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THE HESPERIAN
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and wc think they will be in as good use here as if they were
packed away in militia armories or turned over to the N. N.
G. for occasional and spasmodic use.
The meeting Saturday evening was attended by a glorious
crowd. Mr. Fletcher was in the chair and the speakers were
called in the following order: Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Taylor, Mr.
Frost, Mr. Jones, Miss Clark, Mr. Barrett and Mr. Allen.
The janitor got excited, probably fiom the gencial enthusiasm,
and turned off the gas in the midst of Mr. Barrett's speech.
The enthusiasm, however, was so great, that the speaking
was continued in the dark. Mr. Allen, in spite of the many
difficulties, brought the meeting to a glorious close. College
songs were sung in the intervals.
EXCHANGE BRIC-A-BRA C.
The opening of the school year and the issuing
of the first number of the college paper is usuallly
made the subjedet of considerable cxpatiation by
editors. Thk Hesperian usually keeps such a paragraph
standing on the "phat" galley from year to yeai, but this
year our careless devil was the means of "squabbling" it, too
late for the holding ol the forms. The exchange editor has
but little to say to his flock in the wn ol greeting. The
department will be run this year in the interests mainly of
The Hesperian and its exchanges. We have been sorry to
see exhibited in times past, by many of our brethren, u
resentful and angry spirit when wc have taken occasion to
point out the error of thcii ways. Hear in memory, dear
friends, that Tin: Hesperian will ever keep in mind, with
the tendcrcst solicitude, your best interests; what is inky
darkness to you now may some day be illuminated by the
brightest sun that ever shone forth from the heavens.
The editorial columns of the Dartmouth arc devoted
almost wholly to the subject of athletics. ;
Exchanges have been coining in very slowly. Our breth
ren are probably in the4 same predicament as ourselvcs
burdencd with much work and hampered by the slowness
with which the new machinery works.
A general statement is made by one of our exchanges
from an agricultural institution to the effect that a student,
who is thoroughly posted in veterinary science, will be better
able to face the world. Good for veterinary science. If the
statement proves to be true, wc would suggest that Dr. Uil
lings be requested to give a series of lectures on the subject
for the benefit or somebody who "was, but is not."
The jEgh appears this year, as we have long hoped and
desired, in new clothes, bearing the imprint of enterprise,
hitherto apparently beyond its comprehension. In a late
number a certain lady attempts to prove that the majority of
people who read American litarntitrc to any extent are
mistaken as to the amount of goodness and virtue possessed
by Edgar Allan Poe. Such essays as this may have a certain
value to their writer; but why attempt to exalt a man beyond
any human capacity simply because the jingle of his poetry
is peculiar? There is certainly nothing else about Mr. Foe's
poems which is striking, unless it be their morbid and
unhealthy thought. Beautiful rhetoric may cover a multl
tude of sins for a dead man, but the life of l'oc was ended
too recently for even a gushing and enthusiastic school girl to
attempt to hide his inexcusable faults.
That was a mean trick of the Stylus r.an. Did he think
that by reserving his six months' accumulation of wrath and
vituperation, till our editors were scattered to the four parts
of the earth, and launching it upon us in the' heat of
the midsummer vacation he might escape the castigation
which he tacitly admits is rightfully due him? Or did he
take a week or two off for the sole purpose of becoming the
author of something which would rouse the ire of The
Hesperian's exchange editor and entrap him into noticing
the existence of his little department of one mule power?
Whichever may lie the case, he is forgiven, on account of his
own admission ol his insignificance. The number of the
Stylus issued as an annual is neat and handsome, and its
contents contain nothing which Sioux Falls students may not
be proud of, unless, perhaps, the work of the party of whom
we have been speaking. Hut The Hesperian's profoundest
sympathy rests with the remainder of the editorial board of
the Stylus for the unfortunate position in which his connec
tion with it must place its individual members. It is a pity such
fellows aie not allowed, in the economy of the universe, to be
of as much trouble to themselves as to their acquaintances
and associates. Were it so, no doubt the world and humanity
in general could sec more virtue in the crime of suicide a
crime which would certainly be oftencr committed.
DIRECT POINTERS.
Call on Kdddd. Ccrf & Cooo.
Go to Ewing's for fall overcoats.
Hats and caps at Ed. Cerf & Co's.
Cadet suits, gloves and caps at Ewing's.
Manley has the cream of the candy trade.
Go to Ed. Cerf & Co. for furnishing goods.
Clothing for every body at Ed. Cerf & Co's.
The latest styles in hats at F.d. Ccrf & Co's.
Special prices to students at T. Ewing & Co's.
Webster & Briscoe, boots and shoes, 1023 O St.
Students will receive best of attention at Mauley's.
Get your shirts made at Capital City Shirt Factory.
Carder's European Hotel for fine lunches or meals.
Go to Carder's for breakfast, when you get up late.
Ten per cent off to students at Webster & Briscoe's.
Manley keeps a full line of confectionery goods, give him
a call.
All the delicacies of the season at Carder's new European
Hotel.
Largest line of boots, shoes and rubbers in the city at
Webster & Briscoe's.
If you want to get solid with your girl take her some of
Mauley's taffy. Yum! Yum!
In Nuw York go to Delmonico's. but in Lincoln im tn
Chevront & Co's for oysters in every style. .Always ready to
serve you.
Capital City Shirt Factory gives a big reduction to stu
dents in underwear.
Buy the celebrated, double-backed 50c. shirts at the Cap
ital City Shirt Factory.
Choice fruits, confectionery and lunch all the year round
at Chevront & Co's, 119: O street.
W. W. Carder has opened out a new European Hotel on
V street, between 9th and 10th. Call on him.
Teachers during vacation; farmers' sons when work is
slack on the farm, and any others not fully and profitably
employed, can learn something to their advantage by apply
ing to B. F. Johnson & Co., 109 Main street, Richmond, Va.
$75.00 to $25.00 a month can be made working for us.
Agents preferred who can furnish a horse and give their
whole time to the business. Spare moments may be profit
ably employed also. A few vacancies in towns and cities.
B. F. Johnson & Co., 109 Main street, Richmond. Va.