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Iowa Oit" Iowa.

Now for the home stretch.

ALONZO STEELE, of Grinnell, has en· dowed the chair of mathematics in Iowa College, with $20,000.

WE recommend you to read the arti­cle on the sixth page from the pen of Prof. McBride.

MRS. HENU SHAW, of St. Louis, has presented the library with a copy of the Botanical works of George Engelmann. The work contains a large nnmber' of bea\ltiful plates.

WI hope all those who have not yet paid their subscliption will not fail to do 80 at once. Please do not wait until you get more explicit notice of your delin­quency. We wish to have our subscrip­tion accounts squared up as soon as poesible. Please do not neglect this matter. It is important to us.

IT ie rather late to announce the com­mencement speakers, but it would be 8trange if their names were not publish­ed in the VmETTE-RRPoRTKR, anri those of our readers not actually in school have not learned as yet who they are. The immortal thirteen, then, who are to up­hold the honor of clll88 '88 on the com­mencement platform are:

J. W. Bollinger, Miss Alice Oalvin, William H. Dart, John H. Gates, H. A. Hollister, D. p. John80n, W. F. Lohr, F. W. Lohr, John S. Nollen, Mi88 Eva V. Rankin, William Rohde, Miss Annie E. Shepherd, Miss Bertha A, Williams.

These are they who croBBed nO dead line neither were at any time ·spotted.

FlIl'1'Y'TWO thousand dollars. That is the amount. It is notwbatwa8asked for, but it is all that the A88embly thought it could appropriate. It will sl1ffice to

lOW A CITY, APRIL 14, 1888.

run the University comfortably for two years, but no new buildings can be erected or facilities acquired. And the investigating committee is to be here with power to carry forward its work in vacation, and make a report to the Gov­ernor. We are glad that the Fniversity is to have the investigation. If things are rotton here, the quicker it is preven the better, If not, an in ve tigation r.an do nothing but good to all concerned. The committee has decided to begin its work May 8th. If the instructions are followed out the investigation cannot be a farce. Let the committee "hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may." No where is there more need of it than amon~ Iowa City saloons. More extend· en notice of the committee and its work will be found in another column.

THE editors of the Var8ity, of thl' Uni· versity of Toronto, sent out a circular during the the month of March asking the opinions of librarians of leading col· leges in the United States and Canada as to the best methods of popularizing the library among the students. 'fhe re­plies are published in the issue of April 7th, and show a general unanimity of view. Nearly all agree that the library should be open as many hours as possi· ble, should be thoroughly catalogued and indexed, that reference books be placed within the reach of all, and that much freedom of acceBB to the shelves be granted. All urge that the efforts of librarian and profe88ors be directed toward arousing an interest in the libra­ry and directing students in the use of books. In looking over these reports we are pleased to observe that our own library keeps well in line with the libra· ries of even larp:er Uni7ershies; and for the number of books and the amount of money set apart for Its benefit, it ie ahead of many. There is no doubt but that it is admirably con­ducted and the arrangements pertaining to it the best that under present circum­stances can exist.

UNIVBMITY circlea have experienced what pamphleteering is recently. We spoke in a former number of a pamphlet from the erratic pen and compounded ink of Dr. Gustavus Hinrichs. In the closing days of last term one made its appearance baving for its author, Rev. Dr. Fellows. It oontalned the report whloh be had prepared for tbe investi­gating committee of the General A88ero­bly, and Silt out to prove the charges which Dr. Fellows has cOllstantly made since bis removal from the 'Unillersity, that he and Professor Leonard were re­moved bocauso they wero prohibition­ists, that a "deal" was l1lade with this as one of its terms, that the University has boen captured by the Democrats aud that 8aloon influences prevail about It. A few days ago Dr. Hinrichs printed and

published ,mother little volume in pa­per covers, which is for the most part the first pamphlet in a stronger form . He has a chapter on Russian terrorism in Iowa, some mean insinuations against Dr. Peck and members of the collegiate faculty, and' an open letter to President Schaeffer. This letter is one of the mllrked featuT8R of the production. We trust Ollr worthy President will survi,e the hurling of this terrible missle from the hand of the wrathful Tenton. The doctor represents even the editors of the VWE'l'1'E-REPORTEIl as cowed aud tremb· ling before the awful visage of the Ter­ror Fiend. Not so. \h are in the po -session of life and liberty and are PilI'­

suing happiness.

To Investigate the UnIversIty. (Des MoInes Rtgi.ter.)

Acting under the concurrent resoln­tion ordering an investigation 01 the State University, the joint committ e, consistini' of Representatives McFar­land, Wilbur and Hotchki s, aud enl\­tors Meservey and Dodg , met Il\st ev n­Ing and or~anized by electing enator J\fe8~rvey Chairman, and Representa· tive MoFarlaud Secretary. The commit­tee decided to begin the inve tlgation at Iowa ity, Tuesday, May th, and that will be tbe first meeting of the commit­tee after the present eparation. Th :08ollltion, which was introduced in the nouse by Representative Mc.Farland and under wbich the investigation is to proceed, and is as (ollows:

WHEREAS, grave char es have been made and are now beiug made again t the Iowa State Uni\'orsity, touching its general management, whicb re/l ect upon the economy and ev n the integrity wi ~h which its appropriations have !.Ieen used, the moral character of the in tUu­tion itself, the influences I\ud moral at­mosphere by which it is surrounded, the character of the tate buildings and improvements, the conduct of some of its professors, the action of its Board of Regents in entering into a oontract to diecharu;e a part of its profe88ora in consideration of certain appropriations, and the general efficacy of the niver­sity, and

WUERIIA8, such cbarges publicly made are greatly injuring the ueelillne88 of the University, as well as the cause o( edu· cation in the State, ther fore, be it re­solved by the House, the anate oncur­ring, that the peaker of the HOll8e, and the President of the Senate are ller by directed to appoint 1\ joint committee to be composed of three members from the HOUBO, aud two from th eual , to 111-vestigate all cha\'gee made IIgalnst th tato University, lIud set ont a\)ov ,and

said committee Is h reby vest It! with POWOI' to 8ubpcl na, wltue S6 , books I\UlI papers, and to administer ol\th ,and may

IIlJlloy II clerk. The sitting of said com­mittee shall begin in Iowa City, Iowa,

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on or before the third Tuesday in Ma~ .., as the committee may desire, notite having been previously given by publi­cation in the Iowa City Republican ud Des Moines Register, at least ten day. prior to said sittinll. No mtlmber ol..ad. committee shall be cbosen from. county contllining a tate in titntiQo d-awiug approprilltioll8 from the tate, or in which r ide any member ofthe BOllrd of Regents.

