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AmUsEMENrs
A Difference IN MAeIcIANs.

People nowadays generally call every
sleight of hand performer magician.
This is an erroneous comparison, as
there are but very few artists either In
Europe or America justly entitled TO
the title "Magician." Powell Is a
typical magician, and we'll worthy OF
being 80 called. Powell will keep you
thinking for many days over his in
imitabio and wonderful performance.
There is but one Powell, aud he will ap-
pear in this city at the Opera House on
Monday, January /. BE advised In
time ard make one Of the crowd that
will be attracted TO see this great
magician.
CLEvELAND's MINsTRELs.
or W. 5. Clevelsnd's aggregation OF
burnt cork artists, who will appear al
the Opera House tomorrow afternoon
and night, the press everywhere speaks
iu the highest terms OF praise. In
addition to the most clever exponents
OF minstrelsy. the company this year
includes the wonderful European Vau'
deyilles, with the famous Dlsnantlns
troupe OF French quadriIle dancers.
The Opera House should be crowded al
Each performance.
RUSSELL BIOS, coMEDIAl%
Tonight Russell Bros, Coined
ians," speciality company, will begin a
three nights engagement at the Grand.
This organization comprises some OF
the most prominent specially artists In
the country, and are said TO give one Of
the best performances OF the present
season.
In addition to the Russell Bros, are
Braatz Bros, John Z. Drew, the FIRE.
monts. Lizzie B. Raymond. Alburters
and BArtram, The Acme Four, Sam
Bernard aud others. Reserved seats on
sale at the Grand Box ONCE.
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GEO. NJ. SHOOK & Co.'S great half
price Cloak and Cape sale begins to-day.
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one cent for males and female free Il the
new rate for f0ot toll over the New steel
bridges Of the WhanliDS Bridge Company.
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Ladies' will be allowed to pas free oyer
tho New steel Bridges OF she Wheclipg
Bridge Company beginning. to-day.
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TIE 4REGISrERr RELIEF FUND.

Contributions Still Coming in for the
Destitute
The REGISTER relief fund now
amounts to S33250.
Contributions are still desired and
those who can shonld send in their
money as soon as possible for which
due credit will be given in these
columns.
FnIIoning is the list to date:
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This evening the annual holiday ball
of the Arion will be given at the coy
club house on Twentieth street.
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The wedding of Mr.. Henry Knelborn
and Miss Tillie Snyder, both Of the
South Side. will take place to-day.
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eed on
ich are
TPNeeett,
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Miss Lille Dean was hostess to q
congenial party of friends at her home
on North Fifth street, Martins Ferry,
Tuesday evening.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

girls would ever advertise themselves in
that way unless there was something in
the system that blunted and confused
the moral perceptions.
The most important interest Of any
community is the direction and educR-
tion Of it's youngest members. In these
modern days, with all our bossted prog
ress, the measure Of success obtained in
the management of young men has not
been especially gratifying. But there is
a prospect now that q change for the
better 10 coming,
In q Sunday school convention not
long SINCE, heard words for which / had
listened in vain on like occasions for forty
years and more. It was declared that
prevention rather than reform was the
wstChword in dealing with boys. This
thing OF allowing boys, for lack Of care,
to 90 to ruin and then reforming them
was q sad and ssnseless failure, forit was
seen that when a young mans moral
character was once broken down it would
never become quite so strong and whole
az before.
just the contrary Of this has been
taught so long by example and implica
tion that it has been the dominant senti-
ment OF society, ready, ike a blightipg
foe, to meet every poor boy that cometh
into the world. Parents and faculties
have long: essentially agreed that boys
are born into the world to sew wild oats,
and they have taught, by allowing every
vice and temptation to lurk in thei"
pathway, that spice of dissolutenees
was necessary to ripen up and give de-
sirable polgnanoy and flavor to a young
mans character. As o means to this
end, college fratsrnities are probably un-
equsled. They form an easy and inviting
entrance to many downward way that
the student would otherwise never dis
cover.
But % fast as this better thought
comes to be entertained by educational
institutions, jusE as soon as the highest
welfare Of the student and the public
touches the heart and conscience of our
educators, just 30 soon will college fra
ternities, or secret societies of students
In connection with colleges and universi-
ties be found TO be entirely insdmisssble.
VERITAs.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
COLLEGE FRATERN1TIEs
They Should be Suppressed in Our Edu'
oational Institutions.


