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The times., 1897-03-20
OratoricaIC Contests.

The thirty eighth annual oratorical con-
test of St. Johns College was held last
evening, and. de spite the unfayorable
weather was, attended by large au-
Gience The contest was a departure
from the heretofore forensic GRAFTON, all
the subjects being treated in the style of
essay.
The times., 1897-03-20

1t is pointed out that the responsibility
Of being consul general to Havana might
cool off Field Marshal Murat Halstead. 1t
is risky thing to try, but perhaps it is
worth while.
The times., 1897-03-20

ment with earnestness and spirit, the
country would be better pleased than 1t
could be with the passage of several ar
bitration treaties.
The times., 1897-03-20

Col Hay is credited to the District OF
Columbia, and perhaps it is the intention
of the President to treat all Ohio ap-
pointees in the same way.
The times., 1897-03-20
Lives Lost in a Storm.

Berlin, March 19.-High winds and severe
hail storms prevailed throughout the
greater part of Germany last night, doing
Il great deal of damage in many places.
Several lives were lost and many per-.
were injured.
The times., 1897-03-20
Has Senator K yle joined the Republicans?

The Republican Senatorial noinln ee in
Kentucky does not drink, smoke, play
cards, or bet on the races. No wonder he
never had show.
The times., 1897-03-20
The Magic
Kid Glove Cleanser

uasno euual 1t is a vegetable compound.
narfeetly harmless, and is also highly recon-
Tfneuded for removing dirt. grease and paint
sDots from silks, wOolenS, carpets, etc.
nemonstration in Glove department, first
moor. Prices, 3 and soc per box.
The times., 1897-03-20

Some of the inauguration stands still
stand Why?
The times., 1897-03-20
PINGREE is NOT MAYOR.
Michigan's Governor Cannot Longer
Sarve as Detroit's Executive.

Lansing. Mich, March 19.-The supreme
court of Michigan decided today that the
office OF mayor of Detroit became vacant
when Hazen s Pingree took the oath of
office as governor of Michigan on Janu-
airy 1. A new election must be held
to elect a new mayor for Detroit.
The times., 1897-03-20
New Shoes for
Children.

Many of the spring styles
for boys and girls are now
in, including both tan and
black Popular prices pre-
vail.
FhHdren's New Dark Tan Goat Button
Shoes, round toe. Sizes s to 3. Per
Z. -. - e. - . cA..SD
Sizes II 20 z. Per pdir............S 81 90
Little Boys New Black Calf Balls and
kuSset Goat. Sizes 3 l-2 to Is 1-2. c,
ID, and Z lasts. Per pair. SO
Cniidrens New Dark Tan Hand-turn Balls.
ana Button shoes. Sizes s TO g. c, ID aud
lasts. Per pair Ir.....................Sl.3 SO
"a floor.
The times., 1897-03-20
Saturdays
Pure Food List.

Hotel and Boarding-h house
Keepers and Private Fami-
lies can save a penny or so
on nearly every article
bought in our Canned Goods
Department. We quote in
part:
The times., 1897-03-20
WOODWAR
@aaeLOTHROP, and
Muslin
Underwear.
10Th. 1lth and F SIS. N. W.


The early spring special
sale will be continued today,
Attention is called to seven
items at Soc. each, which
represent the best intrinsic
values possible to name at
the price:
Good Muslin Gowns. Hubbard style, high
or We neck, double yoke in back, yoke OF
Insertion aad tuckS in front, rurfie ON neck
and sleeves. Each.
Good Muslin Long Skirts, ruffle OF EN-
nr6ildery 6i1. or plain tucked ruffle; tape at at
"als"- Each -----.------ ---.---oOc
Good Muslin Short Skirts. umbrella shape.
Turrie or embroidery; French back: tape
at waist Each. .............--......-..0 500
Good Muslin Drawers, umbrella shape.
rufrle OF embroidery Cambria Draw
ers, with tucked ruffle. Pair...-.......5Oo
Cambria Corset Covers. We or low neck;
trimmed with fine embroidery. Each. 800
Melton Cloth Skirts. dark gray with
wide ruffle and bias fold Eacb........6Oc
Special.
25 dozen Black Satteen
Skirts, with 1, 2 or 8 ruff
fles, good length and width,
French back, fast black.
6OC. EACH.
I'd floor.
The times., 1897-03-20

