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Watertown, Wis., April 1917.

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.LUTHER ALS DBERSETZEK DER BIBEL, Wahrend des Mittelalters, da die mitteleuropaischd Welt in dem Banne des Papsttums lag, war die Kirche so verderbt, dass jeder Reformversuch, wean aucli noch so gut gemeint, die bevorstehende Katastrophe nur beschleunigen konute. Personlichkeiten bestiegen den heiligen Stuhl, die man als einen Auswurf der menschlichen Gesellschaft bezeichnen muss. Die Leute waren der Unterdrtickungen uberdriissig geworden, die das Papsttum liber sie verhangte. Es waren in der Kirche so viele verschiedene Richtungen und Stimmungen, dass alle Reformversuche nur zu einem Sturz des Bestehenden fuhren konnten. Das ganze Volk sehnte sich nach einer Reformation.

Aber wie sollte diese Zustande komnien? Die Leute konnten doch nicht mit den klugen Theologen des Papstes disputieren, noch :weniger sie iiberzeugen, dass ihre Lehre falsch sei. Sie konnten die voile Wahrheit auch nicht erkennen, denn sie hatten ja keine \ Bibel, in der sie das Wort der Wahrheit hatten lesen konnen. La;teinische Bibeln gab es zwar, aber wie sollte der gewohnliche Mann diese verstehen? Freilich.es waren auch etliche deutsche Uber8etzungen yorhanden, aber es waren zwei Dinge, die es verhinderten, dass diese unter das Volk kamen und den Leser packten. Ihr

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Stil war ungelenk, gekiinstelt, dem Verstandnis des Lesers nicht angepasst; dann folgten sie auch nur der Vulgata, nicht dem Ur=xt，und unter den ungeschickten Handen der Obersetzer hattcn die Fehler der Vulgata noch bedeutenden Zuwachs erhalten.

Sollte nun dem Verderben gesteuert werden und dicse so notige Reformation zustande kommen, so musste die ganze Kirche wieder freien Zugang haben zum Brunnen Israels. Um dies moglich zu machen, musste den Leuten die Bibel in ihrer Muttersprache in die fand gegeben werden, and nicht eine Bibel voll von Fehlern, sondern eine wahre, richtige t)bersetzung des Grundtextes. Wer nun sollte dies ubernehmen, ein schier unmogliches Werk?

Bei Gott ist kein Ding unmoglich. Er erweckte sich einen Mann, der dies Werk vollbringen sollte. Er gab ihm auch Freudigkeit and Geschick zu demselben. Er maclite ihm das Bibelbuch teuer und wert. Dieser Mann war Dr. Martin Luther. Luther verschaffte der deutschen Kirche den freien Zugang zum Brunnen Israels durch seine Bibeliibersetzung.

Durch Gottes Piigung sail Lutlier zum ersten Mai eine Bibel auf der Universitat zu Erfuhrt. Schon da zog ihn ihr In halt machgg an. Spatef, im Kloster beschaftigte er sich noch mehr mit ihr. fand in ihr, was er in alien andern Scliriften vergebens gesucht $tte: den Weg zum Frieden mit Gott durcli die Erkenntnis Jcsu Christi. Da stand ihm fest: Dies Buch sollte jeder Christ lesen.

Er beschloss, dies Buch zu iibersetzen. ehe er diesen Entscliluss ausfiihren konnte, musste er dp'cli viele Kampfe und Note hindurch. Wegen der 95 Thesen und viejer anderer Schriften wurde er in Disputationen hineingezogen musste sich ofters vor seinen Vorgesetzten verantworten. Endlicji wurde er vor den Reichstag zu Worms gefordert. Er wurde gefragt, ob er seine Schriften und Behauptungen widerrufe Oder nicht: AIs Luther hierauf antwortete, er konne nicht widerrufen, es sei aenn, dass er durch Zeugniss der Schrift iiberwunden werde, wen wider das Gewissen zu handeln verwerflich und gefahrlicli sei, jjnd ferner noch behauptete, dass die Konzilien irren konnten ,wurae er m die Acht erklart. Er wurde fur vogelfrei erklart. Jeder konnte mit ihm tun, was er wollte.

Wahrend Luthers Feinde so an seiner Vernichtung arbeiteten, waren seme Freunde nicht mussig, sondern machten Anstrengyn纪n，iljn zu retten. Ein Scheiniiberfall wurde vorbereitet. AIs LiUtner ernes Abends von einem Besuch in Moehra nacli Eisenach 2Hi^ wu【de er von Rittern gefangen genommen, die ihn hinauf in brachten. Hier 1m heimlichen Schutz der Wartburg Kunaigte er einem seiner Freunde an: Ich will das neue Testa­ ment ms Deutsche iibersetzen.

Aber das ging nicht im Handumdrehen; grosse Schwierigkei?rsJ uberwunden werden. Es gab namlich keine einSfUli<Se fScpriftsprache. Luther musste sie erst schaf1 - * • r ricntete sich in der Hauptsache nach der sachsischen Kanz-

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leisprache. Dies war clie juristische Sprache, und alle amtlichen Dokumente wurden in ihr verabfasst. Aber so wie sie war, genugte sie Luthers Zweck nicht. Sie war wohl geeignet, Rechtsbegriffe wiederzugeben, genugte aber nicht fur den Reichtum biblischer Gedanken und gottlicher Wahrheiten. Dazu war sie auch steif und schwiilstig. Gesprochen wurde sie von wenigen, aber fast uberall in Deutschland wurde sie verstanden, was ja fiir Luther uberaus wichtig war. Er wollte aber eine Sprache haben, die alle Leute, jung Oder alt, gebildet Oder ungebildet verstehen konnten. Darum ging er auf die Gasse and horte (lem Mann auf dem Markte zu and sail ihm auf den Mund. Einmal liess er sich etliche Schopsen abstechen, um von dem deutschen Fleischer die richtigen Namen der einzelnen Teile des geschlacliteten Tiers zu erfahren. Jedesmal, wenn er so etwas melir gelernt liatte, fiigte er es seinem Wortschatze zu, bereicherte so die Sprache der siichsichen Kanzlei, beseitigte das Steife und Scliwiilstige jener Furstensprache, hauchte ihr ein neues Leben ein und schuf so die neuhochdeutsche Sprache.

Docli mit der Schopfung einer einheitlichen Literaturesprache war nur eine Scliwierigkeit, die sich dem Ubersetzer der Bibel darbot, iiberwunden. Es gab zu Lutheres Zeiten sehr wenige und fast nur schlechte sprachliclie I-Iilfsmittel. Darum war muhsames Forschen und viel Ausdauer und Geduld notig, ehe irgend ein Resultat erreicht werden konnte. Luther sagt selber: **Es ist uns oft begegnet, dass wir 14 Tage, drei, vier Woclien haben ein einziges Wort gesucht und gefragt, haben's (lennocli zuweilen nicht gefunden. Im Hiob arbeiteten wir also, Magister Philip Aurogallus und ich, dass wir in vier Tagen kaum drei Zeilen konnten fertigen.”

Dann mussten erst die rechten t)bersetzungsgrundsatze aufgestellt werden. Die hat Luther mit Gottes Hulfe gefunden und gegen alle Angriffe festgehalten.

In seinem Briefe vom Dolmetschen sagt er uns: “Wenn man ins Deutsche ubersetzen will, so muss man deutsch iibersetzen und nicht griechisch Oder lateinisch. Darnach handelte er auch. Z. B. im Paulus Briefe steht: “Arbitramur hominem justificari ex fide absque operibus legis.” Dies ubersetzte Luther: “Wir halten, das der Mensch gerecht werde ohne des Gesetzes Werke, allein durch den Glauben.” Obwohl in dem Texte das Wort “sola,” allein nicht steht, iibersetzt er doch “allein.” Er erkliirt es auch, wanmi er es so iibersetzt, indem er sagt: Wenn in der deutschen Spra­ che die Hede von zwei Dingen ist, deren man eins behauptet und das andere verneint, so brauclit man das Wort “allein” neben dem Wort “nicht” Oder “kein;” z. B. Der Bauer bringt allein Korn und kein Geld, ebenso: Icli habe wahrlich jetzt nicht Geld, sondern allein Korn. Ich habe allein gegessen und noch nicht getrunken.

Er sagt, wenn man deutsch ubersetzen will, soli man nicht die lateinische Buchstaben fragen, wie man soil deutsch reden, sondern maji muss die Mutter im Hause, die Kinder auf der Gasse, den gemeinen Mann auf dem Markte darum fragen, und darnach dolmet-

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schen, bo verstehen sie es denn und merken, dass man dentsch mit ihnen redet.

So ilbersetzt auch Luther: Ex abundantia cordis os loquitur, “Wess das Herz voll ist, des geht der Mund iiber, wahrend es wortlich heisst: *Aus dem tJberfluss des Herzens redet der Mund.’

Er sagt: “tJberfluss des Herzens gibt es nicht, es sei denn, dass einer ein allzugross Herz hat, und dann ware der Ausdruck falsch.

• Dann iibersetzt er Lucas 1, 28, “Gegriissest seist du, Holdselige” anstatt wortlich: “Gegriissest seist du, Maria voll Gnaden,” denn er m6chte gem wissen, welcher deutsche Mann sagen wurde: “Du bist voll Gnaden.” “Da muss er denken an ein Fass Bier Oder einen Beutel voll Geldes.”

Luther sagt: “Wer dolmetschen will, muss grossen Vorrat von Worten haben, dass er die Wahl konne liaben, wo eins an alien Orten nicht lauten will.” Darnach handelte er auch, und wo es an einem Ausdruck fehlte, ging er liinaus auf die Gasse Oder irgendwo utiter die gewohnlichen Leute und lernte da den rechten Aus­ druck.

Luther hatte sehr wenig Mitarbeiter: die Hauptarbeit fiel ilim zu. Alle diese Schwierigkeiten hat er aber iiberwiinden und seine Aufgabe aufs herrlichste gelost.

Im Februar 1522 vollendete er die Ubersetzung des Neuen Testa­ ments. Dies verfertigte er in drei Monaten. Dass heisst, jeden Tag wenigstens vier Kapitel ubersetzen. 1523 erschienen die 5 Biicher Mosis, 1524 die Psalmen, 1532 die Propheten. Im Jahre 1534 war die Gesamtausgabe der Bibel fertiggestellt. Aber er liess es nicht so bleiben, sondern er brachte es fertig, dass von 1535-1545 neue Ausgaben herauskamen, deren jede gegen ihre Vorgangerin Verbesserungen aufwies.

So vollendete Luther diese t)bersetzung, ein unubertroffenes Werk. Indem Luther die Bibel iibersetzte, schuf er zugleich auch eine herrliche Sprache. Er nahm in sie das Beste aus den verschiedenen Dialekten auf, schied alles Unedle und Niedere aus und schuf so eine Sprache, die an Kraft, Schonlieit und Reichtum von keiner modemen Sprache ubertroffen wird, und an der sicli unsere grossten Dichter gebildet haben. , Aber noch grosser denn dieser irdische Segen ist der geistliche, den diese tJbersetzung zur Zeit der Reformation gestiftet hat und noch Heute stiftet. Durch die lutherische Bibel ist den Leuten die Freiheit von der papstlichen Tyrannei zuriickgegeben, vor allem aber die seligmachende Wahrheit, die das Papsttum den Menschen geraubt hatte. Durch diese erneuerte Luther der ganzen Christenheit die Predigt des Heilandes, der Apostel und Proplieten, sodass alle auch j etzt noch erkennen konnen: “Der Gerechte wird seines A. Z.,，18.

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THE SACRIFICE. 'Thyllis, there，s a letter for you on the hall table. It came this morning.” The speaker was Miss Stanford, Phyllis* maiden aunt. Oh, all right, Aunt Abigail,” Phyllis answered and then ran up to her room with the prize. When the letter lay spread before her, she read as follows: Portland, Maine, March 16, 1916.

Miss Phyllis Stanford, Westbrook, Maine.

Dear Miss Stanford: After carefully considering your application for the position of private stenographer, now open, I have decided to give you a month’s trial.

I would like to have you come as soon as possible, say the first of next month.

Expecting to hear from you at once, I remain, Very sincerely yours, A. J. Houghton, Houghton Manufacturing Co. The girl’s face was radiant. At last the coveted. chance to become stenographer to some big business man was bad little experience, but the commercial teacher of the \westhrookL High School had given her careful training, and, as she been intensely interested in the work, she was more efficient most stenographers with the same education. .

Her timorous aunt, however, did not at all approve of ^ P fession she had chosen. “My dear, it isn’t ft all genteel, the Stanfords ever thought of doing anything like it.

“Nonsense, Aunt Abigail,—I beg your pardon—, can t you un­ derstand? It*s so different nowadays. Tm sure that 111 as mucn credit to the Stanfords as any of my great-aunts that stay home.** Au,nt Abigail, who adored her pretty niece, soon yielded, ^na Phyllis, in high spirits, sent the letter of acceptance. Of course she would miss her aunt, but then Portland wasn’t so awfully Iar away; she could come home every month. And besides, the money would not be unwelcome, as she and her aunt were forced lo 1 lr^ very moderate circumstances.

Let’，see; 141 need a new skirt and several shirtwaists and 一ITT•” Everything else was forgotten in the delightful work of “getting ready.” a *'Goodby, Aunt Abigail! You’ll see me again in just a month. wttcli if you won’t be proud of your little niece.” But in spite o words, tears shone in her eyes at leaving her kind aunt ancl J™ big old house for the first time in years.

Goodby, my darling; be careful. Have you everything一your gloves? All right, goodbye!»

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A month had passed. Mr. Houghton had by this time told Phyl­ lis that her work was satisfactory and that her appointment was to be permanent. She liked her work and had never been so happy in hel* life. Nevertheless, on Saturday afternoon she could hardly wait to get home.

“How pretty everything is! Are these the first lilacs? I do believe I smell some doughnuts. You darling aunt!” Gayly chat­ tering she threw off her wraps.

“Oh, Aunt Abigail, I can’t tell you liow interesting my work is.

Old Mr. Houghton is such a nice man to work for and-------“Come, dear, let’s have our supper first.” They passed into the dining room arm in arm.

“Why, hello, Rebecca! How are you?” 'Tm very glad to see you back again, Miss Phyllis,” the old servant answered with a kindly smile.

Phyllis was in a gleeful mood, and the little meal went for­ ward merrily. She soon noticed that her aunt looked very pale and worn, and wondered at the cause. So, when they had finished, she followed the servant into the kitchen.

“Rebecca, what is the matter? Isn’t Aunt Abigail well? She looks so much thinner than she did a month ago.”

“Well, I don’t know as I ought to say anything to you, but it’s an old complaint. Dr. Shannon was here several times last week, and he said that Miss Phyllis ought to be home. But don’t you say anything, honey, for your aunt didn’t want you to know. And don’t you go and worry about it, either.”

“Oh Rebecca, I’m so sorry-------- ’’ She hurriedly left the kitchen and went to her room. A furi­ ous battle waged in her heart. She knew at once where lier duty lay, but it was hard to give up lier chance—so hard. She lay on the bed awhile, where she had thrown herself, thinking about the situation; then she rose, arranged her disordered frock, and went ■ down to the sitting room.

Her aunt, sitting thoughtfully in the twilight, did not notice that a girlish form slipped down on the footstool near lier feet.

“Aunt Abigail!”

Yes, dear?”

“I think I’ll give up my position at Houghton’s” “Give it up, Phyllis? I thought you liked it so much. Why?" “Because, Aunt Abigail, because—well, don't you want me here?”

“Want you, darling? Bless you if only knew liow much!”

And in the gratifying thought of having fulfilled her beloved aunt's dearest wish, all selfish ambition left Phyllis, heart and sweet content entered.

Cornelia Groth, *19.

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Dear Reader: With this issue the 44Black and Red” enters upon its twenty-first year.

Throughout its life as a publication its purpose has been to represent the spirit and aims of our school. To this purpose we of the new staff also dedicate ourselves.

We appreciate the fact that without your co-operation and sup­ port we can not hope to succeed, and take this occasion to solicit the patronage you have so generously extended to our paper in for­ mer years.

Trusting in your co-operation we hereby pledge our best efforts to sustain the “Black and Red’s” established reputation. It is in this spirit that we extend our hand to you and tender you our hear­ tiest greetings.

SUBJECTS FOR EDITORIALS. The poorest contributions toward the average school paper

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are the student editorials. It is the common experience of editor,in-chief that the average student will rather write anything than an editorial, and that when he does write one, it is rarely worth publishing.

The difficulty generally lies in the selection of a suitable sub­ ject. The student asked to write an editorial knows, consiously or subconsciously, that he must write 1. Something interesting一if possible, original.2. Something to make the readers think—if possible, something of a reformative tendency.

It is no easy matter to find a subject to meet these requirements; most students finally settle down to some abstract proposition like “Loyalty,” Punctuality,” “Adversity,” and the like, glad to have found at last something that might make a worth-while subject.

If handled in the right way, such titles may furnish the basis of a good editorial, but the fact that they are usually handled as ab­ stract philosophical matter accounts for many a worthless one. To write a good editorial on “Loyalty,” “Punctuality,” and the like, one should limit the exposition so as to apply to some particular case or tendency in the school one attends. For example, the subject “Loyalty” could be restricted to apply to the rooting at the foot-ball games. Such an editorial, written to correct some definite tendency in the student-body, has a chance to produce real results, while an editorial that deals only with general propositions has absolutely none.

The right thing to do when asken to write an editorial is, in our opinion, to express your views on some definite thing that con­ cerns the student-body. Then, even if your effort falls wide of the mark, it will at least be interesting and give the outsider some idea of the spirit of your school.

S. O. H. WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR MILITARY COMPANY?, ::

Any one passing through the gym when the company is drill­ ing is prompted to ask, “What’s wrong with the military compnay?M He will do this because he is impressed by the lack of interest shown by many members, probably by the majority. Not only among the privates is this the case; it is even more so among the officers. Probably one of the causes of this state of affairs is our system of promotion.

When a class enters the collegiate department, some of its mem­ bers who have shown up well as “preps” are appointed corporals, but after this they are promoted according to seniority of appoint­ ment. Those who are appointed first in the freshman year remain first throughout the rest of their career, and no one can be appointed ahead of them, no matter how worthy he be. To illustrate the working of the system, the one in the freshanin class who is ap-

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pointed first, will in his sophomore year be made a sergeant, as a junior probably a lieutenant. The rest are also promoted, but, since he was appointed first, his rank is always higher than that of the rest of his class. On entering the senior class he becomes captain.

This he knows, and since no one can be promoted over his head, the tendency of taking things easy naturally takes hold of him. So with the rest. They also know of the fact, and since they can never attain the captaincy or lose their positions, they have no ambition, for there really is no end to work for. Can one blame them for losing interest? And if the officers are negligent and listless, what else can one expect of the privates?

Why not appoint a man according to his merit and ability, not only in his freshman year, but in every year that he belongs to the company? For it has been experienced, and is now being experi­ enced, that men who as freshmen have not shown up well have as sophomores and juniors been more capable than those who were ap­ pointed first, but, despite their present meritorious services, they are not thought worthy of command. Is this system of promoting men according to seniority fair to all members? Now, if every one would receive due acknowledgment of his abilities and would be appointed according to capability, no one could feel secure of his position and this would consequently reverse the tendency of be­ ing listless. Then those who have no high rank would have a chance and would naturally work harder and with more vim and spirit. This would put more “pep” into our officers and set an ex.ample for the privates.

The system of promotion can be changed effectively in various ways. We would suggest the following: That at the end of the school-year the athletic director and the captain whose term of office expires examine all men, thereby learning who the worthy ones are, and then promote them according to merit and not ac­ cording to seniority. This would give every one a fair chance and at the same time avoid the deplorable fact, that a man can, in our A. Z., *18. military company, be appointed by “pull.”

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Following the example of their predecessors of two decades, the members of the n^w Black and Red staff tendered the depart­ ing editors a farewell banquet in the college refectory on March 24, 1917. Once again the veterans and recruits did justice to the dain­ ty dishes prepared by Mrs. John L. Koeninger. The smiles of ex­ treme satisfaction depicted on the banqueters’ faces as they ele­ vated morsel after morsel to their lips will suffice as a proof of the skill of Mrs. Koeninger. The banquet hall was beautifully decor­ ated with black and red crepe paper, with miniature copies of the Black and Red, and with Northwestern pennants. The most strik­ ing ornamentation was, however, a miniature aeroplane, having a wing spread of three feet, or thereabouts, delicately suspended so as o oscillate tremulously above the heads of the venerable assembly.

Jndoubtedly this was designed to be symbolical of the future lofty :hought to be engendered in the spiritual consciousness of the vari­ ous editors. We hereby tender our hostess our heartfelt thanks for the able manner in which she aided in making the 1917 banquet such a brilliant success.

• As has nearly always been the custom, the new editor-in-chief was appointed toastmaster. After all had satisfied their hunger on the good things before them, cigars were passed around and a short smoker was indulged in.

Mr. Otto C. Klaye, the new editor-in-chief, was the first speaker of the evening; he held the revellers spellbound through the virtue • of his eloquent delivery.

During the remainder of the evening different parties were called upon to speak by the toast-master. Mr. Kiessling warned against the things to be careful of in every department, and cau­ tioned different editors against peculiar failings or fond traits of their’s.

Mr. H. W. Schaefer told of the present trying times and of the consequent care to be exercised in publishing the Black and Red in order to keep out of financial difficulties.

Mr. Samuel Herrmann advocated co-operative support of the new De Rebus Omnibus column.

Various humorous orations followed, these by Mr. W. Retzlaff, Mr. A. Zeisler, Mr. H. E. Eggers, Mr. W. H. Lehmann and by Mr. E. C. Blakewell. Mr. Blakewell, to the great surprise of every one, kept the banqueters smiling with his ejaculations for a full two hours.

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During the intervals between the different speeches “Lebe Hochs” were sung to the departing editors, the subscribers, the ad­ vertisers, the Faculty Committee, and last, but not least, to our hostees. At an early hour the revellers retired to the dormitory, de­ claring it the best banquet ever attended by a Black and Red staff.

PHILOMATHEAN RENDERS PROGRAM. On March 17, 1917, the Philomathean Literary Society rendered a program that will be remembered by all who witnessed it for years to come. With this program commences a new epoch in the his­ tory of our literary societies. Instead of the stale, dry literary meetings of years gone by, where the different members recited poetry or prose, or here and there held a debate or dialogue, we now had a real, an interesting program. Its distinguishing feature was a ren­ dition of an abridgement of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Under the direction of the president of the society, Mr. Elmer Kiessling, a play was rendered in a way that would vie with that of professional actors.

PROGRAM: 1. Violin solo with piano accompaniment_H. Timmel, E. Felton.

2. Part I of the abridged “Julius Caesar.”

H. Schaefer.

3. Cornet Solo_______________________ 4. Part II of the abridged “Julius Caesar.”

5. Cornet Duet______________________ H. Schaefer, E. Falk.

The following is the cast of characters: Karl Krauss.

Juluis Caesar_________ -Gustav Schlegel.

Mark Antony__________ _ Elmer Kiessling.

Marcus Brutus_________ Valentin Andreae.

Cassius_______________ ------- Karl Kuske.

Casca________________ —Bernhard Westendorf.

Decius Brutus________ -------- Walter Bodamer.

Metellus_____________ ---------- Christian Kock.

Trebonius____________ Miss Adeline Kortegast.

Calpurnia, wife to Caesar ..Miss Margaret Mueller.

Portia, wife to Brutus,— — ---------------Hans Kock.

Artemidorus __________ ------------- Walter Beck.

Soothsayer ___________ ------------ Fred Brandt.

Popilius Lena_________ -------- Hans Bierwagen.

Lucius_______________ ------------- Kurt Timmel.

Antony’s Servant______ ----------- Herbert Stock.

Caesar^ Servant______ ------ Theo. Binhammer.

1.. Citizen ____________ ----------- Walter Gutzke.

2. Citizen____________ ------------- Melvin Croll.

3. Citizen_____________ ------------Paul Albrecht.

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THE BLACK AND BED. Phi Gamma Kho Elects Officers.

A meting of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society was called

by President Schaefer for the purpose of electing officers for the ensueing year. The election resulted as follows: John Henning ___President.

Wm. H. Lehmann Vice-President.

Edward Duxe___ ___ Secretary.

After the election of officers, Mr. Shaefer thanked the members of the society for the support given him during liis occupation of the chair. He also expressed the wish that the society might soon revenge the defeat handed them by the Philomathean during the debating season.

Philoiixathean Elects Officers.

In a meeting of the Philomathean Literary Society, called by President E. Kiessling, the following officers were elected: ___ President.

Edward C. Blakewell Vice-President.

Raymond Z. Timmel ___ Secretary.

Hans. W. Koch___

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Unser Stadtmissionar, Herr Pastor E. Duemling, besuchte am 15 Marz Freunde im Seminar.

Herr E. FI. Sterz, der einen Beruf der Gemeinden zu Bailey^s Harbor und Jacksonsport, Wis., angenommen hat, reiste am 15.

Marz von hier nach Watertown, wo er einige zeit im Elternhause verweilte, ehe er nach dem Norden reiste.

Freund 0. Pluedemann besuchte vom 16-18. Marz seine Eltern und Verwandten in Theresa, Wis. Heir W. Haar kehrte am 20. Marz wieder in das Seminar zuruck. Einige Wochen zuvor wurde Herr Haar nach seiner Heimat bei Loretto gerufen, da seine Mutter schwer erkrankt war. Am 9 Marz5 starb Frau Haar.

Ein alter Watertowner, Herr Alfred Gerhard, jetzt Geschaftsman in Milwaukee, stattete am 25 Marz alten Preunden im Seminar einen Besuch ab.

Coetusbeamten fur das dritte Tertial sind: M. Cowalsky, Prases; F. Manteufel, Vize-Prases; R. Penske, Sekretar; R. Janke, Schatzmeister.

Die beiden Schulmeister S. Baer und M. Wehausen sind jetzt wieder hier unter uns und arbeiten mit allem Fleisse und mit reger Energie.

Es iiberraschte uns heute (13. April) die traurige Nachricht, dass Herr Pastor Harders, unser Indianermissionar, heute morgen gestorben sei.

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lExrlfattg^a THE NEWBERRY STYLUS. Newberry College,

Newberry, S. C.

Your February number was the first exchange to reach our desk. Externally, your paper makes a good impression. We like your idea of retaining the same cover design; it is much better to have a neat cover design and retain it than to provide variety at the risk of inferior future output. The plain kind of paper you use is restful to the eye and quite a relief from the shiny, pretentious kind so often found in school publications. Your large, clear print is also very pleasing.

We enjoyed reading “Uncle Ned and the Mule.” The dialogue is handled very well. Why unnecessarily change the spelling of “break” and “worst” into “brake” and “wurst?” This gives an unfortunate impression of straining for humorous effect.

“Woman’s Possibilities” is inferior in quality to the rest of your material. The title is not appropriate; the essay treats of woman’s industrial possibilities only. The introduction, besides being quite irrelevant, is disproportionately long, taking up over one third of the entire essay. Some of the writer’s arguments sound queer to us; for example: “This brings me to the point I wish to make. Why employ men to do work which women can do as well if not better, and thereby release the men for the higher processes of production? Every day employers are frantically in search of men who can fill twenty-five and fifty-thousand-dollar jobs, and fail in their search because the needed men are kept from development bcause they are needed in routine work. Why not let the women do this work and give the men a chance for development?”

“The Dishonest Student” is one of the best editorials we have read in any college paper. It is well written, in a simple, direct style, treats the subject in an interesting way, and is quite free from the vague abstractions and worn platitudes found in most productions of this sort.

“After Sacrifice the Reward” contains too many complications and improbabilities to be a really interesting story. Charles Carey, the hero, chooses a queer subject for a valedictory in “his struggl巧 to stay at college and his mother’s sacrifices to keep him there.”

Prances Montgomery seems to us quite unworthy of the man she fin­ ally marries.

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Your editorial column is well developed. ^Scholarship versus Practical Life” is an appropriate subject for an editorial; the argu­ ment is carried out quite well. “The Reading Student” puts too much stress on the “reading up” of current events. The thorough Knowledge of and insight into these happenings can be obtained only through a careful study of history- This editorial contains the which is the BEST actress, sloven grammatical barbarism:— Ethel Ciayton or Helen Holmes.”

Your exchange department treats the various exchanges quite fully, as a good exchange department should. The editor seems to us to confine his review of an exchange too much to finding out wliat is meritorious, and encouraging the writer thereof. To make an exchange column worth while, the editor should not hesi­ tate to apply destructive criticism as well.

Styloids and Personals” is, in our opinion, the best joke column at present running in any of our exchanges. Any college paper that can offer its readers four pages of such good new jokes is to be congratulated.

Putting slogans like “I-Ielp those who help us,” “The man who asks for your trade sliould get it,” “Don’t patronize firms which re­ fuse to advertise in your publication,, at the foot of every advertis­ ing page is a good practical idea which might well be. imitated by other student publications.

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©mntb«0 GERMAN OK ROMAN SCRIPT.

Dr. Schackwitz of the Physiological Institute of Kiel lias made experiments which, he says, prove that while for the reading of a fixt amount of printed matter the Roman characters require 24,100 movements of the eye, the same document in German characters can be read with only 17,000 movements. Another reason why the German language should not be exterminated in tlie U. S.

WHAT»S WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN PULPIT? The reasons for the decline of the American pulpit, according to G. M. Royce, are: 1. A crude endeavor to deal with new criticism.

2. The notion that a preacher must entertain and amuse liis audi­ ence. 3. A discussion of topics of the day. 4. Lack of spiritual vis-

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ion. “Luther,” said the Rev. Nils Kleven, in whose speech the fore­ going was mentioned, “was not at all connected with any of these errors, was biblical and textual, preaching to win souls, not to win glory for himself or influence among men. His theme was Christ!

'The just shall live by faith’.”一Manitou Messenger.

An optimist is the fellow who believes the picture on his pack­ age of seeds.一Macon Telegraph.

FEMINISTIC MOVEMENT GAINING IN THE U. S. The number of men teachers in the United States has increased very slightly since 1900; the number of women teachers has almost doubled.

HISTORIC BUILDING AT YALE SAID TO BE OLDEST STRUC­ TURE IN AMERICA. Connecticut ITall is the oldest building owned by Yale Univer­ sity. It was erected in 1550, and taken over by the college when that institution was founded here. One2 can imagine with what emotions Davenport, Eaton et al. must have gazed upon the structure, then almost a century old, when they landed on the shores of the new world.—New Haven Register.

A law has been drafted in Nebraska authorizing any peace off­ icer in the state to arrest any one whose breath has the odor of liq­ uor.

Billy Sunday has refused $1,000,000 to pose for the movies.

A Queens County, New York, man, accused of drunkenness, was sentenced to attend church services once a week for a year.一Les­ lie’s Weekly.

The poor stray curs are at least rejoicing because of the short­ age in tin-cans.

Attflrttas BASEBALL. Basketball has retired from the scenes and remains but a mem­ ory; while baseball, the national idol, has assumed the chief role and is ushered into the glare of the footlights on the athletic stage to the tune of “Who’s going to win the peiiant?” So too, at North­ western, the one question uppermost in the minds of all is, are we going to have another championship team? If enthusiasm, abund­ ant material, and good coaching count for anything, Northwestern will undoubtedly again cop the much coveted rag. Immediately after the close of the basketball season, Capt. Henning issued his first call for candidates. Forty-five eager aspirants for a berth on the Varsity nine responded. But as mother earth was still garbed in her mantle of white, making outside practice impossible, the can­ didates were divided into two squads and assigned regular hours in the gym; this time is given over to calisthenics, getting the arms in trim and improving the batting eye. But with the arrival of the pleasant weather or early spring the following were ordered on March 25 to appear on the campus for batting practice: W. Bodamer, R. Tiramel, J. Bublitz, H. Schumacher, N. Friesch, W. Gutzke, E. Falk, A. Zeisler, A. Wacker, E. Schumacher, E. Duxe, B. Lange, K. Krauss, O. Gruendeman, P. Nauman, H. Schaefer, W. T. Meier, C. Strasen, T. Binhammer, and E. Tacke. Six of this number are veterans and will form the nucleus around which Coach Kowalke expects to build another wining combination.

A. Westendorf and W. Zank, the mainstays of last year’s pitch­ ing staff, who were instrumental in bringing the penant to N. W. C. in 1916, and whose ability to spoil batting averages will long be re­ membered by those who were fortunate enough to see them perform, have been lost to us through graduation. Jack Bublitz, who last year held down second base, will undoubtedly head the mound ar­ tists this season. Jack has speed and dope to burn and possesses an uncanny control over the horse-hide. H. Schumacher, last year’s second-string tosser, is also exhibiting an unusal amount of dope and will be on the job as relief hurler. Capt. Henning will again be found behind the bat ready to nail any one imprudent enough trying to steal, while W. Bodamer and R. Timmel, two re­ liable backstops, can always be depended upon in a pinch. Of the othed infield positions, first and second base will be the hardest to fill. P. Bickman, last season’s small but speedy first sacker, who

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played an airtight game throughout, will never again don a base­ ball uniform for N. W. C., having finished his Athletic career when he accepted his sheepskin last June. But three stars in the ascend­ ent, W. Gutzke, C. Strasen and E. Falk, are running neck-and-neck for this position and the one most proficient with the stick will un­ doubtedly clinch it. A. Zeisler, rightfielder for the 1916 Champs, who is exceptionally handy with the willow, is making a strong bid for the keystone plate; but he is being closely pressed by E. Tacke, H. Schumacher, A. Wacker, H. Schaefer and E. Schumacher, who will give him a run for his money. Our chain-lightning short stop, Bel Lange, will again be found at his old stamping grounds, compe­ tent and able to take of anything coming his way. E. Duxe, who last season performed so creditably at third, will again be seen romp­ ing around the third layover, eager to gobble up anything unlucky enough to come within spearing distance. As to the outfield, it is but a matter of conjecture. The excellent work at center, of H. Brandt, who also received a B. A. last June, will be sorely missed, for I-Ienry was a dependable clouter and also made the enviable record of only one error in three years at this position. Krauss will again be found spearing them out of the ether in the left garden, while 0.

Gruendeman, P. Nauman, I-I. Schaefer, W. T. Meier, C. Strasen and T. Binhammer are doing some fast traveling to land one of the other vacant berths.

Manager A. P. Retzlaff has not been able to arrange the com­ plete schedule because several colleges are considering to drop base­ ball on account of the war. Thus far contracts have been received for the following games: OUTSIDE HOME April 28.

Carroll May 5_. _ .Seminary ,U. of Wisconsin May 9__. .Whitewater Normals May 17.

Carroll May 26 Watertown City May 30.

Milton June 7__ June 11. ______ Milton There still remain five games of undecided dates, i. e., one return game with U. of Wisconsin, one return with Carroll and two games with either Ripon, Northwestern of Naperville or Platteville, and one with Wayland Academy, the latter to play the Northwestern Seconds.

m Walter Plocher, Prep., discontinued his studies and left for his home in St. Paul, Minn., March 2.

Richard Witt, prep., went to Milwaukee March 8. He returned to school March 27, and left for his home on March 29.

Byron Lange, Prep., returned from his home in Beaver Dam on Marc 10, where he had been recuperating from some ailment or other.

Adolph Stein of Milwaukee visited G. Steffen, Prep., Sunday March 10.

Several students attended the concert given by the Lawrence College Glee Club at the Turner Opera House on March 27. All re­ turned much pleased with the performance.

The Misses Alma Blintin and Lucy Schwefel of Kenosha called on Helmuth Schaefer, Sunday, March 10.

Fritz Stueber, Prep., journeyed to Clyman on March 16, to at­ tend the Annual-Family-Chicken-Dinner.

A. Titus, Prep., and A. Schujahn，20, were visitors in “Coonie” Sunday, March 17.

The Misses Wechmueller and Froehlich of Jackson, Wis., sur­ prised the latter’s brother George, Prep., with a visit on Monday, March 18.

Mrs. Rev. W. C. Heidtke of Manchester called on her sons Waldemar ’20 and Theodore, Prep., on March 13.

Mrs. A. Rohda and daughter Elsie visited Dudley Rohda, Prep., March 23.

Roy Vollmers,，16, Walter Zank，，16, and Adalbert Westendorf, ’16，of Wauwatosa, spent part of their Easter vacation at Northwestern.

The Rev. G. Pamperin,，12, now of Nebraska, was a visitor at our institution on March 24.

Belno Lange, *18, accompanied his father, Mr. Louis Lange of Beaver Dam, on a trip to Milwaukee on March 24.

W. Gutzke, ’17, was suddenly called to Racine on March 12 be­ cause of the accidental death of his uncle Edmund Rozanske. He returned on March 14. His mother and sister Elsie stopped off to see him on their return home to La Crosse on March 17.

T. and I. Uetzmann, prep., called on relatives in Reeseville on Sunday, March 25.

Arn o Martin of Oshkosh called on K. Plocher, ’17, and Louis Wackerfuss, prep., on March 20.

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THE BLACK AND BED.

Hans Koch, ’19, was obliged to discontinue his studies on March 24 on account of illness. He has returned, however.

Ray Timmel, ’18, thought that a few good meals at home would cure him of his ailment, whatever it was, so he took refuge in his mother’s pantry on March 27.

H. Eggers,，18, discontinues his studies here after Easter in order to teach school in Janesville. He will return to school next September.

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一Prof.: Your house is not a good place for you during a tornado.

Prep.: Why not? I thought there’s no place like home. 一“Rusty,” reading: Der Lehrer sitz auf dem Kater (Katheder.)

—Monitor: Why do you always talk in your sleep?

Prep.: Well, you never give me a chance in day time. 一Baldie: Icli denke, es wird bald Friihling; Fraulein Mueller blattert immer in iliren Biichern. 一I. Student: Who was Hamlet?

II. Student: Ham’s little brother.

—Chuck (at the Black and Red banquet, when it was time for adjournment:) Ich schlage vor, dass wir uns verdumpfen. Werden wir uns denn noch nicht bald verdachten?

—Hans (having been asked why the Germans call a block-andtackle a ,<FlaschenzugM): Maybe the Germans used it in olden times to pull corks out of wine bottles. 一Greek Prof.: Wie geht “Sokrates?”

Red: Eigene Melodie.

—Dad: Snipes must intend to start a crockery store.

Ploatch: How’s that?

Dad: He is getting so many “jars” lately. 一Dave criticizing a speech: Er hatte noch erwahnen konnen, das zwei Ziegen durch Watertown laufen. (Ziige.)

—Legs: Ave* must have the dropsy, he always drops his books.

—First Student: Was heisst D. D.?

Second Student: Doktor der Dummheit.

—(Pound in Jeff’s comp.)

Vorsteher: Herr Pastor, sie sollten sich eigentlich ein Auto anschafEen; mit dem Ding konnen sie leichter umkommen.

LOGIC. Student I: You see boys，it’s this way, Baseball is a college sport; I am a college sport. Ergo: I am a baseball.

Student II: Don’t forget to swat it, boys.

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TIME when the successful traveling salesman uas a “Slap ’em on the back.” That kind is now a “has been,” The successful salesman of today looks the prosperous business man he is. It’s not a matter of buttons flid cuffs, Ws the general impression. He looks important …he gets an audienceSlip on a suit of

Adler Rochester Clothes today…then whether you’re a salesman or not"―look at yourself in the glass and see if you don’t look successful

Corner Main & Third Streets

RR. H. J. HOERMANN

DENTIST Over Wiggenhom’s Jewelry Store Entrance on First Street

COR. FIRST and MAIN STREETS

Telephone No. 268

FIRST-CLASS WORK

R. P. KOENIG & CO.

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Finest Grades HARD WHEAT, WINTER WHEAT AND RYE FLOURS

$im Block <4Cbe Barber” 115 Third Street

Watertown, Wis.

QUEEN-Best Family Rye Flour Corn, Oats, Screenings, Oil Meal, Buffalo Gluten Feed, Cotton Seed Meal, Calf Meal, Timothy and Marsh Hay, all kinds ground Feed. Special Attention given to farmers custom work.

Preparedness For Long

LIFE： Eat Pure and Healthful Food Products

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Sharp Corner TELEPHONE 214

firocery

Engraving Company 删$t$ Engravers Printers The most complete and efficient tngravlng and Printing Plant In Wisconsin 1 16 MICHIGAN STREET

PHONES MAIN 1646 or 2777

MILWAUKEE Telephone 274-Y

CITY DRY GLEANING 膽陬SSING WORKS Cadies' and 6_tncn’$ OF THIS PUBLICATION

Garments Cleaned, Pressed, Repaired and Dyed 406 MAIN STREET Watertown, Wl«.

We deliver to nil parts of thecity.

A GUARANTEE You want just one thing in the clothes you buy; if you get that, it’s enough. You want to be satisfied with them.

A <<guaranteen doesn’t mean much unless it means that; and when we ^guarante^* our clothes, that’s what it means.

Every merchant who sells Hart Schaffner and Marx clothes is authorized to make good on it； it covers everything about clothes that may satisfy or dissatisfy; fabrics, fit, colors, tailoring, value for the price.

Th ere are no reservations or exceptions. We want to show you this wonderful line.

HOFFMANN’S MAIN STREET

107-109

RENT CAPS AND GOWNS Pettibone makes a com­ plete line of Academic Caps, Gowns and Uni­ forms. College Cadet Cat­ alog 335 on request.

Pettibone, America’s great College Uniform House, will RENT caps and gowns for special occasions .enab­ ling： you for a small fee, to wear something： that otherwise would cost you quite a little-and perhaps Q make you miss the occa- J| sion you wanted the article W A line to our College Dep’t. will get youihe de­ sired information.

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Special： 一A real Leather belt, one inch wide, bronze plate, with name, monogram or initials of College, for limited time, 75c. each. Must be bought in lots of 25:

CINCINNATI OHIO.

DR A. J. SCHLUETER

DENTIST Watertown, Wis.

313 Main Street We Recommend a

BOSTONIAN，， SHOES FOR MEN.

Leo Ruesch 210 West Main Street.

Smoke Homo Comer, Limit and Advance 5 CENT CIGARS AND

ONARITA 10 CENT CIGAR

Sonnemann & Amann

0. F_ KURZWEG DEALER IN

FINE BOOTS. SHOES AND RUBBERS.Please Give Us a Trial We Try to Give Satisfaction

402 Main St.

W. D. SPROESSER GO. JEWELERS Pianos and Victor Victrolas A large Stock of Records con­ stantly on hand.

111 Main St.

Thone No. 259-Y Watertown, Wis.

New Method Laundry A. IV. DI£T£R, Prop.

218 First Street

’Phone 81-Y

Give your Laundry to GUSTAV SCHLEGEL, Manager STUDENTS LAUNDRY AGENCY

OWEN’S DRUG STORE 412 MAIN STREET NEAR CORNER OF FIFTH

Agents for Seneca Cameras and Photographic Supplies

Watertown Creamery Co. Manufacturers of

FANCY CREAMERY BUTT] AND ICE CREAM WATERTOWN, WILLIAM GEHRKE DRUGGIST

WISCONSIN

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Fine Havana Filler \MGGENHORN BKOS, CO.

THE VALDONA STORE

315 Main $t.

Watertown, Wis.

AGENCY rOR

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Bert C. Froemming EAST END BARBER SHOP. 602 Main St.

Phone 401-Y

105 Main Street

The PriiMcess

Confectionery GEORGE SPYROS, Proprietor

Ice Cream,份ndk$ and WATERTOWN, WIS.

A. WIGGENHORN & SON

JEWELERS

FINE WATCH REPAIRING Watertown, Wis.

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Dr. T. C. Abelmann PHYSICIAN and SURGEON WITS

INSURANCE See H. P. BAHR earnest Agency in City Phone 561-x Watertown, Wis.

109 Main St.

ycoj We have it!

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Anything in the DRUG LINE

BITTNER & TETZLAFF Watertown’s Leading Drug Store

The Rexall Store

203 Main Street

Clarl

^xxtoirk Dealer in

RELIABLE FURNITURE UNDERTAKER AND LICENSED EMBALMER Private Chapel Up-to-Datte Equipment 313 MAIN STREET

Z. P，系丨 Phone 54-X

Res. * Phone 51-X

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Watertown's Leading Furniture Store

F- G. KECK & CO. 110-112 Main Street.

You will find a complete line of FRUITS of all kinds in season nt

John K. Heismann CASH GROCER TBLEPHONB <2 U6 MAIN STREET

FOR

STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES CALL AT

1917 Spring Styles Fine ShoesforMen

Kuhn’s Grocery PHONE 389-Y

1101 WESTERN AYE.

Buy Your Footwear at

Geo. W. Spohn’s 215 MAIN STREET

NOT WAR PRICES BUT OLD PRICES AND QUALITY. Men’s English Lace $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50.

Our Orthopracy Dept, gives relief to all Foot Troubles. Consultations FREE.

GUARANTEED MERCHANDISE IS ALL

WE SELL

One of our New City Styles

Main A. KALIEBE 616 Street PICTURES FRAMED RIGHT UP TO THE MINUTE

If you haven’t used our goods it’s time you did.

Get that feeling of satisfaction that you are entitled to.

The best Variety of CTURE FRAME

Football - Basket Ball Base Ball equipment Sweaters-Skates-Jerseys

Moulding in the City

Col_A_ Supply Go.

We sure can please you

No. 5 6 7 Wella St.

Milwauliee, Wis. Get our catalof

Give us a trial

Chas. Heismann 108 THIRD STREET

PURE SUGAR

HOME MADE

Candies STREET. ICE CREAM and SODAS MF:1CN LIBRARY

E. H. COOK, M. D. Practice limited to

EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SPECTACLES AND EYE CLASSES SCIENTIFICALLY FITTED Hours： 9:30 to H:30a.m-| S:30 to 4 p.m.f 7 to 8 Wednesday and Saturday evenings Telephone 305-Y Sundays, JO to It a.m.

3IHcc9 Hcrtcl & Hoffman Bldg. Watertown^ Wi*

H. T. EBERLE, D_t 204 Main Street Carries Kodaks and all necossary Supplies also handles Iho Parker Fountain Pens

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:A rroW JonnJit COLLARS arc airvecut tojit theshoulclcjs perfectly. 15 cents cadi, bji甲 CLUETT. PEABODY CLCO'：MC9ilakers

In these days of great talk aud much fuss about the Pure Food Laws, it is well to know where you can buy Groceries that have always conformed to such a Law even before it existed. We have never knowingly kept a single article that was hot purr, and we arc going to» do so now just when our corap>etitors tare waking up and have to conform to the Law. Here you get only Pure Groceries at popular prices.

FRED BITTNER， 501-3N. FOURTH ST

UP-TO-DATE

GROCER

PHONE 1J5-Y

£ba$. Sotmtterfeld The Students’ Barber Shop 202^, main^treet Watertown’s Exclusive

CROCKERY

STORt

AUG. GAMM CROCKERY GO. 400 Main Stre9^

Dr. Frank F. Schlueter DENTIST 215 MAIN STREET NEW OFFICE

Watertown, Vi is.

When All Others Fail

EVERYTHING in POCKET

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CUTLERY and RAZORS-

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D. & F. Kuse! Co. 108-110-112 W. Main St.

Cbe Store of Qualify

SOLD UNDER A POSITIVE GUARANTEE TO SATISFY.

30 Days Free Trial PRICE $2.00 SOLD ONLY BY

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Denninger’s Ground-Floor Studio 312 Main St.

H AR DW A R E

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Clm, 1 Salick

C. Buergers Meat Market

BASEBALL TENNIS...

FRESH AND SALT MEATS

and all other Kinds of

SPORTING GOODS 1 and 3 MAIN ST.

AT THE BRIDGE

SAUSAGE, ETC. Telephone 272-Y

112 Second St.

STUDENTS：

George Zoelle’s

Barber Shop Right Across from the Postoffice Herman T. Voigt, THE BARBER 119 W«>t Main St.

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deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check.

No matter how small—your account will receive carelul attention.

酬K OF WATERTOWN "CEItc

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Watertown Photo Co. MEYER>S

GALLERY

114 Third St.

Watartowa, Wis.

A STUDIO THAT ALWAYS PLEASES

THE JUNIATA” WM. 8CHIMMEL & SON Curf » full lhic of CIGARS, TOBACCO AND PIPES

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A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT OUR STYLES ARE ALWAYS UP TO THE MINUTE

101 Main Street, Watertown, Wis.

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Wc cordially solicit a share of your patronage. We carry a complete line of Drugs, Medicines, Cigars, Stationery and all goods found in a first-class Drug Store. Cameras, Films to fit all makes, and other Photo Supplies. Give us a call. Yours truly,

FOR

GAMM CORNER DRUG GO.

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SPRING This is going to be a wond­ erful season for white and when the demand comes white shoes will be hard to get.. We are ready NOW. ARE YOU?

LOSS SIEGLER & SCHLUETER

ULLRICH’S Shoe Store

INSURANCE AGENCY

Cor. 4th and Main

Farmtrs & Citizens Bank Bldg.

1£ MS/m. Gorder Co. 1 3 3

COAL，WOOD, COKE， SEWER PIPE AND

3 3 3

BUILDING MATERIAL 608 Main Street

Telephone 33-IR

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They are as welcome as the flowers in May. The styles, especially the young men’s models, are unrivalled for new and original designs. You will like the cloths — scores of ex-

elusive weaves in fashion's newest colors and patterns. ________ SI 2 50 to $25.00_______

The QuicK=Stepping College Man will find more real fun in wearing Collegian Clothes than he has ever experienced in any clothes. These “natty” garments are shaped along bold lines and the fabrics sparkle with life.

Whether it’s a suit or overcoat, tone prevails.

Don’t think for a minute that you have seen or worn styles as bright as the Collegian styles, for you haven't. Yen’ll.realize it the moment you see them.

FRED E. MAASS DEALER IN

Staple and Fancy Groceries and School Supplies

605 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

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THE BLACK and RED CIGAR MOW LEADS ,EM ALL

Schlueter Bros. f 05 Main Street

Patronise Black and Red Advertisers WE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT

Barker Lumber 6i Fuel Co^ DEALERS IN 1

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Number 2

MORINING. :• Mist still rolls o’er valley and hill, and quiet Rests upon the hamlets and leas, while morning * Paints with rosy fingers the east, and borders Golden the cloud-rims.

