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The Elon College Weekly. THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY Published every Tuesday during the College year by The Weekly Publishing Company. W. P. LAWRENCE. J. W. BARNEY. A. C. HALL. AFFIE GRIFFIN. W. C. WICKER. T. C. AMICK. Editor. Associate Editors. Circulation Manager. Business Manager. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT. Cash Subscriptions Time Subscriptions (40 Weeks) 40 Weeks) 50 Cents. 75 Cents. average A,mencan home is far above the mansion by the anarchist lo help carry oiU comfort and (he fare in the average fhe fateful work assigned. They arrived European home; yet the force of the, ■" * ® or else they partake too much of the proverbial sectarian zeal for the comfort of the non-sectarian journal. But the fact remains that there is scarcely a general not its quota The lights in the build mg, however, are still aglow. But they habit acquired fifty years ago, to make basement window is publishing house that has light of boarding school fare, has not spent prized open and both jump in, and the of religious books to offer every season itself. Joel Chandler Harris, a few years i anarchist immediately looks for a place some, of course, much more than others daughter away at where the dynamite will do most damage. Here the anarchist places the explosive, puts it to a fuse, and then strikes a match. Nicolby all this time refrained, as much as possible, ftom this work. He could hardly bear the thoughts of such a ca- lamity. But he was weak, and with him ' ago, writing to a daughter away school, said, " If you get homesick, tell them to give you hash, for that is what we have at home." All matters pertaining to subscriptions should be addressed to W. C. Wicker, Elon College, E. C. Love Found a Way. and that these books find a sale, and oftimes a steady increasing one, is a fur ther fact that finds ample conroboration in the "new editions" that the publishers announce from time to time. Saturday Review. William James Sides. IMPORTANT. The office of publication is Burlinirton. N. C. She office of the Editor is Elon College, N C.. where all communications relative to the Weekly should be sent. On Fifty-ninth Street, New York City, there is a magnificent mansion in a green, shady place. In it lives a man and wife Application for entry as second-class mail mat ter at the postoffice at Burlington. N. C.. pendmg. TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1910 College men are supposed to have put away childishness. was a giant, and he knew his efforts to WjHiam James Sjdes, the eleven-year- stop him would be fruitless. Nevertheless Harvard student, whose phenominal he is aroused. He hears svyeet strains of ^g^tal attainments have caused a sensa- music coming from that violin, played by educational circles, gives the psy- of many millions. He is the owner of her whom he has so dearly Then (.Qlggigts a problem for thought and ade- street and freight railways and considera- comes courage. He thtwos off that ari- explanation. The question is, are ble real estate about and in New York archism and springs at his foe, who is startling results due to young Sides City. about to ignite the fuse. But Nicolby e^Jycation, which probably has not been There is in this home a daughter whose is overpowered, thrown to the paralleled in the history of human expe- name is Elizabeth. She is a beautiful both legs and hands are tightly bound. f|en(.e or that rare product of nature, the and accomplished young lady, who has Then, leaving him on the floor to be de- ^ prodigy ? A. C. H, just finished college and is now at home, stroyed with the building, the anarcfiist, She wants to continue lessons on the now unhindered, strikes a match, ignites Not To Be Fooled. the fuse and makes his escape. | absent minded professor in a west- on teachers The college student, like an heir of great fortune, sometimes finds difficulties in the way of coming into his own. The inheritance of a college course is not only an expanding and an enriching of the in tellectual and moral faculties, but piano and violin, and two employed. It was on the day after her nineteenth birthday when she began music again. Her tutors were Strauborn, the pianist, a leamed and refined society man with considerable wealth, and Nicolby, the violinist, poor and not in the higher cir cles of society, however, a refined gen- Both, in lime, became Eliza- it IS beth’s lovers. Elizabeth, after having taken violin and Nearer and nearer comes the fire to the dynamite—now only a few inches from it. In a half minute the fatal work will be accomplished. But, no, Nicolby is there. He stares death in the face—he sees destruction. He works h:s helpless body across the fuse and with his mouth tears it away from its setting and all is saved. During this time the family were in an above room making preparations for the ern university used to take long walks in the evening. One night while he was walking alone in deep meditation he co,- lided with a cow. Thinking it was his friend, the lady teacher, he politely doffed his hat and made a low bow, saying: " I beg your pardon." After walking a little farther he really did collide with the school