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LITERARY Some Views of a Foreigner on Things American.

John Stone wns standing at a railway station in Bay City waiting for his fr ic1HI. 1>r. Paolo, who had written that he should arrive on the evening train from Detroit. The train came at last and with a final puff of import am·"· ,!n.:w up in front of the station. Mr. Stone had been looking for Doctor P;,olo for some time when some one tapped him on the shoulder. He turnc,\ about q11iL·kly and stood face to face with the Doctor. "\\"hy, I shouldn't han• recognized you," said Mr. Stone, 11had you ttot written that you should arrive on this train. You have certainly changed very mu..:h sinn· I !-aw you last. How did you enjoy yourself in Detroit?" "I enjoyed mystlf rather much in Detroit,'' replied the Doctor," but I am very sorry to inform yon that I shall be ubligcd to leave for home a day after to:morrow owing- to the serious illness of my mother. Had I anticipated this I would have abridged my stay in Detroit, for I intended to spend at least two weeks in Bav Citv. Before I leave I should like to pay Mr. Manor, who Iives on his form s�me <listance from here, a short visit, for I may not come to. the United States again for many years. Will you drive out to his place with me to-morrow?" "Certainly,'' replied Mr. Stone, "I'll drive out there with you to-morrow mor ning. It is too bad that you cannot stay longer, but I suppose I shall ha Ye to make the best of it. I think we had better start for my home, for my wife will be waiting for me." How surprised was Mrs. Stone when her husband came home with D<;>c tor Paolo. She had arranged a surprise party and had wanted to send him to town in order to ha Ye him awav from home at the time the guests were expected to arrive. But as he had gone of his own accord, it saved her the trouble of telling him. \Vhile she·was speaking to the Doctor, the door of�the • .ISU,TJ?nse . .I par 1or suddenly flew open and in rushed the guests crying Surpnse 0�. Paolo was introduced to them and enjoyed playing caroms and btlhards with them until supper time came.

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After simper some of the men among the guests sat apart with Dr. Paolo. One of them, Mr. Smyte, who was always very eager to hear what foreigners had to say about our country, asked him if he was pleased with the state of affairs in the United States. “Hardly,” said Doctor Paolo, “for I thought the United States to be a tree country, in which everyone, a negro as well as a white man, is entitled, to.a trial before being punished. But a circumstance in one of your large cities in the East soon convinced me that this country is not so free as I thought it to be. I chanced to pick up a newspaper in a barbershop and the first thing that struck me was the heading “Negro Lynched.” I read how a mob dragged a poor helpless negro out ofjail, hanged him on a tree, aud finally riddled his body with bullets. It surprised me very much also that some of the best men of the community had taken part in this lynch ing. Is lynching really carried on to a very great extent in this country?” “Oh, yes,” replied Mr. Smyte, “and I fear that it * will be rather hard to put a stop to it, for it is approved of by many people.” “But why does the mob wrest the negro from the hands of the authori ties?” asked the Doctor. “I presume it is in part the fault of the authorities,” replied Mr. ’.Smyte. “They do not always expedite the proceedings of justice in the case of such a crime as rape. The mob thinks that the negro might escape or in some other way regain his freedom. In order to insure the punishment of the culprit it takes the law into its own hands.” “Although the mob lynches a negro in order to insure his punishment,” said Doctor Paolo, “still that does in no way justify its act, for it has no right to take the law into its own hands. The mob’s taking the law into its hands is detrimental to your Republic in that it furthers anarchy. And if anarchy once gets a sound foothold in a country, all efforts exerted in trying to exter minate it will be as futile as those exerted in trying to count the stars." “I fully agree with you with regard to the detrimental power of anarchy,” said Mr. Smyte. “Was there anything else that you were not pleased with?” “Well, yes,” replied the Doctor, “the bribing in elections. I’ll just tell you about a little incident in the city of M-----. I chanced to be in that city on election-da}'. Soon I was approached by a young man who took me to a saloon near by and treated me. After coming out of the saloon, 1 asked a gentleman for what reason that man had treated me. ‘Why, man,’ he replied, ‘he is a candidate for mavor and wants you to vote for him.’ “I told him that I was a foreigner and it caused him much merriment to think that that candidate had mistaken me for one of his fellow citizens. “It seems to me that an honest man is at a very great disadvantage when he is a candidate for any office; for a corrupt candidate has the better of him in that he can win the people for himself by bribing them, But I cannot for the world see how such a corrupt candidate manages to pay for all those treats. He certainly must do some underhand work afttr getting an office. And that

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is just the reason for my detesting bribery. An honest man who would cer tainly do honest, fair, and conscientious work is cheated out of an office by such a corrupt politician who is ready to do anything that he considers for his advantage.” Bv this time it had gotten rather late and the party broke up. Doctor Paolo was very glad to get to sleep, for he had not slept the two preceeding nights. The Doctor and Mr. I’aolo set out early the next morning for Mr. Manor’s place. Doctor Paolo saw a mail box of a farmer and said, “The Rural Free Delivery System is fairly a blessing to the farmer, for it enables him to com municate liis thoughts and sentiments to his friends much quicker than formerly. I am of the opinion that it furthers education in that it causes the farmers to write more letters. And how can a person learn a language more readily than by correspondence? The Rural Free Delivery is a great improvement in your mail system, and 1 earnestly wish to see everyone do his utmost to further it.” After a drive of nil hour or two, they reached Mr. Manor’s farm. He came running out of the house to meet them and was more than pleased to see Doc tor 1'aolo. lor he had not seen him for many years. Mr. Stone returned to his home the >;ime day. but the Doctor spent the night at Mr. Manor’s place. The next day he returned to his native country, in which the people are cer tainly no: saints, but in which at least lynching'vs not carried on. H. D., ’07.

THE BLACK AND RED. Maria Stxiart.

The central figure in Schiller's “Maria Stuart is, as the name indicates, Maria Stuart, whom Schiller’s talent puts before us as a suffering, meek, delu ded queen. Although some things arc contrary to history, the drama never theless makes an effective impression. Imagine a queen, suffering, yet apparently satisfied, beautiful, yet dignified, hoping, but in vain, and you have her picture. It is her fortitude in her advtrsitv, her outward bearing and her seeming innocense that awaken our interest and sympathy for her. We say “seeming innocence” because her servant tries to give us this impression. From early childhood her environments were the gav and pompous court of Catharine De Medici, where high living and loose morals reigned supreme. Then she was not independent. Her mind fluctuated with that of the ardent supporters by whom she was surrounded. They were men that saw in her the legitimatequeen of England, and being strong, almost fanatic supporters of Catholicism, they declared Elizabeth's claim to the throne null and void. Influenced and swayed bv their arguments, she laid claim to the throne of England. Although she knew lull well that she had been instigated by her attendants, she considered it against her honor to lav the blame on them entirely. Sufiering humiliation and cut off from friends, enjoyment, society and freedom, she nevertheless bears all most manfully and with calmness. This firmness and her queenly appearance are the predominant qualities throughout the play. She despises no one, but assumes a commanding atti tude. When others despond, she comforts, when they waver, she is resolute. More than once she appears as having her authority or power somewhat re stricted by the position in which her imprisonment holds her. To Paulct she is almost imperative, considering what he suggests, but never submitting. To Kennedy, on the contrary, she is kind, but she shows her superiority in speech as well as in action. “Frippery does not make kings” she says, when Kennedy complains that they are deprived of everything, even of a looking-glass. Still more effectively she shows her queenly attitude in that unexpected yet eventful meeting with Elizabeth in Fotheringay Park. Although she is very humble and loving at first, with expressions ot a reconeiliatory nature, vet in the course of the interview she becomes more and more imperative, finally ap proaching an air of difiance. In this ardor and heat of speech love is changed into hatred, and her former resolutions of peace are abandoned, a conse quence brought about by the insult and contempt of Elizabeth. Before this catastrophe took place we notice that Maria Stuart was deeply impressed by the unrestrained life she had led and that her conscience was troubled. But we also see that she repented and thought that she rightfully suffered. It is mainly this that awakens our sympathy for her. Yet after or during her interview with Elizabeth we might think that this was all simula tion, put on to deceive others. As Elizabeth says, her behavior unmasked her in this meeting, and her true character was laid bare. Her former resolutions vanish, instead of love there is bitter hatred, and new aspirations appear. It is a change like that of a ship on a calm sea, suddenly overtaken by a hurri-

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cane. It is like the outbreak of a tremendous power held in check. In her bosom, it seems, were kept secluded poisonous, envious darts that now had a favorable opportunity to strike. Her hatred for Elizabeth grew continually, her words and anger knew no limit. But again, if we view it in another light, her course seems but natural. It wasthesting in Elizabeth’s words connected with deepinsult that changed her disposition. It wastheoverhaughty, contemptuous attitude of Elizabeth herself that caused the outbreak. When they first meet, she seems all humiliation. But when Elizabeth remains unmoved and even ac cuses her of having murdered her husband, her love changes to hate. She abandons all hope and glories in mortifying the Virgin Queen and exults in her triumph. In a measure moderating her dejection and bearing her up in her trouble was her hope sooner or later to be freed or escape from the dreadful prison walls. She saw very well that everything was against her, yet she firmly believed to gain her liberty in the end. That there was a possibility of being condemned to deatli she hardly thought of. She could not believe that this would ever be the verdict of her judges. Still she put little trust in them. We see that she would gladly escape and actually had outward communications. Her hope in escape was greater than her hope to be released by the verdict of her judges or by the queen. Mortimer added fuel to her spark of hope. When soon after site was permitted to enjoy the free, pure air outside the prison walls in Park Fortheringhay, her joy had no bounds, and herflame of hope in creased to a blaze. Nothing could look more propitious and convenient, she thought, and nothing more indicative of favorable consequences. Here are moments where her childish fancy takes flights to her bygone past, recalling most happy reflections. There is one particularly interesting feature in her debate with Burleigh, the greatest statesman of his time. During the whole debate she holds her own, yes even gets the better of him. She ignores the right of the court to condemn her, since its members are not her peers. Her reasoning capacity is great, her arguments dexterous, and what she strove to drive home was the unjust procedure of Parliament in lettingmen not herequal officiate in her con viction. Both the ardor with which she follows her aim to gain the desired re sult and her sagacity distinguish her there. It can be inferred that the know ledge of being in the right gave her this strength in the debate. To conclude there is yet something we must not omit. We have already mentioned her firmness, but must come back to it. Weshould expect that such a character as she possessed would have shrunk at the news to die on the scaf fold, but on the contrary she received the verdict as something long expected. She is calm, she does not tremble and is fully prepared to meet death. Nor do the tears of her friends move her in the least. Instead of sobbing with them, she tells them to rejoice at the near deliverance. She shows all the fortitude of woman. With a remarkable love toward her servants, forgetting none, feel ing for some, cheering others and with the blessing of the priest who had giv en her the sacrament, she bravely ascends the steps leading to the scafi'old. E. A. W. ’06. This is Schiller’s Maria Stuart.

THE BLACK AND RED. The Struggle of the Dutch Against Spain.

It is a noteworthy fact in the history of modern Europe that lib erty has been cherished most among mountaineers and sea-faring people, as the Scottish Highlanders, the brave Alpine dwellers, and the hard}7 Norsemen. So it was in the Netherlands. It was their lot to undergo many vicissitudes. Once a part of the domain of the ambitious Charles the Bold, they passed into the hands ofthe Hapsburg dynasty through Maria, wife of Em peror Maximilian. When at the abdication of Charles \ . in 1556 the imperial domain was divided, the Netherlands together with the vast Spanish possessions fell to Philip II., the husband of “Blood}7 Mary.” Nothing in the world presented so great a contrast as this Spanish king and his Dutch subjects. Philip ascended the throne imbued with two ideas, the aggrandizement of the Spanish empire, and the triumph of the Roman church overall its rivals. To realize these was the sole object of his life. For him state and church were insoluble wedded. His small, circumscribed mind could not conceive of anything approaching toleration. He resolved to turn the tide of the Reformation by conquering the dissident countries and applying the Inquisition as a peisuasivc argu ment for their return to the fold of the church. His plans vitally alfected the Netherlands; to promote the ascendency of absolute gov ernment he must deprive them of their liberties, to exalt the position of the papacy he must stamp out Protestantism in the provinces. The Netherlands comprised seventeen provinces, which enjoyed al most entire autonomy. They controlled the commerce of the world. Antwerp had 100,000 inhabitants, two thirds as many as London. Wealth, culture, and moderateluxury were universal, illiteracy was al most unknown. A great measure of freedom existed. Jealously they guarded the rights and immunities obtained from their Burgundian rulers. No taxes could be imposed without the consent of the States General, who fixed the sum and assigned to each province its quota, and even their vote was not final, they had to refer it to their con stituents. In foreign relations the provinces acted as a unit through their representative assembly, the States General. In domestic affairs they exercised local government. Each province had its own assem bly in which the three estates, nobility, clergy, aud commons were rep resented. The constitution of the country was extremely decentral ized. However there were forces at work for its centralization. On the one hand the king, with designs on the people’s liberty, was try ing to concentrate the entire functions of the three departments of government in the royal governor and council. In attempting to

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abolish the obnoxious privileges, he overrode all precedents. On the other hand, a movement for the centralization of the government was on foot among the nobles. Feeling that the provinces were an or ganic body which lacked a central, governing force, they sought to establish an internal unity and render the government more available against foreign encroachments. The sponsor of this idea was the Prince of Orange, William of Nassau, Philip’s most independent and powerful subject. A conflict between these two was inevitable. The finances of the crown were in a deplorable condition. The king long since had been inso vent. lie constantly drew on the Netherlands, his real El Dorado, until several provinces were quite ex hausted and the discontent of the merchants had risen to a menacing pitch. Philip in 1558 proposed a series of staggering taxes, which the States General refused to grant. Finally they agreed to a compromise and vo ed a nine years’ tax of 800,000 livre for the support of an irni v, but with the stipulation, that the collecting and expending of the money should be done by Dutch officials. This received the sanc tion of the provincial courts. Hateful as this was to him, Philip had to accept the conditions, nor coul 1 he conceal to himself that in his move he had been checked. He named his sister, Margaret of Parma, governess. A statecouncil of prominent nobles was to assist her. Two members were odious to the king, William of Orange and Count Egmont, the leaders of the opposition. To countervail their policy of obstruction, two in significant men, creatures of the king, were appointed. These to gether with Margaret's confidential advisor Cardinal Granvella formed a secret, advisory junta, through which Gianvella virtually became head of the government. Egmont and William of Orange reduced to figureheads felt deeply aggrieved, their indignation was shared by the whole country. On conclusion of the war with France, Philip kept four thousand Spanish soldiers quartered in the provinces, in direct contravention of the old principle that the monarch could not burden them with sold iers except in time of war. So deep a murmur of discontent resound ed, that after several years of undignified dodging he was forced to withdraw them. He had tried to shift the responsibility and divert the popular ire on William of Orange by making him commander of the troops. But William was no gudgeon to be caught by such bait.. He declined the honor. Intellectually he was far superior to Philip, his vision was too clear and penetrating, his grasp of political affairs too far-reach ing, to be deluded by Philip’s little tricks. He kept fulfy informed of everything his adversary did, as he had extended his lines even into the roval council at Madrid. But no one could ferret out William’s

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secrets. He had the rare virtue of keeping his own counsel and well earned the significant epithet “the Silent.” » On the cardinal’s advice, Philip issued no new religious edicts, but contented himself with confirming those of Charles V. These showe the utmost cruelty that perverted human ingenuity can devise. In o der to exercise closer scrutiny of the religious inclinations ofthe people, Granvella proposed to increase-the number of sees from four to seven teen. The people saw in this an effort to force on them the Inquisi tion. Such a storm of indignation arose that Margaret bowed to the demands ofthe States General and obtained Granvella’s recall. The king’s foreign policy was calculated to hamper the world-wide commerce of the Netherlands. Carrying on a brisk trade with Eng land and Germany, it was natural that they should come into con tact with their religious tendency. The Catholic church had lost its hold on the minds of the people, and many were converted to the Protestant faith, especially to Calvinism. To prevent the influx of heretical doctrines, Phillip readily sacrificed their commerce and his surest source of revenue. As the government continued its persecution, the States Gener al sent Count Egmont to Madrid to plead with Philip for a merciful and more enlightened policy. He was completely dazzled by the conde scending reception accorded him, and not familiar with the subtlety and treacherousness of Spanish diplomacy, returned home under the delusion that his case was won. But his representations remained unheeded, and oppression did not cease. By the Compromise of Breda the nobles pledged themselves to united resistance. They waited on the governess and presented a petition as an ultimatum. Her courtiers ridiculed them as Gueux, beg gars. This became their battle-cry. With the danger rose the cour age of the Calvinists. From holding clandestine meetings in the for ests, they came out boldly and held open air services in defiance of the authorities. Mobs sacked and burned churches and monasteries, it was a reign of iconoclasts. The disorder was sternly put down by the nobles acting in harmony with Margaret. She requested all the no bles to renew their oath of allegiance. Egmont complied, but William of Orange refused. Philip began to mobilize his troops for the immediate invasion ’of the Netherlands. In August 1567 the Duke of Alba entered Brussels at the head of twelve thousand soldiers. Counts Egmont and Hoorn were treacherously seized and imprisoned. Margaret, piqued that she was virtually superseded, resigned and a military government began. Alba, a haughtv, bigoted Don, was utterly incapable of conciliating the disaffected citizens. He created a special court lo try participants in the recent disturbances. Its powers were very arbitrary, its judges entire!}' his instruments; it sacrificed several thousand lives to his blind

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zeal. Commerce came to a standstill, many artisans and merchants emigrated. The exiles raised a small army. It met a superior num ber of Spanish troops and defeated them at the monastery of Sanct Lee. Enraged at their success, Alba hastened the trial of the unfort unate Egmont and Hoorn. Their property was confiscated and they were condemned to death on an ungrounded charge of treason. Their brave, Calm death was an inspiration to their countn’men and an earnest of irreconcilable opposition to the Spanish despot. August 1572 marked the first success of the patriots, the capture ofHriciic. The estates of all the larger provinces met in the convenlion o I Dordrecht and proclaimed William of Orange their only rightful Stallholder. He took the field and achieved some successes. Foiled at everv turn, the Duke of Alba begged to be relieved, after hav ing destroyed Spain’s last hope of regaining the Netherelands. I lis s icccssor, Requesans. was a far abler man, who possessed considerable insight. lie sought to draw the southern Catholic prov ince- away from the Union by making them his centre of operations. At tli«■ battle of Mooker Heath he defeated the Guenx. But the brutalit;. and marauding of his troops caused a revulsion of feeling, and Catli ilie | rovirc *s joined with the Protestant in the Pacification of (.lien( In this they agreed that the Spaniards should be driven oik. i oh ration established, and the States General assume the govern ment of the entire country. (hi ;li sudden death of Requesans, Philip committed the war to his h ill''brother Don Juan d* Austria. By confirming the Pacificain.n oi tdient in his perpetual Edict, he exceeded his instructions, and was rcm< vcd. Now came the ablest general Philip yet had sent, his nephew Alexander Farnese, Prince ot Parma. He effected the disrup tion ot the confederation and firmly bound the Catholic provinces to Spain. The Protestant, Germanic provinces formed the Union of Utrecht, 1579. They organized a union army, established a common treasury, and agreed not to make foreign treaties separately. This was the foundation of the future Dutch republic. In the following year Philip put William of Orange under an in terdict and set a price on his head. In reply, the States General form ally renounced their allegiance and declared Philip unworthy of his crown. Many fanatics and unprincipled men were anxious to earn the bloody reward, William the Silent, the unsullied patriot, the greatest statesman of the age, was shot and killed at Delft, 15S4, after six attempts on his life had failed. After a long, desperate siege, in which the citizens even opened the sluices and gave their lands to the sea, rather than have them fall prey to the despot. Parma took Antwerp. Queen Elizabeth sent an army under the Earl of Leicester to aid the closelybeset Protestants, but it gained no great advantages.

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While the gigantic preparations for this invasion and conquest of England were in progress, Spain gave Netherlands a breathing-spell. But the Protestants were anxiously awaiting the outcome of the momentous event, on which their own fate hung. In 15S8 the great Armada with its one hundred and thirty towering ships of war, and its thirty thousand men, approached England, a line seven miles long. Well might England quake, and Protestant Europe sigh: “Woe worth the day.” But wonderful are the ways of Providence! Victory was with the freemen. Deus afflavit ct dissipati sunt, says an old inscription. The Spanish ships were scattered like fallen leaves before the au tumn wind. The flower of Spain was gone. Protestantism and Free dom in England and the Netherlands were secure. The “genius of Philip the Second” had wrought its own destruction. It was so mighty a structure that it was crushed of its own weight. Spain’s subsequent attempts in the Netherlands were like the pulse of a dying man. Maurice, the son of William of Orange, succeeded to the governorship and the command of the army. In him Parma found an adversarj' that was his peer. With England’s aid he caused the Spaniard many perplexities. In 1582 Parma died. The Dutch quickly regained all the territory that he had taken. Philip despaired of conquering this brave, determined people, and after thirty-six years of bootless war, resigned his claims to his son-inlaw, the Archduke of Austria. The latter had not profited by Philip’s experience and accordingly sunk more wealth into this bottomless pit. In 1597 he met with a disastrous defeat at the hands of Maurice. After eight years more of fitful fighting both belligerents tired of thecontest. Negotiations were begun, which occupied two years. In 1609 an armistice for twelve years was concluded. Each side was to retain the territory it then held, prisoners were released, sequestered property was restored, in short the Independence of the United Nether lands was tacitly acknowledged. When after a long rest the war was resumed it merged in the continental struggle, the great Thirty Years’ War, but the Independence of the Dutch republic was not ques tioned, and it was universallv confirmed bv the treatv of Westphalia in 1648. This mighty struggle, in which political liberty and freedom battled with tyranny and bigotry, should be of more than transient interest to us. The valiant resistence of the Dutch Protestan:s should stir our inmost soul. They shed their blood not for themselves only, they were fighting our battle. Duriug that distres sing period of reaction in England, under the Stuarts, the Netherlands were the cradle of American liberty. R. A. O., ’05

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S&m Sha.rper’s Adventures in “The Eternal City.” It was on a cold, stormy night, when the stove is the best companion of man. We were a considerable number and stories went round. Only half of the evening had elapsed, when we were already yawning; the stories were becoming dry. We asked our friend Sam Sharper to honor the com pany by relating some of his adventures abroad. He amused us with the following short story, which 1 shall try to relate as well as memory recalls it: *’( )n my trip through Europe I also visited the city of Rome. The time of my adventure was a beautiful evening in September. Weary from walking all day, I sat down on a large veranda and began to read a book that I had by chance slipped into my pocket. I read for a long while, when suddenly my surroundings seemed changed. I was walking down one of the main streets of Rome. Looking about, I perceived an elderly gentleman dressed after the fashion of our modern dudes. It was Alexander the Great. He was on his way to the tennis-grounds. I was struck by surpise to see the great man. Was I dreaming? There in a hack was Brutus. At his side sat Muenchhause-i, having just returned from a voyage around the world on an elec tric wave of the Marconi wireless telegraphy. I heard Brutus say: Muenchhatisen. will you please fill my pipe with Dukes Mixture?” "Will you not rather have a i lavana?" Muenchhausen replied. With this they turned a corner and disappeared from view. ( Mi a street-corner 1 beheld a man who aroused my pity, for the poor fellow looked more like a pincushion than anything else. Upon my inquiry I was informed that this was Hulenspiegel, whose master had told him to be on his pins. But who is the master of the strange steed which seems to be one of Nature’s patchworks? For one ear is entirely missing; of teeth the creature can not boast. At the other extremity is something that we should have called a tail hail there been more hair on it. The rider himself is altogether dressed after the fashion of a cowboy. At his belt are two large pistols. Stepping nearer, I recognized Cassius. The city contained a quarter that was inhabited by Jewish, Chinese, and white cranks: they were mostly exiled from their country. The first man I met was a Jew with collar-buttons, who, instead of selling his articles, asked me for the price of my collar-buttons. Another crank I saw at work making what the Germans call a “Nuemberger Trichter.” The knowledge that was to be transmitted into any one’s brain was written on a slip of paper: this paper was then cut into small chips which must necessarily have the shape of a rightangle triangle. Then the chips were mixed well with hydroferocius acid. This mixture was poured into the funnel-shaped instrument, which was fastened to the head by means of small staples. The inventor informed me that he had made a funnel of this kind for Shakespeare. This explained the fact that Shakespeare was so great a writer.

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At this place I also had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Dr. Trawla, the inventor of buttonholes. He informed me that ever since the moths had eaten holes into his coat, he had seen the usefulness of button holes. As this was a very unclean part of the city, I made haste to reach the main street. I walked leisurely on until I overtook a large crowd of idlers, crowding around a sign-board. I managed to get a closer view of the advertisement. In large letters the words were written: “Hindoo Jim came to this town with his large menagerie of lions, tigers, bears, dogs, snakes, and many other animals, also monkeys; mirrors will be distributed to all that desire to see the last named animals. 1 he animals may be seen at the Capitolium at any time of the day.” As I had a pocket-mirror of my own, 1 determined not to go. Instead I traced my steps to the Forum, where an ice-cream social was given by a number of women of the Mars Temple of which Cicero was parson. The people were seated at round tables. 1 asked one of the guests to explain this. “Why,” he said, "the ice-cream is served at round tables so no one asks for a square meal!” After 1 had refreshed myself I went to the baseball park, where I found all the friends of baseball. Hannibal had come to Rome with his nine, intend ing, of course, to defeat the local team. This was the last game of the season, and it was to decide the championship between the African League and the Mediterranean League. Had the power of steam been discovered at that time the game would have been interesting. The steam, however, was lacking with both pitchers. Before the game there had been a small dispute between the umpires. For their baseball guide contained the rule, “Over the fence is outbut the fence was missing. The matter was discussed for a long while: the umpires could come to no conclusion. After disputing for several hours, they finally determined to build a fence. The game was called. The first man to bat was Hercules, who had been hired by the Roman team. He swang the bat and struck the ball with such force that the pitcher, whom the ball struck in the head, saw enough stars to constitute a new milky way. Another trifling accident took place during the game. Pythagoras, who was Hannibal's third baseman, was at this time constructing the great theorem, to which his name was afterwards applied. When a mathematical thought occurred to him, he would forget his surroundings and think of his problem only. During one of these mental aberrations he was suddenly awakened by a ball which landed in the mud before him, quite filling his eyes. The game ended in favor of the Romans with a final score of 16—i, the only home run having been made by Bryan. Father Time acted as tallvmarker. Leaving the baseball grounds, 1 found myself walking behind a large

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procession. It was Caesar on his triumphal procession, accompanied by Sousa’s Band. Among the captives of Caesar were Happy Hooligan and Li Hung Chang. To my horror I saw Cassius stop his horse at the side of Brutus’s hack and point at Caesar with his pistols. I ran after Caesar’s carriage to warn him. Caesar turned around and I heard a voice say, “Follow me.” It was, however, not Caesar’s voice, but the voice of a policeman who lifted me from the veranda by my coat-collar and shook me until I was quite out of breath. I had been asleep on the veranda, where he had found me screaming at the top of my voice and calling for Caesar, Brutus, Muenchhausen, and others. Seeing that I had only had a heavy dream not due to intoxication, he set me free, warning me to look for a more appropriate place the next time I wished to take a nap. W hen we went home that evening we wondered what would happen to us were we to visit “The Eternal City.” E. H. S.,’07. 000000

Is Life Worth Living? li is a very strange fact that in our so-called highly civilized, Christian era \\< should find a large number of people who actually doubt that life is worth living. I11 many of our leading papers and magazines we have found this topic repeatedly discussed. Some of the leading men of the present age are not settled upon this question. Many of our readers will undoubtedly be inclined to say that it is well nigh impossible to ask such an irrelevant question. Yet for the sake of those who are still in doubt we shall endeavor to answer this query. The first question that presents itself to us is, What causes people to doubt the value of life? The reasons are indeed manifold. Many evidently never stop for a moment to think to whom they are really indebted for their life; they never consider what a divine blessing they have in life. Some have the vague idea that they owe their whole existence to their parents alone, forgetting thereby, however, that there is still a mightier One from whom all life emanates. Who was it that brought life into this world? Was it not God the Almighty who breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of the first man? Surely, if we believe in the Scriptures, we must needs believe this, and if we believe this, we must also admit that life is by no means a thing of which we ought to think lightly. If God, from whom all good originates, has found it meet and proper to bestow life upon us, ought we poor mortals then to be so arrogant as to find fault with our Creator ? Again we have observed that in very many instances people have not the proper regard for life inasmuch as they consider it to be a mere plaything. This serious error may in many cases be attributed to the parents. How

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many a youth do we not find who has been to a lesser or greater extent neglected' by his parents ? He has not had the proper training. Iiis parents have neglected to imbue him with a true Christian spirit and thus the poor fellow is cast out into the world a helpless wretch. When the fierce tempests of life then break in upon him he is utterly helpless. The youth who once regarded life as a mere plaything now begins to realize that life with its manifold difficulties demands the strenuous efforts of every man. If we would get a good idea of the earnestness of life, we should read the “Psalm of Life,” in which the poet so beautifully says: “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; ‘Dust thou art, to dust returnest,’ Was not spoken of the soul.” These words have a much deeper meaning than is often construed into them by the cursory reader or the flippant youth. That life is not esteemed by those who make the grave their goal does not surprise us in the least, yet we pity those poor people who have no higher aim. These people must either be ignorant of the fact that their soul will survive in eternity or else they close their eyes to this inevitable truth, which is so much the worse for them, since God will punish them the worse for having despised Him and his word. But there is another evil that greatly tends to make people dissatisfied with life, and that is the abominable spirit of discontent which is becoming more and more prevalent at the present day. It is indeed a rare occurrence that we find a man who is content with his situation in life. The laborer is not satisfied with his wages. He would move in the foremost circles of society. Every social event that chances to come about he must attend, and if he cannot do this, life has no purport for him. He would as lief be dead as imagine a life in which he is denied these pleasures. The rich man, too, is discontented with his position in life. Although he has a great deal of wealth, he would always accumulate more. He can enjoy all the pleasures that money is capable of buying, yet he is dissatisfied, for he soon becomes weary of society and pleasure. The many carnal pleasures that he enjoys overtax his physical strength. Thus it is that neither rich nor poor are content. From this it is very evident that money cannot make a man happy. What is it then that can effect this end? Hark what the apostle says, Tim, 6-10 “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many arrows.” If people would be mindful of these facts and think that there is a life hereafter and that they must once appear before the judgment throne of

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Why Child Labor Ought Not to Be Tolerated. A question which is gaining more and more importance, which is very much discussed and debated upon, is the question of child labor. Were it not of importance, this question would surely not be argued upon as much as it is. It has even become necessary for the government of different states to interfere with and prevent child labor. Factories and workshops are annually inspected, and those who arc not old enough are compelled to stop working. It is a daily occurrence that one can sec children who have scarcely passed the age of twelve hurrying to the factories and workshops. Here at the factories they have to work as long as strong and healthy men. The only difference is that the child receives smaller wages than a man. Scarcely any attention is paid to their physical ability. How can I profit most? is the employer's sole question. But common sense will tell you that a child is not, for any length of time able to work ten hours a day, which is even difficult for a robust man. Although a child can endure this for some time, it will at last ruin its constitution, which before perhaps was sound. Look at some of these children when they return home from their daily work and observe how tired and broken down they look. Before they have attained the age of twenty, one might well judge from their appearances that their age is about twenty-live to thirty. This is one of the effects of permitting children to work too soon. Xot only is a child that is forced into factories and workshops too early ruined physically, but also morally and mentally, which is probably the worst that can befall anybody. A person who is morally and mentally ruined, is not only despised by his fellow-men but he is also, in most cases, unable to find emoloyment. Here at the factories the child is brought into contact with different kinds of people, some whose character is bad, others whose character is good. But a child is more apt to take to bad qualities than to good ones. Therefore a child ought to be kept away from such places, and be under the care of his parents or someone that will reprimand him or punish him when ever he is doing wrong. Surely no one can deny that things occur in such places which will harm and injure the child. His neighbor probably takes the name of God in vain; the child hears it and is induced to follow in his foot prints. Another has probably the habit of using tobacco: the child sees it, and is led to try it for himself. So there are many more things too numerous to mention that will demoralize a child. Children ought to be put to school, so that they might train their minds and receive an education. This is neces sary for life. A person can never learn too much. At school a child will at

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least learn to know what is right and wrong. Many a person to-day regrets that he has no thorough education, because he had to go to work. Many have cried out in vain, "Oh youth return, oh give me back my youth again.” Many wish that they could live their life over again, so that they might obtain a better education. Thousands and thousands of children arc employed in the factories and workshops throughout the country. One might well say that for every child one man is thrown out of employment. He who really is supposed to labor, is finally driven to despair because he cannot find employment to support his family. This is the ultimate result of child labor. The child does not remain a child. He grows to be a man. Things arc constantly changing. People that make up this American nation will not be with us any more a century from now. Men that are to-day guiding the "Ship of State” will not be' there to do so always. The children of to day will make up the nation of to-morrow. Just as we have to-day educated men at the head of our nation, so we must have them too when these are no more. It is therefore necessary that children ought to be educated as much as possible and kept out of factories and workshops as long as possible. F. F., ’on 0 d d d d d

Eine Erirmerxirvg a.n die Heimat.

Unsere allzeitig geschaftige Phantasie ist nur zu sehr gcneigt, aus irgend einer Beschreibung oder Schilderung ein hervorstehendes Merkmal herauszuheben und dieses dann ins Unbeschrankte auszumalcn. So hat schon mancher, der von der schonenProvinz Pommern gchort oder gelcsen hat, bezeugt, er habe sich diese Gegend so ganz anders vorgestellt, dass er sich nicht wenig gewundert habe, als er an Ort und Stclle gelangt und dann das Ackerland, die griinen Wiesen und die Flussniederungen mit ihren schattigen Eichenwaldern erblickt habe. Er gibt zu dass Pommern der Stolz des deutschcn Reiches ist. Als die edle Konigin Louise nach der verhangnisvollen Schlacht bei Jena sich nach einem Badeorte umsah, wo sie in Rulic Genesung finden kdnne, eilte sie nach Pommern und legte in der Nahe von Polzin den Grundstein einer Kuranstalt, die nach ihr genannt wurde and heute noch Kranken ihre Hilfe anbietet. Der alljahrlich wiederkehrende io. Marz fuhrt uns bcsonders an diesen Ort, da dann der Geburtstag der grossen Dulderin alljahrlich gefeiert wird. Kommen wir heute nach Louisenbad, so finden wir 6 Badeanstalten, die mit einer Parkanlage von zwei Meilen Umfang umgeben siiul. Im Centrum steht das Badehaus der Konigin, noch ziemlich in demselben Zustande erhalten, wie die Konigin vor fast too Jahren darin Genesung fand. Eine grosse Anzahl Banke, aus Eichenstammen hergestellt, und Birkenlauben

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findet man dort, die an eingeschnittenen Namen und Zahlen erkennen lassen, dass sie aus der Zeit der Konigin stammen. Die vielen Mineralquellen, die dem Erdboden entspringen zieren die Anlagen mit mehreren Bachen und Karpfenteichen, die mit ihren Kastanienalleen Louisenbad ein lieblichcs Anschen gebcn, dass der Ticrgartcn zu Berlin bei weitem iibertroffen wird. Gcht man an einem Sommerabend in die Anlagen von Louisenbad, um nacli vollbracliter Tagesarbcit auf einer Bank ein wenig auszuruhen, so hort man rings die Xachtigallcn, die einem dicht iiberm Kopf und vor den Augen vorbei flatten!, als ob sie nach einem geeigneten Orte suchten, von wo aus sie einem die Abendruhe (lurch ihren wohltonenden Gesang so angenehm wie nur moglicli machen wollten. Man kann cs nicht unterlassen mitzusingen: ..Abendfriede, Abendrub, oil, wie suss, wie siiss bist du.“ Stcht man am Morgen friilie auf, um vor der Arbeit einen frischen Trunk W’assers aus dem Gesundbrunnen zu schopfen, wird man durch Friihkonzert von einem auserlesenen Musikkorps begriisst. Gleichfalls begriisst un£ eine Sebar allerlei anderer Vogel mit zwitschern, pfeifen, und singen. Dazu dufted der liebliclic Geruch der Rosen, die einem die Friihpromenade wunderlieblieb maclien; und mann wiirdc nicht einen solchen Morgenspaziergang um /elm Flaschen Peruna oder Alpenkrauterol geben, was hier in America fiir ein no wunderschdnes Heilgctrank gehalten wird. Xachdcm der pommersebe Arbeiter, Gclehrte oder Student seinen Trunk W’aNser auf der Friihpromenade genossen, geht er an die Arbeit und verrichtet die schwcrsten Arbeiten, ohne sich den langen Tag fiber nach einer Pause zu sehnen. wo ihm Gelegenhcit gegeben wird, eine halbe Flasche Peruna und vide andere dergleichen Medikamente zu trinken. Gehen wir nach Berlin, so sehen wir, dass der Berliner auch haufig seine Friihpromenade halt und den Tiergarten aufsucht, der Louisenbad durch das Standbild dcr Konigin Louise und andere Besonderheiten etwas gleichkommt: doch der schone Landfriede fehlt ihm. Anstatt des Mineralwassers wird ein Glas Bier oder ein Champagner getrunken, und so wird die Arbeit gleich erhitzter als im stillen Pommerland angefangen, und man sehnt sich nach einer Pause oder sogar nach Feierabend, wo das Weissbier den siissen Abend frieden bringen soli. 1st aber in dem Gewoge der Grossstadt kein stiler Abendfriede zufinden, so geht man zu den Wassestoren des Ozeans und wandert Gliick und Frieden suchend nach dem Goldland America. So weit Louisenbad von America entfernt ist, so weit tritt auch der stille Abendfriede in den Hintergrund. Und doch hat auch hier die Natur ihre Reize, auch hier freut man sich balsamischer Morgenluft, auch hier kehrt siisser Friede in die Herzen ein, denn die Erde ist iiberall des Herrn.

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With this issue of the Black and Red we are about to begin a new volume. A new staff has taken charge of the paper. Whether we shall succeed in maintaining the old standard of the paper remains to be seen. A change of this kind is usually detrimental to a paper since the new members are somewhat unexperienced. For this reason we shall not make great promises for the ensuing year, yet we have re solved to acquit ourselves of our task as well as possible. To insure success for the paper, however, the staff must necessarily work in harmony. It will not do for one or the other to shirk his work. We have been chosen to fill the several positions on the staff, and our sole aim ought to be to perform our duty in such a manner as will be a credit to our paper and to the insti’tutionas a whole. is

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But the editors cannot achieve this without the hearty support of the faculty and the student body. Hitherto this fact seems to have been more or less unobserved. The entire task has mostly devolved upon the editors. That this is overtaxing the capacities of the editors is very evident, for how are they going to do justice to their class-work? The students of the collegiate department ought to respond more freely with contributions. If this were done, it would relieve us of a great burden. Another thing that has been sorely wanting is the support of the alumni. Lately a few contributions have appeared in the Black and Red. We hope that in future the members of the alumni will con tribute more freely. Why not show a little more energy in this direc tion? Shake off those fetters of lethargy and show that Northwest ern si ill has some sons who have not entirely forgotten her! If this be done, we mav feel sure that the Black and Red will ever flourish.

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We are glad to say that most of the mem bers ol our elocution classes take great in terest in the art of speaking. Many of us expect to be clergyman some day, therefore it is extremely necessary and important that we • Imuld cultivate our voice and learn to appear before an audience without embarrassment As there is but one hour a week at our dis pos’d for elocution and as the classes are large, each member gets a c ; owe to speak but every four or five weeks. All this time is needed for the speaking only, and there is no time left for explanation and criticism. There ought to be enough time after each division has spoken to criticise every speaker so as to show him his defects and faults and tell him how to get over them. In spite of these difficulties most members have made considerable progress from year to year. If one devotes a little time and practice to articulation and tries to picture clearlv to the audience whatever he has to say, his efforts must be crowned with success. But still there are some among us who. as it seems, do not exert themselves very much. Perhaps some think it is of no use for them to tr_v to speak because their voice is not strong enough. This is no excuse. Why is it that Demosthenes became the greatest orator of all times? When Demosthenes was young, his lungs were weak, his articulation was defective, and his gestures where awkward. But he strengthened his lungs and developed his voice. He walked up steep hillsides while re citing his speeches; he declaimed on the beach to the roaring waves. To get a clear articulation he forced himself to speak distinctly with a pebble in his mouth. When he thundered against Philip of Macedonia, he showed that his efforts were not in vain. Cannot we, to some ex tent, try to do the same? Our SpcaRing Classes.

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Our college park slopes towards the west. The buildings are grouped in the rear part of the grounds toward the east. The walks all leading to the main building indicate that this is the central structure. On both sides of the walks there are rows of shadetrees of various kinds. We have also been experimenting with shrubs and trees that thrive in warmer parts of our country and although some of them could not withstand the cold winters of our climate we succeeded in growing various Southern shrubs and trees. During the past summer we have also been arranging beds of flowers and shrubbery of different sizes and shapes. Numerous other public parks and school grounds have adopted this system of beautifying their grounds. Some trees—mainly poplars—that have been placed in the ground by former students have been cut down or they have not been able to resist the furious winds of spring and autumn. These will be replaced bv the so-called “class-trees” of the classes of future years. Arbor-day, which is also set aside at our school for cleansing the grounds of the foliage which has fallen from the trees and which has been a covering for the ground the past winter, is most dutifully observed. Let us not only strive to clean up the grounds thoroughly on this day. because it is purposely set aside for that, but also willingly help those who have charge of these grounds at all times. We do not want someone to he constantly on the alert to catch one or the other walking or running over the grass and continually hear someone call out, “Keep off the grass!” If we do not work together, a great part of our work will be fruitless and there will continually be some who destroy the good others have done. 1 f we work together, it will not be for our own and our immediate neighbor's bene fit, but also for all friends of our institution and nature-loving persons. Spring.

Again Jack Frost with the cold Northwest howling through the leaf less trees is departing from us. Once more we can enjoy the mild weather of spring. Nature is beginning to clothe our surroundings in a new coat of green; the birds are returning to rebuild their nests and to gladden us with their songs. The sun, the moon, and even the stars seem to shine brighter upon reawakened nature. Should not our hearts rejoice and join in praise with the whole creation? But to rejoice is not our main end. We must also refresh our body. Everyone of us can afford to spend several hours a day on the campus; a short walk before breakfast is of great benefit, not only to the body, but also to the brain. We can now with renewed energy apply ourselves to mental work. The seniors are looking forward to their final tests and examinations. But we, as well as the seniors, must devote much time to earnest studying if we have not been up to the mark during the last semester. If you wish to have success, do it now; for “lost time is never found again/'

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Municipal Politics.

The first Tuesday in April is wont to give our thoughts a political trend. Again we have witnessed a spirited municipal campaign. Now that the excitement of the contest and the elation of victory have abated, comes a surge of afterthoughts. Why should the party machine and the party spirit control local elections? Parties are organized on national principles and it is comprehensible why they should extend to state governments, but national questions do not obtain in municipal affairs, and yet how tenaciously we cling to party lines. Instead of using arguments some people resort to party prejudice, a practice which results in slander, defamation, and rancor. It is especially distressing to see newspapers stooping to such senseless, rabid partisanship. The real object is lost sight of, candidates become the pawns of party bosses. A

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nominee's capacity for office is a minor consideration, as long as lie is a good partisan. . .. Much could be done to raise local elections above party politics, it all citizens, with the interests of the community at heart, would unite in form ing a municipal league. Its object should be to select the ablest men, legal dless of political affiliation and to put them forward as the candidates of the better class of people. Then the union of the good, intelligent voters of all parties might be strong enough to discountenance the use of liquor for buying votes. By breaking up this despicable practice, which makes all political aspirants pander to the rabble, the league would accomplish the regeneration of municipal politics, tumble from his throne King Alcohol, and abolish the corruption that accompanies his reign. George Eliot’s "R-omoleL.” With the writing of "Silas Marncr” the first period of George Eliot’s authorship may be said to close. Her early works were more unpremeditated, less carefully written, and less extensive than the long, carefully and thorough ly prepared novels to come. “Romola’’ is the first of the later period. At the time of the composition of "Silas Manner,” George Eliot visited Florence twice to gather facts for her historical novel. During this time she also did much reading in Italian history and literature. The list of books directly consulted in preparing for the novel is said to cover an octavo page, so thoroughly did she gather the facts for her treatment. After the author had thus worked for three years, the novel was published in part in the "Cornhill Magazine” during 1863, all business concerning it being transacted by her quasi-husband, Mr. Lewes. From the nature of the plot and the manner of writing, the author's earnestness is soon detected. No part of it is llippant or merely gay. Her purpose is reached, which she thus expresses: "1 will never write anything to which my whole heart, mind and conscience don’t consent, so that 1 may feel that it was something—however small—which wanted to he done in this world, and that I am just the organ for that small bit of work.” Her vocabu lary is very large and contains many words of Latin derivation. "Romola” and “Daniel Deronda" have no connection at all with Midland England, where the author lived, almost without interruption, the first thirty years of her life. The scenes of "Romola” are laid exclusively in Italy. As in all long novels we find also in "Romola” chapters which advance the action only little, if at all. The seventh chapter, for instance, which is entitled “A learned squabble,” acquaints the reader with only few facts necessary for the development of the plot. The chapter is, however, as the entire novel, interesting and well displays the author's wit and humor. W ith its earnestness and humor, its thorough preparation, and its many historical events, George Eliot’s "Romola” attained, at the time of its publi cation, greater success than her previous novels, and it is still by many re garded as her masterpiece.

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has, as we hear, debated questions like the lynching matter, and the benefits of city and country life. The fact that they had a debate at every meeting, and that quite a number took part in them is proof of their enthusiasm. Parliamentary law also is constantly applied. As the work in both societies goes on with enthusiasm, the spirit of rivalry will increase, and we may, perhaps, look forward to a contest, which will be highly interesting to all.

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Although the success of the past basketball season is still fresh in the memory of every student, all the boys are anxiously waiting for the base ball season to begin. Until now the weather has been all but favorable for baseball. The candidates have been out onh a very few times, the weather always being too chilly for practice. The diamond is in too poor a condiÂ tion to allow the infield to practice on it. The number of candidates this year is not so large as in other years, but the available men have so far shown up well, considering the time of the season. It is impossible to say for certain who will play with the first team, but it is quite probable that the team will be made up of the following players: Captain Wendland, catcher: Kumm, pitcher; R. Ernst, first base: North, second base: E. Hinnenthal, third base: Woyahn, shortstop: Heilmann, Nieghorn, J. Whyte, and Bartz, outfielders. The whole outfield will be made up of new players, but with good hard practice they ought to show up well. The team has batting practice every day and some heavy hitters ought to be developed. Manager C. Sauer has arranged the following schedule: April 13. University of Madison at Madison. May 7. St. John's Military Academy at Delafield. May 14. Seminary ( two games) at Watertown. May 20. Lawrence University at Watertown. May 21. St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Military Academy at Watertown. May 28. Marquette College at Milwaukee. June 1. Milton College at Watertown. June 4. Whitewater Normal at Whitewater. June 11. Whitewater Normal at Watertown.

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The purpose of conducting an Exchange department is very vaguely discerned by some editors. The editor should bring the best literary pro ductions of the exchanges before his fellow-students, giving them the benefit of his judgment in the selection. But what is more important, he should make an effort to review literary articles with critical discrimination. Apart from fact and thought he should consider the style in point of grammar, pure English idiom, and esthetics, lie should bear in mind that criticism is not to be destructive and belittling, but constructive and helpful. Even after a centurx and a half people have not learned what Lessing taught the world, that true criticism should not only show "how not to do a thing, but how to do it correctly." If we keep this object before us the exchange column will not lapNi- into a mutual adulation organ, it will not degenerate into an insipid re : . Miration of flat quips and jokes, nor will it be guilty of making preju dice invidious attacks. To live up to these ideals has been the aim of the Black and Red hitherto, and it shall be its earnest endeavor under the new staff li a pleasure to receive the Native American (Phoenix, Arizona). We all a interested i:i the welfare and advancement of our native fellow citizens and art, pleased to note their progress. In the article on the New York Indians, we have the novel experience of reading an Indian’s account of an historical event. The Indian Reproof is a lesson we should all take to heart. The Milton College Reticle (Wis.) contains an instructive contribution regarding Early English Proverbial Literature with selections from Alfred’s and I lendyng’s Proverbs in translation. Having read an earnest, fervent tribute to a deceased professor, we were shocked to find immediately following an absurd parody. Occupying the position it does, it gives the impression of irreverence. Moreover, thus to misuse the Psalm of Life shows little apprecia tion for the beautiful and the earnest. The life of a church that has existed for a quarter-milennium is the occasion for useful pleasant reflections in the Berkelydian (X. Y.). The editor touches on a salient point in regard to current events. "I would be greatlv to our advantage to be well informed of the progress of affairs in our national life. Would not a half hour lecture weekly reviewing these facts be a helpful addition to our school course?” The Red and Blue (N. Y.) contains an article of merit on the character of Hector.

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The Ouachita Ripples (Ark.) has a number of good literary articles. “The Greek and the Teuton” compares the characters of the two greatest races of the world. The author accounts for the diversity in their natures by the contrast in environs. She portrays the different inborn views of fate, how the Greek considered himself wholly dependent on destiny, a fatalistic theory, while the Teuton had a far nobler view of man’s responsibility. The writer correctly shows how Goethe’s Iphigenie presents a conflict between the Greek idea embodied in Orestes and Pylades, and the Teutonic conception whose exponent is the christianized Iphigenia. To one whose sentiments are attached to New England through family tradition as well as national feeling, the article, ‘‘The Worm Turns,” in the Kodak (Milwaukee) is a noble vindication. “The Great Refusal” impressively pictures in beautiful, biblical language the hard question in applied Christianity that we must all decide, that rock on which so many shatter, to deny all for the sake of the Master. Of the sketches of historic scenes, especially the second, the Meeting of Win. Penn and the Indians deserves credit. It is a successful essay at word painting and shows a vivid imagination. What an impressive event it must have been. The Syracuse University Herald offers two excellent pieces of fiction. “Peter’s Last Scrape” sustains one’s interest throughout. Not only fiction but more staid prose and also poetry are weil represented. The entire paper impresses one as being ably edited and receiving hearty support from the student body. “The Truth shall make you Free” is the title of a very deserving article in The Royal Purple (Whitwater, Wis.) The writer seriously considers the great social problem. She sounds the key-note of the situation when she says that men must learn the truth, “Thou shalt love thy neigbor as thyself,” and that “wealth is not a gift but a gracious loan of a kindly Providence.” It is an able appeal to all thinking men. It is very true that if all would strive to live the Christian life and apply the Nazarethan’s teachings, the redemp tion of our social life would be accomnlished “Sine quo non.” Fiction of a better order appears in the Brunonian (Brown University.) What makes the Brunonian especially interesting is the fact that it offers a solid budget of reading matter containing many excellent things in prose and poetry, serious and in the lighter vein as well. Favorable winds have again blown to us the down of the Thistle from St. Leonards-on-Sea, in “merrie England.” The serial stories promise to be quite good. The resume of a lecture entitled, “From Capetown to Cairo,” is interesting. Several fine views of the country traversed, among them the beautiful Victoria Falls, accompany it. In reply to the exchange man's query we should say that “spiel” is a German word introduced into the American college vocabulary, and is used equivalent to performance. Ruta baga is a large variety of turnip used for fodder. In the Susquehanna (Selmsgrove, Penn.) we find a fair characterization of Hamlet. We agree with it in the main. But we must say that the dis-

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position of the essay is not quite clear. In the fifth paragraph the writer turns from his outward “relations” to Hamlet’s “inner qualities and charac teristics,” and says that Hamlet “was strong in reason, judgment and pru dence.” But his “will power,” which belongs to the same category, he has discussed in the third paragraph. In the fifth paragraph he continues, "Hamlet was ever quick to grasp the whole situation of affairs and keen to penetrate the purposes of others.” But that only is repeating what he said in the third, “he understands the situation of things perfectly and seems to take in the whole at one grasp.” By not making a stringent topical division of the subject matter, the writer has gone over some ground twice and in curred the blame of prolixity. He tries to show that Hamlet “was strong in executive ability, tact, and prompt courageous action,” by his behavior in the encounter with the pirates, by the killing of Polonius, by the manner in which he sent (luildenstcrn and Rosencrantz to the headsman in his stead. But the fact is that not one of these incidents was due to the qualities mentioned. The\ were due to rashness. They were done in. the heat of the moment, without consideration. As Hamlet himself tells us. Act V, Scene 2, he acted "r.i h!\ and praised be rashness for it,” which is proof neither of executive abilit\ no** tact. When Hamlet, having seen proof of the king’s guilt at the p!a\. finds Claudius in the chamber, his courage fails him, he docs not avc ige bis father's death. His courage was not great at the proper time, so he c«»uld not lay claim to “prompt courageous action.” The examples do not prow the point that the writer is trying to make. The conclusion differs widt h from the interpretation of most Shakespeare scholars. He represents the terrible end as the only rightful conclusion, that any conclusion before that would have been “untimely.” But in reality Hamlet’s very first chance to kill Claudius after the play was the right time. As he failed to use it, calamity after ealamitv befell him: the murder of Polonius, the death of Ophelia, of Laertes, of the Queen, and his own end arc the consequences of his failure to strike at the right time. The Doanc Owl (Crete, Neb.) has an amusing story, “Hadji Ahmet laughs.” A Turkish. Tale, somewhat on the order of the Thousand Tales and One. The editorials on "Friends,” and one entitled “Thy Mercy hath made me great,” are excellent. A poem shows the Christian’s cheerful, trusting view of Death. . It certainly must be an oversight, we think, on the part of its exchange editor that we have not had the pleasure of perusing the last issue of the Sacred Heart Collegian. We have endeavored always to be neighborly and send them our paper. We certainly would not drop our only home con temporary, when we exchange with people in Europe and Asia.