Now in triumph rises the sun, in glory 卜 Shining, from the cloud-bank, and rolls before him Mist and night, a victor in state, on golden Chariot thorning.

Down the narrow lane now the lowing cattle Issue forth in search of the meadow’s flowers, Joyously singing.

EHI>>EKU^G1^T EINES ALIEN rFARRGAULS. Es ist heute gerade einen Monat her, dass ich von nieinem alten Herrn, dem Pfarrer. Abschied nalim. Ich kenne zwar den Kalcnder nicht, aber ich horte lieute morgen meinen neuen Herrn zu seiner Frau sagen: “Jetzt liaben wir unsern Frank gerade einen Monat. Es tut mir nicht leid, dass ich ilm gekauft habe.y Ich kann mich hier durcliaus liber nichts beklagen; ich habe es hier ganz gut. Ich habe einen schonen warmen Stall, bekomme - gutes Flitter, brauche nur sehr wenig zu arbeiten und werde im ganzen gut versorgt. Nur eins iirgert micli ein wenig, and das ist, dass ich hier neben der Kuh stehen muss. Aber das ist ja auch nicht so schlimm; ich habe micli schon beinahe daran gewohnt. ..Und doch gefallt es mir hier nicht. Es ist so einsam. Als ich noch Pfarrgaul war, durfte ich so manches miterleben, was jetzt alles ein Ende hat. Nun fiillt meine Stelle ein abscheulicher Wagen mit

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Gummiraden aus, der liur pufft und spuckt unci stinkt und ungemein schnell dahinjagt. Ich glaube, es gefiillt dem lieben Gott gar nicht, dass die Menschen jetzt so schnell iiber seine Erde hinwegfahren. Es ist dies alles ein grosser Schmerz fur mich, und wenn ich an den Tag meines Abschieds von der Pfarrfamilie denke, so tut mir das Herz noch well.

Vor etwa zehn Jahren, als icli einst meinen Herrn zur Stadt zog, sah ich zuni ersten Male so einen Wagen ohne Gaule wie einen Wirbehvind uns entgegenrasen. Ich erschrak natiirlich furchterlich, sprang in die Luft und wollte kurz umdrehen. Mein Herr aber sprach mir freundlicli zu, und sagte das Ding werde mir nichts tun. Ich konnte es naturlich nicht glauben; ich liatte damals sell on die Ahnung, dass solche Fulirwerke fiir uns Pferde nur verderblich sein konnten. Ich stand aber (loch still, 'veil ich wusste, was sich fur einen Pfarrgaul schickt. Ehe ich mich aber nur reclit besinnen konnte, stand der schandliclie Wagen sclion neben uns und verbreitete einen solchen iiblen Geruch, dass ich beinahe in die Kniee gesunken ware. Der Mann war der Scliatzmeister Heuer, und er sagte zu meinem Herrn: “Hen，Pastor, Sie miissen Sich aber jetzt auch bald ein Automobil anschaffen.” “Automobil?” dachte ich; “was soli das denn fur ein Ding sein?” Bald aber merkte ich, dass er einen Rappelkasten wie den seinen meinte. Fiir diese Bemerkung hatte ich dem Herrn Ileuer am liebsten sein Autom'obil in kleine St&cke zerschlagen, aber icli weiss, was sich fiir einen Pfarrgaul geziemt. Mein I-Ierr aber wollte niclits von einem Automobilkauf wissen und sagte: “Mein alter Frank hat micli noch immer iiberall hingebraclit, wo icli liin wollte.”

Vor einiger Zeit liorte ich den Vorstelier Hiilinerkoch zu meinem Herrn sagen: “Herr Pastor, liaben Sie aucli schon gehort, (lass die Fords wieder funfzig Dollars im Preis heruntergekommen sind?

Jetzt sollten Sie Sich aber auch ein Automobil kaufen.” Mein Herr aber sagte: “Wie gern tiite ich’s, wenn ich nur die Mittel hatte!>, Dies fuhr mir wie ein Dolcli in’s Herz.

Am nachsten Sonntag sah ich den Scliatzmeister nach dem Gottesdienste von den Gemeindegliedern Geld kollektieren, Ich dachte mir naturlich nicths dabei, 'veil das ja schon oft passiert war.

Ein paar Woclien darauf, an einem sclionen Nachmittag, kam plotzlich ein nagelneues Ford auf den Pfarrhof. Drinnen sassen Herr Heuer und mein jetziger I-Ierr, der Farmer Kornreich. Der Erste stieg aus und sagte meinem I-Ierrn etwas. Was es war, weiss ich nicht; denn ich schaute nur von feme zu. Bald kamen der Pfarrer und Herr Kornreich zu mir. Ehe ich nur vernehmen konnte, um was es sich eigentlich handelte, sagte mein alter Herr zu mir: ^Mein lieber Prank, jetzt bist du nicht melir mein. Wenn ich ^licht wiisste, dass es dir bei deinem neuen Herrn gut gehen wird, 邻 hatte ich dich sicherlich nicht hergegeben. Du wirst ja auch ^ciion etwas alt und gebrechlich; die Rulie wird dir sehr gut tun.”

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Nun war ich verkauft, und dam it schlug natlirlich die Stunde des Abscliieds. Dem kleinen Fritz fiel das Scheiden von mir, glaube Ich, am schwersten. Ich hatte ihn immer getragen, wenn er seines Vater’s Post holte. Im Winter liess ich ihn ofters ip den weichen Schnee fallen, weil er so gerne seiner Mutter erzahlte, wie geschickt er gefallen, sie, ohne sicli nur ein wenig zu kratzen. Wenn er die Kuh hutete, ritt er aucli stets auf meinem Riicken. Er setzte sich auch jezt wieder auf mich und scliluchzte wehmutig. Als die Trjinen anfingen, ilim liber seine Wan gen herabzurollen, lief er schnell in’s Haus. Icli glaube, er schamte sich vor seinem grossen Bruder Karl.

Karl war schon melirere Jahre im Kollege gewesen. Aber es scheint mir wirklich, als lijitte er dort nicht viel Gutes gelernt.

Gleich wiihrend (ler ersten Ferien schlug er mich sclirecklich mit dcr Peitsclie auf den Riicken und sagte: “Jetzt lauf ’mal ein wenig ncelerius,” du “asinus.” Ich weiss heute noch nicht, was das bedeuten sollte, aber jedenfalls war es liiclits Gutes; denn er sagte es nicht sehr zartlich. Und beim Abschied sagte er: “Ich bin froh, (lass wir jetzt endlich den alten Kerl los sind. Ein Automobil ist doch was ganz andres. Nun konnen wir erst eigentlich von der Stelle kommen.”

Marie steckte mir Blumen in die Mahne und in den Schweif, kiisste mich auf die Nase, wo ich einen kleinen weissen Flecken habe, und sagte: “Wahrsclieinlich werde ich dich bald besuchen.'* Als sie dieses sagte，blickte ihre Mutter sie ein wenig von der Seite an, und daim errotete Marie bis liinter die Ohren. Warum, weiss ich nicht.

Herr Kornreich legte mir dann mein mit vielen glanzenden Schnallen und schonen Rosetten verziertes Geschirr auf den Riicken und fuhr ab.

Es schien mir fast, als wiirde ich lebendig begraben. Solange ich dem Pastor gehorte, kannten mich fast alle Leute aus der ganzen Umgegend. Bei jeder Leichenfeier stand ich an der Spitze des Trauerzuges. Auch an jedcm I-Iochzeitszug durfte ich teilnehmen.

Wenn sehr viele Leute bei einer Hochzeit waren, sodass die Pferde nicht alle untergebracht werden konnten，hiess es stets: “Des Pastors Frank muss zuerst einen Platz haben.” Mit alle diesem ist cs jetzt vorbei. Ich bin nun ein alter Stadtgaul, den fast niemand kennt. Meistens stehe ich im Stall, und wenn ich einmal am Wege grase, so kommen die ungezogenen Stadtburschen und werfen mich mit Steinen. Naturlich gibt es dann immer ein grosses Gelachter, wenn mich einer trifft.

Als ich gestern auf der Weide ging, kam mein junger Herr, Johann Kornreich, zu mir, der auch schon viele Jahre im Kollege gewesen war und nun seine Studien auf dem Seminar vollendet hatte. Und wer war bei ihm? Niemand anderes als des alten Pfarrers Marie. Sie kiisste mich gleich wieder auf den weissen Flecken an meiner Nase, wahrend Johann selir eifersiichtig zuschaute. Da

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ich aber bald merkte, dass Johann und Marie liber Sachen sprachen, die nicht fiir fremde Ohren bestimmt waren, wandte ich mich weg von ihnen; denn ich weiss, was sich geziemt. Eins aber haben meine Ohren doch aufgefangen, und das waren die Worte Maries: “Wenn du nun zu deiner Gemeinde kommst, musst du doch auch ein Pferd haben. Ich meine, du solltest deinen Vater bitten, dir den Frank mitzugeben.”

Als ich das horte, ware ich vor Sell reck beinahe in die Knie gesunken. Aber es war ein freudiger Schreck. Ich fiihle mich jetzt fiinf Jahre jiinger. Hoffentlich mache ich mir keine vergeblichen Hoffnungen. Ach, es ware doch zu schon, noch einmal Pfarrgaul P. G. A., *19. zu werden!

BEAUMARCHAIS AJsD THE AMERICAN IIJGVOLUTIOX. It is as the author of the famous comedy “The Marriage of Pigaro” that Caron de Beaumarchais is most widely Known. But it would be wrong to describe him simply as an author. In fact one is at loss what to call him, so many-sided are the interests of this re­ markable man. He acted as financier, as merchant, as judge, as statesman and diplomat on a small scale. But in all lie did lie had but one aim: to gain a name and a fortune. In this lie succeeded fairly well, thanks to his talents and his energy, through which he overcame all the difficulties that were in his way. They must have been great indeed, for Beaumarchais was not a nobleman by birth, but the son of a watchmaker. As a young man, lie succeeded in buy­ ing for himself one of the sinecures at the court of Louis XV.，and, a few years later, a title of nobility. This event marks the beginning of his romantic career.

To us Americans he is of especial interest because of the part he played in the American Revolution. It was largely due to his efforts that we received aid from France. That France should take a lively interest in the quarrel between England and her colonies was only natural; she was still smarting under the humiliation of the peace of 1763, in which she had been compelled to give up her most valuable colonies and to submit to the presence of an Eng­ lish commissioner at every French port. Especially this last article had been a severe blow to French pride, and France longed for an opportunity of revenge. As it still feared England’s power, it could hardly consider the rebellion in America to be this opportunity; for nobody in England or France thought it more than a mere quarrel, which would soon be settled.

The French ministers, therefore, observed the strictest neutrali­ ty. Nevertheless, they were naturally desirous to have accurate in­ formation regarding the struggle. Since the French ambassador in England was not a very competent man, they began to seek for a spe­ cial agent. Beaumarchais, who was in London at the time on some

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petty mission of Louis XVI., put himself forward. No more suitable man could have been found. His present mission would form a natural pretext for his presence in England, while his personal con­ nections, reaching even into the English cabinet itself, would enable him to procure all the information necessary.

No sooner had Beaumarchais been accepted than he began to send voluminous memorials to the king and long letters to the min­ isters, all variations on the same theme: “The success of the colon­ ies will cripple England, but they can only succeed with our aid.

Since war between us and England is inevitable, as it is, we must aid them.” He even declared himself ready to act as agent in transmitt­ ing secret assistance to the Americans. This was in the winter of 1775-1776.

Both France and Spain, its ally, being too weak to attempt an attack, were anxious to preserve peace. English suspicion and arro­ gance, however, soon subjected France to so many insults that the French government finally yielded to Beaumarchais’ representa­ tions. But, since the cause of the colonies seemed in no wise hope­ ful, it refused to grant any direct aid, even in secret. Vergennes, min­ ister of foreign affairs, instead mapped out the following plan: Beaumarchais was to organize a business to send the Americans the necessary supplies. Besides a subsidy of 200 million francs, approx­ imately $400,000, granted by France and Spain, Beaumarchais was to be allowed to take powder and guns from the French arsenals under the condition of replacing them within a specified time. The colon­ ies, should, of course, pay for everything they procured from him.

Accordingly, in August, 177G, Beaumarchais established himself in Paris as “Roderigue I-Iortalez & Co.” His undertaking was very hazardous; the ministry might desert him, his ships might be cap­ tured, or the colonies might be conquered.

But Beaumarchais* energy and enthusiasm relished just this sort of enterprise, for if there was much to lose, there was also much to gain.

He met with difficulties from a quarter where had least expected them. In England lie had met an obscure but enthusiastic young American, Arthur Lee, to whom he had communicated some of his plans. Lee was a jealous and distrustful man, devoured by ambition and always disposed to make much of himself at the expense of oth­ ers. On hearing Beaumarchais’ plans, he immediately wrote to con­ gress that, in consequence of his active endeavors with the French ambassador in London, the French minister had sent to him, Arthur Lee, a secret agent to inform him that the French government would secretly support the United States, a message which gave congress Uie highest opinion of Lee’s ability.

In the meantime Silas Dean, the first American commissioner, had arrived in Paris and had applied to the French government for the very aid that Lee was now representing as already promised. Vergennes had refused but had referred Dean to Beaumarchais, head of Roderigue Hortalez & Co. A contraet very favorable to the colonies

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was soon agreed upon between the two for a large shipment of sup­ plies, which was to reach America before 1777. Ships were at once fitted out, a thousand and one difficulties surmounted, and at last Beaumarchais* first vessels landed in America. Even officers Beaum­ archais sent on, among these the famous Steuben. Thus Beaumar­ chais* efforts were a large factor in the successful campaign of 1777, which brought on the treaty with France and war between Prance and England.

Beaumarchais now expected payment from Congres, but to his and Dean’s great surprise, he did not even receive an answer to his letters. They had reckoned without Lee. Seeing opportunity to gain fame slipping out of his hands, this man had notified Congress that Dean and Beaumarchais had agreed to deceive both the French and the American governments by changing a gratuitous gift of France into a commercial transaction. Thereupon, in December, 1776, Con­ gress appointed Arthur Lee and Franklin as additional commission­ ers, and expected Franklin to explain the conflicting reports of Lee and Dean. But Franklin remained silent. He had been prejudiced against Beaumarchais and had decided to sacrifice him rather than Lee. Finally, in 1778, Dean was recalled to justify his conduct. His testimony, combined with the pressing letters of Beaumarchais and the information supplied by the French government upon the re­ quest of Congress, that Beaumarchais’ claims were valid, at last caused congress to send a very flattering letter to him, promising speedy payment. Later they sent him $500,000 in bills of exchange as an installment on a debt of a million dollars. But soon other cir­ cumstances aroused the suspicion of Congress, and Beaumarchais died in 1799 without having received another cent from America.

The affair was not closed until 1832, when Beaumarchais* heirs suc­ ceeded in getting at least $160,000 from Congress.

Our government had done what governments often do. It had repaid with ingratitude a man who aided it in its darkest hours.

Happily Beaumarchais was not ruined by his great loss, for when he died he left his daughter a considerable fortune despite the ingrati­ tude of America.

DIE APACHEN. Ehe die Weissen dieses Land betraten, lebten in alien Teilen desselben Indianer. Von Jahr zu Jahr wurden diese von den Einwanderern zurtickgedrangt, bis fast die Mehrzahl ausgestorben war.

Wenn ein Volk ein anderes aussterben lasst, ohne ihm irgendwelche Hilfe darzubieten, mag es sein was es will, so zeigt es jedenfalls wenig menschliches Gefuhld. Past zu spat war es sclion, als unsere Regierung sich um die Indianer bekummerte, docli jetzt haben sie ihnen in mehreren Staaten Land angewiesen. Die meisten Indianerstamme werden allmilhlich amerikanisiert. Die letzten Stamme die das amerikanishe Wesen annalimen sind die Apachen, welche sich selbst NT，dches nennen.

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Ihre Wohnung ist ini Siklwesten unseres Landes. Die Mehrzahl der Apachen wohnt im sudlichen Teil Arizonas, ein Teil in der Niihe des Weissen Gebirges, der andere in der Umgebung von San Carlos.

Eine zweite Abteilung dieser Indianer wohnt im sM3stlichen Teil von N. Mexico, im Sierra Blanca Gebirge, in der Mescalero Reser­ vation. Die letzte Sippe, genannt die Jicarilla, wohnt im N. W. Teil von N. Mexico.

Wenn man von den Apachen redet, sind meistens die in Arizona gemeint. Ihres Dialekts wegen werden sie in verschiedene Gruppen geteilt. Spraclilich gelioren alle Apachen zu der grossen Artabaskenfamilie.

Diejenigen, die nicht vom Einfluss der Weissen beriihrt sind, bekleiden sicli nur wenig. Die Manner tragen meistens Sandalen (Moccasins), die vorne aufgebogen sind, uni die Fusse vor dem Anstossen an Steine zu schiitzen. Um den oberen Teil -des Korpers tragen sie ein grob geweblcs Tuch, welches mit einem Strick um die Lenden befestigt wircl. Wiihrend der Wintermonate legen sie sicli eine Decke um die Sellultern. Wiihrend des、Sommers aber haben die alteren Manner nur ein Tucli um sich, die Jungeren ein solchcs zuweilen beim Weltlauf in gewissen Tiinzen.

Die Frauen tragen meist nur einen Ilock und ein I-Iemd Oder ein grob gewebtes Tucli, mit einem Strick um die Lenden befestigt. Im Hause ist der obere Teil des K6r】)ers meistens nackt. Sehr wenige der Frauen haben eine Decke, und sie gehen meistens mit entblossten Piissen und entblosstem Haupt umher.

Im ersten Jahre ihres Lebens sind die Kinder fast immer in Triigern, Oder, wie sie diese nennen, Papooses. Vom ersten bis zum sechsten Jahre laufen sie nackt oder nur mit einem Hemd her­ ein, wenn es nicht zu kalt ist. Naclulem sie ihr sechstes Jahr vollendet haben, tragen sie die Kleidung eines Erwachsenen. .Ihre Wohnungen kann man einteilen in dauernde und zeitweilige Bauten. Keine ihrer Wohnungen hat ein Fenster, und die Ttir ist nur eine kleine offnung, welche mit einer Decke von Fellen Oder Segeltuch bedeckt ist. Die einzige offnung ausser der Tiir ist ein Luftloch fiir den Rauch.

Eine jede Familie baut ilir Haus entfernt von den andern Hiiusern; dennoch bestelit eine gewisse Neigung, zusammen zu leben.

Deshalb findet man so viele kleine Dorfer. Der Indianer liebt es, seine Wohnung auf einen hochgelegnen Ort zu verlegen, wo genugend frisches Wasser zu finden ist. Das Haus geliort der Frau, uqd darum muss sie fiir den Bail desselben sorgen; doch helfen die Manner oft bei dieser Arbeit aus. .

Wenn eine Familie sich fiir liingere Zeit ansiedelt, so baut sie ihr Haus von Adobe, Backstein und Geflecht. Adobe kommt yomr Spanischen her, und bedeutet eine Erde, die sich durch die Sonne harten lasst.一In feuchten Gegenden ist dieser Backstein nicht gut.

Die meisten Hiiuser sind rund gebaut und mit I-Ieu bedeckt.

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gen in die Erde und bedeckt sie mit Binsen. Die Wande bleiben unbedeckt.

Als der Westen unseres Landes noch den Indianern gehorte, war ilire hauptsilclilichste Beschaftigung die Jagd. Da jetzt dies Land schon ziemlich besiedelt ist und die Wiilder lclein und gering sind, ist auch allmahlich das Wild verschwunden. Die jagd stelit jetzt bei ihnen erst in zweiter Linie nach der Landwirtschaft. Die Arbeit auf dem Land wird meistens von den Mannern besorgt, doch, wenn es uotig ist, helfen auch die Frauen mit.

Das Korbmachen ist die Hauptarbeit der Frauen. Sie nehmen eine gewisse Art Binsen, flechten diese zu einem Korbe zusammen, und, nachdem dieser getrocknet ist, malen sie geometrische schwarze Figuren darauf. Auch machen sie noch andere Gefiisse; sie beschmieren dieselben mit Harz und gebrauclien sie als Wassereimer.

Haben sie geniigend Geld, so kaufen sie sicli ein wenig Vieh, Pferde, Esel und Schafe; Schweine findet man niclit bei ihnen.

Die Frau liat die Arbeit im Haus zu besorgen; ihr fallen die Pflege der Kinder, das Tragen des Wassers und anderer schwerer Lasten, das Waschen und Reinigen, die Zubereitung der Mahlzeit und viele andere Arbeiten zu.

Unsere Regierung hat wahrend dieser letzten Jahre schon viele Indianer angestellt, um Staats strassen und unter antler auch den Rooseveltdamm zu bauen. Auch arbeiten viele in den Bergwerken.

Sie sind sehr tuclitige Arbeiter und arbeiten fleissig, wenn sie nicht, wie die Schwarzen, gequalt werden.

Im allgemeinen hungern die Indianer wenigstens einen Teil des Jahres, aber sehr wenige Apaclien sind in den letzten Jahren verhungert. Haben sie keine Vorriite, so gibt es cloch gewisse Wurzlen, Beeren, Gras, Kaktus und Zwiebeln, welclie sie in der Not auf ihre Weise fur die Mahlzeit zubereiten konnen.

Die San Carlos Apaclien essen meistens Weizen und Fleisch.

Vom Weizen machen sie sich Tortillas, 10-12 Zoll breite Kuchen, und backen diese auf einem Blech, welches auf heisse Kohlen gelegt wird. Zu diesen Tortillas trinken sie meistens schwarzen Kaffee und essen manchmal auch eingemaclites* Obst. Fleisch wird meisteps zum Abendessen bereitet, doch koclien sie es auch manclimal mittags. Dann essen sie das Ubriggelassene abends Oder geben es den Hunden. Korn, essen sie selten, aber sie gebrauclien es oft um afem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Te?vino,â&#x20AC;? einem ihrer Lieblingsgetninke, einen guten Geschmack zu geben. Betrunkene Manner sieht man oft in San CarJ°s. Das kommt daher, 'veil sie gewolinlich mit weissen Mannern bei der Arbeit in Beriihrung kommen ,die ihnen dann die geistigen Getranke verkaufen, welclie sie mit ihrem Tesvino vermischen.

Ausserllch halten sie ihren Korper einigermassen sauber. Im Sommer gehen sie oft zu nahen Plussen Oder Baclien und waschen sich dort. Sie liaben aber auch. eine andere Methode, um sich rein zyi machen, die der Scliwitzbader. Drei Oder vier Manner bauen sich eine kleine Hiitte nahe bei einem Plusse und bedecken diese

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mit Decken. Es wird nur eine kleine Offnung zum Eintreten freigelassen, welche spiiter auch zugedeckt wird. Ein Peuer wird aus serhalb der Hiitte angezundet, und grosse Steine werden an diesem erliitzt. Wenn die Steine heiss genug sind werden sie in’s Zeit gebracht und in eine Pfanne mit Wasser gelegt. Die Manner entkleiden sich dann und besprengen ihi.en Korper mit Wasser. Glauben sie genugend geschwitzt zu haben, so laufen sie zum Flusse, (auchen sofort, und schlucken (labei so viel Wasser wie moglich, bis sic erbrechen. Dies ist fiir sie ihre Medizin, wie sie sagen; sie kann aber nur von korperlich starken Miinnern gebraucht werden.

Wiihrcnd dieser letzten Jahre starben sehr viele Indianer. Tuberkulose rafft jedes Jahr zwei Frozent der Bevolkerung dahin.

Die fallende Sucht und Irrsinn findet man bei ihnen sehr oft; 'varum gerade diese letzteren Krankhciten so viel unter ihnen auftreten, weiss man nicht bestimmt.

Als Doktoren haben sie ill re '*MedizinmannerM und “Medizinweiber，” die oft auf ganz sonderbare Weise Hire Patienten heilen.

Sie werden manchmal aucli “die Ty-yin” genannt, auf Deutscli “Wunder.” Die Kenntnis der Heilkunst soil ihnen nach dem Glauben ihrer Stammesgenossen durcli Triiiime gegeben werden, und sic sind als Heiler der Krankheiten bei den Indianern nocli angesehen.

Meistens wollen die Ty-yin ill re Patienten heilen, in dem sie die Wunden mit ilirem “Hadntin,” dem gelben Bliitenstaub der Scirpus lacustris bereiben und dann singen und auf der Flote Oder Violine spielen. Nachdem sie eine Zeitlang solclies getan haben, saugen sie die Wuncle aus und glauben hierdurch die Krankheit wegzunehmen. In diesen letzten Jahren malt eine grosse Anzahl der Tyyins das Bild von Jesu Kreuzigung mit Hadntin auf den schmerzentlen Teil des Leibes, und betet zur selben Zeit zu Gott, dass er den Schmerz von dem Verwundeten nehme.

Sehr selten lassen sie sich von einem weissen Arzt behandeln, da sie glauben, dass er ein Zaubergeist ist. Schon oft starben unter ihnen Mutter bei der Geburt, weil sie keinen weissen Arzt haben wollten.

Sie machen ihre Medizinen meistens von Wurzeln welclie in der Gegend gefunden werden. Sie haben auch gewohnliche Hausmittel，wie man sie in alien Liindern findet, fur Nasenbluten, fur Sclilangen- Oder Skorpionenbiss, un(l andere t)bel mehr.

Bei den Indianern t re ten Leute viel fruher in die Ehe als bei (lep Weissen. Miidchen verheiraten sich im Alter von 12 bis 15, Manner von IS bis 21 Jahren. Sehr selten findet man einen unter ihnen, der iiber 21 Jahre alt und nicht verheiratet ist.

Wenn ein Madchen 12 Oder 13 und ein Jiingling 18 Jahre alt ist, verkiindigt es die Pamilie durch ein Fest, zu welchem alle Preunde eingeladen werden. Manchmal wird bei diesem Feste auch gleich eii)e Verlobung gefeiert. Wenn der Mann zum Vater gelit und um seiner Tochter Hand anlijilt, so gibt er ihm Pferde und Decken.

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Diese werden unter die Verwandten der Braut verteilt. Seit den letzen paar Jahren verheiraten sicli auch Weisse mit Indianern.

Die Zahl ist aber nur gering, da die Apachen sehr aberglaubisch sind.

Etwa zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts hat unsere Regierung es ubernommen, Indianerkinder zu unterrichten. Sie hat ihre Anstalten mitten unter den Indianern. Nachdem diese die Schule absolviert haben, werden die besten herausgesucht und nach dem Osten .geschickt. Sie begreifen die Sachen schnell, und haben sie einmal etwas studiert, so bleibt es fest in ilirem Gedachtnis. Das kommt daher, dass ihr Geist noch frisch ist.

Kommen sie nun wieder nach Hause, bekleidet 'vie ein echter Amerikaner und mit den Sitten desselben, so bleiben die meisten niclit lange dort. Sie gelien zur zivilisierten Welt zuriick und arbeiten dort. Diejenigen, die dann doch zu Hause bleiben, leben meistens nicht lange, da sie niclit mehr gewohnt sind, nach Art und Weise der Indianer zu leben. Auch hat das Klima viel damit zu tun; im Sommer, um 9 Uhr morgens, ist es oft schon 90 Grad im Schatten.

Auch die reclite Lehre hat unter den Apachen eine Statte gefunden. Wahrend der letzten 20 bis 30 Jalire gingen Missionare nach dort aus, und sie liaben jetzt nach langer Arbeit einen Teil der Indianer zuin Christentum bekehrt. Dieses Gescliah oft durch Hilfe der Kinder, die bei ihnen zur Schule gehen. Abends, wenn man um das Haus herumgeht, um alle Schlangen, die vielleicht auf den Wanden, bei der Tiir Oder bei den Penstern lauern, zu toten, hort man, wie das eine Kind seine Eltern das Vaterunser, ein anderes die zehn Gebote lehrt, und wiederum ein anderes, was der weisse Mann mit dem langen schwarzen Rock ihnen in der Schule gesagt hat.

Die Eltern werden neugierig und erkundigen sich viber diese Dinge bei dem Missionar. Nach lilngerer (Jberlegung kommen sie zu einem der Kindergottesdienste, horen zu, und wollen bald auch lernen.

So verbreitet sich allmahlich das lautere Wort Gottes auch unter den Indianern.

K. P., *17.

THE BLACK AND RED Published Moodily by the 3tud_nU of th« Northw«§tern College,

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iE&ttnriais LET’S SEE YOU START SOMETHING! When a young man for the first time suffers his safety razor to omit certain well circumscribed areas on his upper lip, thereby pro­ ducing what is commonly known as “a moustache,n he is not prompted merely by the desire to save on his shaving soap.

Likewise, when the tender shoots thrust themselves forward until they finally blossom into a glorious pink or dusky foliage, the process is not merely physiological.

No, not by a long shot. There are deeper, more fundamental causes at work.

The young man wants to show to the world that he is becoming independent, that he has ideas of his own and is not afraid to back them up.

Of course the moustache is not the only expression of this spirit.

What a tragedy for you and me, dear fellow-student, if it were! For most of us, the “raising” and “maintenance” of a visible symbol of independence must forever remain a beautiful dream. Stern Pate

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raises her fountain-pen and writes across the page of life, in bold round characters: “It can5t be (lone•” What, then, does a young man do? For answer to this very obvious question, let us peruse the time-worn folios of history and see what lie has done in the past.

Ah, here we have it, written in Clio’s beautiful Spencerian hand: “He has, from time immemorial, strived to show his feeling of independence and his confidence in his own ideas by criticizing everything that did not conform to them.”

And wliat, we ask, did ho accomplish by doing this?

“Notlimg at all.”

And why? For this, too, Clio has an answer.

“Because that’s as far as lie went. He never DID anything to change what he saw was not right.** Isn’t it true, dear fellow-student? Don’t you catch yourself fifty times a day voicing your opinion on 'vliat’s wrong with the condi­ tions you are living under? And what, thus far, have you done to improve tlie conditions that you do not like?

“But,” you will say, “there are a lot of things that are simply impossible for me to try to change.”

Then why uselessly make yourself and others miserable by con­ stant nagging and criticism?

On the other hand, there are a lot of unpleasant things you can set to rights if you will only pitch in and do it. Start in and you will always find fellows to follow you up, provided your idea is right.

Don’t complain. Pitch in! Let’s see you start something!

“MY OLD MAN.^ It is a deplorable fact that one finds among college students many who apply the epithet “old man1 * to their father. The term itself and the disrespectful manner ini which it is generally spoken lead one to believe that the person using it lacks the respect a son owes his father.

How can a young fellow speak of his father in such a way? Why should lie refuse to do honor to him who perhaps labors with liis hands in order that his son may go to college and get the education lie himself was forced to do without? Is it a reason for speaking of him with contempt that -lie does not seem abreast with the times? It proves the person that uses the disrespectful term at once thought­ less and vain.

"My old man” may sound independent and “big,” but it is an expression of independence in the wrong direction; and when the day comes when the face of him who has been so kind to you is com-

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posed in death, then these words will rush upon your memory and torment you, armed with the stings of conscience.

You owe your father benefits you will never be able to repay, and a remark of this kind, if perchsncc overheard by him, would touch him to the quick. Remember this when tempted to use the phrase “My old man,” and, if you have any feeling of decency in your makeup, it should be no hard matter for you to break from its use once and for all.

—G. OUR KEADING-ROOM. Let us go up to the second floor and take a good look at our reading-room; our attention is readily drawn to places where im­ provements are absolutely necessary.

First of all, the room is not well provided with artificial light.

One small incandescent certainly is not enough to make it possible for a person sitting some distance from it to read without difficulty.

Furthermore, the number of chairs in the reading-room is too small. The best position for a person while reading is to sit, and to sit comfortably. Then, too, if there are not sufficient chairs, those who enter the room when (he chairs are occupied are tempted to make use of the window-sill as their seat; this certainly makes a bad impression on people who pass by outside.

Let us add a few words regarding the order among the maga­ zines and papers. Everybody should put the magazine he used into the correct place. Many of the members neglect to do this, believing that the next man will put it away. Nothing makes a worse impres­ sion on strangers than to see magazines scattered all over the tables.

But what’s the use of talking! Let’s get down to business, fel­ low-students, and make a real effort to change things in this regard!

If you have anything to say in the management of the reading-room, it ought not to be a great task to have a few more chairs and some lights installed. If you are merely an occasional reader, observe the regulations posted on the bulletin-board by the seniors. How about it?

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—G. H., ’18.

m ARBOR DAY. On April 12 the students of N. W. college celebrated their annual Arbor Day. Following the custom of former years, the faculty de-

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dared a holiday, in order to give the students ample opportunity to clear away the debris that had been congregating in the college park for the last half year. Although the day was rather cloudy and sultry, all worked with a good will, and our grounds are now once more in a neat and tidy condition.

Immediately after morning chapel services, the Juniors, under whose jurisdiction the work of cleaning up was to go on, called a meeting of the student body for the purpose of outlining the work to the different classes.

In the Preparatory Department, the three lower classes were ordered to go to homes of people of Watertown and borrow rakees, and with them to remove all tlie old leaves and dry grass on the col­ lege grounds. The Quartaners, Senior class of this august body of future collegiates, had the pleasant task of giving portage to the con­ glomeration raked together by their less intelligent schoolmates via two wagons especially borrowed for that purpose. In order to save tlie expenses a few teams of horses would have meant, the husky Prep, elders put their own shoulders to the wheels. While one section of this class was thus engaged, the other pushed a heavy roller over the garnished places.

In the collegiate department the Freshmen, under the able su­ pervision of the baseball captain, put the baseball diamond into shape. To the Sophomores fell the fruity job of pruning the trees of the college park and they, although not endowed with the wisdom of dentists, pulled two gigantic trees by the roots from tlieir growing places. The Juniors, as stated before, had the supervision of this great renovation in their hands, and well they did their work. The Seniors, in recognizance of the able manner in which they had handled tlieir fives in years gone by, were exempted from menial work; a cordial invitation was, however, tendered them (as cordially welcomed as tendered) to partake of the "cena communis”，the prin­ cipal and only course of which was lemonade and rye bread sand­ wiches, served at ten o’clock to give the toilers new energy.

Needless to say, those members of the Junior class who liad the distribution of the viands under their control succeeded in securing for themselves an abundance of nourishment. The prize this year, as in former years, must again be bestowed upon our venerable friend Cassius Lucius Brutus, ’18, who succeeded in clowning nearly a peck of sandwiches and a corresponding volume of lemonade. And then the poor boy still liad the nerve to say that “some crooked work was going on!” Wohl bekomm’s, Lucius!

All had their work done at dinner time, with exception of the Quartaners, who labored until late in the afternoon. At 3 o’clock those who were not otherwise engaged gathered around the big dia­ mond to witness the first practice game between the Varsity and the second team.

Again an Arbor Day had been added to the many that had gone before.

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SEVE^TENTH ANNUAL CONCERT. Friday evening, May 4, our three musical organizations, band, orchestra and chorus, rendered the following program: 1. ORCHESTRA—(Prof. E. A. Wendland, Director). a) Washington Greys March____ —Grafulla b) Selections from Aida_______ ____ Verdi c) Blue Danube Waltz__________ J. Strauss 2. CHORUS—(Prof. C. Bolle, Director).

Im Walde___ W. Tschirsch 3. VIOLIN DUET— Johan I-Ialvorsen, Op. 29, No. 1 Intermezzo I Elmer C. Kiessling, ’17，Jefferson, Wis.; Christian Kock, ’17，Belle Plaine, Minn.; Edgar Felten, Sheboygan, Wis., (Accompanist) 4. QUARTETTE— a) Still ruht der See_________ _______ Pfeil b) The Jolly Blacksmitli’s Lay Adam Geibel Adolph Zeisler，’18, La Crosse, Wis., first tenor; Arrain Retzlaff, *17, New Ulm, Minn., second tenor; Waldemar Retzlaff, ’17，New Ulm, Minn., first bass; I3ernliard Westendorf, ’18，Saginaw, Mich., second bass.

5. CORNET SOLO— Annie Laurie______________________________ Arthur Pryor Helnuith W. Schaefer,’17, Kenosli, ; Edgar Felton, (Accompanist) 6. CHORUS— a) Sweet and Low_____________ J. Darnby b) Northwestern Fair___________ 7. BAND—(Prof. H. A. Frank, Director). a) The Idolizers, March_________ W A. C. Corey ___ Ed Kiesler b) Amazon, Overture___________ ___ V. Lachner c) Fest Overture in C. (Turandot) 8. AMERICA—(Sung by the audience).

Once again a satisfied audience left nur capacious auditorium.

- Our organizations had shown that thoy could render good music with non-professionals as (Hrocl.irs. Considering how our organiza­ tions were handicapped in not lmvini? a director until shortly before Christmas, we are proud of the they rendered. For their ultimate success we can only tlian ^ our abio directing professors, who worked so unremittingly lo sret the various organizations into shape.

The orchestra, consisting of twenty-four members wnder the direction of Prof. E. A. Wendland, opened the progi-ani. It is uiiciei Prof. Wendland's direction, coupled with the willing the individual members of the orchestra, that the organization nas been brought to its present good standing. As the proof o p . ding is in the eating, so the efficiency of a director is se style and manner that his organization renders its selections, playing of the “Washington Greys March” we were caught up y

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get-up-and-walk-along air. The rendition savoured of real snap and bespoke diligent practice. The “Selections from Aida” was a piece more difficult to play. The many pauses and sudden delicate strains were, liowever, played in unison, and were bare of that efi'cct wc find creeping over us when one of the instruments is tardy with its note.

The soft, mellow, wavy strains of the “Blue Danube Waltz” were al­ so admirably played.

The chorus deserves special praise for its good work. Under the able directorship of Prof. Bolle, who has in past years had consid­ erable success with this organization, it held the audience spellbound with its well-night perfect bringing out of the pp and ff strains. The German songs, “Im Walde” and 4<Vorwaerts Marscli/* and the English song, “Sweet and Low,” were general favorites.

The crescendos in the first and the soft strains in the last, together with the clear pronunciation in all three, are only a few of the many things which go to show the ability of Prof. Bolle.

As a new feature a violin duet was rendered by two of the best violinists at Northwestern. Mr. Felten accompanied them ably on the piano. The applause given them by the audience alone suffices to show how remarkably well they rendered their selection.

Another new feature was a cornet solo by I-Ielmuth Sliaefer, president of the band, who, rumor has it, is one of the best cornet blowers that ever pressed a valve at N. W. C. He played “Aimie Laurie,” during which lie was accompanied on the piano by E. Fel­ ten. His encore was very good and deserved the aplause of the audi­ ence.

The quartette kept up its old reputation, the voices blending well. Even the new members, A. Retzlaff and B. Westendorf, showed no signs of stage fright. The even tempo in which they sang their selections took with the audience, wlio forced them to respond with five encores.

• As a conclusion to the program the members of the band ascended thee stage. Their first selection, the “Idolizers” march, almost took the audience off its feet. The two overtures were were also well rendered. In the latter the clarinets and basses deserve honorable mention for the able manner in which they played their parts. Prof.

Frank certainly is an able director, and under liis leadership the band is now considered one of the best of our organizations.

Perusing the flattering “write-ups，，in the Watertown Daily Times and the Weltbiirger, and considering the large audience that .attended and departed well satisfied, we feel justified in adding this concert to the long list of the successful performances our concerts have been in the past.

AUS DEM SEHINAK. Herr Otto Kehrberg musste am 14. April das Seminar verlassen,

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um operiert zu werden. Herr Kehrberg ist jetzt fast vollig genesen und wird bald wieder aus Marshfield zuriickkehren.

Unsere erste Klasse wird immer kleiner. Ihren lezten Verlust erlitt sie durch des Austreten Herrn 0. Pluedemanns.

Am 16. April reiste Prof. A. Pieper nach Globe, Arizona, um bei der Beerdigung unsers Indianermissionars, Herrn Pastor C. P. G. Harders, zu predigen，und um die Mission naher kennen zu lernen.

Pastor O. Toepel von Newton, Wis., besuchte uns am 19. April.

Gilbert Glaeser vom N. W. C. besuchte am 21. April semen Bruder Martin und andere Freunde.

Am 21. April, abends um acht Uhr, trat Herr Pastor A. Koelpin von McNaughton, Wis., mit Frl. Helena Gieschen, Tochter Herrn Pastor Heinr. Gieschen, in den heiligen Ehestand. Unsere Gliickswunsche!

Bruder Martin Wehauscn hielt sich am 30. April mit Freunden, Bekannten und Verwandten in Watertown auf.

Am 30. April durften wir Herrn Pastor W. Keibel aus West Allis begriissen.

Herr Pastor A. Tacke aus Merna, Nebraska, war am 4. Mai unser Gast.

Herr Pastor P. Stern aus Watertown, Wis., liielt sich am 7. Mai kurze Zeit bei uns auf.

Schulmeister W. Zank ist wieder in unsercr Mitte, nachdem er einen Mon at in Neenah als Lehrer fungiert liatte. Roy Vollmers halt jetzt Schule in Neenah.

Baseball: N. W. C., 8; L. T. S., 3. Anders war’ es zu schon gewesen. “Es hat nicht sollcn sein.”

"Gemiitlicher Abend” am 18. Mai. Gedenkt der leeren Coetuskasse，ihr jungen Bruder im Amt!

NOTICE

The annual meeting： of the Alumni Society will take place on Friday afternoon, June 15th, 1917, at 3 p. m., in the gymnasium.

H. K. MOUSSA, Pres.

m COLLEGE CHIPS. The first literary article in “College Chips** is “Success and

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Failure.” The topic is treated well, and the article contains several good ideas. The second sentence in this article would sound better if the singular form of the copula were used. The sentence is: “Who are successful and who are not?”

“Old Tom’s Story ’’ contains no complicated plot, but is, nevertheless, quite interesting.

The historical article on “A National University” is of interest to us, since it is connected with education in our country. The lan­ guage could have been improved in some places.

A president’s name is the first word of four successive paragraphs. A little change here would haye been better.

The “Sciences” column contains an article on **The Candle.”

Although there are a few awkward constructions in this article, it is, nevertheless, very instructive and interesting.

Both editorials are good, not only as respects the manner in which they are written, but also as respects the topics selected.

Your exchange column should have been conducted somewhat more according to the principles mentioned in the short paragraph previous, on the real duty of an exchange editor: not only to make comments on the magazines, but also to criticise their faults.

The remaining departments are good. In general, your maga­ zine for April is pleasing to us, and we hope to see more numbers like this one from you in the future.

THE SPECTATOR. The April number of the “Spectator” is called the “Sophomore Number.” ft was for this reason that we decided to review this maga­ zine, namely, to see what your Sophomore class could put out. In general, the magazine makes a good impression and we enjoyed reading it.

The poem “Christ is Master” is very pleasing and also befitting the season一Easter. .The next article is “The History of the Sophomore Class.” A little change of the word “then” in the beginning of sevral successive sentences and other improvements in the use of the language would have made the article more pleasant to read.

“The Prodigal Son” is a story treating of the fall of a good man.

It is interestingly told and argues latent powers in the writer.

In the article “A Few Facts About Money” the writer does not cling to his topic closely. His topic is money in general, while he restricts himself to our American coins. The introduction is good; the conclusion might have been made more extensive.

The story “Lasso Jim” contains a good, simple plot, carried out well. There is, however, an expression in it that sounds queer: “He started to say something and almost swallowed a paper of tobacco.” !

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The editorials are ably written, although the topics are somewhat abstract. Articles of an abstract nature are likely to become sickening to most readers and will, consequently, fail to bring home their point.

The exchange column should contain more destructive and con­ structive criticism. It should call atention to the writer’s faults as well as to his merits.

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EXTRA! DIE VEHLOHKXE IIANDSCIIRIFT.

[Editor’s Note: This almost priceless manuscript is here laid bare to the public eye through the courtesy of our veteran Egyptolo­ gist and explorer ‘.Dad.” “Dad” insures us that he found the some­ what damaged document in the vitals of an ancient man-eating croc­ odile, together with two rubber soles, a pair of suspenders, a collar button, a dense lump of solid ivory, and thirty cents in cash. The discovery may throw some light on the fate of I. C. Starrs, the veter­ an Egyptologist, who, a few years ago, startled the entire scientific world by extracting four as yet unknown Hebrew roots from the up­ per jaw of a carnivorous crocodile and living to tell the tale. It is feared that a reptition of this experiment has ended in failure for Prof. Starrs and success for the crocodile. The document, damaged in some places, is of the highest historic interest, covering a period of nearly forty centuries and throwing a brilliant light on one of the duskiest periods of Oriental civilization.] ,, **0,1 can take you most anywhere on earth you wish to go, Bill,” responded the proud possessor of the road louse. “I just had the gasoline tank filled up to the brim and we can do some tall travelling before she gets empty.”

“What do you say to a little trip to Egypt? I have always wished to see some of its ancient world-renowned structures. There comes one of those new Ford freight-carrying aeroplanes now. I’ll flag him and have him drop us at Memphis. We can ride the rest of the way from there in the Ford and view the landmarks.”

It was no sooner said than done. The conductor of the large freight-carrying aeroplane brought his machine to the ground. After putting the dingy little car into the freight-room and the two passengers into the state-room, he applied pressure to the levers and they were soon in Egypt.

Arriving at Memphis they paid their fare, coaxed out the “louse,”

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and started it on a tour down Main street, with the Afric sun shining upon their backs. But our travellers were not destined to ride very long. They soon got into trouble.

Main street, Memphis, Egypt, was a very busy place in B. C. 2250, as Bill and his friend soon came to find out. They were travel­ ling along at a slow rate; all about them they saw women venders gesticulating with considerable vehemence, one trying to outdo the other in order to dispose of her wares. The two Fordists were at their wits，ends and brought their car to a stop, thinking them ladypolicemen on the lookout for speeders. “Now we’re in for it, Bill,” said Henry. “Let’s get out and talk to them.” Suiting action to the words, they killled the motor and approached one of the supposed traffic cops.

She was just occupied with a customer, and all efforts to get ber atention were of no avail. “Probably somebody else in the same fix as we are,” said Bill.

In the meantime a mob had congregated about the mass of metal made famous by Henry Ford. Little Egyptian lads found extreme de­ light in pushing the button that sounded the Klaxon. In his eager­ ness to press a button, one of the throng turned on the self-staiM rr a.nd the Ford started going down Main street at a slow rate, amidst the roar and yell of the populace. Even Hammurabi, who had come to get some papyrus to write his new code of laws upon, was horrorstricken when he looked from liis room in the hotel and saw this amalgamation of the four elements running down the street pro­ pelled by its own power. Haying the welfare of the people forever in his eye, he prohibited the existence of Fords in Egypt on the spot.

And that is why we find no record of them in Egyptian history. .Bill and Henry soon found out to their own disgust that it was their property that was the cause of the uproar, and, depositing a twenty-dollar bill with the surprised street vender, started after the fleeing car at full speed.

But they were too late to prevent any damage; the car crashed into the temple of one of the Egyptian dieties, knocked the priest senseless, and then stood pantingly puffing against the altar. Pan­ demonium reigned. The people thought the Gods were punishing them for some evil, and were all quaking with fear. But they had little need to. Bill and Henry soon came out of the throng, and, after applying pressure to a little white button on the back of the “louse,” soon checked its onslaughts on the altar.

The priest, having gained consciousness in the meantime, and b^mg less superstitious than the rest of the people, called his disciples about him, and, after a subdued conversation, the conclave came toward Bill and Henry with faces that boded no good will. Bill and Henry, seeing their predicament, immediately took French leave, a lfn ynknown to the Egyptians. The dusky heathens, only too i them, did not give pursuit. The Ford that had been left bemnd they bound to an obelisk with a large knot. This was the

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knot that Alexander was to cut in later years, by virtue of which he was to conquer the world.

Bill and Henry struck for the Nile valley, thinking to find refuge in the rushes along its banks. They soon saw, however, that no one was pursuing, and, since the Nile looked inviting to them, they un­ dressed and plunged into its cool waters. They enjoyed themselvees thus for about ten minutes, when all of a sudden Henry shrieked: Bill looked around just in time to "Look out, Bill, a crocodile! see a large crocodile make for him, and he quickly swam ashore. But his friend's life was still in danger. Bill was equal to the emergency.

Running along the shore, he picked up stones and threw them at the crocodile, soon forcing it to submerge, thus giving his pal a chance to arrive on shore in safety.

Terribly frightened by their last experience, they travelled at a rapid rate along a road leading from the river, both silent. While still suffering from fright, they came upon a native who was sitting under a tree and smoking a cigarette (another thing unknown to the Egyptians at that time). They hadn’t had a cigarette since they left the U. S. A. Relying on the generosity of the Egyptian, Henry ap­ proached him and said in a voice firm through practice: “I wack butts.M (This is a sentence used by the ancient Egyptians in the transfer of camels.) For a reply the native put two fingers to his lips and emitted a loud whistle. Immediately a shower of cocoanuts had these two as its victims. "Most extr’ordinary, hochst sonderbar,” said Bill. “Here’s where somebody •” He was destined never to finish his statement. A cocoanut struck him squarely between the eyes with a dull, sickening thud, and----- • [Editor’s Note: At this point, it seems, the crocodile took mat­ ters into its own hands, or rather jaws, whether for the good of hu­ manity or not, the patient reader may by this time have determined.]

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XOItTinVESTERN 8; SEMINARY 3.

May 5 witnessed the official opening of our baseball season, when the defenders of the Black and Red crossed bats with the Sem­ inary aggregation. This game is always eagerly looked forward to, because the fans are assured of a fast, interesting game and are aS3*in permitted to view the former champions of N. W. C. in action. Al­ though the weather was ideal for a football game, both teams dis­ played plenty of pep and both pitchers were given excellent support,

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the infrequency of errors and Gruendemann’s two brilliant catches in center being the features of the game. Westendorf’s pitching, as in former years, was of championship caliber, but our boys marched to the plate determined to “do or die,” and succeeded in finding him for eight hits, which netted us our eight runs; but ten took three healthy swings and then retired. The find of the season, W. Stueber, was on the mound for N. W. C. He allowed only one hit, which came in the eighth, when Manteufel and Westendorf, who were given a walk, scored on Vollmers’ single. Vollmers later scored on an error, The following is taken from the score book: N. W. C, 8.

