Omaha daily bee., 1890-06-12
CLOSE OF COMMENCEMENT.
Thirty University Students Presented With
Diplomas.
POST GRADUATES TAKE DEGREES,
"A Lincoln Man Bets on Confidence
Mans Game with the Usual
Results-The Capital
City I'm Brief

state university took place at the Eunke
opera house this morning. The march Of the
senior class, other students, professors,
regents and state and county officers from
the university to the opera house took place
at 80.
An immense audience gathered in the opera
house to listen TO the exercises. On the stage
sat the regents, the clergy and a large num-
bor of distinguished state officials. None of
the graduates took part in the exercises.
After the opening overture and invocation
Miss Bertha Bayliss of Omaha rendered n
vocal solo, the selection being from '"rho
Child of the Regiment This was followed
by the leading feature of the occasion, an
Grafton by DR.. p. s. Hinson of Chicago. His
theme had not been previously announced.
81 will speak upon the subject of Gun
nery,'" said the distinguished divine, ''as
suggested in the old saying about teaching
the young idea how to shoot. What say
will be under three heads, Gun Metal Am
munition' and Aim | take for granted that
every man is a gun or the son of gun. There
is such thing rs natural genius; there is
such thing as natural fOol.h
The speaker then developed the analogy
between the different heads of his subject
and the different phases of life and character.
He impressed upon the students the need of
powder, on in other words, personal push.
He told his hearers that every class room is n
furnace, every professor trip hammer and
every examination drawing out which
would in time reduce the crude ore to the
polished metal. He advised undergraduates
to take plenty dSos of time for their t5
scintillations of wit, which kept the
audience in good humor. The tenor of the ad-
dress is summed up i'll the following extract: :
"Gather your thoughts from the whole uni
verse. Put them in the crucible of your own
personality. Melt them with the fire of your
own feeling, and stamp them with the i'm
press of your own originality. Then hurl
them forth with all the force that you are
capable Off
After vocal duet by Miss Garfield and
DR.. Eddy, the graduates filed out on the
stage to receive their graduating diplomas.
These were formally presented by Acting
Chancellor Bessey The list of graduates
was published in full in this mornings BEE.
The post graduates who have been pursuing
a special course for the degree of master of
arts were then given their diplomas. These
were as follows:
Roscoe Pound, b. A, 1888; Jay Amos Bar
rett, B. A, 1888; Vernon Judson Emery, b.
A., University of Ohio, 1887; Laurence Foss-
Ter, b. Sc, 1881; George William Gerwig, b.
A, 1889; Charles Berry Newcomer, b. A.,
1889; Martin Osterholm, B. A, Augustana
college, 1885; Mary Adell freeman, B. Sc,
1881; Herbert John Webber, b. Sc, 1889.
The officers of the university battalion
were then presented with their commissions
as regular officers i'll the state militia by
the young soldiers.
Another solo by Miss Bertha Bayliss and
the benediction closed the exercises.
AN OLD CON GAME REvAMPED.
An ingenious reconstruction of the freight
racket confidence game was played upon
Clarence WardWel, proprietor of an Eleventh
street saloon yesterday. A man dressed as
granger entered that establishment saying
that he had loaned a stranger $40 to pay
freight on some stock at the depot and that
amount as security, -. promising to
meet him at Wardwell's saloon at
5 o'clock and pay the amount.
Mr.. Wardwell laughed at the country fellow
and told him that he would neither see the
stranger nor his $40 again. The granger
would not believe that anybody could be so
dishonest whereupon WardWeu offered to
bet him 50 that the stranger would not show
up at O'Clock. The countryfied fellow ac-
cepted the bet and the money was put up.
While Wardwell was smiling to himself at
how easily he would add So to the days
profits, another man came rushing in with Il
roll of bills and exclaimed:
Hello, old fellow, here's your $40 that you
loaned me-"
81 knew you would show up" said the
granger
Wardwell looked stunned and not till after
the stakes were turned over to the granger
and the two went out laughing together did
he realize that he had been victimized, and
that the alleged stranger was nothing more
than confederate to the fellow passing as
green granger.
AT LoGGERHEADs.
1t is said that the senior class and the
musical department of the state university
are at loggerheads for some reason or other.
and the graduates most fatty opposed the
proposition TO have the musical department
furnish the music. Consequently the melody
for the occasion was rendered by Miss Bertha
Bayliss of Omaha, Miss Garfield and DR..
Eddy of Lincoln and the cadet band.
ANOTHER BLIGHTED YOUNG LIFE.
1t is reported at police headquarters that
an itinerant young gang of abandoned men
and women who have been infeSting the city
of late have induced Jennie Adams, the pretty
daughter of Mr.. Adams at o and Third
streets to join them. Last night the disrepu
table gang passed the night at Ninth and
Park avenue and this morning left for un-
known parts with their young recruit. Mr..
Adams is almost crazed with grief over the
Wayward course of his daughter.
ANOTHER SUCKER.
An old farmer was seen lowering about the
baggage room of the b. * M. this morning,
and in reply to the baggageman's question
as to what he wanted, replied that he was
waiting for u stranger to whom he had loaned
Sl2O to pay freight bill The farmer de-
scribed the stranger as a ''darnatiOn clever
fellow" ana told how contemptibly n
freight agent had treated him. or course
the stranger got the suckers money, promis-
room. When the farmer finally saw how he
had been worked he refused to give his name,
but said that he was on his way from Illinois
TO Columbus.
WANTS his FEE,
A peculiar case was filed in the supreme
coust this morning in which lawyer sues a
man for attorneys fees incurred by his wife
in a suit for divorce All the parties con-
cerncd live in Omaha The attorney is Ma
than j. Bunham and the defendant Rchs
ard lizard. Three years ago lizard sued for
divorce from his wife, Kate
lizard, on the grounds of infdelity
to her marriage vows, of drunken
ness aud of eytrome cruelty to her husband.
Mrs lizard was opposed 10 the separation
and employed Burnham as her attorney. He
succeeded in having tho prayer for divorce
denied Mrs. lizard had only 800 awarded
as alimony for attorneys fees while the suit
was pending. She paid this TO Burnham,
but the attorney demanded 81 900 for his
work and as Mrs. lizard is unable TO pay it
Burnham sues her husband for the balance
remaining unpaid. In the lower court the
attorney lost the case.
CITY NOTES.
The annual picnic of the old settlers Of Ian
caster county is set for next Wednesday at
Cushman park,
Commissioner John Jenkins of the bureau of
industrial statistics is compiling mortgage
statistics for the consideration Of the next
legislature. Among other features will be