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—John Jeske, To, accompanied his father, Mr. R. Jeskc, of Milwaukee to Hartford to attend the funeral of his grandfather on March 24. —Roland Pieper, ’10, discontinued his studies on March 19. —Adolf Zuehlke of Juneau called on his brother Alex, ’09, and on friends March 5. —Edmund Bliefernicht, ’03, who is at present teaching school at Columbus, visited friends at college March 28. —The band and orchestra will give their annual concert at the Concordia Opera House on Friday evening May 13. Two committees were appointed to arrange the programme and to see to the business matters. It is reported that the orchestra and the band are in a better condition than ever before. An interesting programme may be looked for. —Aug. Bartz, ’06, who had discontinued his studies for some time on account of illness, has returned to college. —Fritz Kammholz, 07, payed a visit to friends at Lake Mills on March 27. —Adela and Ella Birr of Tomah, called on Ewald Kirst, ’09, while visiting friends at Watertown March 5. —Mrs. Chr. Sauer of Juneau visited her sons Christian, ’04, Adolf, 06, and Edwin, ’07, on March 17. —E. Kowalke was called to Kaukauna on account of the sudden death of his grandmother on March 19. —Theodore Ranke, who attended the Academy in the beginning of the nineties, was given a farewell reception at the Moravian parsonage Tuesday, April 5, on occasion of his departure for Nicaragua to do mission-work. —We recently received a postal card from Geo. Hauschild, ’00, dated Havanna, Cuba. —John Abelmann, ’05, and William Albrecht of the Seminary at Wauwatosa were pleasantly entertained at Dr. Whyte’s on April 4. —William Eberhardt of Fond du Lac is making a stay with his cousin, Arnold Eickmann, ’06. —Martin Hilgendorf and Andrew Zache of Juneau called on friends March 29—Services were held in the college chapel on Sunday, March 27. The Rev. Prof. Eickmann officiated. —Theodore Albrecht, 07, went home on account of illness March 25. —Herbert Kirchner, To, visited his parents at Lowel on March 27. 2S

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—William Luebke, ’03, who is making a special study of German at the Madison University, made a friendly call on the boys at college April 4. —Herman Trieloff, ’09, discontinued his studies on account of illness on March 25. —Solomon Jedele, ’02, of the Seminary visited friends on April 8. —On Wednesday, March 16, a Board of Athletic Directors was elected by the student body. E. A. Wandland, 06, was elected for three years, R. Breutzrnann, ’05, and Adolf Sauer, ’06, for two years, and Chr. Sauer, ’04, and John Abelmann, ’05, for one year. The object of electing this board was to take the money affairs from the hands of the managers, and to further, in general, the athletics at our college. In the first meeting of the board it was decided to give everybody an "N” who played at least one match game of baseball, one-half of a football game, or one-half of a basket-ball game. The board also reserved the right to take away the “N” from anybody who i> dishonorably dismissed from the baseball, foot-ball, or basket-ball team. —On March 7 Crcatore, the popular Italian director, gave a concert at the Turner ()pera House. This may be safely considered the greatest musical treat that was ever given to the people of Watertown. We often get a chance to hear band music, even difficult, classical selections, rendered tolerably well, but never heretofore have we had the chance to hear music rendered as it was done by Crcatore and his band. To our poor judgment it seems that Crcatore surpassed the “march-king” Sousa by far. This may be due to the different music which he plays. Sousa’s strength is mainly in martial music while Crcatore produces wonderful orchestralike effects, swelling at times to the most vigorous fortissimos, which send a thrill of pleasure through the heart of the listener. Especially the “Cavalleria Rusticana" and the “Tannhauscr March” were greatly appreciated.

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While glow the arc-lights with the last steps of day, Far, down the lonely streets, does Hank pursue His solitary way ? —N-ttl-m-nn (in a dream) : “I’ve got too much!” Br-km-nn : “I’ll take a little.” —A Tragedy: Scene: Schoi's room (11:30 P. M.) Schoi sole occupant, reclining in his campchair, is deeply interested in a ghost-story. A frag ment of paper falls from off his desk. Schoi makes for the door! (veni, vidi, ventus Sum!) —Ode to the Rock River at the Downfall of a Barbershop. “Flow gently, Rock River, around thy swift bend! “Flow gently, thou brute thou!—dost harm thou intend? Oh !—- what a close shave!—oh ! spare me!!—I fall!!! (>h well!—a good hath is not bad after all!” —To the Barbershop. “bare thee well where oft I was shaved, Fare thee well where oft I was bathed, l ari.1 thee well where oft I got a trim, t >li. u hat a fall! mv countrvmen!!" WHO? Somebody lost his character (That he had one mayn’t be known) For every time he went somewhere I Ie left it safe at home. It followed him down town one (lav Which was against the rule. He lost it down on Main, they say, And now he is a fool. —Some time ago something happened that put the whole student body into such a lit of mourning that several boys were actually in danger of falling into a state of mental aberration. To keep no one in suspense: Our man Schoi was lost! Oh, most woeful day!! A handsome re ward was at once offered to any person giving the slightest informa tion as to his whereabouts. The chief of the local detective force, Monsieur Max, with five blood-hounds to help him, immediately set out for the search. After ransacking every possible hiding-place within a mile around the city they found him fresh and healthy in a pair of brand new corduroys, Words cannot describe the joy this occasioned throughout the entire town. Dectective Max received his re ward and Schoi is again happy as ever among his loyal friends. —One bright Sunday afternoon “something” appeared on the premises. Cries of “Venus!” immediately issued from a certain window in Highwav and in less time than words can tell the entire premises were black with students. Kodaks, spyglasses, megaphones, mirrors, mouth-

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organs, etc., were seen in every direction. Confusion* reigned as to the “real identity of that mysterious apparition.” A certain boy, for instance, behind a spyglass in the third story cried out: “ 1 he Lady of the Lake ! whereupon no less than twenty others made a dash for a copy of Scott s Lady of the Lake, eager, as they said, to find a description of the “Lady. “Why, boys, its only a bitchy!” was the next cry, followed by universal applause. But when a certain person had the audacity to murmur sonicthing about the missing link, there arose a general cry for water, The effects were tremendous. Several boys were actually drawn out of the windows, some fainted and others were disabled for quite a time (till sup per.) Those affected most were Erny, Hcino, Eicky, Trix, Piscator, Jack, and Teddy. Drawn as by a magnet and seemingly powerless they followed one by one, close at the heels of the “unknown,” until all ol a sudden there appeared on the scene “something” in the shape of a dude and both vanished. Quite a mystery indeed! —The editor of the Campus and Classroom kindly requests all students to crack as many jokes as possible and to drop them into the 1». & R. box.

Five Hundred College Men securer! high grade positions in business and technical work last year through Hapgoods. This year the number will'be more than doubled, for we already have rails for 1(500 voung graduates. Isn't it time you were deciding what-to do after graduation? Write nearest office for booklets. Hapgoods, 3<’U Broadway. New York: Hartford Bldg., Chi cago; Pennsylvania Bldg.. Philadelphia; Williamson Bldg., Cleveland; Pioneer Bldg.. Seattle: Colorado Bldg., Washington; Min*. Loan & Trust Bldg., Minneapolis; Chemical Bldg., St/Louis; Park Bldg., Pittsburg.

DR. R. B. HOERMAININ Physician and Surgeon Specialist on diseasss of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN.

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Pocket Knives, Razors, Razor Straps, Shaving Brushes, Sporting Goods To Be Had in the City. Call and See Us.

• D. & F. KUSEL CO. fiave ¥ou Seen o Our new fiats • Spring Styles now Ready Spick and span right, out of their boxes as fresh from the maker as can be. Nobbiest shapes of the season. All the new colors. Celebrated Tiger ami Champion Brands. Union made goods, not slapped together by machinery but Hats that show the finishing touches of “handwork.” Ask to see the “College Hat ” latest shape out.

fierteU Boffmar.11 Clothiers and furnishers 107 MAIN STREET.

Ricbardt=Betbke mu$ic£°Wish to announce that they have just received a complete supply of strings. We carry all grades and get a new supply every month, thus enabling it’s to keep a fresh supply on hand all the time. We make a special ty of special tested strings, which we offer at greatly reduced prices to students.

Colleger Class Pennants with Initials of College or Class Number. maJe of Sateen. Kelt or Silk Any Color or Combination of Colors,

1902^ 12x18 inches §1.4 to $7.00 per dozen. 14x24 Inches. $ ',40 to $0.7.) per dozen. 24x85 inches. $8.0 • to $ 2.00 per dozen

Send for Special College Circular No. 314. listing and illustrating Pennants, College and Class Caps, Clothing Hang ers, Trouser Stretchers, Cadet Necessi ties. Lapel Buttons, Ladies’ Presentation Belts, Hat Pins, Cuff Buttons, etc.

Che Pettibon? Bros. Ififg. Co. CINCINNATI, O.

M. CARROLL Sporting Goods, Hammocks, Whiteley Exercisers, Etc. DEAl.KK IN

105 Main Street.

Watertown, Wis.

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JOHN HERRO

’Phone 93-4 Rings.

309 Main Street

FIRE INSURANCE

FIRST CLASS

FRED GAMM WATBKT< >\VN,

Barber Shop and Bath Rooms

WISCONSIN.

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118 North Second St.

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Mas taught that THE BEST is ALWAYS CHEAPEST. Therefore in equipping vour BAND ORCHESTRA, or buying a £ SOLO INS i RUMENT for yourself select one made by C. G. CONN, Elkhart, Indiana. \ As they represent the greatest worth obtainable. Their Tone is Strong, Clear and Par$ Reaching. * Their Tune Sweet, Soft and Pure. Their Mechanism Strong and Reliable Their Models f

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As usual—a Big

Line of “Kuppeiilieinier” Clothes for Spring. You know how good they are.

Schempf

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The Big Cash Store.

I Only first-class work done. | |

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H. C. HEYN BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY

JPECKE \ GPMS DEALERS IN

Fruits, Staple and Fancy Groceries.

Dealer in MINNESOTA FLOUR 217 North Second Street

WATERTOWN,

WISCONSIN.

Rarber Shop and fiJatb Rooms “THE BRIDGE” 4 MAIN STREET

All goods delivered promptly to ali parts of the city free of charge.

5 Barths for $1.00 J. C. SEAGER, Prop.

IF YOU WANT FIRST-CLASS AND SATISFACTORY

Photos

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H. J- Dormer Photographer.

Special Rates made to Students.

DIEGcS & CLUST

Visit our new

Columbia Fruit Store

Gordcr’s Block, Main Street. Wo also Handle POSTAGE STAMPS and SCHOOL SUPPLIES

E. HERRO & SON. WM. BUCBUEIT,

M. J. WOODARD,

President.

Vice-President. E. J. BRANDT,

F. E. WOODARD,

2 Vice-President.

Cashier.

BANK OF WAIERIOWJI

••If w«* made it, it’s i*iylix’’ INCORPORATED MAY 1. 1854

Ofliei.il Jewelers of the Leading Co'l ':;vs, Schools and Associations.

Cl. \SS PINS, WATCHES, I NTTY PINS, DIAMONDS, Mil ».\ !.s. CITS, Etc.. JEWELRY,

25 JOHN'S ST.

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(Dm. 0. Pritzlaff s, Co. 313 Main Street Over Grucizmachers Store.

Watertown, Wis.

307 MeJn Street.

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The Seiiempf Drug Co. Drugs, Stationery, News and Periodicals. We Have Enlarged Our Ice Cream Parlor

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NEW GROUND FLOOR. STUDIO

is now fitted up in the latest im proved style, single slant light as used by the best photograph ers in the world. I am now pre pared to do better work than heretofore. Located Next Door to Scibcl's Dry Goods Store.

OTTO HE YIN BIBLES, SONG BOOKS, CHURCH GOODS IN GENERAL. School Supplies a Specialty. 409 Main Street.

and moved our Soda Fountain and will be able to give quick and better service.

Jos. Salick & Son

JAS. A. MUTTER

Jewekrs and Opticians

117 West Main Street.

Look Up Some Pretty Visw for PrizeContest which closes May 15. See local papers for particulars.

Art Photo Supplies Store,

Special Attention is given to testing Eyes and Fitting of Glasses. Eves Tested Free.

Baseball and Sporting Goods. 1 and 3 Main Street.

Watertown. Wis.

NO. 6 MAIN STREET

F. W. KURZWEG

August Gamm

DEALER IN

Wholesale and Retail Dealer in

Fine Boots, Shoes and Rubbers

Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Bar Goods, Stoneware, Flower Pots, Etc.

Please Give Us a Trial. We Try to Give Satisfaction.

402 Main Street. 5ole Importers of the Celebrated ROXHEIMER Rhine Wine

Cor. Main and N. Fourth Streets, WATERTOWN, WIS.

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Wholesale Wines and Liquors

GAMM’S

RELIABLE DRUG STORE

Is Next to Postoffice. Everything; Pure, Fresh and Up-to>Date.

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J. Mutli, Jr. & Co. BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS OF HOMEMADE CAKE -1 > North Fourth Street, WATERTOWN, W1S.

IU. D. Sproesser Co. «* jewelers

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Leo Ruesch’s Shoes 210 West Main

PIANOS AND ORGANS 1

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213 Main Street.

Ben RiecK PROPRIETOR OF THE

WATERTOWN WIS.

east end Consorial Parlor

STALLMANN BROS. GROCERS

FACE MASSAGE AND HAIR

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SINGEING A SPECIALTY.

503 Main Street WATERTOWN,

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FRUITS

116 Main Street. ’Phone 62.

. Diseases of the Eye. Ear. Nose, and Throat A Specialty.

OFFICE HOURS:— 8:30 to 11 a.ra. 2 to 4 p. ni. After GIEvenlngs.

DR. J. M. SCHLEICHER. 102 Main Street, Watertown, Wis. Residence 212 North Washington Street. Telephone 100.

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LITERARY

Number 2.

The Court Scene ir\ "The Merchant of Venice.” Venice is all astir. Business houses are closed down, social functions are called off, the. schoolchildren arc given a holiday. Interest centres at the courtroom Let us enter this courtroom and follow the progress of the trial. li is ven crowded. Antonio, a merchant of Venice, is the defendant; Shylock, a jew, a usurer, is the plaintiff. The former stands with bowed head surrounded by his friends; the latter stands alone—he has no friends. I hit for da case. Bassanio had some three months ago borrowed three thousand ‘'meats from Shylock, because he wanted money to fit out ships which Ik- a ns to use in his suit for Portia, a rich heiress of Belmont. As he had no money or property which the Jew could seize in case he failed to pay the amount within the allotted time ( three months), Shylock required a bonds man for Bassanio. Antonio, Bassanio's dearest friend, willingly consented to be bondsman, and signs a bond, that if he pay not “on such a day, in such a place, such sum or sums as arc express'd in the condition," the Jew shall have an equal pound of his flesh, to be cut out and taken in what part of his body pleaseth the Jew. The three months have elapsed. Antonio had expected his rich argosies over a month ago, but they had not co:v.c: and there were even rumors abroad that all his ventures had failed. Bassanio had in the meantime “won” Portia, but was not vet her husband when Salanio, acting as Antonio’s mes senger, brings the sad news that the latter is in prison, because he cannot pay the debt. Bassanio at once hastens to Venice, and thus we see him in the courtroom. The Jew is obdurate; “I will have my bond," he repeats again and again. Bassanio offers him six thousand ducats for the three thousand, but he is The Duke of Venice can bound on revenge: “l stand here for law. ?? do nothing but decide in favor of Shylock unless Bellario, a learned doctor, whom he had sent for to determine this, came in time. Then comes the sad

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news that he cannot come, that he is very sick—but, says Bellario in a letter which he sent, Balthasar, a young doctor of Rome, will come in his place, furnished with his opinion. The doctor enters and at once takes the case in hand. After acquainting himself with the parties, he asks Shylock in stirring words to be merciful, but the Jew is deaf to such words, he is not here to be merciful, he is here to have his bond. As Antonio is not able to pay, although Bassanio offers the Jew thrice the amount, the doctor gives way, Shylock shall have his bond. The latter has been amusing himself with expressions as: “A Daniel come to judgment, yea, a Daniel, O noble judge! O excellent young man!” Antonio is told to lay bare his breast; he takes leave of his friends, who feign would pay the debt, but are not allowed to do so. “Most learned judge! a sentence! Come prepare,” says Shylock, and is in the act of beginning to cut “his” pound of flesh from Antonio’s breast when Baltasar stops him with the words, “Tarry a little; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; * * * Take then thy bond, take thou thy nound of flesh; but in the cutting it, if thou dost shed one drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate unto the state of Venice.” All are dumbfounded, most of all the Jew. He is assured that the law will take its course, for as he urged justice, he shall also have justice, more than he desires. Old Shylock sees the folly of further obstinacy ; “Give me my principal, and let me go.” But he cannot have his principal, for he had refused thrice the amount in open court. And this is the verdict: Shylock shall keep one half of his goods while Antonio has the right to trade with the other half during Shylock’s lifetime, but after his (Shylock’s) death, the total sum goes to Lorenzo and Jessica. Shylock is not well, and asks the Duke to send the deed after him, and he will sign it: this permission is granted him, and he leaves the court with the crowd howling at his heels. J. M., ’o6.

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Mortimer. Als Schiller sein Drama „Maria Stuart” schrieb, begniigte er sicli nicht damit, allein historische Personlichkeiten zu charakterisieren, sondern er schuf ganz neue Charaktere. Einer der interessantesten dieser Charaktere ist Mortimer. Er wird dargcstellt als ein junger Mensch, auf den all die verscliwenderische Pracht und der Pmnk der katholischen Kirche einen tiefen Eindruck macht. Einzelne Ziige sind dem Verschworer Parry entlehnt. Mortimer tritt zucrst als Feind dcr Maria Stuart auf, zeigt -sicli spater aber als Freund mit der Entschuldigung, er habe sicli vor seinem Olieim verstellen iiiiissen. Er erzahltc dann mit Begeisterung seine Lebcnsgeschichte. Er sei im bittern Masse gcgen den Katholizismus auferzogen vvorden. Spater habe es ihn hinausgetricbcn auf die Wanderschaft. In Italien habe er gesehen, wie grosse Schareti von Pilgem auf den Strassen nach Rom vvogten, und es habe ihm geschienen, als oh die Menschheit auf einer Wallfahrt zum Ilimmel sei. Als er darauf den Papst in seiner vcrschwenderischen Pracht habe die Messe lesen hdren, sei er ganz entziickt geworden und habe sogleich den einfachen Puritanismus abgeschworen. Darauf sei er mit vielen edlen r-duitu-u und Franzosen bekannt geworden, die ihn zu Marias Oheim, dem Kanlinal von Guise gefuhrt batten. Der habe ihn personlich in den hohen K brims zum Bischof von Ross gegangen. Dort habe er eines Tagcs ihr <ilauhenslehren der katholischen Kirche unterrichtet. Sodann sei er nach Bild gesehen, das den wundervollstcn Eindruck auf ihn gemacht habe. Dann habe er von dem Bischoff selbst von ihrem schrecklichen Leiden und ' .in ihrem Anrecht an den englischen Thron erfahren, was ihm Rechtsgelehrte aucli bestetigten. Dann habe er sicli sofort mit mehreren Frcunden zu ilirer Belreiung vereinigt und sei nach England zuruckgekehrt. Als Maria von der Yerschworung horte, versuchte sie Mortimer davon abzuhalten. Sie wollte nicht, dass man sie durch Mord retten solle, auch fiirchtetc sie. dass die Yerschworung aufgedeckt werden konnte . Sie meinte, nur Leicester konne ihre Befreiung erwirken. Mit Fassung horte sie zu, als Mortimer ihr das Todesurteil verkundigte. Sie gab ihm einen Brief mit ihrem Bild, den er Leicester uberbringen sollte. ITieruber war Mortimer hdclist erstaunt, da er meinte, Leicester sei der Giinstling der Elisabeth und Marias iirgster Feind. Alsdann wurde Mortimer von Paulet zur Konigin Elisabeth gefuhrt. Diese fragte ihn, was er auf seinen Reisen von den Planen ilirer Feinde er fahren habe. Er erzahlte ihr, wie er alle Feinde Englands und ihre Plane kenren gelernt habe, indem er sicli gestellt habe, als sei er katholisch ge worden.' Er berichtete, dass diese jetzt ihre Hoflfnung auf Spanien gesetzt batten. Auch berichtet er von der neuen Bulle, die Papst Pius V. gegen sie geschleudert hatte. Als Paulet und Mortimer sich entfernen wollten, rief Elisabeth letzteren zuriick. Dieser hatte sie so zu tauschen gewusst, dass sie ihm ihre geheimsten Plane anvertraute. Sie gab ihm den Auftrag, Maria heimlich aus\lem \Yege zu schaflfen, den er auch scheinbar bereitwillig iibernahm. Um die Schandthat leichter ausfuhren zu konnen, sollte ihm die Be-

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wachung Marias anvertraut werden. Nachdem Elisabeth ihm grosse Versprechungen gemacht hatte, entfernte sie sich. Als Mortimer wieder allein war, triumphierte er, dass er die gleissnciische Konigin so gliicklich getauscht, und dadurch Zeit gewonnen hatte, Maria zu retten. Wie sehr er aber Maria liebte, zeigtc er dadurch, dass er alle Versprechungen Elisabeths fur nichts achtete. Als er eben Marias Auftrag an Leicester ausrichten wollte, kam scin Oheim Paulet zuriick, um ihn vor den yerfulirerischen Worten der Konigin zu warncn, wurde aber (lurch die Zwisclienkunft Leicesters gestort. Dicser Giinstling hatte den Auftrag von Elisabeth erhalten, dem Mortimer Maria unbeschrankt anzuvertrauen. Paulet, der gleich dachte, hier masse etwas Gcheimnisvollcs geplant werden, entfernte sich mit verdutztem Gesicht. Leicester hatte zuerst kein Vertrauen zu Mortimer. Er hatte zwar von seiner Glaubensanderung gehort, aber er hatte auch aus Mortimers eigenem Munde gehort, er habe es nur zum Schein getan, und wie sollte Leicester wissen, dass es kein blosser Schcin war? Auch Mortimer hatte kein rcchtes Vertrauen zu Leicester. Er konnte ja auch nicht wissen, ol) Leicester sich Maria oder Elisabeth gegentiber heuchlerisch stelltc. Als Leicester aber Marias Brief mit Entzucken aufnahm, erkannte Mortimer seine wahre Gesinnung. Leicester gestand, dass er Maria liebte. Er habe aber nichts zu ihrer Befreiung tun konnen, weil er fiirchte, die Gunst Elisabeths zu verlieren. Nun verschwieg Mortimer die Vcrschworung nicht langer. Obgleich er freien Zutritt zu Maria hatte, konnte er doch nur daran denken, sie mit Gewalt zu befreien. Aber kaum hatte Leicester von den Plan gehort, so geriet er in hochste Angst. Er wollte namlich nicht, dass irgend jemaild etwas von seinem Verhaltniss zu Maria entdecken sollte. Er versuchte Mortimer, von diesem tollkiihnen Unternehmen abzuhalten. Dieser aber versuchte Leicester zu uberreden, doch etwas fiir Maria zu wagen. Er solle die Kdnigin-auf sein Schloss locken, und sie dort so lange festhalten, bis sie Maria freigebe. Aber Leicester will von alle diesem nichts wissen. Mortimer musste unverrichteter Sachc wieder abgehen, da die Konigin Elisabeth herannahte. Unterdessen hatten die Verschworcnen beschlosscn. Maria in der nachstcn Xacht zu befreien, Mortimer, der in nachster Nahe Zeuge von Marias verhangnisvoller Unterredung mit Elisabeth gewesen war,' trat kurz nachher zu ihr und teilte ihr das Verhalten Leicesters mit. Er drang dann stiirmisch in sie mit seinen Liebesbeteurungen. Er wollte sie aus dem Gefangniss beÂ freien und sie dann auch besitzen. Er teilte ihr mit, dass die Verschworer sie in der nachsten Naclit befreien wurden. Sie wurden jeden ennorden, der Widerstand leiste. Maria beschwort ihn, nicht mchr von dem schrecklichen Vorhaben zu reden. Als er ihr nun wieder seine Liebe beteurte, wurde plotzlich gemeldet, das Schloss sei von Bewaftneten umringt. Ein Freund Mortimers stiirtzte herein mit der Meldung, man habe versucht Elisabeth zu ermorden, doch sei der Anschlag verungliickt. Nun war die ganze Verschworung entdeckt. Mortimer wollte entfliehen.

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da begcgnete ihm Leicester. Mortimer riet ihn zur Flucht. Man hatte einen Brief in Marias Zimmer gefunden, in dem sie Leicester aufforderte, Wort zu halten, und das Versprechen ihrer Hand erneuerte. Leicester war fast verzweifelt. Als Mortimer ihm riet, durch irgend eine listige Erfindung die Schuld von sich zu walzen, liess er diesen als Staatsverrater gefangen nchmen und ciltc zu Elisabeth, um ihr Kunde von der schandlichen Verschworung zu bringen. Mortimer entsetzte sich fiber diesen Schurken streich, klagte sich dann aber selbst an, je einem solchen Menschen Vertrauen geschcnkt zu haben. Als cr sah, dass er rettungslos verloren war, zog er einen Dolch und durchstach seine Brust. A. H. S., ’o6.

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Life of

Soldier

Camp.

immediately after I had arrived at my home to spend my summer vacation, I enlisted in the Company H, Third Regiment, Wisconsin National Guards. As I had sufficient drill in the manual of arms, I did not labor under any difficulties, but at once drilled with the entire company. On the tenth of June the third regiment was to leave for a week of camp life. Large prepara tions were made for the day of departure. The place of camping was “Camp Ernst,” the Wisconsin military reservation. These grounds are the property of the state of Wisconsin, situated about one mile from the city of Camp Douglas, and consist of about 1,600 acres of basin land and bluffs. On the tenth day of June we departed for camp. A special train was en gaged to carry the companies of that regiment to Camp Douglas. Each company occupied a separate car. A sentinel was posted at both doors to prohibit anyone from entering or leaving the car without proper authority from their respective officers. The train rolled along at an unusual speed only stopping to add another car. Early in the afternoon we arrived at Camp Douglas. We immediately left the car and forming line were marched to the camp-grounds. We then stacked arms, rid ourselves of our knapsack, canteen, and haversack and other necessaries which we carried on our back. Now the corporals took command of their respective squads: we pitched the tents, filled the ticks with straw and prepared a military lodging. The camp-grounds were divided into so-called company streets. Each companv had its street, the opening or doorway in the tents facing the streets. At the head of these streets and running in the opposite direction was the main street, The first tent facing the main street in the companv streets was the quarters of the first sergeant. Then followed the quarters of the = :

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privates, corporals and other sergeants. Following these was the mess-tent and the quarters and necessary utensils of the cooks. We were not required to do any hard work on that day. Most of the men going to their quarters rather early, all was very quiet the first evening. After mess we were assembled and given our orders of the day. At 5.45 A. M. reveille was blown, which meant to arise and be ready at the second call, which was six o’clock, to fall in line in the company street for roll call. At 6.30 we were called for mess, for which we were allowed thirty minutes. At 7.30 we were called for police duty. This call was for the purpose of removing all rubbish from the grounds. At eight o’clock the guards were mounted. A certain number, generally four or five, was taken from each company. These were marched to the field, accompanied by the regiment band. Here their arms were inspected. The inspecting officer reports the condition of the guard to the officer of the day. The guard is then marched to the guard-house, headed by the buglers of the entire regiment, thirty-two in number. The time of guard duty for every man is twenty-four hours. The officers of the guard are the lieutenant of the guard, sergeant and corporals of the guard. The entire guard consists of reliefs. At these maneuvers the guard consisted of three reliefs. The first relief was posted at eight o'clock, two hours later the second relief, and again after two hours the third relief. In this way one man would stand guard for two hours and be relieved again for a period of four hours until his twenty-four hours are over. From seven to nine o'clock we were not on duty. At nine o'clock we were assembled for drill until eleven o’clock. Some were engaged in field drill, some were on the range, making the highest possible mark to show their skill with their rifles. Others were at battalion drill. On one day during the maneuvers we were also taken into regimental drill. This is the most difficult of all drills and parades. From eleven to twelve o’clock we were again left to our own free will. At twelve o’clock call for mess was sounded. Two o’clock was again time for drill. This continued until four o’clock. At six we were called for mess. Im mediately after mess we were again called for police duty. At seven o’clock we were assembled for dress parade. This is the most stirring and magnificent sight in the maneuvers. The whole regiment is marched into one line. The colonel, majors and all are in full uniform. After all are in line, the regiment band parades before the entire regiment and takes its place again at the right flank. Now the buglers, who are thirtytwo m number, sound “sundown.” At the last note the cannon is fired and just as the cannon is heard the band pours forth the melodious sounds of our favorite song, “The Star Spangled Banner.”. During this time the regiment comes to parade rest and the flag is hauled down from the staff. The man having made the highest score on the range on that day has the honor of hauling down the stars and stripes. All visitors are requested to

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take off their hats and honor the flag. After these ceremonies the regiment parades before all visitors and before all inspecting officers of the regular army. We are then marched to our quarters and the orders of the day are over. After dress parade we were given lectures on “Tent Pitching,” “A Good Marksman is two-thirds of a Soldier,” and other subjects. At eight o’clock we were favored by a concert given by the regiment band. At nine o’clock tattoo was sounded, which indicated that we were not to be caught outside of our respective company streets. Ten o’clock P. M. taps was sounded. This meant, go to your quarters and after the last note of taps all lights must be extinguished and all must be quiet. This is the time the guards and sergeants must do their duty. You can hear the sergeant run along the streets and call out, “Put out that light!” or “Stop that noise in there!” Those on guard from ten to twelve o’clock are also troubled very much. During these hours some men make an effort to get over the guard line, or as it is called in military words, "to run the guard line” without being seen by the guard. If an\t*iK* is seen approaching the guard line between taps and daylight he is challenged by the guard at about thirty paces distant, “Halt, who is there!” Not until he can recognize him by the countersign, or otherwise, will he allow him to advance nearer than ten paces. If the person answers, “Friend with il.r countersign,” the guard says, “Advance friend, and give the counter sign 1 f correct, the guard allows him to pass on. '{ his is a short description of the life of a soldier in camp. This life is nearly the same from day to day. A. E., ’06.

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The St. Louis Exposition. Many of our readers are undoubtedly interested in the Louisiana 1 urchase Exposition. Nearly the whole civilized world has some interest or other in this great exposition. For weeks people have looked forth with anxiety to the grand opening event which took place on April 30. r rom inland and abroad multitudes of people are rushing to St. Louis to behold the grand panorama. The plan underlying this great exposition differs somewhat from the plans of all previous expositions. "Demonstration was adopted as the keynote of the whole undertaking. To attain this end no efforts have been spared. Money was no object with the Fair authorities. The experience of previous expositions has taught that the placing of a finished article before the eyes of the spectators without demonstrating how the article has actually been produced does not satisfy their curiosity. The person seeing the finished article does no doubt admire it lor the time being, yet in a few days he will only have a faint recollection of it. For this reason the Fair authorities have determined to create the articles before the eyes of the visitors so as to make a more lasting impression upon them. From this it is very evident that to conduct an exposition along these lines demands a much greater supply of money than has hitherto been ex pended for exposition purposes. This fact was clearly conceived by the authorities before they began actual work. They knew full well that if they would eclipse all former expositions, they must not spare any means of attaining that end. Thus it is that fifty millions of dollars have been ex pended lor the St. Louis Exposition. The very name might suggest that this exposition is a local or sectional affair. That this is not the case is very evident from the fact that fortyfour states have taken actual part. Every one of them has vied for supremacy in some point or other. Xor has the United States’government been back ward in appropriating money. Thousands of dollars have been given to represent the government. But not only have the several states and the United States government freely responded to the wishes of the Fair authorities. From every quarter of the globe immense treasures have been poured into the lap of St. Louis. Fifty foreign powers including our foreign possessions will exhibit. All the leading powers of Europe and Asia with the exception of Russia will be creditably represented. Among these Germany, Great Britain, and France will occupy first rank. In all former expositions education was more or less regarded as a secon dary feature. This gross error, however, has been avoided by the authorities of the St. Louis Exposition. They have made it their special aim to give this branch its due attention. Heretofore it was not deemed important o 'ou'rh to devote a special palace for the educational exhibit. At St. L^uis a r-rand structure has been erected for the sole purpose of representing the different

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stages of education of our country as well as of foreign countries. This offers a favorable opportunity for one to compare the methods of instruction employed in our country with those of foreign countries. Hitherto it has always been customary to provide for attractions apart from the general exhibits. Usually this part of an exposition has been termed the Midway.” ibis department has also been clulv provided for by the Fair authorities. Along the “Pike,” as it is called at St. Louis, a large number of highly interesting attractions will be found. Among these the “Irish Village” is perhaps the most attractive. Upon entering from the west through a gigantic gate, which is the reproduction of St. Lawrence Gate, of Drogheda, the visitor’s attention is at once attracted by a large structure which stands like a huge sentinel at the very center oT the pike. This is the reproduction of Ross Castle. Once inside the gate, the visitor will be somewhat amazed at seeing himself sur rounded by a group of large structures, which are supposed to represent Ireland’s most famous buildings. Furthermore the sight-seer will have the opportunity of seeing some of the choicest.products of Irish manufacturers. A large theater will also present.Irish plays,, and here may also be heard first class music by Ireland’s Own Brass and Reed Band. \k«mil's Mysterious Asia” and “Empire of India” will also afford the sight -eer much pleasure. Here he will have the opportunity of observing tin natives of these countries together with their peculiar costumes and relig ious rites. In a beautiful Asiatic Theater the natives will give their national ilana s. < '.rand parades representing the “Rajah Festival” will be given. Taken as a whole, this will give one a fair idea of these people and their costumes. Another highly interesting feature for the Christian will be the reproduc tion of “Jerusalem” on a miniature scale. Here one will find himself trans planted iiuo the time of Christ. The special features of this concession will be the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Temple, the Via Dolorosa, Pilate’s Judgment Hall, the Mount of Olives, the Garden of the Gethsemene, and many other biblical places. “Garraigen’s Ancient Rome,” a lively reproduction of the Eternal City, will interest those who have studied ancient history, for this will enable them to get a much clearer conception of things as they were in ancient times. “The Fire Fighters’ Exhibit” will be a very grand spectacle. There one will get a chancc to see what remarkable developments have lately been made in saving life and propertv from the fire. “The Cliff Dwellers”'will certainly interest those who have read about these people and their peculiar habits. ' This concession will offer more know ledge to the visitor than manv volumes of books. “The Creation” takes the'visitor back through many centuries thus giving him a fair idea of the characteristic historical scenes and personages. Besides these manv concessions the visitor will find the “Esoiumaux Vil las ” the “Battle Abbev.” the “Temple of Mirth,”the “Russian Village,” the Palais Du Costume” “To the North Pole,” the “Galveston Flood,” and the “Scenic Railway” of great interest. J- H. A., ’05.

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Our Institution.

At present a serious question concerning our institution is pending. For a number of years the Board has con templated the necessity of erecting a new dormitory. The dormitory is by no means large enough to accommodate the students attending the institu tion. For this reason several applicants had to be refused admission. Lately several plans were drawn, and we dare say that some were especially practical and up-to-date. Yet they could not be accepted, for not enough money was to be had. But when shall we have money? Will it he in the next generation ? Surely there is money enough in our large Lutheran circles to meet the present demands. Several congregations have demonstrated this fact by appropriating large sums of money for the building fund. But there are also other congregations who have evinced very little interest in the matter. Now 5^

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we would appeal to the good will of our Lutheran friends. Do you believe your money could bear you better interest than it will, if you invest it in our institution ? If the money thus far invested has brought about good results, ought we then to entertain any fears of appropriating more? If this question were duly considered by every one professing interest in the institution, we do not think our institution could be thus neglected. If every one who has graduated from, or spent several years at this institution would contribute at least ten dollars to the building fund, it would certainly be appreciated by the authorities, and at the same time it would show their good will toward the institution. We heartily wish every one would consider this matter. 1 f this be done, we may rest assured that Northwestern will ever maintain its old standard among other institutions of its kind.

1 Work and Plcxy. While we are at college we must do hard, earnest work. Everybody will admit this. That is the sole purpose of our attending college. But lie would be an odd character who would only work. That there is any danger, however, of studying too much is out of the question. We can never learn too much. However, as a natural consequence work is oftentimes evaded. This agrees with our human w eakness. We work and enjoy it, yet often forget that we are study ing /;<»;/ scholar sed vitae. There is one thing that we all should strive after, it is indispensable to success. That is, we should try to develop a liking for every branch of study. If we succeed in this, a good result will follow. But only through hard work, in the first place, can we develop this liking. Where there is danger, however, is that we might play too much; and yet that is hardly what l want to say. If we love a game, we naturally will let it take a great share, if not all, of our leisure. Granted that we devote all our leisure time in this direction, no one will say that we are wasting our time. I believe we may sacrifice all our leisure hours for play without any scruples. A member of the first team in baseball can do so without harm. But here is the point—he must not continue to play ball in his mind during study time or in recitations, nor should he do other things outside of his work. If he wants to do justice to his studies and also to the game, he should do what those simple words say that he has heard ever since a child, “Work while you work and play while you play.” If this were observed, then there would be no danger that such a disagreeable thing would happen as the disqualification of anyone, something disappointing to all. Throughout the month of April I was envying our country cousins and longing to be with them, as I realized that the weather was ideal for boiling maole-syrup. I remembered from former years that crisp, frosty nights and warm sunny days are admirably suited to produce the sweet juice. I could see from our trees in town how merrily the sap must be running in the forest. The boiling of maple-syrup is a great

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event. The Green Mountain lads have not a monopoly of this pleasure, we Wisconsin boys count it among our privileges. We always spent our Easter vacation in the country. When the nights were cold so that the pond was frozen over every morning, and the days were mild and balmy, we would hasten to the woods. We selected the large sturdy trees that had braved a hundred winters and had not been tapped for several years. We augured two holes an inch in diameter, about two inches deep, and drove in hollowed sumac stems. Beneath these improvised spouts we set earthenware dishes and soon the music of the dripping sap began. We would tap all the way from thirty to fifty trees, depending very much on the convenience of collecting the sap, and still more on the state of our sinews. It was strenuous work and usually we had no more enthusiasm left after we got beyond five and thirty. We made our collecting rounds twice or thrice a day. The boiling outfit was located as centrally as possible. On two rows of stones rested a heavy sheet-iron pan, three feet broad, five feet long, and about one foot deep. Having gathered a barrelful of sap, we built a fire and put over the precious liquid. What fun it was to see it seethe and simmer, and watch the foam rise like white caps on an angry sea. From that pan arose the most delicious aroma. We plied the skimmer industriously, to remove the scum and the leaves that might have gotten into it. The boiling usually was begun in the afternoon and lasted until evening. Often we would sit on the trunk of a felled tree, watching our work, while the fire cast a ruddy glow on every thing about us, which quite transformed the scene. Our very faces looked different to each other. Under this magic spell we would relate stories of adventurous knights that succored distressed ladies, and recounted what grand father had told us of the Indians, who once inhabited the region. Yes, I believe we even peered into the darkness trying to detect some stray Redman still haunting the woods. We felt quite heroic sitting there in the light of the blazing logs. When our sap was reduced to the proper consistency we poured it into pails and trudged home happy over our treasure. We had only two pailfuls left from what once filled a barrel. Even that was not the end of the condens ing. When we reached home grandmother would complete the process, by boiling it down still more—but that’s another story. Nature has its charms for the fanner lad in every season and in Spring— in the region of hard maples—it is boiling maple-syrup. After an intermission of six months the regular singing hours have been resumed. As no appropriate hour could be found, the enthusiasm for singing was not very great at the beginning of the school year. After New-year, however, the faculty set apart an hour on Monday afternoon of each week. Prof. Salbach of Milwaukee was asked to act as instructor, which he consented to do.

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The students have made considerable progress since instructions began and we should have an excellent choir were it not for the small number of tenors. As a good result of the efforts of the singing class, the octette deserves to be mentioned. Under the leadership of Prof. Bolle, it has mastered various difficult pieces. Although we have made progress, the time from New-year to June is too short to accomplish anything. We ought to practice the art of singing throughout the year, if we wish to have good results.

The^Neglect of the German Language. Many Americans whose parents or grand-parents arc native Germans do little to retain the German language. They seem to be ashamed of their mother-tongue, and in very many cases it is laid aside entirely. This is not the right spirit and a fact to be greatly lamented. Why should we not retain the language of our forefathers? It is true, we are Americans, and the American tongue is English. This, however, is not sufficient reason to abandon our mother-tongue. We should study the American language thoroughly, but, on the other hand, we should never forget the German language. The German language is by no means a language of which we need be ashamed. Many of the monumental works of literature are written in German. Besides this we have many excellent German transÂ lations. \s far as flexibility, impressiveness, and beauty is concerned, we may truly say that the German language eclipses all other languages. Those who so willingly neglect the German evidently have no idea of its beauty and importance. The English are proud of their extraction; they revere their ancestors. Why should we Germans then be ashamed of our German extraction ? Our forbears were just as honest men as the English. Our college paper has contained a German article in most of its issues. This practice is laudable and ought always to be kept up. Such articles prove very beneficial to the writer. They afford him an opportunity of practicing his German. May we ever endeavor to keep up the German language at our institution.

ALUMNI What Should They Do? Last night I followed an invitation to a wedding. The first thing that struck me upon my arrival was the obtrusive baldness of the front-room, which was divested" of all its furniture and rugs and looked as barren as a desert. It did not take the shrewdness of a Sherlock Holmes to sec at a glance that they meant to dance. After partaking of a lunch, I sat down in the middle room and joined in a conversation with the older people, while a small number of the younger people had taken possession of the front room and were trying to make things lively. “Put down your dime!” said an alto voice, at length, amid a general hum. “Here you are!” answered a soprano, and I heard a little clink. Presently the owner of the soprano voice came in, bowed to me, and said, “Won’t you play a piece for us, sir?” I begged to be excused. I like to practice on the piano at home, but I hate to perform in public. “Please, sir,” she continued, with her most bewitching smile, “just a little waltz!” “A waltz!” I said. “What for?” “Why, we should like to dance!” 0 sancta simplicitas!—Well, I refused, firmly and politely. “I am sorry,” I said, somewhat curtly, and the soprano withdrew. The alto had won the bet. But the soprano and several of her associates between 16 and 20 years were bound to have a dance; and soon T heard the tones of a powerful mouth-organ, blown by an expert, with terrific emphasis: —a short pause—and the rhythmic whirl began. 1 looked up the bride and the young husband, and upon my request they very obligingly gave me the promise that there should be no dancing while I was present; whereupon the mouth-organ reluctantly withdrew, and the young people made a brave effort to amuse themselves in some other way. But I will lay a wager of more than a dime that after my departure they amply made up for the time lost. I pitied them; not so much because I knew they would dance after all. 54

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but because I saw that they knew of no other form of amusement that could take the place of dancing. What should they do? Sit down and talk? You will find very few young people sufficiently educated and sufficiently sedate to carry on a conversation that is really worth while. Should they sing? There was a time when such a thing was possible,—the good old time when they had a limited repertoire of folk-song which was known to every body and which everybody enjoyed. But just ask them to sing a song now! They will bring forth an armful of so-called popular music with illuminated title-pages, and there will be very few songs among them that they all can sing, and these few are generally not worth being sung. Or should they play parlor-games? Tell me of a parlorgame which is not a milk-and-water sort of thing, too tiresome or too silly to afford real amusement to intelligent people, or which is not just as immoral or even more so than the dance. Well, what should they do? I have often been very thankful that they didn’t put the question to me. But I will take the opportunity of putting the question to the alumni. Ch. L. C, ’91 What should they do?

SOCIETY Phi Lambda Sigma. At the beginning of the last school year the prospects for a literary society were rather poor for the freshmen. Not that there was no material. The boys had no starting point. They asked the Sigma Phi to accept them as members, which, however, could not be done, owing to the large number that already belonged to that society. So it was determined to organize another society which received the name Phi Lambda Sigma. Thanks to the advice of members of other literary societies and to the enthusiasm of the freshmen the society is not only a society in which literary work is committed to memory, but in which debates are also carried on. Nevertheless the society also has its defects. Several members often fail to attend the regular meetings without reason, which, of course, shows their lack of interest for the society. This ought to be stopped. It is for their own good not only at college, but also in later life; it will be of great benefit for us who are to pursue the clerical profession, to possess a knowledge of parliamentary practice. With the same zeal that was shown by most of the members in the past year we shall be equally successful in the future.

Correspondence from the Seminary As there are but a few weeks before the close of the present school year the destination of our graduates is an every-day topic at the Seminary. A number of calls have been received by the faculty, but as yet no decisive action has been taken. One of our candidates, however, is expected to be called to our mission among the Apache Indians in Arizona. Following is a list of students who have occupied pulpits during the last month since the Easter holidays: Apr. 24.—Wm. Mahnke at Fox Point, Rev. Gladosch.—H. Meyer at Milwaukee, Rev. Ebert.—Theo. Thurow at Root Creek, Rev. Thurow. May 1.—H. Haase at Ixonia, Rev. Haase.—Wm. Mahnke at Gray's Lake. May 8.—O. Keller at Milwaukee, Rev. Jenny. Baseball has been revived at the Seminary. A team has been organized and several games with Northwestern and Concordia College have been arranged. The names of the players and their positions are as follows: Pieper, p.—Koch, c.—Arendt, 1 b.—Moussa, 2 b.—Herzfeldt, s. s.—Engle, 3 b.—Haase, r. f. and capt.—Sauer, c. f.—Hocnecke, 1. f. 56

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We are pleased to acknowledge the receipt of two new exchanges, The College Days, (Ripon, Wis.) and The Wabash, (Crawfordsville, Inch). Both are interesting magazines and arc conducted with some spirit. The Central Collegian, (Fayette, Mo..) contains an excellent oration, “The Neglected Vigil.” The article treating of the “Influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on Wordsworth's Poetry” is interesting. Its simple unaffected language gives it an additional charm. The Cresset (Red Wing, Minn.) presents an attractive appearance. The excellent plates make it exceptionally bright and interesting. We are glad to note that the exchange editor has taken cognizance of our paper. The Milton College Review has a good essay on Oliver Cromwell. The author discusses not so much his military fame as his signal statesmanship far in advance of the times. The Lesbian Herald always has something interesting to offer. “The Influence of Russia" shows careful study with excellent powers of composi tion. Another attractive paper is the Hadding Graphic (Abingdon, 111.). We read with pleasure the article on the “Holy Grail." The writer recounts the various legends concerning it, the older, which tell of Percival and Galahad and their brothers-in-arms of King Arthur’s Court, and the newer related by Lowell in the “Vision of Sir Launfal.” Tennyson gives the former in his “idylls of the King.” Richard Wagner also drew on them for his much bruited opera “Parsifal." The poem shows that the author has caught he poetic spirit. It gives voice to the thoughts of a man living on “A Lonely Island.” ()ne of the best exchanges we have read is the Ottcrbein Aegis. The dis cussion of “Limitations” is excellent and a credit to its writer, as it shows much thought and thorough working out. The writers of the articles on the “Relay Race” and the “Sovereignty of Character” are to be commended for the good treatment of their subjects. The latter writer emphasizes the fact that a noble character is better than great accomplishments. “The greatest thing in the world is to be a Christian.” It is a lamentable fact that people strive to cultivate the mind at the expense of the heart, a mistake which inevitably will bear its bitter fruit. “Temperance as a Principle” in the Doane Ozd (Crete, Neb.) presents the rational wav of attaining a sincerely to be wished for object. The author 57

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says that legislative prohibition without the sentiment of the majority of the people cannot accomplish anything. “You cannot make people good by pass ing laws.” Education alone can solve the problem. The College Chips (Decorah, la.) discusses the consolidation of rural schools and transportation of pupils. The plan has been applied successfully in a number of localities and no doubt is bound to become universal. It makes far more efficient teachers and thorough school work. The March-April number of the Erskinian (Due West, S. C.) has a'very creditable homilv on “Determination,” a lesson that cannot be impressed too strongly. The writer of the “Backward Trail” evidently has not gotten over the stage of pomposity in writing English. The latter part of his third paragraph is rather florid. The phrase "saccharine delights” may be a highly refined expression but it makes a ludicrous impression. In the next para graph he says “Weseloff lay himself down.” As a past tense from lie, lay is intransitive, not reflexive. Use either, “he lay down,” or "he laid himself down,” but beware of a mixture. Again he says, "Preying of the beasts reverberated in his ears.” Can you hear the preying (i. e. robbing)? The false figure resulted from uniting the phrases, "roaring of the lions," and "preying of the beasts" under one predicate. One must be very circumspect in making zeugmas of that kind. The Ouachita Ripple offers considerable good reading matter. One of the best contributions is the article on John Bunyan. The editorials are good, and so much the more interesting as they treat of current events. The exchange department is ably and properly conducted. The Comenian (Bethlehem, Pa.) has an oratorical number this month. The orations and extracts are interesting and well worth reading. We were impressed most by the "Widening Horizon of Youth” and the following ex tract, perhaps because "brevity is the soul of wit.” A charming little song, “The Call of Spring" graces the pages of the Brunonian (Providence, R. I.). We recommend the article, "To-day in Lit erature” for attentive perusal. We are in receipt of the Gitche Gurnee (Superior) for April. We were pleased with the oration on "Alexander Hamilton, the Nation’s first martyr,” quite as much the No-malites themselves perhaps. The M. H. Acrolith always offers a fair amount of readable matter. We would suggest that the contributor of the article on "The Gathering” in Scott’s Lady of the Lake, might improve his introductory paragraph, by going "in medias res,” right into the middle of it, without preliminaries, such as "informing the reader.” The whole article best will bring out its own purpose, without stating it in the beginning. The writer deprives the reader of the pleasure of finding it himself. We wish to remind the author of the Shylock article that the expression "He was one, whom Fate had destined,” lays him open to the suspicion that he is using a German idiom. Why not

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say, Fate had destined him. The adjective Portial is a daring construction. Is a play on words intended? We confess that we were somewhat disappointed in an article on Sir Roger de Coverley in the Central Collegian (Mo.) The beginning is promising, but the writer turns us off rather shortly, when we still wish for a more detailed exposition. The style betrays lack of revision, for some crudities were allowed to remain. The sentence, “The purpose of this paper is character study,” is putting it rather bluntly. It recalls school-room explanations. Macaulay, in his essay on Addison, shows that Steele’s part in the De Coverly papers was very insignificant. The writer says Sir Roger was not an individual of his age, not a realistic portrait, but “the logical result of the age.” Now everyone will accept Macaulay’s verdict that Addison was ahead of his age. Sir Roger and the Spectator were the creations of Addison, the ideals set up to better the age, hence, far from being the result of the age, they are beyond it, as far as and even farther than Addison himself. The April number has a good article on Thomas Benton, a statesman who little is known and still less appreciated by most of his countrymen to-day, but whose deserts were high and character unimpeachable. He has left us a valuable work, “Thirty Years in the United States Senate,” which gives an insight into the political history before the war. fin’ Manitou Messenger (Minn.) for March brings us an attractive vol ume of diverse literary articles. Perhaps the best is an oration on universal peace, “Our Heritage of Barbarism.”

LOCALS

—Subscribers who have copies of Yol. IV. No. 4. of the Black and Red that they are willing to part with will do the staff a favor by notifying the busi ness manager. —H. Kionka of New York City called on his nephew Hermann Kioiika, To, on April 25. —Miss Margaret Hartwig, formerly of the class of 07, who is now teaching school at St. Joseph, Mich., visited her brother H. Hartwig, ’09, April 25. —Prof. Hoyer excused his classes on April 20, as he had to attend the con forence held at the Lutheran St. John’s church. —Charley Baerwald, ’10, Ph. Koehler, ’09, William Keutrakat, '08, and Emil Lehmann, ’io, made a flvir.g trip on bicycles to Hustisford on April 30, and returned May 1. —Mr. Hermann Stein of Juneau called on Edward Zell, ’08, April 23. —Theodore Heitz, who attended college in 1902 and 1903, visited friends on April 24. —John Dames, formerly of the class of ’06, who has now a position as teleg rapher at Carrollville, Wis., paid friends a short visit on April 30. —George Rickemann, ‘08, spent Sunday, April 23/ with friends at Oconomowoc. —Paul Kirsch, ’08, spent his Easter vacation with friends at Milwaukee. —Theodore Albrecht, ’07, and William Pankow, ’07, were pleasantly enter tained at the home of Hans Gaebler, April 24. —Ernst Dornfeld, ’04, spent Sunday, May 1, at the home of his parents in Milwaukee. —Gotthold Schlei, ’09, went to his home at Montello to witness the confirma tion of his brother on May 1. —Rev. Chr. Sauer of Juneau called on his sons Christian ,’04, Adolf, ’06, and Edwin, ’07, April 21. —Robert Diehlmann, To, returned to college on April 16, after an absence of several weeks. —Our annual arborday was observed on Thursday, April 21. As usual the 60

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lawn and park were tended to and everything was brought in a pleasing condition. —Erwin Moldenhauer, ’ll, discontinued his studies for some time to help his brother in his store at Sulivan. —Arthur Krueger, ’io, spent his Easter vacation at the home of Mr. Seefeld at Lebanon. —Rev. Kirchner of Lowcl paid his son Herbert, To, a visit on April 21. —Herbert Kirchner, To, visited his parents at Lowel on May 1. —William Eggert, 07, spent Wednesday, April 27, at his home in Marshal. —Rev. Baebcnroth of Milwaukee called on his sons Adolf, 04, and Edwin, ’10, on April 13.

—Rev. Koch of Colombus called on his son Otto, ’09, April 21. —Miss Mathilda Walde of Burlington called on Paul Oehlert, *05, while visiting friends in Watertown on April 21. —Rev. I lover of Princeton visited the institution on April 25. —Albert Miller, formerly of the class of ’06, who is now traveling for his father, called on college friends April 28. —On April 27, Rev. Geiger, who was pastor near Lake Mills, died of pneu monia Funeral services took place at New Ville on May 3. From there the remains were taken to Root Creek, Milwaukee Co., and buried on May 4. —Rev. Pankow of Waterloo called on his son Adolph, ’09, April 21. —Rev. Ben. Schlueter and Rev. Otto Heidtke visited friends on April 21. —On Sunday, April 17, Rev. Klingmann was installed in the St. Mark’s church, the Rev. Prof. Ernst officiating. Rev. Klingmann was formerly of Bay City, Mich. —On April 21 a concert was given at the Concordia Opera House. Mr. Bruno Steindel, assisted by Mrs. Steindel, pianist, Mr. Itte, violinist, and Miss Pettigrew, contralto, rendered an interesting program. Mr. Steindel is supposed to be the best violoncellist of the western United States. —The annual band and orchestra concert was postponed to Friday evening, May 20.