AB R H PO A B 3 112 4 0 Lange, ss— 4 110 0 0 Zeisler, r£_ 3 0 0 4 3 1 Duxe, 2b .401700 Henning, c.

4 0 0 10 1 0 BubltU, lb.

Gruendemann, cf___ 4 113 0 0 Naumann, If_______ 4 2 1 0 0 0 4 2 1110 Tacke, 3b_ 4 1 2 0 3 0 Steuber, p.

Totals.

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8 27 12 1

Seminary, 3.

AB R HPO A E 3 10 2 0 0 Manteufel, ss__ 3 0 112 0 Vollmers, 3b 4 0 0 2 0 1 Medenwald, cf_ 3 00 7 0 0 Lindloff, lb___ 2 0 0 2 3 1 Rosin, 2b-------3 0 0 0 0 1 A. Kelirberg, If. 4 0 0 0 0 0 Lutzke, rf____ 3 10 0 10 Kobs, c_______ 3 10 0 10 Westendorf, p_.

Totals.

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3

1 23* 6

4

Summary~Two-base hit: Naumann. Stolen bases: Lange, 3; Stueber, 2; Zeisler, Duxe, Henning, Gruendemann, Manteufel. Bases on balls: Off Westendorf, 1; off Stueber, 6. Struck out: By Westendorf, 10; by Stueber, 6. Umpire: C. Schweppe.

•Runner hit by batted ball.

N. W. C. 6; ST. JOHNS 2.

After three year’s cessation of athletic activities with St. John's Military Academy the cadets were again seen on our diamond on May 10. Instead of a baseball game it proved to be a slugging fest for * us, and the crestfallen Sinjuns went marching home with the small end of a 6 to 2 score. Stueber pitched a splendid game for N. W. C., allowing only three hits, while Windle was nicked for thirteen, in­ cluding several three bagers and doubles. Naumann led our clouters with a two bagger and two singles out of three trips to the plate.

Lange, Henning, and Bublitz were close seconds, getting three singles, two triples, and two singles respectively out of four times up, while Duxe, Zeisler, and Stueber were each credited with a single.

The Black and Red’s defense was perfect, with Lange, our speedy shortstop, looming up as the star, having two put-outs and six as-. sists to his credit. He also had a hand in a perefectly executed double play, which came in the fourth. With Dory on first, Turner grounded to Duxe, who shot the ball to Lange at second, who like a flash snapped it to first before the astonished fans were aware of what had happened. Keel was the shining light for the cadets; with a man on

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first he drove one out to deep right and by dint of some fast sprint­ ing succeeded In stretching it into a three-bagger. In the seventh Bublitz replaced Stueber, who was unable to go into the box after being hit by a pitched ball, while Zeisler was shifted to first and Krauss was sent into the garden. In this inning Jack showed what he could do in a pinch. He walked Keel and Reeder and forced Knick­ erbocker to ground out and then hit Dory, thus filling the bases.

With only one out, hopes of scoring ran high in the soldiers’ camp.

But Jack:thought it was time to open up and with the next seven balls reti red Tuirner and Kratz. After this inning the game was called to permit the visitors to catch their train.

N. W. C” 6.

AB R H PO A Lange, ss__ 4 1 3 2 6 Duxe, 2b___ 4 2 1 3 3 Zeisler, rf-lb.

4 1110 Henning, c__ 4 0 2 5 2 Bublitz, lb-p.

4 0 2 10 0 Gruendemann, cf___ 3 0 0 0 0 .Naumann, It. 3 1 3 0 0 Tacke, 3b__ 3 1 0 0 0 Stueber, p__.

2 0 1 0 3 Krauss, It 0 0 0 0 0

E 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

ST. JOHNS, 2.

AB R H PO A E 3 00 2 0 0 Bradle, 2b__ 3 10 4 11 Lipmann, ss.

3 10 0 2 0 Windle, p__.

2 01 9 2 0 Keel, c___ 2 00 0 0 0 Reeder, rf.

Knickerbocker, 3b__3 0 110 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 Dory, lb— 3 0 12 10 Turner, If. 3 0 0. 0 0 2 Kratz, cf—

24 2 3 21 6 3 Totals.

Totals.

31 C 13 21 14 2 Summary—Three-base hits: Keel, 1; Henniing, 2. Two-base hits: Lange, Naumann, Zeisler. Stolen bases: Lange, Duxe, Tacke.

Base on balls: Off Bublitz, 2. Struck out: By Windle, 8; by Stueber, 3; by Bublitz, 2. Double play: Duxe to Lange to Bublitz. Hit by pitcher: Stueber. Umpire: H. Bahr.

NORTHWESTERN 0; WHITEWATER NORMALS 6.

On May 12 our baseball team journeyed to Whitewater, where it was presented with a shutout in a tilt with Coach Schreiber’s followers. Although our boys played an errorless game and succeeded m finding Mitten for five hits, Northwestern was unable to score.

Each inning saw several of our players on bases, but luck was not with us; our hits were too scattered to be effective. The Normalites earned all of their six runs, gathering eleven hits from Stueber’s delivery. O’Neill poled out a homer over center in the seventh, while Meldeen was credited with a three bagger. Of our sluggers Zeisler * made the longest drive, when he connected with one In the ninth and drove it to deep right. It was an easy homer and he had already gone the circuit; “Zei” was called out, however, after the pitcher had called the umpire’s attention to the fact that he had cut third.

In reality he was blocked by the third baseman. Henning rapped out a two-bagger, while Naumann, Lange and Bublitz each got a bingle.

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In the eighth Meldeen replaced Mitten, while Bublitz relieved Stueber.

Whitewater, G. N. W. C” 0.

4 12 10 0 Ayen, rf___ AB R H PO A E 4 2 3 2 1 0 Vaughen, 3b.

4 0 113 0 Lange, ss___ 4 2 2 12 1 0 O’neill, c___ 3 0 00 4 0 Duxe, 2b----3 0 0 2 0 0 Agnew, lf__.

4 0 1 ,4 0 0 Zeisler, rf-lb.

4 0 1110 Meldeen, 2b_ 4 0 1 3 2 0 Henning, c—.

3 112 10 Hanson, ss_.

4 0 1 13 0 0 Bublitz, lb 3 0 1110 Alien, cf---Gruendemann, cf___ 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 112 0 Mitten, p__ 3 01 2 0 0 Naumann, cf.

4 0 0 5 0 0 Johnson, lb_ 3 00 0 0 0 Tacke, 3b__ 2 00 0 4 0 Stueber, p 33 6 11 27 7 0 Totals.

30 0 5 24 13 0 Totals.

Summary―Home run: O’neill. Three-bagger: Zeisler, Meldeen.

Two-bagger: Henning. Stolen bases: Ayen, Duxe, Bublitz. Struck out: By Mitten, 9; by Meldeen, 2; by Stueber, 3.

Base on balls: Stueber,!； Bublitz, 1.

m —Francis Voigt, Prep., our heavy-weight champ, held down the streets of Oconomowoc Sunday, April 22. 一Rev. Spilman of Edgerton called on his son, Carl, ’20, on Thurs­ day, April 12.

—Leo Gruendemann and Lawrence Mueller of Porestville, Theophil Pankow of Cambridge, and Leland Hannemann of Wilmot en­ tered the Sexta class after the Easter recess. 一A. Mielke and L. Stark, ’20, took the civil service examination ajt Milwaukee on Friday, April 20.

—~L. Brutus Bernthal, ’18, visited the mayor of Fort Atkinson on April 15. 一W. Sauer, Prep., got his dates a little mixed during Easter vaca­ tion, which accounts for his having been late for school.

—N. Duerr, Prep., travelled to Milwaukee and helped his brother get married on April 18. ffl ffl ffl 一E. Tacke, ’19, and his giant brother, “Red,” Prep., made their debut In Milwaukee on Sunday, April 29.

—Fritz Stueber,. Prep., blew himself to a trip home to Clyman, on Sunday, April 22.

—Rev. and Mrs. Bretscher of Lebanon were the guests of Hans Grothe, Prep., on April 25.

—W. Meyer, ’18, was agreeably surprised by a visit from his par-

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ents on April 16. April 27 found him in Milwaukee.

—Theo. Uetzmann, Prep., called on friends in Reeseville on Sun­ day, April 29. 一“Smokie” Timmel,，20, journeyed to his parental abode in Coo­ ney on Sunday, April 21. 一W. Heidtke,，20, toured (per Ford) to Milwaukee on Saturday, May 5. 一Mr. Walter Timmel, Miss Edna Timmel and Miss Sadie Bogle of Oconomowc called on “Smokie,” Sr., on May 4. They attended the concert in the evening. 一E. Blakewell, ’18, was at his home in Baraboo April 21-22.

—Ted Heidtke, Prep., partook of the hospitality of his friends in Richwood on Sunday, April 22. ―W. A. Titus of Fond (lu Lac called on his son Arthur, Prep., on Thursday, April 26.

—Alfred Schwoppe, ’15，U. of W., paid his respects to his Alma Mater April 22-24.

—M. Wehausen, *15, of the seminary, was a visitor in our midst on Friday, April 27.

—Mr. Henry Brandt of Wausau called on his brothers, Fritz, *19, and Arnie, Prep., on Friday, April 27.

—Royce Dal 1 mann, Prep., made Waterloo famous by appearing there in his new suit on Sunday, April 29.

—Elmer: 1st “schreiben” eiii Verbum des Affekts?

Kock: Ja. Elmer: Natlirlicli kommt es darauf an, was fiir Briefe Sie schreiben. 一We have seen that flag on Dave’s table for several weeks now.

Last night we saw the national colors represented in another way.

They had red bologna and white oleomargarine, which made all their faces look blue. Aren’t they patriotic! 一Kid: How old is that lamp, ma?

Ma: 0, about three years.

Kid: Turn it down; it’s too young to smoke.一Ex. Don’t look I say.

Into the milk today; For if you do,

A Fair 'Warning.

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The milk thru you Will turn right sour In one short hour.

—Prof: Hier lernt man ein wenig von der Geschichte der Philosophie.

Shep (waking up): Was fur ein Vieh war das?

—First Prep: I don’t see why other boys get so much mail and I don’t. ' Second Prep: I know why. You don’t write.

First Prep: Nonsense, I write about five letters every day; of course I can never send them away because I can’t get the stamps.

—Prof: Today we start with “Peacock’s Esays.” We shall read a few of Bacon’s, just to give you a taste of Bacon.

Pat (to himself): That’s tlie stuff; I haven’t had any bacon since I left home.

—4lYour answer,” said the history professor to one of his pupils, “reminds one of Quebec.”

Pupil (grinning sheepishly): “Why, sir?”

“Because Quebec is founded on such a tall bluff,” replied the profesor.—Ex. —Prof.: Wie haben Sie den Komparativ von “audacior” gebildet?

Louis: Ich habe ein Ohr an den Stamm gehaengt.

—The seniors’ final test in Latin must have been an extremely hard nut to crack, for Ploatch broke his most expensive tooth en­ deavoring to crack it. He must have forgotten his nut-cracker. 一Unser Japaner hat eine selir grosse Aehnlichkeit zwischen Pferden und Baeumen gefunden. Beide schlagen namlich jetzt aus.

Also vorsichtig sein, wenn du etwas zwischen den Baeumen zu tun hast.

—Luther: Which is the worst nut on an auto?

Dux: I don’t know.

Luther: A loose nut. 一Prof: What is a hypocrite?

Sophomore: A person coming to geometry class wearing a smile on his face.—Ex. ―：Roy (to his big brother’s sweetheart): Won’t you chew my gum for a while; it isn’t sweet any more. Probably that would sweeten it again; John says you are sweeter than sugar.

—Als ein auskneifender Russe gefragt wurde, weshalb er denn so feige sei, antwortete er, “Libber ainen Momant faig, als ganzes Laben tott.” 一Rex: Say, Bandwagpn, you have a bad spot in- your coat. Let me sell you a can of my dandy spot remover. It is called the “Pure H2 O.” Bandwagon: I always used water, but that wouldn’t take It out. I believe I’ll try your H2 O. —Mother: Tommy, you mustn’t go fishing with Peter; he’s just getting over the measles.

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Tommy: There won’t be any danger, mother; I never catch anything when I am fishing.—Ex. 一Prof.: Bitte uebersetzen Sie woertlich den Anfang von Horazens Ode 1,13, “Cum to, Lydia, Telephi.”

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Dentists.

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The Princess Confectionery.

Groceries.

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DEDICATED To

Those Who Are Bidding Their Alma Mater Farewell

AT PARTING. Sweet sun, draw out each passing day Of the declining year; And moon and stars, shed slow your light,— The end一it is too near.

I revel in your gorgeous rays, I love the moon’s mild eye, But all too fast you disappear, *Tis I who will stay and sigh.

And sigh because the future comes, The parting from my home.

For school is home, my heartstrings say, From whence I soon must roam Away into the great wide world, f home and warmth quite bare; For e’en the sun itself is cold, If heart and love’s not there.

I go to find another home In place of that I leave; A transient home, as aye we must, Till unto Heav’n we cleave.

Yet, Alma Mater, tho to thee I speak this last farewell, My spirit shall commune with thee Till death’s grim final knell.

Yes, oft anon in morning’s sheen Your sacred walls I’ll view, And join the birds and flowers paean To praise thy beauteous hue.

And when the evening shades have fall’n, When chapel song doth ring, My heart thy voices fond will heark’n God bless thee, I shall sing.

—E. C. K.

THE BLACK AND RED

Volume XXI.

Watertown, Wis., June 1917.

Numbbr 3

REFORMATION, DIVISION, UlSlOMSM. Cominciicciucni Oration by Elmer C. Kiessling.

Catholicism and Protestantism, those are the two categories into which the often vaguely conceived idea of Christianity is subdi­ vided in the mind of the average person. In Catholicism the Protest­ ant sees a mass of heterodox teachings and practices and admires in it only the outward unity, conformity and strength. To the Cath­ olic again Protestant ism is first of all a synonym for heresy, then also a striking demonstration of the apothegm: United 'ye stand, divided we fall. Observing the power that the united Catholic church of today exercises in current affairs, while the Protestant world shows a tendency to split into fragments innumerable, members of both sides, especially those of certain Protestant bodies, become avowed preachers of Unionism—of Unionism all the world over at almost any cost. When they realize the difficulty of attaining this ideal, they take a turn at historical criticism, fixing their glance on the reformation period, and conclude that the blessings of the Re­ formation are more than counterbalanced by its evils. Among the evils the greatest, of course, is the division of Christianity into sects.

Is the division of Christendom really nothing but a curse? Did the Reformation cause it? These questions present themselves to the students of history. For only when letting the eye wander over the silent expanse of bygone centuries and when contemplating the problems that successive former generations had to cope with, can we hope to gain a faint picture of the philosophy of history and the wonderful ways of our God. Only then shall we be enabled to judge

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some of the movements of our time with a certain degree of accuracy.

Let me now strive to show that the present Sectarianism, tho indeed heralded in by the Reformers, was in fact an inevitable out­ growth of historical development, whose roots may be traced back centuries before Luther refused the compromising hand of his coeval reformer, Zwingli, at Marburg, thus giving, according to some, the first example of breaking up into denominations.

In the year 476 the civilization of ancient Rome succumbed to the onslaught of the Teutonic invaders. These hardy races dropped what was best in their own ethical code in preference to the worst phases of Roman culture, while they could not of course appreciate the advances in arts of the people they conquered. The upward de­ velopment of society must needs begin at the bottom once more.

Then it was that the individual generally sunk ( o the level of a chat­ tels, whilst absolutism in its worst forms flourished unliindcred.

During this time the Papacy was ever seating itself more securely on its throne, until the church, after surviving many trying crises, finally outstripped all temporal power and made it hall behind her.

If the general tendency of the Medieval practices and institutions had been to check mental growth and democracy, the power exerted by the occupant of the Fisherman’s chair certainly was utilized to make these conditions permanent. Practically the common man was little more than a higher species of animal in t he eyes of the church as well as of the law. The rich and the nobility were models of ignorance. Only the monks and priests could read, and they were about the only ones that did any thinking. And whal thinliing was theirs! The church and a narrow corrupted dogmatism had pre­ scribed the bounds of their thoughts, and even the greatest hardly dared peep beyond the pale that hemmed in their steril speculations.

Tlie only road for tlieir train of thoughts was the pope's road to Rome and back.

But even in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when Rome and the pope were enthroned highest in the hearts of the nations, the characters of the different European races had reached a high degree of individual development. Patriotic emotions were already stifling religious obedience. Particularly in the Germanic countries was this noticeable. The German people began to ask themselves: Why should we bow beneath the inflexible yoke of an Italian? Why should we send all our earnings to Rome to decorate the city for the pleasure of profligate Italian cardinals and popes? Such sentiments found their expression in the songs of the greatest of minnesingers, Walter von der Vogelweide. In England too, popular opinion de­ clared the pope a foreign intermeddler three hundred years before the Reformation. *'If the pope is Italian, Ch'rist is Englisli” was a widespread ditty of that time. The growth of nationality was thus beginning to undermine the foreign papacy.

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which, beginning in Italy, soon spread like a leaven through all Europe.

Through perusal of the ancient Greek and Latin classics, minds that had been cramped under the dead-weight of ecclesiastical authority now gradually discovered that they had an own peculiar right to live and to think. They became aware that many traditional systems and institutions, in particular those that gave the church its unlimited power, when viewed in the light of historical research and free inquiry, owed their beginning to nothing less than arbitrary arrogation. Close upon the Renaissance fol­ lowed the Humanists, whose services for the emancipation of Medieval society reached their zenith iu the restoration of the New Testament in Greek l)y Erasmus. Thus we see that a mine was be­ ing laid slowly, but surely, under the Medieval policy of church and state. Its explosion was only a matter of time.

To these movements came the flagrant degeneration of the Christian church. Many of the popes ami priests of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were either open atlieists or licentious mon­ ey-makers, Very cliaraclerislic of the whole set at that time is the statement of Pope Leo X., that this myth of Christ had certainly brought in a great amount of money already. Everywhere arose the cry for a reform of (lie church in the head and members.

So the great Reformat ion came at the time when the necessity was most urgent, when all forces (hat were to make it successful had been gathered and developed. Nor was it a mere reformation of the church. We have seen that political and social questions played as prominent a part in bringing it about as those of!religion. It was more than a mere rebellion against the usurpations of the pope in theological matters and a re-establishment of the gospel. It was also the death-blow lo the servitude and servility of the Dark Ages.

It ushered in a new order.

This brings us to the question at. hand: Was division necessary?

We have laid especial stress on the fact that two powerful factors in calling forth an emancipation from medieval darkness were the evolution of nationality and personality. Nations and people were beginning to find themselves. Even while the pope was yet the titular sovereign of all the Christian world, the inward divergences according to the different views of whole races or single persons were becoming wider and wider. What wonder, then, that when whereby he unconsciously shattered the last few remaining shackles of the Papacy over the minds of the thinking world,—what wonder then that his glorious precedent should be followed by other coun­ tries after their own peculiar views and character! Wliat wonder then that men like Zwingli and Calvin with tlieir mathematical and strictly intellectual brains should differ in their interpretations of of the Bible from Luther with liis mystic depth and God-given intui­ tion!

Luther’s words at Marburg were deep and pregnant when he turned from Zwingli, saying: “Your spirit is different from ours.”

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Luther saw that the dispute over the nature of the Eucharist could not be settled as long as Zwingli allowed his own reason to influence his conception. With the birth of Protestantism came the era of personal freedom in matters of thought. Each person is free to have his own belief, his own conception of things, even tho that be wrong.

Thus different types of people adhered to Zwingli or Luther, accord­ ing as the pure intellect or the strong faith in God was predominant in them. It need hardly be added that the conception arising from faith is correct. How could Luther then forsake his ideal? And in­ deed how could Zwingli his, once he abandoned the path of simple, implicit faith in the Scripture and because convinced that his own rational interpretations were correct? If either interpretation is black in the eyes of the other party and that of his own white, will the cause receive any furtherance by being mixed to gray? Common sense answers no.

Things stood similar in LuUier’s relations to Rome. Here the integral difference in the character of the Germanic and Romance peoples plays a prominent role. The Latin races have since the time of the ancient Roman emperors striven to make their religion con­ crete. With them seeing is believing, and this trait is amply proved first of all by the creation of the papal chair, then also by the numer3us schools of painting and sculpture who tried to create a tangible religion by painting and chiseling Madonnas and Saviours by the hundred. The Germanic races have from the earliest times been gifted with the religion of feeling. To them a picture of Jesus is not enough. They must feel and speak to Jesus in their own heart. And this innate religious nature of the Germans pours forth the endless strains of sacred music for which their country is noted above all others. This nature lias also made them more adapted to the deep biblical interpretations of a Luther, for which the Romance nations could never find any appreciation. England, peculiarly enough, has a sort of eclectic theology in its Episcopal church, even as its nation is a fusion of Germanic and Norman-French. Whether there is a relation between these factors or not, I will not attempt to show.

I hope, however, that I have demonstrated in these few examples that the division of the church lay in the very nature of things as they had been developing long before the dawn of the Reformation.

The mine that was to upset everything had been laid piecemeal for several centuries. Several times it was on the verge of being touched off by a spark when men like Wicliff and Huss appeared, It was saved for Luther unconsciously to apply the match. The explosion came and division came—an inevitable consequence, for which neither Luther nor the Reformation is to blame.

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hear of the differences between the Jews and the Gentiles, and we are led to conclude that they often took on an unpleasant aspect. It was exactly these contentions between Jews and Gentiles that, we are speaking humanly, inpelled St. Paul to write his inspired epistles to the Romans, the Corinthians and the Galatians, in which the doc­ trines of the Christian religion are forever set forth.

The same is true of morfe recent times. What would the Catho­ lic church be today but a dead body, a shadow of former glory, were it not for Protestantism, against which it must muster its forces and fight? Protestantism again justly prides itself on the fact that it once more set up the Bible among the people and scouted papal legends. It lias been accused of carrying in its methods the very germ for its disintegration in denouncing the authority of the church over the conscience of the people. These accusations, how­ ever, coupled with the rise of false sects, prompted the Protestant, especially the Lutheran church, to formulate Us noble creed, which, with Christ’s banner high advanced, stands a firm, unshaken rock upon the word of God amid the trials and strifes of this world.

But who would deny that Protestantism has had periods of ster­ ility and stagnation? Every time this has been the case we notice the rising of a new sect full of new religious enthusiasm and ardor, which puts the old church to shame and reawakens it to its duty.

In short, history shows that Sectarianism lias ever been present in the visible kingdom of God, and just at those times when it seemed least present, as for instance at different times in the latter Medieval period, the church was most degenrate. Does this not then argue that it is one of the mysterious ways of God to keep the truth of this Word mighty in the midst of a crooked and perverse world?

Has Jesus not often assured us that he will always care for his fold until his final coming?

But the division of the church has its limit. And certainly divi­ sion is not an ideal. At its best it is but a part of a sinful world, a sinful part which God, like lie does so many other sinful things often converts into a final blessing in spite of the legions of dark­ ness. The Unionism of compromise, however, will never abolish it. Tolerance of contrary teachings in the same body for the mere sake of outward unity necessarily pre-supposes a lamentable state of ffairs, which the doings and results of the present day Unionistic agitations bear out.

Let us look about in our country. What are your union and socalled 'evangelistic meetings, your undenominational sects more than societies for the cultivation of good practices and habits with .Jesus as a model perhaps? They pretend to set themselves above all doctrines and confessions, confessions which have been founded on Holy Writ. Ask them what they do believe, however, and the general answer will refer to a pet verse or passage in the Bible which admon­ ishes to live a decent life or the like. The one thing that is needful is

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forgotten and sinks into the background. In Germany, likewise, Unionism had emptied half the churches before the war.

Besides this, the movement is quite futile. As long as the fallen children of Adam and Eve inhabit our sphere they will allow their private reason to mould their conceptions of religion, which means that there are ever bound to be differences in the finer points of the Christian religion. — So long will the outward union of Christendom be impossible, for the church that has any definite convictions sim­ ply cannot forsake them, while the one without any final decisions or

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questions of dogma rather brands itself with the mark of laxity than that of higher spirituality.

But there is another unity of which I have not yet spoken. That is Christ's own ideal, the unity of the spirit, that unity which springs from the strength and fullness of faith, which raises us from this crowded terrestial round with its many winds of false doctrines to the conscious membership of the invisible church, that unity whose content is the knowledge and communion of God, whose mark is obedience and tolerance, tolerance not of teaching, but of our breth­ ren in Christ, even tho some cling to false tenets. This is also our ideal. It can be approached with the aid of but one power. That is the Word of God, the message of the gospel and our confession, which latter summarizes the former two. Let that be preached by humble, but able servants; let that be carried to the people directly and constantly. It will accomplish more in advancing the cause of Christ than the papal tyranny, Unionism and all other earthly con­ trivances together.

Reformation, division, unionism. The first broke down the life­ robbing weight of Catholic unity and gave all the world, Catholic and Protestant alike, the unadulterated Word of God once more.

The second was a historical necessity. It has its bad sides. On the other hand it introduced strife and emulation, which sharpened our spiritual gifts. Now comes the unionistic tendency of today and ad­ vocates compromise. It is willing to sacrifice all confessions, to for­ feit the wealth of spiritual gifts gained by division. In the face of history it tends to undo the work of the other two. My friends, we have seen what evil papal unity had in its wake, we have seen the bad effects of present day unionism. Shall we not rather take our spiritual talents to the exchangers and trade with them after the ex­ press will and command of our Lord by preaching the Word and in­ stilling it in our members and propagating it in the hearts of unbe­ lievers, thereby striving to attain the unity of the Spirit? There are many denominations. Unhappily many have false teachings. But all have at least this one task in common: to spread the supreme Truth of the Scripture, to spread the tidings of our Saviour. It is a grievous fault that many fail in doing this. May they, however, not profit by a good example? Forward then, we must take the lead!

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LUTHER ALS DEUTSCHER YOLKSMANN. Rede gehalten bei dcr Aktusfeler von 6. J. Schlegel.

Niemand wurde in der Geschichte der Menschlieit starker geliebt und mehr gehasst als Luther. Und seine Peinde haben nie geruht. Seit jenem Tage, als Luther die 95 Thesen an die Schlosskirche zu Wittenberg selling, haben sie ihn mit Schmutz beworfen und schleudern auch jetzt noch alte Schmahschriften in neuer Auflage gegen ihn. Und seine Freunde,—ja die stellten sich nur zu oft, und in der Gegenwart vielleiclit mehr als je, wenn auch nicht mit Worten, so docli mit der Tat lau und gleichgiiltig zu ihm. So 1st e8 nun recht und Pfliclit, dass wir uns in diesem Jahre der vierhundertjahrigen Wiederkehr des Reformationsfestes Luthers Leben und Werk yergegenwiirtigen, eiiimal dam it wir dankbar erkennen, was Luther fur uns getan, zum andern, damit die Gegner nicht etwa meinen, dass an Luthers Grosse niemand mehr glaubt, und nur noch einige alte Krahen sein Lob lied krachzen..

Aber bei einer Scliulfeier eine Rede liber Luther zu halten, 1st das nicht fiir einen Schuler ein zu gewagtes Unternelimen? Konnen wir denn in wenigen Minuten das Werk des Reformators Oder sein Leben schildern? Ware das der Fall, wahrlich die Gegner hatten recht, wenn sie behaupten, mit Luthers Grosse sei es nicht welt her. Nein, Luther ist ein so bedeutender Geistesheld, dass ich es nicht wage, von seinen Werken und deren Bedeutung fiir die Menachheit zu reden. Zudem ist sein Leben im Uinrisse ja bekannt, und zu einer eingehenden Scliilderung fehlt die Zeit. So will ich denn heute nur eine Seite seines Wirkens hervorheben, namlich seine Bedeutung als deutscher Volksmann.

Denn ein Maim des Volkes war er. Ein Lebensgrundsatz des Fur meine Deutschen bin ich Reformators war sein Ausspruch: geboren, ihnen will ich dienen!” Und wie sehr ihm das Wohl des deutschen Volkes am Herzen lag, wie er stets seine Privatinteressen dem allgemeinen Wolile nachsetzte, das kann man wahrend seines ganzen Lebens Scliritt fiir Schritt verfolgen.

Schon ehe Luther die 95 Thesen an die Schlosskirche schlug, tadelt er haufig in seinen Vorlesungen auf der Universitiit und in seinen Predigten die Ubelstiinde in Deutschland. Er redet auch oft schon von den Missbrauchen der Kirche und geisselt die AusWuchse des Heligenkults und Ablasswesens; ganz besonders sclimerzt es ihn, dass die Welsclien das deutsche Volk so aussaugen und zum Dank dafiir die Deutschen von oben herab beliandeln und sich liber d!e Prommigkeit der “tollen und vollen Barbaren,”（so nannte man die Deutschen in Rom,) lustig machen.

Als im Jahre 1517 der freche Monch Johannes Tetzel mit seiaem Ablass auch in die thiiringischen Lande und die Umgegend von Wittenberg kam, da sail Luther mit eigenen Augen, wie das Volk verfuhret wurde. Es blutete ihm das Herz. Da waren arrne Bau-

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ern und Tageloliner, die ihren letzten Heller in den Ablasskasteu Tetzels warfen, in der Iloffnung, fiir sicli selbst Oder fiir ihre verstorbenen Anverwandten die Seligkeit zu erkaufen. Luther konnte und durfte niclit langer schweigen, ja er wurde von Tetzel formlich zum Streite herausgefordert. Dieser Scliwiiuller hatte namlich so scliandliche und gotteslasterliche Artikel liber seine Vollmaclit aufgesetzt, dass alle dariiber entriistet waren, aber 'veil alle Bischofe und Theologen stillscliwiegen und sicli fiircliteten “(ler Katzen (lie Schellen anzubiiiden,” wie Luther sagt, da griff er selbst ein. Am 31. Oktober des Jalires 1517 schlug der Auguslinermoncli die 95 Thesen an die Tiir der Sclilosskirche. Kriiftige Worte liatte Luther hier niedergeschrieben. “Die werden samt iliren Meistern zum Teufel faliren,” schreibt er unter anderem, “die da vermeinen durcli Ablassbriefe ihrer Seligkeit gewiss zu sein.” Er will die Mensclien auf Gottes Vergebung weisen nicht auf den Ablass soil man sich verlassen. Welclien Anklang diese Thesen beim Volke fan den, beweist sclion der Umstand, dass sie binnen vierzelm Tagen in ganz Deutschland verbreitet waren, und das Volke glaubte, Engel liiitten sie von Ort zu Ort getragen.

Warum liatte denn Lutlier den Funken in das trockene Stroh geworfen? Warum hat er denn den Brand entzundet, der spater so blutigrot iiber ganz Deutschland scliien ? I-Iiltte cr sich nicht wie Erasmus und andere Humanisten besser in einen weiclien Sessel setzen und zu sicli sagen konnen: Lass die Kirclie tun, was sie will, und das Volk glauben, was es will, icli wciss, was reclit und unrecht ist.” Ja, das hatte Luther tun konnen, wen er sein eigenes Wolil dem Wohle des Volkes vorgezogen liatte; aber so z'vang ihn seine Liebe zur Wahrheit und zu seinem Volke, dicsen Scliritt zu tun, der ilim seit jenem 31. Oktober ein miihevolles, kampfreiches, gefahrvolles Dasein bereitete.

Luther glaubte zuerst, die Missbriiuclie der Kirclie seien Folgen der herrschenden Unwissenheit; als er aber merkte, dass es pure Bosheit war,, dass der besserunterriclitete Papst sicli deni Worte Gottes feindlich gegeniiberstel 1 te, dass die piipstlichen Legaten sicli niit dem “dummen Deutschen” in eine Erorterung nicht einlassen wollten: da stiess der Wittenberger Professor ins Horn: “Weg mit der romisclien Tyrannei!” So sclialte es in den deutschen Landen, und nun scliien das Lied auch nicht mehr seiner Stimme zu hoch zu werden.

Mitte August 1520 verliess Dr. Martin Luthers Sclirift “An den christlichen Adel deutscher Nation von des christlichen Standes Besserung” die Presse. Wie mit Donnerstimme fordert Luther sei­ ne lieben Deutschen auf, das romische Joch abzuschutteln. Sclion oft liatte sich im deutschen Reiche Uiwville wider die Eingriffe der romisclien Kirclie in die deutschen Verhaltnisse gel tend gemaclit; schon Walther von der Vogelweide klagt uber “der Pfaffen Einmischung.” Jetzt aber hatte die katholisclie Kirclie den Gipfel der Maclit erreicht, ihre Prelaten und der angebliche Stellvertreter Cliristi zu

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Rom sollten nun nicht mehr die Gelder, den sauren Schweiss des deutschen Volkes verprassen. Mit malinenden, bittenden Worten spricht Luther zum Volke: “Darum lasset uns aufwachen, lieben Deutschen, und Gott mehr den 11 (lie Mensclien fiirchten!” Und auf elner anderen Stelle sagt er: “O edeln Fur3ten und Herren, wie lange wollt ihr euer Land und Leute solchen reissenden Wolfen offen und frei lassen?” Luther wendet sicli an den christlichen Adel, fordert ihn auf, cin allgemeines Kirchenkonzil einzuberufen, und macht eine Anzahl Besserungsvorschliige, iiber die man auf einem solchen Konzil verliandeln solle.

Von der BaIm Oktober desselben Jalires folgte die Sclirift: bylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirclie.” Wilhrend er in der Schrift "An den christlichen Adel” hauptsachlich die iiusseren Schaden und die politisclie Macht der Kurie an griff, redet er in dieser Schrift, "Von der Babylonischen Gefangenschaft der Kirclie,” von der Irrlehre, und verbreitet sich besonders uber die katholisclie Lelire von den Sakramenten. Bald nachher folgte die Schrift "Von der Freiheit eines Christenmensclien,” diese ist, wie Luther sie selbst bezeichnet, “Die ganze Summe eines christlichen Lebens.”

In diesen drei reformatorischen Scliriften hoffte Luther immer noch, dass man durcli ein allgemeines Konzil die Kirche an Haupt und Gliedern reformieren konne. Aber der Papst wollte von einer Reformation nichts wissen; er (at den Reformator in den Bann und schickte ihm die Bannbullc zu. Lutlier erwiderte, indem er einen kleinen Scheiterhaufen vor dem Elslertore in Wittenberg errichtete und die Bulle am 10. Dezember 1520 dem Feuer preisgab. Damit * sagte er sich von Rom los. Professoren, Studenten und die Bewohner der Stadt waren zugegen uml sahen, wie der hagere Monch, der arme thiiringische Bauernsohn es wagte, das zu tun, wovor jahrhundertelang Fiirsten, Kcinige, Kaiser zurlickgeschreckt waren. Er fragte nicht, was fur Folgen diese Handlungsweise fiir ihn haben konnten; hier stand die gottliclie Walirheit und die Freiheit des deutschen Volkes auf dem Spiel, und wie der Dicliter sagt: “Er bleibt getreu trotz Not und Bann, Und jeder Zoll ein deutsclier Mann.” （C. F. Meyer.)

Doch Luther hat die alten Ordnungen nicht umgestossen und das Volk auf sandigem Boden stelieu gelassen. Sclion In seiner Schrift “An den Adel” weist er auf mancherlei Reformen hin, und als verscliiedene Gemeinden, von Luthers Scliriften angeleitet, die Gemeindeleitung in die Hiinde nehmen wollten, da verfasste er auf Gesuch im Jahre 1523 die “Ordiumg eines gemeinen Hastens,** Oder eijie Gemeindeordnung, wie wir sie nennen wiirden. Mit welcher Fiirsorge er hier vorgeht, wie er da fur eine ordentliclie Verwaltung sorgt, mit welcher Warme er ihr die Verpflegung der Armen, Witund Waisen ans Herz legt, das ist wiedevum nur ein Ausfluss seiner Liebe zum Volke.

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macht und ein ewiges Hasten und Jagen nacli Gewinn zur Folge hat.

Was Luther flir das deutsche Volk getan durcli seine Bibeliibersetzung, liisst sicli kaum in wenige Worte zusammenfassen.

“Gott redete nun deutsch zu den Deutschen.” Und wir konnen uns die Heilige Sclirift in einer anderen Fassung gar nicht denken; so packend, so hinreissend ist die Spraclie, dass es ihr gelungen ist, die yielen deutsclien Dialekte zu uberwinden und unter ihre Herrschaft zu bringen. Und was veranlasste Lutlier zur Bibellibersetzung? Er bedurfte sie docli nicht er konnte ja zu jedcr Zeit zum Urtext zurlickkeliren. Aber er libersetzte sie fiirs Volk, dam it es selbst vom Born des Lebens scliopfen konnte.

Und auch fiir die Zukunft des Volkes sorgte er. Die Jugend muss deslialb' recht erzogen werden. Wie selir deni Reformator An die Ratsdiese Sache am Herzen lag, bezeugt seine Sclirift: herren aller Stadte deutsclien Landes.” Weil Kloster unci Stifle aufgehobeu wurden, glaubte die Masse des Volkes, aufgewiegelt von ungebildeten Demagogen, dass alle Gelehrsanikeit ubberfliissig, ja schadlicli sei. Dagegen kiimpft Luther in der gen an n ten Sclirift.

Er legt den Christen aus Herz, wie wichtig eine ordentliclie Er-. ziehung ist, und ermahnt dass doch die Eltern ihre Pflicht nicht vergessen solten.

Wozu leben wir Alten,M fragt Luther, "denn dass wir des jungen Volkes warten, leliren und aul’zielien?” Luther vergleicht solche Eltern, die ihre Kinder niclit fromni und redlich erziehen, mit dem Vogel Strauss, der seine Eier in den Sand verscharrt und sicli nicht darum bekiimmert. Man soil auch auch die alten Sprachen treiben, scliiirft Luther we iter ein, sclion imi der Heiligen Sclirift willen, “denn sie siud die Sclieiden, darin das Mes­ ser des Geistes steckt.n So hat Luther fiir das Wolil des deutsclien Volkes gesorgt.

Seine Schriften waren an jederman gericlitet, an jung und alt, an arm und reicli. Zu alien redete er klar und deutlich, bald wie ein Prophet von der Kanzel die Missbriiuclie geisselnd und das Volk trostend, bald ails Staatsmann, den Lauf der Dinge beobachtend, warnend und ratend, und das in solcliem Masse, dass selbst ein Katholik bekennen muss; “Lutliei. ist der gewaltigste Volksmann, der popularste Charakter, den Deutschland je bessessen.”（ J. v. Dollinger.)

Und docli gibt es immer nocli Leute, die Lutlier als einen feilen Piirstenknecht, einen volksfeindlichen Ordnungspfaffen bezeiclinen. “\yas，” sagen sie, “Lutlier soil ein Volksmann sein, der den Adel in seiner Schrift, “Wider die morderischen und riiuberisclien Rotten der Bauern>, zum Stechen, Schlagen, Wiirgen anfeuert? Wenn Luther, der die bedrangten Bauern nocli unterdrucken half, ein Volksmann ist, dann ist jeder Tyrann ein Volksmann. Bei dieser scharfen Kritik lassen die Gegner zwei Dinge aus dem Auge. Einmal den Zusammenhang, in dem diese Schrift folgte, zum andern erkennen sie Luthers Stellung zur Obrigkeit niclit. Diesem “harten Buchlein/* wie Luther es selbst nennt, ging die Schrift, “Eine Er-

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mahnung zum Frieclen” voraus. In dieser Flugsclirift warnte Luther den Adel und die Obrigkeit. Er sagt: “Die Obrigkeit ist nicht darum eingesetzt, dass sie ihren Nutz und Mutwillen an den Untertanen suche, sondern Nutz und das Beste bei den Untertanigen verschaffe.” Die Bauern ermahnt er, nicht zum Schwert zu greifen, sondern auf friedlichem Wege ihr Recht zu suchen.—0 hatte die Welt nur Luthers ‘‘Ermalinung zum Frieden” gelesen und zu Her­ zen genommen, es hatte wahrlich Friede seit den Tagen Luthers in alien Landern geherrscht, ein Friede, den die Volker jetzt noch vergeblich rait Waffengewalt zu erringen suchen.—Aber (lie Bauern, angestaclielt von Schwarmern, wie Thomas Miinzer und anderen, achteten nicht auf Luthers Ermahnung. Sie fin gen an zu morden und zu sengen. Dann schrieb Luther seine Schrift “Wider die morderischen und rauberischen Rotten der Bauern.” Er redet hier, “wie ein Prophet mitten in der Verwirrung der Geister mit zielbewusster Klarhcit,---------- der cher hundert Hjilse verlieren will, als die unheilige Sadie der Bauern billigen und gerecht nennen.”（J. Bossert.) Man darf auch niclit vergessen, dass Luther wahrend des Bauernkrieges die Obrigkeit dringend bat, mit den Bauern, nicht nur mit den Unscliuldigen, sondern auch mit den Schuldigen milde zu verfahren und barmlierzig zu sein.

So zeigt sich Luther gcradc hier als wahrer Patriot, als wahrer Freund dcs Volkcs. Er straft das Unrecht auf beiden Seiten; er warnt beide Teile und hat ein Herz so gut fiir die Bauern wie flir die Fursten. Und 'veil er sn uncrschrocken fur das Rechte eintrat, machte er sich die unredlichen Leute auf beiden Seiten zu Feinden.

Das war aber nicht seine, sondern ihre Schuld. Sie wollten die Stimme des rechten Frcundes, der sie liebte, nicht horen.

Es ist gerade diese Schrift “Wider die Bauern”（lie Luthers Grosse zeigt, die ihn als einen wahren deutschen Volksmann hinstellt. Hier finden wir, dass Luther der Obrigkeit Treue und Gehorsam leistet, ein Charakterzug, den wir schon am Hagen im Nibelungenliede bewundern, und den wir Schritt fiir Schritt in der Gescliichte des deutschen Volkes verfolgen konnen. Wenn doch nur einmal die fremden Volker auch jetzt diesen Zug bei uns Deutschen erkennen wollten, und nicht immer Gefahr wittern, wo keine vorhanden ist.

Hatte sich Luther im Aufstande zu den Bauern geschlageu, dann ware er ein Revolutionar, vielleicht aucli ein Volksheld geworden, aber nimmermehr ein wahrer Volksmann; er wusste recht worn.

“Wer das Schwert nimmt, muss durchs Schwert umkommen, una solange dieses Bibelwort besteht, kann keine gewaltsame Revo ution zum Segen gereichen. flir So hat Luther wahrend seines ganzen Lebens unermucliic das Wohl des deutschen Volkes gesorgt. Ja er reiste noch, schw und krank, am Lebensabend nach Eisleben, um dort emen btreit zu schlichten, nicht einmal einen theologischen, sondern em privaten, der zwischen den beiden Mansfeldschen Grafen aus5«-

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brochen war, Er wollte doch, dass seine Landesherren im Frieden leben sollten. Der Streit wurde auch beigelegt, weil Luther, wie immer, zum Frieden und zur Versohnlichkeit niahnte. Bald darauf entschlief Dr. Martin Luther am 18. Februar 1546.

Aber was Luther fiir (las deutsclie Volk und Land getan, das hat er auch fiir uns und fmser Land get an. Abgesehen davon, dass er die reine Lelire, das Liclit der Wahrheit, auf den Leucliter gesetzt, dass er uns die deutsclie Bibel, den Katechismus, das Gesangbuch gegeben hat, finden wir in clieser unser neuen I-Ieimat Luthers Gedanken verwirklicht Oder einer Verwirklichung entgegengehend.

Sein Gedanke einer volligen Trennung von Kirche und Staat hat in der Konstitution der Vereinigten Staaten Aufnahme gefunden. Und wir konnen nun im Sinne Luthers unbehclligt christliclie Schulen errichten, unsore Armen und Kranken verpflegen, uns zu Gemeinden zusammenscliliessen und das Wort Gottes lauter und rein horen.

Von Luther, dem deutschcn Volksmanne, aber lernen wir auch, was wir als gute Burger der Obrigkeit schuldig sind. 'Venn einige uns in der gegenwartigen Aufregung der Gemuter als schlechte Patrioten bezeichnen, so ttrifft uns ein solch ungerechtcr Vorwurf nicht. Wir haben, wie Luther, das Reclit, die Unwahrheit zu bekampfen und zum Frieden zu reden. Und wenn der Friede kommt, und die Menschheit aus dem Taumel der leeren Phrasen herausgerissen wird, dann wird man erkennen, das der ein Volksmann und guter Patriot ist, der aus wahrer Liebe zu seinem Vaterlande, wie.

Luther, fur die Sache der Wahrheit und dcs Rechts kampft, ohne Ansehen der Person, und dafur Gut und Blut einsetzt.

THE CLASS OF 1917.

History一Prophecy.

Seven years! Speak those words in one breath, and they will seem, like a short bridge crossing a wide river. Divide them into hours and minutes and they will approach infinity. Seven years have brought us an education and a degree, yet each minute of those seven years has its own peculiar little tale of weal or woe, of bliss or -pain, to show up, as soon as Memory wakes it from the invisible grave of the past. Come, those of you that can let us find out the original goal and run the race once more. Run is incorrect for Mem­ ory is the Hermes of the brain. On wings then we’ll go, missing much, ’Us true, but traveling immeasurably faster.

Seven years ago Fate, Providence, or whatever name we give the Divine guidance, awakened in divers hearts in different parts of the country divers resolutions, which finally resulted in the appear­ ance of forty-six Sextaners at N. W. C. in the first few days of the school year 1910-li. With but few exceptions (seven of this number

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constituted the Septima of the preceding year) they appeared on the very first day to make their entrance examinations, and as the rain was coming down in torrents on that day our since sainted inspector cheered us with the little aphorism: “Regen bringt Segen.” Per­ haps he referred to the large number of entries; perhaps his words were endowed with a deeper Truth than he or we imagined, a pro­ phecy which may not be fulfilled yet—a prophecy whose fulfillment posterity may first see and acknowledge in the fruits of a faithful and devoted life-work, which it is the earnest endeavor of each of us to accomplish.

His words could hardly have applied to the future fortunes of that first gathering of recruits of the class of ’17. Never was a body more endangered in its existence by Ihc erosive influences of grow­ ing inclination, meagre talent, anti-labor spirit, etc., all of which went to entice first the one, then the other member away, either to the more unassuming and carefree life of Septimaners or to the pa­ ternal halls, where it is said that in a few instances these once ar­ dent aspirants have sunk to the level of “glebae adscripti,” which of course also has its advantages, according to Grey’s celebrated line.

The first member to discontinue his studies was one John Solveson of Oconomowoc, who left two or three days after he came. Far off in the morning of our career he seems to us like a wanderer who meets a strange party at a crossroad, accompanies it a few steps and then disappears, never to be heard of again. Of that large number that registered in 1910 there are now but four left.

Fortunately, however, fresh arrivals counterbalanced the delin­ quencies during the greater part of our “prep” years. Already in Sexta five new members entered our ranks. Another two followed in Quinta to offset the loss of one of our ablest brethren, George Steinich, of Cambria, who was forced to leave on account of his father’s sudden death, and that of Omar I-Iuebner, our redoubtable hunter, now professional electrician. Quarta witnessed the advent of several new students for our class, among whom was the famous “Doc” Hoyer, whose exploits, from the genial flights in the class-room to the mystic treading along enchanted bowers by the light of tlie moon (or without it), every Northwesterner of that period knows as well as his Greek declensions.

At the end of this year the class became reckless and defiant of all cramping authority (as it should be in a democracy), and, since their time of “prep” servitude was about gone anyway, one day as­ sembled, elected the following officers: J. Hans Hoyer, Pres., Elmer mer C. Kiessling, Vice President., and Helmuth W. Schaefer, Treas­ urer, and chose Red and White as the class colors, thereby beconimg an organized institution. In a few days the dangling red and white ribbons and the class were famous thruout the city. This fame was in n? wise diminished during our initial year as college students. At the ice-cream parlors, soda fountains and similar places the Fresnmaii class wac more nearly a synonym for N. W. C. tlian any other

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class ever was, omitting the first one perhaps. And in the faculty room we were led to believe thru the well known “Stay after the recitation” lectures of those days, that our future reputation of “little Latin and less Greek” was then being founded there. So things proceeded, for better or for worse, until the Sophomore year stood on the threshold. 〆 It may almost be said that a new class entered the portals of N. W. C. that year. Practically half of the renowned Tertia had dis­ persed, among whom were the Messrs. Ilans Hoyer, Paul Bergmann, Carl Zutz, Tim Sauer, the athlete of the class, and Erich Leipelt, whose very name conjures up pictures of sharp razors and husky orators • In place of these immortal Tertianers "oft ohne Praparation” stood the products of our sister schools, New Ulm and Saginaw, nine tried classical- heroes they were, whom we have with us still, but for Wm. Krichbaum, whom illness forced to retire from our midst last year. A new election of officers, occasioned by the non­ return of J. A. Hoyer at the beginning of Sekunda, resulted as fol­ lows: Elmer C. Kiessling, President, Helmuth W. Schaefer, Vice President, George Tegtmeyer, Treasurer. The latter failed to come back the following term and Otto A. Grundemann was chosen treas­ urer. Ray Stark, Christian Pingel and Harold Rockhoff, three of our ancient stand-bys, also decided to choose new paths of occupa­ tion as the Sophomore year closed, while Theodore Schlueter took up the business course.

Since then the rank and file of the class lias remained largely the same. Two new members, Mr. Karl Plocher and Mr. Valentin Andreae, were welcomed at the beginning of the Junior and Senior years respectively. Our ladies, of whom we had three that took the regular course, dropped off one by one, sad to say, for they were al­ ways the gentle zephyrs, to use a picture, that somewhat calmed the storm that generally broke in on our Latin and Greek translations.

