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LITERARY

Number, 1.

The Fruits of War. Leo C. Kirst.

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War has ever pla3^ed a conspicuous part in the history of the world. It has aided in the building up of nations and, on the other hand, has also been the cause of the downfall of many. We may be able to understand this, however, if we bear in mind that the Scrip tures say: All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. This has been confirmed time and again. In looking back over history we find that nations, although they were very valiant and courageous in military undertakings, have nevertheless perished. And when we consider the various wars that have been waged in bygone times, we are amazed at their bloody uselessness. Of course, in the beginning there was perhaps evident need for war, it being the means by which nations were enabled to establish themselves and to acquire their respective strips of land and, after having these, to protect them against possible encroachments of some superior foe. But apart from this we must admit that wars are destructive und useless. It is often asserted, however, that war has been a means toward civilization, but our map of the world bears no trace of it as a civilizing element. The world’s greatest conquerors such as Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and, at a later day, Napo leon, have bettered the world but little, and we are shocked at the harmful consequences of some of their brilliant exploits. The great empires founded by them have in course of time crumbled awa3r and are known to us only through history — the work of the sword has disappeared. What remains of ancient nations is not warlike achieve ments, but books and monuments, in fact, whatever is the fruit, not of war, but of labor and peace. We have indeed received much in the way of learning from nations which have long since vanished, and which have had a warlike past. Athens, for example, has handed down to posterity a literature and an art of a high degree of excellence. It has created dramatists like Sophocles and Euripides and has had sculptors like Phidias, but we must well note that these great men did not display their genius when Athens was at war; on the contrary, what they have left behind for

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us was wrought in time of peace. It was during the thriving period in which Pericles reigned that these and like talents were developed. As soon as the hatred between Athens and its contemporary rival, Sparta, was renewed, the former found itself launched on a vast sea of trouble on which it finally was wrecked. For now followed a long list of battles which proved to be unfortunate for Athens. Sparta gained supremaev both on land and sea, and the Athenians were de feated and duly humbled. We see clearly from this that war is prom inent in bringing about a nation’s downfall. And what have we of Athens during this period of incessant struggles ? We have no more than the history of a list of battles. And it is certainly not worth the whilefor a nation to becomeinvolved in deadly conflicts on this account. Look at ancient Rome. After Carthage had been destroyed, Rome was practically7 the foremost nation of the globe. She had no need of fearing a foe, for she was now mistress on the ocean as well as on the land. She subjugated the nations round about her, so that the people of the Orient told each other in awe the stories of her brilliant mil itary feats and of her grand naval exploits. But this time of triumph did not last long. The root of evil was already sprouting in Rome. Party spirit soon ushered in terrible civil wars. The people became indifferent to their religion, despised their gods, and no crime was too black for them to perpetrate. The result was that Italy became so corrupt that it could not resist the hostile incursions of its northern neighbors. Thus we see how war creates war, and that nations which resort to it are finally destroyed by their own weapons. We could find various other cases in history of the same nature, but space does not allow us to go into detail. We are in our days, as it appears, witnessing a transformation in the object of war. In the beginning of humanity, in heroic times, war was essentially an aggressive measure. A people attacked its neigh bors, intending to rob them of their possession and reduce them to slavery. To-dav, however, this is no more the case or, if such be the intention, it is at least not avowed. There is no longer question of anything but war of defense: one's domestic peace and possessions are threatened, and one enters the field merely in self-defense. We can hardly believe that there is a nation to-day that would confess that it meditates an attack upon another and seeks the conquest of the world. The reason for this is probably7 that in our present ad vanced age war, as is generally assumed, is becoming more and more murderous. With long distance guns, with shells ever more destruct ive, with other late inventions, machines and explosives, which, at a distance of miles, can annihilate entire regiments it is evident that the nature of warfare is changing. It is no longer a test of physical courage or strength, a hand-to-hand encounter with sword and bayonet, but a sort of science by the practice of which one can destroy his enemy without approaching him. It is no longer a question of hire lings fighting a duel in a corner, with two nations for witnesses; no, it is the two nations themselves falling upon each other with intent so abominable that, to terminate the bloody quarrel, either assailant must be destroyed. Therefore nations should think twice before de claring war, for a bullet once fired can never be recalled.

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General Sherman, one of the foremost generals of our civil war, boldly declared : “War is hell.” He well knew the evils of war. He had experienced the dreadful hardships of it himself and had seen the destruction of lives brought about by it. Let us consider for a moment the traces left by a war. Commerce, which before flourished on the land as well as on the sea, is radically swept away. Fertile lands, which formerly yielded their occupants the golden harvests of the field, arc devastated and laid waste. Wealthy cities, which were once the pride of their inhabitants and in whose crowded streets the daily bustle of commerce could be seen, are plundered and destroyed. In fact, the whole country, which before found itself in a peaceful and thriving condition, is transfigured into a desolate tract of land. Are we not led to shudder at the mercilessness of the tyrannical conqueror who looks for wealth only ? Picture in your imagination the dreadful scenes which take place on the battlefield. How many thousands of young lives must fall there before the mouth of the roaring cannon like grass falls before the sickle. Here can be heard the groans of the wounded and the shrieks of the distressed and dying. They must pass away under the open sky unwept and unsung. They recall to their memory the de lightful days spent at home among their wives and children, brothers and sisters. They imagine themselves sitting at the fireside with the little ones at their knee listening attentively to fond stories which they were wont to tell. How they long to embrace them once more and bid them a last farewell; but they must forbear it all without receiving a consoling word from one or the dear ones. And at home how many eyes are filled with tears? Who can count the Jicai ts that are anxiously awaiting the dawn of peace only to embrace once more their beloved soldier boys ? Do not scenes like this move us and make us abhor from the bottom of our hearts the very aspect of war? Truly, it is to be deplored that nations which until now seem to have held aloof from the contagion of war ever prevalent among the powers of Europe now seem to be attacked by it. The United States since the war with Spain appears to have become a victim of the war fever. Until recently we have wisely occupied ourselves with domestic affairs and have let Europe severely alone, but now we seem to be planning to enlarge our territory and to achieve military glory. In politics of this sorts, however, we should let well enough alone. Through war a nation can only achieve transitory power, a power subject to challenge. We may speak of Alexander and Caesar, but their conquests belong to a dead past, even their empires have crum bled away, nothing being left of them but ruins, grains of sand which arc carried off by the wind; whereas, the works of Homer and Virgil and other monuments of civilization still live and form a part of our wealth. The world was never positively conquered except by thougt; thought is supreme, it breaks swords and stops the cannon’s roar. Thererore we should try to cultivate thinkers and men of learning. In conclusion, we have as the fruits of war, on the one hand, con quest, militarism, and imperialism, on the other, destruction, famine and poverty. The former, the harvest of the victor, the latter that of the vanquished. We have also seen that nations which have taken

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the sword have perished by it. Therefore let us hope that war soon shall be a thing of the past. Let us hope that war, because it is anti social, because it ruins nations, and because it impedes the progress of humanity toward the City of Peace and Justice, may henceforth be banished lrom history.

A Trip to the Niagara Falla. Dorothea Bittner.

On the tenth of July, 1901, we left Buffalo for a trip to the Niagaras by trolley. It was about eight o’clock in the morning when we entered the car. As the weather was clear and we were obliged to transfer but once, the journey was pleasant and comfortable. After having passed through the northern part of the city, we met with sceneries which seemed very familiar. On each side were fields of various grain, cattle grazing on pastures, farmers gathering hay, and farm houses. It seemed as though we were driving in the country near Watertown. One difference, however, was obvious. The houses did not appear as spacious and well built, and individual farms were not as extensive as those farther west. This dissimilarity is chiefly due to the difference in the quality of the soil. Sceneries like these we enjoyed for a distance of about ten miles, when the car entered the town of Tonawanda. Here it stopped twice, affording the passengers little or no opportun ity to see the town or observe what was going on about them. On leav ing this place we were conducted along the river of which divers por tions, with the surrounding bushes and trees, are exceedingly pretty. Finally we arrived at the city of Niagara Falls, immediately above the great cataract. In the northwestern part of this city there is a park, named Pros pect Park. It extends along the river up to the falls. This we entered and approached the object of our journey. From Prospect Point, a sort of promontory beside thetumbling mass, we could overlook the cntire American and the Canadian portion of the horseshoe falls. Standing only about eight feet from it, we were surprised at the feebleness of the sound produced by the falling water. It did not, as we anticipated, resemble that of a thunder-bolt, but that of asmalldam, when you stand about the same distance from it and the wind carries the noise to wards you. Although the greater portion of the grand fall may be seen from this point, the view did not deeply impress us. But we per ceived our mistake when we rode down the inclined-railway and saw the water falling from the high cliff and heard its loud roaring. From this point we observed how immense the columns of water are which every minute pour over the brink, and saw with what force they struck the rocks below. At the foot of this immense and powerful column we again approached it within a few feet, but with other opinions and judgments than before. We, however, did not pass through under part of falls, as several other visitors did. Another interesting feature of the visit in the gorge was the trip on

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the “Maid of the Mist,” a steamer which carries passengers directly before the falls, affording them one of the grandest -views to be had of this wonderful cataract. Having seen and admired it from various directions, we ascended the cliff by way of the inclined railway, found a shady place in the park and enjoyed our luncheon. At two o’clock we started for Canada. We crossed by means of the suspension bridge near by, and in a short time arrived in Victoria Park, which leads to the horseshoe falls. From this side almost the best view of the entire falls can be had. From the horseshoe part of it, at the utmost end of the park, the most beautiful combination of pale colors may be observed. It is especially pretty at the beginning of sunset. After we had walked about for two hours and had seen many interesting things besides the falls, we returned to the American side. Our next visit was to the islands above the falls. They arc five in number. The first and largest is Goat Island. It is connected with the main land by a bridge, over which every visitor to this “ ivost in teresting spot in all America” must pass. Beneath it the water rushes with great force, forming dangerous rapids. The eye of every visitor standing on this bridge is attracted by a very interesting rock between it and the American fall, called Avery’s Rock. It is so named after a man who, swept to it by the rapids, clung to it for twenty-four hoi rs, but was finally driven over the cliff. After we had given the rushing mass our attention for a short time, we walked along the paths of the island, which seemed to be a garden with a large variety of trees and plants. One of these footways directed us to a spring of clear, cool water. Having here quenched our thirst, we pursued our course and arrived at a bridge which led to the brink of the falls. From the end of the bridge a pretty view of the horseshoe and the upper part of the American falls is offered the visitor. Beside this bridge there was once the Terrapin Tower, which was built in 1833, but needlessly torn down in 1873. At this place there are rocks which still bear the same name. The island we next traversed was Luna Island, which is next in size to that described. From it, as from the iormer, one may obtain numerous beautiful views of the immense cataract. At the base of the Luna Island Fall there is found the Rock of Ages, the only rock of con siderable bight below the falls. It can be reached by a bridge which is connected with a path that leads to the station of the inclined rail way. This path is the one already mentioned, which passes below a portion of the American fall. The space about the rock is entirely enclosed by terraces. When the wind blows into this region, it is here caught as if in a cave. For this reason it is called “Cave oftheWinds.” As the sun was now setting, we could visit only two of the Three Sister Islands. Compared with those depicted above, they are rather small, but also exceedingly pretty. With each other they are connected by roads, with Luna Island and the main land by bridges. From these islands visitors could also obtain various views of the falls. The most impressive one, however, is that of the Madding Rapids above the falls from the third Sister Island. Another is that entitled “ When Niagara’s Tide is Low.” It displays a rocky shore on the eastern side of the second Sister Island. These are a few of the many views afforded visitors.

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DEPARTMENT EDITORS. MUSICAL EDITOR ATHLETIC EDITOR LOCAL EDITOR EXCHANGE EDITOR CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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The New We are again at the threshholcl of a new year in the his Volume. tory of our college paper. On looking back we find that . . the Black and Red has gone through the ups and downs which inevitably come to every undertaking of note. However primi tive the beginning ma}r have been, the untiring efforts of the different editors have brought the paper to the top notch of development. When we consider the size of our school, we only wonder the more that we have such a good paper. Great things have been accomplished during the last few years. By steady uphill work the editors have raised the standard of the paper nntil it is now only a question of keeplng it where it is. We must take care that we do not go backward. And that is certainly the motto of the new staff if it ever was the motto of any staff. Not only have we made up our minds to keep up the usual excellence of the paper, but we have made up our minds to improve it. Perhaps we are not the first staff which has set out with bright prospects. Perhaps others have gone before who haye tasted 6

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of the sweets of hope and then had to taste the bitterness of defeat. But they have been there for our benefit' We learn from their success, but we learn still more from their misfortunes. A college paper should be the pride of every Alumnus—as well as of every undergraduate. What is achieved by your college paper will never be forgotten; the records of your athletic heroes and athletic teams are soon forgotten; but what has been done for and by the college paper is never forgotten. The paper is there to speak for itself. What you accomplished during your years as a student is there, and you take great pleasure in going over your boyish attempts at a story or at the elucidation of some great social problem. It is unalloyed pleasure to look back on one’s attempts of that kind. If you have worked and written for the paper while at college, you will take an active interest in it after you have beeu graduated. You will be inter ested in the attempts of the student of to-day; you compare his work with the work of your day. You see where there has been progress, and you are pleased that there has been progress. And the chances are that if you take ail interest in your college paper, you wiil take an active interest in the other affairs connected with your Alma Mater. An Annooncsmont,

It has not been the custom in the past for the busi ness managers of the Black and Red to make an an nouncement at the beginning of their term of office. With the beginning of this volume, however, it seems necessary. Some trouble was caused during the past }'ear by the failure of many sub scribers to send in their subscription money when it was due. It is the ambition of every new staff to make the volume of which they have charge as good as the foregoing one and to improve on it if possible. Yet improvement is entirely out of question when the treasury of the paper is empty. The businessmen of Watertown supported the editors of Volume VI loyally, often paying the greater share of the expense in curred in printing the several issues. We hope that their interest in the Black and Red will not grow less during the year that is begun with this issue, and that the “ad-man” of this volume will be as success ful as was his predecessor. If we are aided in a financial way by our out-of-town friends, the staff will be able to make the improvements that have been planned. Hence this appeal to our subscribers. The terms of subscription to the Black and Red are fifty cents per annum, payable in advance. On the envelope in which this paper was sent, the subscriber will find the volume and number of the last Black and Red he has paid for. Thus VI, 10 after the address signifies that the March number of the volume completed with last month’s issue was the last number for which payment has been made and that the subscription for the present volume is now due. Persons not receiving a receipt within ten days after remitting will please notify the business manager. We trust that our subscribers will give the matter due at tention, and thus assist the editors in their efforts to give them a paper of which they, as alumni, and friends of Northwestern may be proud. Our fellow students will help the paper very much by following the rule they have heard so often; “Patronize our advertisers.” The

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business men who support us are the most progressive ones in town and we ought to show that we appreciate their aid by patronizing them.

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Our Relations For many years there has been a friendly feeling with Germany between the Germans and Americans. The Americans have always regarded the Germans as a peaceloving nation. When Prince Henry paid his visit to the United States last year he was hailed by all the Americans and entertained in the best possible manner. At that time nearly everyone believed that this visit was intended to strengthen the bond of friendship between the two nations. Not only did the Prince visit our country, but the Ger mans have also given the United States a statue of Frederic the Great. But what has been the result of these trifling civilities that have hitherto been exchanged between Germany and the United States? The German Emperor has been base enough to misinterpret these tokens of friendship and taken them to be a charter for his recent ill conduct in the Venezuelan affair. He seems to think that the Americans have not been able to detect the artifice which is at the bottom of the whole procedure. But in this he has been seriously mistaken. The Americans are not a people that may be so easily baffled. They will not brook such an insolence as the Emperor has shown toward the Monroe Doctrine. The Americans are by no means eager to begin a conflict with a strange nation; they regard war and contest as terrible evils, but when their passions are sufficiently aroused to enter, they will prove the most dangerous foe on the globe. Whatever the course of events may be, Germany will find out sooner or later that the United States will by no means flinch an inch from their purpose. On Why is it that some college boys indulge in using tobacco when they know, or at least ought to know, that it is Tobacco. injurious to them both physically and mentally? It probably comes from the fact that the}T begin using tobacco in order to be what they call “tough.” But by and by a habit is established, and then it is hard for them to discontinue the use of tobacco. It surely is the wish of everyone to do the utmost he is capable of doing. If, however, he uses tobacco, this is impossible. That this habit is detrimental to our mental faculties has been proved repeatedly. A college in France keeping a close record of the work of each student for seven years, it was found that with few exceptions, the non-tobacco users excelled those who used tobacco. And no one will deny that tobacco is also harmful to the svstem. If this does not prove itself so in a short time, it will become evident in course of time. are ?nly dangers that result from using tobacco. Int 1S los*to a certain extent. How often do we been or is evTwt disagreeable experience of finding that some one has common ?n the fl?or, sidewalksfor in places where lack of character* Ti™ Wl11 offend some one. This shows between good and ted cfenuTnm- ceased ^ wh** discrimination leads to the^se of intnv’5S\^e^^r^n^ con8eclucnce, however, is that it leads to the use of intoxicating dnnks. Liquor and tobacco arc closely

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related to each other. One follows from the other. Of course, it is not said that this is the case with all tobacco users, but that it can be the case. Now do we want to expose ourselves to such dangers ? I saj rather abstain from such luxuries that could injure our future happiness. A Word. The subscribers of the Black and Red have very likely often wondered why the paper has steadily appeard late; that is, after the fifteenth of the month. The fault must be laid at the door of the printer. The staff has tried its very best to have the paper issued on time. The material was on hand early enough to secure the issue of the paper on time. But unfortunately the printer left us in the lurch. When the new staff had organized, a contract was made. It was hoped that now the paper might come out on time. But we were dis appointed again. Thinking it best to change the place of printing, we decided to do so. This accounts for the tardiness of the present num ber. Henceforth the subscribers may expect to receive their dear old Black and Red on the fifteenth of the month.

EXCHANGES

With this issue of the Black and Red the exchange editor wishes all of our exchanges success for the ensuing year. In the March number of The Lesbian Herald we find an excellent article entitled “George Eliot’s Analysis of Character.” The whole composition shows that the writer is familiar with her subject. The writer also kas a good style of writing. The Stylus contains many contributions that are worth reading. “ The Editor’s Dream” deserves special credit. If the editors of this paper would spend a little more time in reading proofs, the number of errors might greatlybe diminished. The Mirror is a college journal that is deserving of praise. “ Mod ern Industrial Growth in the United States,” “Son of the Woods,” and “The Dance of the Tub-makers,” are all well written articles. In the article of “The Son of The Woods,” however, we find the following sentence: “It is so novel.” This “so” is perfectly meaningless, for there is nothing there to show comparison. The fact that the author of this composition is a female perhaps offers an explanation for this little infirmity. We acknowledge The Cresset as one of our most interesting ex changes. The March issue contains a good story “An April Joke.” This same number contains an interesting editorial on the great value of education. We find the literary columns in The Central Collegian to be highly interesting. One does not rue the time spent in reading such articles as “Lafayette, The Knight of Liberty,” and Three Types of Shakespeare. These articles show a great deal of original thought. Many of our exchanges would do well to strive to emulate The Collegian.

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The various departments of the Coe College Cosmos are well got ten up. The editorials give a person a pretty fair insight into the existing state of affairs at Coc College. It would seem that debating plays an important part at this college. A little of this spirit might bring about better results at old Northwestern. We join in the plea of the exchange editor of “The Lincolnian ” for more space in the exchange column. In many of the exchanges that reach our table we find that very little or no space is devoted to the exchanges. . . To all those who lack mental discipline we would prescribe a thorough study of the editorial treating the subject in the Thiclcnsian. Perhaps this editorial would influence some'of our students to do a little mo t e independent thinking. Some of our exchanges seem to have a vague conception of what the exchange column ought to contain. In some exchanges we find the most tooiish conglomeration of stuff that a person can imagine. The business of the exchange editor is to spend a little time in reading through some of his most interesting exchanges and then pass some comments on the merits of the exchanges.

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The Rev. J. Jenny of Milwaukee paid his son Herbert, ’05, a visit on March 17th. On the same date the Rev. E. Dornfeld of Milwaukee called on his son Ernst, ’04. On March 18th the Rev. H. Knuth visited the institution. The Rev. C.Sauer of Juneau visited his sons Christian, ’01, Adolpli, ’06, and Edwin, ’07, on March 19th. Mr. H. Kionka called on his nephew Herman Kionka, ’10, March 23d. On March 25th Frederic Brenner, ’05, enjoyed a visit of his father, the Rev. Phil. Brenner of Reedsville. E. R. Binte discontinued his studies and returned to his home in Iron Ri dge. Mr. Otto Gamm of Milwaukee paid his cousin Arnold Sprehn, ’OS, a short visit on March 28th. Ernst Heilman, ’05, and Adolph Pankow, ’09, paid their grand father in Ixonia a visit on March 28tli, On March 29th Mr. Techmer of La Crosse called on his son Walt er, ’09, who has been ill for several days. Prof. 0. Hover delivered a sermon at Princeton on March 22d. Dr. J. H. Ott went to Milwaukee on business March 28th. On March 30th the Board of the institution met. Those present were tlie Rev. Fading, the Rev. v. Rohr, the Rev. Jaeckel, the Rev. Dowidat, the Re v. Kick maun, the Rev. Koch, the Rev. Jaeger, Mr Graebner, Mr. Killing, and Mr. Gamm. Arnold Pankow ot Waterloo visited the institution on April 7th and 8th. On April 1st Dr. J. H. Ott was at Jefferson to attend to the trans-

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fer of the library of theLieut.Gov. Frances A. Hoffmann, generally known as “Hans Buschbauer”. Through this bequest our college will receive many valuable works in history and literature, both English and German. Geo. Hauschild, ’00, is studying at Leipzig and is spending his spring vacation in Italy. Ernst Eckelmann, ’97 is studying Germanic philology at Munich, having received the Ottendorfer scholarship. Dr. Notz, as chairman of the committee in ancient languages, attended a meeting at Madison on April 2d and 3d. He was more than pleased with what he found at the University. In a talk to his “Junior Hebrew” class he said among other things that the class preparation shown by the students of Hebrew at Madison is praiseworthy. The board of trustees has elected Mr. II. A. Frank, ’01, who is at present pursuing his studies at the U. of Wis., Prof, of Mathematics, to succeed Prof. W. Weimar, who recently resigned. The first corridor of our recitation hall has been decorated with several pictures. On the eastern wall hangs the Roman Forum. It shows the temple of Saturn, the temple of Vespasian and the grand arch ofSarimius Savernus. Opposite this a portrait of Dr. Martin Luther is placed. At the first landing of the main stairway we see on the southern wall Stratford-on-Avon. It presents the church in which sleeps the greatest poet of modern times, Shakespeare. The students were allowed to attend the concert given by the Steindel Concert Com pan}' under the auspices of the Euterpe Club of this city. A great many took advantage of this permissiou and heard some very good music. Bruno Steindel was of course the star. His rendition of Arlcquin, andTarantelle by Popper was loudly applauded and seemed to have pleased the students greatly. But Mr. Itte rend ered the Hungarian Airs of Sarasate in such a pleasing way that he shared the honors of the evening with Mr. Steindel. Miss Griewisch sang several charming little pieces, among which “Ich Wandle Unter Blumcn” by Meyer Ilclmund was best received. At length a long-felt want at our institution has been provided for. Little attention, if any, was given to vocal training till now, but our Honorable Faculty, thinking it of the utmost importance to the boys, the majority of whom will some da}r occupy the pulpit, has pushed the matter of late, and the result of its efforts is that the students organized a choir and secured the services of an .eminent musician of Milwaukee, Mr. Salbach, director of the A capella choir, who since then has ably and satisfactorily filled his position as teacher. His in teresting mode of teaching has captivated all and kindled a flame of enthusiasm for the noble art. The weekly lesson of one-and-one-half hours is greatly enjoyed by everyone and affords more or less verit able relief from the hard mental strain of the week, To defray the expenses, each member paj'S a nominal fee', for which the benefit derived from the lessons fully compensates; and to conclude we may state that, after six lessons, progress may already be marked. i =

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—Porter’s dictionary stand almost proved a homicide. While looking out a word in the dictionary, the springs of the stand suddenly gave way. The dictionary collapsed and there sat Porter with his nose in the dictionary. —Gummy claims he received all his speed from eating gravy—seven bowls at a meal. —Some time ago a dark shadow was cast over the student body. Bul letins appeared with the statement that Bml was lost. This, of course, put all the boys in deep mourning, for the loss seemed too great to be overcome. A reward of five hundred dollars was promised to him who would find him. The chief of detectives, a man from Nebraska, with the aid of three bloodhounds, set out to look for Bml. After searching the country through a radius of five miles, they found him in his room, to the great joy of everybody. The detective did not receive his reward, but instead, Bml barked barked at him vociferously. Since then a penny collection has been taken up to buy him a city directory. —New arc lights now at Watertown, Make day of darkest night, And Oily says a tragedy Again has come in sight. —Heard on the campus: Get me a pie.—Breutz. Give me a match.—Mike I must get my arm in trim.—Hank. Sponge me some toby.—Cheesy. Got a trophy ?—Frenchy. I left in my uniform.—Bill. I’ve got the real walk —Cozy. Don’t eat so much hash, It has a bad effect!—Fritz. —Who won’t go to Milwaukee again on account of his optics? Any one answering this question will receive a reward by calling on the business manager of this paper.

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Volume VII.

Watertown, Wisconsin, May, 1903.

LITERARY

Number, 2.

Augustins BeKenntnisse. Seit den Tagen des Apostels Paulus bis auf Luther hat es keinen grosseren Kirchenlehrer gegeben als den beruhmten Bischof von Hippo Regius Aurelius Augustinus. Sein gcistlicher Vater Ambrosius, Bischof von Mailand, magjaein grosserer Redner gewesen sein, Hieronymus iibertraf ihn an Sprachkenntnis und Schulgelehrsamkeit, aber beide sind ihm sonst in jeder Beziehung in theoretischer wiepraktischer Hinsicht weit untergeordnet. Sein Buch iiber den Gottesstaat hat dem Mittelalter sein Gcpragc gegeben, und seine Bekenntnisse zeichnensich nicht nur durch religiose Tiefe und riickhaltslose OfFenheit aus, sondcrn sic sind aucli vorbildlich geworden fur die Redeweise und Form, in dcr sich noch heute unsere Andacht aussert. Er wurde im Jalire 354 zu Thagaste in Numidien geboren. Sein Vater Patrieius, cin lcidenschaftlicher, heftigtr Charakter, war noch Heide. Seine Mutter Monica aber, auf die er lebenslang als auf ein Muster der Frommigkeit schaute/war eine reichbegabte ernste Christin. Sie hat die Freude geliabt, dass der heftige, oft in Zorn aufbrausende Mann, den sic durch liebevolles Verhalten immer wieder zu gewinuen wusste, sich doch endlich unter das Kreuz Christi beugte und sich durch das Wort voin Kreuze lautern Hess. Dieses Wort auch in das Herz ihres Kindes zu pflanzcn, war ihr hochstcr Wunsch und ihre unablassige Sorge. Das bezeugt Augustin, wenn er sagt, dass sein Herz den Namen des Heilandes schon mit der Muttermilcli eingesogen habe, und dass fortan nichts, wasohne diesen Namen gewesen, ihn ganz habe hinnehmen und fesseln konnen. Aber dieser kostliche Same kam noch lange nicht zu recliter Entfaltung. Augustin beschreibt uns sein Leben von friihester Kindheit an, ja er teiit uns mit, was er iiber seine friiheste Kindheit von der Mutter und seinen Pflegerinnenerfahren habe. Erfiigthinzu, was er durch seine seltene Beobachtungsgabe an anderen Kindern beobachtet habe. Sogar iiber das Lernen des Sprecliens macht ersehr zutreffende Bemerkungen. Seine El tern, die ii brigens gerade nicht wohlhabeud waren, hatten egrne einen tiichtigen, beruhmten Mann aus ihm gemacht. Sie sandten Bin deshalb schon friihe in die besteu Schulen. Aber obwohl der JCnabe reichbegabt war und daher ohne Zweifel auch bedeutende Fort^

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scliritte inachte, so hatte er doch keineswegs grossen Lerneifer. Er crzablt, wie er oft Sclilage bekommen und zu Gott gebetet babe, dass er ibn docli vor deuselben erretten moge, aber seine Eltern batten seine Klage niemals angenommen. Das Spiel, namentlich das Ballspiel, machte ihm grosseres Yergnugcn als das Lernen, und er wurde von einer formlicben Spiellust ergriffen. Plotzlicli warfibn ein Magenkrampf auf das Krankenlager, und man furchtete, dass er sterben wcrde. Da begelirte er die heilige Taufe, und seine Mutter eilte, sein brennendes Yerlangen zu erfiillen. Docb wurde er wieder gesund, und seine Taufe wurde nocb aufgeschoben, vielleiclit weil man furchtete, wie cs damals irrtumlicli viel geglaubt wurde, dass die Sunden nacli dcr Taufe schwerer seien als die ungetaufter Menseben. Die Studien, wie sie damals getrieben wurden, fesselten ihn nicht. Latein, die damals herrschende Spracbe, lernte er einigermassen, aber die heidnisclie Mythologie hielt er fur ganz unniitz, weil unwabr, ja schadlich. Nocb mehr fuhlte er sicb von dem Griechiscbcn abgestossen, weil es so viel scliwerer zu erlernen war. Es mag das wobl zum Teil an der verkehrtm Unterriehtsweise gelegen haben. Docb liielten ihn die Eltern unablassig zum Lernen an, und er brachte es immerbin so weit, dass er mit seinem siebzehnten Jahre nacli Kartbago, dcr Hauptstadt, gesandt wurde, um seine Studien zu vollenden. Iiier bcgatin er eifriger zu arbeiten, besonders aus Ehrgeiz, um ein tiiclitiger Redner zu werden. Docb versank er trotz seiner Studien in allcrlei Luste und hatte namentlich grosses Gefallen an Schauspiclen und Auffiibrungen. Aberimmer lulilte er sicb unbefriedigt und trostlos. Da kam er im Unterricbte an Ciceros Hortensius, und vondiesem Bucbe, welches cine Ermunterung zur Philosophic entlialt, bekennter, cinen tiefen Eindruck empfangen zu baben, so class er nun ernstlich nacli Weislieit strebte. Nur befremdete esihn, dass Cbristi Namen nicht bei diesem Studium genannt wurde, der ihm ja von Jugend auf tief eingepragt war. Er bcscbloss daber, die Heilige Schrift zu lesen, aber er vermochte seincu Naeken niclit unter die Wallrlieit zu beugen und ilire Balm zu geben. In aufgeblahtem Stolze diinkte er sich iiber dcr Einfalt des Evangeliums erbaben. Seine Mutter erflillte dieser Zustand ihres Solincs mittiefer Betriibnis, aber ibre Mahnungen waren vergeblicb. Sie erzahlte ihm einst einen Traum, in dem sie gesehen hatte, wie er doch endlieh zu ibr beriiber komme. Aber er drebte die Sache um und sprach seine HofTnung aus, dass sie zu ihm und seiner Meinung gelangen werde. Docb als seine Mutter ibn ernst zuriickwies, machte das cinen tiefen Eindruck auf ihn, und seine Achtung vor der frommen, klugen Frau wurde womoglich nocb grosser. In Karthago wurde er mebr und mehr in die Netze der Manicbaer verstrickt, einer Sekte, die zwar christlich sein wollte, aber niclits als eine scbwarmerisclie, dunkle Naturpbilosophie lelirte. Langere Zeit hielt ihn dieser Irrtum gefangen, und aucli seine Mutter vermochte ibn nicht davon abzubringen. Damals war es, als sie einen frommen Bischof, der selbst Manichaer gewesen war, bat, er moge doch ihren Sobn zu uberzeugen suclien, dass er in scbadlicliem Irrtum befangen sei. Aber der fromme Mann lelintc die Bitte ab, denn, sagte er, ibr Sohn werde durch Gottes Gnade schon selbst seinen Irrtum erkennen.

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Und damals trostete er die Mutter auch, der Sohn so vieler Tranen werde nicht verloren gehen. Augustin ging nun nach Rom, wo er die Beredsamkeit lelirte. Hier erkannte er die Unwissenheit eines dergrossen Lehrer des Maniehaismus und durchsehaute den falschen Schein dcr angeblichen Weisheit. Doch wurde er nocli durch manichaische Freunde nach Mailand empfohlen, wo man einen tiichtigen Lehrer der Beredsamkeit suchte. Hier horte er den beriihmten Kirchenlehrer Ambrosius predigen. Zuerst zog ihn bios die hinreissende Form der Predigt an, aber bald fiihlte er sich auch von dem Inhalt machtig ergrifFen. Der ganze Mann machte auf ihn einen gewaltigen Eindruck. Doch stand ihm nocli cin schwerer Kampf bcvor. Es wurde ihm scliwer der Weltlust, der Fleischcslust und dcm hoffartigen Wesen zu entsagen. Aber mit dem Manichaismus bcschloss er nun ganzlich zu brechen und liess sich unter die Zalil dcr Katechumenen aufnchmen. Besonders inaclitc Ambrosiusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Erklarungdes Altai Testamcntes, dcssen Verstiindnis ihm vicl Schwierigkciten gemacht hatte, tiefen Eindruck auf ihn. Von Mailand zog er sich zuruck nach Cassiacum, wo er im Umgang mit seiner aus Afrika herubergekommenen Mutter und jiingeren wie altcren Freunden Erholung suchte. Es war dies die Zcit, da er zu volliger Entscheidung kam. Durch das Studium der Schrift war er zu tieferer Erkcnntnis der Sundenknechtschaft gefiihrt, aber auch der Vergebung dcr Sunden und der Erneuerung durch die Kraft Gottes. Auch die Erzahlung vom dffcntliehcn, freien Bekenntnis des Platonikers Victorinus drangte ihn zur Nachfolge, und einige Zeit darauf trieb ihn die Erzahlung des Kriegers Pontitian, der ihn beim Lesen der paulinisclien Brielc traf, von der Selbstverlcugnung des Einsiedlevs Antonius zu ncuem Kampfe an. Damals war es, wo er in grosser Angst im Garten gehend, von einein Kindeaus eineniNebengarten wiederholt die Worte rufen horte: Nimrn und lies. Er sclilug die Bibel auf und fand die Stellc Rom. 13, 13: Lasset uns ehrbahrlich wandeln als am Tage nicht in Fressen und Saufen, nicht in Kammern und Unzucht, nicht in Hader und Neid, sondern zieliet an den Herrn Jesum Christ. Das gab den Aussclilag. Er gelangtc zum Siege und zum Frieden. Nun erlebte er cine Zeit grosser Frcudc und Seligkeit. Seine Mutter war hoch erfreut, als sie von ihm erfulir, dass er sich jetzt ganz dem Dienste Gottes weihen wolle. Sein Freund, der Philosoph AWpius, schloss sich ihm an. Reiche Nalirung fur Herz und Geist fand er in den Psalmen. Daneben widmete er sich der Bildung edler Junglinge. Mit seinen Freunden vertiefte er sich in wichtige Fragen der Philosophic und Theologie, was dann auch zur Abfassung mehrerer Schriften fuhrtc. Endlich am Ostersonntag 387 empfing er mit seinem Freunde Alypius 33 Jahre alt die heilige Taufe. Die Mutter aber, die nun ihre heissen Gebete erhdrt sail, ging bald darauf in Frieden lieim. Soweit erzahlen uns die Bekenntnisse den Werdegang Augustins. Es ist ein ganz eigenartiges Buch. Riickhaltslos legt der Verfasser sein Leben dar, selbst auf die innersten Gedanken lasst er Licht fallen, nichts wird verdeckt. Wolil ist es vielen, namentlich jungen Leuten, schon zum Segen geworden. Es ist ein gewaltiges Zeugnis von der furchtbaren Gewalt der Sun-

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de, aber aucli von der noch viel grosseren Macht der Gnade. Rom. 5, 20. Augustins Lehre aber hat unendlichen Segen gestiftet. Es war nicht zufallig, dass Luther ein Augustiner war. 9

Events leading up to the Monroe Doctrine. HormatL Zimowski.

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When France declared war on Great Britain in 1793 and sent Genet to be her minister in the United States, our country was called upon for the first time to decide once for all what part it should play in the politics of Europe. We were bound to France by tics of grati tude and by a treaty of amity and commerce, while we had little or no connection whatever with Great Britain. But the cautious, far sighted president met the issue squarely, and taking the politic, not the sentimental course, issued his proclamation of neutrality. Our first president in his farewell address warned America not to entangle herself in European politics and afterwards Jefferson kept the same ends in view. Thus before the days of the Long Embargo and our struggle for commercial supremacy, the principle had been announced over and over again that we should not meddle with European affairs. The counterpart of this — that the old world must not meddle in the affairs of the new — was called forth by the attempt of Spain to regain her lost possessions in South America. As all the world knows, the overthrow of the French at Waterloo was followed by a second abdication of Napoleon by a second lifting of the wretched Lou isXVIII. to the throne of France, and by a second meeting of the allied Kings # or their representatives at Paris. To the mind of Alexander of Russia ’ the triumph over the “man of destiny* ’ was but another instance of the mysterious workings of Providence. So deeply convinced was he of this that he determined to rule in accordance with the principles of the Christian church, and if possible have his fellow monarchs do the same. To do this more easily he persuaded Frederick William, King of Prussia, and Francis, Emperor of Austria, to join with him in a league called the Holy Alliance, and to sign a treaty which is com monly supposed to have bound the allies to pull down constitutional government and stamp out liberal ideas. It did nothing of the sort. Soon afterwards France, Spain, Naples, and Sardinia joined the al liance, and the era of Christian politics was supposed to have opened. To this alliance there have been wrongfully attributed four re sults, which sprang from the quadruple treaty signed two months later by Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Great Britain; a new alliance which bound the four powers to do four things — exclude Napoleon forever from power, maintain the government they had just set up in France, resist with all their might any attack on the array of occupa tion, and meet in 1818 to consult concerning their common interests, and to take such measures as should then seem to be best fitted to serve the peace and happiness of Europe. Unhappily before 1818 came, a reaction set in. The old families were once more safely seated on their old thrones. The center of the reactionary movement was

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Austria. Then it reached Spain, France was sure to follow. Liberal ism was checked and absolutism came again into fashion. The quad ruple treaty had promised to maintain the government just set up in France. They met accordingly in September, 1818, and here the real conspiracy of kings was formed. Here they agreed to regulate the affairs of Europe and turned the Holy Alliance into a mutual associa tion for the insurance of monarchy. Scarcely had the new purpose been formed when they were called upon to act. For ten years past the Spanish colonies in America had been in a state of revolt. Every resource was used against them in vain. Ferdinand turned to the sovereigns of Europe for aid, but none came. This left Spain to deal with her colonies in her own way. She gathered a rabble at Cadiz in the summer of 1819, and prepared to send it to America. But before it could sail the so-called army was won over to the cause of consti tutional government by the agents of a great conspiracy which had long been growing under the tyranny of the king. This set an example, and before long the whole country was up in arms. The Liberalists once more gained the upper hand. Tidings of the collapse reached the United States and was welcomed with unconcealed delight. The al liance demanded certain changes in the Spanish constitution, and if not granted would invade Spam. The demands were refused, and the invasion began. At that movement Canning began to act. He knew that if the allies had once settled the affairs of Spain they would soon go farther and settle those ot her former colonies, now recognized as republics by the United States. Turning to Rich. Rush, our minister to England, he proposed that the United States should join England in a joint de claration that while neither power desired the colonies of Spain, it was impossible to see them acquired by a third power. But England would not recognize the independence of the little rupublics and so the declaration was never made. When Monroe received the letters of Rush he was greatly puzzled how to act. He asked Jefferson’s advice and then consulted his secretaries. They advised him not to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs. During this not a week went by but a cabinet discussion was held on the matter. It was at one of these meetings that J. Q. Adams, bearing in mind his conversations with the Russian minister regarding Oregon, suggested a declaration relating to colonization and urged it so successfully that Monroe gave it a place in his memorable message to congress on December 2, 1833. His message consisted of two distinct declarations. One bore di rectly againt the plans of the holy alliance, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. The other as a more general proposition involving the rights and interests of the United States that the American continents by the free and indepen dent condition which they have assumed and maintained are hence forth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization. In these two propositions consist the celebrated Monroe doctrine, not the sud den creation of individual thought but rather the result of slow pro cesses in our public mind.

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“How shall I make proper use of my free time” is v question very often asked by students. Some will s ay by studying, because they think their parents sent them here to study. That, however, does not say we must be sitting at our books from early in the morning until late at night. That we are here to study means we should properly use the time set aside for study. If a stu dent uses his study time properly, he will surely find an hour or two in the afternoon for recreation. What is recreation ? Does it mean to take a walk as far as the “sharp corner” and back on the other side of the street? Or does it mean to lie under a tree and do nothing? We have at our institution some who actually take a walk for several blocks and say they take their daily exercise. Walking is not enough exercise to keep up the health of a person who sits in the schoolroom during the day and in his room, all evening. lYfiat results this "will Free Time.

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have upon the system we can see when looking at boys who take such recreation. In the evening when they have finished their lessons they are com pletely exhausted. It gives them a pain to pick up a pencil which might have dropped from their hand. A student who sits in his room instead of taking the necessary exercise can easily be pointed out from the rest. He does not look so fresh as one who does take exercise. The boy that enjoys the fresh air will always be found to have rosy cheeks and to be of a lively disposition. Man is born into the world. He is not a being for him self but he is a part of the complexity of humanity. Man is not meant to be alone. He is to play his part, be it conspicuous or no, in the world. But is unbroken living in others the best thing for him, or is solitude also a requisite? For a man of intellect solitude is more than necessar}\ An intellectual person must have time for that reflection which can not be gotten in society. The man of society lives in others more than in himself; he is constantly paying attention to the whims of his neighbor. A great writer once said that he used to buy books for ostentation; but after he had tasted of the sweets of solitude he bought only those books which lie intended to read for his own amusement. That was the effect of solitude. Society primarily pretends. In fashionable society you are ex pected at least to seem to know something of what happens to be in vogue. The man of society is a gilded personage. He is not true gold. Eve^ man, for instance, is supposed to possess a knowledge of the Latin language. That person who happens to be a very good scholar receives no especial distinction for his knowledge, as every body is supposed to know Latin. Positive ignorance of any subject whatever is not tolerated in fashionable society. Every member of a fashionable circle pretends to be well acquainted with the works of art and with literature. Even if you do not know a certain poem, 3'ou dare not express }rour ignorance openly. You affect a knowledge ofit. What is a man of strong intellect to do in such a congregation ? Is it possible for him to live in such a circle? That man who pursues an intellectual life must certainly either totally or at least partially separate himself from the fashionable world. The man of intellect does not seem, he does not pretend, neither does he affect knowledge. He is not gilded over. He is composed of the true metal to the core. His knowledge is not an affectation but an integral part of the man himself. Fashionable society cannot tolerate such a person in its midst. Fashionable people are those people who make it their prin cipal business to study the external elegance of life. But the man of intellect, the man of culture is not external, he Ins been taught to think deeply on different subjects, A smattering knowledge is for him somethimg to be abhorred. The Man of Intollsct I.

