e . o AILI jTj VOL. VIII. No. 128. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1898. PRICE-3 CENTF. , , c At Wild's Spring selections just arrived from the East. Call and inspect our..... Suitings, Trouserings, Top-Coats. NO. 108 E. WASHINGTON ST. NEAR MAIN Al legretti's Chocolates.... Fresh every week. Only in packages- 60c a pound. Lowney's if you preer. PALMERS' PHARMACY PIPE SALE!i FOR THE NEXT WEEK.- Jut received a fresh supply of Allegretti, and Williams and Werners Chocolates. Largest line in the city. Lunches a* all hours. R. B.,JOLLY & CO. 308 South State Street. Fresh Strawberries Every day at our Fountain. Strawberry crush or Staw- berry Sunday 15c., 10c when berries get cheaper. : CALKINS' PHARMACY, 300HST ORE. NEW AND SECOND-HAND 'Text BooksI! For every department in the Uni- versity. Law and Medical Books a specialty. We can supply all your needs for the Second Semester at lowest prices. Second-hand Books Bought, Sold and Exchanged. Best Linen Writing Paper 15e and -25c per pound. The A. AWaterman Soald Gold Fountain Wens for $1.25 WAR'8;BOOK STORE Up Town Down Town 8. State t Opposite OortHoUse ,.A~nnArbor M1an oh. PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATIONS. TIE STUDENTS EXHIBIT THEIR PEELING FOR CUBA LIBRE. Rousing Speeches Made, Spain Burned in Effigy, Telegrams Sent to Wash- ington Indorsing Administration's Action, and Services Tendered. The war spirit struck the University hard on Saturday, and patriotic demon- strations were the order of the day. Beginning about noon a meck parade marched up and down State street and around through the business district. The paraders were dressed in all sorts os grote:que costumes and carried all kinds of weapons, from ball bats and pitchforks to swords and muskets. At short intervals a salute was fired from a cannon at one of the fraternity houseo. The itarlike fever increased rather than diminished during the afternoon, and, in the early part of the evening, a mass meeting, was hIeld at the Delta U house. Representative A. J. Sawyer, who lives next door, was called in and made a rousing speech, denouncing Spain's policy in Cuba. He was fol- lowed by W. R. Day, '00 L, son of As- sistant Secretary of State Day, who made an enthusiastic speech. Afterl more student oratory, Spain and Wey- ler were burned in effigy, amid a pan- demon"i"m "fllege yells, national songs and the reports of exploding fireworks. After refreshments, the meeting got down to basiness and appointed an en- listment committee, consisting of Messrs. Day, Pell and Hildner. This committee will organize a company of student volunteers. It was then decid- ed to send telegrams to President Mc- Kinley, Secretary Alger and Assistant Secretary of State Day. The meeting marched in a body to the Western Union office and the following telegrams were sent amid tumultous cheering: "President William McKinley: Two thousand students of the University of Michigan indorse the policy of the ad- ministration and tender the services :f a regiment in the event of war." "Hon. Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War: The students of the ' iversity of Michigan stand by the administra- tion and tender services in case of war." "Assistant Secretary of State Day: Mass meeting of students of the Uni- versity o Michigan volunteer a regi- ment in case of war. Administration's policy was heartily indorsed." After this the crowd marched back to the campus and built an enormous bcnfire out of neighboring sidewalks and fences. The ebulition of war spir- it lasted late into the night and patri- otic groups could be heard singing the morning hotrs. The most popular of the songs was to the tune of "John Brown's Body." Two of the verses and the refrain follow: "Spain blew up the Maine and now we'll blow up Spain, "Spain blew up the Maine and now we'll blow up Spain, "Spain blew up the Maine and now we'll blow up Spain, As we go earehing an." "If Spain starts a war, she had better stay ashore, "If Spain starts a war, she had better stay ashore, "If Spain starts a war, ebe had better stay ashore, As we go marching on." Refrain- "Freedom, freedom, then for Cuba, "Freedom, freedom, then for Cuba, "Freedom, freedom, then for Cuba, As we go marching