the ear Of the public to come to the sup
port of some cause on the plea that it is
prevalent, popular, and therefore sure to
continue.
Such is the tenor Of an article on "Col-
lege Fraternities' in the University Re-
view Of March, 1893, by Mrs. Blackwelder,
of Chicago. 1t was evidently written in
The interest and furthersnce Of these So
cieties in the state university, and for
that reason it becomes duty to call at
tention to some of it's mistaken and un-
authorized conclusions.
In that article we are introduced to
the beginning of these things, and are
told that these frsternities had their
origin in the traditional Rntagoism be-
tween faculties and students. 1t is quite
proper that the question Of their origin
should be settled by their own RuthOri-
ties, and for additional information on
that point, we refer to a long and illus
trated article in the Century Magazine
for September, 1883, and written eVi-
IDENTIFY by another Jealous advocate Of
the system. The time, place, surround
ing conditions, and results, as shown by
that article, all point to the conclusion
that their beginning was due to the
purely Tory, un-Amerioan and anti-Puri-
tan element of student life. This, Of
course, covers as we'll any incidental in
subordinstion to faculties.
It is their boast now that they show
the names Of many prominent men on
their lists. This is not surprising and in
no way affects their merits or inaures
their indefinite continuance. But their
permanency is assured, Mrs. Blackwelder
asserts, by the great amount Of real and
personal property now held by these So
cieties. AS to money being the continu-
ance to any place or system OF things,
there are some examples in ancient and
modern times that bear upon this ques-
ton.
We are told that the safety OF Sodom
and Gomorrsh was assured on the condi-
tion that ten righteous men could be
found therein. These promises OF secur-
ity were not based upon the condition OF
finding their namts upon any preten-
tious city directory, or among 8 select
and wealthy social circle, but solely on
account OF their goodness. We are not
told that the law Of permsnency depend
ing on righteousness in its broRdest sig
nifcsnce has been changed since then,
and made to turn upon money or any
amount of real and personal property in
terests.
The system of African slavery in this
country involved billions of dollars, bat
it had to go. Public lotteries were "here
to stay" once, bat they were gradually
pushed from one place to another until
they reached the shores of the gulf,
where they fingered awhile and offered
large sums of money for a new lease Of
life, but were pushed off aortss the deep
sea. They were only compatible with
certain grade Of civilization, and when
public sentiment rose above that mark,
they had to 60.
The eternal years need not be pledged
to college frsternities by any over Jealous
member upon any other terms than
conformity to this one immutable law,
and which in the strife Of human life is
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

The rule Of three-tryiDg to crowd
three bushels Of wheat into dollar. And
thousands are crying for bresdl-Bur-
hngtOn (Kas) Courier.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18