The ubjects to b inve ti 'ated are set out in the preamble to th r olutioDl, blltsaid Boards I\re hereby IIiI' cted to in­vestigate all charges made again t eaid

nillersity, that if true, would be rep ... hen ible. The members hall !.Ie eJI­

titled to five dollar (5.00) P I' day for each day's service on said Board, aod fil'e cents per mile mileage, antI' nctoal expense~ iucurred in Iud ervie\!. UpOIl the conclusion of the iove ligation, a fI1l1 I\nd complet r port of th proc dinp olthe Board shall be prepared and traDI­mitted to the Governor who hall C1UJIe

to be print d in pam phI t form ~wo­thousand copies of the same, to be distributed as followlI: Two cople. to. each member of til Twenty CODd General Aesembly, two copl to e.eh county up rintendent of public inaUu: tion, th balance to be di tribut I by th Governor. Th original r port Is to be­come a )'8rt. of the r corda of tbe over­nor's office and in a regular form tl'Ull­miLted to the Twenty third n ral Ae­sembly when it c nveue. The 1 rk of said Committ shall I' caire ftv doUan per day for ea 11 day's rifle renll~red, to be certifled by th chairman of eDt Board the 8I\me &8 tb salari and ..... eral expen 8 of the n art!'

LIBRARY NOTES. to

non. Will. B. A1llson h~ llre ul4h1 tbe Library wltb a hauel om ly bound copy of the "Rules or tll lion of He,. resentaUves," 11th edit! n, 1

The Library 1\'&8 open d each day during vacation from 0 to 12 . M., quit a number availed tbemeelv of~.

opportunity for Itudy and r arcb. The referencellio Roman and Engl ....

hi t ry and In Amtlrl an literl&lure, 11 ... been plac d In the Realling room at .b. tight o( th card catalogu eaA.

Attention ill call d to tit rut admit­ting uuu r clwln n t th book r upou Friday afternoon anll atufllay Illornln onll/.

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LITERARY DEPARTMENT

COLLEQE ORATOR,(.

BY CIlARLE ll. MAXSON.

We have always been fond of college orators. Even as a Freshman, we tried to cultivate the acquaintance of the great orators of the . U. I. We have joarneyed with these to the fields of dlulsic eloquence. We have been preHent when they gathered the dust of the aiead Demosthenes, and we have ad­:mired when they scattered his ashes on • heads of an applauding audience. In-1Seed, our Iowana has many great orators, ___ tors who have carried us back to iIIe year one; inquired into the Garde­_'8 motives for eating unripe apples; :Mted as judge at the trial of Cain; cir­.amnavigated the globe iD -the Ark; and Dne moralized on the confusion of lIabel. Our own orators have taken ~ure trips back into the obscurity of lUItiquity, visiting Memphis, Thebes, the 1.ieas of Nineveh, and the Babylonish WODders. They have fished for croco­

':iliJee in the Nile, the Tigris, and the Eu­phrates, those wonderful rivers whose taUeys nourished the infant race of man. They have called on the mummy of JlIeops and taken toboggan rides down :t.be sides of the great pyramids of the l'haroahs. They have enlisted in the armies of the Orient, marched in the .. .,kward squad of Xerxes, drilled under ..Darius, aud drank from the cup .of Alex­'lUlder.

Our orators were on the campus when ihe "scrap" took place at Marathon, they -were at Thermopylae and saw Leonidas aad a few other Spartan youths carve the Persian cadets, and they sat ilpon .the beach with Xerxes when his canoes .,ere upset at Salamis. They have ex­hibited the culture of Athens, and in­tJoduced us to all the renowned men of Greece. They have rpad the "Iliad" by moonlight, while the blind old bard wandered along the shores of the soft .Aegean Sea, his sightless eyes kissed bv -the balmy zephyrs that wafted to his .ears the plaintive melody from the liPS of Helen of Troy. Our orators have given U8 to drink from the never-failing fount of Eschylus and Sappho. Herodo­tas, Pythagoras, Plato, Sophocles and others are intimllte friends; while we .bave been called upon to drink the hem­lock with Socrates, and have been in­yited to sho\'el pebbles into the mouth of young Demesthenes while he prac­ticed the diaphragmatic stroke. But we can not dwell upon Greece. The Olym­piads and hundreds of other topics are favorite themes for powerful and in­etructil'e Philippics and we very reluct­antly accept an invitation to go over to the Italian peninsula to see how Romu­lus and Re'nus are getting on. Rome has been a thriving village in its day, and its history abounds in standard themes for the practice of the Ciceronian art. Plebs and Patricians, Tarquins, Nero, Hanni­bal and Oarthage, The Grncchi, Tbe Vandals or ehe North, The Barbarian G ths, the Teutonic Invasion. Charle­m agne, Con tantine, Brutus, and the reo

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nowned Julius Caesar aud the Rubicon, The Agrarian Laws, the Gladiatorial Games, The Golden Age of Augustus, the Pantheon, the Coliseum; Yirgil, Cicero,-these names of persons, places and events are as ,familiar as household words.

Yes, Iowana has produced many great orators who have cribbed prize essays from lhe wisdom of ancient and modern lore. They have explored all the great battlefields of Asia, Africa, and Europe. THey haye invaded Spain with the Sara­cens, followed the varying' fortunes of the Crescent, and listened to the Last Sigh of the Moor. They have reviewed the Middle Ages and helped Luther along with the Reformation. Times without number have we been told of the merits of William the Conqueror, Mary of Scots, and Good Queen Bess.

Cromwell and Charles, James and the Prince of Orange, Louis XIV., A.laric, Peter of RUBBia, Frederic the Great, Napoleon Rnd Wellington, Garibaldi, Gladstone and Bismarck would all feel insulted, if two out of three of our ora­tors did not recognize them at each con­test. While the Crusades, the Nor­man Conquest, the French Revolution, Waterloo and St. Helena have estab­lished the right to appear on every regular program.

Our own orators are truly grellt men. When the resources of the old world were exhausted they have followed the tide of civilization across the stormy waters of the Atlantic, landed the Pil­grims safely on Plymouth Rock, nursed the infant Republic, and have written carefully prepared and accurate biog­raphies of all American statesman from Washington down to Grant.

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aronnd over snow-capped mountain burned Moscow; and waved a flag of peaks, fertile prairies, barren deserts, conquest over foreign lands. and trackless oceans, trying to get a Another scene upon the panorama, shot at the white-winged messenger ef and the orator reviews the Euglish peace, but tho hiI'd eluded his aim.* He army in India, chases the British Lion wrote history amid the roar of battle and through Oriental jungles, qJarches­read it in the glare of conflicts. He Anglo- axon civilization through Hin­ushered in the Nineteenth century, doo superstition, lands his audieuce on1 crossed the'waters Rnd explained to us the Emerald Isle within thirty leagues that Europe was a cradle, and we learned of England's shore and asks them a that 80metiting was going to celebrate its question about strategy and crime. demise on the field of another Waterloo. We now realize that we are in the twi­(Perhaps lVe ought to say in parenthesis light of the Nineteenth century. Wer that our knowledge of grammar being look back several hundred years and see deficient, lVe were led into more difficulty mighty Rome fall over and bury the with the pronouns and are unable to ideal of nations,-universal empire~ state jnst what was about to celebrate its Another ideal, universal power, 11'11&

demise. We thought it poBBibly might born. Europeans fought weird and ro­be Europe but as we had never heard of mantic battles on A.merican soil. Nation­the demise of a cradle we abandoned al ambition made Gladiators, darkenedl this idea.) It was his opinion that the sunlight of justice, and ('I\used the men tended toward the eternal. Nations approachinjt millenium to shudder aDd and individuals were criticised for going back off. Men fought for gold and abroad to fight and hurl human life into power; millionaires were born and 80uls the maelstrom of death, when they smothered; and man bound himself to should have been fighting at home. the brute.