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The Black and Red will henceforward publish regularly in this column personals and local happenings of our Theological Seminary of Wauwatosa, Wis. We hope to find the approval of our subscribers by doing so, as we expect that this will be welcomed by many who wish occasionally to hear something concerning this our institution and its students. The connection of the N. W. U. and the Seminary is so close and the interest taken in the latter such that the introduc tion of the present column is, we think, well warranted. A number of calls have recently been accepted by members of the graduating class of the Seminary. Robert Wolff was first to leave his class by taking charge as early as January of the congregation of the late Rev. Korn of Slades Corners, Wis. He was followed a few months later by five others. Julius Toepel is the successor of Rev. C. Buenger near Morton Grove, 111., and Reinh. Ave-Lallemand is in charge of three congregations in the vicinity of Baraboo, Wis. Wm. No m mensen’s new home is at Mauston. Gerh. Hinnenthal accepted a call to Black Creek, and Louis Krug we find at Arcadia, Wis. The destination of the remaining members of the class is not defi nitely known as yet, perhaps with the exception of Ben. Schlueter and Herm. Zimmermann, who have been called to Kingston, Wis., and Schickley, Nebr., respectively, and will leave immediately after the final examinations. By the way we can state that the present graduating class is the largest in the history of the institution, numbering, when entering three years ago, twenty-one members. Two of its members, Gerh. Sprengling, now in Minnesota, and J. Moussa, at present inspector at theU. W. U., have suspended their studies for some time, and one mem ber, K. Liberum, will remain at the institution one year more. The total number of new ministers for our synods will be eighteen. Among those who visited the Seminary recently may be mentioned Rev. Th. Hahn of Ludington, Mich., who called on his friends April 18, Rev. J. Toepel and Rev. R. Ave-Lallemand, who met their class mates on April 27, and Rev. Metzger and wife of Minn., who made a short visit on the 28. Reports of a number of engagements of former students have late* ly reached us, namely that of Rev. Eggert to Miss L. Gabriel and that of Rev. R. Ave-Lallemand to Miss Ph. Habighorst. Rumors of simi lar happenings concerning some of our young brethern in the ministry are abroad and more definite news will be reported later on. Prof. F. Salbach, director of the A Capella, has also during the course of this year filled the position of instructor of our choir, and the progress under the direction of this capable musician cannot be gainsaid. Much credit is also due to Adolf Lederer, our painstaking and careful director, chosen from our midst. During the course of the present year three invitations to sing in Milwaukee were responded to, namely at Bethlehem’s church, Rev. Schlerf, Nov. 30; St. Mark’s 28

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church, Rev. Dornfeld, Dec. 7; and Grace church, Rev. Jaeckel, March 22. About a dozen members of our choir are at present taking part in the weekly rehearsals of the A Capella. On April 29. and 30. about fifteen students were at Watertown to attend the intersynodical conference,

LOCALS

The Freshmen spent a very pleasant evening at the home of their classmate, Mr. W. Stiemkc on May 4. On April 29. a concert was given in the Concordia Opera House by the Northwestern University Band and Orchestra. Prof. W. Wei mar directed the orchestra and Prof. C. Bolle the band. The}' were assisted by Prof. F. C. Salbach, baritone soloist, Miss Minnie F. Notz, piano soloist, and Miss Bertha Miller, who accompanied Prof. Sal bach. Miss Notz has studied music at Milwaukee and is now teacher of music at the United Conservatories of Wisconsin. Her solp, Hark, Hark, the Lark, b}r Schubert-Liszt, was-very well rendered and applauded. The renderings of Prof. Salbach, who is director of the A Capella choir in Milwaukee, were also loudly applauded. The sing ing and the accompainment was very good and successful. The songs were the following: “Friihlingsfahrt”, by R. Schumann, ‘*Der Wan derer”, by F. Schubert, “Mummelsee” by Loewe. Besides these selec tions there was rendered: “Zanipa” and Rollinson’s Overture “The Cavalier” by the N. W. U. band ; Losev’s “Waldmere” and'Verdi’s ‘‘Don Carlos” b}' the orchestra; Gounod's ‘‘Meditation” arranged for string instruments and piano; Raffs ‘‘Cachoncha”, a piano solo, by Mr. H. Jenney. During the intermission the students’ choir sang ‘‘Griisse an die Heimat” by Krom. They were all successful and pleased the audience very much. On the whole the concert was a grand success in every respect. A second concert was given by the band and orchestra in the Audi torium at Oconomowoc. The numbers of the program were the same. As Prof. C. Bolle was at this time (May 2.) in Milwaukee, Prof. W. F. Weimar also directed the band. The choir could not sing as there was not time for an intermission. Considering the many expenses connected with this concert we can only say that it proved a success. We herewith express our thanks which we owe to the ladies who canvassed tickets both in Oconomowoc and Watertown. As Prof. C. Bolle for some time suffered from chronic appendicitis and was advised by physicians to be operated, he left for Milwaukee on Thursday morning, April 30, and was operated on that day. We are glad to say that the operation was successful and hope that his health will soon be fully restored. On Monday April 20. Dr. Pfeiffer and wife began their trip to Europe. Dr. Pfeiffer had been with us for two years but on account of sickness was unable to regularly attend to his recitations. The short time that he was with us has, however, not had any effect on his

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love not only of his scholars but also of his many friends among the clerg}*. Members of the faculty were at the railway station to bid him adieu, a bon voyage, and a speedy recovery. Many of the stuÂ dents had gone to his home before recitations and expressed their heartfelt sorrow that he must leave. At Milwaukee he was met by many of his Lutheran friends of that city. He will go to Schaffshausen and undergo an electrical treatment. We wish him a sure recovery. Die intersynodale Konferenz.

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An seine Vorlage kniipfte sich eine recht animierte Debatte, die aber nicht, wie das sonst so leicht geschieht, in personliche Zankerei ausartete. Man kampfte allseitig mit Eiferund Begeisterung fur seine Sache, aber ohne leidenschaftlich zu werden. Man begegnete einander mit Liebe und Vertrauen, kampfte aber mit alien erlaubten Mitteln fur das, was man als Walirheiterkannthatte. Wenn der Kampf insolchein Sinn und Geist gefuhrt wird, so kann er nur von Segen sein. Er regt zu eifrigerem Studium an; er befordert ein tieferes Eindringen in die Wahrheit und Befestigung in ihr; statt zu trennen, bringt er die Herzen einander nalier. So war es auch hier. Man schied schliesslich in der Ueberzeugung, dass man der Einigkeit um einen guten Schritt nalier gekommen sei, und gab der Hoffnung Ausdruck, dass diese Einigung auch in nicht mehr allzu ferner Zukunft liegen moge. Zum Schluss traf man nocli Vorkchrungen fiir eine weitere im Iierbste dieses Jahrcs abzuhaltende Konfercnz. Ein Komitee zu welclicm je ein Glied allcr auf dieser Konfercnz vertretenen Synoden erwiililt wurdc, wurdc zu diesem Zweck eingesetzt. Geben wir der IIolTnung Raum, dass die Vcrhandlungen in demselben Geiste fortgesetzt werden, wie sie bisher gcftihrt wurden, und dass friiher oder splitcr das heisscrsehnte Ziel erreicht werde, dass wahre Einigkeit zu Standc komme, eine Einigkeit nicht in Worten, sondem in der Sache, nicht durch Vcrtauschen der Gegensatze, sondern durch ihre Beseitigung, nicht durch Zusammenzwingen heterogener Elemente, sondern durch Zusammenschluss der Herzen im Geist undin der Wahrheit.

EXCHANGES

The Easter number of The Riverview Student has a very attrac tive cover. “The Lion and the Lambs” is a fair piece of fiction. A ittle poem entitled “Antiques” deserves special mention. If the exch ange editor of this paper would devote a little more time to his excha nges and pass some comment's on them, the exchange column wou/d certainly be much more meritorious. In the April number of The Sacred Heart Collegian we find a good article entitled “Are Musicians Irritable.” Those who are still laboring under this grave misapprehension we would advise to read the article. The exchange editor has done ample justice to his ex change column. We greatly admire the cut of the editorial staff. It is by far the best cut that has reached our exchange table this year. The Gitche Gurnee is in many respects a very interesting paper. Its various departments are very well edited. In the April n umber we find an unusuaty good essa3r, “The Spirit of the Trust.” The author is thoroughly familiar with his subject. He succeeds very well in pointing out the divers faults through which nations have crumbled away and passed into oblivion. But not only are the contents of this essay of superior quality. The diction is also very good. While reading the essay a person may find the emphasis of every word with out any great effort.

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The Red and Blue for April contains several interesting pieces of fiction. “A Gold Hunters Fortune” is a fair article. In the descrip tion of the “Turka Pass” the author seems to write a rather chopped up style. Short sentences are indeed a means to secure effectiveness, but, if overdone, they produce no effect at all. The editorials of the Hiram College Advance are highly meritor ious for their originality. “Theodore Roosevelt” is a fine characteriza tion. From this sketch we get a good glimpse at the great man who is so successfully guiding the ship of the United States. Furthermore we get a glimpse at each individual of the Roosevelt family. The Hall Boy is one of our best exchanges. It is always wel comed by those who read it. In the April number we find a fine com position, “Gaze on Old Man.” Yet the expression “to be driven away in a team” seems to be somewhat of a Germanism. The scientific dedartment is very good. Among the “Rhetorical Nuggets” of the Doane Owl we find some very good paragraphs. Where there is so much good material at one’s disposal it is hard to make a selection. Yet among these divers paragraphs we should prefer the description of daybreak on the Mississippi, the description of a fire near Crooked Lake, and the story of the fudges. The “Romance” is also deserving of high praise. We believe that the exchange editor has just about the right idea of what the exchange column should contain. The Spectator of Columbus, Ohio, to a certain extent serves its purpose very well. The essay entitled “Influence of Books” contains some very good thoughts. “Scenes in a Steel Mill” gives a person a fair idea of a steel mill. Yet it is very evident that the author of this composition is a tyro in the art.

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—Extract from Cheesy’s German composition : “Ein ausgestopfter Tierhandler.” —Pudgy says he has matches to burn. —Eli has applied for a patent on his new fly catcher. —Dr. Tink: Missus Hannibal — Misses Kannibal. —Comb wood says the boys are spoiling his repetition (reputation). —Das hangt vom kleinen Zeh (c) ab. —Eicky has rheumatism in his teeth. —B—e: “A” is a time word. —M. K—t: I sing first tennis. —Joseph will soon begin to build watches. —Prof.: Wie wird der Hades sonst noch genannt? Steamer: Paradies. —Shorty: I wonder why Porter sits at Babe’s table? Pete: Because they need able men there. —Frieze: This ink is too complicated for writing. —Corbet thinks the square root of one half is two tenths. —Joseph (in physics): If the hands are positive, what are the feet. —Teddy, the “high-diving” dog, Corbet, the “dog puncher”, and Frcnchy, the ticket agent and billposter, have joined the dog and pony show. —The philosopher: When it rains the ground is wet. Here the ground is wet, ergo it rained. (Somebody ducked him). —Prof.: What is Rockford, 111., noted for? Pupil: 0\rsters and horse-radish. —Bruno takes his daily walks past the tobacco factory and gets his “toby” free. —Why does Kali always go down town with a little satchel ? —Not being able to rush any ducks, Combwood says he’ll rush the season with a straw hat. —Prof.: What is igneous rock ? Pupil: Petrified stone. —Babe, Zim, and Tubby had a “Wienerfest”, Zim exclaiming: Let us make some buttermilk. —When K—1 comes singing up the stairs, Singing with his tin can voice, Everybody is sure to admire The Praeses of the choir. —Mercur, alias Butch, had quite a catastrophe on the campus the other day. While trying to bat up the ball, it unfortunately struck him against the left side of his talking machine and knocked out the few teeth he had left. He certainly would have swallowed them had not his chum Schoi run after a rope and hauled them out with out choking his friend. —When Frenchy gets a shave the barber is obliged to use a micro scopic razor, while Corbet shaves himself in front pf 3 telescopic mirror. —Prof.: Real nice poetry, but don’t call it Homer. Zim: Must ha’ been a three bagger.

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—■When the band was down at Waterloo recently they of course gave a little concert out in the public square. Everything went on all O. K. and everybody seemed satisfied. But lo ! all of a sudden the fire bell rang out. The firemen rushed and the engine came. All was excitement. Down from the city hall they rushed straight for the stand. Of course all the playing had stopped. What was the consternation and at the same time the jov of the people when they found that there was no fire. But the thing was investigated and it finally came to light that Cozy had on a pair of oxfords and some fire red stockings. The chief of police wanted to arrest Cozy im mediately on the charge of criminal intentions. He claimed that he wanted to show up the fire outfit of the town. Just as he was on the point of carrying off poor Cozy, clarinet and all, the mayor came up and stopped the proceedings. —Tubby and Babe, it is rumored, smoked off the defeat last Thursday. Kummy also took an antidote.

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On Wednesday April 29tli we met Sacred Heart in base ball on our grounds. The weather was ideal. Everyone was anxious as it was the first game of the season for either team. The game was call ed at 3:30 in order to give the friends of the college who were attend ing the conference an opportunity to witness the game. Although our boys got an eai'ly lead and were never headed the game was in teresting. It is not necessary to write much as most of our readers witnessed the game. The final score was 11 to 6. There were several new men in the game. Zimowski was sick and Hinnenthal creditably filled his position. He is sure in his fielding and fair at the bat. Wojahn played at short and Ernst at the first bag. Moussa pla}red a steady game in right field. Kumm showed up well in the box considering that that was his first game. He did well and great things may be expected from him if he practices diligently. The old men pla3red a sure game. St. John’s vs. Northwestern. On Saturday May 9th we played the unbeaten team from the St. John’s Military Academy. The}r came up confidant of winning the game. And they started out as if they meant to do so. Because of two inexcusable errors in-the first inning Kumm went up in the air with the rest of the team and the visitors managed to run in six runs. After that it was all our own way and we beat them easily by the score of 13 to 9. Marquette vs. Northwestern. On May 14th we played a strong team from Marquette College of Milwaukee and were beaten. Errors in the seventh inning lost the game for us, But the batting of our boys was not up to the average work, and that partly accounts for the defeat. Their pitcher seemed to have found our weak spots in the first round and used admirable judgment in the wing. Kumm pitched an excellent game and deserv ed to win the game. The score was 7 to 3. Milton vs. Northwestern. On Wednesday May 20th we went to Milton and were again beaten. Wc may say, however, that it was not the Milton team alone that lost us the game. They refused to play the double umpire system. Their man was palpably unfit for umpiring a game of ball. His decisions on balls and strikes were off color while his umpiring on bases was simply rank. The Milton team fared quite as badly as did we, but the decisions against us came just when the man called out would have meant a run. The Milton people are very hospitable and did their best to give us a good time. If anyone who was down there were asked, he would report a very good time. 36

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Zimowski and Kumm were the stars of the game. “Zim” certain ly had on his batting clothes, obtaining five hits; two three baggers, two doubles, and one single. Kumm pitched a heady and steady game. He struck out thirteen Milton men. Ernst deserves a special mention as he played an errorless game on first. Moussa played short and Hinnenthal second, Zimowski going back to third. In all we got seventeen hits. That our pitcher struck out thirteen men and our batters should procure seventeen hits certainly does not speak well for our having been beaten. The final score was 11 to 8. ;

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Vol. 7 No. 3 Watertown,

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Che Black and Red. Volume VII.

Watertown, Wisconsin, June, 1903.

LITERARY

Number, 3.

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What shall I read ? Now that vacation is near at hand we shall have more leisure time thnn is at our disposal during any other period of the same length throughout the year. When at college there are the lessons to prepare for and there is this and that to attend to. Your time is taken until late in the afternoon. The wise student, the one who looks ahead, will devote the greater part of the two hours set aside for recreation to some wholesome exercise. It is true that one need not spend all of that time in exercise, but one should be out of doors and in the fresh air. Being in the recitation building all day and in theroom all evening, it is doing no more than the best for yourself, ifyou go into the fresh air for recuperation. During the winter months of course there is more opportunity for reading. It would be overdoing a good thing if you were to spend two hours each day in the gymnasiÂ um. In winter then there is some time for reading. But in spring, when nature is at its best, when all the birds are busy building, there is nothing more difficult than to stay indoors. Then too there is the base ball team and perhaps the track team, which need material and management. The summer vacation affords the best opportunity for extensive reading. It is often difficult to find the book that will suit you. In these days when the editions run into the hundred thousands, when every town has its library, the ordinary mortal needs a little help in the selections for his reading. In the da}rs of old the reader had to take what little there was. That little store was read and reread, and read again. As the books to be had were few in number they were good in qualitj'. Now, however, the libraries often contain books that are best left alone. The voracious novel reader, for instance, has no claim on eduÂ cation. Every time he reads a novel he is doing himself an injury. His memory and his thinking powers are weakened at each reading. For the student, then there are many books that would not repay the time spent in reading them. Whatever you may have been in the habit of reading, do not forget to read your Shakspere during vaca-

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tion. It may sound trite and commonplace to remind you of this. But a thorough knowledge of the works of this greatest of all geniuses is so essential to an education that one cannot afford to leave him un studied, much less unread. It is not necessary that you take Hamlet or Othello or the heaviest pla}rs for your summer study. There are many other good plays that afford ideal reading out in the open. As You Like It read out in the shade of some neighboring wood is a treat not soon to be forgotten. Then there is A Midsummer-Night's Dream. That is good reading for the summer although the subject matter and poetry does not equal that of As You Like It. Cymheline is equal to either of these. After you have carefully studied these you will find others perhaps equally interesting. It is not necessary that, after having read these you stay with Shakspere. Every library will have either in the original or in the translation a copy of Hauptmann’s Die Versunkene Glocke. To read this poem out in the open is enjoyment pure and simple. Your im agination soon peoples the wood about you with fairies, the charact ers become living creatures. And when anything is read in such a manner the profit which accrues to you is much greater than that de rived from studying indoors. Tennyson’s poetry may also be drawn upon. No one can afford to be unacquainted with his Idylls of a King. The poetry is not difficult and the reading is not heavy. As to prose it is more difficult to point out books. It is almost hopeless to give advice to the reader of prose. There is so much that is good and profitable reading that the work which one person would enjoy, the other would not. Always bear one thing in mind. Avoid the modern, the ethereal. The majority of the writers of the dav pander to the tastes of the multitude. Most books, the great majori ty of them are written to help the society woman while away her time. And are you to spend your time reading such books ? It is unnecessary to mention the good books of Scott and Dickens. Most of their works are good reading. If you diligently peruse yrour Scott and Dickens the chances are that you will improve your English. George Meredith’s novels also make good summer reading. Diana of the Crossways is especially adapted for such reading. Balzac, al though not necessarily recommended as having written books adapt ed for the summer, is very interesting. Bear in mind that there arc many people who claim for Balzac that he is as great a delineator of character and passion as is Shakspere. You would wish to have your own opinion on the subject. His Lc pere Goriot might be read with Lear and a comparison then made. No one who has not read Meinhold’s The Amber Witch and Shorthouse’s John Inglesant can say how interesting a novel may be. Mein hold was a minister who lived at the time of Strauss and the great atheists. He wished to see whether he could deceive Strauss by writing The Amber Witch and saying that he got it from an old manuscript found in the archives of his church. He succeeded admir ably well and then showed up Strauss. It is a very interesting story. John Inglesant treats of the time when the Jesuits were powerful in England and portrays the tendencies of the time in vigorous char acters.

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A Boating Trip on the Mississippi. Frank Fischer. ’06.

It was a calm summer morning, and the smooth surface of the Mississippi was brilliantly illuminated by the rays of the rising sun. But this quiet was not to last throughout the day. Soon a gentle breeze from the south caused the glassy surface to break up into in numerable ripples. Later the breeze grew stronger and the ripples were now transformed into waves. This was just the weather favorable for sailing, and how could anybody who had lived on the banks of the Mississippi from his earli est childhood resist the temptation. So six of us then fitted our boat with a sail and rudder, and agreed to go. Soon we were off. A brisk wind carried us swiftly up stream. As we were thus skimming over the dancing waves the wind in creased and grew into a gale. The waves that were about a foot high when we started, had by this time reached a height of some three feet. Every now and then a wave would come gushing into our boat. While we were thus enjoying our ride, our boat suddenly struck a log. Now what should be done. The bow of our skiff had received a large leak. The boat was already one third full of water, and we were forced to land. In order to proceed with our voyage we had to repair our boat first. So we built a fire on some rocks on a small pier, plugged the crack with cotton, and applied a coating of heated tar. After half an hour everything was repaired, and we were again tossed about on the stream. The skiff was for some time making good head way, when the rope on our sail suddenly tore. The sail now swung from right to left, grazed my head, and sent my cap into thewater, to which I then gave my last farewell. We were now unable to control our boat. Like a wild horse that feels that it is no longer under con trol, the boat swerved wide from its course, and bore us whitherso ever it pleased. After we had been for some time carried from one side of the river to the other, it buried its keel deep in a sandbar. I cannot say, however, that we regretted this very much. We were all glad to get a breathing space on terra firma. Here we also had the opportunity to repair the guy on our sail. After a short rest we again proceeded with our voyage. From now on everj'thing went well, and we landed safely at Minneiska, a small city on the western bank of the Mississippi. Here I provided myself with a new cap, and we then had dinner. After a few hours of amuse ment, we started for home again. We had scarcely come to the river, when our troubles began anew. As we could not sail back, we took down the sail. In this operation we broke a very valuable fish-pole. When one of the boys tried to cut the rope with which we had tied our skiff he slipped on the boom and dropped his knife into the water. He tried for a long time to get it back, but in vain, it was gone, never to be his again. As none of us had a knife, we at last took an old ax that lay on shore near by, and cut the rope. All of us then jumped into the boat, and resumed our old seats. Although we had two pairs of oars and two good men handling them, we were not capable of rowing down stream, for, the strong wind,

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which had not yet gone down, was not in our favor. Several efforts were made to row against the wind, but the oarsmen could not make any headway. Most of us were already thinking that we should not reach home on that day. Some even suggested to land again and staj in the city until the morrow. But as luck would have it, we just then heard the shrill whistle of a steamboat coming down the river. It was the U. S. government boat “Fury”. We succeeded in rowing up to it, and flagging the captain with our handkerchiefs, waited for him to go “slow bell”, which he did. Four men of the crew then came and pull ed our boat on deck. We then sat down and talked over some of the events of the dajr. When we drew near the pier on which we had re paired our skiff, we saw that it had gone up in flames, and that it was still smoking. Now we passed it. For a long time we watched the dark smoke as it rose quickly into the skies. We were still interested in the occurrences of the day, when we suddenly heard the steamer giving the signal to land. How glad were we when wc knew that we were once more at home. Although we did not enjoy our boating trip very much, we shall never forget the day and the “Fury” that so kindly carried us down the “Father of the Waters”.

The Colloge Course. Gilbert Dicstlor, ’05.

Every ambitious man’s object in this world, besides preparing him self for the next, is to take advantage of every opportunity time af fords and to try to rise as high in the eyes of his contemporaries as possible. Without doubt the principal factor in life is an education. To acquire this by the most approved method is our aim, and the question often arises whether we put our time to the best possible ad vantage by completing the long college course before taking up the study of our favored profession, or whether we could derive more from our time by fixing a certain branch and pursuing it immediately after having completed grammar school. Since we are all more or less familiar with the many benefits de rived from a college education let us at first consider some of its several drawbacks, which opposers to the college system like to pro nounce with much emphasis. It is frequently urged that the time spent at college removes the man destined for a commercial life from the most favorable opportu nities for learning his business. The simple fact that a graduate, be ginning to learn a business at the age of twenty-three becomes pro ficient m only.about one-tentli the time it would have taken him, had he begun at eighteen, and that at the age of twenty-seven he has fre quently overtaken and passed the boy who has been in business since the age of eighteen, usually suffices to allay this idea in the minds of some practical educators.

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Again it is said that college fills the mind with useless knowledge and trains it in antiquated methods of thought and action, where, on the other hand, scientific schools give apractical knowledge and train- . ing. If a comparison is made between the dead languages and the modern, it is always in favor of the modern. The value of modern history and economics is made to appear greater than that of ancient history and philosophy. Scientific studies are lauded as by far the most valuable. But we wish to say that the linguistic training is the most valuable a college can give. If to think is important, linguistic training is important. For we think in words. To.be able to think in, or use the English or any other language, one should know the language. He can only know it if he knows those languages that have made the richest contributions to its structure. Therefore the college is not filling the mind with useless knowledge in requiring stu dents to learn these not dead, but living languages. The scientific school is a professional school. Its graduate goes from its commencement directly to his life’s work. It is not a school of liberal culture or of a general training. But why is it that gover nors of technical schools urge all students before beginning their tech nical studies to become college graduates ? It is, therefore, evident that even in the judgment of those who would be most inclined to un dervalue a college education, the knowledge it conveys is not rubbish, nor are the methods of college training antiquated. Men are- even coming to recognize that a technical education without a general education as a basis may result in a case of narrow-mindedness. Therefore we think there is no time wasted by spending four years in acquiring a college education. There is one more fault some people find with a college education. The}' claim that it removes a man from the concerns of ordinary men; it lessens the interest in human affairs; it develops the critic — the man who tears things apart; it does not make the creator — the man who puts things together; in patriotism it develops the man who is dissatisfied with things as they are, but is powerless to make them better. This may have been common in years past, but each year college work is becoming more practical and the drawback is becoming less common. American colleges are more thoroughly adjusting themsel ves to life. It is significant that the most aggressive and fearless re formers of recent years have been college graduates. It is also signifi cant that the wisest, most vital, most direct method of social improve ment bears the name of “College Settlement”. After having considered several of its most important drawbacks, let us see what actual benefits are derived from a college education. A college education broadens one’s mind to such a degree that he sees life in a much different light than before. It gives him a conception, more or less well proportioned of the great things the human race has achieved. It conveys to the man a general knowledge of and a cer tain insight into everything. It teaches him the method and gives him the ability to stud}' and think independently. He knows the origin and history of things and can follow up their development sys tematically. It gives a certain determination or direction to life.

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College develops the man’s character along the ethical and religious line. It enlarges the range of sympathies and views of life and brings one in closer contact with God, man, and duty. Not alone is the instruction received at a college of such great im portance, but personality is of equal importance. Dr. Parkhurst said, “Books can teach, but personality only can educate.” College brings the young man in contact with, and under the inspiration of other men of higher type than he is otherwise likely to meet. It brings him under the influence of educated men, and offers the appliances neces sary to prosecute his studies. Another great benefit is derived from the influence of students on each other, and from the intimate contact with -the fine miijds of classmates. The remark is often made that students are educated as much by each other as by the professors. A Yale officer, when asked which liad the stronger influence over the boys — the students or the professors, answered “The students.” Whether this ought to be the case may be open to question. But it is clear that the attraction of different minds of the same general character upon each other is of great value. The help one can give the other on various studies is of great benefit. College will ever be an agency for the training of man in the great business of living. It enriches life; it deepens and broadens his view of truth; it ennobles his aims; it strengthens his choice of the right; it clarifies his vision of, and his love for the beautiful. So long as the race continues, so long are its members to be trained to think, to judge, to reason, to act with independence and with justice, to work laboriously, and to be large and true and noble men. As long as col lege can aid towards achieving these ends it ought to be supported by everybody. The years spent at college are not spent at all, but yield the richest fruits life can afford. Any young man with the time and means can not put these four years to a better advantage or reap a richer harvest from them than by completing the college course.

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Fire is the Test of Gold, As chemistry has made such remarkable progress during the last century, it has become an easy problem for scientists to find out the value, purity, and true character of nearly all metals. Years ago, to test a metal was in a few cases difficult and in most cases impossible, as it required more or less complicated experiments, which, for lack of knowledge, they were unable to perform. About the only true test they had was that of fire. This has also come down to us and is still recognized as the simplest and safest test of gold. If gold is put into fire it will come out as gold and even in a purer condition than it was before it was put in, the impurities remaining behind in com bination with other substances. Put brass into fire, and it will come

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out tarnished. Use an inferior quality of gold, and you are at once able to detect its inferiority. But not alone is fire the test of gold in its literal sense. A person may seemingly have innumerable friends as long as he is successful in his career, and no misfortunes or privations present themselves, but in the fire of adversity, when hardships and afflictions necessitate a friend’s advice or assistance, true friendship is put to a severe trial, and usually the majority of our would-be-friends leave us, and but few remain to face the evil as true friends. That fire is the purifier as well as the test of gold was clearly dem onstrated in our Civil War. That great fire was kindled as much as thirty years before the war broke out. The sectional feeling between the North and South gradually grew into bitter hatred. The south claimed that slavery was constitutional while the North was strongly opposed to this and considered it as a crime and a blot on the char acter of our constitutional government. Every presidential election developed this hatred more and more. The North wanted a president that would strive for the abolition of slavery, the South, on the other hand, wanted one that would support it. Soon the moment came when war was inevitable. It was a war, too, so great that it is difficult to describe it. The expense of the war amounted to nearly eight billion dollars. The total number of lives lost was about eight hundred thousand. Was not this fire a severe test for our country ? And did it not come out of this fire in a purer and improved condi tion ? Our whole country is now reunited into one federal government so strong that no other nation can compare with it. Slavery is abol ished, and the negro is now a full-fledged citizen of the United States. The natural resources of the Northwest are open for development. And, last but not least, the war has developed the respect of other nations for the United States of America. G. D.

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EDITORIAL

A Retrospect.

T^e scdl00lyear draws rapidly to a close. In a few days the dormitories, classrooms, and campus, which m the course of years have become dear to us, will be silent and de serted. Northwestern students will be scattered in all directions, glad ^tvu ome> no doubt, and yet sorry that they had to leave school. • present senool year has been very successful in many ways. So many students applied for admission last summer that accommo dations ,, , for . all of them were made only with difficulty. Every room m the dormitory was filled to its utmost capacity and even the dining C?JlaSw0t bee“fiUcd for a ™mbe? of years, was uncomfort-

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As regards music great progress has been made here during the year. The art of singing has been sadly neglected in years gone by. Choirs have been organized many times, but the proper interest was never shown and the ventures were always short-lived. This year our honorable faculty took the matter in hand and procured for us the services of a very efficient director. Much progress has been made and the prospects for a good choir next year are very bright. The band and the orchestra, too, have had a very successful season.. A series of concerts was given shortly after Easter and everyone hearing them was well satisfied. With our very full schedule in the classroom it is only with the sacrifice of much leisure time that such organiza tions can be kept up. The success met with, speaks well for the dili gence of the members. The military company and Turnverein are larger than they have been for some time, as may be expected from the increased number of pupils attending school. Let us hope that the work will be taken up next year with the same enthusiasm and carried through to still brighter success.

We need societj' as well as solitude. Society gives The Man of us our place in the collective life of humanity while Intellect. II, solitude is most necessary for the individual life. The lives of a hermit and of a person who lives entirely in his com panions are alike imperfect. The hermit developes his individual ex istence to too great an extent and the other does not develop that part of his existence enough. We should, we ought to have a place in society ; but likewise we should have a complete individual existence outside of it. An intellectual person may go into society if only he can resist i ts influence upon his serious work. We have said before that the man of society is only gilded over; that society itself is based primarily on appearances and not upon the deepest realities; that society affects knowledge. The result of those affectations is to reduce the value of genuine knowledge. The scholar strives to be master in his branch; he strives to excel, to make it a life work. He comes into society and finds that shallow fellows who are only gilded over and who pretend to & knowledge of everything, receive the same recognition he receives although he is by far their superior in learning. Thus he is only discouraged and led to think of the futility of his efforts. Why should he strive and work when other fellows who are less educated than he, are greater social successes. You who are a student, you who are striving after true know ledge, you who love your studies, remember that solitude is primarily your best companion. Although you need society, and must have it, solitude is your best friend. And remember that society of all kinds only distracts your attention from your studies. You should be ho hermit, but remember that it is difficult to overcome the evil influences of society on your studies in maturity, and that it is practically im possible to overcome those evil influences in youth.

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moment the answer will most likely be that he is naturally gifted and has greater talent. But, ifwe consider before we answer, we shall arrive at the conclusion that by independence and perseverance we can ac quire what is necessary. If we study the biographies of great and renowned men, we shall become aware of the fact that they did not obtain their greatness by mere luck, nor did they reach the top of the •ladder at a single bound, but worked their way steadily round by round. And here is the secret, if such it can be called, of their success, that they were independent and persistent. Depending on themselves and asking advice of none, they strengthened their own reason and judgment. For is that not the~case that, if we are continually con sulting other minds for counsel and advice, we weaken our own judg ment. This is especially the case at college or school. The boy who paddles liis own canoe will be successful whatever may interfere. This is the stage in life when we are subject to many changes, be they for the better or the worse. A habit established in youth will remain for life. Therefore, if we make it our aim to practice independence and selfreliance early, we shall have gained an inestimable treasure. If we do not learn to be our own masters in youth and always let others solve our problems, what are we going to do when men? Shall we constantly have some one at our side to act for us when in need ? Believe it not. It is true that there are times in every man’s life in which he is in need of counsel, but such occasions do not present them selves every day. The German proverb, “Selbst ist der Mann”, may well be applied. And if we work conscientiously, is there not a great reward in success? We enjoy everything more because we get satisfaction. If after hard work, in which we saw nothing but darkness before us, and which brought despondency near us, we changed darkness into light through our diligence, we certainly experience an indescribable feeling of satisfaction. Persistence and independence will carry us over wliat would otherwise prove insurmountable barriers, and the goal will be ours.

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Again the schoolyear is fast nearing its close. The heart of every young student is filled with joy at the thought of home and its surroundings. Weeks of strennous work have passed and vacation is corning. The thought of vacation naturally gives rise to the consideration of what we have done during the past year. Have we all done our duty ? Have we lived up to our resolutions made at. the beginning of our schoolyear? Alas, not one of us can answer this question in the affirmative. We have all misused our time of study to. some extent, we have not derived as much out of studies as we might have done. Vacation, however, shall encourage us to do better the next year. Closely connected with the thought of vacation is the thought of home. Although life at college may be ever so pleasant it is never like life at home. After staying away from home for some time one fully realizes the truth of the familiar saying: “There’s no place like home”. Small is indeed the number of those who have not tasted the bitter ness of homesickness, everyone has certainly had the wish of being at Vacation.

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home at times. Now the time shall soon arrive where we all may again, join our beloved ones at home for a short time. How then, the young student may ask, shall I properly spend my vacation ? If you are in a financially good position, you might spend it in reading and traveling. Vacation is not a time to keep the mind at work continually, but it is the time intended to give your mind a fair chance to recuperate after months of hard and diligent work. Certainly this applies only to the student who has lully done his duty during the past year, but for him who has failed in gaining all his desired aims, vacation offers another chance tojamend. Vacation also gives us a fair chance to work for our own support at college. We know that not all of us are equally well supplied with earthly riches and many of our fellow-students are dependent on themselves; these are the one’s that have to work even during vacation. None of them, we are assured, is ashamed of this fact; we therefore highly encourage all of them to start their work this summer and wish them all success and a happy return next autumn. R. A.

Correspondence from the Seminary The date of the close of the present school-year has been set on Friday, June 19, the day on which the final examinations of the grad uates will take place. Thursday, June 4th, the Seminary board met in Milwaukee and discussed besides business of minor importance the distribution of the calls of the graduates. The great lack of pastors for our synods, alwa3'S an object of concern, has this year also caused considerable comment. It has even been suggested to introduce again a'“Praktische Abteilung” and a paper treating of its practicability will be pre pared by the faculty for the meeting of the general synod. As only 12 of the 22 calls in the hands of the board could be filled, it is evident that some relief or other must be furnished before long. The names and destination of those graduates not as yet publish ed in this column are the following: August Ernst, Tacoma, Wash.; John Guse, Austin, Minn.; Otto Heidtke, Monroe, Wis.; Paul Heidtke, Olivie, Minn.; Otto Hoyer, Coleman, Wis.; Adolf Lederer, Barron City, Wis.; Chas. Lederer, Freedom, Mich.; Henry Paustian, Redwood Falls, Minn.; Hans Reuschel, South Haven, Mich.; Chas. Sehrader, Emonsburg, N. D. Perhaps not universally known is the fact that the seminary will celebrate in the fall of this year the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation and the tenth anniversary of the dedication of its present quarters. Preparations for the proper celebration of this event are under way and alumni and friends of the institution are heartily in vited to participate. Rev. Hans Eggert, whose engagement to Miss L. Gabriel was reported in the last column was married, May 20th, at the home of his bride in Owoso, Mich. We have also been notified of the engagement of Rev. G. Thurow to Miss Louise Miller of La Crosse. T. H. S.

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As we look over our list of exchanges for this month we find that Quachita Ripples is the largest college magazine that has reached us this year. It is an issue of eighty pages. In it we find cuts of the various societies of that institution. We also find an editorial against the corruption of our public officers. The editorial is certainly very appropriate in such an age of fraud and bribery.

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LOCALS

The Band.

During the past year very little was said regarding the work and progress of the Band. It would, however, not be too much to say that of all the societies at college this year the Band has made the most progress. This has been a successful year for it, more than any other year heretofore. From the condition it was in at the beginning of the school year and the condition it is in now the progress made and the amount of work necessary become evident. Early in autumn the instrumentation was greatly improved. The old bass gave place to a silver-plated one hundred and twenty dollar instrument of Conn make, to which its recipient, M. Raasch, did full justice. Then a new clarionet was bought for forty four dollars, and Mr. Dornfeld, who had dropped out of the Band the past year, took charge of it. All the good instruments now belonging to the Band are of Conn make and do much in promoting the appearance as well as the quality of tone. But, since the Band went to this expense, a device had to be found to defray it. For this purpose, therefore, a concert was given at Lake Mills in February, which, however, proved a financial failure. This was partly attributed to the cold weather then prevailing. Now it was agreed to give a combined concert with the orchestra at Watertown and also at Oconomowoe. The concerts came to pass and were a grand success not only finanicially, but artistically. For this success the Band is greatly indebted to Professor Bolle. He was its director till May, when he was obliged to go to Milwaukee to undergo an operation for chronic appendicitis. But also its president and leader, Gilbert A. Diestler, must not be forgotten. He did much to promote the welfare of the Band. His untiring effort has much to do with its present standard. As the Band consisted of many new members these had to be instructed. For their good and improvement our dili gent leader sacrificed much of his valuable time, and not without re ward. After Easter the Band was. sorry to see two of its prominent mem bers leave, just when greatly in need of them. William Albrecht, the baritonist, left for his eyes, and it is doubtful whether he will again return. E. A. Wendland filled the vacancy. For. C. Relien, solo cornetist, no substitute was found. The following are the engagements the Band filled during the past year. It accompanied the football team to Milwaukee in November; took part in the ceremonies of the church dedication at Lake Mills Feb. 12th; gave a concert at Lake Mills Feb. 21st; gave a combined concert with the orchestra at Watertown Apr. 29th; another at Oconomowoc May 2nd; enjoyed a trip to Waterloo May 10th, where the tenth anniversary of Rev. Pankow-’s church was celebrated; it made an excursion to Oconomowoc May 23rd and 24*th with the Mili tary Company; played for the city Decoration Day; and June 1st found it-in Columbus" at the picnic of Rev. Koch’s congregation.

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Although it has to part with four of its faithful and experienced members, M. Raaschbass, L. Kirst French horn, E. Bliefermcht bass drum, and W. F. Luebke, snare drum player, also with H. Koch, drummaior, as they are graduates, its prospects for next year are still bright, and all hope to meet again in autumn and pass another equal ly successful year. . The Rev. A. Bendler visited his Alma Mater on'.May 15th and 16th. He also witnessed the base-ball game played against Marquette on the sixteenth. „ Mr. Adolph Baebenroth, ’04, spent Saturday and Sunday, May 23d and 24th at his home in Milwaukee. The Rev. J. Dejung from Rhinelander, Wis., was the guest of the Profs. A. Kuhn and J. Meyer on May 20th and 21tli. Prof. A. F. Ernst made a business trip to Milwaukee on May 29th. On May 28th Mr. Henry Voje, ’08, went to bis home in Oconomowoc to attend the graduation exercises of the nurses at the Sanitari um Waldheim. On Sunday evening, May 31st, Prof. A. F. Ernst occupied the pulpit in St. Mark’s church. On June 1st Dr. F. W. A. Notz left for New Ulm to attend the ex aminations of the Dr. Martin Luther college. i Owing to the sudden illness of their mother Prof. A. Kuhn and his sister, Miss E. Kuhn, were called to their home in Lake Benton, Minn., on June 1st. Prof. J. Meyer delivered a sermon at Columbus Pentecost. The Messrs. Harry Luebke, ’02, Henry Haase, ’02, and Benj. Schlueter,’00, called on friends at college during the Pentecost holidays. A number of students spent Ascension day and the Pentecost holi days at their homes or with friends in different cities. On June 10th Mr. P. Oehlert, ’05, left for his home in Weyauwega to officiate as best man at his sister’s wedding. Sometime during the winter nearly all poplars south of the recita tion hall were hewn down, and in their place there have since been planted a coffee-bean tree, a copper beech, a tulip tree, and a liquidamber (sweet gum tree). Some weeks after arbor day nearly three hundred shrubs were planted, of which some are already in bloom. The shrubbery has namely been planted between the dormitory and recitation hall and along Western Avenue. The names of the shrubs are a little beyond us, but we hear they bear such outlandish names as althea, weigelia, syrniga, hydrangea, berberry, calycanthus, golden elder, s pirea, etc. We hope that they will all thrive well and that still more will be planted in future years as they ornament the grounds exceedingly. On Monday May 25th at four o’clock in the afternoon Riotti gave an elocutionary recital in the college chapel. He rendered a very in teresting program consisting of some of the best of the German class ics. The program was opened with “Andreas Hofer”. Among others the “Melchtalscene” from William Tell, and “Der Erlkonig” were best received. The ‘‘Sokratische Methode” of Fritz Reuter was loudly applauded. All the students took advantage of this opportunity to hear some good work in elocution, and certainly benefited by it.

ATHLETICS

Whitewater Normals 0. Northwestern 23. On Saturday May 30th the Whitewater contingent of ball tossers came up to Watertown for a game. The weather was disagreeably cold and as a result the playing was not any too lively on either side. Looking at the score and then at the weather, we might be reminded of a snowstorm. Pitcher Kumm and captain Koch were out for a game on that day. Nothing less than a shut out was to work. Not only was the Whitewater team shut out with respect to runs but Kumm did not allow a single hit off his delivery. His form was superb. At no time did the boys from Whitewater have a chance. In the first inning, it is true, they looked dangerous. No one was out. On two errors by the short stop the second and third bases were filled. The next three men were struck out. That tells the story of the game. Milton College 3. Northwestern 14.

This game decided the smaller college championship of the state. Now we call ourselves twice champions. This was perhaps the most interesting of the home games. Although Milton was never in the lead they put up a pluckier fight thau the final score would seem to show. Time and again it was only by the headiest pitching and field ing that scores were saved. We cinched the game in the seventh in ning by running in nine scores and knocking Crandall out of the box. This is the third time that our boys have knocked a pitcher out of the box this season.

i . On Wednesda}'’ June 17th we go to Whitewater for a return game, It is rumored that Whitewater has been getting up early and going to bed late because of the great amount of practice they have been putting in for this game. ataaejiaa Looking at it now we have had a very successful season of ball. There is a new man in right field, on short, on first, and in the box. The greater share of the time there was a new man on third and for the Milton game a new man on second. Looking at the record of the team work it is satisfactory when this is taken into consideration. The batting was always above the average. In only one game, the Marquette game, was the batting off color. But then we may ’say that the team which ran up against Marquette was not really our first nine. Half the men were playing new positions. Much more than a defeat could hardly have been expected. 69

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—New caps! —Carnations! —Trip to “Cooney!” —Butch laps over. —Pudgy met a snake. —Piscator and liis master. —Teacher: Was heisst “fraudare” ? Steamer: Frau geben. —Cheesy: Bring me my snails out! —Eicky is the same old fisherman. The other day he caught about twenty. —Dr. Tink: Boni sunt pauci—Beans are scarce. —G. M—r: General Grant, the great English poet, was born in Eng land. —Pete thinks his hair will turn black after he grows older. How about his whiskers ? —Joseph wants to know whether the color of negroes can be rubbed off. —Prof.: How may Lake Erie be drained ? Fiddler (just liberated from the embrace of Morpheus): By filling it up. —Isaac says there were all kinds of sporty ducks in “Cooney”, but he forgot his gun and that is why he didn’t go duckhunting.—Too bad' Bml wasn’t there. —Oily says his laundry bills are so high, owing to the altitude of his collars. —Pete has taken to duckhunting. Oh! Pete, who would have thought it • —Prof.: With what spectre have you something to do ? Steamer: Inspector. —Cheesy and Dr. Tink came near having a “scrap” the other day. Frenchy volunteered to be referee, but luckily somebody prevented the whole affair. —Dr Tuff claims he will be the successor of Demosthenes. —Things we would like to know: \Vhy the Sophomores have resolved to wear crape on their hats next year. Why Oily always braces up when walking down Main Street. Why Peruna walks up to Oak Hill cemetery every day. Who takes part in the “Kreutziige” down town. - Why all the boys were so sorry to leave “Cooney”. Why does Babe look pleasant again. —On a very nice day, in the merry month of May, our friend Schoi, the waterman, thought he would try his luck with the fishpole. He is' a very careful fisherman, but someway or other, being too anxious td pull out a crab, which was at the end of his line, he lost his balance and set out to explore the lower regions of the river. He did not get very far, however, for soon his scalp was seen above the water level and it seemed as if it was hard for him to breathe. 6tf

THB BLACK AND RED. Luckily lie had been in the water before, and this enabled him to reach the shore safely. —As Bml, the orator of the twentieth century, wishes to resign, he is busily at work giving his disciples daily practice in the line of stumpspeeches. He says many of his followers are very promising. He resigns in the midst of his glory. —Joseph has invested in a “genuine panama” hat. Its shape is changeable and its size varies. It fits any head, even a blockhead. —The boys enjoyed the picnic at Columbus very much. It is especially true of Oily. When the dinner bell rang, he was the first to take a seat. He ate heartily but didn’t seem to be satisfied, for he stole away three ham sandwitehes under his coat. Nobody but Tubby and Breutz noticed it. Like two detectives they opened Oily’s coat and the sandwitehes fell to the ground. This surprised Oily so much that he made for the woods and did’nt return until the bugle called “assemble”. —While the company was participating in the procession on Memori al Day, Corbet met with an accident. On the way back from the cemetery the company maneuvered -in front of the High School. During one of these movements Corbet, while trying to perform his duties as left guide, got his feet tangled up and took a terrible fall. His gun fell in one direction and the strong wind took his cap in the other. The spectators on the side laughed and Corbet “sweat”.

