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THE HESPERIAN
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it
it seems to me now otherwise. If so, this is
an opportune discovery. Can 1 resign her
to Flunkington without first solving this?
Or was 1 about to be too hasty with Vallom
brosa?" He remained plunged in deep
thought.
Again Vallombrosa Vincent was the first
to break the silence.
"You were saying, Do Pcyster?" she in
quired earnestly.
"I was saying," said Mr. Charles Be
Peyster Thompkinson, "er er, how beauti
ful is the moonlight!"
"And is it not mavrellous,"she responded
with enthusiasm, "that .the mere impact of
rays of light upon the retina should produce
so wonderful an effect?"
A few moments later, when the night
watchman hud escorled llioiu to the gates,
which he afterwards closed and locked, the
old walls of University Hall, looking grey in
the creamy moonlight, wore still echoing
with the last words of Mr. Charles De Pey
ster Thompkinson.
'It is indeed wonderful, Miss Vincent.
Fersonne.
POINTERS.
AN .ENCOURAGING WORD.
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Crandall sharpens skates, 1345 O street.
Try the delicious hot soda served by Sut
ton & Hollowbush.
Dr. Hodgeman's dental parlors are in
Funke's Opera Houpp.
Take your shoes to Walt's for repairs.
Good work guarrmteed.
Cadets can purchase lisle thread gloves at
L. A. Bumsteads, at 2 pair for 25 cents.
A special discount. Students purchasing
fall clothing can obtain a special discount at
Baker's Clothing House.
The new Cloaks, Clothing and Dress
Goods shown by Horpolsheimor & Co. are
the choicest lines ever shown in the west.
Students should patronize Carder's New
Dining Hall, at the northeast corner of 11th
and P streets. W. W. Carder, proprietor.
The editor of one of the college publica
tions of Williams College, recently asked the
chancellor for a contribution. Replying,
the following was sent. Thero may be a
word of encouragement in it for some of our
own students. If the conditions hi the west
are so promising to men who come hero after
graduation, there certainly must bo an even
larger promise to those of us to the manor
born:
Lincoln, Dec. 5, 1893.
Dear Mr. Heald: I find it quite impos
sible to send you any formal article on or
before the date which you named in yours of
November 20th. But a short message to the
undergraduates may not be out of place. If
it should prove so, drop it into the waste
basket.
It is a few months more than twenty-fivo
years since I came to the west came penni
less and a perfect stranger, with a promise
to return at Thanksgiving; but although
coming a perfect stranger, was too busy to
keep the promise until three years had passed !
Since August, 1868, my home has been west
of the Mississippi river; except for about five
years, when I was practicing law in Mich
igan. During all these years I have been a close
observer of western life, western men and
western measures. I desire to express my
sincere conviction that it is an inviting field,
a promising field, a field rich in possibilities,
for all young men of earnest purpose, of grip
and of grit. The western atmosphere is
crisp. Its breezes blow freely. It minis
ters to life in the. largest sense of the word.
It demands activity, earnestness, unselfish
ness and plenty of red blood rather than
"blue" blood. It is intense and full of
moaning, and very liftle of its future is be
hind it. It has no use for the spirit of in
difference, and it demands much public ser
vice. If a young man has au inheritance of
rather scholarly ease, and social comfort,
and much leisure, and a fixed business which
has long known the family name, it may bo