The orator then got pathetic on the Then a young architect of life is shoreleBB ocean of misapplication, ra- brought out and shown a wonderful versed the process of time about twenty- world-a curiosity in the museum of the five hundred years, and carried his audi- infinite. The architect is shown the enceright over into the Orient that they stars, makes a circuit of the solar sys· might see a fabulously rich and magni· tem, dodges a meteor, returns to the ficent army of a million of men sweep earth, hears ominous thunder, and 18 in­through Asia Minor and on to the vited to fnrther investigate these phe­shores of classic Greece. He contem- nomena in the "invisible universe of the plated wicked Persia and remarked that human soul." John Wesley is intro­if history had not recorded the example, duced and Marathon and Waterloo ars fiction could scarcely have prodnced the incidentally mentioned. We are bidden illustration which illuminates this part to think of theollnmusical, lawleBB "cow­of his essay. Xersos' character was ards who never dare turn the lelescopet pronounced un{Jbscured by the mists of of investigation . within." Slavery, ieolation,t and fame, power, and immor- patrintism, the Goddess of Fame, indi­tal glory were spoken of figuratively. viduul sovereignty, and corrupt legisla-

The scene changed, and the audience tors are discussed, and we are cauti.oned next saw the orator in the sunny not to boast of Runnymede and Sara­land of Frauce crimson in the blood of toga . revolntion. Twenty-five million $tarv­ing peasants had broken their bridles and were wiping out the wrongs of cen turies. The French people were put in­to a frail bark and rocked to and fro on a wild, surging sea of paBBion until the leaky dugout almost dipped water, when a magician appeared and waved a magic wand. At this, bleeding France got right up and marched with Napoleon amid the shadows of Egyptian pyramids; over the dizzy summIts of the Alps;

But much as our own orators have done for us, and wbile we have been al­most withered by walking in their shad­ows, we had still a desire to hear the eloquent men of other colleges. We have read in certain books and various journals, that all animals degenerated in the State University,-Professors and orators among the number. A great orator of Cornell, Iowa College, Drake or Wesleyan, must, we thought, be as much superior to our own Carls and Daniels as is the dignity of the Senior to the un­sophisticated innocence of the Fresh· man. At last the men and the opportu­nity came. With note-book and pencil

h . did • The first tbree opening sentences contaIn 1\ we repaired to t e appomte p ace an unique metal,hor wblch It is Impossible to do

Our orator next appears tlefore Niag­ara. As he contemplates the roaring waters, plunging headlong, he marvels when he thinks what a mighty mill­wheel they are capable of turning, and he is reminded of the "surging streams of humanity, madly coursing over the falls~ of creation." "Standingll at this point in the darkn~88 of history, and looking beyond the centuries into the daylight of the present, it is evident that the world has been slowly levelling" many of its selfish ambitions. "But standing on the threshold of the Twentieth century and piercing back· ward intu the night of history," a para­graph ,of poetry from Lowell has a differ­ent signification. To-day, as well as in the past, mankind are aiUicted witn both external and internal battles.

waited anxiously to learn what events justice to wltbout qllotlng III full :-"Tbe world bad taken place and what new discover- has never closed Its eyes In sleep. Upon the ies and inventions had been made since pillow of time Its aching, throbbing head has the time of Adam. The gas was turned never rested. Over it, fertile prnlrles It. snow-

capped mountnln Jl\lnks, It. barren deserts and on, the band performed, and the 'first trackless oceans. the white winged mess~nger ot orator of the evening stepped out upon pellce has never flown ." the stage and bowed to the expectant The neuter pronolln "It," In the third sen­audience. The president of the evening tence seems to mean the globe as a subject of

physical geography, but 011 referring back to Its had annonnced that tRia young man autecedent "teorld" In the first sentence It would speak on "The World's Dual Con- would seem to mean the Inhabitants of the mct." Thill is a large subject, and the earth collectively. We were not quite certain speaker treated it very comprehensively. tllnt we got the author's meaning clellrly onlhl8

\)olnt, but on'submlttlug It to 1\ freshman wbo Is His production is characteristic and studying rhetoriC, It was thought to be a mixed should be studied as a model of college metaphor, IlIId as the tyle Is highly poetic, oratory. Following, wo give IL brief tberetoro allowable. synopsis: + As yet Wtl have tailed to sumclently con-

The orator first discovered that the dense the "mists of Isolation." to be able to sny world had a bad headache and that it whetber It Is an aqueous vapor or n rhetorical

• ' gllS, but It Is our bellet tllM In II well equipped was unable to he down nnd sleep on the oratorlcallnborntory It mny be I'eadlly IInnlyzed pillow of time. He then skirmished 1 1111(1 Its gaseous cbaracter clenrly demonstl'Uted.

The orator then denounced th" con·

~ Students who 6re Interested III the study of psychological 8stronomy will Dnd tbls recently Invented luslrument Indispensable III Ilrlnglng to IIgbt tbe nmny wonders of the newly dis­covered. "Invisible uDlverse."

'Tho orator did Dot definitely locate the "tails of crentlon." Could tlley be tound, bowevvr, tlley would 110 <Ioubt become n popular resort tor dlsl\ppolnted orators nnd sorehead oOlltestlllltS.

I Wo were 110t Informed by the orator wbo the Individual WIIS who stOO(\ Rt '·tllis point lu tilO darkness of history," lind we presume tile darkness prevented tb~ Identity of tho person who did thc loolli llg.

.. , worn pity, lOOn ! the 0 -

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~'rj and waved a flag of foreign lands. me upon the panorama, ;or reviews the English / chases the British Lion lntal jungles, Q'Jarches civilization through Hin· ~n, lands his audience OJlJ

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Ie within thirty leagues shore and asks them a strategy and crime. ize that we are in the twi· me\.eelu~u century. W 6-

hundred years and see fall over and bury the

lUu~.-·uu,versal empire~

universal power, WII&

fought weird and roo on American soil. Nation­

Gladiators, darkened! ustice, and raused the lenium to shudder and fought for gold and

were born and soul. man bound himself to

architect of life is shown a wonderful in the museum of the

musical, lawless "cow· dare turn the lelescopet

within." Slavery, Goddess of Fame, indi­

, and corrupt legisla· and we are cautioned

Runnymede and Sara-

appears before Niag­the roaring

headlon~, he marvels what a mighty mill-

capable of turning, and of the "surging streams

coursing over the "Standingll at this

rcl9.rk~le8S of history, and the centuries into the

present, it is evident that been slowly levelling"

selfish ambitions. "But the threshold of the

anu piercing back· t of history," a para·

from Lowell has a differ· To·day, as well as in

are afflicted witn nd internal battles. en denounced the con-

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ditions that made it possible for Sena­tor Ingalls to advocate teaching England

:II Ie on on angling, and for Bismarck to <l raw a sword against France. If nations would turn their powers within, fifty years would serve to revolutionize the world: "The now desolate fields of Ire­land would be covered with the green verdure ofjusticej" the libelous stand­ing army "would be swept off the face of Europe," "slavery would be plucked {rom the careworn brow** of Siberiaj" vexed problems would be solvedj races would be amalgamatedj around the en­tire world could be 'heard the march of education, rumbling in its mighty ines­istible course, the optimist would realize bis dream' aull "the 'Brotherhood of Man' ;vo'uid cease to be a vagary of lIction."

