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VOL. XXIV. SEPTEMBER, 1896. No. 7.

EDITORS FROM CLASS OF 1897. J. STANLEY DURKEB Editor-in-Chief. CARL E. MILLIKEN. EMMA V. CHASE. RICHARD B. STANLEY. NELLY A. HOUGHTON. EVERETT SHILLINGS.

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CONTENTS. A Complete Life 165 The Fellowship of Suffering K>7 The Measure of a Man 168 Herostratus 170 COLLEGE NEWS AND INTERESTS. 172 AROUND THE EDITORS' TABLE 177 BATES VEUSE 180 ALUMNI DEPARTMENT 18,'S COLLEGE EXCHANGES 187 OUR BOOK-SHELF 188 CLIPPINGS 1

A COMPLETE LIFE. tiful, the richness, the perfectness of N artist paints a beautiful picture, the work is due to the presence of each and the world stands in wonder part, blending with and enhancing every and admiration before it. Among the oilier, thus forming a symmetrical aud throng some venture an opinion. One beautiful whole. says, "The artist's skill consists in And just as these failed to under- graceful drapery " ; another, " Rich col- stand this picture, so do men continu- oring gives the painting its beauty " ; ally fail to understand, what is of vital and still a third, "The painter excels importance, the truly beautiful life, in delineating faces." But all these Some few think they discover life's fail to interpret the complete beauty meaning. This one would give all for of the picture. They do not see that pleasure ; another says knowledge is while each element alone may be beau- the only worthy aim for man ; while 166 THE BATES STUDENT. that one yonder exclaims, "Learn to with all these evils. But while knowl- do one thing well, and your life will edge may do much to broaden and succeed." But all these are wrong. elevate us, just as long as we persist in As with the picture, no one gift or squandering our powers on the empty power makes life strong and beautiful. things of life, there is nothing that can The best life requires each part, whether develop our whole nature. We fail by physical, mental, or spiritual, fully de- making our lives artificial and selfish. veloped, but subordinate to one perfect Moreover, one of the hardest qualities whole. to acquire when it is lost, and yet one The symmetrical, complete life is the that is absolutely necessary before the ideal one ; but how far we are from whole man can develop, is simplicity. realizing this. Look at humanity, and Wheu we learn to like things and want behold how one-sided, ugly, deformed ! them simply because we know in our At first thought we say, how strange inmost souls that they are true and this is when such a beautiful life is beautiful, then are we ready to take possible. But consider.- It is only the the good God has for us in this worhl. few who look life in the face and try And just as we need simplicity, so also to understand its meaning. The mass we need unselfishness. As soon as a accept the world's standards almost man makes himself the centre of the y without a thought. In the hot race for universe, he will find that only very wealth, position, fame, "Who will be little worlds can revolve about him. first?" is the cry. And the throng The selfish man has merely his own rush blindly on, each trying to get small interests to feed his soul on ; so ahead of his neighbor, each eager for that he soon becomes dwarfed and the lion's share of these seeming treas- incapable of appreciating the true and ures. In this delusive race men spend the noble. But the man with the warm, their whole lives; and only realize the open heart has the whole universe to emptiness of these treasures when it is develop his powers ; so that his soul is too late. They are slaves to the world's continually growing more beautiful and opinions ; and almost all of us feel this complete. bondage in some degree. Perhaps we Then if we would have our lives read foolish books because they are perfect and symmetrical, we should popular. Possibly we follow some silly remember that only as we make them fashion, when we know that it violates simple and unselfish is this possible. our sense of the beautiful. And some- On these two qualities depends our times, it may be, we do not dare to power to use the gifts God has given take the unpopular side of a moral us for making our lives capable of all question. When we think how wan- the happiness, the usefulness, and the tonly we cramp and deform our lives, beauty in the divine plan. does it seem strange that they fall so If we have these two qualities, then far below the ideal? will each part of life do its share toward Some look to learning to do away forming this complete whole. Youth, THE BATES STUDENT. 167 life's morning, will be rich in hope and walk on, and let Nature with her joy- earnestness, and will furnish a wide ousness beguile you into forgetting that and firm foundation. Then the noon- there is such a thing as sadness, when day of life, from the fierce battles suddenly you start and shiver. What fought and won, will bring strength and is that blot on the landscape? Only a experience ; and old age will pick up funeral train, but somehow as the slow- the dropped stitches, smooth the rough moving procession passes out of sight edges, and blend the parts together into the light of the morning seems to have a graceful whole. And just as the fair faded. Ah ! need you go farther to day ends with the bright sunset hues, learn the lesson ? Yes, to learn it per- so the beautiful life closes not in gloomy fectly, it may be; yet in the midst of clouds, but with a glorious revelation of youth's glad harmonies your reluctant what may be hereafter, in the presence ears can have scarcely failed to catch of the Father of Lights, the Giver of at times the minor chord, while into every good and perfect gift, " with life's prime there has come again and whom is no variableness, neither again some dim perception, vaguely shadow of turning." felt at first, of the meaning of the EMMA V. CHASK, '97. words, " For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." THE FELLOWSHIP OF SUFFERING. Since, then, this is life's great law, "\I-r-F often hear it said that "the let us seek to find its meaning. There ti world is what you make it," and is said to be off the northern coast of there is surely much of truth in the Ceylon a submerged bank of about words ; for the optimist life has more twenty miles in length, where, for two of light than shadow, while the pessimist thousand years, extensive oyster fish- under the same circumstances reverses ing has been carried on. The oysters this rule. Yet even the lightest heart are sought, however, not for food but must sooner or later have its Geth- for pearls, and so many are found that semane, for we and all mankind alike the profits of the business in a single live under a law as unalterable as the year are often over a million dollars. law of sin and death, namely, the law Bat what are pearls? Whence do they of suffering. come? What causes them? We are Go out under the open sky some sun- told that a tiny grain of sand, it may shiny morning. How gentle the breeze ! be, works its way inside the shell of How sweet the (lowers by the roadside ! the oyster, and this coming in contact How all Nature rejoices ! Watch those with the flesh, causes pain. The little birds ; how proud and happy they seem creature cannot rid himself of the irri- over their uest of birdlings. Yet within tating substance, but Nature in time an hour their joyous songs may be furnishes relief by forming a crust of changed to mourning, while an empty hard, calcareous matter about it. This nest sways in the summer wind. Yet constitutes the pearl—the product of lfiS THE BATES STUDENT. pain. The larger and more irritating ing chalcedony, for purity; and next the substance, the larger and more flashes out the green—the hope of glory. beautiful the pearl. Then they mingle and alternate,—the In the beautiful temple of Solomon tenderness and the pain and the puri- the sacred altar and all the vessels fying. It is the veined sardonyx stands of the inner sanctuary, the most holy for that,—the life-story." place, were made of pure gold. hut Yea, truly the life-story and the life- no gold untried by fire could have found lesson as well; the pain and the puri- acceptance there. fying and the tenderness which grows In the earl}' days of the Christian out of it all. Have you ever had some era, an aged man is banished to a lonely great sorrow come into your life ? Then O isle. Faithful has he been to his life's you remember how, after the first shock mission, yet the more fiercely for that had passed, your heart went out in a seems to break the cloud, big with per- great passion of tenderness and longing secutions, on his head. Yet to whom to comfort all earth's weary, moaning is it granted to look into the opened multitudes ; how even a little child's heavens; to see the walls of jasper passing grief seemed no longer trivial and the streets of gold ; to see the to you, but how every tear seemed to throne and Him that sitteth thereon? ease the burden of your own sorrow, To whom but to this aged saint, puri- which lay too deep for tears. Ah, that fied by persecutions and afflictions ; and is the fellowship of suffering, and only to his own wondering questioning as he when we have learned that lesson may gazes at the great multitude which we begin to understand the love of no man can number, is returned the Iliin who through suffering was made answer, These too "are they which perfect. came up out of great tribulation." And MABEL C. ANDKKWS, ".)7. how did they get into the Holy City? Through gates of pearl. The entrance to perfect blessedness can only be THE MEASURE OF A MAN. through gates of pain. We love to CiONSIDERKI) in its deep and true think of the beautiful figure of the ^ significance, what problem is more gates of pearl and streets of gold, and difficult than the measurement of a the wonderful wall of preeious stones. man ! It is easy to sound the depths Do we know as well the value of the of the ocean and compute the position pain they symbolize? Mrs. Whitney, of the stars, for to man it is given to in her beautiful interpretation of the measure all else in God's creation. wall of jasper and sapphire, says: Hut who shall measure man himself, "See! this crimson that lies at the created in the image of God? very beginning,—it is the color of pas- Yet, in all the relations of life, this sion, of suffering. Out of the crimson problem is constantly confronting us. we climb into the blue,—that is truth Some one has said that " Every man and calm ; beyond is the white glisten- has three selves : the man as he appears THE BATES STUDENT. 169 to others, the man as he knows him- with food and shelter. From the utter- self, and the real man." Society, for most parts of the earth are brought each of us, is composed of men and the necessaries for his table. Music, women as we know them. Vaguely ait, and literature are summoned to and unconsciously, perhaps, hut con- supply the needs of his higher nature. stantly we are measuring our fellow- Increasing need is the constant law men ; we are measuring ourselves, and of growth. The tiny twig which shoots in proportion as our estimates are just, up from the swelling acorn in the our views of life are true and right. spring needs but a ray of sunshine Of supreme and vital interest, then, and a little clod of earth to make it to every thinker, is the question: grow. But as years pass on the trunk What is the truest standard for the thickens and roots and branches spread measurement of a man? until the kingly oak draws its life from We measure man by his possessions the soil and sunshine of half the hill- without regard to the chance of birth side. So a man's needs grow as his or fortune by which those possessions life expands. Each victory brings may have been acquired. We measure new battles to be fought; each attain- man by his deeds and forget to reckon ment reveals new possibilities. the external influences, the accidents Sir Isaac Newton said of himself of opportunity which have helped to near the close of his wonderful career: determine the character of his deeds. '•Like a little child playing on the Such standards as these are conven- sea-shore, I have found here a shell, tional and superficial. They deal with there a pebble more beautiful than the the exterior of the man and show him ordinary, while the great ocean of as he seems to be; but as true crite- truth lay all undiscovered before me." rions of character they are, at best, And it is ever so. He that lacks least partial and insufficient. The real man is measured neither needs most. He that rises highest has by what he has nor by what he does, the broadest outlook. Need, then, but by what he needs ; by the things indicates not poverty, but wealth, and which he finds necessary to make his a man's life is broad and noble in life complete. proportion to the breadth and nobility The savage has few needs. A meagre of his needs. subsistence from the proceeds of the Moreover, this is not only the surest chase, a rude shelter from the storm, but also the finest and most subtle test a few bright feathers or bits of shell by which to take the measure of a man. with which to deck his person, and he For a need is the expression of a man's is satisfied. Hut the rising scale of whole nature. He needs nothing which civilization is accompanied by a corre- does not find some response within sponding increase of needs until, at himself. The queen delights her royal last, the highest stage is reached when eyes with the beauties of earth's fairest man's needs are bounded only by the garden-lands, and the ragged child in world. Thousands toil to supply him the city streets gazes wistfully at the 170 THE BATES STUDENT. beautiful flowers in a florist's window. the wonder of the world. Grander even But, whether found in queen or beggar than Solomon's temple, grander than child; the need of beauty, the passion Athens' Parthenon, a nobler work never for the beautiful, means beauty in came from hand of man. Through the the soul. Thus, no matter what the snowy columns were wafted the solemn outward circumstances may be, each chantings ; through the courts glided need reveals unerringly a correspond- the silent priests ; round the smoking ing trait of character. Count up, if altars of the crescent goddess thronged you will, all a man's words and deeds; the pilgrims ; the perfection of pagan weigh them in the balances and pass worship was here. Hut into this beauty, upon their worth, and yet you may stealing through the massive shadows, have misjudged the real man who is comes the destroyer, and in a lurid behind it all. Hut discover his needs, pillar of fire ascends this grandeur, a the true fountains of his life, and the very sacrifice to its own patron, leav- real man stands revealed hefore you. ing only heap upon heap of smoulder- True education, then, is the creation ing ruins. Then from the torture of of needs so broad and noble as to the rack, uttered between the groan- make a return to the former narrow ings of the man and that of the terri- life impossible. For the college stu- ble wheels, we may hear this confes- dent the crucial question is not How sion : "I burned your temple that my much knowledge have you gained? name might live forever," and in the but How much that is true and beau- last agony comes the dying shriek, tiful and noble are you making essen- " and my name is Herostratus ! " Des- tial to your life? How much broader pite man's edicts and decrees, that name is your vision? How much more do comes writhing and hissing from the you need to-day than yesterday ? For past to the present, and will go on in true nobility reveals itself most surely its twisting way into the dim beyond in noble aspiration. of the future, a synonym of all scorn He that is most needs most to help and infamy, until in the last great day him live. And who shall say that God shall take his book and blot it needs, divinely high and infinitely out. Hut a new temple arose under broad, are not to be the measure of the hand of one of the world's heroes, the perfect man in the grand, eternal Alexander of Macedon, born by singu- life beyond? lar coincidence on the very night of its C. E. MlI.LIKEN, '97. destruction. The resistless power, then, that drove HEROSTRATUS. Herostratus to this infamy was false IN all its matchless symmetry and ambition, the striving for what should simplicity stood the temple of Diana, not be his. Myriads of men are driven the embodiment of the loftiest ideal- like him to like fate. There is all the ism of the Greek, the glory of Ephesus, difference of east and west between THE BATES STUDENT. 171 this and the high incentive of a noble thought Canute the Dane that he could life. Strange that men should mistake command the sea. the paths, both leading from the twi- "Though the cause of evil prosper, yet'tis light of the morning, but one into the truth alone is strong, blackness of the night, the other into And albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng the glory of the perfect day ; the one Troops of beautiful, tall angels to enshield ending with the flickering beam that her from all harm." wavers and dies away, the other ending Finally, in Herostratus, we may see in light triumphant, guiding every truly a type of every man who, blindly noble soul over life's pathway. It was imagining that fame is life's only end, this glimmer of false ambition, the attacks the world's true and beautiful, bane of every life it shines on, that and falling from the recoil of his own urged Thomas Wolsey on into the crime, receives in the very counter- darkness of artfulness, dissimulation, stroke the curse of that he longed for. and diplomacy, and then went out, And, too, let us set this down : that leaving him on the dizzy heights which nothing lasts like an evil name. Con- such as he are never fit to reach, to spirators, assassins, and traitors are fall like Lucifer into the abyss of ever remembered. Guy Fawks waiting obloquy, crying his warning to us all : to blow parliament into eternity, Bene- " Cromwell, Ichargethee,fling away ambition. dict Arnold rowing down the Hudson, By that sin fell the angels; how can man and my lord of Jeffries laughing in the then, The image of his Maker, hope to win hy't? bloody Wiltshire shambles, were mak- Love thyself last." ing the destiny of their names such as But as the new temple, more beau- we speak only in loathing, but which tiful, more sublime than the old, rose still live on. If all of life were to from the nuns, so from the heel of the leave a name, whether pure and shining, destroyer rises every truly noble thing, or stained and tarnished with corrup- a certain proof of greatness. If Prov- tion, there were many a tortuous way idence permitted each malignant shaft to reach that goal. to reach its mark, then all that is good But what should be the restitution on earth must surely pass away ; but to such Herostrati? Surely the rack, there is an angel's correction for each man's punishment, is little. But the devil's work. You thought, Caiaphas, Almighty, acting beyond our wisdom, when you sealed that stone before the gives such their only wish, and thus tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, that you metes out an awful justice, a name to had destroyed the temple of our Lord ; be as the mark of Cain. To be called but you failed, and your people are through eternity by a name won thus your living witnesses. You thought, on earth, must be a bitter reminder of Julian and Voltaire—you now think, a misspent life. Robert Ingersoll, that the tenets of Thus, from the contemplation of Christianity may be destroyed; so such a man, we do well if we grasp 172 THE BATES STUDENT. this thought: To live only for the best, baseness. A name unfairly gained is and then if we win a name it is well like the haven of the Sirens, easily prized ; but to do one conscious act reached, but best steered clear of. for fame alone, that is the depth of RICHARD B. STANLEY. May 28,1896.