teacher. Re- also a tempering of one's being so as to piano lessons two years, is sufficiently , , . f 11 • learned in these arts, and desires no longer day-a(ter-tomorrow, (Llizabeth to otran- enable one to get on wrih his fellows in b^m.) llie scuffle that Nicolby and iVie wor'lu. 1 tie""C".':^and lovers, seemg this and tlie anarchist haJ~was heard—and the knowing that a separation for even a short family began search and came to the our time might dissever their love, they plead basement just in time to see all saved, earnestly and persistently for her hand. He is loosened. The story is told, Elizabeth grew to love both. But and love found a way and won out. when the time came she easily made a Arnold Hall, choice. Strauborn the man of society ^ and rank, she gladly welcomes and enter- . ‘ . l l ■. VA 1 tarns and gives her hand-and further >ng P.cture exhibit.-Ed.J sets a time for the wedding. Now comes Nicolby, ihe violinist, not knowing what has happened, likewise asks for her hand. She becomes enraged at this und drives previous experience, he ex disgust, "Is that you again. The grade of work done literary societies warrants the wisdom of seeking to enter intercollegiate debates. Some of the older colleges of the State have refused meeting Elon in a debate. One was honest enough to say that Elon being young and of less extensive reputation than an older college, the latter, even if it should defeat Elon, would get unto itself no great glory and should E'on win, the defeat would hurt the worse. For the highest good of our own societies, we hope soon to find an open door for intercollegiate debates. calling his claimed in old cow ? " Nothing Doin’. The Hobo.—Please, mister, will youse gimme a few pennies for me starvin' wife ? Old Bachelor.—Not me. In the first place I haven't got any pennies; in the second place I have no earthly use for a starving wife, and in the third place I don’t want a wife anyway. Religious Books. him from her presence. How sorrowful and melancholy he must have been, after a long and promis ing courtship he should be turned aside; not even to be allowed in her presence any more; to go away perhaps never to see her again. This changed Nicolby's life. He lived with all sorts of people and in every con dition of life, and finally was led unknow ingly into a " Socialistic Club" and became By Analogy. Teacher.—Now a monologue is a rec itation in which one person takes part; a One hears repeatedly that the interest dialogue is one where in things theological is past, that this is an " age of science," and that for popular ^ . i „ » reading the public must have either fic- Bright Boy.^ si a ca a ogu tion or books of a practical nature ; books takes part. that will have a direct bearing on matters Trite expressions, like rags, hang on long after their day of usefulness is passed. Half a centu.-y ago the accom modations, including board at the board- g member, mg schools, was so poor as to make The club's main purpose was to destroy "boarding-school hash" a phrase of some property and if possible to bring all peo- . TL L I , pie to a like footing. 1 o accomplish this significance. There may be plenty of P boarding-school hash yet, but the quality ^ ^ijp paper written on is considerably improved. It is, perhaps, j( vvhat the drawer should do. Each a true account of the famous but poor member takes an envelope from the bas- famlly of parson Bronte, of whose daugh- ket and is pledged to cairy out what is I ■ J .L J . . written on the slip or paper, ters Charlotte gamed the widest reputa- ^ tion as an author, that the board at school takes an envelope, and upon opening was so poor as actually to inju e the fmds it to be his work to go with an an- health of the girls, and two of them died archist and destroy the fine mansion which Frequently he has so often been in, and of dally life. What " one hears, howev er, is very often misleading. The fact is—and it is proved by even a casual glance at the lists of the publishers—that there has never been a time, probably, when more religious books have been put forth than now. Such books, it is true, do not find their way into the review columns of purely secular periodicals. Many of them are loo technical tor that. CAR LOAD SALT J J. cAMBETH’S 55c Bag Full Line of NICEGROCERIES at right prices. Come and see. ELON BACKING & TRUST CO, t>lUTHORIZED CAPITAL $25,000 We are prepared to do a general banking busi ness. We solicit the patronage of the people Elon College and the surrounding country. young, as a consequence, now, boarding-school living Is more lux urious than in the average American home, although the comfort of home life and the variety and quality of fare in the to kill her, his love. He becomes horror-stricken. He can’t bear it. He refuses. But it is his lot; he must go. The socialists com pel him. He is unwillingly led on to the great DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK Of the many cases where DISEASE has been contracted by hav ing your LAUNDRY WORK done in the same room that is used for eating, sleeping, and the using of Opium ? Sanitary' Methods Used in Burlington Steam Laundry RALPH POINTER, Agent, Elon College, N. C.
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