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& | LITERARY j # ; The Louisiana Purchase. Oration delivered by Leo. C. Kirst, B. A., at the Commencement Exercises of the Northwestern University, June 23, 1903.

An event which has well marked an epoch in the material de velopment and progress of the United States was the acquisition of Louisiana, — better known as the Louisiana purchase. The vast territory comprising all the land from the gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border and from the Mississippi river to the Rocky moun tains was originally held by France. But by a secret treaty' made in the year 1762 France ceded New Orleans with all of her possessions west of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana, to Spain. Spain, how ever, held the province only for thirty-eight years, when she secretly retroceded to France the territory as originally acquired. The news of this cession reached the United States in the early summer of 1801, shortly after the inauguration of president Jefferson. This change hemmed our country' in between two powers hostile to each other — Great Britain on the’north and France on the south and west. Jefferson fully' realized the gravity of the situation and liis policy' now was to obtain the port of New Orleans from France in order to insure our free transit down the Mississippi. And favorable indeed were the circumstances at this time for the United States. Napoleon had resolved to renew the war with England and to our amazement sold us not only New Orleans, but the entire province of Louisiana for the comparatively' small sum of $15,000,000. Thus by this sudden, and to its full extent, unexpected acquisition of territory our young nation was indeed placed at the portals of an illustrious career. It had at the stroke of a pen, as Jefferson said, more than doubled its area. But yesterday the Mississippi marked the barrier of our national ambition and expansion,-and to-day a

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vast, unexplored, and almost illimitable empire was ours, an empire which eventually should become the home of many thousands of people. Hitherto a foreign power arrested our progress westward; henceforth the tide of emigration should be permitted to sweep unim peded from ocean to ocean. But, however favorable and promising the acquisition of Louisiana appeared, one grave doubt in Jefferson’s mind was its constitu tionality. As a strict constructionist he considered that our con stitution made no provisions for acquiring new territory and believed that to carry out the terms of the treaty was to make blank paper of our fundamental charter. We, however, who are living in a late age may definitely see that the bearing of the Louisiana purchase on the fate of our constitutional government, instead of having been detrimental, has been of vital importance. It above all weakened strict construction. Jefferson’s idea which consisted in the argument that our government should be bound by the very letter of the constitution could no longer be maintained. People saw that time and circumstances made it impossible to adhere to the very words of a written-constitution, and the}' now began to interpret our fundamental charter much more liberally. The Louisiana purchase also made a certain change in the concep tion of statehood. The old idea of statehood could no longer exist when the fruits of the Louisiana purchase were made manifest. And more than that; it paved the way for expansion in the United States and laid the foundation for a readjustment of sectional power within the union. It gave the people both east and west of the Mississippi the same constitution; brought them under the same republican form of government, so that they might together endure the hardships of war and snare the victories of peace. Imagine for a moment what the fate of our nation would have been, had a foreign power obtained foothold by our side. A flourish ing population on the western bank of the Mississippi, alien to the American republic, would out of necessity have antagonized its rising interests. Had the great empire on the sunset side of the Fathers of Waters remained under the rule of a monarchical power, the preserva• tion of our republican institutions would have been a question of grave doubt. But the assimilation of the United States and the pro vince of Louisiana has forever definitely assured'the success and con tinuance of our American republic. But the acquisition of Louisiana has not only been of vital im portance in the development of our constitutional government. Its economic influence has been equally great. It has secured additional territory, wealth, strength, and prosperity to our country. Com paratively few people, however, in these busy days of commercial activity stop to contemplate the great significance of Jefferson's pur chase in relation to the natural resources of our country. The area of the Louisiana purchase territory is a little over 875,000 square miles. This is greater than the area of the original thirteen states and is equal to almost one third of that of the entire

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union. Out of this vast tract of land twelve states and two terri tories have been formed—great commonwealths indeed—including the most important wheat and corn producing areas, not only in the United States, but in the world. The southern part of the region is famous for cotton as well as for other products, and thousands of farmers as prosperous as any in the world live in the states of Minne sota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. Statistics show that the productive wealth of this great central region is enormous. The agricultural products of the Louisiana pur chase states of one year amount to one hundred times the original cost of the area; or in other words the cost is repaid by one per cent, of the agricultural production of a single year. When the province was ceded to Jefferson by Napoleon its entire area contained only about 50,000 inhabitants, one half of which were slaves. To-day this great central region has a population of over 15,0*00,000. the territory which one hundred years ago was covered with primeval forests in all their solitude — dense, unyielding forests which echoed the cries of beasts and the calls of the savages — is to day dotted with many progressive towns and populous cities. The village of St. Louis has become a splendid metropolis, which in the near future shall have a million people, while the little town of New Orleans has grown to be a beautiful and famous eit}’. From Minnea polis on the eastern edge of the Louisiana territory to Denver on the western edge prosperous cities have everywhere sprung into being. In fact, the vast wilderness lias been transformed into flourishing plantations, into the homes of happy millions. The treaty rendering the Louisiana purchase territory to the United States was signed in Paris, on April 30, 1803. The centennial of this stupendous international transaction which gave to theUnited States some of its richest producing sections is to be signally celebrat ed during the coining year in St. Louis by a universal exposition. Nothing could be more fitting than this special celebration. This ex position shall above all give the world an opportunity to see what a hundred years of progress have done in America — what the American pioneers of the Mississippi and tlieir descendants have done since the acquisition to transform the vast primeval forest into an advanced habitation of man and to convert its vast raw wealth to his needs and uses. What a gratifying spectacle it will be to seethe people as semble and bring their finest trophies of progress and set them down, for proud contemplation. Thus has the Louisiana purchase, constitutionally- and economicallv, been an important factor in the development of our nation. It has added an immense territory to the United States, a territory greater than was ever secured by peace or taken and held by a con quering power. From the day of the purchase of Louisiana our country took its place among the nations of the first rank. Let us therefor cherish the hope that the United States may hence forth continue to be as prosperous as it has been during the last hundred years. And may we all fully realize that our interest is in concord, not in conflict, and that our real emimence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

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Hand in Hand mit dieser Verwaltungsreform ging die Umgestaltung des Heeres. Das Heer hatte bis jetzt aus Soldaten bestanden, die aus alien Ecken und Enden der Welt zusammengewiirfelt waren. Dass ein solches Heer das Vaterland nicht aus der Not retten konne, sah man bald ein. Gerhard von Scharnhorst war auf diesera Gebiete der leitende Mann. Er suchte die vielen Schaden auszubessern. Zunachst schaffte er die Zwangswerbung ab. Alle Soldaten sollten Landeskinder sein, die aus Vaterlandsliebe und Pflicht- und Ehrgefiihl kamptten. Verbrecher, die man zur Strafe in das Heer gesteckt hatte, wurden ausgewiescn. Scharnhorst sah welch’ grosse sittliche Scha den der napoleonischeGrundsatz, “junge Generate, greise Hauptleute”, mit sich brachte. Die Kegel, dass ein junger Adliger ohne weiteres als Officier in die Armee eintrat wurde aufgehoben; und von nun an wur den die Oftieierc nur wegen ihrer Tapferkeit oder sonstiger Auszeichnung belordert. Scharnhorsts hochstes Ziel war, das Heer auf das moglichste zu vergrossern. Nun a her hatte Napoleon Yerboten, cin grosseres Heer als 42,000 Mann zu halten, und hatte uberall seine Spaher, die aufpassten, dass dieser Befehl durchgefuhrt werde. Dieses umging Scharnhorst mit grosser Klngheit. Er erfand das Krumper^stem. Demgemass wurden mouatlich funf aus jeder Kompagnie entlassen, als Ersatz aber traten fiinf Rekruten ein. Hierdureh bewirkte er, dass das Heer nur 12,00'> Mann stark blieb, aber dennoch nach und nach die gauze kriegsfahige Mannschaft militarise?! ausgebildet wurde und als Reserve diente. Dicse Heeresreformeii bewirkten, dass Preussen ein verhaltnissmassig schlagfertiges Heer erhielt, von Vaterlandslicbe beseclt. ein Heer, darinnen jedem das Schicksal Preussens am Herzen lag und jeden der cine holie Wunsch beseelte, sein Vaterland von der Knechtschaft Napoleons befreit zu sehen. Deutschland sollte auch bald von einem solchen Heere Gebrauch machen. Im Sommer des Jahres 1S12 hatte Napoleon seine ungeheuren Heeresmassen nachRussland gefiihrt. Mitten durch Deutschland ging die Strasse des Marsches, und verarmt waren die Ortschaften, durch die es gezogen war. Nachdem das Heer in Russland eingetreten war, horte man nocli dann und wann vom weiteren Eindringen Napoleons. Dann aber folgte eine grosse Stille. Zwei lange Monate lang horte man nichts von ihm. Da auf einmal, am 11. Dez durohzuckte Deutsch land wie ein Blitz die Nachricht, Napoleon sei allein durch Deutschland nach Paris geeilt, und sein stolzesHeer sei zertriimmert. Man war erstaunt, erfreut. Ein jeder fiihlte, dass nun die Zeit der Befreiung fur Deutschland gekommen sei. Man war bereit den rechten Augenblick zur Befreiung zu ergreifen und begann zu riisten. General York tat den ersten Schritt. Indem er am 30. Dez. die Konvention von Tauroggen unterzeichnete, trennte er seine Heeresabteilung von den Franzosen, eine Tat, die als Kriegserklarung gait. Dieses liess sich Napoleon natlirlich nicht gefallen, und mit aller Macht riistete er, urn den Deutschen ihren Trotz und Hochmut vollig zu vertreiben. Auch der Konig war tatig. ’ Am dritten Februar erfolgte der Aufruf um Freiwillige und am 28. das Biindnis mit Russland. Nun

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wusste jedermann, class ein Zuriickgehen nicht mehr moglich war; jetzt war mit Frankreich gebrochen und der Krieg unvermeidlich. Schon am 16. Marz folgte die Kriegserklarung. Nun traten auch die breiten Volksmassen in das Heer ein. Jeder war vom, Kriegseifer beseelt, vora Siebzigjahrigen bis zum Jiinglinge. Stiirmiscli wie nie zuvor war die Seele cles Volkes bewegt. Der Bauer verliess den Hof, der Arbeiter die Werkstatt, allc raseh entschlossen, als verstunde cs sich von selber. Die Gymnas;en und Universitaten waren beinahe leer. Zu tausenden kamen die jungen Manner herangezogen. Der Konig war anfangs noch ein wenig unglaubig. Dock als ilin Schartiliorst einst zu Breslau an das Fenster fiilirte, gerade als SO Wagen mit Freiwilligen in das Lager gezogen kamen, da wurde er zu Tranen geriihrt, er war iiberzeugt. Es war, als ob ein Fieber das Volk ergriffen hatte. Alles eilte zu den WafFen. Die Leute verkauften ihr Hab und Gut und brachten das Geld, um damit das Hccr auszuriisten. Wahrend die Manner im La ger standen. waren die Frauen zu Hause fleissig, Uniformcn zu nahen. All’ ihr Sell muck und ilire Kostbarkeiten brachten sic dem Staate dar. Es gait fur Schande, wenn irgendwo in einem Hause Silbergerat zu finden war. Das Volk opferte nicht nur die Bliite und Kraft seiner mannlichen Jugend, sondern auch den Rest seines karglichen Wohlstandes. Wolier kam denn dieser grosse Eifer? Da waren Fichte und Schleiermacher, zwei Redner, die zum Kriege anfeuerten. Docli war ihr Einfluss nicht so gross, da sie nur zu dem geringen Kreise der Gelehrten redeten. Erfolgreichcr war das Wirken der Dichtcr Arndt, Schenkendorf und besonders Korners, der zugleich Sanger und Held war. Wohl manclier wurde begeistert, wenn er den Zuruf Korners horte: t4Frisch auf, mein Volk! die Flammenzeichen rauchen, Hell aus dem Norden briclit clcr Freiheit Licht”. Aber war es das Wirken dieser Manner allein, das das Volk so hinriss? Wir sagen nein, die Hauptursache liegt ganz anderswo. Das Volk musste erst cine harte Schule durchmachen, ehe es zu einem solchen Aufstande fahig war. Die Leute hatten ilire Religion beinahe vergessen. Sie lebten dahin in vollstandiger Gleichgiltigkeit. Die grossen Eindriicke der Reformationszeit waren beinahe verwischt. Da katn Gottes*Strafe. Er schiekte ihnen Napoleon als Zuehtiger, und es war eine harte Strafe. Fast das halbe Volk war ail den Bettelstab gebracht; das Land war verwiistet und ausgesogen; tausencle der Ihren waren auf den Schlachtfeldern gefallen; dazu inussten sie noch 147,000 Mann franzosischer Truppen ernahren. Hierdurch wurde ihr Stolz gebrochen. Als sie sahen, dass Konigtum, Adel, Eiirc, Reiclitum, dass alles hinsturzte, da kamen sie zu der Einsicht, dass mit Menschenmacht nichts getan ist. Sie verzweifelten an sich selber. In dieser Not wurden sie der Religion wieder zuganglich. sie kehrten wieder zur Bibel zuriick, das Volk lernte wieder auf Gott vertrauen. Dieser Umscliwung kam nicht von oben, von den Universitaten oder dem Adel, sondern von dem gesunden Kern des Volkes, dem Bauern- und Burgerstande, bei dem ^nocli ein Rest des alten Glaubens aus der Reformationszeit sich erhalten hatte.

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Einer Macht, so ausgeriistet, konnte Napoleon nicht widerstehen, und cr wurde auch in den Kriegsjahren 1813—15 fur immer aus Deutschland vertrieben. Docli wie Konig Friedrich Wilhelm selber sagte, es war Gottes Walten, nicht Menschenhand. Wie vor dem <t Gottes Sturmwind” einst die spanische Armada auseinanderstob, so musste Napoleon der Macht Gottes weichen.

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The little things do most harm. If this is because they seem so insignificant that we do not bother about them, or wheter it is their very smallness that deceives us, it is difficult to say. But it is usually some little fault that upsets our whole pleasure in an undertaking. We arc careful, very careful about the main points of the thing con cerned. Wc take heed of the little things. But it is not the thorough looking after given to the more important. Some unforeseen, to us unimportant miscalculation comes up. We feel ourselves bluffed. Had it but been a gross mistake, had it but been some glaring fault; we then would have taken the consequences as a natural result of some mistake on our part. But we are upset by the unforeseen. Only he who is trained in the arts of the politician is able to overcome such such a shock. The ordinary mortal is disconcerted, he often loses interest and as a result the project falls to the ground.

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Now that we are here again at dear Northwestern to begin a new year with new hopes for success in all our work, let us remember that good behaviour is one of the stepping stones of success. At all times be a gentleman and you will have no trouble with your superiors in the dormitory or with your instructors in the classroom. ’ Obedience should be your watchword. Our par ents have entrusted us to the care of the authorities. They take the place of the parent. And they as well as the parent, know what is best for us. If we follow the advice of our parents when at home, why should we not follow the rules laid down by the college. Per haps you have never had any serious trouble, but if you think back, you have had little ups and downs now and then. They could all be avoided by a little foresight and forethought. Even if you have never been guilty of an overt act of misconduct, be careful that you do not say anything that will scandalize your weaker and hastier brother. Obedience.

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Rather help to s moo the over the difficult places and help to usher in a healthier spirit of manhood. Do we not in the end invariably see that the punishment inflicted by a superior, however unjust it may have appeared at the time, was just and for our benefit only. There fore let us be more watchful even than we have been heretofore, so that the year of study may be unbroken by open acts of misconduct. And let us obey the rules from the start. If you do not get your self accustomed to the rules when you begin your work the chances are that you will not get accustomed to them at all. It may be trite and commonplace but it is well to remember this little verse “Wie begonnen so zeronnen’’. If you work under the rules your classwork will show the desired results. Order is the salt of life. Not only will you acquire knowledge more easily and systematically, but you will be subjecting yourself to such a schooling as will build up your char acter. — Do not let this go by unheeded. Do not read it and then forget it. Rather take it to heart and remember the moral. You will then derive all the benefit which is promised you and enjoy a most successful year. A New Year. Another school year has begun. The classrooms, so long silent and empty, are again filled with young people seeking knowledge. The number of new students in the pre paratory department is unusually large and even some of the college classes have been increased. Nowand then one still sees a little home sick lad, but most of the new boys have grown accustomed to their surroundings and have settled down for a year of hard and conscien tious work. It is only by doing our duty all the time that we can succeed at college. A good beginning and loss of interest later on or poor work during the greater part of the semester and a great deal of cramming before examinations cannot be expected to bring good re sults. Let us do our best every day of the present year. In thecollcge library and the reading room we may find all of the standard reference books. They are always at our disposal and should be consulted often. In all difficulties the professors are willing to advise us. There is surely no reason why we cannot succeed in our classes if we try. For recreation we may also draw upon the libraries. An hour spent in reading a good novel carefully will afford more pleasure than half a dozen cigarettes smoked in some out of the way place. Vve must, of course, not forget our bodily exercise. A brisk walk or an hour’s work in the gymnasium or on the field will bring benefit, but a lazy stroll down Main street after school neither is healthful nor does it seem quite proper. Let us work while we work and play while we play and at the end of the 3*ear we mav go home with a feeling of satisfaction.

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On Saturday September 12th, 1903, Prof. Ritter of Madison treat ed us to a lecture on Wilhelm Tell. It is unnecessary to say that we all not only enjoyed it but that we also benefited by it. Stereoj)tican views helped to give us a clear picture of the beautiful spots in the Alps which Schiller has immortalized in his drama. Prof. Ritter dwellt some time on the Tell legend, its origin, its influence in Switzer land, and finally the legend as we find it in the drama. Then he took us to all the interesting spots described by Schiller. We thank Prof. Ritter for this kindness toward the student body. Adolph Kratch who last year studied here is at present in France on his way home to Russia. Sunday September 13th, 1903, Rev. J. Bading of Milwaukee preached at St. Mark’s in the morning; Rev. Gieschen of Lake Mills preached in the afternoon. 4

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THE BLACK AND RED. —Oily played first sub while in Milwaukee last week. —Dago has gotten it in the eye of late. We wonder why ? —Breutz and Babe have strictly quit it now.—They say! —Sprumps—Flashlight candles (cartridges). Some Limericks. An important young man from La Crosse, Who wouldn’t come off his high hosse, Was most awfully mad When he found the boys had Put some Dukes in his dried apple sauce. A soldier boy from Milwaukee Wore a blue coat and trousers of khaukee; At the black board one day He was careless, the}' saj', And his trousers and coat got all chaukee. F. C.

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Profit-Sharing. The record ol the past relations of the employer to the employed is one of oppression, conflict, and turmoil. The centuries have marked great changes in these relations, all of which have inured to the bene fit of the oppressed. The master and slave gave way to the feudal lord and vassal, these were succeeded long since by the landlord arid tenant, who in their turn have been followed by the capitalist and wage-earner. But the old grievance that actuated the secession to Mens Sacer, showed ii.self in the derperate peasant wars of mediaeval Europe, and brought about the Reign of Terror, reappears in the dis sensions of the capitalist and the laborer, growing more bitter with time. It now seems have reached a stage where peaceable settle ment is out of the cpiesiiou. The Labor Unions ha.e declared an undying feud against tlie capitalist “robber bar ms", and these have vaunted that they will ex- tirpate organized Labor. We are speedily to witness a mortal com bat between these giants. Capital and Labor. Even now they are preparing for the struggle, we hear the clanking of their armor and dread forebodings of strife and bloodshed assail ns. How to adjust the conflicting interests of Capital and Labor is the most engrossing political problem confronting the American nation. Strikes and lockouts, which have become an every day occurrence, involve tremendous losses not only to those immediately concerned but for the nation at large. During the twenty years ending in nineteenhundred the total number of strikes occuring in the United States was 22,700, establishments involved in them 117,000, and strikers engaging in them 6,000,000,— over twenty per cent of the workers of the nation. Since the modern industrial world is so complex that none are independent, but all are helplessly interdependent, the evil in fluence of one strike is so far-reaching that industry in general is

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hampered and establishments far remote from the scene of strife suffer incalculable losses. The loss to the strikers in wages amounted to over $300,000,000, and to the employers $145,000,000, or an aggregateloss to the commonwealth of over $445,000,000 in twenty years. If someone gifted with second-sight had foretold such a state of affairs to the lathers of our country, they would have thought his brain addled. But thus it is in America, the home of golden opportunities, the hope of the Old World. Under the operation of the present wage system we see the un natural phenomenon that the capitalist owner of a plant and his workmen, who naturally should be bound together by a common in terest in their business, on which their very subsistance depends, nevertheless are arrayed against each other in the ranks of hostile armies. Instead of putting forth a combined effort to further their interests to the discomfiture of competitors, they work severally, each for the other’s ruin. And what a monumental memorial they have established to their labors! a dead loss of over $400,000,000. The strike statistics are a melancholy illustration of the fact that a house divided against itself must fall. The suspicion grows upon us that a system accompanied by such calamities and bearing such bitter fruit must be radically wrong. It is true, “we cannot do without the wage S3rstem, but we cannot endure it, as it is”. But how rectify this evil inherent in the wage system, how mend this breach between the in dustrial partners, Capital and Labor. In 1892 a number of prominent Americans, among them such distinguished students of social problems as Francis A. Walker, united in forming an Association for the promotion of Profit-Sharing, which to their minds is the most available remedy for labor disturbances. The action of these men is higly suggestive. What is profit-sh aring, and what does it promise ? The name implies that the employer is to give his employees a share in the profits of his business. Thus the motive of natural selfishness, which has hitherto caused the interests of employer and emplo}7ee to diverge, is removed, and the interests of both are made to coincide. The employer asks: “What, give the employee something he has not earned ? He enjoys his wages, and knows nothing of the cares and anxieties that the profits have cost me. 1 have taken the entire risk, therefore the entire profits belong to me”. Nobody demands, my dear employer, that you shall give something for nothing, but we ask, that j'ou give the laboring man an opportunity to earn his share in the profits. Realizing that an additional gain for the firm means a proportionate gain for him, he will soon show a live interest in the welfare of the business. If granted a share in the profits, his own in terests will effect almost a regeneration in the employee. He begins to have a little pride and ambition in himself. His recklessness in the handling of tools, his wastefulness of raw materials disappear. He is far more diligent, is anxious to turn out good products, idles away no time, and is quick to apprehend neglect or mistakes on the part of other employees, thus reducing to a minimum the need of inspection, which involves so large ad expense in other establishments. If by careful use of tools and materials he saves twenty cents a day, and by

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increased diligence and neatness he earns another twenty cents a day, then in one year of three hundred working days, the employee earns $120 over and above what he earned before enjoying an interest in the profits. The experience of many successful employers bears out this assertion. In all industries three factors contribute to production, capital, the laborer, and the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur, who may be the capitalist at the same time, is the master spirit of the establishment; he is tlie brain of the business, Capital and Labor are but insensate limbs. Profit-sharing tries not to dispense with the entrepreneur but to establish harmony between him and the employees. The method briefly is this. Employees receive standard wages, the entrepreneur receives a competent salary, and a fixed rate ot in terest is paid on capital. Thus each factor is rewarded for its share in production. Let us suppose that after deducting all other expenses there is a net profit. Now each factor’s share of the profits is propor tional to its share in production. How can this be determined ? By adding the total annual wages, the entrepreneur’s salary, and the capital, we obtain a base of computation, in which Capital’s share in production is measured by the money furnished, Labor’s and that of the entrepreneur by the money each earned. In distributing Labor’s share, the individual workman’s share or bonus is again found by the proportion that his wages bear to the total wages. This essential!}' is the mode of conducting Profit-Sharing, a very simple matter applicable under widely varying conditions. Though some employers have fixed arbitrary rates for sharing the profits, this system seems the most natural and fair. Many employers contend that, if the employee wishes to share in the profits of prosperous years, as a matter of justice he should share also in the losses of adverse years. But strange justice that! For when there are no profits at the end of a year, and the employee, in spite of unremittant zeal, receives no bonus, does he not suffer a loss already, or shall he be subjected to an assessment by the employer besides? Regardless of the abstract justice of the matter — which we may leave for the learned casuists to determine — profit-sharing commends itself to ever}’- enterprising employer as a plain business proposition. It means far greater industrial efficiency. Xo one need fear that in adopting profit-sharing he is venturing on to unpath’d waters and untried shores, for they have been travers ed and explored by many before him. The pioneer in profit-sharing was Edme Le Claire, a French housepainter, who in 1S42 invited twentjvfour of his oldest employees to share in the profits. His successors continued and developed the plan, and to-day the Maison Leclaire pays to each of its twelve hundred employees an annual bonus, which often equals twenty per cent of the wages. The famous Pillsbury Flouring Mills of Minneapolis in 18S2 invit ed their five hundred employees to participate in the profits. Its officers declare that the fact, that they have the largest output and highest grade of flour in the world, was made possible largely by

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profit-sharing, as this system had initiated a high, uniform standard of work, which is indispensable for their business. Not only were ex penses reduced and work improved, but the men have contributed much toward the building up of the business, and the firm now owns manv valuable patents on labor-saving devices invented by its e ru ployces, According to Richard T. Ely, the Pillsburv Co. had distribut ed $100,000 in bonuses up to 1890. An eminently successful instance is that of the N. 0. Nelson Brass Works of St. Louis. Some eighteen years ago Mr. Nelson made his men participants in the profits and offered them very favorable terms for buying stock. The plant has recently been removed to Leclaire, 111., a place that the firm is building opposite St. Louis. Here it aids the employees in building homes, and supports manv public institu tions such as library, theater, and lecture hall. It is ol interest to know what the employees think of the system. In 1892 the employees adopted resolutions, in which thev expressed their esteem lor Mr. Nel son, and said that realizing the benefits they had derived irom the system of profit-sharing — a method that had so much of humanity and so much of common sense to commend it — they noted with pleasure how'the system was spreading, for they thought it the solu tion of an old and stubborn problem”. At present more than sixty firms in the United States are practis ing profit-sharing. The New Yorker Staatszeitung, the Century Publishing Co., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Gamble and Procter Soap Co., Cincinnati, as also John Wanamaker have had the system in operation for years. The National Cash Register Co., of Dayton, Ohio, has developed a plan very similar to that of the Nelson’s at Leclaire. These highly successful firms have adopted the system, not because they lay claim to altruistic or philanthropic motives, but because they know, as J. H. Patterson, president of the hist named firm, says, that “kindness pays”. A noteworthy case of profit-sharing is the Whitwood experiment, as political economists frequently call it. James Briggs and Sons owned and operated a coal mine at Whitewood in Yorkshire, Eng land. Having set their face against the unions, they had many bitter conflicts with their men, in the course of which appalling cruelties were committed on both sides. The firm seemed vanquished and was on the verge of despair, when the junior partner suggested, that asa last resort the}' try profit-sharing. In two years the relations ol owners to employees assumed a most cordial character. When other •collieries were tied up by strikes, their men assured the management that they would not go out on a sympathetic strike, in spite of the appeals and threats of the union. If Pres. Baer and his associates had followed the example of the Messrs. Briggs, I doubt not that the great coal mining strike which stirred our country from centre to cir cumference last year, might have been averted. Profit-sharing has been successfully applied in multifarious instan ces, in transportation companies, in all manner of manufactures, in building trades, yes, even in dairying and farming. It has had the

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most gratifying results in establishments that employ thousands and in embryo enterprises that employ only six. Where profit-sharing has been discontinued, it cannot be attributed to any fault in the system. The failures were due either to unsuccessful management of the busi ness, with the result, that there were no profits to divide, or to a lack of good faith on the part ol either employer or employees. Under profit-sharing the employee feels a personal interest in the business. His diligence and care are such that far from receiving something for nothing, he adds very materially to* the profits, strength, and security of the firm. The employee becomes more alert and intelligent, working with brain as well as with brawn for the in terests of the house. The moral tone of the community invariably improves wherever the system is adopted. The workingman feels himself uplifted by it, he sees some charm in life, and is possessed of more dignity in his own eyes. Labor’s share in the profits marks a higher stage of ethics than the old wage system, in which two factors in production gobbled up the entire profits. It approaches more nearly the ideal of brother hood among men. Carroll D. Wright says of profit-sharing: “Wherever the principle has been tried, three grand results have been attained: Labor has re ceived a more liberal share for its skill. Capital has been better re munerated, and the moral tone of the whole community concerned has been raised. Employment has been steadier and more sure. The interest of all has been given for the general welfare. Each man feels himself more a man. The employer looks upon his employees in the true light, as associates. Conflict ceases and harmony takes the place of disturbances”. Ralph A. Owen ’05.

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Eugene Lorimer was going through his evening mail. Ho picked up the letter that seemed of most iuterest to him, with the mental comment: . “Al’s handwriting. Haven’t heard from him for six months. Wonder what’s up.” . . “Gene, old man,” he read, “to come right down to business with out any unnecessary ceremony, I want to tell you the reason for the sudden appearance’of this missive. You know the pipe-dreams we used to indulge in about going off somewhere to lead a strictly Bohe mian life among artists, poets, etc., for a year or two and finally to settle down as teachers of our favorite branches in some respectably large college, get married to our respective ideals, and live happy ever afterward. Well, I have just completed arrangements for the realiza tion of this dream. In a letter I got from the “guv’nor” the other day he opened his heart to me to the extent of telling me that C ax ton is going to devote himself entirely to mathematics after next year, leaving a vacancy in the chair of natural science at my papa’s little school; and, in view of my natural bent in that direction and my year’s work here at Yale, he, my pater, is kind enough to believe that a years’s work abroad will fit me out to fill this vacancy. Of course, I am hugely delighted at the prospect, but you naturally ask, “Where do I come in? See here. He, mon pere, further divulged the secret that Doc Browning intends to retire from active life as soon as a good man can be found to teach the intricacies of English in his place. He, the old man, asked where you were and whether you could be prevail ed upon to take a year across the seas with me and to step into the doctor’s shoes afterward. So, my dear Gene, all you have to do is to come up to the city next week — 1 arrive home Friday— and close the deal with my honorable progenitor, President Roseland, in persona, after which off we go for a mouth’s rusticating at Lake Geneva. Rah! Rah! Alfred. P. S. Sis Lil and So-and-so are in the party. Whoop!” :

Lorimer fell into his favorite thinking attitude — one leg over the arm of his chair and finger beside his nose — and gazed intently out of Lhe window at nothing. Alfred Roseland, old chum and classmate, was not the man to be turned down lightly. It must be done care fully, diplomatically, but it must be done. How he would have grasped at anything like this a year ago! But things had changed since then; circumstances, environments, ideals, — everything had changed, and changed mightily, and in so short a time. And A1 didn’t know of these changes; he didn’t even know that he was living in the city now, for the letter had been forwarded to him from his country home, a hundred miles away. But A1 would understand. A1 always was a reasonable sort of chap anyway. And the refusal would be verjr diplomatic, full of explanation and regret, and well worded phi losophy of modern ideas and tendencies.

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Loiimer felt a glow of satisfaction over his talent in making the English language do things for him. It had got him out of scrapes at college; it had brought him distinction and honors when graduating; it had brought him favorably into the notice of certain great “cap tains of industry” and men of political influence; and it had procured him admission into exclusive circles of metropolitan society, to say nothing of occasional checks from the magazines, which formed a very convenient addition to the income he derived from his salary as pri vate secretary to the rich and influential Colonel Van Loan. Yes, he would use his art in making A1 understand the situation, and as to that month’s outing — he was expecting to go on a trip to the East about that time, so that would have to be called off too. “Sis Lil” was to be one of the party, eh ? Lilian Roseland was cer tainly an ideal girl — from the Bohemian point of view, but — Lorimer’s thougthts reverted to the brilliant and popular Katherine Van Loan, and in the comparison that involuntarily sprang up in his mind Miss Katherine was not the one that suffered. He was just putting the finishing touches to his artistic rejection of Roseland’s proposal when a knock at the door interrupted him. “H’w are ye, old man?” was his visitor’s greeting. “What you doing?” “Come in, come in, Major,” urged Lorimer. “Sit down and be comfortable while I sign my name to this letter.” “Let’s see,” he went on, as he closed the envelope, “to-day’s Thursday. Roseland arrives here to-morrow. Hang it, I’ve forgotten the number. Where’s that directory?” “Who’s Roseland?” asked Major Woodard from the depths of a capacious rocker. “Blame fine fellow. Old college chum. He offered me something I’d have jumped at before I struck Van Loan. A professorship with about a thousand a year after a year’s preparation in Europe. —Here it is; seven sixty four. — All right. Have a cigar.” “Thanks,” said the Major, taking it and fumbling for a match, “A professorship, eh ? You’ll be looking way down upon a paltry thousand when you’re eastern representative of the Van Loan Syn dicate with two thousand a 3’ear and a fighting good show for the hand of the heiress Katherine. By Jove, Lorimer, you lucky dog, if I weren’t married —” and he looked the unutterable things he would do if he were single. “Yes,” rejoined Lorimer, solemnly, “if it weren’t for the unfortun ate circumstance of 3rour being already a benedict, you would distance all competitors with your Apollo-like rotundity of form and carry off the blooming Katrina as Mrs. Adjutant General Woodard, without the slightest possibility of a doubt. B\’ the way, you’ve got the appointment cinched, haven’t you?” (To be continued.)

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paper. The result is that the editor is deprived of his recreation. He must do the work of a dozen. Now, fellow-students, this cannot last, and yrou know it. Let this mark the beginning of a new epoch in your attitude toward the Black and Red. Henceforth contribute your mite and you will not only derive great benefit from it, but you will have an increased interest in your paper.

Mr. Chamberlain has resigned. Not a long time ago The English we awoke one morning and found the papers crammed Situation. with news of it. Things had come to a crisis in English politics. The Colonial Secretary had resigned a week before the news was given to the world. The reasons given for such a course on part of the Secretary was obvious. Premier Balfour’s and his policy, al though they did not differ in the main, yet in the carrying out called the personalities of the two statesmen into play, and there the clash. Both agree on the question of a tariff but differ in their plan for carry ing it out. The Prime Minister declares that public opinion is not yet ripe “for a tax on foodstuffs”. Mr. Chamberlain thinks otherwise. The Premier’s policy does not go far enough for the Secretary, but it went too far for two members of the cabinet, Mr. Ritchie and Lord Hamilton, two out and out free-traders, who also resigned. Mr. Chamberlain gave as a reason for his resignation “that a preferential agreement with our colonies involving any new duties is not accept able to the majority”. He intends to run a campaign in the interests of the tariff question. — He has always been a hard man to manage. He always implicitly followed his views without paying any attention to scruples about party loyalty or such. It is claimed by some that he wrecked the Gladstone cabinet, as he has done the present ministry. Many believe that after the storm caused by this disruption of the cabinet has subsided and he has put the tariff question as he sees it be fore the people of England, Mr. Chamberlain be will returned as Prime Minister. Poetry at Our When we look back on the poetry7 that has been written by students of our institution, we find that Institution. we are very far behind other colleges. Several poems written by our fellow students have been published in our college paper, but they7 were never up to the standard. Most of these have been mere parodies, though a few of them were quite good. That is not the poetry* we mean. The poetry7 we mean is poetry -which con tains some noble thoughts. Most oi our students never stop to think what it means to practice the noble art of writing poetry. They claim it is no use trying to do what they know they cannot do. This is wrong. You cannot say “I can’t” until you have tried, there is nothing like trying. Among the one hundred and fifty students attending our institution, there is without doubt at least one who is gifted in a poetic way. Why7 not take a little courage and publish your produc tions ? The time spent in writing poetry is surely not a waste of time. Looking into some of our exchanges, we shall find some praiseworthy poems. We ought to have ambition enough to produce something equal to it, if not excelling it. Why should not we be able to write poetry as well as students at other institutions ?

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Foot ball lias been forbidden by the board of control of Foot Ball. our institution. Northwestern will henceforth see no more of football. The report that the game would be prohibited had been in the air for some time. Indeed many thought that that had been the case a year ago. How fortunate that it was not! The ques tion of time seems to have played an important part in the decision of the committee. True if it doe's not take much time from studies it takes some. But, pray, what undertaking does not sometimes creep into the time alloted ror study. Nevertheless it was fun while it lasted. We enjoyed it thoroughly to be sure. No one was ever seriously or otherwise injured. It was sport pure and simple. The schedules were never heavy and as a re sult no one was in the least overworked. Whatever may be gotton out of the game, whatever benefit there is in it, our boys certainly got out of it. The squad always consisted of a healthy, robust looking set of young fellows who enjoyed and reaped the benefits of a wellbalanced, well-trained physique. It is too bad we lost the sport. For us who could not participate in the game itself, but who derived un limited pleasure from beholding the manoevers and manipulations of our strudy gridiron warriors in the brisk autumn air, the afternoons seem tediously long. Neither does the Sentinel report the progress of the team. No longer is there such a rush for the paper as there was before. Now and again the remark is made “if we only had a team.” But be it said to the credit of the boys, they have taken the inevit able philosophically. Rumors of;petitions to the board grew to immense proportions during the first weeks. Rut gradually the futility of all such attempts was seen. The last rumor is ancient history as this goes to press. Every now and then you may see an old war-horse taking a good hearty “kick” at the oval during the nooning. Soon that will become monotonous, and foot ball will exist only in the re collections of seasons gone by Der ViehmarKt. If Watertown ever becomes famous, it will probably be on account of its Viehmarkt. Not because the Markt is so intensive nor because the cows and horses that are sold and bought there are of such pure blood, is Watertown sure to attract attention, but rather because the human beings that the busy day calls to its streets each month are so extremely different in character and appearance. He who finds himselt on Third street on the second Tuesdav of any month will, if he has never been in a similar crowd of - people before, realize that his knowledge of the world and its people is indeed limited. On the corner an aged country-man is selling potatoes, turnips, and the like. This wagon is surrounded by a crowd of hungry-eyed children, but they may only stare, for pin money is unknown to them. A little farther up the street a group of men andbot^s are discussing the merits of a working horse as gravely as if they were speaking of some ■very important event. On the opposite side of the street a little Irish man is telling a score or more of smiling boys that the blind and spavined twenty year old horse he is leading is the best horse that can be gotten. Gypsies, country dames and damsels, rustic youths, and gamblers are seen at every corner and none seem to be conscious that they attract attention. It is a sight worth seeing.

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E.inige Worte an unsere Studenten. Meine lieben jungen Freunde!

Ihre Redaktion verlaugt von mir einen Artikel fur dieses Blatt. Ich kann Ihnen aber leider zu Anfang des Schuljahres nichts anderes bieten als einige lose aneinander gereihte Gedanken, wie sie sich mir zum Teil nnwillkiirlich gerade jetzt aufdrangen. Vor allem mochte ich Ihnen alien ein recht gesegnetes neues Schuljahr entbieten. Frohen Mutes und mit festen Vorsatzen haben Sie das Studium wieder aufgenommen, und der Segen von Oben kann Ihnen nicht fehlen. — Sie sehen aber auch in anderer Hinsicht dem Jahre mit grossen Hoffn ungen entgegen; denn wieder hat sich eine stattliche Zahl neuer Schuler zu den alten gesellt, und wie wir bemuht sind, diese in die passenden Klassen einzureihen, so suchen Sie den neuen Kameraden das Anstaltsleben angenehm zu machen und halten unter ihnen eifrig Umschau nach solchen, die Ihnen fiir “Spiel und Musik” eine willkonnnene Acquisition sein konnten. — Dann machen Sie aber auch weiter die schmerzliche Entdeckung, dass mancher treue Komrailitone, der Ihnen viclleicht unerseztlich zu sein scheint, nicht zuriickgekehrt ist in Ihren frohen Kreis; das Leben ist eben oft hart und reisst manch ei nen Jiingling liinaus in sein Getriebe, ehe er daflir reif zu sein glaubt. — Sie werden aber mit uns in diesem Jahre auch vergeblich zwei treue Lchrer suchen, die mit rastlosen Fleisse und unermiidlicher Ausdauer— der eine langc Jahre, der andere nur kurze Zeit — fur das Gedeihen der Anstalt und fiir Ihr Wohl sorgten und arbeiteten. Und einen von diesen treubewahrten Freunden hat der Herr nach seinem unerforschliclien Rate zu seiner ewigen Ruhe eingehen lassen — ich meine Ihren lie ben, leutseligen Herrn Dr. Karl Pfeiffer, den im alten Vaterlande der Tod ereilte. Es ist gewiss eine pietlitvolle Sitte, dass man einen lieben Abgeschiedenen sich wieder vergegenwartigt, indem man ihm ein kurzes Gedenkblatt widmet; schweigt doch im Tode Neid und Hader, und man sicht den Heimgegangenen in einem helleren, klareren Lichte und erhebt sich gern an seinem Beispiele. Sie werden es mir daher wohl nicht verdenken, dass ich gerade jetzt bei dem lieben Doktor, der mir so nahe stand wie Ihnen, etwas verweile. Spat kam er zu uns, kurze Zeit nur Hess ihn uns dqrHerr, und doch nannten wir ihn bereits unsern Dr. Pfeiffer. Ja in der Tat! unser war er trotz seines kurzen Wirkens unter uns bereits in doppeltem Sinne geworden: wir a lie batten ihn ins Herz geschlossen, underkonnte sich nur sehr schwer von uns—von seinen Kollegen, von Ihnen und der Anstalt, von den lieben S3Tnodal-Briidern — trennen. Ja, iiberall hatte er sich die Herzen gewonnen. Und was war es, das uns alle so an ihn kettete, ihn uns, nun er entschlafeu, unvergesslich macht? War nicht etwas Gigantisches, Magnetisches an dem Manne, das iiberwaltigend wirkte, unwiderstehlich zuihmhinzog? ' Und doch, sollte es wirklich etwas anderes gewesen sein als ein herzliches, selbstloses Interesse, das er alien entgegenbrachte, die mit ihm in Beriihrung kamen,—die aufrichtige Anteilnahme eines schlichten Chri sten, der zwar Gottes Wort wenig auf der Zunge fuhrte, dessen Herz

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aber recht stand und dessen Wandel es bezeugte ? Fuhlte nicht ein jeder, aucli von Ihnen, meine jungen Freunde, dass fur Sie ein rlatz in seinem Herzen war ? Schlug nicht auch Ihr Herz ihm warm entgegen ? Noch sehe ich deutlich das bekannte Bild, wie auf der Strasse fast jedermann dem freundlichen alten Herrn ein frohliches “Guten Tag, Herr Doktor!” zurief. Und fur alls hatte ereinen warmen Blick, ein herzliches Wort.—Und wie er Ihnen, seinenSchuleru, ein lieber Vater war, in Freud und Leid Ihnen teilnehmend zur Seite stand, so war er auch mit Ernst und Strenge der unnachsichtliche Padagoge, der seine Zoglinge mit solch rastlosem Eifer die steilen Pfade der Wissenschaft hinauleitete. dass es manch sauren Schweisstropfen kostete ihm zu folgen. — Aber schon war’s doch unter einem solchen Lehrer zu arbeiten ! Wir Lehrer lernten in ihm den treuen, zielbewussten Kollegen scliatzen. Mit alien arbeitete er in bestem Einvernehmen zusammen, grilf energisch in die Speichen, wean es gait dem Anstaltswagen vorwarts zu helfen, und befliss sicli bei Meinungsvershiedenheiten stets einer strengen Sachlichkeit. Bereitwillig stand er uns jiingeren Lehrern in dem schwierigen VYerke der Jugenderzieliung mit Rat und Tat bei, und wir lernten sein uinfassendes Wissen, den reiclien Schatz seiner Erfahrung und seine unermudliche Tat- und Schaffenskraft ebenso schatzen und bewundern wie seinen sclia* fen Verstand, seinen klaren Blick und die rucklialtsloseOffenheit und uberzeugende Kraft seiner Auseinandersetzungen. Doch iiber alles rnochte ich das Gefuhl der Verantwortlichkeit vor Gott und Mensclien steilen, das ihn in so hohem Masse beseelte. “Wo ich hingestellt werde, da muss ich mit voller Hingabe ini Grossen wie im Kleinen meine Pflicht tun, und keine Riicksichten diirfen tnich abhalten, ungescheut an jedem Orte so zu reden und zu handeln, wie es meine Stellung und mein Gewissen mir gebieten.” So ungefahr pflegte er seine Ueberzeugung Ausdruck zu geben, darnach lebte er buchstablieh. Daher tat er auch me etwas nur mit halbem Herzen. In der Schule, bei Beratungen, im geselligen Umgaug, immer war er mit Leib und Seele bei der Sache. Sie werden es sich jedoch leicht vorstellen kounen, dass fur ihn bei so unbekannten Verhaltnissen viele Schwierigkeiten zu uberwinden waren, dass es tiefeingewurzelte Vorurteile zu zu brechen gab. So imponierten ihm die wohl achtzehnjahrigen Junglinge, die neben kaum konfirmierten Sextanern so geduldig und oft mit grosser Miihe ihr amo und mensa zu lernen bestrebt waren, ganz und gar nicht; soilten sie doch nach seiner Ansicht sich schon laugst in Sekuuda wohl fiihlen. Erst nach und nach lernte er erkenuen, dass auch solche junge Manner, von dem gliihenden Wunsche beseelt, in den Dienst des Herrn zu treten, wo es so sehr an Arbeitern mangelt, durch energische, selbstverleugncnde Ausdauer unter Gottes Segeu recht Tiichtiges leisteten. Dies alles war ihm neu und wunderbar. Wie hatte sich auch ein Schulmann, der ein Vierteljahrhundert im alten Yaterlande gewirkt, in solche Schulverhaltnisse ohne weiteres findeu sollen! Dennoch passte er sich uberraschend schnell unsern Yerhaltnissen an, und eswurde sein Unterricht, besonders an den Mittel- und Oberklassen, von grossem, wohlverdientem Erfolge gekront, bis der Herr den schaffensfreudigen Arbeiter auf das Krankenbett warf, und er mit bitterm Weh im Her-

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zen das Verhaltnis zu der liebgewordenen Anstalt, ihren Lehrern und Schulern, losen musste. Aber auch dann noch war es seine hochste Freude im warmen Sonnenschein vor seinem bescheidenen Hauschen zu sitzen und das frohliche Getriebe auf dem Campus zu beobachten. Zog dann eine munter vorbeieilende Studentenschar freundlich griissend den Hut, so pflegte er mit wehmutigem Blick zu sagen: ,,Es sind doch liebe, gute Kerls, unsere Studenten”! Ja, obschon Ihre Fehler ihm nicht entgingen, so stellte er Ihnen doch dies Zeugnis vor den deutschen Gymnasiasten aus; er glaubte bei Ihnen eine Willigkeit zur Arbeit, ein frisches, mannliches Auftreten, ein Verstandnis fur das Ziel, nach dem Sie streben, gefunden zu haben, wie es ihm sonst nicht entgegeiigetreten war, und wie es das Verhaltnis zwischen Lehrern und Schulern in der Schulstube zu einen ganz anderen gestalten musste. Mit schwerem Herzen schied endlich der teure Doktor auf den Rat der Aerzte ganz von uns, um im alten Vaterlande Heilung oder doch bedeutende Linderung zu suchen. Es hatte ihn das offene Entgegenkommen der lieben Synodal-Briider, die liebevolle Aulnahme, die man ihm uberall bereitete, die allseitige herzliche Teilnahme, deren er sich in seinen Leidenstagen erfreuen durfte, tief ergriffen und ihm den S3Tnodalkreis zur zweiten Heimat gemacht. Es war auch sein innigster Wunsch, einst wieder zu uns zuriickzukehren, zu den Glaubensbriidern, die ihm, dem Fremdling, so viel Liebes erwiesen hatten. Gott hatte es anders beschlossen. Er ruht in fremder Erde. Unter uns aber soli sein Andenken fortleben. Und darfich zu Anfang diese Schuljahres einen Wunsch aussprechen, so sei es dieser, dass uns seine Treue im Grossen wie im Kleinen, sein furchtloses Eintreten fiir Recht und Gerechtigkeit, seine deutsche Gradheit und Biederkeit ein leuchtendes Vorbild sei; dass aber auch Ihnen nachgeriihmt werde—jetzt als Studenten, einst als in Amt und Beruf stehenden Gliedern unserer Kirch , was unser lieber Doktor Pfeiffer von denS}rnodalbrudern zu sagen wusste: ,,Sie haben in herzlicher, briiderlicher Liebe den Fremdling aufgenommen”. Ja, lassen Sie uns besonders das vom Herrn erflehen, dass er uns darm starke, festige, griinde, dass uns, wie wir uns der lauteren Lehre riihmen diirfen, auch der Ruhm bleibe: Seht, wie sie sich untereinander lieben. Mit herzlichem Gluckwunsche zum neuen Studienjahre Ihr Albert Kuhn/ 95 Watertown, im September 1903.

