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rz-v '( '--- -s iimKAoKA STATE HISTORICAL SOUiLTl Lincoln, Nebraoki ''-. ... c P: . . ''B"l ' ' Hesperian Student UAWEllSKTY F .YKIill.lSIi.l. Vol.X. Lincoln, Nkh., Fkuuuauy 1, 1881. noni:i.s. , t. tfWV..," Mt1frw Si w Aplittgfotn JOSKl'll Ol'Hl.T, IMIOI LntoofthoMAUSH HOUSK, lJuovv'NVu.i.n, Nfcii. gim-ir 4Jrt Commercial Hotel Corll mull' Sts. LINCOLN, - - - NKMIASKA. J, J. liMIIOa'F, Prop. Good Sa.vrjiatao.va Q.x Ftear if zoottt Turkish, Russian, mill Salt Water Raths in Hit; Hotel. Rheuma tism cured by Turkish IJaths. E. II Ah LET, ""tVatelimakci, ami JTewi'Ier, O St., lict. 10th and Utli, south side. LINCOLN, NKH. Conservatory of Music Established by authority and under the sanction of the Hoard oflKogcntH. R Instruction given in a thorough and systematic manner in ail departments of MufIc. Tuition ranging from $0,00 to 82 5.00 per term. f5F-Tku Vocnl Kloinuatary Clans 1a riusr. to all . H. HOHMANN, Director 'A.M. DAVIS, ft'holiiaU nii It $ tail Htaltr in Gi 4MpU kgy OU-OletliH) Mattings, ItiiRH, Mat, Wall Paper, Window Shades, Lace Curtains, Damask.&c, Nor 23 Hast O St. LINCOLN, NKIJ. J2tew -j pH5??5a2t2! AJiitX "No. 1 nn: xianr ix xo'k.vjii-:i:. Listen my friends to n Senior's strange lay Ami how It happened thai lie one titty Thought of making thu llrst cssjy Of wilting n ditty, song or verse Something smart or witty or terse. Hut notice how miserably hud ho futlud because on tin naknown sea ho fulled. "Please may I see you to the seance S" The girls Insisted It) Interpret thu glance Of thu bashful .voitths us they matlu thuiradvnnce. Hut heie iu private I'd have you know That these same parties don't always do so. It's only when Seniors with Seniors do plead That this method of asking Is'apt to succeed. Thu reasons are those: through thick and thin, From the time we sinmuicrcd 1 am, was, have been1 lu every battle o'er warfare's din, Thovolcu of a brother, a sister was heard,. And so without stretching it may lie Inferred 'I hat our mutual desires and wishes are known, That thu girlH old not need to ramble al ne. Well, as I said or mount losny, To the seance we betook our way To witness thu spoil's strungu display. Twus la thu mo.t dismal pint ol town Hack la an alloy, vv huro nil thu way dnwii Nat a hit or a slip of a sidewalk was laid. Were we, ah? You would have been afraid. Moreoer the autumn winds itistlcd thu leave" And the nioou's gluislly light played around thu eaves. "All things are possible to him Unit hultuvos," One uttered In solemn scrlptuaal tone. 1 shuddered ami trembled. 4lut more 1 own As wu went mi, the dark shadows grew, An toward the ghastly place wo drew. The maiden at my sldj was brave And although I am nut her slave, n. simple statement fair and safe Is, that I liked her simplu ways, Devoid of all this splilt crime, Ami that new utrciiglh her words Inspired So that new courage I acquired. The philosophic school she claims To be Iter own, hur w unlit her alms. Her very presence u'uu it seems Inspired all vvlt'i hope and trust And wu woiitor tis do wu must. And now within the garden gate Subjected to thu whims of fate. The floor waft ope'd. A haggard face In whoso expression one tiould trace A union with another race, Appeared, and with it myetlo look (Such as are seen In hooks) And with Kit still mom mystic sign Hudu us he welcomu at thu nhrlnes. Closely cuuwded like flocks of sheep Thu youths and maldoiu together would keep. When with a voice niiioroiiH ami deep, Thu mandate came fo.th to form a ring So that thu Spirits some message might bring. "Thia was essential," thu conjurer said, "For a communion hot weun living and dead." TlniH wo obeyed. Thu tablu around About half pnit tun, tho class could ho found, Anxiously waiting, being spell-bound, Anxiously waiting, not daring to breathe. Nothing was heard but some chattering teeth. Then wu were told to sing some refrains To quiet our souls and soothe our brains. Seniors who never In Chapel have sun;;, Senior who would just as soon have been hung As to acknowlcgc, "a cong might be wrung From their faint brcasti," wero there and Bang, 'Till from the night tho wild echoes rang. Sang and e en now they're npt to confess Their voices were inorvellous and nothing less. Tho lights being low, It did not appear How the spirit" were fumbling the Seer; I'esldos some cowards wero quaking with fear, So fur a moment I could not tt II Whether 'twa real or only a sell ; lint some nebulous splilt seemed to duscend Traversing the room from end to end. And one of thu Seniors, a Mtu 'ptlbie youth, Fell lu a deep trance, wherein forsooth lie tpoku ami prophesied lu (termini and French How some of the class would sit on thu bench, How others would wield the birch and rulu In eivill.iug some district school. A ml others he said were m.irkudout by fatu Swiftly to pin to some household mate. And