It OF Nickel Bicycle Lamps.
96C EACH.
The times., 1897-03-20

food Muslin Gowns Hubbard styie, high
or We neck, double yoke in back, yoke OF
Insertion aad tuckS in front. ruffie ON neck
and sleeves. Eacf ........... ...........0OO
The times., 1897-03-20

Good Muslin Long Skirts, ruffle OF EN-
broidery or plain tucked ruffle; tape at
waist. Each ................. soc
The times., 1897-03-20

Good Muslin Short Skirts. umbrella shape.
Tufrie OF embroidery; French back. tape
at waist. Each .,..........,.......50 500
The times., 1897-03-20

Good Muslin Drawers, umbrella shape.
rufrle OF embroidery Cambria Draw
ers, With tucked ruffle. Pair...-.......5OO
The times., 1897-03-20

Cambria Corset Covers, We or low neck;
trimmed with fine embroidery. Each. 500
The times., 1897-03-20
New


New Toys arriving al
most daily. The staple sorts
always in stock.
The times., 1897-03-20

Sd floor.
The times., 1897-03-20

Melton Cloth Skirts. dark gray with
wide ruffle and bias fold Each.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
The French Revolution.

Following IS the GRAFTON Of N. W .
Campbell, Of the West Virginia
University at Commencement Hall,
May 18th, 1885,, in the third oratorical
contest Of Western Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, embracing the
following colleges: West Virginia
University, Westminster, Geneva,
Waynesburg Bethany, Western
University Of Pennsyl vania, Thiel
and Allegheny This Grafton won
the gold prize medal
On the memorable night of July
IA. 1889, as Louis XVI was reposing
In his palace at Versailles a messens
ger suddenly burst into his presence
shouting, Sire, the Bastile isstorm
ed It is, a revolt, I replied the
king, turning again to rest. Sire,
IT is not i revolt lit is revolution! r
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
Ghr .f)nr1thnnk stertPs.

These books alike valuable to the student ana le
which can be said Of very few text
books Owing to the onbook arrangement the part which
the student needs buried by the while
practitioner he finds the annotatons correlated win e
PRINCIPLES Just where hewauts them, /;
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
The English Department Of the
West Virginia University.
BY RoBr. q. ARMSTRONG, PROFESSOR
or ENGLISH.

BY RoBr. "A. ARMSTRONG, PROFESSOR
or ENGLISH.
No study in the college cufricu-
lum is SO directly and practically
important as the study of English;
yet none furnishes problems more
perplexing to one who has high
ideal Of what our colleges should
do for their students in the way Of
giving them facility in She use Of
their mother tongue and an inspir-
ing taste ofits literary treasures.
It's not claimed that this depart
ment Of our University has done
much toward solving these prob
lens. But an earnest attempt
has been made to improve the
work by always keeping in view
the newer and better aims in the
teaching of English.
In the year now closing there
have been offered nine courses. -
-Four Of these are courses required
Of under graduates, and the other
FIVE are electives. Some of these
courses have three hours, others
two hours, Of class work a week,
and all taken together require
twenty hours Of class work, with
an addition of two hours due to
divided classes.
The first course occupies three
hoursa week throughout the year.
This work has three objects in view:
(I) to give the student an elemen-
tary knowledge Of the history and
etymology of the English language
as a help to further work I'M more
advanced classes; [21 to give the
student a general outline Of the
history of English literature, So that
he may be able to take more adj
vanced courses OF do general read
ing intelligently; 81 to make every
student intimately acquainted with
a few Of the masterpieces Of the
greatest English writers, by read
ing them critically and with a thor
ough understanding Of every SEN
tence.
Besides this work every student
is required to read, as collateral
work, fifteen. books for the year;
he selects these books from a fur
nished list of half a hundred master.
pieces Of poetry, history, fiction,
criticism, etc, and makes aSreport
on each one BY oral OF written ex-
animation, or BY written review
The second course is a two hour
course in rhetoric. The uneven
ness Of entrance preparation in En-
glish makes it necessary in this
course to pay attention TO many Of
the fundamentals Of composition.
Though there are both precept and
practice in this work, the empha-
sis Is sthroWn upon rhetoric as an.
art. The entrance requirements
hereafter will include fair profcien-
~ ii composition, yet adj itional
practice work will be required so.
as to ground the student well IN
q
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07