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At the close the orator was encouraged by tremendous local applause, which burst spontaneously from bis own dele· gation in the dress circle, and which was heartily responded to by the audience at large.

The remaining speakers upon the pro­irram, sand witched in (lairs between ap­propriate numbers of music, appeared in regular order and were listened to with ~onsiderable interest, They had all been anticipated, however, by the lIrst. One ~r two, indeed, attempted to treat recent and interesting topics, but they failed hopelessly in ancient history, and on this account hardly deserve notice.

The four others who entered the French Revolution . were mercilessly filain upon the lIeld. It is trne they made a few feeble thrusts at "the live and twenty savage .millions," but their pusillanimous efforts are not worthy of contrast with the vigorous manner in which the first orator met the mad. un· bridled mnltitude and ponred out their blood In civil revolution.

We have said that this is a compre­hensive and characteristic type of college oratory, We have failed to do it justice in the for~oing synopsis. In a few instances we have ventured to call at­tention to points of special interest. Every paragraph, however, abounds in rhetorical lignres and instructive his­torical references. The aspirant after oratorical honors, should not fail to give his days and nights to the study of this production.

,Tbe "green verdure of Justice," we under­'Iand, Is a new species of metapborlcal plant that haa been produced tbls winter by 8 pro­~ of .pontaneou. generation. It will no doubt be of great Inlere t to oratorloalsoleotlsts. •• We tblnk no onA can look upon tba "care­

worn brow of SiberIa" wltbout being moved to pity, and we ars hopefnl that willing bands will lOOn be found to do tbe plucklog suggested by the orator.

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See,iona ever)' Friday evenine.

UOlllUlWf SOOII'l'T.

Go to the Opera House to-night for a~ first-class shaTe and hair-cut.

Go to Cash &; Hunt's meat market, opposite Opera House, for choice meats of all kinds. .

Lillian Johnson, of the Sophomore class, has accepted a position in the Springdale school.

W. F. Kessler ofJast year's graduating JInoru LLon> .. . .... .. ............... P_ident class has been elected alderman of his ~ WIlIGJI'J ........................ 8ecretar)' town of Langdon, Dak.

"'ona on alternate Baturda, eveninp. Shell BurroW8 was in the city last

IISPIIIAN SOCIl'l'T. Sunday, drawn hither by what has so SInn 80Wl! .... ...................... Pretident often drawn him before. ...... OK BaOWK ..................... BeeretAr7 A declamatory contest was held at

"onion altemateBaturdayeveninll. West Liberty last night. R. C. Craven acted as one of the judges.

IITJGATIUN SOOIlTT. , 1 W. Lou ............................ PrMident .s. ~. hmIlD ................ . .......... BeeretarJ

8eeiioDi evel7 Frida)' evenine.

If1n)DTS' ODlSTWf ASSOCIATION. .Pra,er Meetinllenl7 Taeeda, noon in

P_ident's recitation room. All are oordiall, innted.

LOCALS. Lee, Welch &; Co.'s Bookstore. Pish market, 123, Iowa Avenue. J. E. Patterson stays out this term. We are al\ glad to see Stempel back

-again.

.1. H. Ligget was in the city during nation.

Look out for the investillating com. mittee, May 8.

lIisses Jewett and Clark were in Des Moines last week.

Schroeder spent his vacation with Bol· inser 111 DIlvenport.

"Douglas, one ot the assistant librari· aJl8,leaves school to-day.

Quite R nUIJIlx!r Qf tile students spent their vacation in town.

D. A. Long is one of the reporters in the Billings trial at Waverly.

Carl K. Snyder drops out of school for the present, and is at home.

Cal Lichty is conducting a large drawing class in the Academy.

Bon son will not be with us this term, olVinll to the illness of his mother.

President King of Cornell College was a visitor in the city the other day.

Morris Evans, aner spendinll the win· ter in teaching, is in school again.

Seth V. Peck concluded to remain under the parental roof until next fall.

Orlup hl\8 finished his school at Con­cord, Minn., and enters the Law depart­ment.

Mies Sadie Hubbard, of t. Paul, for· merly of this city, is the guest of Millll Bacon.

Prof. Leonard and family left yester­day for their new home in Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Mies Mitchell reports a very enjoyable visit with friends in Fairfield and Dee -Moines.

Mrs. N. C. Young, whose visit we re­corded not long since, has returned to her home at Bathgate, Dak.

W. D. Lovell of the Freshman class was called home Sunday night on ac­count of sickness at his home.

Mies Ada Hutchinson has 1I0ne to Witchita, Kansas, to make an extended visit with her sister Mrs. Clapp.

We are 80rry to learn that Mies Susie Paxson, on reaching home found her mother so ill as to prevent her return.

Pres. Schaeffer ",ent to Ithica, N. Y. last Monday night to atteud to some business matters and bring his wife back.

Now that spring has come it is about time for the plank steps to be removed from in front of the central and south haUs.

One of our noble seniors was Uo~n for a Freshman because he wore his uni· form home during the vacation. Served him right.

Students PAtronize Waterman &; Wil· Iiams 'fhen wanting anything in the line of dry goods or notions. 124 Clin· ton street.

R. C., according to prescnt arrange· ments, Will enter upon the telegraph and newspaper work in Montana July 1st at a salary of $1,000.

O. R. Youn~ writes asking that the addrees of his paper be changed from Dillon, Colo., to IJ6adville, at which latter place he now is.

The attitudes and positions allowable in a club room or smoking room are not suitabla in a library which 1S a general resort for ladies and gentlemen.

The officers of the junior sophomore Oratorical Association are: President, D. I. Coon; Vice-Pres .. V. T. Price; Sec., C. H. Maxon; TreM., J. S. Tuthill.

Mies Nan hepherd has lJean visit,lng the Northwestern University, Evanston, III., whither she went as a delegate to the convention of the Delta Gamma fraternity.

A New York paper has sent letters to a number of our students, requestin~

essays on the subject, "What kind of a girl does a college boy like best?" No doubt the information which they re­ceive will be of great value.

A notice of a declamatory contest open to any lady student in the College is posted up. The preliminary will be held the 20th of this month; the final about the middle of next month.

We notice an account of the Beloit College home oratorical contest in a re­cent copy of the Beloit heu. The work of Prof. Booth there is very much appre­ciated and highly commended.

E. Frank Brown spent Sunday in the city renewing S. U. I. acquaintences. He returned to Jefferson Monday, but next week will go to Sterling, Colorado, where he will shortly begin the practice of law. We wish "Brownie" the best of succees.

It is something unusual for a senior to mistake his 'own name for that of another when the commencement speak· ers are announced; such an instance occurred this year, and the speaker is to be doubly congratalated.

Edmund B. Edgar, Law, '84 has lately been united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Day, only daughter of Hon. James G. Day of Des Moines, Ex-chief justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa. They will reside at Redfield, Dak., where Mr. Ed· gar is practicing,

Members of the history clll88es find their work unusually hard this term on account of Prof. Perkins' anticipated European trip. The Professor has been appointed to represent this institution at the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the University at Bolollna.

Frank S. Aby, who will be remember· ed as a former member of '88, is at pras­ent principal of schools at Neponset, Ill. and is doing WillI. To our surprise he writes: "I have quit music. The only thing that I indulge in musically is whistling. and that but once a week." Strange thing things will happen.

