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CATAWBA WINE.
Brief song of the vine
the Catawba vine,
That fruits on the bluffs
by the river.
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The mighty river that rolls alcng '
From mountain clefts,
brtght, clear and strong,
TiU it takes of the clod'
of the prairie plains;
And the wide, strong river
that earth-clod stains.
Ah! luscious grape of the prairie hilL
Sod, river, air, sunshine .these thee fill,
Wine-presses then the strengths distill,
Crude earth-substance, sunshine's Sre,
water which s pure desire,
Air, full breath of spirit-choir;
Nothing of the hell-pit's fire.
The juke clcss up
in an earth-cave deep,
Through slow years
let it, dreaming, sleep, -
Drink then the juke
and smile, not weep.
Yet, drink thou Uttle,
aad driak aot long,
IHae eke h a mocker
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earth, mm as asr,
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The Gridiron.
The unusual advance which was made
in University A tbeletics ty the success
of the base ball team duricg the spring
will give additiocal impetus to foot ''ball
the coming year.
The retention of the campus aa a baBe
ball and atheistic field was considered
at the first season a good deal of an ex
periment. Many opposed the movement.
on the ground that the
interfere with the class work of the street park as heretofore. Steps for the
students, but on the contrary, the re- preparation of the ground are already
uIIb have been most satisfactory, both being taken, and those expecting to at-
in respect to the high' standard of the
games and evente, and as to Moaners.
The records made easily place the Uni
versity of Nebraska in the same class
with Minn sota, Wisconsin and Michi
gan. The base ball team was the best
the University ever produced, and it is
the first season it ever finished without
a considerable deficit. Also in Track
Atbeletics, this was the first season ever will ba played either in this city or at Belt.
closed with any money ahead. Omaha. Moreover, he takes pride in the team
and in the west, which he likes. AN
Considering then these fBcts, we Eee If all we hear is to believed, the game ready he has rafused several offers in
how naturally the determination has wiih'Ktnsas promises to be an unuRual- New England, considerably more ad
bren made to use the same place for the Jy interesting one. That University has vantageous to himself, in anticipation of
games this fall. And provision can secured Wjlie Woodruff of Pennsylvania handling the university team again,
easily be made for those attending by as coach. He has been prominent in With such a feeling we can congratulate"
running 'bleecbers' around the field, and U. of P. athletics during h's four years ourselves that the idea of money merely
without doubt the season will be ac- attendance at that school, not alone in does not enter into his work. This is
immediate companied with greater success than if foot ball but in track work and rowing, too true with many of the eastern
Universities comprise a large number of
o'd players, men who have had two or
three years experience upon high school
tend games this fall, may be sure of teams. It was by his own example ami
comfortable accomodations and the best strict requirements that he brought
of regulations. Quite a number of about the results which were obtained.
games have already been arranged, He earned the respect and likicg of all
which will take place in this city, chief the players and students of the Uni
of which are those with the University versity, not only by his work upon the
of Missouri. Oct., SO and with the Uni- gridrion, but by requiring gentlemanly
versity of Kansas, Nov., 13. The cus- conduct in practice and .in games: and
tomary 1 hanksgiving game with Iowa good scholar-ship in the University it-
vicinity of the diamond and track would the games were conducted at the M
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pulling No. 5 ip ths U. of P. right. Kan- coaches who come weat for a season and
sas feels cocsidt rbaly elated oier the return home immediately after the last
fact of obtaining Woodruff for coach, game. He has spent the summer in
'We will be able to show our superiority consulting with well known Yale, Har-
over any team in the world, not by a vard and Prnaceton players and coaches,
slight margin hut by a good big score." regarding the methods and ideas which
Missouri talked tne same way when they ate to'be developed this fall, and from the
bad the famous Bliss o Yale, however past showing, we may be sere there
Nebraska managed to defeat them with will not be lacking an abuodiuce of
out much difficulty. them.
. Whereas Missouri was well provided
Speaking of Missouri recalls the de- financially but lacking in push and
plorable condition in which she found energy during the past ejr; Iowa found
herself at the end of last season. Her hra-lf ina nimilarnrpdV-iment with the
case shows plainly that money is very conditions reversed. In the school itself
little in the success of foot ball. She there was an infinite amount of push
had money in abundance with which to and enthueia.m and the team made :i
I train, secure a coach and to carry on her eood reCord, nevertheless she ended the
scarcely a game, season with a remarkably Iarne debt
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work. Yet she woo
umer teams witn none of these advan Btaring her in the face. Bull, of the
tages made enviable records. She seemed university of Pennsylvania, who coached
to lack the grit or the something which is the team and who was promised a
required to develope a euccessful team- thousand dollars for his work, returned
The school itself seems to take plenty o home empty banded. In addition to
interest in the eporr, but there is some t:a ft,-,. in innumerable number of
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cause under lying it which is very dif
ficult to define. It seems to fall farther
every year from the class of Kansas
Iowa and Nebraska. It may be the'
peculiar laziness which characters the
south. They are almost 'down south'
there.
Nebraska will again be coached by
Robinson who has been reengaged for
the autumn. His excellent work of last
fall and his record with tho base ball
team in the spring shows what can be
doce by a master hand. The material
with which he had to work last season
would have discouraged a less energetic
and persistent nan, for of the old play-
ers there were but three or four, and the "Well, wo beat you," said one of the
new material required constant and un- victorious party to the defeated cindi-
ceasing enort on bis part. Many did date.
other debts. This is a very serious
condition of affairs, for if such a state is
not 60on remedied the school will he
unable to obtain a coach, for a knowledge
of these things is not Blow in spreading
among school men, and it will leave
among eastern universities a ver la
odoro? Iowa's wajs of doing busicew
However, it is to be hoped that meaures
have already been taken to provide a
course which will remedy this. Otbr
wise the faculty of the Iowa university
who look with somewhat doubtful eje
upon the game, will refuse to licercs
its continuance in the school.
not know thefirat principles of the nme.
and weeks were required to teach them
the rudiments of foot ball. This
meats much when the teams of other
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Lazarus, who lay at the Dives."
"How BO?"
"Licked by tLe dos."