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NINETEEN HUNDRED. Charles Page Dennison, South Paris High School. SEVENTY-FIVE young ladies and Ed. Payson Davis, Lewiston High School. gentlemen filled the Freshman seats Richard Stanley Merrill Emrich, at first chapel, September 8th, and will Framinghaui (Mass.) High School. be known henceforth as the Class of Perley C. Elder, Lewiston High School. Mary Belle Ford, Lewiston High School. 1900, unless they wisely devise a briefer Ethel Grace Files, Lewiston High School. title. If first impressions count for Charles Lewis Foster, Latin School. anything the class is certainly a Horace Mayland Fernald, Thornton Academy. promising one. Two-thirds of it Leslie Wilbur (Hidden. Latin School. are young men, — certainly, all will George Llewellyn Griffin, agree, a right proportion. Already New Hampton Literary Institution. Floe Louise Getchell, Lewiston High School. they have given evidence of physical Harold Clifford Goddard, prowess, and we believe many of them Auburn High School. will shine on the athletic field. Fol- Carl Perry Hussey, Guilford High School. lowing are their names and fitting Guy Ernest Healey, Friends School, Providence, It. I. schools: Ernest Forrest Johnson, Latin School. Frank Percy Ayer, Cornish High School. George Herbert Johnson, Latin School. Jane Eliza A very, Hallowell High School. William Sylvanus Jones, Ira Allen Butterfield, Dover High School. Maine Central Institute. H. M. Briry, Litchfleld Academy. Albert M. Jones, Maine Central Institute- Alice Mary Baldwin, Miss Joyce, Lewiston High School. Dearborn-Morgan School, Orange, N. J. Mary Belle Lamb, South Paris High School. Edward Percival Chase, Auburn High School. Arthur W. Lowe, Lewiston High School. Bessie Roberts Cole, Guilford High School. Parker Samuel Littlefleld, Daniel Marston Crosman, Maine Central Institute. Monmouth Academy. Mabelle Alice Ludwig, Silas Oliver Clason, North Yarmouth Academy. Lisbon Falls High School. John Francis Murphy, Lewiston High School. William Wentworth Courser, George Edward Manter, Latin School. New Hampton Literary Institution. Mabel Emery Marr, Alison Graham Catheron, North Yarmouth Academy. Beverly (Mass.) High School. Maude Frost Mitchell, Littleton High School. Carl Sargent Coffin, Maine Central Institute. Frank Henry Miller, Latin School. llena Dresser, Lewiston High School. Herman Rowe Parsons, Emma Clark Dixon, Lewiston High School. Edward Little High School. Harry Elmer Dunham, Latin School. Edith Stone Parker, Latin School. THE SATES STUDENT. 173

