well, considering she has studied elocution but ten weeks. She has a good voice. We hope to hear from her soon again.
Miss Scharff, who has become a favorite with Lawrence audiences rendered "Boum-Boum" with so much tenderness and feeling as to hold her hearers spell-bound. Her ease adds much beauty to her appearance.
Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell Tale Heart," by Mr. Frederick Wood, was on the dramatic order. His rendition was forcible. His talent was unknown to many of those present.
Miss Christine Jaedicke recited, "How Girls Study," in a most pleasing manner. The appreciation of the audience was shown by the hearty applause.
Two piano selections by the Misses Brown and Whitaker were especially well played.
Science Notes.
Prof. Stevens left for Germany last Monday where he will spend the summer studying Entomology and Histology under the direction of Dr. Strasburger of Bonn University. During his absence Professors Barber and Sterling will take charge of his classes.
The class in Zoology has completed the text book and will spend the remainder of the term in laboratory work, particularly in the classification of birds.
Mr. Riggs has been offered a scholarship in Chicago University. He will not enter until the fall term. His line of work will be in Paleontology and Geology.
Dr. Williston is writing a number of articles on the Mosasauro for the Paleontology department of the Geological report. This series of articles is to be illustrated by a number of halftones.
Mr. Frank Marcy has moved his photographic outfit to the north tower of the Main building where he has fitted up a room admirably suited to his line of work.
The Paleontological department is busily engaged in taking pictures of the restorations of Kansas Mammals. These pictures are very large and models of Photographic art. They will be exhibited in the coming Brussel's Exposition.
The Natural History Journal club met Thursday. The following program was given; Zoospermi Della Telephusa fluvatalis, Bullitino della Socrieta Entomologica Italina, Mr. McClung; Zimmerman's vegetable cell and nucleus, Mr. Stevens; "Intellectual capacity of women," Sc. Am., and the "Problem of Instinct," Nat. Sc., Mr. Gowell.
Notes from the College World.
Levi Strauss of San Francisco, California, on March 6th made a gift of twenty-eight scholarships, amounting to $3,500 annually, to the State University of California. The last legislature having set aside an equal sum for scholarship funds, the university now possesses over sixty new scholarships, several having been arranged for by other organizations.
Foot-ball practice for next year's team has already commenced at Michigan University.
The California senate has refused to pass the bill exempting Leland Stanford University from taxation.
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Cornell won in the annual debate with Pennsylvania. The decision was unanimous for the former.
There are forty State Colleges in the United States, some of the states having more than one. During the year 1896 the total enrollment for these state colleges was 32,000.
Yale and Harvard have signed a five years' contract providing for annual meets in football, baseball, track and field athletics, and rowing. It also stipulates that all contests except rowing shall take place on college grounds, and the gate receipts should be equally divided.—Ex.
Edward Everett Hale has accepted the invitation of the Senior Class, University of Nebraska, to deliver the commencement address. Baker Orange.
The Pennsylvania State legislature has been asked to appropriate $1,000,000 to enable the University of Pennsylvania to improve its several departments of study.—Ex.
The winner of the Iowa State Contest this year is a lady, Miss Alice Starbuck, of Penn College. Her oration is entitled "What is Mine."-Ex.
Dr. Woodward president of the board of curators of the University of Missouri has resigned his position. He gives as his reason for so doing the fact that he feels his inability to do the institution justice with the short appropriation granted by the Missouri legislature, and he wishes to be freed of the great responsibility resting upon him. Ex-Govenor Stone has been mentioned as Dr. Woodward's successor.
President James H. Canfield of the University of Ohio, formerly a professor in the University of Kansas, will deliver the commencement address at Illinois University in June.
The seniors of Wisconsin University have decided not to wear the cap and gown, the vote standing fifty-seven against to thirty-one for.
President Gilman, of John Hopkins University, has summed up in the following manner the objects of a college education:
1. Concentration, or the ability to hold exclusively and persistently to one subject.
2. Distribution, or power to arrange and classify known facts.
3. Retention, or power to hold facts.
4. Expression, or power to test what you know.
5. Power of jndgment, or making sharp discrimination between that weich is false, and that which is temporal, and that which is essential.—Palo Alto.
Eyes were made to droop,
Cheeks were made to blush.
Hair was made to crimp and curl,
Lips were made—Oh hush!—Ex.