Correspondence from the Seminary

The present school year, the 26th of the Seminary, was begun Sept. 8, 1903. The details of the anniversary which marked the 25 years’ goal are so well known that a report of this festivity is un necessary. The number of new students enrolled is 11, all but one of which have entered the third class and are former students of the N. W. U. Knerske, a former student of the Seminary at St. Louis has taken up work with us as member of the second class. The names of the third class scholars are the following; W. Albrecht, H. Bruns, R. Buerger, Fr. Ehlert, L. Kirst, H. Koch, A. Sydow, P. Lorenz, G. Speerbrecher, E. Wedekind. We regret to say that Edw. Bueger has discontinued his studies with us and has accepted a call to the Wittenberg Academv, Witten berg, Wis., as disciplinarian and professor of English. He will remain at that institution for one year and will return next fall to complete bis course. We have been informed of the engagement of Rev. H. Zimmermann (Sem. ’03) of Shikle}', Nebr., to Miss M. Zimmermann, of Kendalls, Wis.,—oi Rev. B. Oehlert (Sem. ’99) of Lake Geneva, Wis., to Miss L. Pieper of Wauwatosa. Wis.,—of Rev. Jul. Toepel (Sem. ’03) of Morton Grove, 111., to Miss L. Leyhe of Iron Ridge, Wis. Rev. Rob. Wolff (Sem. ’03) of Slades Corners was married to Miss Alma Krueger of Milwaukee, Sept. 9, 1903. Rev. Wm. Franzmann (Sem. ’97) Of Lake City, Minn, was married to Miss Griebling of Mil waukee, Sept., 10, 1903. Following is a list of students who have occupied pulpits of churches in Milwaukee and vicinity during the last month Sept. 13,—Wm. Mahnke at Wauwatosa. Wis., Rev. Siegler.—O. Keller at Whitewater, Wis., Rev. Ohde. Sept. 20,—A. Arendt at Milwaukee, Rev. Hagedorn.—H. Luebke £Lt Milwaukee, Rev. Schultz.—Wm. Mahnke at Milwaukee, Rev. Nommensen,—A. W. Sauer at Milwaukee, Rev. Garber.—F. Zarliug at Mauston, Wis., Rev. Nommensen. Sept. 27,—H. Haase at Milwaukee, Rev. Knuth.—A. Herzfeldt at Cambria. Oct. 4,—Wm. Mahnke at Cudahy, Wis., Rev. Brenner.—A. W. Sauer at Mankato, Minn., Rev. Winter.—T. H. Schroedel at Milton, Wis., Rev. Herring. T. H. S. 102

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In the absence of the exchange editor the duty of writing this column devolves upon other members of the staff. According to the latest reports the regular editor will be with us before another num ber of the Black and Red appears. All the departments will then be edited by their respective editors. Until now very few fall exchanges have been received. Most colleges and schools open very late in September and do not issue a September number. Some of the few journals we have received, however, have proved better than is usual for the first number of a new school year. “The Star She Made” in the October number of the Syracuse Uni versity Herald is an excellent piece of fiction. The Tliielensian has grown since we last saw it. The September cover is very neat. “Sophocles” is a fair article on the life and works of the great Greek tragic poet. The Mirror, published by the associated alumni of the Central High School, Philadelphia, is one of our new exchanges. We hope to receive it regularly. We acknowlege the receipt of the Barrovian our British contem porary. Owing to its late arrival we have not not had time to review it carefully. The article “London to Singapore in 1882” promises to be pleasant reading matter. The Herold, published in the interest of the Holyoke High School, appears with a new design on its cover. “A Miscue” is a fair story. The editor of the athletic column has made a good beginning for the year. The editorials in College Chips are well written. We advise our fellow students to pay particular attention to the one beginning “There is a natural tendency among some persons to be dissatisfied with the work with which they are engaged”. “Our Standard Measures” is by far the most interesting and in structive article in the exchanges thus far received. It is published in the Otterbein Aegis. Students will not regret reading it. M. H. Aerolith was the first exchange to reach us this fall. It is the only college journal on our exchange table which publishes articles in both German and English languages regularly. On the whole the Aerolith is a good paper. The literary department contains essays, stories, and a poem. Many of our exchanges publish only heavy read ing matter or, what is still worse, only fiction. A little of each, with a poem now and then, will always make a paper more pleasing than no variety at all. The High School Argus is one of the best high school papers on our exchange list. While the material is of a lighter strain than is usual in our college exchanges, everything is carefully written. One feels while reading it, that more people than the editor-in-chief take an interest in the publication. The design on the cover is very attractive and every thing is neatly printed. The Argus is a credit to its printer as well as to the school it represents.

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The basket ball team that shall wear the black and red colors this season will unquestionably be strong. All the members of last year’s team are back, except one of the guards. This position is being fought for vigorously by some of the new candidates. Thus far twenty can didates have reported for practice. All of the men that have reported up to date have pla\red before with some team or other, the greatest share having played on some high school team. The competition between men is very keen. They are all trying for a position on the team that shall defend the honor of our college. Keep up this keen competition, make your neighbor work for his posi tion in the team if he wishes to keep it. Ifyou will do this, then will our basket ball season be crowned with success* Don’t be discouraged or dissatisfied if you don’t find yourself on the team the first few days. The team that will represent N. W. U. will not be selected until the first game and theu the best men only shall get into it. Keep up the spirit that you have started the season with and show the stun you are made up of. Although the schedule is not completed, the manager assures us of having some of the strongest teams in the state on his list. As soon as the dates with the various teams are settled, the schedule will be pu oublished. All that remains to make the basket ball season a successful one is that we get the support of the students. Mgr. £

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—One morning Chris was seen early before breakfast (6:30 a. m.) • coming from the country with a spade on his shoulder. Someone re marked that he had probably been digging his grave, while others thought he was digging for some valuable treasures. No explanation can be obtained from Chris, for he. like all wise men, refuses to speak about it. —Prof.: What resembles the earth in wriukling of the surface ? Teddy: Old maids. Prof: Oh, pshaw, I don’t want to know anything about your friends. —Guy and Bill claim to have the only room for — heads. —Teacher: What is the meaning of “ ferocious?” Scholar: In Shakespeare it means “hoggish.” —A dispute has arisen as to who will be general “shagger” this year. There are many candidates in the field of whom Bill W. is the most promising. He has many good qualities, such as a “hiker” walk and lots of lip. For further information apply to Schuft. —Boys, in plane geometry you must do some solid studying. —The last signs of the football season have disappeared. All of the candidates for the team had their hair clipped close to their heads. The reason for having their hair clipped vary and are as follows: L—z says “What shall I have my hair for, if you only have long hair when you play football”. Ernv thinks he looks more like the ideal “chest expander”. Hank A. says: “I had my hair clipped to let the people see my level head”. Cottontop thinks that his hair will change to a darker color after growing. (But won’t he be disappointed). Bill claims he is saving a great amount of energy by not being com pelled to comb his hair. Z—e says: “I look so nice without my hair”. George is positive he saves money. —Zoodie’s dramatic readings are a treat to all. It is only too bad that the German hour doesn’t come oftener. A very disciple of Riotti. —It is something new and modern to see a stubble field when the cotton has been cut. —It is a treat to see Crassus II. now that Crassus has migrated to other worlds, the whole thing in the avoirdupoise line, playing right field in the north end of thee am pus. Crassus II. stands preeminent, an obstacle for a well directed wedge play inside the twenty-five yard Hue, to say nothing of measly little base balls daring to come his way, son orously giving his directions to the other msigificant Lilliputian members of the nine. As the other side is at bat rather much Crassus II. is obliged to stand and wait. As he is methodical and exact as all kings are, he without fail stands on the same place. That place may be shown as a landmark. It would look like the teeing ground on the golf-links, were it not so hollow. While his comates are almost to the chin in weeds, Crassus II, by sheer force of his weight has managed to clear away and hollow out a respectably large plot of ground. —George, since he has newly’ appeared with-a changed phy^siogmony has been thinking seriously of investing in a night-cap. The nights are none too warm and a draft in the class-room is very uncomiortable. This only for a warning that someone may not mistake him some fine night, should he invest, for the ghost of dear grandmama.

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LITERARY

The Final Ideal. “Randy.” [Conclusion.]

“That's what I want to talk to you about,” answered Woodard. “You know that uncle of yours, the political czar of your home county : Well, Governor Roberts owes him a favor or two, and I hear lie’s in the eitv now with the idea of working against me. Now I’ve been holding up your end in your little deal with my friend, the colonel, and the daughter of my friend, the colonel; and if you go and persuade your uncle to change that idea of his before he talks to the governor, my appointment, as well as yours, will be a matter of certainty by to-morrow evening, and we’ll be in a position to give each other the glad hand and exchange congratulations.” The Major smoked vigorously and looked over at Lorimer with a shrewd squint. “Good fellows must help each other, the}' say,” said the latter, and I’m glad of any chance to pay off some of my indebtedness to you, Major. I’ll just hunt up that good uncle of mine at once, before I go to see Mansfield with the dear Katherine this evening. Business be fore pleasure, you know. Well, so long. I’ll let you know the out come by ’phone.” To put on his evening clothes, order a carriage, telephone orders to the florist’s and the box office at the theater, and start off for the hotel where his uncle generally stayed—all in less than half an hour, was quite in keeping with the strenuous life Lorimer had been leading since he had come to the city. He found his uncle delighted to see him, anxious to know how he was getting along, glad to hear that he was succeeding, surprised to hear that he was in any way indebted to

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“that Woodard,” readv, however to listen to any arguments in favor of the individual mentioned, and finally willing to withdraw his opposition to Woodard’s appointment. With this important matter off his mind, Lorimer gave himself over for the rest of the evening to the enjoyment of Shakesperian drama and Katherinean society. “Mr". Lorimer,” said Colonel Van Loan the next afternoon.‘ before you leave I would like to speak to you on a matter of some little im portance. Please be seated ” “You. understand, Mr. Lorimer,” he went on, that it was our intention to establish an eastern branch of our publishing house in order to be better able to compete with the enormous aggregations of capital in our line of business in that part of the country. You are also aware of the fact that we intended to put you in charge of this branch establishment, in view of your literary attainments and your apparent business ability and interest in the success of our organiza tion.”

The colonel spoke as though he were making a very formal speech with a peculiar emphasis on the last word of each sentence. “I say, your apparent ability and interest, Mr. Lorimer,” he con tinued. “X learned to-day from my friend Major Woodard, that you, while under the influence of liquor at your club, made various disclos ures concerning our business affairs in the presence of the representa tive of a rival firm. Without going into details, I will say that you have in this way caused us a loss of at least a hundred thousand dollars. Major Woodard further tells me that you made remarks on the same occasion concerning your relation with my daughter, which not only were false, but which no gentleman would be guilty of. It is needless to say that your connection with this firm is now at an end— not a word, Mr. Lorimer, I beg of you. It is with the greatest effort that I refrain from kicking you into the street. Good day to you, sir.” And Colonel Van Loan? who had worked himself into a tremend ous passion, sank exhausted into a chair, while Lorimer, his lace burning and heart thumping wildly, stumbled through the door. His brain was in a whirl and he walked on without knowing where he was going. His wild anger at Van Loan’s scorching words and at Woodard's lying, cowardly duplicitv lett no room for any defeat or humiliation. It did not occur to him to wonder what Woodard’s motives could have been; if he could only smash the lying villain's face —that would be some satisfaction at least. Wasn’t that his portly frame just ahead, carrying a grip and a gun case ? Yes, he would over take the blackguard, he would demand an explanation, he would— Woodard, the accomplished boxer, left his assailant lying uuconsious on the sidewalk and, slipping through the cr nvd at the depot, boarded a west-bound train. He had his appointment and a political deal in which he, owing to the efforts of Lorimer’s father and uncle, had come out second best four years ago was now avenged. When Lorimer regained conciousness, he was hung in bed, and a physician was standing over him feeling his pulse. How he got there

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he neither knew nor cared. Wild strange thoughts began to surge through his feverish brain as he remembered the happenings of the last two days. He had been in persuit of an ideal that embodied wealth, fame, social prestige, worldly power. He had been madly rushing with multitudes of other children of the world after these little, these trivial things—he, who in the days of his boyhood had been an ardent worshipper of Truth and Beauty and a believer in the supremacy of the purely intellectual,—of Art, of Science, and of Philosophy, over sordid wealth, ephemeral renown, and all the glittering bubbles that form the objects of worldly ambition. How gradually, almost imperacepitibly, he had drifted into this grossly material life since his gradution one short year ago. How strange that mere circumstances and environments cvuld bring about the growth of an ideal that had always seemed so foreign to his nature, and he had been quite successful as the world regards success, until there came a grand failure, into which lie had been led by a selfish, scheming, scoundrelly fellow being. The world and society would laugh at his downfall. Nosympathy for him who did not know his place,—who was working in a field of human endeavor he was never intended for, and who therefore deserved failure. His whole life until now had been a constant growing away from ideals. Adventure, war, literature, philosophy, painting, poetry, athletics, society, finance, and politics had in turn had their attractions for him. It was time for him to settle down to the persuit of some one ideal He would leave the world behind him. He would devote his life to the contemplation of eternal Truth. He would wrestle with the problems that have perplexed mankind since the founding of the universe. He would—and his mind ran on in this strain, until, ment ally exhausted, he fell asleep. “We’d. Gene, old boy,” said Alfred Roseland the next morning, “you’re all right again, are you? A little white and marked up in the face, but you’ll do. Here come out on the porch and let Sis tell you all about it, while I look through the morning papers and see how much of that little fiction I gave the reporters yesterday gotinto print. Lucky I struck you coming from the depot in time to rescue you from the police and the press. As it is they’ll have a big spiel about an un fortunate accident that happened to a friend of mine named Algernon Smithington. Afterwards you’ll have a thousand and one things to explain yourself. He put on his hat and strolled down town leaving Silian Roseland and Lorimer together on the porch. An hour or two later he returned with a number of papers under his arm. “Hello,” he said, staring, “what’s this? Here’s what the press has to say about it, but it seems to me—Well, there’s a crowd.” And he started off. “Hold on there, Al,” called Lorimer after him. “We want you to come and help arrange that trip to Europe, Sis here is going along.” i

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Football is the college man’s sport as baseball is the sport of the average American business man. The game ol lootball is infinitely more interesting than baseball. It takes more courage, more sand, and more knowledge to play a good game ol lootball than it does to plav baseball. As "it was the game of the college man. the bo vs at the N. \V. U. naturally took to playing the game among themselves. Teams were fronted and contests were arranged. But playing among the students alone soon got to be tiresome, it was too monotonous. It was soon seen that there was enough good material on hand for a Varsity team. Interest was gotten up am >ng the fortunates and the faculty was asked for its permission to play foot ball. Things came to a head in this way during the autumn of 1897. It was late in the season at that. It was late in October. We hear “that a new and bright era in athletics was inaugurated. Our faculty eventually took the playing of football into serious consideration. They evidently began to realize the good qualities of the game and, though under severe conditions, sanctioned its playing. Woe to the team if any player sustained in juries. Nevertheless we shout: Long live the faculty !” Can you not see the boys shaking hands and being congratulated on their success? Can you not see them working on the campus? How conscientious they seem. They wish to make up for lost time. It is alrea ly the first of November. But in their enthusiasm they are already the winners of a dozen or more games. On Nov. 10th the first game was played against a local team. The team was victorious by the score of 20 to 0. Notice the importance. “The short practice of our boys prior to the game apparently infused respect for them in to the visitors, so that they agreed upon playing but fifteen minute halves.” The first game had been won.—On Nov. 22nd the Oeonomowoc Alumni came down for a game and were defeated by the score of Id- to 0. “Everybody admits that the playing was the finest ever exhibited at Watertown.” But wh it made the victory doubly a sugar-coated lozenge was the fact that the visitors “had defeated Sacred Heart College the week previous to onr game. Our complete victorv certainly proved a great surprise to themselves and the visitors.”—If the season were only o( lo iger duration! lust imagine having won the two games played and only time enough left to plav" one game.—On Thanksgiving day the Hartland Athletic Association team came over for a little tussle. “They were ihe biggest and heaviest eleven that ever trod the soil of Watertown, their average weight approaching the round number ol 175 pounds. We were defeated, oh woe, by the score of 16 to 10”. But there was still a consolation. “In brief—North western was outweighed. Comparing these giants with our boys and then looking at the final score, foot ball enthusiasts will conclude that the playing ol the visitors was not of a very high order. Our boys, midgets in comparison, encountered the steady plunges of the gaints nobly.”

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It was a successful start. The fan might hope for a successful season. The team was to lose but one man, all others returning to college. When the Rev. J. Ouse reads this brief summary of the first season’s work he will perhaps be more than pleased to remember that he was the first captain of the X. W. U. foot ball squad. The season of 1898 was an eminently successful one for us. The four games played were won. O. Heidtke was captain. For some reason or other it was difficult to get the team under way. But after several challenges had been received the remaining members of the team of’97 determined to reorganize.” After a start had been made, however, there was little trouble in view. On October 8th the team went to Lake Mills to play the High School eleven. The High School did not make a first down throughout the game. The final score was 27 to 0. The features of the game were the long end runs of Capt. Heidtke.”—' On Oct. 15th onr team went to Oconomowoc to play the so-called High School team—there being but one member of the school in the team.” The final score was 21 to 12.—On Oct. 22nd a game was played with Wayland Academy. Short end plays won the game for us, tlie final score being 10 to 0. On Thanksgiving day theenemies of last season—I Iartland Athletics—were beaten by the score of 27 to 0. Can you imagine the work put in for this game? But the revenge was sweet and tin re was plenty of it. “They tried their old tactics of wedges on the line, but struck an impregnable stonewall.” All the games played during the season of ’9S were won. But it wasn’t a season for college foot ball. Wayland Academy was the only school that might lay claim to such a distinction, and they were beaten The other teams played were High School and Athletic teams. The High School team is usually too light and the Athletic is not up to the standard for lack of proper interest. “A game was scheduled for the twelfth of Nov., with Ripon, but after they had been defeated by Wayland. they cancelled our game.” As yet we had not broken into college athletics in the true sense of the word. Progress was notice able. however. Mr. Beuerhaus assisted in the coaching and thereby materially strengthened the team. The Lake Mills High School game again opened the season of *99 and again resulted in a victory by the score of 50 to 0. Later the Carml College team, “met a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Varsity” by the score of 38 to 0. Then came a hard game. Whitewater Normal has always had an enviable reputation in the foot ball world. That our boys, on first entering into the exclusive circle, should lose the game by a score of 11 to 6 is in no sense a disgrace, but a decided honor. Ripon College too was played a tie game, ln-10. When you consider that both these games were phn'ed off the home grounds, the showing made is a very good one. Whitewater and Ripon were both well up in foot ball and were hard to beat. We salute this team. It did its work well. Now we, come to the memorable season of 1900. The prospects for a good team were bright from the start. In Mr. Adolph Pfund

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we had a manager in whom we could place all our confidence. And we weren’t disappointed, as he brought out a fine schedule. A. Sauer wascaptian of this team. Mr. Pfund had looked about for a coach but was unable to find one that could be had and maintained with our meager funds. The average weight of the team, too, was lighter than heretofore. Unfortnnately the game with Lawrence University was the first of the season. More than that the game was played in Appleton. We were trounced to the tune of 37 to 0. No one was seriously hurt. It was weight and coaching against us. Zimowski, then playing right half back, already showed signs of a Varsity player. He carried the ball across the line but the touchdown was not allowed because he stepped slightly out of bounds. Papa Keller played a very good game on defence during this season. Uuiortunatly he put seven men out of the game in this contest. But it was all done by upright, straight toot ball. Those who remember involuntarily laugh at t he grotesqueness of the situation she caused. The Whitewater game proved another Waterloo, we losing the game 31 to 0. Pieper dem onstrated his punting ability in this game. Ripon was downed by a score of 15 to o. Coach Cleary, the first tint’any systematic co idling had been done, undoubtedly helped to bring about this change. In this game Zimowski made one of the most phenomenal goal kicks ever seen here. It was worthy of a Poe. The trick was done from the 35 yard line.—Then the unfortunate news spread that Pieper must dis continue foot ball. That was a blow from which the team did not re cover. Plucky little Luebke played full back in the Oshkosh game. But he was too light for the full position on defense. We lost 15 to 0. In the next game we played the Wavland Academy off their feet. The score does not show the situation as it realy was. Zimowski here made another place kick from the 25 yard line. The season of 1901 was not what might be termed a successful one. More causes than one contributed to making it an oft'season. In the first place there were only four men left of the previous team. And these men played, with one exception, at new positions. J. Sehwendener, captian ot the Rush Medical team, was secured by manager A. Baebenroth for two weeks. The team made decided improvements during this time. Then captain Arnold Schulz so severlv hurt his ankle that he was laid up for the season. W. Sauer was elected captain in his place. We played our first game with Marquette College of Milwau kee, the game resulting in a tie 0 to 0. We lost to Whitewater by the score ol 6 to 0. In this game Pieper made a place kick from the fifty yard line An unqualled feat it certainlv is. Then after the death of our fellow student R. Pieper, the team decided to disband. The season of 1902 was perhaps the most successful season we have had. The return of Zimowski contributed greatly to strengthen the team. Then too the green material of the vear before had begun to learn and know a thing or two about foot ball as it ought to be plaved. The coaching of captain “Zim” helped materially. We easily defeated Milton College by the score of 28 to 0. For the' first time in

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our foot ball history we defeated Whitewater, and that on their own grounds, by the score of 5 to 0. We defeated the Milwaukee Monarehs 28 to 6. We likewise trounced Wavland to the tune of 25 to 0. Ripon College managed to head us through the aid of a fluke touchdown, the score being 12 to 5. We were likewise defeated by Marquette by the score of 28 to 6. That in short is the history of our foot ball teams. How much is left untold ! It is hardly more than a start. We were but just get ting nicely underway when the game was prohibited. We were just beginning to learn the game. Men were coming to our college who knew the game. But fate decreed that we should stop. The question comes up daily for discussion as to who was the best player during the time of this short history. But that is a question not easily answered. So many things come into consideration when the best is to be picked, and every consideration admits of so many possibilities that the undertakingis difficult. The discussion in variably narrows down to three men. Heidthe, Picper and Zimowski. The writer has had the opportunity of seeing the last two in action. Ileidtkc ha* undoubtedly a good reputation for playing on the offense. It seenu'.s that he was good on end runs. Pieper has an enviable repu tation Ibr defensive playing. No one has equaled or nearly equalled him in 11 li > department of the game. He was a perfect machine on the defense, His work in line smashing was often, very often, brilliant. In puntin he usually out-distanced his oponent. Zimowski had per haps the best knowledge of the game. He was a football player by nature. Me always seemed perfectly fit home on the foot ball field. His streik did not equal that of Pieper but he made up for that by unusual grit .and sand. He was actually feared by our opponents. Half of iliv Ripon team, last year,, was constantly found playing against him. Three or four men were sacrificed to keep him out of the way. He was as good in stopping an end play as he was in stoping a plunge through the center Alumni who witnessed games during last season are unanimous in saying that there is a new spirit among the boys. They are not nearly as slow as the}* were. The older teams were played oft their feet at the beginning of the game and then finally settled down togood work. Thar state of affairs was just reversed. The best playing was done in the first half. Witness the Ripon game, the Marquette game, the Whitewater game. At the end of the first half the scores stood 6 to 0, 6 to 5, and “> to 0. While at the end of the second half the scores were 12 to 5, 2S to 6, and 5 to 0. That the other team should outplay our boys in the second half is but a natural outcome of the exciting state of affairs. The opponents invariably enjoyed the teachings of a pro fessional coach and the benefits of a training table. There you are. But be it said that we played the game as it ought to be played. We used no coaching to speak of, and we always played clean ball. There isn’t one of our dear old opponents who will tell us that the North western ever played anything but clean ball. If we did not always win, we had plenty of sport and it was for all of us, a wholesome pastime.

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The company you keep shows your inclination and your character. If you will but tell me and point out to me your companions, it is ten to one that 1 can judgecor rectly of your character. This is nothing new. You know that as well as we. You know very well that your companions help to mould your character. If they are good, if their habits are morally above par you will derive great benefit from such companions. Association is everything. A man whose senses of right and wrong is completely dulled is an anomaly. If then there is in every man a seed or two of good, if that seed is cultivated, a plant will spring out that will be a credit to the possessor and to the community. As there is a grain of good, there is a grain ot the bad. We firmly believe in original sin. Our every day experience teaches us its existence. If then that grain of bad is cultivated, a plant will grow from it that will be a di sgrace to the owner and to the community. And be it known that in the great majority of human beings the original sin seed shows by far the greater aptitude for cultivation. Your Companions.

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Why should we put ourselves in the way of temptation ? My friend, if you have a comrade who is not striving after thegood, the beautiful, who is not striving tor something higher, who is easily satisfied with the dross of this world, if you have such a friend, he is not your friend but your enemy. For he can do you no good, and consequently only harm. Be careful in the choice of your associates. For how often do we see how an innocent, well meaning young person is lead astray b\r evil comp mions. Remember the words of the Bible. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” Net only are you putting your body in dan ger when you travel in bad company but you are jeopardizingyoursoul, the most precious thing you have. Rather select associates who have • an ideal. Find out someone who does not live for this world alone but is counting likewise on the life to come. Then you will be incurring no unnecessary danger. Environment, if it is not everything, is at least a very great factor in the formation of your character. It is an altogether wrong idea of some of us to regard oratory or elocution, the art of vocal expression, as an in ferior study, or as a study on which little or nothing depends. If as much depends on the way in which the oration is delivered as on its con ten is, as good authorties have said, why should there be any hesi tation to try to acquire this art! It is something that is absolutely necessary fur a speaker on any subject whatever. If he is not able to control the attention of his audience or convey to them the real thought and object of his matter, he is the loser. We all have a voice, let us make good use of it. We especially, who in later years intend to occupy the pulpit, should have this desire Nothing is more painful than some pulpit tones. What will all our knowledge amount to, if we lack voice and style of delivery? It is often just for this that suc cess is missing. No effect can be produced. Not everybody has a natural talent for oratory'. And for us who are not favored thus it is at first somewhat despairing, if we hear a well delivered speech, to think of how much is yet to be accomplished. But if we think of the storv of Demosthenes, we must admit that by perseverance we also can develupe into an orator. Where there is a will the* e is a way, and as soon as we are on the right way every earnest attempt will prove a stepping stone to success. First of all overcome the shy and bashful disposition, then in a bold manner with a dauntless spirit give everyone to understand that you are speaking to them, and you will have gained something of what is called eloquence. Or.xtory.

Dissimulation seems to be the stamp of the age as it has been the stamp of ages past. So few are the really sincere that when one does happen across your path he seems an anomaly. “Things are not what they seem to be,” certainly holds good with respect to most people. And yet, do we not all admire a Dissimulation.

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sincere man or woman? What is more exhilarating than the healthy example of an honest, upright and sincere being. The world does not scoff at a truly sincere person. It is quick to recognize a sham, how ever, and to publish tin fact to the world. But how diff rent to the sincere. A sincere worshipper at tne shrine ot God is never made fun of. He is feared. But let the world s e a make believe, and they will hoot at him. Society is a sham. In fact, society is nothing more than a mutual understanding to deceive one another. One person knows that the excuse his friend offers is not true. But he accepts it as such because sometime when he is indisposed he may offer a similar explanation in return. This is of course society looked at in one light, from one side. Sincerity, again is a rara avis. And why is this ? Why does it seem as though it must be so. It is a result of the desire of man to be better than his neighbor. He will do anything to “get ahead” ol the next fellow He will seem as long as it is possible, and then be shown up for what he really is. A cruel state of affairs for an enlightened humanity, truly. You who read, see whether you are guilty ol the manifold little dissimulations which it seems to be man’s nature to practice. Practice a little introspection and know yourself as you really are. Then you will without fail come to the happy conclusion that by being sincere you can alone succeed in your work of life. The Purdue Disaster

The disaster in Indianapolis of the first of this month is still fresh in the memory of our students. The shock was so great that it wiil be sometime before that dreadful event is forgotten. Purdue aside from being a college has no connection with us. But we feel for her nevertheless. Perhaps we have read of train wrecks and have never payed any more attention to them. But tliis terrible disaster, affecting,* as it does, young men and women in the same station oflife with us, is keenly felt. Perhaps it aftects us the more because these same young people were off for a foot ball contest as we might have been, and were cut off in the midst of their inn and jubilation. They had started for Indianapolis confident of victory, for were not more than twenty lieartv, hale, sound, and courageous voung men in the first coach re'adv to defend the honor of Purdue on the gridiron? They were traveling on one of the most reliable railroads in tile country. Everyone was decked out in his holidav dress. It was a gala day for all. Suddenly as they were entering the city, the “special” collided with a coal train on the main track. In a moment there were a dozen or more dead, and fifty per haps mortally wounded. The sturdy young warriors in the first coach were of course the ones to suffer most. The coach was crushed to splinters, and the young men under the debris were either dead or dying. Is not that a terrible, an awful disaster ? We all feel for Purdue in her grief over this unfortunate accident. We feel for the parents who were deprived of a loved one in whom they had put all their hopes. It

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was an u ifortunate, an unnecessary di^a^ter. The b'ame h is not yet been fixed bat an investigation is promised by the ofiicials of the road. Everyone should see to it that it be a thorough investigation. A thing with such terrible consequences should bo deeply looked into. Why should that coal train be on the main track? The crew had orders to look out for regular trains. Why were they not notified of the ap proach of this train ? Jeopardizing the life of 1200 people in this reck less, thoughtless manner is unheard of. Such a train should be especially cared for and guarded. Of what good is this much vaunted block-system if lack of proper care is shown in such a manner! And it should, moreover, be a surprise to all who know the build of a first class coach that that first coach should have splintered* so easily. What kind of a coach it was should be ascertained.—This ought to be a warning to all railroad officials. When it is a weekly occurence that several thousand travel in special trains to witness “championship” football games, special care should be exercised by the officials of the different railroad companies. With this issue we commence the second half of the present volume. Our subscribers have very likely already noted the change in the make-up of the paper. We hope that it will meet their approval. In all our doings we have had in view to best interests of our patrons. Although there has been much to discourage us there has been some encouragement. We hope that this marks the beginning of another step forward. A paper with a subscription list of 350 must needs be run on a very’economical basis. We hope to put out an excellent Christmas number. According to present indications it will surpass all previous issues in quality and quantity. Students, graduates, and members of the Faculty' will con tribute toward making it interesting. Every society of our college will tell of the work it has done and hopes to do.—If you wish to present your friend with a copy' of this issue, we will, on receiving fifteen cents before Dec. 10, mail copies. The Second Half.

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Correspondence from the Seminary Rev. \Yni. Schokneeht, who some time ago resigned as pastor of his congregation to recuperate, if possible, at the home of his parents in Milwaukee, died Saturday, Nov. 7. Re v. Schokneeht was a graduate of N. W. U. 11S99) and also'of our Seminary (1902). He was installed as pastor of the congregation at Morgan, Minn., but on account of illness was not able'to fill his office for more than a year. He had always been hampered by a frail constitution and it is considered a miracle by his friends that he did not break down earlier. His highest aim had always been to be a preacher of the gospel and it is to be esteemed a special grace of God that he died an ordained minister. He was hurried at Milwaukee, Monday Nov. 9. Requiescat in pace. We have been informed of the engagement of Rev. Hugo Fleischfresser (’00) of Sault St. Marie to Miss Treichcl — and also of Rev. Charles Guenther (’00) of San Carlos, Arizona to Miss Dcnningvr of Watertown. Rev. Ik Oehlert of Lake Geneve. Wis., was married to Miss L. Pieper, daughter of Prof. Aug. Pieper, of Wauwatosa, Wis., Nov. -1. Following is a list ot students who have occupied pulpits during the last month. Sept. 13.—A. Hoenecke at Milwaukee, Rev. Baebenroth. Sept. 20,—A. Hoenecke at Green Bay, Rev. Hillemann. Sept. 27,—Theo. Thurow at Root Creek. Oct. 11,—H. Haase at Honia.—A. Hoenecke at Milwaukee, Rev. Taeekel.—A. Sauer at Milwaukee, Rev. Graeber.—A. Stock at Milwau kee, Rev Jenny.—Theo. Thurow at Sun Prairie, Rev. E. Oornfeldt. Oct. IS.—Alb. A rend at Milwaukee, Rev. Sieck.—H. Haase at Mil waukee —John Pieper at Hustisford, Rev. Hut. Oct. 25,—A. Sauer at Milwaukee, Rev. Graeber. Nov. Wm. Malinke at Wauwatosa, Rev. Siegler.—Sal. Jedele at Milwaukee, Rev. Giese. Nov.8,—H. Meyer at Milwaukee, Rev. Ebert. A. Sauer at Black Creek, Rev. Iiinnenthal. T. II. S. 12S

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On Oct. 17 R. O. Buerger, ’02, and A. Herzfeld, formerly a member of the class of 1904, visited friends at our institution. The Rev. Pankow of Waterloo paid his son Adolph a visit on Oct. 20.

Mr. F. Kosanke enjoyed the visit of his brother from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. Mr. 1*. Ochlcrt left lor Milwaukee on Nov. 3 to officiate as best-man at the wedding of his brother the Rev. Oehlert, on Nov. 4. The Messrs. Kosanke also attended this wedding. On N*>v. the Rev. C. Guenther, ’07, was united in the bonds of marri. «.e with Miss O. Dcnninger. The groom is a son of the Rev. Guenther ol Oconoinowoc and is missionary in San Carlos, Ariz., where he has already served for three years. The bride is a former clerk ol i he I-iseher dr\-goods company of this city and resided with her sistc: Mrs. I*. Hass. Her father is the Rev. Denninger of Adrian, Mich. I'i.ey have our best wishes for their future happiness. Tlie number of books in our college library has considerably in creased during the past summer. The number of books entered is now 1022, of wi.ich 10U0 were entered during the last vacation by Prof. J. H.Ott. PI. 1>. Of the latter number 62S columns constitute the in crease fr"in tlie Hoffmann library. At the request of Mrs. Hoffmann these books are kept together, being distinguished from the regular library books by a special label and by a Latin ex libris. Alient libraries we might chronicle the fact that our city of Watertown has, since last March, a public library, which now con tains about 300o books. The money for this library was collected by popular subscriptions, the city paying the running expenses. Prof. j. II. Ott. Ph. D. of our ini>tution is president of the library committee. The library is open to our students and in many respects supplements our library.

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Among our large number of exchatig s The Comenian occupies a very conspicuous place. It is generally full of literary productions of high merits. "The Bottle of Reconciliation” and "Just a little Gab” are very interesting. The editor of the exchange department has suc ceeded in arranging a fine exchange column. The October issue of “Student Life” conies to us in a very attrac tive cover. The paper is fairly well gotton up. "The Totem Pole ot Alaska” gives the reader a fair idea of this old monument of the Indian. In the writeup of their football game with the state university, how ever, we do not cjuite see the necessity of calling it a "deuced” game. The faculty issue of The High School Argus is very good. "The Reading Habit” is an article that we would commend to the perusal of all our students. "An Au turn Reverie” also deserves special mention. The exchange department of this paper is good. The Susquehana is again with us. Exchanges of its kind arc al ways welcome. The September issue contains not only ably written. but also instructive and interesting articles. "A Greeting from Ger many” is a very picturesque description of the excavated city of Pompei.” "Personal Liberty” is also very good. But we are missing the exchange column. The B. H. S. Oracle may think it is up to the standard, but it is not. It contains very little literary reading matter; the greater part of this paper is devoted to locals and society notes. "Christy Swanson” in The Syracuse University Herald gives a person a vivid picture of the horrors of the dreadful prairie fires on the western plains. The Lesbian Herald generally teems with good li*erarv produc tions. It contains a splendid article entitled "The Personality of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” The author’s aim is to prove that woman’s intellectual ability may be placed on a par with that of the male sex; and she succeeds fairly well in proving her point. The person whom she has chosen as an example is certainlv the proper one. The article entitled "Back Again” and "A Well-Planned Scheme” are also worthy of mention. The lines entitled "To Fredrick” and " A Septem ber Evening” give one a fine idea of the beauties of the landscape about Fredrick, Md. We would suggest, however, that the exchange column of this p i per be improved a little. This would materially add to the merits of an otherwise fine college magazine. 130

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Abbey Student is always very interesting. The October issue con tains some very exciting stories as “A Midnight Flight” and “Foiled”. The Lake Breeze certainly contains some contributions which are worthy of note. “Extracts from a Freshman’s Diary” and “A Freshman’s First Nursery” give a vivid picture of the freshman at the high school. The Central Collegian published a good essay on William Cullen Bryant and also on Michael Angelo. Thegreatness of these men is truly pictured. The exchange column is also commendable. Wc are glad to welcome The Spectator from Columbus, Ohio. It is certainly one of our best exchanges, for its literary department as well as the other departments always contain something of interest to everybody. The editorial on “Ragtime Ideals” is very good and timely. The exchange column is always well-edited and interesting.

ATHLETICS

On Saturday October 24 the Prima-class football team defeated the Secunda football team by the score of 17 to 0. Although we are deprived of our college eleven we were here treated to a fair sample of ball. The teams were of course not very well balanced. The Prima team, however, was fortunate in having a veteran back field. The back field played all around their opponents. The Prima goal, in fact, was never in danger. Both lines were weak, and worse than that, tlnv were inexperienced. Wendland, fullback on the Secunda team, had no trouble in breaking through the line, neither had Mueller. In deed, Wendland and Mueller were the whole show on the Secunda.side of the question. What the line lacked in experience they made up in spunk. It did one good to see them charge Little “Johnny” at center would make a terrible lunge at big “Dago,” then Ernst would tumble in with the ball and sweep along for a few yards. Rolling would make a terrible face at Oehlert thinking that that might scare him. But “Oily” was staunch and withstood all the savage attacks of his flaxen-haired opponent successfully. “Bill,” alias Dr. Tink. and “Bruno” had a little love feast By accident, however, Mueller plunged into “Bill” and sent him toppling. He was stretched out on the field of battle. Those trying to icsuscitatc—we remarked rusticate— him say they heard choice expressions from Richard III. and Henry IV. After that he played as well as ever. Ernst, Breutzmann, Sauer, North have had experience «»:i the Varsity and therefore did not find it very difficult to gain consistently. Wendland and Mueller played a fierce game on the defence but could not gain consistently because of lack of unity. Much of coursccannot be expected in such a game but they did not* hold together as well as did the Prima. It was a pleasant hour that we spent on the field, to be sure. Seniors Sophomores 1. Verges. C. Manz. 2. Owen. L G. Rolling 3. Walters. L. T. Eickmann. 4. Whyte. L. E. Steimke. 5. Oehlert. R. G. R. Korn. 6. Ave Lallemand. R. T. A. Sauer. 7. Heilmann. R. E. Fischer. 8. North. Capt. Q. B. Haase. 9. Breutzmann. L. H. Bartz 10. C. Sauer. R. H. M ueller. 11. Ernst. F. B. Capt. Wendland. Referee: Prof. Frank. Umpire: Wojahn. Time keepers: Ablemaim and Von Rohr. Linesmen: Motzkus and A. Korn. 132

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The Editor’s Drawer. Here is a notice that may interest our readers somewhat. We advise a touch or two of liniment for the jaw muscles. Belgrade, No. 4. The new Servian cabinet.has been completed by the new Premier Gengurics and its make-up was announced to-day as follows: Minister of Foreign affairs— \ndraniohloitcz. Minister of Justice—Nik-danikolies. Minister of Finance-—Mradovandyics. Minister of Public Works—Vladatodorovics. Minister of War—Col. Andrejevics. Minister of Commerce—Todorpetkovics. Minister of Public Instruction—Sjubasiijanoviacs. Here is .a little bit of true nonsense. Of all things contained in a good nonsense book this is one of the fairest specimens I might not, if I could; I should not if I might; Vet if I should, I would; And, shoulding, I should quite! I must not yet I may; I can, and still I must; But ah ! I cannot—nay; To must I may not, just! I shall, although I will, But be it understood, If I mav, can, shall—still I might, could, would, or should. Anonymous.

In a recent publication an article appeared on Ibsen. We quote: Ib6en is an iconoclast, a master of irony and satire, a dramatist who sees society from the standpoint of extreme individualism, irritating, at times baffling. Some of his plays, like “Ghosts” for instance, dis close a vein of almost savage satire, he is the most searching and dis tinctive satirical dramatist of our time, but his view of society is partial, and his interpretation of life misleading because of its lack of breadth, sympathy, philosophical insight. That view may be substantiated by reading almost anyrone of his plays. The “Ghosts” is so generally" known that more need not be said about it. ’Hedda Gabler” has been lately brought out by Mrs. Fiske in New York. The critics were unanimous in their views of this playr. One called it, ‘The Case of Neurotic Hedda’. She is all that and more. On reading “Hedda Gabler” you are first surprised, then positively shocked. You cannot see why anything on that order should be produced on the stage by one ofour most prominent actresses.