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM —One pleasant night—we know not when, Some place—we know not where Two “someones" met—but who they were We neither know nor care. S. W. —Prof.: “On what side of the mountains does the rain usually fall ?” Sextaner: “On the outside.” —Z -11: „Das ist aber ein ,mixtum compusium !* “ —Peruna: “She's certainly a peach but you hardly ever see her—she always stays at home/' —Heard on the baseball grounds: “He's very ‘perpendicular’ about what he does.” Books of the Month. “Is Brown a Color?” By S. Watkins. As brown is his favorite color, the author pictures vividly the good qualities of the color. “Reduction of Weight.” By F. Felix. His Royal Crassitude has a wide experience in this line and therefore puts up a book worth reading. “The Origin of Man.” By Monkey. This book is illustrated by num erous photos of missing links, etc., besides several full-page pictures of the author. “It was the Dutch." By Dr. Krueger. A very interesting piece of fiction. “The Merits of an Incubator.” By Yip Hen Sel. The book ought to be . read, as the author is the only and therefore the most successful Chinese incubator agent. “Is ‘schwitzing’ an art?” By Prof. Borra. The author relates many anecdotes of personal experience in this volume, making him very able to expand on the subject. —D - lm - nn: „Bitte, darf ich das Zimmer entlassen ?“ —Prof.: “Read on.” Zukie: “I don’t know where the place is.” Prof.: “Get someone to make a bookmark for you.” —Jack: “The man committed ‘society.’ ” —Prof.: “What does it mean to say* Mr. Brooks has died?” Freshman: “It means that he died and is still dead.” 62

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—A new generation has lately sprung up beneath our otherwise quiet and peaceful Sleeping Parlors. The unusual enticing melodies heard at mid night give sufficient evidence of the presence of such. Interesting pro grammes (?) are rendered every night and concerts are given such as are indeed unsurpassable and generally last till break of day. What these wonderful creatures really are cannot be said. Some time ago the opinion predominated that they were a certain kind of gopher. Our man Plank, however, a very able man of Minnesota, proved this with but a few striking words and a series, of very appropriate gestures to be a “downright lie.” So furious waxed he over the question that bloodshed was feared every moment. Luckily nothing serious has happened as yet. Dr. Krueger, it is said, knows all about these creatures but for fear of being lynched, remains silent (we don't put much trust in hearsay). The mystery will probably never be solved. —"The meeting is called to order!" said Pres. Cheesy and the Smoking Club immediately came to order. It was the first meeting after Easter, none having been held in April for various reasons. Several persons were there fore called upon to give a brief account of their Easter vacation. All claimed to have had a “good old time.” The pipe of peace was then smoked. Frenchy proceeded with the following programme: The first number was a short opening address by the president. He expressed his great satisfaction at the interest all members have taken in the welfare of the society. Butch now read an interesting essay on “The Origin of Cla\ pipes." To render the occasion more formal he had several claypipes peeping from out the corners of his coatpockets. Hank was next. He recited two pleasant little poems entitled “Lines to a Duck” and “My love lives over the River.” Both poems showed originality but especially— experience. To the amazement of everyone present Dr. Krueger followed with a striking oration on “Smoking as an Art.” Jack now amused the members by singing “Hiawatha." To the great delight of the entire house our man Gummy now arose. The eyes of every individual were upon him. Having cleared* his throat in the usual way several times, he opened his iron h preparatory to speaking: but on seeing the reporter of the Black and Red taking notes he immediately closed same again. Under pretence of a severe headache he begged of the president to be excused for the day which excuse was readily accepted. Now came Plank. He evidently had a somewhat emotional selection for he arose slowly (his eyes embedded in a sea of tears) made many graceful bows and various gestures indicative of despair and then took his seat without having uttered a single word. A blissful silence ensued during which everyone present gave vent to his feelings bv shedding tears. The society poet now sang his favorite poem “My heart’s on a sidestreet," comprising twelve verses, each one of which he sang to a different tune. It was simply marvellous. This being the last meeting before June the motion was oassed that the president deliver a farewell speech ex capite. We take the liberty to print same: “Honorable

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members of the Smoking Club: The time is now near at hand which will see all of us assembled here part. The piercing question now arises: Shall . we all meet again? Oh! kind friends! If you have tears, pray, do shed them now! I cannot find words to express my grief! My heart shall fol low you as night follows day. On! now you weep! Truly, never before were seen such noble hearts; never before were shed such precious tears! Kind friends, lend me your ears! The welfare of this society was ever uppermost in my mindI cherished a strong affection for it and tried to maintain and perpetuate it. My efforts were not fruitless. The good I did lives after me, the evil is recorded in the “Doomsday book.” But, good friends, we must part! Can we part? Yes, we must! But we must also meet again for “united we stand, divided we fall.” We're one and inseparable: with this 1 take my leave, saying that, although it breaks mv heart yet I must endure it. My own shadow would leave me ere my breaking heart ceases to bleed. There is a destiny that shapes our ends! Fare ye well!” Amidst the sighs and sobs of the entire house the motion was now made, seconded, and carried to adjourn until next year. During the year 1903, Hapgoods secured high grade positions in business and technical work for over 500 3Toungcollege university and technical school graduates. Our campaign for 1904 is now in progress. More firms than ever are looking to us for capable graduates, and we wish to get in touch at once with even" senior who is seeking a posi tion in business or technical work. Write nearest office for booklets. —Hapgoods, 309 Broadway", New York; Hartford Bldg., Chicago; Pennsvlvania Bldg., Philadelphia; Williamson Bldg., Cleveland; Pio neer Bldg., Seattle; Colorado Bldg., Washington; Minn. Loan & Trust Bldg, Minneapolis; Chemical Bldg., St. Louis; Park Bldg., Pittsburg.

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Als ini Jahre 18O5 unsure Anstalt gegriindet wurde, da war es das Ziel, das man ini Auge hatte, jungen Lenten die Gelegenheit zu geben, sich eine griindliche Ausbildung besonders in den Gymnasialstudien auf christlicher Grundlage zu erwerben und moglichst viele derselben fiir das Studium der rheologic und sonst fiir den Dienst der Kirche zu gewinnen. Dabei sollte die Deutsche Sprache gleiche Berechtigung mit der Englischen haben. Dies letzere geshali hautsachlich deshalb, damit der Zusammenhang mit dem Staninilande der hiesigen Deutschen festgehalten werde und den Zogligen der Anstalt die reichen Schatze deutscher Bildung und Gelehrsamkeit zuganglich wiirden. Die Hoffnungen, die man damals liegte, sind im wesentliclien erfiillt. 1'reilich war der An fang nich leicht, die Mittel waren gerir.g, tiichtige Lehrer sclnver zu gewinnen. Aber trotz der geringen Anfange ging die Anstalt nicht 11 ur weiter, sondern konnte auch mehr und mehr vervollkommnet werden. Das erste Gebaude wurde 1865 gebaut, 1872 errichtete man die \V ohnung des Prasidenten, 1875 wurde das Gebaude fur die Wohnungen der Schuler aufgefiihrt, 1887 das Haus fiir die Unterbringung der Wirtschaft und der Musik- und Krankenzimmer, 1895 endlich wurde anstatt des niedergebrannten altesten Gebaudes ein neuer Bau errichtet. der ausschliesslich Lehrzwecken dienen sollte. Ging so das Wachstum der Anstalt auch langsam vor sich, so konnte doch in jedem Jahrzehnt ein neues Gebaude errichtet werden. Jetzt steht die Anstalt wieder vor eincr Aufgabe, Die Raumlichkeiten sind bei der wachsenden Schiilerzahl zu klein, und die Wohnraume der Studenten sind nicht zweckmassig eingerichtet. Hier muss also Abhilfe geschaffen werden, und es ist alle Aussicht, dass uns das nachste Jahr ein modernes, zweckmassig eingerichtetes Wohngebaude fiir unsere Schiiler bringt. Wie geht es nun zu, dass es so schwer wird, fiir unsere Anstalt die notigen Mittle zu ihrem Auf- und Ausban zu gewinnen? Der Ursachen diirften viele sein, die da zusammenwirken. Einmal sind unsere cingewanderten Deutschen zu grosseren Stiftungen

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fur wissenschaftliche Anstalten nur sehr schwer zu bewegen. Sie kommen ja aus einem Lande, wo das alles reichlich aus alten Stiftungen vorhanden ist, und wo die Regierung das Fehlende erganzt. Es ist ihnen nur schwer beizubringen, dass das hier anders ist. Auch sind sie von haus aus selten mit hoherem' Schulwesen bekannt. Zudem lasst sich leider nicht leugnen, dass der Wert einer hoheren Bildung von den meisten hiesigen Deutschen noch nicht recht erkannt wird und es deshalb an der rechten OpferWilligkeit fehlt. Fur Gemeindeschulen kann man unsere deutscheri Lutheraner im ganzen leicht begeistem, fur hohere Schulen nur schwer. Es ist das also gerade umgekehrt wie bei den Amerikanern englischer Zunge. Diese konnen kaum christliche Privatschulen zu stande bringen. Dagegen gelingt es ihnen leicht, Akademien, Colleges, und Universitaten ins leben zu rufen und mit reichen Mitteln zu versehen. Hier haben wir von unseren englischen Mitburgern noch sehr viel zu lemen. Wir sollten es in der Erziehung unserer Jugend wie die Katholiken machen, und die ganze Erziehung derselben in die eigne Hand nehmen, und zwar nicht nur der Knaben und jiingeren Manner, sondem auch der Madchen. Gelingt uns das nicht, so wird nicht nur das Deutschtum, sondem auch unsere Kirche schweren Schaden leiden, der nicht wieder gut zu machen ist. Die eigentiimlichen Gaben und Schatze, die unserem Volke gegeben sind. werden von uns vergeudet, wahrend die Amerikaner, danach ringen, sich das Wertvollste zu eigen machen. Unsere Kirche wird stark beeinflusst werden von dem indifferentictischen Geiste, der auf den engliscen Anstalten herrscht, Es konnen und wenn sie dagegen ankampft, schwere Verluste haben. Fremde auch nicht die Wirkung in erziehlicher und wissenschaftlicher Hinsicht ausiiben, die wir in unseren deutsch-englischen Anstalten erzielen. Es ist immerhim erstaunlich, was bei den geringen Mitteln von uns geleistet wird. Die Sprachenfrage ist in wesentlichen gelost. Die Erfahrung zeigt auch hier, wie in der Schweiz, Elsass, Russland und anderen Gegenden, dass ein junger Mensch bei geeigneter Ausbildung zwei Sprachen gut beherrschen lemen kann. Wir haben das erreicht nicht nur bei fast alien deutschen Schiilem, die die Anstalt durchgemacht haben, sondem auch bei Amerikanern englisher Zunge. Auch diesen ist das Deutsche gelaufig wie ihre Muttersprache. Wir vermitteln den Schiilem deshalb eine Bildung, die sie befahigt in den hochsten hiesiger Anstalten den strengsten Auforderungen zu geniigen iind.ebenso sich auf deutschen Universitaten vollstandig zu Hause zu fuhlen. Das ist durch zahlreiche Erfahrungen hinreichend bezeugt, und noch nie hat einer unserer Graduierten auf einer hoheren hiesigen Anstalt oder deutschen Universitat in wissenschaftlicher Hinsicht Fiasko gemacht, wohl aber haben sich die meisten durch hervorragende Erfolge ausgezeichnet. Und das ist doch auch ganz naturlich. Eine Bildung in englischer und deutscher Litteratur, Sprache und Geschichte muss doch einen weiteren Blick als in einer derselben allein geben. Und eine Erzielung auf christlicher Gnmdlage mtiss, abgesehen von aller Charakterbildung, doch-viel grundlicher

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sein als eine ohne dieses Fundament. Beruht doch unsere ganze Sittlichkeit und das Beste in unserem Volksleben direkt auf der Bibel und ihrem Einfluss. Sollten da nicht alle, die ihre Kirche und ihr Deutschtum hochhalten, die nicht ihr herrlichstes Erbc den Stromungen des Zeitgeistes preisgeben mochten, eine Anstalt unterstutzen wie die unserige? Sollten sie ihr nicht die Mittel reichlich stiften, etwas Tiichtiges zu leisten? Und konnten Gelder hesscr und segenreicher angevvandt werden? Es ware wahrlich an der Zeit, dass wir den kleinlichen Sinn fahren liessen und uns dcr hohen Aufgabe bewusst werden, die gerade uns lutherischen Dcutschamerikanern gcstcllt ist. Dann wiirden uns bald auch die notigen Mittel reichlich zufliesscn. 0 0 0 0 0 0

Segen der Arbeit. Oration bv K. I’ll. Dornfcld, B. A.

*’\ erllucht sei der Acker uni deinetwillen, mit Kummer sollst du dich drauf nahren dein Lebenlang. Dornen und Disteln soil er dir tragen, und du sollst das Kraut auf deni Felde essen. 1m Schweisse deines Angesichts sollst du dein Brot essen, his dass du wieder zu Erde wirst, davon du genomnien hist." Seitdeni Ciott diesen Fluch fiber den gefallenen Menschen verhangte, siiul Strome sauren Sclnveisscs in nahrungschaffender Arbeit getlossen, und so mancher hat wolil zu Zeiten, da die Arbeit besonders schwer auf ihni lastete, die Paradieseszeit zuriickgewunscht. W’enn wir da nun den Mund des Y’olkes trotz der Kenntnis von dem Fluche und trotz der wolil durchkosteten Millie und Anstrengung der Arbeit sagen horen: Arbeit maclit das Leben suss, so mochte es uns wohl anfangs scheinen, als sei dieses Sprichwort ironisch gemeint. Und doch ist es durchaus walir und richtig. Dcnn bleibt zwar die Arbeit an und fiir sich ein Fluch, so tliesst aus ihr doch ein Segen, der uns das Leben ertraglich, ja sogar angenehm maclit. Schon am Korper des ehrlichen, fleissigen Arbeiters bestatigt sich dieser Segen. Wie kernig und friscli ist nicht die Gestalt des Landmannes oder des Handwerkers! An scinem festen Tritt und Griff merkt man, wie sein ganzer Korper durch die Arbeit gefestigt und gestarkt worden ist. Dem geistigcn Arbeiter engeht freilich dieser Segen. Doch er hat einen Ersatz. Sein' durch angestrengtes Den-ken gescharfter Geist zeigt sich ausserlich an den ausgebildeten und verfeinerten Gesichtsziigen. Lediglich das vornehme aussehcnde Antlitz eines Mamies burgt uns shon oft dafur, dass bei seiner Arbeit hauptsasclich sein Geist in Anspruch genommen wird. Wessen Arbeit aber ein gleiches Maas von Anstrengung des Korpers wie des Geistes erfodert, der hat einen doppelten korperlichen Segen. Seine wohlausgebildeten Gliedmassen und seine schonen Gesichtsziige erregen unwillkurlichen Gefallen. Doch holier als der Segen fiir den Korper steht der Segen der Arbeit

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fur die Seele des Menschen. Der gesunde Korper des Mannes, der durch die Arbeit seiner Hande sein Brot verdient, wirkt wohltuend auf seinen Geist. Auch dieser bleibt gesund. Nicht ist er murrisch und missgestimmt, sondern frohlich und voller Lebenslust. Bei deni geistigen Arbeiter kommt dieser Segen in noch hoherem Grade zur Geltung. Fur ihn ist sclion die Arbeit selbst ein Genuss, den zu bcschreiben fast unmoglich ist. Nur der, der bereits selber geistig gcarbcitet hat, weiss, in welch heitere Stimmung der Geist bei seiner Beschaftigung gerat, wie er formlich gluht und von Liebe ergriffen wird fiir das; womit er sich emstlich beschaftigt. Wem der Genuss geistigen Arbeit einmal in vollem Umfange zuteil gcworden ist, der kann fast nicht mehr anders als arbeiten. Er fiililt sich gedrangt, ohne Rast von einem Werke zum andern fortzuschreiten. Allc seine Arbeiten aber bringen entweder jedesmal andere, neue, frische Gedanken hervor, oder sie kleiden schon fruher ausgedruckte Gedanken, in andere, neue, frische Formen. Daher kommt es, dass der geistige Arbeiter bis ins spate Alter eine jugendliche Frische des Geites bewahrt. Wenn der Landmann oder der Handwerker infolge vorgeschrittener Jahrc am Korper so geschwacht ist, dass er nicht mehr arbeiten kann und deswegen in vielen Fallen, des Lebens uberdriissig, sich nach deni erlosendcn Tode schnt, da finden wir den geistigen Arbeiter noch mitten im riistigen SchafFen bcgriffen. Erst wenn der Tod an ihn herantritt, erst dann hat die Arbeit seines Geistes und damit die heitere Stimmung und die Frische desselben ein Elide. Doch es ist einerseits fiir den Handarbeiter nicht die wohltuende Wirkung des gesunden Korpers auf den Geist, andererseits fiir den geistengen Arbeiter nicht die unmittelbare, freudige Errcgung des Geistes bei der Beschaftigung der einzige Segen der Arbeit fiir (lie Seele. Ein llauptsegen jeder ehrlichen Arbeit ist und bleibt ihr Einfluss auf unser sittliches Verhalten. Denn obwohl sie uns nicht sittlich bessern kann, so ist sie doch ein Mittel, wodurch das Hervorbrechen des Bosen in uns eingedammt und unterdriickt wird. Halten wir uns fleissig an die Arbeit, so nelimen wir uns selbst oft die Gelegenheit, bose Begierden, die in uns aufsteigen, zu befriedigen. Ja viele siindhafte Gedanken werden dadurch, dass wir der Arbeit unsere Aufmerksamkeit zuwenden, uberhaupt von uns fern gehalten. In diesem Sinne lasst Claudius einen fleissigen Bauersmann singen: “Mir macht der Teufel keine Not, Ich sclilag ihn scliief und krumm, Und dresch’ und hau’ und grab ihn tot Und pfliig ihn um und um.” Indem wir aber so durch die Arbeit vielfach am Sundigen verhindert werden, werden unserm Gewissen viele peinigende Gedanken erspart, und wir haben uns weniger vorzuwerfen. Doch die Arbeit hat in noch wanderer Weise einen gunstigen Einfluss. Jeder gesittete Mensch hat ein Verlangen das, falls er es nicht befriedigen <

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kann, ihn die Freude am Dasein nicht geniessen lasst. Es ist das Verlangen, ein niitzliches Glied der Menschheit zu sein. Er mochte die Ehre seiner Familie bewahren und womoglich vermehren; er mochte dazu beitragen, dass das Land, darin er wohnt, im Frieden bleibe; er mochte dafiir sorgen, dass seine Kirche wachst und gedeiht. Wie kann er nun dieses alles verwirkliehen ? Allein durch Arbeit. Entweder ist sie selbst das Mittel, oder sie verschafft ihm die Mittel, wodurch er seine hohen und schonen Ziele erreichen kann. Und so bringt ihm die Arbeit in hohem Grade innere Befriedigung. Ja gross ist der Segen der Arbeit! AVer sich ihn einmal recht klar und dcutlich vor die Sccle gefiihrt hat, bei dem findet sich cine gelauterte, hohe Idee von der \rheit. Der matericllc Gewinn, der ihm durch sein Wirken und Schaffen /ulliesst, verliert fiir ihn einen grossen Teil seiner frtiheren Bedeiuung vor den anderen, weit segensreichcren Folgen, die die Arbeit mit sich bring!. Der Christ aber erhebt mit Dank sein Herz zu Gott, der dem Menschen trot/, seines Siindenfalles nicht nur im evvigen Jenseits Freude und W’onne zugesagt hat. sondern ihm sogar schon das irdische Leben ertniglieh und gliicklich macht durch die von ihm eingesetzte und mit so grossrm Segen verbundene Arbeit. C) £) 0 0 £J

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men were created equal, and were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty. and the pursuit of happiness.” These words are engraved, yea burned on the heart of every American. You would consider it an unreasonably absurd statement, you would consider it a slur upon the good name of your country were you to be told that for seventy-five years these United States were not truly a home for the home less and a refuge for the persecuted. Painful though it be, it is but too true that our government, purporting to advocate the equality of man, was in reality a government countenancing and furthering an institution based on the inequality of man. In seeking to explain this lamentable inconsistency we must go back to the time when this country was first settled. We find that liberty and slavery were planted on American soil in the same year. As the Mayflower sailed into Plymouth harbor a cargo of slaves was landed in Jamestown. From that time on this jeruicious evil increased with the growth of the country. From the first there were those who opposed slavery—individuals inveighed against it, philanthropic communities took the matter in hand. But there was never

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a concentrated effort to abolish slavery. Indeed, by the year 1787 slavery had taken such firm root that gradual emancipation was all for which the lathers of our constitution could hope. This hope might well have been realized, had not the invention of the cotton-gin given a renewed impetus and value to slave-labor. From the time of that invention it was in the interest of the South not alone to countenance but to defend slavery. Now, if ever, our sacred liberties were endangered. , „ , . ,.. , . The North was indifferent; the South gradually but surely established slaverv. Finally, when the North had partly realized the encroachments of the slave-power, it was too late to effect a reform through the medium of the political parties. The government was in the hands of the minority ot the South. The South was coddled and fondled by the Northern officeseekers for the votes it controlled. In a moral agitation lay the only hope for the redemption of our lost liberties. Some one was needed to awaken, before it was too late, the slumbering conscience of the nation. John Quincy Adams, who for a long time, ineffectually but stubbornly fought against slaver)r in the political arena, saw that there was there no hope, that hope was elsewhere to be found. “There is a great mass of cool judgment and plain common sense on the side of justice and humanity; but the ardent speech and passion are on the side of the oppression. Oh! if but a man would arise with a genius capable of comprehending, a heart capable of supporting, and an utterance capable of communicating these eternal truths which belong to the question, to lay bare in all its nakedness that outrage upon the good ness of God—human slaver)', now is the time, and this is the occasion upon which such’ a man would perform the duties of an angel on earth.” No angel came in answer to that fervent prayer, but a man arose who was destined to be the. soul of American anti-slavery reform, a reformer who never solicited the support of any man, who did not fear the censure or condemnation of any man—William Lloyd Garrison. It was he who brought on the Civil War, he who emancipated the slaves. From the time he recognized the evils of the slave-system in the vear 1831, from the time he began his paper in Boston, The Liberator, he gave himself heart and soul to the cause of the slave. His was an enormous task. No man ever fought against greater odds or contended with such an overw e ming prejudice. He stood almost alone. Seeing the great wrong 111 slavery as no other man saw it, he could with perfect justice say: “Sir, we °/ ourAfree Jr?untr>r’ anci of the Union of these St'ates. Yet T bv a LTlT Engl?nder’ as an abolitionist, I am excluded !r0m one;h?lf of the national territory: and so is Union _That- rrv n t0 reârd slave7 abhorrence. Where is our Those who saw the rla™ SS* ^ wdderness; it went almost unheeded, chosenfew ” ûY for,our ârly-bought liberties were a consistency of^thfs fristitutioru " ^ dM "0t the «

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Though others had fought against slavery before him, he differed from all ' in the cause of the slave, in believing that the only successful consummation , lay in a moral reform. And never were the principle of a reform so easily grasped. But concede that man had no right over another’s body and soul and you were admitted to the anti-slavery ranks. Not to be influenced by con siderations from without, in this his moral reform, he refused to connect his . cause with a political party. Once connect yourself with a party, he held, and you will be swayed by party considerations and personal interests. People will consider your cause the mere shibbloeth of a party and will never in that connection grasp the true significance of the movement. As a result the great non-voting abolitionist was looked upon as an iconoclast as a fanatic. Were the old Leverelt-street jail of Boston yet in existence, you might read on the wall of one of the cells: William Lloyd Garrison was put into this cell on Wednesday, October 21, 1835 to save him from the violence of a respectable and intluenlial 1110b, who sought to destroy him for preaching the abominable and dangerous doctrine, that all men are created equal and that all oppression is odious in the sight of God.” Such was the public sentiment towards a slavery reform. In democratic Boston an abolitionist could be egged and threatened by a respectable and influential mob. Farther to the South the state of Georgia was offering five thousand dollars for the delivery of Garrison into the hands of the courts of that Ma:e. Indeed, by the year 1837 so little progress had been made that the abolitionists could not rent a hall i:i Boston to hold their annual meeting. So little impression had the cruelties of slavery made on the public that Lovejnv. an abolitionist, was killed at Alton, Illinois, in defending his print ing press from destruction at the hands of an infuriated pro-slavery mob. This outrage 011 the freedom of speech opened the eyes of many to the dangers of slavery. The greatest feeling produced by this atrocity was in the city most remote from the scene—in Boston, where, bv a rich compensation, it overcame the timidity of the conservative New Englanders and materially helped Garrison in his work. The Boston which had near come having its Lovejov in the person of Garrison in 1833 had undergone a revolution in two years—a revolution perhaps to be defined as the weakening of South ern ascendency. Tis true that the friends of the slave were multiplying, that the spirit of lawlessness was in a great measure overcome, not by the arm of the law but by the power of truth. In New England all organized opposition had vanished. Up to the year 1840 the momentum of the anti-slavery agigation had over come all obstacles from without, all minor differences from within. Inter nally but one danger had from the beginning menaced it, sectarianism and to this Mr. Garrison’s steadfastly unsectarian character and determination had hitherto proved an insurmountable barrier. Though “The Liber ator” was bitterly opposed, it did more to disseminate, develon, and confirm the principles of the abolitionists than any other publication. Though brick-

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bats yet awaited him in many places, Garrison supplemented the good work of his paper by extended lecture tours, by this mode of propagandism win ning many converts to the cause. The self-denying and almost outcast life he led for the slaves’ sake compels admiration and gratitude. His anti-slavery character Was tried by all manner of tests short of martyrdom without em bittering him. This self sacrifice and unflinching devotion to duty won for his cause many of the noblest men and women of the day. Look where you will—in the growth of its state and local organizations, the increase of its membership and resources, its progress within the church and party lines, its success in alarming the slave power—the abolition movement had assumed tremendous proportions. The great abolitionist leader had always held to his non-resistance prin ciples. He had too in the course of time perceived that “slavery was dragging the country down an incline plane,” and that there was “no escape but by cutting the rope that bound the North to the South.” He had announced his doctrine of “no union with slave holders.” Thus when the power of the South •was at its height, the government had fallen entirely into the hands of the slave-holders. The South controlled the Senate, in whose twenty-seven standing committees’ it had sixteen chairmanships. As important as the control of the national government was the influence it extended over the mercantile interests of the North. In Pennsylvania the iron interest, in New York the commercial considerations came, as they ever do, before human rights. The prices of merchandise and stocks are considered of more im portance than the preservation of great principles. A United States Senator could be in his seat beaten to unconsciousness by a Southern man without causing ill feeling. A Southern paper dared to say in defense, “The abolitionists in the Senate have been suffered to run too long without collars. They must be lashed into submission. They will soon learn to behave them selves like decent dogs.” The abolitionists were groping as in thick darkness. But it was that “dark est hour which is said to precede the dawn.” Soon the time was to come when the South would not hold undisputed sway. Disciples of Mr. Garrison had drifted into politics. Though he had never countenanced such action, he was inclined to pardon such a weakness if the abolition principles were adhered to. The Free Soil party had become the Liberty Party ( and this in turn the Republican Party. The views of the great leader had through this dissemination, taken root in all parts of the country. Thev had multiplied and grown into a great political force. Of a sudden as it were the people realized that Garrison was not a mere fanatical agitator, that his work was not ephemeral. They realized that the United States must sooner or later be come entirely a slave holding nation or entirely a free labor nation. Boston and New York must become marts for trade in the bodies and souls of men, or Charleston and New Orleans must become homes of free labor. It was the failure to apprehend this great truth that had brought on so

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many unsecccssful attempts at final compromise between the slave and free states. But it seemed that now the true Republican spirit of the North had been awakened. And when Lincoln was elected, a step had been taken toward the final solution of the problem. Jt is true. Garrison did not place great con fidence in Lincoln. But as, step by step, the President was driven to definite action he received the support of the great abolition leader. Although always opposed to war but seeing that it was the only solution of the problem, the practical sense of Garrison moved him to sacrifice his personal convictions and peace principles to the cause of justice and humanity, lie threw the whole weight and influence of his support on the side of the President. And when, in the fullness of time, the Emancipation Proclama tion came, he considered his mission fulfilled. h'or more than thirty years he had unequivocally advocated the cause of the slave, lie had devoted, and was first to do so, his energies, his life, hi- all to the exclusive task of promoting personal and national liberty. He *•!<ind for the cause today universally conceded to have been the only true cause of justice and humanity, at a time when he could not openly espouse that cause without imminent danger of his life. lie had powers capable of effecting mighty purpose. He had the power to • xci’.e and direct the imaginations of men and was equal to efforts which . o to ti e subversion of governments and to the realization of great moral revolutions in society. Consider for a moment the circumstances under which i ani on commenced his labors for the poor lost slave—without money or : • iends; with nearly the whole bo lv of his country men against him: with the :i -St dcadlv ho.rililv of the slave holders and their abettors in the North, with a standing reward of five thousand dollars upon the statute books of a "m iv. reign” state of this Cnion. What, now think you of a man thus situated and watched by a host of enemies, thirsting for his blood, deliberately violat ing all laws of God and man? After having gone through a struggle such as has never been paraded in duration in the life of any reformer, and after having been for nearly forty wars the target at which ail poisonous and deadly missiles have been hurled, and after having seen our great and national iniquity blotted out and free dom proclaimed throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants thereof, and presses and pulpits supporting the claim of the colored people where not one could be found to do this in the early days of the anti-slavery conflict—do we wonder when we see the successful termination of his Herculean labor that Abraham Lincoln after the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation exclaimed: 1 have been only an instrument to the logic and moral power of Garrison and the anti-slavery people of the country and army have done all."

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Edmund Burke was bom in 1729 in Dublin. He was the greatest poli tician and orator of his age, and according to Macaulay next in rank to Demosthenes and Cicero. He was a typical, though not an aboriginal Irish man. His father, Richard, was an attorney in Dublin. Edmund Burke was one of the fifteen children, of which only two brothers and a sister attained maturity. His mother, a former Miss Nagle, adhered to her parents’ religion, which was the Catholic, while his father was a protestant. As usual the sons were brought up in their father’s religion and the daughter followed her mother in faith. Edmund was taught his rudiments by a Mr. O’Halloran and later by a Mr. Fitz Gerald, both peda gogues. From them he learned the tongue which he retained ever after. Having finished his course with them, he went to an academy at Ballitorc and in 1748 was graduated B. A. in Trinity College. Two years later he came to London for the first time to qualify himself for the Bar. The study of law and the stage interested him most. Here the opportunity of visiting literary societies was given him, which he gladly made use of. In a literary society in Covent Garden he made his first speeches and received a reputation for literary talent and eloquence. Many of his hours were spent in finding subjects to be discussed in these meetings. “He was always a great talker and a great listener.” Besides these talents he possessed great powers of observation, illustration, and explanation, which he greatly developed by his society work. But his father, to whom this way of exhibiting such powers was not evident, no longer supplied him with the necessary means to continue them. Burke’s first publication was “A Vindication of Natural Society,” which is written ironically in the style of Lord Bolingbroke, confuting the latter’s views of society. Among the many persons who were much pleased with this pamphlet was his father, who promptly sent him a bid of a hundred pounds. This pamphlet was soon followed by a “Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.” It rapidly attained popularity and won the favor of eminent men as Lyttleton, Washburn, Herne, and especially of Dr. Johnson. The doctor loved him “from the first day he set eyes upon him to their last sad parting by the waters of death,” and in spite of his “dreaded weapons of dialectics” and his seniority by twenty years he willingly submitted to a contradiction which the young philosopher and speaker ventured to make at the dinner table of David Garrick. In the winter of 1756-7 he became acquainted with a Dr. Nugent, and soon fell in love with his daughter Jane, whom he married. Strange to say, her parents were also each of different religion. Her father, however, was catholic and her mother protestant,so that Burke and his wife were both of the same way of thinking. His father now generously allowed him two hun dred pounds a year, which no doubt formed part of their maintainance, as Burke had no specific office and was now preparing for public service.

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In 1761 he went to Ireland as private secretary to ‘‘single speech” Hamilton. Serving him for two years, he demonstrated his aptitute for political business. But Hamilton attributed the efficiency of his secretary to himself and in a week was angry with Burke, who detected the ingratitude of his employer and in a short time “reduced him to stony silence.” He also refused the pension which Hamilton had promised him. ()n returning to London Burke with Reynolds founded a literary society. In 1765 he became private secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, but the marquis's administration lasted only a few months. At this time also the young politician entered Parliament, and was successively member of Wendover, Bristol, and Mai ton. During the following year he appeared in the I louse of Commons, where he made speeches, and was thought to be, accord ing to his brogue, a popish emissary, and a wild Irishman whose real name was O'Bourkc. But before long his character and intentions were recog nized and "he kept the Rockingham party agoing.” With a scrupulous re gard to political economy and with an uprightness unequaled by public men, he gave all his perquisites to pay the forces. He was the first to maintain the precept of parliamentary representation—short they were men chosen to c< mside” and defend the good of the commonwealth, and not to vote for ques tions because they were’approved of by their constituents. He is said to have prepared the way for abolition of slave trade, and towards America he always spoke of justice and conciliation. It was in such speeches as that on Con ciliation with Anienca that he won bis highest reputation and honor. But his public speeches could not persuade everybody that only his ideas and conceptions were right, and that everyone of a different opinion was wrong; he, therefore, issued political pamphlets, the first of which was en titled “Observation on a Pamphlet on the Present State of the Nation." On Fob. 13, 1788 he commenced his celebrated speech, which lasted four days, opening the trial of Warren Hastings. The trial lasted seven years and was closed with another great oration by Burke, lasting nine days. His essay on “Reflection on the Revolution of France” is said to have produced an effect never before or after produced by anv political work of this kind. Hereafter many honors were bestowed upon him. He died July 7, 1797, re taining all his powers to the end. Burke was noble-minded, generous and pure in politics. His powers of observation and imagination were rn-eat, and his industry untiring. So affluent was his mind and so large the store of his accumulated knowledge * that he was at all times ready to engage in argument with anyone on any subject. His conversational powers was also remarkable. When Rockingham again came into power in 1728 Burke received only a minor office, as he was always in debt. He had, in 1768, bought the estate of Beaconsfield, for the payment of which he borrowed one-third of the value, the rest remaining on mortgage. Notwithstanding the many presents from his friends and the large sums of money which he borrowed he always re-

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mained poor and accepted a pension from the Crown, so as not to leave his wife, who survived him twelve years, a beggar. During these twelve years Mrs! Burke succeeded in paying all debts, although they were numerous and large. These debts were cast up against Burke throughout his life, but his poverty was not the result of squandering, but of abounding kindness. Through him the painter Barry was enabled to study art in Italy. Through him the poet Crabble, who was the favorite poet of those great literary men of the next age—Byron, Scott and Newman—was saved from starvation and despair. Other defects which neutralized the influence of his greatness were his passion and untractability, which made him quite unfit for party politics, and that the fact that he employed brilliancy of speech instead of arguments. His judgment of men and things often proved to be wrong and violent. In his report of State Trials, Howell of Powell and Bembridge two knaves in Burke’s own office, whom he defended: “The zeal with which he advocated their cause, and the eagerness with which he endeavored to extenuate their criminality have received severe reprehension.” Finally this great politician was strongly opposed to any parliamentary reform. Besides these defects of his own, a strange Mr. Burke, who borrowed money but did not repay it, his son, who was a failure,-and several other persons did him harm and counteracted his success. He nevertheless was sucessful in most of his undertakings and achieved a reputation, which he retained until the present day, as the greatest philos opher, orator and politician of his time. T. E. B., '05. 000000

What Became of Shylock After the Court-Scene. Shylock had lost his case against the Merchant Antonio in the court of Venice. According to the laws of Venice he was condemned to give one-half of his property to Antonio and the other half to the state. Antonio accepted the money under the condition that it should be given to Jessica and her husband Lorenzo, after Shylock’s death. Shylock then left the court-room, promising to sign the deed some other time. At present, he said, he was ill. Before the palace of justice he met his friend Tubal. As Shvlock no more had a house of his own, he accompanied Tubal to his home. Here they dis cussed what could be done. For one thing Shvlock did not want to stay in Venice, where so much evil had befallen him. He hated the Christians, who had robbed him of his only child and daughter Jessica, and who had wrong ly, as he thought, taken away his monev. The first plan that struck him was to return to his native country Palestine, when he should at least not come ....... in contact with these Christians. But how should he get there and what

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should he do there? All his money was taken from him, so-that he barely • had enough to pay for the voyage. Tubal, however, helped him over the first difficulty by making him a present of fifty ducats and promising to lend him enough to give him a start in business again. It will be remembered that by trade he was a “usurer.” Finally they concluded that Shylock should take the next ship to Palestine. Next morning the clerk of the court appeared with the deed, which Shylock signed hesitatingly and with a shivering hand. It was about three weeks before a ship departed from Venice for Palestine, it was a large sailing vessel, carrying mostly merchandise, bound for Tyrus, a seaport on the coast of Syria. On a bright and sunny afternoon Shylock bade his only friend Tubal farewell. It moved him strangely to leave Venice without his daughter Jessica, and without any money of his own. He had never expected to meet such a sad fate in his old age. The ship set sail about two o’clock, and under favorable winds they soon lost sight of the city of Venice. Pile first part of the voyage was completed without any interrup tions. After ten days they anchored at Cyprus to unload part of the cargo and take in more merchandise, which was to be taken to Tyrus. While the ship lay at anchor, Shylock went on shore to visit a friend, who had removed there from Venice several years ago. He entreated Shylock to stay at Cyprus and to go into partnership with him as a merchant. But • Shylock would not stay. lie had made up his mind to return to Palestine. When Shylock had visited the most noteworthy places of the city, he returned on board of the vessel. As soon as the cargo was taken in, they set-sail for Tyrus. ’' • ' • ' > Early in the afternoon of the fifth day of their voyage a strong wind arose driving the ship toward the southwest. The sailors did not mind the storm, as they thought it would again quiet down toward evening. But later in the afternoon the velocity of the wind increased, threatening to develop into a hurricane. All the sails were reefed to prevent the wind from tossing the ship about too much. An hour after midnight the storm had become as fierce and raging as a huricane. All the passengers crowded into the lowest apartment of the ship to gain safety. The sailors were in their cabins, ready everv minute to receive orders from the commanders. Shvlock, like the rest, was anxiously awaiting the arrival of the morning. He crouched in one comer, tightly grasping the money he had received from his friend Tubal before he left Venice. He thought of his Only daughter lessica, who was so shamefully taken from him. He could not suppress his rage as he thought how the Christians had “cheated" him out of his bond and had taken away all his property, leaving him the poorest man in all Venice. , Suddenly a terrible crash put an end to his angry thoughts. He sprang to his feet and, thinking that his last hour had come, grasped his money tighter than before. The passengers looked at each other with terrified faces. Everybody expected that the ship would go down instantly. But their ter-

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ror subsided when a sailor hurried down the steps and told them that the main mast was shattered by the wind but that there was no immediate danger of the ship’s sinking. For several hours the storm still raged with great violence. It was not until sunrise that the fierce winds were finally quieted. As soon as the weather permitted it, everybody rushed to the deck to sec what damage the falling of the mast had done and where the storm had driven the ship to. It was impossible to sail any farther. The ship was a total wreck. Two masts, were down and the rudder was out of working order. If favorable winds would not drift the ship to some coast, the people on board would perish. But what was that? Was that not a sail far away in the horizon? Yes. it was. And it came nearer. Everybody, especially Shy lock, leaped for joy. Probably it was a Venetian vessel that could bring them back to some safe harbor. In the meantime the ship had come so near that the sailors could see what it was. It was no merchantman. In fact, it differed very much from their own ship. The bow was turned up, in the manner of the old Viking ships, and large figures were painted on the sails. Soon it was side-by-side with the wrecked merchantman. Fierce looking men armed with long swords rushed into the wreck. Their leader demanded immediate surrender or death. As the sailors were defenceless, the command of the wrecked vessel was at once given to the pirates. Immediately all sailors and passengers were made prisoners and the ship was closely searched. All prisoners were taken on board the other vessel. Several of the pirates stayed on the wreck until the others could return to take the merchandise to their home. In the. evening of that day the pirates arrived at their village on the coast of Africa. The prisoners were tied and brought into small huts for the night. Later they were to be taken to Turkey and sold as slaves. The pirates made preparations for an early start to the wreck. It so happened that Shvlock was put into one of the huts all by himself. His hands and his feet were tied with cords. As he lav there in this help less condition a sudden thought struck him. Next to him was a large stone with a sharp edge. He slowly rolled to the stone and with the greatest of troubles rubbed the cords with which his hands were tied against the sharp edge until they burst asunder. His feet were quickly loosened and in a moment he stood ready for the flight. Without thinking where to go he has tened out of the hut and out of the village without being noticed by the guards. He walked all night without really knowing where he was going. At daybreak he entered a large forest. He satisfied his hunger with ber ries and other wild fruits and lay down to rest. Afte“ several hours he again began to wander and wandered till sundown. Six days he matched through forests before he again reached the seashore. H°-e he concluded to stay. To protect himself against the rains he built a small hut. His food was fruits and herbs.

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In this solitary way Shylock lived many weeks, ever hoping that some ship might come and take him back to Italy. He no more thought of going to Palestine. He would rather live in Venice as the poorest man than endure these perils any longer. He would ever forgive the Christians who had treated him so wrongly. One morning as he sat there in his solitary mood thinking of his daughter Jessica and of Venice, he saw a sail approaching far off in the horizon. In his joy he jumped up and tied part of his gaberdine to a long pole to serve him as a signal. About an hour and a half had elapsed before the ship came near. When it passed by Shylock waved furiously with his signal flag. And the sailors on the ship noticed him. A boat was sent out and in a short time Shylock was on board the vessel. He was surprised when he heard that the ship belonged to his friend at Cyprus and was just returning with a large cargo. From Cyprus Shylock took the next ship for Venice, where lie was gladly received by his daughter Jessica and his only friend 'rubai. The rest of his life he spent at the home of Lorenzo and Jessica. A. H. S., ’o6.

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By the time this issue of our college paper goes to the press there will be only a very few days of school remaining. We who have been together during the en tire school year will soon be separated and scattered in all directions. Some of the younger boys are already counting the days as they pass away and it will not be long when they will be numbering the hours. This is the hap piest time for the student who has been at college for the first year. They think of the long vacation before them. They know they will feel more at home when they return to college after vacation. They can then greet old friends and the newcomer will have to pass over the same few" days of (juietness and solitude as they did. But this is also a busy time for the student. During the last weeks examinations come. Nearly all the conversation among the students is examinations. The graduates are also working hard at their final examinations. But when the time comes that we part with our fellow-students we do

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nut feci as we did a few days before. We have become attached to the place, which through a long stay has become dear to us. We have all been to gether for a long school year. Baseball and sports in general make us feel as though we should like to remain here and go on in the usual practice. \\ hen we are already at home, it sometimes seems to us as though we were missing company drill or band practice. Especially for the graduating class, the approaching vacation causes numerous thoughts. After having been together for seven years, they are now to be separated, not knowing" when, if ever, they are to meet again. We wish them success and the rest of us 'hail bid one another good-bye with hopes of meeting again at the beginning of the next school vear. What shall I do during vacation? This question has cer tainly presented itself to many of us. It is not every] t< - dv's lot to stay at home either to work or to rest. We should like to do something for our own support, and again we should ,like to work at somei,;ng profitable. What shall we do? To work on the farm is somewhat hard. W e are not used to it. Besides I think we can do better. I am thinking of ••.m assing. Canvassing is probably as good an employment for a student as any. \ great number of students are employed in this way, and nine out of ten are sucessful. You can lose nothing. On the contrary, if you strike the right country, you can make enough to take you through a year at college and even more. Bovs have done it, whv should we not also meet with the same success? And besides it is not alone the money that is the good side of canvassing. There is also an educational value in it. It makes you think. Then it teaches you to speak your thoughts intelligently, gives selt-posession, control of mind, lo ygiie, and action. You meet all classes and grades of people. By thus v orii -g amo*yg them you become acquainted with many of their ways. This is also the summer in which you can take advantage of another opportumtv. That is the World’s Fair* at St. Louis. The chances of seeing another World’s Fair before a long time are small. The experience gained in visiting such a place will be of great value, and the money expended, if you have it, will never be regretted. If therefore anyone has a chance to go, lie should take it. Summer Work.

The names by which we call the months were given to them by the old Romans. January the first month of the year, gets its name from the Roman God [anus, to whom it was sacred. Although the later Romans already considered January as the first month, it was not before the eighteenth century that it was adopted bv all the nations as such. February received its name from the circumstances' that during this month the Romans celebrated the festivals called Lupcrcalia or Februalia, which is derived from the Latin

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fcbruare, to purify. March, which was originally the first month of the Roman year, was the month sacred to Mars, the god of war. April, our fourth month, takes its name from the Latin aperirc, to open, because in this months the buds of the plants began to open. May, Latin Maius, is from a root mag, which meant, to grow. May is the season of growth. It is erroneous to say that Maius is derived from Maia, the mother of Mercury, because the name was among the Romans long before they knew anything of Mara. The name June was given to the sixth month in honor of the Latin gens Iunius. July, by the Romans originally. called Quintiles, re ceived its name in honor of Julius Caesar, whose birth happened to be in this month. August, originally Sextilis, was named after the Roman emperor Augustus, because the most fortunate events of his life occured in this month. Although September is the ninth month of our calendar, the original name, the seventh, was preserved. The same was done with October, November and December, being derived from the Latin numbers meaning respectively the eighth, the ninth, and the tenth month. Opinions seem to vary somewhat as to whether a person is really benefited by traveling. As for im part, I care not what opinion others may hold on this subject, but I am thoroughly convinced that a person derives much more benefit from travel ling than from reading many volumes of books. Everybody, the educated as well as the uneducated, ought to do a little travelling so as to become acquainted with the world. The student who wishes to have a general education ought to avail him self of every possible chance to travel about. It is only too often forgotten that travelling is a great supplement to the knowledge gained from books. In many cases one has the opportunity of using things of which he has read ; he has the chance of examining whether they are in reality as the writer has pictured them to him. He may practically apply his book-learned knowledge. Furthermore he is brought into contact with people of nearly every descrip tion. By observing them closely he soon gains a certain proficiency in judg ing people at first sight. But not only the student is benefited by travelling. Also those who have but a meagre or no education at all derive some benefit or other. Thus the farmer who makes a trip will return with the satisfaction of having seen and heard of things of which he never thought or dreamed. He grains a much broader view of things. His idea of the world is altogether different from what it was before he travelled.

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ALUMNI Suggestions for Social Amusements.

In tlic May number of the Black and Red, an article “What should they do."” broaches a subject which, in my opinion, deserves more attention than it gen era 11 v recei ves. I he writer laments the fact that our young people know of no form of amusement that they enjoy so much as dancing; and he suggests that the Black and Red, being devoted to the interests of those among our young people who by their superior education can exercise a wholesome influence upon their associates, should make an attempt at a practical solution of this problem; the problem of supplanting the dance. hollowing this suggestion, which I consider a happy one, and being continually pressed—not to say pestered—by a certain member of the library committee to contribute my share to the Alumni column, I will endeavor to serve a few hints to our young friends, which may be of some value to them when running up against the question: What shall they do for amusement? There can be no doubt that every student should cultivate the society of his fellow-beings; not for recreation alone, but also for his own benefit and that of society. What is a cultured man? It is one who has not only gone through a course of mental training, but who has also learnt to associate with his fellow-mortals, a proficiency which, like swimming, can be reached only by some degree of practice, A student who at college has divided up his spare time between the gymnasium and the baseball field and who, on re turning home for his vacation, shuns the society of his former friends and playmates, is wronging himself: he is neglecting an opportunity of studying human nature and human ways, to which he must, sooner or later, learn to adapt himself, and he is wronging others. What have they done him? Perhaps they are his inferiors, in some respects. What of it? This very fact should make it all the more his duty to associate with them and endeavor to improve them. This applies to every student. When I say student, I mean student. I am not speaking of that being so well known to us all; the parasite of the college, the fellow who is ever striving to enjoy the privileges and honors of college life without sharing its troubles and tribulations.—And ne quid nimis! the student's social aspirations must never be permitted to inter fere with his being a student. But providing that the student is a real student 97

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and that he duly respects the restrictions wisely set down by his superiors for his own benefit, I repeat that it is his duty to cultivate the society of his fellow-beings; and when I say fellow-beings, I don’t mean fellow-students, but fellow-beings, of both sexes*; those poor, unfortunate but eminently useful species of humanity who, for some reason or other, do not enjoy the bliss of a college education and college life, the plebs. Of both sexes, did you say? Yes, sir, of both. And if there were three sexes, I would also include the third. But let us come to the point. The question which will always come up whenever a number of young people are gathered to enjoy each other's company, and which the student should assist in answering, is this: What should they do, if not dance? \ don’t consider the case as hopeless as the writer in the May number seems to find it. It would, indeed, be quite hopeless, if the immoral element of the dance were morally so far gone as to find enjoyment in nothing short of licentiousness. Fortunately, the case is different. 1 think it can be safely said that the great majority of our dancing friends will readily accept a substitute for the dance—if it is given to them. The question: What shall we do? should not be permitted to come up at a social gathering of young people,—it should be settled before they come. This I would set down as Rule No. i. This is, in fact, one of the strong points in the dance: the guests are not asked and will not ask : What’s next ? They don’t like to be bothered by this question, they want it to be settled for them; they will always be very willing to follow the dictates of a leader. And they are right. Without a leader there will be anarchy, which is just as great a nuisance in a small community as in a large one. For a social gather ing of young people, an absolute monarchy is, generally speaking the only effective form of government, especially if they are devoted to dancing, kis sing games, or other amusements of similarly questionable character. There must be a master of ceremonies, vested with absolute authority, whose CVC'V word must be law to the whole company: an intelligent and reliable person, appointed by the master or lady of the house, with a good programme in his mind,—and on him the success of the affair will entirely depend. Cn. L. C., ’or. (To be continued.) 0 0 0 0 0 0

An Interrupted Dinner.

‘‘By Jove, but won't that be fine," said Judge Hazleton, eagerly watching his wife, who was arranging the sauce dish at the buffet. “Of course it will,” she resumed, “and why shouldn’t it be so when one’s only brother and sister-in-law are expected on the honevmoon. I am anxiously awaiting their arrival as her photograph reveals a little scent of beauty.”—

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“And the bird has money too,” he interrupted. “But she is very jealous.” “Ha, ha! A very significant quality for your brother Fred. I am certain she is a veritable Amazon as he would never have proposed to a girl. Besides, it’s leap year and that’s the way it came about. Don’t worry about jealousy.” ‘‘Yes, brother Fred always was bashful at home; his bashfulness even entered the pales of our household. He’d rather suffer death from thirst than ask a maid for a glass of water.” I laving finished her work, Mrs. Hazleton sat down and discussed the work of their cook. It had ever been up to the mark, but since the Yahrmarkt. which she had been attending regularly, she was visibly changed. Her whole disposition was altered. Before that time Lavinia was a model cook, but the other day her lady found her intently staring at the cotelettes that were gradually changing into charcoal. Instead of "applying a small quantity of Hour to the perch that the judge had caught, Lavinia rendered them more appetizing with a goodly dose of washpowder. These unmistak able tokens of an absent mind prompted the lady of the house to superintend the cooking for the present memorial day. "()ho, that’s the reason why we had such frugal meals the past few days. I presume Lavinia is in love,” said the judge. ”(iet out, 1 didn’t notice anything: and she’s so homely.” "Homeliness excludes love? A new fact to me. It does exclude from being loved, in many cases however. You explained to her though to look out for future mishaps?” *‘Yes, I vowed to send her awav in case such things occur again. I hear the rattling of wheels. It’s Fred and Rosa.” The scene that followed a few minutes later can make no claim to originality and therefore we omit it. There were the usual kiss and hand shaking with every kind of cross-questioning. In the parlor was the first chance to "reconnoiter,” as the judge jovially termed it, the newly acquired relative. Fred seemed to be the happiest mortal on the globe. It was then that Mrs. Hazelton found opportunity to see whether all was well in the kitchen. She returned in a few minutes enveloped in savory odors and in vited all to be seated at the dining table. That was done and joy and hap piness reigned supreme. Napkins were unfolded and everyone wondered what should come next. And it came. Lavinia strutted in with a steaming tureen. She was strong and mighty, a regular mechanic as much as her stature was con cerned. Her round fat face with thick lips, small eyes and knoblike nose, which with a wart setting pointed upward to the skies, made no favorable impression. The white hood upon her bristles would have adorned a hip popotamus to equal effect. When she approached the table she suddenly stared with dilated eyes at Fred, dropped the tureen and; hiding her face with

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her apron, dashed away crying: It’s him, It’s him. The peeple at the table looked ghastly at each other. “My best tureen,” stammered Mrs. Hazleton. “Too bad for the bouillon,” said Rosa, the bride. “My favorite dish,” complained the judge, “it’s queer she didn’t slide out and strike that potato nose of hers. But as long as the deed is per-i petrated let us proceed with the order of the day or rather the order of the meal. By the way, dear, ring for the creature so that she cleans up this affair somewhat.” She did ring but no Lavinia appeared. So Mrs. Hazleton herself waded through the diminutive inland sea into the kitchen. “Lavinia is crying oyer the mishap”, she said in contradiction to her own ideas. Her suspecting nostrils were soon greeted by a horrible smell of burning meat that issued forth in dark clouds from the open kitchen door. With tearful eyes she viewed the remnants of the roast, another look into the pot with asparagus revealed the fact that the water had entirely evaporated and the asparagus was still present in the form of a dirty yellow puree. The French potatoes had suffered a like disaster. With trembling hands she lifted the cover to see the pheasant, which she herself had so carefully prepared and she found nothing but a black unshapely substance, from which arose an odor not ex actly inviting to one’s factory nerves. Quieted by despair and with a resig nation of buried hopes, she turned to the hitherto unoticcd cook. And there she sat, she that caused all of this, her radiant visage manifesting extreme joy- With both hands she slapped her knees and repeatedly exclaimed: “One wouldn’t think it possible, but it's him, it’s him, it’s him surely.” In her estasy she cared neither for her lady’s reprimands not for the spoiled victuals. That was too much for Mrs. Hazleton and she fairly shook Lavinia and called the latter’s mind from Utopia back into this world. “What is he?” she demanded severely. “He’s my intended.” “Who’s your intended ?” “The man in the dining room.” This proved too sudden a shock for the striken woman and going back into the corridor she mediated upon her next move. She resolved to put before her guest what still remained. There was a lobster mayonnaise, some lettuce and cheese and sandwiches. During the time this medly was being devoured her husband was liberal with his wine, so as not to make the effects of the meal too disastrous. To complete complications Lavinia now en tered carrying a huge mop and began clearing away the bouillon that had assumed immense proportions in floor space. With a curt glance at Fred, she made a flank movement at him---“It’s him, it’s him,” she cried, bounding back like a rubber ball. She left the mop there only to have another opportunity to glance at him. “What’s the matter,” all said in union.

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“She says Fred, is her intended,” blurted out Mrs. Hazleton, as women are apt to do. An unpleasant silence followed, which was broken by Rosa, who dashed away with her sister-in-law following. Fred, apparently placid, was paring an orange when the judge accosted him: “Why don’t you follow your wife? “Why should I; do you think she is in earnest?” “It seems rather so, but now be true to your colors, here between you and me, is there anything to that affair? I know you young men have a peculiar taste for K. M’s.” “But that fills the bill,” roared Fred, “I haven’t seen your homely cook until this very hour. Does that suffice?” "Certainly, just cool down a trifle, let’s hope it suffices for the ladies also.” In the parlor they found the women, Rosa almost dissolved in tears. "But Mousic,” Fred began, but was interrupted by his wife; “I’m not your Mousic anymore! I’ve talked with Lavinia and she insists that she is your fiancee. We’ve only married so short a time, hoo-hoo- and now we must part, so that you can marry the cook, as you have promised her, hoo-hoo-hoo\ woman’s tears will either soften a man, be he yet so callous, or they will enrage him. The latter was the case with our friend. "By the Continental Congress and Mekaroffs sword, what’s up now? 1 can’t keep you with me, hut that you want to force me to marry that simpleton. I can’t understand it. !When she throws our dinner to the floor is that a moral injunction for me to marry her? I wish to be confronted with the wretch!” Both of the Hazlctons now hurried to fetch Lavinia. She came apparantly proud of the situation, though somewhat shy. “Xow Lavinia” began Mrs. Hazleton, but the judge interrupted. “Excuse me, dear, but here I’m judge. We’ll begin according to law. Xow, cook, do you know this man?” “Yes, sir.” “Who is he?” “Mv intended.” “Nonsense, he is the husband of this woman. Do you know his name?” “No,” replied the cook, evidently expecting an introduction. “When did you first see him?” queried the judge. “A few minutes ago in the dining room.” That this statement put a climax of bewilderment upon all present will easily be understood. “But how can he be your intended?” “I have his photo.” “His photo? show it.” She then produced from the folds of her dress a somewhat greasy yet tine picture of Fred, who was almost on the verge of insanity.