Annie Perry, Latin School. As usual the conference lasted ten Royce Davis Purington, Latin Scliool. days, and they were days of spirit- Bertram Everett Packard, Litchfield Academy. ual uplift. The daily conferences on Lester Lovett Powell, Maine Central Institute. association work, such as Bible study, Phillip Lowell Pottle, Lewiston High School. religious meetings, work for new stu- Hugh Pendexter, Latin School. dents, equipped those in attendance Harriet Davis Proctor, Northboro High School. with valuable methods for the work Justin Noble Rogers, Monson Academy. this year. The subjects of prayer, the Dennet Lervy Richardson, Holy Spirit, the Bible, missions, reform Maine Central Institute. work, practical Christian living, etc., Richard S. W. Roberts, Latin School. William Alvin Bobbins, were considered in the form of platform Batavia Union School. addresses by such men as Dr. Alex- Alpheus W. Rich, Higgins Classical Institute. ander McKenzie, Robert E. Speer, Dr. Everett Binney Stackpole, Edward Little High School. R. L. Torrey, Dr. A. F. Shauliler, and Blanch Burdin Sears, Lewiston High School. Mr. Moody. The address of Mr. Speer Pearl McAllister Small, on "The Unspotted Man," a manly Edward Little High School. Milton Gorham Sturgis, Latin School. presentation of a practical subject with Grace Sunimerbell, Lewiston High School. college men, was the most impressive Ferris Sunimerbell, Lewiston High School. of the entire session. The presence Adelaide Sweetzer, Thornton Academy. of Charles E. Studd of England, one Lucy Jane Small, Lisbon Falls High School. Hattio Skillings, Lewiston High School. of the famous "Cambridge seven," Leroy Gilbert Staples, gave enlivened interest to missions. North Berwick High School. The famous "Round Top" meetings, F. Harold Stinchfleld, Lewiston High School. Clara Maria Trask, back of Mr. Moody's home every Peabody (Mass.) High School. evening at seven, were very popular. George Nelson Thurlow, Latin School. Each meeting of the session seemed Grace Adrianna Tarbox, Lewiston High School. preparatory for the next, and the clos- Florence Ethel Thompson, ing session on the last Sunday night Lewiston High School. will long be remembered by those Artemas Ward Wing, Latin School. present. It seems impossible to esti- Daniel Webster Wentworth, Berwick Academy. mate the influence which the 487 Howard Gordon Wagg, delegates in attendance will carry Lewiston High School. to their respective colleges, scattered THE NORTHFIELD STUDENTS' through all the states, the coming year. CONFERENCE. 'flRIIE only intercollegiate fraternity THE Y. W. C. A. CONFERENCE AT II in which Bates can claim member- NORTHFIELD. ship assembled in annual convention at N the tenth of July last, between Northlield last July. In its ten repre- three and four hundred young sentatives, our college had the banner women assembled at Northfield for the delegation of the state. M. S. C. sent fourth annual convention of the Young five, Colby four, and Bowdoin two. Women's Christian Association. 174 THE BATES STUDENT.

One who has attended any of the four Bates delegates have returned, summer conferences at this spot, which praying that the Christian earnestness Mr.. Moody has done his utmost to and consecration exemplified at North- make attractive, knows how impossible field, may penetrate the whole College it is to explain what a thrilling sound this coming year. the very word "Northlield" has to us BKRTHA F. FILES, '98. who have been there. The enjoyment to be derived from the surpassing beauty HEARD ABOUT THE CAMPUS. of the surrounding scenery, Combined To the work ! with the wonderful inspiration to be Foot-ball is "on" in good earnest. obtained from attendance upon the meetings, make the place to seem Who will resurrect the college band? scarcely less than perfect. Miss Butterfield, ex-'97, is with 1900. The Hates Y. W. C. A. was repre- Childs will complete his course with sented this year by four of our girls, '97. three from '97 and one from '98. Haven't we material for a good glee Perhaps the regular programme for club? the day would give the best idea of The building fund has gone up to how busy we were while at Northlield. 81,200. The morning devotional service was Miss Cobb, '97, presides at the piano followed by Mr. Sallmon's class on the at chapel. "Life of Paul." Next was the col- lege conference, in charge of Miss The Latin School has an entering Nellie J. Allen. This, in turn, was class of 21. succeeded by a Bible hour, and then Tucker and Landman pull the bell- the programme of the forenoon was rope this year. concluded by "Talks on Association Butterfield, ex-'99, has become a Work," by Miss E. K. Price, the leader member of 1900. of the conference. Misses Hicks, Rounds, and Hastings, The Missionary Conference in the ex-'98, are with '99. afternoon was very practical and full A much-needed enlargement of the of suggestions which have been helpful Y. M. C. A. room was made the past to us in making our plans for the year. summer. The Sunset Meeting on Round Top Slattery, '97, and Pulsifer, '99, were was the most grandly inspiring meeting stars in the Knox County league this of the day. This was followed by the summer. closing service of the day. At these times we were addressed by Dr. Mac- Steam heat has been put into the Kenzie, Mr. Speer, Dr. A. C. Dixon, gym, thanks to the enterprise of Pro- Dr. Pierson, Mr. Moody, Miss Price, fessor Bolster. and others. Prizes in the Junior exhibition were In conclusion, let me say that the awarded to C. K. Milliken and Miss THE BATES STUDENT. 175

E. V. Chase ; the prize for Sophomore and also as assistant in Chemistry at essay to M. E. Stickney. the college. A few improvements have been made '99 welcomes to itself E. S. Grover, in the Polymnian room (hiring the past formerly of Dartmouth,'98. Mr. Grover summer. comes here with excellent promise as a She gazed across o'er the muddy street, track athlete. It would float the whole of H. B. M.'s fleet, Professor Strong and his geology Across to the distant black concrete, class make frequent excursions and Then ruefully down at her dainty feet. are doing some interesting work in A youth approached to the other side, local mineralogy. His whiskers were into his bootlegs tied, His Populist's hair blew far and wide, Through the efforts of Professor And he wished this maiden to be his bride. Strong the lecture room of the physical He had no mantle there to fall, laboratory has been very attractively He had never heard of Raleigh at ail- fixed up during the summer. But what is the use of an old red shawl To a man of Populistic gaul 1 '99's officers for this year are as follows: President, Bassett; Vice- He tied a rock in the whisker strands President, Wheeler; Secretary, Miss And threw it across to the maiden's hands. Well, now they are living in western lands, Blake ; Treasurer, Graff am. And he hoops those whiskers with silver An improved edition of the Students' hands. Hand-Book, issued by the Christian Skillings, Peacock, and Glidden are Associations of the college, appeared the teachers from the college at the at the beginning of the term. Latin School this year. 1900 has organized with the follow- Mr. John Corbett of Harvard has ing officers : President, Johnson ; Vice- been secured as coach for our foot-ball President, Stinchfield ; Secretary, Miss team for the entire fall. Baldwin ; Treasurer, Sturgis. Mary Buzzell, '97, again attended Several have come to Bates from Dr. Sargent's summer school at the other colleges. F. R. Griffin of Am- Heminvvay gymnasium, Harvard. herst joins '98 ; Grover of Dartmouth If there is no New England league and Hutchins of Colby join '99. team in Lewiston next year, Bates's The society meetings have attracted financial prospects will be clearer. large numbers each Friday evening, The STUDENT has received from the and the programmes have been excel- publisher, F. W. Helmick of New York, lent. Over half of 1900 have become a march dedicated to Major McKinley. members. The Y. W. C. A. tendered the Fresh- Hates won three seconds in the field man young ladies a reception at Cheney day at Northlield—Tukey in the fifty Hall on the evening of September 21st. and hundred, and Foss in the 440 yard Knapp, '96, has been engaged as dashes; Daniels, the Cornell crack, permanent teacher at the Latin School winning the three firsts. 176 THE BATES STUDENT.

The participants in the Sophomore Cunningham, Miss Knowles, Miss Han- Champion Debate, postponed from last son, Miss Cobb ; Councillors, Burrill, Commencement, will read their parts Durkee, Slattery, Skillings; Orator, privately before a committee, Saturday Man-; Address to Undergraduates, evening, September 26th. Durkee ; Address to Halls and Campus, One of the most important acts of Milliken ; Prophet, Miss Twort; Poet, Commencement week was the election Miss Morrill ; Odist, Miss Andrews ; of Rev. F. W. Baldwin to the pros- Historian, Stanley; Parting Address, pective chair of history and economics. Miss Houghton. Dr. Baldwin will leave a parish in New On September 10th occurred the Jersey, and take up his duties in the usual reception to the entering class, winter term. tendered by the Christian Association. The Psychology class is treated occa- Marches and conversational topics oc- sionally to such paradoxes as this: cupied most of the evening. After Prof.—" We are so far behind in our refreshments a short programme was work that we will begin this morning carried out, consisting of address of with pain." Immediately the victim welcome for the Y. M. C. A., by Mil- called upon began to demonstrate that liken, '97 ; for the Y. W. C. A., by pain is an enigma. Miss Morrill, '97; in behalf of the Mr. C. H. Lincoln, who was for a college, by President Chase; a decla- time instructor of history and econom- mation by Parsons, '98 ; and recita- ics in Bates, has recently received the tion by Miss Vickery, '97. A large degree of Ph.D. from University of number was in attendance and an en- Pennsylvania and also been elected to joyable time was spent. a fellowship in the university, which On Wednesday morning, September means a good salary and an honorable 16th, we all laid aside recitations and position. repaired to the base-ball field, where The following is this season's foot- the Sophomores and Freshmen crossed ball schedule as it stands at present: bats in their customary ball game. September 19. Alumni. Lewiston. The new-comers showed themselves September 80. N. H. Co lege. Lewiston. foemen of worthy steel, and fielded all October 3. So. Herwick. Lewiston. October it. N. H. College. Dover. around the Sophs. They were, how- October 10. Exeter. Exeter. October 17. M. S. C. Lewiston. ever, outbatted, and lost by a score of October 24. M. S. C. Orouo. 13 to 9. Each of the grand stands Octol>er 31. Open. November 4. Colby. Waterville. was handsomely decorated with class November 7. Open. November 14. Bowdoin. banners and streamers. As usual, plug November 18. Colby. Lewiston. hats, horns, and cow-bells were abun- The Seniors have elected officers for dantly in evidence and there was lots of the coming year as follows : President, noise. After the game everybody Fos8 ; Vice-President, Sampson ; Sec- quietly dispersed without the least sem- retary, Miss Winn ; Treasurer, Brack- blance of a rush. As usual, the Sophs ett; Executive Committee, Sampson, held forth down town in the evening. THE BATES STUDENT. 177 Hroun^ the Suitors' VaLIo.