The last page 01 this paper will here· after be condncted by Stern & Willner, the proprietors of the popular Golden Eagle. This Eagle spread its wings and took a short fljght recently, which event was elaborately celabrated. The Uni· versity band furnished part of the mu­sic for the occasion.

Our readers will be pleased to know that at the Opera House Restaurant they can have warm meals promptly and quickly served at any hour, and can there find at any time a good oyster stew, th9 best of soda water and lemon· ade, and the choicest line of confection· ery and cigars. The best quality of goods kcpt on hand.

Wakefield, Hill and Wingeland, one or the most prominent engineering firms in the north·west. Mr. Grimm doee not ex· pect to graduate this year, but hopes to do so at some future time. We are sorry to lose so bright a studant and so genial an associate.

We predict "euccees" for him in the race fif life, and would augment his natu· ral' energy and Lusiness tact by our best wishes. So long! ........................................... , ..... ~ ."WHEN -a ~ ~ In need of Dress Goods, Dry Goods, ~

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The seniors have decided to have a Class Day. The following;&re theaesign· ments of the exercises to be carried out:-

Class History, Miss Copeland: Class Prophecy, Mies Lloyd; Addrees to Under­graduates, Mr. Lischer; Oration for School of Letters, Mr, Tracy; Oratiop for School of Science, Mr, Grim: CIIlll8 Poem, Mr. Closz; Presiding Officer, Mr. Gardner.

Horace Hollister of this year's senior class, one of the commencement speak­ers, was in the aity durillg vacation week. He left his impreesion on the cla88 com· , posite, and will probably adorn it with a saintly halo about the lower part 01 the face-a golden beauty borrowed from his full belll'd. Mr. Hollister used to be one of the editors of the Rtporter-the maid· en name of this journal before it married the VideUe-in the year '77·'78. During the past year he has been teachinll as principal of the Bellevue schools, and his services are highly commended.

Orville D. Wheeler, recently very pleasantly surprised his friends. He was married on the 4th inst, to Mies Helen E. McCune, of Solon, Rev. G. W. Brin· dell of this city officiated. Mr. Wheeler IIraduated from the colle~iate department of the University with the clal!s oC1884, and from the Law department only a few weeks since. On May first he enters into a law partnership with Ex·(Jh~ncel­lor Roes, at Council Bluffs. We con­gratulate him on his present happinees and on the prospects of future success. He is to be congratUlated, also, in that he is to have for a partner in his profl'ls· 8ion a man of the ability and experience of Ex-Chancellor Ross, and the latter ilS to be congratulated in bringing to his aid a young man of the excellent charac· ter and winning qualities of Mr. Wheel·

-It is all right enough to buy your jewelry at a jewelry at a jewelry store. Books at a book store. Drugs at a dl'UIl st re and crockery at a china store. But if you want a good razor, jack knife, er. pistol, or anything usuuJly kept in a first Th e Declamatory Contest. clll88 hard ware store, call on Lichty &;

Thomas. They make a specialty of that claes of goods.

Mr. J. M. Grimm of the senior cl88s left for ioux City last week. where he has accepted a lucrative position with

On the last Saturday evening of lalt term, or the 24th of last month, there took place at the opera house, the de­clamatory contest between eight selected gentlemen from the Sophomore and Junior classes. This is ollr first number

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Id would augment his natu· a Lusiness tact by our best

have decided to have a (ollowing;&re the assign'

exercises to be carried out: , Miss Copeland: Clasa Lloyd; Address to Under­

Lischer; Oration (or School Tracy; Oration for School

Grim: Class Poem, Mr_ ng Officer, Mr. Gardner.

of this year's senior the commencement apeak­aity during vacation week.

,... .... '"",,,"uu on the class com­probably adorn it with &

the lower part of the beauty borrowed from his . Hollister used to be one

of the Rtporter-the maid· journal before it married

the year '77-'78. Duriog he has been teaching as

the Bellevue schools, and highly commended.

Wheeler, recently very his friends. He Willi

4th inst. to Miss Helen of Solon, Rev. G. W. Brin­

officiated. Mr. Wheeler the collegiate department

with the claea of 1884, Law department only a

On May first he enters ta",U""."U1U with Ex-lJhlncel­

Council Bluffs. Wp, con-

since that time. Although it is rather late for an extended notice, a contest of this kind always deserves more than a mere announcement of the result, and we have thought that a few observa­tions may not be be uninteresting.

The contestants were, of the Sopho­more class, J. T. Bailey, W. B. La Force, J. C. Monnet and C. H. Maxsonj of the Junior, C. H. Burton, W, A. DeBord, G. B. Thompson and V. T. Price. Preeident $chaeft'er presidfd and in/ormed us that it Willi not arranged that there should be four from each class, bu t that the pre­liminary contest merely turned out so; thatth.re would be two prizes awarded, the first one consisting of books worth '15 and the second one, $10 also in books.

The first speaker was Mr. Burton. His selection was, "The Power of Poetry in Battle." He spoke with his characteris­tic power alld was duly appreciated. Mr. Burton early proved himself a good de­claimer and this is the second contest in declamation in which he has appeared.

Following him oa'lle Mr. DeBord with 8 translation of Schiller's "Diver." Hr. DeBord has proven himself in literary society, a very strong declaimer, and he was far from weak herej but we think he would have fared better with a less difficult selection. On pathetic places hi invariably pitched his voice too high and this caused him to be less strong-on the best passages thau he was on others of a less importance. Not­withstanding this, at times he displayed a power that was hardly approached by any other speaker of the evening.

lIr. Thompson next presented a selec­uon entiUed, "Unjust National Accusa­tion." He also is a veteran 01 last year. He spoke very creditably, was never weak, but seemed to lack, perr,aps it was force, we are not sure what it was.

Mr. Bailey, with Hugo's "Man Over­board," seemed but partially to got into the spirit of his work. The same might bft said of Mr. La Force who had a speech on Indian corn, an article perhaps more useful as food tban as a subject for poetic meditation

Mr. Price then came forth with, "There is a God." He made a very good appearance. His expression was good, his gestures easy and applh:able. He had a commanding presence and It was 800n apparent that he would stand very ltcIgh.

He was followed by Mr. Monnet, who had taken Arthur J. Craven's contest oration "The Cause of the Gracohi." Mr. Monnet would have had difficulty in finding any thing better suited to him than was this. He entered into it thoroughly and expressed much feeliug. No one held the attention of the audi­ence better I han he did.

The last Rpeaker was .Mr. Charles Max­son. He had chosen, "The Treason of Slavery." Tho selection called fol' a very euergetic. Intense delivery. Mr. Maxson's' delivery was energetic, but hardly equal to the demand. Ilia ges­tures wore not always ell'ilRnt.

fHE VIDETTE REPOR'rER.

The judges, Miss Longhridge, and Profs. Perkins and McClain, awarded Mr. Price first honors aud Mr. Monnet second. Tbe decision was very Ilenerally satisfactory. The contest between Mr. Price and Mr. Monnet was very close, and there would have been little sur· prise had either taken the first place. Mr. Price belongs to the Irving society and Mr. Monnet to tbe Zetagathian. Good music was furnished throughout the program by the University Band.