more and more excited they ;ot And each one thought of his probahlu lot. And as thu vapors more dense beuiiiie, Our minds not being just in a lramu To Judge of evidence, 'twas She who eulil "We ought to go homo and go to bud." They slipped Into their overcoats And wrap't their scarfs about their throats With rather more than usual haste, (IVthaps 'twas sonuwiiHt lu bad tastu.) They hr.ivud rhu cold and wintry blast, And reached thulr suvural litme$ ntjjia " ' - THU HUSH AGITATWN. WW I STORY repents itself. Once again Erin is giving trouble ami uneasi ness to her micro; and unless thu great cause for disturbance is removed, she will keep it up, at intervals forever. England was live hundred years tit completely eon. ((tiering Ireland, and she has spent two hundred more lu terrorizing and littnii. Milling her. The (list period was marked liy the causeless and forcible seizure of Irish lands from their rightful owners by stronger neighbors ol anollur race. Il was marked by Internal feuds and ester, mil wars; by miissiieres, disgraceful to the invaders, and avenged by suviigu alio, cities on the part of thu unlives. It was marked by intrigue and spoliation, by anarchy and corruption. Thu second period was characterized by the colouiza tiou of thu provinces by foreign land, lords, who, without sympathy or feeling fur their despised teiutr.try, committed monstrosities of inhuman cruelty that would have shamed barbarism Itself; by tyranny and injustice, starvation mid misery, lit every aggravated form; by frenzied insurrection, put down by un. reasoning and pitiless brutality, uiui fol. lowed by lonj: stages of suffering and degradation, silent in tho hopelessness of despair; and all this countenanced uye, encouraged by long continued and Infamous legislation at tho bauds of non resident land-owners and their prejudiced friends. Such lias been the history of "unhappy Ireland;" and in the bite dispatches from over the water we mid again of disorder; of tenants, prevented by the threats ot their fellows from working or paying rent; of laudlords driven out of the country by the menaces of the peasantry against their lives and properly; of en thusiatic meeting's composed of ignorant uiui riotous people; of stirring speeches, made by such intelligent and educated men as Parnell and the other Irish indm ber of the IJritUh Parliament, breathing delbiucu and- opposition lo the exiling English government; iu short, lo use the words of one dispatch, "u general upris ing throughout the whole of Ireland is momentarily expected." That suoh u movement is perfectly natural, or that il lias had aiillloiont provocation, no liberty loving American will deny, but when we consider its object, the tactics employed toallain il, ami the juncture ut which it appeal's, we Ibid otifaelves unable to bo' liuvo that the present allitudu of the Irish people is the one best calculated to show the justice of their claims, or to check ami correct the misgoverninent of their couujify. The only result iu which their action would really by Justillud, is -thVnitlrtinonr of their dearest amhilioii, the establish ment of an Irish Republic. Hut. unfor tunately for I heir hopes, such au out come is beyond the range rf probability. Her close proximity to England, togeth er with the strong race prejudice of the Celtic Irish to the Saxon English, swollen to feiooious batted by the grluvous wrongs tit centuries, would make her, should she ever become independent, too dangerous an ambush lor a foreign l'tui to liriliiln. Hence, If on no oilier ground than sell' protection, England ounuot a I, foul the sepaiatlou; and the Inequality of the two powers would certainly defeat an armed struggle for such independonco. II, then, this fond dream of thu Irish traversers is so manifestly impracticable, there would seem to have remained to them but one wise policy, that of making au alliance with thu new English govern incut rather than opposing It, Why? Al the last national llrltlsh elections no de cided a turn was taken by the people in favor of too Liberal party that, after the fashion of English politics, thu whole Conservative Cabinet, with the hattgbtv, despotic I'cucoiiHliold at its Head, was forced to resign; and the Liberals, under tin leadership of (Hailstone, became thu ruling power of thu Empire. Mot only was tho new Prime Minister a known fiiend of Ireland, but other prominent members of his Cabinet, Forster, Uright, and Chamberlain, expressed their will iugnosB to do everything in their power lo alleviate tho sulfering iu Ireland caused by the recent failure of crops, mid to assist in correcting the abuses iu the op. pressivu laud laws. Almost as ooon as the new Parliament bad mot, tho govern ment introducad the "Compensation for Disturbance Bill," which, as the name implies, provided for the payment of 1 damages sustained to property by Eagllab,