iHILE the claims of the different tions, and hence it will not be bad form activities, athletic and literary, for them to apply for membership with- of Bates are being presented to our out waiting to be approached by the attention at the year's heginniug, it membership committee. will not he amiss to speak a word A new departure in policy is to be regarding the work of the Christian made this year by the Y. M. C. A. in Associations. No branch of college establishing a graded course in devo- life is generally admitted to be so indis- tional Bible study. There will be three pensable as this, whose avowed object grades, as follows : For Freshmen the is to maintain a pure college atmos- Life of Christ with McConaughy's out- phere and wholesome influences. Yet lines ; for Sophomores the Book of it may he said in no cynical spirit that Acts with Speer's outlines ; for Juniors it is the first to suffer, to become neg- and Seniors the Life of Paul with Sall- lected, when those things which engross mon's outlines. The classes are to the attention, peculiar to each season, have student leaders who attended the rush upon us. If each will take this Northfield Conference and have been fact of the past as a caul ion for the preparing for the work by summer future, we believe that the Christian study. Probably before this issue of work, so auspiciously begun and so full the STUDENT, the classes will have been of hop.'ful promise, may be brought to started. The reflex benefit to the asso- that condition which is its due, when; ciation as an organization, to be derived spasmodic effort will be absent because from this course, as well as the direct unthought of, where all activity will benefit to the individual student, is self- be even, systematic, premeditated, yet evident. It seems to us that this new energetic. And all this may become effort is just what the work has been actual fact by the year's end. Let each waiting for these few years past, and member show his fidelity to his associ- that upon its success depends the reali- ation by practical co-operation in those zation of that most desirable condition lines of work which have constituted of association affairs, mentioned above. the established policy from year to year. Let him hold its interests primary, and 1IHE foot-ball season of 1895 was seek to obviate any occurrence that the most important of any in the would militate against those interests. history of the game. Not only were Let the members of 11)00 understand radical changes in methods of playing that the Christian Associations are not considered, but whether there should closed corporations, but that enroll- any longer be such a game was a serious ment in college entitles them to the question. In all parts of the country right of membership in these organiza- the objection to the game's alleged 178 THE BATES STUDENT. brutality was raised, and so strong was students and better gentlemen for it ; this that in some instances it was the new rules are clear and explicit; openly announced that the coming and as far as healthful influences are season was the last if roughness was concerned, one may read the letters in not minimized. Then Yale and Harvard the rule-book edited by Walter Camp, did not meet, and as these colleges have from which we would quote were the always been considered the leading book not to be so common. The game exponents of the American style of is with us again, and let's boom it; play, it was feared that there would be if there is ever going to be a time when a falling off in enthusiasm in these we want Bates to boom, it is now in two institutions, with consequent simi- this fall term of '96 ; so turn out, thirty lar results to less important colleges. men in uniform and all the others to Again, two sets of rules to constantly watch and cheer, and let's make Bates conflict were not conducive to harmony, a leader in grand old Rugby. and many charges of unfair officials are traceable to them. The fact that there jsITII the opening of our new col- were these obstacles to the game, and lege year, the students are once the greater fact that they were fairly more confronted with society work. met and overcome, has made, we repeat, The large entering class will bring the season of 1895 memorable in foot- strong additions to our working force, ball annals. From the first practice and when each member of 1900 has game to the day when Thorn of Yale found his home in one of our excellent ran through the Princeton team, the societies we hope he will determine game was living down the disgrace of to put forth his best efforts for the the previous year's Harvard-Yale con- improvement of himself here. Amid all test, and to-day is more firmly lodged the advantages Bates is offering to her than" ever in the hearts of America's students, none exceed those of activity college youth. in our literary societies. May every There were few quarrels about rides, member of 1900 realize this at the first none of them important; the Princeton of his college course, and thus gain the and University of Pennsylvania elevens greatest possible good during his stay made it interesting enough for Harvard, here. The intercollegiate debates will and Yale found her match in Brown ; soon be claiming our attention, and upon as for brutality, it was as noticeable the floors of the societies our men are for its absence as it had sometimes trained for this work. Thorough prep- formerly been by its presence. At home aration, fearlessness in speaking con- we had our own little troubles, but after victions, and great enthusiasm should the first falls the game got onto its feet characterize the debates. and walked, and is going to walk one Another line we hope to see brought more season at least. It is proved that prominently to the front this year, is there can be foot-ball without brutality ; our musical talent. Bates has much of it is proved that the players are better musical talent, both vocal and instru- THE BATES STUDENT. 179 mental. The excellent glee club she welcome presence of many new faces maintained for a year shows what can about the campus, and many inviting be done. The entering class brings us fields of work and pleasure lying open talent of the first order. Why should before us anew, there must come a not our glee club be reorganized, and sense of realization that student life is the influence of our college extended indeed thoroughly busy and intensely in this way? Let there be speedy gath- attractive. ering of forces, and a permanent club This season of the year is one of formed. Our old leader could probably special activity with the literary socie- be secured, and under his direction we ties of the college, and as the editors could make our college famed for her meet about their table they cannot singing as well as in other lines. Fur- refrain from making at this time some ther, we hope to see a mandolin and observations on society work. Rivalry guitar club speedily organized. With does not mean antagonism ; a spirit of these clubs in active training, it would rivalry between the two literary socie- mean much to the individual members, ties may be necessary to the best results and vastly more to Hates. in the work of each, but a spirit of As we love our college let us push antagonism must surely work to the every line that will tend to increase disadvantage and discomfort of both. her influence. All these interests are Each should treat the Other in this time fostered in our societies, and to them of special competition with courtesy we look for movement in these direc- without bitterness. The past two years tions. A few students have gone through have seen a great improvement in this their course at Bates without taking direction, but there is opportunity for active part in either of the societies, fuither improvement. or iu any of her vital interests. Such Slandering is ever a mark of ill-breed- students look back, to-day, to see the ing, and any under-handed means of great mistake they made, and claim "society chinning" will be spurned by that their course was not complete, be- any one capable of making a rational cause of this. choice. To bring all powers of per- We hope to see every member of suasion to bear in order to capture a 11)00 enrolled upon the society books, prize may be honorable enough in the and each taking active interest in all eyes of the majority, but however sus- that pertains to society success and ceptible a person may be to attention harmony. and homage, he will generally not relish behig treated as though incapable of "IF VERY season has its charms," says making a decision for himself. There A the sage old almanac editor, and is nothing to be criticised in " putting certainly the opening season of the col- the best side out," but drag not forth lege year is no exception. What with your rival's skeleton from its closet the reunion of friends and classmates and put it on exhibition, if she be so after the long summer vacation, the unfortunate as to have one. 180 THE BATES STUDENT.

We look hopefully forward to a year T the beginning of the college year, of increased friendliness between Euio- especially to those who have just sophia and Polymnia, more union meet- entered college, and in a less degree to ings than in the past, and heartily wish all the students, it is natural to look both a year's prosperity. ahead and plan what this year shall mean to us. Each of us has aspira- IS Bates to be victorious in the inter- tions. We all want to make our col- collegiate tennis tournament next lege course a success. And while no June? This question is of interest to doubt the courses are planned so that every Bates student. For although one cannot but be helped by them, yet many of us regard tennis merely as a how much good they shall do us, de- recreation, yet it counts as one of four pends largely on ourselves. Opportu- branches of athletic contests in which nities can be improved in different we meet annually the other Maine degrees. We should remember that colleges. our lessons are not the end but the Moreover, this question should in- means to the end, and that our educa- terest us now, for" its answer depends tion does not depend upon how much very largely on the amount of attention Greek and Latin we have read, but given to tennis this term. The time upon our power of thought and our for practice in the spring is short, and ability to do. Those who work simply our intercollegiate team must get a for rank and prizes, while they may large part of its training this fall. secure these, generally in the end get We have material equal to that in any but a narrow education. There is much Maine college. It remains for us to truth in what Kuskin says : " It is the develop it properly. effort that deserves praise, not the suc- This can be done best by a lively cess ; nor is it a question for any stu- interest in the fall tournament. Let dent whether he is cleverer than others every man in college who plays tennis or duller, but whether he has done the at all enter the tournament and make best he could with the gifts he has." some one work hard to beat him. In In the rush of college life it is very this way, if he does not make the easy to forget this broader view. How- team himself, he will have contributed ever, if we are going to make the most largely to the development of players of these four years, our motive for who shall represent us worthily uext work must be to gain for ourselves a June. broader and fuller life. i^at^s L/srss. HAST THOU FORGOTTEN, DARLING ? Hast thou forgotten, darling, Hast thou forgotten, darling, The glow of childhood's dream, The days of long ago, The vows we plighted then, dear, The joyous hill, the meadow, Beside the silver stream ? The wood where orchids blow ? Hast thou forgotten, darling, THE BATES STUDENT. 181

Our love's encircling light, Oh, Joy and Light and Heaven-born Love! The shining of whose glory Aye some are fashioned but to die, Makes e'en the darkness bright? To touch a shadow with their cry, Thou hast forgotten, darling, To know no blessings from above. The days of long ago; The gifts of glory to the fair! The shadows of the evening The plundered treasure of the sad, In silence whisper low. The only brightness that I had, ThOQ hast forgotten, darling, Nor ere was answered earnest prayer. My lonesome heart replies. Thou hast forgotten, darling, A cry from deepest springs of gloom, The strain in echo dies. The anguish of a dying soul, '99. A silent blank behind the scroll, Eternal darkness in the tomb. ,'99. THE SEASON'S PRAISES.