ORDER NO.8. H'D'Q'RS. UNIV. BATT., APRIL 13, 1888. As previously announced, it is pro.

posed to have a competative drill be­tween the companies of the University Battalion during the Spring term. In addition to giving to the best drilled company the right of the line and the designation of Prize Company of the University Battalion, this company will be given a small silk color, with proper inscription, which it will carryon ptrade and occasions of ceremony, and remain in its custody until won by some other company at a future c~mpetition.

To stimulate to further effort toward perfection in drill, the following prizes will be offered:

To tne beat driUed sergeant in the Battal­ion, a pair of button embroidered shoul­der straps.

To Ihe best drilled corporal, a pair of gold-lace sergeant's chevrons.

To the best drilled private in each com­pany, a pair of gold lace corporal's cbev· rons.

To the twot,best drilled private, (Sopho­mom) of the Battery, tha appointmen t of corporal at the beginning of the pring term.

To the beat drilled pritoate in the whole battalion, a copy of Upton's Infantry Tactics.

By order Battalion Commander, CJTA • E. P[CKE1'l', Capt. and Adj.

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A NEW BOOK. There has recently come to the 01-

versity a book whicl, on many accounts merits something more than the formal notice which additions to the library usually receive. This book i~ entitl ed "The Botanical Works of George Engel­mann." Published by tbe University Press, Cambridge, under the supervising edit~rship of the late Dr. Gray, the vol­ume comes to us as a magnificent gift from that distinguished patron of Natural 'cience, Mr. IIenry I:lbaw, of 'to Lou is.

'1'be book is large, 4to size, 535 pp. text, contains a portrait of the illustriOllS allthor, and more than one hnndl'ed full page plates, tbree-fourths of them steel eugravings. To botanists of to­day and of the future the volume wili be a treasure trove, a body of information of the most authentic kind on some of the most important topics relating to American botany; while erery scholar must behold with admiration the amount of exact and original work which Dr. Engelmann has been able to bring to completion during the leisure buurs of his busy professional life.

The papers composing the text al'e ar­ranged for the most part in chronologi­cal order, i. e., in the order of their ap­pearance, and the work of the editor has been simply to collocate these papers, meanwhile subjecting them to such re­visions as the author's MS. notes rendered possible and proper. Each paper is complete in itself, both in the extent and the perfection of the investi· gation recorded. or the series the most important relates to the Cacta.ceal (Cac­ti.) Here we have what is practically a monograph of the order, as found in the United tates; a synopsis followed by full descriptions of more than 100 species of tbese most difficult but beautiful plants. Any obscure and difficult region in the botanical field seems to have had special attraction for Dr. Engelmann. The Dodders, a group of parasitic phae· nOj[8m~, attracti ve enough in themsel vt's, b It very intractable in classification, hIVe been thoroughly elaborated, and W j have bere descriptions of seventy or ei~hty species gathered frOID every corner oC the earth. Likewise our native oak8, whose specific forms tbe botanists of Europe seem to have endlessly con­fllsed and then desparingly abandoned, had for Dr. Engelmann a charm. The oaks of the Mississippi Valley paased under his discriminating hand, and the Olmes by which in the futnre the spe­cies shall be called, are those which Engelmann established or confirmed. One fourth oC the California species are likewise of his authorship. His touch is also upon all our conifers-one is called by his name and one he namey for his friend Dr. Parry. As Dr. Gray says: "He was tbe recognized authority ill those departments of his favorite science which had IllORt interested him." Wher­ever he chose a field he exhnu ted it, leaving oKc'!od ingly narrow mllrgin for subseqnent gleaners. Thus his nol son tho Aloe and the Yucca wllre illu trntod by photographs and constitute really a monograph on those genera. He be­came interested in the cultivation of the vine in Missouri, and accordingly in-

THE VIDETTE - REPORTER.

vestigated the nati vo species of the gt'nu Vitis elaborating the subject COID­pletely until "811 that we know scien­tifically" on the subject is his woi·k. So with the rushes (Juncu8,) the Gentians, the pnnd-lilies, asclepiads, the quill­worts, each came to him with irre istible attracti veness, a.~ to the mathematical genins ri essome problem new, unsolved, -his opportunity.

But I must not fail to notice the very first chapter in the book, although the limits here afford scant room. Bere we have Engelmann'sgraduating tbesis pre­sented in 1832 at the time of his taking at Wurzburg, Gel'many, his degree oiM. D. Tht' the is is all written in Latin and treats of the morphology of flowers as illnstrated by floral monstrosities. Forty years before, Goethe had followed much the same line of work and made hil1lqelf famous in tbe world of scjencej so to Goethe a copy of the thesis was sent. The old poet expressed his bearty and unqualifieJ approbation, and offered Engelmann for further prosecution of the subject, all his own unpublished botanical notes and drawings. It is in­teresting to think that Dr. Engelmann thus links us back to Goethe, and that these two men represent in their lives and labors, extending over nearly a century and a balf, almost all tbere is of modern natural science. The early com­panions of our author were Braun, Schimper and Agassiz, each pince known to fame; his associates in this country Lesquereux and Gray. Many also wm be interested to learn that Engelmann's father was a life-long teacher, and that his line of ancestry, extendini back froUl his fatber's father, included several generations of Lutheran ministers; so that one more name is to be added to the already lengtbening list of noted naturalists w hose inspiration came from the parsonage and whose "rocking cradle stood the altar near."

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FIRST NATIONAL BANK

IOWA CITY, IOWA.

DmWlOB8 - L,ml\n Pal'l008 Peter A. De, 1. T. Turner} G. W. MarQua;:(\t, E. Jlradwa, O. S. Weloh, Amoe N. Onl;1ier,

OFFO£ ON WASHINGTON STRUT

IOWA CITY DIVISION.

Time Table In effect December 26th, 1881.

Tr~ln leaves I?wa C!ty.a. ollows: GOING WEST.

No. M, Mall. arrive at ..... ........... l1:tO A.hi No. 36, Express, arrives at ............. 4:4() A.?t[ No. 41, Express, arrives at ............ 8:115 P.M N.o. 46, Freight, arrives at ... .......... 10:10 A.M

GOING JiJAST. No. 33. Mall, arrives at ................ 11 :00 A.M No. 30. EXIJress. arrives at .. .. ... . ... . 4:00 P.M No. 40, Express, arrives at .. ...... . .... 6:115 A.M No. 47, j<'relgbt, arrll'~s at .... ....... .. 2:30 P.}!

CLINTON DI\'ISIO:i'.

GOING WEST.

No. 41, JlIall. arrive at ................ 8:56 P.M No. 43, Frelgbt, arrives at : ..... ...... 8:46 A.M

GOING EAST. No. 40, ?t1all. arrives at ............. ... 6:M A.M

•• 111, BatHDlIle,.er, . FLOUR lAID I FEED I OF I ALL I KIIDS,

Tenns cash. Dubuque St.

CHICAGO MEDICAL COLLEGE. 00'''.' Pralrl. A •• "u •• "d .8th ...

CHICAGO, ILL.

Medical Department of the Northwestern UniverSity.

SESSION OF 1888-89.