g -
Reign Of Terror
Paris Is the mo
~, j, ~ /; 4; 4 ~, i n 4 Is 1

Paris Is the mo
magnificent of all
every mart thrills with ths
and enterprise Of THE later q
tion. But 4 solitary dreamer
Wanders into one of its u
suburbs at midnight Mhs
thropg Of the day sleeps AM
the monotonous moaning
wind and the dripping of Il
breaks the slumbers Of the
will be seized with the wild
nations of the past; the ~
streets vanish, dark alley
about him and the panoply q
clouds his vision. He sees ags
lurid flames of the BastiIes til
procession moving to the gn
the torrent Of blood below, an
fire above; ghosts and ghonls
dead spirits stalk forth again
the hurricane RACES in All ifs d
al fury. Titans and monsters
demons people the earth The
of hurrying pinions and the sc
of reyeling Furies fill the air.
the CLEAN Of a giant sword AM
shape of q hand mightier than i
is lifted above the abyss and
combatants fall down speech
crushed in the aweof that ter
presence. The cry Of the stri
was heard, and the soul Of Ri
pierre was still; his reign had
ed into everlasting silence.
death knell Of despotism III,
archy had sounded, and The da|
political equality had daWned.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
Icy, -
What

4. What
Monkeying is.
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
uh 9
MARSHALL COLLEGE
State Normal School

Invites iii parents teachers prospective teachers young
men and young women, Is carefully read the following
Young men and expecting IT, teaeh san secure
Dpotn,ens either through county
school ire 81 tuition paying only incidental Zee per term g
three months. . 4. .sas -.
Norn,al school doto where young ladies may
board immediate control Ct the principal 1ne senoo VIZ
lives ii the dormtory 49,.
Ill IL addition to library hundred volumes hiteen
hest magazines good and twenty edncauonai
journals il our Library which al studends have tree
Board can be secured from SO % q PEI monh
Fall Term opens tuesday, Sept. y, -
For particulars, address the principal
.GORBIN,
Huntington, w. Va
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
WI1e An1ertrn1t 9tprst

tbe Hornbooks. but putting you in possession
G Hoe recent decisions Of the which lawyer must
take into account before preparing his brief Inc
American Digest the standard land indeed the only am
nua digest Of American caseaw With Il you are surg =
covering the whole ground.
orhs Reporter for gonr 0,p, State
@ of The current decisions Of your own Supreme
Court. II gives information which is essential
NE, " ee ~ anv books .anted-or we will send you our
catalogue and lists of secondhand books on request
WEST PUBEIS1lN1
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
what Aronke1ing Il.

"a good long time ago, I remember
still,
IJst 10 almost cry for cement
like d student will;
4 Ii bali games inothin' to it, tishin'
amt a smell,
Literary society, circus day, jes All
dead in the shell.
Lordy, though at night, you know I'd
set around hear
Orators work the story of about
patriotism and hear the people
8 /. cheer;
And seniors skootin round the place
an dressed, and hear EN- buzz
Long
4 Afore
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07

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The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
KnogWyed
What

Size the Seniors up, and figure how he
could
Manage to get through the exams.
like they said he would. Z
. Wisht that could be a Senior,
wonder what they'd say,
IF they ketched a Teller monkeying
that away; M
But I bet on him and liked him, same
as If he had
Got through without monkeying and
being bad.
All, those were the days | began to
raise fuzz
Long
Afore l.
I[nOWed
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07

- 49, ,oa nd dSsisShs which seas q
! feS1rs not contained other edition. SIS. s.
u me reader should obtain more elaborate ~ 81 ]
s H. ns n another standard who has written s
s. he matter VIII also md ey ap n
cases ci. T. yn 81 excellent elucidation Of the text
4 yel settled that principle n law can arse Mn'e I
II the Commentaries tho foot notes one COUSINS anS s
s @ an r. followed by sheppards Tables which give az
cases from the citation IN the notes Wy ~ ~
fney have blackstone basis with cases eaoaeu w
and showing every phase Of the subject from sna 'u' q
makes d most excellent Brief F""
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07

g. =. SKI ER
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
lA. ROG6RS
The Photoqrphs

Z Rgs0TI Fol guIlmsIsiaI gl1
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
KnoWied
Monkeying
S3t WE.