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It can be of no possible good to anyone. Hedda, the heroine, shows herself viciously selfish, and heartlessly mocking to her husband. She ruins everyone about her. Of what good can it be to offer to the uninitiated—yes, even to the initiated—public a piece so pessemistic in its views of human nature? It can have only a bad effect. No moral is enforced in this play. What is the object of putting it before the public? The stage pretends to exert a good influence. How can that be possible when our best actresses play such dramas? Mr. Winter, ofthe Tribune, conceded to be the ablest of the critics, curtly says:4 ‘The play is a long winded colloquial exposition of disease, and its heroine is an insane cat. No other phrase can as well describe such a monstrous union of vanity and depravity.” Such plays injure the reputation of the stage, the}’ afford no amusement, rather surprise that such stuff is produced in this enlightened age of ours, and finally make one believe that there must be a deplorable lack of good plays that such productions are offered the public.

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both belong to the “hickory nut” gang, they devote much time to their improvement. They charge five cents a word with special rates to students. It is said they intend building an elevated railroad dur ing the course of the year. * We wish you all possible success. ’Twas great to see The couple meet. The lady, she Was first tc greet. “I’m pleased” said she, “To know you ’bit.” “Oh pshaw!” said he, “Don’t mention it.” Who!

’Twas lately ! All the way from Main They came to catch the west bound train They sponged a ride without compunction Quite from the depot to the junction. The Weather—

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Che Black and Red. Volume VII. Watertown, Wisconsin, December, 1903

j LITERARY

Number 7.

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Some Sonnet^ of a Senior.

Ah, this is prime,—to stretch your legs and lie In solid comfort in the Morris chair. You smoke your favorite crooked pipe, and there Is naught to worry you,—no reason why You shouldn’t take it eas}' and live high On dad’s tobacco; you don’t have to care A rap for all the world. You needn’t wear A stand up collar either, and your tie Reposes on the dresser peacefully. Ambition slumbers, you’ve no use for fame. Your only thought is that it’s nice to be At home, where people call you by your name,— Your real given name,—and nothing like Such sobriquets as “Fatty”, “Nick”, or “Ike”. To-night is Christmas eve, I guess there’ll be A Christmas tree to fix up for the boys. Alas, I’m past the age when one enjoys That sort of thing: but when I was a wee And chubby little kid, I guess the tree Looked like a splendid thing to me; of toys I had a score or more, and as for noise, I made enough to beat the roaring sea. I wonder what old Santa has in store For me this year; I hope it’s nothing more Than just a watch or diamond shirtstud; I Don’t want an auto or a yacht,—and why? I couldn’t get off good enough a spiel To show the gratitude I’d really feel.

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“Milly, I come to surprise you. I have disposed of my work in the bank for the day, and we can go to see Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, of which there is such great talk. Arthur will also wish to see it”. With these words Mr. Glade came upon his wife at noon of a warm summer dav. She, evidently, was greatly pleased, as the smile on her face indicated, and little Arthur, a boy of six, favored his father with a kiss. This scene took place in a wealthy city of eastern Nebraska, where the above mentioned show was to exhibit. Accordingly we see this happy trio again after dinner on their way to the showgrounds. Quite evident it was that father and mother were greatly attached to each other and even more so to their little son. Arthur, it must be remarked, was one of those on whom nature had bestowed a marked beauty. He was strong for his age, longcurls of dark hair hung down on his shoulders, his well formed features con tained a pair of shining eyes full of intelligence. He was a bov of whom anyone could be proud, and especially his parents. An immensely large crowd had gathered on the showgrounds. Cries could be heard from every direction. Near one of the booths stood a middle-aged man ofaswarthy complexion. As the Glade family passed him he cast an evil eye on little Arthur, and a close observer could have noticed an evil intention in it. At this moment an accident occured that occasioned a rush in the crowd. A stray horse wildly galloping along had bent its direction toward the people assembled on the grounds and instantly would be upon them. This caused the multitude to disperse This opportunity the man with the swarthy complexion seized to fulfill the desire of his heart and to carry out his ignominious plan. In the turn dt Arthur was for a moment parted from his parents. It was fatal to him. A mantel was thrown over him. he was picked up, clutched in a pair of powerful arms, and borne away uttering shrieks which were, however, overpowered by the clamors of the multitude. He was kidnaped. Near the dim light of a flickering gas flame sat a mother in-? tears, crying to alleviate her sorrowful mood. Imagine \he grief N; this stricken woman. Her hope had been in her child; it was now shattered. She had nurtured her dear son from his birth, in the cradle she had watched over him. But vesterdav she was the proudest mother full of hope and motherlv love, today she sat a mourner with a broken heart seemingly inconsolable. Death could have been no worse. Yet all things have their course. As Niobe had to suffer from the wrath of the gods and was bereaved of her dear ones, so she had to suffer extreme pain. It was Providence that had deemed it necessary that adversity should bring about repentance in the Glade family. They had till now only seen the fortunate side of life, which naturally turned them from God and made them somewhat indifferent, although they had, as-

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children, been instructed in the ways of the Lord. While reflecting, this loomed up before the mother’s eyes; she saw her wrong and the reason for being visited by the hand of God. "Will,” she said sobbing, “have you heard anything of our de ir son?” Mr. Glade had just now entered the room. "No, my dear”, he re turned, “the thief has escaped unmolested. Our efforts to get on his track were great but fruitless. Heaven alone can help. Yet I h -ve come to think that it all was the will of our h -avenly Father”. ‘ O Will, are you also conscious of the fact that we have been going astray?” “Yes, Millv, I have racked my brain and see it all,” he said with a sigh. “But let us not despond, and hope that we shall meet ou-son again, if not in our earthly habitation, then in the heavenly one.” Let us now follow our little captive. He was but a child of six, as has been said, but fully conscious of what had befallen him. Whither he was destined to be taken was not vet revealed to him, what kind of ruffian his captor was also left for time to tell. Until now he had dis played a fatherly kindness, and never left the sleeper that rapidly bore them eastward. “Won’t you eat a little?” he at length said to Arthur. With an excess of grief Arthur answered. “Take me back to my home ” and then sank down on his pillow wetting it with tears. “My dear child,” said Mr. Haggard, for that was his name, “cease cry in ir. I shall take you to a home far away, where all your wishes shall be fulfilled. Where you can get anything obtainable, and if you do what I tell you, you shall sometime be heard of the world over. Then yon can return to your home again.” This world seems like a great lottery where all are destined to choose, but few choose alike, and the lot chosen is uncertain enough taking us from bliss into dispair. Arthur Glade’s life of misery now began. His captor was a man of low character, who obtained hissubsistance by gambling. Suffice it to say that he was one of a gang of outlaws who inhabited the dark recesses of New York. Thither he took Arthur to experiment with him. He had seen much of the world and had read mudi and was fully aware of the fact that, if anyone would turn his wli/. attention on one profession from early youth, he must finally become a master in his art. Of Arthur he would make such a man. A child when young soon forgets offenses and will a vail itself of its surroundings. The first year of absence still had its bitter pangs for Arthur. It was in this year that he often felt as a forlorn being in this wide world. But at the close of the second year of his captivity most of the happy recollections of home, father, and mother were erased from his mind. It was now that Mr. Haggard began to instruct him according to his original intention; that is, he wanted to make a gambler out of him who could not be excelled. He himself was a pro fessional gambler, and so undertook to teach Arthur the art of gambling.

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Eleven years had elapsed since that eventful moment at the Western Show. Arthur was now already seventeen and had given his teacher great satisfaction. He had from the outset loved to play, he was conscious of his ability, he had beaten many a peer, and therefore determined to do still more. His youth, his dark wavy hair, his high forehead, his flashing eye together with his whole bearing made him attractive. It was a pity to see such a boy on the downward road. But this vice had entrapped him hand and foot in its meshes, which day by day grew tighter. “Arthur, a year from to-day will see us in Chicago and you playing against that boaster. What do you think of it?” said Mr. Haggard one day as they were alone in their room with their wine glasses be fore them. “I am confident of winning, and you need not hesitate at all to hazard your whole fortune then and there,” was Arthur’s reply. “I shall do it and know that I shall not be deceived in you,” returned the other with a smile. “There you will make yourself famous.” Arthur then calmly replied, “that has always been my ambition.” The year was nearly at an end when Mr. Haggard suddenly took seriously ill. It was in the next week that they had to be in Chicago. What was to be done? Should Arthur go alone? Until now Mr. Haggard had been continually with him, lor his distrust had not yet completely vanished. But for eight years not a word had been in timated by him or by Arthur regarding his parents. He saw no reason why he should any longer have any fear and so determined that Arthur must go alone. And he went. Let it here be understood that Arthur had for ten years gone by the name of Arthur Jones, a name which he took to be his own. In a train bound eastward sat a young man blowing clouds ol smoke from his mouth. He appeared to be greatly troubled. Now he would sit and stare into empty space, then he would jump up and curse, so that it attracted the attention of all within hearing distance. “Those confounded devils! They downrightly cheated me; maybe because I was so young. But I shall have my revenge. Yet what shall Ido? I just received a message that Mr. Haggard died and we have hardly a red cent left. 0 that I were dead!” This was Arthur, who had met with defeat in Chicago. Upon this an elderly gentlemen approached the raging young man and addressed him thus: “Young man, you seem to be in trouble. Can I do anything for you?” His voice was soft and pathetic, and his dress proclaimed him a minister of the Gospel. •‘You can do nothing f?r me,” said Arthur. “I have been cheated in a game with some gamblers in Chicago. Those scoundrels”—and here again Jollowed an outburst of curses and threats. “You are very young yet to be engaged in such a business,” said the man. “You are right, but it has been my profession ever since a child, and I shall follow it as long as I live; and if I ever meet those fellows again, they shall be astonished, and not in a small degree.”

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“Please sit clown, be calm a few minutes, and listen to me. Young man, }'ou are on a most dangerous road that will lead you to certain destruction. On it you will be irretrievably lost. Therefore take my advice and turn back before it is too late. Before you are completely in the devil’s power and swept away to hell, where all of his children go.” Here Arthur showed signs of impatience. But the speaker re sumed—‘Young man, be patient. Have von not had a loving mother who cared for you in your infancy, and who prayed to God that he might keep you from all harm? How would your mother’s heart bleed il she saw you thus.” Here the train stopped and ourgentleman was obliged to leave, saying. “Please think of what I said to you.” And he did. How will your mother’s heart bleed. These words continually rang through his mind. “My mother? Had I a mother?” He fell back into his seat and stared into space. Then his story'- grad ually dawned upon him. He clearly saw the picture of his mother be fore him, her motherly love beaming from her eves. “0, how could I have forgotten her so completely! It was the gambling craze on which my whole mind was set.” How well he remembered the day that separated him from home and. happiness and made him what he was. And who was to blame? Ah, it was Mr. Haggard. He once more became inflamed as if he intended to punish him for the act of his abduction. “I’ll be revenge’d,” he said, and sprang to his feet; but as soon sat down again, for, as it was, Mr. Haggard was no more among the living. Now he became quiet and calm and solemnly said, “may his remains rest in peace. But my dear parents and home, X must seek them on the western plains. No more of gambling, it has made me wretched.” It was Christmas evening. The merry bells were ringing to all the world “Peace on earth and good will to men!” In the suburbs of a city stood a small house. On coming nearer we see in it a man and woman. From the furniture in the room we can judge that they are poor. Poor in worldlv property they are, but not in the heavenly blessing. A shining Christmas tree is near them. An inscription be neath it reads: “For our lost son Arthur.” They have been reading the Gospel about the shepherds. Can there be any doubt who they are? No. VYe can see before us Mr. and Mrs. Glade, older in years and richer in experience. How happy we should be if Arthur were with us,” said Mrs. Glade sorrowfully. “Dear wife,” her husband returned, “it is too true. Yet we are in one sense of the word happier than we were twelve years ago when little Arthur was still in our midst. Then we only enjoyed worldly pleasure and worldly riches, but through God’s punishment, which robbed us of our son, we are what we are. We can comfort our selves with the thought that, if our son is yet among the living, God will protect him and give him back to us again. Should he, however, be dead, what I firmly believe, God’s grace was sufficient for him.”

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But what makes you so firm in your belief that he is dead,” re plied his wife. “Milly, think of the efforts we exerted to find him. Our fortune has been reduced to a mere pittance, so that we have but scanty means to live on.” At this instance there was a rap at the door. Mr. Glade opened the door and asked a stranger to enter. He was fairly well dressed, but evidently very tired, for he sank into a chair with a deep sigh. ‘‘Who are you, and what can I do for you?” Asked Mr. Glade. “Oh, I am,” began the stranger-----here his eyes fell upon the words below the tree, and he held them there as if riveted. Then he sprang to his feet and exclaimed: “Can it be possible?—Yes, it is too true. It is no dream. Father, mother, behold in me your son.” He fell into their arms, and there he remained for a long time. The}' were all bereft of speech and tears freely' flowed for joy'. Mrs. Glade was the first to break the silence, rejoicing, “a heavenly' Christmas gift.” Long had the clock struck twelve when they were yet listening to-* each other’s stories as they' had occurred in these twelveycars. It was a happy Christmas evening and a happy reunion. E. A. W. ’06. 11

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A Christmas Incident. Christmas is undoubtedly one of the most widely celebrated festi vals of the year. It has become a universal, social holiday for y’oung and old, rich and poor, as no other Christian festival. But how is it that Christmas falls in December? It is not mere chance that Christ mas falls in that month. That Christ was not born in December is almost certain. For at that time they have the height of the rainy season in Judea, and the shepherds could hardly have been watching their flocks in the plains. The most probable cause is this: “The heathen regarded the winter solstice as an important time, for it is then the beginning of the new life and activity of the po wers.” William Watrous, a man of great strengh and ambition, said to his wife, “Louise, i intend to work very hard this year, for I wish to see our children spend a happy Christmas.” But as luck would have it, his plans were foiled. About three weeks before Christmas he fell and broke his leg. ,His kind wife did everything in her power to relieve his pain. One evening, while she was sitting near his bed, he awoke and exclaimed. “Now my dear little children cannot spend a happy Christmas! My plans forChristmas were first-raie, but alas! They were crossed. I know what I shall do. I shall ask my brother Harold to lend me some money. After recovering, I shall work very sedulously and earn money enough to pay my debts.” Louise, his wife, had listened very attentively to whathesaid. She applied herself with the utmostdiligencetoknittingstockings.mittens, and hoods. She sold these and earned some money in that way. Mama,” said Agnes, the youngest daughter of Mr. Watrous, “I broke one of papa’s large cups yesterday, and to keep you from seeing the fragments I threw them away’. I told the little girls about it, and they said that Santa Claus would not call at our house, if I didn’t tell you. I wanted to tell papa about it directly, but I was afraid of being punished. Do you think papa will forgive me if I ask him? I don’t want Santa Claus to miss our house. Please tell papa that I wish to speak to him.” “You were indeed a very naughty, little girl, for not telling papa about it sooner,” replied Mrs. Watrous. “Santa Claus would surely have missed our house, if you hadn’t told me about it.” “Dear papa,” said little Agnes, “won’t you forgive me? I broke one of your large cups yesterday, and threw the fragments away. I should have told yog about it directly, but I was afraid of being punished.” Tears came into Mr. Watrous’s eves as he placed her little head on his shoulder. “ our disobedience grieves papa very much. But what were you looking for when you broke my cup?”

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“Oh, mama had baked some pies and I wanted to taste them,’" replied Agnes. “My dear little girl,” said Mr. Watrous, “I’ll forgive you this time, but mind you that it does not happen again. Now run out and play and do not be naughty again.” At last the long-wished-ior day arrived. Agnes, Lillian, and Gertrude, the thne daughters of Mr. Watrous, were astir very early. They ran hastily into the parlor and were more than surprised to find a beautiful Christmas tree, many presents, and baskets filled with candy and nuts. “Didn’t I tell you that Santa Claus would come!” exclaimed Gertrude. “And he really did come,” ejaculated Lillian. “Mama,” said Agnes, “I am very glad that I told papa about my breaking his cup. If I hadn’t, Santa Claus would surely have missed our hou^e.” The children took a walk after breakfast and met a poor little girl who had not received any presents.” “I wish I had a doll,” said Margaret, the poor girl, “Santa Claus did not call at our house. But he may call this afternoon or this evening.” “I suppose you were a naughty little girl,” said Lillian, “because Santa Claus did not come to your house. My mania told me that Santa Claus goes about the cities, peeping in at the windows of the houses, to see if the children obey their parents. If he notices that any little girl is naughty, he strikes her name from his list.” Lillian, Agnes, and Gertrude returned home, and Gertrude said “Mama, we met a poor little girl who had not received any presents. She looked at our dolls, as though she should like one also.” “Agnes,” said Mrs. Watr'ous; “just run out and ask that girl where she lives.” Mr. and Mrs. Watrous decided to buy a Christmas tree and a few other trifles for Margaret. Mrs. Watrous bought these things, and then drove to Margaret's home. Arriving there, she knocked at the door and a lady, careworn and sickly, answered. “I saw your daughter this morning,” said Mrs. Watrous, “and I have brought her these presents, for she said that she had not received any. Place the Christmas tree and the other presents in the front room. When Margaret comes home, tell her to see what Santa Claus has brought her. Do not forget to tell her to call at mv home this evening for supper.” “I am ver}" thankful to you,” replied Mrs. Jones, the poor lady, “and I shall tell my daughter to call this evening.” Margaret returned home very late in the aiternoon. “O dear,” she exclaimed, “look at all those presents. I thought Santa Claus would miss our house, but he didn’t!”

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“Put on your best clothes,” said Mrs. Jones, “for you are to have supper at Mrs. Watrous’s home to-night Do not forget to thank her for the presents, which she has brought you.” Margaret did as her mother told her. After supper Mrs. Watrous began to get ready to go to church. “Margaret, won’t you come to church with us ?” asked Gertrude. •‘I cannot,” said Margaret, “for I have no good clothes to wear. I should like to go very much.” “Lillian, fetch me some of your dresses. Perhaps they’ll fit Mar garet,” said Mrs. Watrous. “Mama, here is one that just fits her. Now she can come tochurch with us,” said Lillian. “Mrs. Watrous. I wish my mama could come to church with us. Do 3'ou think there is time enough for me together ?” asked Margaret. “I am really ashamed of myself,” said Mrs. Watrous, “for not having thought of that before. You may take the horse and get her.” “Mama, Mrs. Watrous wishes you to come to church with her this evening. There is to be a party at her home after church and Pm sure you will enjoy it.” said Margaret. They attended church and drove to Mrs. Watrous’s home after the services. A large number of her friends had assembled. They had pre sented her with a beautiful armchair. Mr. Watrous was allowed to sit up a short time. But just as the people were in the midst ofagame of billiards, there came a knock at the door. They desisted from play ing, and Mrs. Watrous went to the door. As she opened it, she saw a messenger standing there. lie handed her a message. She opened it hastily and read the following words: “Mr. Jones dead. Killed by falling tree.” Mrs. Jones swooned, striking a chair. As she was raised from the ground, there was an ugly gash in her forehead. The gentlemen carried her into the house and did everything in their power to resuscitate her. It was of no avail, for she expired in a short time. The party broke up and the people returned to their homes.

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The old Sioux reservation was situated on the Minnesota river near the mouth of the Redwood, and extended ten miles along each side of the valley. It was divided into two parts, the upper and lower agencies. The upper agency was situated north of the Minnesota on the Yellow Medicine river, the lower agency lay on the southern bank of the Minnesota. Thirteen miles east of the lower agency lav Fort Ridgely, garrisoned at the time of the outbreak by about thirty men, the rest having been sent south to join the army. There were about three thousand Indians at the reservation. Their chief, Little Crow, lived at the lower agency. The government had given each Indian eighty acres of land, on which the necessary build ings had been erected. Cattle and other farming implements were also supplied the Indians free of charge. The land along the river was one of the most fertile districts in the state. The banks of the Minnesota are bluffy and covered with timber and afford good huntingand secure hiding places. The river and lakes afford excellent fishing. The accounts in respect to the causes of the outbreak differ, The chief cause seems to have been the retention of the money promised the Indians by the treaty of Sioux-des-Travers. Bv this treaty the sum of $275,000 was to be paid the Sioux in cash and the additional sum of $30,0<'0 to be expended in improvements on their farms. The money was to have been paid over in open council, but the Indians claimed that they were never consulted as to the division of it among them. They also claimed that the agent deducted $55,000 by way of percent age and discount, while any resistance to this arrangement on their part would have resulted in putting a stop to the payments altogether. Enraged at this, Little Crow formed a secret society, which he called The Soldiers Lodge, with the ostensible purpose of keeping the whites away from the pay tables, but with the secret purpose of ex terminating the whites. In the first week of August. 1862, this lodge met for the first time and decided to attempt the capture of Fort Ridgely on the next morning. The attempt, however, was foiled by the vigilance of the garrison. On the evening of the 17th of August, 1862, another council was held, and it was decided to begin the mas sacre the next morning at daybreak. The agencies and as many other places as could be reached before daybreak were to be attacked sim ultaneously. The advantage gained by these sudden attacks was to be followed up, and New Ulm, St. Peter, Mankato, and all the other towns along the Minnesota were to be taken and burned. The blow fell while the people at the agencies were eating their breakfast. The surprise was so complete that not a single white escaped, while the Indians did not lose a man. Only forty of those living in the vicinity o: the agencies escaped to Fort Ridgely. Acton and other places near by were attacked at the same time and very few

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escaped the bloodthirsty savages. Some sought the protection of sloughs and ravines, and after subsisting for days on herbs and roots crawled into Ft Ridgely half dead. Little children, hacked and bleed ing, followed some trail of blood into ravines only to die of hunger or be murdered by the Indians as so n as they emerged from their hiding places in search of food. Others were overtaken within sight of the fort and massacred under the eyes of the garrison. At New dm the Sioux were held back until reenforcements arrived from St. Peter and Mankato. Reenforcements soon arrived ac l-'ort Ridgely, and Colonel Sibley was sent to New Ulm with a large detach ment. Captain Grant was sent out with one hundred and fifty men to scout and to bury the dead. While in camp at Birch Coolie, two miles north of the present village of Morton, he was attacked by the main body ol the Indians. They had camped upon a small knoll in the prairie, and the Indians surrounded them and fired on them from the cover of the long grass. The bloodiest battle of the war ensued. The whites withstood the rushes of the savages from the morning of the 2nd of September until the evening of the 3d, when Colonel Sibley's arrival with reenforcements put an end to the conflict. Nearly every white in the party was wounded. The Indians retreated on the arrival of these reenforcements. Coloni 1 Sibley followed them up and on the 22 of September fell in with a band of three hundred of them and de feated.them in a battle at Woodlake, thirty miles west of Birch Coolie. This battle practically put an end to the war, as the Indians were thoroughly discouraged. They had been defeated in the battlesof Birch Coolie and Woodlake. Their plans had failed. Fort Ridgely had re sisted all their attacks, and New Ulm had held out until the arrival of more soldiers from St. Peter and Mankato. After the battle of Woodlake Colonel Sibley sent word into the Sioux camp that, if they would not lay down their arms, he would give no quarter. Within three days over two thousand had surrenderd. Little Crow fled with a few of his most trusted followers. A few months later a settler near Hutchinson saw two Indians eating berries near his farm. He fired at them and succeeded in killing ore of them, while the other escaped. The dead Indian was Little Crow and the one who escaped his son. Thirty-nine of the guilty Indians were hanged at Mankato Decem ber 22, and others were sent to Davenport, Iowa, for imprisonment. The State Historical society has marked the sites ol all the im portant events of the outbreak with granite markers and has erected two costly monuments on the northern edge of the Minnesota valley at Morton. One was erected in commemoration ol the battle of Birch Coolie and those who fell in that battle, and the other in honor ofthose Indians who remained faithful to the whites and helped them through out the war. E. H. ’05.

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the majority of readers description is rather wearying. The clear apprehension of a long description requires a continual strenuous effort of the imagination. And if the author be vague and inaccurate in what he paints the difficulty is doubled, the interest by so much diminished. The portraits of the Sketch Book, however, are excep tions to the generality of descriptions. Irving was an accurate ob server. In reading his sketches we walk by his side, follow his glance, turn our head in the direction of his pointing finger, see those beautiful scenes with a vividness almost approaching reality. He does not weary us by dwelling too long on the scene. At the first intimation of languor lie turns our thoughts into another channel. He has the talent of directing our gaze to the most charming parts of a landscape or other object, so that we are delighted with the view and sometimes loth to turn our eves from it. With him as ourguide we see everything in a poetical light. Indeed, it is not a paradoxical statement if we assert that Irving’s descriptions enliven and freshen the mind instead of wearying it. Who would be sensible of a symptom of weariness in reading the descriptions of rural England? Who is not surprised and delighted with that wonderful sublime description of the organ music in the sketch of Westminster Abbe}' ? The reader almost doubts that he does not hear the music while reading this passage. Although the language and descriptions of the Sketch Book are charming and poetical, there is another quality in the book which a fleets us much more than either of these. It is the noble personality of the author himself. In accompanying him on his rambles we are conscious of conversing with and listening to a man of sterling charac ter. He discovers a most exquisite humor. His view of many things strikes us as exceedingly quaint and sometimes whimsical. Neverdoes he stoop to coarse joking. Never do his sallies give offence. He is not satirical or pessimistic. In reading his sketches we may begin feeling verv downcast. Presently our drawn features will relax, the folds of the forehead vanish, a faint smile ripple over the face gradually broadening into an open smile, such as is infallibly indicative of the best humor. Or the experience may terminate in a hearty burst of laughter. After a short interval our guide relates the sad tale of some inno cent unfortunate being with a pathos that leads us willingly to weep silently with him. We wonder at the depth of his sympathy with the unfortunate. We love him the more for it and resolve to profit by his noble example Then we remember that he too was stricken with sorrow and that he nevertheless preserved his sweet and cheerful tem per and love for his fellow-men. Our love and respect for him are augmented. We feel that we are in the company of a brave and generous soul. He loves all that is good and beautiful. But he also feels burning indignation at all that is hateful, unjust, and mean. He is unsparing in his encomiums on good women. Religion he venerates

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most highly and condemns the scoffer in the most cutting terms. He does not seek after the worst side of everything. On the contrary, he delights in pointing out the good, the beautiful, the charming in all things. We smile at his hobby of lamenting the good old customs of yore. And throughout our conversation with him we never find him egoistic. He always displays modesty and good nature. Who could not enjoy the companionship of such a person ? Intercourse with a character of such fine moral traits, with a mind so broad and intellec tual can not be without its good results. After reading the excellent work the reader feels that the book may be a friend more charming, ennobling, and instructive than a host of luke-warm “friends,” and more keenly productive of genuine enjoyment than a dozen of other ordinary pleasures of life. Geo. W. S.

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Pride and Prejudice. A Review.

This is the age of the novel. Thousands, at the rate of about six a •day, are published annually and are flooding our book market. It is not surprising, then, that the reader who wishes to keep in touch with the literature of his time, will find few spare moments to devote to works of less recent date. This is a circumstance much to be deplored. The novelists of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century have produced works which for elegance and lucidity of style, perfec tion of plot, and treatment of subject matter, are no't only equal but even superior to the majority of our modern so-called clever novels. Among these older novels Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice holds high rank. The cry of modern critics is “Art for art’s sake.” To judge from the books alone, Mrs. Austen can have had no other purpose in writing I’ride .and Prejudice than to produce a piece of art lor the pure love of art. 11 is decidedly not a novel of purpose; she discusses no great problems of human life and affairs to instruct her readers, nor does she aim to any definite moral truth. The truth in the story is the truth of nature which comes to us in a voice of gladness. Pride and Prejudice is a simple little story, but full of mirth and good humor. If the reader seeks recreation from the routine of his daily toils, here is a book which cannot but proveto him alike interesting and amusing. The story is told in a natural and easy-flowing style, which for rhythm and melody surpasess even Addison’s, though perhaps not for elegance. There is that happy mixing of narrative and dialogue which adds a pleasing variety to the whole. Miss Austen never tires the reader with lengthy descriptions; what there is of it, is nearly all inter woven with the narrative. In her descripti ms of nature, in fact, she hardly goes far beyond the words “delightful” and “charming!” To say this is a defect, is to lbrget that the book was written for thesake of the story. In my opinion, there is sufficient description to serve the purpose of a background. As natural and easy as the style is the sequence of the story. By an ingenious turn the author prepares the reader for the subject, arouses his interest, and in his imagination transports him at once in* to the drawing room of Langbourn Place. The action is carried with out fm ther delay from the very first page; every chapter adds new complications, every dialogue throws new light on the characters, un til a plot is built up both complex, perfect, and interesting. Thus the reader’s interest never flags, for the story proceeds without halt; he never becomes impatient, for little or nothing is introduced tor its own sake. If a side issue is brought up, the main plot and characters are never lost entirely out ofsight; besides the minor incidents are presented in such an interesting way that we arc hardly aware of their retarding the main action. And then those digressions and episodes witn w»iicn older novelists taxed the patience of their readers, are happily omitted.

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Equally felicitous and interesting is her method of realism and character sketching. Miss Austen never stops to give us a minute an alvsis of a character; with a few broad strokes she draws the essen tial outlines and leaves it to the reader to fill in the colors from the actions and words of the persons. The descriptions of one character by another, it is true, are often ironical and ialse; yet the intelligent reader never fails to separate the false from the true. Above all Miss Austen has the rare power of thoroughly identifying herself with her character, so that they become entirelv individual; we almost instantly recognize them when we hear them speak. Like Defoe she knew the use of details as a medium of conveying the illusion of realism, but she relieved them of the tedious and refined them with an artistic touch equal to additions. The conversation and actions of the characters at a party or social call are minutely and accurately recorded, but there is no vulgar piling up of details without method as in Defoe’s writings; all is presented in a pleasing variety. Such is Pride and Prejudice in its external make-up. Let us cast a glance at its treatment of subject matter and we shall find it no less excellent. If from a novel we can draw conclusions as to the author’s realm of thought, we may infer that Miss Austen was neither a mora list nor a deep philosophical thinker. Her thoughts dwelt on lighter themes; she delighted in contemplating the humor of common life, and in depicting this lies her strength. Throughout the stor\ the whims and nonsense of her characters constantly bubble to the surface, yet even the trivial and commonplace she contrives to purify of its dross and offer the reader pure gold. Her satire is not without its sting, but it never strikes deep; it is not the satire of a surly pessimist but rather that of a joyful nature, innocently amusing herself and others over the freaks and follies of society. This may let her humor appear less sympathetic yet it never wholly loses its kindly nature. The reader whose thoughts can dwell only on the grave and serious in human life, may not see all the beauties of Pride and Prejudice. “Things now that bear the weighty and serious brow sad, high, and working, full of state and woe, such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow”, are not in the book. The cloud of tragedy is missing, but in stead we have the genial sunshine of comedy. Those who delight to wonder in its pure and exhilarating ravs cannot but eniov every page of the book. * h. A. F. ’01.

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The Present Problem,

To give, or not to give,—that's not the question; But what to give,—aye, that’s the present problem. That generosity's a noble virtue We all acknowledge in the present season And if wc have the necessary where-with, We give and do it freely, and our purses Are rapidly depleted, but we care not. We have the joy of giving and of knowing That giving is more blessed than receiving; But when it comes to picking out a present— A suitable, appropriate, and tasteful, As well as proper present—that’s a matter So difficult that many would be givers Refrain from giving rather than to blunder And rouse within the heart of the recipient Some other feeling than of peace and goodwill, And gratitude to the well meaning giver. A meershaum pipe is bound to go to someone Who always smokes a briar, or who isn’t A user of th : weed at all; and candy Will go to one who has ten other boxes And t ought that you would give her something better. A useful present’s not the best thing either; The chances are it will be prized too highly For daily use, and won’t be even looked at For months and months. Is that appreciation? And things for use or wear upon the person, Like socks and handkerchiefs, neckties, and so forth,— They’re dangerously like necessi ies Of life, which make decidedly poor presents. What would you say7, for instance, to receiving A pair of shoes by mail on Chr.stmas morning? The situation really is perplexing; We want to give some present yet we dare not, For fear of making some mistake, and failing To show our high esteem and true affection For him or her to whom we send the present. Thus do the holidays, though bright and cheerful, Bring with them every year the same old question Of what to give, and we must all acknowledge, The present problem is the present problem.

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The literature of Christmas, taken in the modern sense, is so extensive that few people can pretend to an exhaustive acquaintance with it. What we understand by Christ mas literature is a modern development. For, although there were alwa\rs “Christmas books” and now are as numerous as ever, books under that head contain much that has nothing essentially of Christ mas about them. Books that we now put under that head might as well appear at Easter time or during the fall. The “Christmas book,” as we understand it, is less than a hundred years old. Christmastime marks one of the most important dates in the publisher’s year. Indeed, it marks perhaps the most important date in the literary year This custom may be traced back to its start, to the time when Washington Irving in the year 1820 in his “Sketch Book” started that literary treatment of Christmas which was later developed bv Thackeray and Christmas Books.

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Dickens on the other side of the Atlantic. His description of the oldfashioned Christmas celebration at Bracebridge Hall is a very dclightiul treatment of the subject.—But our present “Christmas Books", by far the greater number of them—one might dare to say allofthem—do not touch upon the subject. It is merely the time when the publisher puts forth his latest and best acquisitions. It is the time when an enormous lot of publishing is done. And that because an interesting, up-to-date, neatlv-bound book, in the mind of the average American, cannot be surpassed as a Christmas gift.—Perhaps it is well that the Christmas jingle has been done-awav with, for in the end were they not only too often morbid, did they not seem forced and seem to have been written nd hoc.

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There has been another great stir in the world.of labor because of the street car strike in Chicago. The strike is again manipulated by the union leaders. When the men walked out, the public was given to understand that the strike was to be a peace ful one. There was to be no mobbing and no unnecessary violence. They were to stand for what was just and let time tell. But on the very first day there was rioting and wrecking. Men were hurt to the number of sixteen. Hundreds of dollars worth of property was des-. troved by the throwing of bricks. But the strikers claimed that it was not of their doing. Others not directly interested, the rabble, had caused the disturbance. But when the city authorities interfered to protect the rolling stock of the company by stationing policemen on the cars, the strikers complained that it was contrary to law, unjust, to protect the stock of the company in that manner. They showed that their claim fora peaceful strike was nothing but a boast. The present method of coercing the employer, of forcing him into conceding to the demands of the union men is no solution of the labor problem. A strike as it is now manipulated is little more than open defiance of the law. We do not stand for capitalism, we wish to see the laboring conditions bettered, but we do not wish to see it done by unlawful means. The demands of the union often border on the ludicrous. They wish to tie their employer hands and feet. Witness the demand of the “closed shop” in the present strike. According to that the employer has no right to employ a man unless the union sees fit. It is impossible fora company to concede to such demands. It would be giving the powers of the employer into the hands of the employed. Were the demands of the men just, we feel certain the car company would do what is right. A person who wishes to be successful in life and to crown Ambition. his career with honor must have ambition. Without it he can not come to the front ranks in life although he may' work under favorable conditions, be the happy possessor of a good character, and have talent. It is through ambition that great men in history have The StriKe.

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arrived at success, have achieved their victories. It is a general saying that a successful man is a child of fortune. But in most cases the successful man cannot attribute his accomplishments to fortune, but to his energy and his ambition. This property is essential not only in public life, but also in everv-dav life, in the life of the student. Henry Ward Beecher says: We must endeavor to inspire every calling in life with an honest ambition for intelligence. The price of ambition are advancement, fame, and honor. To attain these a person must spend many long hours with his book in diligent and thoughtful study. If a student is diligent and puts all his energy into his work, he will ad vance quickly, enjoy his studies, and be honored and respected. At college we lay the foundation on which we build our future, no matter whether we prepare for a certain profession or not. In the motto “Our future is based upon ambition” we are tought how to carry on our work to be successful. Let us, therefore, not leave it to the teachers to admonish us to do our duties, nor let us consider our labor a drudgery, but let us go at it with energy and ambition. It is painful, truly painful, to see how some people * parade their little knowledge. Or. any conceivable subject hinted at, these persons make a score o firrelevant observations. .It arouses pity to see such an unnecessary display of knowledge. Such a person is a burden to everyone about him, he is not wanted for company, for whatever subject may be in discussion, he must monopo lize the conversation, not by making any" fruitful remarks, but by constantly showing up his little experience, nine cases out ol ten not having any connection with the subject in hand. And has it never occurred to yrou that such a person is usually not the happy possessor of positive knowledge? Have you ever brought such a person to give an exact answer to a question ? And have you then not noticed that he is uncomfortable, exceedingly uncomfortable?—If the cap lits you, for there are guilty ones in every" community, we hope that you will take this to heart and make a resolution for the new yrear. What Pater says in regard to style in writing, may do as a whole some piece ot advice for vour conversation “Surplusage! he will dread that, as the runner on his muscles, For in truth all art does but con sist in the removal of surplusage, from the last finish of the gem-en graver blowing away the last particle of invisible dust, back to the earliest divination of the finished work to be, lying somewhere, accord ing to Michelangelo’s faiicv, in the rough-hewn block ofstone.” Or as the great German writer says: The greater part of art lies in the not say ing of things. In simple language, say what you have to say, at the proper time, in the simplest, the most direct and exact manner possible, with no surplusage. For The Pedant

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Mr. H. Grunwald of Fond du Lac was aguestofhis brother Edwin, ’09, at college Nov. 26 and 27. Oswald Oerding, ’02, and Edmund Bliefernicht, ,03, spent several days at their homes in this city. Editor-in-chief Adolph Bacbenroth spent the latter part of the Thanksgiving week at his home in Milwaukee. Christian, ’04. Adolph, ’06, and Edwin Sauer, ’07, celebrated Thanksgiving day at their home in Juneau. Prof. C. Bolle officiated as organist at the dedication of a new pipe organ recently placed into the Lutheran church at Waterloo. Th * Rev. A Bendler, ’77, called at college while in the city between trains. John Abehnann,’05, and Frederick Kammholz, ’07, went to Mil waukee to consult an optician. While in the city they were guests of friends at the Seminary. On Nov. 19 the Rev. Schlei, from Montello spent a short time with his son Gotthold,’08. G. Rickmann, ’08, Theo. Meyer, *09, W. Kumm,’07, W. Berglin,’10, I. Kowalkc, ’09, Theo. Albrecht, ’07, Ed. Hinnenthal, ’07, and W. Zutz, '08, represented N. W. U. at the Kaukauna-Fort Atkins on foot ball game at Fort Atkinson. Arnold Pankow of Milwaukee called on his brother Adolph and friends at college. On Nov. 12 the Rev. Kionka paid his son Herman, ’10, a visit. The Rev. Brockinann again occupies the pulpit in St. Marks church after a three months vacation, during which time Prof. A. F. Ernst conducted services. John Jeske, ’10, and Fredrick Loepert, TO, entertained their broth ers at college on Nov. 14-15. John Manz, *06, spent Sunday Nov. 15, with his parents at Mil waukee. Mr. Wm. Prahl of Milwaukee, formerly a student of our college, called here on Nov. 21. The Rev. W. Huth, ’SI, of Waterloo visited his Alma Mater recently. Ernst Heilmann, ’0b. and VY. Zutz, ’08, were guests of Adolph Pankow, ’09, at Waterloo on Sunday, Nov. 22. S

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Louis Vick of Columbus called on his friend Otto Koch, ’09, on Nov. V8. Mr. Kowalke, a Sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, payed his brother Irving, ’08, a visit. Paul Horn,'08, left for his home in La Crosse on Nov. 25 and re turned on Nov. 30. Cards have been received, announcing that Prof, and Mrs.J. Meyer will be at home to their friends after Dec. 15 at New Ulm, Minn. The wedding was celebrated on Nov. 25 at Beaver Dam. We extend our heariy congratulations. Those of the boys who reside here at college and spent Thanks giving day at school were well provided for as regards the wants of the inner man. The stewardess had made a special effort and all sorts of good things were served. It is needless to say that full justice was done to everything. We extend our hearty thanks to those through whose generosity the bountiful meals were made possible. Prof. Otto Ho}Ter attended the funeral of the Rev. A. Opitz at Milwaukee, Dec. 2. Ewald Macheil, Ac. ’00, who is now employed in Milwaukee, wit nessed the Coonie-Nortlnvestern basket-ball game, Nov. 25. Marcus Notz, formerly a member of the class of 1903, now a Junior at the University of Wis., spent the Thanksgiving recess at his home in this city. The skating season has begun early this year. Many of the students have enjoA’ed excellent skating as early as Nov. 23-24. During the last fewr weeks an opportunity was given our students to attend a series of historical lectures given by Mr. Clias. W. Seymour. The subjects of the lectures were: Julius Caeser, Nov. 5; Charlemagne, Nov. 12; Lorenzo de Medici, Nov. 19; Catherine II. of Russia, Dec. 3. They all proved interesting and instructive. The last on the list will be on Marie Antoinette and will be held on Dec. 10.

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Ein fruher Tod ereilte am 3 Juli den jugendlichen Alumnus Ger hard Sprengling, der erst imjahre 190J aus unserm Anstaltsverbande entlassen wurde. — Seine letzten Tage durfte er bei der lieben Mutter und seinem Bruder in Stillwater, Minnesota, verleben, nachdem er krankhcitshalber das Studium der Theologie hatte unterbrechen miissen. Nach einer Trauerfeier in Stillwater, die Herr Pastor Schrodel von St. Paul leitete, wurde am 6. Juli die Leiehe nach Fort Atkinson tibergefuhrt, um an der Seite des Vaters bestattet zu werden. — Hier fand am Nachmittage des 7. Juli die Haupttrauerfeier statt, wobei Herr Dr. Hdneeke und Herr Professor Ernst am Sarge des so fruh abgerufenen Schulers seiner gedachten und die schwergepriiften Angehorigen auf den rechten Christentrost hinwiesen, Die Balire trugen seine Mitsehiiler A. Ernst, B. Schliiter, 0. Hoyer, O. Heidtke, Hermann North, Henry North. *

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As there are but a few events of more than passing interest to be recorded this month we shall dwell a little upon the life, work, and success in general of the first term at the end ol which we have now arrived. The present term was usheied in Sept. S, by the 25 anni versary oi the birthday of our Seminary and will closeprobably on the IS or 22 of this month.—Speaking genei ally, we can say that there have been during the past months comparatively less calls for students to preach or to take charge of congregations, a state of affairs for which we can only be thankful, because there is nothing that tends nioie to break up the routine of our study than to be obliged to do ministerial work which is really bey ond our present duties.—Happily the progress of our work has not been hampered by sickness or acci dents of an}r kind either on part of the faculty oronpartofthestudents. —A new arrangement of our recitations has proved itself very satis factory. Nearly all the recitations take place during the forenoon, thus leaving the entire afternoon to “bucking” and private work.— The officers of the student body’ for the past term have been as follows: Pres., Wm. Mahnke; Vice-pres , Otto Keller; Sec., Tlieo. Tluirow; Treas., Harry’ Luebke.—Mr. Kron, formerly a resident of Milwaukee, has filled the vacancy left by’ Mr. Adam Benkcr as steward and has taken charge of his position as a competent and able man.—Our student choir, though not quite up to the standard ot last year, is nevertheless in first class condition, and under the instruction of Prof. Salbach and direction of Mr. Herm Meyer, much progress is still hoped for. The choir sang at the church of Rev. Jenny on Sunday, Nov. 27, and also at the funeral of Rev. Schoknecht, Nov. 9, and of Mrs. Rev. Thurow, Nov. 18. Quite a number of members of our choir are also members of the Milwaukee a eapella choir and have taken active part in the first concert of the season, Nov. 23.—Sports? No, we have none. Baseball has proved a failure and we can boast of nothing but a few tennis enthusiasts and a few ardent supporters of the good old fashioned game of horseshoe. Skating of course is a recreation in which the greater part of us indulge.

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Mr. Otto Keller was in charge of the congregations of Rev. G. Thurow of North LaCrosse and Onalaska during Thanksgiving week and preached at these places Nov. 22 and 26.

Following is a list of students who have occupied pulpits in Mil waukee and vicinity during the last month. Nov. 15,—Wm. Mahnke at Root Creek (Rev. Thurow)—H. Moussa at Milwaukee (Rev. Seick). Nov. 22,—Wm. Mahnke at Milwaukee (Rev. Hofifm&n).—H. Moussa at Milwaukee (Rev. Bendler). Nov. 29,—H. Haase at Kenosha (Rev. Buenger).