N. 8. DAVI8, M.D., LL.D., Dean.

Tbe tblrtlctb Annual Course of Instruction wUl begin Tuesday, September 25th. 1888, IIIId close Tuesday, Marcb 26th, 1889. The course of Instruction Is graded, students being dh1ded Into tlrst, second and third year classes. Qualltlca tlons for admission are, either a degre~ of A. B.. a certJneate ot a reputable academy,a teacher'. certificate or a preliminary examination.

The metbod of Instruction Is conspicuously practical, lind Is alJplled In the wards of the Merc)". St. Luke's and Michael Reese Hospitals dally at the bedside of the sick, and In tbe South Side DIsp8Mary attacbed to tbe College, wbere nine to ten 1I1ousand patients are treated IIIInu ally. Fees I lIfatrlcuJatIon , 15; Lectures, lint and second years, each 115, third year free . Dem onstrator, " 0, Including Illllterial. Laboratory. 15. Breakage (returnable), 15. Hospitals: Mer­cy, til. for tblrd year students; St Luke's, 16, lor second year students. Flnlll examination, 130, No extra fees tor Private Classes or Mlcr~p­Ical Laboratof)'. •

For furtber Infomlation or announcement, address,

FRANK BILLINOS, M. D., Seo'lJ, 235 STATE STRUT, CHICAGO, ILL.

EXHAUSTED VITALITY THill BOIENllE OF LIFE, the

grea~ MedIcal Work of the age 00 Mallhood. NcI'YoUi aud Physical Debility, Premature D\,cllno. Errore of Vouth, lind tbe untold ml811rlcsoollsequeul tbercon. &:Xl pOg08 8 vo, WI prescriptions for 1111 "'.,'u ........ Oloth, tullgllt, only ,1.00. b) moU, senlca. Illustrative IlImple free to all young nnd mldlllo aged meu. Scud now. l 'he Gold alld Jewelled Modol awarded to tho Rutbor by tho Na· tlonal MedIonI AuoolaUou. Addre S P. O. box ~, Dolton. M. ., or nr. W. R. PARKIl.R, iIfIId· uateor Harvard )looleol Oollellc. 23 yeau' pracuoe in Botton, who may be oonsulted conndenUally. Specialty. Dleeuel or )lall. Omce Nll. 4 Dulnncblt.

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Fits studeol verslty. give, prepares you Public School Acsdemyare out furtlier el to enter at an lieges of the I

i'A CITY DI VISIOl<.

Iii effect December 26th , 1887.

Ives l ?wa C!ty. a~ ollows : GOING WEST. ives at .... .. .......... 11 :45 A.M arrives at ............. hlO A.~[ arrives at ............ 8:55 P.M Irrlves at . ...... ..... .. 10 :10 A.M GOING FJAST. Ives at ...... . ... ...... 11:00 A.M arrives at .. .......... 4:00 P.M ~rrives at ........... .. 6:55 A.M Irrlves at .. ........... 2:30 P.M

.ISTON Dl\'lSIO~.

riOING WEST.

Ives at ................ 8:11b P.M arrives at : ... ........ R:4l! A.M' GOfNG EAST. ives at ..... . .......... 6:55 A.M

Bat •• DIIl·7·r, . I FEED I OF I ALL ( (0018, 5 caSll. Dubuque St.

MEDICAL COLLEGE. ,1,1. Av."u. a". 18th I ••

:HICAGO, ILL.

)epartment of the ~stern University. ~ION OF 1888-89.

VIS, M.D., LL.D., Dean.

Annual Course of Instruction ,ay. September 26tll, 1888, and :arob 26tb, 1889. TIle course of .ded, stUdents being divided Into til ird year olllSses. Qualilica

on are, eltber a degred ot A. B., reputable academy. a teacher's ~ellmlnllry examination. f Instruction Is conspicuously • applied III tbe wards ot the • and Michael Reese Hospitals .de of the slok, and In the South nttaobed to the College, where and patients are treated anDU IItrloulatioll, $5; Lectures, lint , ellch $15, third year free. Dem celllding material. Laboratory. !turnable),15. Hospitals : Mel' ,ear students j St Luke's, Ill, tor ents. FIlial examination, 100, • l'rlvate OIasse8 or Mloroscop.

• ormation or announcement,

BILLIN08, M. D., 8ec'y, 36 8TATE 8TREET. CHICAGO. ILL.

~TED VITALITY OF LIFE. the

I Work of the • NOTVOUI y, Premature l [ Youth. and Icsoonaequent Igoa S vo. 126 r all d 18onsos. only 81.00. b) 18trnt\I'o anmple tree to all young I lllen. Bond no,,., The Gold and awarded to the 1I11lbor by the Na· MsoclaUon. Addr •• P. O. box

.• or Dr. W. H. PARKER. i!f1Id· MlliUcol CoUere. 25 ,.enrs· pracUoe may be oonsulted conRdenU.Uy. '01 of Man. Omce No.4 DulJlnclut.

Iowa City Academy THE STATE UNIVERSITY PRE­

PARATORY SCHOOL.

Fits students (or all departments or the Unl· verslty. gives a good busl ne~s education aud prepares young men and women to teach In the Public Schools of tbe State. Students from this Academy lire admitted to tile University with· out further examination. Students are allowed to enter at any time. and hllve lIIany of the priv· lieges of tbe University.

ltll glllll "fll, ',pl'lIlbtr IttA, 1888.

For Oatalogue or other Information apply to

ROBERT H. TRIPP.

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COLLEGE ST, LIVERY STABLE We solicit patronage from ~tltdent • and will

furnish ftne rigs at rp,8S()ll able OgUr6s. Sat. horm!or ladiea' dri1llng.

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-X·"S THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE' CITY •

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THE ONLY FIRST-CLASS SHOE 'HOUSE! IN IOWA CIT Yo NO FANCY PBICES.

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STILLWELL &: BYINGTON, Successors to

M. BYAN, DEALER81N

PAllltll, OILl, OWl, "ALL P&PBBI,

Sueppel's Grocery CITY BAKERY. No,lS Dubuque Street

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FANCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES Confectionery, Cake. and Pie., Studeute' olube will find treeh Butter, Ega. rlld

Read, Mixed Painte, perfectb "u~ all Count1'l' Produoe al .. ,. on haud. WeddlD&, Cake. Made to

Order • Ihades. Arti.ts' Material a Specialt,. IJMllt&- Thi. is the plaoe to buy oheap, f.r we do our ti,e Paper.hangiug. O'WD work. aulll811 for oRlh.

No. 117 Wuhln,ton Street. IOWA CITY

EUGENE PAINE, Dealer in all nnd, of

C-O-A-L IOWA. CITY, IOWA..

Patent Kindling at 10 cente a bundle. S.ft C081s0re6necl for hO\lle \lie.

Offioe oor. Burlinlrton and VanBuren Streett. Leave orders at Fink's Store.

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Tbousand opplicatlon. for paleote III tb. Unlled Slal •• aDd 'orel,n 00'" trio •• tbe PUblllbl .. 01 tbl 801 •• llft. Americao conti nul to ac .... olioltore for paleDti. o&'o&tl. trade-markl. cop,­rl,blA. Ito .• for Ibl Unltad Sta ..... eod

to pa~t.I 10 CaDad.., Jtn,l~d 'rauoe, Genuao,. Iud IU ou.. r couotFl... nolr .. peri­l".,. II IlDIQQllII1 IIIl1lbelr jaoillti .. are n ..... ~ .. d.