Wuzz
Wisht that yarn was true about
Seniors being good as they 'peared
to be,
Truth made out o. lies like that un's
s good enough for me,
Wisht / was still SO contidin', I could
jes go wild
Over hearin' Senior crate, like a lit
tie child,
\ Wishb there was greatness in a
name like there ust to be,
And then y'ud have your fortune
made when ure Senior, see?
But Pm half sorry for the Junior who
amt got down to biz
Long
farn a8Gs5 ~ Essa4FEtf Is 3BEe
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
KnoWed
M hat

g MonlKeying
Wuzz
Ust to sport and stay out late q week
or two ahead
Couldn't hardly keep straight, or
wheels out'n our head,
Students on examination, and teach
lers settin' here,
Watchins 'em, and restin, in the
screechy, easy cheer,
Seniors gap and wonder where their
penknife went,
CROSS the room to borrow one and
drop their document,
And me q lookin' and d learnin jes,
how the Others does
Long
ss ~ a farn 358 ssS5
The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1897-06-07
Ybe YOUNG Lawyer andH Library.
Essentials FirstLuxuries III, Due Time.

certain number Of practical and reliable text books are
the necessities to present the principles Of law IN the
c;a branches that brought up by actual cases in pra
flee There is no set that will do this SO well as
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-04
Found His Bearings.

An amusing incident occurred in the
hearing of collision case in the admiralty
court, before Sir Francis Jeune and Trim
ity House assessors. A typical old salt,
with only one eye, got along quite salts
factorily with his examination in chief,
but was rather nonplused when the OPP
posing counsel began to cast some doubts
upon his evidence. The old tar got over
the first three or four questions safely, but
his wrath rose as the cross examination
proceeded. At length he could restrain the
full gale of Indignation no longer, and
buttoning his jacket tightly he leaned over
the rails of the witness box and cried:
81 beg your pardon, but who might you
be misterf" The court roared with laugh
ter, in which the president and assessors
heartily Joined.
The counsel replied: "Oh, am against
you" AT this admission the sailor SEEM
cd much relieved and remarked: "Oh, L
SEQ. Now know my bearings and must
steer accordingly. London Telegraph.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-04
Chastising Clairs.

Students Of the human character may be
Interested in noting how Yorkshire bar.
onet, sometime since called to his rest, used
to punish his servants. During the greater
part of his life he was a momber of parlia-
ment, and throughout his whole career he
was remarkable for mental vigor, fertility
of resource and shrewdness of observation.
Arranging a number of chairs together
in his dining room, he would associate the
name of each one Of his servants with a
particular chair, and then, arming himself
with thick stick would proceed to con
vict and chastiso the offender.
The first two or three of these chairs he
would probably pass by, saying that those
particular servants were all right, until
coming TO the chair associated with the
man in disgrace he would proceed to break
his stick over it, exclaiming loudly that
the unfortunate individual was rogue
and a vagab0nd and any other abusive
epithet that might occur to him.
Meanwhile the servants, listening be.
hind the door, were able to announce the
approaching dismissal of the servant con
victod and chastised in this peculiar man
nor. Such n statement appearing in a
novel, might be supposed TO hayo had its
origin in the imagination of the writer,
but it is here set down rs plain matter
of fact. Pearson Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-04
They Take Long Baths In Japan.