founder Of Oberlin, when they deter
mined at that early day, from the stand
point Of right, to admit the dOspised
negro and the scarcely less despised
woman, the same consideration made it
necessary to exclude the frRtePnities. It
will be found that in those schools
where moral purpose and obligation are
made prominent, they are not allowed
to come. When the question Of barring
these frsternities out Of the new Chi
cago university was discussed, one pro-
fessor is reported as saying that all the
good they can possibly claim to do was
better provided for in other ways. This
leaves nothing but the power to do mis-
chief to themselves and others as theiE
chief attraction.
One Of the notable mistakes In the
article under review, is the assertion
that man being q social being it Ia
natural for students when brought to-
gether to form cliques and clubs. Now
cliques are the result of a social gsuohe-
rie, instead of social tact and cultivation,
and the student should be led up and
away from them as he gains self-posses-
sion, and helped to escape from their
limiting and Gripping power, instead Of
being told that they are mutual and de-
sirRble. Though cliquism happens to
be one Of the dscreditable disabilities
of modern society, infssting churches
sometimes as well Rs schools, and from
being so common, often mistaken for
gentility and refinement, it belongs to q
crude and rudimentsry condition Of the
social faculties.
/ can remember when illiterate rather
than educated people Sbounded, but
when narrow and selfish interests die
tsted, they reasoned just as we'll. It
used to be said man is drinking ami
NAL, therefor he needs whisky. This
kind of logic troubled the early temper
ancs advocates not q little. To argue
now that because man is social being,
it ia natural to enCass himself in the
social stiff jacket of secret societies, be
friendly only to the few bound to him by
some artificial tie, is to fail to discrimi-
nate between a natural aptitude or in
clinstion, and its defect or abuse
The belated chapters Of these fraterni-
ties that belong to the girls are like the
others in setting themselves up and
apart as superior to other students. An
illustrated article in an eastern journal,
giving the likeness and biographies Of
some Of the grand presidents Of these
chapters, contains the assertion that the
members "are always selected with q
view Of obtaining the best" Such Q
CLAIM, fortunately, is as idle az it 10 i'm
pudent. The selection being made by
students and among students, they are
not able to separate the sheep from the
goats, or tell the superior from the in
ferior. II the claim were valid, the eH-
feet would be to put label Of inferiority
upon every girl that was not asked to
become a member Of these "frats." What
kind Of work is that for young women in
this hour Of their increased opportuni-
ties and corresponding obligations to en-
gage INF This ls the day of manifold
organizations among women, but those
organizations that are distinctly women's
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

peril. It has been the means or calling
popular attention toward them, and
their case is beginning to be discussed
before the public, both pro and con, and
the con part especially, they are not al
ways able to avoid. When public atten-
tion gets entirely through with them, it
is hard to predict where they will be.
From what is known of them now, we
conclude that they should exist only as a
"reminiscences of evil things overcome.
Mrs. Blackwelder, while making q
special plea for what these societies
ought to be, shows what they really are
in setting forth the many things she
would correct. Among these are the
practical jokes Of the system, such as
the nocturnal walks, the blind-folding,
the branding, these and other practices
having resulted twice at least, she says,
in the last few years in fatal injury, and
which she tolersntly calls by no harsher
term than nonsense.
1t is an old saying that women and
children can be depended upon to tell
the truth, and here we have it in refer
ence to these "frRts." Fatal injury is
one form Of taking life, and though one
could not call such cases premeditsted
killing, yet the practical jokes that re-
suited fatally were Of course premedi-
tsted.
Such system among students can
only be defended on the brazen sssump-
tion that every consideration Of right
and fair dealing, every thought of moral
obligation and simple honesty, that is
due from one person to another, may be
entirely waived and disregsrded during
the plastic years Of university life.
The Hon. Andrew D. White, in an ar
ticle written several years ago, also
aimed to show the best use to be made
Of these college fraternitles. After find
ing fault at some length, he concludes
that they, on the whole, "are helpful
To this endorsement, Mrs. Blackwelder
refers with much assurance. l have lit
tie space in this connection to give to
Andrew D. White. lam not responsible
for his mistakes, and it was q mistake
for a man Of his prominence to put him
self on record by writing such an article.
Had he been an obscure man, it would
have been treated with the neglect it
deserved, but because the man and his
position are so often confounded as one
and the same thing, it wss made
much Of.
1t was his duty as president Of Cornell
to work for the good of the students and
for the abolition Of system that, upon
his own showing, only does them harm.
His was great opportunity, and he fell
below it. Probably if all goes we'll with
himself as usual when he comes home
from his post as minister to Russia, he
will be ready to tell US that ION the
whole" the government Of the czsr "is
helpful" to the Russian people. 1t is
much easier to drift with the current
than to strive to give it new direction; /;
easier to leave the world as it is than to
strive with whatever power at command
to make it q little better by having lived
in it.
But we are told that it is the dream Of
President White that these frsternities
shall become q part OF college life, and
-...--. .A,.Io.k - roolo m voo,nho. -
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

DussOn House, Topeka, Kau. .naS-nBOpsr dAy,
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

SUBsORrBE for TIE ADVOCATE.
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DEPUTY SHERlFFS.