on." Taken all in all it was one of the big- gest demonstrations Michigan has seen' and while it is to be hoped that there will be no need for its crystslisation, the enthusiasm and patriotism mani- fested cannot but be gratifying to col- lege men everywhere. Meeting of Graduate Club. The Graduate Club was entertained by Professor and Mrs. Patterson on Saturday evening. The address of the evening was given by Professor Craig upon "Historical Beginnings of Relig- ious Thought." The thesis maintained was that early beginnings of religion among the earliest historic peoples, the Egyptians, Arabians and Babylonians, were polytheistic, not monotheistic, as emmonly supposed even by theolog- ians eminent in their denominations. tn all early peooles the conception of God is proven by archaeological re- mains to have been polytheistic. God was worshipped by them as an object and could not therefore be a monothe- istic conception, The God-idea not by any means as yet fully formulated among ourselves, surely did not drop fullyformed out of heaven upon primi- tive man. Professor Craig fortified his statements by illustrations and proofs drawn from his wide learning and scholarship in linguistic and other arch-1 aeological remains of primitive peoples. At the next meeting of the Graduate club Professor Wenley will finsh hisl address on the'Idea of a University," which he began at the February meet- Ex-Gov. Felch Collection. Librarian Raymond C. Davis contri- butes a valuable letter to the Sunday Free Press on the Felch collection of pamphlets in the University library. We print it in full: To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press: In a letter to the Free Press of De- cember 31, 1897, I described some of the pamphlets contained in the Felch be- quest to the University library. These pamphlets were then undergoing a pro- cess of preparation for the binder. This preparation has now been completed and I am able to state that there were in the collection, exclusive of dupli- cates, 309 pamphlets of sufficient value to bind singly, and 650 others which have been classified and will be bound together in. 44 volumes. Of those handled since my letter re- ferred to above are some that are worthy of special mention. Their per- iod, as was the period of those described before, was the late forties and the early fifties. There are eleven by, or about, Daniel Webster, which are of sufficient importance to bind separate- ly, besides a number of speeches in the collected volumes. Among the former are the special edition, dedicated to the people of Massachusetts, of his fatal 7th of March speech, and of his address at the laying of the corner stone .f the addition to the capitl, July 4, 1851, of the pamphlets about Mr. Webster the most important are Professor Moses Stuart's "Coanscience and Constitution." William Jay's letter on the 7th of March speech to Hon. William Nelson, and the letter of S. Graham, of Northampton, Mass., to Mr. Webster, June 3, 1850. Prof. Stuart brings a great wealth of learning to his defense of Mr. Webster, but one reading his long pamphlet can not but think that his critics made a point when they refer to his "three score years and ten." What the pro- fessor justifies in the great statesman's course, Mr. Jay and Mr. Graham con- demn. Among the Michigan pamphlets are some that are important for their bear- ing on the questions of transportation, immigration and the early political his- tory of the state. For specimens I mnention the following: A letter to the Hon. Lewis Cass, on a Lake Superior railroad, by Morgan L. Drake. (Map.) Pontiac, 1862; reply to a communication from Mitchell Hinslade and others, of Kalamazoo, concerning rates, by J. W. Brooks, superintendent and engineer of the Michigan Central railroad. De- troit, 1848; prospectus of the Lake Su- perior Ship Canal, Railroad and Iron Co. (Map.) 1871; To Emigrants (Map.) 1845; The Emigrant's Guide to the State of Michigan. (German and English) map: 1849, issued by Hon. E.' H. Thmp- son, of Flint, state agent: the Mason and Romeyn Controversy of 1841, aris- ing out of "the $5,000,000 loan." It was to be expected that California (Continued on second page). improvised songs until late in the' ing.