" Praise ye the Lord." THE PALACE OF AKHMED. The dancing brooks in Spring, O'errlowing in their glee, CLASS-DAY POEM. Bring this refrain to me— Northward from Niris Lake, in the province " Praise ye the Lord." of Khoristan, Persian Persepolis sleeps, dreaming of ancient " Praise ye the Lord." days. Summer swells the song City of crumbled walls, city of ruins and mould, In glad, full, throbbing notes Where the shadows of things long gone walk From bird and insect throats— the deserted streets. " Praise ye the Lord." Mingled with dust of years its towers and minarets lie, " Praise ye the Lord." For thus has the power of Time mocked at the The softly-falling leaves labor of men. Whisper the minor strains Silent, in revery deep, through those ruins of Of Autumn's sweet refrain— splendor and show, " Praise ye the Lord." Akhmed, the Language magician, the builder " Praise ye the Lord." who builded with words, Triumphant, loud, and clear, Wandered at close of day, and watched where Through Winter's frosty sky the moonlight fell The north wind sings on high— Full on the marble shafts and the ghostly " Praise ye the Lord." pillars that stood -S. M. B., '98. Silent sentinels there 'mid the relics of kingly wealth. Then from his heart he spoke, pondering deep THE SONG OF SIGHS. in his mind Over the changes that come as the ages move I sing a silent song of sighs, on in their course: The murmur of a mournful moan, The lonesome love of life alone, " Silent town of ancient wealth, The dimming dusk of Paradise. Where, like ghosts, traditions rove, Laid at rest thy glory sleeps I only worshiped from afar, A radiant glory round mo shone, In the shroud the centuries wove; A glory while for me alone, "On the veiled Past's hallowed ground Now vanished as a fallen star. Only weeds of Fancy wave, And Oblivion sits all day The sunlight shines not in the shade, Watching over Memory's grave; Her darkness never sees the day, A myriad woful wailings stray, " Thus forgotten are the deeds To linger in that gloomy glade. That once promised endless fame, 182 THE BATES STUDENT.

And these royal ruins here To the life-breathing whispers of Hope. Cannot tell their builder's name. Then shall my palace of fame Render immortal my name, " Yet must it ever he so ? And future-bom races shall tell Must the labor that mortals bestow That Akhmed has builded well." On the works that their genius has planned Be like letters inscribed in the sand ? Must the structures my fancies create Deep in the quarries of Thought, where the treasures of learning lay hid, Meet the same deadly combat with fate? Must my name be a dream of to-day, Akhmed, the Language-magician, the builder who builded with words, That to-morrow shall vanish away ? Wandered and pondered long as to what the Can nothing endure to the end, foundation should be But must all in forgetfulness blend ? On which in its grandeur should rise his palace, Then the efforts of life are in vain, the wonder of men— And all that man's strivings can gain Wandered and pondered long, for there where Is just the mere knowledge of weakness- he walked and searched, Life's cost and life's value made plain. Side by side in the depths of the mystical No, no. In my heart a voice cries, caverns of Thought Bidding Hope from her sepulchre rise. Truth and falsehood lay—truth with its sur- " Though the marble's rich ruins may lie, faces rough, Scattered dust where the desert winds blew— But falsehood polished and smooth, worked Sad reminders that all things must die out by the cunning of Sin. As the swift marching years come and go, Wandered, yet not alone, for close at his side there walked " Yet ever Ambition leads on, The spirits of good and ill that speak in the Pointing still to some far-away goal, hearts of men And from heights that my strivings have won When dark doubts shadow the mind, and Come whispers of hope to my soul. Reason's light burns dim. I will build me a palace so grand Then the spirit of good whispered in AUhmed's That in all the ages to come car: Men shall behold it and stand In wonder and reverence'dumb; " Akhmed, beware of doctrines false, that gleam " Not from the stone that falls For a brief season brighter e'en than truth, Crumbled like these old walls, Yet crumble when the light that Reason gives But from things that the mind conceives, Falls on them with its all-destroying glare. From fabrics the fancy weaves— Take for thy firm foundation lasting truth, Mine shall a structure be That shall endure through all the years of Built for eternity. time." Towers of wisdom shall rise, Piercing the blue of the skies, Silent, the spirit of ill walked closely at Proclaiming to all the nations Akhmed's side— The name of Akhined the Wise. Silent, yet all the time pointing where false- Gems in the towers shall gleam— hood lay, Poesy's gems, that shall seem Sparkling there in the gloom with its dazzling, Rich as the opals and diamonds the angels lustrous light. Wore in Mohammed's dream. Once in the lives of men comes a moment of Out from my palace shall roll infinite worth, Music, the voice of the soul— A time when the soul is weighed, and the Music so grand and sublime future unchanging is shaped. That through all the cycles of time Thus all unheralded came the moment in Its echoes unceasing shall ring, Akhmed's life— And Art her bright garlands shall bring Moment of question and doubt—moment of To hang o'er the portals which ope weakness or strength. THE BATES STUDENT. 183

Then did hi.s mind decide, and his building's Things that gleam brightly to-day may fade foundation was planned. ere another dawn comes; " Not on rough truth shall arise Not by one age or one race can the wortb of a My palace to dazzle the eyes. life lie declared. Give me the glamour and glare So the bright palace of fame, that gleamed Of falsehood sparkling there." with such dazzling light, Thus did Akhmed decide as he delved in the Quickly its grandeur lost when the hand of old quarries of thought. Akhmed was still. Quickly the finger of Time worked with its Then into Poesy's mines, agleam with bright magical touch, diamonds and pearls, Till falsehood gleamed brightly no more, and Searching with diligent care on the banks of Akhined's foundation sank low. the river of Rhyme, Akhmed dreamily walked, gathering all the Gone is that palace of fame and vanished the while labor of years— Jewels of priceless worth to adorn his palace All unremembered and lost has the name of of fame. the builder become, Save when a lover of books, a searcher of Thus as the years wore away,on the structure chronicles old, / his genius had planned Finds here and there scattered gems — the Akhmed unceasingly toiled, Ambition still diamonds from Poesy's mine, leading him on. Dropped from that temple of fame and covered Thus, as the years wore away, grander his with dust of long years. building became, Faintly inscribed upon each are letters uncer- Brightly gleaming afar to dazzle the eyes of tain, that spell men, "Akhmed, the Language magician, the Builder Till with his work complete, Akhmed, the who builded with words." builder, slept. —L. D. TIBBETTS, '98.

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PERSONALS. to Lewiston at the opening of the term '68.—Rev. Arthur Given, D.D., has with his daughter, who entered the removed from Roxhury, Mass., to Au- Freshman Class. He was present at hurn, R. I. first chapel and assisted in conducting '71.—Prof. James N. Ham, princi- the exercises. pal of the Oxford School, Providence, '72.—George E. Gay, formerly prin- R. I., came to Lewiston during the cipal of the High School at Maiden, vacation, and has been ill in the hos- Mass., has been chosen superintendent pital. of schools in the same city. '72.—Rev. F. W. Baldwin, D.D., '73.—President J. H. Baker, of Col- was elected, last commencement. Pro- orado University, presided over the col- fessor of History and Economics, and legiate department at the meeting of it is hoped that he may begin his duties the National Educational Association January 1, 1897. Ur. Baldwin came at Buffalo. 184 THE BATES STUDENT.

'74.—Robert Given, Esq., is one of teacher of mathematics and sciences at the lecturers of the Colorado University the Vermont State Normal School. Law School. '83.—Prof. A. E. Millett, principal '.74.—Prof. F. P. Moulton, senior of the High School in Utica, Mich., has teacher of Latin in the Hartford, Ct., been visiting friends in this vicinity High School, has published through during the summer. Ginn & Co. a beginners' text-book in '84.—Miss H. M. Brackett, formerly Latin. of the Columbia University library, has '75.—J. R. Brackett, Dean of Col- gone to Berlin for a three years' course orado University, has been visiting of study. friends in the East during the summer '86.—H. M. Cheney, editor of the vacation. Granite Slate Free Press, Lebanon, '7G.—E. C. Adams, formerly prin- N. II., is the Republican candidate for cipal of the Nevvburyport High School, representative to the New Hampshire has been elected principal of the High State Legislature. School at New Britain, Ct. '86.—J. \V. Goff, Professor of En- '76.—W. O. Collins, M.U., has re- glish Literature in the State Normal signed his position as superintendent of School, Madison, South Dakota, has schools at South Framingham, Mass., recently been visiting in the East. in order to give his entire attention to '86.—E. I). Varney is studying in his increasing practice in medicine. the Theological Department of Chicago '77.—Hon. 0. 15. Clason of Gardiner University. is elected state senator from Kennebec '87.—J. R. Diinton, formerly prin- County. Mr. Clason is a very popular cipal of the Lewiston High School, has man in his native city. He has been entered the law office of his brother in mayor for three terms, and received a Belfast, Me. large majority at the last election. '87.—Rev. E. C. Hayes has been '7D.—W. E. Ranger, formerly prin- compelled by ill health to resign the cipal of Lyndon Institute, has accepted pastorate of the Free Baptist Church the position as principal of the Ver- at Augusta, Me., and will take a year's mont Normal School, Johnson, Vt. rest. '82.—W. H. Dunn has resigned his '87.—Alexander B. McWilliams was position as principal of the High School drowned at Crescent Beach while bath- at Ellsworth, in order to enter husiness. ing. A sketch of his life will appear '82.—Rev. O. II. Tracy, formerly in the next STUDKNT. pastor of the Somersworth, N. H., Free '87.—Rev. Jesse Bailey died Sep- Baptist Church, has accepted a call tember 9th at his home in Buffalo to the Shawmut Avenue Free Baptist Creek, Col. A sketch of his life will Church, Boston. appear in the October STUDENT. '83.—J. B. Ham, formerly a teacher '88.—Frank A. Weeman died in in Lyndon Institute, has been elected Levviston, September 5th, after a long THE BATES STUDENT. 185