Forty Of Them Are Trying tn Keep Order
In the Kan-.. Legislature.
Topeka, Jan. 1.-THE sheriff OF
Shawnee county has sworn In forty
deputies for duty in preserving order in
the Kansas house of representatives,
where two temporary speakers are at
tempting to preside. 1t is said that he
confined his appointments to Republi-
cans, but Rufe Cone, the Wichita Popu-
list, was seen in the lower hall of the
state house wearing badge. In addi-
ton to the deputy sheriffs it is reported
that squad OF special policemen will
be held in reserve in case of an emer-
gency.
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PASSED THE SENATE.

The Quarantine Bill, Slightly Amended,
Goes Through without Division.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE quar- an
tine bill was considered until 2 o'clock,
when the anti-option bill was entitled
to preference. Mr.. Washnrn, however,
consented to let the anti-option bill go
over informally for a short time, SO
that final action might be reached, il
possible, on the quarantine bill.
The section authorizing the president
to suspend immigration was amended
by making it read "prohiLit, in whole
or in part, the introduction of persons
and property" The section was then
agreed to-yeas 81, nays 10. The senate
then passed the bill without division.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
THE CHEROKEE STRIP.

A Fa eorabIe Report Made On an Amended
BIZ for Its Opening.
committee on Indian affairs has made a
favorable report for the purchase of the
Cherokee strip, in an amended form.
The original bill appropriated $500, 900
for the purchase of this land, the money
to be paid at once. The committee,
after careful consideration, reached
the conclusion that the treasury could
not stand this large payment and
amended the bill so as to provide for
the payment of half a million in cash,
the balance to remain in the treasury at
per cent, payable in five years or
sooner should the government desire to
do 80.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
Cremated by Robbers.

COTTON PARK, ARK, Jan. 11.-Ruban
Atkinson, Russian farmer living ten
miles south Of this place, sold some cot
ton Saturday and returned home Sun
day night with some cotton pickers.
Monday morning his house was discov-
cred in ashes. and in them were found
his charred remains and also the bodies
of woman and child who lived with
him. Atkinson was murdered and
robbed and the house burned to conceal
the crime. Paul Stnbbs, a negro. has
made partial confession, and there is a
good deal Of fals of D lynebing.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
cre.po Calls an Election.

NEW York, Jan. 1.-THE Herald's
special cable from LaGuayra, Venezuela,
SAYS: President Crespo has decided to
call the election for the new constitu-
tional convention for March, and the
next convention will meet in May.
Crespo has started for Maracay, where
he will enjoy,a vacation. DR.. Peitri has
been designated to act as president ad
int0rim
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
MADISON. SOUTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY JANUARY IL. 1893.
CONSERVATIVES ON TOP.
An All Night Session of PopuIists at
Topeka.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 1.-THE Populist
house caucus has concluded its delibera-
tions after an all night session, which
was heated and stormy. Every propo-
sition to organize the house by reyolu-
tionary methods was defeated after q
bitter fight The victory of the conserv-
ative element was accenuated by the
nomination for speaker of Dunsmore, of
Neosho, one of the ex-Democrats, who,
it was declared, had decided to act with
the Democrats, independent of the Pop.
ulists. Ryan, of La Bette. was nomi-
mated for temporary speaker. Notwith-
standing the result of the caucus,
however, and the further fact that the
Republicans have majority OF one OF
the members-elect, radical Populists still
claim they will organize the house.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
Worst i'm Years.