Miss Edna Sterz entered the class in Sexta, while Miss Adeline Kortegast and Miss Florence Helmich joined us in Quarta. Perhaps we were tardy in giving them honor for their beneficial services while they were actually rendered. Let us therfore take off our hats now.

Lest we forget, it should be remarked that our greatest son, as far as wit and avoirdupois are concerned, was snatched away from our haven in the last year by a craze to pull teeth. Mr. Percy Sterz, in other words, is from report a most promising dental tyro at Mar­ quette at present.

Thus we have made the trip into this short backward of time.

Rather prosaic it was in most of its phases, yet, should it have en­ tered into closer analysis of individual character, tomes of records might have been amassed.

Our class has thru all its vicissitudes preserved some outstand­ ing charactedstics which have gone far to establish its individuality.

One of these is its liking for music, which evinced itself as early as Quinta in. the form of a class orchestra, and which may now easily

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OTTO GRUENDEMANN WALTER GUTZKB

HANS OTT CARL PLOCHER ARMIN RETZLAFF

FREDERICK KOLANDER PAUL NAUMANN

ELMER KIESSLING

WALDEMAR RETZLAFF HELMUTH SCHAEFER GUSTAVE SCHLEGEL CARL SCHMELZER

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“Andres” Hobbies:

Skates and pronouncing a Ger­ man “r.”

Walter Bodnmer.

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Songs like “I am going back to the farm,” and sore feet.

Theodore Binhamincr.

“Horse”，alias “Uns’ Pird,” Hobbies: Curly hair and a picture from yonder shore of Lake Michigan.

Frederick Kolander.

“Koly”

Hobbies:

Rainy days, flat irons, and col­ lecting.

CO w c Elmer Kiesslii^.

“Rex” Hobbies:

Doughnuts, poems, orchestra practice, and aquiline noses.

Paul Naiinianii.

“Abbot” Hobbies:

‘Resting the eyes, bells.

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Helmutli Schaefer Hobbies:

“Sliep” Stepladders, marches in Hebrew, and offices.

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Standing near the pump in his military array.

Gnstav Selilegel.

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Leciures on Russia; about thir­ teen pipes; Rook.

('arl Sclunelzer ‘ Spike," alias “Ilam” I lobbies:

Ham and Hebrew vocables.

Hans Ott. “Joe”

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Free hours, speeches and Latin.

CO w c Waldemar Kctzlaff “Nig”

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Lots of sleep and noise; flying tackles on hardwood lloors.

Christian Kook.

“Kocky” Hobbies:

Violins and oleomargarine.

Otto Gniciuleinann.

Heinz” Hobbies:

Sabers and writing letters.

Carl Plocher “Platcher” Hobbies:

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Flowers from “Woody’s.”

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ELIZABETH LEHMANN WALTER SIEGLER GENEVIEVF. KELLEY

THEO. BROITZMANN CORNELIA GROTH ARTHUR MIELKE

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KARL KALFAHS WALTER KRUEGER OARLO MILLER

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be seen in the fact that almost every class member has made music in some form or other, even thru the medium of the bass-drum, a private hobby. Another characteristic of our class is its versatility; still another its good fellowship, by which we do not mean a dogged sticking together whether right or wrong, but a certain good-naturedness and sanguinity despite all our other faults, which has often worked us more favor with our teachers than theA. No. 1 behavior and preparation of some other classes. On the other hand it can­ not be said that our class ever excelled in athletics. It often was sec­ ond best, but failed to attain the topmost round in any branch.

And now after so much self-praise and eulogy, dear readers, you will either turn the page in disgust, or you will quietly pity me, the innocent dupe of vanity, while you recall the career of your own class and exult in its greatness, which mocks comparison with, our feeble notes. So you see that it’s natural to like one’s own best, es­ pecially when self-love aproachcs a sort of patriotism. With all that, we are well aware of our shortcomings. With our graduation these shortcomings cease to belong to the class as a whole; they become the private property of each individual. We each thus have our whole life ahead to correct these faults, which we all know without men­ tioning them here. And I am sure that there are very few who have not made earnest resolutions to correct them, and to show to the world (our professors included) at some future period that we finally gained separated what wc strove for united.

Part II.一Prophecy.

Whereas it has in times past and present been a much followed practice to foretell some future condition in the life of each member of the graduatong class, generally based on some present passion or dislike, so we will also strive to undertake this task after invoking the aid of all the Muses of Horace and Thucydides (our pet Latin and Greek authors), and praying that they may guide the futuristic antennae of our spirit to something really important, to something that may thru this vision and warning be avoided. Let me premise, then, that the class of *17 has decided to have a class reunion ten years hence, provided we are not all spread into the four corners of the earth, with the household cares of a Sebastian Bach. On this banquet then we shall focus the mind’s telescope.

Ah welcome thou flaunting Muse! I am asleep, _ as in a dream.

No, *tis inspiration, most decidedly. We are ascending, Now the moon is at our side, now Mercury. On and on we go. At last Neptune is passed. We must halt soon, for this is worse than traversing all the complicated circles of Miltonic astronomy. At last we behold two gates approaching一and gently the tender Muse leads me thru— blindfolded. I am in the world of future events. The atmosphere seems filled with a low rumbling, here of shrieks and groans, there of cannon and bombs. At my very side I hear words of love when

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suddenly the deafening tones—Great Scott! a horse giving a lecture on democracy among animals! I am in a tremor and clutch the hand of my companion. What a pleasant feeling that one lias someone to hold on to. But list! Whose giant throat is pouring forth that string of tropes? Gustav, I have recognized thee. Wliat, art a father al­ ready? Congratulations, old boy.

Gustav is speaking to the rest of his classmates (my eyes are now uncovered) about the absolute necessity of having every seventh year free in which to prepare sermons for the ensuing six. And his words strike responsive chords. Kock arises and seconds him, mumbling something about the time spent in taking the twins out for their daily go-cart excursion. Poor Plocher was about to say the same thing, but he now contents himself with twitching his little red moustache. “I make a motion that we petition Lloyd George (It seems that Lloyd George is president of the U. S. now) for the sev­ enth year free and extra pay.”

Is’t thou, Koly? Dear me, but thy pretty girlish voice has changed. You have eaten too many chocolate bars. “I second the motion,” pipes in Gutzke, awaking from his habitual mouselike re­ verie. “All for it”一but now these unlucky married folks shan't have it their way, it seems, for in rushes the horse emancipator and, neighing, and articulating at the same time, begins: “Lethargy is the beginning of all evil. This is the age of efficiency and progress.

Away with your lazy tendencies. Abolish autocracy, which is now only existing in a few herds of buffalo in Yellowstone park!” Op­ posing sentiments are put on equal footings thru his burst of ora­ tory, and Nigger, who is always yet ruminating whether he should go to the Seminary or enter business, whispers to his brother: “Boley, geh hoi，mal peanuts, ich muss mir das erst uberlegen.,> Vio­ lent verbal and tonal strife follows. Schaefer gets on the table and blows his new opera: “Away with women, they are the blame of all,” thus verging very closely oil Horse's doctrines (poor Shep—the little angel hasn’t found what he deserves as yet—that’s why lie is so bitter). And Bodie, saint that he always was, is so happy that his running foot-sore ran off into the ground one day while going barefoot, that he falls in with the ideas of the last named philoso­ phers.

Gustav, rally your stricken bunch or you are beaten! Beauteous constellations, what have we here—a dark horse— —Andrew. He’ll surely uphold democracy, besides he’s a misogynist. One word, two words—what was that? Cheer up, Kock and Plocher, he’s defending you. “The seventh year must be free” he says. “I want to get to the U before I die (his story is the old one. His splendid plans of spend­ ing three additional years at a University were spoilt, when he felt safest, by the little blind bowman, one evening after twelve o’clock).

Rev. Schmelzer of Barntown hereupon addresses the chairman, de­ manding full explanation of all details, as he Hasn’t quite compre­ hended the scope and wherefore of it all.

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At this moment Pastor Naumann of Alaska arrives with Hans Ott, brass-miner and “Gemeindevoi’stecher，” (Hans played a promi­ nent part in Red Cross services in the recent war that annihilated Germany and united our country with Great Britain). Unfortunately these two take different stands on the question as it is now explained once more, for Abbot, que crly enough, thinks the free seventhl year a superfluity (what does h e ca re—he only has two other memb丨ers in his congregation besides Hans, his wife and his daughter Hattilie) Hans deems it wise to follow the precepts of Dr. Griindemann's dissertation, which had just been published. Among other things the Dr. said: “In the new commonwealth which is now coming we shall eliminate both space and time. There will be no sexes, no gov­ ernment, nothing. The body will be subdued by the spirit and every­ one will do his share and live in happiness from moths to elephants, man included. Shall wo therefore listen to proposals resulting from marital troubles? loud clapping) The vote is now being put. Boley returns with the peanuts and gives the conservative party a ballot, not on account of the seventh • year free, but because this party incidentally espoused the cause of matrimony, which radical preachers under Lloyd George are trying to abolish. I hold fast to my Muse’s hands, for fear of being over­ whelmed by all that I have seen and heard. The count is taken and anounced. Seven for, seven against,, Nigger having left the meeting before, according to his old custom. Deep silence follows. All eyes were turned my way. Oh my muse, part not from me in this crucial moment! Here I am in flesh and blood to cast the deciding vote for this company of excited spirits. Somebody called to me: “Rev” thou must take our course (it was a conservative—Gutzke, I believe); re­ member thy—that word，that word again!” Their fingers pointed and I turned slowly. Whose hands was I clinging to? Oh Clio, how thou didst beguile me. Someone whispered: “Doesn’t he know his own better half?” I had just enough strength left to cast the decisive vote for the seventh-year free advocates, thereby dooming the fantastic scheme of abolishing marriage.

For a second I was unconscious; then I awoke or rather found myself back on earth again. Before me lay this prophecy written out in full. Who dares deny inspiration henceforth after such evi­ dence?—Avoid what you saw depicted here, classmates, even as I will—perhaps. I was assured that it would turn out so if we don’t take care.

—E. C. K. A^DERN MUSST 1)U LEBEN, WILLST DU PIR SELBER LEBEN. Das Streben nach Gliick ist ein Trieb, der jedem Menschen angeboren ist. Fragen wir nach Zweck und Ziel des menschlichen Hastens und Treibens, das werden wir immer die Antwort erhalten: en: das Gluck. Darum haben sich schon so viele Philosopher! und

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PhiloBophenschulen mit dem Problem des Gluckes beschaftigt. Ja, Staaten sind aiifgebaut auf dem Grundsatze, dass das Streben nach Gliick das unverausserliche Recht eines jeden Menschen sei. Die Frage, was denn eigentlich das Gluck ist, unci 'vie man es erlangt, ist daher eine Frage, dcren Losung jeder finden muss, der innere Ruhe und Befriedigung gewinnen will. Und dennoch, 'vie wenige sind es, die die Losung finden, denn es gibt nur eine einzige, diesselbe, die sclion der Philosoph Seneka seinem Freundc Lucilius zuruft: Anderen musst du leben, willst du dir selber lebcn.

Ein Mensch, der nur sicli und seinem Vergniigen lebt, kann nie Gliick und Befriedigung finden. Das crste Erfordernis zum Gliick ist etwas, dem er sicli widmen, auf das or seine Kriiftc verwenden kann, kurz, die Berufsarbeit. Treuer, fleissiger Arbeit in deincm Berufe lebe, willst du dir selber leben. Sie wird dir cine Quelle reinsten Gluckes sein. Und gerade in dieser Ilinsiclit ist keine Ar­ beit lohnender, als das Studium der Wissenschaften. Drei Dinge sind es，durch die die Wissenschaften den, der sicli ilmcn widmet, befriedigen. Das erste ist die Ausbildung des Geistcs. Das geschieht besonders durch das Studium fremder Sprachen. Andcre wichtige Bildungsmittel sind Geschichte, Pliilosophie und Dichtkunst, die den Blick erweitern, den Verstand scharfen, das Gemut vertiefen. Hierdurch wird der Geist befahigt, in die Schonlieiten der Literatur und Kunst einzudringen und die Freude zu geniessen, die ein tiefes Verstandnis des Schonsten und Edclsten gewiilirt, das Menschengeist hervorgebracht hat. Dies ist die zweite grosse Belohnung, die Wissenschaft und Literatur dem Gebildeten gewiihren. Noch grosser aber ist die dritte, die liohe Freude am Erforschen und Entdecken. Hat man lange gearbeitet an einer sellwle­ rigen * Aufgabe, wie freudig ist dann das Gefiihl des Gelingens! Hat man lange geforscht nach der Losung eines Problems, wie begluckend ist dann die endliche Erkenntnis der Walirheit! Diese Freude war es, die Pythagoras bewog, den Gottern eine I-Iekatombe zu opfern, als er seinen bekannten Lehrsatz aufgefunclen liat te. Diese Ich habe es geFreude trieb Archimedes mit einem jubelnden: funden! Ich habe es gefunden!M unbekleidet auf die Strassen von Syrakus, als es beim Baden die Bestimmung des spezillschen Gewichtes entdeckte.

Wenn nun die Freuden, die das Studium der Wissenschaften g^wahrt, die grossten Geister so hinreissen, dann sind sie gewiss wiirdige Ziele fur unsere hochstcn Anstrengungen. Und dennoch, wenn wir genauer zusehen, was ist dann ein solclies Streben nacli Wissen anders, als eine fein ere Form der Selbstsucht, eben jener Selbstsuchp in der so viele Menschen ihr Gluiick suclien, (lie nur das Leben geniessen, die Freuden des Lebens auskosten wollen, und die deshalb nur auf sich sehen und alles zu ihrem eigenen Nutzen wenden. Doch. je melir sie ihre Begierden befriedigen wollen, um 孓o machtiger werden diese, bis sie schliesslich den Menschen beherrschen. So kommen die Menschen durch das Bestreben, nur sich

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selbst zu leben, immer tiefer ins Ungluck hinein. Ebenso steht es mit einem, der, ohne ein hoheres Ziel vor Augen zu haben, nur den Wissenschaften lebt. So hoch und edel seine Geniisse sein mogen, dauernde Befriedigung gewiiliren sie nicht, denn im letzten Grunde sind es docli nur selbstsiichtigc Freuden, bei denen er sich schliesslich trotz all seiner Arbeit fragen muss: Was tue icli denn gutes auf der Welt? Wem liabe icli je geliolfen. Warum lebe ich iiberhaupt?

Nein, soil das Wissen Befriedigung gewiiliren, dann darf man darin nur ein Mittel selien zu einem lioheren Zweck. Der Menschheit musst du leben, wenn du dir selber leben 'villst. Bei all unserer Arbeit in den Wissenschaften, bei tier Ausbildung imsers Geistes, unsers Gemutes uiul misers Charakters muss dies unser Ziel sein: uns fahiger zu machen zum Dienste an unsern Mitmenschen. Sich selbst allein leben ist clem Menschen unmoglich; mit tausend Banden ist er an die Mitwelt gebunden, mit Banden ties Gemutes und mit Banden red Pflicht. Wenn er sich etwa in eine Einode zuruckziehen wollte, wie es die alien Einsiedler taten, und meinte, liier konne er gliicklich scin, dann \viirde er sich sclnver getiiuscht selien.

Der Trieb, mit an dern Menschen zu verkehren, ist jedem angeboren, ist einer der primitivsten Triebe seiner Seele. Bis an sein Ende wiirde ilin die Selin such t nacli dem Leben, aus clem er geflohen ist, nicht verlassen. Ebenso stark, wenn niclit noch starker, sind fur den sittliclien Menschen die Bande der Pflicht. Er fuhlt, dass Gott ihn mitten ins Leben gestellt. hat, imter seine Mitmenschen, damit er fiir sie und fur ihr Wohlergelien lebe. Und wenn alle Arbeit des Menschen, sowolil an sich, als aucli fiir andere, von diesem Gedanken der Pflicht getragen ist, dann liegt die Weilie eines hohen, edlen Zweckes liber ihr, der ihm nicht nur eine bestiindige Quelle der Kraft zur Arbeit und der Freude an der Arbeit sein wird, sondern dem auch bei den Mitmenschen die Anerkennung niclit felilen wird.

Aber um (lieser Anerkennung willen den Menschen dienen wollen, hiesse Senekas Rat falscli verstelien. Denn die Worte: ^Wenn du dir selber leben 'villstâ&#x20AC;? bedeuten nicht, dass man aus selbstsiichtigen Grunden anderen dienen soil. Seneka will nur sagen: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anderen musst du leben, wenn du gliicklich sein 'villst.â&#x20AC;? Denn Selbstsucht befriedigt nie. Und wenn man auch der Menschheit die grossten Wohltaten erwiese und von alien bewundert und geehrt wurde, dann wurde das Gewissen doch rufen: Deine Taten sind nichts als glanzende Laster, denn deine Beweggriinde sind nicht lauter. Und wenn das Gewissen erstorben ware, dann wiirde einen doch die Gier nacli mehr Ruhm und Macht und Einfluss nicht zur Rulie kommen lassen. Oder liat ein Ciisar ja wahren Frieden gefunden, oder ein Napoleon*, die doch beide grosses fiir ihre Volker geleistet haben?

Ilir Ehrgeiz jagte sie durclis Leben, und ilire Reiche fielen schliesslich doch in nichts zusammen.

Wie anders ist da das Bild, das ein Mann wie Sokrates gewahrt.

Er erkannte, dass der Dienst an der Menschheit selbstlos sein musse

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und handelte auch nach seiner Erkenntnis. Daraus erklart sich die innere Ruhe, die Unerschiitterlichkeit, das stille Gliick auch in den scliwersten Stunden, das sicli in alien seinen Reden und Handlungen ausdriickt. In noch viel lioherem Masse gilt dies vom Apostel Paulus. Auch zu seiner Ruhe und seinem Gliicke gibt seine Selbstlosigkeit den Scliliissel, seine vollige Ilingabe an seine Mitmenschen. Er wollte sich nicht dienen lassen, sondern er wollte dienen. Er wollte nicht nehmen, sondern geben. Alles, was er hatte, ja sein Leben opferte er auf, damit er seinen Beruf an der Menschlieit erfiillen konnte. Diese Idee des selbstlosen Dienstes durchzieht jedes Wort und jede I-Iandlung des Apostels und verleiht ihnen einen unvergleiclilichen Adel; sie maclit Paulus zu einem der grossten Geister der Weltgeschichte.

Paulus und Sokrates, das sind Gestalten, an denen wir uns bilden konnen, die uns leiten konnen unser Leben lang auf dem Pfade der selbstlosen Ilingabe.

Selbstlose Hingabe ist aber nur da moglich, wo Liebe ist, Liebe, die Grundlage alles Rechts und aller Tugend, oline die das Gute iiberhaupt nicht bestehen kann. Nur Liebe macht es dem Menschen moglich, sich selbst ganz zu vergessen, sicli aufzuopfern fiir die Menschlieit. Und sie tragt auch zugleich den schonsten Lohn in sicli, derm Liebe erzeugt Liebe. Wer die walire Liebe an seinen Mitmensclien beweist, der wird auch wieder geliebt, und es gibt keine hoheren Guter als dankbare, treu ergebene Menschenherzen. Und sollte die Liebe sich verkannt sehen’.daim verzweifelt sie docli nicht, ihr Gliick und ihr Prieden bleibt auch im grossten Ungliick, weil sie alles ertragt, alles glaubt, alles liofft, alles duldet. Das kann sie, weil sie ihren Ursprung hat in Gott, dem einzigen Urquell alles Guten, der ja selbst die Liebe ist. Darum kann auch nur ein Mann, der sich mit Leib und Seele Gott ergeben hat, der Menschlieit walirhaft dienen. Darum ist ein Paulus Oder Luther viel grosser als Sokrates Oder irgend einer der grossen Heiden. In Gott liegt also im letzten Grunde alle walire Gliickseligkeit und alle wahre Freude.

Vergeblich ist es, ausser Ihm das Gliick zu suchen. Also nicht den Wissenschaften, nicht den Menschen, sondern Gott miissen wir le­ ben, wollen wir uns selber leben.

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Old farmer Perkins was known for miles about as an old pes­ simist and a tight-wad. He owned a small truck-farm about a mile from the city of Byron, where his two sons, Ed. and George, attended school. This little town of Byron had the reputation of housing the meanest bunch of fellows in the state.

This year old Perkins had a large watermelon patch, which, he expected would help swell his purse a little. For this reason one can readily imagine that he kept a strict guard over it. One night Ed

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overheard a conversation between two fellow-students from which he was able to make out that a bunch from town had planned to raid the Perkins melon patch. That same night a council of war was held at the supper table of farmer Perkins. It was decided that a strict guard be held every night for a week or more over the melon patch. They were to change off; Ed was to guard the first night, George the next and Pa Perkins the third. The old shotgun was taken down from the shelf and loaded with a good priming of birdshot.

The first night passed without any skirmish. On the second night only one shot was fired, which scared an old dog that was prowling around the field in a fit of hydrophobia. But on the third night the fun came. Perkins took the old blunderbuss on his shoul­ der and marched off for the field of battle. He sauntered around the melon patch a few times, but that soon became tiresome. He now busied himself with finding u hiding place from which he could over­ look the melon patch without being seen. On the side of the field nearest the town stood an old hickory, under whose sturdy limbs many a battle had been fought for the possession of the nuts it bore.

Into this tree old Perkins climbed and perched himself with his infantile cannon on one of the lower branches. The night was dark as pitch, and not a noise was to be heard save the occasional screech­ ing of an owl.

“If they ever come,” muttered old Perkins, “they’ll come tonight, and if they ever met with a surprise they’ll meet with one be­ fore very long.”

After a short while of watchful waiting, lie heard a low whistle a little way to his right and its answer some distance to his left. Soon about twenty fellows were assembled under the hickory. From their conversation he was able to make out that they were waiting for their leader, Bob Anders, the butcher’s son, wlio couldn’t come until the store was closed. It didn't take long before the captain was at hand.

In the meantime the patient guard sat up in the tree and shiv­ ered in his boots. He realized that it would be foolishness to try to chase such a bunch of fellows away, because if they should detect him he would be at their mercy. How he wished that he could com­ municate his predicament to his sons, who were enjoying their sleep in the house!

The forces being assembled, they crept stealthily out into the melon patch. But no sooner did they reach the middle of the field when they, as well as the sentinel, saw some one light his pipe on the Other side of the field. This unexpected turn of events put the crowd of marauders to flight.

On the other side of the field a similar flight was taking place.

On hearing the noise which the town bunch made a crowd of coun­ try lads, on the same mission, took to their heels, thinking that Mr. Perkins was close behind them.

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Meanwhile the silent guard split his head trying to make out what could have caused the stampede. Finally it dawned on him that two parties, one from the country and one from town, had come to take booty, -and that one bunch had scared the other away. He took heart now and bent his footsteps homeward.

If anyone should have met him then, he would have heard him —K. T„ *20 chuckle: “What did I say about a surprise?”

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AT PARTING. But a few more days and the swiftly flowing river of time will bring upon us the long expected fifteenth of June, the last day of the school-year, the first day of vacation, and the day when our Seniors shall reach the climax of their career at Northwestern and depart from its halls, never to return.

For us who return next fall the time is going slowly. The pros­ pects of the joys of vacation after many months of study make that last day come all too tardily.

But for you, dear Seniors, the day that marks the close of your career at Northwestern is coming faster th^n you wish. Now, when you are about to realize what you so joyfully anticipated through the years of your life at Northwestern, there comes over you a feeling of regret that nearly causes you to wish that the day which makes you an alumnus could be postponed.

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Of course you are glad that you have met and conquered the difficulties and disappointments in your way, and that you have, as a consequence, attained the aim to which you looked forward during your career at this school. But you are also conscious that the greater joy lay in the working toward the goal and not in its attainment. Your diploma would mean nothing to you if you did not feel that it.was merely tlie material expression of the successful termina-* tiou of the struggles and temptations, the sorrows and the joys of the years that have passed and made you wliat you are. And what a wealth of associations the recollection of those years brings wit it!

You never knew till now how dear the old place had become to you.

But if Commencement Day brings to you regrets, it also brings to you the pleasure the graduating Senior is granted: it marks your entrance into the battle of life, a battle in which you may hope to figlit not as an incapable soldier, but as one well armed with the strength of a liberal and Christian education. You may well feel confident that with such an armor and equipment you will emerge victorious.

To this end we who remain wish you the best of luck. May God be with you and give you success. Farewell!

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Man muss heutsutage oft horen, class es doch eigentlich besser sei, die alten Sprachen abzuschaffen. Die Tendonz in unserem ganzen Lande geht dahin. Auch unter unsern Sclnilern liat diese Meiung, wie es scheint, Anklang gefunden. Aber waruin sollen wir ein Bildungsmittel, das sich sclion liinger als irgend eins als alien anderen iiberlegen bewiesen hat, nun auf einmal abscliaffen?

Ein Schuler, der sein Latein und Griechiscli ordentlich studiert, lernt schnell und genau zu denken. Das erste ist, class er sich die Kenntnis der Formen aneignet, von denen die lateinisclie Sprache, die griechishe aber noch viel melir, einen grossen Schatz besitzt.

Weil fast eine jede Form nacli einer bestimmten Regel gebildet wird, muss unser Geist beim Bilden derselben sclinell und genau denken, was eine sehr gute trbung ist. Wenn wir dieses niclit tun, machen wir gewiss einen Feliler. Wie leicht gibt man niclit im Aorist und Futurum das Medium an, wenn nach dem Passiv gefragt worden ist. Darnach kommt die Syntax. Dabei lernt der Schuler die verschiedenen Denkweisen. Dadurcli, class er die lateinisclie und griechische Syntax studiert, lernt er die der Mutterspraclie am aller grlindlichsten. Zuletzt kommt dann das Ubersetzen von guten Schriftstellern, wobei das Gelernte angewandt werden muss. I-Iier i^uss der Schuler jede Form genau un tersuch en, dann den Satz sorgfaltig zerlegen, und so einen Gedanken nacli dem anderen herausschalen. Sehr oft sind denn noch mehrere Auffassungen moglich,

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wo der Student wiederum genau erwagen muss, welche wohl die

bessere sei. Dieses alles bringt den Schuler dahin, dass er lernt, genau und klar zu denken, und gerade das ist doch das Allernotigste fur ihn. Studiert er dagegen immer nur in eiiier Sprache, die ihm von Jugend auf bekannt ist, so fiillt alle diese wertvolle Denkubung natiirlich fort.

Das Ubersetzen allein ist fiir uns sclion von sehr grossem Nutzen, aber noch yiel mehr bringt uns (las Verarbeiten von so ausgezeiclinter Lekture, wie sie die Alien gescliaffen liaben, ein. Einen unschatzbaren Reichtum von guten Mustern aller Art liaben die alten Griechen und Romer in ilirer Spraclie niedergeschrieben, und allein durcli das Studium guter Muster konnen wir perfekt werden, soweit dies moglich ist. Von den Griechen lernen wir, die Schonlieit und de*n Wohlklang, von den Romern die Kraft des Ausdrucks nachbilden. tJbrigens sind aucli alle wissenscliaftlichen Werke bis zur Neuzeit in der lateinischen Spraclie verfasst, und diese konnen wir allein dann ganz verstehen, wenn wir sie im Urtext studieren.

Aber Latein und Griecliiscli ist nicht nur in den genannten Hinsichter fur uns von grossem Nutzen, sondern es ist auch eine unschatzbare Hilfe im Englischen, ist iiberliaupt das absolute Funda­ ment aller philologischen Kenntnisse. Es ist wohl kaum notig, dieses noch weit zu erortern; denn ein jeder von uns, der sein La­ tein und Griecliiscli nur ein wenig anwendet, erfiihrt bald, dass ge­ rade die Worter, die ihm so list am meisten Schwierigkeiten bereiten wiirden, jetzt fur ihn am leichsten sind. Wenn einer ein englisches etimologisclies Werk zur Hand nimmt, wird er sofort erkennen, dass ein sehr grosser Prozentsatz der Worter sich auf das Lateinische Oder Griechische zuruckfiihren lilsst.. Hat er diese beiden Sprachen nicht gelernt, so ist es fiir ihn unmoglicli, iiberliaupt die Etymologie solcher Worter zu studieren.

Fiir uns, die wir uns auf das Predigtamt vorbereiten wollen, ist aber die genaue Kenntnis dieser zwei Sprachen fast eine unbedingte Notwendigkeit. Wir miissen die Bibel im Urtext lesen kon­ nen, sowohl weil Luther nicht iiberall buchstablich iibersetzt hat, als auch weil man aus dem Original viel mehr nelunen lcann als aus der besten tJbersetzung; denn die griechische Spraclie hat fur jede verschiedene Schattierung wieder einen andren Ausdruck, was weder die deutsche noch die englische Spraclie nachmachen kann.

Auch miissen wir die alten Kirchenviiter lesen konnen, die samt und sonders griechisch Oder lateinisch sind.

Lasst uns deswegen, meiue lieben Mitschiiler, nicht das durchaus notwendige Studium dieser zwei Sprachen vernachlassigen. Es sind diese zwei Pilcher keineswegs leiclit, und deswegen sollen wir umsoviel mehr Zeit darauf verwenden. Die Arbeit wird sich aber reichlich lohnen.

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The class spirit shown in many of the classes in our colleges today may be expressed in the phrase “help your class-mate.”

Usually a student will attempt everything and anything to help his fellow student make his class. He will prompt his friend if lie notices that lie cannot answer questions asked by the professors. If he sees that his class-mate cannot proceed in his translation, lie passes his own or someone else’s preparation to him, and in exam­ inations he applies some means of cheating, if not for his personal benefit, why then for his neighbor’s. The more the teachers may be sugared over, the less earnest work the class will have to do. The individual reckons that through cheating and prevaricating lie can slip through and at the same time keep up liis reputation in the class. Furthermore, through prompting and swindling, the student has helped another to stay with the class, in short, some service has been rendered to the class.

• Fellow-student, such a class spirit is a detrimental animation.

Do you, on deliberation, really believe that your class-mates are assisted if they are helped in sneaking tlieir way through? No! You are ruining a student for his after life, for, in helping him through he becomes dependent on some one else. He becomes indolent and loses all self-respect and originality. The instructors woh are so much older and experienced than the students are 'vise to such things. If this is the spirit of your class, I say again, get rid of it, it’s detrimental to the individual and to the class.

Imagine, a class to attend recitations and that no member would help another by way of prompting or cheating in any manner. Each and every student will then be forced to “paddle liis own canoe.”

He will realize if he cannot get liis studies alone he will fail, and rather than fail without an earnest attempt to save himself from this disgrace, he will work. “If Mr. Johnson can get his lessons well, then I can too,” a student should say to himself, “and I’ll not permit AlMr. Johnson to get ahead of me in the studies either, if 1 can. ready there would be a friendly rivalry among the class members. A rivalry not only in speaking correctly, without the use of slang and profane language, but also in the choice of words, elocution and pub­ lic appearance. Our class-mate will endeavor to assist another and help him to overcome his eccentricities. Aside of recitations the members will act more gentlemanly, they will gain true friends, and make their marks in this world. The individual would prosper and so would the class.

This, fellow-student, is the true spirit that should prevail in every class, and you can help attain it if you act your part.

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STUDENTS E3NJOY COjNCERT. Through the courtesy of Messrs. Kohls and Knaak, popular furniture dealers of Watertown, the students of N. W. C. Iiad an op­ portunity to hear one of the latest inventions, or rather an improve­ ment on an invention, in the shape of the dulcephon^. The dulcephone is an improvement on the phonograph in that it gives a better and more natural tone. And if wc take the applause of the audience as proof the instrument certainly deserves its prefix “dulce,” as everyone enjoyed a dulcet evening.

The program was well arranged, containing selections of all kinds, both classical and religious. Among the selections were also one or more played by our own organizations, which appealed especially to the individual students and showed them how far they were from perfection. Now and then one could hear the tuba or corI-Iear that solo? That’s net player remark to one of his friends: just the way I play it, too.”

We all appreciated the concert very much and hope to hear an­ other in the near future.

PATRIOTIC DAY. On Friday afternoon, May IS, the populace of Watertown turned out to celebrate Patriotic Day. The committee in charge had ar­ ranged a grand parade and procured eloquent speakers to speak for the day. The whole affair was a grand success, the weather ideal and the people turned out en masse.

The parade was headed by the band and cadets of St. John’s Military Academy of Delafield. Then followed a float representing the Goddess of Liberty, the nurses of the various hospitals, the new­ ly formed Watertown company of national guard, and school chil­ dren, numbering upwards of fifteen hundred, our military company and band made up the rest of the procession.

The parade halted at the city park, where the different speakers addressed the people, telling them of the state of affairs and how they could do their share in this great crisis, even if they did not shoulder a gun. The school children also sang several stanzas of America and the Star Spangled Banner.

The St. John's cadets gave an exhibition drill on Main street af­ ter the ceremonies at the park, and gained the admiration of all present through their quick and “snappy” work.

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In the evening the N. W. C, military company also gave an ex­ hibition drill on Main street. While the cadets were at parade rest or at leisure, the band played a piece and thus instilled lots of pep into thecompany. “They drill just like regulars,” said several from the throng. At an early hour Capt. Gruendemann gave the order to return to barracks and a successful patriotic day came to a close.

FREE CONCERT. In order to give those who come from far to see their sons and daughters or friends and relatives graduate, an oportunity to find out what the school produces besides learned men, the concert commit­ tee has aranged for a free concert to be rendered by the three music­ al organizations, chorus band and orchestra, Thursday evening, June 14, the evening before commencement. All those who have attended our concerts in the past as well as those who had not that opportunity are also cordially invited. Bring your friends and enjoy ' an evening in our spacious auditorium.

BAND. The band this year consists of thirty-six members. Of these only four are going to graduate, among them the president, H. W. Schaefer, and the vice president, Waldemar Retzlaff. The other two are Christ. Kock and Armin Retzlaff.

As has been said in a former write-up we commenced practicing under a different director, and at that time we expressed the hope that under the leadership of a new man we would strive at least to attain the standard of proficiency of the last year’s organization.

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remember. We must give him the entire credit and not claim any for ourselves, since it was under his personal guidance during the rehearsals and practice hours that we did any practicing which really amounted to something.

For next year we do not want to make any predictions but with only four graduating one might easily imagine how great a handicap must be overcome and therefore we are inclined to think that the band of 1917-1918 will be just as proficient if not better than the present one, provided, of course, that no more members will leave.

—H. W. S.,，17.

NH CHORUS. “Never has a chorus of Northwestern sung so well as this year; once before an N. W. C. chorus was nearly equal, ’tis true.” This is the comment made on this year’s chorus by Professor Bolle, who has directed choruses for (hirleen years. Assertions to this effect were also made by other musical critics of Watertown.

The success of this year’s chorus is due to the interest shown by the chorus and, above all, to the patience and untiring efforts of our director. Another reason for our having a chorus of high standard was the system of rehearsing during the year. Much stress was laid on the proper training, development, ami proper use of the voice: and in order to gain full control of the voice, vocalises and solfeggi were studied; vowels and consonants were especially treated. More­ over, due attention was given to faultless pronunciation, perfection in phrasing, pure attack, accurate intonation and articulation, and sight singing. All these things, combined with the co-operation of chorus and director, helped attain the good reputation of the chorus . of 1916-1917.

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What is to be said about this body could otherwise be omitted with­ out detriment. The history of the orchestra in this year is too much like that of former years to be repeated again. There were practical ly ng changes or no additions in the personnel, the only notable acquisition being the cornet, bass, and piano players. With, the end of this year there will be a great change. Some of the first violin players that have held their post for five years will leave, as will m〒ny other veterans also. The membership has been rather small this year, and the outlook is gloomy for next fall unless new mater-

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ial arrives. However, that lies beyond us, we have it to do with the present and the past. We have appeared in public several times and seem to have pleased the hearers, from what the people say. As a last effort, we are practicing several selections for the free concert and for tli commencement program under the direction of Prof.

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N. W. C. QUARTET. We are the jolly, jolly four, We sing right joyously, And as the quartets were of yore.

We’re honest as can be.— — “What，s that?”

“0,1 guess that’s the quartet practicing. They sing every day.”

“Well，it sounds as if they need it. Who are they?”

“Zei, Boly, Nig and Westie.”

“Westie sings second bass I suppose. Der brummt was in sei ‘Bart，nei.”

Such were the comments very likely made on the quartet. That’s the reason the singers practiced diligently until the concert and then ran away with three encores. They “pulled one over.” That’s prob­ ably why the quartet’s songs have to pass the board of censorship.

The quartet loses A. Retzlaff, second tenor, and W. Retzlaff, first bass, through graduation. Farewell, Nig and Boley, but always keep on singing.

AUS DEM SEMINAK. Unser “Gemtitlicher Abend” am 18. Mai war “ganz vorzuglich.0 Wir haben uns alle recht schon amusiert.

Am 20. Mai besuclite Herr Alfred Schweppe von der U. of W. die Herren W. P. Beitz, E. Arnold Sitz et al.

Herr Paul Lutzke war vom 25.-27. Mai in seiner Heimat in Bea­ ver Dam. Die Stadt Brillion freute sich am 25. Mai, ihren alten treuen • Mitbiirger Martin Wehausen zu sehen.

Herr H. C. Nitz predigte am 27. Mai in De Pere, Wis. Vom 25.-27. Mai besuchte Ilerr Aug. P. Kehrberg Verwandte in Kenosha.

Herr R. Penske hielt sich wall rend der Pfingstpause in seinem Heim in Hustisford auf.

Die folgenden Herren vom N. W. C. waren am 26. Mai hier, urn dem “May f'estival” beizuwolinen: A. und W. Retzlaff, A. Zeisler， H: Schafer, M. Stern, Croll, Albrecht, E. Abelmann, Miller. Wir haben uns sehr gefreut, diese Herren bei uns zu haben. Konimt bald wieder!

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Die majorennen Seminister sind alle registriert.

Unser alter “von Jahn” Kehrberg traf am 29. Mai wieder hier ein.

Herr P. Lutzke “entertainte” am 31. Mai Verwandte aus Beaver Dam，一Herr F. Manteufel tat dasselbe am 3. Juni.

Die eine Frage unter den Veteranern ist: Wo werden wir landen?

ALUMNI NOTES. Rev. Ewald Sterz, ‘14, has been installed in his charge in Jacksonport, Wis. Alfred Schweppe，’15，who takes his M. A. at Wisconsin this month, is going to teach English at Kenilworth (111.) High School.

Harry Palmbach, ’13, who has spent the last four years at Wis­ consin, is applying for a position as teacher.

Miss Florence Helmich, ex-’17, has been awarded the University Fellowship at Ripon. It nets her $225 and she will continue her postgraduate work in German.

Gerhard T^irun, ex-’13, has again made one of his frequent vis­ its to Watertown. He is still technician in a University of Michigan laboratory.

-Walter Thrun, ex-,12, has just finished his thesis for Ph. D. and taken his examination at the University of Missouri. He has been elected a member of Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific research so­ ciety.

• We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Henry Heilmann, nee She died at Red Ernest, *05, attended the funeral, which took place in Water wn^o May 30th. Rev. Adelbert Schaller accompanied th® .^^^001 in Otto Henkel, ex-，14, is now teaching in a combination sc Janesville.

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The neat cover design, which is alike in every issue, was very pleasing to us. It is, in fact, one of the best cover-designs among our exchanges.

Your literary column is riot too brief, as is the case with many of our exchanges, and also contains several short pieces of poetry.

Of these the first is “The Summons,” a poem which fits into the present time and shows the patriotic spirit at your institution. The other two poems are “Elevation” and “The Rose Thou Gavest Me,” both .written by the author of “The Summons.” They all show poetic talent, and we hope to see more good poems in your paper in the future.

The first prose article is “Modern Legislation and the Quest for Happiness.” It is a somewhat difficult topic, but is, nevertheless, treated well. Occasionally the language could have been improved, as in the following sentence: “Filially, at the opportune moment, assisted by the internal schism in the Church, driven on by those forces having fallen from the lofty height of Christianity to the abyss of heresy, these reformers, who, in tlicir fall, like once power­ ful Lucifer, having lost their happiness, struggled desperately this gift to retain.”

The Following this article is “The Character of MacbeUi.” writer seems to have spent some time in writing this characteriza­ tion, since he treats almost every trait of Macbeth's character quite fully.

The plot having for its title “Reel Life” is in itself extremely simple and hardly fit for a paper like yours. It is, of course, supposed to resemble a comedy of the kind which is shown in the movies, but why not select a better topic for a story in your magazine? There are several grammatical mistakes in it, especially the one placing an adverb between the infinitive and its sign, as “to definitely de­ cide” and “to slowly twist.”

The last literary production in this issue is “Tlie True Function of Criticism.” After reading this essay a person comes to see what true criticism is.

Of your editorials, which are all ably written, we would select the first and third as the best: “Has the Present War Proved Chris­ tianity a Failure,” and “Literature，Art, and the War.” The fact that there ar five editorials goes to prove that your students take interest in your paper.

Your exchange department is also better than the average “Ex­ changes” in college papers, but could yet be improved.

The remaining departments are good, with the exception of “College Notes. * They are treated more less as a second joke column.

In general your April issue is good. In future issues we hope to see improvements in proof reading. There is hardly a page without a mistake.

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COLLEGE BREEZES. “College Breezes” is well worth reading. However, the Literary department is too short, while the other departments take up more than three fourths of your paper. Your students should be able to contribute more material. What is there, is good; why not give us more of it?

The literary column contains only two articles, “He Was a Man” and “The Brotherhood of Man.” The first of these pleased us very much, since the writer in an interesting ma nner gives us a few facts about John A. Johnson’s life and character. In the second article the writer showed us in fluent language what he wished to show. The ••Sonnet to Mother” could have been somewhat better; we take it to be written by an amateur poet, who probably has several years at your college to improve on his poetry.

The editorials both pertained to the future of your paper; we consider it a good idea to give others information about some things that occur about your place.

As we have mentioned before, your other departments took too much of your paper, which shows that more interest is taken these departments than in the main one—the Literary department.

Let’s see you do more for this department in the future.

It is said that bank notes were first issued in China in 2697 B. C. The Origin of Basketball.

The game of basketball enjoys the unique distinction of having been invented by a single brain at one sitting. At the Plainfield, Massachusetts Y. M. C. A., in 1891, a lecturer on psychology, speak­ ing of the mental processes of invention, proposed the example of. a game. The next day in the lecture room it was put into practice with the aid of the members of the gymnastic class. The game was liked and spread through the Y. M. C. A.’s, colleges and high schools throughout the country_Wireless Tales.

In the schools of the United States there are at present enrolled the astonishing number of 23,500,000 pupils, twenty-four per cent of our population.

Sauerkraut is not, as one might by its name be led to expect, of German origin; it owes its existence to the inventive genius of the Slav peoples.

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An onion breath may be taken away almost immediately through the eating of a small piece of charcoal.

The average human being has, after birth, a life span of thirtythree years to look forward to. One fourth of the people on earth die before their sixth year; one half before they are sixteen; only one in a hundred lives to be sixty-five years old.

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How To Make a Compass Out of n Watch.

To find the south at any time of the day by the sun, hold your watch flat, face upward, so that the sun shines upon it. Turn it around until the hour points at the sun; then without moving the watch, lay the edge of a piece of paper or a pencil across the face of the watch so that it rests on the center of the dial and points out half way between the figure XII and the hour hand. The line given by the pencil will be the north-and-south line.—Forest and Stream.

There are 10,671 millionaires in this country.

The Government, in 1916, collected a $31,540,000 tax on 25,233,000 cigarettes, a quota of over 900 cigarettes to every man of voting age in the country. The production is increasing at the rate of over 40 per cent, a year—Leslie’s Weekly.

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N, W. C. 1; WHITEWATER NORMAL 9.

Heavy slugging and errors at critical moments were the cause of our second defeat at the hands of the Normal aggregation. Al­ though our nine was determined to be revenged for its defeat at Whitewater on May 12, the slugging Normalites proved too much for us, and our boys could not find Muldeen, who pitched perfect ball. He was credited with fifteen strike-outs and allowed only four hits. In the fifth Bublitz connected for a two-bagger and scored on Naumann’s single, thus netting us one lone tally. The visitors hit when hits were needed and earned seven of their nine runs; the other two were made on Henning’s errors. Two fast double plays by Bublitz, Duxe, Zeisler, and Tacke, and O’Neill’s homer in the first were the features of the game.

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Whitewater NO AB Ayen, rf-ss— Vaughn, 3b„.

O'Neill, c___ Agnew, Muldeen, p__.

I-Ianson, ss-2b.

Allen, cf___ Mitten. 2b__ Johnson, lb__ Doerer, rf___

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Lang'e, sb----------Duxe, 2b---------Zeisler, lb_____ Henning, c_____ Bublitz, p______ Naumann, If____ Oruendemann, rf_ Tack©, 3b______ Kraus8, rf______ Schumacher, rf

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N. W. C.

35 9 10 27 9 0

Summary—Errors: Henning 2; Naumann, Tacke, Duxe. Homerun: O’Neill. Two-base hit: Bublitz. Stolen bases: Duxe 2. Hits: off Bublitz 10; off Muldeen 4. Struck out: by Bublitz 5; by Muldeen 16.

Bases on balls: off Bublitz 3. Double plays: Bublitz to Zeisler to Tacke; Bublitz to Zeisler. Umpire: Bert Anweiler. Scorer: A. Retzlaff.

N. W. C. 7; ST. JOILVS 2.

On May 25 Northwestern again defeated St. John’s Military Aca­ demy 7 to 2.

Reeder started for the cadets.

Our boys pounded him all over the lot, getting seven hits and seven runs in the first five innings. He was wild, had a big league windup, a broad smile, but not a sign of dope. He was relieved by Waldo In the fifth, who kept the wearers of the Black and Red guessing for the re­ mainder of the game, allowing only one hit and whiffing eight men.

Stueber, in the box for N. W. C., pitched good ball and had excellent support. He held the visitors to five scattered hits and passed out seven tickets for the bench. Schumacher was the shining light with, the stick for us, driving out two three-baggers out of four times up, while Naumann and Henning were chalked down for two hits each. The cadets scored in the third, when Lippmann poled out a three-bagger and went home on Windier fly to right, and in the fifth, after Windle, who reached second on Naumann’s error, crossed the plate on Keel’s single. A double play by Duxe and Bublitz checked what looked like a seventh inning rally. With Turner on first Martin grounded to Duxe, who touched second and shot it to first a good two feet ahead of the runner. Bradlee, who was injured sliding to second in the sixth, was replaced by Martin.

The following is taken from the score book:

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N. W. C. AB R H PO A E 3 0 0 0 1 0 Lange, ss__ 3 2 1 3 7 1 Duxe, 2b___ 4 2 2 1 0 1 Naumann, If. 4 12 7 10 Henning, c_ 4 1 1. 9 3 0 Bublitz, lb_.

Schumacher, rf_ 4 0 2 3 0 1 Gruendemann, cf___: 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 Tacke, 3b.

4 1 0 0 3 0 Stueber, p.

Totals.

34 7

8 27 16

Lipmann, 3b------Windle, cf_______ Reeder ,p-lb---------Keel, c___________ Waldorf, rf-p____ Knickerbocker, ss.

Dory, lb_________ Turner, If________ Bradlee, 2b--------Martin, 2b------------

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6 24

6

2

Summary—Errors: Duxe, Naumann, Bradlee, Knickerbocker.

Three-base hits: Schumacher 2; Lipmann. Two-base hits: Hen­ ning. Stolen bases: Duxe 2; Naumann, Lipmann, Windle, Dory.

Hits: off Stueber 5; off Reeder 7; off Waldo 1. Struck out: by Stueber 7; by Reeder 5; by Waldo 8. Bases on balls: off Stueber 3; off Reeder 1. Double plays: Duxe to Bublitz. Umpire: Bert Anweiler.

Scorer: A. Retzlaff.

N. W. C. 2; MILTON 9.

Milton won from N. W. C. on June 1. The Miltonians took vn early lead, getting seven runs and live hits in the first two innings.

Stueber, who started for us, was taken out in the second, after al­ lowing four runs and filling the bases. Falk, a utility man, then took first, while Bublitz was shifted to the mound. At first it looked as if Jack would not fare much better than his predecessors, for the Milton athletes scored three more in the fatal second inning. And again in the seventh they succeeded in getting two hits, which were good for two more runs. Althuogh Randolph was hit hard, only seven scattered hits were registered off his delivery. Northwestern scored in the third, when Falk singled, went to scond on a sacrifice, stole third and scored on a fly out to left. In the seventh Gruendemann rapped out a Texas leaguer, was forced to second, and went home on Falk's second hit. The game was void of any spectacular plays.

The following is taken from the score book: PI

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12

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Totals.

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Curtis, 2b___ Sayre, cf___ Randolph, p_.

Burdick, c___ Hillstrom, 3b Van Horn, If. Talbot, rf___ Green, ss___ Coon, lb____

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MILTON.

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AB R H PO A E Lange, ss__ 0 12 0 0 Duxe, 2b___ 4 0 13 10 Naumann, If 4 0 0 00 0 Henning, c__ 4 0 0 81 0 Bublltz, lb-p 4 0 0 40 1 Schumacher, rf___ 3 0 1 00 0 Gruendemann,cf__ 4 1 2 20 0 Tacke, 3b_ 2 0 0 10 0 Stueber, p.

0 0 0 00 0 Falk, lb—, 3 1 2 40 0

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AB R H PO A E 5 11110 6 1 0 3 0 0 3 00 0 0 0 3 0 1 13 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 4 00 2 2 1 4 01 4 0 1 2 00 0 0 0 3 00 1 1 1 10 10 0 0

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Summary—Errors: Bublitz, Curtis. Two-base hits: Burdick.

Hits: off Stueber 5; off Bublitz 6; off Randolph 7. Struck out: by Stueber 1; by Bublitz 7; by Randolph 5. Bases on balls: off Stueber 2; off Bubli zt2; off Randolph 1. Umpire: Wliittet. Scorer: A. Retzlaff.

Latest Scores:

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N. W. Seconds 9; Wayland Academy 4.