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“Did this man give it to you?” “No.” “Where did you get it, speak the truth, Lavinia,” thundered the judge. “It’s no secret,” mouthed Lavinia, “last Sunday I saw Myra, the woman who tells fortunes by the sun. Ten cents admission. She took my hand and tickled it. Then I looked through a hole in the wall and saw my in tended. The man who pulls the cloth over the picture asked me if I didn't want to buy the photo of my intended, only fifty cents. Now because it's true anyway, I bought it and there it is.” The mystery was solved and the judge gave the cook fifty cents for the photo and tore it up after reprimanding her severely. The next day all visited the fortune teller and found that old plates were bought of various photographers only to be used for the purpose stated. “Mousie,” said Fred to his wife, “whenever you get jealous, just think of this cook, and then look into the mirror to rid yoivself of such an opinion of my tastes.” R. O. B., '03

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Until now comparatively little has been said about our military company in the last volume of the Black and Red. Probably some of the readers might think it is because we take no interest in the company and that it is becoming more and more an unimportant society at our institution. This, however, is not the case. The company is at present in a prospering condi tion with an enrollment of about sixty members, including the officers. Through the unrestrained work of Capt. Breutzmann and his able staff of officers the company has reached a high mark in drill. During the winter the company drilled in the gymnasium. Each platoon drilled twice and the whole company once during the week. Every Wednes day night the band played for the company while they had dress parade. The setting-up exercises and the bayonet exercises were thoroughly drilled during platoon drill. ()wing to the size of the company it was impossible to per form any platoon movements during the winter months. All the time and care was therefore devoted to the manual of arms and to simple marching, which, we are glad to say, was mastered in almost every respect. As soon as the weather permitted, the company drilled on the campus. Special care was now given to marching and to platoon movements. The setting-up exercises and the bayonet exercises were reviewed by th entire company. Next extended order and shambattle exercises were taken up. The drill on the campus is generally the most beneficial and everybody feels m< ire like exercising when the comoanv is commanded out on the field. Last fall the old white stripes and chevrous were exchanged for the newly adopted light blue. The new stripes are of the same width as the old ones. But the chevrons are changed very much. They are much smaller and look neater than the old ones. Instead of having the sharp point downward they are now inverted. Our orders for uniforms arc still filled out by The Pettibone Manufacturing Co. Some time ago a new silk flag, bordered by a gold fringe was bought as the old one, which was in use twelve years, is unfit for parade drill. For the coming year there are good prospects for a large military company. Onlv one of the officers is expected to leave, namely, first lieutenant Christian Sauer. As far as we can sec most of the privates will also remain. The officers of the military company this year are: Captain, Reinhold Breutzmaim ; first lieutenant, Christian Sauer: second lieutenant, John Abelmann; first sergeant, Adolph Sauer: second sergeant and right guide, Henry Woyahn: third sergeant and left guide Edmund Hinnenthal; fourth sergeant and quartermaster," Henry Diehl: fifth sergeant and assistant quartermaster, Frank Fischer: sixth sergeant and color bearer, Arnold Eickmann: corporals, Max Hensel, Edwin Sauer, Alex. Korn, Theodore Schoewe, and George Rickemann. In the last meeting the following officers were elected for the coming term: President, Reinhold Brentzmann: vice-president, Henry Woyahn; secretary, Adolph Sauer: treasurer, Edwin Sauer. 105

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During the past school year our musical organizations have again been very sucessful. Owing to the interest which the individuals have taken in the work, the old standard of former years has been attained, and in many instances even surpassed. Especially has the work of our band been crown足 ed with success. In the beginning of the year the band was in a somewhat sad condition, as a number of players, having graduated, left the institution, while a number of new and inexperienced members entered. Prospects for a good band were rather dim, but with two rehearsals a week and with much extra practice of the new players the band was soon up to its old mark. Every year new instruments have been added to the band. This year it was found necessary to purchase a new set of cornets. The old instruments have gradually been done away with, and today we have a set of first-class instruments of the celebrated Conn make. The success of our band de足 pends to a great extent upon the good quality of these instruments. Under the direction of Professor C. Bolle a number of difficult com足 positions have been mastered. These were rendered at the Turner Opera House on May 20, when the Fourth Annual Concert of the band and orchestra was held before a large audience. On May 12, the band led the military company on their march out to Jeneau. While in Juneau, a concert was given in a spacious hall of Judge Christiansen. On June 8, the band furnished the music at the Lutheran school picnic in Columbus. With the graduation of Fred. Kosanke and Ernst Dornfeld the band looses two expert clarinetists. These vacancies, however, will be filled, and with diligent and conscientious practice we will be able to surpass even this year's ac足 complishments.

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The Orchestra I he orchestra has so few opportunities to show itself during' the course of the year, that many people arc scarcely aware that Northwestern still has an orchestra worthy of the institution and were probably surprised to see the announcement that the X. W. U. band and orchestra were to give a concert I hev naturally ask the question, “What has the orchestra been do ing all year?" The orchestra was greatly handicapped at the beginning of the year by the lack of a director. The loss of the veteran musician, Prof. W. Weimar, was greatly lamented. The members thought themselves fortunate in .securing the services of Prof. H. Frank as conductor, but after a few months he was forced to resign lor want of time, the band requiring too much of his time. Prof. \lh. Kuhn refusing to accept the position, the orchestra was again leii without a regular director. It struggled along as well as possible with the aid of K. Ph. Domfcld, violinist. In January Prof. Kuhn assented to con duct the organization and there have been further changes. . . This year the number of members was considerably smaller than in former years, consisting of only twelve musicians, but these were all old play ers with the exception of Paul Horn, who took the place of Joseph Diestler . as solo cometist. The members were all at home upon their instruments and ready to devote their leisure time to steady and persistent practice. The new director. Prof. Kuhn, complimented the orchestra on the material and ventur ed the prophecy that it would equal, or even outstrip, any orchestra of previous years, if only they were willing and enthusiastic enough to “stick to ii steadily." This may be truly said of the phvers. The steady and hard practice of the players and the cheerfulness with which they sacrifice their free time for rehearsals made the work comparatively easy. The hours of < .> 130-4 :oo on Wednesday and 4:00-5:00 on Friday afternoons were set apart for rehearsing, but the hours were often continued until long after time. I’mler these conditions considerable work was accomplished. We devoted considerable study to “Prince of Pilsen” and “Chicle Sammy” immediate!v after Christmas and later more classic music, such as SHope’s "Poet and Peasant” and "The Gypsy Baron” by Strauss, was taken up. Besides the other pieces were more cursorily studied. The orchestra appeared with credit in public on two occasions, on Wash ington’s birthdav and the annual baud and orchestra concert. It certainly reflects credit on the orchestra that the joint committee chose two members of the. organization as soloist, Miss Theadore Bittner and Mr. E. Ph. Dornfeld. , That the orchestra has made considerable progress and has done con siderable hard work is demonstrated by the fact that it mastered the selection, Suppe’s "Poet and Peasant.” which at this institution has often been at tempted before, but up to this time had never been mastered. It was enthus iastically received at the annual concert. We are now working on Xicolar’s “Ein feste Burg,” and Kreutzer’s “Night in Granada.” The orchestra will appear on two more occasions, the entertainment bv the Phi Lambda Sigma and on Commencement day.

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The baseball season this year was not so successful as it might have been The main cause for this is the weakness in batting, which has characterized nearly every one of the games. We opened the season by defeating Sacred Heart twice. The first game was played on Sacred Heart’s ground, the score being 7 to 0. A week later Sacred Heart played us again on our grounds and we were again victorious, the score being 10 to 1. On May 14, the Seminary boys came to Watertown and were defeated in both games. Mahnke pitched the first game for the Seminary and Hinnenthal for Northwestern. Pieper, pitcher of our “1902 champions,” pitched the second game with Kumm in the box for Nortwestern. The score of the first game was 6 to 3 and that of the second 11 to 2. Lawrence 8. Northwestern 8. On May 20, Lawrence University of Appleton played at Watertown, this being the first time Northwestern has met Lawrence in baseball. The game resulted in a tie and could not be played out as the visiting team had to make train connections. Lawrence scored two runs in the first inning on two errors and a hit, adding two runs in the fourth inning on a two-bagger and a single. They scored one run in each the eight and ninth inning. North western did not score until the fifth inning when an error, two base on balls and a single by North gave us two runs. We scored one run in the seventh on two singles and another in the eigth on a three-bagger and a single. In the ninth inning we had things our way. Heilmann’s single, Wovahn’s three bagger, Kumm’s single, and Hinnenthal’s two bagger gave us four runs and the score was tied. The lineup is as follows. N. W. U. A. B. R. H. P. 0. A. E. Lawrence., a. B. r. h. p. o. a. te, North 2b___ 5 I 2 I I I McKerl 3b__ 4 2 2 o o o Breutzmann ss. 5 o 2 1 o Wilcox If......... 5 1 1 1 00 Nieghornrf.... 5 o 000 Church p......... 4 3 1 1 o o Wendland c... 5 o 0 14 o o Otto c.............. 55 1 2 16 1 Ernst ib 00801 Volks ib.......... 4 00500 4 Heilmann If... 3 32000 Melia 2b.......... 5 o 1 1 02 Woyahn cf__ 4 o 2 o 1 Aller cf.......... 4 o o o 0 o Kumm p 2 o 3 Shroens ss....... 4 o 1 2 1 1 3 Hinnenthal 3b. 4 120 1 Wingender rf.. 4 1 1 1 o o Totals.. 38 8 10 27 6 5 Totals.. 39 8 9 27 4 4 Lawrence, .2022 o o 1 o 1—8 N. W. U. 0000 2 O I 4-8 Three base hits-North, Woyahn. Two base hits-Hinnenthal, McKerl. Solten bases-Heilmann, Kumm. Base on balls-off Kumm 2, of Church 2. Struck out byKumm, 12, by Church 16, Umpire-A. Baebenroth. 112

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We were defeated on May 21, by St. John’s Military Accademy. It was only a seven inning game, as St. John was late in arriving. Two baggers by McKoy, Hcilbrunner, and Wright in the fifth inning gave the visitors two runs. They added another in the sixth on an error, a single, and a base on balls.

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On May 28, our team went to Delafield and defeated St. John’s in a ten inning game. At the end of the eighth inning it looked as if we were going to be defeated, but we were not. By a batting rally in the tenth \ve managed to win out. St. John’s scored one run in the first inning and added four more m the fourth on two base on balls, an error, and three singles. In the eigth they succeeded in bringing in three scores and thereby took the lead. We scored three runs in the first inning and another in the second and added two more in the fourth and another in the sixth. In the ninth inning we tied the score and St.John’s was unable to score in their half of the ninth. Wc took a brace in the tenth. Five hits, an error and two base on balls gave us nine runs and the game. The lineup follows: St. John’s A. B. R, H. P, 0. A. E. A. B. K. H. P. O.A. E. n. w. r. 6 3 I 1 I O McKoy ib. North 2b... IO902 4 Vance....... 3*121 0 10 2 0 Hinnenthal 3b. 6 4 Wolverton 2b.. 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 2; Nieghorn rf__ 6 Macoy If 2IOOO I O Wendland c... 7 4 259 Hcilbrunner c. 5 2 I 15 O O O I Ernst ib. 7 * 4 *4 Johnson p 7 2 4 I O I 2 2 2 2 1 Kumni p 5 Wright cf 1 2 2 0 0 *3*00 Woyahn cf---- 6 5 Player 3b........ 2 I O O O I I O I O I Heilmann If... 6 Woods rf 0 0 10 0 2 2 I 2 Breutzmann ss. 5 3

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; Totals 36 4 4 24 7 5 Totals 39 8 15 27 9 7 0 .0 2 o—4 0 0 o o 2 Milton N. W. U........... .......................o o o. 41 o 3 o *—8 Three base hits—Kumm. Two base hits—North Hinnenthal I, Ernst. Robinson. Stolen bases—Woyahn, Heilmann. Base on'balls-^olf Kumm 1. off Plaer 1. Struck out by Kumm 8, by Plaer 9. Umpires—A. Baebenroth and Whitford.’ Whitewater Normal 3. Northwestern 0. Northwestern met its second defeat at Whitewater on June 4. The game was played on a grass diamond, something our boys are not accustomed to. The inability to hit at the proper time is probably the main cause of our de feat. Many of the balls batted out in the field would have been hits on any other diamond. The high grass prevented the ball from rolling, thus making it easy to put the runner out. Northwestern 5. Whitewater Normal 1. Whitewater came to Watertown on June 11 with theexpectation of heating us for the second time but did not succeed. They scored their only tally in the eighth inning on three clean singles. Two singlesand a stolen base gave us one score in the third inning, adding three more in the fourth on a three-bag ger, a single, a base on balls, and an error. We scored one more in the sixth on two singles and a base on balls. The line up follows: N. W. U. A. B. R. H. P. o. A. E*. Whitewater a. b. r. h. p. o. a k. North 2b....... Akin ss .. 4011 4 01330 5 3 Hinnenthal 3b. 4 0 2 2 10 Grenzow c 4 o 1 900 Nieghorn rf___ 4 0 0 0 0 0 Porter ib. 0 1900 4 Wendland c... 4 1 1920 Reese 3b.,___ 4 O 2 2 2 1 Ernst ib. 4 o o 12 1 o Krueger rf 00000 4 Kumm p i o i 6 o 4 Williamson 2I1. 3 0 o 1 1 1 Woyahn cf__ 4 1 2 0 0 0 Crew If... 0 12 0 0 3 Heilmann If... 4 210 0 0 Johnson cf 1 1 0 0 o 3 Breutzmann ss. 2 O O I I 2 Henkel p o o 01 o 3 Totals • 34 5 7 27 14 2 Totals 32 1 7 24 9 5 Whitewater o o o o o o o 1 o—1 o o N. W. U... I 30100 1 *--5 Three base hit—Wendland, Stolen bases—Woyahn, Heilmann. Base on’balls_ off Kumm o, off Henkel 2. Struck out—by Kumm 7, by Henkel 9. Umpires_A. Baebenroth and Schroeder.

Correspondence from the Seminary

The date of the close of the present school-year has been set on Thurs day, June 16, the day on which the final examinations of the graduates will take place. Thursday, May 26, the Seminary board met in Milwaukee and discussed the distribution of the calls of the graduates. Following is a list of the names of the graduates and their destination: A. Arendt, Dartford, Wis.; O. Engel, Eagle River; H. Haase, missionary at Ft. Apache, Arizona; A. Hocncckc, North Fond du Lac, Wis.; O. Keller, Bowdle, S. Dak.; H. Luebke, Surprise, Nebr.; W. Mahnke, Newburg, Wis.; H. Meyer, Eden Valley, Minn: H. Moussa, Winona, Minn.: A. Stock, Hartland, Wis.; Th. Thurow, Morton Grove, 111.; F. Zarling, St. Louis, Mich. Enrollment for 1904.

()f the 161 students enrolled this year, 6t are new students, of whom one entered the Sophomore Class, two the Freshman, two the Senior Preparatory, six the Middle Preparatory, thirty-three the Junior Preparatory, eleven the Sub-Junior Preparatory, and six figure as special students. As to residence titty-two come from Wisconsin, two each from Missouri, Minnesota and Nebraska, and one each from Ohio, Michigan and North Dakota. Of all the students present forty-nine are the sons of pastors. The parents (father or mother) of about thirty students attended our institution; fifteen students arc the descendents of alumni. As a remarkable fact we might chronicle that not a son of a Wisconsin parochial schoolteacher is found on our list, that there are, however, two sons of Missouri schoolteachers attending our school.

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—Fred Stem, ’o6, who discontinued his studies last fall, made a call on his friends and classmates on May 27 and 28. During the last winter lie taught school at Saline, Mich. —On April 30, Rev. Ph. Holzel, president of the Nebraska District of the Wisconsin Synod, died at Norfolk, Neb. On May 5> funeral services were held at Norfolk, Rev. Brauer of Hadar officiating. From there the re mains were taken to Watertown, Wis., and buried on Fridav. May 6. Rev. Ph. v. Rohr, president of the Wisconsin, conducted the services —Rev. Mayerhoff of Lynch, Neb., formerly missionary at Arizona, visited Gust We'sterhaus; 08, and E. A. Wendland, ’6, 011 May 6. —Rev. Habermann, who until now was pastor at Spring Valley, Wis., called on friends May 20, while on his journey to Germany. —Henry Hopp, '09, attended the funeral of his aunt, Miss Saeger, at Beaverdam, June 3. —Charley Baerwald, ’io, Ralph Owen, 05, Emil Lehrmann, ‘10 and Andrew Braemer, ’o7, made a trip to Hustisford on May 21. —Hermann Kresse, To attended the wedding of his brother at Milwaukee May 12. —Miss Lvdia Boeck from Milwaukee called on Alex. Jaeger, 08 on Wednes day, June 1. —On Tuesday May 31, Rev. Otto Kuhlow was married to Miss Amanda Krueger at Watertown. In the evening the N. W. U. Band serenaded the newly married couple with several selections. —Mrs. Grunwald of Fond du Lac visited her son Edwin, '09 on May 6. —Friedrich Kammholz, ’07 made a trip to Sauk City, May 21, to visit his sister. —Rev. Hermann Zimmermann and his wife of Chickering, Neb., made a call on friends May 31, while on his wedding trip. —Prof. Eickmann attended the funeral of his father-in-law at Fond du Lac May 18. —Ernest Heilmann, ’05, made a call on his uncle at Oconomowoc while re turning from Delafieid May 28. —Mr. William Eberhardt of Latrobe, Penn., visited Prof. Eickmann and family May 18-20. Mr. Eberhardt attended our institution in the begin ning of the eighties. —Adolph Pankow, ’09 spent Sunday, May 22, at the home of his parents at Waterloo. —Mr. Karl Jeske of Milwaukee made a call on his brother John, 'io, Mav 8. llS

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—William Eggert, ’09, discontinued his studies and returned to his home at Juneau on May 22. —Adolph Sauer, ’06, and Edwin Sauer, ’07 visited their parents at Juneau May 21-23. —Among those who attended the Annual Band and Orchestra Concert were: Rev. E. F. Dornfeld and wife, Miss Lorchen Gamm, and Miss Emma Gamm of Milwaukee, Gilbert Diestler of the University of Wisconsin, and Mrs. Sauer and Miss Olga Sauer of Juneau. —Cieorge Rickemann, ’08 visited his home at Helenville on May 23. —Mr. Fritz Kuchlow of Bay City, Mich., called on Henry Diehl, ’07 May 31. —Henry Diehl, ’07 and George Luedtke, ’07 were pleasantly entertained at the home of Rev. Klingmann on Sunday, June 5. —On Friday, May 20, the fourth Annual Concert was given by the N. W. U. Band and the N. W. U. Orchestra at the Turner Opera House. The programme consisted of several selections by the band and by the orchestra, a violin solo by Miss T. Bittner, a violin solo by E. Ph. Dornfeld, a baritone solo by E. A. Wendland, a trio by E. Ph. Dornfeld, violinist, Chr. Sauer, violincellist, and Edwin Sauer, Pianist, and several songs by the choir. All the selections were rendered very well. Especially the orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Alb. Kuhn, deserves special mention for its rendering of “Poet and Peasant” by Suppe. As second number “The Gypsy Baron” by Strauss was played. Of the solos the violin solo given by Ernest Dornfeld deserves special credit. The solos by Miss Bittner and E. Wendland were also rendered well. The band, directed by Prof. Bolle made a success of Eilenberg’s “Mill in the Forest” and of “The Calif of Bagdad" by Boldieu. The concert was a success in every respect. —On Wednesday, June 8, the N. W. U. Band went to Columbus to play at the school picnic given by the Lutheran congregation of that place. —On Wednesday afternoon. May 11. the band and the company marched to Juneau, although it threatened to rain. Thursday afternoon a shambattle was given at the City Park. For the evening Hon. Chr. Christiansen invited the band and the company to his spacious residence. The evening was pleasantly spent with vocal and instrumental music. The band enter tained everybody until late in the evening. Friday morning we marched back to Watertown. A jolly time is reported by all who were present. __Once more the old Liberty Bell is taken on exhibition through our glorious country. On the 5th of June it arrived at Watertown and was on ex hibition about ten minutes. A large crowd of people had gathered at the station about an hour before time. When it finally arrived it was saluted bv a volley, fired bv old veterans. Mayor Wertheimer of Watertown, made a'short address to’ which Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia responded. The bell itself was supported on a flat car built for the purpose. It was so arranged that the people could go on the car and get a nearer view of the bell. After a short stay the train again started out for the next station.

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“My Liberty Belle,” by Pads. The author relates some amusing anecdotes in this story. He says, that a bell rings but a belle has rings. The book is worth reading. “The Difference between Kneading and Needing Dough, by Rip A. Frenchy. The book contains many Latin quotations and the author is now writing a book of Latin phrases to make his first volumn fit for the public eve. All these books are published by the Fardle Book Company and may be had at very reasonable prices. During the year 1903, Hapgoods secured high grade positions in business and technical work for over 500 young college university and technical school graduates. Our campaign for 1904 is now in progress. More firms than ever are looking to us for capable gradua tes, and we wish to get in touch at once with every senior who is seeking a posi tion in business or technical work. Write nearest office for booklets. —Hapgoods, 309 Broadway, New York; Hartford Bldg.. Chicago; Pennsylvania Bldg., Philadelphia; Williamson Bldg, Cleveland; Pioneer Bldg., Seattle; Colorado Bldg., Washington; Minn. Loan & Trust Bldg, Minneapolis; Chemical Bldg., St. Louis; Park Bldg., Pittsburg.

DR. E. J. HOERMAININ DEINTIST Office Hours: 8.30 to 12 A. M.—1 to 6 P. M. Evenings and Sundays by Appointment.

Next to City Hall

DR. R. B. HOERMAININ Physician and Surgeon Specialist on diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN

NEW FURNITURE ® Embalmers and Funeral Directors NOWACK & KOHLS, Undertakers,

New Furniture assumes a special prominence. If you are no* satisfied with your furniture call on Nowack & Kohls, do Main street where you will see the most complete line in the city and the prices will surely please, as they will be found as low as the lowest. A large consignment of Couches, Rockers and Centre Table's, Dining Room Tables, Sideboards, Bed Ro om Sets and Iron Bedsteads in profusion in all the prevailing styles.

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H. C. HEYN BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY

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Dealer in MINNESOTA FLOUR 217 North Second Street

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J. Muth, Jr. & Co. BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS OF HOMEMADE CAKE 215 North Fourth Street, WATERTOWN, WIS.

Do You Smoke Cigars? Doa^ou want a mild, fragrant and sweet smoke? Ifso.geta

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Watertown Cycle Automobile Co. —AND—

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Watertown, Wisconsin, September, 1904.

LITERARY

Number 4

Theodrich der Grosse. Als Dietrich von Bern, in Sage unci Volksliccl hochbesungen, hat Theodorich, der grosstc deutschc Held zur Zeit der Volkerwanclerung, sich schon langst unserc Licbc und Bevvunclerung erworben. Aber abgesehen von allem Nimbus der Dichtung, ist der wahre, historischc Theodorich als Konig der Gotcn noch bewundernswerter. Kurtz nacli clem Untergang des Hunnenreichs finden wir die Ostgoten in Panonien ansassig. 1m Jahrc 454 machten die Hunnen einen Versuch, ihre Herrschaft iiber die Goten wieder zu behaupten. Aber sie wurden vollig gesclagen. Am Tage cles Siegs ward clem Konig Theudemir ein â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glukskindâ&#x20AC;? geboren, ein Sohn, den er Theodorich nannte. Was wir von seinent Lcben wissen, haben wir meistens clem gotischen Schriftstellcr Jordanes und clem griechischen Procopius zu verdanken. Als Theodorich sieben Jahre alt war, kam es zu einem Zerwurfnis zwischen den Goten und clem Kaiser zu Byzanz. Beim Friedensschluss verpflichtete sich jencr jahrlichen Tribut zu bezahlcn, aber zur Versicherung, class sie sein Reich in Ruhe lassen wurden, mussten sie dem Kaiser ihren Thronfolger als Geisel ausliefern. So kam clenn Theodorich nach der grossen Kaiserstadt Constantinopcl. Dort lemte er wahrend eines zehnjahrigen Aufenthalts die Ehrfurcht vor Civilisation und Bildung, die Liebe zu Gerechtigkeit und gutem Regiment, die ihn spater auszeichnen. Aber er blieb ein Gote. Kaum hatte der Kaiser ihn mit Geschenken iiberhauft seinem Vater zuriick gesandt, da unternahm er auf eigne Faust einen Feldzug. Ohne Wissen seines Vaters setzte er mit zehntausend ergebenen Kriegsleuten iiber die Donau und entriss den wilden Sarmaten die Stadt Singidunum, die sie dem Kaiser abgewonnen hatten. Aber statt sie dem Reiche wieder zu geben, behielt Theodorich sie fur sich. Um den rastlosen Goten zu willfahren, denen ihr Land zu armlich war, machte der Konig einen Einfall in die Provinzen des Kaiserreichs. Er zog mit zwei Heeren ein. Wahrend sein Vater, Theudemir, mit dem Riickhalt bei Naissus blieb, drang Theodorich bis nach Macedonien und Thessalien vor und belagerte die beriihmte Stadt Thessalonica, wohin ihm sein Vater dann

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folate. Zeno schloss schleunigst Frieden und bewilligte den Barbarcn als Heimat die fruchtbare Gegend um das acgeische Meer, die sie eben erobert batten. Sie Hessen sich aber in Skvthien nicdcr, westlich vom schwarzen Meere, wo sie zwolf Jahre lang wohnten und fast ununterbrochen, teils fiir den Kaiser, teils gegen ihn, Krieg fiibrten. Infolge des Todes seines Vaters, ward Theodorich alleiniger Konig im Alter von zwanzig Jahren. Fast kein anderer Regent hat im gleichen Jugendalter so grossc Feldzuge gliicklich durchgefiihrt und so glanzcnde Siege errungen. Um diese Zeit stand ein Afterkonig auf, Theodorich, Sohn des Trianus, von nicderiger Herkunft, nicht mit dem Geschlecht der koniglichen Amalungcn verwandt. Kaiser Zeno suchte die beiden gegeneinander auszuspiclen, indem er einmal diesen, einmal jcnen in seinen Dienst nahm. Als der Kaiser in Folge einer Emporung, aus Bvzanz fliehen musste, half ihm Theodorich den Thron zuriick zu gewinnen. Dafiir wurde ihm der Titel Patricius und das Amt eines Magister Militum verliehen. Nacli dem Tode seines Nebenbuhlers, schwankte Theodorich zwischcn seiner Neigung zum romischen Staat und seinem national-gotischen Gofuhl. Es kam zu mehreren kleinen Streitigkeiten. Um 484 lebte er mit hochster Ehrenauszeichnung als Consul in Coistantinopel, 486 lag or wieder mit dem Kaiser in Streit und verheerte alles in dcr Umgebung von Constantinopel. Doch wusste er, dass cine solche Lebensweisc seiner unwtirdig sei und horte auch ouf das Flehen seiner Goten. die mehr Land haben wollten. Da fasste er den Gedanken, er wollte Italien erobern, das ietzt der Fulmer einer Soldnerschar inne hattc. Nacli Jordanes bat er den Kaiser um EHaubnis, Italien zu erobern, und dieser ging freudig auf seinen Vorschlag ein, da durch Theodorichs Nahe dem Frieden seines eignen Reiches stcte Gefahr drohte. In einem vom Kaiser angestifteten Kriege hatte Odoaker die Rugier so sehr geschlagen, dass ihr junger Konig Friederich an den Hof Theodorichs fliichtete. Dies gab Theodorich noch besondere Veranlassung zum Kriege, da Friederich, wenn auch nicht verwandt, doch gut mit ihm befreuudet war. Im Spatherbst des Jahres 488 riistcte er die Goten fiir ihre letzte Wanderschaft. Es waren Hirer vierzigtausend Waffenfahige und zweihunderttausend Seelen. Es war ein grosses Wagnis mit angehendem Winter cine so grosse Rcise zu beginnen: schon fur ein Hec-r war das Unternehmen unratsam, aber fiir ein gauzes Volk, wo der Tross cine unlenkbare Gr.osse bekommt, erscheint es wahnsinnig. Dass Theodoricb es zum glacklichem Ausgang brachte ist ein ehrenvolles Zcugnis seines Genies. Es errinnert sehr an einen anderen grossen Feldherrn, der mit seinen Carthagem den Ubergang iiber die Alpen vollbrachte. Die Beschwerden der Reise waren so gross, dass das Heer-Volk erst im August des folgenden Jahres die sonnigen Gefilde Italiens erblickte. Am Isonzo trafen sie Odoaker, der ihnen mit einem grossen Heer den Weitermarsch verwehrte. Die Umstande begiinstigten Odoaker, aber der entschlossene Mut der Goten war allzumachtig fur den erschlafften Soldnerfiirsten.

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Vor ilirem Angriff zerstaubte sein Heer, und es war um Odoakers Heerscliaft geschehen. Doch cr liess die Hoffnung nicht fahren. Er befestigte sich in einer fast uncinnehmbaren Stellung zu Verona oder Bern. Aber Thcodorich war u.vcrzagt, er riistete sich wie zu einem letzten Kampfe. Wohl sch wank ten e st die Goten, aber als Theodorich mit seinem Gefolge drein selling, da war der Sieg gewiss. Tausende der Goten trankten mit ihrem Hint die italienische Erde, aber das feindliche Heer wurde verniebtet. Von dicsem entsclriedencn Sieg bekam Thcodorich den Namen Dietrich von Bern. Zu Mailand nahm er die Ergcbung vieler Anhanger Odoakers entgegen. Da bier Verschworungcn entstanden, machte er Ticinum zu seiner Residenz. Seine Slammesvcrwancllen, die Visigoten, leisteten ihm Hilfe in der Schlacht an der Addua, wo er zum drittenmal Odoaker gegen libers tan d, und er errang den Sieg. Der geschlagene Konig zcg sich nach Ravenna zuruck. In dieser uncinnehmbaren I fauptstadt trotzte er den Belagerern vier Jahre lang, bis ihn cndlich Hunger ur.d Pest zur Ergcbung zwangen. Durch Wmittlung dcs Erzbishofs kam man zum Vergleich, wonach dem besiegten Cireis kbniglichc Ehre zugestanden werden und er nominell Theodorichs Mitregent sein sollte. Der siegrciche Einzug fand statt unter feierl.cher Mitwirkung des katholischen Bishofs zum Beweis der Genehmigung der Kirchc. Eirige Wochen darnach geriet der Konig in Jahzorn und mit den Worten: wie du den meinen getan, so tu ich â&#x20AC;&#x2122;dir, erschlug er seinen fruheren Gegner. Bisher wap Thcodorich Wablkonig der Goten gewesen, mm war er Nachfolger der west-nmischen Kaiser, und als soldier nahm er das Diadem und die kriiiiglick.cn Tn. ignicn, die Odoaker 476 nach Byzanz gesandt hatte, von Kaiser Anastasius in Empfang. Er biess Konig der Goten und Italiker und war cin gewaltiger Herr, doch fibtc er scire Befugnisse mit Massigung aus. Um die Italiker zu beschwichtigen, erkannte er die Oberhoheit des Kaisers an. Er liofFte cin dauerendes Reich zu grunden, in dem die Romanen den Erwerbstand, die Goten den Wehrstand bilden und beide mit gleichen Rechten, friedlich nebeneinandcr leben sollten. Darum fiihrte cr kÂť*ine Neue~ungen ein, sondern liess die Verfassung wie sie vorher war. Romanische Beamte, die ihm den Treueid leisteten. behielt er in seinem Dienst. Odoakers Kanzler Liberius wurde aucli sein Kanzler und machte sich verdient bei dep Verteilung der Lander. Denn ein Drittel des Landes wurde den Goten eingeraumt. Die Romanen waren vom Kriegsdienst frei, dngegen brauchten die Goten keine Steuer auf ihre Giiter zu zahlen. Des Konig's Gefolge wurde mit besonders grossen Gutern ausgestattet und bildete mit den reicheren Romanen den Stand der Grossgrundbesitzer. Der romische Senat behielt sein Ansehen, aber war nicht so viel eine beratende Behorde als vielmehr eine Versammlung koniglicher Beamten. In seinem Hofrat hatte der Konig sowohk Romanen als Goten. Einer seiner vornehmsten Berater, der ihm viele Jahre diente, war Cassio-

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dor. Em hochbcgabter, ccller Romer, widmete er sich gar.z dcm Interesse Theodorichs. lhre treue Freundschaft ist beiden ein Ehrenzeugnis. Cassiodor schrieb eine Geschichte der Vorfahren 1 heodorichs, in der er si.: mit dem Sagenkreis der Trojanischen Kriege verknupfte und zu beweisen suchtc, dass die Romanen und Goten in vorhistoriscber Zeit verwandt waren. Das Zeugnis der modernen Forschung zeigt, dass Cassiodor garnicht so selir irrie und die Ahnen der Deutschen und der Romer wirklicb verwandt waren. Im Jalire 500 besuchte Theodorich Rom. Der Anblick der Stadt Caesars bewcgte ihn selir. Nachdem er in der Kirche St. Petri andachtig und ”wic ein Katholik" gebetet, hielt er einen Triumphzug in die "Ewigc Stadt.” begriisst vom Jubel des Volkes. Er Hess Geld und Getreide verteilen und prachtige Circusspiele auffuhren. Walirscheinlich erliess er auch bier sein beriiluntes Edictum Theodorici, worin er seines Untertanen ihre Reclilc und Privilegien erteiltc. Es deckt fast das gauze Gebiet der Gesetzc und enthalt viele gute Anordnungen. Theodorich hatte grosse Achtung vor den Denkmalcrn des Altertums und bemuhte sich sie zu erhalten. Er Hess die bcruhmte Strasse, die \ ia Appia, die grossen Wasserleitungen und die Cloaken oder Abzugskanalc neu bauen und begann die pomptinischen Siimpfe auszutroknen. Er nahm sich sehr der Mannor- und Bronzestatuen an. Er setzte einen hohen Preis auf die Yerhaftung jedes Statuenraubers, und dock, konnte er nicht der Habsucht u :d dem Vandalismus steuern. Spaterc Geschlechter haben unwissend den Ye' lust von Kunstgegcnstanden den Goten zugerechtnet, abcr die Schuld ruht auf ihren eigenen ins Barbarentum zuruckgesunkenen, romanischen \7orfahren. Wiewohl Theodorich selbst ein ungeschulter Mann war, der kaum seinen eignen Namen schreiben konnte, schatzte er doch Bildung und Gelehrsamkeit. Philosophen und Gclehrte wurden stcts am Hofe geehrt und lebten auf Kosten des Konigs. Unter seiner Pflege gelangten Handel und Verkehr zu einer Bliite sondcrgleichen. Kaufleute aller Nationen wurden zu seinen Untertanen, denn als solchc fuhlten sie sich vor feindlichen Alignffen sicher. Theodorichs Kriegsschiffe besorgten die Polizei auf dem Meere Mit Zuversicht konnte man grosse Summen Geldes transportieren, denn Raub wurde so bestraft, dass er selten vo^kam. Procopius srgt seine Gerechtigkeit ward von alien bewundert. Goten wurden rach ih-en herkomtnlichen Gesetzen gerichtet. die Romanen aber genossen romisches Recht. Streitigkeiten zwischen Mannem verschiedenei Nationalitat schlichtete ein besonderes Gericht. Kcin Gote durfte eincm Romanen ein unreclit tun. Auch die Tuden erfreuten sich seines Schutzes. Hetzerei strafte er ganz unoarteiish. Procopius bezeugte, er sei ein Srh**ccken aller seiner Feinde. aber die Herzen seiner Untertanen waren von Schme-z erfullt iiber seinen Yerlust. Theodorich gewahrte alien Untertanen vollige religiose Freiheit. \Yar er selber Arianer, so suchte er doch nicht den Arianismus auf Kostei des Katholizismus zu fordern, sondern bchandclte die katholischen Romanen

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mit grosstcr Rucksicht. Die Kirche genoss seinen besondern Schutz, Wahrend des fiinf und dreissig Jahrigen Schisma, infolge (lessen der Papst die ostliclic Kirche cxcommunicicrte war Konig Theodorich die einzige Stiitze des Papstums, denn der Kaiser unterstutzte die Griechen. Die rcchtglaubige Kirche musste beim Arianer Zuflucht nebmen. Dine weitschaucndc auswartige Politik trieb Tbeodoricb in dem Streben, ein Mittelmeersystem germaniseber Reicbe zu grunden. Er sab ein, dass iiberall die Deutschen Eroberer wegen ibrer geringen Zahl verloren gehen wiirden in den Massen der Romancn, wenn niebt die neugegriindeten Reicbe in einen festen Zusammenbang gebraebt wiirden. So scbloss cr mebrere Vertriige mit anderen Gcrmanen und befestigte sic durcb Hciratsbiindnisse. Er selb't vermahlte sicli mit der Scbvvester Cblodowecbs, des Frankenkonigs. Alaricb. Konig der Visigoten und Sigismund, Konig dcr Burgunden wurden seine Scbwicgcrsobne. Seine Scbwester gab er dem Vandalenkonig zur (iaitin. und dcren Tocbter fiihrte der Thuringerfurst Hermanfried beim. So bildelen die 1 lerrseber allcr Gcrmanenreicbe cine Familie, an deren Spitzc der ebrenwiirdige Tbeodoricb stand. F.r schicn sein Ziel erreicht zu baben. Abcr die Eroberungssucht seines Sell wagers, Cblodowccb, war zu gross, als dass der Bu id hatie Bestand baben kdnncn. Tbeodoricb musste wicderbolt gegen ihn eiuschreiten, urn andere Bundesgenossen zu schutzcn, namcntlich Allemanen, Burgunden und \ isigoten. Cblodowecb sebien sogar mit dem Kaiser gegen Tbeodoricb im Bund zu steben. Gcrade als der grosse Gotcnkonig des Biindnisses bedurfte, wurde es gelost. lm Jabre 519 war das Zcrwiirfnis zwischen Rom und Constantinopel beseitigt. Nun konnte der Papst die Hilfe des Konigs entbebren. In den tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;olgcnden Jabren trat der religiose und nationale Gegensatz zwischen den beiden X'dlkern scharf bervor. Die Romancn hassten ibre Herrcn als Ketzer und verachteten sic als Barbarcn. Bisber batten die Kaiser den Arianern Glaubensfreiheit gestattet, nun aber begann plotzlicb Justinian sic zu verfolgen, arianisebe Kircben in katbolisebe umzuwandeln und ibre Biscbofe zu verbannen. Tbeodoricb. der sicb stets aller Feindseligkeit entbalten batte, war schwer erzurnt und drobte, sicb zu riicben. Er sandte don greisen Papst Johannes unwillig nach Constantinopel, 11m bei dem Kaiser Einsoruch zu tun. Er wurde mit holier Ebre dort empfangen. Ftir Theodoricb war es ein Febler die beiden Erzfeinde des Amianismus zuzammen zubringen. Tohannes ausserte in Bezug auf Tbeodoricb pflichtwidrige Wunscbe, so dass er bei seiner Riickkebr vom erziirnten Konig ins Gefangniss geworfen wurde, wo cr kurz darauf starb. Von alien Katboliken ward der Panst als ein Martyrer verehrt. Auch gegen den Senat wurde Theodorich mistrauiseb. Es kam an den Tag, dass mebrere Senatoren, darunter aucb Boethius, der Yorsitzer des Senats, sich in veraterischern Verhandlungen mit Bvzanz eingelassen batte. Vom Konig vor den Senat gestellt, fand dieser sie des Hochverrats scbuldig. Boethius, dcr letzte Romer, samt seinem Schwiegervater

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Symmachus wurdeii hingericlitet. Auch unter den Goten herrschte Unzufriedenheit. T heodorichs Hoffnung, eine Dynastic zu grunden, ging nicht in Erfullung, er hatie kcinen Solin'. Seine’Tochter Amalswinta vcrriet eine Starke romanische lVdenz. Ihr Gemahl, Eutarich, der ihre Neigungen in Schranken gehalten hatte, war jung gestorben. Ihren Anhangern standen die deutschgesinnten Adcligen schroff gegeniiber. .. . Enter diesen triiben Umstanden verlebte der ruhmvollc Konig seine letzten Jabre. Die grossen Plane, die er so geschickt begonnen und so erfolgreicb weitergefuhrt, fielen mit seinem Hinscheiden bin. Niedergcschlagen und des Lebens satt verschied er den dreissigsten August 526, naclulcm er seinen Enkel Athalarich zum Nachfolger ernannt hatte. Der Versuch, zwei so verschiedene Elemente, wie Romancn und Goten, in der Zeit eines Menschenalters zu verschmelzen, musste mislingen, da hinsichtlicti ibrer Religion und Bildung eine uniiberbruckbare Kluft die bculen Volker trennte. In der ganzen Weltgescbicbte finden wir keinen Hclden-Konig, der in einer so triiben Zeit so edle Gerccbtigkeit und Religionsfreiheit walten Hess. In einem Alter, da audere Germanen nocb kein Verwandschaftsgefahl empfanden, und zum Spott der Romer einander bckampften, vertrat Tbeodnricb R. A. O. 05. der Grosse die Sadie dcs Gcsanitdcutscbtums.

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The question, "Shall senators be chosen by popular vote,” has been the subject of much political discussion for some years. As American citizens, it demands our investigation and earnest consideration. No doubt both meth ods of election have some undesirable features, but in regard to the new plan it is for us to determine whether its advantages outweigh its disadvantages, and whether its adoption will be an improvement on the present method. But why advocate such a radical charge? Why are we not satisfied with the old manner of electing senators? Surely, it must have been wisely conceived, for the framers of our constitution benefited by the experience* of all governren^s in the past. It was with a perfect appreciation of the fact that to establish justice and order a system of checks is necessary in a government that our venerable forefathers considered the various plans proposed for the election of senators. In accordance with this understanding, they decided that tin less numerous branch of our legislature be differently constituted from the House of Representatives: and that its members be chosen to rep-e ent equal stn^s, since then only would it act as an effectual check on the other house, representing different interests.

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Can anybody assert that such an arrangement of checks and counterpoises as was here so wisely provided for would be unnecessary in a republican form of government like our own, when examples of hasty legislation in Congress arc of frequent occurrence? Perhaps this glorious union of ours and the liberties we enjoy would have passed away were it not for the fact that the senate represents different interests than the lower house of our legislature, and that as a result it has often exerted a conservative influence in the enactment of laws. (hir knowledge of the organization of the state legislatures ought to convince us that the adoption of the established mode of election was a wise measure. The law-making bodies of our states arc composed of the best elements of our population; the members received their offices because they were con sidered the men most versed in public affairs: and it is for this very reason that the state legislatures are the most fit body of people for choosing sen ators, and not the people at large, who are easily deluded by demagogues, and the great mass of whom are entirely unfamiliar with state affairs. 1 f, then, the present plan is the best which could have been adopted, why • is this change advocated? Has not the established mode of electing senators worked successfully? Let us see: The senate has often saved our country from harm by preventing the hasty and pernicious legislation which the lower house proposed: it has fully met the expectations of those who founded it; it has succeeded, by its comparative independence of popular election, in acting as a conservative element in cur government, and by having used its influence carefully and wisely, on the whole, it ha permitted our nation, which once consisted of thirteen timid little states, to gain in strength, size, and resources, so that now it is a glorious republic of forty-five states, with vast possession-, and respected by all the civilized world. This wonderful development would certainly not have been possible; the result would have been far different had not the senate, just as the governor of an engine gives to it a steady, unchanging velocity, secured to the nation a uniform, powerful development. Other facts than the one that the senate has often protected us against objectionable tendencies go to show that the old plan of election has worked well. The senate has generally been composed of wise and efficient men. It has always performed its functions well. The famous audio** on political science. Prof. Brvce, in speaking of the U. S. Senate, says: "The senate has undoubtedly always shown greater capacity for managing th? miblic business than the House, and it has won the respect, if not the affections, of the people by its sustained intellectual power.” Let us consider what the effects of this proposed innovation would be: Briefly stated, the new arrangement would be unfavorable to good gov ernment. The senate would be deprived of its conservative character, the nation’s only safeguard against the unconsidered and extravagant projects of the multitude. It is a good maxim to let well enough alone. Already

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many wild and impractical ideas fill the air. Were we to reconstruct our constitution now the excitement and agitation attending it might attain so high a pitch that the republic itself would be endangered. But let us suppose the change had been safely made, would our public welfare then be unimperiled? Far from it. The members of our state legislatures are chosen by districts, and. since senators are elected by the state legislatures, it is evident that the influence of the people in the elections of senators is equally distributed. To-day a small majority in one district is as important as a large one in another. But if the districts are all united, under popular election, the influence of the large cities will preponderate. As they often have large majorities, twenty majorities in the rural districts could often be counterbalanced by one in the city districts. And as these centers of population are usually the hotbeds of political fallacies, this influence would be most injurious. For we should be likely to send to the senate a man not only inefficient, but also an unprin cipled demagogue, the choice, not of the whole state, but of the large cities. We have now seen that the old method of electing V. S. senators has been wisely conceived, that it has worked successfully, and, finally, that the adoption of the proposed plan would tend to destroy the stability of our government. It is true that there are grains of evil in the established method, but nevertheless let us cling to the arrangement which has permitted our nation to meet with more than a century of unprecedented success: and, just as in the past, let us in the future trust in this time-honored institu: ion a it was given to us by a Franklin, a Madison, a Hamilton, and a Washington, rather than resort to an untried device and imperil the welfare of our glorious republic bv— “A wild dedication of ourselves To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

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We have come together again for another school year. A great number of the faces are still familiar to us. but some of them are not. Of the latter there is an unusually large number. We see many more new faces than we have seen in previous years. This is beneficial not only to our institution, but also to the different societies and organizations at our school. We expect to have a larger company of cadets than we have had for many vears. The band will also increase in membership. All our new friends ought to join one or the other of these organizations, since they afford recre ation and also help to make them acquainted with each other and the older students. This will also keep them from thinking about home or getting an attack of the so-called homesickness. Those who have attended college for several years ought to stir up the youngsters when they see them affected with this sickness and drive away their thoughts of home. It will only be a »4»

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few weeks and they will feci as much at home as the other boys. The best thing we can do is' to make them feel at home and hi them know they are living among friends and will be treated as such. If our readers did not find an athletic column in our paper last fall it was became football had been prohibited. Everybody can imagine what sad news this was for lovers of the game. But as sad as the news was lastfall, so joyous was it this fall when we were informed that the dear old gamewa • again restored. The "pigskin" will again be seen living across the field and the rooters will have a chance to exercise their vocal organs to give our Northwestern nnys encouragement. We can, however, hardly expect to have a winning team. To be put out of practice one year means a great deal. We had just gotten a fair start in football when we were stopped. Now we must begin over again. Only a few of the old players are with us, and consequently a team will have to be made up of raw material. ThU means that nothing but very hard and steady practice will put us in a position to line u > aga nsl our former rivals. Yet these difficulties are not the only ones Oat we have to contend with. It has nearly always been the case at the X. \\ . > that the team had to fight its own way without the assistance of a coach. \\ e are not able to hire a coach. Every one knows the difference 1 *twe m a coached and an uncoached team. This duty now devolve on the ca it am, who sometimes also can render good services in this direction. With the support of all the boys and by daily practice we nevertheless hope to make this an interesting football season for us and for our rivals. Football.

Muensterberg’s About ten years ago Prof. Hugo Munsterberg was called “Die from the University of Freiburg, in Breisgau, to teach psyAmerikaner.” chology at Harvard. ITe came, however, not with the intention of remaining here, but to return to Europe in a few years. Although he brought with him all the prejudices of a German professor, he soon found that their judgment was not based on exnerie cc, and. in many cases, wrong. Within a few years his interest in the Americans and their work and ideas became so great that he decided to remain at the university, in hopes to create a better mutual feeling between the Germans and the Americans. Ir. his “ American Traits," which scon was widely known, he severely criticises American and highly praises German culture. Hav'r g Buis ac quainted the New World with the good ideas and habits of the Old. he wrote a new book, “The American;.," in which he endeavors to persuade his countrymen to a better opinion of the Yankee. His description is not entirely optimistic. He points out the good''characteristics of the average American, the merits of bis system of government and schools, and the like. It is better, he writes, that party spirit exi ts than that there be but one who neglects the weal of bis country; it is better to refrain from aristocratic luxury than that any one be prevented from striving at some higher object.

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If lie occasionally rebukes some idea or habit, they are usually excused, as no country or person can be perfect. Although he admits that mo:t news papers contain long articles on politics which are tiresome to read, he pro nounces the editor (Zeitungsmann) a man on whose discretion every one may depend. As one cause of the misunderstanding between Germany and America he stales the fact that judgment is often based on minor incidents and ap pearances, and not on experience and study of the opponent. Judging from his own experience lie says: To earn money is a pleasure to the American, to possess it he is not much tempted. He works, not to support himself, but for the sake of work. If he has abundant riches he spends them in laudable charity. The American's harsh judgment of the German, “nach oben servil, nach unten brutal,” is due only to his ignorance of the true German, and would undoubtedly be changed on better acquaintance, and for this purpose he wrote his works. The book is especially interesting to us, as he speaks not only of the American, but of the American compared with the German. From the introduction alone the reader may sec how great the difference is between the customs of these nations, and how easily minor, insignificant things may give rise to ill feelings. What Docs it Since we are still at the beginning of a new school year, it Mean to would seem not altogether amiss to inquire into the mean Stndy7 ing of study. If we were to ask the different students of a college what they understand by studying, we should undoubtedly receive a variety of answers. There are some who believe they are doing justice to their work if they prepare themselves enough to slip through their classes. These people, however, lose sight of the fact that their study is not for the brief time of one recitation, but for their whole life. Again we find another class of students who, if we were to judge by appearances, would seem to be doing their duty. We find these very people poring over their books for hours and hours so that they ought to know their lessons perfectly. Still we often find that they have not half accomplished their lessons. How is this strange fact to be explained ? Many will evidently be inclined to say that these people are dull. In some cases this may be true. Yet in the majority of cases it is not so much due to the stupidity of these people as to their lack of concentration. Concentration is essential to all successful study. We must become so thoroughly absorbed in our study that nothing is capable of attracting our mind from our work. If this is borne in mind, we may look forth to satisfactory results from our study. It is the boast of our times that the dark age, when Universal Peace, and he keeps who can,” has passed. True, we live in “might makes right,” when “he takes who has the power,

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comparatively civil security and safety. Lawlessness is severely dealt with the robber-knight has become merely a name. It u an age of law and order. Our legal provisions extend even to the welfare of animals. Indeed, we are verv scrupulous in our treatment of the dumb creature. *Nav. our refinement has led to absurdities. We have become more considerate of animals than of our fellow-men. What an appalling contrast looms up it we compare this humanitarianism with our war methods. More men are killed in a single battle than formerly in an entire war. A general bent on victory is utterly regardless of lives. In recent wars, such as the American Civil, the Franco-Prussian, and the Russo-Japanese, men are mowed down like swaths of grass. The carnage is awful. The combatants seldom come within speaking distance. Personal valor is ol no account. Against the execution of the long-distance, rapid-firing guns mortal strength avails nothing. War has"degenerated into a butchery on a colossal scale. It has lost its noble charac'er of fighting for God and right. NaV, more: it has reverted to the principle that might makes right. It is an employment not for men. but for. demons. A soldier, is to stand and cither to kill or be killed by machine.. The individual is merely a pawn. When knighthood was still a reality men met and closed in mortal combat, as champions of the helpless and innocent. They brought all their valor to bear and trusted in God to decide the right. To-day wars are instigated with ulterior views, to further avarice and commercial greed. A disastrous trade is forced on a people, natural wealth is a glittering prize. The Hear, who has more territory than he can stretch his claws over, still covets some of his helpless neighbor’s, the Dragon’s, possessions. Only the mighty can lay claim to rights, for weak nations they do not exist. Is it not a scathing satire of our age that the apostle of universal peace is guilty of such aggressions, that a small island kingdom must interfere for its own preservation and in behalf of the world chastise him? We cry, “peace, peace,’’ but there is none. The powers assembled at The Hague con ference are like snarling wolves, ready to snap at each other. Milton’s words to a statesman of his time he our earnest admonition to the striving, ambitious diplomatists of the present: “Oh, yet a nobler task awaits thv hand: For wha| can War but endless War still breed Till Truth and Right from Violence be freed?” In virtue of his superior endowment with the incomparable gift of intel ligence, man, in settling controversies, should not resort to the means of the brute. All Christian nations should endeavor to wipe out this last taint of barbarism and strive to inaugurate the era of universal peace. Would that the day might be at hand when the Prince of Pence really begins his reign, and strife shall be banished from the earth. Then ‘hell the psalmist’s words, “Behold how good and pleasant it is if brethren dwell together in unity,” apply to nations. Then shall be realized the message of Bethlehem, “Peace on earth, good will to men.”