The conscientious freshmen work
To get their lessons tough,
The juniors flunk, the sophomores shirk,
But the seniors, ah! they bluff.—Ex.
He went away to college,
A sheepskin was his quest,
But the chase for it was bootless,
As a pigskin pleased him best.—Ex.
"How goes it now at college. John?"
A father thus petitioned.
When quickly came the answer back;
"I'm very well conditioned,"—Hobart Herald
Professor Dyche never fails in his lectures to advise people to keep away from Alaska. The only thing he thinks there is any money in up there is the raising of foxes for their pelts on one of the small islands where they can not get away.-Daily Cardinal.
Underwear.
No other house in town can show such values or variety in styles in underwear.
W. Bromelsick.
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Spring Toggery.
You never before saw such lovely Silks, Embroideries, Cheffons, Dress Goods, Laces, Organdies, Gloves, Ruchings, Veilings as we are showing this spring. Our store is a veritable art gallery—an artist sees beauty in the products of the loom as well as at the brush and mind. We invite you to call and see the lates styles for the season.
GEO. INNES.
John Hopkins University has closed its doors to women. - Ex.
Give your shorthand and type-writing work to Miss Kate S. Soule, 1105 Mass. St.
Base ball and Tennis goods at Smith's News Stand.
The faculty of Minnesota University have decided to grant the degree of Engineer to students completing the regular engineering course.
No better stock of toilet soaps in the city. LEIS DRUG CO.
Just what you want: those gymnasium suits sold at Smith's News stand.
Robt. Edmondson will do your shoe repairing at No. 11 East Warren street.
One half of one per cent. of the population of the United States are college graduates. From this comparatively small number are drawn 62 per cent of the vice presidents,70 per cent of the speakers of the house and 90 per cent of the United States chief justices.
Copying on typewriter, M. F. Laycock.
The new styles in woolens at Kunkel's are admired by all. Here you can get a stylish spring suit made for $14.00 and pair of pants for $3.00.
Students will find at the Leis Drug Co., a fine line of tooth and nail brushes. Prices way down. Try us.
Michigan university has just offered a six year combined literary course. The literary course contains a little law and considerable work in
Economy and History, and the last two years are devoted to law exclusively. Daily Cardinal.
Goodnight will give you a dozen good photographs for $1. Call and see him. He will give you first-class work at low prices.
Students get your shoes repaired at Lindsay's. First door north of Tiptons Barber Shop.
LEIS DRUG CO.
Don't forget us when you want a fine perfume.
New!! Man, Stock, Prices,
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Students—do not get the idea that the Basement Store is a place to be avoided when you want bargains in the line of Note Books, Pencils and Paper.
We sell more in our line than any other store in town. Think the matter over and see if we can not afford to give you as good bargains as anyone. Give us a trial and see if we do not give you all we can afford.
BASEMENT
STORE.
TOM CHARLES, PROPRIETOR.
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The ladies of the University are invited to call and see Misses Edmondson's hats at their parlors.
You can save money by buying your stationary supplies at 1027 Mass. street. We are closing out. J.S.BOUGHTON, Agent.
Students can have their negatives taken by Mrs. Shane at the Old Home gallery near the river, or by J.B.Shane at the Iron Clad on south Massachusetts street.Work will be satisfactory in either case.
The Tipton Barber Shop and Bath Rooms. Stewart & Wagner, Proprietors. 838 Massachusetts Street.
NOW STUDENTS GET TO WORK.
We will give two gold watches to the two best written articles setting forth the reasons why Robinson & Spalding's store has within nine months become the leading clothing store of Lawrence, Kas, no article to be more than 150 words and to be judged May 4 by three competent judges; contest closes April 30. You can see the watches in the north window.
744 Mass. Street.
ROBINSON & SPALDING, One Price Clothiers.
FAXON THE SHOE MAN
Solicits
The Shoe Trade of the town.
For your SPRING CLOTHING
and HATS see ... M. J. SKOFSTED,
As he has special bargains to offer you. 824 MASS. STREET.
KLOCK'S RESTAURANT, HEADQUARTERS FOR STUDENTS.
BOARD per week $2.50, MEAL TICKETS $3. LUNCH COUNTER.
GIVE ME A TRIAL.
816 MASS. STREET.
CULVER'S
... CASH GROCERY,
639
MASS. ST.
The Club Grocery of the City.
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS IN EVERY WAY.