N. W. C. 20; Milton 0.

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—The Misses Helen Ilolzhausen and Elizabeth Beck of Milwau­ kee were the guests of their brothers, William Ilolzhausen, Prep., and Walter Beck, *19, on Sunday, May 13. They were accompanied

by Miss Angeline Wilhelm, also of Milwaukee. 一Rev. Buenger of Kenosha called on his son Martin, Prep., on Wednesday, May 23. 一Oaiio Miller, ’20, spent Ascension day at his home in Baraboo. 一Mrs. Louis Lange of Beaver Dam spent Thursday, May 10, with her sons, Belno, ’IS, and JJyron, Prep.

—K. Kraus, *18,13. J. Westendorf, ^S, A. Zeisler, ’18, R. Timmel, 18, E. Blakewell, *18, and K. Timmel, '20, made a hair-raising trip to Jefferson on May 15.

—Mrs. C. F. Banderol) of Marshfield called on her sons, the Banderob Bros., Preps., May 19-21.

—Hans Koch, *19, discontinued his studies at this institution on account of illness on Thursday, May 24.

—An auto-party, including Mrs. Mein el and Mrs. Kiessling of Jefferson, stopped off here for a little chat with E. Kiessling, ’17, on May 17.

—Pat Kupfer, ’20, became homesick some time ago, which ac­ counts for his departure to the land of milk and honey; namely, to his home in Milwaukee, on May 25. He was cured, however, by a mother’s tender care, and returned to his study of potato bugs on May 31.

—The following students partook of the hospitality of their friends in Milwaukee on May 26-2S,—M. Croll, ’20, Theodore Monhardt, Prep., P. Albrecht and L. Meyer,，19, M. F. Stern, ^0, Th. Heidtke, Prep., W. and A. Retzlaff, *17, H. Schaefer, ’17, and A. Zeisler, *18. Since there was not room for so many people in Mil-

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waukee at the same time, Zei had to move out to Wauwatosa, where he found an empty bed in “Raisin’s” room.

R. Dallmann, Prep., showed Th. Binhamer, ’17, t he sights in Waterloo on Sunday and Monday, May 27-28. 一Chas. Bigsby heard so much about Cooney from Smoky bros. that he couldn’t resist the temptation of paying that metropolis a visit on Sunday, May 27.

—Arthur Mielke,，20, took a trip to liis home in Arlington, Wis” on Sunday, May 27.

—Memorial day was a sad one indeed at Northwestern, for it marked the departure of our august Alfred Liesner, Prep., from the institution.

—W. Holzhausen, E. Jaster, I. Boettcher, J. Hermann, J. Potratz, A. Hillmer, G. Glaeser, A. Fathauer, all Preps., and R. Kremer, ’20, hiked to Richwood on Sunday, May 27. 一W. E. Meyer, ’18, awoke at Hustisford on Sunday morning, May 27.

—P. Naumann, ,17, B. Lange, ’18, and “By” Lange, Prep., spent Sunday, May 27, at the latter’s home in Beaver Dam. —Th. Voges, ’20, was a visitor in Lake Mills on Sunday, May 27.

—S. Ave Lallemant, Ac., ’17, left for Washington, D. C., on Sat­ urday, May 26, where he has a $1000 position as clerk in the war department.

—W. Lauer, Prep., made his debut in Juneau society on Sunday, May 27.

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一Klondike: I wonder how this book got into such a horible condition.

Parmer: Well, you said it was too dry and so I soaked it in water. 一Klocky (reading the newspaper): “Brazil and Germany near broke.” Gee, I guess I’ll have to sponge them some money.

—Luther: I’m afraid we won’t have any students up here in a litle while, because they simply can’t stick any longer.

Dave: Why can’t they?

Luther: Why, we .don’t get any more Kniep. 一Dad (eating some dried beef): They must have killed that cow too soon; the meat is so tough. I believe it couldn’t have been ripe yet.

—Der Gust meint: “Wenn zu jeder Frist, Es 100 Grad nur im Schatten ist!M

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一Prof.: Schon wieder kommen Sie unprapariert in meine Stunde!

Was fallt ihnen denn eigentlich ein?

Student: Leider nichts.

—Bulldog: I guess I’ll buy a bass drum and go to New York and live on the Sound.

—Baldy: To what class of levers does the eye-opener belong?

And Heal Estate Is Going Up, 一Jap: Your hair reminds me of the Auditorium in Milwaukee.

Brutus: How’s that?

Jap: It covers a whole block.

Soph, (endeavoring to translate something he has not pre­ pared) :Tell me, 0 Muse—eh, eh, tell me, 0 Muse—how to translate this. 一Red: I don’t think I'll be able to play any more this year.

Choudy: Why not?

Red: Well you see, I got water on my knee while taking a bath the other day.

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South of Commercial Hotel

We respectfully solicit the patronage of the students.

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Get the habit early in life of wearing good clothes, clothes that make you look successful, and you will be surprised to find how many people will judge you by your clothes.

Men who wear

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Everybody talks style to young men---of course you want it. But style wont last and clothes lose their fit, without all-wool and fine tailoring. That’s a big point for everyone of you. Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes are all wool, tailored by experts so the style is in for keeps, and incidently Varsity Fifty-five suits are the leading styles of the season • Ask for them. We guarantee you satisfaction.

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A line to our College Dep^. will get you the de­ sired information.

THE PETTIBONE

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Pettibone makes a complete line of Academic Caps, Gowns and Uni­ forms. College Cadet Cat­ alog 335 on request.

Special:—a real Leather

belt, one inch wide, bronze plate, with name, monogTam or initials of College, for limited time, 75c. each. Must be bougfht in lots of 25:

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Right Across from the Postoffice Herman T. Voigt,

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Watertown, Wis.

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VOL. XXI NO. 4

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Volume XXI.

Watertown, Wis., September 1917.

Number 4

EIN FUKCHTBAK WUETKM) SCIIltECKNIS 1ST DER KRIEG. Wir lascn schon in den friiheren Jaliren misers Lebens von Schlachten und Kriegcn, aber den Ernst soldier Ereignisse empfinden wir erst (lann recht, wenn wir ilm selbst erleben. In den Schulbuchern, die von Schlachten berichten lesen wir, wie Tausende von AIcnschen fallen; aber unser Geist faszt nur die Zahlen; doch wie viel Lebensgliick oft durch ein einziges kleines Gefecht vernichtet wird, bleibt uns verborgen. Schiller sagt: “Ein furchtbar wiitend Schrecknis ist der Krieg.” Diese Worte (les Dichters wollen wir jetzt ein wenig nalier anselien ui)d uns klar zu machen suchen, wie wahr sie sind.

Gleicli beim Beginn eines Krieges steigen die Preise der Waren, die wir zu unserem tiiglichen Unterhalt brauchen. Geld und Wertpapiere sinken im Wert, ja -die letzteren werden oft fast wertlos.

Der geringe Wert des Geldes und der infolge der Geschaftsstockung geringe Lohn machen es dcm Arbeiter schwer, sich und seine Familie zu versorgen.

Hierzu kommen dann nocli die schweren Kriegssteuern. Die Soldaten miissen versorgt und besoldet und die Kosten von den Biirgern des Landes getragen werden. Wenn nun der Krieg im eignen Lande tobt, so kommen noch (lie Pliinderungen durch fremde Soldaten dazu, die oft, (lurch den Krieg verroht, keine Schonung kennen und in wenigen Stunclcn vernichten, was fleiszige Menschenhjinde in vielen Jahren zustande gebraclit haben. Alles dies fuhrt zur Verarmung des vom Krieg heimgesuchten Landes.

Allein niclit nur groszer materieller Schaden wird angerichtet,

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sondern es werden auch viele unersetzliche Kunstdenkmaler zerstort. Beruhmte Bilder, Statuen uiul Schriften gelien zu Grunde.

Beispiele liierzu liefert die Verwiistung Roms (lurcli die Vandalen im Jahre 455 und das Verfahren der Tiirkcn in Konstantinopel im Jahre 1453. Viele kiinstlerisch volleiulete Baulcn beriihmtcr Meister sind aucli schon in clem gegenwartigem Kriege zerstort odcr beschadigt worden. Der Sinn fur Kunst scheint wahrend cines Krieges abzunehmen. Viele Kunstler miissen mit in den Krieg ziehen und finden da den Tod. Wahrlich ein Schrecknis ist der ， Krieg.

“Und zwar ein furchtbar wiitend Schrcclmis.” Br vernichtet nicht liur Hal) und Gut und unersetzliche Kunstschiltze, sondern aucli unvergleichlicli wertvollerc Menschenlebcn. Im Kriege flieszen Strome von Mensclienblut. Schon tier alto Virgil stellt clen Krieg dar als eine Bestie mit blutbesudeltem Maul. Und (loch waren in frulieren Zeiten die Kriege nocli langst niclit so schrecklich wie jetzt, da von einem einzigen Geschutz oft dutzende von Mensclien auf einmal getotet werden.

Mancher verliert seinen Bruder, Vater oder Freund, manclie Familie ihren Ernahrer oder Vater; mancher Frau wire! der Gatte und manclier Jungfrau der Gelicbte entrissen. Manclier wird clahingerafft, ohne sich auf sein Elide und auf die Ewiglceit vorbereitet zu haben. Viele werden plotzlich in der Bliite ihres Lebens und mit ilirem Schopfer unversohnt abgerufcn. Wenn irgendwo, so gilt im Kriege Schiller’s Wort: “Rascli tritt der Tod den Menschen an; Es ist ihm keine Frist gegeben; Es stiirzt ihn mitten in der Balm, Es reisst ihn fort vom vollem Lebcn.

Bereitet Oder nicht, zu gelien, Er muss vor seinen Richter stehen.”

Aber noch schreckliclier als der Tod. ausgenommen der, eines Menschen, der unversohnt mit Gott clahinfiihrt, is die Verstiimmelung, die viele im Kriege erleiden. Vielen wird von den grausamen Geschossen ein Glied entrissen, und sic sind dann lebenslanglich verkriippelt, und mancher muss claim von den Verwandten und von anderen versorgt werden. Nicht alleiii das Versorgen filllt den Wohltatern oft schwer, sondern aucli da.s Umsichhaben der verstiimmelten Korper. Man sehe sich nur die Bilder in den Zeitungen an, urn eine Vorstellung zu bekommen, wie sclirecklicli viele Verstiimmelte aussehen.

Bei einer Invasion sind die Greuel gewolinlich nocli grosser und zahlreicher als sonst, soclass man kamn davon reden map.

Einige Beispiele sind die Vcrwustung der Pfalz durch Ludwig XIV. oder die Zerstorungen im Dreiszigjahrigen Krieg. Im “Krieg ists Sjtte, jeden Vorteil niitzen.” Bismark sagt: “Icli betrachte auch einen siegreichen Krieg an sich immer als ein Uebel, das die Staatskunst den Volkern zu ersparen bemuht sein muss.”

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Huten wir uns daher, einen Krieg heraufzubeschworen. Wehe einem Volke, das leichtfertig, eroberungslustig, aus I-Iabgier, ohne zwingende Griincle zu den Waffen greift! Wie er auch enden mag, ob mit Eroberung Oder Gebietsverlust, ob mit Sieg Oder Niederlage: ine schwere I-Ieimsuchung, "ein furchtbar wiitend Schrecknis ist der Krieg.”

U. D” ’18.

AN OUTING TO FISH CREEK. Who has ever gone oh an outing or who has ever gone thru the pleasure of camping, knows that if such outing or such camping is to afford real pleasure, previous planning is the essential factor in such enjoyment. Much more so is planning necessary for amateurs such as we are. Thus it was with us. For weeks we had been plann­ ing an outing to Sturgeon Bay, the famous cherry center. It was only to be an outing for one day, however, and we, therefore, tried to get some more cars to go along with us, for every car-owner knows that it is more pleasant to make such a trip together with a “bunch.”

3ut I could not persuade anyone to leave their harvest and go along.

Others whom no harvest could detain from such pleasure were afraid of the distance, for it was close to a. hundred miles. But we had no fear since our little Ford was in good condition and we in good spirits.

Br-r-r-r-!! This is what I heard at 3:30 on a Monday morning.

It was the alarm clock. “Wc are to leave for Sturgeon Bay at five o’clock” was the first thought that flashed thru my somewhat giddy __ brain; but it was enough, however, to clear it of all and clogged traces of sweet slumber and I can assure you that no second reveille was necessary to make us alert to the intentions of the day.

Before we leave, let me try to picture to you the looks of our little Ford, after being loaded down to its full capacity. First of all we see five merry passengers: father and mother, cousin Anna, brother Marcus and last of all, the chauffeur, myself. As a rule tliis is a load for a Ford, but we added considerably more. The one side­ board was loaded down with a large box filled with provisions, and good things to eat, while on the other side-board we had our brand new tent. The thing which had the most conspicuous place, of course, was the pennant of our home town “Reedsville，Wis.” tied to the extending ends of the tent poles.

This is the best picture I can give you and this picture was pre­ sented to many people and cities thru which we passed, of which may be mentioned Two Rivers, Kewaunee and Algoma. At Algoma, which marked the end of the first half of our trip, we stopped to say “hello” to some friends. They told us not to make Sturgeon Bay our destina­ tion but to go on twenty-five miles farther to Fish Creek. After a short stay we squeezed into our places in the car and off we went to Sturgeon Bay.

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One thing which here deserves honorable mention is the splen­ did condition of the highways in Door county. They are kept in such good condition that even a Ford can travel on an average of twentyeight to thirty miles an hour—which by the way we did.

Soon we arrived in the cherry-country. Every farm had a big cherry-orchard and everywhere we could see the busy pickers. We also saw the world’s largest cherry-farm; it contains about eight hundred acres, covered with about eighty thousand cherry-trees. One thing which struck us as most peculiar was the squatness of the trees which gave them a shrub-like appearance from a distance.

There is not a tree higher than seven or eight feet and all arc so trimmed that their branches shoot out in width more than in height and furthermore tlie trees begin to branch out only a few inches from tlie ground. This trimming greatly facilitates the picking of the cherries since all can easily be reached from the ground or from a small stepladder. This fact attracted our special attention, since we in our vicinity are accustomed to climb into the tree-tops to get at the best cherries.

It is interesting to know that this region is one of the greatest cherry-growing sections in the country. This season it took two hundred and fifty freight cars to carry the cherries from Sturgeon Bay to tlie main distributing stations, Chicago, Milwaukee and Min­ neapolis. Just why that country is especially adapted to the raising of cherries is as yet unknown. A few reasons, however, can be given to prove why orchards in general are a success in that country. Ow­ ing to its location Door county has a very equable climate. Upon looking at the map of Wisconsin you will see that Door county looks very much like a mighty thumb stretching into Lake Michigan from its western shore. The winds coming from Green Bay on the west and Lake Michigan on tlie east give it an equable climate. Then, too, it is easy to see why trees thrive better than grain in that region.

Door county is known to be extremely rocky, in most places only four or five inches of soil cover the rocks. Because of this fact very few plants can thrive there. The roots of grain plants cannot go deep enough to secure sufficient moisture to thrive. But with trees the matter is different; their roots force tlieir way thru tlie rocks and thus gain both sufficient moisture and a firm foothold. Very many of the trees have been planted into holes blasted into solid limestone rock and within five years, the trees planted into these holes, bear perfect cherries. What there is in limestone to aid their growth I do not know. The cherries themselves are of the very best kind. One grower offers a large reward to any person who can show him one single wormy cherry in his orchard.

Another peculiarity of that region may be mentioned一the al­ most total absence of birds of any kind. At least thus it appeared to me. Their absence may be explained by the fact that birds are very fond of eating cherries, and since they would eat them in great num­ bers, the orchard owners resort to an effective remedy一they shoot

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them. This is the only explanation that occured to me. But lest I go into ecstacy about the cherry-country, let me continue with our trip.

Shortly before noon we arrived at Sturgeon Bay, where we had to cross a toll-bridge, which crosses the bay near the point where Sturgeon Bay joins the canal leading to Lake Michigan. This was the first toll-bridge I had ever crossed. After buying a few things we went toward Fish Creek. We passed thru Egg Harbor and several other small towns along the Bay. We were beginning to get hungry and weary of the long way and planned to stop soon for dinner.

Every hill we crossed seemed higher than the one just passed and every succeeding vale more beautiful than the last, until finally we came to the top of the highest hill—it was the top of a bluff—where we saw before our eyes a scene of indescribable loveliness. It was our destination, Fish Creek Valley. From the high hill on which we were we could overlook the whole beautiful valley. We stopped to admire its beauty. At the foot of the hill was the small town, which consisted merely of summer-resort hotels and a few necessary busi­ ness places.

To the left of the town sparkled the silvery Green Bay dotted with many islands. Far towards the north a thickly wooded penin­ sula stretched out into tlic P»ay. The beauty of this view banished all thoughts of dinner, and for an hour we feasted continually on this scene of calm loveliness. It was with sincere regret that we came back to more material things and to thoughts of our long deferred meal.

We drove down into the valley and thru the town. At the eastern end we struck the entrance of the Peninsula State Park. This is a natural park and contains no less than thirty-seven hundred acres.

We drove into the Park and looked for a suitable camping place. \ye selected a little point reaching into a little bay on whose opposite side was situated the town.

Now all but I went about to prepare a hearty dinner. I was ex­ empt from all duties because I had driven the car all the way. In a fireplace which the state had built especially for the convenience of campers, father built a merry fire. In a short time mother and cousin Anna called for dinner. We were fortunate to have a table and a few comfortable benches. Our roof was (lie shade of several large trees. After dinner we spent a few hours in sleeping and bathing.

Then I proposed a ride to a very high blufC which lay west of the town, just along the shore. This bluff was of unusual height and we thouglit it would offer us a fair view of the valley and Green Bay. Our way led thru a very beautiful park, in which there were many large summer homes. We soon came to the end of our road and saw that we must climb to the topmost part of the bluff. When, after twenty minutes of hard toil, wo finally reached the highest point, we saw to our surprise that the bluff liad utterly bluffed us, for we could not look out on the water because of the density of the woods in

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which we were; and tlie tops of the trees which grew out of the sides of the cliff prevented us from looking over tlie bay.

Disappointed, but not discouraged we returned to our camping place, where Marcus was already eagerly awaiting our return.

Pointing to two men who were fishing at the creek, he told us that he had made himself acquainted with them. One of them was a painter, and the other was his father-in-law. Thru Marcus the paint­ er had invited us to come over in the evening to look at some of his paintings. We congratulated ourselves for leaving Marcus at the camp, for otherwise we probably should never have become ac­ quainted with this artist.

After supper I went to the little pier at which a big launch lay at anchor. I saw some men aboard and went over. After a short conver­ sation I found out that they too were on a vacation. They hailed from Chicago, and had made tlie trip on their launch. I soon per­ ceived from liis talk that he was preparing to take some people out for a pleasure trip tlie following day. llis charges were a dollar per passenger for a fifty mile round trip. Among the several stopping places for the trip, he mentioned a large island which lay about sev­ enteen miles from shore. “On that island，” lie said, “the party in­ tends to eat supper~which they are to take along with them. The island is one of nature’s wonders. On it there is a large lake; in that lake there is another island; and on the whole island about four hun­ dred deer run at large. The name of this island is Chamber's Isle,” Upon relating this wonder to my parents we unanimously decided to take in this trip, and accordingly notified the owner of the launch of our intentions.

At seven o’clock we went over lo the artist’s cottage, where we were received with a hearty welcome. He began to talk about the beauty of this valley and mentioned that he had painted some pic­ tures of the scenery. “In the course of all my travels，” lie continued, “I have never come to such an ideal spot as this. I have been in many other beautiful places. Not even the Rhine with all its mag­ nificence can offer a toruist and especially a painter such scenery.”

Later he told us that he had studied painting in many foreign schools and had lived in this country only for three years. He had studied in Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, Paris, Florence, Amsterdam, and in one American university, whose name I cannot now recall. He showed us some of his paintings which he made during his stay at the resort this summer. I never saw such real and beautiful reproductions of nature before. His intention is to remain there until very late this fall, when he shall return to Chicago, where he sells his pictures.

Later in the evening someone knocked at tlie door. The person who entered was a very well-known actor in tlie Pabst theatre in Milwau­ kee. He had come over from his cottage to spend the evening with the painter. His lively disposition and high ability to entertain greatly addded to the joy and pastime of the evening.

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ride; but the actor, who was very well informed about the park, told us not to take that boat ride, but to get into our Ford and drive all thru the Peninsula State Park, a ride of about seven miles. “Since you only intend to stay one more day,” was his opinion, “you can see much more by taking your car thru the Park, than by going on the bay, even if you do not see Chamber’s Isle.” He then told us other things of particular interest in the Park, and finally induced us to follow bis plan. And so indeed we did.

In the morning we were up at four, since none of us took a great liking to Mother Nature's bed of rocks and dried grass. After notify­ ing the owner of the launch of our intentions we started our trip thru the Park. It was now eight o’clock. Every now and then we stopped our car and either climbed a high bluff and overlooked the Bay with its numerous islands, or followed different foot trails to caves and springs and to the Bay shore. This was our last amuse­ ment. Let me take you along two of the stony trails which we fol­ lowed. One led to Eagle I>1 uIT Tower, the other to another bluff and tower whose name I cannot now recall. The latter trail was difficult to climb, but very short, and we soon arrived at the top of the high blulf and saw a large lookout tower, which we were told is forty-five feet high. From the top of this tower we could see far, far out into the Bay. Chamber’s Isle seemed but a mile away, and the fisherboats on the bay like corks floating on the water. Looking towards the north over the peninsula we saw nothing but forest and bluffs with here and there a small clearing. Looking towards the south, from where we came, we saw the small hotel town in the distance, at the foot of that mighty bluff. For about twenty minutes we sat on the tower, and the longer wc stayed the more we discerned in the distance. But our time was limited and we had to leave. Before we descended from the tower we all registered in a book which was en­ closed in a small box . In this book we saw many names of people from every part of the United States, who had come to Fish Creek.

To verify this statement let me tell you that we actually saw an auto­ mobile at Pish Creek from the state of New York; several from St. Louis, and very many from Chicago and Milwaukee and other places.

After descending from the tower we rode about two more miles along the very rugged and narrow Park road, and we soon came to tli*e Eagle Bluff trail which led to the tower. This bluff was much higher than the former one, and the tower was about thirty feet higher than the other. The scenery presented to our view from this high altitude was in no degree less than that from tlie other tower, yes even better. From this tower we could overlook the whole Peninsula Park toward, the southeast. We could also see Marinette across the bay from here, however, very fainttly. since we wanted to Now the forenoon was wellnigh spent,；and . get home that day, we started our trip back to Fish Creek before dinner. Because our time was limited we were forced to bid fare-

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well to Fish Creek and its wonders. With the farewell greeting “Auf Wiederselm” we ascended tlie high bluff and were soon out of —H. K.,，19. sight of the beautiful valley.

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iEittnrials D0N，T BE DISCOURAGED BY T1IE TIMES. For the last year or two we have been pressed by hard times.

Food has gone up to an unreasonable price: clothing, shoes, in fact everything has. The man who has fairly good wages can barely get along, not to mention the one who gets ordinary wages. And the war placed on top makes things almost unbearable. But not only the business men and laboring men notice these difficulties, schools and colleges are also pressed.

On entering this school year, we notice that the number of stu­ dents is somewhat smaller than it was last year. Especially this year, the anniversary of our church, we made rnany efforts to get students and still our number is smaller. This is is due to tlie times,

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for several students could not come back because they were drafted.

Then there are some who could not afford it. No doubt there were also some who intended to enter, but were unable because their older brothers were called to arms. As for us who have returned, the war is really beginning to dawn upon us. We see our fellow students, yes, class-mates called to enter the bloody turmoil, and then the idea comes that we might have to go soon. Then there are those among us who intend to enter the theological seminary after we graduate from college. If many of us are called, that will mean less men in the ministry later on and as a direct result of the present times, the church in the future will suffer.

All these facts truly are discouragements. But let’s not be dis­ couraged for “sweet are the uses of adversity.” There’s not a large and stately tree that has not withstood storms and the glaring hot sun before it became so. Especially we, as Christians, have hope and ought not be discouraged, for “tlie sufferings of this present time are not to be compared with (lie glory which shall be revealed in us.” Then let’s not be discouraged by the times, but “give glory alone to God,” who rules the world according to his will.

—G. A. Z., *18.

THE CHANGE IN THE RECITATION SCHEDULE. Among the many revisions awaiting the student of Northwest­ ern upon liis return this school-year, none was more gladly received than the change in the recitation schedule. The former schedule of thirty-six periods of forty-five minutes each has been reduced to thirty periods of fifty minutes each. This in itself would not amel­ iorate conditions very much and the student would have just as much to do on account of the longer periods. But these periods are all so arranged that two studies which require a good deal of preparation do not appear on the schedule on the same day. Instead of spending liis whole study period on two subjects, he now has ample time to do his duty towards all his studies. The smaller number of periods does not lessen the amount of work done, for in the longer period the subject in hand may be taught more thoroughly. A student will re­ member more of that which is gone thru thoroughly in one recita­ tion than he will of that which requires two, as was the case with the old schedule.

With the new schedule five minutes is allowed between each period to go from classroom to classroom. This gives the student ample time to get out of the building into the open air and take a few deep inhalations of fresh air, for the air is never as good in the classroom, no matter how well ventilated, because of the large num­ ber of students in it. He can even take a little exercise to arouse his nerves if lie lias any inclination of feeling sleepy.

—W. L.,，19.

FREE CONCERT. It has been the custom at N. W. C. to render two concerts a year in Watertown, one in the spring and another on the eve before com­ mencement day. But in the past year, owing to the difficulties en­ countered in getting directors for the different organizations, our spring concert was not rendered until May. On account of the little practice time between the two concerts, it was decided not to render a commencement concert last year. But the students did not care to have their instruments lying around idle and someone suggested rendering a free concert. The idea was not given a very warm re­ ception at first until someone suggested that it would be a good op­ portunity to show our appreciation to those who had attended our concerts in the past besides giving those who would like, but could not, abundant opportunity to hear our virtuosos in action. The idea met with the approval of everyone and practice was begun in earn­ est. Suffice it to say that when, on the day of the concert, the differ­ ent organizations had rendered their parts of the program and the concert had come to an end, a very well satisfied audience left our gymnasium, those who had been there before to former concerts classing it as the best they had heard, and those who had not had this privilege determined never to miss another.

DIRECTORY OF THE VARIOUS STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS. Senior Class.

Adolpli G. Zeisler, Pres.

Belno Lange, Vice-Pres.

Karl Kuske, Secy.-Treas.

Junior Class.

Wm. H. Lehmann, Pres.

Ewald Tacke, Vice-Pres.

Fred Brandt, Secy.-Treas.

Sophomore Class.

Kurt Timmel, Pres.

Erich Kupfer, Vice-Pres.

Max Stern, Secy.-Treas.

Military Band.

Erick Falk, ’19, Pres.

Wm. H. Lehmann,，19, Vice-Pres.

Tlieo. Uetzmann, ’21，Secy.

W. Sauer, ’21, Librarian.

Philomatliean Literary Society.

Edward Blakewell, ’18, Pres.

Ray Timmel, ’18, Vice-Pres.

Hans Koch,，19, Secy.-Treas.

Phi Gamma Rho Literary So­ ciety.

John Henning, ’18, Pres.

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Gilbert Stephen, Pres.

Wm. Holzhausen, Vice-Pres.

Theo. Uetzmann, Secy.-Treas.

Male Chorus.

Adolph G. Zeisler, ’18, Pres.

Ewald Tacke, ’19, Vice-Pres.

John Henning, ’18, Secy.-Treas G. Gieschen, ’19, Librarian.

Orchestra.

Raymond Timniel, ’18, Pres.

Gerald Hoenecke, ’IS, Vice-Pres.

Hans Koch, ’19, Secy.-Treas

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Wm. II. Lehmann, ’19, Vice Pres.

Ed. Duxe, ’18, Secy-Treas.

Athletics.

Football.

Karl Kuske, ’18, Captain.

W. T. Meier, ’18, Manager.

Wm. H. Lehmann, ’19, Asst. Mgr. Baseball.'

Belno Lange, ’18, Captain.

Military Company.

Edward Duxe, ’IS, Captain.

John Henning, ’IS, First Lieut.

Belno Lange, ’18, Second Lieut.

Al：S 1)E3I SEMINAR. Um zelin Ulir Morgens am 12. Sept, fand tier Eroffnungsgottesdienst des ncuen Studienjalires in der Aula statt. Prof. Schaller predigte tibei. Eph. 3, 7-11. Er wies nach dem Texte besonders darauf hin, class der I3eruf zum Prcdiger ein Beruf von Gott selbst sei, dass Gott uns auch die Krafl dazu verleilit, damit durch uns nach Seinem Vorsatz von der Welt her der unausforscliliche Reich turn Christi unci die mannigfiiltige Wcislicit Gotles an der Gemeine kun(l wiirde.

Sechzehn neue Schuler traten in (lie dritte Klasse ein. Von diesen sind alle, ausser zwei von Concordia, St. Paul unci zwei von Concordia, Milwaukee, Watertown er.

Herr Fritz Hoppe aus Platteville, ein ehemaliges Glied der Klas­ se ’15 in Watertown, machte am 14ten ein kurzen Abstecher.

Ebenso besuchten uns die Pastoren Keibel und I-Iuth am 14ten resp. und 17ten. Jener blieb sogar zum Abendbrot.

Audi ein Miinnerclior ist dieses Jalir ins Leben gerufen worden.

Die Uebungen werden sich wohl an die Vorlesungen iiber Kunst, die Prof. Kohler am Dienstag Abend halt, anscliliessen. Die meisten Stimmen sind sclion gepriift worden und es soil sich merkwurdigerweise herausgestellt haben, dass die Bewohner, unseres sog, zoologisclien Gartens die grosste Fiihigkeit, Naturlaute jeder Art liervorzubringen, besitzen.

Gleich am zweiten Tag versammelte sicli der Coetus um die Beamten des ersten Tertials zu wiihlen. Paul Lutzke wurde als Prases, Martin Weliausen als V. Prases, M. Nomraensen als Sekretar und R. Jahnke als Scliatzmeister erwiihlt. Die Wahl der eigentlich liohen Aemter folgte erst etliche Tage spater im Esssaal, indem Gustav Schlegel zum offiziellen Volllmond, Ed. Hahn zur Prasidentin des Prauenvereins erhoben wurden. »

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Die folgenden Pastoren verheiratheten sicli wahrend der Sommerferien: Pastor Carl Schweppe mit Fr. Flora Oetting aus St. James, Minn.; Pastor Wm. I-Iartwig mit Fr. Elsie Ebert aus Watertown ;Pastor Wm. Lueckel mit Fr. Gertrude Schumann aus Stur­ geon Bay; Pastor A. Maas mit Fr. E. Neumann aus Chicago; Pastor Hillmer mit Fr. F. Wietzke aus Wausau; Pastor Wm. Beitz mit Fr. Gertrude Kircliner aus Hustisford; Pastor Gustav Fischer mit Fr. Hilda Harders, aus Miami, Ariz. Unsere Gluckswunsche!

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FOOTBALL. Again we are training for the football season. A goodly num­ ber of candidates answered the call of the captain. We have lost many of last year，s regulars through graduation and also through the draft. No longer will the following don the leather suits for Northwestern: Gruendemann, Binhammer, Gutzke, Naumann, Bodamer, Sclimelzer, W. and A. Retzlaff. Through the draft we have lost Vohs and Kuske. True, it is hard to part with these men, but the material out on the field this fall is not altogether green. We'll have a team this year as well as others. The most difficult problem this year is that of scheduling games. Most of the colleges don't start until October and apparently they will abolish football and take up intensive military drill instead. The following games have been scheduled: Beloit at Beloit—Oct. 6.

Milwaukee Normal at Watertown—Oct. 13.

Whitewater Normal at Watertown—Oct. 20.

Ripon at Ripon—Nov. 10.

—G. A. Z.,，18.

Jf. W. C. MILITARY NOTES. 一Whenever we pick up a newspaper nowadays, we read that many of the colleges or rather most of them have adopted intensive military training. This is to show their patriotism. Accordingly Northwestern lias been patriotic since 1892, when a mlitary company was organized by Mr. Schauer. Since then military drill has always been a requirement in our physical culture course.

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—At the time of organizing, the officers were appointed and promoted according to seniority. Within the last year this system was changed and now the company is officered by students appoint­ ed according to merit.

—Last summer, during the vacation, Co. E of Watertown, a newly organized militia, borowed our guns to learn the rudiments of military drill.

—Last year an attempt was made to buy new guns from the government, but all the guns available were needed by the govern­ ment, so we have to use the old guns until new ones can be had.

—The names of the officers: E. Duxe, ’18, Captain.

J. Henning, ’18, 1st Lieutenant.

B. Lange, '18, 2nd Lieutenant.

At the time of going to press all the sergeants and corporals had not been appointed, but the ranks which they held last year are as follows: R. Timmel, ’18, K. Sievert, ’19，F. Brandt, ’19，sergeants; G. Press, ’20, M. Stern, ’20, E. Tacke, ’19, K. Timmcl, ’20, corporals.

—G. A. Z., *18.

PRESIDENT WILSON ADVOCATES THE CONTINUANCE OF SCHOOL A.M) COLLEGE ATHLETIC SPORTS. President Wilson, on May 22, 1917, said: I hope that sports will be continued * * * as a real contriFor our young men must be bution to the national defense made physically fit and exhibit the vigor and alertness we are proud to believe to be characteristic of our young men. I would be sincere­ ly sorry to see the men and boys in our colleges and schools give up their athletic sports, and I hope that the course of college and school sports will be continued so far as possible.”

BLUE A1ND GOLD. The “Blue and Gold’’ was the first exchange that arrived after our vacation and it was the first one whose pagos we reviewed.

We were, however, greatly surprised at it; for tlie paper con-

THE BLACK AISD RED. . -^r • H - d:--,• tained but one literary article, the one entitled “A Letter from Chi­ cago to New York.” The remaining part of the issue was devot ed to class-histories and college-notes.

You may attempt to justify yourself by saying that the attend­ ance at your school is small, but your students are undoubtedly able to furnish you with at least two literary articles for each issue.

The college-notes and class-histories are not by far what could be expected. We do not wish to say that you cannot do better work, but we, nevertheless, hope to see some progress in the following is­ sues of your paper.

The only three columns that were of any value were the Athlet­ ics, Locals and Personals, and Exchanges. “Athletics” showed that Luther Institute is well represented in such line of work, and that you can accomplish something. “Locals and Personals” contains some good humor. We would, however, advise that your “Ex­ changes” were treated more extensively, so that, the papers you re­ view could derive some benefit from it. The Exchange column exists for the purpose of pointing out the errors in the articles, and, oil the other hand, to comment on the good parts.

The cover-design on your paper was plain and for this reason pleased us. Yet the advertisement on the back was out of place and spoiled the appearance of the cover.

To conclude we wish to say this: Don’t get discouraged or even negligent, but continue in diligent work, and you will surely have good results.

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On glimpsing at the Luther College Visitor for the month of June we noticed that it also lacks literary material as the preceding college paper. We cannot see the reason for this, since the one article your paper contains is good, and we assume that your college possesses a few good authors as the one of this article.

The name given it was the “Valedictory•” No one will doubt that this selection deserves great praise. The reader of this article will derive great benefit from it, since not only the way of bringing out the writer’s views, but also liis use of the language is good. Articles of this kind are enjoyable to the reader.

The remaining little paragraphs were merely college-notes.

As we have said before, your paper contains too little literary material; but that was not the only thing missing. For a joke col­ umn, an editorial column and an exchange column arc also of great importance in a paper, and they, too, would help to raise the stand­ ard of the “Visitor.”

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一Our beloved dinner-bell has again called the students from their vacational enjoyments. A goodly number have returned to their studies. The collegiate department loses three by reason of the draft, namely: K. Kuske, L. Vohs and E. Blakewcll, all of the class of ’18.

—The preparatory department welcomes several new additions, while the collegiate department has received the following augment­ ation :Erich La Maine, Otto Eckert, Walter I-Iellmann, Herman Scherf, and Henry Albrecht, sophomores; Brinkmann and Radloff, freshmen.

—Palmer Janke, ’19, who formerly roomed in town, is now mak­ ing his home in the dormitory.

—Fred Koelber, Prep., of Kenosha, who entered the Preparatory department this fall was called home on Sept. 7 by tlic sudden illness of his father.

—“Pealy” Frochlke stopped off here on his way home from Red Wing, where he paid “Bar” Vollmers a visit. 一W. Ziemer, formerly of the class of ’20, paid his respects to his former classmates on Sept. 5-6.

—The tutorial chairs are being filled this year by Messrs. Fenske, Manteufel and Kehrberg, all of the class of ’14. 一Walter Schujahn, who was a member of the preparatory departmen last year, is now attending school in Stanton, Virginia.

—Samuel Herrmann,，18, the editor-in-cliief of this publication, is attending the Seminary at St. Louis, Mo. —Dr. E. I-I. Weber of Lake Mills paid Theo. Voges, ’20, a visit on Thursday, Sept. 6.

—Be it known that Giggle-Gosh is in Smoky’s room, number 17, first floor.

—Mrs. Chas. Spilman accompanied her son, Carl, *20, to school on Tuesday, Sept. 4. She returned Sept. 7. 一M. F. Stern, ’20, travelled to Cooney on Wednesday, Sept. 5, where he visited liis brother, who is employed at the condensory there.

—P. Kaiser, ex-’21，paid his friends a visit on Thursday, Sept. 6, previous to his entry in the Great Lakes naval training station. *一Theo. Broitzmann, ac-’17, is taking a speci al post-graduate course this year. 一Walter Klingmann, ’20, discontinued his studies here on Sept. 8.

He entered the sophomore class at the University of Michigan Sept. 24.

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COED NOTES. —On September 5tli we welcomed many bright looking coeds; the enrollment was eleven, three of whom are taking the classical course, and the remaining eight the commercial course. Our number is now eighteen. 一Misses Dorothy and Margaret Ott, Prep., returned Sept. 7 after a visit at Milwaukee.

—Miss Helen Fischer visited her paternal home at Oconomowoc, Sunday, Sept. 9.

• 一Miss Adela Doering of Waterloo, spent Saturday, Sept. S, with Miss Esther Detert.

—II. D.

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©mmtms MUE]STSTEKBEKG,S LAST BOOK.

In the form of letters to a friend in Germany which brings home to the reader in a warm and living way the irrestible hopefulness and idealism of the author, Hugo Miinsterbcrg has given us his last message. It is his vision of a better To-morrow when the guns of to­ day will be silenced—the to-inorrow not only of Europe emerging from the clutch of war, but of America which he believes indispens­ able in the reorganization of the western world. With the keen, dispassionate glance of the psychologist the author has seen in tlie world conflict of ideals conditioned by history and not necessarily either absolutely good or perfectly bad. With the same objective eye he has watched in America old national ideals give way to new ones.

But Hugo Munsterberg has looked on the world not only with tlie sharp glance of the scientist, but with the tolerant insiglit of a philosopher who in the chaos before him can discern the cornerstone for a better reconstruction and, lastly, with the inspired vision of the prophet who, before his death, beheld the To-morrow which, per­ haps is dawning today.-—American Weekly.

• COINSUMPTION A]ND GEISIUS. The following are some of the great men and women of letters who have died from tuberculosis: John Milton, John Locke, Alex­ ander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Goethe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Lanier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol­ taire, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, Immanuel Kant, Rousseau, B. P. Roe and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Among other great men who are reported to have died of tuberculosis may be mentioned Raphael, Von Weber, Chopin, Nevin, Calvin, Cicero and Cecil Rhodes.

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THE BLACK AND BED. HORSE MEAT.

Except for the regard most people have for the horse, there is really no reason why his flesh should not be utilized, by those who eat meat, for human food, any more than the flesh of other animals.

Indeed the provisions of the Sanitary Code of New York City now legalize its sale for tliat purpose. It must never be forgotten, how­ ever, that the value of a healthy horse is so great that, unless he is killed because of some accident which has rendered him useless, he would practically never be destroyed for food. The vast majority of the horses whose flesh is, or would be put on sale, would be old and worn out and diseased animals. In New York a man dealing in horse­ flesh was discovered leading a glandered horse to a slaughtering es­ tablishment. We doubt if many Americans will ever become eaters of horseflesh, first, because the idea is so foreign a one to them, and, second, because they know that few such animals in good health would ever be sacrificed for food. On the other hand multitudes are learning that the less meat they eat the better they feel, and for con­ scientious reasons an increasing number are becoming vegetarians.

—Our Dumb Animals.

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一Mrs. Spindark: Why are children so much worse than they were years ago?

Mrs. Shakestick: I attribute it to the improved method of building.

Mrs. Spindark: How so?

Mrs. Shakestick: Shingles are scarce, and you can’t spank a boy with a tin roof. 一Buck: Wie heisst “suit-case” auf Deutsch?

Gentz: Suitkasus. 一Red: I saw a bulldog commit suicide the other day.

Louis: No, that’s impossible.

Red: Sure, he took liis tail in his mouth and said, “I-Iere is my end.”

—Dad: We shall have no football here this year.

Dave (indignantly) : Why not?

Dad: Footballs are too high; the boys kicked them too high last year. 一Rex: I can prove to you tliat you are a faker, Kockie.

Kockie: No, you can’t.

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Rex: You wear athletic underwear and don’t take any exercise. 一Someone: When a fellow has a bite, why does he scratch it?

Smoky: Because lie’s the only one who knows where it itches. 一Bekanntlich gibt es in Deutschland jezt sogenannte fleischlose Tage. An einem solchen Tage wurde Johann Nimmersalt dabei ertappt, dass er eine schone rosige Sommerwurst verzehrte. Als Strafe dafuer sollte er einem Wagen Holz in den Keller des Gereiclitshausea fahren.

Johann spannte gleich den naclisten Tag seine Pferde an und fuhr einen Wagen voll Sagemehl liin und schaufelte es in den Keller des Gerichtshauses.

“Was hat dies zu bedeuten?” fuhr ein Beamter ihn an. Du sollest Holz bringen und niclit Sagenmelil.” *'Nur kalt Blut,” erwiderte Johann, “Wenn Wurst Fleisch ist, dann ist Sagenmehl auch Holz.”

—Kurt: Were there any jokes cracked on the football field?

Tanta: Sure, Leonidas’s head was cracked.

—Press: Home we shock our oats.

Schlitz: That’s nothing, here we shock our eggs.

Press: How? Schlitz: Cook with electricity.

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New not only because they’ve just been made, but because in them are ideas that are new.

They're invigorating and inspiring—Well attuned to the spirit of the moment, and well adapted to the needs of the season.

We're not going to enumerate styles here; you can't appreciate them in print nearly so well as you could be­ fore the mirror. And the mirror is here!

We do mean to "emphasize quality because quality is ..the outetanding virtue in every detail of Kuppenheimer Clothes. Arid -this lsn*t true of all clothes this season, They're a bigger money's worth than you can find anywhere today. As usual—$20.00 to $28,00

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CONmSKIi MILK. The process of making condensed milk was contrived by an American, Gail Borden, and patented in 1S56. By his process milk was concentrated by heating in a partial vacuum at a low degree of [heat. Borden’s principle is still employed in the manufacture of 丨 condensed milk, but other processes are used in addition to his.

Milk may be condensed into a powder or left in a liquid state; the liquid is, however, the easier to manufacture and is used to a greater extent in the United States and Europe.

In 1909 the United States census reported the production of condensed milk at nearly half a billion pounds, valued at $33,563,129. Since 1909 the number of condenseries in the United States, New Zealand, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Japan has grown enormously. Every condensery pays by test, that is, the farmer is paid for the amount of total solids found in his milk. Creameries also pay by test; but since a condensery uses more of the milk, it can afford to pay the farmers better. We can therefore see why the creameries are gradually going out of existence.

A modern condensery ise divided into seven departments: the porch, the condensing-room, the filling and capping-room, the sterilizing-room, the heat-rooms, the labeling-room, and the storageroom.

The porch is a small room where the milk is taken in as it is un­ loaded by the farmers and the truck-drivers. The haulers set the cans upon a revolving, wheel-shaped apparatus, which carries the

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cans to the “dumpers,” as the men are called that empty the cans.

The pofch foreman opens the cans and thoroughly stirs the milk with a plunger, so that the tester, who stands next to the foreman, may sample each farmer’s milk and take an alcohol test of it, which •he performs by putting a few drops of milk into a small test tube containing a little alcohol. The tube is shaken a moment, and ijf> the solution curdles very much, the milk is sour. In that case the farmer is obliged to take his milk home again. Occassionally a sediment test is taken to determine the amount of money the cow-yard is yielding the farmer. This test is performed by forcing a quart of milk through a small cotton disc on which every bit of dust and grease, no matter how small, is plainly visible. These discs are frequently sent to the respective fanners as an insinuation that he must take greater pains in preserving his milk. After the cans are emptied and the milk is weighed, it flows through a large pipe into the condensing department, where it is boiled down to a little less than half of the original amount. The head condenser takes good care that the milk is not condensed too much, for if this should happpen it must first be diluted with milk and then condensed again. In the condensing-rooms there are sev­ eral large ammonium coolers by means of which the milk is cooled; and at least two large water pumps, which are constantly pumping water into and through the condensing room, whereby all refuse is carried away.

Now we come to the filling and capping-department. Empty quart cans roll on iron tracks into the filling room from the can storage bins and take ail upright position in the filling machine.

The filling machine resembles a round table with an iron band fast­ ened around the upper edge of it and extending about six inches above the surface of the table. A capping device is attached to one side of the table. Tubes fastened to a pipe which hangs above the table fit tightly to the can holes. The milk runs througli these small tubes into the cans and when a can is full the tiny hole about one eighth of an incli in diameter, is soldered shut. These machines each fill and cap about one hundred and twenty cans per minute and are so perfected that the inspectors find but few cans that are under weight and very few cap leaks. As soon as the cans leave the filler they are rolled through mixed acids, which eats away the particles of dust and grease that happen to be on the cans and at tlie same time hardens the solder.

The milk gets its next treatment in the sterilizing room, the most important department in the plant, for here the greatest care must be taken of the milk. If t^ie milk should be boiled too long, it could not be shipped, which means a large loss to the company. The cans roll upon a slide from where they are taken up, eight at a time, and set into iron trays. This work is called “flopping tails” and if small cans are being treated “flopping babies.” The small ca ns are called “babies” and the quart-sized cans are called “tails,” also the

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card-board boxes into which the cans are packed are termed “tails” and “babies.” Every can is then stamped, so that a can may be traced back in case of short weight or leaks, for which the inspector at the filing machine is responsible. The trays are placed into large iron cages, and these are pushed into the steam boilers whose doors are tightly fastened so that the hot steam may not escape. One cage of cans is steamed for a few minutes, after which cold water is turned on to cool the cans. Sometimes the milk remains grainy, or lumpy, after it has been sterilized and must then be shaken in a contrivance called the shaker. A few violent shakes will dissolve the lumps.

From the shaker the cans are trucked into the heat rooms where for two days the canned milk remains in the heat, and at the end of this period each can is tested. The floors of the heat rooms are per­ forated so that the heat from the pipes that run through underneath may get at the cans more easily. The test is performed by shaking the cans. If the tester hears a clear ringing sound when shaking a can, and if neither the bottom nor the top bulges, and if the can is not under weight, it is “O. K.ed” by the head-tester. An experienced tester can test fifteen to eighteen sterilizers, or about 23,000 cans a day; and if testing “babies,” about ten sterilizers or almost 25,000 cans.

The department into which the cans are trucked from the heat rooms is the shipping department. The only machines found here are the labelers,—tall and baby labelers. The man that places the cans into the labeler is called the feeder; the one that takes the cans off after they are labeled and packs them into card-board boxes is called the boxer; and the person that pastes the covers of the cardboxes down after they are filled is called the gluer. If a strong man is feeding a tall labeler as many as 95,000 cans may be labeled in a day. In case refrigerator-cars are at hand the boxes are immediately trucked into them; otherwise, the boxes are trucked into the storage-room until shipping-time.

These are the various processes through which the milk passes at all the condenseries where it is produced as a liquid. The con­ densed milk that the consumer buys is just as sanitary and wholesome as is the milk he purchases from his local milkman; for in every department of the large condenseries a foreman sees to it that his room is kept perfectly clean. In the sterilizing and filling-de­ partments and on the porch cold water is sprinkled over the cement floors in order to keep the rooms cool and to lay the dust. Smoking, chewing tobacco, and especially spitting are strictl forbidden in the plants. , Most of the condensed milk manufactured in the United States is shipped to our large cities, such as St. Louis, New York, and Chi­ cago, where as a rule ordinary milk would spoil in a short time. A great amount of condensed milk is used by our army and navy and a still larger amount is exported at present to foreign countries, es­ pecially to England. 一R. E. T” ’18，

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Welch ein kpstliches Ding ist es doch um das lutherisclie Kirchenlied! Wir konnen uns kaum einen unsercr Gottcsdienstc vorstellen, ohne Gemeinde gesang. Wie lierrlich hort cs sich an, wcnn einen Gemeinde die grossen Taten Gottes ruhmt unci preist! Uml besonders unsere lutherische Kirche kann sich mit Recht einer grossen Fulle herrlicher Lieder riihmen. Dies Gut liaben wir dem grossen Reformator, Dr. Martin Luther zu verdanken. Er ist der Vater des evangeliscli-lutlierisclien Kirclieiiliecles.

Wie aber kam Lutlier dazu, Kirchenlieder zu dichten? Es hing mit dem Werke der Reformation zusammen. Seitdem Luther die 95 Thesen an die Schlosskirche zu Wittenberg geschlagcn hatte, waren aller Augen auf ilin gerichtet. Er hatte seinen Dcutsclieii # die Bibel in ilire eigene Sprache ubersetzt, da er crkannte wie vcrderbt die Kirche war, und wie die Glieder der Kirchc untcrdriickt und getauscht waren. Er hatte im Sinn, den offenllichen Gott.esdienst umzugcstalten. Die Messe und aller sonstige Wusl der romischen Kirche musste abgeschafft werden, dagegon sollte das Wort Gottes rein und lauter gepredigt, und etwas eingofiilirt werden, class der Kirclie zur Erbauung diene. Luther sail dies alles ein, und schon im Jahre 1523 machte er in Wittenberg einen An fang, den Gottesdienst umzugestalten. Er wollte auch den Gemeinclegesang einfiihren, damit die Gemeinde sich rege am Gottesdienst beteilige.