illness. We shall print in the October Chautauqua assembly at Ocean Park number a sketch of his life written by last summer. The subject of the lecture President Chase for the Lewiston was "The World's Greatest Hero," and Journal. it was illustrated by a series of very '88.—N. C. Adams, formerly prin- fine stereopticon views. cipal of the High School at Groveland, '01.—F. E. Emrich, Jr., A.M., has Mass., has been elected principal of been elected Professor of Mathematics the High School at Saugus, Mass. in Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. '88.—C. W. Cutts has entered upon '01.—N. G. Howard has been elected his duties as Professor of Mathematics superintendent of schools at North- in Keuka College. borough, Mass. '88.—G. W. Snow is principal of the '01.—F. L. Pugsley has been elected Sullivan School at North Berwick, Me. principal of Lyndon Institute, Lyn- '88.—W. F. Tibbetts has resigned don, Vt. his professorship of Latin at Hillsdale, '02. — Cyrus Blanchard has been and is studying for the degree of Ph.D. elected representative to the legisla- iu Chicago University. ture from Wilton, Me. '89.—F. J. Daggett, Esq., and wife, '02.—A. D. Shephard is studying a of 42 Court Street, Boston, have been special course at Brown University, in visiting friends in Lewiston. order to fit himself for a librarian. '80.—Prof. G. H. Libby, who has '02.—E. E. Osgood will teach Latin been for the past five years teacher of and Greek this year at Storer College, Latin and Greek in the Denver, Col., Harper's Ferry, W. Va. High School, has been elected principal '93.—Miss Grace P. Conant has en- of the Lewiston High School. The tered upon a graduate course of study following item is taken from the Colo- at Cornell University. rado School Journal: '03.—L. E. Moulton has been chosen Mr. George Hobart Libby, for .several years principal of the Kockland High School. teacber of Greek and Latin in the Denver '98.—W. F. Sims has been elected High School, has accepted the principalship of the High School at Lewiston, Me. Mr. principal of the High School in North- Libby was a Rates man and will, no doubt, borough, Mass. find the work pleasant in his old college home. '03.—E. W. Small has been chosen The personality of the man and the character of his work cause his loss to be a matter of principal of Lincoln Academy, Lincoln, deep regret to all who were associated with Mass. him in Denver. '03.—C. C. Spratt has been elected '90.—Miss Mary Brackett has re- principal of Bridgton Academy. turned from Europe and has been visit- '03.—C. H. Swan, Jr., is travelling ing in Lewiston recently. in Europe and writing letters to the '00.—Prof. H. B. Davis of Ash- Morning Star. burnham, Mass., delivered a very inter- '03.—E. J. Winslow has been elected esting and instructive lecture before the sub-principal of Lyndon Institute. 186 THE BATES STUDENT.

'94.—C. C. Brackett has been elected mon at Phillips, Me., during the sum- principal of the High School in Wilming- mer. The church was crowded, and ton, Mass. the sermon was regarded by some of '94.—E. J. Hatch has been chosen the audience as among the ablest which teacher of mathematics in Dow Acad- they had ever heard. emy, Franconia, N. H. A. B. Hoag is principal of the High '94.—Rev. W. II. Harris has accepted School at Groveland, Mass. the pastorate of the Somersworth, N. F. W. Hilton is principal of the High H., Free Baptist Church. School at Sabatis, Me. '95.—Miss Dora K. Roberts has been A. L. Kavanaugh is to study law at chosen assistant in the Auburn High Manchester, N. H. School. F. A. Knapp teaches in the Latin '95.—Miss Staples has been elected School, and is also assistant in the assistant in Foxcroft Academy. departments of Physics and Chemistry '95.—W. S. Brown is principal of in the College. the Dexter High School. Miss Miller is assistant in Bridgton '95.—Miss Nash is assistant in the Academy, and is meeting with good Presque Isle High School. success in her work. She teaches rhet- '96. oric and ancient languages, and also Miss Bonney is teaching in an acad- instructs the young ladies in the gym- emy near Boston. nasium. 0. C. Boothby delivered an able A. P. Norton is acting as substitute lecture on " The Duty of the Citizen in clerk in the Lewiston post-office. At a Politics," at the Chautauqua Assembly, recent meeting of the Maine Epworth Ocean Park, Me. He will enter Har- League he was elected first vice-presi- vard Law School. dent of that organization. J. B. Coy is principal of Pike Semi- Miss Parsons is teaching mathe-. nary, Pike, N. Y. matics in the Stevens High School, O. F. Cutts is teaching mathematics Claremont, N. H. and English in Haverford Grammar Miss Peacock is assistant in the School, Philadelphia. Gardiner High School. Miss Dolley is assistant in the State • Miss Prescott is teaching in the Normal School, Madison, South Da- South Portland High School. kota. G. W. Thomas will enter the Har- H. R. Eaton will be in the employ of vard Law School. Brown, Durell & Co., Boston. R. L. Thompson will enter the Har- L. P. Gerrish will enter the Harvard vard Medical School. Medical School. L. D. Tibbetts has entered Cobb O. E. Hanscom teaches at George- Divinity School. town, Me. Beside the above personals we notice A. B. Howard preached his first ser- the following marriages, of which lack THE BATES STUDENT. 187 of space forbids more than a brief 25th, at the residence of the bride's nieution : father, Lyndon, Vt. Their home will '91.—F. J. Chase and Miss Ray be in Chicago, where Mr. Walter is Summerbell were married at the resi- teacher of biology in the public schools. dence of the bride's father in Lewiston, '93.—E. W. Small and Miss Alice September 14th. They will make their M. Spear were married at the residence home in Kansas City, Mo. of the bride's father, Hon. A. M. Spear, '91.—Charles R. Smith and Miss in Gardiner, September 1st. Hadassah Goodwin were married at '94.—Daniel F. Field and Miss Clare Wells, Me., August 6th. E. Hinkley were married at Phillips, '92.—O. A. Tuttle and Miss Ilattie Me., July 7th. S. Warner were married August 19th. '96.—F. A. Knapp and Miss Carrie '92.—Herbert E. Walter and Miss E. Southwick were married at Peabody, Alice E. Hall were married, August Mass., August 26th.

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OUR table at this writing groans under exceptional merit. " The Pathos of the weight of some forty baccalau- the Humorist" is especially pleasing. reate sermons and an equal number of The Red and Blue, from the Univer- class orations, addresses, and poems, sity of Pennsylvania, is, on the whole, all included within the covers of our our most readable exchange for June. exchanges. In " Epitaphs and Epigrams" there As many of the last issues are given is to be found a rare combination of over almost entirely to commencement wit and satire ; its opening exhortation, parts, there is little variety in the matter "Iu the name of a bored world let the we review this month. With a few ex- ordinary man adjust his spectacles of ceptions a general excellence prevails exaggeration and contemplate the uni- among these parts, but limited space verse therewith," explains the nature prevents our mentioning only a few of of the article, and in it many curious the best. We, however, invite the old epitaphs, epigrams, and bonmots attention of our readers to our ex- are brought to light. changes, and we are sure an hour spent From an excellent editorial in the over their contents will not be wasted. Harvard Monthly, commending an in- The "Class-Day Oration" by O. H. creasing interest in the work of univer- Smith in the Tuftonian is a masterly sity teams, we clip the following, as written part, the best we have read. the thought it contains is universally The Colby Echo is entirely given true : up to abstracts of commencement and Hero worship is a wise and ennobling thing Junior parts, and contains some of for any university; inevitably it makes horoes 188 THE BATES STUDENT.

and raises ideals; and it is, too, a dominating Is the light that beams from a soul that fought characteristic in all healthy, vigorous youth. Against Satan's wiles, and won. When a man acting in any field, athletic or —The Mountaineer. literary, feels that he has about him a great company of eagerly sympathetic men, he will DAS SCHONK. do better than his best, and be can never, in What know we from our earth, the nature of things, act ignobly. Gray at the turning of night? From the songs of the forest, We select the following as being, in Awake at the coming of light? our judgment, the best specimens From the far sweep of the tides of college verse appearing in June On the wide shore of the world, outside of the class poems, which we And the roar of the winter tempests Around its mountains whirled ? have not space to reprint: What know we from the summer, LIGHTS. The silence of autumn days, Ah, softly bright is the tender light The glow of the evening sunlight From the stars of the milky way; Along the forest ways? The rippling river of liquid serves Across the snows of the winter, The realm of fairy and fay. Past the clouds on the blue, And clear and bright is the mellow light What do we know forever, From the floating moon o'erhead; Firm forever and true ? The ship that sails o'er the river vast That music is never silent With the souls of the latest dead. And beauty is ever young; And strong and bright is the pulsing light And the sweetest songs of our grave old earth From the molten sun on high, Are waiting to be sung; The beacon that guides, to its journey's end, And upon her breast in her endless sweep, This ship across the sky. On the sea of eternity, The spirit of beauty ever lives, And yet more bright than all the light Wild and joyous and free. Of stars and moon and sun —Nassau Lit.