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—Miss Wendland of Chicago made a call on her nephew, Elmer Bell, u, on September 6. c —Rev. Gerhard Hinnenthal of Black Creek visited the institution on Sep tember 14. . . —Roland Pieper, ’io, made a trip to Juneau on September 10 to visit his uncle, Mr. Indemiuehle. —Ewald Motzkus, ’to, discontinued his studies on September 5. —Walter Haase, ?o6, and Martin Haase, ’11, visited their parents at Ixonia on Sunday, September 11. —Dr. Notz excused some of his classes on account of illness on Friday, \ September 9 and on Saturday, September 10. ■d—An unusually large number of students entered our institution this year, so that the dormitory and the dining hall are overcrowded. About fit icon are quartered at private residences in the neighborhood. At this writing the entire enrollment of the students has reached the number of 181. More are arriving daily. —Karl Fehrmann, *n, made a call on his uncle, Mr. August Fehrmann, near Watertown, on September 11. —Rev. Thrun of Bay City, Mich., called on Henry Diehl, 07, on September 8. —Mr. Hoffmann of Jefferson, probably better known as Hans Bmchbauer, visited'the institution on September 5. He accompanied the Jefferson band, of which he is leader, to Watertown to furnish the music at the Labor-day picnic. —Miss Bertha Diehl of Bay City, Mich., called on her brother Henry, ’07, and on friends during the first week in September. On September 2 she visited recitations of the Senior and Junior classes. —Mr. Weissbrod, director of the institution for epileptic children, spent the evening of September 10 with Prof. Eickmann. —Martin Raasch, ’03, who took a one year’s course at the University of Nebraska, shook hands with former schoolmates while on his way to the Seminary at Wauwatosa. —Rev. Klingmann, pastor of the Ev. Luth. St. Mark's church, made a trip to Milwaukee on Monday, September 5. —Rev. Prof. Eickmann delivered a sermon at the Ev. Luth. St. John’s church on Sunday, September 4. —Friedrich Krammholz, 07, exchanged a few words with friends while passing through Watertown on his way to Springfield, 111,, where he ex pects to attend the Ev. Luth. Seminary. —Adolph Baebenroth, ’04, visited his brother Edwin, ’10, on September 7. He expects to enter Harvard University this fall, where he will take a course in the English language. 146

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—Rev. Haase of Ixonia called on his sons Walter, ’o6, and Martin, Ti. September 6. —On Sunday, September 4 the members of the Watertown club celebrated their annual homecoming in the city of Watertown. Large crowds of people from all parts of the state and from neighboring states were present. Bach’s famous band of Milwaukee rendered some choice music, which was enjoyed by everybody. —Rudolph Ernst, ’04, has accepted a position as teacher at Saline, Mich. At present he is instructing the lower classes in place of Prof. William Notz, who has still charge of his congregation at Philadelphia, Pa. —Owing to the large number of students, it was necessary to put more scats into several of the classrooms. —During the vacation Dr. Ott and Prof. Eickmann exchanged residences, —John Abelmann, ’05, George Luedtkc, ’07, Henry Diehle, *07, John Schindchette, ’10, and George Leser, To. were pleasantly entertained at the home of Rev. Klingmann on Sunday, September 4. —Fred De Wald of Chicago, who attended our institution a number of years ago, has returned to college. —Edmund Pdiefcrnicht, ’03, who occupied the position as teacher in Colum bus for the past year, entered the Seminary at Wauwatosa. —Reinhold Hinncnthal, ’07, Edward Hinnenthal, ’07. and August Bartz, ’06. discontinued studies and will take a course at the Ev. Luth. Seminary at Springfield, 111. —Rev. Prof. I foyer officiated at the mission festival in Barrc Mills on Sun day, August 21. —William Man they, formerly a member of the class of ’05, now teacher at New London. Wis., called on friends and classmates on August 31. —On Sunday, September 11 the Ev. Luth. St. Mark’s church celebrated its annual mission festival. In the forenoon Rev. Prof. Eickmann offi ciated. The sermon in the afternoon was delivered by Rev. Vogel .of Jefferson. In the evening Rev. Spiering of New London conducted the services in the English language. —Albert Miller of La Crosse called on friends on September 14. —Rev. Buenger of Kenosha visited recitations on September 12. —News has reached us that August Paap, formerly member of the class of '05. is filling the position as pastor at Sanborn, N. Y. —Dr. Hoermann preached at Lake Mills on Sundav, September a. —Rev. Chr. Sauer of Juneau visited his sons Adolf, ’06, and Edwin, 07, on Monday, September 5. —Karl Koehler, ’03, of Wauwatosa called on college friends on Sunday, September 4. —John Dames of Ixonia, a former member of the class of ’06, shook hands with college friends September 4. —Ernst Heilmann, ’05, and Adolf Pankow, ’09, paid a visit to relatives at Ixonia on September 10.

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—Hugo Anhalt, 'to, accompanied the Jefferson band to Oconomowoc on September 8. —Frank Sprain, 08. went to his home at I,a Crosse on September 10 to attend the wedding of his sister. —Alex. Zuchlke, ’09, attended the funeral of his grandfather, Mr. Schley, at Juneau on September 3. —Alex. Jaeger, ?o8, is taking a course at the Dr. Martin Luther College at New Ulm, Minn. —Mrs. Louis Miller of La Crosse made a call on Arnold Sprehn, '08. and William Kroner, ’io, on Sunday, September 10. —Miss Margarete Hartwig. formerly of the class of '07, called on her brother Henry, '09, on August 30 and 31. while on her way to Ashland, Ky. —In a mass meeting on Saturday, September 4 Fred Stern, 07, and Edwin Sauer, 07, were elected as members of the Athletic Board in place of John Abelmann, ’05, and Ernst Heilmann, 05, whose terms expired with the last semester. —Miss Elsa Baebenroth and Miss Clara Norenberg of Milwaukee visited recitations of the senior and junior classes on September 2. —Ernst Lange, formerly of the class of ’05, called on friends and classmates September 1. He is at present attending college at Ft. Wayne. Ind. —Mr. and Mrs. Harthun of Milwaukee made a call on their son Paul, ’it, on September 4.

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—Fritz Aster believes that infidel is the negative of fiddle. —Newcomer: “Who is the fellow-that got laid out forever?” —Prof.: “What is the meaning of the prosyllable Mac?” Scog glcs: “Mike.” —Sextaner (seeing a magnetic hammer): “Look at the magnificent ham mer!” —Prof.: “What is the name of the first newspaper published?” Pupil: “The Chronicles of Ibicus.” —Scoggles reports that he tried to wear out his world-famous corduroys during the vacation by sliding down haystacks, climbing trees, but with out success. This may be the first time Lord Scoggles tried to slide, but, as we all know, he was long before famous for giving the slides. —There was quite an excitement on the first day of our arrival. A rat, the size of which would have tempted a Chinaman, was seen near the band stand. (It has not yet been decided whether the rat was musically in clined or whether it looked for peanut shells.) Instantly a squad of vol unteers, under the command of Motz Butchkus, ventured to make chase. The rat made a brave attempt to escape, but, alas! the poor beast was surrounded, and, after being trodden upon by various heavyweights, it expired amid the triumphant yells of its pursuers. Finally it was suspended from a tree by its tail as a warning to all other rodents that trespason our grounds.

During the year 1903, I-Iapgoods secured high grade positions in business and technical work for over 500 young college university and technical school graduates. Our campaign for 1904 is now in progress. More firms than ever are looking to us for capable graduates, and we wish.to get in touch at once with every senior who is seeking a posi tion in business or technical work. .Write nearest office for booklets. —Hapgoods, 309 Broadway, New York; Hartford Bldg., Chicago; Pennsylvania Bldg., Philadelphia; Williamson Bldg , Cleveland; Pio neer Bldg., Sea Jc; Colorado Bldg., Washington; Minn. Loan & Trust Bldg, Minneapolis; Chemical Bldg., St. Louis; Park Bldg., Pittsburg.

DR. E. J. HOERMANN DSINTIST Okfk m Hours: 8.30 to 12 A. M.—1 to6 P. M. Evenings and Sundays hv Appointment.

Next to City Hall

DR. R. B. HOERMANN Physician and

Surgeon

Specialist on diseases of the eye, ear, nase, and throat. WATI5RTOWN. WISCONSIN New Furniture assumes a special prominence. W you are not satisfied with vour furniture call cn Nowack & Kolds, 10 Main s*rcet where you will see the most comiilete line in the cilv and the prices will surely please, as they will he found as low as the lowest. A large consignment of Couches. Rockers and Centre Tallies, Dining Room I aides, Sideh-*ards, Bed Room Sets and I run Bedsteads in profusion in all llu prevailing styles.

HEW FURNITURE © nowack & kohls,

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Is Next to Postoffice. Everything Pure, Fresh and Up-to-Date.

A LARGE LINE OF CIGARS. £59"Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited.

J. Muth, Jr.& Co. BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS OF HOMEMADE CAKE 215 North Fourth Street, ■■

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U). D. Sproesser €0. Jewelers * *

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"Sea Rose" Ask your dealer. NEUMANN & KRUEGER 119 North Second Street

For Style, Fit

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Leo210RuescITs Shoes West Main

PIANOS AND ORGANS Telephone No. 84-1.

213 Main Street.

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STALLMANN BROS. GROCERS

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Wiggenhorn Bros. BADGER STATE or LATEST OUT CIGAR of all kinds in Season. Good tilings to eat. JOHN E. HEISMANN

FRUITS

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Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose, and Throat A Specialty.

OFFICE HOURS:— 8:80 to II a. 111. 2 to 4 p. in. After G Evenings.

DR. J M SCHLEICHER.. 102 Main Street, Watertown, Wis. Residence 212 North Washington Street. Telephone luo.

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An Unfortunate Oversight j If the clerk who waited upon yo u recently failed to call your attention to our stock of CLOTHING we feel that a certain injustice was done your interests. Perhaps there is yet time.

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Fruits, Staple and Fancy Groceries.

H. C. HEYN BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY

Dealer in MINNESOTA FLOUR 217 North Second Street

WATERTOWN,

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SEAGER’S

Oarber Shop and Datb Rooms 108 MAIN STREET

AH goods delivered promptly to all parts of the city free of charge.

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mm. 0. Pritzlaff $ Co. 313 Main Street Over Gruetzmacher’s Store,

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i Has taught that THE BEST is ALWAYS CHEAPEST, g £ Therefore in (‘quipping your BAND, ORCHESTRA, or buying a & \ SOLO INSTRUMENT for yourself select one made by C. Q. CONN, Elkhart, Indiana, $ As they represent the greatest worth obtainable. ■? Their Tone is Strong, Clear and Far' Reaching. * Their Tune Sweet, Soft and Pure. § Their Mechanism Strong and Reliable. Their Models Artistic and pleasing. f For full particulars, description, terras of payment, cash or installment plan Address, C. G. CONN, Elkhart, Indiana.

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Dealers and Repairers of

Bicycles and Automobiles

Superior Chocolates Bitter Sweets, all flavors. Crushed Fruits, all flavors.

New Bicycles From $15.00 Up

Ice Cream served at all times. Orders by gallon, quart or brick delivered to any part of the city. 107 W. Main St.,

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AUG. WIGGENHORN JEWELER 13 Main Street.

Sundries and Extras Kept in Stock, Also

PHONOGRAPHS AN RECORDS ELECTRIC SUPPLIES AND GAS SPECIALTIES HANTELS, ETC. Agents for the Victor Air Light, "the bright light." NO. C- I MAIN STKF.F.T

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RicbardhBetbRe mu$lc%iWish to announce that they have just received a complete supply of strings. We carry all grades and get a new supply every month, thus enabling us to keep a fresh supply on hand all the time. We make a special ty of SPECIAL TESTED STRINGS,

which we offer at greatly reduced prices to students.

£o11eat$£!a$$ Pennants with Initials of College or Class Number, made of cateen. F**lt or Silk Any Color or Combination of Colors.

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Watertown, Wisconsin, October, 1904.

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Our Outing. For three successive years my two friends. Martell, Klein, and I had made trips to one of the many beautiful lakes in northern Wisconsin. Our main object was recreation, but we also hoped to gain experience, and a knowledge of the woods and lakes by doing our own cooking and washing for two weeks, and exploring the country round about in search of game and fish. We had many interesting adventures on these trips, but the one J am about to relate was the most thrilling of all. We had planned to leave for the woods about the middle of August, so we began our preparations a week before the time of our departure. As we could boast of experience in this line, we knew exactly what we should need, and for this reason the preparations went on without undue excite ment. In a few days everything was ready to be shipped to the same place at which we had camped during the previous summer, but a friend who had just come from there informed us that hunting and fishing were unusually poor at the old camping place that season, so we decided to go somewhere else. Martell suggested a place about five miles from his old home, where there was a fine place for camping; and there we determined to go without delay. Our outfit was shipped ahead of us to an insignificant station, and it was at this place that we descended from the train on the morning of the 16 of August. For a small amount a drayman offered to transport us with our outfit to the camping place, which was but a few miles away. At noon we arrived at the camp, and our first dinner necessarily con sisted of canned goods, as did the next few meals, because the camp had to be built and there was no time for hunting or fishing. After a day of hard and steady work, our tent was pitched and all our goods stored away in it. The next question was where to get fish and game, because one gets tired of canned goods in a very short time. The next morning Klein and I took our guns and rods and set out in search of game. Very little to

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shoot was seen, but after a few hours of tramping we came upon a fine stream, clear as crystal and abounding in brook trout, as we soon discovered. About a mile funner on we saw’ an old track leading up to the top of a high and steep hill; but, as it was growing late, we thought it better to return to camp and come back the next day to examine the old side-track. Martell had been left behind to prepare supper, so as soon as we got back we ate our supper, After the dishes were washed we built a fire outside and amused ourselves by telling stories. Early next morning all three of us left camp to find out what the old side-track was like and where it led to. Following it up the hill, we found it to be in fairly good condition; and about half way up Klein saw a handcar half buried in the grass beside the track. It was somewhat broken, but could still be used; so after a great deal of pushing we at last got it to the top, for we intended to go down the track on the car. At the top of the hill was an abandoned lumber camp, and it was to this place that the side track led. In a small woods near by game was found in abundance, ami this woods was chosen as our hunting ground. Towards noon we went slowly down the track, using our feet for brakes to keep the car from going at too great a speed, for if it once got a start we should not be able to stop it at the place opposite our tent. This mode of traveling worked well, and the ease of returning to camp fully compensated for the work of pushing lin ear uphill. Every day after this we pushed the car up, shot as much game as we needed, and returned by rail at a moderate speed. But one day, as we were at the lumber camp, clouds, black as ink, with lightning shooting through them, were driven up at a great speed from the west. Jumping on the car, we pushed off and let it go at full speed down the grade, so as to get back to camp before the rain came on. Too late we tried to check the fearful speed at which we were now going; all attempts were in vain, lin ear could not be stopped. A short distance beyond our usual stopping place was a sharp curve, and only a miracle could keep the car on the rails should we strike it at such a speed. Shortly before we reached the curve. Klein jumped from the car, and was thrown violently to the ground, where he lay motionless. In the next instant we struck the curve. The car swayed to one side, hung on two wheels for an instant, and then crashed over ihe bank alongside the track. Martell and I were thrown off, and we rolled over and over down the bank. Martell struck the stump of a tree, which brought him suddenly to a stop. I reached the bottom, covered with bruises, but I soon found there were no bones broken, With some difficultv 1 walked over to Martell, and, just as I reached him, large drops of rain began to patter on the leaves. Soon the rain came down in sheets, obscuring everything, so that I could barely sec thirty feet ahead. Martell, who was only stunned, soon regained consciousness, as the rain drenched him from head to foot. Half carrying the injured boy, 1 struggled up the bank to

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the track, and together we stumbled along until we found Klein sitting on a rail, nursing a sprained ankle and a large lump on the side of his head. He could not walk, so we carried him to camp through the pouring rain. Since 1 was the least injured of the three, as soon as Klein was made com fortable 1 struck oil through the woods to the nearest farmer to get a wagon, for without a wagon we could never get Klein to the station and procure the services of a doctor for him. The farmer, a good-hearted man, at once hitched his best horse to a light wagon and drove to camp with me to get my two friends. By this time it had stopped raining, and this made it much easier to get Klein to the station. After the doctor had attended to the ankle, Martell, with Klein in his care, boarded the next train for home, while T remained behind to have our outfit brought to the station and sent after them. The next day I at tended to this, and before night of the same day I was also on my way home. Martell and I were as well as ever in a few days, but it was some lime before Klein was aide to be around. It is needless to say that we had a very hard time getting permission from cur parents to go on another trip the next summer. We went many times after that, but that particular expedition was remembered and talked of many times. E. I<„ ’08.

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The English language lias been charged with being a "leveler” by some good and earnest people. They aver that it is so easily picked up that an uneducated immi grant soon speaks as well as a native, and especially that the ordinary lan guage of a college man in the street or on the campus does not differ from that of a factory hand. The charge is not entirely ungrounded. In some languages, such as the German, which is quite inflected, the uneducated man is betrayed at once by the mistakes. Such is not the case in English, but, albeit that outward signs do not make the linguist, yet he can be found out. Many may have a superficial knowledge of the language, but very few command it. The truth is that college men often use “slang” and colloquialisms with English Idiom.

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an abandon worthy of a chimney-sweep, which is greatly to be deplored. Language emanates from and is a part of the soul. Man's inner life, his mode of thinking, are reflected in his language. Hence we cannot be too careful in the choice of our expressions, as deficiencies in them indicate a parallel shortage in the intellect. It is an easy matter to study grammatical forms compared with the study of idiomatic usage. This must be culled from the masterworks of our language, a slow process, to say the least. It requires constant reading of the standard authors and practice in our daily conversation. We must learn to use the idiom as well as understand it. ’‘Slang” is unworthy of a college man. We should not stoop to appear on the same footing with the unlettered. We need not be pedants, but we should endeavor to speak on all occasions a choice English, which shall be aesthetically pure and idiomatic. To do the right thing at the right time is something nearly beyond our power. In fact, to be able always to do the right is impossible. Yet it can be done to a cer tain extent. It. however, requires a mind capable of seeing things as they are; it requires judgment and instantaneous action in one case and deter mination in another. Action in cases of emergency belongs to the first class; here time is no question and only action necessary. It is at such times when cool reasoning is an absolute necessity if the result shall prove satis factory. But this is more easily said than done, as experience no doubt has taught us. We continually hear some one say: “Had I only done that." We see our mistakes too late. It is so in any occupation whatever, even in a football game. Many a football game would end far differently if the captain always knew what play would bring the largest gain. Yet I say there are people who are gifted with a mind that will act when action is necessary. We might call it heroism when an actor, through his good judgment, avoids a catastrophe in a theatre, or we might call it bravery when a fireman leaps into the flames to save a life. Nevertheless, both ac tions are deeds that require judgment and action. It is possible for every body to acquire more or less talent in this direction by observation. But it is not always that we have to act at the spur of the moment. In most cases we have time to weigh and consider. Often we are also told what to do and when to do it. as, for instance, at college. We know that we must do our duty every day. We know that a good foundation in every branch of study is necessary. This means study from the beginning. We know that, if we master the beginning, the rest will be but half as hard. We also know that, if we study diligently in the preparatory department, the work for the rest of our course will be a pleasure. If, therefore, we study hard from the beginning, we are doing the right thing at the right time. We know this, and yet how many of us do it? Only those will do it who The Right Thing at the R.ight Time

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know why they study, who have determination, concentration and love for study. Speech is a divine power bestowed upon man. It is one of the attributes of man that distinguish him from the Oratory. brute beast. It is through the medium of speech that man is able to communicate his thoughts to his fellow beings. Through the power of speech man has brought about great revolutions, wars have been caused and the yokes of tyrants have been forever broken. That style of speech by means of which we seek to move the minds of our hearers is generally termed oratory. Since the aim of oratory is to incite people to action or to convince them of a certain fact, it is very evident that the orator must speak with reference to his audience or he will never effect his purpose. At the present day we often hear the assertion that oratory has declined in our advanced stage of civilization. This assertion, we believe, is not without some truth. Our age is too practical for anything in this line. We do not take time enough to cultivate oratory. But, you will say, what is the use of laying stress on anything of this kind, if we have no occasion to use it? This is just the point we should like to disprove. People talk ol' a glorious union, of a country free from corruption and dissension. If many of our citizens should open their eyes a little, they would not be laboring under such false impressions. Our government is by no means free from corruption. A Demosthenes or a Cicero would not be a superfluous ele ment in our great union. We are much in need of men who will take it upon themselves to effect a radical change in many departments of our gov ernment; we are in need of men who are capable of settling the differences between capital and labor. There are indeed enough causes that demand great national orators. It would not be altogether out of the way if our people should convince themselves of this fact and exert themselves a little more in this direction.

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Suggestions for Social Amusements. (Continued from the June Number.) | It gives me great pleasure to announce to the Alumni that 1 have succeeded, by constant and persistent solicitations, to induce Mr. Cii. L. C. to send in his continuation of the article begun in the June number. Mr. Ch. L. C. does not see why he should be the only one to contribute to the Alumni column; neither do I. But I can safely promise that another continua tion will follow in December or so; the fact is, I have cut the present continuation in two and stored the second part away in my shelf. This will account for the brevity of this month’s O. HAGEDORN. c or. t intuition. Chairman of the Literary Committee.] The only possible general plan for a young people's social gathering is the following: I ) An hour or less of conversation. II ) A short literary and musical programme (ad libitum). III) Luncheon or supper. IV) Games. After the guests have arrived, they should at first be given a chance to e xercise their conversational powers. This ordeal should not last above an hour, unless it develops into something really entertaining, which is rarely the case. Very often a half hour will convince the guests that something must be done for entertainment. The M. C. (Master of Ceremonies, not Member of Congress) should make good use of this time in establishing his authority and preparing his plans for the rest of the evening. W hen the company appears sufficiently humiliated) by the futility of their conversational efforts, the M. C. will find them ready for a short literary or musical programme. People study music and literature not only for their own edification (or torment), but also for that of others, and if there are any in the company who are able, or consider themselves able, to furnish entertainment of this kind, they should be called upon at this point, by a".! means. It is a pity that the majority of our young people never stop to look at the wonderful gems of poetry and song lying by the wayside, and a great deal might be done by their parents, spiritual guardians, and friend's, to culti vate their taste for this purest and highest of all enjoyments: to breathe and live in the realm of thought. If the literary and musical programme rendered at a young people's gathering contains real music and real literature and is rendered in such a manner as to interest and benefit the audience, the M. C. may congratulate himself, although even a poor and tedious programme will be a relief after the conversational exercises. But it should be remembered that there must be no cajoling. The M. C. should have the matter entirely 167

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in his own hands and simply announce that Mr. X or Miss \ will now render this or that, whereupon Mr. X or Miss Y should immediately step forth and do as they are bidden. Luncheon or supper will now be in order. 1 his is absolutely and.unquali fiedly indispensable. In answer to some more or less noted scientists, who have questioned the advisability of eating at 9:30 1\ M., or who have even pronounced this custom a downright nuisance, 1 can only say: So much the worse for science. We common people do not eat and drink for the purely mechanical purpose of keeping our physical being in working order. We eat and drink primarily for enjoyment and for the quickening of the spirit. After the guests have taxed their conversational faculties and patiently submitted to a literary and musical programme, they are entitled to a luncheon, if not a full supper. This should not be omitted, nor too long delayed. If the meal be taken at the table in the dining-room, the guests should enter in an orderly procession, which should be arranged by the M. C.., in order to avoid embarassment or delay. Extemporaneous speeches during and after the meal should not he solicited, and, in most cases, not even tolerated. The rest of the evening is chiefly devoted to games. Games are even more indispensable than the luncheon. If there are any young men or girK who do not find enjoyment in playing a good game, they should, marry and join the ranks of the old people. Now, what is a good society game? 1 think, if some of our great think ers and writers had used a little of their time and energy in thinking and writing on this question, they would have been of more use to the world than by deliberating and expatiating on other questions of sociology. 1)n the comic page of a magazine 1 once read an illustrated description of a visit in a lunatic asylum. The visitor was shown the various practical purposes for which the unfortunate inmates were being used; some were used as tailors, some as cobblers, etc.; and when they reached the room in which the worst cases were confined, sitting about and staring into space, the guide explained to the questioning visitor that these patients, being unfit for anything else, were inventing parlor-games for young folks. It was a pitiful joke, hut verv much to the point. Our great lumina break their heads about ’the Whatnes’s of the Whereat or the Thisness of That, and consider it below their dignity to bother with such irrelevant questions as this one; and if we would not go to the above-mentioned source for enlightenment, some of us lesser limits must make an attempt to solve it. (To be continued.)

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To show fully the development of an author’s genius it would he neces sary to point out each particular writer in the study of whom his talents took new shapes. However, since this requires much time and space, we shall coniine ourselves to an exposition of Dickens’s genius as seen in his Pickwick Papers, and then, by way of comparison between ibis and a later work, we choose .Martin l huzziewit, to show the development during the period be tween the dates of their publication. At the outset we must hear in mind that Dickens was chiefly a humorist, whose prime object in writing Pickwick Papers was to amuse his readers. \\ e set this down, for, in entering on a criticism of a work of literary art, our judgment must depend greatly on the purpose the author had in view. A work of literary art will he meritorious only in so far as this purpose is fulfilled. Considered as a series of humorous sketches, then, Pickwick Papers are quite unequaled in English literature; as a novel, however, they have many obvious faults. Pickwick Papers do not give us a panoramic view of English society. The author's knowledge of his people was evidently restricted to the lower and middle classes; among them he lived, moved, and had his being. There he observed people at their work, their plays and festivities; noted master and servant, tradesman and idler, men and women of all vocations; copied their traits and peculiarities, and then transplanted them from life into fiction. 11 is picture of life, however, is far from true. Dickens is a humorist, and. to serve his purpose, he distorts every portrait by his quaint figures of si leech, lifts men and women into a world of the grotesque. Although his characters are individualized to a certain extent, they move, nevertheless, elnsely on the borderland of the type figure. Thus Pickwick is the philan thropist, Sam Weller the servant. Jingle the imposter, and Winkle the beau. There is no deep psychological analysis of motives and character; all of Dickens's men and women in Pickwick Papers arc but a compound of exter nal mannerisms. As such we may expect the characters to be rather station ary, development there is little or none at all. Besides, they do not appear to he of one piece; it is entirely inconsistent with Pickwick’s character that he should he given to excessive drinking or to performing silly pranks. But again we must be reminded that Dickens is a humorist, hence his people must appear extremely odd ; they must grin and leer, nod their heads and tap their heels together in a most absurd manner; Pickwick must perform spec tacular feats on the ice. or go on a hunting excursion in a wheelbarrow. If the description of gesture and mannerism is detailed and grotesque, that of figure and dress is none the less so. The characters are usually clothed in a dirty and worn attire; if not shabby, it is as motley as that of any clown. Put these on a red-headed, oily-faced, red-nosed, grinning, oneeyed, fat, or bonv man and the caricature is complete. Dickens’s faculty for finding suggestive epithets, in fact, is something wonderful. Despite this external grotesqueness and disgusting appearance, there is

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still a human touch beneath the outer crust which commands our sympathy. We may smile at Pickwick's simplicity, laugh at his droll adventures, never theless we love his genial nature. And then who is not pleased with Sam Weller? His ready wit, his acute observations and almost limitless resources make him our favorite from start to finish. No less humorous and interesting are the incidents of Pickwick Papers. Every situation has something new and unexpected. The reader falls out of one surprise into another. True, many, yes most of the incidents, verge closely on the improbable,—to mention only the duel between Dr. Slammer and Mr. Winkle,—still there is so much infectious humor and good-natured fun in them that we overlook the defect and wonder what is coming next. There may be too much drinking, too great a propensity to break one an other’s head; but who could not enjoy a hearty laugh over Mr. Pott’s be laboring his rival journalist, or Air. Weller’s ducking the Rev. Stiggin inti) a horse-trough ? There is no closely knit plot; but it is doubtful whether the book could be improved, on the contrary, I believe it would lose some of its best quali ties if a greater unity were attained. This freedom was necessary to spring those varied and surprising incidents on the reader. The lengthy episodes, on the other hand, like the Stroller’s Tale, The Convict’s Return, and others, though not without merit in themselves, might well have been omitted. Let us turn to Martin Chuzzlcwit and make our comparison. Dickens's humor, we find, has lost much of its sympathetic nature. Instead, we have a satire running into fierce invective against avarice and hypocrisy. In the portrayal of life and characters Dickens has again taken bis sub jects from the lower and middle classes of society; tradesmen, professional men and idlers. They, too, are somewhat overdrawn, Pecksniff and Mrs. Gamp, in fact, are but a bundle of absurdities; in general, however, the ten dency to draw a caricature is less pronounced. The whole picture takes on a saner aspect; men and women act and speak more like ordinary people, and besides, are more consistent. There is a far more profound analysis of motives and character; beside external mannerisms we have a more detailed description of the inner life of the dramatis personae. This is especially true of Jonas Chuzzlcwit. When first we meet him, he is the cold, calculating business man: soon, how ever, his greed for money goads him on from crime to crime, until, in a frenzy of despair, he ends his life on his way to prison. Martin Chuzzlcwit. too, under sundry influences grows less selfish, and Tom Pinch more selfassertive. Externally the characters, both in dress and figure, present to us the same uncouth appearance as those of Pickiwck Papers. What could be more hideous than such a description: “He is the most hideous goggle-eyed creature . . . the ugliest, awkwardest. frightfullest being in existence”? The incidents are related in a racy and flowing style, full oi new imagerv, which renders them quite as interesting as those of Pickwick Papers; on the

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other hand, a marked lack of talent in describing the involvement of feeling is noticeable. The big bow-wow strain, as Scott called it, he can do like any one going; but he has neither tact nor talent for rendering scenes of a more delicate nature interesting. His mind has become a machine for turning out jokes; he must be facetious even when he means to be serious. He can describe a rattle like Jingle eloping with Miss ITardlc to perfection, for here lie is in his proper element, humor and satire; but, again, he could have written nothing more absurd than the chapter relating to the love-scene between Ruth Pinch and John YVestlock. Throughout the novel a greater unity is maintained. Irrelevant matter there certainly is; the whole of Chapter I. with parts of others, might have been omitted and the story improved; still, here we have a definite plot. It is lengthy and tedious, full of descriptive details, which impede the action and weary the reader; but it is an organized whole, and in so far superior to Pickwick Papers. Another advance over the latter is found in the excellence of the de scriptions. They are fuller, more detailed and vivid, although there is no greater selection of beauty; beautiful forms and fine colors did not appeal to Dickens’s imagination. More so natural phenomena; they seem to carry him away into outbursts almost poetic. Nothing could be more vivid than his description of the autumn leaves chasing on before the wind, the ship out on the surging sea, or best of all, the storm. Dickens frequently uses description for a dramatic background, and with no little success; at times all nature seems to reflect the mood of his characters. In Pickwick Papers, description is hardly used for any other purpose than comic effect. It might appear from all that has been said that what had been gained in Martin Chuzzlewit in unity, realistic effect, and vividness of description, had been lost in the author’s chief quality, humor; but we need only be re minded that Mrs. Gamp, the disreputable workhouse nurse, haunted by the imaginary Mrs. Harris, is Dickens’s supreme achievement in humor. PROF. H. FRANK.

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Protokoll

der Jahresversammliuig des Alumni-Vereins der Northwestern University zu Vvatcrtown, YVis., gchalten am Nachmittage des Aktus-Tages, den 21. Juni, 1904, in der Aula der Anstalt. In Abwesenheit des Prasidenten, Prof. Kohler von Wauwatosa, eroflfnelc der erste Vice-Prasident, Past. A. Babenroth von Milwaukee, die \ ersammlung durch Absingung eines religiosen Licdes und (lurch ein Gebet. Als anwesend ergaben sich die folgenden Herren: die Professoren Kuhn, Frank, Dr. Ott, Dr. Hormann; die Pastoren A. Babenroth, W. Huth, C). Magedorn, Bottcher, Sonnemann, Chr. Sauer; die Studenten M. Notz und W. Liibke von der U. W. in Madison und K. Kohler von Wauwatosa. Die diesjiihrigcn Abiturienten der Anstalt wurden in corpore zu Mitgliedern des Vereins aufgenommen, namlich die Herren: R. E. Ave-Lallemant, A. C. Babenroth, E. Ph. Dornfeld, R. H. Ernst, F. E. Kosanke, C. J. Sauer and C. J. Verges. Nach Verlesung des Protokolls der vorigen Yersammlung ging der Verein zu der Yerhandlung folgendcr geschaftlichcr Angelegenheiten iiber. Der Bericht des Komitces iiber Mitgliedschaft wurde verlesen und ztir Beratung entgegengenommen. 1m Anschluss an denselben fasste der Verein den Beschluss, diesc Angelegenheit noch cinmal an dassclbe Komittee zur weiteren Beratung zu verweisen. Darauf icgte der Schatzmeister des Vereins, Herr Prof. Dr. Ott, seinen Bericht ab, aus welchem hervorging, dass der Kassenbestand die Summe von einlumdert und neunundachtzig Dollars und funfundsiebenzig Cents ($189.75) betragt. Die Pastoren W. 11 nth und Sonnemann wurden ernannt, um die Bucher des Schatzmeisters zu revidieren. Nach geschehener Revision berichtete dieses Komi tee, dass die Bucher sich in Ordnung befinden. Professor Kuhn, der Chronist des Vereins, stattete den amtlichen Bericht ab, dass im Laufe des Jahres zwei Mitglicder des Vereins durch den 'Pod abgerufen worden seien, namlich die Herren W. Schoknecht (1899) l,,u^ G. Sprengling (1900). Der Verein ehrte das Andenken dieser Entschlafenen durch Aufstehen. Das Litterarische Komitee berichtete iiber seine Tatigkcit wahrend des verflossenen Jahres und wurde durch Beschluss zu fernerer eifriger Arbeit wahrend des kommenden Jahres aufgemuntert. Die Wahl der Beamten ergab folgendes Resultat: President, Prof. KohÂ ler ; erster Vice-Prasident, Past. A. Babenroth; zweiter Vice-Prasident, W. F. Weimar; Schatzmeister, Prof. Dr. Ott; Corresp. Sekrctar, Past W. Notz, Prot. Sekretar, Past Chr. Sauer; Chronist, Prof. Kuhn.

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Ilierauf wurdc der Tatsche Erwahnung getan, dass dcr Vcrein in dieser Versammlung das 25jahrige Jubilaum seines Besteliens feire, und obwohl zur Bcgehung dieses hochwichtigen Ereignisscs keine eigentlichc Vorbereitungen getroffen waren so bcscbloss doch der Vcrein, urn einigermassen die hohe Bedcutimg dessclben in vviirdiger YVeise zu betatigen, dass von VereinsMitteln der Anstalts-Bibliothek ein monumentalcs YVerk zum Geschenk gemacht wcrdc, namlich das sogen â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Engliscb Dictionaryâ&#x20AC;? von Murray. Dcm Komitce zur Anschaffung wisscnschaftlicher Apparate fur die Anstalt von Vereins wegcn wurdc diese Angclegcnheit zur Besorgung, in Verbindung mit Prof. Dr. Ott. ubergeben. Als ncucs Mitglied dieses Komitees nn Stelle des nach New Ulm berufen Prof. Meyer wurde Prof. Kuhn ernannt. Das Komitce besteht also jetzt aus den Pastoren Chr. Sauer, W. 11utli und Prof. Kuhn. Xachdem noch Pastor Babenroth iibcr die seiner Zeit vom Verein beschlossene Anschaflfung eines Grabdenkmals fiir den verstorbenen Hcrrn Prof. E. A. Xotz, sowie iibcr die ebcnfalls beschlosscnc Bcsorgiing eines Geschenkes fiir Hcrrn Prof. Dr. Honccke aus Anlass seines 25jahrigen Amtsjubilaums, lierichtet liattc, erfolgtc Vertagung mit Gebet. CHR. SAUER, Sekr.

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October. The clays of gold have come upon the hills. And dreamy sunshine all the brown earth fills With plumes of scarlet nodding ’mong the pines And trees of crimson burning 'long the lines Of woods whose fields so green and quiet run And catch the mellow light of hazy sun And speak of clover mown and labor done. —J. Hazard Iiartsell. The world puts on its robes of glory now, The very flowers are tinged with deeper dyes; The waves are bluer, and the angels pitch Their shining tents along the sunset skies. —Albert Leighton. Along the river's summer walk The withered tufts of asters nod ; And trembling on its arid stalk The hoar plume of the golden rod. And on a ground of sombre fir And azure tinted juniper The silver birch its buds of purple shows And scarlet berries tell where bloomed the sweet wild-rose. —Whittier.

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The Central Collegian contains the opening address of the president of the college, which is of interest to college-folk in general. Laying stress on the value of a college education for every manner of man, whatever his future vocation may be, he adduces figures of U. S. census statistics. “Of 7852 persons having gained more than local notoriety 5768 have received college training, 4810 are graduates. Thus a college education increases a hoy’s chances nine times above those of a high school bov, gives him 219 times the chances of a common-school hoy, and more than 800 times the chance of the untrained.” The Spectator begins the new year under favorable auspices. “Casting Shadows” is the subject of a well bethought contribution. Men cast shadows upon others' lives, that is they exert an influence over them. Whether this is to be for good or for evil, depends on the individual’s character. Some men such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, greatly influenced posterity. Greatly have Webster’s noble words molded the character of the American people. Mighty was the effect of Luther’s life and work upon the world’s religion, society, and government.

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At the beginning of the season prospects for a good team were not very bright, as only three of the old players returned; namely, Breutzmann, Wendland, and Mueller. But suitable men were found to fill out the other posi tions. Through the energetic work of Captain Wendland it was made pos sible to develop a swift team, of which we may justly feel proud. OSHKOSH NORMAL o—N. W. U. 5. On Saturday, Oct. 1, the first game of the season was played against (Jshkosh Normal, at Oshkosh. We went to Oshkosh with the expectation of being beaten. But when Kumm kicked off to the Normal’s ten-yard line and they failed to make their gain things looked rather favorable for us. W'oyalm and Breutzmann made several runs, bringing the ball near the opponents’ goal. Then W'oyalm made a cross buck for a touchdown. Breutzmnnn failed to kick goal. During the rest of the half the ball was mostly in the middle of the field, changing hands repeatedly. During the second half the ball was again in the middle of the field. Toward the end it was carried to Northwestern’s ten-yard line. But the Normals fumbled and 1 i n.- was up. Score, 5—o in Northwestern’s favor. Kumm, AVoyalm, and Wendland were the stars for Northwestern and Daanc and Jones for the Normals. WAYLAND ACADEMY o—N. W. U. 36. ()n C )ct. 8 our team won its second victory from Wayland Academy on our home grounds by a score of 36—o. Although Wayland claims to have a better team than they had in the last five years, they were powerless against Northwestern. Kumm kicked off* to Wayland’s twenty-five-yard line. But they failed to gain and were forced to punt. After several cross bucks and end runs W’oyalm made the first touchdown. Breutzmann kicked goal. Motzkus kicked oft*, striking Wayland’s goal post. Wayland lost the ball on downs. Mueller and Woyahn carried the ball around Wayland’s end and Breutzmann made the second touchdown. Goal was again kicked. Motzkus kicked oft* to Wayland’s five-yard line. Wayland made their gains for the first time, but fumbled. Wendland made a twentv-five-yard run. Mueller and Breutzmann made several gains and Woyahn made a touchdown on a short end play. Goal was kicked. Time was called. Score, 18—o, in Northwestern’s favor. In the second half Wayland kicked off*, the ball going out of bounds. Sauer and Woyahn carried the ball through tackles for gain and Whyte made a sixty-fivc-yard run on a quarterback play for a touchdown. Goal >77

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was kicked. Motzkus kicked off to Wavland’s ten-yard line. Wayland lost the ball on downs. Whyte made a twenty-yard run and Kunim bucked the line for a touchdown. Goal was kicked. Motzkus kicked off over Wayland’s goal line. They punted out from the twenty-five-yard line. Mueller advanced the ball fifteen yards and Wendland made a ten-yard run. Woyahn and Sauer carried the ball near the goal line and Mueller made a touchdown on a tackle play. Goal was kicked. Motzkus kicked oft'. Wayland gained several times on guard back play. Time was called. Score, 36—o, in Northwestern’s favor. LINEUP AND SUMMARY. Position. N. IF. U. Wayland. Wendland (Capt.) ......................L. E..................... Brasfield .. ................ Mueller ......................L. T..................... Kemply .., .............. Motzkus .....................L. G..................... Hunt ___ ............ Eickmann C Payne . .R. G.. Hildebrant ..................... Berg Ravelin .. ..R. T... ................... Sauer ..R. E.. Webb .... .............. Kowalke ............... Woyahn R. H. B. Marshall . ............ Breutzmanu .L. H. B Austin ........... Gallenbeck ..q. n.. ................... Whyte Keagen (Capt.) F. B ................. Kunim Touchdowns—Woyahn, 2: Kunim, 1; Breutzmanu, 1 : Whyte, 1 : Muel ler, i. Goals—Breutzmanu, 6. Referee—Stern, of N. W. I’. Umpire—La Rue, of Wayland. Linesmen—Zeisler and Jefferis. Timekeepers—Abelmann and Korn. Time of halves—Twenty and fifteen minutes. Time of game—68:18 minutes.

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—Rev. G, W. Albrecht of Ridgeville called on his son Theodore, ’07, Sep tember 26. —Paul Marthnn, Ti, went to Milwaukee on October 8, to attend the wedding of his cousin, Miss Volkniann. —Rev. C. F. Dornfeld of Milwaukee called on Fred Loepcrt, To, and John Jeskc, To, September 26. —Rev. Jul. Gamin of La Crosses visited Leonard Zcislcr, To, September 29. —Miss Lila Jlartluin of Milwaukee made a friendly call on her brother Paul, Tr, September 16. —Rev. iiergmann of Milwaukee made a call on his son Paul, ’09, September 29.

Rev. O. 11. Koch of Columbus paid his son Otto ,’09, a short visit on Sep tember 29. — Pn>!'. W in. Xotz arrived here on September 30 and commenced teaching on Monday, October 3. —Rev. \ug. Ucrgmann of Milton visited PI. Schneider, ’08, and Plerm. Klingb’el, ’ll, September 29. —Rev. Paul Kionka of Kellener$villc called on his son Edward, To, Sep tember 29. —Henry Hartwig, ’09, and Ph. Koehler, ’09, made a trip to Plustisford on September 18. —Rev. Schroeder of Augusta called on his son Victor, To, and on Gust. Gerth, T2, September 30. —Rev. Henry Gieschen of Wonewoc made a call on his son, Henry, Septem ber 29. —Charley Baerwald, To, spent Sunday, October 2, at the home of his parents at Plustisford. —Rev. Ernest Mayerhoff of Wonewoc visited William Lutz, To, Septem ber 29. —Rev. Kirchner of Lowel called on his son Herbert, To, September 28. —Henry Gieschen went to Marshall to meet his father on Sunday, Septem ber 18. —Rev. Dowidat of Oshkosh called on H. Plollender, Ti, September 28. —On Sunday, September 25, John Abelmann, ’05, Fritz Brenner, ’05, Alwin Rohlfing, ’06, Frank Fischer, '06, Arnold Eickmann, ’06, Walter Haase, ’06, John Nieghom, ’07, and Martin Haase. Ti, went to Ixonia to be pres ent at the mission festival. Sunday evening they were pleasantly enter tained at the home of Rev. Plaase.

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—Rev. Schley of Montello called on his son Gotthold. 09, September 28. —Prof. Ernst and Prof. Eickmann attended the conference at Jefferson, which was in session on September 27-29. —Rev. Ph. von Rohr visited his son Adolph, Jo6, September 28. —Wilhelm Wadzinski, ’09, and Gotthold Schley, ’09. spent Sunday Sep tember 11 at the home of John Dames at Ixonia. —Rev. Chr. Sauer of Juneau called on his sons Adolf, ’06, and Edwin, 07, September 27. —-Joseph Krupsack, Ti, paid his parents at Lebanon a short visit October 2. —Edward Zell, '08, went to Mayvillc September 24 to attend the wedding1 of his sister. —Erwin Bittner, formerly of the class of 07, is now employed at Gamm's drugstore. —Mrs. Anger and daughter Elsa of Milwaukee called on Hcnrv Anger, '07. September 14. —Miss M. Kortebein, Miss L. Ruhnkc, and the Misses Augusta and Anna Breutzmann of Milwaukee called on Reinhold Breutzmann, 05, and were present at company drill September 30. —Adolf Sauer, ’06, and Edwin Sauer, ’07, spent Sunday, September 25, at the home of their parents at Juneau. —Ernst Heilmann, ’05, and Adolph Pankow, '09, visited relatives at Ixonia, October 2. —Rev. and Mrs. Pankow of Waterloo called on their son Adolph, ’co. Sep tember 28. —The band and the orchestra decided to give a musical entertainment while the synod is in session here on November 1. —Rev. Chr. Probst of Hartford visited his son Sigmund, '09, September 28. —George Rickemann, ’08, was called to Milwaukee on account of the severe illness of his mother September 24. On the following day the sad news reached us of her. sudden death. The remains were taken to Helenville, where the funeral services took place on Wednesday, September 28. —Adolph Ledcrcr of Barron called on his brother Rudolph, 'to, Septem ber 28. —Rev. William Mahnke of Newburg visited his brother Louis, ’i 1, Septem ber 29. —Paul Oehlert, '05, went to Wauwatosa September 26 to visit his brother Albert, ’96, who is about to leave for Colorado. —Reinhold Breutzmann met his friend William Hintz while on a trip to Oshkosh October 1. —Rev. Baebenroth of Milwaukee called on his son Edwin, '09, September 29. —Rev. Prof. Eickmann preached at the mission festival at Ixonia Septem ber 25. —Rev. Gust. Haase of Stillwater, Minn., called on his brothers Walter, ’06, and Martin, ’i 1, September 26.

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—John Abelmann, 05, and Theodore Abclmann, 07, met their father while he was on his way home from the conference at Jefferson, September 26. —Rev. Xommensen of Mauston visited Otto Koch, 09, September 29. —Carl Fehrmann, ’11, visited relatives near Watertown October 2. —Mr. Theo. Ave-Lallemand, who was last year professor of German at Sheboygan High School, has accepted a position as teacher of Greek and Latin at Canfield Normal School in Ohio. —Mr. Raul Lehmann of Hustisford called on his sons Emil, Ac. ’07, and Paul, ’ll, ()ctobcr 1. —Mr. and Mrs. Morris of Saginaw, Mich., made a call on John Schindehettc, ’10, September 27. —Rev. F. Motzkus of Dundee called on his sons Friedrich, ’07, and Walter, ’io. September 28. —Mr. F. Salbach of Milwaukee visited the institution October 3. — In a meeting of the board of trustees held on September 26 it was decided to build an additional part to the dining hall. When the building is com pleted there will be enough room to scat 225 persons. —C )n September 22 Mr. Kellcita, a native of Kurdistan, delivered an interest ing lecture, illustrated with magic lantern pictures, on the religion and customs of his people, in our college chapel. Mr. Kelleita attended the l Diversity of Oxford and speaks a rather fluent English. He also speaks (ierman. 'Pile purpose of his traveling about and lecturing is partly to give tlie American people an insight into the life of his countrymen and partly to earn the means to educate his brother, who entered our institution some time ago.

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—Watermelons! —Raiserbacks! Halifax! —Tacks! —Shan von Praenzmann ! —How de do. Father! —Go on, you’ve got water on your brain. —Br----: “You must go in front with a good example.” —Ike says he mows his lawn with a safety razor. —Prof.: “what kind! of brakes were in connection with the old bicycles?” Hank: “Neckbreaks." —Tough: “Ariovistus conclamavit: Ad se venirent an spcculandi causa? Ariovist fragte ob sie etwa gekommen seicn, uni zu spekuliercn.” —Otto, the philosopher, thinks, that since two negatives make an affirmative, two lies make a truth. —Prof.: “Woven handelt dieser Paragraph ?” Butch.: “Vom ablatischen Genetiv.” —Oily (at the phone): “Is this Mr. W?” “Yes, would you like to see John?” “If you please.” “Well, 1 hardly think you could see him through the phone, so you’ll have to be satisfied to hear him.” —Br - ck----: “Don’t talk so much foolishmen.” —Shorty: “1 think Parker will carry Montana.” Zis: “How heavy is it?” —Boobie: “Look at the mo-hun.” —Prof.: "What is a planet?” Pupil: “My father is one.” —Otto saw a tiger in the logical garden. —Somebody: “I hit him in the face and made quite an impression on him.” —Teddy: “Those babies are making a little too much noise out there.” Prof.: “Did you do better in your days ?” —Breutz (ringing up J. F. B. instead of W. S. B.) : “Is Mr. W. there?” “Mr. W? Who is that? He is certainly not here.” Breutz: “Goodbye.” Tableau! —Sextaner (to his monitor) : “May I go asleep?” —Prof.: “Why is ether so mysterious?” Paul: “Because it can’t be squeezed.” —The story of the Dry-Plate.

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Dr. Skirts’s joy was complete. He had bought a camera and was now able to make pictures himself. His first experiment, however, was rather unsuc cessful. He could hardly await the night to load his camera. When the evening came Dr. Skirts closed the windows and pulled down the curtains (for lie had been told that the moonlight might spoil the plates). He opened the package and—turned on the electric light to take a close look at the plates! His first picture was of course a failure. He says that the plate was probably spoilt by the moon’s rays that had entered through a hole in the curtain. Better luck next time, Doc! — Besides a hard game the team had other difficulties to contend with at Oshkosh. Instead of dressing in a dressing-room the boys were shown to the cellar of the hotel. Everybody arrived safely in the cellar but unluckily Earnie, who was at the head, stumbled and landed on a heap of fresh tomatoes. Butch ran to assist him, but alas! he got his fingers into, a rat trap and in his agony jumped up and would have broken his head on the ceiling were it not that he struck a sausage that happened to hang there. Even Grim, who is faster than the average Nebraska binder, had bad luck that day. A mouse had found its way into his stocking. When Grim put on the stocking he felt to his horror a living being under his foot. No other power could have set him in motion faster than this mouse. But he found it rather difficult to keep up his rate of speed for any length of time. 1 le upset a pot of sauerkraut, hurdled his valise, and finally found himself in a yellow mass that was but a second before called a basket of eggs. Another center of attraction was Knust, who stood in a corner and nearly spit out his lungs. He had smelt limburger cheese and had found on a shelf what he thought was a cheese. He took an enormous bite, but instead of tasting cheese he found that he had taken a bite from a piece of soap. To crown the performances Hank missed his chair and sat on Dutch's cady. Amid the bowlings of the uninjured and the gruntings of the unlucky the team at length groped its way out of this seemingly haunted cellar and was glad to see the light of day again. —Our students are fortunate in having the opportunity of seeing ‘‘Romeo and Juliet” at the foot of the staircase nearly every day.

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LITERARY

Number 6

How Did They Know?

Two most remarkable cases of intelligence exhibited by animals of the socalled lower order have just come to light in Owatonna as a friend of mine ha> told me and in each case the dumb brutes displayed almost, if not quite, human powers of understanding. Hie first case concerns the canine family. Northeast of this city is located Invest Mill Cemetery and a sewer has been laid to this place. This statement is necessary to make the point of the story. \ resident of the city whose home lies some distance from the cemetery hail been to his friend for a visit and started on his homeward way shortly after eleven o'clock p. m. He had progressed as far as the great iron gate of the cemetery when a long-drawn and dismal moan struck noon his ear. (This is the way he told the story.) At once he thought of all the fearful ghost tales which he had ever heard. His blood curdled in his veins and when a second and third moan, each succeeding one more sepulchral than the first, followed, he cast self-respect to the winds and flew from the snot faster than did ever winged Mercury in the days of old. He reached home in safety and the next day poured forth his tale to his incredulous neighbors, who winked at one another wisely and solemnly wagged their heads. When, however, the moans were heard by others, those superstitiously inclined began to quake and avoid the cemetery after dark. Then a dog hapÂ pened to come along one day, and as he reached the sewer terminals, the moans, apparently from underneath, began. The dog stopped, turned, and after standing- witlrears erect a moment, began busily digging and scratching at the dirt. Finding his efforts in vain, he set up a series of howls and barks,

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endeavoring to attract some one to bis aid. For forty-eight hours he remained there without food or drink and at last his patience was rewarded and a man brave enough to investigate was found. Procuring a spade, this man pro ceeded to the spot whence issued the subterranean moans and began to excavate. Wlien he had progressed some two or three feet, he was aided by up heavals of the earth anil suddenly a large hunting dog, gaunt but joyful, emerged from the sewer. The two dogs greeted each other warmly, then ran to the man and, leaping upon him, licked his hands and caressed him, finally trotting off toward town. The dog in the sewer had presumably chased a rabbit into the excavation while workmen were repairing the pipes and they, not knowing he was there, filled the hole and left him trapped for a period of six days. The rescued dog is very highly valued by his owner, who had mourned his loss. The other instance is not so spectacular, yet it. too, shows remarkable endurance, this time by a cat. -A Steele county family recently removed to Waterloo, Iowa, some hun dred miles from Owatonna. Among their most valued possessions was an Angora cat and two kittens, and these, housed in a neat little box, were taken with them. All arrived safely at their new home, but the old cat refused to adapt herself to her new surroundings and mewed piteously until far into the night. A week passed thus, and then one morning it was found that the old cat and one of her kittens had disappeared. Xo trace could he found of either and they were given up as lost. A little more than a week later the old cat suddenly reappeared alone. She stayed one day, then she again disa peared, taking with her the remaining kitten. A short time afterwards a letter was received by the family from one of their former neighbors, saying that the old cat and kittens were hovering about their former home and were being cared for by kind-hearted neighbors. In conclusion he offered to adopt the whole feline family and this alternative was agreed to. For the sake of dwelling on Minnesota soil that old cat had traveled three hundred miles, and during about two-hundred miles of the distance, hail carried a kitten in her mouth. Xow how did these brutes know,—the dog of the dog beneath the earth,— and the cat the way back to Owatonna? Some one may say. “Why that is simple, they both knew this by their power of smelling." It may be the case. but let me tell you that it is hard to believe this, for the cat in this case must have had an extraordinary smelling power to find her way back, which was made by railway. Owatonna, at least, surely may lav claim to some uncommon dogs and cats. —W. F. O. P. 07. ^ i

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A Coward. It was the day bcfoie the last game of the season at X. Coliege. The team was out lor its last practice. The scrubs were lined up against them for a short scrimmage. But the hopes of winning the game the next day did not seem to be very bright, for the ic'ubs broke through their line continu ally. Every time they let them through the coach would pour a shower of emphatic words and phrases on them, that I do not care to repeat here. \. hen at last the practice was ever, he called them all together and gave them another shower of those peculiarly expressive phrases. But when his store was evlu listed, he gasped, “\cu are dismissed; you may all go except Johnson.” Then stepping up to him quickly, he hissed through his teeth, "Johnson, you are the greatest coward I ever saw; you played like an old woman to-day. Every time they went over left tackle, they got through, for instead of stopping them y< u world ect way up high, and of course they would run away with you. I can’t use you in my team any longer; you have to play on the side lines to-morrow. That’s all I have to say to you." It was 2:30 I*. M. the next day. The two teams were lined up ready for action. Xow a shrill whistle, a short thump a low' rumbling noise, and the battle was raging. I’p and down the field the ball was carried and punted, but neither the Scarlets nor the Purples succeeded in getting the ball over the goal line. ()n the side lines, among the rest of the “subs," we find our friend Johnyin. anxiously watching every move of the battling teams. His friends had tried hard enough to get him back into the team again. But the coach had only shrugged his shoulders and remarked, “Can’t use him. Do you think 1 would put a baby in my team?" The first half ended without either side scoring. Coach Wells stood in the midst of his team again, and again let loose his torrent of words/ “If you don’t brace up in the second half," he said, "you will surely lose this game; you simply played rotten. And now brace up, boys, brace up! Don’t let the Purples run away with you.” Again the two teams lined up, and with the shrill whistle of the referee they once more began the battle w'ith renewed vigor. For a while the Scar lets seemed to brace up. for they pushed their opponents back to their twentyyard line: but here they were forced to punt. They tried a goal kick from the field, but the strong wind drove the ball to the left, and the quarterback got the ball right on the goal line. And now' the Purples began their march across the field working the ball through the entire length of the field to the Scarlets’ fifteen-yard line. Here the Scarlets braced up once more and held their opponents. These, now', being in striking distance, tried a drop kick. Left tackle Williams broke through the lines to block the kick. But before he could do this, the halfback smashed into him and sent him sprawling to the ground while the ball shot over the goal posts as straight as an arrow'. The Purples had at last scored on the Scarlets. But this was not their only loss. They had also lost one of their best men, left tackle Williams, who had been hurt so seriously in trying to block the punt that he had to be carried

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oft" the field. Coach Wells' eves ran over the line of “subs for a while till they rested on Johnson. With a few quick steps he was at his side. John son, you take Williams’ position at tackle and don’t act like a baby again, but drive in low.” That was all the coach said. The next minute Johnson was at his old position, his eyes flashing with excitement. He would show that coach that he was not a coward and baby anyway, He would fight as long as he could walk one step. 1 his game had to be won. And again the battle began. Twice the Scarlets tried to circle around the ends, but it was impossible for them to gain anything there. I he redhaired quarterback ran his eyes along the line. For a moment they rested on Johnson’s broad shoulders. "Left tackle back, 7 — 25 — 8,” he called out with a sharp, ringing voice. Johnson jumped back, and in the next instant, pushed by the halfback, he shot through the line with tremendous force, mak ing almost ten yards. A terrible pain shot through his side when he struck the ground, but without uttering a word he arose and resumed his position. A moment later he broke through again. The first man that tried to tackle him fell over like a block when lie came in contact with Johnson’s shoulder. And now, with a clear field before him, he shot ahead like a deer followed by hounds. Up to their thirty-yard line he ran; then the fast little quarter back had him. With terrible force he struck the ground. Again that sharp pain shot through his side, and for a minute everything was dark before his eyes. He tried to arise, but found that he was unable to do so. Already the quarterback was at his side. “Are you hurt, Ben?” "No, 1 only have a little pain in my side here. Let me rest just a minute. Will, just a minim . O, 1 am so tired, so tired. O this terrible pain. How much time to play yet. Will? We must win this game. Don’t you think we can make it yet. () this pain in my side. 1 can’t endure it much longer. But come Will, let me walk around just a few seconds. There, now, i feel much better already —nlav ball.” Two times they tried the tackle plays in succession, but they did not work any more; they had to punt. But just as the fullback opened his hand for the ball, the snappy little quarter back hurdled the line and blocked the punt. With the quickness of thought Johnson turned about just in time to snatch the ball from the ground before the quarter back could get it. Like a deer he darted past the end for the goal line. A purple sweater loomed up before his eyes, but with a quick dash to the side he passed him. ()n he went. One,—two,—three white lines he passed. How far thev seemed to be apart! And how heavy his feet became; he could hardly drag’them along. But he had to. he must reach the goal line. Three more lines he had yet to cross.—two more,—now the last one. But just then his foot slioped, and he fell. The next instant he was again on his feet and staggered Oil. But before he could cross the last white line, a heavy body struck his legs at the knee and sent him again to the ground. Then seeing the goal line so near he made one more mad effort and succeeded in struggling over the line.—then he swooned.

