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it 8Goma to rao now otherwise. If so, this is
nn opportuno discovery. Onn 1 resign hor
to Flunkington without first solving this?
Or was 1 ahout to bo too hasty with Vallom
brosa?" Ho remained plungod in deep
thought.
Again Vallombrosa Vincent was the first
to break the silence.
uYou wore saying, Do Poyster?" she in
quired earnestly.
UI was saying," said Mr. Charles Do
Peystor ThompkinBon, "or or, how beauti
ful is the moonlightl"
uAnd is it jot mavrollous,"she responded
with enthusiasm, "that .the mere impact of
rays of light upon the retina should produce
bo wonderful an effect?"
A few moments later, when the night
watchman had escorted them to the gates,
which ho afterwards closed and locked, the
old walls of University Hall, looking grey in
the creamy moonlight, woro still echoing
with the lust words of Mr. Charles Do Poy
ster Thompkinson.
"It is indeed wonderful, Miss "Vincent.
Personne.
POINTERS.
AN .ENCOURAGING WORD.
Orandall sharpens skates, 1345 O street.
Try the delicious hot soda served by Sut
ton & Hollowbush.
Dr. Hodgeman's dental parlors are in
Funko's Opera House.
Take your shoos to Walt's for repairs.
Good work guaranteed.
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
Bakor's Clothing House.
The now Cloaks, Clothing and Dress
Goods shown by Horpolshcimor & Co. are
the choicest lines ever shown in tho west.
Students should patronize Carder's Now
Dining Hall, at tho northeast corner of 11th
and P streets. W. W. Carder, proprietor.
The editor of ono of tho college publica
tions of Williams College, recontly asked the
chancollor for a contribution. Roplying,
tho following was sent. Thero may bo a
word of encouragement in it for some of our
own students. If tho conditions in tho west
are so promising to men who come hero after
graduation, there certainly must bo an oven
larger promise to those of us to tho manor
born:
Lincoln, Dec. 5, 1893.
Deak MuwHka.ld: I find it quite impos
siblo to seed you any formal article on or
before tho 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 tho waste
basket.
It is a few months more than twenty-five
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 strangor, was too busy to
keep tho promise until three years had passed !
Since August, 1868, my homo has been west
of tho Mississippi river; except for about five
years, when I was practicing law in Mich
igan. During all these years I have boon 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. Tho western atmosphere is
crisp. Its breezes blow freely. It minis
tors to life in tho , largest sense of the word.
It demands activity, earnestness, unselfish
ness and plenty of red blood rather than
"blue" blood. It is intense nnd full of
meaning, and very little of its future is bo
hind it. It has no use for tho spirit of in
difference, and it demands much public ser
vice. If a young man has an inheritance of
rather scholarly ease, and social comfort,
and much leisure, and a fixed business which
has long known tho family name, it may bo
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