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Tb,. lar,. Ind~leodld!llilu.lrated oenpapet '" publisbed WEEKLy It 83.00 a ,oar. and It admitted t. be the ben paPllr d .. ot.d to acleo.,. meobaolco. In •• ntioo •• e",i.eerio, workl. ena otber departmenl. of Indunrlal pro,rell. pub­lilbed In a.)' country. It contalo. the oalDeo 01 ,II p,teotees and Uti. of .ver, loventlon pat.nlll1 .Ioh week. Try It four mouthl lor 001 dollar. Bold by all bewsd.lle .. ,

If ,00 have an 1 • •• nLion to patent write .. )luon " Co .• Jlublisher. of Sol.otl60 Am.rI .... lit Broad".,. Ne" York.

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Te1e~rIlJlhr.' Book·keell. , I"IIt. Dank 'IIJ. P4Inllllul. • 1 ~Iilp, COrre!llOndellce, "\ "rUb,netlc. <'IOC. Younll 1 r :; men andlfomeb taugbttoearn

~,\ r" ,1I,ingandgl.cn 1\ ~horou~h

• : ' lJraparatlon for hOllor.,. 1e p'osl­lion.. Term. rca80babl.. ~IOIe ahort.

In,truollob thorough. UnllbBas men .upp\l~d with oompetent alll,tanta On Ihorb notice. No

~~ftT·8 ror Iltl1aUOOI f,trnl ,llNt A~dre8a for oata­.. JO, Ea.u ..... (lOU., • .,. l'oullhkoeplie, N. Y.

~Derner ~rDthers,

PHARMACISTS & PURFUMERS Specialty: Fine Goods.

114 Wa.tlngton St., Iowa Oitll.

Offers excellent ad vantages to th08( who wish to study Book·Keeplng, Pen· manship, Arithmetic, Commercial Law. Bl1siness Correspondence, and pelling.

Students of other schools may spend one or more hours a day with us, taking any branch we teach, at rell80nable rate..

Day and evening classe8 j enter at any time.

EyetJthing firat-ol811 in theliue of bUilllo Home-made bread" lpecialt,.

Reduced bread rat s to clubs.'

10 oUatO' Street.

$100 to $300 AM NTH can bt made wOrkln" for

1\. A(!eots pre! rred who call fuml. h lhelr own horses alld give their whol llln to the b\lto Ine • Spare momenlA nmy be IlroOlably em· ployed 81 0, A t w vaclIucl 8 111 towlU ,a4 cltle... 11. F. JOHNSON & 0., 1013 ll1ln ,IC •• JU01l1llood, Va.

Franklin Meat Market. PUll BUBBIII, Pro,.

A full atock of th choicest m als con. stantly on hand.

Corner Dubuqu And Iowa Avenue.

J. n. WILLIAM ,p,.;",;p<>l., -k ~~!~~~~~nt!~~~!~~~! ~;'~~;n:;hr:; ~'~:.: ~~~b,~~;,

Merchant l'ailoring·El!tabllsh· 0000 and \18. W wl1llnk pi l\8ure m nt in th city 18 in showing you what we havo. We

J. E. TAYLOR'S 180linton t.,11 (1,1' P. O.

Large t merchant tailoring tock In tho city. Where al\ tbe stud nl, get tllclr line ult lIud al 0 the plnco \Vh r tbey get military sni ts.

hav th finest line of hor cs, buggier, and canlag 81n lile ci ty, Md cannot fall to plcl\8 you. om and e U8.

FOSTER & HESS

JOHNSON COUNTY CANDY SAVINGS BANKI Do a General Danlrlnll DUBin II. Par Intereat

011 Deposits. IIIIOII\911nd For lin E10hanl8.

CANOY C. F, GUNTHER, ___ .I0oll'MlloII.r, Ohio ... ,

8 THE VIDE'ITE - REPORTER. :

Clothing and Furnishing Goods Department. STERN & WILLNER, Proprietors and Editors.

THE GREATEST_BARGAINS EVER OFFERED IN THE STATE ARE NOW SHOWN AT THE

IN THEIR NEW DOUBLE STORE IN THE HAAS BLOCK.

BEING forced out oj our former store we are bound to establish o"rselv~s in our new location, and will sell goods at prices never before heard of. We

now have ample room to display the large stock we intend to carry in the jutltre. A glance at our S70ck and Prices will convince anyone that we intend

to keep good our word in regard to selling one-half and one-third cheaper than others.

OUB SUIT DBPlB'llEI'J'. We are showing tbe handsomest line of Spring

Suits ever brought to the state. Our fine 11;00ds are equal in every respect to the best custom work. They cvmprise all the newest and latest patterns of cloth to be found in the market, made up in three and f/)ur button Cutaway Frocks, llObby sacks witb rolling collars and Prince Albert.

O UR PRICES

are away helow anything ever heard' of. Look at our Prince Albert Suits at $14.00, never before shown un­der $20.00. Our $10.00 nobby Scotcb Suits cannot be equ~lled under $15.00 elsewhere.

Overcoat Department. Words fail to describe the large line of Spring

Overcoats we carry. We show more styles than all the others combined. Buying tbem In very large qnantities for our many different stores enables us to sell them at prices never before heard of. Below we qnote a few of our best sellers

All wool Cassimere Overcoat, three shades ...... $5.00 All wool Melton Coat ........................ .. 7.50 Wool Silk Mixed Coat ........................ 8.50 Fifty All Wool Cheviot Coata, Silk and Satin faced,

,8.50, worth double. Our stock of

Odd Pantl Is one of the attractive features of our establish­ment.

We have just received 500 Pair all wool Pants, bought for 50 cents on the dollar, that we place on sale this week at the ridiculously low price of

,2.50 per Pair I They are cheap at $5.00.

Our custom made Pants can only be equalled by the best eastern merchant tailors.

hrDlIlllDg Goodl Department. We do not wish to blow, but can say the Furnish­

ing Goods Stock we DOW Calry has never been

equalled in the state. We ,carry the best line the market affords. Glance over a few of our prices,

:Fine ilk Neckties, two for 25c., worth double. h" " 25c., worth 5Oc.

100 Dozen Neckties, 50c., worth $1.00. Best Linen Collars, all styles, 10c. Best white Shirt, 50c. All styles of Fancy colored shirts, from 35c. to

$1.25. Just received, FIFTY DOZEN finest French flan·

nel Shirt, in fancy and plain colors. We also carry the best assortment of Kid Gloves

ever brought to the city. We have put in a full line of tbe celebrated Dent's gloves, every pair warranted.

It is needless for us to say anything about our

Bit Department. One glance will convince anyone that we have

the best line shown in the West.

Will Positively Save You, Money on Every Purchase They can buy or rent our dores, but they cannot compete with us either in quality or prices.

CALL AND SEE US IN THE FINEST STORE WEST OF CHICAGO.

-~THE GOLDEN EAGLE-­ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE.

LOOK FOR THE RED FRONT.

TOWNSEND'S PHOTOGRAPHIO PARLORS, THE FINEST IN THE OITY, 22;»OLINTON ST ... Stndenta will find it to their aduntBae to go to this old and popular gallery. All art welcome