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When he awoke he found himself in a bed with coach Wells and a doctor at his side. "There you are again, Ben,” Wells began. “Well, how are you; have you pains in your side yet?” "No, they are almost all gone. But how did the game turn out? Did we win?” “I should say we did, Ben. For how can a team lose if it has a player like you. You simply ripped through the line as if there was no line there at all. And then your run for a touchdown was simply grand, especially when we consider in what kind of condition you were. For the doctor here has just found that two of your ribs are broken. And that they must already have been broken last Satur day. No wonder that you could do no hard playing during our practice-games this week. And now, Ben, please forgive me that I called you a baby and a coward yesterday,—will you, Ben?” As Ben stretched forth his hand, he grasped it with both his hands, and bending down whispered into his ear, "Ben, from now on I shall call you a hero, and not a coward. And now good-by, old boy.” G. W., ’08.

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It is nearly always true that we are repaid for what we do. Take an earnest simple attitude toward the world, or give a warm frank greeting and that attitude will generally be recognized and that greeting will rarely he rebuffed. We can by our deportment gain friends or enemies. If we are warm-hearted and frank, other natures will become frank and unaffected with us likewise. Most of us are brought up to hide our feelings; then by-and-by real sorrows and expe riences come to us and teach us love and frankness. It is a great blessing to meet the real things: to meet the real friend in your friend’s eye; to share life’s big experience frankly: to follow our quick earnest sympathies without fear: and to put away assumed pride. It is but natural that we should own that we are just like other people, that Wc love and suffer, and grieve and A Friend.

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rejoice just as others do, and so feel our lives in close touch with other lives. Every one knows the value of a true friend and rejoices in the sweetness and the comfort of it. lo him the simple experiences are dearest, the friend ships which need neither efforts nor explanation arc closest, the honest laugh ter, sincere sorrow, and direct sympathy mean most. The friend from whom we need hide no weakness and with whom we need falsely assume no strength is a friend as a friend should he. He is dear to us as a brother. But we must respect him, hear his infirmities as he bears ours. Happy is he who shares this blessing. To speak two languages correctly and keep them on a par is a difficult matter indeed. People in a bi-lingual society are likely to transfer the idioms of one to the other, often leading to gross mistakes. Occasionally a figure from another language may he tolerated even though it he not literary. Yet we must be very circumspect, for once accustomed to a figure with a doubtful claim to legitimacy, we let others slip in unawares. We that speak German may profit by some examples. A hoy says: "I let my books at home” and again: “He wouldn’t leave me pay anything,” interchanging the words let and leave, where he should have said : “1 left my books,” and: “He wouldn’t let me pay.” His inability to distinguish these words is due to the fact that in German one word answers for i;< ' . Lit is always equivalent to permit. Therefore if he should make the test of substituting permit, before using either word, he could tell whether to use lei or not, and would make no more mistakes. Again we hear, "O he plays the violin good,” or “The scheme works good.” In German we seldom make a distinction between the adjective and the adverb. Hence gut is used as an adverb of manner equivalent to well. (“Er spielt gut.” He plays well.), without implying anything moral. Whereas in English, if someone says he is feeling good, we understand that he is con scious of being morally good, German makes things so easy in regard to the adverb that people are taken off their guard and commit this error in English. “We had that by Professor Smith” a pupil exclaims. By may indicate the instrument or agent, hut it does neither in our example. It does not show immediate proximity nor is it used with a verb of motion. He should have said, "uith Professor Smith.” Evidently he had in mind the German word bci, which shows place and is used with a verb of rest. Note that it has almo;t no use in common with the English by. Yen* grating on our sense for propriety in language is the temporal con struction,'“As i came home, it was gone,” or. “As I was at school T was an athlete.” As translates the German als in only two cases, once, where two actions are in progress simultaneou Iv, for instance, “He blazed the trees as he went along,” secondly, where the same instant is the end of one action and the beginning of the other, for example, “As I entered the room, he rose to receive me,” and “He locked the door, as he went away.” Used in any Germanisms.

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other way as will be misunderstood. In the sentence, “As I was in Chicago I visited the university,” people not familiar with German will take it to be causal. If it was intended to be temporal, the as is incorrect. To use the temporal as coirectly, one must have acquired a sense for English that can be relied on absolutely. It is amusing to have someone tell you that he keeps a certain periodical, meaning that he had subscribed for it. Here is a patent case of a literal trans lation, "eine Zcitung halten.” Likewise a confusion of the English become and the German bekommen (-receive) may be responsible for such an absurd statement as, Lincoln soon became a step-mother. The German word Siunde has two distinct uses, either as a period of sixty minutes or as a lesson period. This has been transferred into English and the word hour is used similarly, as in, “let us visit his hour,” for recitation. We have known people—and they ought to know better—that use it exclu sively. Who would think of saying, "take an hour” and yet it is not alto gether unfamiliar at “our institution.” There is another expression which always gives onr nerves a severe shock and that is the word should. “They should be a strong team,” meaning, “They are reported (or said) to be a strong team.” Again, "She should ho sick, (German, “Sie soli krank sein”). The English should has only one meaning, that implying obligation; in which German solleu agrees with it. The other meaning of sollcu, to be reported as, etc., or to be said to be, etc., (corresponding to Latin did) docs not apply to the English shoul /. Trans gressions in this respect are numerous. Therefore, Care, beware! To show how easily mistakes creep in, let me add an in.dance of selfobservation. In an effort to cultivate the German interrogative «iV, as more elegant than the prosaic tcas, 1 became aware that in class or conversation whenever 1 did not catch a sentence, I would exclaim how? Though not incorrect still for me it was a literal translation. Unremittant vigilance is the price of correct language. Should Stu dents Cultivate Social Life?

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should the student form an exception? Would this not be imposing on him? Would this not be barring him from the realm of humanity? Besides it is to the student that people finally turn for the solution of all great social prob lems. But if he is not permitted to associate with others, ho wis he to be expected to solve social problems? If a student would make his mark in life, if he would comprehend the actions of his fellow-mortals, he must needs come in contact with them. \lthough it is indispensable that student cultivate social life we should suggest that this be not carried to extremes, for it would prove detrimental to tin ir work. This evil is becoming more and more apparent at our larger colleges and universities. I Iere social life is being cultivated to such an extent as to hamper the work of the students. The large fraternities that arc found the’e only too often prove fatal to the members. Experience has clearly demonstrated the fact that the majority of students who have failed in their uo’k were members of some fraternity or other. Thus we think it would be belter if fraternities were abolished. Social life in its pla -.1 right, but we never ought to carry it to extremes. In speaking of modern novels we do not mean such poor and worthless novels as can hardly be said to have seen the light of day but such as have been acknowledged by o-mpcicni persons as good books, as, for instance, ‘'The Crisis/’ “The Delivcranvv." "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,” and “The Pit.” That such novels are preferred by the greater part of the public is known. In a library a modern novel is drawn many times over before an older, clas sical novel is called for. The late books arc the ones that interest modern society. Many persons praise modern books, while they remain quite igno rant of works of authors like Hawthorne, Thackeray, Scott, and Dickens. But also educated people approve of modern works, as "The Crisis,” and others. Ought younger people therefore not to read them? Strictly speaking not. These novels may be good, but we possess others that rank higher in literature, and they have stood the test of time. With these every student ought to be familiar before he reads modern novels. Besides acquiring a large vocabulary he will, after carefully reading a number of classical novels, be able to distinguish, at least to some extent, between good and poor produc tions. This can hardly be acquired by reading modern novels, as they are so numerous and one cannot tell which to select, nor can we know which one is enjoying a factitious popularity, or which one will be handed down to posterity as classical. We do not wish to say that modern novels should be discarded and ig nored entirely. After being acquainted with classical novels it is undoubtedly proper and instructive to read later productions. We may always increase our vocabulary, become acquainted with a new author and his style, and enjoy the story, but we can never be certain of its rank in literature. Should We R-esxd Modern Novels?

Ovir Contemporaries •-' We have received the following new exchanges: The Lantern (Bryn Mawr) The So-to-Speak (Manitowoc) The Polytechnian (Fort Worth, Tex.) The Forum (Annvillc, Pa.) The Susquehanna (Seling.grove. Pa.) treats of the oriental question in two well written articles. One discusses “the supremacy of the Pacific,” the other reviews the rise of “the island empire of the East.” In days of old the Meditcrranien was the great highway of commercial and political expeditions. For centuries past the Atlantic ocean has been the centre of the world’s commerce and traffic. As civilization moves westward, the importance of the Atlantic sea is waning, and it must soon occupy a secondary position. The Pacific is the great field of activity for the future. Nations not living on its coasts will be at a disadvantage. The strongest maritime nation on its border is America. The Bear is stretching out his paws from Siberia to find an ice-free port and ultimately to control the Pacific. Japan is bound to make itself an important factor in the problem. The outcome cannot be forecast. We read with interest the commencement program given in the Susque hanna. We cannot help observing that the musical numbers furnished by the orchestra were severely of the rag-time order. Abe Holzman’s Lucie Sammy is a lively, enjoyable march, but the numbers should not consist en tirely of compositions by Holzman, Wood, or Whitney, especially on so solemn an occasion as the graduating exercises of the school of theology. We would suggest that the orchestra study a few compositions that are semiclassical at least. It would find it very much more gratifying in the end. The Spectator very appropriately commemorates the Reformation in the October number, as the thirty-first of October is observed as Reformation Day by all Lutherans and many other Protestants. It devotes an editorial to the meaning of the day and of the great deed. “Luther, the Educator” shows what Luther did for schools and colleges, thus becoming the father of the common school system of Europe and indirectly of America. The only fault of the article is its brevity. So great a subject can hardly be pressed into so little space without suffering. Another article treats of the Compromises of the Constitution. The three great questions on which the project of forming the Union seemed doomed to fall flat, were finally compromised,—representation, whether according to states or to population, the question of how to figure negroes in the apportion ment of congressional representatives, and the dispute about slave traffic. The matter is presented quite well, but the author is inclined to be verbose and

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prolix. The second sentence of the first paragraph would sound better if shortened to, “From the complicated circumstances surrounding its construc tion nothing else was possible.” In the next he speaks of “deep-rooted con victions relative to political views,” where lie should say “deep-rooted polit ical convictions.” In the fourth paragraph the sentence, “Opposed to them were arrayed Xew York and other states," would sound better “Opposed to them were Xew York,” etc. "Focussed matters to an issue,” sounds crude. Why not say simply and naturally, "brought matters to an issue.” In the last paragraph the use of the word proven is incorrect. Proven is not English. It is a Scotch law term that has been taken up by American lawyers, but should not be used by literary people. Proved alone is authorized by the Xew English dictionary. The Rrskinian has a very deserving article on “the Weakness of Wrong.” It is short, but is to be commended for its clear thought and simple artless language, which is evidence of a promising writer. \Vc were permitted to enjoy a journey up the Rhine mentally when we read an article under that beading in the Brunonian. The charming scenery i- described in a very attractive manner which conjures up vivid pictures before us. We sail from Koln up stream to Bingen and many are the noteworth) sights, famed in legend and song, that meet our gaze. W e append the author’s translation of the Lorelei: I know not what it betokens This sadness about me cast, But I cannot dispel from memory A legend from out of the past. Cool is the air as it darkens Calmly the Rhine doth flow. The mountain’s summit glistens In the evening’s sunny glow. Yonder a maiden sitteth A maiden most wond’rous fair Her jewels of gold are gleaming She combs her golden hair. With a golden comb she plaits it And she sings in the twilight hour A song of such wonderful sweetness Such strange and melodious power. The fisherman’s tiny shallop She plunges to cruel woe. He sees but the heights above him, He sees not the rocks below. Ah me! Now o’er boat an o’er boatman Close waters with death-danger fraught, And this by her magic singing The Lorelei has wrought.

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Whitewater Normal o—N. W. U. 6. ()n Saturday, October 2y, our first team won its third victory by defeating the \\ hitewater Normal eleven. Northwestern won the toss and Motzkus kicked off to Whitewater’s ten-yard line. By tackle-plays and plunges Whitewater advanced the ball to the center of the field, where they lost it on downs. .Motzkus took the ball and made ten yards on a cross buck. Wcndland then gained fifteen yards around Whitewater’s left end. By repeatedly bucking the line Northwestern advanced the ball to Whitewater’s fifteen yard line, where they were held on downs. Pretty soon time was called, neither side having scored. I11 the second half Whitewater kicked off and Whyte advanced the ball twenty yards. Northwestern lost the ball on downs. Whitewater made small gains on tackle-plays and finally tried a plunge. But Nolan fumbled and .Motzkus darting through Whitewater’s line picked up the ball and ran seven ty yards for a touchdown. Breutzmann kicked goal. Northwestern kicked oft' to Whitewater, Nolan returning the ball thirty yards. Whitewater made several gains and then lost the ball on downs. Motzkus tried a drop-kick from the forty-yard line, hut the ball fell five yards short. When time was called the ball was on \\ hitewater’s ten-yard line. ()wing to the fact that Woyahn was suddenly called to his home, Motzkus played right half in his place. LINEUP AND SUMMARY. N. W. U. W11 itewater Normal. ........... Eickmann C. Marriot ............. .................... Berg ..R. G.. Johnson ............ ................... Sauer . .R. T. Huic, Waddell . ............. Kowalke ..R. E.. Rohr, Wier .... ............... Luedtke . .L. a. Walsh............... ............... Mueller ..L. T.. Slier ................. Wendland (Capt.) ..L. E.. Wallace............ .....................Whyte .Q. B.. Powers, Grctzow ................ Motzkus R. H. B McPherson....... ....... Breutzmann L. H. B Haskins............. ................. Kumm . .F. B.. Nolan Touchdown, Motzkus: goal, Breutzmann ; referee. Stern ; umpire, McVay, linesmen, Zeisler and McGraw; timekeepers, Korn and Schroeder; time of halves twenty-five and twenty minutes. 203

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Carroll College 6—N. W. U. 12. On Saturday, November 5. Northwestern defeated Carroll College of Waukesha. As’our team had very little practice after the Whitewater game, the playing was slower than usuafand fumbles were frequent. Mueller could not play -because of a sore leg. Carroll won the toss. Northwestern kicked off and held Carroll for downs on their ten yard line. After a few cross-bucks by Woyahn and Breutzmann Kumm plunged through the line for a touchdown. Breutzmann kicked goal. Northwestern kicked off and Carroll advanced the ball ten yards. They made steady gains until they readied the fifty-yard line where they were forced to punt! Whyte caught the ball but fumbled and Carroll's end dropped on it about eight yards from Northwestern's goal, t nun mg on short-end plays Carroll made a touchdown. Cioal was kicked, When . time was called the ball was in the center of the field. Score 6 to 6. During the entire second half the ball was in Carroll's territory. Carroll kicked off and Woyahn returned the ball to the center of the field. North western repeatedly made large gains by plunges and tackle-plays. Three times they reached Carroll's five-yard line only to lose the ball on a fumble. Carroll then punted out. Finally Sauer made a twenty-yard run but was stopped two yards from the goal-line. Woyahn made a touchdown on a straight buck. Breutzmann kicked goal. Time was called when North western was in possession of the ball three yards from Carroll's goal-line. LINEUP AND SUMMARY. Carroll College. N. W. U. McAlister ............ Eickmann C. R. G. Kennedy . ..................... Borg J eack* ... R. T. ................. Sauer Sim....... R. E. ............... Kowalke J. Davies L. G ............... Luedtke L. T Stuart ... ............... Motzkus Carburv ..L. E.. Wcndland (Capt.) ..Q. B.. Kendal! . ................. Whyte Wheeler R. H. B. .............. Woyahn Assel ... ,L. 1-1. B. ........Breutzmann R. Davis F. B. ................. Kumm Touchdowns, Kumm 1, Woyahn 1. Wheeler 1 ; goals, Breutzmann 2, Assel 1; referee, Stern; umpire, Schwendener; linesman, Zeisler: timekeeper, Korn ; time of halves twenty minutes each. N. W. U. II. Team 6—St. John’s II. Team 9. On Wednesday, Nov. 2, the N. W. U. second team went to Delafield to play the second team of St. John’s Military Academy of that place. North western kicked to St. John's, who soon lost the ball on downs. Nieghorn was given the ball and he made a beautiful run. carrying the ball to St. John’s fifteen-vard line. Northwestern tried a line plunge on the first down, a'shortend play by Heilman on the second, and on the third down Nieghorn carried

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the ball over the goal for the first touchdown of the day. Heilman kicked goal. Northwestern kicked to St. John’s again and they advanced the hall to Northwestern’s thirty-yard line. Here they lost the ball on downs and North western punted the hall to St. John’s forty yard-line. Luctke of Northwestern dropped on the hall, it being fumbled by Blount of St. John’s. When time was called. Northwestern had possession of the hall on St. John’s twenty-five yard-line. Score 6 to o. In the second half, St. John’s kicked off to Northwestern, who were forced to punt. Punts were now exchanged for the greater part of this half, Northwestern having slightly the advantage over St. John’s in punting. Finally St. John’s got possession of the hall and they worked the play “guard-back” for at least six times in succession and then they managed to secure a touchdown. They failed to kick goal. St. John’s kicked to North western, who was again forced to punt. One of St. John’s men blocked the punt and it was St. John’s ball on Northwestern’s twenty yard-line. In some way, St. John’s discovered that there were but thirty seconds more of play and they resorted to a drop-kick. Northwestern made every possible effort to block it. hut the ball sailed squarely between the goal-posts and time was called. Score 9 to 6. Northwestern received an unusually unfair deal from St. John’s in that they were forced twice to give them four downs and by receiving very poor decisions on the part of St. John’s referee. N. W. U.’s hccond team is composed mainly of new men and we are all perfectly satisfied with the showing they made. The line-up was as follows: Northwestern's II. Team. St. John’s II. Team. Orr C. Luctke .......... Hcimsheimer R. G. I.ehmann .... .... Lough ..........L. G. Pankow ........ ........ Eaton ..........R. T Eggert......... ......... L. T. ......... Joy Schoewe........ Thomas Jay ..........R. E. Quandt......... ....... Player L. E. Kroner.......... ___ Blount ..o. r,. Fisher........... ........Curtis R. If. B. N ieghorn .... ........... Ray L. I-I. B. Heilman........ ....... Cotter F. B, 1\ Zeisler ....

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LOCALS , . . —Rev. Chr. Sauer of Juneau called on his sons Adolf, '06, and Ldwin, 07, October 19. —William liass, ’09, was called to his home at Wausau on October 28 on account of the sudden death of his sister. —Adolph Zuehlke of‘Juneau made a call on his brother Alex, on November 5. —Miss Augusta Manz of Milwaukee visited her brother John, '06, October

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—Frank Sprehn, ’c8, acted as best man at the wedding of his cousin at La Crosse October 12. —Wilhelm Wadzinski, ’09, and Martin Haase, ’ 11, visited at the home of Rev. Haase at Ixonia November 1-3. — Paul Nottke, formerly a member ot our Academy, is taking a dairy course at the University of Madison. —Alfred Fchrmann, of Sun Prairie, called on his brother Carl October 29. —Joseph Krubsack, T 1, visited his parents at Lebanon November 5. — Philip Koehler, 09, and Henry Hart wig, 09, visited friends at Hellenville October 15. — Kdward Zell, 'c8. spent November 1-3 at his home in Juneau. —Julius Bittner, '12. paid his parents at Mayville a visit October 29. — Mr. (iustave Vallefske, of Collins, made a call on his son Adolph, To, November 1. — Air. Paul Lehmann, of Hustisford, called on his sons Emil, Ac. '07, and P ud. T 1, on October 29. 1 ierl’.en Jinny, formerly a member of the class of ’05, is attending the Conservatory of Music at Milwaukee. — K-. \. J. Dejung, of Rhinelander, visited Prof. Albert Kuhn November 4 and 5. Mr. Sdiwendener, who coached our football team in the fall of 1901, vis1 i>the institution November 5. He is now coach at Carroll College in Waukesha. < ‘n Friday, October 14, we had the pleasure of hearing one of the world’s m< famous bands, Ellery’s Royal Italian Band. Comparing it with Creatore’s band, which we had the pleasure of hearing last spring, we would sa\ that, in general, Ellery probably does not equal Creatore in the render ing of music. But there is one essential difference between the two bands. I . le v has substituted the trumpet for the cornet and has very many reed instruments which bring about the wonderful soft orchestralike effect. In rendering solos Ellery lets the soloists stand out boldly with a more Oi less soft accompaniment of the rest of the band. Of the afternoon program "Poet and Peasant” and "11 Pagliacci grand fantasie” were greatly appre ciated. In the evening Rossini’s “William Tell” and Bizet’s "Carmen” were especially applauded. —The Ev. Luth. St. Mark’s Church celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on October 23. Rev. J. Bading of Milwaukee delivered the sermon in the forenoon. ' In the evening Rev. J. Gamm of La Crosse delivered a sermon in the English language. The two church choirs and the N. W. U. Octette sang appropriate songs. In the afternoon an entertainment was given in the Turner Hall of which a speech by the Rev. Bading was a main part. The N. W. U. band and the N. W. U. orchestra entertained the people with select music. —The Ev. Luth. Synod of Wisconsin and other states met for an extra session on November 1-3 in the St. Mark’s Church to consider the question

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of erecting a new dormitory for our college. After some discussion it was decided to erect a three story building with 160 feet front and to remodel the old one. As to the site of the new building, it was decided that it should be built on the west side of the old dormitory running length wise from south to north. An additional part of thirty-two feet for the inspector’s home is to be built on the extreme northern end making the entire building 202 feet long. The work on the new dining hall is steadily progressing. It is expected that it will be finished by Christmas. —On November 1 the faculty and the students gave a musical entertain ment in our college chapel in honor of the Synod. The band opened the program by playing Wagner’s “Evening Star.” Prof. A. F. Ernst then welcomed the visitors in an opening address. The next number was Lavellee’s “Bridal Rose” by the orchestra. Then followed a song by the choir. The orchestra then rendered “Uncle Sammy” and “Waldmere.” The last number on the program was Marlowe’s “Air Vane”—a trombone solo by Paul Ochlert with band accompaniment.

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM —Comp’s! —Election! —I lairpins! —Dodge Academy! —Allow me! —Why did a certain person remove his Parkcr-hutton before election? —As always ( ?) Hallow-e’en passed by quietly. —Hans S - - : "Did we bote Whitewater?” — Solum : "Two negatives make an apostrophe.” —I lermann fell in love; the fall was so unlucky that he sprained his arm. —Spitz is rushing a little "bit” too much. — \\ ally : „lch bin von Mans aus cin Schwitzer." — Pat says he smokes a sea-foam pipe. — IV<>f.: "What arc witches?” Sextancr: "Charming girls.” She (on the way home): "Well, what do you do when you get to a corner?” \lex : "Walk around it.” Seogglcs says lie bows at an angle of forty-five degrees. —Druckfchlcr: „Er kam unrcrzchrt zuruck." — Sextancr: "Where could I get my pants increased?" — There is an unusual display of red sweaters in the first team. Look out! Red is the sign of danger! —Spitz: "1 think the most beautiful scenery in town is on fifth street.” We will not dispute it. —Acorn has gone into the fruit business. Dates a specialty. —Sextancr (playing football): "One, seven, ten; single!” — Prof.: "W here do you carry the net gain?” Pupil: "In the pocket.” —Somebody states that longitude is measured from the obsorbatory at Greenwich. —Victor: "The first thing you must do when you enter is to take off your hat. Felix :. "How about you?” Victor: "Pm an inception.” —Hutch: „Ea - - ea - - ea.” Prof.: „Ea? Sie denken wohl an jemand.“ ^ —At the supper-table Pete takes two of the six pears from the plate, at 209

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which the monitor asks him to return one of them. “Not so,” says Pete, “If there arc six pears on that plate there must he twelve. Consequently I get two of them.” —Hortensius tanta memoria erat—. Hortensius hatte ein Gedachtnis fiir Tauten. —Den Bemuhungen eines gewissen John P. Corbett haben die l listoriker es zu verclanken, class cine beabsichtigtc zweite Dorische Wanderung glucklicherweise verhindert wurde. —-Pat Murphy has a good way of protecting his house against intruders. He has on every door of his residence a padlock on the — outside. It would be interesting to know how he manages to lock the doors when he is within the house. —A certain Sophomore has joined the humane society. One day he found a fly that was ready to lie down and die from cold. He raised the fly gently from the ground and placed it in the sun. Great was his joy when the creature cleaned its wings and feet and scratched its head. Soon the fly spread its wings and began to fly. Our friend called out to his chum to come and see the good deed he had done. But the fly took advaniage of a good opening and flew directly into his mouth. This made him for get his humanity: lie spit out the fly and crushed it so that the poor cieature whose life he had tried to save was murdered cruelly in old age instead of dying peacefully. —Victor: How did Dr. Krueger manage to grow such a fine crop of teeth since last spring? 1 always thought it took a longer time for teeth to grow. —Puscheck is delighted to hear that one can see another person by wireless telegraphy. We wonder why. —We wonder why Pete and Eicky go down town together so often. —A number of our boys have the reputation of having discovered quite a phenomenon but a short time ago. Until now we have only heard of oak trees bearing acorns. But to the surprise of all the boys a sturdy “Acorn” was found standing under the mighty elm at the southwest corner of the campus. The explanation of this phenomenon is left to the readers. —Poke has a way of deriving a much-beloved name from the word “Tauten." —Scoggles attributes the swelling of his jaw to the many Greek vocables that he has committed to memory. —Why did Porter put twenty cents’ worth of stamps on a certain letter ?

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Nicht Gefunden Und Doch Gefvinden. Frohlich stand die Scliar im Krcise I’m den schdnen Weinachtsbaum l nd erzahlte von deni Kindc, Das einst kam auf Erden arm. I )rausscn aber suirnit es wilde, \\ irbelnd tricb der Wind den Schnee, I ..inter pfiflf der W ind und lauter, Immcr finstrer ward die Xaclit. Einsam auf deni wciten Wege Scbritt ein Wandrer niiid und matt, Irrend sucbt er nach dem Wcge, I )ocb den Wcg den fand er nicht. Adi nun kann er nicht mehr weiter, Seine Kraft, verlassen ibn, Langsam sinkt er auf die Kniec, I ini zu seinem Gott er ruft: „Acb du Herre Gott und Vater, Xeigc dicli zu mir lierab. II or mein Eleben und mein Mitten, Lass mich nicht verloren gelin. Icb wollt zu deni Christfest wallen In dein Haus und beten an Meinen lieben Herrn und Heiland, I lent geboren aucli fiir mich.” Sanft schlaft ein der miide Wandrer. Seine Seel dem Herrn befiehlt. Den Weg zur Kirch er nicht funden, Doch den Weg dcs Heils er fand.

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It was on the afternoon of the twenty-fourth of December. Mr. George Simmons sat in his study, smoking a cigar and trying to read the daily newspapers. But he could not concentrate nis mind on anything. Not even the most interesting topics of the day attracted his attention. Li.tlcsslv lie threw the paper on his desk and, getting up from his easy chair, began .walking up and down the room, lie rememhe.ed how they used to eelemate Christmas when his brother Frank was still at home. But now he was gone. It was now twenty-five years ago that he, then only a boy of seventeen, had left home in company of a number of home-seekers to try his luck in tin1 wvs.er.i states of our country. He had safely arrived at San Francisco, wnere he took the position of a clerk in a grocery store, in ton** years lie had earned enough money to buy a fair-sized orchard and, according to the letters that lie wrote to his brother George, lie seemed to be prospering fairly and was well satis fied with his conditions. But soon he quit writing and his brother George,* in spite of all his efforts, could find out nothing concerning him. While Mr. Simmons was in this mood waiki g i 1 his room and thinking what could probably be the cause of Frank's long silo .ice, bis wile entered. Grasping his hand, she said: “What is the matter with you, Ge.«rge, you seem to be very much downcast. Cheer ui, George! (hi C hristinas ilay everybody ought to feel happy. Come, let us take a walk to town. I must necessarily do some shopping before this evening.” “Yes, my dear," he said, ”1 think it is best for me to lake a walk i:i the fresh air. 1 will be ready in a moment.” So spying, be put on bis \v-out and hat and was soon walking with his wife towards the crowded Main street. "What was it, George, that seemed to he troubling your mind when 1 came into your study a while ago?" asked his wife after they had walked to gether silently for some time. With a sigh Mr. Simmon answered, “l was Blinking of my only brother Frank, and 1 dearly wished 1 should hear f-om him again. It is now about nineteen years since 1 received the last letter from him. I repeatedly wrote to him after that ,and even inquired at several pieces in San Francisco, but I could find out nothing about him." "Yes, it is indeed very queer," said Mrs. Simmons. "But isn't it possible that he might return sometime again?” “Probably lie will, although I don’t see, if he is still living, whv we never hear of him,” replied Mr. Simmons. They had now reached Main street, and Mrs. Simmons's attention was soon attracted by the great variety of toys and innumerable other things suit able for Christmas presents, exhibited’in the show-windows. Finally she stopped to examine a toy sword in one of the windows. “This is just what 1 was looking for." she said. “How glad little Willie will be when he sees that Santa Claus has brought him a sword." “Yes.” replied Air. Simmons, “the little fellow told me this morning, lie wished Santa Claus would bring him a sword, so that he could be a ‘big* man and march like a soldier."

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After some time, when Mrs. Simmons was through with ; hopping, they again went home and made preparations for the children's surprise in the evening. It was about eight o’clock in Jhc evening when Mrs. Simmons opened the door of the next room and let in the children that they might see what old Santa had left there for them. In a moment they were standing next to the Christmas tree, each one admiring his presents. Especially little Willie was proud now. He shouldered hi.- sword and marched up and down the room, calling to his father, “See, Papa, row 1 am a big man and pretty soon I will go to war with the other soldiers.” Mrs. Simmons was very happy when the little ones danced and played about the Christmas tree, showing her the beautiful playthings that Santa Claus had brought. But Mr. Simmons was not so joyfully disposed. His wife's question: “Isn't it possible that he still might return?” still rang in his ears and he earnestly hoped that it might be made possible. Suddenly the door-bell rang. Mr. Simmons hastily arose and went to the door. W hen he opened, a tall, dark-complexioned man with a handsome beard met his eager eyes. "A Merry Christmas to you! Does Mr. George Simmons live here?” the stranger began with a cheerful voice. “Thank you, sir. Yes, I am Mr. Simmons. Come in, please, and be seated," answered Mr. Simmons somewhat perplexed. He then ushered the stranger into his study, while a strange feeling came over him. He had heard this man's voice before, but he could not remember that he ever saw the man. 1 le took another sharp look at him, but still could not place him. “(icorge,’’ then began the stranger, looking squarely at Mr. Simmons, “do you not remember your own brother Frank?” “() Frank, is it you ? I thought it sounded like vour voice and it reminded me of times when I was still a boy and you wished me a Merry Christmas at the door. But come into the parlor, old lad, and let us celebrate your home coming on Christmas eve with the rest of my family. Here is my wife and my children. Yes, my dear wife, it is not only possible that Frank will return, but he has returned and here he is. Xow we can feel Happy and enjoy Christmas perfectly.” Then they sat down and the little ones, who at first seemed to be a little frightened at the stranger, forgetting their presents, came nearer and wanted to sit on papa's and uncle’s knees. "But where have you been all these long years and why is it that we never heard of you?” finally asked Mr. Simmons. Frank then told his story. He had again sold his small farm in Califor nia and gone to Argentina, in South America, where lie bought.a large cattle ranch. Before his departure he wrote a letter to his brother, which, however, must have gone astray. There he had lived these nineteen years and had become to lie a rich nian. But he longed to see his old home again, and on

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the twenty-second of December he arrived, after a long; journey, in his native city. By consulting the city directory he found that his brother still lived there. After considering what would be the best way to meet his brother, lie made up his mind to surprise him on Christmas eve. A. S., of). 0 0 0 0 0 0

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place, it was mid-winter and the snow on the mountains made horseback riding exceedingly difficult. Furthermore, food was very scarce, and YVciser had to endure the pangs of 1:linger. But he never turned hack. Furthermore, it was not any too sate to go into a country where two hostile nations were engaged in bloody war. Alter six days ot difficult traveling, YVeiser reached the seat of the Iroquois and succeeded in securing an armi.tice between them and the Southern Confederacy. Thus was V irginia saved from an invasion by the Iroquois, which would certainly have taken place during the war. This YVeiser knew and that was his motive for advising Gov. Gooch to mix into this affair. The Governor of Pennsylvania followed the advice of Weiser when lie purchased all the Susquehanna lands south and east of the Blue mountains in 1735. Me intended paying for them immediately, but Weiser advised him not to do this, hut to wait until the Six Nations were willing to sign a deed, promising to sell their lands in Pennsylvania to no one else but Penn’s heirs. The Six Nations consented and now Pennsylvania was sure of getting no outsiders in her province. From 1735 to 1742, Weiser was largely engaged in church affairs and the colonists began to fear that they hould lose this trustworthy and influ ential interpreter. But his return to public life with renewed zeal in 1742 put an end to their fears. He induced the Six Nations to reveal to him the number of the tribes in alliance with them and this information he forwarded to the governor of Pennsylvania, in order that the province might realize the importance of keeping the friendship of these Indians, But his greatest achievement as frontier diplomatist still remains to he related. In 1743 war threatened to break out between the Iroquois and the settlers of Virginia, owing to their neglecting to pay for lands purchased from these Indians. As is usually the case, both parties claimed to he in the right and Gov. Thomas of Pennsylvania began to fear that this might turn out to be a very serious affair, for he was inclined to believe the Indians rather than the Virginians. He hastily summoned Weiser and asked his advice. He advised him immediately to : end a message to the Six Nations to keep them in alliance with the English. As Gov. Thomas had always thought much of him, he urged him to undertake this mission. YVeiser consented and now it was left to him to get Y'irginia out of her difficulty. Not only Virginia, hut also Pennsylvania was in a very precarious con dition. How could she remain neutral, if she was expected to feed the hands of Iroquois that would pa s through her borders during the war? Still, should she refuse, there would be a war and it would be easy to bring about a general Indian outbreak. Weiser saw that to foment the quarrel between the Iroquois and the Virginians was exactly to the French’s liking. Should the Iroquois turn against the English, the Delaware and Shawanese would do the same, and what a harvest this would he for the French! Should the Iroquois he lost to the English, victory must finally crown France in her struggle for empire in America.

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The fate of a future nation was at stake when Conrad Weiser started out on his perilous mission to the Iroquois in January, 1743. 1 he Indians did not treat him with their usual confidence and friendliness upon his arrival and he began to fear.that he should be unable to bring about peace. But by calling their attention to the fact that numerous treaties had been made with them, that William Penn has bestowed unnumbered favors upon them, and that the king of England was caring for and protecting his red children in America, he" induced them to make peace and thus was a war prevented, which would have eventually involved all the other colonies. This shows us Weiser as the leading spirit in bringing Virginia into a conciliatory relation to the Indians, thus keeping them from joining the French. Upon the death of Shikellimy, Weisers influence over the Indians grew less and less, and he finally retired from public life entirely. He then set tled down at Womelsdorf, where he died July 13, 1760. IIis remains still rest there in a little private burying-ground and are marked by a very modest stone. And now, kind reader, do you think Conrad Weiser lived in vain ? Should we not thank him for having made England able to sweep the Krenchdom from America in 1763? Think of it, we, who are now the freecst of the free, might today be under the yoke of France, had not this noble Herman lived. A person fairly shudders at the idea and we ought never to forget what he has done for us. May this “Father of our Country” ever be in our hearts and minds! II. Ik, 07.

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Who is not familiar with the poet's happy lines in which he professes to find “tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” It sounds pleasing and captivating. It appeals to our de votional sense. Sermons in stones! Yes, even the pebble at the water's edge has its lei son to impart, but how much more so has the pile of stone forming a beautiful church. What an uplifting, inspiring spirit descends upon us, like a benediction, on entering its portals. A sense of awe comes over us, we seem to hear a voice that tells us, we are treading on holy ground, we feel ourselves over shadowed by the very present deity. As we advance down the long narrow nave to the apse we are reminded that our journey through life is but a pil grimage to the holy of holies in the world beyond, and that in the straits of this sojourn here on earth we can always find refuge at the merev-seat of God. The soft, mellow light shed through the stained-glass windows strengthens the sense of remoteness from the profane world and attunes our heart to reverence.

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The subjects depicted in the altar-piece, the windows, and on the walls transport us to the days when the Saviour dwelt among men. We see the J3oy-Christ confound tile doctors in the temple. With what a pang do we stc the Lord suffer the agonies of perdition in Gethsemane. With what re assurance and joy do we behold him rising triumphant from the tomb on Easter morn. Even to view the holy edifice externally bears a blc.sing. Just as the aichcs and altar, so the towers and spires are a picture of our constant striv ing upward, and crowned with the emblem of our faith they beckon us to reck of no danger, for there can be no danger where faith leads the way. The cross appears everywhere. Often it is found in the shape of the church, a nave and transepts. Nothing is so full of meaning and dear to us as this symbol of Christianity. The very sight of it constrains us to sing: "In the cross of Christ l glory Towering o'er the wrecks of time: All the light of »acred story Gathers round its head sublime." What a multitude of historic associations cling to the cross. Once the portion of the fugitive slave and the outlaw, the equivalent of degradation and obloquy, accursed to both Jew and Gentile, it was deemed a fitting em blem for the despised, hunted-down Nazaranes. Intended for a reproach, it was accepted with fervor of devotion, and has become a badge of honor, the index of all that is highest and noblest, the ensign of triumph and victory, The great windows impress us in no mean degree with the broadness and universality of the influence emanating from the Church. As their radiance disperses the surrounding gloom, so the lustre shed from the Cross makes the Church a radiant city set on a hill to illumine the darkling world. The benevolent light-diffusing arches mildly admonish us that we too should let our light so shine before men that a poor, benighted, erring soul may be guided and impelled on the right path, may find courage and glorify the Father all-giving for the heavenly-, ent message. The massive strength and staunchness of the structure is typical of the vitality of the Christian Church. It has braved the wintry blasts and baneful storms of nigh a score of centuries in spite of the destructive hand of Time and the ill-will of its foes. Its foundations laid and its faith disseminated through the blood of the martyrs, it has defied the assaults of heathen and infidel. It has outlived nations, has survived the rise and fall of empires, and shall survive aught else. What a sense of security and exultation it awakes. Involuntarily we think of Luther’s hymn, “A mighty fortress is our God, A trusty shield and weapon.” The edifice with its harmonious design and beauty of adornment gives ex pression to the love and devoutness of the children of God. In erecting a church, that is. a house of the Lord, they strive to make it worthy of its purpose, as far as in them lies. They wish to show that it was not built

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out of the superfluity of their wealth, but that., is was' the fruit of willing sacrifies and cheenul self-denial offered up by agraterul heart. All tliac tney can devote shall redound to the honor and glory ot iiis name. It is this spirit that moved men to build .the great cathedrals. The same feeling guv. erned Israel when it brought treasure lor the building Of the temple in such unlimited measure that Solomon, being at*a loss, how to use it all, begged them to desist* Throughout the middle ages and to a great extent today the greatest achievements, of art,—-architectural, plastic, and pictorial,—have been de voted to beautifying.and adorning “the places where His honour dwells. ’ The desire td express his worship-was the incentive of many an'artist. The Christian religion has furnished the motive for all that is best in architecture, music, and painting, and has enabled these arts to attain to a‘height to which they never could have aspired without this incentive. As we gaze meditatingly on the sanctuary before us, we think of all it stands for,;and we reverently uncover. Reflecting on the past, of the Christian, church, its struggle for right, its defence of the lowly, its mollifying influence on the fierce .passions of men, we can rejoice at this sight, as an earnest of great influence for good in the future. The little band that issued from the cata combs and conquered imperial Rome, the power that assuaged the “furor Teutonicus” and reconciled the Germans to civilization, that freed the slave. restored woman to her proper rank, and spread the gospel of “Peace on earth, good will to men,” we feel assured, is mighty to-day and will still extend its conquests until time shall be no more. To a believer the sight of a noble church is an inspiration, a paeon of praise to his Creator. To the unbelieving it is a constant, urgent invitation to partake of the peace and blessing it harbors. It is indeed an eloquent sermon wrought in stone. R. A. Owen, ’05.

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The close of another year is again at hand. After four months of study and labor we can enjoy a few weeks of vacation. Especially for the new comer at college the coming vacation is very important. It is his first return to his home from college. We can already see them walk to the stations and there ask for a time-table to see which is the first train that will carry them home after the clo.e of school. They are counting the days when they will return home. They imagine themselves welcomed by their parents, brothers and sisters and the many questions about college they will ask them. They arc making plans a month before the vacation as to how they will spend their vacation. We are not troubled with examinations and are given ample rest to prepare for the examinations that come after the vacation toward the end of the first semester. We arc not absent a very long time from friends and 227

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school-mates, and as nearly every day of the vacation is a day of festivity this time soon passes and we find ourselves assembled again and behind our books. For all mankind Christmas is a cheertul time oi the year and es pecially for the Christian. Christmas day is the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ. We hope that we shall all be aide to meet again after our vacation and we wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Y ear. Th s c 11 We often hear people say that a novel is “stale.” On in i'® °" a ®,, quiring lor its title we find that in many cases it i. a good, a e ove. Classical book. But why do these books seem uninteresting? It is true, the story of a good novel may not be so interesting as that of one which does not rank so high in literature, but that alone ought not to make it "stale.” There are persons who read a well written novel only, or at least especially, for the narrative, and are then often disappointed becau. e it is not carried out as they should like it. Such persons also read hastily and pay no attention to the language and style ol the author nor the character described, and the like. It is hardly possible to read very fast and still enjoy all the good part of a book, as the good author never writes carelessly and never is thoughtless as to the reflection of his words and characters. In read ing slowly these things may be observed. From a classical novel we ought and can learn many a thing, but not without much work and thinking. To read it means to study it. One reading will usually not suffice, and a second and a third enable the reader to become more familiar with the author’s style and thought, while the plot is mostly impressed on his mind the first time he reads it. In fact, a good novel is mo t interesting after one has read it at least once, if not oftener. Thus the reader is acquainted with the thoughts of the author and to some extent thinks with him, and soon finds his work interesting. No doubt every one who makes a study of the good books he reads will not be disappointed and disgusted in the end, and will perhaps derive more benefit from one of this class than he would from several of less importance. Is it advisable to open the windows in your study-room? Open Windows. Nine persons out of ten would not be able to answer this question, despite the fact that it was discussed time and again in books, magazines, and newspapers by many learned physicians. If you enter a room of from eight to ten inmates and someone complains of foul air, instantly several persons will open every possible window or door. No matter how quiet the air is without, the heavy, cold air pressing in on the lighter warm air within will immediately cause a draft. Soon the draft becomes uncomfortable and again every window is closed. The result is

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as before, foul air. Thus the inmates are constantly kept busy opening and closing the windows. Besides, if one is exposed to the draft, even the health of the soundest body will soon be undermined. All this may be remedied by simply opening one window slightly from below to give the iresh air a chance to enter, and another on the same side of the room from above to let the foul air pass out freely. A common way of ventilating is by means of reg isters above the floor and below the ceiling, but the bed ventilators arc and will always be, the windows. A house with closed windows is like a man with closed eyes. Open your windows, therefore, if you wish to remain healthy and strong! It is indeed a laudable and commendable virtue to be Do Not Be polite. Politeness characterizes the true gentleman as well Officious. as the perfect lady. One never has any difficulty in dis tinguishing a polite gentleman or lady from others who are rude and uncivil in their manners. If any one is polite, he will aways gain the good will of hi- fellow beings. He will, moreover, be respected by every one, even though lie be of very humble birth. Just as many other things, however, politeness can be carried to extremes, and it is the abuse of a good thing that always spoils it. When a person is over polite we call him officious, and it is against this gross mistake that we would guard people. There are few things that can make man more de testable to his fellow mortals than his being officious. Now you will perhaps ask how far politeness goes. To this we would say that it would be an impossibility to draw the exact dividing line. This must be left to the dis cretion of every individual. Everybody is expected to have so much common sense as to know when his or her services are recpiested or not. If you see that your offices are not demanded, do not, for anything in the world, impose them on any one, for they will not be appreciated. Even though you have good intentions, they will be misinterpreted and only serve to get you into discredit with your friends. If people will bear this fact in mind on their journey through life, their presence will be much more agreeable to others. It is a pleasure to look into the honest, upright faces of our companions. Honesty will take us farther than money. It is something that has a lasting effect. We can win friends and honor and also shape our characters by being honest. George Washington’s story with his hatchet is always vivid before my eyes as a striking'evidence of manliness although he was only a boy. By openly de claring his guilt he touched his father’s heart and made him exclaim: “I had rather lose all my fine trees than have my boy tell me a lie.” George gained his father’s confidence, freed himself of a troubled conscience, and took a Truthfulness,

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great step in preparing himself for the great work that he was yet to do. Our thoughts, words, and actions are the mould that shapes our characters. Jf we lie once, we are so much weaker to resist the temptation the second time. If we, however, are firm the first time, we have strengihend ourselves a great deal. It would be well to note these simple lines: "Never tell a lie, my bov, always speak the truth, if at work or if at play, always the truth.” For a truthful and honest man there is always a demand, lie is the man that will come out ahead in life’s battle. If we once deceive any one, we can never com pletely blot out the stain that is on us. It is true, we often see succe slid people that are honored, and hold high positions, and yet they got all this bv crooked means. But in such cases nine times out of ten they will again lose all they have and will stand before the world in shame and disgrace. However it may appear we are in many instances somewhat unju.-t or rather partial. We never censure small crimes so severely as large ones, and yet there is no difference. If we can be truthful and honest in trilling affairs, we are certain of being truthful in great affairs much more easily. Just as we cannot rise at a single bound, but build the ladder by which we rise, we also cannot keep out of great crimes before we stop falling into small i >nes. The small things are what count. All we need do is try.

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that lie had put to the owner of the chicken, a few moments ago. What should he say? Should he take upon himself the responsibility of vouching for the qualities of a bird that he had never seen? :\o, he was too cautious a man to commit himself thus rashly. So he turned again to the owner of the chicken: "Can it cackle?"—whereupon the owner emphatically repeated his former statement: "Yes, it can cackle,"—and the second speaker, now being quite convinced, again turned to the third, repeating the words: "Yes, it can cackle.” The third speaker now offered the bargain to his right-hand neighbor, and from him the question: "Can it cackle?’ again went back, via the third and second speaker, to the first, and the answer: "Ye., it can cackle,” was again passed, via the second and third, to the last speaker. As the game went on, the company, most of whom had at first not noticed that a game was in progress, soon became attentive. The continuous “Can it cackle?" and "Yes, it can cackle," going back and forth over more and more stations, drawing a new participant into the game at each round, soon began to tell on the laughing mu.cles of the company. The spirit of un easiness and constraint was soon dispelled, and a genuine, spontaneous gayety began to assume its sway. This being achieved, the game had served its purpose, and the leader of the game, who was de facto, if not dc jure, the M. C. of the evening, showed his good sense in bringing the game to a timely end. Mv pessimistic friend of the May number says: “Tell me of a parlorgame which is not a milk-and-water sort of thing, too tiresome or too silly to afford real amusement to intelligent people." I agree that these epithets apply to the great majority of games in use. But the young people compos ing the party of which I am speaking were all intelligent people, some of them even highly educated, yet \ can testify that the game, however abrurd it was, afforded them real amusement. Absurdity and silliness arc not the same thing. A little piece of absurdity, now and then, will be relished even by the most intelligent. Coming to think of it, the very fact that I can enjoy a thing for the mere absurdity of it proves to me that [ am possessed of some degree of intelligence, for a stupid person would take the matter too seriously to feel amused. But as T said before, the M. C. showed good sense in bringing the game to a timely end. If this sort of thing is protracted over more than io minutes, it will, indeed, grow tiresome and—silly. Besides, it is not a game in the full sense of the word, as it lacks one of the elements of a game: the clement of contest. (To be continued.)

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embodiment of the fame of the Medici family. Micliaelangelo was very earnest and religiou s an admirer of Dante and Savonarola. He studied the Bible and whenever lie created a work of art he had a message to impart. He thought not only of light and shade or of execution in his work, but primarily of the meaning it was to express. Always fresh and pleasing arc the College Chips (Decorah, la.) The November number contains excellent articles on the temperance question. Why is intemperance the greatest foe of our nation? Because in a country, where every man should think and act intelligently as a factor in govern ment, intemperance obliterate, the boundary line between man and beast, for an intoxicated man can no more distinguish between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, than a brute. Physically and mentally it makes him a ruin, a sorry testimonial of sin and shame followed by wrath. Drunkenness brings with it other terrible evils, for vice:, like misfortunes, never come singly. How can we overcome it? From within, by educating men on Christian principles, teaching them that true happiness lies in the control of the mind over the body, that Christianity requires us to mortify our bodies and their lusts. From without, bv enforcing the laws and protecting the young people against temptation. Finally we must teach them through our own good example. We must practice self-denial and mo~al courage. We cannot o ccupy neutral ground, much as we should like to. Too long have we said testily, "Am, I my brother's keeper?” Yes the Lord wants, us to watch over our brother’s welfare. Christian love demands it of us, we can not evade it, ours is the responsibility. The Rntnonian { Providence, R. 1.) brings to light ”a neglected phase of Rosetti’s poetry.’’ Of all English poets Dante Gabriel Ros.etti apparently is tin most un-English. In him the materialistic movement originating with Keats reached its culmination. Its tenet was, "Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty." The writer shows, what has often been overlooked, that Rossetti is far from being out-and-out material! tic. At first glance he appears so in deed, for when we read his poems, the air grows heavy with the rich odor of poppies and in the condensing fumes we see voluptuous visions of beautiful women. Sensuousness is the surface characteristic of his work. More closely observed he betrays a propensity for mysticism. He has divine visions clothed m sensuous. tangible habiliments. Occasionally he shows flashes of the genius of Dante, his great teacher and ideal. His tone is that of the Middle Ages but he has refined and sublimated their coarse'superstition by combin ing religious fervor with arti tic delicacy. While Milton materializes the spiritual, Rossetti tries to raise the material world to the plane of the spiritual. After the death of his young wife bis poems are characterized by a groping up ward for the light of immortality. He sings of love in death which is to be con summated in the Beyond. He still clings to a sensuous love, “soul in soul,” and hand in hand,” but he has purified, etherealized and made it immortal.