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The lastselioidyear was a very successful one for the musical societies at college from the artistic as well as the financial point of view. I he concert given on the 29 of April was a pleasing revelation to the many friends of Northwestern who attended it. Especially the fair showing of the choir was unexpected, since work of this kind had never been successful here before. Friends of the institution will undoubtedly re gret to learn that vocal instruction is not being given this year, We had hoped to have this valuable training in the regular college eou rse this fall but as yet nothing has been done. We are confident, however, that voice culture will again be taken up as soon as means are pro vided to secure the services of a proficient director. Since the choir was out of existence the members of the band and orchestra naturally detenninded at the beginning of the school year to get as much musical training as possible from these societies. As regards membership the orchestra was remarkably fortunate. Though it lost several valuable members by graduation last spring enough material was left to form almost a complete orchestra. Only two positions were left to be filled, namely cornet and bass. No dilliculty was experienced in securing a cornetist. No one could be found, how ever, sufficiently far advanced to take charge of the bass viol so piano was substituted. The organization was then ready for another year of hard practice. But everyone felt that something was lacking. We looked in vain for Prof W. F. Weimar who for many years had been ourfaithful and efficient director. While he was a member of the faculty here. Prof. Weimar always did his utmost to promote music at college, often sacrificing his own interests to those of some college musical society. Our best wishes go with him to his fir away home. Prof. Herman Frank, who took great interest in band and orches tra work during his college days, consented to direct the orchestra during the present year. A number of new pieces were bought includ ing a few selections from the modern operas. The latter were played almost exclusively for the first two months. After that the more beneficial study of classical music wasbegun. While great progress has been made we can not as vet judge of the final success of the organiza tion. If every member puts his shoulder to the wheel good results cannot fail to come. Since cold weather set in the orchestra has been hampered to no

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small extent by the lack of a suitable practice room. It proved to be too expensive to heat the chapel for the serai weekly reharsalsand there is no piano in the assembly room, the only other available place. As soon as the bass viol player is sufficiently advanced to attend the reharsals this difficulty will of course be done away with. The membership of the orchestra is as follows: Miss Dora Bittner and Ernst Dornfeld, 1 violin; Ernst Heilmann, Adolph Saur, John Whyte, and Paul Zeisler, 2 violin; Ralph Owen, viola; Christian Saur, cello; Alex Sitz, flute; Fred Kosanke, clarinet; Paul Horn, cornet; Paul Oehlcrt, trombone; Edwin Saur, piano; Prof. Herman Frank,director.

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No society or organization at our inslutuion can boast of more success and prosperity than our college band. At the beginning of the school year the prospects for a good band were not very bright, as five of our best players, Gilbert Diestler, solo cornet, Martin Raasch bass, Leo Kirst Fiench horn, Ed. Bliefernicht bass drum, and W. Luebky snare drum, leit us. Especially noticeable was the loss o 1 our solo cornetist Gilbert Diestler who is now playing with the University band at Madison. But in spite of these inconve-niencies the band has made great progress during the last few months. All vacancies have been fllled and we have again reached our old standard. We are very lucky to have with us our Professor H. A. Frank who was leader and solo cornetist of our band several years ago. He acted as director until the end of last month when Professor Bolle, under whose able direction the band flourished last year, again took charge of the baton. Two rehearsals are held weekly, but as a number of new members were admitted to the band it was found necessary to devote several extra hours to practice. Ernst Wendland, president of the band, took charge of these extra practice meetings and owing to his painstaking the younger members are advancing rapidly. It is the conscientious practice of every individual on which the suc cess of our band depends. Of this the members are fully aware, and much of their “force time” is spent in acquiring proficiency on their instruments. But very much of our success depends also on the quality of the instruments that are used. Several years ago the instruments were all in a sad condition. It was found necessary to buy some new ones. The “Conn” instruments were introduced. As these proved to be the best to be found, we decided to do away with the old instruments as

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rapidly as possible, and replaced them with “Conn” make. At present we have twelve instruments bearing the trade-mark of Conn. The cornet, clarinet, and trombone sections consist mostly of this make. Of course, the band found itself greatly in debt after making these purchases. With the kind support of the students and with the pro ceeds of a series of concerts given during last year the expenses were easilv defrayed. With diligent and conscientious practice we hope to give a number of concerts this year also. May they be accompanied with the same success as those of last year. The instrumentation of our band is as follows: Solo cornet, Prof. H. Frank, and P. Horn; First cornet, F. Sprehn and T. Ableman; second cornet, P. Zeisler and H. Anger; third cornet, Yic. Scliroeder and A. Zuelke; first clarinet, F. Kosankeand E.Dornfeld; second clarinet, W. Eggert, and A. Bramer; E flat clarinet, G. Schlei; Piccolo A. Sitz; baritone, E. A. Wendland; bass. G. Westerin’)use; first tenor, M. Wagner; second tenor, P. Schmieder; first trombone, P. Oelilert and Kiel; second trombone, B. Garbers and E. Grunwahl; first alto, P. Limpert; second alto, E. Kirst; snare drum, T. Albrecht and bass drum W. Keturakat

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Until now nothing has appeared in the columns ofour paper about our military company. There is no reason, however, that the readers should believe the company has been given up. On the contrary, the company has made very good progress. This is especially true of the recruits, who have already joined the ranks. The recruits learned the different commands faster than ever before, and they do them exactly and with a snap, which is all that may be expected. They were first instructed in drill without arms and after that the manual of arms was taught them; this thev learned very rapidly. After this march ing by twos and fours was gone through with. They have been drill ing with the regulars for two months. At present all the commands thus far explained are being reviewed. For over a month platoon drill has taken the place of company drill. The first platoon under Lieu tenant C. Sauer drills every Monday and Thursday evening the second platoon under Lieutenant J. Abclmann drills every Tuesday and Fri day evening, while the whole company drills everyWednesday evening. Compared with former years the company this year is probably" not large. At the beginning of the school year the prospects for a good company were not at all bright, but through the efforts of all the officers a goodly number of recruits was secured, the majority of them

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having: joined the company. A few weeks ago eight more recruits started drill and they will be with the regulars very soon. Five squads minus three men is the size of the company at present, with out counting those eight, who have started drill some time ago. Counting those we have nearly six squads. Bv the time this goes to press the “setting up” exercises will be started. Alter these have been explained the bayonet erercises will be explained. The first shipment of uniforms has been sent for and is ex pected to be here soon. As in former years, the Pettibone Co. of Cin cinnati furnishes the uniforms. The officers of tli * society for the coming term are: president C. Sauer; vice president H. YYovahn; secretary R. Breutzinann; treasurer J. Abehnann. The officers of rank are: captain Reinhold Breutzinann; first lieutenant Christian Sauer; second lieutenant John Abelmann; first sergeant Robert A ve-Lallemaud; second sergeant Adolf Sauer; third sergeant Henry YV'.'yahn; fourth sergeant and quartermaster Edward Hinncnthal; fifth sergeant and assistant quartermaster Henry Diehl; sixth sergeant and color bearer Fred Stern; corporals Frank Fisher, Arnold Eickmann, Edwin Sauer, Max Hensel. i

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—A bit of Tuff’s logic: Dr. Fardles has a large vocabulary. A diction ary lias a large vocabulary. Therefore Dr. Fardles is a dictionary. But Dr. Fardles walks; therefore he is a walking dictionary. —Things we would like to know: Why Oily has at last invested in lower collars. Mow it happened that Babe caught on. Why Ruts chums with Cosy. What kind of toothbrush Porter uses. Why Freeze always has the key with him. —Sudieschreibt seine Dispositionen aufdiinnes Papier, damitsiedurchsichtig werden. —Prof.: What is a mark of surprise? Pupil: A wide-open mouth. —For quotations from Caesar apply to Russico. —A bit of choice fiction by Sprumps: The happy fall with its. “withered beauties” and dying oaktrees has again blessed us with its pleasures. The treetoads, the myrtles, and the oakhorns begin to howl and dance to the tune of “Hiawatha.” The earth creeps into its white nightgown and sleeps until that dav when is again awakened by the drum of the bee. — French v is talking of all the presents he is expectingfor Christmas. He says Santa Claus will be good to him this year. —Septimaner: A—sent me down to tell you that he wants to repair his Hebrew with you. —Extracts from Poor Richard’s Alamanac revised by Sprumps: Early to bed and late to rise, makes a good dreamer with Goo Goo Eyes. Late to bed and early to rise, makes a philosopher with sleepy ejres. Late to bed and late to rise, makes a man lazy until he dies. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. —Piscator and his master came from town one day. They saw a sack stand against Dr. Tink’s neighbor’s fence. The motion was made, seconded, and carried that it contained apples. They seized the sack and made for the college at top speed. After getting their breath, they opened the sack and found not apples but rutabagas. —It was six o'clock one morning. The bell sent its welcome sounds into the ears of the refreshed sleepers. Two friends (students) sleptside by side. One of them arising, waked the other and said: “It’s time to get up.” The reply was “I’ll roll around in bed awhileyet, fetch my breakfast, don’t forget!—Breakfast over. The lazy friend demanded his breakfast of his punctual friend. The latter replied: “Why, you’ve had your breakfast. You took several rolls in bed this morning atsix o’clock. —Sometime ago the annual reorganization of the smokers took place

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in the smoking parlors of the dormitory. The prospects for a large club are very bright. The membership is larger than ever before, the number being twenty three. The following officers were elected: Pre sident, Cheesy; vice president, Frenchy; secretary, Gummy; treasurer, Jack; generafshagger, Butch; and “last but not least” spittoon cleaner Snorry. It was decided to have another meeting in the near future, at which an interesting program will be rendered, Sprumps having been appointed master of ceremonies. Among the rules governing the society the following were adopted: All members must be over eighteen years of age. Every member must be the owner of at least one pipe. Isliggerhair and Growler are the only kinds of tobacco to be used. “No other than “eight day” matches are to be used. All members mint be present at the regular meetings. Anybodywbeing absent without permis sion of the pn sident will be punished with a fine, the amount oi which is determined by theprcs;dent. All numbers must have their own tobacco. No cigars are to be smoked except by the officers. Members not living up to these rules will be punished by paying a fine not smaller than six packages of Niggerhair and not larger than twelve packages of Growler. After the adoption of the above named rules the meeting was adjourned. —A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the readers.

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Watertown, Wisconsin, January, 1904.

LITERARY

Number 8.

My favorite Storyteller and his Book.

Others may assert the claims of an Irving or a Dickens or a Defoe as their favorite story-teller, but I have been impressed most by a glowingfanta^v from bleak gloomy New England,—that of Hawthorne. Some may like Defoe for the realistic nianne? in which he tells his tale, the art with which lie weaves in details that lend it flesh and blood, makes out <>l a hypothetical case tangible reality, and gives us the impression that we are reading history. Hawthorne’s charm is of an entirely different order. It is characteristically Hawthorncan and in the “Mosses from an Old Manse” it appears at its best. It seems to be the fruit of a pensive, imaginative humor, playing like a fountain that does not dazzle the eye by glistening in the sunshine but dance like a sprite in the silvery moonlight. He docs not daze by bright* cold wit, nor doe- he offend the sensibilities by humor that istooovert and broad, but offers you delicately conceived mirth that often pro vokes genial laughter, though more often a feeling of regret, an indes* cribable plcasurepain. A feeling that attunes our spirits more fully to Hawthorne’s His treatment always showed a mixture of brightness, and gloom, a rich Oriental imagination tinged bv the strict, cheerless code of Puritanism, which he never could shake off. Puritanism rested on him like a shadow and haunted him like a ghost, “melancholy had marked him for her own.” Hence his stories work on our sensibilities. An ecstatic pleasure akin to sadness fills us. Enough to saj', that Hawthorne lets us indulge in the luxury of feeling sad. He that is in quest of startling rapidity of action in a narrative,— such as would take his breath away, will find little to his taste. If we wish to enjoy the beauties of Hawthorne, we must commit ourselves wholly to his guidance and be in no haste. He leads us far from the highway by apparently no path whatever, and at every turn shows us something new and wonderful or shows us the old scenes in entirely different lights.

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Thus in the introduction to the “Mosses” we meander through the orchard, the brake and forest, cross the lazy stream, and finally return up the avenue and enter the mossgrown Old Manse, which has become venerable through the long line of clergymen that occupied it. Arrived in his cozy studv, he makes us feel at home and offers us the Mosses, a collection of jewels of inestimable worth. His tales are all aerial crea tures children of fanev. But our imagination must meet the author half-wav. We do not stop to ask: “Arc they probable?” “Are they possible?” We behold their beauty and are captivated by theircharms. Willingly we give ourselves up to the pleasant illusion that they im-

Pai Two of the most touching are “The Birthmark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Both Avlmer and Rappaccini attempt the superhuman in science. Aylmer, who delved deeply in Nature’s secrets, married a beautiful voung girl who falls short of angelic perfection only in that she heirs on her cheek a tiny birthmark in the shape of a hand. To her husband’s loftv, spiritual aspirations it implies that she is heir to all the ills and failings of the flesh, that she was born of the clay. The thought tortured him. He resolved to remove the blemish. He brought the combined influence of all his science to bear and finally administered a concoction that was too powerful for the il'-fated sign and seemed to crown his efforts with success. But when it faded from her cheek, he saw her precious life fade with it. Rappaccini, a distinguished pro fessor of medicine at the University of Padua, L so possessed bv a zeal for science that he does not flinch tosacrifice his daughter in its interest. He is moved by no human affection, all his passions are converted into a cold scientific interest. Being deeply skilled in the lore of poisonous plants, he instilled poison into his daughter’s nature, so that it became her sustenance and aliment. She grew up beautiful beyond comparison, but her breath withered the innocent flowers, her touch was poisonous and her embrace—death! Her father had succeeded in transmuting and perverting her physical nature, but not her pure angelic soul. But when he had almost succeeded in similarly metamorphosing a young medical student whom she loved with all the fervor of her lonely soul, Dr. Rappaccini was frustrated by the young man’s friend whoadministeied a powerful antidote that was to restore her to a normal conditjon. But. the revolution which resulted in her nature was too great loi her trad body, and her spirit leaving its shattered house of clay, took its flight upward. We are moved bv deep sympathy for the beautiful but sad hopeless Beatrice. Avlnw’s failure is symbolic of the an inS?g ab?.° u*f perfection in a world where nothing is perfect veno-eancp ..v?? 'Vf 1 Mature s wol'k- In Rappaccini’s tale we see the vengeance exacted for a disregard of natural ties. du Miroir hishn^innr ®V "nd the (lescriPtions of his friend Monsieur . noir his imaginative powers appear in the brightest larb. The

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xjortraval of the frequenters of the Hall,—the great poets and the lesser ones, the men in advance of their age, finally the men with one idea, the Utopian theorists, the perpetual motion cranks, and their whole brotherhood—is delightful. With what consummate art he informs us of the antics of his constant companion Miroir and how gravely he cites cases of conjuring ag nnst him. But as the stories draw to a close he grows meditative, and more serious thoughts, sadly beautiful, pre dominate. The Celestial Railroad is a bit of pleasantry suggested by Bunyon. It connects the City of Destruction with Celestial City, aiid Christian’s wearv pilgrimage can now be made with no greater inconvenience than a little smoke or jolting. A causeway has been constructed through the Slough of Despondency, the Hill of Difficulty has been tunnelled, and the excavated material has gone to fill up the Valiev of Humiliation. With Apollyon, once the enemy of pilgrims but since re conciled to the custom, as conductor the tourists cover as great a distance in ten minutes as simple Christian did in a day. The author recounts his adventures in the City of Vanitv and the doings of Vanity Bair. It affords rare pleasure to learn what has been the subsequent lot of our old acquaintance in Pilgrims Progress The tale is a keen satire on the cant and worldliness in regard to religion that pervades modern society. The Transcendentalism of his contemporaries is ridi culed, when he represents it as a giant that has superseded the cruel monsters Be pc and Pagan, whose influence for good appears in a specious light. Mother Rigby’s vivified scarecrow Feathertop, whose life-breath depended on an old pipe, is very amusing and highly’edifying. Though he has a pumpkin head, she says, he has as much brain as many” another, and sends him out to seek his fortune His apparel assumes a gorgeous appearance, and arrived in Salem, he is thought to be a dis tinguished member of a foreign nobility, perhaps a knight of the Golden Fleece or a scion of some royal family. He is graciously' received by justice Goodkin. who introduces him to his daughter. She was visibly captivated by his grand, noble port,—so distingue—and it needed no long siege on his part, before she capitulated. Their courtship was. speeding well, when, alas, glancing at a mirror that could not flatter he saw himself as he really was. With a groan of despair he hurried away, perchance for the first time since mortal life began, says the narrator, had an illusion seen and recognized itself for what it wens. The fable reveals the author’s contempt for the sordid spirit that grovels in the mire before outward appearance, wealth, and rank, but utterly disregards nobleness of heart and intellect. Hawthorne says that in the summer we are to live for the present, free the heart of its burdens, and think only of the joy' of living. Such an ideal June day’ it was, I trow, when, with his heart full of sunshine,

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he wrote the Select Party. It is the exuberant product of a happy disposition and a fancy roaming unconfined. The man ol Fancy wel comes us to his mausion in the land of Nowhere and entertains us with a motley coni pan v indeed. His lament for the passing of the open fire place is replete wit h quaint humor and happy thoughts. He rails at the modern stove with an indignation that is half serious half comic. As the in tensest light is accompanied by the deepest shadow, so the brightness of these tales is followed by the deepest gloom in the story of young Goodman Brown. Its source is the superstition, once ' wide-spread in New England that certain old women were in league with Satan and that they periodically rode through midair to a nocturnal council. Sleeping out in the forest one night, lie dreamed that he was attending such a diabolic consistory. There he found his pious lather and grandfather, his saintly pastor, the venerable old deacon, and the devout old woman that had caught him hiscatechism, mingl ing with unrepentant sinners, scoffers, and women of ill repute. Worst oi all he saw his innocent young wife Faith led forward to be initiated along with him. The words of the priest of Evil makes the blood freeze and causes one to grow sick at heart. Goodman Brown returned home a morose, darkly—brooding sceptic, whose trust in God and belief in the honesty of men were severely shaken, a man to whom the sweet solace of religion was a mockery. “They carved no hopeful verse on his tombstone; his dying hour was gloom.” Why Hawthorne should write so dark and sad a tale, without a rav of hope or faith, I can find no reason except that it illustrates the periods of gloom and despondency which often came over him a mor bid propensity to meditate on sin and sorrow, inherited from genera tions of inbread Puritanism. His own normal attitude toward re ligion was quite different, as can be seen from “Buds and Birds-Yoices,” a rapturous piece of poetry in prose on the beauties of Spring and the kindness of Providence. The Procession of Life is marked bv vivid imagination, but con ceived in a sad, melancholy reverie. He pictures humanity as an end less procession and groups men in companies but not according to the fortuitous classification of birth, station, or wealth. The standards beneath which they gather are spiritual and intellectual superiority, grief and sorrow, sin, good, love. Every soul finds its kindred under one or the other. At last death claims all under his banner. He is the grand-marshall that heads the procession, levelling all into one great brotherhood. I here is something inexpressibly sad in this tale, which affects us like a song in a minor key, the strains ot a requiem pouring forth from the musings of a sorrow-stricken heart. Yet he is not without hope. “Death will not always lead us onward into darkness, for when we •have left the world he will desert us at the wayside, and God will lead us to our destined goal.”

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Reflecting on his tales, we realize that here is a soul, iipbued. with wonderful resources of imagination, stirred by .great thoughts, filled with stroiig emotions, and this it is that-makes the ‘ Mosses, from an Old Manse” a book ever to be read with new pleasure, never rofail t o. impart new truths, the source of fruitful and the inspiration for a noble life. 0. ’(,5 ** & #

An Adventure of John Meads.

In the year 1897, on the 26 of January, Mr. Meads, of the city o Clark, in the state of Michigan, had a very urgent message that he wanted to send to his friend Mr. Winterbottom, who lived six miles out in the country. He ashed his eldest son if he wouldn’t mind walk ing out to Mr. Winterbottom with the message. His son. John by name, consented. Taking the envelope containing the message he passed it into his overcoat pocket, and drawing his cap closely over his cars, and adjusting his gloves, stepped out of the house to carry out his father’s request. It was a cold afternoon with snow upon the ground. The weather was intensely cold; the wind was intolerably keen and piercing and blew directly into his face. While lie was trodding through the snow, which had fallen the preceding night and greatly impeded his progress, his attention was directed to a dense gathering of clouds in the north west, which foreboded a severe snow-storm. The clouds came hurry ing on, constantly becoming darker as they advanced; and he soon found himself in a tremendous snow-storm, in which the flakesofsnow were coming down last and thick. Drawing his cloak closer about himself and thrusting his head forward, he bade defiance to5 the roar .i ing, hurling, blinding snow squalls. Twilight had already closed in when John entered the farm yard gate of his father’s friend, his feet almost too tired to carry him any farther. Arriving at the house he rapped, and the door was at once opened by Mr. Winterbottom, who had seen him entering the farm yard. John was not slow in entering, for lie was half frozen and shivered from head to foot. Mr. Winterbottom assisted him in divest ing himself of his cloak and cap, placed a huge armchair near the fireside, and requested Master John to warm himself, which lie did with great delight. Having placed himself in the armchair, lie handed Mr. Winterbottom the message of his father. After Mr. Winterbottom had read it, he conversed with John and asked him maiiy questions •'about things concerning, flu? city.. When supper was ready Mrs. i

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Winterbottom requested John to seat himself at the table. John was not slow in fullfilling this request, for he immediately took a place at the table, being verv hungry. Mr. Winterbottom said grace, and they all fell to eating their supper. After supper they proceeded in their conversation. Mr. Winterbottom went on telling him things that had occurred lately in the country. Suddenly John arose and said, “1 guess I will now go home.” But peeping out at the door to see how the weather was he found the wind still raging furiously, and again he took his seat saying, “I’ll wait an hour or two vet till the wind abates.” Now Mr. Winterbottom by way of taking off the mono tony of the evening told some horrible ghost stories that made John’s hair stand on end; and to which the children of Mr. Winterbottom listened with the most profound silence. As night wore on and the clock yet wanted a quarter of an hour of eleven, John arose and requested Mr. Winterbottom to get hisovercoat, saying that he would return home although the wind had not yet abated. Mr. Winterbottom tried to persuade him to stay for the night, but seeing that John wasn’t to be prevailed upon, he granted his request. Bidding them all good-night, John drew his cap lightly over his ears and launched out into the darkness of the night. The wind was still blowing strong, driving the low, black clouds furiously across the sky. The snow having bv this time become quite deep proved a great hindrance to John’s walking. Nevertheless lie floundered on. The light that shone through the window of Mr. Winterbottom’s front room soon vanished before his sight. In the distance he could already see the dense forest through which he had to pass. This forest was generally regarded as somewhat uncanny be cause there was a graveyard hard by. When he arrived at the utmost verge of the forest he began to fancy the stumps standing on each side of the road, which were now covered by snow, to be human beings. Every glance to the side of the road brought creeping sensations over him, and he almost decided to turn back. But alter a short deliberation he pulled himself together, and whistling, by way of encouragement, the tune of Annie Laurie, entered the forest in which it soon grew so dark that at times he had to grope his way. Now he remembered the horrible ghost stories that he had heard told by Mr. Winterbottom and began to tremble like an aspen leaf. While hurrying on to get out of the forest he heard a shrill noi«e and at the same moment saw something fly towards the woods John was shocked to the core and stood as rooted to the ground. A sudden shudder ran through his frame, a cold perspira tion came over him, and he almost fainted. Coming to himself again he plucked np enough courage and hurried on faster than before when he again heard the same noise, which this time proceeded directly from behin&him. He instantly' took to his heels and ran,as quick as his legs

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could carry him over the snow, thinking in this way to escape theghost, which he fancied pursued him. While running as fast as he could he seemed to hear the panting breath of the supernatural thing directly, behind him. This filled him with still more fear and whilst endeavor ing to run faster, he struck a small stump standing in the middled the road and measured his length in the ditch. Luckily there was no. water in the ditch, the water being frozen and covered by deep snow. Almost dead from fright he pulled his great cloak close to his face, didn’t venture to move lest the ghost might detect him, and then gave ver.t to tears. Here lie lay for sometime and soon fell asleep. After a short sleep he awoke and found a clear moonlight night. The stars were twink ling as fire in the high vault ot heaven, and everything about him wore a silvery aspect. The wind had torn the clouds apart, and the snow storm had ceased. John got up, but felt somewhat weak in the limbs, which he ascribed to his running too fast. Nevertheless he quickened his pace in order to gain the city before morning, which could be not far distant. Renewing his inarch he entered the city on the same street he had left it. This street on his wav home led by a churchyard, buttoavoid all further encounters with ghosts he took a different street home. Arriving at his home he rapped at the door. The door was opened by his father, who had remained awake to await his son's return. The first words uttered by John were “What time is it, Papa?’and the response was. “Five o'clock in the morning, my son.” Mr. Meads went on asking him what had detained him so very long and why he had come all alone in such a dreadful night. “Papa, I wanted to show Mr. Winterbottom that I was not alraid to return home in the dark, even after he had related so many ghost stories and on the way I fell asleep. He then related all the occurrences he had met with on the way. After having related his encounter with a ghost, the father said. “My dear son, you deceived yourself. That shrill noise you heard was surely caused by a partridge, which, sitting in the road, flew towards the woods on vour approach.” G. N. L. ’07

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These lithographs have not the “loud/’,' forward,and obtrusive coloring one is accustomed‘to.find. On the contrary they lend them selves especially to the decoration or a classroom. These’ are import ed from the Teubner Verlag in Leipzig We quote from the circular in the hope that some of our sister schools may become sufficiently in terested to acquire one or two of these pictures. “Im Gegensatz zu Reproduktionen, bei clenen auch das-Beste durch handwerksmassige oder meelunisehe Vervielfaltigung an luinstlerischem Werte verliert und die vor allcm meist die Farbc vermissen lassen, stellcn die Blatter dieses Unternehmens vielfarbige kiinstlerische Originalarbeiten dar. die, vom Kiinstler selbst auf den Stein entvvorfen und im Druck iiberwaeht, bis in alle Binzelheiten hinein sein eigenstes Werk sind. Solclie Milder aber sind vor allem auch geeignet, in unserer jugend das Gedihl fur (las Sehdne zu weeken lind zu erziehen, sie durch ilirc stdle Gegeuwart an cine kiinstlerische Umgebung zu gewbhneu. Sie diirlen darum ganz besonders zur Anschaffung fur die Schule emplohlen werden.” As has been sir-ted. < nlv two rooms have thus far been decorated. How soon it will be before more work is done along these lines in oilier recitation rooms we cannot say. But it would be a good way to begin the new year bv the purchase of several good pictures for the classroom by the classes who have not already done so. Every class officer should feel it incumbent upon him to agitate, to promote the purchase of such decorations. In so doing you not only benefit your selves dui ing your slay at our college but you benefit those who come after you. Give way to a little enthusiasm in this direction. It wilt only be a matter of inclination, as the financial outlay, where there are more in a class, i> ridiculously small when you consider the good results effected. The American is known far and wide as a typical business man. Titled foreigners are inclined to look-down upon the busy citizens of the United States as mere money makers and to treat them with scorn and contempt. But even those foreigners are incon sistent. Noblemen of all European countries are always willing to marry rich heiresses whose fathers made their millions through the trades which they despise themselves. It cannot be denied that the dollar plays too great a share in the life of the average American busi ness man. We may all learn a lesson from him however. Keen com petition has made him very careful and economical with his capital and above all with his time. He is a man of order, and order ac counts for a large share of his success. “Have a place for everything and keep everthing in its place” is a rule often repeated in the business world. Students are not in business in the American sense of the System.

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word, yet order will help them a great deal in their studies, A “den” having" papers strewn over the table, books out of place, and every thing somewhere where it ought not to be, seldom belongs to a successful student. Even if it does, for there are exceptions to every rule, that student would be able to do much more work in a limited amount of time if he always knew just where he could find his pencil, his paper, or any special book. A certain sense for system is develop ed iu domintory students and many men have declared that they owe their success to their methodical life at school. The boarding school is run by clockwork so to speak. The days are divided into periods which remain the same day by day. Physicians are agreed that a methodical life is the most healthful. Acquire system, therefore, and keep it up aftvr.your college days are over, and success cannot fail to come, no matter what your vocation may be.

Toward the close of the last term we were given an opportunity to attend a course of lectures by Mr. Seymour of New York, under the auspices of the Local Library Com mittee. We are grateful to this society lor,bringing Mr. Seymour to this city. He is a fascinating speaker, lie holds the attention of his audience continually, and never wearies by virtue of his subject matter. The lectures delivered numbered five, all dealing with histor ical subjects ranging from Julius Caesar to Marie Antoinette. Mr. Seymour always had a large audience. Among that audience were many students from our college and although it was for many of them only a review, the manner in which tile subject was presented made the matter doubly attractive, and lent a new life to well-worn, almost hackneyed subjects. We feel certain that the greater part ol the students who attended the course would be pleased at another opportunity of hearing Mr. Seymour. We feel certain that such a course has benefited us, as a clear and true picture of the time and circumstances under cc i.sidera tion was given us.

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The other day a friend of mine asked me a very peculiar question, viz • > “What is the matter with the Alumni Column in the Black and Red ?” You will readily understand, my dear reader, that I was quite stunned. This was the first time in two years that anybody had seemed to take any notice whatever of the Alumni Column. “Er — what did you say?” I gasped. Would you believe it? he actually repeated his question! and that, too, with the air of a man who wants an answer, — not in the care less, languid way generally adopted in treating subjects of this kind. By find by, my amazement gave way to embarrassment. Sup pose, dear reader, that a friend makes you a Christmas present of a promising young fern ; and on visiting you some weeks later and see ing it badly withered (from lack of water, mind you!), he begins to look somewhat — well — interested, and says, “f declare, what may be the matter with that plant?” — and you will be able to form quite an adequate idea of the sensation creeping over me, as I began to reflect on the merits of the question put by my friend. My dear fellow,” I said, at last, summoning what courage I had at my command, “your question is a petitio principii.” “May I ask, in what way?” You have not proved that there is an Alumni Column. There has been no such thing in existence these two years. The subject in question being, therefore, a nonentity, there can be nothing the matter with it. I can prove to you from But he had me floored in an instant, the minutes of the society, that theoretically there is an Alumni Column; furthermore, that you and four others were appointed to make this theoretical entity a practical being. Now then: why have you neglected to do this? that’s the question.” Neglect is a harsh word,” I protested. «. Come, come,” he said, < • I don’t insist on the word. Answer my question.” “Very well,” I said, after some hesitatioa. “Have another cigar? 4 4

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_The matter is very simple: the fellows didn’t write,” and I blew forth a huge volume of smoke t » hide my blushes. “Who didn’t write?” "Why, the alumni.” “1 think,” said my friend,. looking, very harmless, as he carefully clipped his cigar, “an examination of the records would show that in such a contingency the committee-men were to do the writing them selves.” “But you must acknowledge that the interest shown by the alum ni has been small enough to discourage the bravest of the brave.” “Bosh!” he said. "Interest or no interest — it was your office to fill the column. Wh\\ you never did anything to create an interest. All you did was to issued circular, calling upon each alumnus to send in a literary contribution with'm a specified time, whereupon you went your wavs and waited for the articles to come in ; and when the response proved to be weak, you were ‘discouraged’. There was the end of it, while the alumni still waited for the beginning.” “You forget that within the first three months there appeared three articles written by committee members,” I interposed. "Oh, indeed ? what were they ?” “One of the committee wrote a brilliant account of the last ban quet; another, a fervent appeal to all members of the society to con tribute articles; and I, for mv part, wrote a report on the work of the committee.” “But you don’t call that literary matter, do you ?” “You evidently didn’t read these articles. I assure you, they were perfect gems of literature ” “Oh, if you say it yourself. I’ll not dispute it. Let us put the ‘brilliant account’ under the head of Epics, the 'fervent appeal’ under Lyrics, and your report on the work of the committe under — well — Fiction. But you must confess that quantitavely the committee should have done better.” Well, I did confess to that, at length. Having thus managed to heap all the blame on the committee’s shoulders, he now savagely proceeded to demonstrate that the chair man had to bear the main part of the burden. I stood it all without wincing, and when he saw that I was not disposed to argue with him on that point, he gracefully led the conversation into some other channel. * When he had left, I reflected a full half hour, and arrived at the following conclusion, to wit: 1) That I would immediately set. to wire-pulling and bring mv influence to bear on the proper officials to have my austere friend ap pointed chairman of some committee. 2) That, upon second thought, his reproach was, in the main, not entirely unjust; and that, going still deeper into the matter, it .

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was of a more serious nature than it seemed on the surface. Was the Alumni Society to rank with that class of organizations so aptly called ‘BummelvereiiT ? Should it be said that this dignified body, which is so eminently fertile in great ideas, which in theory has built acade mies, revolutionized the educational system of the nation, and set the world a-moving in new directions, 1ms not sufficient vitality to up hold even so small a thing as a column in a monthly paper? And was the Literary Committee to be a factor in this seeming process of de terioration ? No! the society should not be suffered to crush beneath the weight of its own ideas! the committee should not enjoy the honors and pri vileges of its office, without fulfilling its duties ! — I would write! Yes, I resolved to write — not a new report on the work of the committee; not another “fervent appeal” — but literary matter! And here it is. If any one of the society can prove that this is not literary matter, I challenge him to do so. But I hope it will pass, at least, as an honest confession of neglectfulness. And while I am sharpening my pencil for several more specimens of literary matter, I herewith say to my critical friend: You won’t catch the committee again for getting to water its plant! But how about yourself?

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“Outdoor Exercise for Girls” in the Coe College Cosmos is cornme a dable t all those who h ive shown indifference in this respect. Yet we do not quite see the point that the author is driving at when referring to the “temple of the Holy Spirit.” A person may have a • phv sic ally weak body and yet the Holy Spirit may have his abode in the same just as well as in the muscular body ofa Ilei cities. Asan ex ample we would mention Dr. Martin Luther. He is said to have been physically weak, but we do not suppose anyone would venture to sav that for this reason the Holy Spirit hesitated to make his abode in his body. Again the author says “sort of a temple.” 'e would kindly remind him that the indefinite article in this ease is entirely inappro• priate. In the November issue of Ouachita Ripples we find many subjects of interest. “Some Phases of womanhood as portrayed by Chaucer Tennyson, Shakespeare, and Browning” portrays the characters of the women in consideration tolerably well. “The Southern Man’s Burden” also gives onean ideaol the existing conditions between the while man and the negro. We do not quite see the propriety ofcomparing the bar barism of the negro to the color of his skin. “The Whitest Lily on the Shield of France” isa fine characterization ofjoau of Arc. Thccditorials are also up to the standard. The Maryville College Monthly comes to us as a lootball issue. To judge from this number we are induced to believe that football is fairly adored at this school. We think it proper to mention the athletic feats of their teams, but when nine pages of a college magazine aredevoted to athletics the sense of proportion seems to be greatly lack ing. If these pages were devoted to literary matter of intrinsic value, we think your paper would be of more interest to the readers. Those who wish to read sporting news may resort to the daily newspapers.

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The December issue of The Erskinian contains a very instructive essay entitled “The Freedom of Truth.” It would pay for all of our boys to read this essay. From everyday experience we find that very few of our citizens know what real freedom consists in. The authorvery lucidly demonstrates that we do not enjoy freedom and liberty in a full measure as long as our soul remains in the thralldom of sin. IDS

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This fact is only too often overlooked and we heartily wish that more of our citizens would be aware of this fact. If this were the case, they might enjoy the blessings of liberty in a much greater measure. The Christmas number of The Kodak conies to us in a very attrac• tive cover. “Yule-Tide in Pans’7 is an ably written sketch of the life of the French people at this time of the year. Something that will be of interest to our football enthusiasts may be found in the essay entitled “Soliloquy of a Football alter theseason.” “Somethingon Hiawatha” we iin< 1 very interesting. Read it boys! \Ve always welcome the Otterhein Aegis. The December number com tins some v rv interesting matter. The editorials are good, yet we should p efer t lie editorial on “Memory” to all the others. The fab'e o! “Hydrocarbon” is very interesting. We would kindly suggest that the exchange editor read a few more of his exchanges.

Editor’s Drawer In the Priina classroom, Prof. Ernst, we find three pictures. On the north wall is a lithograph representation of Gudrun at the sea. In the foreground we see Gudrun and her maid, probable gone to the sea to wash the clothing. Not far from shore is an incoming boat ~jn which may be seen a knight looking longingly at Gudrun. She.is ‘likewise looking toward the boat and seems to be more than indifferent. 'Viewed from the scats, this picture makes an admirable impression. Scenes from the Gudrun Lied involuntarily come up to help while, juv.ay lan unoccupied minute or two. -u On the west wall is a reproduction from Duerer of “The Four Horsemen” a woodcut from the Apocalypse. And I saw, and behold a white horse; and he that sat cn him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquer ing, and to conquer. And there went forth another horse that was red; and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should-kill one another; and there was given unto him a sword. Again I beheld, and to a black horse: and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I looked, and be hold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

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In masses of cloud, driven by a hurricane, the riders pursue their way, dealing destruction as they go. “And Hell followed with him;” this is signified by the open jaws of hell—at the heels of the puny nag on which Death rides—which are just swallowing one of the mighty ones of the earth. A critic says: The horror of inevitable doom is ex pressed in this composition with a force to which there is hardly a parallel to be found in the art of any period. It was a series of woodcuts which made Albrecht Duerer renowned at an early age. Born in 1471, he was made famous at the age of 27 by publishing fifteen woodcuts with a Geiman and Latin Text of the Revelations of St. John. “He put into visible shape the obscure pro phetic utterance of the Evangelist in such a masterly and pregnant style as the world had never seen or dreamed of until then. Mis woi k was something perfectly new, a “revelation” of art. Even at the pre sent day these designs with their tiemendous energy and spiritual significance can never fail to be impressive. He must indeed be a Philistine who is content with calling the drawing inaccurate or harsh, in these masterpieces of superb invention, instead of letting himself be carried away by the downright power of the grand compositions. There is certainly no lack of harshness or of violation of the external rules of correct draughtsmanship, and supcificial beauty of form was never the aim of Duerer’s effort in art.” We who have German ancestors can more easily understand the the language of a Duerer than perhaps, can others; for every stroke is German. We can not, it is true, study them in the original but through perfect copies which the technical resources of the present day make possible. You will derive fresh enjoyment from our “Four Horsemen” every time you gaze at them. As in the whole series, you will find in-this cut-the expression of the deepest thoughts. This, the vision beheld by the seer on the opening of the first four seals, has al ways been the most admired of the group of fifteen.

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As the health of the pastor of the St. Mark’s church in this city has for some time been declining, it was impossible for him to deliver sermons during the holidavs. Those of the professors who occupied the pulpit during this time were: Prof. A. F. Ernst, Dr. F. W. Notz, Ph. D . Dr. A. IT icrminn, Ph. D., Prof. 0. Hoyer, and Inspector Eickniann. F. Ivosanke, ’04, left school on Jan. 7 to attend the funeral of his grandmother on Jan. S. Owing to the death of his grandfather, W. ITaase, ’06 was absent from school from Jan. 7 to Jan. 11. Robert AveLuMemand, ’Of, was pleased to meet the wife of his brother, Rev. Reinhart AveLulleinand, ’00, at the station Dec. 19. C. Verges, ’01*. left school lor Milwaukee on Dec. 19. G. Westerhaus, ’OS, returned to his home in Winside, Neb., Dec. 18, which was several days before school closed, that he might take part in the dedication of the church at that place. Of the other “Nebraska Boys” C. Verges, ’04, and Wm. Zutz, ’06, Ace., also spent their vacation at their respective homes. J. Pieper, ’02, who is now studying theology, paid his friends at college a short vidt on Dee. 19, going home with his brother. A. Sydow, (K», visited his Alma Mater on Dec. 19. L. Witte of the Concordia College in Milwaukee, who was form erly a member of the class of 1904 at our institution, made a short call o.i friends Dee. 21. Several new students have entered our college this term : R. Diehlmann of Beaver Dam and R. Mittelmann of La Crosse. Frank ITerzbery has also returned to resume his studies. George W Ilauschild,’00, has returned to America, and is at present in New York. Rev. Knuth of Milwaukee, treasurer of the Wisconsin Synod, spent a few hours at the college on January 11. Rev. B. Schlucter, ’00, called at the college on Jan. 6. Rev. Gensike occupied the pulpit at St. Mark’s on January 10. Rev. 0. Kuhlow, ’99, called on friends on January 11. Just before going to press the news comes to us of the death of Rev. Broekmann. 2«1

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| CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM —1904*! —Back again ! —Standergang! —Let’s go skating! —Frenchy, the drum major! —Zick is now able to comb liis hair. —Cheesy turned over a new leaf. —Why does Jack always whistle “Hiawatha?” —Herman’s heart is broken. Who will mend it? —Bill has reformed during vacation, much to the delight of his roommates. —Prof.: How would you measure our drops? Student: By using an eye-filler. —Ziphcr: Mir ging ein parafine Licht auf. —Breutz froze his cars but he won’t say when nor where. —Bubbles: Honestly, this is the last time. — Butch has a new laugh which almost chokes him. —Prof.: Wo liegt Regensburg? T----- !: Am Gal gen. —Hank says he had a “swell” time in Milwaukee during vacation* It depends upon what he means by swell. —Erny never wears an overcoat, not because he hasn’t any but be cause he is a physical culture friend. —Prof.: What are the bad daj's? Pupil: Dog days. —We can frequently see somebody sitting on the stairway of the second floor of the recitation hall, studying his Hebrew. Wonder who the Jew is. —Peruna was delayed several days on his way back to college. He had a hard time selling his medicine. —Teacher: What does little “d” stand for? French: Little Doctor. — Frenchy feels quite proud in' his new office as drum major. He parades down, town with his chest high. It has increased about six inches already and Frenchy says it is still increasing.

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—Dr. Fardles is writing his autobiography. —Trix, the man from Minn., seems to be troubled with—something. While sitting in a classroom one day not long since he suddenly gave a civ of pain and made a furious grab over his right shoulder lor a spot on his back. Evidently the-----whatever it may have been----was not within reach for he withdrew his forces almost immediately and plunged his arm beneath his shoulder, thus attacking the enemy from the west. Even then the pesty little thing was not within lighting distance and a second retreat was made. With a look of intense suf fering on his face Trix made a final attempt. It was do or die. Gather ing his declining strength lie suddenly threw himself against the back of his seat with a fearful force. The strategym was successful, but the laH had undergone such terrors that the hair on his upper lip became milky white. —On Saturday afternoon January 9, 1904 the smoking club held its first regular meeting alter vacation in their smoking j ai b i s. Cheesy called the nuetingto order, minutes are not supposed lo be read. The following program was rendered, Sprumps having arranged it: Cheesy gave an opening address in which he mainly aimed at increased mem bership. Frenchv next arose and sang a parody on the “Bamboo Tree." Jack then amused the members by giving a lightning jig. Butch next read an essay on pipes. He pointed out the fact that every member ought to keep his pipe clean. He asked everybody to take him for an example. As the last number of the program theclubasa whole gave its yell, which is, indeed, hard to imitate.' Sprumps was give n a vote of thanks for arranging such an interesting program. Gummy *then.reported the treasury to be in a most flourishing condit i< n. Next Snorry, official spittoon cleaner, arose and said on his return to college he found the spittoons in the worst possible condition. He added that it took him three long hours to clean six spittoons. Thescciety at once decided that the treasurer give Snorrv a reward of three cheroots for his trouble. The club then adjourned*. A report of their next meeting will be published in the next number.

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Volume VII. Watertown, Wisconsin, February, 1904. Number 9.