MANIsTRE, Mich, Jan. 1.-THE worst
storm in years has ragged here since Sum-
day night. All public schools are de-
serted. The snow is piled in huge
drifts. Flint and Pere Marquette
trains are twelve hours late. Trains
due on the Chicago and West Michigan
and Manistee and Northeastern roads
have not been heard from.
ALPENA, Mich, Jan. IA terrible
storm is raging here. The thermometer
ranges from ten to fourteen below zero.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
Has Certaiuly Perished.

AU TRAIN, Mich, Jan. 11.-Mat
Lampinf, a clearinghouse keeper at
Ridge, six miles east of here, went out
to look at section lines Sunday morning
and has not returned. He cannot have
possibly escaped death as terrible storms
have been raging for forty eight hours.
A rescuing party has been locking for
him but has discovered no trace Of him.
He has probably been devoured by
wolves as there are large packs of these
brutes in the woods.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
Renominated Sanders.

HELENA, Mon, Jan. 1.-The Repub-
ican members of the legislature re-
nominated Senator Sanders for second
term on the second ballot The first
vote stood: Sanders IA, Mantle l5,
Montieth /. On the second the vote
was: Sanders Is, Mantle IL. The
Democrats did not select Il senatorial
candidate. Int decided to leave their
members free to vote for whoever they
ulease.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
Ferry Boat Frozen In.

PoRT HURON, Mich, Jan. 1.-THE
steamer Omar d. Conger, of the Sarnia
and Port Huron ferry line, became fast
in the ice in the st. Clair river with
twenty passengers on board. 4faf1e f he boat
Is still fast, but the passengers are
gradually being gotten ashore after a
wild night and without supper or break
fast. 1t is bitterly cold and the river is
freezing rapidly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
ANOTHE9 BIG BLIZZARD.

Northern Michigan Experiencing Another
"Worst of the Season."
MARQUETTE, Jan. 1.-THE worst
blizzard known here for three seasons
set in at midnight Sunday and is still
raging. Through trains are from two
to five hours late. Street car traffic is
suspended and business is at stand
still. On the Duluth and South Shore
road, in the famous ''snow belt" east of
Marquette between Munisiug and Au-
trim stations, the tracks were buried
under seven feet of snow. All the plows
on the road are out except the rotary,
which Is held in reserve.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-01-11
Have E.saa,YtI l,usjuess.

New YpRE. jim. IL Waylapd Trask
ago, resumed business today. The firm
is composei oi Wdyland Trask and Al
fred RankId.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Directors OF the Mendocno Asylum
for furnishing tie materials and performing
the labor necessary for supplying one 1000
light automatic regulating gas machine, with
mixer OF the latest and most improved pat
tern and capable of using permanently open,
unadjuStable burners.
Machine to be operated by water-power and
set complete in the building provided by the
State for that purpose at the Mendocino Asy-
lum, together with all necessary pipe and fit
ungs and gas governors, or checks, as per
plans and specifications now file in the
Office of the Secretary of the Board of Directors
of the Mendocino Asylum.
said proposals Will be received by said
Board OF Directors at the Office of its Secre-
tary in Ukian City, Cal. up to 10 o'clock a.
NJ, on the 10TH DAY OF JUNE, 1898.
Each proposal shall be accompanied by a
bond OF at least 10 per cent. OF the amount of
such proposal. The board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
May s, 1898. THOS. l.. C-A-ESDFH HER5,
President of the Board of Directors of the
Mendocino Asylum.
Attest: j. NJ. MANNoN, Secretary.
my12-4W
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court it will come to be understood that
the paper is simply one of the attorneys
on the side of the case it advocates and
its utterances will have no weight either
with the court or with the public. A con-
dition has been reached now where that
view is accepted by the public. All that
remains is the pretense of independence
on the part of the journals. OF course,
we know that there exists still a large
and respectable element which consti-
tutes an exception to these structures, but
we also know as well that this condemna-
ton of modern journalistic ethics is
overwhelmingly sustained by facts.