Da nun keine Lieder vorhanden waren, die man liiitte singen konnen, so mussten Lieder gedichtet werden. Dies war keine Lcichtigkeit, sondern viel Ausdauer und Geduld wav notig ehe diese Lieder vollendet wurden. Dies alles aber schreckte Luther nicht ab, sondern er machte sich nun desto fleissiger ans Werk fur die lutherische Kirche zu dichten. Und wer war damals mehr befiihigt zum Liederdichten als gerade Luther?

Er hatte namlich eine ganz hervorragende poetische Begabung, wie schon aus seiner Bibelubersetzung liervorgelit. Nie liiitte er die Bibel in schoner, v/ohlklingender Sprache iibersetzen konnen, wenn er nicht poetisch angelegt gewesen ware. Wie gliicklich war daher aucli sein Griff, als er im Jahre 1523 sein erstes Lied <4Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied,” dichtete. Er verfasste dies Lied, als er mit der Uebersetzung der Psalmen beschiiftigt war. Ferner diclitete er noch im selben Jahre das Lied “Nun freut eucli, lieben Chris­ ten g’mein!” Das deutsche Volk war sehr begeistert fiir diese Lie• der. Und wie schon muss es gewesen sein, in der Landesspraclie zu singen. Wohl mancher hat ein Gebet fur Luther gen Himmel gesandt.

Noch im selben Jahr dichtete er die Lieder: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir,dem 130. Psalm entnommen, und Ach Gott vom Himmel, sieh darein! nach dem 12. Psalm. Im foigenden Jahre 1524, dichtete er noch mehr Lieder, z. B.: Es wollt uns Gott gniidig sein, War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, und andere.

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Er diclitete noch im selben Jahre, 16 andere Lieder. Dies Jahr was das fruchtbarste seiner Dichtung. Damals entstanden auch die heniichen Lieder “Koinm heilger Geist, Herre Gott,” “Wir glauben all* an einen Gott,” “Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ!” und an­ dere melir. Aber von dieser Zeit an dichtete Luther weniger, da er wahrscheinlich zu viel andere Arbeit hatte. Er dichtete aber etwas noch weitere 14 Gesiinge, darunter sein grossartlges Triumphlied: Ein feste Burg ist miser Gott! Dies Lied wird nicht nur von uns Lutheranern gesungen, sondern auch von vielen anderen, die freilich nicht wissen, was sie eigentlich an dem herrlichen Liede liaben. Im Jahre 1527 dichtete Luther das schone Weihnachtslied “Vom I-Iimmel lioch (la komm ich her,” im Jahre 1547 Vater unser im Hiinmelreich.”

Luther hat im ganzen 37 Lieder verfasst. Er liat fruchtbarere Dichter gegeben. Aber wenn man bedenkt, welclie Arbeit Luther Zll bewiiltigen hatte, muss man sich wahrlich wundern, wie der Mann liberha^ipt zum Dichten Zeit gefunden hat. Man darf auch niclit mil. auf die Zahl der Lieder selien, obwolil 37 Lieder keine kleine Zahl ist. Und was Lutlier gediclitet hat, das ist fur uns von B. J. W.，18. grosstem Werte.

TOM AS 1IAWKSIIAW. “Zoimds! what was that?” said Tom Swift, as something struck him in the face and dropped into the palm of the hand that he had just drawn up to suppress a yawn, as lie was walking home from the office of the Council of Defence, where lie had landed a position as clerk.

“Wliy, it’s round like a meteor. But it can’t be a meteor, for they are heavier on account of the large amount of metal they contain.

I’ll peruse it, peradventure there’s metal in it for me. Pooh-pooli, a row of numbers, the rest is indistinct, but no—here’s a name— Mercy me!—Kaiser, Wilhelm―wliat can it mean? Are there alien enemies in the vicinity? 1*11 mark the place it came from. ’T may be the rendezvous of some of the Kaiser’s, adherents planning destruc­ tion on this innocent neighborhood. The note must be a code mes­ sage to one of their confidants. Alia! 1 have it. I yawned as I passed the place and the note struck me in the face. I’ll warant it’s one their foxy signals. But 1，11 fool them, I will—those pesky cowards.

They’ve met their match in me.

“Oil what a fool I am making of myself standing here and read­ ing this note. They’ll realize their mistake and I’ll have an early berth for Hades. Me for the boarding-house and supper. I’ll take a closer view of the paper after I’ve heard the news of the day from mine host and satiated my hunger.

A brisk walk of ten minutes brought Tom to liis boarding-house where mine host was already anxiously awaiting liis approach.

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“You，re twenty minutes late, Tom. Had a little extra work, did you, my lad? I put your victuals in the warming oven as you weren’t here at mess time, but they’ll be ready for you in a minute. Just take your old seat, I’ll be there in no tme. It’s uncommon nasty when a feller’s forced to work overtime. Just take your place, Tom; your victuals will beat you there and get cold again if you keep standing there like a stunned man all the time. Tom actually was, what the landlord said,—stunned. To think that he had stood there reading that code twenty minutes. “If I fail ’twill be my own fault. I’ll hurry my supper and get to my room.”

His mind made up, Tom seated himself at his accustomed place in the mess room and ate with such voracity that even his co-mates of tlie hotel were attracted by his changed demeanor. “There’s some­ thing in the wind,” said Dick Keefe, Tom’s bosom companion, He isn’t as garrulous as lie used to be,” remarked John Steiner, “wonder wliat the trouble is?” In fact all present were astonished, for hither­ to Tom liad been their medium of hilarity. He always had fresh news or a new joke to tell.

Dick Keefe could not undergo the pain of the continued silence and broke the calm by addressing his hitherto hilarious comrade.

“By the way, Tom, did you hear about the German spy Constable Hodges collared to-day? I was in the posse that Hodges organized to get the fellow and, I being a little more educated than the rest, he detailed me to do a little writing for him. We examined the prisoner.

I’d never a thought he was a spy. Such an honest looking, handsome and compliant young mail. Hodges searched his pockets and found a small slip of paper with numbers on it, a code he called it, which he would hand over to the district attorney.”

By this time Tom had finished eating and beckoning Dick, tlie two went to the former’s room. After they had securely closed the door and seated themselves, Tom immediately broke the ice by questioning Dick in regard to the code found on Hodge，s prisoner.

“Do you remember, he said, any of the numbers of that code, Dick, or if they were any names on it?”

“I had a pretty good look at tlie thing, but didn’t pay any •spec­ ial attention to the numbers, as I didn't know the code. But there 、were no names on it, I’m sure,” asssured Dick, **why, what makes you ask? Did you hear anything at the office?”

“No,” said Tom, “but I too have come into possession of what looks to me like a code-message. I know I can trust you, so I’ll show it to you. Here it is. See that name at the bottom?”

“Giminy, you’re in luck, Tom. That must be some high-class gang that uses that. The one Hodges has is handwritten. This was evidently typewritten or printed. Where is the rest of it? I see the edge is torn.”

“That’s the shape it was in when I got it,” said Tomand told in a few hurried words how he had become the owner of the strange paper.

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“You say it struck you in the face as you passed a certain Well, the only reason I can ascribe house?” “Yes,” said Tom. for the torn edge is,” said Dick after careful and prolonged cogita­ tion, “that one man was typewriting this message and another was watching for the person for whom it was intended. The latter evi­ dently misrecognized you and notified the man at the typewriter.

The typist then quickly tore the sheet out of the machine, rolled it up and threw it out as you passed. Too bad you didn’t get the rest of it.”

“You’ve struck the nail on the head, Dick,” iterated Tom, “I’m glad I called you up. But now to get the rest of the message. There can be no sense in this even if it were deciphered.”

Like Sisyphus, they had come to the top of the hill, only to be­ gin over again. How to get the remainder of that paper was the question before them now. “We can’t ask them for it,” pined Dick.

“No, that we can’t,” Tom replied, “but we can use force. Let’s round up the gang and with a couple of revolvers we can soon bring the That’s a go,” said whole bunch of trcasoners down to the jail.

Dick.

Leaving the hotel, Tom and Dick soon found the gang at the old hangout, the Market Square. Only a few words were necessary to make them aware of what was before them. Those who owned pistols went to fetch them, while the rest proceeded to the common meeting place, a block from the house, wherein dwelled the soon-tobe inhabitants of the county jail. Tom had wasted too much time al­ ready, so it was decided to act at once.

When the entire number was present, they approached the house on tiptoe, some taking to the windows, others to the trees, while Tom and Dick rapped on the door of the house, their guns before them. *Twas some time before a surprised woman and two children looked into two gun barrels. In her fright the good woman, who was a widow with two children, slammed the door shut in their faces.

This was too much for Tom and Dick and they burst into the room.

At the sight of Tom, both children, boys of seven and ten, ran to their mother crying bitterly and exclaiming, “That’s him, ma, that’s him. Oh don’t let him hurt us. We won’t do it again.”

The two would-be-defenders of the peace were struck and would probably have reeled over had not the widow asked them who they were and what they wanted. "Who we are,” vociferated Tom. “Do you recognize this,” and he put the code under her eyes. “I’ve come to get the rest of it.” Before she could answer, one of the lads ran into the other room and soon returned with a torn telephone direct­ ory.

“Here it is, sir,” lie said. “That paper you have was one of the spitballs that I made from the old telephone book and blew at you with my corn-blower as you passed before supper to-day. I didn’t mean it though, mister, honest I didn’t.

Tom was stupefied. Yes, there was the page it had been torn

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from. He fitted the torn pieces and read, 563SX 508 Main Street Meat Market Kaiser，Wilhelm In the meantime Dick, seeing the joke, called in the rest of the fellows. ‘Tin a fool,” said Tom. “Yes,” said the rest and enjoyed a hearty laugli at Tom’s expense.

“Wait till we spread this, eh fellows,” said the gang-leader. Hut Tom was up to the emergency. “I’ll tell you what fellows,” lie said.

“I think you’re hungry. If you agree to keep this affair to yourselves, I，ll foot the feed bill.” “Agreed,” said the rest.

W. L„，19.

Tom walks home by a different way now.

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To-day when one reads or hears opinions expressed on the outcome and results of present events, and especially when one sees tlie diversity of opinions, it is hard to say which one is right. Which one should we accept? We can’t simply take these ideas for granted

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without any further thought. If we are put into this dubious posi­ tion, it would probably be rather appropriate to turn back to the pages of history. If we do, we shall notice that events do not al­ ways turn out as they were intended to do. Ends are accomplished that were never contemplated.

When Frederick William I. gave his life to the internal organi­ zation of his country, he never knew or thought his efforts would lead to the highly centralized Prussian administration of to-day, two centuries later. When Luther protested against Tetzel, he did is as a good son of the Church. He wanted to bring out the truth. 1-Ie had not the remotest idea of separating from the Church. But what was the result! By the year 1520 there was such a striking difference between his doctrines and those of the Roman Catholic Church that lie was obliged to take an independent course. And if Luther were living today to take part in the four hundredth anniversary of the Reformation, which we are now celebrating; if he could see how his doctrines went through all the lands,—he would stand with opened eyes and mouth and say: This is no thought of mine. Lin­ coln, when the South seceded, said: I have no thought directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists; blit he said further: No state on its own mere mo­ tion can lawfully get out of the Union. His object was to preserve the Union. Nevertheless, after the war slavery was abolished in the Union. When Columbus discovered America, he very likely was surprised also, for that was not his intention.

In this manner we can find innumerable examples in history that would induce us to refrain from making too many predictions.

We see that only years after events took place the results were established. In all of them we notice that another power besides the human mind was working. So with the events of the present clay.

We cannot determine their outcome. Try hard as we may to fathom the outcome, we must inevitably arrive at tlie conclusion: G. A. Z.，，1S. Man proposes, but God disposes.

ATTENTION, STUDENTS. When one reads the Black and Red regularly, he will notice that the September number and especially the first number that a new staff sends out are considerably smaller than the others. One also notices that most of the articles in these numbers and many in the other numbers are written by the staff members. This certainly not acting in accordance with the statement on the editorial page, “Tlie Black and Red is published by the students of Northwestern Col­ lege.” This statement gives the students credit for something that they are not doing.

Why should others call our attention to this fact? Some time

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ago one of our exchanges suggested that the Black and Red be called W. B.，s Magazine or some similar name, because most of the articles in the number criticized were signed W. B. A suggestion of this kind ought to arouse some of our students and induce them to see to it that nothing similar occurs again. The above-mentioned exchange thought that the students lacked interest in their college paper, but some one else may have thought that we lacked brains to contribute articles. Which is right? Do the students lack interest or are they unable to make the Black and Red what it ought to be?

Surely there are more students at Northwestern than the eight staff members.

Again it is a burden to the staff. An editor that must ask three or four different students before he gets one article will become dis­ couraged and. either write articles himself or become indifferent as to the size or contents of the Black and Red. The staff members are students also and have tlieir studies as well as the rest of us. Now if we, dear fellow students, do not help them with their Black and Red work, how can they do justice to their studies? Simply because they were elected staff members does not exempt them from their studies.

Now, dear student, think this over. Did you do your part for the Black and Red? Did you you contribute one or more articles? Did you help any of the editors with their work? If you have not done this, it is high time to do so. Make use of your next spare minutes and write an article, so that when the editor calls on you for a con­ tribution, you need not put him off until next time. Remember that you are not working for the staff or for one member of tlie staff, but for your own college paper. You are showing your qualities and your college spirit in your attitude toward the Black and Red. 一I am not a staff member.一

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ORCHESTRA JOURNEYS TO WATERLOO. Tuesday, Sept. 25, was a busy day for the members of the Ladies Aid Society of the German Lutheran church at Waterloo.

For weeks they had been planning a farewell celebration in honor of their departing pastor, the Rev. M. Pankow. No pains were spared to make the affair successful. Friend, relative and fellow pastor from far and near joined hands in inestimable appreciation of the pastor’s good work during his stay in Waterloo, at the same time expressing heartfelt regret at the thought of his leaving.

Promptly at seven o’clock the members of the pastor’s congre­ gation, his close friends, fellow pastors of the vicinity, and the

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greater part of the townfolk, who had come to revere the good man during his long stay there, were gathered together in the capacious auditorium of Fireman’s Park. For the whole affair was to be a sur­ prise on the noble pastor.

And a surprise it was indeed. The good man, who had been lured away from his home per auto, was bereft of all speech when he found himself suddenly gazing into the loving eyes of several hundred friends and kin giving three “Lebe-hochs” for their be­ loved pastor. After the toast he expressed his heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the gathering in recognition of their affection for him.

The audience had hardly spread after the pastor’s thanks, when the N. W. C. select orchestra, which had been invited to furnish the music for the occasion, struck up one of its live marches. If there was vim and life in the audience, there certainly was vim and life in the orchestra. One selection after another was played to the in­ tense satisfaction of the audience. In order to give variance to the program and a moment of leisure to the musicians, solos were ren­ dered by some of our popular virtuosos. Among these Raymond Timmel in his rendering of the second movement of the “Evening Star” from Tannhauser on the violin and Karl Krauss’ performance on the piano deserve honorable mention.

PROFESSOR KUHLOW LEAVES NORTHWESTERN. It is with sincere regret that we announce the departure of one of our beloved teachers, Professor Kuhlow. Since his advent in 1914 he has been a strong link in the chain of our faculty. The instruc­ tion of English and Geography was Professor Kuhlow’s principle work up to the present school-year, when the English Religion classes of the commercial department were put under his charge.

Professor Kuhlow’s departure will be sorely felt by the students, even by those whom he had not instructed, for he was well liked by everyone.

From our midst our dear professor goes to Waterloo, where he will fill the position made vacant by the resignation of Rev. Pankow.

ELECTIONS. In a special meeting of the newly-appointed concert committee the following officers were elcted for a term of one year: Adolph Zeisler, *18, Pres.

Program Committee— Raymond Timmel, *18.

Bernhard Westendorf, *18.

Edgar Felton, ’21，Clerk.

Stage Committee— Erich Falk, *19.

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The Collegiate Department convened on Oct. 4, for the purpose of electing baseball managers for the ensuing year. After a heated contest the following were elected: Erich Falk, ’19，Ass’t Mgr. Herbert Lau, ’IS, Mgr. In the annual election of the Athletic Board the following elec­ tion took place: Ewald Tacke, ’19, Sec.-Treas.

John Henning, ’18, Pres.

AUS DEM SEMINAR. Die I-Ierren W. Gutzke und W. Bodemar reisten am 12. Okt. nacli Watertown um wiedereinmal die Poesie der leztjiihrigen Mondnaclitspazier giinge zu geniessen. Leider war das Wetter niclit selir giinstig. Genaueres wissen wir nicht dariiber. Audi elne Anzalil anderer Studenten macliten am selben Tag die Reise dor thin, aber da sie aus melir ausserlichen unpoetischen Griinden gemacht wurcle, wollen wir die Ehre, die Namen der Betrefl’enden anzuflihren, clem Localeditor iiberlassen.

Erst jetzt nacli vier Wochen sind wir alle hier. Wm. Pulilbrigge musste infolge desi Todes seines Vaters die ersten zwei Woclien zu Hause bleiben. Die zwei anderen Nacliziigler waren O. Medenwald und W. Retzlaff. Den ersteren plagten die “Draft boards,” die ihn gern als Kapitan gehabt hiltten. Doch wurde ihm endlicli Reclit verschafft.

Am 1. dieses Monats hatte der Seminarchor unter der Lei tun g I-Ierrn Prof. Koehlers seine erste Zusammenkunft in der St. Jolianliis Kirche zu Wauwatosa. Ober 40 junge und verheiratete Damen hatten sich eingefunden. Im Laufe dieser Oder niichsler Woclie wird sicli Prof. Koehler nach Chicago begeben, um dort eine Liclitbildlaterne fiir die zu haltenden Kunstvortrage zu beschaffen.

Gustav Schlegel verbrachte manch lieitere Stunde in Kenosha vom 5. bis 7. Okt. Genau gerechnet betragt die Zahl der genossenen Stunden etwa sechzig. Ach, wir haben die Sclilafzeit miteingerechnet!一Na, es sind dann etwa fiinf weniger.

Am 7. Okt. wurde die Missionskapelle zu Greystone Park eingcweiht. Es scheint ein vielversprecliendes Feld fur unsere Stadtmission zu sein. Gleich am ersten Tage wurden 12 Kinder getauft. Der Stadtmissionar Pastor Schulz wird in seiner Sonntagsschul Arbeit an dieser Gemeinde und an den zwei anderen Missionsgemeinden von den folgenden Studenten unterstutzt: M. Wehausen, 0. Grundemann, M. Glaser, G. Sclilegel, V. Andreae und E. Kiessling.

Paul Lutzke besuchte am 12. das Elternhaus in Beaver Dam. Karl Ploclier hielt sich am 7. Okt. bei seinen Freunden in Hartford auf.

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Eine ganze Anzahl Studenten wohnte der Auffiihrung cler Opern, Faust imd Lucia di Lammermoor im Auditorium, am 15. und 16. resp., bei.

Der gemutliche Abend wire! am 19. Okt. gefeiert. Grosse Vorbereitungen werden schon getroffen.

Unser alter Klassengenosse Helmuth Schaefer besuchte uns gegen Ende September, um Abschied von uns zu nehmen, ehe cr als Eingezogener mit den Soldaten fortging.

A_ti邙 N. W. C. 28.

MILWAUKEE :NORMALS 0.

On October 13tli N. W. C. met the Normals on our field. This also was the beginning of the football season at N. W. C. Last year the Normals defeated us by a score of 19-0, but we more than erased the sting of last year’s defeat by defeating them 28-0.

In the first quarter our team started a march for their gon.1.

Line plunging and long ends were the plays used. Our men actually walked down the field. It was a rush for a sure touchdown, but. a fumble on their 15 yard line put an end to it. Our opponents pimled but to no avail. The ball was again carried clown the field within striking distance of their goal line. Straight bucks and long ends brought the ball to their 25 yard line. Another long end and bril­ liant dodging by Lange brought us our first score. Goal was kicked

by Lange.

In the second quarter the ball see-sawed up and clown the field, neither team gaining much. The first half ended with the ball on our opponent’s 40 yard line. The score at the end of the first half was 7-0, favor of N. W. C. In the second half the Normals received the kick off. Unable to penetrate our line for for the necessary number of yards they punted.

Our team meeting a stonewall, punted. The Normals fumbled and Duxe, racing down the field, got the ball making a touchdown from their 40 yard line. Again goal was kicked. The ball was kicked off, N. W. C. receiving. A 35 yard gain by Zeisler and a 15 yard forward to Duxe brought the ball with half yard of their goal line. Straight bucks were tried but our men were held. A forward was tried but was intercepted. This took the ball from their danger zone.

In the fourth quarter open plays and line plunges again brought the ball within the Normal’s danger zone. A forward to Plantz, a straight buck and another forward to Zeisler netted us another

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touchdown. Goal was kicked. The ball was kicked off. The feature of the fourth, quarter was the long end by Duxe which brought the ball to their 3 yard line. Again our line met strong opposition. Our men were thrown for a loss. A place kick was tried but was blocked.

The ball was recovered by Plantz. A forward to Plantz netted us another touchdown. Goal was kicked. The game ended with tho ball on our opponent’s 35 yard line. Not once was our goal in dan­ ger. Duxe, Lange, Timmel, Zeisler, Matzke, Tacke and Plantz starred for us.

Lineup: NORMALS. Capt Donovan Poster Roiniking Poarco Balentino Olsen Lcurenborger Morgan Wetzel Fozanski Murray

POSITION. R. E. R. T. R. G. C. L. G. L. T. L. E. Q. R. H. F. B. L. H.

N. W. C. Uetzmann Falk Lioscner Matzke Slofert Tacko W. Meier Laugo Capt. Dux Zeisler Timmol

Referee, Huegel, Marquette; umpire, Friese, Carrol College; head linesman, P. Eickmann.

Substitutions: N. W. C.一Plantz for Meier; Beyl for Liesener; Bernthal for Siefert. Normals―Sanders for Wetzel; McCormick for Pozanski; Carroll for Balentine; Trapp for Leurenberger.

N. W. C. 18. WHITEWATER NORMALS 0, The Whitewater Normals met defeat at the hands of N. W. C. Their well drilled team was unable to do anything against our fast bunch of players. The final score was 18-0.

The Normals kicked off. Westendorf received the ball, carrying it back 25 yards. Line plunging carried the ball within striking dis­ tance of their goal. A straight buck by Duxe carried the ball across for our first touchdown. Duxe failed to kick goal. The ball was again put into play. Nothing important happened during the re­ mainder of the quarter. The first quarter ended with the ball on Northwestern’s 15 yard line.

In the second quarter, we were forced to punt. They, unable to make their downs, also punted. The ball was carried to their 5 yard line by a forward, and a straight buck by Zeisler put the ball across for another score. Duxe failed to kick goal. Both teams were un­ able to do much for the rest of the quarter. The first half ended with the ball on Northwestern^ 20 yard line.

In the third quarter the Normals kicked off. Our men fumbled,

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losing the ball. The Normals also fumbled, Westendorf recover­ ing the ball. Henning went through their line for a 12 yard gain.

Our line plunges and forwards failing, we punted. Likewise the Normals. It was a punting duel for the rest of the quarter. The third quarter ended with the ball on Northwestern’s 35 yard line.

In the fourth quarter our team opened on Luxe penetrating their line for 8 yards and Henning for 9 yards. A forward to Plenning gave us another gain of 8 yards. Again Duxe hit the line for 13 yards. A forward was tried, but was intercepted. The Normals punted. Duxe’s 15 yard long end and Zeisler’s 6 yard straight buck started another rush for their goal. The ball was fumbled but was recovered by Matzke. Again Duxe hit their line for 10 yards. A forward to Plautz carried us 8 yards nearer their goal. The Nor­ mals braced up, holding our team and throwing them for a loss.

The ball 'yent over to the Normals. Again tlxey fumbled, Westen­ dorf recovering the ball. A drop kick was tried, but failed. Tacke recovered the ball on a fumble. Zeisler, catching a forward, ran 25 yards for a touchdown. Henning failed to kick goal. The Nor­ mals received the ball on the kickoff. After one or two minutes of play the whistle ended the struggle with the ball on their 30 yard line. The score at the end of the second half, 18-0.

Lineup: N. w. c.

NORMALS. POSITION. Bettcrt Grady McCabo Johnson Koutnick Gcdry Klann Ridgo Borst Malono Felnberg

R. E. R. T. R. G. C. L. G. L. T. L. E. R. H. L. H. F. B. Q.

Uetzmann Falk Licseno) Matzki Sicfen Tacke Plantz Westendorf Tlmmel Zoisler Duxe

Summary: Referee: Hucgel, Marquette. Umpire: Fries, Carroll College. I-Ieadlineman: P. Eickmann. Timekeeper: B. Lange. Substitutions: Henning for Timmel; Haegeli lor Liesener; Guth for Siefert.

m K. H, AEROLITH. On the front cover of the M. H. Aerolith for September and Oc­ tober was a cut of your new dormitory. Before reviewing your paper

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we wish to say that the new structure makes a fine appearance; and we herewith congratulate you on your future home.

Your paper opened with the German article “Die Entwieklung der romischen Schauspiele wahrend cler Kaiserzeit,” which we found to be very interesting and ably written.

“The Boy Scout Camp at Lac La Belle” displeased us somewliat. First of all, a diary of this kind is hardly a proper article in a college paper. And furthermore, the language was so poor that a person would consider it the work of a boy just entering high school.

It contained too many short sentences, and the grammar could have been improved very much. It seems to us that t his could be avoided, at least partly, if a student of some higher class or one of your Pro­ fessors corrected the article before putting it into print.

The write-up on “On Monona Park Conference” was more fit­ ting for you than the foregoing, since it, at least, pertained to your college. The English used was also much better, although improve­ ments here, too, would have helped greatly to make the account more interesting.

Following this was another German article, “Deutsche Seemans-Mission.” We were very much pleased by this article and must say that you handle the German in a capable nianner.

The two accounts, “Events at tlic M. I-I. During Our Absence” and “A Trip to Fond du Lac” were interestingly told.

The “Editorials” column was good. In fact the whole paper made a good appearance, especially if one considers that your school had not commenced at the time when the paper was pub­ lished.

THE D. M. L. C. MESSKINGEK. The D. M. L. C. Messenger is the only quarterly paper that we receive. And since it is published only four limes during the schoolyear, ample time is afforded to gather material. Yet your last num­ ber was not very large.

The Literary column contained four articles, the first one being “The Little Ash Boy.” Despite the fact that the story was written in fluent language, it contained some sentences that were not clear as the following one: “Crossing the street in front of an oncoming street, the little felllow began work in the next block.”

The second article was “Vorbei’eitung zu drei biblishcen Geschichten.” These little “dispositions” should by no means be over­ looked, since they are very beneficial for students, especially for sucli as intended to be preachers or teachers of the gospel.

Following this was the composition on “My First Night in Col­ lege.” The composition could have been made interesting, had the use of incorrect grammar and sentence-construction been avoided.

First of all, the use of “I” was too frequent; in one sentence this pronoun occurred four times. Secondly, the construction of the sen-

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tences was too much alike. Thirdly, the article contained some Ger­ manisms as, “One of the students from the upper class,” instead of “of the upper class.”

Somewhat better than this article was “Tlie Siege of Arcot.”

But it, nevertheless, contained more mistakes than necessary. The us of the participal construction was too abundant. On the whole, the language was not by far fluent enough; too many short, abrupt sentences.

Your editorials were fair. Yet we wish to remark that a para­ graph as the one entitled “Kaspar Aquila” rather belongs under your “Per Jocum” column.

The mistake that is to be found in the Exchange columns of most college papers is also present in yours, namely, that it lacks criticisms calling attention to mistakes, which we would consider the main object of the Exchange column.

Although this number did not give the best impression, do not be discouraged, but work more diligently and make the next number more of a success.

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—Norman Kemp of Michigan City, Indiana, entered the Sopho­ more class on Sept. 30.

—“Lang” Zeisler of La Crosse called oil his brother “Zei” on Sept. 21.

• 一Luther Vohs, Edward Blakewell, and Karl Kuske, all of the class of ’18 are now at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. Vohs and Blakewell are in the 331 Field artillery, Luther beinga corporal in Battery B, and Eddie a sergeant in Battery D. As yet we have not heard from Kuske.

—Hans Bierwagen ’21, journeyed to liis home in Dresden, N. D. to be present at the funeral of a sister.

—Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Woldt, Mr. and Mrs. Zarling and Mr. and Mrs. Ehlke from Jackson visited W. Voigt, Prep., on Sunday, Sept. 23.

—Oswald O’Calligan of Crotch Head Lake called on “Smokie” and “Dad” on Monday, October 8. The famous battery, “Smokie” and “Dad,” performed on the diamonds of the afore-mentioned summer-resort during the summer months. 一H. Kukhahn enjoyed his first auto ride to the home of an uncle at Lebanon on Sunday, Sept. 23. 一Rev. E. C. Hinnenthal of Forestville, and brother Rudolph of Oconto Falls, and Rev. Ullman of Hartford, Wis. called on the boys from Kolberg on Sept. 19.

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—W. Holzhausen ’21，was called to his home in Muskego on Sept.

28 to attend the funeral of a brother, who was killed in a smash-up at Milwaukee. 一Krauss, Westendorf, Lau, Dahlke, Wacker, Bggers, Zimmermann and Heidtke attended mission-festival at Juneau on Sunday, Sept. 23. 一Fritz Stueber transported himself to his home at Clyman on Sunday, Sept. 29.

—Rev. Spilman of Edgerton called on liis son, Carl ’20, Oct. 1-2.

—Mrs. Horlamus and son Orlando of West Bend called on Ru­ dolph Horlamus and “Red” Deicher, Preps., on Sunday, Sept. 29.. 一Arthur Haegale and Erwin Guth of Kolberg, Wis., entered the institution as special students Oct. 3.

—Gus. Krause, Prep., and E. Ebert, ’21，journeyed to Milwaukee on Friday, Sept. 28 to be present at the celebration of Rev. and Mrs. Ebert’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

—Mr. and Mi's. C. Brinkman, H. W. Scharrs, Mrs. A. Schmidt and daughter Miss Amanda of Racine called on the boys from that place on Sunday, Sept. 23. 一Mr. and Mrs. Kaelber and a party of friends motored here from Kenosha on Sunday, Oct. 7 to spend the day with the Kenosha boys. 一“Abey” Blumenthal, Prep., visited liis maternal precincts at Milwaukee on Sunday, Sept. 29. While there lie took up a sausage collection among “Zei’s” friends. It’s no wonder that Zei is com­ plaining of constipation these days. 一Little Elmer Prentzlow journeyed all the way to Woodland to see his father and mother on Sunday, Sept. 29. 一Prank Scliujahn and daughters of Fond du Lac toured here on Sunday, Sept. 30. They picked up “Al.” ’20, and took a little joy-ride to Okaucliee and other points of interest in the neighborhood.

—Rev. II. Klingbiel of Forest, Wis.，was a visitor at this institu­ tion Monday, Oct. 1.

—Rev. W. Pankow called on friends here Tuesday, Sept. 25.

—Rev. Bretscher of Lebanon paid Hans Grotlie, Prep., a visit on Saturday, Sept. 28.

—Bodamer, Gutzke, Naumann, Vollmers, Grucndemann, Retzlaff, Froehlke, Schleicher, Schroeder, Wehausen, Lindloff, Zank, and Eickmann of the Seminar^ came down Saturday, October 13 to watch our pigskin heroes trim the Normalites. ―At a meeting of the student-body K. Timmel ’20，was elected Yell-Master. His assistant is “Eggie” Felton ’21.

CO-ED NOTES 一Miss Lydia Pankow visited in Randolf Sept. 22. While there she was bridesmaid for a friend.

—Miss Esther Detert spent Sunday, Sept. 16, at the liome of her parents in Waterloo,

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—Miss Loretta Flynn of Waterloo visited the Misses Detert on Sept. 20. 一Miss Helen Fisher visited with her parents at Oconomowoc Sept. 23. 一Miss Margaret Koenig spent Sept. 22 with friends in Milwau­ kee.

—On Sept. 26, Miss Esther Detert attended the farewell party for Rev. Pankow at Waterloo. 一Miss Adele Dornfeld spent Sept. 23 at her parental home in Marshall.

—On Oct. 6, Miss Elizabeth Lehmann, a last year’s commercial graduate, visited classes.

—On Saturday, Oct. 6, Miss Doris Ott journeyed to the home of Miss Hattie Detert. While there she busied herself by picking up hickory nuts. 一Last week a number of the Co-eds made use of the Gym. It is rumored the girls are planning on organizing a basket ball team, which will soon tour the state (especially to Waterloo).

M. K.

©mntfau0 HOW TO TELL A POISONOUS SNAKE. There are three groups of venomous snakes scattered through North America. These are the coral snakes, the moccasins,,and the rattlesnakes. The coral snakes, says Raymond L. Diitmarss, curator of reptiles in the New York Zoological Park, in “Poisonous Snakes of the United States” (Elwin R. Sanborn), are beautiful gaudy rep­ tiles of the Southwest, covered with broad alternating rings of red and black, bordered with narrow rings of yellow. They are “misnicked” by harmless relatives who display the same colors arranged in rings. But, while on the poisonous corals yellow borders the black rings, on the harmless snakes black borders the yellow rings.

The rattlesnake group, of course, easily recognized by that unique and prominent organ, the rattle. Any snake possessing a rattle is dangerous.

The moccasins or copperheads have on each side of the head, between the eyes and the nostril, a deep pit. Harmless snakes have a round eye; moccasins have an elliptical pupil, like a cat. Mocca­ sins are dull olive, with wide black bands. Copperheads are pale brown, crossed with rich reddish bands, and tinged with copper on top of the head.

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A poisonous snake does not jump from the ground, says the curator, and seldom strikes more than a tliird of its length. It never chases an enemy. It is not necessary for a rattlesnake to coil before striking. It can strike from a crawling position, provided it can double its neck into an S-shaped loop to lurch the head forward. It is impossible, he says, to render a venomous snake permanently harmless by extracting the fangs, as a number of auxiliary fangs are ready to take their place.—Every Week.

MEANING OF NAMES. The strait of Juan de Fuca was named after an old Greek sailor who explored its shores in 1592.

Pecos river, Texas, was so named by the Spaniards from its ap­ pearance, pecos meaning “freckled.”

Lake Memphremagog in Vermont was originally called Memplow-boque, a large body of water.

Lycoming, the name of a Pennsylvania river, is a corruption of Leganiha nne, “sandy stream.”

The Connecticut river took its name from an Indian word, Quonaugticot, meaning “river of trees.”

The Catawba river in North Carolina was named for the tribe of Indians that lived on its banks.

The Minnesota river was named by the Indians from the words Minni-Sotah, meaning “green water.”

The Menominee, in Wisconsin, was named from a tribe of tlie same name. The word means wild rice.

Massachusetts bay was named from two Indian words, Mais Thusaeg, meaning “this side the hills.”

The Catawissa river in Pennsylvania was named from an In­ dian word that means "getting fat.”

The Cattaraugus in New York has its name from an Indian ex­ pression signifying “bad smelling banks.”

The Platte river was originally named the Nebraska, from an Indian word meaning “shallow water.”

The Housatonic in Connecticut was called by the Indians Wussiadenex, the “stream beyond the mountains.”

The Delaware bay gave its name to the state. The bay was named from Thomas West, Lord De La War. The Chickahominy had its designation from an Indian word, Chirk-a-maw-hony, the place of turkeys.

Appalachie bay, Florida, was variously termed Apahlahchie, Abolachie, Apeolatel, Palaxys, Palatcy, and so on.

The Neversink was not named because its waters do not get low, but from the Indian Nawasink, “mad river.”

The Pascagoula in Mississippi was named from the Indians called the Pascagoulas, or ..the break-making nation.”一Exchange.

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—Prof.: An ordinary thermometer can not be used to measure the temperature when you get down to 40 degrees below zero. What is used then?

Beck: A spiritual thermometer.

—Everything is going up, with one exception, and that is Jap’s standing.

—When Brutus can not translate certain phrases into Latin, he makes his own Latin. Lately he made a typical translation of “left behind by his people”一namely “suique leftus.”

—Pythag (explaining something): Take for instance the base­ ball diamond. The more you hoe, the less remains to hoe.

Otto Canada (interrupting): The less remains of the hoe. 一Hans: Zuhause steht die Weinflasch immer auf dem Tisch.

Pickle: Sie meinen doch wolil den Essigkrug. 一Dad claims that his glasses are so strong that they get up nights and make a noise. 一Pat (translating): Schon ging die Pestilenz vorbei.

Prof: Sie wollen wohl recht respektvoll von einem vornehmen Prauenzimmer sprechen.

—Prof.: What is this instrument used for?

Beck: To measure pacific lieat (specific). 了It was the first time the four-year-old Willie saw a snake, and, as it writhed and squirmed along, he ran into the house to tell of his discovery. **0 mother,” he exclaimed, “come here quick; here’s a tail wagging without any dog.”一Ex. —~Eck: A perpendicular line is one when produced passes thru the center of the earth; in other words?

Voges: Thru Hades.

—Red (translating): Eas res gessi”一Ich habe diejenigen Sachen gegesen.

—Prof.: Welches Buch uber deutsche Aussprachen haben wir in der Bibliothek?

Gieschen (der nicht aufmerkte): Grimm’s Marclien.

—Prof.: Was meinen wir, wenn wir von einer Frau sagen, dass sie holdselig ist?

Zens: Sie ist von Holz. ,—Stranger (to student on the train): Do you boys play in a band?

Student: Yes, wliat makes you think so?

Stranger: I see those violins up there.

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Julia rushed to her mother one day in a most excited frame of mind.

“0 mother, we’ve been having the best time! We’ve been playpostman, and we gave evry lady in the block a letter.”

“But, dear, where did you get the letters?”

“Why, we found them in your trunk in the garret, all tied up with a blue ribbon!”一Ex. —Smoky (reading the directions on a mentliolatum Jar): This ought to be goood for my sore arm.

Zei: Wh Smoky: It says, good for colds, catarrh, burns, etc., and my arm burns to beat tlie band.

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THE BLACK AND RED

Volume XXI.

Watertown, Wis., November 1917.

Number 6

WHY CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REFORMATION? At the present time the Protestants of the world, especially the Lutherans, are celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the Reformation. This quadricentennial comes in the midst of a war with the nation that produced tlie man who was to provide the world with this Reformation: Martin Luther. Martin Luther, that great­ est of all Germans, the champion of our pure and free faith, has in the course of four hundred years been slandered, condemned, praised and exalted, as few other men have been. He has been slandered particularly by the Roman Catholic Church, and in the worst pos­ sible manner. Some Catholics picture Luther as the Anti-Christ and the very devil incarnate. Can anyone be slandered more than this?

Especially at the present time has Luther become the subject of much comment, and one of the questions which has arisen is this: Shall we let the fact that Luther was a German prevent us from cele­ brating the quadricentennial of the Reformation?

The Sacred Heart Review, a Catholic journal, has said that the revolt of the sixteenth century led inevitably to the dread catastro­ phe of the twentieth; that the religious upheaval—started under the apostate Luther—sowed the seeds from which developed the pan-European conflict. It has also been said that among the existing distractions of the present war is the harrowing reflection that, the present head of Luther*s church is in the submarine business.

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Since when is the Kaiser of Germany the head of our Lutheran Church? As far as we know, the Lutheran Church has no temporal ruler and never wants one. If there was anything Luther stood up for, it was for the separation of Church and State. Before Luther s time therre had been for several centuries no freedom of religion or conscience. The Pope and the Catholic clergy commanded and governed not only the Church, but also the State. Kings and regents were appointed and deposed by them at will. Before Luther’s ap­ pearance the Church and State in Europe formed a whole, which was detrimental and of great disadvantage to the Church. As with one blow this was changed by the Reformation. Through Luther’s clearly proving from the word of God that Church and State are two altogether different institutions, which dare not be confounded with one another, we know that the separation of Church and State was instituted. All other utterances are contrary to Lutlier’s notion of the relation of religion to the State. The precepts of the Bible are the guide of life, and the sole standard of princes and people.

That is a thing that does not seem to agree with the Catholic Church. It would like to clothe the head of the Christian Church in velvet and ermine and make him a worldly prince. Luther thinks it a distressing and terrible thing to see the head of Christendom, whose office should be an example of all humility, living in worldly pomp and wearing a triple crown. It is true the Church is not to be made subservient to the State, but the Pope is not to steal the rod of temporal power.

If a man is free to choose and follow liis own religion, lie sure­ ly will feel despotic government a wrong, as soon as it demands something contrary to conscience and the word of God, and he will attempt to free himself from such a government. No government has control over a man’s conscience. The great civil freedom, which all nations, within which the chains of Papacy have been broken, cherish, must give the credit and thanks for all this to Luther and the Reformation. Should not we, therefore, be proud to live in. this our great Republic, because it affords us the opportunity to pursue any course of religion we wish? And this fact that Luther gave us the faith which gives us freedom of belief, without interference from the State, should make our whole country join in this great celebration. For it would be a pitiable mistake of sectarian patriot­ ism, if Germany’s past contribution to the spiritual life of the world should be slighted because of international hatreds. It is sincerely to be regretted that the four hundredth anniversary of the Great Reformation should be overshadowed by the dreadful war for which the world largely holds the country of Luther responsible. For tlie Protestants of America owe much to Luther一so much that, even amid existing_ trials and distractions, they should strive by enthusi­ astic, united effort to make the celebration so markedly successful that it will be long remembered.

Millions of men and women, representing many different forms

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of religious denominations, are celebrating this great anniversary, but we Lutherans especially ought to do so, because we consider our­ selves the true followers of Luther. We should honor Martin Luther in order to inspire young Christians everywhere to follow his exam­ ple, and do as conscience dictates in these seething days in which we live. We ought always to remember that every one of us should pass on to future generations the best that Luther gave us, our pure and free faith, broadened, deepened, and purified.

We should honor this great spiritual leader to-day, because by doing so, it will help us to a kindlier judgment of that country with which we are now at war. Instead of abandoning or limiting the Luther celebration, because we are at war witli the land that gave him birth, we ought rather to make of the occasion an opportunity of laying foundations for a permanent reconciliation.

This world is surely a freer place to live in, to work in, to wor­ ship in, because Martin Luther four hundred years ago dared to do wliat he felt he ought to do. In spite of all its faults and failures, our modern life, more than any other that has been lived in the whole history of mankind, gives to a man the liberty to follow his own bent, his own impulses, his own convictions—providing his con­ science permits him to do so—within the Hints of the family, the community, and the State. And all this we owe in a very large measure to Luther and the Reformation.

All the great men that have lived and gone are greater as shadows than they were in the flesh. They live forever in their un­ dying thoughts. Their footfalls in the haunts of men are heard no more, yet their voices are louder than the thunder, and as unceasing as the inward flow of the tide. Martin Luther was mighty when he lived, but the shadowy Luther is mightier than an army of Luthers in the flesh. To-day we see him as the monarch of high, thought, and a noble defender of man’s right to freedom and his own relig­ ious faith. Can there be any doubt now why we should celebrate this great anniversary? Luther was a German, but the great deeds which he has accomplished for the whole world will ever live on, it mat­ ters not what methods our adversaries employ to suppress them.

Surely the thoughts of Martin Luther shall march on forever.

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THE KNAVE’S TALE. “Alia!” spake noble Sir Lovernal, as he did perceive the beau­ tiful and plump Lady Ketchum, “a woman after mine own heart.

What more doth man desire?” Gentle reader, didst ever hear sweeter words of a lovelorn heart? Thou sayest nay? Then list to the tale I bring you.

-Here Begiuncth the Knave’s Tale. (With apologies to Chaucer.)

Sweet, buxom, and blithe was fair Lady Ketchum, that heiress

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to her rustic parents’ farm and stock. “Full fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers.” How well doth not Longfellow picture her to us. But stay and hear me out. When our Lady had made her debut among the stalwart knights of the Kniep Table, was，t any wonder that they did straightway rave and quarrel about her? Nay I say. For, me seemeth, they wished for quantity rather than quality, and right well did they receive it. Alas, I myself, though but a poor stupid knave, did oft crave for but a sight of her.

And for several moons did she bestow upon me her gracious favor and granted me many a visit with her in some distant woodland bower. Ah, how well and with what sweet memories do I not recall those pleasant hours.，Tis true she was heavy, but love is blind.

But suddenly and without warning did she, as Chaucer could so well express it, ditcli me. Thou mayest well be filled with wonder, sweet reader, but how could I compete with the brawny Sir LovemOli well, all. I could but console myself with the gentle thought: she’ll soon get rid of tliee, my dear boy.” And ’twas so. It was not long and our Lady had, what we term as dreadful English, a crush on one other of our far-famed knights, Sir Quadraped. ’Tis wonder­ ful how this poor Philoctetes did chase and run to reach his quart­ ers, before the watchman had sounded taps. But very few were the times that he did arrive too late. Me wonders how long this noble youth was to remain ensnared in the wily charms of this rustic siren.

Alas! ’twas not for long. Full soon did our fair Lady administer unto our noble Sir Quadraped the bounce. And well astonished was our eminent circle, when it saw whom she had enticed. ’Twas none other than the god Sir Lovemall, who was come to try liis luck the second time. And full well it seemeth, as though he were to stick.

For undaunted by the gruesome darkness of the niglit or by the dreaded mire and water, our brave Sir Lovemall did right oft tread tlie trodden way to his Lady Love. Nor unrewarded did his ener remain. Full many a fair repast, prepared by the dainty hands ft J1S Lady, did he enjoy. Pull many a piece of valuable parchment did Jie send bearing his tidings of love. Gentle reader, calm tliyself, for love is blind.

Tis but of late that many of our brave fellows and comrades in arm® , been as the noble Joseph would term as dreadful slang, roped in some fair beauty. ’Tis said to be a rare insect called the jazz Dug, tne stmg of which will make a man forget all earthly cares e,r 111 realms of jazzdom. But, noble reader, take heed, fhlo ibefell our good Lovemall, strike thee and lay yo^do^twatch ou?r ^azzl3US au(i cupid’s darts will get you, if >TwnQ _ hi^tnLo ^

1 have lost my track and ^is but pure luck, that I to what I was before talking about. But list. dreary nig^t. Nary a star was visible in the inky d— sir Lovemall was wearily an eve of celestial joy with his Lady love.

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Beside his beaten, muddy path peacefully flowed a rippling rivulet.

Suddenly a vile ruffian leaped upon our noble comrade and violently steered him into the little stream at his side. “What meanst thou, thou base thing,demanded the usually so gentle knight. “’Tis none of thine business,” quoth the ruffian. “Hold your tongue, or I’ll push your map in. ’’ But the fearless Sir Lovemall undaunted cried, “Wliat wouldst have? Seest thou not that I must hasten to mine destination before the taps are tolled?” “Don’t let me see you in this vicinity again,” replied the thug, and left. Sir Lovemall made rapid strides for home and his little bed.

Must thou not exclaim with me, gentle reader, “Greater love When thou hast gone that far, proceed to the liliatli no man! cense bureau and procure for yourself and your bride a piece of pa­ per allowing you to become one, for love is blind. Thou seest not what lies before thee. Greater men have stumbled and fallen into the pitfalls of wily maidens’ charms. Be not blinded by thine own emotions, but turn back, ere it is too late. With this friendly admon­ CHAUCER II. ishment is ended the Knave’s Tale.

THE GOBLINS WILL GET YOU IF YOU DOJTT WATCH OUT, “If you fellows don’t cut out the noise pretty soon, I’ll jump on your necks. Do you want to wake Tim up? How do you expect me to get the best of him if he awakes?”

These harsh words were spoken by John Ebson. He was after his room-mates because they were likely to wake Tim up. John hated Tim. And he had reason to. Didn’t Tim always spoil every，t Tim thing for him? When lie worked for the class presidency,, didn’t — work against him? When he attempted to win Susan, the college dame, didn’t Tim spoil it all, by winning her himself? And to put a finishing touch to it, didn’t Tim beat him out of the quarter-back position on the eleven? John had reason enough to hate Tim. It would take loads of worry off his mind if lie could only get rid of him. And judging from John’s words above, he was going to get him.

He conceived an idea. He would find Lucusta, and she could serve him as well as she did Agrippina or Nero. She could dispatch Tim. But how and where should lie reach her? He might go up to tlie cemetery and search for her there; and still she might be right near the dormitory. No matter where she was, John was determined to get her services, she could poison Tim in a short time and then lie’d be out of the way.

So John put on liis hat and coat to find Lucusta. It was about 9:30 p. m.. The stars were out and the pale moonlight was enough to help anyone in search of a certain object, provided the object was in existence. This ideal opportunity filled John with hope. He walked down the terraces in front of the dormitory, expecting any

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minute to see Lucusta step out from behind a tree. But no. He would have to go farther. He walked down the street and still no Lucusta.

When he got to tlie cemetery, the ghost of Claudius came up to him and asked what business he had. John told him he wanted to find Lucusta. Then the gliost said: “Beware Lucusta! She got me, she’ll get you•” “But,” said John, “I want lier to put some one out of the way for me.”

“Oli，you’re the one that’s been longing to see her. Is your room number 18?”

“Yes,” answered John.

“She told me that some one out of that room was looking for her and she would go to him, to save him the trouble of getting her.

She just left a few minutes ago. You’d better hurry, she’ll be look­ ing for you.”

“Thanks, I’ll hurry.”

John rushed back to the dormitory inorder to see Lucusta be­ fore she’d return. He was in high spirits. Now he was going to get Tim. He came into his room all out of breath, and went to the win­ dow to take some deep inhalations. Next to John’s window was the fire escape. His room being on the first floor the fire escape ended about a foot above his window.