The Rev. w. Weston, in the course of d
paper on "The Geography of Japan read
before the Geographical society in London,
stated some facts which, SO far as we
know, are new in the history of hygiene
In the mountains there arc many hot min
eral springs, nesting generally in gullios
below the highest points, but still far up
the ascents. The peasantry are very fond
of these baths and indulge i'm them To an
incredible extent. The temperature is usu-
ally from 100 degrees to 1870 degrees F.,
and in one place Mr.. Weston knew
of, "where the water was just about blood
heat, "a man would stay in practically for
month ON end, taking care, however, to
place heavy stone on his knees to keep
him from floating or turning over in his
sleep The caretaker of this particular es-
tablishment, "A CHEEKY old man of some 20
summers, himself staid in the bath the
whole winter through" We know from
the experience of the south sea islands
that human being can live in warm sea
water for 80 hours, but that life can be
maintained practically for months in sui
phureted fresh water is an addition to the
records of human endurance. One won
ders what other qualities of fish such men
possess.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-04
The French Institute.

The institute has 800 members, besides
40 honorary members (membres libres),
32 foreign associates and 2iS correspond
ents. 1t has had no patron since 1870
"a city without king, which admits tho
sons of kings" as Sully Prudhomme says.
The meetings, held at first in the Louvre,
now take place in the Palais Mazarin,
which was given to the institute in 1905,
and to which new building was added
under Louis Philippe. The library was
partly derived from the old academies. 1t
consists of more than 900, 900 volumes and
Is constantly increasing. The total num-
Der of academicians since 1895 has been
LOAF. Many of these were of modest
origin and poor and the story is told of
AdaSson, who when he was elected at the
age of 80 to the Academy of Sciences was
obliged to say that he could not go to the
public sitting, as he had no shoes
'No book would be more admirable nor
more touching" says the Comte De
Franqueville, Ethan that in which the
history of most of these men was told
What mighty efforts, what heroic struggles
and what wholesome lesson would be
taught by the contrast between society of
the nineteenth century, where the love of
luxury, the thirst for comfort and tho
habit of fertility of mind make every day
fresh progress, and that world of savants,
among whom reign supreme the passion
for work, the search for truth, the disdain
of riches, the cult Of intellectual things!"
-Fortnightly Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-04
Meteoric Bodies.

The opinion is attributed to some astron-
omers that it is possible for the earth, I'M
der certain circumstances, to capture as
satellites some of tho rowing meteorio bod
les known TO be so numerous i'm space in
stead of bringing them to the surface as
aerolites, and that, as these bodies are too
small to be seen-a mass of 100 tons being
invisible at 500 or |, 600 miles when bright
ly lighted-the earth may be attended by
hundreds of invisible moons. Sir j. Her.
schel is cited as even of the opinion that
they may be large enough to DO visible for
brief intervals when beyond the earth s
shadow, and Sir John Lubbock has actu-
ally supplied formula for calculating the
distances from observations of this kind.
M. Petit, also, director of the observatory
at Toulouse, is quoted as having been led
by observation and calculation to conclude
that the earth Is attended by at least one
meteoric stone of considerable size-one
about 80 times nearer than the moon-its
orbit being 5000 miles from the earth's
surface, tho tiny moon revolving round
the earth in hours and 20 minutes.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-04
Hall Caine and Gladstone.

He (IIall Caine) left school at tho age of
10 and was apprenticcd by his father to
John Murray, architect and land surveyor.
Tho lad had no special faculties Tor archi-
lecture beyond possessing "a fair bnowl-
edge of drawing. When only - lie drew
the map of England which appeared in tho
first edition of Gill's Geography"
John Murray was agent for the Lam
cashire estates of w. H. Gladstone, and it
was in this way that Hall Caino first be-
came known to the statesman, who from
the first has been among his keenest adj
mirers. One of the first occasions on which
he attracted Mr.. Gladstone's attention was
one day when he was experimenting the
surveying of Seaforth, Gladstone's estate
Gladstone was surprised to see SO small u
lad in charge of the chainmen and began
to talk with him. He must have been i'm
pressed by tho lads conversation, for he
patted his head and told him he would be
a fine man yet. Mr. Gladstone has never
forgotten this incident. Some years later,
John Murray having failed in the mean
while, an offer was made to Hall Caine
from the Gladstones of the stewardship of
the Seaforth estate at a salary of a120 a
year. Although the thought of so much
wealth, he relates, overwhelmed me- L
did not sec in this offer the prospect of any
career-indeed this had been pointed out
to me-and l determined to continue in
the architects office" He accordingly at
tached himself as pupil or apprentice to
Richard Owens, the architect. -McClure's
Magazine.