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TO every lover of nature, Hours in brooks, and fields, meanwhile noticing My Garden,x by Alexander H. the plants and animals and learning Japp, must prove an attractive book. about them. The book reveals to us a It is filled with a love for the birds, the close observer of nature and a lover llowers, and the fields, and is written of poetry. Many of the thoughts are in a simple, delightful style. In the finely expressed. We notice this ex- first chapter the author takes us into pecially in the chapter, "Through the one corner of his garden, a spot devoted Wheat," where the author describes to the common flowers and the birds, the beauty of the waving wheat-fields where he talks to us about them, telling and tells us of the sweet cadence of many of their pretty habits and what the wind blowing through the grain. poetry has said of them. In other He calls the wheat " the eternal iEolian chapters we accompany him on interest- harp of nature." Some of the de- ing excursions, visiting woods, ponds, scriptions of Scotch scenery are very THE BATES STUDENT. 189 good. We are glad of the little glimpse legendary King Arthur and of the we get of Scott's home on the Ashes- valiant knights of the Round Table. tiel, of which Mr. Japp says: "Close Again, Yorkshire is interesting as the under the windows, on the one side is home of the Bronte sisters. Amid its a deep ravine, well wooded, and down desolate moorland scenery she imagines this tumbles a little brawling rivulet to the three sisters living their lonely life, join the Tweed. All around are the and quotes the beautiful tribute Char- green hills, silent, reposeful, looking lotte paid Emily: "My sister Emily from the level like a billowy sea." The loved the moors. Flowers brighter author has imparted to his book much than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the freshness and beauty of the of the heath for her; out of a sullen scenes he describes. hollow in a livid hillside her mind A delightful book, one which is brim could make an Eden." In War- full of the freshness of summer, has wickshire she finds traces of George been written by Alice Brown, under Eliot, and in the quaint little village of the title, By Oak and Thorn.'1 We Kuntsford, Cheshire, she seeks out the would gladly be among her "comrades scenes of Mrs. Gaskell's Oranford. who shared the footpath way," and The author has an attractive off-hand join her in her "gypsyings." Her style, and she relates many bright little book takes us across the sea, where incidents which give to her book a with her we drink in the summer joyous, light-hearted tone. delights of old England, reveling in A rather bright, interesting book has the "corpulent" strawberry, the " weal been written by Roy Devereux on The pie," and the Cornish bun, "soul-sat- Ascent of Woman* The author finds, isfying and plummy," and listening to in the woman of to-day, freedom and the delightful strains of the nightin- intelligence at the expense of grace gale. She then takes us into many of and beauty, but she attributes this fact the spots made famous as the haunts to a lack of assimilation of woman's of heroes, where traces of them are new-gained powers, and looks for a still to be found. In Devonshire she more promising type in the future. feels the presence of Charles Kingsley, She is evidently an ardent worshiper and finds his a household name among of beauty. The book is largely devoted the simple, sea-faring inhabitants, who to woman in her connection with the say of him : " He was in and out of aesthetic. The author thinks it woman's every house, as welcome as a bit of mission to charm, and she encourages sunshine on a wet day, and asking how every art and form of dress which may was this one and how was that, and had aid her in this mission. Especially the lads got home from sea? Ah, we does she deplore the lack of taste loved Mr. Kingsley!" Here, too, the shown in dress at the present day. author finds traces of Sir Francis She particularly emphasizes the thought Drake and recalls his history. Corn- that one's apparel should reveal her wall she pictures as the scene of the personality. In her words, " a perfect 190 THE BATES STUDENT. toilet reaches the same level of art as author in making external beauty the a great symphony or a glorious poem, chief end of life. though it may not share the same Professor Alfred W. Anthony has intrinsic immortality." And again, in recently written an Introduction to the speaking of the art of dress, she says : Life of Jesus.4 This book contains in " It is, I maintain, a great art, only a brief form the historical evidence of inferior to music, painting, and poetry, the existence of Christ. The work is because the materials it works in are an excellent one of its kind and seems more perishable. On the other hand, to take a place which has been filled its ethical influence is far greater. A by no other book. dress might be a robe of righteousness 1 Hours in My Garden. By Alexander H. or a priestess of any sin, and whether Japp. (Macmillan & Co., New York; $1.75.) 2 By Oak and Thorn. By Alice Brown. intentional or no, it is a revelation of (Houghton, Mifrlin& Co., Boston & New York: the heart and taste of the wearer." $1.25.) 3 The Ascent of Woman. By Roy Devereux. 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OEO. H. CURTIS. ELBRIDQE E. VAHNUM. CURTIS & VARNUM, LOWERS — CUT-RATE TICKETS. For all occasions at Mileage Books Bought, Sold, or Loaned. Also, Railroad Tickets at Low Rates. J> GREENHOUSES, Ma,n 48 Ash St., Opp. Post-Offlce, LEWISTON. RTA Street, Tickets to Portland, Boston, and all points on the M. 0., Q. T., and B. & M. Railroads, at Low Rates. TELEPHONE CONNECTION. LEWISTON. TELEPHONE 282-12. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. VII BATES COLLEGE.

FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT

GEORGE C. CHASE, D.D., LL.D., JOHN H. RAND, A.M., PRESIDENT, Professor of Mathematics. Professor of Psychology and Logic. REV. ALFRED W. ANTHONY, A.M., REV. JOHN FULLONTON, D.O., Fullonton Professor of New Testament Greek. Prof, of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Theology. LYMAN G. JORDAN, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry. JONATHAN Y. STANTON, LITT.D., Professor of Greek and Latin Languages. WILLIAM H. nARTSHORN, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric. REV. BENJAMIN F. HATES, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology. WILLIAM C. STRONG, A.M., Professor of Physics. THOMAS L. ANGELL, A.M., HERBERT R. PURINTON, Professor of Modem Languages. Instructor in Hebrew and Church History . REV. JAMES ALBERT HOWE, D.D., ERNEST E. OSGOOD, A.B., Professor of Systematic Theology and Houiilctics. Instructor in Elocution.

C LA 881OA L DEPA R TM ENT.

TERMS OF ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined as follows: — LATIN: In six hooks of Virgil's .Eneid; four hooks of Cajsar; six orations of Cicero; thirty exercises in Jones's Latin Composition; Latin Grammar (Darkness or Allen ,V Greenough). GREEK : In three hooks orXenophnn's Anabasis; two books of Homer's Iliad; twenty exercises in Jones's Greek Composition; Goodwin's or Hadley's Greek Grammar. MATHEMATICS : In Arithmetic, in Wentworth's Elements of Algebra, and Plane Geometry or Equivalents. ENGLISH : In Ancient Geography, Ancient History, English Composition, and one of the following English Classics: Shakc-peare's King John and Twelfth Night ; W< rdsworth's Excursion (first book); Irving's Hracebridge Hall; Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales (second volume). All candidates loradvanced standing will lie examined in the preparatory studies, and also in those previously panned by the class they propose to enter, or in other studies equivalent to them. Certificates of regular dismission will be required from those who have been memliers of other colleges. The regular examinations for admission to College take place on the second Saturday before Commencement, on Wednes- day preceding Commencement, and on Monday preceding the first day of the Fall Term. -> The examinations fcr admission to College will be both written and oral. Hereafter no special students will be admitted to any of the College classes.

EXPENSES. The annual expenses for board, tuition, room rent, and incidentals are $180. Pecuniary assistance, from the income of thirty-seven scholarships and various other benefactions, is rendered to those who are unable to meet their exjienses otherwise. Students contemplating the Christian ministry receive assistance every year of the course.

THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL. This is a department in the College, established by vote of the corporation July' 21,1870. It occupies Roger Williams Hall, a new and l>eautiful building, and is in charge of a special Faculty appointed by the College corporation. Candidates for admission are required to furnish testimonials of good standing in some Christian church, and to give evidence of their duty to prepare for the gospel ministry, certified by the church of which they are memliers res)iectively, or by some ordained minister. Those who are not graduates from College, previous to entering upon the regular course of study, must be prepared for examination in the common English branches, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, Algebra, and in the Latin and Greek languages. Tuition, room rent, and use of libraries free. Vlll BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

AMUL 227 Washington St., J@ST©MQ MASSO

/Aaouf^cturers of ' Half-Tone Cuts. reproductions of dllegedKetebes, Illustrations jbr (pe&Joufoate^ofo ' Reproductions of Pep ami ]nk « drawings, ^op.Script.Autc^rapb [ettefS,^ ]efi(3lle|e Building copies of Arcmteclur&1.6cientiJi

a limited number of HATTER AND FURRIER. CERTIFICATES SIGN, GOLD HAT,

IN THE LEWISTON, - - - MAINE.

MA RAY CURE Send us your address H UR\ OUnL. and we will show you how to make $:i a day; absolutely sure; we furnish the work and teach you free; you work in the locality where you live. Send us your address, we will explain the business fully; remem- ber we guarantee a clear profit of $3 for every day's ALSO, AN work; absolutely sure; write at once. ROYAL MANUFACTURING CO., BOX A. A.. Detroit, Mich. .Improved Marlin Rifle. Inquire of

PEED W. BURRILL, ,'.'/-'% Parker Hall. Boom 21.

New Hall, Asliburton Place, BOSTON A SPECIALTY MADE BOSTON, MASS. UNIVERSITY OF LAW E. II. BENNETT, Dean. SCHOOL. OPENS OCT. 7. SCHOOL AND COLLEGE T> C. PINGREE & CO., .printing

136 Main St., LEWISTON, AT THE

LUMBER YARUr PLANING MILL LEWISTON JOURNAL OFFICE,

Ami all kinds of WOOD WORKING.

INDIAN CLUBS TURNED TO ORDER. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Flagg & Plummer, FisK Teachers' ipcies Successors to CURTIS & Ross, EVERETT 0. FISK &o CO., PROPRIETORS. Send to any of the following addresses [jjjj PflOTOWJBS for Ageney Manual Free. 4 Ashburton Place, BOSTON, MASS. 70 Fifth Avenue, NEW YOKK, N. Y. We Make a Specialty of Class Pictures, 1242 Twelfth St., WASHINGTON, D. C. 355 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. And call your attention to the quality of work sent 25 King Street, West, TORONTO, CAN. out from our Studio in the past, and it will he our 420 Century Building, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. endeavor to keep it to their standard of excellence, 525 Stimson Block, LOS ANGELES, CAL. and to please our customers in every particular. 107 Keith & Perry Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. WE GUARANTEE 728 Cooper Building, DENVER, COL. ■ J SATISFACTION TO ALL. Thanking our friends for the patronage given IF YOU WISH TO BUY us in the past, it shall he our aim to merit the same in the future. We shall be .pleased to receive cor- respondence from any school or college in regard to prices, etc., for class pictures. FLAGG & PLUMMER, BOOKS Over Banner Clothing House, LEWISTON, ME. Send to us for Prices or other Information.

We carry the largest stock of any store in New England, and can furnish any books in print at the shortest notice. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY.

Catalogue of Special Bargains mailed free.