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Prospects for a large military company were very favorable when we came back to college tins fall. About lorty of the old members had returned and about thirty recruits volunteered to join the ranks, which together gives the company a membership ot about seventy, including the officer.. At the beginning of tall the old members had drill three times a week. Platoon movements and marching were specially observed and the bayonet exercises were reviewed. The recruits were drilled lour times during the week. Through the diligent work, both on the part of the officers and the recruits, they were able to join the ranks of the company alter about two months’ drill. As soon as the cold weather set in, platoon drill in the gym nasium was begun. The first platoon drills on Monday and on Thursday and the second platoon on Tuesday and Friday. Wednesday the recruits drill alone. Owing to the fact that the military company has more members than usual, it will be necessary to order about twenty-five new rifles. Of late the quarter masters are taking special care to put the arsenal in as good a shape as pos sible. The gun racks have received a new coat of paint and arc decorated with white numbers on a black background, producing a most pleasing effect. An electric light will be substituted for the old kerosene lamp. The officers of the military company this year are: Captain, Reinhold Breutzmann; first lieutenant, John Abclmann ; second lieutenant, Adolf Sauer ; first sergeant, Henry Woyahn; second sergeant and right guide, Henry Diehl; third sergeant and left guide, Frank Fischer; fourth sergeant and quarter master, Arnold Eickmann; fifth sergeant and assistant quartermaster, Edwin Sauer; sixth sergeant and color bearer, Fred Stern: corporals. Max Ilensel, Alexander Korn, Theodore Schocwe, George Rickemann, Henry Hart wig, and Rudolph Korn. In the last meeting Reinhold Breutzmann was elected president and Henry Woyahn vice-president. The other officers are: Secretary, Adolf Sauer, and treasurer, Edwin Sauer. 230

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MILWAUKEE MEDICS o— N. W. U. 41. ()ur first football eleven ended a most successful season on Saturday, November iy, by defeating the Milwaukee Medics by a score of 41—o. The game was unusually one-sided, the Medics not being in a position once to make a touchdown. Northwestern kicked off to the Medics, who returned the ball about twenty yards and lost it on downs. As soon as Northwestern got the ball, Woyahn made a forty-yard run for a touchdown. After this they gained almost at will around the Medics’ ends. Wendland made a touchdown on a fifty-yard run. It was, however, almost impossible to make many gains through the Medics’ line, as it outweighed Northwestern’s line by about twenty pounds to a man. The final score was 41—o. Lineup and Summary: Medics. N. W. U. ........... Eickmann Koceja (Capt.) . C. Motzkus, Pankow R. G Bergncr .............. ................... Sauer (ircul ich ............. R. T. ............. Kowalke R. E. Kay sen ............. ............. Luedtkc ,.. L. (i.. Drews ............... ................... Berg . .L. T.. Lawler, O’Connor Wendland (Capt.) ..L. E.. Kenney ............... ..O. B.. ............... Whyte Scarles ............... ............. Woyahn R. II. B. Patterton ............ ....... Breutzmann L. II. B Mortcll ............... Kumm, Motzkus F. B. (. harhonneau Touchdowns, Wendland 1, Woyahn 2, Breutzmann 1, Kumm 2, Sauer 1; goals, Breutzmann 6: referee, Stem: umpire, Cassel; linesman, Zeisler: time keepers, A. Korn and Palmer: time of halves, twenty and twenty-five minutes. 237

| 0 | LOCALS | 0 —Adolf Sauer, ’06, and Edwin Sauer, *07, spent Thanksgiving at the home of their parents at Juneau. —Wilhelm Wadzinski, ’09, and Martin Haase, ’ll, paid Rev. Haase a visit at lxonia November 27. —Alexander Zuehlke, Ac., ’06, spent Thanksgiving at the home of his parents in Juneau. —Gotthold Schlei, ’09, was pleasantly entertained at the home of 1 Ians Gaebler on Thanksgiving Day. —William Eberhardt of Fond du Lac visited his cousin, Arnold Eickmann, ’06, November 19-26. —Herman Mueller, '06, was suddenly called to his home at Wilson, Minn.. on account of the severe illness of his father on November 20. —George Rickemann, ?o8, visited at his home in Helenville on Thanksgiving Day. —Miss T. Bittner, ’05, visited friends at Richwood November 27. —Henry Schneider, 08, and Herman Klingbiel, '11, payed Rev. August Bergmann, at Milton, a visit on November 24. —Mr. Christ Probst, formerly a member of the class of ’00, called on his brother Sigmund, '09, December 1. He is now employed as mail clerk on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. —Paul Bergmann, '09, spent Thanksgiving at the home of his parents in Milwaukee. —Joseph Krubsack, Ti, visited his parents at Lebanon November 24. —Herbert lvirchner, To, visited his home at Lowell November 20. —Otto Koch, ’09. paid his parents at Columbus a visit on November 20. —Joe De Gelleke of Milwaukee made a call on his nephew, 1 lerman Kresse, To, November 25. —Ernst Heilmann, 05, and Adolph Pankow, ’09, visited at the home of Rev. Pankow November 24. —Alexander Sitz, ’09, spent Sunday, November 20, at his home in lxonia. —Arnold Pankow of Milwaukee called on his brother Adolph, ’09, Novem ber 22. —Rev. Julius Bittner and Miss Eleonore Bittner, formerly of the class of '09, of Mayville made a call on Julius Bittner, ’12, November 18. —John Abelmann, ’05, Henry Diehl, 07, and George Luedtke, 07, were pleasantly entertained at the home of Rev. Klingmann on Thanksgiving Day. —Prof. August Ernst attended the meeting of the Board of Trustees at Mil waukee in the interest of the new dormitory November 15. 23s

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—Martin Raasch, 03, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa visited college friends November 25. —()lto Stern ol I leaver Dam called on his brother Fred, '07, November 24. — Edwin llaebcnrolh, ’oy, spent Thanksgiving at the home of his parents at Milwaukee. —Rev. and Mrs. Pankow of Waterloo made a call on their son Adolph, ’oy, November 21. —Mi-s Frnst, who is instructor at the Downer College in Milwaukee, spent Thanksgiving at the home of Prof. August Ernst. —Since the first Sunday in Advent evening services were held in the Ev. Luth. St. Mark’s church every Sunday. — Prof. 11. Frank made a trip to Milwaukee November 5. —Mrs. (i. Stern of Heaver Dam called on her son Fred, ’07, Sunday, Oc tober 23. — Mr. Henry Reichert, who attended our college in the beginning of the nineties, has organized a class of mu ic and :s instructing a number of students on piano, violin, and violinccllo. — Ernst lleilmann, 05, and Adolph Pankow, '09. visited friends at Ixonia November 20. — Mrs. Lehmann and Miss Elsie Lehmann of Hustisford made a call on Emil Lehmann, Ac. ’07, and Paul Lehmann. Ti, November 16. — A pleasant reception was given to the members of the senior class at the home of Dr. Whyte on Friday evening, November 25. — Ferdinand Christgau, formerly of the class of ’03, has obtained a posi tion as editor on the Chicago Record-Herald. Of late he has made an invention on a typewriter, on which he holds a patent. s—At the time of this writing the work on the new dining hall is almost l' completed. The only thing to be done as yet is the plastering and the fin ishing of the inside, which is expected will also be completed within two or three weeks. The work on the new dormitory has also begun. Trees that stood on the site of the new building were cut down and excavations have begun. Hut unfortunatelv frost and snow have set in, which makes it impossible to proceed any farther with the work. 1

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—Experience is a good school, To which we all must go; But no one likes its college-yell Of plain ‘T told you so.” —Ole invested in a watch! —Skirts: “What is wood made of?” —Dr. Br.: “Get your phisiogminy out of the. way." —Cartoon took a picture of the electric light. —A: “I beg your pardon for the wrong 1 have done you." B: “Thank you.” —Bushel: “Hundred pounds make one cutweight.” —Chinx: “1 got my soap cheap: it only costed me live cents.” —P. H.: "How much does a ton of diamond weigh?" —Prof.: “Quid est extremus locus?" Zipher: “Number ten.” —“See it snow, friend Br----- .” Br.: “Yes, that is a peculiar, ridiculous phenominal.” —Russico (awaking): "I dreamt and slept that life was duty." —Prof.: “What is a coupon ?” Cheesy: “That blue thing you find in the tobacco-bags." —She: "What would you do if a young lady proposed to you ?" Silent Fritz: “1 should crawl through the eye of a needle." —Pete: “My father is a Republican. What is yours?" Spits: “A butcher.” —Prof.: „Woruber hat der Pastor gepredigt ?“ Pupil: „t)ber die Kanzel." —Cheesy: “Obsta principiis—Withstand all principles.” —Br-ckm: “You might be doctor of the swellum caput." —A “Do you wipe off vour hands every time you get them dirlv?” B: “Surely.” A: “I don’t: I wipe off the dirt.” —Tough II: “I have chosen the song * Bedelia’ as my special favorite." John: “So have I.” We wonder why they both agreed upon the same choice. —Cartoon got a new camera. He says the first picture he took was a time explosure. —Cholly: “What takes freckles away ?” Sextaner: “Alki-oil” (alcohol). 240

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—Heard on the street: “Why, Earnie, what a pretty, blue necktie!” —VVe arc told that Z-ll’s brains have begun to work. He himself says that the rear of his head pains him very much. So we may at least be sure that he has his brains in the head. —Tough 1. loves to decline the word “lux.” He lays special stress on the dativ singular. —Cholly: “I’m going to the dedication of the new ‘Arabian’ church.” — Breutz: “Oh my corns; they do bother me so. I tried to cure them with lemons and other medicine, but in vain.” Oily: "Why don't you try the new corn cure?” —A stanza sent to us by our ex-poet: "Lives of great men all remind us We may yet be shining lamps; And departing leave behind us Other heads for postage stamps.” — An "Acorn's” Reverie: Oh, why did’st thou refuse me, Thou dearest friend of mine? Oh, why did’st thou not trust me And link thine heart to mine? Oh, answer please my question And do not let me wait? Accept my proposition Before it is too late! THE ENGAGING PHYLLIS. Phyllis went to halls of learning, Wisdom seeking, honors earning: Phyllis charming, Phyllis glad. :

Phyllis blithely wandered school ward: Irksome was the journey homeward. Phyllis weary, Phyllis sad. By a corn distressed was Phyllis, Angered sought a corn-cure Phyllis, Phyllis jaded, Phyllis mad. With her bow she went thereafter, Gave the corn no thought, but laughter, Phyllis happy, Phyllis glad.

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Watertown, Wisconsin, January, 1905.

LITERARY ■

Number 8

A Wolf Hunt. 11 was in the winter of 1902. The landscape was clothed in a sheet of snow and a mild wind blew from the south. Both the day and the weather could not have been suited better for the occasion, for on this day a great wolf hunt was to take place. This had been the excitement for the last few days. A wolf hunt in this part of Nebraska was something rare. As far as I can remember there had been none for the last fifteen years. For this reason the wolves around there had become quite nnumerous and could be seen near the farmyards early in the morning, causing consternation among chaunticleer and his wives. The wolves, however, were not dangerous other wise. Coyotes is what they are called. Because a hunt was something unusual, everybody, both young and old, able to shoulder a gun or carry a club participated. The country that was to be crossed was about fifteen- miles square. It is evident, therefore, that, unless a systematic plan of procedure was* adopted, the whole hunt would prove fruitless. All the men and boys with guns, clubs and cowbells, not to forget with their hounds, were to encircle the area which was to be crossed. Men on ponies were appointed to act as captains or leaders. It was their duty to give orders to the hunters encircling the ground, so that they kept a circle as near as possible or better so that they left no openings at places which would give the wolves a chance to escape. Nearly in the center of the hunting ground was a large prairie covering some eighty to one hun dred acres." On the prairie they intended to meet. If any wolves should be in the ring, this prairie would give them a good opportunity to shoot them. As said before, the weather could have been no better and the snow was just of the right depth. In the right mood, therefore, each squad with

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its captain went to their appointed place and then the whole company began its hunt. “Don’t go too fast,” called out a leader. “Make all the noise you can,” said another. "Keep close together there,” said a third. And on they went through cornstalks, across ploughed ground and stubble fields, over fences, across ditches and creeks. Yells and laughter rang through the morning air. The report of a gun was heard every now and then, a sure sign that some rabbit, squirrel or quail had been the target of the huntsman. Among the crowd closing in from the south was a vouim. somewhat ungainly lad on a small pony. lie held a Winchester in one hand and the reins of his bridle in the other. “Say, Charlie, what do you think you will do with your repeater and buckskin pony to-day?” said Will Thompson to Charlie Coles. “O, I intend to get at least one wolf,” Charlie replied. “If he gets anything with that old gun of his today. I’ll cat my shirt,” said Will to his companion, Ray Gates, at the same time casting a sidelong glance at Charlie. There was a haughty smile on his face and a tinge of sarcasm in his words. "Do you remember the last time we were out hunting with him, Ray, when he shot two rabbits that should have been mine. And laughed at us when we went home, because we didn’t get anything?” “Yes, I do,” said Ray, "and do you remember that lie said his pony could outrun any other in the country?” “Charlie, I’ve got a mule at home that can run faster than your old buck skin,” called out Will, laughing loudly. “Don’t trouble yourself about my pony,” said Charlie, “you know he can outrun anything you ever had.” After this very little was said by the boys. Charlie knew they envied him. He was, therefore, the more determined to do something. Nothing could shake him in his resolutions had he once settled on them. Without many words, he always did his duty. Because he never tried to offend anyone and had a few words of cheer and a smile for all, he was loved wherever he went, but because he was generally successful in his undertak ings, he also had a few enemies. He now made his pony walk a little faster and with his eyes followed all the movements around him. It was near twelve o’clock. No one had yet seen a wolf. The distance between the opposite sides of the hunters was yet some four miles. . “What do you think my hounds will do with the first wolf they see,” said a strong looking man with three pretty but strong hounds by his side. “They ought to tear a wolf to pieces, I should judge,” said another. These were not the only hounds in the crowd, but they had already gained a reputation as the fastest runners and the. fiercest fighters of all the hounds in the country. It was quite evident that some of the younger boys were getting tired by this time, and many were wishing that the prairie would soon be reached. But when there was only a half mile left to the meeting place and the

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whole prairie could be overlooked and the wolves they had encircled could be seen running first one way and then another, all the tired looks vanished. A yell rang through the air and it was with difficulty that the leaders kept order among their men. Nine wolves found themselves penned up. They seemed frightened half to death. They would bunch up in the middle, then scatter and make a desperate attempt to break through the line. Several that ventured too near the line met with a bullet from some one’s rifle. . One wolf, the largest in the pack, was running directly for the man with the above-mentioned hounds. “Open up a little,” he cried. The men parted in order to make an opening. The wolf, seeing this, took the opportunity and ran through. Xo one shot, for it was too dangerous. But as soon as the wolf was through one man let loose his hounds, and now a chase began. The wolf was quite fleet-footed, but the superior speed of the hounds was too much for him. But when he saw that he could not escape, he turned for a fight. Three to one, poor wolf, his stand was not bad, but soon he was down and killed by the merciless hounds. This little incident had drawn the eyes of many of the hunters thither, and carelessly they let three of the.wolvcs escape. < )ur friend Charlie had all this time been looking anxiously for a chance to kill a wolf. Another of the wolves had been caught by the hounds. Now W ill raised his gun and down came a wolf. Only one wolf was left, five had been flilied. Will hail one of them. There was only one tiling left for Charlie to do. He whipped his pony and galloped into the ring that was now already breaking in places. The wolf saw him come and ran for an opening. Charlie’s pony was well trained and knew what he had to do. He followed the wolf closely. No one risked a shot and Jim Long held back his bounds to see how Charlie would manage his pony and rifle. As soon as he was clear from the crowd he raised his gun. He shot, he missed his mark. Soon they had crossed the prairie, but this seemed not to trouble our horseman at all in his wild chase. Over fences, across ditches, into the valleys and up the hills they went. The wolf could not gain and Charlie could not hit the wolf. Four shots had failed their mark. Again he raised his gun. This time he broke the wolf’s left hind leg. This slackened his speed somewhat, but still on he went. With only one cartridge left, Charlie saw that he must take the greatest care lest the wolf might yet escape. His pony also was rapidly tiring and eighty rods from him was the creek and woods. He knew that he must act, and that at once. Urging his pony onward, he raised his gun, watched his chance and shot. Was it in vain? No. The wolf dropped in his tracks, shot through the heart. Great was Charlie’s joy when he saw his sucecss. With the wolf before him on his pony, he was soon galloping towards the rest of the men, who were awaiting his return. He was hailed from all E. A. W., ’o6. sides with undiguised admiration.

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During the following years Joseph attended the parochial school, al though very unwillingly. Whenever it chanced that he received a larger or smaller amount of money either as a present or as wages he would squander it immediately. So his school lite passed by slowiy and sadly. But how did he rejoice when it had finally elapsed and he was confirmed at the altar of his native church at the age of fourteen. Now he thought he should be free from the stringent rule of his teachers and become his own master. But this idea, as he found afterwards, was to lead him to destruction. Now the problem of gaining his maintenance was resting very heavily upon him. After earnest and diligent consideration he decided to work in a drug store for several years and then to be a pharmacist. This he did, and when he had worked a year he received his payment for which he had dearly longed. Now the question arose what he should do with these wages. To answer this question lie went to his friends. Joseph’s friends were very glad to aid him and asked him to undertake a pleasure trip and leave his home for some time with them. Gladly did Joseph accept this proposition and instructed his fellow-citizens to be pre pared to leave the next day, which they all were willing to do. Without saying farewell to his parents, Joseph departed from his parents’ house the following morning and traced his steps towards the depot, where his comrades were already awaiting him. All of them bade him a happy good-morning, and on their countenances gleamed their inner feel ing-, for all of them expected to lead a happy life and to be free from the scrutiny of oilier people. But they also were to experience that they were utterly mistaken. With anxious looks they awaited the arrival of the train, and when it did at last arrive they gave a hearty shout, hoping never to return again to their native city. \\ hen they had boarded the train they discussed the question what to make their destination and where to pitch their camp. After a long dis putation they agreed to travel several days that it might not be detected so easily where they had gone to. Now they had reached the outskirts of their native city and they all took a farewell glimpse at it. On and on the train hurried with a speed that made them tremble, and after three days they had arrived at their destination. When they had descended from the train they searched the surrounding country and took note of a little forest in the distance. On nearer approach they also took note of the great river which was flowing through the forest and thus cutting the forest in two parts. They concluded that this little forest would serve well as a fishing and hunting station. When they had reached the border of this little forest, they found it to be uninhabited. Now they determined to erect their camp in the forest and thus be their own masters. After they had performed all this the party sent Joseph to the neighboring town to buy provisions and intoxicating liquors, for he

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owned the money and had paid all previous expenses. After Joseph returned again the party ate supper and then prepared for the night s repose. Thus time went on and every day Joseph was seen tracing his steps towards the neighboring town and returning again after several hours. But two months after their departure from their native city this ceased, because Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s money was used up and with it the friendship had ceased. In place of joyfulness and friendship unhappiness and hatred ensued; all the blame was given to Joseph. Several of the party longed to return to their homes again, but the fear of their parents, whom they had not informed about their intentions and from whom they had not taken leave, was too great; a shudder crept over them when they thought of the moment they should arrive at home and ask their parents for pardon. Still the fear was not great enough with several of them to keep them from going home, but the majority went abroad and turned vagrants. Joseph, however, did not join cither of these parties, but traveled from one city to another and sought for work. He found employment, but whenÂ ever he received his wages he squandered them immediately and was thus forced to change his position very often. After several years he died abroad, poor and ragged, a victim of misdirected affection. O. H., 08. The Lost Son. The wind was northwest! Everybody knows that the wind is frightfully and bitingly cold when it comes out of that quarter on a January day. And so it was. Your face became too rigid for a smile and your finger tips too numb to do anything. Rubbing your hands was in vain, the best thing was to put them into your pockets. It was on such a day that a companion and 1 made a trip of twenty-four miles in a buggy to a place where my companion lived on a farm three miles from Nyetown. We had to drive mostly facing the wind. My companion, Air. Holston, for this story concerns him not me, was a fine hale old gentleman of about seventy winters. He had been living alone on his farm for many years after having met with many disasters and troubles. His wife had died some twenty-five years ago and his only son, George, had left twenty years ago. . George, a stout and handsome young man, fled from home with his bride, the belle of the town, because his father would not consent to their marriage. The father tried for many years to find them, but all in vain. There was no trace of them to be found. After about seven years a sad report reached the father. The wife of George had died leaving a sweet little girl of four years, and that a year later George, while struggling hard for himself and his little daughter, met with a severe accident and was killed. This sorrowful news was very hard for the father to bear. He was not able to find rest anywhere. He traveled and inquired where they may have died, but with the same result as before. Tie often spoke of the little girl and was wishing he could find her.

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We had progressed some ten miles on our journey when we reached a small village. Vve stopped at a small tavern. After entering and ordering something warm, we went into the large waiting room, invited by the roaring fire. . \ s we entered we noticed another party near the stove on a couch. It was a man and a lady, both shivering from the cold. The one particularly interesting us was the rather gray-haired and care-worn man. The cold seemed to have made him insensible, and his almost equally frozen partner was attempting to bring Lack some life into the poor creature. After seeing this pitiful scene Mr. Holston went up to them and took the bony hands of the half-frozen man between his palms and began rub bing them. The lady now told us of his also being blind which made me shudder. "We’ll never reach the home,” she said to Mr. Holston, "for it is so bitterly cold that the cold goes right through us.” "Where are you going?” asked my companion. "Fourteen miles on, sir,” was the reply. Mr. Holston looked at me, four teen miles on was his own village. He looked at both of them once more but did not recognize their faces. "Yes,” said the lady, "we have been traveling for a long time.” "Well,” answered Mr. Holston, "you can’t make the rest of the way in this condition. Here is some money, take the next train which is due here for Ncytown at 7:15 P. M.” She thanked us very much. We gazed at the dead-like creature once more and then told the landlady to do all the good she could for him. We started, the wind still blowing a gale. We arrived safely at Mr. i Iol.st011’s home and soon had a fire ablazing that would have defied any cold northwest wind. After supper my companion got the chess-board and asked me to play a game with him. I did, but, as was the case on my former visits, I was most woefully beaten. My mind was wandering away on a hundred different subjects called up by the last incidents. We retired. 'I'he next morning when I awoke everything was quiet. The wind had ceased and the sun was throwing his rays on my bed. I got up and found Mr. Holston preparing breakfast. We breakfasted like princes that morn ing and then left for the woods to fell trees. We had been working for some time when we saw the clergyman of the Nyetown parish coming toward us. After having received him with the greatest of kindness we left for the house. Being all seated the minister began to tell the object of his visit. "I am here on rather strange business,” said he. "It’s about those poor people you have been so kind to yesterday at Brownsville.” "Poor people, poor people,” replied Mr. Holston. "Yes, yes,” was the clergyman’s return, "the man is very sick and would like to see you.” "Could you probably tell me who they are ?” asked Mr. Holston.

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This was too sudden for the clergyman. He did not expect this question so soon and was somewhat embarrassed. Mr. Holston repeated his ques tion, but with a little stronger voice. “I know them,” answered the minister after some hesitation, "It’s your—son.” “Who?” asked Mr. Holston full of excitement as if somebody was killed. "It is your son George and his daughter,” repeated the minister nervousK. Here Mr. Holston fainted. It was too much for him in his old days. After he had recovered we ail left for the clergyman’s residence at Xyetown. where George and his daughter were. There was poor George, sick unto death, blind, care-worn as if he were some seventy, while lie was only forty. Twenty years had lie been away from home, a total wreck. Beside the bed knelt his loving and charming daughter, Annie, the picture of innocence. The report about George’s death was false, but not the rest. He had met with many calamities, lost his wife, yes, lost everything he had except his daughter, who had supported him for the last three years. Two thousand miles had they traveled to reach home. Mr. Holston enterered—a cry—and arm in arm they lie crying for joy. George, being very low, was only sobbing and begging his father for for giveness, which he willingly and freely granted. But no sooner had the father done this than George’s lips did not move anv more. He was—dead. F. S.. ’07.

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The time for study while at school is all the time. It is evident that in order 10 finish the year with a good number on the report we must have worked from the beginning to the end. But of all the year the winter months seem to be more suitable for study than the rest of the year. In these months there are not so many outside attractions, and these are the things that lead us away from our books to a certain extent. Football is a thing of the past, baseball has not yet returned, the ice is under a thick layer of snow, and the weather is, as a rule, disagreeable. The warm room is by far the most pleasant place of all, and for amusement let it be some study in which we are delinquents. This is the time when we can devote a few extra hours to our work and the time when we should brush up what has already become rusty in our minds. Our field of work is large and knowledge gained is never lost. Homer would be more gracious 259

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to us if we should favor him with a few extra hours a week, Cicero would enjoy it likewise, and history would be a better friend to us. For the extra work done in these months for study we shall be rewarded, When spring comes with its balmy air and the landscape will again assume a dress most lovely to the sight, we shall, by our extra effort now, be allowed to sacrifice a few leisure hours then to nature in all its visible forms, and we also shall not have to suffer till midnight the glow of the lamp in the sultry evenings of June. Why is the English Writer More Popular With his People than the German Writer? It is a very strange fact that the English-speaking race adores and reveres . its writers much more than-does .the German. 1 he next thing lor us to do in • this case will be to look for a solution of this problem, ifwe may call it such, and the first question that naturally presents itself to us is: Do the English writers rank higher than the German? We shall not venture to give a decisive answer on this point, for we who are Germans are inclined to • claim the crown for ourselves, and, on the other hand, the English would be disposed to claim it for themselves. Thus we shall leave this question open to discussion. We, and all the world, concede that Shakespeare is the greatest of all poets. This fact will hardly admit of any dispute. Besides Shakespeare, however, the English have many other writers of minor im portance, and they can still enjoy reading them very much. The Germans, too, have a number of good writers besides Goethe and Schiller, but they do not interest the common folk very much any more. Why is it. now, that the English can read their Spencer and their Milton, while Klopslock and Wieland are but names to the Germans. For this strange fact Treitschke, we think, offers us a good solution. He contends that the English writers enjoyed the benefit of a historic back ground, while the German writer was obliged to attain to prominence through his own strenuous efforts. Thus he says the Englishman can enjoy reading Spencer, although Shakespeare has thrown his mighty shadow over him, for the simple reason that in the "Faerie Queen” he sees Elisa beth riding on her white palfrey before that mighty army which caused the invincible Armada to retreat. Again he contends that in reading “Paradise Lost” the Englishman sees Cromwell’s mighty legions portrayed in the host of angelic combatants. It is this historic background that is missing in our German writers. From a poor, despised people they arose and gained prominence through their own genius. Thus it is evident why the English writers ought to be more popular with their people than the German writers are with their people.

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0\ir Contemporaries We wish all our exchanges a bright, successful New Year, The Abbey Student voices the opinions of all well educated and truly , cultured minds in an editorial deprecating the use of slang. “Nothing exhibits dearth of ideas so palpably as slangy phrases. * * * To one who hopes one day to be a speaker, or even to utter his thoughts elegantly, slang is fatal.’’ “The Foreman” is a tale from ranch-life that holds our attention through out. We involuntarily feel sympathy and admiration for the brawny, gen erous foreman, though he is slow of perception, as is natural when he meets a vivacious young woman. The / assar Miscellany contains a number of stories, of which “Razors’ Doll” and “A Short Cut to Success” arc perhaps the best. The former is a picture from low life. A little gamon who has gained the characteristic epithet of “Razors” makes a sacrifice to give his little sister “the kid” a merry Christmas. He undergoes a mental struggle, but generosity triumphs over selfishness. More attractive and familiar to the average reader, since its scene is laid in the middle walks of life, is “A Short Cut to Success.” A Ik>v that would be great, but had wrong conceptions of the path to great ness. strikes out for himself. Fre half a day is spent the world has lost its romantic hue, he feels its stern reality. His father’s neighbor finds him unexpectedly and takes him home, dejected, but sobered, after correcting his false impressions of greatness. The Lesbian Herald discussess the “Influence of the Papacy in Italy in the Nineteenth Century.” The relations of the papacy and the temporal powers in the land of the Caesars are treated with a thorough knowledge of the subject and a sound judgment of its merits. Doubly interesting is the resume of the life and character of Charles Wagner. The fact that he is visiting in America makes us desirous to learn something about his life. Pie is the leader of the French Liberal Protestant movement in religion, the “apostle of simplicity.” His books, “The Simple Life” and “The Better Way,” have created quite a stir even in epicurean Paris. His lofty conviction is “the peace of the soul is the key to the world.” We were pleased to receive the November number of the Mirror (Cen tral High School, Philadelphia). We count it among our oldest exchanges, but it has been sadly delinquent. Not only were we pleased by the football story, but the school and society news interested us as well, since it gives us a glimpse of school-life in “the city of brotherly love.” We hope the Mirror will not be a stranger to our table hereafter. 261

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The Milton College Review has an attractive Christmas number, pro fusely illustrated with views of the college and college people. 1 he articles 1 he are interspersed with original designs that show no little ingenuity. Three Wise Men” is one of the best Christmas stories we have read. Ginseng Culture in Wisconsin is discussed in the Royal Purple. An article on natural sciences is a rarity in college papers. The writer describes his visit to a ginseng farm at Palmyra, Jefferson County. I he roots and seed of this plant bring fabulous prices. The former are used for medicinal purposes, being exported extensively to China, where it is considered almost as a panacea, while American physicians think less of it. The seeds arc sold for cultivation. Anyone interested in the flora of Wisconsin will read the article with interest. ' We may add that ginseng is found indigenous in the woods about Watertown. One day during the last summer vacation it was our privilege to accompany ginseng-diggers into the woods and watch them gather this vegetable gold. The Lake Breeze contains a commendable storv. “Dorothy’s Christmas Gift.” The young heroine is actuated by noble sentiments. “Christmas in Germany” prettily describes the customs attending that great national festival in the Fatherland. Look when we will we are sure to find something of interest in the College Days (Ripon). It presents a very attractive appearance. The com positor’s work is a model of neatness. We enjoyed the . literary article, written in a pleasing style and with evident knowledge of our old ballads, on “English Folk-Lore Concerning Hell and Its Inhabitants.” Besides an editorial on oratory, there is an enthusiastic description of Ripon’s new Public Library, the gift of Carnegie. The frontispiece is a cut of the building as it will appear when complete. It is an acquisition about which Ripon may be happy. We heartily welcome to the field of school journalism the Quarterly Tattler (New York City). We were well pleased with its first and second numbers and desire to felicitate its editors on their auspicious beginning. We hope that the incipient ardor of the student body will always continue in its firm support of the paper. Being novices at the profession, the editors of the Tattler doubtless will be grateful for a little advice from other hands. Never put in more literary articles than you can get from your contributors. Always consider your subscribers. Always try to maintain an equilibrium between what interests other colleges and what interests the student body of your own. Perhaps the affable exchange editress found our literary department so very scanty because she is not interested in Christmas literature. She has no idea of the labor involved in judiciously treating a large exchange list. Hence for the exchange editor it sometimes is a blessing in disguise to have his column curtailed for the benefit of the Locals. The personal items given under this heading need not be read by anyone but the students and their friends. Our students certainly will be pleased to know the exchange editress of the Tattler is so much interested in them that she can hardly tear herself away from the perusal of the Locals.

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Review of the Football Season. As \vc have already said before, prospects for a good football team last fall were, at the beginning of the season, not very bright. But now tilings look different. With pride we may look back to a most successful season. We have won every regular game and the only team that scored on us is Carroll College of Waukesha. The total number of points our team scored is too, against 6 of the opponents.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The team was not very heavy, averaging only about 155 pounds. But it made up for this in speed. The following were awarded an **Nâ&#x20AC;? for the last football season: E. A. Wcndland. R. Breutzmann, M. Wovalin, T. Whyte, E. Kowalkc, E. Sauer, A. Eickmann, F. Motzkus, H. Mueller, E. Berg, W. Kumm, and substitute G. Luedtke. For the next season Adolph Sauer was again elected manager of the football team. ( aptain Wcndland played his position at left end three years. At getting his man on a punt and taking out his man in the offense nc was a steady player. Through his energetic work as captain and through his coaching it was made possible to develop the team the way it has been. He was again elected captain for the coming season. He has one touchdown to his credit. Breutzmann always played a steady game at left half, especially on the defence he put up a star game. Out of seventeen goal-kicks lie missed only l\v<r during the entire season, which certainly is a very good record, fie made two touchdow-ns. Our greatest ground-gainer was Woyahn at right half. He has the honor of making the first touchdown of the season, against Oshkosh Normal. Tie has a number of long runs in his favor and he never took the ball without gaining several yards. Of the seventeen touchdowns made during the season Woyahn made six. Kumm played a hard game at fullback, both on defence and on offence. Especially in the Oshkosh Normal game he played a star game. Pie made the second highest number of touchdowns, namely, four. Never in the history of football at our college have we had a punter do such brilliant work as Motzkus has done in the last season. His average punt was 45 yards. In the game with the Milwaukee Medics he made his longest punt, sixty yards. Outside of his regular position at left guard he played a star game as substitute at full back and at half. He has one touchdown to his credit. John Whyte at quarterback played a good game during the entire season. His* long quarterback-runs were *a feature of almost every game. While plaving safety he never missed his man. Although he was the lightest man in the team, he was always in the plays and did his share in pulling along the man with the ball. He made one touchdown on a 65-yard run. 263

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Kowalke played a steady game at right end. He was admitted to the regular eleven after the Oshkosh Normal game, in which he played sub stitute for Motzkus, who took Kumm’s place in the second half. He especially distinguished himself by tackling his man both on long-end plays and on punts. Sauer played-a good game at right tackle during the whole season. Although he was, at the beginning of the season, a little awkward at carry ing the ball he soon developed into a fast player. As steady ground-gainer we would probably class him next to Woyahn. He made one touchdown. ; When Berg entered the eleven as candidate for right guard he had really no experience whatever. But he soon got into the game. For holding his man and for making an opening a better man than he could not he wished for. I Eickmann was a safe man at center. At passing the ball to the quarter back and on punts he was sure, and it often happened that he would break through the opponent’s line. He, together with Berg and Motzkus, formed the strongest center-trio that we had for a long time. Mueller played his position at left tackle two years and always put up a steady game. At bucking his man for short-e'nd plays he was probably the strongest man in the line. He has one touchdown in his favor. Luedtke, although only substitute, played left guard in three games and always filled out the position well. MANAGER.

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—Miss Eleonore Bittner of Mayvillc visited her brother Julius, Prep., Jan uary 15. —Rev. Kirchner of Lowell called on his son Herbert, Prep., January 16. —Herman Krcsse, Prep., went to see his uncle Joe De Gelleke of Mil waukee January 14. —Miss Sophie Kottke of Manchester called on her brother Albert, Ac., January 13. —Fred Stern, '07, was elected manager of the baseball team for the season of 1005.

—William Limpert, Prep., returned to college January 15 after an illness of several weeks. — Prof. (). Hover was suddenly taken ill during Christmas vacation and had to be taken to the Ev. Luth. Hospital at Oshkosh, where he is under the care of his brother. I)r. Hover. At present he is slowly recov ering and we hope that he will soon return. Edmund Bliefernicht of the Seminary at Wauwatosa is now teaching his classes. —Elmer Bell, Prep., discontinued his studies and returned to his home at Tomah December 9. ' . • —Gotthold Schlei, Prep., met his friend Ed. Knopf of Montello January 13. ---Fred Stern, ’o7, had the misfortune of spraining his right arm in the gymnasium. While he was swinging on the trapeze one of the ropes broke and he fell from a height of ten feet on the hard floor. —Fred Bitch, Prep., discontinued his studies on account of the failing health of his father. He will probably return next fall. —Rev. Gr. Hinnenthal of Black Creek visited the institution January 4. —Alexander Korn, ’06, went to Milwaukee January 12 to teach school for several weeks in place of Mr. Ungroth, who had to stop teaching on account of illness. —Mr. Kaleita, who a short time ago came to America from Kurdistan, visited his nephew Mattheus Kaleita, Prep., during the first week in January. —Rev. Pankow of Waterloo called on his son Adolph, Prep., January 6. —William Keturakat. oS, spent Christmas vacation at Hustisford. —Mr. Paul Lehman of Hustisford visited his sons Emil, Ac., and Paul, Prep., January 7. —Paul Kirsch, ’08. spent Christmas vacation at the home of Theo. Albrecht, ’07, at Tomah. —Mr. Markus Notz. who was a member of the class of ’03, visited the insti tution January 16. He is about to make a business trip to Washington, D. C., in the interest of the Milwaukee Journal, of which he is a reporter. =.•

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He also expects to visit New York, Philadelphia and' other cities in the East. —Rev. Chr. Sauer of Juneau called on his sons Adolf, ’o6, and Edwin, ’07, January 5. —Prof. Albert Kuhn spent the holidays with relatives at Lake Benton, Minn. Oft the way he stopped at New Ulm and visited recitations at the Dr. M. Luther College, where he himself has studied several years. —On December 31, 1904, Rev. J. H. Siekcr of New York died at the age of sixty-five years. In the early sixties he was minister at Granville and belonged to the Wisconsin Synod. From 1867-75 he was president of the Minnesota Synod and was minister at St. Paul. From there he accepted a call to the St. Matthew’s Church in New York, where he remained until his death. —Mr. George Grimm of Jefferson, who attended our institution in the latter part of the seventies, recently published an interesting novel, “Pluck,” which is very favorably mentioned by prominent persons. —In spite of frost and snow the work on the cellar for the new dormitory was again resumed during Christmas vacation and, as far as the excavat ing goes, is completed. The new dining hall is also completed. There is enough room to accommodate about 225 persons. At present tables are set for 140 persons. Rev. J. Gamm of La Crosse rejoices over the arrival of a bouncing babygirl. Congratulations.

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—Sex timer: “When arc you going to send for those halfpcr fainnits?” • -Bin (on a cold day) : “To-.day die freezing point is thirty-two.” — Prof.: “What does political economy treat of?” Peruna: “The cheapest way of keeping nouse. —A: “Give me the German money system.” I>: “A hundred pfennig make a mark, twenty marks give faculty.” — I’rof.: “What are ’dogears'?” Sophy: "Lselsbruckc:).’’ — Hill:' .„lch spielte aber, dass ich die Musikkapelle bot.“ —Dutchman: “LePme take your Latin Lexington.” I'ndoubtedly Tuff had many pleasant dreams this Christinas, but none v juals the one which we are about to relate. At about twelve o’clock Tuff arose to a sitting posture and murmured something about books, lessons, studying. Suddenly he jumped up. “It is time to go to school,” he muttered, taking his shoes under his arm and starting on his journey. Xo incident happened until he reached the stairs. “Who says I can’t leap that ditch?” With these words he leaped and found he had fallen short of the mark. At first he thought he saw many lights in the ditch, but soon became aware of the fact that he saw stars at the foot of the stairway. Luckily, no bones were broken and Tuff could grope his way back to his bed. Tiie smokers have reorganized in the aquatic department for curing the worst cases of morainal superfluity, in short, in the basement. The pros pects for a large club are bright. The first meeting was held Jan. 5, KJ05. After an appropriate song, election was to follow'. Some were in favor of voting by ballot, while others wished to have the president elected by acclamation. Instantly a tumult arose. The battle-cries of the two political parties were terrible; but more terrible was the voice of the president pro tern., Hutch, who hurled a thundering “Silence!” into the very midst of the contestants. The results were remarkable. After a deadly silence a simultaneous “Ah” escaped each breast. The silence was, however, soon turned to great hilarity by the president’s words: “O quae confusio rerorum.” Then, the chairman enlightened the as sembly on the election. Finally he persuaded them to elect by ballot. But, alas! ihe ballot paper was missing. A substitute was soon found—pimppaper. The chair appointed a committee to prevent "cribbing.” The excitement was great. Bets were immediately made, the highest being a match, two pimp-papers, an empty tobacco bag, a coupon and a whiff of a three-for-a-nickel. The outcome was as follows: President, “Moshay” Butch; vice-president, “Moshav” Nemo; secretary, “Moshay” Padz. 269

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After a hearty congratulation to the new officers followed ‘the selection of a name for the club. The excitement, of course, was great. Several Sons of Shohashawa” (the names were proposed, as “Duke’s Mixers, discoverer of the tobacco plant), “Smoky Smokes.” The motion was made, seconded, and carried unanimously to accept the name “Smoky Smokes,” under the condition that the quotation marks be omitted. And great was the hilarity. Spring, alias Fruhling, alias Lenz (3 feel 48 inches), was appointed sergeant-at-arms. A proposed sleigh ride party of the club was postponed, or to use the president’s words, “procrasti nated on account of the excessiveness of frigidity.” The hilarity that followed this remark was great. A standing rule of the club is that all members are to have reached the eighteenth year, excepting, of course, those that are not so old. Several persons, among them the “Moshays,” Sha Fa and Panhandle Jim, have been accepted as honorary members. As it is “usum” that every new member mount the rostrum, this indis pensable auxiliary of oratory soon gave way under the weight of mag niloquent verbosity. The excitement was great. Finally, Pete made the motion that the chairman appoint a committee whose sole duty it shall be to build a new rostrum. The president arose and said, with a dig nified expression on his countenance, “As the committee to build the rostrum 1 appoint ‘Moshav’ Peter and—him alone.” And the hilarity was great. When the storm had abated somewhat the motion was made to close the meeting by singing a song in B flat. To show the great contrast two songs were sung—“Freezing” and “In the Good Old Sum mer Time.” ’Tis like stirring living embers when, on Sunday, one remembers That he did not buy tobacco when ’twas all the day before. And the achings and the quakings when a man finds empty pockets! But a deadly chill comes o’er me when I think of “Katzcnjammer.” ’Twas a peaceful summer’s morning when I tried my first cigar. The results shall not be given; they might bring sad recollections. “Child,” says grandpa, “what’s the matter, whence the paleness, why d’you spatter?” Then I said, “Now, dear old grandpa, don’t be anxious about me, For I’ll soon come back and tell you what it is that made me pale.” For a minute then I started. I was gone the livelong day. What I did I will not tell you, for you all have tried the same. U

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Watertown, Wisconsin, February, 1905.

LITERARY

Number 9

Die Bedeutung dcs Kirchenliedes. Seit den altcstcn Zeitcn war cs fur jedc religiose Gemeinscliaft ein wesentlichcs und natiirliches Bedurfnis, zu ilirem Gott nicht bloss gemeinschaftlicli zu beten, sondern aucli zum Ausdruck dcr lebendigen, angeregten, frommen Andacht, die Stimme gemeinschaftlich im Gesangc heiliger Lieder zu erheben. Christus liatte sclbst, als er das Abcndmahl cinsetztc, mit seinen Jiingern das grosse Hallel (die Hallelujahpsalmen 113â&#x20AC;&#x201D;118) gesungen und hatte auf diese Weise den Gebrauch dcs Gesanges, allermeist dcs Psalmengesanges, fur die von ihm gegrundete Kirclie gebeiligt. In Freud und Leid bleibt das Kirchenlied dcr Kirche getreu, es jubelt und klagt mit ihr, es teilt mit ihr ihren Reichtum und ihre Armut. Man hort im Kirchenlied den grossartigen Massengesang einer starken, objektiv festen Kirche und die sussen Klagelaute einzelner Seelen. Nichts druckt so sehr die Gemeinschaftlichkeit der Andacht aus als das Zusammenklingen aller verschiedenen einzelnen Stimmen zu einem harmonischen Ganzen im Gesang. Wie auf der einen Seite der geistliche Gesang der Erguss frommer Erhebung, der Triiger heiliger Andacht, so ist er auf der anderen Seite auch das kraftige Mittel, fromme Geisinnung anzuregen und zu beleben. Das Kirchenlied erhoht die Feierlichkeit des Gottesdienstes, es bringt die Gemeinde naher zu ihrem Gott und facht in ihr das Feuer frommer Begeisterung an.

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Besondcrs musste die machtige von der Reformation hervorgerutenc Anregung im Kirchenlicde zum Ausdruck kommen. Zum Preise der wieder erworbenen religiosen Freiheit und der neuerkannten Heilswahrheit von der unverdienten Gnadc Gottes in Christo Jesu sang man dem Herrn gei. tliclic Lieder. Ja man konnte nicht anders. Dicse Licder brachten nur zum Ausdruck, was man im Herzen empfand. Im Kirchenlied gebt die Stimmc dcs einzelnen im ganzen auf, wahrend die Stimme der einzelnen wiederum in dem Bekcnntnis aller sicb gelioben und gestiirkt fiihlt. Wie damals, so kommt auch heute die Empfindung eines Christen nirgends mehr zum Ausdruck als durch das Kirchenlied, denn wessen das 1 Ierz voll ist, des gchet der Mund liber. Gott hat das Herz des Christen frohlich gemacht durch seinen lichen Sohn. Darum miissen die Christen frdhlicli sein und mit Lust von Gottes Giite singcn, dass es aucli anderc lioren und herzukommen. Besonders in den Zeiten der Anfechtung findet der Christ neue Kraft, um die Anfechtung gliicklich zu iiberwinden. Ein von Siinde und Teufel geplagtes Gewissen findet im Kirchenlied Rube fur seine Not, ja ein tief in Siinden gefallener Christ findet darin Trost und Vergcbung. Auch gegen die Anfechtungen und Sorgen, die uns dicse Welt bcrcitet, linden wir Hilfc und Hoffnung. Wir fiirchten uns nicht vor dem Tod, denn wir konnen frohlich singen: ,.Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel war Und wollt uns gar vcrschlingcn. So fiirchten wir uns nicht so schr, Es soil uns doch gelingen." und weiter: „Nehmen sie uns den Lcib, Gut, Ehr, Kind und Weib, Lass fahren dahm, Sie habens kein Gewinn, Das Reich muss uns doch bleibcn.“ Was fur ein Trost ist nicht ein schones geistliches Lied von Gottes Giite alien betrubten, elenden, von der Siinde zerschlagenen Gewissen. Prcdigt es nicht ein siisser, trostlicher, lieblieher Gesang? Luther wusste wohl, dass das Lied der beste Ausdruck der gehobenen Stimmung und zugleich wieder am besten imstande sei, die Herzen zu crheben. Er sagte darum zu einem Freunde: „Ich wollte, dass wir deutsche Gesange batten, die das Volk unter der Messe singe.“ Wer kann die sichtbaren Spuren des Segcns, die das Kirchenlied in Kirchen und Schulen unseres Landes, in Familienkreisen, christlichen Vereinen, ja sogar unter den Armsten und Elcndesten begleitet haben, leugnen? E.' W.f ’05.

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The Prodigal Son. A young man whose face bore the signs of a recent conversation that seemed to have been anything but mild, was hurrying through the dark streets of a small city situated in southern Wisconsin. He made for the railroad station and arrived there in time for the west-bound train. A short half hour before, the young man’s father, Charles Raymond, had returned from an accustomed drinking-bout and demanded from him his weekly earnings. Upon refusal he had beaten him with his cane. The son became infuriated. ”1 am not here to be beaten by a drunkard. Henceforth you will not beat me.” I fc left the room and soon returned with a valise in his hand. He came to bid his aged mother and his sister Edna goodbye. "James,” said his mother in despair, sinking to the floor before him and raising her hands imploringly, "James, do not leave us. You arc the father to us that my husband fails to be.” "1 shall not remain. 1 leave, never to return.” He turned abruptly and disappeared in the darkness. "James, for the sake of your old mother------- .” But he had already left them. Ilis mother swooned away. Day and night she lay unconscious. All efforts to restore her to life seemed in vain. Only on the fourth day did the physician succeed in bringing her to. Her first words were, “Has he re turned ?” Then she sank back with a groan and repeated the words, “I leave, never to return.” Fourteen long days she hovered between life and death. But gradually she recovered in some degree from the hard blow, although her former robustness never returned. h ive years had elapsed. All searchings for the lost son were fruitless. It was on the third of July that the town was astir; the old as well as the young were journeying to the park where a circus company had pitched its large tents. Many came to see the wonders of a large circus, while others that could not well afford it came to sec at least the street parade. Among the latter was a girl whose outward appearance bespoke of poverty and care, and her actions showed that she was not often permitted to enjoy herself. Everything within sight attracted her attention. The stream of people carried her to the park where she selected a convenient place to get a nearer view of the wild animals, clowns, and horsemen. She was frightened by the huge elephants, the like of which she had never seen before. The clowns aroused her laughter. The stately horsemen she ad mired. Suddenly she grew pale. Did not the man on the black steed resem ble her father? “James, my brother, you have come back at last,” she cried, falling into the arms of her dismounting brother, who had also recognized her. To avoid the gaping crowd he led her into one of the smaller tents.

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"Come home with me to stay, You shall find it a real home now, since father is free from the accursed habit of drinking.” A tear rolled down his cheek as he repeated the word "home.” "I cannot go with you. 1 shall never forgive him the wrong he has done me. "Then do it for your mother’s sake. It would mean death to mother it t were to tell her that you had been so near and had not cared to sec her.” In this manner she pleaded long and earnestly but without success. He remained hard-hearted. Sadly Edna went home. For the rest of the day she avoided the presence of her mother for fear of betraying herself. She could not, however, deceive her father. Mr. Raymond was no more the drunkard of five years ago. I f he before neglected his family lie now did everything in his power to make them happy. The consciousness that he was to blame for the ill health of his wife had aroused him. He therefore urged his daughter to give an account of her strange conduct. Finally she complied with his wishes. No sooner had he heard the story than he went to the park to ask his son’s forgiveness. But James was nowhere to be found. The name was strange to his employer, for James had taken the precaution to adopt another name. Mr. Raymond was obliged to return without his son. For another five years all efforts to trace the son and brother were in vain, when Mr. Raymond received a letter that bore the stamp of Porto Rico. He anticipated bad news, for he was hardly able to unseal the letter with his trembling hands. Reading it hurriedly, he gradually became com posed. Instead of the expected death message he held in his hands a petition for forgiveness. About three years previous to the arrival of the letter James had enlisted and, fighting against the Spaniards, had been wounded. Many months he lay, as weak as a child, in a hospital on the island of Porto Rico. When he was again able to handle the pen, lie wrote home the glad tidings of his recovery and of his intention to return. We shall not endeavor to describe the joy and happiness of the small family when this long-expected son and brother was again in their midst. He had left home a strong young man, and returned an invalid; but on the return the peace which passes all understanding had found a place in his heart. E. H. S., ’07. a a a a a 0

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This bluff is about three hundred feet high. It was given its name about seventy-five years ago by the white people who first settled that part of the country. At the foot of the bluff is the spacious Mississippi River valley, about seven miles wide at this place. Beyond the valley our eyes spy the other low chain of bluffs, dressed in their rich dark green summer attire, with their yellow limestone faces emerging at the top and seemingly greeting their brothers on this side of the valley. Turning to the bluff before us, we detect a road leading by the foot of the bluff. Along this road are scattered many beautiful farmhouses. Of all the farmhouses along the roadside one will especially attract vour attention. It is a small hut carved into the side of the bluff, with two small, square windows on each side. It is built of limestone taken from the impending bluff. The house must be many years old, as the walls arc wearing and crumbling away, and it seems as though the low, rickety roof may collapse at any moment. You also see many gigantic, weather-beaten and moss-covered stones lying on each side of the road, which have been broken from the bluffs many years ago. Turning to the left, with the road behind us, and proceeding up the bluff, we notice, at the extreme end of the bluff, a vast field, partly hidden by the trees and brush work before it. This is the field used for playing golf. Adjoining this golf field are a few very beautiful summer resorts. A few hundred yards beyond these is a mysterious-looking opening in the side of the bluff, a cave which looks as though it might be the hiding place of some daring robber gang. This is the entrance to a large cellar, a few hundred feet long, used for the preservation of liquor in the hot summer days. The principal trees abounding on this bluff are the oak, with its spreadÂ ing branches, the tamarack, the elm, the hemlock, and, sparsely scattered amongst these, the birch, with its white bark, which makes it look like some tali sentinel watching at the feet of his lord. Many animals and birds make this bluff their home. Almost every tree and bush on the bluff seems to be the home of some happy bird. The trees at the foot of the bluff are very tall and slender, seemingly vying with each other in the effort to overthrow the old Grandad, who, however, only laughs serenely down on them. The eastern side is usually wet and shady, as the sun seldom reaches this side. The emerging stones are here covered with rich, green messes and leaves. In some years snow can he found on this side of the bluff as late as the month of May, On the opposite side of the bluff, where the sun shines all day long, are a few vineyards, in which some of the largest and sweetest grapes in the neighborÂ hood are raised. As we near the summit, we find it necessary to turn to one side and follow up a narrow path, winding its way to the top among trees and boulders. Tt is impossible to ascend by any more direct way, as the face of the bluff is a perpendicular wall from seventy-five to one hundred feet

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high. On the steep front of the bluff, sparsely scattered, with the roots pinched in the crevices of the wall, arc a few stunted evergreen trees, which seem to be growing directly out of the hard stone. The top of the bluff is a Hat layer of limestone, in some places covered with a foot or two of sediment. A few hundred feet from the edge is a stone quarry, which supplies the city in the valley below with stones for building purposes. Off to one side, and partly covered with brushes, is a small shed, built against the bluff. This was the entrance to a cave used as a hiding place by the Indians that inhabited this part of the country many years ago. There remains a tradition that the Indians who formerly inhabited the valley below had heard from their forefathers that when they themselves were childen the very summits of these bluffs were bathed in the waters of the Mississippi. And that they had often sat at the top, with tha> feet dangling over the edge, and had fished all day long. If we make closet examination of the limestone and the crevices, we shall soon notice that in some places fossils and clam shells can he seen imbedded in the stone. Even petrified fishes have been found in the stone. Clam shells are frequently discovered. From the foregoing we can judge for ourselves the truth of the old tradition handed down to us by the Indians. During a rain storm, or im mediately after it, a cloud of mist is to be seen stretching along the per pendicular front of the bluff, which always reminds me of Hawthorne’s words in his “Great Stone Face.” “At a distance, but distinctly to be seen, high up in the golden light of the setting .sun, appeared the Great Stone Face, with hoary mist around it, like the white hairs around the brow of Ernest.” But it may only be a matter of time when this venerable Granddad bluff, which now towers above the rest like a king and majestically overlooks the valley below, may by its deadly enemies some day be reduced to a low hill, or even wholly disappear, so that the generations to come will never know that a bluff of that name ever existed in the place. P. IT., ’oS.

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In the month of February \vc are again summoned to join the inhabitants of the United States of America in celebrating the anniversary of the birthday of the two greatest men this country has produced. First of all we are to show our regard to the one who is rightly called “The Father of our Country.” When the colonies were fighting for their liberty and independence it was Wash ington who took it upon himself to lead the colonists against the English. Although his band of soldiers was forced to undergo many hardships, through his endurance and leadership he led them to victory and won their independence. And, when there was danger of this new nation falling to pieces, he was again at the head and as the first president of the republic laid the foundation of this great nation. If we honor Washington as founder we must regard Lincoln as the saver of the union. When the North and South were in a civil war, Lincoln 285

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brought about the terms of peace. He strengthened the Declaration of independence and the work of the founders of this great nation so that all now enjov a stable government under the Stars and Stripes. Every patriot will ever’hold dear the name of the father of the nation and the saver of our country, and let it ring in the voice of every schoolboy as long as this great nation stands.

! “Resolved—” that is what many a man and hoy, and girl and woman, too, said New Year’s day, and most of the resolutions have already been broken! But should this prevent us from making resolutions? Should we not make resolutions bccause we cannot help them in the end? Should we be so weak as to say, “I never break my resolutions—1 never make any?” Not by any means! Let us rather do the opposite. Let us make many resolutions and make them often. That we ought to make many is evident. Make them as often as they are broken, for by so doing we shall get used to trying to keep them and we shall be able to keep them longer each time. But why wait till the beginning of next month or till next New Year before making resolutions. In the meantime the faults we want to remedy grow, and the longer we have them the more difficult it will be to get rid of them. We must make them now. Do not put it off for another week or even for another day. Procrastination is the thief of time, and in our case it will be the thief of a good chance to do a good thing. That we break our resolutions is but natural; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. But broken stone makes a much better road than mud; one will travel through the year more comfortably for the resolutions, even if they were fragile. Resolutions.

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to the proclivity of the child to imitate others and to its habits. Then. too. the relation between the parents and the teachers was lucidly set forth. The speaker clearly demonstrated that unless the parents cooperate with the teachers there must needs be a failure in the education of the child. He voiced the fact that mothers very often are instrumental in ruining their children by misdirecting their affections. The younger people were also exhorted not to leave school before having completed their course of study. If people should bear a few of these things in mind, we should have a higher type of American citizenship in the future.

Year bv year the world lays greater stress on higher education. Everywhere the requirements are increased, and in many cases where formerly a High School course was sufficient a college education is now demanded. But in spite of the six hundred colleges and universities of this country with their ever increasing number of students, by far the greater number of young people go no further than the common school or the High School. Shall the great majority remain untouched by college training? Sixty years ago thoughtful educators asked themselves this question. The thought occurred to them, "If the masses cannot be brought to the university, can we not bring the university to them?” On this suggestion the English uni versities Oxford and Cambridge established the institution familiarly known as university extension. Wherever a sufficient number of people manifest interest, lecture centres are established, classes are formed, and the university sends professors to deliver a course of lectures. A great variety of subjects is treated, history, science, languages, and economics. The lecturers are all specialists in their several departments and bring with them all the necessary aids of instruction, such as libraries and laboratories. In 1890 Cambridge and Oxford had 227 lecture centres, 80 lecturers, and 40,336 students in their university extension courses. In America the University of Pennsyl vania and the Chautauqua University first took up the work. Though these courses cannot compensate for a college education, still they can be of great value in self-improvement if conscientiously carried on. The greatest value of university extension doubtless lies in the fact that it stimulates the spirit of self-improvement, fosters an interest in higher educa tion, and makes for an intelligent citizenry.