When John looked out of the window, what should lie see, but Lucusta walking down the fire escape with as much ease as if she were on the level. She was carrying a pitcher of something, very likely poison. John feared she might fall off the fire escape, and then all would be spoiled. So lie warned her. **Watch your step,” he whispered, “tlie last step is there and you’ll fall off if you don’t look out.”

But she heeded him not. She did exactly what John thought she would, namely, spoil it all. She missed the step and fell toward the ground, gliding past John. But the pitcher with the contents did not glide past; they caught him squarely in the face. He fell.

After lie had collected his thoughts, he found himself sitting on the floor soaked to the skin; his bed was tipped, and his mattress oil top of him. His room-mates were laughing. Tim was also there enjoying the fun. Seeing the many against him, J0I111 realized it would be foolishness to get hot, so he calmed himself and told them about tlie dream he had just had.

“Sur?，” said the rest, “we heard you talk in your sleep, You were railing off at Tim and we wouldn’t stand for it. We got Tim and let him get the best of you.，， “Well, it served me right,” said John. “I always thought I was better than Tim and especially yesterday, when the coacli put him in quarter-back, I got sore. And ever since I’ve been thinking liow I could get him. And now lie got me. Well, shake on it Tim, we’ll get along hereafter.,> “Sure,” said Tim. “But take it from me,” said John, “If you ever have a grudge

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against someone, don’t let a ghost help you, for the goblins will get you if you don’t watch out.”

A. Z.-1S.

Luther is the real author of modern liberty of thought and ac­ tion; the giant founder of modern civilization and of pure religion— James Freeman Clark.

To Martin Luther, above all men, we Anglo-Americans are in­ debted for national independence and mental freedom.—Frederic Hedge of Harvard.

The free millions of the United States may, therefore, well rise up and do Luther honor, by cherishing his example, pondering his history, and maintaining his creed.—Bishop Thorold of England.

Our civil liberty is the result of the open Bible which Luther gave us.一Henry Ward Beecher.

The inalienable rights of an American citizen are nothing but the Protestant idea of the general priesthood of all believers applied to the civil sphere, or developed into the corresponding idea of the general kingship of free men.—Philip Schaff.

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lEiittoriab THANKSGIVING. WHY?

Why do we set a special day aside every year for thanksgiving?

It is not because we should be thankful on that day only. If we wanted to be thankful only once in three hundred and sixty-five days we would soon forget what thankfulness is. We ought to be thankful every day, at all times. But it is human nature to forget our duty of thanks, therefor Thanksgiving day can be considered as a day of critical investigation, on which we ought especially look upon all the blessings and benefits for which we should be thankful. And these are bestowed upon us in boundless profusion.

Think of the adversities, are they worth while being thankful for? Yes. Have we not learned from them? They have taught us to be more careful in what we undertake. They have saved us from being indifferent in many things. They have taught us to be obedi­ ent, for disobedience is the cause of our destruction. And in the end, have, they not turned out to be benefits for us? There is all tlie rea-

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son in the world to be thankful for them. Even though there are many things that don’t suit us, there are just as many that do. We ought also to be thankful for them, although it is human nature to give one’s ownself credit for prosperity. Taken all in all, we have sufficient reason for being thankful for all our temporal blessings.

But greater than these are the spiritual blessings which we have received. What has not God done for our salvation? Do we not owe to Him the salvation of our souls? And how much do we contribute to our spiritual welfare? Not a bit. Nevertheless, God has forgiven us and keeps on blessing till the end. If we consider all these facts, the temporal and eternal blessings, we shall notice the foolishness G. A. Z.,，:L8. in asking, why Thanksgiving?

FIRMNESS OF CONVICTION. If we study Luther’s character, one trait that ought to impress us is his firmness of conviction. By firmness of conviction obstinacy is not meant. Luther was not obstinate. He did not have to be, for he did not draw conclusions on any subject until he had given it due consideration. Once his mind made up, he was determined to voice his opinions; he was willing to die because of them if they remained unrefuted. The word of God made him sure.

When Luther was summoned to Worms by the Emperor, his friends tried to persuade him not to go for fear of his life. In order to impress him, they reminded him of I-Iuss’ fate at Constance. But Luther was determined to go, he answered: I would go, even if there were as many devils there as tiles on the house roofs. And he did go. When at the diet of Worms he was asked to recant his errors, he replied: “I cannot, I will not, retract anything, unless what I have written shall be shown to be contrary to Holy Scripture or to plain reason.” Tlie ban of the Empire was declared upon him, but this dis­ turbed him little. His convictions were honest and far from being refuted. He would sooner have died than act against his conscience.

How many of us, fellow student, would be willing to abide by our convictions if the majority were against us? Our daily life shows how many would. Many a student has drawn his conclu­ sion and it was right, but when he noticed that some disagreed with him, or probably this or that certain student didn’t agree with him, he changed his mind although he was not refuted. Why the sudden change? In most cases it is this sad fact,, that the opinion was formed without giving the subject due consideration. Then when some one spoke against the opinion there were no arguments to back it. In many cases the person did not have courage enough to' uphold his opinion. Of course it’s true, we don’t want to be ob­ stinate, but as long as our conclusions are not shown to be contrary to plain reason, why give in? Now one of the indispensible requi-

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sities of our later life is this firmness of convictions. If we want to show ourselves as men later on, don’t you think it’s time to start now, fellow students? Use Luther as an example, and do as he did. First give everything due and unbiased consideration, then when someone speaks against us, we shall at least be able to explain why we take this or that stand. If we are in the wrong then, we shall be able to see the right if someone shows us; if, however, our arguments remain unrefuted, let’s pick up courage to uphold them.

G. A. Z”，18.

Notes POTATO DAY. For the first time in its history Northwestern had a war-garden. In order to avoid the high prices and probably a shortage of potatoes, the authorities of the institution liad fenced off a por­ tion of our campus, about three acres, and planted it to potatoes.

When the students returned in the fall the potatoes were in full bloom and by the latter part of October were ready for harvesting.

But then the question arose, “Who shall dig the potatoes?” Why self-evidently, those who eat them. And so it came to pass that the faculty set aside a holiday, called “Potato Day,” on which day the students were to dig the potatoes planted on our war garden, Under the able and careful direction of the honorable Junior class the work was undertaken. Early in the morning, after tlie younger students had borrowed all the available forks in the neigh­ borhood, the harvest was begun, the stronger students digging, while the weaker gathered or bagged the precious “spuds.” The bags were then loaded on wagons by robust Juniors and hauled to the refectory, where “Dave” and another crew of broad-shouldered Juniors carried them into the cellar. The horse used on the wagon being a relic of a circus, Dad, the veteran driver, amused his friends by running over cornstalks and fenceposts while going to and from the potato field. After a recess and lunch at ten o’clock the work was again resumed. Before the sun had reached its zenith, the po­ tato-diggers had uncovered three hundred bushels of potatoes and our war-garden was a great success.

JUBILEE CELEBRATION. On the evening of October 31, 1917, the birthday of the Refor­ mation, the three local churches of the Wisconsin synod gathered

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in the St. Mark’s church to celebrate the four hundredth anniver­ sary of the Reformation. Two speakers had been engaged for the evening, a German, the Rev. Gausewitz of Milwaukee, and an Eng­ lish, the Rev. Moussa of Jefferson. The former having as his text Acts 16, 31, showed how God thru his servant Luther had restored to us again the pure word of God, that man is saved, not thru his works, but thru his faith in Christ. We should show our thanks to Luther, God’s instrument, not only in celebrating the Reforma­ tion festival once a year but by trying our utmost to live according to the Scriptures which he recovered for us. Then only are we truly thankful. In his oration the Rev. Moussa showed how Luther in freeing the world from the Pope, who wielded both the spiritual and temporal scepters, made spiritual liberty, liberty of press, lib­ erty of speech, a thing before inconceivable, a reality. Without Luther America would not have been the blooming republic that it is. America, thank God for Martin Luther!

During the services a collection was taken, the proceeds of which are to go towards purchasing literature pertaining to the Re­ formation. This literature is to be put into the town library, so that all who wish may have access to it and learn to know the Re­ formation and Luther better. During the services musical num­ bers were rendered by the choirs of the churches and by the N. W C. band and chorus.

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Am 20. reissten die Herren W. Gutzke und W. Bodamer, die schon einmal in der Woche vorher unter Verdaclit erregenden Umstanden nach Watertown gegangen waren, wieder dort hin. Herr Volmers und Herr Naumann leisteten ihnen auf der Reise Gesellschaft.

Herr Kiessling musste sich am 22. Okt. einer schwierigen Opertion unterziehen. Gegenwartig befindet er sich zur Pflege dalieim.

Wir erwarten seine Rukkehr in den nachsten Wochen.

Zum 4. Nov. besuchten uns die Herren Koch, Lehmann, Al­ brecht, Brandt, Voges von Watertown, um von heir aus an der grossen Reformationsfeier der lutherischen Gemeinden Milwaukees im Auditorium teilzunehmen.

Ausserdem durften wir in letzter Zeit noch die Herren Lehrer Jacob von Greenleaf und Kohlhoff von Brillion als Gaste begruussen, ebenso Herrn Pastor Toepel von Bristol, Herrn Lehrer Gawerisch ebenso Herrn Pastor Toepel von Bristol, Herrn Leher Gawrisch von La Crosee und Herrn Manteufel von Watertown.

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—F. E. Kosanke,，04, has finished his medical studies in Chicago, has taken the State board examination both in Illinois and Wisconsin, and is now serving as interne in Lake View Hospital, 4420 Clarendon Ave” Chicago.

—John Whyte,，05, has recently published his doctor dissertation.

It treats of "Young Germany” in its relations to Britain. It is num­ ber eight of the Ottendorfer Memorial Series of Germanic Mono­ graphs, Whyte having held the Ottendorfer scholarship for one year. The first beneficiary under the will of Oswald Ottendorfer was Ernst 0. Eckelmann, ,97.

—Through, tlie kindness and liberality of a former student five hundred dollars have been given the institution primarily for the purpose of furnishing our gymnasium.

—Walter Thrun, ex-12, took his degree of Ph. D. in agricultural chemistry last June in the University of Missouri. He is now fill­ ing a position in the University of Illinos. His brother, Gerhard, ex-，13, is still pursuing his studies in the University of Michigan, whicli has not deterred him from taking unto himself a wife from the fair daughters of Watertown, Miss Ruth Pritzlaff.

—P. Mannteufel, ’14, has resigned his position as tutor at the college. He has accepted a charge in South Dakoto, whither he will soon betake himself, whether singly or not, quien sabe?

—Prof. Kuhlow continued to fulfill the duties of his position till Saturday, Nov. 17.

—Rev. E. Sterz, ’14, called on friends at the college on the 15th.

yj BELOIT COLLEGE, 10; 1ST. W. C., 9.

•‘On Qctober 27, Northwestern’s pigskin chasers journeyed to BeJ?1- to snow tlie soldiers of Camp Grant, Rockford, who came to Beloit K)!1 that special occasion, some real football. It was the last gai„f tlie season for Beloit and a large crowd turned out on Han­ cock field to see Beloit win. teams were equally matched and after one hour of furious football the score was 10 to 9 in favor of Beloit. The officials, who-

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ever they were, lacked a thorough knowledge of football rules and None of the officials Oil several occasions gave unfair decisions. carried a rule-book, something every official, no matter how well he may be acquainted with the rules, should do.

Northwestern scored her 9 points during the first half while Beloit made 7 of their 10 points in the 3rd quarter. In the first quarter the teams tried line playing both gaining about the same yards.

Through several line smashes Beloit carried the ball to the 35 yard line from where Lansing drop-kicked over. Zeisler then kicked off to Beloit sending the ball to the first yard line where a Beloit man, who was anxious to score a touchdown picked up the ball and placed it between his own goal posts, thus scoring 2 points for N. W. C. At the beginning of the second quarter Northwestern work­ ed the ball down to the 20 yard line by a series of line smashes and forwards. From here Duxe threw a perfect pass to Tacke who went over for a touchdown. Beloit scored her touchdown in the third quarter, Phillips going over on a fake line smash.

N. W. C. tried forwards again and again but Beloit knew liow strong we were in this department from former years and had been coached to break up passes. Duxe’s passes were perfect and twice Zeisler picked the ball so well directed by Duxe out of the air and ran for 60 yards, but Beloit played three men against him who caugh t him both times before he reached goal. Northwestern showed he:r mettle in the second quarter when Beloit reached the one yard line and tried four smashes over the line and was thrown back four times. Coe gained the most ground for Beloit. Duxe kicked goal for N. W. C. and Coe for Beloit.

THE LINEUP: Northwestern一 Tacke Liesensr Sievert Matzke Haegle Falk Uetzmann Duxe Beyl Henning Zeisler

L. E L.T L.G C. R.G R.T R. E Q. L.H R. H F.

Beloit一 Parsons Steussey Mohr Sandburn Foster Wilburn McElroy Lansing McCarthy Philipps Coe

Officials: Referee一Thompson. Umpire and headlinesman ^•om Beloit. Substitutions—Northwestern —Krauss for Uetzmann; Plautz for Krauss.

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On Nov. 3 Northwestern^ second team met W/ayland on their grounds. Due to the condition of the field, brilliant work was impossible.

Westendorf kicked off. Wayland received the ball on the 30 yard line. They made their first down on a long end run. On tlie next play they were thrown for a loss of 10 yards. Johnson more than equals the loss by making a 70 yard gain, carrying the ball to our 7 yard line. They were unable to carry the ball across for a score. The ball goes over. Wayland is offside, penalty 5 yards. First down was made through steady plunges. Wayland braces. We are forced to punt. Wayland receives the ball on the 35 yard line. They are thrown for a loss of 10 yards which forces them to punt. Our op­ ponents intercept a forward on the 25 yard line. Again they are forced to punt. End of first quarter.

A forward to Plautz nets us 30 yards. Again Wayland intercepts a forward on the 30 yard line. Johnson goes over for a touchdown, making a run of 30 yards. He also kicks goal.

We receive the ball on the kickoff. Taylor scores on a long end run. He fails to kick goal. Wayland kicks off. Forwards were tried but were futile. We punt. Our opponents were thrown for a loss.

First half ends, score 13-0.

Wayland kicks off. Johnson intercepts a forward and through for a touchdown. He kicks goal. Again they kick off.

Westendorf gains 5 yards and Schumacher makes first down. After a few fruitless plunges the ball goes over. Taylor fumbles. Losing ground, they punt. N. W. C. tries forwards but fail. Again we punt.

Taylor fumbles on 25 yard line. Line plunges bring no gains, A forward is tried but is intercepted by Johnson on the 10 yard line.

Wayland punts. A forward to Schumacher nets 5 yards, one to Wacker 10 yards. Press hits the line for 6 yards. A forward to Krauss brings us our first score. Krauss kicks goal. End of third quarter.

Krauss kicks off. Wayland is thrown for a loss. Ball goes ov«r.

After a few unsuccessful forwards and plunges Schumacher punts.

They try a forward, but is incomplete. They try another. Wacker intercepts it and goes over for a touchdown. Krauss fails to kick goal.

Wayland kicks off. A pass to Schumacher nets 10 yards. Sev­ eral forwards were tried but were incomplete. Ball goes over. Jolinson goes through for 15 yards. Again Johnson hits line for 8 yards.

Wacker throws their man for loss. Ball goes over. Westendorf hits line for 5 yards. Schumacher makes first down. A forward to Krauss nets another score. He fails to kick goal. Pinal score 20-19.

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Wayland— N. W. C. II— Hillmer Lyol C. Gorsch Guth L. G Kupfer Hendrix R. G Stapleford R. T Lau (capt.)

Beck Weston L. T Martin Krauss R. B Plautz Newton L. E. Frieder Press Westendorf R. Qh. Winters Beyl Taylor L. II. Schumacher Johnson F. B. Substitutes, N. W. C., Wacker for Plautz; Schroeder for Guth.

N. W. C., 64; MILTON, 0.

On Nov. 9tli our team journeyed to Milton to play our first game of football with them. This is Milton’s second year in the game.

At the appointed time the teams appeared on the gridiron, ready for the conflict. Milton kicked off. Henning fumbles and loses the ball. Milton is unable to do anything against our line so the ball goes over. Dux goes through on a long end for 25 yards. Lange fum­ bles and recovers the ball. A forward from Dux to Zeisler gains 20 yards and a touchdown. Lange kicks goal.

N. W. C. kicks to Milton. Our men hold them. Again the ball goes over. Zeisler goes over center for 15 yards, Dux for 10 yards, Zeisler again for 10 yards, and Henning for a touchdown. Lange fails to kick goal.

Milton receives on the kick off. They succeed in gaining a few yards via forward. Soon after they are forced to punt. Zeisler hits line for 8 yards. N. W. C. is penalized 5 yards for benig offside. Milton holds us. The ball goes over on 30 yard line. End of first quarter.

Score 13-0.

In the beginning of the second quarter Henning intercepts a forward and makes a touchdown. Lange kicks goal. Milton receives the kickoff. N. W. C. holds them. They punt. Lange receives ball and goes 70 yards for a touchdown. He fails to kick goal.

N. W. C. kicks to Milton. They fumble. Dux falls on the ball.

Dux gains 20 yards on a short end. After a few short ends and straight bucks Dux goes over for another score. Lange kicks goal.

Milton receives. They fumble and recover it. Milton tries long for­ wards, but do not succeed. The ball goes over. Henning gains 10 yards on a short end. Zeisler makes a touchdown over center. Lange fails to kick goal.

Milton receives the kick off. They fail to make the necessary number of yards. The ball goes over to their opponents. They in­ tercept a forward. Second quarter ends with ball on Milton’s 70 yard line.

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N. W. C. kicks to Milton. They are unable to make their yards, therefore punt. Lange receives the ball and is penalized for hurdling.

A forward from Dux to Uetzmann nets 15 yards. Dux makes a touch­ down on a fake long end. Lange fails to kick goal.

Milton receives the kickoff. They are forced to punt. A forward from Dux to Lange nets 25 yards. Another gain of 10 yards by the same method. Henning goes over center for a touchdown. Lange fails to kick goal.

N. W. C. kicks off. Milton is forced to punt. End of third quar­ ter. N. W. C.，s ball on 30 yard line.

Milton intercepts forward. Again they are forced to punt. Lange receives tlie ball and carries it to the 30 yard line. Zeisler makes a touchdown, oil a forward from Dux. Lange misses goal, N. W. C. kicks off. Milton makes the first down over right end. They fumble on the 35 yard line. Henning goes over center for 20 yards, Lange for 10 yards. Dux does the same. Lange goes over for a score, lie kicks goal. N. W. C. kicks to Milton. Time is up with ball on Mil­ ton's 40 yard line. Pinal score 64-0.

Milton一 N .W. C. Ingham Dux R. H. Skaw Henning L. H. Kakuske Zeisler P. B. Dakley Lange Q. Davis Matzke C. Thorn gate Uetzmann R. E Talbot Falk R. T Bond Haegele R. G Warner Sievert L. G Tacke Holliday L. E Liesener Sayre L. T. Substitutions, N. W. C.: Wacker for Uetzmann; Krauss for Tacke; Tacke for Liesener.

THE GOSHEN COLLEGE RECORD. To begin with we wish to make a few general remarks about your paper. Your paper contained fair material and was balanced well enough. But mistakes due to poor type-setting occurred too frequently. These could have been avoided, if the proofs had been carefully corrected.

The main, article in the October issue was **The Town, the

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Teacher, and Language Usage.” The article was somewhat long, but, nevertheless, not tiresome to the reader. Some of the statements were misleading and not clear enough. Another thing, you made use of too many questions. This is practiced more in a speech, but not so much in a composition.

“The Life and Work of Adam Smith” was only partly issued, and, as it seemed, for the reason of avoiding the printing of two long articles in one issue. Printing this whole article surely would not have made the paper too large or caused anybody to lose interest in reading two articles of this kind in succession. Else a substitution could have been made by putting two shorter articles or stories in place of one long one. By the way, a story would have been entirely welcome to the readers. To turn back to our article. It contained too many participal constructions, and, on the whole, the diction was somewhat awkward.

Although both editorials were written on the same style, they deserve mention as being real editori als.

The “Literary” notes showed the amount of interest at your college for the training of the mind, the speech, and for oratory.

That is what literary societies are for.

Your “Wise and Otherwise” column contained but few jokes, and hardly half of these were original; the rest were taken from exchanges and other papers.

You seem to have found a new way of making the “Exchange” column more interesting, but wasn’t that a rather peculiar way. It takes work to make this part of the paper interesting and to make it a success. Don’t be afraid to criticize the faults of a paper.

COLLEGE CHIPS. As an introductory note we wish to congratulate your band on the selections which it rendered at the quadricentennial celebration of the Reformation at Milwaukee November 4, and which some of us were fortunate enough to hear. Your accomplishments in music seem to be good.

But you also show ability in other fields, as the make-up of a college journal. The two literary numbers, especially, pleased us.

The first was “The Relation Between the Sale of Indulgences and the Ninety-Five Theses of Dr. Martin Luther,” a topic very suitable for the time—the quadricentennial year of the Reformation. The writer mastered his topic well by adhering to his theme and bringing out his ideas in a fluent language. ’ Following this was The American Liberty Loan.” As the previ?us yticle this onewas also suitable for the present time in which, this Liberty Loan lias played such an important part. You showed i yQUr patriotism by it, and no one dare say it is the wrong patriotism.

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The language which was used was good and showed that your stu­ dents possess the ability of mastering the English language.

'The article under “Historicals” likewise well deserves menti?n.

It was 4,The Eastern Question.” As a rule these historical topics are found somewhat difficult by the students, but the writer has found the way of overcoming this difficulty and making his article interesting. The diction not quite equalled that of the previous articles.

The “Sciences” column had an essay on “The Manufacture of Soap.” This should interest everyone, since soap plays such an im­ portant part in life. The fact that it was ably written made it still more interesting.

The “Editorials” contained well selected topics.

The exchange column lacks, what we generally find wanting in other papers, destructive criticism. The synopsis of the different productions, as your “Exchanges” give them, only show what tlie articles contain and which, can be gotten by reading, but not what your opinion of them is.

“Musicals” contained the interesting article “Luther and Music.”

You seem to have mistaken tlie “Locals” column for a joke column. For there was very little besides jokes in it. Why not add a joke column to your paper and use “Locals” for that purpose for which it is there. And besides, too many of the jokes were Ex­ changes.

On the whole, your October issue very much pleased us. It was far better than most of your foregoing numbers and will surely help to raise the standard of College Chips, also in the eyes of the readers.

m 一A. Zeisler, ’18, Arthur Matzke, *18 and Otto Kehrberg attended the Ohio-Wisconsin football game at Madison on Saturday, Nov. 10.

—Charles Nitz of the Seminary paid his respects to his Alma Mater Nov. 9-10. ―Fred Zeisler of La Crosse called on his brother Adolph, ’18, and other friends on Sunday, Nov. 4.

—On any sunny afternoon one may see our beloved brother, Westy Ben, charging frantically up and down Fourth, street looking for the German translation of Treasure. • 一The Rev. G. H. Press of Winside, Nebr., visited his son Gerhard, ’20, on Thursday, Oct. 18.

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―Palmer Jahnke, *19, made another of his frequent journeys to Juneau on Saturday, Nov. 3.

Norman Kemp, ’20, and Melvin Croll, ’20, blew themselves to a trip to Milwaukee on Saturday, Oct. 27.

—The Rev. Kupfer of Milwaukee called on his son, Erich, ’20, on Monday, Nov. 5.

—C. Spilman, ’20, was at his home in Edgerton Nov. 3-5. 一The following students attended the Reformation Festival at Milwaukee on Nov. 3-4: Theo. Voges, ’20, Lester Reuter, Prep., Gil­ bert Steffen, ’21，Arnold Brandt, ’21，Fred Brandt, ’19, Ewald Tacke, ’19, Gerold Gieschen, ’19，Hans Koch, ’19, M. Duerr, Prep., Erich Falk, ’19, W. Lehman, ’19, Gerhard Berger, Sp” Laurence Moore, 21, and A. Blumenthal, Prep.

—Sergeant Blakewell and Corporal Vohs of Camp Grant, Rock­ ford, 111., were visitors at the Institution on Sunday, Oct. 28. 一E. Geutz, Prep., was a visitor at his home in Beaver Dam on Sunday, Nov. 4. 一Edwin Jaster, ’21, took a trip to his home in Montello on Sat­ urday, Nov. 3.

—B. Westendorf, ’18 and K. Ki.auss, ’18 enjoyed the hospitality of their many friends in Juneau on Sunday, Nov. 4. 一Ernest Berger of Milwaukee called on his brother Gerhard, Sp., Oct. 30. 一W. Holzhausen, ’21, lias recuperated sufficiently to be enabled to leave the hospital where he was confined since Oct. 26 on account of an infection caused by a boil. 一Stueber Bros. Co. played host to Johnny List, Prep., at their home in Clyman on Sunday, Nov. 4. 一“Al” Schujahn,，20, our walking barber pole, was a visitor in Fond du Lac Nov. 3-5. 一T. Heidtke, Prep., was also at Juneau Nov. 4.

—Rev. H. Pankow and Christian Lepien of Yale, Mich., called on friends and relatives at this institution on Oct. 30.

—“Butch,”，18 and “Sock,”，18 were at Jefferson on Sunday, Oct. 28.

CO-ED NOTES |

—Miss Verna Wilde, who hails from Hustisford, entered the Quarta class Oct. 20. 一Miss Anetta Feist from Watertown registered as a special stu­ dent Oct. 20.

—Miss Ada Wegemann visited classes Oct. 13, much to the joy of our friend Kurtie. ^ —Gladness reigned in Marshall Oct. 14, when Adele Dornfeld visited her parents in that burg. 一Hattie gave a Halloween party, and those that attended re.ported a good time,—Nuff said.

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一Miss Edna Setz, of that well-known Waterloo, visited with us Nov. 4. ―Esther Detert helped the railroad company along to the tune of twenty-four cents Nov 11, when she travelled to her parental abode.

—Helen Fischer visted her home in Oconomowoc Nov. 3 and 11. 一We missed Marie Wagner Oct. 24-26; she visited with friends at Hartford. 一Milwaukee entertained one of the nobility Nov. 14. Margaret Koenig was there. ―Miss Cornelia Schlueter, *15, visited classes Nov. 10, also the M. K. Misses Anna and Louise List.

.逛咖0 ©mtttb«]0 DB. LUTHER AMONG THE SICK. Dr. Luther, a most kind-hearted man, was always ready to help those who were in need. He sympathized with tlie sick, and after he became pastor was most thoughtful of the sick and suffering. He not only cheered them, but supplied their bodily needs, and in case they were living in sin, rested not until he liad brought them to re­ pentance.

He realized that no greater calamity could befall one than an unhappy death; hence he guided the sick to the Saviour leading them to prepare for death.

When that terrible pestilence broke out in Wittenberg he never for $ moment thought of fleeing, as so many others did, but remained at his post, laboring faithfully among the sick and dying.

What an example he was for the Christian pastors of the present day!

Jesus chose humble fishermen to be his first followers, and God, through all the ages, is calling ordinary men to be His witness-bear­ ers and to tell to others the story of His love and grace.一Exchange.

NATIONAL CHANGE I1NT APPETITES. The folowing menus are taken from the Womans Home Com­ panion for May, 1888, and May, 1915, and they seem to show a change in appetite that is practically national, 1888

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Breakfast Broiled steak and cresses; sweetbreads; corn meal gems; cream biscuits; potato croquettes; radishes; berries, with cream.

Dinner Spring soup; chicken pie; hodge podge; beef a la mode; boiled cod-fish; sorrel salad; crackers; cheese; young beets; spinach on toast; baked rice; sweet cherry pickle; goose­ berry pie; cherry pie; strawberry bavarian cream; cocoanut cake.

Supper Cold beef a la mode; shaved tongue; light bread; rusks; strawberry float; cake.

1915 Breakfast Halves of grape-fruit; cereal; creamed finnan haddie; Cincinnati coffee bread; coffee.

Dinner Mock consomme; pulled bread; roast stuffed veal, brown gravy; Franconia potatoes; Allerton asparagus; coupe de marron; toasted crackers; Roquefort; demi-tasse.

Supper Allerton salad, salad rolls; marshmallow chocolate cake; ginger ale.

It is plain that modern meals require less preparation and that people seem to show a decreased appetite.—The Lutheran.

UNITED STATES TWO-DOLLAR AND FIVE-DOLLAR STAMPS.

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The war has affected the stamps of the United States as well as those of foreign nations. Early in the conflict, when dyes became scarce because the British fleet had cut Germany off from America many shades of our current postage stamps appeared. After a time we learned how to make dyes that were as good as those we had been importing from Germany, and the stamps again became of normal color. Economic difficulties caused by the war brought about several issues of revenue stamps. So, also, the misprint of the fivecent blue in crimson is indirectly a war stamp, as the error was attributed to the rush of work in the Government Printing Office in connection with the first Liberty Bonds.

The recent American war stamps are the reissue of our twodollar and five-dollar labels of the 1902 series. The stamps of that date were watermarked, but the recently reissued ones are on paper that has no watermark. Originally the government introduced the watermarked paper as a guard against counterfeiting.

The two-dollar and five-dollar stamps must be classed definitely among the war stamps because war conditions brought them into

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existence. By driving much commerce from the seas, German sub­ marines caused scarcity of cargo space and created freight conges­ tion on the railways. The result was that shippers began to send goods on passenger ships and on express trains, through the mails, paying postage therefore. The situation caused a demand for liighvalue stamps.

It is now known that the reissued two-dollar labels are to be superseded by new stamps of permanent character. They will ap­ pear in two colors. This is tlie first time since the Pan-American issue in 1901 that American stamps will have appeared in two col­ ors. The new labels will be of the same height as the current stamps, but will be of greater length. A portrait of Benjamin Franklin will appear on each. Tlie two-dollar stamp will be rose and the fivedollar:stamp will be green, and on each the portrait will appear in black •—Youth’s Companion.

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—Bennie: Don’t pusli Butch.

Sock: Why not?

Bennie: He has water in his knee and would not spill it.

•―Prof.: A chaplain has a lieutenanfs rank in the army.

Louis (who was inattentive): What, Charlie Chaplin is a first lieutenant?

—Gab: I can’t understand German.

Seggie: You ignorant stick, don’t you know the English is only a translation of the German?

Slie Gave for Pleasure’s Sake.

“Here’s a nickle for you, my man,” she said to the frayed and ragged-looking individual who stood under the porcli with extended hand. “I’m not giving it to you for charity’s sake, but merely be­ cause it pleases me.”

“Thanks,” said the beggar, “but couldn’t you make it a quarter and enjoy yourself thoroughly, madam?”一Ex. ■―Cur: That was a hot test for us again.

Doc (smiling for the first time this year): It couldn’t have been very hot for you; you went down to 43 below zero.

—On the porch-post of a store tlie following placad was to be seen: Don’t hitch your bronchos to tlie pillars of this temple. Re­ member Samson.

His Plan.

A country parson in Ireland went to preach in an old, remote

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parish one Sunday, when the aged sexton, in taking him to the place, insinuatingly said: “I hope your Reverence won’t mind preachin，from the chancel. You see, it is a quiet place, and I’ve got a duck sittin’ on fourteen eggs in the pulpit.”一Ex. 一Coed: Say Pete, do you know what Pat’s bugling in the even­ ing reminds me of?

Pete: Well?

Coed: Of a call to arms! 一45 degrees in the room.

Gab: Say, Venus, why do you sit on the radiator to study your Algebra?

Venus: I’m trying to get warmed up on the subject.

—Kionka: Say, Louis, if you turn the bulb out of the socket and turn on the electricity, will the electricity go over the whole room then?

—Red Head went home to get a hair cut.

Heard at the Normal Game. 一Schmalz has been taken out in favor of Tallow.

—Don’t get scared, Pat, you won’t get killed. You’re too big for a coffin.

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JOY TO THE WORLD.

Joy to the world; the Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King.

Let evâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ry heart prepare him room, And heavâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n and nature sing.

Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns!

Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground.

He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

He rules the earth with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His Love.

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In the little old village of Wright lived an old couple, Wheaton by name, with their only child, George. A happier family could not be found for miles, for in this little circle unity and love reigned supreme. George was a well-built young man, with powerful hard­ ened muscles, for he had been one of the greatest football players Southey College had ever produced. But he was not only an athlete.

He had become a very able musician, having finished his musical course in the Baltimore Conservatory. His favorite instrument was the violin, and when he drew the bow across the strings, one could not imagine sweeter sounds. Critics who had heard him play, said, “That man is an artist; lie can make that violin talk.” George quickly rose in popularity, being much in demand as a leading at­ traction at many large concerts. Then came the declaration of war and the draft. George registered and anxiously awaited the result.

One day he was sitting in his room softly playing a sweet Vene­ tian boat-song, when his mother entered with a letter. “It’s from the War Department, George,” slie said. He hastily opened it and read his summons to examination. He came before the examination board with a light heart, because he thought, if his country needed him, he would be only too glad to serve the old flag, as liis father had fought to preserve it in ’61. The doctors examined him and pro­ nounced him physically perfect, and as lie filed no claims for exemp­ tion, he became a member of Uncle Sam’s draft army. He returned home to await the notice that would call him to some training camp.

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A week later found him bidding his parents good-bye. “My son,” said his father, “you are going to fight for Old Glory. I fought for her in ’61，and your grandfather fought for her in ’46. Uphold the honor of the Wheaton name, and God be with you.” His mother clasped him to her bosom and said, “George, you will fall into many temptations and dangers. Remember the prayers I taught you and keer>fb Pib-e with you always. It will be your greatest comfort in the mr«ny trials of war. God bless you, my boy.” George bade them farewell, hardly able to check the tears that arose in his eyes. These few simple words had made a great impression upon him, and he reaoived to carry out their entreaties with a firm heart.

At the cantonment George was a most prominent figure, He was recognized by all as the great violinist, and having many of his old college friends among the boys, the time passed very quickly. He rapidly advanced in rank; and three months found him a lieutenant.

He was a proud and happy man, when he received his straps, es­ pecially because his parents were there to see him receive his com­ mission. They left him with renewed blessings and admonitions.

And George was a very contented man.

George had adIt was six months later that the call came, vanced to the rank of captain and very proud was lie to lead his company to the troop-transport that lay in New York harbor. His parents had come to say a last farewell before he embarked. The old soldier could but clasp his son’s hand and point to the flag that was waving from the ship’s mast. His mother with tears coursing over her face gave him a parting kiss and said, “My boy, don’t for­ get that there is One above who will keep you from all harm. Pray to Him and and appeal to Him in the times of danger, and He will shield and protect you. God grant that you come back as you go.”

After embracing them both, he marched his company to the ship. In a few moments they were steaming out of the harbor to pay our debt to France. The trip was uneventful, and George, having taken liis violin along, whiled many an hour away with the beautiful in­ strument.

On the tenth day after sailing they landed in France and were immediately marced to their training camp. Here they were to learn the final points of warfare, before becoming actively engaged. How long they would remain in the camp, no one knew; but they were to keep in condition, in order to be ready when needed. It was in this camp that George availed himself of the opportunity to raise money for the Red Cross, by giving concerts. And in this manner he great­ ly aided this great institution.

They had been in the training camp over a year, wlien the call for reninforcements came. The men welcomed this summons with joy, for the life in the camp had become too monotonous, and now they were afforded the opportunity of getting into action. They were transported to the front in fast troop trains and upon arriving there they were assigned to their divisions. Then came the real fighting

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and they soon became hardened to the sickening sights and tlie grim devastation spread in the wake of the war.

Back home we find George’s parents anxiously awaiting news from him. They cautiously scanned the casualty lists, but had so far failed to find his name in any of them. It was now nearly two years since he had left, and his parents were fervently praying for peace and the safe return of their only son. They thought that peace must soon come, because according to the meagre reports, both sides were weakening, and the enemy could not hold out much longer, having suffered a terrible loss of life since the beginning of the war. And was it any wonder that everyone was praying for peace? Surely God would soon put an end to the terrible slaughter, for the number of dead and wounded had reache.d high into the millions.

It was the first of December and George’s parents were sitting before the fire-place, silent and sad. Before them in the fire they could picture their son grimly battling with the foe, subjected to al­ most unendurable hardships, because of the heavy snowfall and the bitter cold blasts blowving across No Man’s Land. Presently his mother began to weep . “Oh ，father,M she said, “I was just thinking of our boy. Who knows whether he is yet alive. Would God that we could have him with us at Christmas time. But I fear lie will not fulfill our wish.” “There, there now,” tenderly answered the old man, “if God sees fit, lie will let George come back to us for Christ­ mas. We will leave everything in His tender mercies.”

Out in the cold, damp trench sat George thinking of home. “Oh, God,” he said, “give us peace and make an end to this dreadful butchery.” And was it a wonder that he prayed thus?

He had gcone through a year of the most horrible sights, had seen men blown to atoms, others maimed for life, and it was only the merciful hand of God that had thus far protected him from harm. While he was sit­ ting there lost in thoughts, a sentry came running and handed him a sheet of paper. “You are ordered to assemble your men at once.

We are awaiting a heavy attack and must be prepared,M was what he read. He gathered his men and crept to the main trench. Here fol­ lowed several hours of watchful waiting. The artillery fire, which liad begun a few hours before, now steadily increased, until it sound­ ed as though all the thunders of the heavens had been liberated.

Night was coming on, and every one knew that, if they were at­ tacked at night, it would mean a terrible slaughter and loss of life to both sides. But they grimly awaited the charge, while the cannons roared, and the powerful shells burst about them.

In the dim light of evening, they could see a huge black mass moving towards them. “They are coming,” went from lip to lip.

Everyone could see that the foe meant business. It was one way or the other for either side. To see the enemy attacking in such a huge mass meant the deciding battle of the war. Orders for reinforce­ ments were quickly dispatched to the rear; the men in the first line trenches calmly awaited the attack. On they came, that black, seeth-

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ing mass. Soon you could hear them yelling, as they swept forward.

The machine guns began to sputter and play havoc with the ene­ my^ front ranks. But on they came, desperate, and terrible to be­ hold. They knew that they must break through the line at this point to win the war, and this was their last effort. But the men in the trenches also knew what this battle meant, and they were determin­ ed not to give up an inch. Rifles were cracking, men were scream­ ing; it was a ghastly sight and a veritable chaos. Here and there a tank would bear down upon a trench crushing and smashing every­ thing in its path. The enemy had reached the first iine trenches, and a desperate struggle ensued. Man after man was thrust back, but more and more came on. It seemed as though the foe had sent every last man into this battle. George seized a rifle from a fallen com­ rade to help his men in their critical position. With his powerful arms he battered the enemies to all sides. He had become a living demon. It seemed as if no one could approach him, for men fell before his strokes as grass. Suddenly he toppled over. All he re­ membered was that a shell had burst before him. And the battle in all its fury raged on.

Over here George’s parents were scanning the newspaper, “I see that a great battle is raging along the West Front, and that the end of the war depends largely upon its outcome,” read the old man.

“Well, 1 suppose George is in the thick of it, and if he is, I hope he fights like the rest of us did. No Wheaton was ever called a cow ird.

I’(l sooner have my son dead than a coward,” he firmly went on.

“Father,” his wife answered, 441 know that George will not shirk his duty in such a time of danger. And he will uphold the honor of the Wheaton name. But I hope that this terrible war will be ended by Christmas, because I do so want George at home, if he is alive. But I fear our wish will not be granted, because there are only two weeks before Cliristmas.” The old soldier rould but shake his head and say, “It is God’s will.”

Over there George lay in the base hospital—blind. The force of the bursting shell had paralyzed the nerves of his eyes and left him in total darkness. Here he lay, a pitiable sight, wounds on his bedy and legs, but worst of all, sightless. His only consolation was his violin, and wonderful were the strains he drew from its strings. One day while he was playing a few Christmas carols, he fell asleep. He had slept for a time when tlie nurse brought in liis supper and woke him. “Oh,” he cried, “I just had a wonderful dream. While I was playing Holy Night, Silent Night, I seemed to hear angelic voices singing to my accompaniment. Then I must have gone to sleep, for in my dream I saw a most beautiful palace of gold and sparkling diamonds. Prom this palace came the sweetest music I have ever heard. Then the angels began to sing: Glory to God in the Highest, Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men! Suddenly the angel of peace appeared before the palace, stretched forth his arms and proedaimed to the world: “Earth, you shall be free from the burdens of

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And the war. You war-weary nations shall be crowned with peace.’’.

• chorus of heavenly voices joined in the sweet refrain led by the angel of peace. Then you woke me. But can’t I get home before Christmas? Has tlie war been ended? Has peace been declared?

How long must I remain here yet?” ‘‘You will be removed tomor­ row,the nurse answered, “in order that you can be with your folks for Christmas. Yes, the terrible war has ceased, and an honorable peace will be declared on Christmas day. And here is a medal which you have received from your government for unusual courage in battle.” But George was to much filled with joy to speak. He could but clasp the medal to his breast and murmur a prayer of thanks to God for preserving his life. The next day found him on board a transport, bound for home.

The old couple was again sitting before the fire-place, silent and sad. They had found George’s name among those killed or missing.

They feared the worst, but hoped for the best. Presently the old soldier said, “Mother, if George did die in battle, he died fighting. I know it. No Wheaton ever quit.” “Yes, father/' she quietly answer­ ed, UI also am sure of that, and if he is dead I hope the Lord will take care of his soul.” Suddenly they heard a noise outside, Who can that be,” she said, ‘It isn’t— 0, George! George! my boy! thank God!” she excaimed, as two men carried him into the room. “Yes, mother, father, I am back, my life has been spared, but my eyes—-I am blind,** he quietly sobbed. “But be brave,” lie went on, “I still have you and my violin. They will comfort me on this eartli.” His mother broke down with weeping, but his father espying the medal on the boy’s breast, said, ‘‘Son, you are a Wheaton to the core:’’ George then had to relate the story of the great battle, and he did so with great vividness.

The next day a great eye specialist from New York was called to examine George’s eyes. After the examination he said, '*1 can per­ haps restore your sight, but it will be a very difficult operation. Shall I perform it?” George immediately assented and said, “Doctor, if you restore my sight, it will be as a gift from God.” Everything was immediately prepared for the operation. It seemed an eternity be­ fore the doctor had finished. When at last the operation had been performed, he darkened the room and waited until George regained consciousness. He then removed the bandage from his eyes and asked him if he could see. “Everything seems blurred,M George an­ swered. “Now I can see faint outlines. Everything is becoming more distinct. 0 doctor, you have saved my eyes, you have saved me from a life of darkness.” The doctor quieted him and drew aside several curtains. Seeing that the light did not hurt his eyes, lie let a full flood of light into the room, opened the door to the other room and admitted his parents. “Thank God,” was all they could say.

That Christmas Eve was one of the happiest the little family had ever spent. All newspapers had sent out extras with the large headline: Peace on Earth. A most fitting headline. The birth of

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the Prince of Peace was heralded by the declaration of peace on earth. With thankful hearts and happy voices the people in the crowded churches were singing: Glory to God in the Highest, Peace on Earth, Good Will toward Men. K. P. K.，18.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. Cicero stammte aus einer alten Familie in Arpinum. Er gehorte von Geburt den regierenden Familien nicht an. Sein Vater war zu Arpinum, dem Geburtsorte des Marius, Gutsbesitzer ritterlichen Standes gewesen, wo ini Jahre 106 vor Christi Geburt sein iiltester Sohn Marcus geboren wurde. Hochbegabt, erhielt er in seiner Jugend eiiie vortreffliche Erziehung. Seine ersten Lehrer waren: der akademiker Philo; der griechische Dichter Archias, zu der Zeit Lehrer in Rom, und Mucius Scaevola, ein beriihmter Jurist, bei welchem Cicero die Rechte studierte. Durch eifrige Ubungen ward er zum Meister der Sprache. Als Jungling nahm er unter Sulla an einen Feldzug gegen die Italiker teil. Doch entsprach die Rednerbliline seinen Neigungen mehr als das Schwerdt.

Im Jahre 81 fuhrte er seinen ersten Prozess; ein Jahr spater verteidigte er einen gewissen Sextus Roscius aus America gegen einen Giinstling Sullas. Es war eine schwierige Aufgabe fiir den jungen Verteidiger, diesen Prozess mit Erfolg auszufiihren, weil er ihn nicht nur gegen einen Giinstling Sullas fuhrte, sondern auch gegen den milchtigen Sulla selbst, der sich durch diesen Mann bereichert hatte. In diesem Prozesse erwies er nicht nur sein Rednertalent, sondern auch seinen grossen Mut, indemeres wagte gegen einen tyrannischen Mann wie Sulla aufzutreten. Gerade dieser Prozess war die erste Stufe zu seinem Ruhme.

Cicero veiiiess hierauf Rom auf einige Zeit, nicht aus Purcht vor Sulla, sondern seiner Gesundheit wegen, welche zu der Zeit sehr angegriffen war. Nachdem er in Grichenland und zu Rhodus seine Studien in der Philosophie und in der Rhetorik, die er sich durch den Umgang mit den bedeutendsten grichischen Philosophen und Rednern aneignete, vollendet und seinen schwachen Korper gekraftigt hatte, kehrte er nach Rom zuriick, wo er sich mit Terentia ver-. mahlte. Aus dieser Ehe entsprossen zwei Kinder: Tullia, die spa­ ter zum grossten Schmerz des Vaters starb, und Marcus, der spater in dem Heere Caesar’s diente.

Als er das vorgeschriebene Alter, ein Amt zu bekleiden, erreicht hatte, betrat er die politische Laufbahn. Im Jahre 75 verwaltete er mit hochstem Fleiss das Amt eines Quaestors in Sizilien.

Wegen seiner Treue und Freundliclikeit gegen die Provinzlalen, die von der Regierung Rome sehr schlecht behandelt und von ihren Beamten bis auf das Ausserste ausgezogen waren, bekleidete er dieses Amt funf Jahre.

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Im funften. Jahr seiner Amtstatigkeit zog er den rauberischen Prator jener Provinz namens Verres vor Gericht. Verteidiger des Verres war der beriihmte Hortensius, der in Rom grossen Einfluss hatte, weil er eine selir ausgebreitete Kentniss in der Rechtswissenschaft besass. Mit einem soldien Eifer unterzog sich Cicero dieser Aufgabe, dass schon vor der Entscheidung der Angeklagte seine Sache als verloren ansali mid sich freiwillig in die Verbannung begab.

Im folgenden Jahr als Adil, verteilte er sizilisches Getreide unter das Volk, und obwohl von massigem Vermogen,, bestand er dennoch mit Ehren vor der Burgerschaft. Diese erhob ihn im Jahre 66 noch eine Stufe hoher, zur stadtischen Priitur, und er konnte nun zuversichlicht hoffen, auch das letzte Ziel seines Ehrgeizes, das Konsulat, zu erlangen. Wahrend seiner Pratur trat er flir den Antrag des Mondius ein und unterstiitzte in einer grossen Staatsrede die t)bertragung des Oberbefehls im Mithridatisclien Kriege an Pompeius. Diese Rede bahnte ihm den Weg zum Konsulat. Durch Hilfe des Pompeius, den er fiir sich gewann, wurde er im Jahre 66 Konsul.

Wahrend seines Konsulats enthullte er die verbrecherischen Plane Catalinas. In der Senatssitzung vom 8. November 63 erhob er Anklage gegen ihn, der selbst anwesend war. Nacli vieler Miihe und Arbeit iiberwaltigte er die Verschworer. Die bedeutendsten Anhanger jener Verschworung liess er hinrichten und jagte den Ca­ talina aus der Stadt.

Hiedurch erreichte er den Holiepunkt seines Ruhmes. Das ganze Volk vergotterte ihn. Cato und Calulus nannten ilm den Vater des Vaterlandes. Obwohl er mit aller Kraft fur die Senatspartei eingetreten war, erregte er dennocli allseitige Unzufridenheit im Senate, weil er unter dem Volke zu holies Anselien genoss.

Aber die Begeisterung verrauschte bald. Nacli dem romisclien Gesetze durfte kein romischer Burger ohne Erlaubniss der Volksversammlung zum Tode verurteilt werden. Dieses Gesetz ubertrat Cicero, indem er die Hinriclitung der Anhanger Catalinas ohne Er­ laubniss der Volksversammlung, aber auf Grund der durch den Senatsbeschluss vom 22. Oktober: Videant Consules, lie quid res publica detrimenti capiat, gegebene Vollmacht vollzog. Wegen dieser Tat klagten ihn die Burger an und beliaupteteu, dass er in diesem Falle die demokratishen Grundsatze verlegt liabe.

Als er aber nacli Errichtung des ersten Triumverats (60) die Plane des Pompeius, Caesar, und Crassus zu bekampfen begann, wurde er auf Anstiften des P. Clodius, der jenen Manuern als eingefiigiges Werkzeug diente, in die Verbannung geschickt. Haus und Guter wurden ihm zerstort. Im Jahre 57 zurvickgekehrt, konnte er Pompeius und Caesar gegeniiber keinen Einfluss melir gewinnen. Daher zog er sich, klagend liber die Ungunst der Zeiten, auf sein Landgut bei Putroli zuriick und schrieb dort im Jahre 55 seine drei Bucher vom Redner. Wahrend dieser Zuriickgezogenlieit un-

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terbrach er seine Ruhe wiederholt durch gerichtliche Reden, in wel­ ch en er als Verteidiger fiir seine Freunde und besonders fur Sestius und Milo eintrat.

Im Jahre 53 wui.de er zum Augur ernannt. Um das Jahr 51 befand sich Cicero in einer schwierigen Lage, da er, obschon er sich innerlich mit Pompeius einswusste, von diesem schnode behandelt wurde, wiihrend dagegen Caesar, der viel fiir ihn getan hatte, ihm doch als der gefahrlichste Feind seines Staatsideals erschien. Doch ein giinstiger Ausweg bot sich fur ihn. Auf einen Antrag des Pompeius bescliloss der Senat, class die abgehenden Konsuln und Pratoren in Zukunft erst nach Ablauf von funf Jahren ein neues Amt in einer Provinz bekleiden durften. Die Beamten, die nocli keine Provinz verwaltet hatten, mussten fur die nachsten fiinf Jahre eintreten. Einer von diesen war Cicero. Er wurde als Prokonsul nach Klikien geschickt. Nachdem er ein Jahr mit grossem Eifer diese Provinz verwaltet hatte, kehrte er nach Ausbruch des Biirgerkrieges nach Rom zuriick.