DE WOLFE FISKE & CO., ' 361 & 365 Washington St.,

BOSTON. MASS. COTRELL & LEONARD, Go West! ALBANY, N. Y.,

Intercollegiate makers of FOGG'S GAPS, GOWNS, AND HOODS, Tourist Excursion Ticket Office No. 290 Washington St., Including Yale,'00; Harvard, '9G; Princeton, '90; and Bates, '96. BOSTON, MASS. BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

The Way to Get Rich. UNION The easiest—the safest road Is by starting early in life a 20-year MUTUAL Endowment Policy. The annual payment by young men of less than i% of the principal, for 20 years, purchases $1,000, due at LIFE that time, and gives insurance protection all the while in a reliable Maine institution. Ask for free bi-monthly illustrated INSURANCE paper. Incorporated 1848. Home Office,PORTLAND, ME. COMPANY. LEWISTON STEAM DYE HOUSE, 14-1 Main Street, LEWISTON. Dyeing and Cleansing in all its branches. Lace Curtains Cleansed and Finished to look like new. Naphtha or Dry Cleansing a Specialty. JOSEPH LEBLANC, Proprietor.

J. P. MURPHY, MANAGER.

Wholesale Dealers and Workers of Granite, Marble, and All Kinds of Freestone, 2 to 10 Bates Street, Near Upper M. C. R. R. Depot, Estimates furnished on application. LEWISTON, IVIE. Telephone Ho. 23-4. JOHN Y. SCRUTON & SON, ^^^^ Fine Tailoring. = We shall show this season all the Novelties for Spring and Summer Suitings, Overcoatings, and Trouser- ings, which we are prepared to make up in first-class order, and at 1{KASONAIU,K PRICES for good work. Dealers in Ready-Made Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Goods, 23 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON, MAINE.

/ OF NEW YORK. JORDAN-FROST LUMBER CO., The Oldest, Largest, and Strongest • Mutual Company in the world. Lumber, Coal,^Wood, Life Assets, $204,638,783.96. H c LITTLE & S0N Foot of Cross Canal, Lewiston. Insurance! - - ' COAL OFFICES at 181 Lisbon Street and at Yard. LOfTipany, I 17 LISBON ST., LKWISTON. IOSEPH f>l LLOTT'S ** STEEL**PENS, f THE FAVORITE NUMBERS, 303,404,332,351,170, AND HIS OTHER STYLES SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Xll BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

No Guesswork About Columbias The Department of Tests of the Pope Manufacturing Com-

I am constantly improving my stock of pany, with its Emery Testing Machine of 100,000 lbs. capacity, BooU tad Skill has no superior, even Of all kinds among the Govern- FOR LADIES AND GENTS. ment testing stations. Call and Examine for Yourselves. Expert Engineers and Metallurgists watch everything that enters into Columbia con- C. 0. WORRELL, struction. There are no untried devices in Corner Main and Lisbon Streets, LEWISTON. the Columbia. That is why J* J* <£ J* J* SIGN BIG BLACK BOOT. Columbia Bicycles JUayne's ((5)rchestra. are Standard of the World Art Catalogue of FRED G. PAYNE, fifty pages for POPE MFG. CO. Manager. two a-cent stamps. j* «* Hartford, Conn. 138 Lisbon Street.

FRANK KILG0RE, PrPhlP PORTLAND, ME. First-Class Carriages J. C. WHITE, Prop'r. FURNISHED FOR House WEDDINGS AND PLEASURE PARTIES At any time. All new, neat, and first-class, with E. & M. S. MILLETT, careful anil gentlemanly drivers. HEARSE AND HACKS FOR FUNERALS AT SHORT NOTICE. jflNE /IftlLLINERY. HACK OFFICES: Gerrlsh's Drug Store; Resi- Special reduction given to Students dence, 107 College Street. mentioning this advertisement. CONNECTED BY TELEPHONE. 13 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. xm

Protect your family, Provide for the future, If you want to Secure low rates, Insure while you're young m i wftitmiy, • flAiNE BENEFIT " "IRegtstereo LIFE ASSOCIATJON ••J3pothecap(j,

Of At-ik>\-irtn, Maine, 28 LISBON STREET, ON THE NATURAL PREMIUM PLAN. LEWISTON. Physicians' Prescriptions Accurately Compounded. Cash Assets, - - ■ - $120,000.00 Paid Beneficiaries, - 1,133,800.00

Send for applications or circulars. DR. EMERY BAILEY, Agents wanted at liberal terms. DENTIST, GEORGE C. WING, M. F. RICKER, NATHAN W. HARRIS, PRESIDENT. MANAGER. SEC'V AND TREAS. No. 20 LISBON ST., - LEWISTON.

Gas administered to extract Teeth. PRIIJFIIJG ♦ * WALKER BROTHERS, OF ALL KINDS Wholesale and Retail Dealers in

Executed with Neatness and Dispatch, in the Oysters, Clams, and Lobsters Highest Style of the Art, Uoods Delivered Without Extra Charge.

At the Oflice of the 55 Bates St., Near Main St., Lewiston, Me. THE LARGEST STOCK OF CHOICE tewiston journal. Flour, Groceries, Provisions, etc., In the City, can be found with - vwwww- NEALEY & MILLER, Cor. Main and Bates Streets, LEWISTON. WK MARK A SPECIALTY OF ttK ■ P.i '•.i "in Prices always guaranteed. First-Class BookiCollege Printing SUCH AS PATENTS Promptly secured. Trade-Marks, Copyrights Programmes, Catalogues, Addresses, and Labels registered. Twenty-five years ex- perience. We report whether patent can be secured or not, free of charge. Our fee not due Sermons, Town Reports, Etc. until patent Is allowed. 3* page Book Free. 8. B. WWILL80N &. CO.t Attorney^at^Law, Jpp.pp. U. B.a. iPut. Office. INCTON, D.C. XIV BUSINESS DIRECTORY. Get a "Harvard" Note=Book. The best are the cheapest. a RAY" CAMERA c MANUFACTURED BY A. J. LLOYD & CO., Boston, Mass. E o Is new, just out, and absolutely the best $5 Camera on the market. H p ft) > cS 3 pa n < o1 S3 *T^HIS is the size of picture which you an can take with a " Ray Camera." It is v a well-made, practical instrument, handsomely finished in leather; size 7 1-4x5 1-4x4 3-4; is fitted with socket for tripod screw; a 3* O 71 O first-class achromatic lens, of universal focus,

ii and a safety device to prevent exposure of B 0) ft) o the plate while setting the shutter. Z c 3 ft> "2 S C > 5 E 9 The "RAY" is a plate-holder camera, having space for three double plate-holders. 0) P PRICE COMPLETE WITH ONE PLATE-HOLDER, ONLY S5.00 Special Discounts to Bates Students on Photographic Goods.

C. E. MILLIKEN, Agent for Bates College. ioo Bates Students are using the " Harvard M Note=Book. C. E. MILLIKEN, Agent for Bates College. BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BUT YOUB, Mammm CLOTHING

OF Our New Fall Samples are now ready. The largest anil beat line ever shown In Lewlston. We make to order every kind and description of High-Grade Custom Clothing ^Jj&JtXrUSM Guaranteed in every instance. In our Ready-Made Department will be found at all times a large and well-selected assortment of up-to-date, ready-to-wear Clothing, at popular prices. J. L. MERRILL & CO., The Clothiers, 49 Lisbon St. MARLIN REPEATING RIFLES.

Fewer Parts Than Any Other Repeater. Lightest "Weight, Easiest Working. No Tools Necessary to Take Rifle Apart. Made in All Calibres. JBASW THE MARLIN FIRE ARMS CO., New Haven, Conn.

DENTIST. DOYLE BROS.,

Percy J^. HoWe, D.D.S., Levteton 5«Cent %\ H Osgood Block, LEWISTON. 32-38 Lisbon Street, OFFICK HOURS: 8 to 12 A.M., 1 to 6 P.M., and LEWISTON, ME. evenings. Special Bargains in all Athletic Goods.

OR NICE PURE CANDIES ■«*«- -$©f CALL ON * F GO TO A. L. GRANT A. E. HARLOW'S, FOR Where a large stock and variety is always on hand. nm mmmmm A. E. HARIiOW, 58 Lisbon St. ICECREAM, FRUIT, AND SODA. FESSENDEN I. DAY Hot Chocolate and Coffee. Hathaway, Soule & Harrington's ALTON L. GRANT, • • GENTS' FINE SHOES. Trimby & Brewster's Coofecttoutt aad foterei,

•• LADIES' FINE SHOES. 170 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. WE CLOTHE Man or Boy from top to toe. We sell everything but shoes. Clothing is our specialty. s, SUITS FOR DRESS. We Want Your Trade In Cutaway Frocks in Black Clay Worsteds, tin, $12, $i">, $is, and $20. Hen's Furnishings There is no guess-work about the quality of our Worsteds, they have stood the test Such as Shirts, Collars, Neckwear, Gloves, of years. Stockings, and Underwear. SWEATERS for "gym" or SUITS FOR BUSINESS. out-door wear, 50c. to $3. Heavv All-Worsted Knit, Sack Styles in Cassinicres.Chcviots, Serges, Double Collars, or Lace and Worsteds, $8 to $20. Front,with Sailor Collars, We guarantee the lit, making alterations Black, Blue, or Garnet. when necessary. Even the best Merchant An especially good grade Tailor on earth has to do that. at $2.00. R. M. SYKES & CO., 54 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON, HE.

THE LAHGEST AND LEADING CLOTHING HOUSE OF MAINE.

Advanced Styles in High-Grade Goods. mm«iin JTAILOR=MADE GARMENTS That are unequalcd in tit and general excellence. Introducers of Novelties and the best of everything pertaining to correct dress. The latest ideas and standard shapes in all grades of HARD AND SOFT HATS. AllS»of FURNISHINGS. PROMOTERS AND MAINTAINERS OF LOW PRICES. BKNNBR CLOTHING HOUSE, (Successors to BlCKNELL & NEAL), BABBITT BROS., The One-Price, Cash, Square-Dealing Twin Clothiers, Owners and Managers, Nos. 134 to 140 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, ME. J. N. WOOD & CO..

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