How Much Probably some one would say: “Do enough so as to Work Should do your duty.” But this suggestion would not help us We Do? very much. When do we do our duty? The man who begins to work when the factory whistle blows and again stops as soon as the sign is given, doing just enough, or even a little less than is expected of him, probably thinks he is fulfilling his duty. He has an idea that to do more would be giving his employers more than they are paying for. But he does not mind it if he does less than is expected of him. In this way

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he not only cheats his employer but he is really injuring himself still more. By shirking his work he loses all sense of time with all its precious values. The same may also be said of studying. How ought we to work for the recitations? Is it enough if we study during the time set aside for that purpose and stop when the bell rings, even if we did not prepare all our studies? Really it is not. We are supposed to be prepared for every recita tion. But, some one will ask, “If we have so much work that it is almost impossible to prepare for every recitation, what shall we do then ?” Probably the only solution in this case would be, divide up your time properly and devote as much time to one study as to another. But it is a different thing if a person has ample time for studying and still comes into the recitations without being prepared. Whether he expects to be questioned or not, it is his duty to do his work. In wasting his time in this way he is not, as in the case of the laborer, in any way injuring his instructor, but' himself: In the course of time he will become careless, and a perfect loss of all sense of duty will be the result in afterlife. <

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ALUMNI What’s Next? I am in receipt of the following letter from Mr. Ch. L. C.. the gentleman to whom we are indebted for the continued article “Suggestions for Social Amusements." Dear friend: Your three letters, four reply postals, one special delivery, and two or three telegrams, all of them clamoring for more copy, I pre sume,— fact is, I haven’t taken the trouble to read them all—are at hand. In reply would say the following: 1 will not continue my article, for the following reasons: i ) I want my contributions to appear in print exactly as they come from my pen. The foot-note in my last contribution read, in manuscript: "To he continued by somebody else.” The words "by somebody else” were underlined by myself. It was not your office as chairman of the committee to cause these three words to be omitted in print, and I cannot permit my literan products to be mutilated in this manner, nor do T feel that I should suffer this arbitrary conduct on the part of a servant of the Alumni Society to go unpunished. 2) Since the publication of the new quarterly magazine, entitled “Was und Wic," which is devoted exclusively to the problem of social amusements, there is no further excuse for my treating this subject in the Black and Red. Let all who are interested in the subject subscribe to the Quarterly just mentioned, and they will be better served than they could be by the continua Yours as ever. tion of niv article. Ch. L. C. And thereby hangs a talc. When, about two months ago, I received a sample copy of "Was und Wic,” 1 immediately suspected something. Open ing a correspondence with the publishers, the W. & W. Publ. Co., of Mil waukee, 1 soon discovered mv suspicions to be well founded. This new literary phenomenon "Was und Wic” is a direct consequence of the tremen dous commotion caused by Mr. Ch. L. C.'s article, written for the Alumni Column of the Black and Red. In consideration that our Column has thus proved fertile beyond expec tation and that we are therefore greatly indebted to Mr, Ch. L. C., I have written him a very conciliatory letter, asking his forgiveness for my “arbi trary conduct," and entirely suppressing the multitude of grievances that I had scored up against him. But now the question arises: What’s next? Arc there any more maga2?9

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zines that we can cause to spring forth? Xot to my knowledge. There are too many of them already. There is little danger that this thing will happen again. What we want is not more magazines, but the maintenance and im provement of those that we have. Of the 200 members of the Alumni Soci ety, not more than a dozen have contributed to the Alumni Column, up to this date, and it is to the remaining 188 that I now beg leave to put the question: What’s next? O. HAGEDORN, Chairman of the Literary Committee.

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The Crimson (Logan, Utah) describes “Picturesque Oxford,” where students live half in the distant past and half in the modern world, amidst surroundings so beautiful that Hawthorne visiting the ancient city attested his sense of charm thus: "The world surely has not another place like Oxford, it is a despair to see a place and ever leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.” “A Glimpse of Oxford” we get in the Brunonian also. A Rhodes scholar, we take it. tells of life at the ancient university. Expenses run high but every other circumstance leaves nothing to be wished for. Studies are arranged so as to leave time for sociability. There arc no nervous wrecks, for athletics are not merely for the specialists, but for all. The Susquehanna (Selingsgrove, Pa.) for December last devotes serious thoughts to serious questions. "Moral Progress under Christianity” is re viewed. Christianity alone has enabled the world to its present high stage of civilization and culture. "The Bible in Present Day Relations” is the subject nf an excellent article. The destructive criticisms of modern scholars too often betray that they are not seeking the truth but trying to force on us their preconceived judgment. But Christian men are up in arms and beginning to vanquish these would-be critics on their own ground. The College Chips (Decorah, la.) surprised us by appearing in a sprightly new dress, it certainly is becoming. As usual the contents are of the same nature, and we should find it more so, no doubt, if we knew Scandi navian. The Thislle (St. Lconards-on-Sea) brings to a happy conclusion its continued story "The Ring and the Tan,” which described fortunes and ad ventures of a brave young lad "Jerry" and his little sister "Babs” in a circus. An interesting article in the I'assar Miscellany discusses “Elizabethan and Victorian Lyrics." Tennyson and Browning are compared with Ben Jonson, Fletcher, and the lyric poets of the sixteenth century. The modern poets—the writer holds—are capable of beautiful lyric strains but their poetry is overburdened with seriousness and passion. The poet is too con scious of making an effort. Their best qualities are calculated to mar the lyrical character of their work. The Elizabethans on the contrary are free from all self consciousness, they sing perfectly unconcerned and feel no com punction at using hyoerbole. Their lyrics arc all spontaneous productions full of Lcbcnslust and nothing more serious. The reader can obtain a fairly good opinion of his own by comparing the examples of the two periods given in Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. The Newberry Stylus (Newberry, S. C.) for Deccmber-January is very X)l

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interesting reading. An article on "Respect for Constituted Authority ^ is serious, timely, and helpful withal. A bit of fiction "Merely a Story’ is commendable in regard to form and creates a pleasant picture. The signa ture would lead one to believe it a chapter from an autobiography. I he main tone of the issue, however, is inspired by the fact, that Newberry dedi cated a new college building on Reformation Day. Its students have great reason to be happy and we are happy with them, especially as we too look forward to the dedication of a new building. Both events are destined to further the cause of Christian education in general and the Lutheran faith in particular. We quite agree with the Comcnian, when it says in its comment on the College Index: “We would however suggest that the Exchange column admit more comments on sister publications. We believe this duty to be the raison d’etre of the Exchange editor.” By the same token the Comcnian should have an exchange column that is worthy of the name,—not little items so crowded by remasticated jokes that their very right of existence seems called into question. We confess the split infinitive in the sentence quoted above, “We would however suggest,” disagreeably affects our sense for English. Putting the “however” after the verb "suggest,” would im prove the sentence considerably and be belter English. Likewise in the first paragraph of its exchange column, take the sentence, “It gives us, in part, some idea of the school life of our friends ‘over the sea’.” The phrase "in part” sandwiched in before the object gives the impression of helplessness in the art of expression. It is redundant, as the words “gives us some idea” adequately express the thought. We always enjoy good fiction in college papers but when it is made the sum and substance of school-journalism, we call a halt. We endorse what the Central Collegian of December says: “There have been a great many critisims offered on some college magazines because of the lack of fiction in them. This has become so common that we wonder, if some magazines are not going to the extreme in their desire to print fiction.”

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Nothing has been said regarding our band yet this year, and not to leave our readers under the impression that it is below its usual standard it would probably be appropriate to give a short resume of the dealings and doings of the same. Those that were here at the synod meeting last fall will know that the material for a good band was there and all that was needed was practice. There are only a few new members this year and they have had experience before. There is He Wald at clarinet and Lehman at the bass drum. Bethkc is also making progress on his trombone. The rest of the members have all gone through the experience and practice of last year, which speaks well for the coming spring. There is yet a little deficiency, however, in the reed section, but this difficulty will soon be overcome by hard and diligent practice. The instrumentation is becoming better every year and we may safely hope that in a few years it will be nearly perfect, and the celebrated Conn instruments will fill every place. With the new year three new Conn instru ments were again added; a B-flat clarinet for G. Schlei; Platt is coming with an K-llat clarinet, and W. Keturakat feels very proud of his new snare drum. We regret, however, that Prof. Frank, who played solo comet, has left us for want of time. As the conditions thus far look favorable a joint concert with the orchestra is again being planned. This will be the fifth annual concert and will take place directly after Easter. Under Prof. Bolle’s directorship some difficult music is already being practiced. A “Selection from Carmen,” a piece that was played by Ellery’s Royal Italian Band, is one of the pieces. Rehearsals are held twice a week, Monday’s from 4 :oo to 5 :oo and Friday’s during the same time. Mr. E. A. Wcndland also thinks of having after beat rehearsals soon. As there was never a good place for the music the band just lately purchased a music cabinet in which the music can be kept in the right way. E. A. Wcndland collected all the music, assorted it, and put it in its appropriate place where it can readily be found when wanted. Fie finds that there are about seventy overtures, walzes, and medleys, and of marches a selection of about ninety. New pieces are constantly added. The officers of-the band are the following: E. A. Wendland, president; P. Oehlert, vice-president; G. Westerhaus, secretary and treasurer; and H. Mueller, drum major. 293

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—Mr. Frank Carnes of Renville, Minn., visited \\ illiani Pankow, 07, Janu ary 30 and 31. —John Herzbcrg, formerly of the class of '05, and krank Herzberg of Ashippun called on college friends February 8. —Herbert Kirchner, Prep., spent Sunday, February 5, at the home of his parents at Lowell. —Rev. A. Bacbenroth of Milwaukee called on his son Edwin, Prep., Feb ruary 8. —Mr. August Bremer of Ft. Atkinson visited his son Paul, Prep., Janu ary 31. —John Schindehettc, Prep., discontinued studies and returned to his home at Bay City, Mich., January 24. —Rev. Bittner of Mayville made a call on his son Julius, Prep., February 6. —William Kunim, ’o7, made a trip to Milwaukee to visit his parents Janu ary 19. —Henry Hartwig, Prep., and Paul Lehmann, Prep., visited friends at IIustisford January 29. —Hans Gaebler, ’07, went to Madison to attend the concert given by the celebrated violinist Ysav. —Rev. Schlei of Montello made a call on his son Gotthold, Prep., February 1. —Paul Kottke, who attended our Academy some years ago, visited his brother Albert, Ac.. January 26-28. He recently finished the dairy course at the University of Wisconsin. —Mr. Helmuth Reimund of Milwaukee called on William Kumm, *07, February 5. —Mrs. E. Sauer of Juneau visited her sons Adolf, ’c6, and Edwin ,’07, February 7-8. —Mr, Charles Hagen, Assemblyman of Outagamie County, stopped over at Watertown on his way to Madison and called on his son John, Prep., February 7. —Ernst Wendland, ’06, Gust. Wcsterhaus, ’08, William Zutz, Ac., and Joseph Krubsack, Prep., were pleasantly entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Woltmann January 27. —Ernst Wendland, ’06, handed in his resignation to the faculty as editor of “The Black and Red,” which was granted him. To fill the vacancy John Manz, ’06, was appointed in his place. In a meeting of the staff of editors held on February 3 Arnold Eickmann, ’06, was elected business manager and John Manz assistant business manager. We regret very much that Mr. Wendland has left us as he was always a diligent worker in the interest of our college paper. 294

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—John Abelmann, ’05, and Ernst Heilmann, 05, were pleasantly entertained at the home of John Whyte, 05, February 4. —Solomon Jedele, ’02, of the Lnth. Theol. Seminary at Wauwatosa called on college friends January 21. —Rev. Th. F. Hahn of Ludington, Mich., received a call to Owo.so, Mich., where he will be installed in the near future. —Mr. H. Denningcr of Weyauwcga called on Paul Oehlert, ’05, January 15. —The juniors finished higher algebra and took up trigonometry since the middle of January. The sophomores completed their course in solid geom etry and are now studying higher algebra. —George Rickcmann, ?o8, visited his home at Helcnville Sunday, February 5. —Carl Verges, ’04, is taking a medical course at the Hanemann Homeo pathic College at Chicago. —Dr. J. IT. ()tt and Dr. Arthur Hoermann attended the sessions of the American Historical Association in the Law Building of the Northwestern University at Chicago. —Joseph Rhodes, who attended our preparatory department several years ago, met college friends while attending the teacher’s institute at Watertown during the first week in February. —Ralph Wiggenhorn and Alexander Uehling, former members of our Acad emy, now attending the University of Wisconsin, spent several days be tween semesters at their respective homes at Watertown. —On Wednesday, February 8, President August Ernst and Rev. Klingmann, member of the Board of Trustees, went to Milwaukee to attend the meeting of the building committee. The extensive plans for the new dormitory were completed and accepted by the committee. The contract will be given to the party offering the most reasonable terms on February 28. —The reports of the first semester were given out on Monday, February 6. —Henry Eickhoff of Black Creek recently signed the registration card No. 200. At present the entire enrollment of students is 201, which* is the highest number since the year 1878. In 1877 the total number of students was 217 and in 1878 it was 203. But at present there are more students taking the classical course than ever before in the history of the institution. —The sad news has reached us that Mrs. Prim, mother of Otto Prim, who was a member of the class of ’06, died at her home in Menomonie, February 9. We express our heartfelt sympathy. —Prof. O. Hoyer has returned from the Ev. Luth. Hospital at Oshkosh. We regret to say that he has not recovered from his illness and is very low at present. But we hope he will soon recover and again be able to teach his classes.

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—De W: “The ship on the sea went under.” —Prof: “What is a monk?” Puen: “The opposite of a mm.” —Adi: “Is the barometer Celsius or Fahrenheit?” —Butch: “According to the laws of Newton I ought to be able to sing bass down to perfection.” —Septimaner: “Who gives lessons on the ‘Pfeiffcnorgel’ t" —B-ck-r: “Say, Eikv, our dog died the other day. We had him seventeen years.” Eicky: “Honestly ?” B-ck-r: “Yes, he died on the 10 of February.” —Jack’s disciple: “My name is Louis Beto, fifteen years old, number !leven skates.” —Prof: „Wer kann mir eiri Sprichwort sagen das sich auf die Sorglosigkeit der Tiere bezieht?“ Schuler: „Was frag ich Vieh’l nach Geld und Gut, wenn ich zufrieden bin?“ —Mercur: “That’s something like Hades down in Tantalus.” —Prof: ,,Was ist ein Opferstahl?“ E. O: „Ein Messer, das man tdtel,“ —Someone asked Adi where he was going to. Adi responded, „Tch gelie spa(t)zieren.“ —B-ck-er: "Pat, I think that doctor is a pretty good doctor.” Pat: “Why?” B-ck-r: “He’s got a good horse.” —Mercur recently proved that one of the kitchen mechanics, or in other words the human interrogation point, represents a species of parallelobipeds” —Sextaner: “Butch has got transubstantiated tobacco.” —Prof: “Most beasts are four-footers.” Felix: “Lcnz is a six-footer.” —Prof.: „Fuhre sic ein Beispiel an, um zu beweisen, dass der Lcib auf die Seele wirkt.“ Schuler: „Wenn man sich betrinkt.“ Prof.: ,.Recht, aber’s klingt so sonderbar.“ —Sextaner (writing a composition): .AVenn ein Konig stirbt, so kommt sein altester Sohn zur Herrschaft. Wenn cr aber keinen altesten Sohn hat, so kommt der nachsle dran.“ 296

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—Er blinzelt und blinzclt die gauze Zeit. Mit tastendem Blick nach der Kiiche hin. Was ihn so gefangen, was ihm so gcfallt 1st Elisa Rothaar, die licbliche Maid.” —Die Sonne bringt es an den Tag; I hr bleibt kein Ding verborgen. Darum wenn Haschen laufet fort Weiss man ,wo sich’s verborgen. —John Albus, ct Ernst Mcdicus. Oie liabcn sicli vergangen, Und unsrer lieben jungen Frau’n Ihr Platz inB’sehlag genommen. —Dcr Bruckenmann, der ist ein Mann, Dcr gern tut disputieren, Und ist nicht immer drauf bedacht, Dass er tut phantasieren.

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LITERARY

Number 10

Sir Thomas Wyatt. 1'i'om ilic standpoint of the history of literature, it is greatly to be de plored that tlie sixteenth century has left us such meager accounts of the lives of its poets. Thus we know so little of Shakespeare that we cannot construct his biography without resorting to conjecture. Only statesmen, it thought, could interest future generations. As for poets, their fame was transitory and unsubstantial. One poet however did not share the general lot,—Sir Thomas Wyatt was both a statesman and a poet. In his case the statesman rescued the poet from oblivion. Descended from a family of ancient gentility, the future courtier, states man, and poet was bom at Allington in Kent, in the year of grace fifteen hundred and three. His father Sir Henry Wyatt had suffered imprisonment for resisting the presumptions of Richard III. and afterwards was rewarded by the Tudors, being a Privy Councillor to Henry VII. and one of the ex ecutors of his will. Thomas, an exceptionally gifted youth, having enjoyed the best of in struction at home, was admitted to St. John’s College, Cambridge, at twelve. He graduated at fifteen and in fifteen hundred and twenty commenced M. A., when he was seventeen. He spent a year abroad, completing his education with a “grand tour,” as British youths have ever since. He was presented at court and received with favor. At a brilliant fete of arms that the king gave, he distinguished himself for bravery and skill,

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remaining one of the ten victors. His knightly accomplishments, his hand some, prepossessing appearance, and Ins perfect manners made him the ideal courtier; his nobility and integrity of character and his firm Christian principles made him the ideal man; his high intellectual endowment and broad knowledge of science and literature made him the ideal scholar. It was to this happy union of physical, moral, and intellectual qualities that he owed his early preferment. He became esquire of the Kings body and clerk of his Majesty's jewels. Soon he was the King s first favorite, but his magnanimity led him to promote others interests rather than his own, for everybody wished to avail himself of his frienship. At the age of twenty-three he accompanied Sir John Russell in an embassy to the Curia. On the journey they visited those cities so full of historic asso ciations, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Florence, and leisurely proceeded to Rome. Henry's divorce proceedings had created such tension between him and Charles V. that it broke out into open hostility here. Hardly had Russell and Wyatt upon performing their mission left the eternal city when they were taken captive by the emperor’s marshal, who demanded an outrageous sum of money to ransom them. But they contrived to make their escape and leave him disappointed of his demands. This sojourn in Italy, the intellectual centre of the world, the cradle of the Renaissance, was of inestimable importance to Wyatt, for the impres sions he received there largely determined the course of activity as a poet. Naturally he sought the scenes amidst which Dante and Petrach had lived, and traversed the haunts they had frequented, conscious of a feeling that he was treading sacred ground and that the atmosphere had a quickening, in spiring effect. Perhaps even he was accompanied in these pilgrimages by Alamanni, the poet who lived in Florence at the time and who had a marked influence on Wyatt. Certainly it would be a wonder if he being in Ferrara should fail to visit and pay his respects to the great master whom all the world admired,—Ariosto. His mind would needs have been sterile if so rich and varied an experience had made no lasting impression on it. Here Wyatt was imbued with the spirit of the Renaissance, which characterizes his entire poetry. Returned home, he was high sheriff of Calais for two years. At the coro nation of Anne Boleyn he acted as chief ewercr and had the privilege of pouring scented water on her Majesty’s hands. He basked in the sunshine of royal favor. The queen enjoyed his company, for lie possessed rare con versational powers; what with his knowledge of belles-lettres, what with his extensive travels, he never lacked a topic. The king liked to have him about his person, for he had pleasure in his striking wit and esteemed his good sense. On the dissolution of the monasteries Wyatt received an abbey and its lands. Yet he too was to learn the force of the words, “Put not vour trust in princes.” The queen was in disgrace, and Wyatt was sent to the tower, on

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suspicion of being implicated in her infidelity. From childhood he had known Anne Boleyn, their fathers having been joint constables of Norwich cattle; they were intimate friends in their youth, and long afterward he was credited with being her lover. It is true his poems lend some color to the romantic attachment which some would have between them, but bearing in mind that he was a married man, it is more probable that he made her the subject of a poetic passion and a platonic friendship, and just as Petrarch addressed his sonnets to Laura so Wyatt dedicated his to Anna. To believe Wyatt capable of anything dishonorable is to do violence to his character, as we learn it from his own writings and the testimony of his contemporaries, nay more, it is to misunderstand grossly the character vindictive of Henry VIII., who, had he believed him guilty, would relentlessly have sent his rival to the block. But after one month’s enforced leisure Wyatt was set at liberty. Doubtless he was exonerated, the stale papers arc silent in the matter, but certain it is that Sir Thomas was restored to favor. He was knighted, sent to subdue the Lincolnshire rebels, and made sheriff of Kent, an office of special trust. Now began his career as ambassador and diplomat. Henry sought to conciliate Charles V. and entrusted the delicate matter to Wyatt. For several years Wyatt waited on the emperor, following his court from Spain, to Burgundy and the Netherlands. In May fifteen hundred and thirty-eight the Fmperor and the king of France had a conference with the Pope at Nice. Henry, anxious to exert influence on the Emperor at this critical moment, had sent his ambassador two coadjutors, Haynes and Bonner, the future Bishop of London, who proved to be more of a hindrance than a help to Wyatt. At the Emperor’s request he posted to England to learn the king’s pleasure regarding the Emperor’s proposals. Henry gratified by the success and faithfulness of his servant, made Wyatt “gentleman of the king’s cham ber.” Having served as ambassador a year longer, at his request he was relieved in May fifteen hundred and thirty-nine, but in October lie was again accredited to Charles V., who was making an imperial progress through the Netherlands. He joined the Emperor at Brussels and his letters to the King show that he was a sagacious, consummate diplomat and prove that Henry had made no mistake in choosing him. Nevertheless his mission was not entirely successful, thus contributing to the downfall of the chancellor, Cromwell, and a change of policy. Wyatt arrived home in May and was graciously received by the king. But no sooner was the chancellor down than Bonner and Haynes, who were mortally jealous of his honors, accused Wyatt of having led a loose life at Nice, of having spoken contemptuously of his Majesty, and of holding a treasonable correspondence with the Yorkist Cardinal de ia Pole. Pending an investigation, Wyatt was committed to the tower, whence he submitted his famous defence to the Privy Council. In forceable, masterly language he traces his whole career, refutes their ckarges and scouts the implication of treason. The Council never doubted his inno-

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cence and to make amends the king granted him the estates of Boxley and Lambeth and exchanged his fiefs in Kent for more valuable possessions in Somerset and Dorset. Glad to be relieved from public duties, lie withdrew to his country-seat and enjoyed the pleasures of retirement. Throughout his busy life his poetic spirit had never ceased to be productive: now he could devote himself entirely to the Muses. He prized the quietude and bliss of his home far above court-life, as he says in a beautiful poem dedicated to his friend l’oins, he lacked the “base servility and shameless flattery that are requisite for a courtier.” In imitation of Horace he wrote a scries of poems in which lie extolled country-life and censures the corruption of society,—the first classic English satires* A testimony of his devoutness we find in the seven peni tential psalms that he composed. The Italian influence, especially that of Dante and Alamanni, is marked in his religious poems. Touching arc his relations to his only son. In three letters of admonition the man’s inmost soul is laid bare, we see his fatherly soliciturc and earnest piety. He wrote that he desired above all else to leave him "the fear and reverence of God, which is the foundation and only source of wisdom, gentleness, soberness, friendliness, and truth,” and that, though “glory and good name are not our prime objects to strive for they follow from the. rest as naturally as light follows fire.” The missives are extremely inter esting and it has well been said that "extracts from them deserve to be inscribed in letters of gold in every place of instruction for youth in the world.” Sir Thomas used to say, “In jesting we should observe three things, never to play on anyone’s unhappiness or deformity, for that is in human, nor on our superiors, for that is naughty and undutiful, nor on holy matters, for that is irreligious.” In the summer of fifteen hundred and forty-two, agreeably to his Ma jesty’s wishes, he went to meet the imperial ambassador at Falmouth. On the way thither he was seized with a fever and obliged to put up at the home of his friend Horsey. Trying faithfully to carry out the commands of his master, he received the summons of his divine Master and hastened to obey Him. His remains found tbeir last resting-place in the great church at Sherborne and the record says of him that he was a “vir vencrabilis.” Of his thirty-one sonnets ten are direct translations from Petrarch. lie simplified the meter by dividing the verses into three quatrains and conclud ing with a rhymed couplet, the form that Shakespeare used. In his rondeaux, epigrams, and odes he often used French and Spanish models. His amatory poems are suggestive of Walther von der Vogelweide. Like him he declares himself a votary of Love. With great pains and detail he describes the varied fortunes of the lover and the caprices of his lady until finally he renounces the service of Love, who constantly causes him anguish. It is all more or less exaggerated and it is evident that the poems emanate from a poetic passion for an imaginary lady. Yet they show that he was not

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merely imitative, but possessed of imagination and originality, and that lie was a keen observer of men and things. Wyatt together with Surrey is the founder of the English lyric poetry. But Surrey, being fifteen years his junior, must be considered his pupil, for he was “still robbing birds nests,” when Wyatt was studying Petrarch in Italy. Sir Thomas Wyatt is the morning star of the Elizabethan age. In a period devoid of native literary fruits, it is natural, inevitable that his art should be largely imitative. He was the pioneer in the study of the great Italian masters. He freed our poetry of the grotesqueness of the Middle Ages. Though he did not introduce the brilliancy and vivacity of the Renaissance, he did introduce its regard for harmony of form and tone, lie has the honor of naturalizing the beautiful Italian sonnet on British soil. Judged by modern standards, independent of time, his poetry appears somewhat harsh and serious, reflective rather than informed with feeling. Too often his muse has a plaintive note. But considering that he lived a generation before Shakespeare, we must acknowledge that he had a lively imagination, characteristic strength of expression, poetic feeling, and esprit, qualifications well calculated to foster a sturdy plant which afterward was to bear luscious fruit in the poetry of Shakespeare and Milton. R. O., ’05. 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Es war ein kalter Ecbruarstag. Der Wind trieb den frishgefallencn Schnee, (lurch die leeren (ia.sen, (lass er stcllenweise haushoch lag. Frau Kdrner sass wie gewohnlich strickend am prassclnden Kaminfeuer, das eine angenehme Warmc verbreitete. Als es anting zu dunkeln, legte sie das Strickzeug beiseite, stellte sich an das Fenster und schautc langc mit besorgtem Blick in das Freie liinaus. Sie war erst fiinf-und-vierzig Jahrc alt. Aber wie gebuckt ging sie schon umber. Wie haben Kummer und Herzcleid ihr Idaar gebleicht und tiefe Furchcn in ihren Gcsichtsziigcn gegraben. Lange noch blickte sie hinaus. Da klopfte es leise. „Guten Abend, Frau Kdrner, Sie schen ja wieder so vergramt aus, ist etwas vorgefallen ?“ „Ach, liebe Frau MingstA sagte sie weinend, „mcin Mann kam letzte Nacht wieder betrunken nach ITause. und jetzt haben wir keinen Pfennig, uns Brot zu kaufen. Seinen ganzen Wochenlohn musste er dem Wirte hintragen." „Beruhigen Sie sich,“ trostete die Freundin. „es wird schon alles gut werden. Ich werde Fritz mit einem Korbchen Gaback herubcrschicken.“ Oft schon hatte sie dieses getan, obwohl sie eine Witwe war und wahrlich jeden Bissen fur sich selbst gebrauchen konnte. Sie setzte sich zu ihrer Freundin, und sie sassen wohl ein halbes Stiindchen beisammen und plauderten. Witwe Mingst war die einzige Person, mit der Frau Kdrner Umgang hatte. Denn da ihr Mann in der ganzen Stadt fiir einen Trunkenbold gait

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und allgemein gefiirchtet war, getraute sich fast niemand sein Haus zu betretcn. Nachdem die Witwe sich verabschiedet hattc, shickte sich bran Korner an, Abendbrot zu berciten. Sie hatte alles aufs cinfachste eingerichtet. Oberali herrschte peinliche Ordnung. Die saubern Stiihle, der spiegelblanke Tisch, und der glitzernde Fussboden gabcn dem Zimmer ein selir gemiitliches Aussehen. Inzwischen kam der kleine Fritz herein, stellte seinen Korb auf einen Stuhl, und ohne auf die Dankausspriiche der lieben Frau zu achten, trollte er vcrgniigt hinaus. Raid trat auch dcr Hausherr herein, und ohne seiner Frau cincs Blickes zu wiirdigen, setzte er sich zu Tische, Sie bemerkte sofort, dass er iibelgelaunt war. „Gottlieb,“ sagte sie schiichtern, „weisst du auch, dass wir kein Geld liaben, uns Esswaren zu kaufen. Frau Mingst war so freundlich und schickte ein Korbchen heruber, da sollten wir doch billig”— „Wie“! donnerte er sie an, „das elendc Weib hat uns was geschenkt, und Du hast es angcnommen! Gleich brings! Du das Lumpenzeug zuriick! Will doch mal sehn, wer Herr im Hause ist.“ Diese Redensartcn war sie gewohnt zu lioren. Schweres Herzens fiigte sie sich in seinen Willen und trat in die sturmische Nacht hinaus. Kaum war sie hinaus, da lief Herr Korner zum Schrank, holte zitternd ein Kastchen hervor und betrachtctc einen kleinen Schliisscl, den er darin verborgen hatte. Er war aus Wachs. „Nur Geduld,“ fiiisterte er, „ich werde das Geld schon bekommen.“ Unruhig ging er im Zimmer auf und ab. Ohne die Riickkehr seiner Frail abzuwarten, begab as sich zur Ruhe. Bald kam Frau Korner zuriick. Sie fand alles dunkel. Sie wurde jetzt doch besorgt. Hatte Korner doch fast niclits gegessen, und so aufgeregt war sein Benehmen. War er am Ende krank? Sie begab sich auch zur Ruhe, allein sie konnte nicht schlafen. Immer wieder stiegen schwere Gedanken in ihr auf. Es ist nahe zwolf Uhr.—Plotzlich fahrt Frau Korner jiih auf. Was ist das? Geht nicht jemand durch das Nebenzimmer? Atemlos horcht sie. Eine Zeitlang ist alles ruhig. Wieder lasst sich das seltsamc Gerausch vernehmen. Deutlich kann sie das knarren der Tiirangeln lioren und wie jemand gerauschlos das Haus verlasst. Langer halt sie es nicht mehr aus. Entsetzt lauft sie in das Schlafgemach ihres Mannes.—Das Bett ist leer.—Kaum traut sie ihren Augen. Eiligst ziindet sie ein Licht an, klcidct sich, und ist im Begriff, das Zimmer zu verlassen, da erblickte sie ein Blatt Papier auf dem Nachttischc. Mit zittemder Hand hebt sie es auf und best: „Ich gehc fort, komm nie wieder zuriick. Kannst sehen, wie du durchkommst.“ Das Schreiben entglitt ihren Fingern. Sie war dem Urn fallen nahe. Kreidebleich wankte sie zum Sofa. „Mein armer, armer Gottlieb, was habe ich dir getan, dass du mich so verlasst? O, Gott, steh mir bei, dass ich es ertragen kann/* Was soli sie jetzt tun? Vielleicht es der Frau Mingst sagen? Sie wollte sich aufrichten, aber kraftlos sank sie wieder zuriick. Sie war durch

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das jahrelangc Leiden und (lurch den plbtzlichen Schreck wie gelahmt. Sic konnte sich nicht von der Stelle bewegen. In cliesem Zu-tande brachte sic die Xacht zu. Endlich graute der Tag. Langsam erhob sie sich. Wie schvver wurde ihr doch das Gehen. Mit vieler Millie machte sie ein Feur.— Da klopfte es.—Auf ihr mattes ,,Herein”, traten zwei Schutzleute in die Tur. ,,lst Herr Kdrner zu Hause," sagte der eine in gebieterischem Tone. Durch das unerwartete Erscheinen der Polizei war die arme Frau wie vom Blitz getroffen. „Er ist nicht zu Hause,** schluchzte sie, „er ist letzte Nacht fortgegangen, und ich weiss nicht wohin. Er hat auf einem Zettel geschricben, er kame nicht wieder zuriick.” Die Schutzleute salien einander verstandnisvoll an. „Es ist namlich so,” sagte der eine, ..Der Stadtkammerer merktc heute morgen, das cine Summc von funfhundert Talern aus der Kasse gestohlen ist. Es stellte sich hcraus, class ihr Mann allcin cinen Schliissel zu dem Bureau hat.- Aber wie er den Geldschrank geoffnet hat, ist ein Rjitsel. Man hat sogleich Verdacht geschbpft, weil ihr Mann nicht zur gewohnlichen Zeit erschienen ist. Wir sind beauftragt, ihn zu verhaften, und nun schen wir dass der Vogel sclion ausgeflogen ist.%< Bebend hattc die ungliickliche Frau zugehbrt. Langer konnte sie es nicht ertragen. Mit einem Schrci sank sie zu Boden. Gliicklicherweise trat in diesem Augenblick Frau Mingst in das Zimmer. Eiligst wurde ein Arzt herhei gerufen. Als er die krankc untersuchte, schuttelte er bedenklich den Kopf. Er erklarte, sie sci von einem Fieberanfall ergriffen und man konne kaum hofTen, dass sie wieder genesen wurde. Obwohl die Kranke von ihrer Freuiulin mit der grossten Aufopferung gepflegt wurde, verschlimmerte sich ihr Zusland taglich. Auf ihrern Stcrbcbette wartete sie immer noch auf die Wiederkehr ihres Diannes. Inbriinstig betete sie zu Gott, er mochte seine Seele erretten. Am Abend des dritten Tages nacli diesem Ereignis entschlief die Kreuztragerin. Zwei Woclicn waren verflossen. Wallrend dieser Zeit hatte man emsig nacli dem Diebe gesucht. Noch war keine Spur von ihm zu finden. Endlich fand man ihn tot in einem Graben liegen. Der Grabcn war mit Schnee zugeweht, und cr war in der dunkeln, sturmischen Nacht hineingesturtzt. Ein P. H. ’o8. schrcckliches Ende. 0 0 0 0 0 0

But very few hoys will be found living along the shores of our Great Lakes who cannot skate. As soon as the first cold weather puts in its ap pearance, these boys hasten to the water’s edge to see whether any ice has formed. If they find ice, not much time is lost in sharpening last winter’s skates, but they are clamped on the shoes, whether dull or not, and each boy tries to have the honor of being the first to skate in the new season. My home was on the northern shore of Lake Erie, not many miles dis-

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lant from Buffalo. During the week skating was altogether out of the ques tion, for, after coining home from school and doing our chores, it was usually dark, and nobody would then care to skate, not knowing whether, perhaps, at the next stroke lie might take, he should still find himself upon the surface of the ice or fallen into an air hole, groping blindly about for the opening through which he had made his unexpected descent. One slightly foggy Sunday afternoon three of us left our respective homes, met on the beach, and set out for a pleasure trip on the ice. Since we did not care to skate the entire afternoon, we also took along an axe, some pliable copper wire for snares, and last but not least in importance, a bag of goodly size, for we wanted to do some fishing when tired of skating and hence were in need of a receptacle for our catch. After skating about for some time we decided to make use of our fishing tackle. Accord ingly one of my friends, who was by us thought an expert at wielding the axe* chopped several holes into the ice to enable us to try our skill as anglers. Whenever the fishes came to the holes to get air, we would attempt to pass our snares over their bodies and then by a sudden jerk pull them cut of the water. We must all have been very much excited, for although all kinds of fishes made their appearance in large numbers at each one of the holes, nevertheless none of them were so unfortunate as to find their way into our bag. Our patience was nearly spent, and we had about determined to search for different fishing grounds, when one of my friends succeeded in slipping his snare over a large pike. He could not draw the fish out of the water for it was larger than the hole was wide, and the snare happened to be so fastened that the pike would exactly balance. Therefore we at once set to the task of enlarging the hole that we might capture our prize. This being done, we soon had the fish on the ice despite his struggles. But where was the bag? The wind had blown it some distance away, and all three of us ran after it. But we soon found it to be poor policy to leave a prisoner unguarded, for to our consternation the fish had taken advantage of our absence and had slipped back into the water. We were so thoroughly disgusted with this mishap that we set out in search of another place where we should perhaps meet with better success. But this seemed denied to us, as a troublesome crowd of mischievous urchins had ascertained what we were doing and were constantly annoying us by throwing small pieces of ice into the holes where we were fishing, thus de stroying all our hopes of being successful in our undertaking. Having determined to go where we should not be continually molested, we looked far out on the lake where lake and sky seemed to meet. No water was to be seen and consequently we concluded that there was ice out so far at least. Thus we skated away towards the middle of the lake. A strong north wind was blowing, and we could skim along quite rapidly without much effort on our part. The spirit of adventure urged us farther on, and we decided not to stop until the land was entirely out of sight.

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We were now about four miles from shore, and the limits of the ice could he seen before us. Here we stayed for a few hours and played game.. We noticed that immense pieces of ice were breaking off ahead of us and that they were being carried away by the tireless waves. Still we were not \et apprehensive of any danger till we took our axe and chopped several holes to determine the thickness of the ice. It was so thin that the dangerous position in which we found ourselves at once dawned upon us. Before we left home that afternoon our parents had warned us not to go out very far on the lake in such weather, because they well knew in how short a time a warm, strong north wind could, when combined with the help of the wild and restless billows, carry all the ice away from the shore. We looked about us and to our consternation beheld dark clouds rising in the distance. Now the very ice under our feet cracked, warning us not to tarry longer, if we wished to reach the shore alive. Without thinking of our axe and bag, we started for the land. A shudder shot through us whenever we heard the ice breaking away at our heels. A thousand thoughts presented themselves to our minds at the same time. We had disobeyed the commands of our parents in going where they had warned us not to go, and should one of us be drowned and the other two saved, the survivors would have the blame to carry for their companionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s untimely death. If we could only reach the shore safely, we would never again be disobedient. Now the ice was even beginning to break loose ahead of us, and we strained evt rv nerve in renewed and desperate efforts to gain the land. We threw off our hats, coats, and in fact everything that proved a hindrance to our movements and hastened shoreward. But how distant it seemed! The wind grew fiercer and fiercer, the sky was being rapidly darkened by the great black clouds, and yet we could not see the shore. Covered with perspiration and breathing heavily, we finally neared the welcome shore, but the huge chunks of ice were creeping farther apart, and now we were occasionally compelled to leap a foot or two from one piece of ice to another. Kind Providence, however, kept his protecting hand over us, lest we should fall at a time when a single momentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delay might perhaps prove fatal, and after a few more strokes of our skates we fell exhausted into the arms of loving parents, who had heard of our disobedience and had almost given us up as lost. This adventure will always serve us as a lesson for life and it ought to II. S., â&#x20AC;&#x2122;o8. leach others not to disobey the injunctions of their parents.

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Again we are glad that the month of March has come and with it spring or at least thoughts of the pleasant spring. The ground is disposing of its robe of white which has kept it covered during the winter months. The trees are prepar ing to send forth their buds; nay, one species of willow is already in bloom. The days are growing longer. The birds will soon be returning and cheering us with their songs and chirps. But not only nature is awaking. Mankind also is interested in the oncome of spring. After the dreary winter months that bring cold and chills, it awakes the human nature to get out of doors and breathe the fresh and calm spring air. Not only does nature change its dress but also the nature of man. The student is a very attentive observer of nature when he knows spring is coming. After having been confined to his room for some time, Ma.rch.

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he will take advantage of the warm spring days. He already sees himself on the college campus trying his luck at the various sports of spring. While lie is thinking and seeing himself at all this, it does not seem long to him till spring is here in all his glory.

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Lent has come in recent years to be more or less gener ally observed by all people. Men and women who belong to none of the churches which formally observe Lent now modify their habits considerably during a period of forty days, to conform to this ancient Christian fast. They may not follow any of the rules in regard to strict fasting or even to abstaining from meat, but they do make changes in their daily habits which are quite as significant. In many of the large cities there are daily Lenten services in churches so situated as to attract business men. Brokers leave their “tickers" for an hour at noon and spend ilia time in listening to a brief address. Sunday congregations are larger and attendance at places of amusement is smaller. Why is this the case? The explanation is simple. It is that people outside of the churches also have begun to feel that it is good to give a part of the year especially to the life of the soul and to spiritual things; to recall the fasting and tempta tions and the last earthly days of the Master; and to rcdedicatc their aims and ambitions. Men of all creeds are becoming broad enough to recognize a beau tiful custom, no matter in what church they find it, and to adopt every custom that makes for purity of life and spiritual advancement. Lent.

With this issue of the Black and Red another volume has been completed. It is highly interesting for us to look over some of the older numbers of the paper. The first copies contained but 16-1S pages. Besides it was a quarterly at that time. A lew years ago, however it was made possible to edit a monthly publication of an average of 34 pages. Saying this, we by no means wish to assert that the paper has materially improved. On the contrary, we be lieve that *omc of the productions in previous issues were of a higher standard than we have been able to produce. Still we can say with a good conscience that it has always been our earnest endeavor to give our readers satisfaction, both as to quality anl quantity. Of late, however, we have received a number of complaints from our sub scribers concerning the subscription price. Arguments have been set forth that we ought to be able to publish the paper for the same price that was formerly asked. To this we would reply that our expenses have increased considerably. First of all, we are obliged to pay a little more for printing than formerly. Nor do we think this more than just, since the work we are getting is by far superior to the work of several years ago and further more, we think, the printer ought to be allowed a small amount for his work. We cannot expect a person to work for us without receiving due compen-

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sation for his work and trouble. Secondly, the quality of paper used now is better than years ago. It is very evident that we can put up a much neater publication with this grade of paper than with cheap material. For this reason our paper is very often commented upon as a model of neatness. Above all we would ask our subscribers to compare the size of our paper with that of other college publications for which $2.oo-$3.oo is asked and then con sider whether they are getting their money’s worth. If our readers will bear these things in mind and if they are in any way interested in their alma mater, we cannot see why raising the subscription to seventy-five cents should be the source of any further complaint. May the common laborer hope ever to rise from his lowly Making Use position or must he always remain a laborer? The chances of Chances. to rise in our country are certainly both numerous and favorable. Any working man or fanner’s lad who has but a little energy about him may* easily make his way and, more or less, rise into prominence. This, partly, is the reason why the immigration from European countries has been so large in the past few years. In England and in some other parts of Europe the poor peasant daily labors with hardly no other object in view than that of gaining a livelihood. He knows that his pay will never increase and he knows that he must live and die a farm-laborer. And for this reason he hardly tries to rise from his lowly position. In our glorious country, however, it is different. Many of our greatest statesmen were poor farmers in their youth and most of our great millionaires were but common laborers when they began earning their living. But the reason why these men became so great is not mainly because they merely had the chance, but because they made use of it. And they made use of it properly. Beginning with a small career and gradually but steadily and energetically rising, they finally attained a position which made them the most prominent men of our country. Who would ever have thought that the rude farmer’s son, splitting fence rails on his father's farm in Illinois would once be President Lincoln ? Did the great oil-king Rockefeller in his youth ever dream that he was once going to be the richest man the history of the world has ever known ? We, too, have the chances that these great men had in their youth. And let us also make proper use of them. Probably there is one or the other among us who is destined to become a great man and figure in the history of our country. J

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given way to a decidedly low temperature, The ears and noses of the dormitant inmates of the lofty and airy room were snugly hidden away . below the covers of their respective sleeping commodities. All of a sudden the three were simultaneously aroused from their peaceful slumber by some unusual noise. Phil whispered: “Say, Henry!—What was that?—Didn t it sound as though some one rapped at the door?'’ “That's just what l thought”, was the reply in the same subdued tone.—“lhere it is again! — and the knock was followed by an exceedingly strong pressure against the locked door from without, evincing the evident intention of somebody to gain an entrance by force. Consternation and fright held the triumvirate almost spell-bound for a few moments, when, after a repeated knock and pressure, Phil cried out: “Who is there?!!” A short low murmur, revealing how ever no distinct expression of thought in any language known to the three, was the answer.—“What do you want?!!”—sounded the demand from within the room. “Some shoes!”—growled the voice from the outside. And with that bit of information the apparition seemed to have broken its own spell, and to have disappeared; although no footsteps nor other sound gave sufficient evidence of its absence. The three chums lay in silent suspense for a while, awaiting further devel opments in the critical situation. Then a consultation ensued, always in a low tone, as to the probable explanation of the disturbance, and the proper course to be pursued in case of a recurrence. About the latter possibility they were not given much time to remain in uncertainty. Coming down from the open attic, with distinctly audible footsteps, some apparently human being approached the door and repeated its former tactics in rapping, push ing, and squeezing, with the unmistakable end in view of breaking the lock. The boys thought of the weakness of the clasp, and of the prospective intru sion of the unwelcome fiend. Growing more courageous, at the increase of the danger, they loudly deliberated about some possible means of defence which they might have at hand. Luckily Phil thought of the ax, which was the property of the room, and which otherwise was employed to split the stove-wood, in case it was too clumsy. For in those times every room had to provide for its own fuel in a manner which seemed best to the inmates. To jump for the ax, at this juncture, and to place it in readiness to be used as an effective weapon, as soon as necessity should demand, was the task of only a few seconds. The same interrogations as before, and essentially the same answers, were exchanged with the undesirable caller. And without going through the formality of arguing whether capital pun ishment, in such an emergency, would be too severe or not, the verdict seemed to be unanimously agreed upon by the three parties representing the one side, that if the door should give way, the ax would have to do its saving work, and make acquaintance with a kind of material which it had hereto fore been an entire stranger to, i. c., the bones of a human being. However, this dreadful event did not occur, and the institution of learning, known

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throughout this land and in foreign countries for its decided success in the most peaceful of all aspirations, has been spared the humiliation of having the history of a ghastly, though unavoidable, bloodshed recorded in her annals, for all future generations to read with horror and dismay. The stranger, after having vainly ‘pent his force on the door and lock, disappeared once more, in the same silent and ghost-like manner,—never to return. The occupants of the room still waited for some time to find out what would next happen, hoping for the best, but fearing the worst. The slumber of that night was disturbed, and in its place excitement prevailed in the minds of the three unfortunate ones. The dawn of the new day was wel comed as the liberator out of a terrible state of anxiety. The entire institu tion was routed out of its usual quietude of everyday routine, upon the news of what had happened having become known. Explanations and supposi tions, intended to throw light on the mysterious occurrence, were plenteously offered. Some promulgated the idea that a certain unfortunate professor, who had been employed at the college in former years, and who had become insane, whose whereabouts were unknown, might have returned to his previous field of labor and caused the disturbance. One certain student, however, thought it most prudent, during all this stage of high graded excitement, to remain silent, while others vied with each other in the vain attempt to find a satisfactory explanation. He was a fast friend to Phil, and had chosen the manner described in this narrative to play a practical joke on his chum. And how exceedingly well he had carried it out, we have seen! And, although remaining silent about the part he played in the affair, for some weeks, or even months, he was free enough, later, to give awav the secret. And it didn’t break up the friendship either. PHIL, ’77-

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The Exponent (Bozeman, Montana) deserves credit for its faithful un pretentious work. F»ec from ostentation, the magazine has uniformly good articles. “November Clouds" is a successful portrayal of the grief of a bcicaved mother, preluded by the gloom of a November sky, and the message of consolation she received from the presence of the unseen departed. "Be still sad heart and cease repinirg, behind the clouds the sun’s still shining.” h seems the Exponent has a decided bent for poetry of a serious as well as a lighter mood. We were very much interested in the description and picture of the Herron gymnasium in the Miami Student, also in the editorials. The incidents from the old New England singing school are diverting. We rejoiced to see that the Exchange column had a new symbolic picture and was well rid of its revolt ing, unesthetic heading. But lo, we find one almost as unesthetic and blood curdling, heading the fraternity notes. 1 might add that, though the Miami Student is an interesting paper, its conception of an exchange column falls short of our ideal. Student Life (Logan, Utah) is to be complimented on its artistic cover. It- literary department contains excellent articles on Robert Burns and Louis Jean Rudolf Agassiz, the great Swiss-American scientist. Its notes on music and amateur theatricals well illustrated and humorously described contribute no little to the genial tone of the magazine. The Jleraldo (West Denver High School) contains a fascinating story “Why a Cowboy Left the Range.” The plot hinges on recalling the words to a snatch of a song. It is cleverly arranged and keeps us in suspense quite to the end. Of course that the horse and rider should overtake a train is demanding rather much of the poor beast. But the author is in a transport of creative fancy and we can readily forgive her the little incongruity. With this issue of the Black and Red the exchange editor whose privi lege it has been to conduct this column for the past year, brings his work to a close. We have endeavored always to do the work faithfully and promote the interests of college journalism by fair, liberal-minded criticism, construc tive and corrective rather than destructive. The fact that we have succeeded in enlarging our exchange list by many valuable magazines during our regime proves that we have been quite successful in living up to our ideal. It is needless to say that we have had pleasure in the work, strenuous as it was. Knowing that we have an able and worthy successor we gladly give up the staff of office and wish all of our exchanges farewell.

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—Otto Koch, Prep., visited his parents at Columbus February 21. —John Whyte, 05, went to Milwaukee to attend the Thomas Orchestra concert February 28. —Elmer Schwier, Prep., went to his home at La Crosse to act as best man at the wedding of his brother William February 28. —Fred Brahmstadt, Prep., discontinued his studies on account of illness and returned to his home at La Crosse February 28. —Prof. W. Xotz made a trip to Ft. Atkinson February 26. —Dr. J. H. Ott was present at the inaugural ceremonies at Madison March 4. —George Zeisler and Fred Dittmann of the University of Wisconsin called on Henry Zeisler, Prep., and on college friends February 18. —Carl Fehnnann, Prep., spent the week from February 17 to Februan 2^ at the home of his parents at Sun Prairie. —Rev. Chr. Sauer of Juneau called on his sons Adolf, '06, and Edwin, '07. February 28. —Mr. John Hinz of Black Creek visited his son Alfred, Prep., February 25-27. —Alexander Zuehlke, Ac., and Gotthold Schlei, Prep., spent Sunday l ehruary 26 at the former’s home in Juneau. —Rev. Ph. von Rohr of Winona, Minn., visited the institution March (). —Charles Toepel, Prep., acted as best man at the wedding of his sister Clara at Cleveland February 19. —August Herzfcld and Solomon Jcdcle of the Luth. Theol. Seminary at Wauwatosa were college visitors March 11. —The Seniors are taking a course in pedagogy with Prof. A. Ernst. —Edwin Sauer, ’07, went to Milwaukee February 28. He returned March 7. —Mr. F. Petersen of Fond du Lac called on his friend William Kumm, ’07. February 24. —Mr. August Zuehlke of Juneau visited Ins son Alexander, Ac., February 20. —Prof. W. Xotz could not hear his classes on account of illness during part of the first week in March. John Abelmann, ’05. took charge of his classes in the preparatory department during his absence. —On February 20 public examinations in German were begun and they will be continued every two weeks. They are conducted on the same plan as the final examinations in June. Everybody has a chance to speak five minutes on the subject which is given him a short time before. Strict attention is paid to contents, correct German, fluent diction, and other minor points. After the German examinations have been completed the classes will be examined in English. 326

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../—On Wednesday, February 22, Mr. Daniel Kuscl died at his home in Watertown at the age of 93 years. The funeral services were held in the Ev. Luth. St. Mark's church on February 24, Rev. J. Klingmann and Rev. Prof. Aug. Ernst officiating. Mr. Kusel was the oldest member of St. Mark's church and is one of the founders of our institution. For a long time he was a member of the board of trustees. When he withdrew from this position on account of old age he was made honorary member of the board. He always worked for the welfare of the institution and he was always liberal and lent a helping hand on all occasions. —On Tuesday evening, March 7, the Apollo Musical Club of Watertown, under the direction of Mr. Franz Salbach, gave its first concert at Neuman’s New Theatre. They were assisted bv the soloists Miss Emma Felix, so prano, and Mr. Albert Fink, violinist, of Milwaukee. Mr. Alex. MacFaddcn accompanied the soloists and the choir on the piano. Of the selec tions rendered by the choir we especially enjoyed Mendelssohn’s “Hunting Song," Barnbv’s “Sweet and Low,” and the “Hallelujah” chorus of Haendel’s “Messiah." We may also speak highly of the soloists, especially of Miss Emma Felix. According to our judgment her rendering of Richard Mulder’s "Staccato Polka” and Taubert’s “Merkt euch das, lernt was” and "In der Marznacht” were rendered extraordinarily well. We also ad mired Mr. Albert Fink’s renderings, especially Wieniawski’s “Mazurka.” Mr. Franz Salbach is the able director of the A Capella Choir at Milwau kee. For the last two years he also gave instructions in vocal music at our institution. This year, however, he was not engaged for that purpose. But we hope that we shall again secure his services in the coming schoolyear. -—The building committee gave the contract for the new dormitory to the contractors Peters and Stuart of Janesville, who had the lowest bid, $36,437. The contract for plumbing was given to Mr. Russel of Watertown for $4,650. It is not decided as vet whether steam or water heating is going to be used. The entire building will be furnished with all modern im provements including electric light. Special attention was given to proper ventilation and other hygienic principles. The entire cost will be about $50,000.

THE, BLACK AND RED. —On Saturday evening, March n, the Eureka Literary Society gave an entertainment in the college chapel. An interesting program partly rhetorical and partly musical was fairly well rendered. The program was opened and closed with appropriate selections by the N. W. U. Orchestra. —The concert committee has fixed the date for the fifth annual band and orchestra concert on Friday, May 12. Further particulars will be given later. —The faculty recently appointed Alvin Rohlfing, ’06, Henry Diehl, ’07, George Luetke, ’07, and Gustav Westerhaus, 08, as editors of the Black and Red.

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Artistic ■ Photography J\t Ulright’s Ground floor Gallery. REMEMBER: If you are pretty, we take it; if not, we make it.

OTTO HEYIN BIBLES, SONG BOOKS, CHURCH GOODS IN GENERAL. School Supplies a Specialty. 409 Main Street.

Jos. Salick & Son 3eweler$ and Opticians Special Attention is given to testing E ves anti Fitting of Glasses. Eyes Tested Free.

Baseball and Sporting floods i and 3 Main Street.

P. H. KNICK Headquarters for

EASTMAN KODAKS 7 ,'laii 3trcjt

WATERTOWN, WIS.

Watertown. Wis.

The August Gamm

Crockery and Glassware Go. —Dealers in—

l- IRE INSURANCE FRED WATERTOWN, Sole Importers of the Celebrated ROXhEIMER Rhine Wine

Ci ockerv Glassware Lamps Bar Goods Stone Ware Flower Pots, Etc;

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Watertown, Wis.

J.J.Toussaint&Son

Wholesale Wines and Liquors

WISCONSIN.

8 Main Street

WM. GORDER CO.

606-608 Main St.

REMODELING Yes we are remodeling our store and will make it one of tlie best in the state. And when we are through we will increase our high standard for fine Merchandise at low prices. I)o not be afraid to come in while this work is going on as we are in position to show you the best line of Suits, Top Coats, Cravanettes, Shirts, Hats Caps, Ties, Collars and everything up-to-date that per tains to Men’s wear for Spring of 1905.

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