41 j LITERARY j # On the Score of Old Times. 1A True Story. >

Frank sat. chair tilted back, his hands in his trouser pockets and his feet upon the table. His chin was down on his chest. He was in the s~-ealled dumps, he was feeling exceedingly blue. And all on account ol a report. Frank never cared about reports. Had you asked him about his standings in the different branches, the chances are that he could not have told you one of them. “They are only for the parents anyway; I do my best,” he would sav. But Frank was blue. Neither were his surroundings such as are commonly accounted “to jolly up” a person. Everything was topsy turvy. His fellow-boarder had left on the morning train. His trunk was packed and his quite extensive library boxed. My third year,” he mused. “And to think that I should be so shabbily treated by-----. Frank had been sent East by his parents to take advantage ol the course in languages at D----- College. And he had profited. In his studies he had always been above par. But he had Who ambitions in other directions. The college paper! can say what that meant to him. That had been the dream of his boyhood. His wish had always been to become an editor. And now he was editor-in-chief. Much more perhaps than he had ever expected. He had also played a prominent part in athletics. His stunts on the gridiron were often the talk of the college.—But he had never lost sight of his main purpose, study. That always did and should receive his greatest attention. < > I can’t understand Prof. C-----” he mused. “What could possibly have been his reasons for giving me unsatisfactory’ in my German. ”

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He rummaged his brain for a good reason—or even a poor one— but could find none. Instead, he gazed at the empty wall before him. ‘Til wager I have it,” he suddenly broke forth. “Of all things I . But I’ll speak to him about it.—But what shall I tell my didn’t parents when I reach home? They were always so very proud that an American bov should be proficient in the more than difficult Ger man.” No, he couldn’t give a valid reason. “Why, I’ll show him by the markings on my weeklies, to say nothing of the recitations, that I deserved more.” That evening, although notin the best of moods, he went to bid his “queen” good-bve. For what bright, honest American college boy has not his special friend during his college days? Frank had never spent more time in society than the ordinary student. In fact, since he had been at college he had been going backward socially Perhaps it was best for him. Steady work in studies is the best preparation for one’s life work. He knew that and lived accordingly. Frank had one bad habit. “I can keep every rule of the good old hall except thesmoking rule, » » he would say. “I can be up here in the evening in time, and I can stay here, but I just seem to have to smoke once in a while.” Anyway, he managed to brighten up and put on a cheerful look for .the last evening A pleasant cool evening and an extended stroll put him .in good humor. Finally a game or two of “flinch” and a chat were the sum and substance of his last evening in the college town. Four years had passed since the close of that school-year. The Reverend Frank S-----D. D. was opening his mad. He came to a letter from the Protestant School for Nurses, Chicago. The writing looked familiar. He mused. Where had he seen that hand before. It surely belonged to some dainty little woman. It was a long time since he had received a letter from a woman. Finally he opened it and read. Dear Reverend S-----.: As I am compelled to stay over in M----- for a day on my way to the lakes for a vacation I turn to you. Kindlv meet me at the station Tuesday for the evening train. 1 am your sincere friend, Edith Schmaal. Then his heart gave itself up to some fluttering, such as it had not experienced ior years. A letter from his old college friend, his “queen” of the college days. He was somewhat disconcerted to think she should turn to him after these years of absence. Tuesday, however, finally came, after what seemed to him an age of waiting. The Reverend S-----D. D. was there to take charge of Miss

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E. Schmaal. The cab was rolling to his home while they cheerily chatted about old times. But he had noticed a great change in her as they were seated for dinner. The jolly, companionable, light-hearted look seemed to pass from her eyes. In fact, she hardly heard grace said. He tried to make her feel like the Edith of his college days. But she would onlv answer his questions and little sallies of wit. it seemed, curtly. This did not pass unobserved, and he was on the point of asking her the cause of the sudden change, when she asked, “And where is your wife?” Now there were two embarrassed people. He perhaps more so than she. “Why—you see—why, I am single—and—not married” he managed to stammer. To have seen them there was to have thought that something dreadful had happened. “Whv, I am ashamed. I must give an account of my behavior. I surely thought you married. I never should have been guilty of such an indiscretion, had I known the circumstances. I found your address in the calendar and wrote on the score of old times without thinking any more about it. I am sure you will forgive me—and understand?” Then he laughed and made light of it, told her that lucky mistakes did sometimes happen,—that this was surely one of them. He told her how the correspondence had ceased after he entered the Seminary. “I have never forgotton you, Edith. Do you remember that even ing before I left for home, how downcast I was about that report, what rash ideas I had?—perhaps you don’t. But I remember, distinct ly remember your consoling me and advising me not to do anything tin worthy of a gentleman and scholar. You may not have known at the time that \ ou were doing anything extraordinary. But thateven- • ing you changed the whole course of my life. Kad it not been for your kind leading ways, I might never have entered this noblest ofcallings.” “You started me on'this career and can help me in my work.”

The Reverend S-----has since become a much respected man, not only among his parishioners, but also among theclergy. He assures us that much of his success is due to his dear wife, who, in her kind and gentle ways, has been a great help to him.

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THE BLACK AND RED. Concerning Pope Leo XIII.

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Much has of late been written of Pope Leo XIII. Even college magazines have not retrained from encomiums on the deceased head of the Roman Catholic church. And not only our cor.teniporaries of that faith but also Protestant contemporaries have lavished praises on this man. It is this that has brought forth the present article. It is because most of our Protestant friends do not seem to have gone to the right source for their information of Pope Leo XIII that we write. They have taken as true nil that comes from the pens of catholic editors, and forget that this same Pope was their archenemy. It is indeed chivalrous to recognize the merits of our enemy. Even though the Catholic church has ever most heartily and in unqualified terms condemned the great Protestant leaders, it is not said that Protestants need necessarily condemn the great men of the Roman Catholic church. It is indeed chivalrous on part of the many Protest ants to have praised Leo XIII’s. good parts. But when the praise is unqualified it becomes dangerous, and the reader is apt to believe that the deceased Pope Leo XIII. was the greatest friend of the world, yes, of the United States. The Pope has been flattering the Americans into believing that lie is their dearest wellwishcr and friend. But should you, niv dear reader, examine the Encyclicals of this same Pope, you must readily see that he was the enemy of every Protestant, that he condemned the liberty you so highly' value. What we say are not purported say ings of his circulated in press dispatches or newspaper reports, but solemn public utterances which he made as under oath. We speak ot his Encyclicals. Leo XIII. condemned the Reformation and the fruits of it. He condemned our liberty, our modern laws in the Encyclical entitled Diuturnum illad. On page 25 we read;—“From this heresy' (Reforma tion) in the last century', a falsely so-called philosophy took its origin, and what is known as modern law, and government by the people, that boundless license which alone is considered liberty' by' the masses. From there it has come to kindred pests, to Communism, Socialism, Nihilism, a bominations illboding and wellnigh death-dealing to civil human society.” If the Protestant faiths have bitter enemies to-day outside ol the Papacy, it is along the rank and file of the Communists, Socialists, and Nihilists. It is senseless to charge the Protestants with such crimes. According to Pope Leo XIII., if you are a Prostestant, the faith you hold so dear, is the fault of the existence of these pests. In another Encyclical he firmly' condemns freedom of worship. He is surely the enemy of every’ Protestant when he condemns that palladium. How can a man be a friend of the United States when he condemns ireedom oi worship, freedom of conscience. In his Encyclical

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entitled Libertas, on page 17, he says:—‘'That so-called freedom of conscience is also highly praised; which if thereby is understood that every one shall he free to worship or not to worship God as he may choose, is sufficiently vanquished by the arguments advanced.” There That justice and reason forbid ihat the state should be he said:. godless, or, what amounts to godlessncss, that the state should, as they express it, maintain the same attitude toward the various relig ions and grant the same rights to all of them promiscuously.” Does not this alone suffice to show that Leo XIII. was not such a great friend of America as he is claimed to have been. He further more not onl v condemned our liberty, but he exhorted every Catholic to use his influence toward the overthrow of our government. He intimates that the church only acquiesces because it is expedient. But when the followers of the Don tiff have the opportunity they shpvld overthrow the existing state of affairs. We quote from the same Encyclical. "If, however, because of peculiar political circumstances it is, for the time being, expedient that the church should acquiesce in certain modern liberties, not because she herself approved of them, but because she deems it expedient that they be permitted, she would of course, il the times have changed for the better, make use of her free dom and, by advice and exhortation strive to perform the duty assigned by God.” We have not put faith in hear-say evidence but we have quoted Pope Leo XlII’s. own words. If those who are interested would pro em e the late Pope’s Encyclicals they would be rewarded with a multi tude of facts which go to show that Pope Leo XIII. was the bitter enemy of every freedom loving people, that he condemned freedom of worship and our much cherished liberty. Although he was a hard worker in the Catholic church and de serves therefore abundant praise from his followers, it would be well for Protestants not to be too unrestrained in their encomiums lest, while we are not vigilant, a Roman Pontiff should deprive us of our most cherished institutions.

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THE BLACK AND REI). A Revival of Pythagoras

It was in the month of May of the year 181)1. I he close of the semester at the University of Gottingen was near at hand. Among the brightest of the bright students was Mr. Adolph Stolz, who was on the following day to take bis examination tor Ph. D. He was small and slender and almost delicate. A powerful and upright character with hosts of triends was his. , The Stolz family was of good repute and well-to-do. The other character our story deals with was the direct opposite, Mr. Otto Wohlstand. He was not what his name might imply, rich. In his first year his work did him but little credit, He was tall but not exactly corpulent. On this bright day in May Mr. Stolz was walking towards the University. Here it was that surprises awaited him. Upon entering the classic precincts he was hailed: “Good morning, Mr. Wohlstand.** Mr. Stolz was not personally acquainted with Mr. Wohlstand, but had heard many bad reports about him. This greeting therefore was anything but pleasant to him. However Adolph scarcely heeded this saluie, hurried on, and passed a group of his friends with the custom ary salutation, but how was he struck with dismay when he was an swered with a scronful laugh. Still he made straightway to the lecture room and took his usual seat. It deeply wounded him that his friends refused to speak to him. But what hurt him most was that they all called him Wohlstand. At last he arrived at the conclusion, that Wohlstand must be at the bottom of this trouble. Inquiring for the lodging of Wohlstand, he wended his way thither and was asked to enter by a young lady: “Is Mr. Wohlstand in?” was his anxious question. “Yes,” she smilingly answered, “I suppose he is in. “Where is he? In his room?” Mr. Stolz continued. If you go to his room 1 have not the least doubt that Mr. Wohlstand will be there,” the young lady replied. Mr. Stolz opened the nearest door, which led up a stairway, and hurried up directly. An open door showed him the room of Wohl stand. It was scantily furnished. In the rear of the room was an easel, behind which someone was heard sneezing. He immediately looked there. His gaze met a most unshapely creature. It was a small man who was bald-headed save for a few red hair at the top of the head and had a nose almost matching their color. He wore green spectacles, a green coat and yellow knickerbockers, which covered one artifical wooden leg, whereas the other leg and foot were encased in a red stocking and an embroidered slipper. This freak of nature greeted him and continued: “I hope I do not disturb you, Mr. Wohlstand.” This roused Stolz’s anger very much and he returned: 1f

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‘T will not have an}" more fooling and I want you to understand that I am not Mr. Wohlstand but Mr. Stolz.” The little fellow begged Adolph’s pardon and told him, hecertainly must be a near relative or even a twin brother. How is that possible,” Mr. Stolz retorted with irritation, “since Mr. Wohlstand is at least a half a foot taller and weighs about fifty pounds more than I?” ••Whew,” the one-legged man ejaculated, “that will make him very tall and heavy, I am afraid.” Thereupon Adolph said that, from reports he had heard, Mr. Wohlstand was a well-proportioned man and tipped the scale in the neighborhood of two hundred and twenty-five. “You cannot be very far from that mark,” replied the odd little fellow. “I’ll wager fifty marks I do not weigh more than one hundred and fifty pounds,” Adolph uttered. The bet was made. They entered the adjoining room and found a large balance hanging from the ceiling. Mr. Stolz stepped into one side of it and he ol the wooden leg began to pack weights into the other pan. The hundred weight was followed bv a half and the bal ance never moved. It took two hundred and nineteen pounds before the scale budged. Stolz was like one in a dream. Both returned into the former room, Adolph flung himself into a chair. “What does it all mean.” he growled. The little fellow began a discussion with him. Their talk slowly drifted into philosophy. Both seemed to be at home in this subject. They touched upon Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and others, finally Pythagoras. Here Stolz remarked he never could believe in Pytha goras’s metempsychosis and took it to be utter nonsense, What,” the little fellow hastily answered, “Pythagoras utter nonsense, that is theworst I had expected from a man of your knowledge. I am truly sorry for you and now mark what I say. Before the evening sun "sets you will not only believe that Pythagoras’s doctrine is true, but will he convinced as to its truth.” Stolz laughingly replied, “I, never.” With this he left the room and made for his own lodging. On his way thither he was stopped by a vagabond: “Otto, they are hot on our trail for forging that note.” “I don’t know what you mean. I cannot be the party }'ou are looking for,” Mr. Stolz answered quickly. “0 you cannot deceive us, old man.” Adolph hurried on. Arriving at his lodging, he was astonished more than ever, for he was not permitted to enter, since the proprietor had strict orders to receive no one. No matter how he begged, or how much he asseverated that he was Mr. Stolz and that this was his lodging, he durst not enter. At last, when Stolz grew infuriated, the proprietor said it was immaterial to him whether his name was Stolz

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or no, but he know that this mail was not his lodger. Adolph, turn ing to the door, raised his hand to his forehead, for his reason seemed to be leaving him, and staggered out. Thus Stolz found himself on the street and did not know where to go or what to do. So he concluded to walk some distance into the country. After an hour’s stroll, he was somewhat tired, took a rest bv lving on the ground, and thought over the incidents of the last half of the day, above all the statement, that before the sun sets lie should believe in Pythagoras. Finally he got up and retraced his steps to Gottingen. On his entering a rather deserted street he saw someone walking before him and somehow or other the figure seemed familiar to him, yet he could not for the world think who it could be. Suddenly he gave a cry and started out in persuit of the man ahead. “That must be me. That must be me.” lie shoutel again and again. However as soon as he began to run, the man in front ol him, as he had noticed that he himself was the object of pursuit, also set out at full speed. The chase began in earnest. Stolz was fagging out when he noticed the same signs in the other, lie gathered all his strength and soon saw that the distance between them lessenOne more terrific leap, and like a lion jumping on his prey, he tore the man to the ground. There, as St dz was on top of his b >dv, lie plant ed his fists between the eves of his counterpart. Adolph would have killed the man, had not at that niomenl some thing unexpected happened. Somebody grasped him in the back and, giving him a sudden pull, parted the two. This somebody was the unshapely small man again This man asked first of all: “Do you . still doubt the theories of Pythagoras?” A cold perspiration broke put upon the brow of Stolz and he thought there must be some deviltry in this. He was not able to answer but steadfastly gazed at the body that was lying at his feet. It soon showed some signs of life. The little man drew a bottle Irom his coat-pocket and poured a few drops of the contents on the lips of the prostrate man. The stimulant acted almost immediately. The gentleman sat erect and rubbed his eyes. Upon seeing his encm\r still near him, lie was about to spring and flee again, but was detained by the one-legged man, who said: “He wishes his body to be returned to him,” laying hold of his arm. They (the little man and Wohlstand) stepped a few paces aside and held a consultation. Then they returned to Stolz and the green-coated man resumed: “Mr. Stolz, I wish to do the fair thing by you and now listen what I say. I swear by everything that is sacred, I will return your soul to that body (pointing to it) three days after its death.” After this the two left Stolz, still standing at the roadside, and hastily disappeared from view lest he should pursue them again. He

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was as one dazed, “Before the evening sun sets you will believe in the theories of Pythagoras,” rang in his ears constantly. The next day tidings came that Mr. YVohlstand or Stolz’s body was fatally ill. Perhaps a week later news was received that he had died. In the meantime Stolz, was almost dead too. He boarded at Wohlstand’s lodging, the public were after him continually and many were the complaints lodged against him, as not paying his board for a long time, and associating with vagabonds, who were constantly con structing him to lie low lest he should be caught. One day after the death of the supposed Stolz the little fellow came to him again. He said: “Mr. Stolz,” for he dared not call him Wohlstand, “I suppose you have heard about the latest news, but your body is to be buried to-morrow on account of the extreme heat, and remember I promised to return your body three days after the death of it. This therefor would bury you alive. Let me tell you that there is no death more terrible than being buried alive. However X take a cetain liking to you; to show you my good will, I shall return your body directly under one condition.” “What is that condition? ’ gasped Stolz. “Simply that you sign this paper with your blood,” replied the little man. “Certainly I will,” Stolz answered and was about to do so when, easting a glance at the wording, he jumped up, grabbed the little man by the collar and forced him out of the room, down the stairs into the street. The reason lor his action was the contents of the paper, which read as follows: “I promise to give my soul to the bearer of this paper.” He returned to his room and sat down again to ponder over what the little fellow had said to him. Finally he concluded to go and speak to those in authority on the funeral arrangements. He made his way to his old lodging place. There he found his lather, mother, brothers, and sisters grief stricken. He was about to rush into their arms, when he remembered that they did not know him. Upon his asking for a private conference with his father, he placed the matter exactly as it stood before his father, who listened in amazement. At this moment an officer entered, pointed to Stolz and then to his own head. The father immediately understood the officer. Mr. Strlz was now taken to an asylum. The people judg ed from Wohlstand’s conduct that he had lost his reason and was in sane. Who could blame them? Stolz or rather Wohlstand’s body was safe in the asylum. He was wholly in despair of ever seeing the outside world again. The next da\y as stated above, the funeral took place. The third day, dawned. Stolz was in a frenzy all day and was worse as the shadows of night were falling. But at nine he called the waiter and

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asked for a dock ami a lamp. Upon receiving this he asked to have the room locked, which was done. The clock was placed by him directly before him on the table. He sat down on a chair to wait for the hour of ten. which was the time Wohlstand had died. The hands of the clock pointed to 9:15 now. Oh! how slow, and still how fast they seemed to move. He only sat there and waited. There! now! the crisis has come, the clock strikes ten. Stolz closed his eyes,—he opened them and everything was dark about him. A cold perspira tion came upon his brow, he was afraid to breathe for fear of using all the air at once, but strange to say the air did not seem to get close nor could he notice that the oxygen lessened. Finally he raised one hand, but it struck nothing. He thought, what a queer coffin and grave. He uttered a cry. A door was opened, light appeared and there was his landlord, attracted by his cry.

It was all a vivid dream brought on by intently studying Pytha gorean philosophy for his degree and reading “The Queer Case of Dr. Jekvll & Mr. Hyde.” W. G. H. ’06.

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A Scrap from my Journal. Mv chum H and I spent yesterday afternoon and to-day with our old fellow student and clubman of the C. C-----, H . He called to take us five miles into the country 3resterday noon. The horse was left to itself and trotted or jogged as it pleased in order that we might talk over old times. We arrived at I-----, and indulged in a hearty lunch, in itself of a more profuse character than one of our college meals. The afternoon until five o’clock, was whiled away in talking and smoking. It would be hard to say in which we indulged the more. We then walked to the church, perhaps a half mile distant, in order to ring the bell. This so that the toiling farmer might be made aware that on the morrow he would find rest from his daily labor. The merry peal of the bell at a time of day when the great orb throws a mellow light over the land scape is certainly a pleasant message. All the work must be finished that night, for on the morrow is the Lord’s day. Then he does not work, but rests and praises and thanks the Almighty for his munifi cence during the week gone by. The housewife too has been busy as a bee, and it would be a severe work in detail to find even a speck of dust on any piece of furniture or ornament. Everything is polished and ready for the eagle eve of the visiting housewife. The clean linen is brought out for the man of t he house. His Sunday best is taken from its sacred place, and is very much pounded and brushed, and then hung over a chair with the other necessaries to await the pleasure of the wearer on the morrow. The children are sent to bed at an early hour that they may be fresh in the morning. The help is already thinking ol the rest and good times in store for him. At length the last light disappears and the landscape is at rest, not the least sign of life anywhere^

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To-day advertising is everything. This is not only true in the business world but it is also true in the ‘•literary” world. The author of to-day, be lie good or bad, who is without the backing of a good advertising agent counts for nothing. To some this may sound paradoxical. But statistics of the past ten years prove the statement true. The phenomenal success of most of our novels is due to the advertisement they get in the magazines and book-reviews. The little fellow who, on being asked what a magazine was, answered that ‘‘it was such a book what was full of names of books,” had perhaps a more enlightened view of the situation than one is apt to imagine. And the gr?at public itself is at fault. It is on the whole ignorant of literary merit. Were it not for this advertising most of them would take any book put into their hands by the liAdvertising.

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brarian. But extensive advertising is sure to bring at least the title and author to the lips of the multitude. Finally, out of mere curiosity, mind you, someone reads the book. Then, as everyone is anxious to be dans Ic mouvement, there is a scramble for the book. Let a cacao manufacturer constantly advertise, give him space in the Journals, in the magazines, let him put up signs along the railroad, and the people will soon begin to buy. This is true in the realm of modern fiction. The wily publisher knows his public, and takes every advantage of its weakness. A mistake that often shows itself among college boys is that, while they are yet at college, they begin what might be termed study specialization. They think it is only necessary to study those branches somewhat thoroughly of which the\r intend to make the most use in later life. But this isgetting too practical for the already practical age. The truth, that growth and change are the fundamental principles of the universe, is entirely lost sight of. Before the college course is completed the mind may be bent in an entirely different direction from what it was a few years before, or circum stances may necessitate a change. At any rate we are unable to pre dict the future and can not know what branch might make itselfmost available. It is, therefore, advisable not to let some of our studies take care of themselves, while others are taken care of, but to cherish an equal liking for all. Moreover, a college education has other aims in view. It is to give us a foundation on which we can later build a mighty structure; it is to be the basis for all our operations; it is a framework, so to say, and to make it sound and safe every branch of study contributes. It is, therefore, absurd to say something like, “What good is mathema tics going to do me?” It is possible that we may choose a profession that in no way deals with mathematics, but that, just because of that, we should have derived no benefit from it is saying more than is advisable. At this time of our life it is bevond us to say what is of benefit to us. “Many a little makes a mickle” is one of Dr. Franklin’s proverbs. Every thing we learn is one of the stepping stones to our future career whatever it may be. We are not at college to get a training for one special thing, but to get a general education, an education with which we might enter into an}' profession whatever. We may become doc tors, we may become lawyers, we may become preachers; but while we are at college we should look, as was said before, at our college years as a means for preparation, and we should have no preference for certain studies, but try to cherish an almost equal love for all. Never should we drop one. However, after the college course is com pleted, then we can and should specialize, but no sooner.

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After a very short sickness William A. Stiemke met with an early death, deeply felt by all who knew him He was born at Kirchayn, Washington County Wisconsin, March 4, 1888. It was not long after tins that his parents made their home in St. Paul. Minn. Here he recieved Ins first schooling. While he was yet small, h:s father, a Lutheran pastor, was called to eternal rest. Thereupon his stricken mother, sister, and two brothers removed to Watertown, Wisconsin. After attending the parochial school here a few years he entered the first class of the preparatory department in the Northwestern Uni versity at the early age of eleven years and successfully pursued his studies for five years till his second semester of his sophomore year when fate decided otherwise He was a large boy lor his age and physically strong and healthy and when lie took sick Wednesday morning Jan. 27. with a severe pain in his .abdomen, he had no idea that it would prove fatal. Hewanted to go to college not wishing to be absent from an examination that was to be written that morning. His mother^ however, deemed it better lor him to stay at home. At noon Dr. Shinniek was called. The symptoms became alarming, and a consultation was held Thurs day evening. Friday there was a slight improvement, but in the even ing of this same day there was again a change for the worse. Satur day Dr. Yosbcek of Milwaukee was called in on consultation, and an operation was deemed advisable. This was performed early Sunday morning. A large abscess in the region of the appendix was found, opened, and drained. Now the patient improved rapidly, and great hopes lor his recovery were entertained. But Friday morning he be came worse and steadily grew weaker when a new abscess was found and treated as the first. At this stage symptoms indicative of pneumonia set in and from that time on his life was despaired of. At 9:10 p m. Feb. 5, he peacefully passed away from this earthly abode to the heavenly one fully prepared to meet his Lord and Savior. The cause of death was suppurative appendicitis. During all this time he had to suffer great pain, but he bore it manfully and patiently from beginning to the end, striving hard to hide from his dear mother his suffering and his near death, which he knew would soon come. He never lest consciousness, and his extra ordinary faith in Jesus, proclaming the true Christian and helping him to overcome his pain more easily. Not long before his death he proudly quoted from a German hymn: <4Unverzagt und ohne Grauen soil tin Christ, wo er ist, stets sich lassen schauen.” 227

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His career at college was a success in every respect. He was an exceedingly bright boy with a fertile mind, diligent, performing his duties with joy. His intention was to become a minister of the Gospel and a worker in the vineyard of God. His bearing and behavior gained for him the good will of all with whom he had come in contact; being a friend of all he was liighlv welcome wherever he appeared, anrl it is sad to think that in his youthful bloom he had to be taken from us. His fellow students and classmates deeply feel his loss and mourn over their departed, never to beforgotten friend. Both the faculty and they expressed their love toward him by the floral tributes given in his honor. The iuneral of our deceased fiiend took place Monday afternoon Feb. 8, just two weeks after the burial of the church pastor. Rev. Brockmann, at which he partook in the singing done by the college octette on the occasion. Prof. Ernst delivered the sermon, which was followed by a short but touching address in English bv Dr. Hocrmann. Then the remains were taken to be buried at the Oak Hill cemetery. Requiescat in pace. E. A. Wendland, '(>(>.

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Nihil novi would he the proper motto for our seminary column in this issue. The only occurrence of any importance was the arrival of a new organ, to be used for the chapel exercises. With the assistance of a number of business men of Milwaukee and the successful efforts of 0. Keller and W. Albrecht we were able to place at our disposal a combination pipe and reed organ from the factory of Clough & War ren, Detroit. The organ is valued at $300 and was bought from Ross & SchefTt, Milwaukee. We have been informed of the engagement of Rev. John Guse, Austin. Minn., to Miss Clara Machmueller of Manitowoc—of Rev. Wm. Notnmcnsen, Maustin, Wis , to Miss Ada Koch of Columbus, Wis.,—and also of Rev. H. Reuschel, South Haven, Mich., to Miss Myrtle Winkcl of South Haven. Following is a list of students who have occupied pulpits during the last month: Jan. 10,—H. Haase.at Ixonia, Rev. Haase.—A. Hoenecke at Mil waukee, Rev. Baebenroth.—A. Arendt at Manchester, Rev. Thiele.— Wm. Mahnke at Milwaukee, Rev Adelberg—F. Zarling at Gray’s Lake. Jan. 17,—A. Herzfelt at Lannon, Rev. Albrecht.—Wm. Mahnke at Milwaukee, Rev. Hagedorn. Jan. 24,—S. Jedele at Waukesha, Rev. Henning.

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Was ehrenreich gevvesen, dort lag es alles tot. Die Leute stunden alle in Jammer und in Not. Mit Leide war beendet des Konigs Festgelag, Wie stets die Lust mit Leide auf dieser Erden enden mag. Ich kann euch nicht bescheiden, was wetter dort geschah, Nur dass man Christen und Heiden gemeinsatn jammern sah. Lassen wir nun liegen, was da kalt und tot, Hier hat die Maer ein Eade. Das ist der Nibelungen Not.” We may quote what a German critic says of our picture. “Vielleielit werden von alien Werken des P. Cornelius nur noch die Apokalvptischen Reiter so lange im deutschen Volke fortdauern, wie dieses Nibelungenblatt. Man kann alle Zeichenfehler, kann alle sonstigen Mangel (larin getrost zugeben, die Frage nach seiner Bedeutung wird doeli (lurch eine einzige Gegenfrage beantwortet: welches Bild nach diesem Stoffe, der doch h indert Maler schon angeregt hat, welches Bild dauach gibt tins Deutschen mehr? In dieser Darstellung, die so gar nichts 44luibschcs” enthalt, die auf alle Anmut verzichtet, die ihr in Sprbdigkeit geradezu aus deni Wegegeht, umnurmithartenKlangen von diesen gewaltigen Vorweltsmenschen zu kiinden, lebt selber etwas wie uralte Rassenkraft.”

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The Rev. Schlei from Montello paid his son Gotthold, ’09, a visit on Feb. 2. On Jan. 26 Prof. Ernst and Inspector Eickmann attended a meet ing of board-members in Milwaukee to make preparations for the new dormitory to be erected at our college. Owing to illness Dr. Notz was obliged to excuse his classes on Feb. 2. Prof. A. Kuhn did not teach his classes on Feb. 4 as he was ill. The Juniors concluded their course in Physics on Feb. 2. From Jan. 18 to 31 R. Owen,’05, taught school at Weyauwega for Mr. Shauer, who is teacher at the school of the Rev. Oehlert’s con gregation. Mr. Chas. Seymour is again giving a series of historical lectures at the high school. They are instructive and all students ought to take the opportunity to increase their knowledge. The first two of the series have been given. The)’ are the following: 1. The passing of the Spaniard. 2. Japan and the Japanese. M. Wagner, ’08, changed quarters and is now boarding with his uncle. Rev. E. Dornfeld called on his son Ernst, ’04, Jan. 24. Rev. C. Sauer visited his sons Christian, ’04, Adolph, ’06, and Edwin, ’07, Feb. 2. Paul Horn, ’08, spent the time from Jan. 14 to 20 at his home in La Crosse. A. Sauer, ’06, E. Sauer, ’07, E. Zell, ’08, A. Zuelke, ’09, spent Sun. Jan. 24 at their respective homes in Juneau. C. Fehrmann, ’ll, attended the funeral of his niece Feb. 1. Herbert Kirchner, TO, visited his parents on Sun. Jan. 31. E. Heilmann, ’05, and Adolph Pankow, ’09, visited their grand father at Ixonia Jan. 31. Arthur Krueger,’ll, spent Sun. Jan. 31 with friends at Ixonia. Praes. v. Rohr called on his son Adolph, Jan. 24. Rev. M. Pankow called on his son Adolph Jan. 24. F. Herzberg was at his home in Ashippun Jan. 24. Mr. H. J. Heilmann of Redwood Falls, Minn., called on his son Ernst, ’05, on February 1. Walter Bergelin discontinued his studies for the rest of the year on account of ill health. He returned to his home in Green Bay on Jan uary 27. 232

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Mr. Meyer a member of the Senior class at the Seminary, called on friends at college on January 23. Ernst Dornfeld was called home on account of the serious illness of his sister. He returned on January 19 after an absence of three days. Alex. Jaeger, ’08, spent Sun. Jan. 31 at home, Ixonia. \. Garbers, visited his brother Bern Garbers, ’10, at the N. W. U. Feb. 6—8. Rev. O. Koch paid his son Otto, ’09, a short visit on Jan. 24. Rev. A. E. Bergmann called on E. Grunwald, ’09, Jan. 24. E. Moldenhauer was at home from Jan. 19 to Feb. 1,"on account of illness. The Rev. Knuth visited his Alma Mater on a business trip Jan. 24» J. Man/, attended the wedding of his cousin on Jan. 27. He return ed Feb. 1 and reports a good time. For the first time this year sun-dogs were seen on the morning of Feb. 2. One was north and another south of the sun, both equally distant from it. West of it, at a greater distance, we observed a stripe, which had the colors of the rainbow and was curved towards the sun, not as we might apprehend, from or like it. The phenomena changed in brightness with the sun and were at times so brilliant, that short bars could be seen crossing the sun and again diverging north and south from the two radiant specks. Small arcs which were white as the bars then also crossed the Sun-dogs. The entire phenomenon slowly disappeared at about eleven o’clock. The funeral of the Rev. Brockmann took place on Jan. 25 at 2:30 o’clock. The church was decorated with black draperies between the pillars and the pulpit and altar. The coffin rested upon a catafalque with black draperies. It was carried by trustees of the congregation. The mixed choir, the male choir, and the school children sang. An octette of students sang a latin hvmn. The Rev. Koch from Columbus held the funeral sermon and the Rev. v. Rohr spoke a few words in remembrance of the deceased. The service was conducted by Prof. Ernst. The remains were conveyed to the cemetery belonging to the church. G. Dies tier and H. Jenny, former members of the class of 1905, paid their friends at college a visit from Feb. 5 to 8. They now at tend the U. of W. at Madison.

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—Mail! —Knusts! —46 to 10 ! —Royal Tigers! —Scoggle’s corduroys! —Die Leiche hlueht! —Stere itypical phraseology. —Why won’t lack tell us his age? —Frenchv: Now I am a free man. —Felix (reading a drama): Who was “Exit?” —Fete: Carrie Nation is the mother of alternation. —Hank: Better late than never. —A: Why is a pie generally round ? B: Because the circumference of a circle is Pi. —Caesar was killed in autumn, for Antony said: “Oh what a fall was there mv countrymen !*’ —Murphy feels slighted because his name hasn’t been mentioned in this column for several numbers. —Somebody: Hoc responso dato discessit. Nachdem er diese Antwort gegeben hatte, ging er auseinander. —In English: “Enter Caesar and his train.” Scholar: Was it a freight or a passenger? —Ferox thinks he has the sweetest look of anybody at college. —Zick (in German): Ein Genie ist ein von Gott begnadigter Mensch, der nicht studieren braucht. —Prof.: Who is the Goddess of Beauty ? Cheesy (just returning from dreamland); S-----. —Freeze doesn’t want anybody to string him on about his mustache. Has anybody noticed that he has one? —Prof.: What does “Suspicor me periisse” mean? Student: I see my finish. —Erny has organized the “Erny’s Famous Minstrel Co.” Free exihibitions every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. Everybody* is invited. 235

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—Prof.: What is a weather-cock ? Pupil: A rooster. —Recruit: Who is monitor of the drilling ?—Why do you want to know? I want to tell him that I bought a violin and want to join the band. —Teacher: In what kind of bottles do they shipnitric acid ? Pete: In glass bottles. —Sch—r thinks he has liver compaction. —Prof.: Was ist ein Pate? Student: Das Kind einer Witwe. —Teddy: Oh, but the kid in my room is green. Sprumps; Well, that’s allright. Then you are well fixed on fire insurance. Poke sa}rs: Girls that are silent as posts*are good ones to hitch to. Bill W. says: The best thing about man is'woman ! Booby: Why is there light in the “Example room” to-night?

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Cbe Black and Red. Volume VII.

Watertown, Wisconsin, March, 1904

LITERARY

Number 10.

Was heisst lesen? In unscrcr Zcit wird melir gelesen als wohl je zuvor. Wir verkehren fast niehr mit Schriftstellern als mit unseren Freunden. Und zwar tun wir dieses nielit so sehr der Unterhaltung wegen, die wir in den Buchern linden, als vielmehr der Kenntnisse wegen, die wir aus ihnen gewinnen kbnncn Hamit wir aber wirklich etwas aus schriftlichen Werken lernen, ist es naturlieh notwendig zu wissen, wie dieses geseliehen kann. \\ as heisst lesen, so dass wir davon Nutzen haben ? Has Lesen kbmmt der miindliehen Unterredung unter verniinftigen Menselu n sehr nahe. Wie diese darin besteht, dass eine Person zuerst auf sieh wirken lasst, indeni sic die Gedanken einer anderen selbstlos in sieh aufnininit, darauf aber iliren Geist zu gesteigerter Tatigkeit antreibt, indem sie dariiber nachdenkt, obsiemitdem Gesagten ubereinstimnit oder nicht, ol) dadurch ihre Kenntnisse in irgend einer Beziehung verniehrt werden oder nicht, und das Ergebnis dieses Nachdenkens in der Entgegnung znm Ausdruek bringt, so besteht in ahnlicher Weise das Lesen aus einem Leiden und einem Tun der lesenden Person. Em Leiden ist es, insofern der L^ser sieh ganz selbstlos der zu lesenden Sell rift hingeben muss. Form -und Inhalt derselben muss er auf sieh oline irgend welchen Widerstand wirken lassen. Uni dieses aber lertig bringen zu kbnnen ist ein klares Wortverstandnis unumgangliche Vorbedingung. Bleibt die Bedeutung eines einzigen Wbrtchens dunkel, so verfehlt oft ein ganzer Satz, auf uns den beabsiehtigten Eindruckzu machen. Er bleibt unverstandlich, ware er noch so schlicht und einfach gebaut. Dasselbe ist auch der Fall bei einer mangelhaften Kenntniss der Sprache im weiteren Sinne des Wortes, namlich bei mangelhaftem Verstandnisse bildlicher Ausdriicke. Von dem guten Leser erwartet man, dass er bei keiner Metapher, bei keiner Allusion stutzt. Er besitzt hinlangliche Kennt-

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nisse in alien Fachern, aus deneu die Ausdriicke nur iinnier genominen sein mogen, um sie zu verstehen. 1st die Vorbedingung eines klaren Verstandnisses der Sprache erfiillt, dann kann diese'als die Form der Schrift ohne Storung ihre Wirkung auf den Leser ausliben. Dieser nimmt ill re Melodie und iliren R3'thmus wahr. Er merkt, ob sie heiter oder ernst gehalten ist, ob sie in leichter oder in gemessener Weise einherschreitet. Ueber diesen Eindriicken diirfen wir aber nicht vergessen, dass der Sinn eines Buclies, i\ir den die Sprache nur dasGevvand ist, den Haupteindruck machen soli. Damit er aber iiberhaupt auf tins wirke, ist cs notwendig, dass wir unsere eigene Individualitat ganzlich zuriicktreten lassen. Ohne mit eigenen Meinungen dazwischen zu fahren, niiissen wir allein den Yerfasser reden lassen. Ja der wirkliche Leser ist bestrebt, sich an die Stelle des Schriftstellers zu setzen, so dass er ill in ganz genau nachdenkt, so dass die Gedanken jenes seine eigenen zu sein scheinen. Freilich noch mehr als vollig selbstlose Hingabe ini Denken verlangt der Dichter. Er ist von Emplindungen erfiillt, und welche diese sind, miissen wir erkennen. Diese miissen wir nacli eni])linden, wir miissen uns ganz in die Gemutsstinniiung versetzen, in welcher der Dichter ist, wollen wir ihn verstehen. Es ist also eine vollstandig selbstlose Hingabe dein Sell rifts teller gegeniiber erstes Erfordernis bei jeglichem richtigen Lesen. Nur so, wenn wir den Verfasser ungestort reden lassen, kommen wir zu eiiiem richtigen Verstandnis seines Werkes. Es folgt aber dann bei deni wirklichen Leser ein zweites Stuck, wobei er sich nicht rezeptiv verhalt, sondern in seinem Geiste lidchst tatig ist. Was er gelesen hat, lasst er nicht rein ausserlich in seinem Gcdachtnisse ruhen. Sonst liiitte ja das Lesen seinen Zweck. dass cs namlich mit Nutzen geschehe, verlehlt. Er eignet sich das aus der Lektiire Gesanimelte in deni Masse an, dass es ein lebendiger Teil seiÂ ner Gedankenwelt wird. Die gelesenen Gedanken werden in der Seele bewegt und mit ahnlichen, schon vorhandenen in Verbindung gebracht. Dann sind eigentlich erst unsere Kenntnisse bereichert. Freilich nicht alles von der Lektiire eignet man sich in dieser Weise an. Was sich unseren Idealen vom Schonen, Guten und Waliren nicht zu nahern scheint, weisen wir zuriick. Und von dem Bleibenden scheiden wir wieder das, was allein fiir uns wissenswert ist, und nur das nehmen wir vollkommen in unsere Seele auf und machen es zu unserem dauernden Besitz. Es wird nun aus dem Gesagten einleuchten, dass das Lesen eine Kunst ist, die lange gelernt und geiibt sein will. Doeh sollten wir uns deswegen nicht abschrecken lassen, diese Kunst zu erlernen, denti <ler Nutzen, den uns richtiges Lesen bringt, ist sehr gross. E. Pli. D. â&#x20AC;&#x2122;04.

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Jubilees birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and the like excite great interest in the hearts of those who are concerned in events of that kind. But not only the day of excitement, as the reader probab ly knows from his own experience, but also the days of expectation and preparation are greatly enjoyable. How anxiously do the child ren expect a birthday that is drawing near in the family, or a picnic, or Christmas eve, which is perhaps the happiest moment of the year. And, when the day of happiness has come, and one foresees the in conveniences of the following day approaching, he ventures to wish that time had not progressed so quickly. In this manner the enjoy ments of the day are often intermingled with mild apprehensions ©f anxiety While such occasions draw near, people generally find them selves in a busy and active condition. Arrangements and prepara tions must be made to receive the inends with a most hearty wel come. Such were the circumstances in the city of Watertown. Since we are citizens of this city, it would probably be an interest ing task to recall one of the events of the past year that would be en tertaining to the reader. An air of enthusiasm seemed to be resting upon the city. The whole city was busy with making arrangements for the sixteenth of August, for that was the day of interest which every one had in view. Friends and relatives from far and near were cordially invited to witness this grand event. Also those who used to live in ibis city during the past fifty years were heartily welcomed. At presenl many of them live in the neighboring towns and villages, and a large number of them in Milwaukee It was the first time after a long period that the old settlers and immigrants and all other people that had left Watertown came to gether at one place to spend a day in happiness and delight. For this occasion Main Street was decorated with numerous flags, banners, bunting, and the like. The expectations and the excitement of the people grew stronger and stronger with even' da}’. And the more the joyful day drew near the larger the population ot Watertown seemed to become. The reader will probably think, what means all this arranging, decorating, and preparing? Why should the minds of so large a number of people be bent on this city and not on some other, as Mil waukee, the largest in the state? Why should just this city be the mark of interest? What could be the cause of all this ? To answer these questions is not very difficult. The former residents of Watertown had gladly accepted the invitations offered them by the present inhabitants of Watertown, and were now about to pay their native city a visit on the day previously mentioned. The morning of the sixteenth was bright and pleasant. Its fresh

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air tempted every ore to accept its friendly offerings. The golden rays of the sun penetrated the fresh morning air and pictured the profiles of the trees on the green lawns beneath. The moving about in the streets became gradually more and more vivid as the sun crept higher and higher in the heavens. When the clock struck nine a gen eral rush for the Station was noticed. Haying arrived there, the people were anxiously and impatiently waiting. What was it that they could expect at such an early hour of the day ? Suddenly a loud whistle was heard from afar, which pierced the air with violence and reechoed in the clear atmosphere above They fancied to have heard a train approaching and were actually not deceived; for after a few moments a rattling noise of the rails was heard, and the pulling of an engine assured them of the fact that the train was nearing. A few seconds more and there it stood before them like a monster that had emerged from the earth. A crowd of people stepped off the train. Amongst them were the members of a band of Milwaukee (Bach’s band). They soon amused the multitude with a few of their prettiest selections. The people were so numerous that the one or the other could not find the friends whom he had invited and now expected to be there. The train moved by, while the band marched up Fifth Street with a throng of people following. Having arrived at the Turner Hall, where they were to assemble, the members ol the band and a number of others enjoyed a short rest and were highly pleased with the refreshments they receiv ed. Thence the band with some of the older and the more renowned men of the city marched to Main Street, where they paraded up and down the street and then returned to the Turner Hall. At length the multitude dispersed to their homes, where their dinner was awaiting them; and soon the streets relapsed into silence. In this manner the forenoon passed by and with it the first hall of this noteworthy occa sion. At one o’clock in the afternoon the march to Tivoli Island (form erly called Concordia Island) was begun. The streets seemed to be alive with the congregations that were assembled for this march. Loud cheering and applauding was caused by the younger folk that followed the band ; and the hearts of the people were delighted by the music that the band rendered for their amusement. The charming sound and echoes filled the streets and the atmosphere with trium phant harmony. The time passed quickly. The march was soon completed. Their first greeting upon their entering the island was a calm, cool breeze, which blew gently across the river towards them. The sweet songs of the birds that perched on the limbs of lofty trees was delightful and amusing Beautiful scenery presented itself round about the island. On one side of it lies a branch ot the river in still-

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-ness and quietude. Its mirrorlike surface reflects the beautiful rays of the sun. This is apparently the cause of the reddish tint which the island appears to possess shortly before sundown. On the other side the water flows g.ently over the rocks with an almost inaudible babb ling, which very often reminds one of an early spring morning when the air is not disturbed by any harsh noise or disagreeable sound. The island seemed to be in constant motion with the large numb er of people that loitered about its green grounds. The band immedi ately took possession of the stand, especially erected for its purpose; and for the enjoyment and happiness of the people thee played amus ing and delightful pieces, such as Hiawatha, which was at that time one of those newly composed, and suffered the music to be carried off by gentle breezes into the atmosphere above. The bowling-alley rendered its services very well, for the young men seemed to have taken special interest in bowling. The confectionery-stand was also in a flourishing condition. And all the others were thriving equally well. Last but not least was the refreshment-stand, I should prob ably have mentioned it first, because it is, as experience teaches, very anxiously and frequently sought. The entertainment on the island was opened b\r two patriotic orations; the one was rendered by Mr. J. Brusenbach, mayor of the v iiv, the other by Ex-governor G. Peek of Milwaukee. They made a grand effect upon the public, for the latter clapped and cheered, and appl mded the speakers as if to induce them to deliver another speech. A her the speeches the people seemed to have taken great interest in viewing the beautiful scenes round about the island. One of these scenes was a waterfall of the river, if I may call it so, a stone’s throw distant from the island. It was lovely to see the sparkling water roll over the dam and tumble on the rocks beneath, where it foams and spouts and forms heavy mists and then floats away with a low bubbling murmur. But the only wav one could reach this place di rectly from the island was by means of a narrow strip of land, which served as a bridge. This natural bridge served its purpose very well. The crowd was constantly moving back and forth on it enjoying the scenes of the waterfall and the cool air that rested above the clear water. At length the afternoon came to a close. The sun appeared as a fireglobe fixed in the distant atmosphere; growing into a deep red, its ravs tinted the evening sky with various hues, and thereby furnish ed a 'beautiful appearance to all the scenery round about. We then left for our home. Having supped, we again undertook a stroll to the island. We had expected that the multitude would lessen as darkness should draw its veil over the cheerful surroundings. But to our astonish ment and surprise we found that even more people were present. And

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the majority of them remained on the island until the late hours of the night swept over it and nothing but the rippling of the water could be heard. The whole city of Watertown had relapsed into quiet. The grand day was over. Every one seemed to have been well pleased with the amusements he partook of. What has remained of that day? Noth ing but the sweet recollections that we may Tecall to our minds. And with those we shall depart from this memorable da}'. H. G. ’07.