TELEPHONE 77.
K. S. U. Bouquet.
The most delicate, fragrant and lasting perfume on the market.
Students, save a dollar by having your picture taken at Goodnight's gallery. You can get a dozen first-class cabinets for $2.
For sale only at Barber Bros., Drug Store.
Go to Smith's News Stand for your canes, late periodicals, etc.
Hawthorne Truly Says:
"These railroads are positively the greatest blessings that the ages have wrought out for us. They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old, worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell wherever the beautiful shall offer him a home?"
The magnificent trains of the Santa Fe Route offer a facile transition to many beautiful spots in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona aud California. Free descriptive literature. W.J.Black,G.P.A.,A.T. & S.F.Ry., Topeka,Kas.
We will show a good line of Spring Boots and Shoes. AT PRICES TO OUT THE TIMES.
MASON'S.
"Old Hickory" Bicycles.
--is within the reach of every K. U. student. The prices are reasonable, the boats clean and perfectly safe.
Continuous Laminated Frame.
“It’s Springy, yet has no Springs.”
Twice as Strong as other Wheels.
None like it! None equal it!
--is within the reach of every K. U. student. The prices are reasonable, the boats clean and perfectly safe.
ERWIN H. EBERHARDT, AGENT, At Bell's Music Store.
SOLD ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
A PLAIN ARGUMENT.
Standard Guage
Tubing.
Actual Size.
LOOK IN THIS END ... AND.. THEN AT THIS.
LOOK IN THIS END
THEN AT THIS.
Cross Section of Our Main Frame. Actual Size.
GOOD BOATING..
BOAT HOUSE.
See us at the
Winship Teachers Agency (New England Bureau of Education) 3rd. Somerset St. Boston. Oldest, and most reliable in New England. One fee registers in both offices H. C, FELLOW, Western Manager. TOPEKA, KANS.,
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Shirts 8 cts, Cuffs 4 cts, Collars 2 cts.
EMPORIA STEAM LAUNDRY. E. B. SIERER.
Point YOUR ORDERS FOR
A man in a plaid shirt is aiming a shotgun.
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.
Wm. Wiedemann
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Oyster Parlor.
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The Wilder Bros. Shirt Co.
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SHIRT MAKERS
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GENT'S FURNISHING.
Rules for self measurement and samples sent on application. All measures registered. Our laundry work is not surpassed in the West.
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SIMPSON & KELLEY, University Solicitors.
1027 MASS. STREET.
*STAR BAKERY,*
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HENRY GERHARD & BRO., PROP'S.
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF THE PEOPLE. . .
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.
WILLIS
THE PHOTOGRAPHER 933 Mass. Street.
W. W. SAVAGE,
Successor to KIRBY & HILL,
Will gladly furnish anything you want in
FINE AND STAPLE GROCERIES
200 Massachusetts Street.
Go to the Old Reliable
STUDENTS'SHOEMAKER JAS.E.EDMONDSON,915 Mass. St.
CIGARS, PIPES, TOBACCO, PLAYING
Brooks,
CARDS.
825 Mass. St.
Wanted-An Idea
Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth.
Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington, D.C., for their $1,800 prize offer and new list of one thousand inventions wanted.
Who can think of some simple thing to patent?
See the elegant line of Pants displayed in our store in all the latest patterns at $1.98, $2.48, $3.00 and $3.50.
Each one a money saver. Well made and finely finished. Come and look at them.
THE HUB.
NEWS
NEW Summer Shirts
NEW Summer Shirts
$1.00
ABE LEVY AGENT.
at
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WOOLF BROS.
LAUNDRY GO.
WILL McMURRAY, Solicitor. Goods called for and delivered.
BEAL & GODDING KEEP THE
POPULAR LIVERY STABLE.
Telephone 139.
McClure & Simpson.
OUR AIM: The Best Quality at Cheapest Prices
Special attention to club trade.
1023 MASS. ST. TELEPHONE 15.
Suits made to order, as low as the lowest. and no snob work done at MCCONNELL'S.
P
'OLIN BELL,
Shaw Pianos. Western Distributing Agent for
Bay State
Russell Pianos. Washburn
Other First Class Pianos. Schwarzer
Mandolins and
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,
FIRE
LIFE
WIRE NAILS, BALE TIES.
LAWRENCE, KAS
FOR RELIABLE
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Go to A. L. SELIG.
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