Milton as a Poet. The English nation is proud, and not without reason, of the many poets and authors it has given to the world. Prom among all ol them Shakespeare stands out like a shining star. It is he whom the whole world adores as the honey-tongued poet. But he is by no means the only one of whom the English speaking race can be proud. There is yet another who in his sphere has attained nearly as lofty an eminence as Shakespeare. We allude to John Milton. John Milton was born in London on Dec. 9, lfiOS. His parents, being devout Puritans, were naturally desirous of inculcating the principles of their faith upon their son.' Unlike most children of such a great metropolis as London we find John spending the days of his childhood in the quietness of a Puritan home After having attained the age of sixteen he was matriculated in Christchurch College. His college career was successful in every respect. He was not a student of the ordinary class. The vain pleasures of societv, that onlv too often hinder students in doing their duty, possessed nothing alluring for ITini. Many a time he was to be found poring over his books by the feeble light of a little lamp when the lark already announced the approach of morn. Owing to his delicately-framed body and to his feminine features he was mockingly called’ the “lady of Christchurch” bv his college mates. After Milton was graduated from college he repaired to his country home in Bucks. Here he spent several years in peace and tranquillity'. He was unusually' fond of roaming about in the country, listening to the merry' song of the birds and inhaling the sweet fragrance of the various flowers that adorned the hills and dales. It was at this stage

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of his life that Milton applied himself so diligently to those great classics which he afterwards strove to emulate. Here it was that he spent those joyful hours of which he gives such a beautiful account in some of his later poems. With gratitude he recalls those happy moments he was permitted to spend at the side of the great Apollo. He thanks his father sincerely that he did not compel him to enter the strenuous battle of life at too early an age. Being now well advanced in the thirties, we find Milton thoroughly equipped to brave the manifold difficulties that present themselves in life. With that great confidence in himself which seems to be a natural characteristic of the Puritans he is determined to bring about a radical change in the state of affairs then existing in England. With Shakespeare English literature had attained an unprecedented height, but already at Milton’s time it had sunk into the abyss of corruption. Morality seemed to have sunk into oblivion. All this called forth a deep feeling of resentment and abhorrence in the pure mind of Milton. He therefore resolved to abolish all corrup tion b v producing some literature of a high moral standard. Instead of defiling the mind of the people as his contemporaries had done, he was bent upon elevating it. He was going to enlist as an ardent dedefender of the principles of morality. His poetry was to be writtenin honor of his almighty Creator. Truly his task was not an easy one. lie had the misfortune to be born in an age in which poetry had be come the medium of expressing licentious thought and prose the advocate of morality. He lived in an era that demanded no poetry. If we consider all the difficulties with which Milton was obliged to cope, must we not stand aghast and revere his noble genius? Mark how harmoniously he has tuned his lyre in those two little poems en titled “L’Allegro” and “II Penseros'o.” In reading these exquisite gems of poetry one is involuntarily wafted from this world of dismal care into the regions of Lethe. In the first Milton bids Melancholy go hence and make room for Euphrosyne, the fair Goddess of mirth. How beautifully he describes the landscapes of merry old England. We can fairly scent the rich odor of the flowers laden with the sparkling dew of morning; we can hear the lark chanting forth her bewitching notes as she rises perpendicularly into the air: we can see the ploughman trodding along before us; we can hear the peasant and his happy family chatting beside the quaint old hearth. All these pleasures Milton would have mirth bestow upon him. But he is not satisfied with these alone. He would also have her take him “to the well-trod stage anon, if Johnson s sock be on, or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child, warble his wood-notes wild.” If Mirth can bring him these ideal pleasures, he is ready to live with her. But such a lively disposition as Milton shows in “L’Allegro does

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not seem common with him. His mind is wont to run in a more pen sive channel. It almost seems as if he had forgotten himself and broken those fetters of demure thought for a moment thus giving vent to such exquisiie mirth. But he soon finds that he has strayed into strange regions. He does not feel at all at ease. Again his mind is occupied with graver thoughts, and these he expresses so very charm ingly in *‘H Penseroso.” He would now know no more of'Mirth; he curses those “vain de luding jovs, the brood of Folly without father bred” and hails the sage and holy Goddess, Melancholy. Furthermore he entreats Melancholy to bring with her “him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, the Cherub Contemplation.” From this passage it is evident that Milton was well versed in his Bible and especially in the Apocalypse. Instead of enjoying Nature in the sunlight of morning he would now betake himself to some lonely spot in the woods where he would be disturbed bv no one but the busy bee and the bab bling brook. The rays of the sun are now too resplendent for him. Instead he would now rather behold the moon as she darts her mel lowed rays across the landscape. This world of pleasures was now too vain for him. He would soar into higher region, forget the cares of this world, commune with the philosophers of old, and finally in a hairy gown and a mossy cell attain the wisdom of the old prophets. As time wore on Milton’s poetic genius developed more and more. He is bereft of a friend, who was drowned in a shipwreck while cross ing the Irish channel. It is to his honor that he has dedicated that beautiful eleg3r, “Lycidas” which has until now been considered the touchstone of poetry. Very modestly he begins this elegy by making an apology to the "laurels and the myrtles brown with ivy never sere” for disturbing them at an undue season. He tells them, however, that “Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, young Lvcidas. At first he is baffled by the thought that so faithful a shepherd is summoned to eternal rest at such an early stage of life. He would rather have seen some of those unfaithful shepherds, who allowed the wolf to prey upon the sheep that had been entrusted to their care summoned before the awful judgment throne. With scorn he reprimands the slothful shep herds and tells them that that great “two-handed engine is standing at the door, which is ready to smite once, and smite no more.” Again Milton changes his morose humor and bids the flowers that deck the hills and vales pay their tribute to Lycidas. This is one of the most beautiful passages in the English language. After all his mourning Milton consoles himself with the happy thought that Lycidas in reality is not dead, but that he is enjoying eternal bliss with all the heavenly host. Comus seems to have been written with a certain aim against the corruptness of the English stage. Comus, the son of Circe, entices a

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young lady who had been separated from her two brothers by the dark ness of night to indulge in the carnal pleasures of life. But he is put to shame by the reproachful answer of this chaste virgin. This licentious youth who has said, “What has night to do with sleep?” must crouch before the voice of truth. Chastity wins a glorious victory. The maiden is at length rescued from the hands of this foul fiend, and to-x gether with her two brothers she returns to her father’s home again, ' rejoicing that she had preserved her virginity. These small poems already show with what great poetic genius Milton was endowed. But this was not all he intended to write. He was yet going to acquit himself of a promise he had made in several of his prose writings. For a great many years he had entertained the thought of giving to the world a great epic. At this stage of his life lie had already become blind. Nevertheless he did not give up his task. Just as the nightingale sings sweetest in the darkness of night so also Milton was yet going to sweep the strings of his lyre more loudly and artistically than he had heretofore done. He was yet to write “Para dise Lost,” that great masterpiece of English poetry, which has im mortalized his fame. As a theme lor this poem he chose the most terrible subject of the Old Testament, the fall of man. Unlike the authors of the ancient classics he at once acquaints us with the abstract theme of his work instead of mentioning the names ot his heroes first. His very first strain runs thus: “Of man’s first disobedience etc.” Mark how he describes hell and all her firearmed host! Satan like a powerful mon arch sits upon his throne enwrapped in everlasting flames. Mark how he addresses his convened peers: “Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers!” The eloquence of his speech is so grand that even the younger Pitt has chosen him as a model. He knows lull well that lie has been doomed to destruction eternal by his own folly. Never theless he does not despond. Instead of trying to assuage the ire of him whom he had so much offended he now contemplates revenge. He consoles himself with the thought, “It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.” Milton’s idea of God, if we may use the expression, is not correct. He is to be the almightv, never-erring God at whose beck Cherubim go forth and do their duty bidden, and we find him entertaining fears lest Satan with his rebel host might vanquish him. When Ad am complains to him of his loneliness he seeks to console him by telling him that he had from eternitv been sole inhabitant ol heaven. This seems a little shallow, but we can excuse it, if we think ofthe narrow confines Milton was obliged to move in. At the spur of the moment one is inclined to think that heaven, eternity, infinity ought to offer an extensive field for the imagination. This, however, is not the case. The material of the Bible admits of little change. The ardent believer in the Scripture

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does not like to see the text distorted in any way. He always fears that in so doing the sense may also be entirely changed. Best of all Milton has succeeded in describing his Paradise. He succeeds in bringing active life into that everlasting changeless state of „ happiness. The scene of action is so aptly changed that we are some what relieved from that supernatural strain to which the poet has sub jected us. The almost impossible is accomplished. Hesucceedsin making eternity almost tangible for us common mortals. Mark how content Adam and Eve lived together in Paradise. There was no rivalry between them. There was the mutual under standing that Adam was created for “God only, and she for God in him.” They knew of no care; fear they had none; they were supreme rulers, having received their station directly from God. It is to him and to him onlv that they owed allegiance. But this was not felt by them as by subjects of a cruel tyrant. Their whole life was one con tinuous eulogy of the bounteousness of their Creator. Satan, seeing this blissful state of man, envied him very much. He was already looking about the precincts of this heavenly garden, awaiting a "propitious moment when he might practice his foul artifice upon Eve. At length he found his opportunity. With tempting speech he begins discourse with Eve and finally persuades her to take that dire step which doomed all mankind to eternal damnation until the only begotten son of God appear and atone for the sin of man. After all it will be seen that “Paradise Lost” is not a pure epic poem. In many places Milton gives us an account of his own life and of the state of affairs then existing in England. It is not as many people assert the most human piece ot poetry, but it is decidedly sym bolical. It has also been proved that it’s purpose is didactic. By some Milton has been accused of plagiarism. The Hollanders, for instance, assert that “Paradise Lost” is merely a copy of“Adamus Exul,” a Latin poem of Hugo Grotius. It is true, Milton has made use of several passages of this poem in his Paradise Lost. But in so doing Put the author to shame. A single example will serve to prove this fact. The Satan of Grotius says: “Alto praesse Tartaro siquidem juvat Cadis quam in ipsis obire munia.” This Milton very pregnantly translates: It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.” It is foolish to assert that an author should not make use ot the thoughts were ^ case, what would be the state of affairs * Thef5 ^ould be 110 progress. It is by the good thoughts mm*f-oic r. we, Probt very much. Besides we common mortals ought not to complain because Milton has wrested a happy

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thought from some insignificant fellow and moulded it into a more acceptable form. Considering the difficulties Milton had to overcome, we cannot help lauding him most highly for having treated his difficult theme in such a masterly manner. Although the pleasure this great poem affords us is not entirely perfect, we shall be disposed to excuse this, if we bear in mind what rigid material Milton had at his disposal. Let us always be mindful of the fact that perfect pleasure is ideal. This done, we shall not be apt to undervalue Milton’s great poetic genius.

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Melancholia. Among the many jovial faces we now and then see an unpleasant one. This should not be. There is no reason for any young man in the prime of life to be dissatisfied with his surround ings. Moodiness ought not to be tolerated. What, in the name of reason, are 've to expect from you as yon grow older and meet the uglv world face to face if you already show symptoms of dissatis faction. When you feel as though you’should like to kick the world, w en \ ou feel like the student in Maud, when he says: worse âD^S' ^°r ên<* êst knows whether woman or man he the own^bU1'V mySe'f

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then it is time that you look about you. Do not think that your love for your books is the real love of the real student. Not at all. Your books then simply supply the place of the world. They are your alternative. You hate the world, therefore you seclude yourself with your books. You should care for your physical health. The- reason of your morbid craving for solitude is to be sought in the body. If your mind is morbid, the bodily organs are not doing their work properly. The college gymnasium ought to be cherished by you. You ought moreover to use it daily. Then too hard study, really hard study taken regularly and in comparatively small doses is an excellent preventive. Sit down and puzzle out a page of Greek A coup dc dictionnaire, take a two hour’s dose of it, and you will be relieved. You may say that work is not a specific, that many men have worked steadily and earnestly, and still suffered from ennui. You point to Scott, Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth. You are in a measure justified in your remark. From Solomon downward you cannot find a man of great imagination who has not been subject to these fits of melancholy. Even Goethe, worker that he was, suffered. The result was Wcrther. But at the same time we hear that in later years he was ashamed of having written such a piece of sentimentali ty. As a felicitous example we may cite Alexander Humboldt, and perhaps Cuvier. They both embraced the intellectual life from early manhood and were constantly happy in their work. An example which may be more familiar is Edmund Burke. He certainly led the strenuous life. He too was constantly happy and willing to help those about him. — Settle down to your work and you will find it an efficacious antidote for melancholia. Aside from other considerations melancholia will unfit you for your work of life, and for that, if for no other reason, it must be avoided. The Daily An eminent instructor advised his pupils not long since Newspaper. to reac] no daily newspapers. The advice was very un usual, yet we are inclined to think that it is very wholesome. Pro miscuous reading, as we all know, makes one superficial. The news paper is often little more than a conglomeration of news items. Editors seldom consider whether the information they’ give will do the public any good. Sensational news of murders, suicides, accidents, robberies, etc. surely’ do not better the reader, nor do they make him a great deal wiser.’ But it is the tendency of the times to read excit ing news, and papers are compelled to print what the public wants to know. The war between the Japanese and the Russians in the Far East furnishes a great deal of copy’ just at present. All might be well if the papers would content themselves with telling events of the past. But some would also peep into the future. Their attempts at predic-

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tion are often amusing. Some time ago a daily paper appeared with an article showing conclusively that Russia must be victorious. By a curious coincidence another paper that morning proved the very opposite. One of the most important requisites is that the tidings be fresh. First reports are seldom accurate so the news is usually ex aggerated. Copy is also written in such haste that little attention can be paid to the language used. There is about to be published in another country a paper that bids fair to become the ideal journal. All material will be written by educated people in the best possible language. The proofs are to be read seven times so typographical errors will be almost impossible. Above all this paper will publish no news, if we may call it so, before it is a week old. It will therefore not be influenced by momentary excitement and will be able to give only correct information.

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Physical Culture. Everybody' ought to take physical culture. Phy sical culture makes a person strong Many people are naturally strong, but if they live on without doing anything to keep their strength and vigor, they will in time become weaklings. But weak persons are made strong by physical culture. For this reason every body ought to give his body enough excercise to keep it in a healthy condition. The weak should take physical culture to become strong and the strong to remain so. This ought to be done especially by students. When a person sits in a classroom all day' inhaling the crayon dust, a walk in the fresh air will be most beneficial to him. Besides that there is the gymnasium, in which one may excercise his body. There are the parallel bars, affording excellent exercise, especi ally for the chest and the shoulders. But turning is considered by many people to be too violent an exercise. Violent exercise is certain ly not good for the muscles. It jerks them and makes them feel lame and sore. Physical culture, if done correctly, gives better results than turning. While doing physical culture exercises the blood gets ample time to circulate through the muscles coming into play, which is not the case with turning. Many people complain of not sleeping well and of a tired feeling in the morning; and therefore thev cannot do their work properly. If they should take good hard exercise with dumbells immediately before retiring, they would notice a change in a very short time. The reason why they cannot sleep is, that they are not tired enough. If they should take their exercise and make them selves tired just before retiring, they would be asleep within a few minutes. Exercises like these should be taken in front of an open win dow, so as to inhale plenty of fresh air. In the morning after arising there is nothing better than deep breathing exercises.

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Concentration. To be able to concentrate your mind on your work is one of the requisites for a successful career. He who has not this enviable faculty is doomed to be relegated to the worthies of second ary importance. Without concentration of mind you cannot tho roughly understand life, neither can you produce. The lives and hab its of our greatest and most successful men bear witness to this. From them you see that it is not necessary to work continually and without recreation, but that when you do work you work with your whole self bound up in your undertaking. Give to your study your full attention. Do not allow yourself to be disturbed by what may be going on in your immediate surroundings. If you in this noisy city life of to-day were to be disturbed by those about you, you would not be able to point to any notable results. A great part of the profes sional men work in the noisy down-town-districts. By far the great er part has offices in the upper stories of a sky-scraper. Among the busy hum of traffic they do their work. How much easier is it for you who in your well-regulated dormitories are not disturbed by the creaking of carts and bustle of the metropolis. But still we daily ob serve a pitiable lack of that concentration which alone leads to suc cess. Work while you work and play while you play is a homely little piece of advice, but bitter experience has proved it valuable to men in all branches of life.

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Protokoll der 24. Sitzung des Alumni-Ycrcins dcr N. W. U., gehaltcn am 23. Juni, 1903, in Watertown, Wis. Dei Vorsitzer, Prof. Kohler, eroffnete die Sitzung. Anwesend' waren die Professoren Kohler, Dr. Ott, Kuhn, Dr. Hormanu, Weimar, Frank, Moussa; die Pastoren Knuth, Ebert, Hagedorn, Sonnemann, Th. Brenner, Schliiter, Dejung, 0. Heidtke, A. Ernst, P. Heidtke, Chr. Sauer; die Herren und Damen Chr. A. Christiansen, Mare. Xotz, E. Burger, C. F. Lembke, Alfr. Sauer, A. Schultz, Hugo Brandt, Frl. W. Christiansen. Die diesjahrige Abiturienten-Klasse wurde in den Verein aufgenommen und Vom Vorsitzer willkommen geheissen, namlieh die Herren Edm. Bliefernielit, R. Burger, L. Kirst, H. Koch, K. Koh ler, W. Liibke, A. Sydow, M. Raasch. — Der Schatzmeister legte seinen Bericht ab, welcher einen Kassenbestand von $103.49 ergab. — Das Komitee iiber die Schnlfrage berichtete, dass dasselbe nicht dazu gekonnnen sei eine Sitzung abzuhalten. Beschlossen, cine besondere Sitzung des Vereins bei Gelegenheit der Synode in Appleton abzuhalten, um diese Angclegenheit zu erledigen. — Der Chronist des Vereins berichtete, dass im Laufe des J all res leider ein selir tatiges Mitglied, ja der eigentliehe geistige Urhcber des Alumni-Vereins der N. W. U., Herr Professor Eugen Notz, dureh den Tod abgeruien worden sei. Der Verein ehrte das Andenken des Entschlafenen dureh Erheben von den Sitzen und beschloss den hinterblicbenen das herzliche Beileid des Vereins dureh den Sekretar bezeugen zu lassen, Der Xekrolog wurde als den Gliedern bekannt vorausgesetzt, da derselbe bereits im Black and Red im Druck ersehienen sei. In Angelegenheit des litterarischen Komitees wurde besehlossen, dass auch in Zvkunft dieses Komitee fur Artikel im Black and Red und fiir Vortrage wahrend der Vereinssitzungen sorgen soil. — (Fortsetzung). Appleton, Wis., den 25. Juni, 1903. — Der Vorsitzer gab den Zweck der Sitzung an, namlieh in Bezug auf die zu griindende Akademie weitere Schritte zu tun. Da das betreffende Komitee keinen Bericht eingereicht hatte, wurde beschlossen, den in Milwaukee im vorigen Jahre gefassten Beschluss, eine Akademie zu griinden, in Wiedererwagung zu ziehen. — Hieran fiigte sich die Fest2G0

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setzung der Tatsache, class das diesbeziigliche Komitee infolge dieses Beschlusses aufgehoben sei. — Im Anschluss an den nun vorliegenden Vorschlag crfolgte eine langere Auscinandersetzung iiber die Schulfrage. Nach reiflicher Ueberlegung wurde der Antrag, eine Akademie zu griinden, endgiltig abgelehnt. — DerVorsitzer ernannte nun noch ein Komitee, welches die Frage untersuchen soil, ob nicht auch solche friiheren Schuler der Anstalt, welche zwar nicht die Anstalt vollstandig absolviert, aber doch mit deni Zcugnis der Reife diesel be verlassen haben, sowie auch die Abiturienten der Akademie, in Zukunft als Mitglied aufgenomnien werden sollten. Dieses Komitee besteht aus den Professoren Kuhn, Frank und Dr. Ott. I lasselbe soli in der nachsten Jah res versa mm lung Bericht erstatten. — Vertagung. Chr. Sauer, Sekr. JL

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1. Zusammenkunft: Nach dem jahrlichen Aktus in Watertown je nacli Anordnutig der Yereinsbeamten. 2. Die Beamten werden durch Stimmzettel erwahlt. 3. Die Constitution kann nur durch % Mehrheit verandert werden. 4. Vereinsmitglieder konnen nur durch % Mehrheit ausgeschlossen werden. 5. Jedes Mitglied tragt jahrlich wenigstens $i.00 in die Vereinskasse bei.”— Chr. Sauer, 1877.

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before the storm, for in a few minutes there would be one of the fiercest blizzards raging. “Come and staj* with me and we will both be safe” was his kind invitation. Sam was startled and perplexed by these words. Once more he spurred his horse, but a moment’s reasoning convinced him that he was making a vain attempt. So he stopped and returned to the Indian, who told him to unsaddle his horse and let it run loose. Scarcely had five minutes elapsed when a fierce blizzard began to sweep down upon them. Now both wrapped themselves into several blankets which the red man had been carrying with him, lay down in to the coarse tall prairie-grass on a spot selected by the Indian, and were soon covered with snow. For three days the storm raged fiercely and Sam’s wife and child ren feared that he was lost. “But perhaps he stayed at the village, where they probably received a dispatch notifying them of the approaching danger.” So they were continually kept in suspense, wavering between fear and hope. Sam also felt very uneasy and chilly besides in his bed of snow, but was encouraged by the coolness of his companion, who even shared his scanty rations to appease their hunger. At times the Indian would push his gun through the cover of snow to see if the storm was still raging, but not until three long days had passed did the storm subside, and the sun immediately shone brightly. Sam heartily thanked the Indian for having saved his life, invited him to come to his house and dine with him, and told him if he found the pony alive he should have it as a reward. Great was the joy ofthe old Indian when he soon found the pony embedded in snow but alive. Still greater was the joy when Sam came home and told the story of his adventure. J. M.

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Mv friends have long suspected it; my wife has known it all these years of our married lif*,—in fact, this knowledge has been the one and only shadow that ever darkened the sunshine of our marital bliss; and since the secret will leak out, sooner or later, I may as well anticipate its discovery: I am a spiritualist. To leave no room for a doubt, I repeat my statement: I am a spiritualist. Not that I think the world will care a great deal. One spiritualist more or less counts very little in these days, But there is no reason for keeping the matter secret; and having now given this statement to the public,—I sincerely crave pardon of the readers of the B. and R. for calling them the public; I meant to sav: to the elite oi the public,— I will follow it up with an immediate explanation. Before proffering this immediate explanation, however, I beg leave to draw a deep sigh of relief. Yes, it is really true. I not only believe in the possibility of a com munication between the spirits of the dead and those of the living, but 1 have actually succeeded in establishing such communication. And let me tell you, my spiritualism is a complete success; no raps, no hands and heads floating in the air, no harps and banjos and other antiquated circumstantial evidence of the presence ofspirits;—no, mine is absolutely the most direct and infallible kind of communication ever established. I call them almost at will. They come by day or by night, when ever I want them, though I prefer to have them come at night, for various reasons. They appear visibly, I see them with my bodily eyes. I have reasons for believing, however, that the visible shape in which they appear is only assumed,—it is altogether too unbecoming, too coarse, too cumbersome, much more so. in fact, than the mortal evil has been which they have shuffled off when leaving this material abode. Though their appearance is, generally speaking, of a uniform type, there is usually some difference of detail, characterizing the individual spirit: some look prettier than others; some are taller, some fatter, some more elegant, some more awkward; I have also noticed that those spirits which are spiritually the most beautiful present the most unfavorable outward appearance. Well, 1 don’t call them for their looks. What I want is informa tion (especially such as I cannot well gather from living mortals) and, in some degree, entertainment. The company of mortals is well enough, as far as it goes. But there are things which they cannot teach me; there are pleasures which they cannot give me; and that is

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BasKet Ball.

As our basket ball team made a creditable showing, and as we do not therefore wish to lose all record of the games played, it will perhaps be suitable, now that the season is over, to enlighten our readers as to the results. Be it said to the credit of the boys that they worked faithfully and without loss to their studies. That games are played by electric light makes it possible to avoid cutting recita tions. Train connections are such that we may go and return with out missing a recitation. There can be no complaint about support. Not only the students but also the town people seem to take an active interest in this sport. As a result the season has been an emi nently successful one from a financial viewpoint. May the third season bring as much improvement as the second.

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between Ernst and Kumm or Ernst and North did wonders, basket after basket being made through this play. The visitors were com pletely taken by surprise, and were played off their feet in the first half. We managed to run up 27 points against the 2 of the cadets in this half. The second half was a duplicate of the first, the final score being 46 to 10. Ernst played the star game of the evening, making 14 baskets or a total of 28 points. Kumm played a fast game and succeeded in making 6 field baskets. Ernschield for the visitors play ed the best game. St. John’s M. A. Joy I. g. Lauder r. g. St. Clair c. Kunzel r. f. Ernschield 1. f. N. W. U.

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Very little can be said about this game. our opponents; the score tells the story'.

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The athletic event of the season took place on Washington's birthday when we met the University of Wisconsin basket ball team in our hall. This is the first time in the annals of our athletic history that we ever met the ’Varsity in any kind of a contest. They have one of the strongest teams in the west and the showing that we made against our husky opponents does us credit. We were defeated by the score of 41 to 31. Fast, clean-cut, snappy plays were the chief characteristics of the game. Our boys displayed excellent team work and good basket throwing. This half brought us defeat, the visitors running up a total of 25 points to our 11. Steinmetz made 4 field baskets and 4 out of 6 free throws. Ernst, Kumm and North each made a field basket. North also got 5 out of 6 free throws. With certain defeat staring them in the face our boys got down to work and made little rings around the ’Varsity, scoring 20 points to their 16. This half belonged to us, our tandem play was invincible, through it most of our points being made. The game was absolutely7 void of quarreling. The officials did excellent work and the visitors won entirely7 on their merits. North played the best game of the evening, also throwing 18 out of 20 free throws. Kumm and Wovahn did some very good work. Ernst and Breutzmann played a fast and clean game. Steinmetz proved to be the star for the visitors making a total of 25 points.

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The Abbey Student is both in quantity and quality the best on our table. We heartily enjoy reading the productions found in this paper. The exchange editor need not fear he will have to search through a bushel of chaff and finally be disappointed to find that he has not been recompensed for the valuable time he has spent. “The Rose” is a beautiful little poem. “Our Creative Faculty” although a very ab struse subject is ably treated. While reading this article one feels that the writer is well-informed on his subject. “Father Damien” is also a very interesting article. The author characterizes “Father Damien” very well when he says, “Manhood found him a peasant still in humility, a hero in courage, and a martyr in desire.” Yet we do not think the conclusion of this article is very apposite. The author says, “Rome taught us war! England statesmanship! America patriotism! and Molokai, with its immortal hero, Damien, has taught us love for our fellowman.” To contrast Damien’s gift to the world with thegift of a whole nation is, we think, a rather bold undertaking. The phrase sounds well, but that is all there is to it. And then to say that Damien taught us (the world) love for our fellowman is also going a little too far. There are many other men who have done this to a greater ex tent, and above all it was our Saviour who taught us to love our fellowman. The editorials on the whole are instructive. We think, however, the editor has exaggerated the merits of Pere Marquette a little too much. To say that our congress, laying claim to civilization and Christianity has displayed a strange fair-mindedness for not acceptting the statue of Pere Marquette at once is rather strong. We wish to state tnat congress has nobusiness, whatever, to cater to any special denomination. Again the author says that the influence oftlie Catholic church on our government is greatly underrated. We would ask the editor what influence the Catholic church has had on our government. If it has had any, it has been negative. The absence of the Catholic church in this country from the origin of our government until now would not have affected the same in the least.

The various departments of The Ouachita. Ripples are well edited. The article on “Machiavelli is well worth reading. “The Man of Destinv” gives us a fair idea of Napoleon’s greatness. To all those who are interested in love stories “The Test of Time” will undoubtedly be interesting. “The Influence of Alexander the Great upon the World” I

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is an ably written article. The author has grasped the great importance of this influence. He clearly shows that Alexander’s conquests facilitat ed the preaching of the gospel inasmuch as they gave to the then known world a"common language. The editorial column is also up to the standard. It would be good if our citizens would read the editoral entitled “The Teacher’s Salary.” The exchange editor deserves to be lauded for his interesting exchange column.

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The February number of The Susquehana contains an article en titled “Character.” It is very evident that the author did not have the right conception of the word character. He says that someone has very well defined character as the “fruits of habit.” We should like to know what finally is not the fruit ot habit. Sickness is often the fruit of habit, blindness in many cases results from habit, in short, there are many things that are the fruits of habits. By the word character we understand the inclinations that a man has to good or evil. It is the prospensity, resting upon certain principles, according to which man acts. Again the author says, “Jesus Christ has been the only one whom it is safe to imitate.” nThis sounds as if it were not safe to trust in him any more Again the writer says that character is invariably written upon the face. This we do not believe. Appearances are very deceiving. In many cases have appearances led men astray. The exchange editor of this paper begins his column by censuring other exchanges for reprinting old jokes in their exchange columns; he exhorts them to make better use of this space. We would kindly remind the honorable editor that his exchange column is not much more than a farce either. Mark a few of his comments on other exchanges: “Greetings to the Black and Red from Wisconsin. It is attracti vely bound, and its articles reveal careful com posi tion. ” A nother one: “We congratulate the Otterbein Aegis on its excellent football cuts in the December number.” Such superficial remarks certainly show that the editor has not taken the trouble to read his exchanges through carefully. These shallow remarks are of no benefit whatever. On the contrary they tend to increase the spirit of superficiality that is prevalent at the present day. Why not have some sound, produc tive criticism? The January number of the Thielensian contains several good articles. In “The College Man and the Nation” the author clearly shows the importance of the college man in the affairs of our country. “Capital Punishment” is also an article that is very interesting since this topic is almost universally discussed at the present day. The writer advances some good, sound statements and succeeds in proving them fairly well. In “A Trip through South Germany” the author describes the scenery about Heidelberg so well that we can fairly seethe objects. But what is the matter with the exchange editor? His

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Owing to illness Prof. Frank was unable to hear his classes from Feb. 16 to 23. On Feb. 17 Dr. Notz visited his son Mark at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Prof. Ernst made a trip to Beloit on Feb. 15 to visit the institution. Prof. Ernst and Inspector Eickmann attended a meeting in Mil waukee at which a plan for the new domitory at our institution was discussed. Dr. Notz was obliged to excuse his classes on Feb. 26 on account of illness. The Rev. Jul. Ganim of La Crosse visited the institution on Feb. 23. :

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Ernest Heilmann, ’05, and Adolph Pankow, ’00, visited their grandfather at Ixonia Feb. 22. John Herzberg of Asliippun, a former member of the class of 1905, called on his brother Frank, ’09, Feb. 27. Thomas Curphey called on friends at this institution on Feb. 28. W. G. Haase, ’06. visited his brother Henry at the seminary in Wauwatosa Feb. 21. E. Moldenhauer, ’ll, payed relatives at Sullivan a visit on Feb. 26. Paul Schreiber from Randolph called on R. Dielilmann, TO, Feb. 21Theodore Meyer, ’OS, visited his sister Johanna at Oak Grove on Feb. 22. Edgar Kroner from La Crosse called on his brother William ’10, Feb. 16. Mr. Geo. Zeisler of La Crosse called on his son Henry, TO, Feb. 24. Adolph v. Rohr, ’06, accompanied the basket-ball team to Madison. Mr. Exner was present at the entertainment given by the orches tra in the “N. W. U. Turner Hall” Feb. 22. A glorious time is reported by all who were present. Herbert Jenny from Milwaukee called on friends Feb. 21. W. Bergelin, TO, who was ill for several weeks, returned from his home Feb. 18, and has resumed his studies. Arthur Svdow, ’03, called on friends while on his way to the sem inary on Feb. 14. Mr. Clias. Pettibone. representing the Pettibone Bros. Mlg., Co. of Cincinnati, called on the captain of the military company, R. Breutzmann. in the interests of the firm. On Feb. 9 Wm. Eggert, ’07 and Herm. Eggert, ’ll, were called home on account of the sudden death of their father. John Dames of the Milwaukee Telegraph School attended the Wisconsin-Northwestern basket-ball game on Feb. 22. John Pieper ’02, ofthe seminary at Wauwatosa called on his brother Roland, TO, Feb. 21. Karl Koehler, ’03, visited friends at college on Feb. 22 and attend ed several classes on Feb. 23. Mr. Max. Selluelke from Milwaukee called on Henrv Anger, ’07, Feb. 24. Henry Anger, ’07, was unable to attend recitations for some time as he was ill. JohnJeske, TO, enjoyed a short visit of his father, Mr. R. Jeske from Milwaukee on Feb. 9. The following spent Washington’s birthday at their homes: Emil

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Lehmann, ’10, at Hustisford, Alex. Zuehlke, ’09, at Juneau, Herbert Kirchner, ’10, at Lowell; Alex. Jaeger, ’08, at Ixonia, Otto Koch, ’09, at Columbus, Alex. Sitz, ’09, at Lebanon, Rob. Diehlmann, ’10, at Beaver Dam, Geo. Rickemann, ’08, at Helenville. The new staff was organized March 2. The following are the editors: J. Abelmann, ’05, editor-in-chief; E. Wendland, ’06, business manager; A. Eickmann, '06, assistant business manager; R. Owen, ’05, exchange editor; A. Sauer, ’06, local editor; R. Breutzmann, ’05, athletic editor; Edwin Sauer, ’07, campus and class-room editor; T. Bittner, ’05, society editor. We welcome all the new members and wish them success. Washington's Birthday Entertainment. by tlio Sigma Nil Literary Society in N. W. II. Clmpel .Saturday Evening February 20,1004.] PROGRAM.

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The first class in elocution assembled for their annual Washington Memorial recitation on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Tne Sophomores de livered original orations, while the Freshmen rendered selections. The

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classes choose the speakers from their midst, the teacher, Prof. Kuhn, assigning the subjects. Following is the programme; 1. First in War—oration by A. Bartz, ’06. 2. The Birthday of Washington—selection by H. Diehl, ’07. ft. First in Peace—essay by W. Haase, ’06. 4. Our Flag—selection by H. Wo}7ahn, ’07. 5. First in the Hearts of our Countrymen—oration by E. Wendland, ’06. 6. Shall we give up the Union?—seclection by G. Luedtke, ’07. The Freshmen had tastefully decorated the room in our national colors. The speakers caught the spirit of the day, and enthusiasm ran high. On Feb. 23 and 24 the Rev. J. Gamm of LaGrosse visited Iriends and relatives in this city. He did not fail to call at our institution, where he attended several recitations.—On the evenging of the 23 the choir of which he was once a prominent member met in his honor at the home of Prof. Kuhn. A pleasant evening was spent.

Editor’s Drawer ! Dr. Hoermann’s recitation room is decorated in a very tasty man ner. On the whole it is perhaps as inviting as a classroom may well be. Here the object of the movement to hang suitable pictures has been realized. No less than eight appropriately selected pictures re lieve the monotony of three walls, while the fourth is taken up by three new historical maps. Cranach is well represented. We find three ofhis pictures: Luther, George von Saxen, George von Brandenburg. Cranach may be con sidered as a painter of the Reformation. He was prolific not only in protraits but in sacred, historical and mythological scenes. He is in tensely national and protestant. Not many good examples of his style exist outside of Germany. His portraits of Luther and Melanchthon, especially, are familiar to all travelers. A large room in the Dresden Gallery is filled with his alter-pieces and pictures. Critics were for a long time undecided as to whom to ascribe the portrait of George von Brandenburg. For a long time it was thought that Duerer had painted it. But it has now been definitely ascribed to Cranach. It is a remarkably well executed piece of work.

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We also have a copy of the Erasmus of Holbein. Born at Augs burg in 1497 Holbein was, according to an authority, an able painter at the age of fourteen. In 1526 he visited England and was received into the family ot Sir Thomas More, bringing a letter of introduction from Erasmus whom he had painted. He is said, upon being commissioned to paint Anne of Cleves for Henry VIII., to have so flattered that lady that Henry proposed marriage but was bitterly disappoint ed in her appearance. Holbein’s portraits, and especially ours have great vigor and individuality. We quote what a critic says of Erasmus himself. “Im gewissen Sinnc das Haupt der Humanisten, jedenfalls von ihnen alien der Meistgefeierte war bekanntlich Erasmus von Rotterdam, mehr als ein hoch gclehrter Kenner des Altertums: ein wahrhaft itberlegener, scharfer und witziger Geist, und dabei ein ebenso fruchtbarer, wie gewandter mid geschmackvoiler Schriftsteller. Freilich, dem “Voltaire der Re naissance” war nicht nur das Menschliche, sondern auch das Allzumensehliche nicht fremd: er war ein etwas eitler und ein sehr fursichtiger Herr, dem seine eigene Person mit ihren reizbaren Nerven und wohlgepflegten Bediirfnissen zum mindesten gleich neben der Sache stand, fur die er sehrieb. Auch daran lag es mit, dass er keine feste Heimstatte hatte. Ubi bene ibi patria, er wohnte, weltbiirgerlich gesiimt, bald hier, bald dort, als alternder Herr aber ging er nach Basel, wo die Pressen so riistig druckten, was die gescheiten Leute schrieben, die rnternehmungslustigen Buchhiindler verlegten und die frischen, jungen Zcichner illustrierten. Hier lernt er personlich den jungen Holbein kennen, der seine grosse Satire, das“Lob derNarrheit”, schon so kdstlich illustriert hatte, und hier sass 1523 der etwa Fiinfundzwanzigjahrige dem Sechsundzwanzigjahrigen zu unserm Bilde.” The original of our picture, then, is in the Louvre in Paris. It is a picture of a learned man. To emphasize this Holbein has resorted simple to the gown worn at the time and paper and ink. From the drapery in the rear and the rings on his fingers we may conclude that he was an admirer of the beautiful. The stillness of the study prevades the whole picture. An admiring connoisseur has exclaimed: Dieses Bild ist das Symbol des feingeistigen Arbeitens. And it is on that account that it ought to be in every study. If you hang that picture near vou in your study you will alwaj'S find in it an animation, an irresistible something which starts you in \rour work. Of Duerer we have two copies. Above all we are fortunate in possessing his incomparable self-portrait. On entering the i ooni that is the picture which attracts your eye. And for the time it holds vour undivided attention, it fascinates you. Duerer’s earliest and best known works are the portraits of himself and of his father, in Madrid, Florence, and also at Munich. These were painted during the years from 1497 to 1500. Ours is from the year 1500. This is the best

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known and most beautiful of Kis portraits of himself. It is now in the Pinakothek in Munich Unfortunately, however, the picture m the Pinakothek is not free from damage. He who kwnows no other painting of Duerer knows ol this por trait, this famous ‘Selbstbildnis’. But do not imagine that it is hackneved. On the contrary, you never tire of gazing on this work. You see it once, and carry it'about with you. He looks you straight in the face. His noble countenance impresses you. The expression is tranquil and serene. “Hinter den Augen leuclitet seelisches Gold .so hell wie Sonnenschein, und darum wird’s einem vor diesem Angesichte wohl, darum liebt man’s.” The “Lob der Narrheit” of Erasmus found many readers at the time of its publication. Indeed, it is claimed by many to have sug gested two great pictures to Duerer. We speak of his “Melancholic” and his “Hieronymus im Gehaus”. The book shows the pleasures that man has who lives away from society, who has secluded himself. It makes menw over those thinkers who tread the dubious ways of knowledge. In his “Melancholie” he shows that man, even though he be gifted and well versed in all forms of knowledge is yet unsatis fied. In our picture, however, “Hieronymus im Gehaus”, he shows the pleasures of him who has secluded himself. The whole makes an impression of pleasant quiet, 3^011 durst not move for fear of breaking the almost sacred stillness. “Kami’s denn gemiitlichcr ausschauen, als solch ein “Gehaus” mit blankgebohntem Holzwerk, allem niitzliehen Gerat auf Borden und einem ganz grossen Kuerbis an der Decke? Das Lowenvieh, das sclilafrig blinzelt, wahrend sichs mit dem Hausspitz zusamnien sonnt, ist auch nicht zuni Gruselmachen angethan, niclit einmal der Totenkopf ist es; grundwohl wird uns, wie dem Heiligen, naclidem er seine Ausgehepantinen unter die Fensterbank gestellt, den grossen Kardinalshut an den Nagel gehangt, unter den Kissen (auf die er was giebt) das kommodeste ausgesucht und sich in molligen Hausschuhen vor seine Arbeit and den schon gearbeiteten Tiscli gesetzt hat. Man sieht’s ihm an, ihn plagen keine Skrupel. * * * Und liber ihn und liber alles ringsum in diesem saubern und ordentlichen Heime des Friedens scheint durch die Butzen her die Sonne, die ruliige, die warraende, wie siejedermann eine Freude und einem altenHerrn eineWonne ist, die liebe, milde Sonne.” We need not mention a good lithograph representation of the Roman Campagna, and a print of Washington crossing the Delaware. All these pictures are in suitable frames^ and thereby beautifiv an otherwise barewalled class-room.

CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM —Spring! —Sooky! —Mona! —Baseball fiends! —Heute noch! —Take a walk ! —Porter has a watch. —We’re of the same idea! —Cottontop: I would like to be a director like Creatore. —Merman is now a great rival of our former chest expander. Cheesy thinks he also has a show in the match. —Prof.: Was sind Sporteln? Scholar: Kleine Schweine. —Whv does Rutz always read the “Lake Breeze”? —Teacher: Name a carnivorous animal. Pupil: Bedbug. —Imagine the poem “Lines to a Wrterfowl” to be headed “Lines to a duck. —Scholar (reading “political economy”): Poly tickle economy. —Prof: Copper is the only metal the indians knew of. Scholar: Is that why they have a copper color? —Hank : Without a jolly, she has teeth as white as amber. —Sprumps swallowed a bubble. —Teacher: What do you know about the Isthmus of Panama? Pupil? We’re trying to dig through it. —Somebody would like to know why Rutz, Oily and several others don’t organize a Bartverein. They certainly have the makings. —Prof.: Welche Substantiva haben keinen Singular? Sextaner: Eheleute. —How about your barometer, Teddy ? —Why does Porter always put his hands in his pockets. —For some reason or other the proceedings of the February meeting of the Smoking Club were not recorded and therefore not printed in the last number. We were more fortunate this time.

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On Saturday afternoon March 12, 1901 the Smoking Club held its third meeting after vacation in the Smoking Parlors of the Dormitory. After the pipe of peace had been smoked the meeting was called to order by Pres. Cheesv. A few remarks were at first made pertaining to the flourishing condition of the society. Butch had arranged the following program: The first was a song “In Lauderbach” by Dr. Krueger" He was accompanied with the mellifluous strains of a violin*by Prof. Social Standpoint. It proved a howling success. The next was an address by Jack: ‘ What should we smoke.” He showed clearlv that in public the proper thing to smoke is a cigar; in the more lamiliar circles, a cigarette; and in private, a pipe. We quote these words: “If you wish to appear as a man, smoke a cigar; if you wish to appear as’ a dude, smoke a pimp; and if you wish to make yourself at home, smoke a pipe.” Now followed an essay on the “Various kinds of plug” by E Hinny. He pointed out the fact that plugs are of three kinds. Firstly, plugs known as pegs; secondly, plugs as we find them in the animal kingdom; and thirdly, plugs as they are found in tobacco houses. The last kind he proved to be the plugs for che wing which are often called such strange names as “Steergum,” “t'anis vitae,” “Maenner-candy,” and the like. They were also recommended as a good remedy against toothache and on excellent preserver of the teeth. Having gone into details a little father whereby the name of Carry Nation occurred at times, E. Hinny closed his speech with a series of very appropriate gestures and an outburst of exceedingly flowery rhetoric. A certain member of the society, however, protested against this “Plug Theory” as far as the teeth were concerned, but ere he had spoken three sentences the remains of his teeth fell out and nearly choked him Snorrv now asose and sang “just break the news to mother.” The greater part of the society gave way to tears before he reached the third line. After him came Frenchy with a speech on “Pipes and their functions.” He also remarked that it was entirely out of place for certain members of the society to parade the inscrip tion “1903” in their pipes, while the year 1904 was nearly three months old and in fullest bloom, whereupon the society as a whole raised their hats and cheered “Happy New Year” four times in honor of the year 1904. With a few more remarks from a social standpoint Frenchy closed his most eloquent oration. Herewith the program was ended Snorry now made the motion and seconded it, that his name should no more appear in the Black and Red. The motion was not carried. A committee next reported on the books of treasurer Gummy. He was found guilty of several mistakes in multiplication. The motion was then passed that Gummy sing the multiplication table from 1 to 15 which he did successfully. After this the title Ph. D. was ceremoniously conferred on Doc Krueger, who now having two doctor titles, was asked to place one before and the other after his name.

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A prize was next offered to any one present with the best form, the best walk, and the most attractive appearance. Like a comet there shot up a member, named Ferox. who made seconded, and passed the motion that, without praising himself he was blessed with all those perfections, whereupon he received the prize amid the roaring of the “rabblement.” After it had been decided to take the census of the Smoking Club, treasurer Gummy made the motion to adjourn which was seconded twice in succession by Jack and carried by the society as a whole.

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