In disem schreckliclien Kriege hielt Cicero es fiir seine Pflicht auf die Seite des Pompeius zu treten. Aber er zogerte und fing sogar an, den Pompeius der Nachlassigkeit anzuklagen. Er verurteilte (lessen Kriegsplan. Da Pompeius von Caesar bei Pharsalus besiegt wurde, verliess Cicero die Senatspartei und war nicht weit davon entfernt, sich auf die Seite des Siegers zu stellen. Nachdem er sich neun Monate in einer gedriickten Lage befunden hatte, wurde er von Caesar freundlich in Empfang genommen, welchem er nun nach Rom folgte.

In den naclifolgendeu Jahren lebte Cicero als ein Privatmann.

In den Studien Trost und Erholung suchend, schrieb er philosophische und rhetorische Werke. Er verfasste folgende Biicher: De Oratore, I-Iortensius, De Finibus, Tuscalanae Disputationes, De Natura Deorum, De Senectute, De Amisitia, und De Officiis.

An Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ermordung liatte er keinen Anteil. Wahrend der allgemeinen Verwirrung und Ratlosigkeit nach dem Tode Caesars, gelang es dem Konsul Antonius, die Herrscliaft in seine Gewalt zu bekommen. Als Cicero dies erkannte, begann er mit der ersten am 2. September 44 gehaltenden Philippischen Rede den Kampf gegen Antonius. Es gelang ihm nicht zu erreichen was er wunschte und mit den aussersten Anstrengungen und seiner ganzen Beredsamkeit erstrebte, dass namlich der Senat den Antonius fiir einen Reichsfeind erkliirte.

Als sich im Oktober 43 Antonius mit Oktavian und Sepidus verband und mit ihnen das sogenannte zweite Triumverat begrundete, folgten die Proskriptionen. Noch ehe die Triumvern selbst ihren Einzug in Rom liielten, waren ihnen die Blutsbefehle vorausgeschickt, und die Wiederholung der Greuel vom Jalire 81 hatte begonnen. Es ist miissig, die Zalil der Opfer zu berechnen, welche das neue Blutbad forderte. Die besten und angesehensten Manner fielen unter den Streichen der Morder. Unter den Opfern des An-

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tonius befand sich auch der 63jahriger Cicero, den der Tod auf der Plucht ereilte, als er sich von seinen Sklaven auf einer Bahre von seinem Landgut Cajeta nach dem Meere tragen liess.

Cicero wird uns geschildert als ein hagerer, bleicher Mann.

Seine Stimme soil von durchdringender Gewalt, das Gesicht gerunzelt, die Stirn gefurclit, und sein Auge klar und treu gewesen sein. Seine Gesundheit war nicht die starkste, aber er hatte seinen Korper durch Massigkeit und Leibesiibungen aller Art gestahlt, so dass er die grossten Anstrengungen ertrug. Sein offentliches Leben gibt uns ein reines Bild. Von alien Lastern des Leibes und der Seele hielt er sich fern. Er dachte immer erst an das Vaterland, und seine Liebe zum Vaterland war aufrichtig und opferfahig.

Cicero war aber nicht nur ein guter Burger, son dern auch guter Mann. Er liebte nicht nur sein Vaterland und seine Mitbiirger, sondem auch die unterjochten und von den Romern veracliteten Unterworfenen Roms. Seine edelmiitigen Bestrebungen, das Elend der bedruckten Provinzialen zu mildern, zeigen seine Liebe zu seinen Mitmenschen.

Aber wie eben ein jeder Mensch mit Fehlern und Gebrechen beliaftet ist, so besass auch dieser grosse Mann seine schwachen Seiten. Seine ungezugelte Sucht nach Anerkennung und seine Ruhmsucht verbanden sich ofters mit seinen hochst lobenswerten Planen.

Seine Schriften siiid voll von Lobreden liber sich selber. Er besass die Gabe, auf eine Prage eine schnelle, schlagende Antwort zu geben.

Mit dieser Gabe verband er oft einen so beissenden Sarkasmus, dass er manchmal durch seinen Stil bei der Behandlung eines wichtigen Themas sich in Gefahr bringt, die Regeln der Angemessenheit und der Schicklichkeit zu verletzen.

Auf dem Gebiete der Literatur hat Cicero sich dauernde Lorbeeren gepfluckt, und seine Reden gelten als Muster romischer Prosa.

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THE TROMBONE. We may well regard the human voice as the height of all music, since it excels all other music, be it in nature, or in art, not only in tone quality, but in modulation as well. The nearer, therefore, that a scientifically constructed instrument approaches the tambre and modulatory scope of the human voice, the higher it ranks as a music­ al instrument. It is quite evident that according to this standard of judgment all string instruments take first place. And if we wish to emphasize tone quality, the reed and pipe instruments, such as the oboe, bassoon, and organ, readily rank second; but if on the other hand one lays more stress on modulation, the trombone may well vie with any of the foregoing.

When we here speak of the trombone, we have reference only to the so-called slide trombone, for this is the initial form of the

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instrument; the modern valve trombone is in all respect a hybrid.

The word trombone originated from the Latin and means in Italian ‘tromba or large trompet.” Its invention is claimed for Tyrtaeus as early as 685 B. C. In ancient times it was called the sackbut, which is derived from the Spanish and signifies a pump.

This derivation is eminently descriptive of the slide trombone, which is played by drawing in and out the sliding joint with a motion not unlike that of pumping. We assume that the first sackbuts com­ prised a single slide, which was drawn out to full length for its nor­ mal position. Drawing in the slide had the effect of raising the pitch a tone to each position; four to five positions were sufficient to fill in the diatonic scale. Later during the fifteenth century the slide was made double, thus reducing the length of the shift by one half; to lower the pitch it was drawn out.

The sackbut was well-known in England during the reign of Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth. We read that Henry VIII. had ten sackbuts in the royal band while that of Elizabeth consisted of ten trumpets and six trombones, or sackbuts; we have account of the un­ earthing of a trombone at Pompeii in 1738 and that it was presented to George III. of England. Though this story is somewhat doubtful, the antiquity of the slide trombone remains a fact; it was the fore­ runner of our present crook and valve instruments.

The trombone in its present form was already known toward the end of the middle ages. In 1520 a noted “Posaunenmacher,” of Germany, Hans Meuschel in Nuernberg, made the first silver trom­ bone, which is said to have been as good as those of today. Later a famous instrument maker of Paris invented a trombone provided with a piston to be manipulated with the performer’s left thumb for for the purpose of filling out a tonal gap. But this device is not used today, except to produce the thrill. A recent improvement on the trombone is a new patent oil-pocket, which holds and continually supplies the oil for the slides. This latest improvement, however, has not as yet been placed on the market to any great extent; there­ fore its satisfaction is quite doubtful.

Of the various sizes of the trombone the soprano, or smallest size, has now disappeared from the musical world. Today four kinds of trombones are used in band and orchestra: The alto in F, the tenor in B-flat, the bass in G, and the contrabass in B-flat, which is an octave lower than the tenor. Of these the tenor is used most ex­ tensively and is best adapted for general purposes. The contrabass is not played very much, since it makes inordinate demands upon the player’s lungs.

With the introduction of the slide, it is obvious that the trom­ bone is the only instrument of the whole wind family which has the accuracy and modulative power of stringed instruments. With it one may produce at will a major or minor tone or any of the three semitones. The relation between the trombone and violin is quite evident from the fact that both have seven positions, each varying

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by a semitone. It has therefore a perfect tone, and a player can pro­ duce varied effects by sharping or flatting it at will, as Goes also the violinist in many progressions. In Oriental and Hawaiian music the trombone, being able to execute the glide, can produce effects unable to be obtained on a piano or valve instrument.

The trombone is the most effective instrument to bring out heroic emotion. Its deep and powerful tones speak in the most poetic accent and can bring out anything from sacred religious lamenta­ tions to the liveliest acclamations of martial joy and glory. Some think a trombone should always crack and slur. It is certainly well adapted for this and the glide is very effective in its place, but if overdone, becomes tiresome. And here the trombone can easily change from the sensual glide to a strong, clean-cut, forceful, and wholesome tone.

The world，s greatest music composers knew full well the quali­ ties of the trombone and took them into consideration in their com­ positions. They were justly recognized by Bach, who added splendor to his orchestra, but after his death they fell into disuse, till Mozart restored them to an honorable place. Both Beethoven and Wagner utilized them to their fullest extent in' all their compositions.

About the beginning of the nineteenth century the trombone was introduced into the orchestra, and in modern orchestration some of the most effective and impressive parts are carried by the trombone, bassoon and cello. A band composed exclusively of trom­ bones has, indeed, been formed, and is said to have been exceedingly fine. It was attached to the Wombwell’s show of wild beasts. Bands, however, usually have only a set of first, second and third trom­ bones, the latter two falling in with the afterbeat, while the former often carries the melody and solo. This arrangement were impos­ sible, if the trombone as such would not be well adapted for solo pur­ poses; the soloist can, as far as technique and modulation are con­ cerned, easily vie with his brother artist on the violin.

Lately a valve trombone has been introduced, which finds favor in military bands, as it is much easier to master, especially in the execution of the more rapid passages. An average person would not notice the difference in tone between the valve and slide trombone, unlss the precision of the valve enables it to have a cleaner and sharper intonation.

During the last thirty years the art of trombone playing, from a technical standpoint has reached a state of perfection, amazing to both critic and spectator. This is not due to many great advance­ ments in the manipulation of the instrument, but rather to the ease with which so maijiy of our modern masters overcome the difficulties presented in classic and modern compositions. It is within the pro­ vince of any talented trombonist to gain technical control, but it requires years of careful preparation and systematic application to ob­ tain this much desired mastery.

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seldom appreciate the real merits and individuality of the slide trom­ bone. This is natural, for the wide scope of its possibilities has never until of late been successfully demontsrated to the public. But we who belong to its small circle of friends, who have had the privilege of studying its wonderful possibilities in both tone and technique, know that it will shortly become one of the more popular instru­ T. U.，21. ments of our day.

A CHRISTMAS STORY. In the year 1896, immediately after the discovery of gold in Alaska many men, from all parts of the world, were seized by the gold-craze. This man left his office, that one his farm just for the sake of getting rich in a hurry. One and all left their work just as it was and set out for the West, where they hoped to become rich in a day. Some of these were honest, hard-working men, but others again were an unscrupulous lot of gamblers and thieves, who went there for the sole reason of robbing the miners of their gold.

In a small village of Missouri there had lived for many years a family by the name of Clayton. Robert Clayton was the only sur­ vivor of the family, and he had inherited the homestead with the ad­ joining land from his father, who had been a shiftless man. Through many needless expenses and so-called improvements on his farm he had at last been forced to mortgage part of his farm to the stingiest man in the neighborhood, namely, Charles Graham. This had gone on for some time, Clayton trying his best to pull himself out of the mire, but being balked by the mortgagee, who coveted the little farm for himself. Some time later Clayton died, leaving the debt to his son Robert, who was the exact opposite of his father, as he was very industrious. He had managed to save enough to pay Mr. Graham, but suddenly his twelve-year old daughter Ethel became very ill, and through doctor’s bills and other expenses his money rapidly dwin­ dled away, so that now he had lost all hope of ever redeeming the farm, as the date had been set for the beginning of the following year.

Now Clayton would probably have left his farm to Mr. Graham, but his wife had learned to love the little farm as the scene of all her trials, and lastly, of her daughter’s death, and therefore could not bear to part with it. At last her husband decided to leave the care of the farm to her and go to Alaska as the quickest way of getting the -money. It was now early in spring and he could easily hope to be back in time to pay off the mortgage.

Therefore, he left home early in the mornig without telling his wife, because lie knew that she would sooner give up the farm than h.ave him go on such a dangerous trip. When his wife awoke at sun­ rise she was surprised to find her husband gone. She found a note on the table, however, which told her that he would be back in time

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to settle his debts. She should not fear, for he would surely return to her. The poor lady was almost crazed by grief, but she soon real­ ized that she must be up and doing in order to keep starvation from the door until he came.

In the meantime, her husband traveled to Seattle, where he ar­ rived just in time to catch a boat bound for Nome, the newly discov­ ered gold-field along the Yukon. The ship was loaded from top to bottom with gold-seekers. There were men of all nationalities: French, Russians, Swedes, Laplanders, and many others. Taken as a whole this was the most lawless set of men Clayton had ever been with and he could not help wondering as he watched them, how many would ever return to their families.

The voyage to Nome did not take long, but during it Clayton formed a partnership with an old prospector, who was at the same time an experienced miner. One evening this old fellow had been playing poker with a few sharpers and Clayton had casually joined the watchers. He had barely arrived at the table when lie saw one of the gamblers cheating the old man. Immediately he stepped up to the sharper and said in a low voice: “You bad better quit your cheating, or Til tell the rest of the boys what you are, and you know very well what that means.”

Who The gambler stared at him for awhile and finall yaskecl: are you, that has the nerve to speak to me that way?”

Without raising his voice, Clayton replied, “I am an honest man, and I intend to see fair play.”

His fearless look must have impressed the man, for he quietly resumed his game, but did not try to cheat again. This little act of friendship caused the old miner to become Robert's lifelong friend.

After a few days Clayton told him his whole story with the result that the oldp rospector immediately decided to help him. They were to prospect for a time, and if either of them discovered a mine they were to divide it equally. If, on the other hand, their search were unsuccessful, they would work for one of the rich mine-owners, and the old miner, whose name was Ned Barton, insisted on helping Clayton pay off the mortgage.

At last the ship arrived at Nome, and the passengers at once scattered in all directions, except a very few, who had come to open some business in town.

Clayton and Barton purchased enough supplies for a month and two days after their arrival they set out for the interior, where the latest mines had been discovered. All claims had already been taken up, however, and the two partners were forced to seek farther up the river. They could have found work at any of the large mines, but they were determined to find a mine themselves. Therefore, they left this region and prospected in all the neighboring valleys, but were always unsuccessful. When their supplies were gone, they re­ turned to Nome to procure more, and by this time all prices had gone so high, that they could hardly get enough for another month.

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During the two months that Clayton had now been gone, his wife had managed to keep the little farm going, but it was certain that she could not protect her property against thieves. Mr. Graham too, often threatened to foreclose the mortgage, but she knew that he would not dare to do it before it became due. The hardest blow of all came, when some robbers drove her cows away. She did not have money enough to buy another cow, so she had to do without butter and milk. These hardships slowly but surely undermined her health. She was almost on the verge of giving up several times, but she trusted her husband implicitly, when he said that he would re­ turn to her.

To return to Alaska, we find that the partners have suffered one reverse after another, so that now they have been forced to work for wages in one of the larger mines. As soon as they had saved enough to buy another grub-stake, they again set out, but this time they determined to go farther east than they had ever been before.

They followed the Yukon almost to the Canadian boundary near the Klondike fields. This part of the country had never been ex­ plored before, so that they were many miles away from any human being. They struck camp on a small tributary to the Yukon and de­ cided that they would prospect along the little stream for a few days.

On the following morning they set out, going in a northerly direc­ tion, but again they failed in their search. That night they camped near one of the numerous springs along the creek. They had become discouraged by tlieir repeated failures and had almost decided to re­ turn to Nome, when by chance they discovered that for which they were seeking. As Clayton was getting water to make coffee, lie dipped his pot into the water too deep and scraped up some of the mud at the bottom, and when he was washing it out he discovered in the sediment, a pebble of dull yellow color. Immediately he showed it to the old prospe ctor, who was frying bacon at the fire. a I believe you’r right, Bob,” he cried.

Barton ran to the spring and examined the gravel at the bottom.

“I believe you’re, Bob,” lie cried.

Then he went for his pan and scooped up some of the mud. This he carefully washed and when the earth was gone, they found on the bottom several kernels of the same stuff. At last these two men had realized their dream of wealth and for a time both laughed and cried for joy. When they had eaten their supper, which had been forgot­ ten in their wild joy over the find, they decided to wash out enough gold for Clayton to pay Mr. Graham, as it was already becoming cold in that country and as they did not know whether they would be able to return from Nome, where they were supposed to file a claim. Therefore, the next morning they went to work and in an­ other month they had washed out enough gold for their Immediate needs.

Now they determined to set out for Nome before the cold weather set in in earnest. They were in a big hurry to file that

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claim, before any other miners found it and claimed it for their own.

It was due to this eagerness that Barton one day slipped from a rock and broke his leg. They were too far away from other mines to sum­ mon help, so there was nothing to do but camp where they were, which, they did, although Barton urged Clayton to go alone, but he would not hear of leaving his partner to starve. They were now re­ duced to desperate straits, as their food was almost gone, but Clay­ ton managed to shoot a few animals for food. It took a long time for the leg to mend, but at last he could painfully hop along with Clay­ ton supporting him. They started out as soon as possible, reaching Nome, half-starved and half-frozen, during the first part of Novem­ ber. Upon their arrival there they filed their claims, and Clayton at once tried to get a berth for home, but what was his fear that he would be too late, when he discovered that there was no ship leav­ ing until the latter part of the month. This gave him a rather short time to reach home before the mortgage came due, but at last the time came, when he and Barton，who had decided to accompany him, were on a ship bound for Seattle. They did not stop there long, but started at once for Missouri.

We will now leave them to return to Mrs. Clayton, who had been pinching along somehow all this while. Siie had come to the end of the rope, when the few dollars, for which she had pawned her wedding ring, were almost gone. Several kind neighbors brought her food, but it was plain that she was wasting away, and her one hope was to see her husband once more before she died. Beside all these troubles her stingy mortgagee came to her almost every day to demand his money, and she was always forced to beg him to wait until the time was up, for she hoped to be dead by that time. In this way things ran on until Christmas had come with its cold winds and heavy snow. On the morning of this day Mr. Graham came again for his money, and told her that, unless the money were paid at the stated time he would turn her out. Oh, what a pitiful Christmas this was to be for the poor woman! The day passed slowly and when evening came it was so cold and dreary in the house, that she went to bed, never expecting to arise from it again. The neighbors all came to help her as much as they could, but they were also too poor to lend her enough money to pay the mortgage. After a time they left her, in order to spend Christmas eve in their own homes.

Now, Mrs. Clayton fell into a lialf-slumber, from which she was suddenly awakened by the jingle of sleighbells before her door. She heard them stop, and a minute later she was clasped in her hus­ band^ arms. She immediately told him that Mr. Graliam wanted the money before midnight, as then the limit would be over. He told her, however, that the mortgage had already been paid off as soon as he came into the village. Seeing his wife so ill, had upset Clayton， however, and he did not know what to do, but his partner saw that it was a case of cold and starvation. Therefore, he left Clayton, relating his experiences to liis wife, and went to several of the

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neighbors to ask for a little help in surprising the Claytons the next morning. They were all willing to help and began to collect presents at once.

During the night they took the presents to the house and Ned Barton placed them all under a Christmas-tree, which he had pro­ cured in some mysterious way. In the morning, therefore, when the Claytons arose, the first thing they saw was the tree and the presents beneath it. Even food had not been forgotten, among which was a large turkey ready for the pot. It is no wonder that Mrs. Clayton became well again. Oh, what rejoicing was there and what praising of God, who had so plentifully blessed them. Once more they were under their own roof, a thing which was enough to be thankful for in itself, for without God’s mercy Clayton would never have had enough money. Besides they had both been pro­ tected from all evil. Rob Clayton on his dangerous trip to Alaska and his wife from starvation. Together these two gave thanks to the Lord for heaping so many undeserved blessings on them.

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TRUE CHRISTMAS JOY. Again the Christmas tide is here. Once more the Gloria in Excelsis is heard throughout the world. Everybody is filled with the joy of Christmas. This Christmas joy first came upon the world about two thousand years ago. Generations have come and have gone, but the Christmas joy has remained. Our ancestors have felt this joy and our descendants will be filled with the same spirit as long as the world stands. Every year the story of Christ’s birth is dwelt upon in the churches, it is told by parents to their children in hundreds of languages. Christmas songs are sung and every home is filled with the warm spirit.

Why is it that this joy is renewed every year? Why is it that this Christmas spirit is not exterminated, even in times of terrible wars?

Are there any earthly causes for this spirit? Some people think so,

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but their joy is shallow. That is why they forget Christmas as soon as it is over with. No, there are no earthly causes at the bottom of the real Christmas joy. The real cause for joy is found in the angels’ message, “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all peolpe. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” A saviour is born to us. God wants all men to be saved, and because the world is full of sin and cannot save itself from damnation which it deserves, he sent his only begotten son to die for us. Christ came to us poor and condemned sinners to redeem us from sin, death, and hell. He also cares for us in a spiritual way that we might receive the salvation of our souls.

Because Christ came to us and died for us, we have peace with God through faith. These are truly good tidings. That is the cause which produces the real Christmas joy. If that is our reason for rejoicing we will not only say, “peace on earth, good will toward men,” for this is what all the world quotes. No, if we have the true motives for joy, we will sing with a true heart first and always, “Glory be to God on High,” the rest will then follow and our joy will not be a mere passing sentiment, but it will remain with us till the end.

G. A. Z., 'IS. A CHANGE NEEDED. After every concert we render, the comments heard are usually praises. The music is not always praised, but the fact that we are amateurs is taken into consideration. The people who attend the concerts do not expect to hear Sousa’s band or the Minneapolis sym­ phony orchestra, neither do they expect to hear singers like Caruso.

So when they praise us, they do not praise the music as much as our accomplishments as students. Now this is no reason why we mem­ bers of the organizations should not try to do better hereafter. It almost seems as if some think they are good and don’t have to do better.

Let’s visit rehearsals. The chorus is now practicing a new piece.

One section is taking its part through. What are the other voices doing? A few are following attentively; some are dreaming with open eyes; some think it their duty to tell some one else a story or entertain him in some other way; some one else, who very seldom does something for his section, feels it his business to criticize the section that is drilling its part. The piece isn’t very difficult. After four rehearsals the director says, put your music aside, in order to follow me more easily. Oh, some say, we haven’t time to memorize this at home! It，s true, members of the chorus, we have studies to prepare, but have you considered that if during four rehearsals, in­ stead of sleeping or telling stories or criticizing, you would have paid attention and concentrated your mind a trifle, you would know your parts without memorizing them at home? It can done. It has-been done.

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The band now has rehearsal. The director is explaining a pas­ sage. What is the band doing? Some members are paying attention; some one in the cornet section is admiring something on a saxaphone; in other sections some are wondering at the workmanship of other instruments; then there is some one who never practices at home, figuring out what valves to use to get what he thinks is a “tough” note. Now it，s all well and good if you are interested in other instruments, but during rehearsals is no time for admiring them. It is also possible that you have a difficult note, but when the director is talking it，s your business to pay attention.

The orchestra rehearsals run about the same way, with the exception that some members think they have a right to do what they please, because most of them have their own instruments; they are not furnished by the college.

A change is necessary. Those members of the band and orcliestra whose instruments are furnished them are not doing their duty if they don’t rehearse at home and pay attention during rehearsals.

Those who own their instruments, and the members of the chorus are not fulfilling their obligations to the organizations if they don’t.

Or do you think that the director and the members who are trying their best are honored by your presence? Indeed not. Much more can be accomplished with small organizations where all are willing than with larger ones where only one third of the members are.

Does it seem right tliat all those who pretend should receive credit for what a few accomplish? A change must take place. If it does not, we will have to eliminate. If you cannot do justice to your class-work and also be a member of an organization, there is only one alternative left for you. Take that step, and clon，t keep the musical organizations back.

Members of the band, orchestra, and chorus, consider this.

A change must take place and it will take place. It’s all up to you. * G. A. Z.，，1S.

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doll吵 Noto FOOTBALL CAPTAIN ELECTED.

After having carefully piloted his crew of husky pigskin chasers thru a successful season, Captain Duxe once more called them to­ gether for the purpose of chosing a pilot for the ensuing year. To cut a long story short, Mr. Tacke was elected captain. After his team-mates had wished him the best of success and a successful sea-

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son, they once more disbanded never again to appear as a unit in the football world.

Mr. Tacke deserves the captaincy for his consistent and thor­ ough work in the past season. Playing either at tackle or end, he filled both positions to a nicety, dropping many an opponent in his tracks or making a hole for his own team-mates. Although handi­ capped by the loss of many men, whose positions will be hard to fill, the new captain with the able assistance of the coach hopes to turn out another successful team, when the football seasons opens next fall.

OFFICIAL LETTERS AWARDED. ■rrc'ir .， With the close of the present football season thirteen of our gridiron heroes have became the proud posessers of the coveted “N.” Of this number six are veterans, while the others have just made their debut.

In order to obtain a letter at N. W. C. a player must play at least two full games. This does not signify that a player can play two games, ask for his letter and retire for the season. No, he must finish the season, keep in good trim and show himself worthy of the honor of a letter.

The “N”，s were awarded in a special meeting of the student body. As the president of the Athletic Board called off the names the lucky ones walked up to the secretary’s desk and received their letters amid the roof-raising applause of their fellow students. The following received the official “N:” Edward Duxe *18 Ewald Tacke ’19 Belno Lange ’18 Erich Falk ’19 Arthur Matzke，18 Karl Sievert ’19 John Henning *18 Theo. Uetzmann *21 Raymond Timmel ’18 Alfred Liesner ’21 Adolph Zeisler，18 Arthur Huegele ’21 Mr. W. T. Meier received the honorable manager’s “N.”

Election.

On December 13, a meeting was called for the purpose of elect­ ing managers for the next football season. William Lehmann *19 was elected manager, and Kurt Timmel *20 was elected assistant manager.

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—societies at N. W. C., the Phi Gamma Rho and the Philomathary ean, are preparing for the coming seaison. Both societies have had meetings, elected masters of ceremonies and declared their willing­ ness to engage in a number of friendly debates. The Phi Gamma Rho promises to give the other society a hot race and is out to erase the defeats of the year before. The aid of the faculty, which was so beneficial in tlie past year, will again be asked for. As this goes to press, no definite arrangements have been made. Two programs •will, however, be “staged” before Christmas.

STUDENTS HEAR CLARENCE EDDY.

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On December 5, an opportunity was afforded us to hear the re­ nowned organist, Clarence Eddy. All who attended the recital en­ joyed it to the utmost. Those, who had never heard a player who could do justice to the pipe organ, were struck with awe when they realized the different possibilities of registration on an organ, Also were they amazed when the organist played sixteenth notes on tlie pedals. Those who had heard good players before, agreed that the concert by Clarence Eddy was unexecelled. The pieces were played with sucli spirit and tlie selection and combination of registers was so exact, that it was comparatively easy for one, even though he might not have much of a musical training, to follow and under­ stand the language of music fairly well. The program consisted of a great variety of pieces, some required technique, some demanded tender feeling, in fact they required everything that only an artist could produce. They called for skill not only in striking the right keys and pedals, but also in adjusting and selecting the right stops.

This Mr. Eddy executed to perfection and the required effect was always produced. It is our sincerest wish to have another opportunity to hear Clarence Eddy.

A. Z. AUS DEM SEMINAR. Von Preunden und Gonnern der Anstalt erhielten wir mehrere Sendungen von Kartoffeln und Gemuse. Diese Gaben sind sehr wertvoll und willkommen, besonderns in diesen teuren Zeiten. Allen freundlichen Gebern unsern herzliclisten Dank!

Herr E. C. Kiessling unterzog sich vor einiger Zeit im hiesigen St. Mary’s Hospital einer Operation fur Blinddarmentziindung. Als er diese gliicklich iiberstanden hatte, verweilte er mehrere Wochen in seiner Heimat in Jefferson. Am 1. Dez. konnte er, vollig genesen, seine Studien am Seminar von neuem aufnehmen.

Der kiirzlich unter der Leitung von Herrn Prof. J. Ph. Kohler organisierte gemischte Chor sang bei Gelegenheit des Missionsfestes

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der St. Johannes Gemeinde in Wauwatosa etliche Lieder. Dieser Chor besteht aus etwa fiinfzig Frauen aus der Wauwatosa Gemeinde und den Studenten des Seminars. Es werden ausschliesslich die klassischen Kernlieder der lutherischen Kirche gesungen. An die wochentlichen Ubungen schliessen sich Kunstvortrage von Herrn Prof. Kohler an.

Herr V. Andreae hat fur dieses Schuljahr seine theologischen Studien unterbrochen, um als Tutor im N. W. C. zu dienen an Stelle von Herrn Fr. Manteufel, der einem Ruf ins Pfarramt gefolgt ist.

Seit einigen Wochen vikariert Herr Gervasius Fischer in der Gemeinde zu Glencoe, Minn. Nach Weihnachten gedenkt er seine Studien hier wieder aufzunehmen.

Am 5. Dez. traten zu Marian, Wis., Herr Pastor Fr. Manteufel und Frl. Esther Ehmke in den heiligen Ehestand. Der Cotus gratuliert!

Eine “Handy Volume Edition,, der “Encyclopedia Britannica,, ist fur die Seminarbibliothek angeschafft worden.

Am 25. Nov. wurde Herr Geo. Kobs von seinen Eltern freundlich uberrascht. Sie befanden sich auf einer Durchreise von ihrer Heimat in Tawas City, Mich., nach Bangor, Wis. Vom Danksagungstage bis zum darauffolgenden Montage hatten wir Ferien. Viele von den Herren Studenten reisten nach Hause Oder zu nahe wohnenden Freunden und Verwandten. Es waren nui dreizehn hier, um den von Frau H. Kniephoff aufs schmackhafteste zubereiteten “Turkey” zu geniessen. Aber trotz der ungliicklichen Zahl hat der Schmauss gemundet!

Herr Erwin Abelmann von Watertown besuchte am 1. Dezember Freunde im Seminar.

Herr Fritz Schleicher wurde wahrend der Danksagungsferien von seiner Schwester von St. Paul besucht.

Herr Pastor R. Huth aus Palmyra sprach am 6. Dez. in seiner Alma Mater yor.

Die Weihnachtsferien beginnen am 21. Dez. und dauern bis zum 9. Januar.

Alumni 胸m —Henry E. Brandt, *16, U. of Nebraska, *17, is teacher of English in the high school at Wisner, Nebraska.

—Franklin D. Blumenthal, ex.a graduate of the commerce college of Wisconsin University in 1917, has been added to the sta of the Wisconsin Insurance Commission.

—Hans D. Gaebler,，07, is still in charge of the law library at the U. of Chicago. He is now working toward the degree of Bac Laws, which he hopes will increase his efficiency in his cno ’ the law library field.

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—Harry R. Palmbacli, ’13，who received the degree of Bachelor of Science at the U. of Wisconsin in 1916, is now professor of math­ ematics and natural sciences at D. M. L. College, New Ulm, Minne­ sota.

—Williain F. Beitz,，14, who is in charge of the Lutheran mis­ sionary work at Tucson, Arizona, has been appointed chaplain for the Lutheran boys at Camp Henry Jones, Douglas, Arizona, and at Port Huachuca. The appoinment was made by the Army and Navy Board of the Synodical Conference. He reports remarkable progress among tlie boys and feels that the new national army has created a very fruitful field for Lutheran army chaplains.

—“Pudge” Gardell, Com.，14, is still at his old tricks in the vicin­ ity of Beemer, Nebraska. He is still unmarried, we hear.

—Walter Schumann,，12，ex-tutor, has charge of the parish at North. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

—Edwin Winter, Com. *15, is a bank clerk in Norfolk, Nebraska, and has, we are told, matrimonial aspirations.

Editor’s Note:一Through the kindness of on alumnus this col­ umn was made possible this month. He gathered the notes of his own free will. It pleased us very much and would encourage us a great deal if other alumni would help us out also, since we have no Alumni column editor.

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WARTBURG QUARTERLY. The reformation number of tlie Wartburg Quarterly was a good example of diligent work. And this was especially worthy of note, since the contents treated of events pertaining to the history of the Lutheran Church. Another thing that helped to make his number a success was the grea number of cuts picturing notable persons and places of the Reformation.

We were first given a picture of the great suffering of the Lutheran Churcli during the Inquisition in the article “Verfolgt um des Glaubens Willen.” This story will not only be of interest to us who woulji naturally take interest in the history of the cliurch, but it will 》lso interest others, since it was written so as to arouse the interest in the reader. Some of the constructions were not wholly correct, but, on the whole, the German was good.

The historical topic, “Savonarola and the Italian Reformation,” wa? carried out well. Despite several awkward expressions the article made a good impression, and showed what a college student can accomplish by applying a little energy. ^

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The last literary article was “Tetzel und der Ablass.” As in the foregoing articles, the topic in this was also always kept in mind and followed out. Yet the language was not quite as fluent as that of the other two.

The editorials were more or less words of encouragement to you fellow-students and Alumni for assistance in conducting and editing the Quarterly, but since such admonishments are often nec­ essary, they were entirely in place.

The Alumni column was well supplied with material, “Luther and the Common Man,” and the sermon, “Unsere Kirche eine singende Kirche.” Both brought home their point to the reader, and this by means of fluent language.

Your “Exchanges” column was the most complete that ever appeared in any of our exchanges, and we wish to congratulate you on the work. However, you might have shortened the discussion on some of the minor articles by dropping some of the many comments.

“News” really contained a good amount of news from Wartburg College.

It also pleased us to read about your orchestra and band, as about your two literary societies.

We would prefer a longer “Slips and Slaps” column, since that too, is looked for by your readers to refresh their minds after read­ ing the other columns.

THE NEWBEERY STYLUS. One of our regular visitors, and possibly one of the best, is the Newberry Stylus. The November issue, was, however not of the same high standard as issues preceding it, which is greatly due to lack of interest on the students’ part.

The story “Aitch \V. Bee,” of which only the conclusion ap­ peared in the November issue, was a good, simple narration. The language was almost faultless. The writer did not attempt to show his skill by using sesquipedalian terms, as these undoubtedly tire the reader, but he used the language that a simple child can under­ stand. The plot was also good.

The article, “Indifference in the Literary Societies,” can be ap­ plied not only to students of Newberry College, but also to those of other colleges. Lack of interest for such work exists at most of our colleges, and a little encouragement and admonishment are very frequently necessary.

“Sacrifice to Win the War” was the last, in order, of your liter­ ary numbers. It treated mainly of the raising of funds in the present war. Although it was not written by a student of your college, it was not entirely out of place, especially since—according to the editor’s note—these war articles are published in all college maga­ zines of the South.

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“Editorials” contained but little variety, all three paragraphs treating of your paper.

“Athletics” showed that your football team was somewhat in­ ferior to that of your opponents, at least, as mucli as the first two games were concerned. The account of the games could have been more exact.

The exchange column was well managed, although somewhat short. However, this must be excused, since, as you said, only one exchange reached your table so far.

The Y. M. C. A. and Alumni column were also well edited.

Although your “Styloids and Personals” was not as long as it usually is, it pleased us for its containing good new jokes and for its lack of jokes borrowed from exchanges.

We, however, missed some college news, Besides “Athletics” nothing was said about events at Newberry.

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Nature is one of those unpleasant but dependable old ladies. Slie may not be generous, but she is at least just. While science is busy destroying men in the Great War, Nature rises to the emergency and increases her annual output of boys.

“The war has brought about an increase in the number of boy babies born as compared with the number of girls,” writes Gilbert V. Seldes of London to the Philadelphia Public Ledger: “In the first full year of the war, 415,000 fathers were made proud by the announcement that ‘It’s a boy.’ Only 400,000 girl babies arrived. That is, for every 1000 girls, 1040 boys were born.

In 1916, when every birth was entirely under war conditions, there were from 1045 to 1051 boys to every 1000 girls. The general aver­ age for this year is 1047 boys to every 1000 girls. It is the highest recorded in the last fifty years of English history.

“The peculiar thing about these statistics is that they support a popular superstition. Scientists have scoffed at it. They have asked for definite figures, and no figures were to be had. And now comes the most careful set of figures in the world to confound them. Sir Bernhard Mallet, registrar-general of vital statistics, has recognized the glad tidings in his official report. The silly old superstition is apparently right.”一Every Week. ^ —On March 3,1902, the first wireless message was sent from this countr y across the Atlantic by the inventor, Marconi.

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HOW FAST WE DIE. Population of the world is about 1,623,300,000.

Average at death is 33 years.

57,372,727 die annually.

908,516 die weekly.

5,308 die hourly.

Nearly ninety die every minute.

About three die every two seconds.

CHEAPER PAPER, PERHAPS. The news-print paper manufacturers, association is ordered dissolved, on the ground that it is an illegal trust. The leading men in the trust were fined. All have now agreed to let the price of paper be fixed by the Federal Trade Com mission while the war lasts.一Current Events.

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THE FOOTBALL SEASON—A REVIEW. The football team this year lost but one of the four scheduled games, and lost that one by a single point. But the success of a foot­ ball season, so far as the college represented by the team is itself concerned, is not measured by the number of game won; nor is its failure determined by the number of games lost. Success or failure depends on something that lies much farther back in the history of the team than the final score of a few games. The final scores do show pretty well the comparative strength and skill of the team; but they do not tell whether the members of the team and the college derived any benefit from the long football season, on which so much time and labor and money have been expended. And only when both the players and the college as a whole have had some actual, cal­ culable benefit from it, can the football season be said to have been successful. It is quite within the range of possibility for a team to go through its entire schedule without a victory, and still profit more by the game than a team that never saw defeat.

The benefits of football are not derived chiefly from the games that are played, They furnish the stimulus and the needed excitement , that make the players willing to go through the long course of daily drill which is the most beneficial part of the game. If one

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would see the best side of football, one must be on the campus during the week, when the men are practising. It is there that the player masters the hundred little details of the game, gets his wind, strengthens his muscles and joints, and acquires the endurance necessary to withstand the shocks and blows of actual competition.

It is on the campus during the week where the player learns to use his body and his brains to the best advantage. There he learns to think and move quickly, precisely, and unhesitatingly at the word of command. That is good training. An hour of hard, quick work, followed by a bracing shower-bath, clears the brain and makes the player more fit for his work in the class-room and at his desk. It is true that the work on the football field can be overdone, so that it ceases to be play and becomes an intolerable grind, and at the same time so exhausts the player that lie is physically unfit for study. But football is not carried to such extremes at Northwestern. It has al足 ways been our object to make the game serve the best interests of the boy and the institution, and not sacrifice both for the sake of football. For that reason we have always exercised moderation.

Rational football can serve the boy and the college better than any other sport; as irrational football can harm them more than any other sport. Football can brutalize, but it need not. It does offer opportunities for roughness and vicious tactics, but these are not necessarily the lessons taught by the game. It offers still more op足 portunities to learn to control the temper, and to take a hard blow without whimpering and without malice against the giver of the blow. It can teach courage, self-reliance, precision, and persistence; that it does teach these in every case is no more likely than that the study of Latin grammar makes every student of Latin grammar a precise thinker. The point is that it can teach them, and has taught them on our campus. More than one man on the campus this fall developed traits and discovered ability in himself which he never suspected that he possessed. The past football season at Northwest足 ern has been especially successful since it brought out and developed just these traits, as the players themselves, if they think it over, will recollect, and as the spectators who saw all the games and sometimes watched the team at practice, will have noticed. More stu足 dents, too, are attracted into the open air and provided with the needed exercise by football than by any other sport at our college.

For not only did the thirty candidates for positions on the first team participate, but several other teams were organized for occasional friendly games. The number of those who came out on tlie field merely to kick the ball back and forth was not small, and they found that kicking a football about is excellent exercise.

That there is risk of injury in football will not be denied. But there is risk of injury n any game from tiddly-winks to deer-Tiunting; and football is only slightly more dangerous than basketball and hockey.

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We suffered but few injuries this season, and those, happily, were not of a very serious nature. And if a young man comes through the football season with strengthened joints and sinews, but with a troublesome “charley-liorse，” is not that to be preferred to a cigar­ ette-stained forefinger and flaccid muscles? If a young man has re­ ceived the good steady training of the football season and ends with a broken collar-bone, that is not nearly the calamity for him that the weakened body, will, and mind would be which he would possi­ bly acquire while dawdling down Main street and spending his father’s money on ice-cream and clothes.

If there were some other good game fit for the cool air of the fall of the year, giving the same good training, offering as great advantages, and attracting as large a number of the students as football, we would be the first to consider a change, in order to avoid the danger of injury; but since the danger of injury is not so great as to make a change imperative, and since no other satisfactory game K. has yet been invented, a change is not desirable.

—Valentine Andreae ’17, of the seminary has accepted the posi­ tion as tutor left vacant by the resignation of Mr. Manteufel.

—Orlando Horlamus of the University of Wisconsin was the guest of his brother, Rudolph, Prep., Nov. 17.

—On Nov. 17 Duxe, Zeisler, Westendorf, R. Timmel, all ’IS, G. Press and K. Timmel ’20, A. 'Brandt and E. Felton，21, journeyed to Oconomowoc to attend the fortieth anniversary jubilee of the Rev. Guenther. 一George Meyer of the 331st Infantry Band, of Camp Grant, Rock­ ford, was a visitor at the institution on Nov. 24-25.

—Erich Kupfer ’20, showed H. Schumacher ’IS, around in Milwau­ kee on Sunday, Nov. 18.

—Carl Gerhard of Neenah called on “Al” Schujahn on Monday, Nov. 19. 一Theo. Kock ’19，and Paul Albrect ’19，were at Columbus on Sunday, Nov. 18. ―Pankow Bros, took in the sights at Lebanon on Sunday, Nov. 25. 一Dr. Frank Kosanke ’04, of Chicago, was seen in town Dec. 1.

—Walter Beck ’19, discontinued his studies temporarily in order that he might be operated upon to restore his hearing. We expect him back after the Christmas recess.

—“Arney” Brandt ’21, went to Horicon and took a little look at the marsh on one of these Sundays, some time ago.

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—Elmer Kiessling ’17, stopped off for a little visit on his way back to the seminary Dec. 1-2. 一K. Krauss ’18, R. Timmel ’18, and K. Timmel ’20, were at Cooney on Sunday, Dec. 2. 一Sauer Bros, ate their Thanksgiving dinner at Juneau this year.

The rest of us were glad they were gone.

—“Eggie” Felten ’21，girded up his loins and betook himself to some relative or other at Milwaukee on Sunday, Dec. 2.

—Wehausen, Lindloff, Medenwald, Westendorf, Eickmann, Bodamer and Vollmers of the seminary spent their Thanksgiving vaca­ tion at Watertown this year.

—W. Holzhausen ’21, was a visitor at his home in Muskego from Nov. 28 till Dec. 2.

—A. Gentz, Prep., visited his mother at Waukesha on Sunday, Dec. 2.

—R. Kremer ’20, spent Thanksgiving at his home In Milwaukee this year. 一Heidtke Bros, travelled to Juneau on Dec. 1 to get a haircut. It seems that haircuts are only two bits at that place. Heidtke wants us not to notify the barbers in that town that the price of a haircut is thirty-five cents elsewhere, for it would cause him the inconven­ ience of having his allowance raised ten cents per month.

—Rudolph Horlamus, Prep., spent Thanksgiving at his home in West Bend. 一“Abey” Blumenthal was a visitor at his parental abode in Mil­ waukee from Nov. 28 till Dec. 2.

—“Wurstie” Wenzel, Prep., spent his Thanksgiving day off at the home of Byron Lange in Beaver Dam. —Misses Irene Bernthal and Esther Kutz of Fort Atkinson were the guests of Leonard Bernthal ’18, on Saturday, Dec. 1.

—Pritzy Kaelber, Prep., ate Thanksgiving dinner at his home in Kenosha. 一C. Spilmann ’20, and H. Schumacher *13, spent Thanksgiving day at Horicon. 一Dudley Rohda, Prep., entertained the Red Cross of Cooney at his home in that town on Sunday, Dec. 2. 一“Doc” Hoyer, at one time a member of the class of ’17, was the guest of his former employer, “Jumbo” Guth, and other friends on Sunday, Dec. 2. 了Misses Emma Zeisler and Nora Beust, of Milwaukee Downer, visited the institution on Saturday, Dec. 1.

COED NOTES _____ —** — 一Miss Norma Wambsganss visited classes on Nov. 24. 一Misses Doris Ott and Esther Detert enjoyed their Thanksgiving dinner in Waterloo. 一Miss Helen Fischer spent Nov. 29 to Dec. 3 in Cooney.

—Miss Margaret Koenig was in Milwaukee Nov. 28.

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—Miss Hattie Detert journeyed to Oconomowoc Nov. 28 in order to introduce her friend to his future relatives.

—Miss Adele Dornfeld journeyed to Marshall to partake of her Thanksgiving dinner with her parents.

—The walls of the Coeds’ rooms have taken an altogether differ­ ent aspect.. On Dec. 6 the girls cleaned the rooms, hung curtains, and decorated the walls with pictures and pennants. To celebrate this renovation they enjoyed an elaborate spread in the rooms on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 8. The rooms now have a very comely and liome-like appearance.

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—Kockie (growing despondent about English composition writin) :I don’t care, my comp was all right; I only had mistakes in spelling and punctuality. I never had the rules of punctuality, so how can anyone expect more of me.

—Prof.: What new things were introduced into England by Wil­ liam the Conqueror? lie introduced Hanschen (thinking of mother’s “Stollen”）： Christmas.

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Den 2. Jan. 1918.

Die Zeit vergeht doch gar zu schnell, Ach, horter schon die college bell!

Mit Scliwermut gehfs von Hause fort, Er denkt, sein Magen wird durchbohrt.

Doch hat sein liebes Mutterlein t -Den Trunk gefiillt mit Fleisch vom Schwein, Mit Bratwurst und mit Gansfleisch fein, Und mit des Hahnes Schinkenbein. 一Fat: Say, Brass, what does one fall against when he falls down the stairway?

Brass: I don’t know, what is it?

Fat: He falls against his own will.

—Venus (proud that lie is from the Nebraskan metropolis): I don’t think I’ll ever see Lincoln again.

Rooster: Why? Venus: Why, lie’s dead.

—Cur: Bismarck hatte mit vielen Scliwierigkeiten zu kampfen; als er gestorben war, konnte er nicht mehr sehen.

—Lately the Sophs have an advantage over all the other collegiaU classes; they get ten per cent discount.

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Bei dem Einfall in Russland wollten zwei deutsche Offiiziere sich bei einer russischen Frau einen kleinen Schmaus holen. Als sie ins Haus kamen, verging ihnen aber sofort der Appetit. Sie fragten sie nur nach ihren Namen und erfuhren, dass sie Sax hiess. Dann machten sie sich flugs aus dem Staub, schlugen aber erst noch einen Zettel an die Haustur: “Diese Frau heisst Sax, lasst euch aber nicht 丨 ein x fur ein u machen.” 一Prof.: What is a vacuum?

Voges: I can’t express it, but I have it in my mind.

—Rich farmer to a Ford dealer: When I buy myself a car, I buy myself a big car, a Hootchason (Hudson) with the foot expirator, with the engine with good expression, the take off wheels, and lickerich lights.

EVOLUTION. First Scientist: Do you remember when we were fishing to­ gether in the Fish Age? Second Scientist: No, but I remember when you were a Frank­ furter and I was a Hot Dog. First Scientist: When was that?

Second Scientist: In the Saus-Age. First Scientist: Well, I remember when you were an onion and I was a potato.

Second Scientist: When was that, in the Cornbeef and CabAge? —!EiX. First Scientist: No, in the Garb-Age. —Pickle: Kuckkahn, wenn Sie aber jetzt nicht bald aufpassen, fliegen Sie zum Fenster hinaus.

Kuckkahn schant bekiimmert nach dem Fenster.

Pickle: Ja, gucken Sie nur; es ware gut, Sie sahen Sich die Stelle erst an.

—Ebert: We drill today without guns.

Voges: What are we going to have?

Ebert: Manual of arms.

—Mrs. Ivaschnick (showing her friend her new house): Here is j our bath room. We just have it because it’s swell. Of course, we never use it.

A TRANSPARENT MYSTERY. It’s a mystery who started this war, said a government official.

Yes, it’s just about as dark and impenetrable a mystery as that of the purloined pork. Two colored men bought a piece of pork in partnership, and Wash took charge of it. The next evening he led Cal aside and said: “Strange thing done happen to mah house las’ night. Hit shorely am a mystery to me.”

“What dat, Washin’ton?”

“Dis mawnin’，Cal, Ah goes down fo’ ter git a piece o’ hog fo* breakfus*, an* Ah puts mah hand in de brine, an’ dere hain’t no hog aere. All gone. So Ah turns up de bar’l, an，，Cal, sho，s preachin*, de

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rats had et a hole froo de bottom o * de bar’l an* dragged out all de meat!”

Cal at this news was frozen with astonishment for a moment, the nhe said: “How come de brine didn’t run outen de liole?”

“Why, yo’ see, Cal,” said Wash, scratching his head, “dat’s de mystery.”一Ex. Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.一 Longfellow.

Not what we give, but what we share,— For the gift without the giver is bare.一Lowell This is the month and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with. His Father work us a perpetual peace.

That glorious form, that light unsufferable, And that far-beaming blaze of majesty, Wherewith He wont at Heaven’s high council table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside; and, here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.一Milton.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man，s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 一Bacon.

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THE BLACK AND RED

Volume XXI.

Watertown, Wis” January 1918.

Number 8

THE LOW STAGE TO WHICH MAN CAN BE BROUGHT. In the “Tale of Two Cities” Dickens by numerous vivid pictures leads his readers into parts of the French Revolution, into that great era in which crime and terror predominated in France. It was the revolt of the French people against royal despotism and class privilege. The nobility enjoyed unjust privileges, while the poorer classes of the people lived in a wretched condition. “Liberty, Equal­ ity, and Fraternity” was the motto, and in order that this end might be obtained great crimes were committed.

The prisons of Paris were filled with suspected persons. Who­ soever was under the displeasure of the Republic was tried, con­ demned, and put to death. “To the Gillotine all aristocrats,was the vulgar cry. The dungeons were emptied of their victims and room made for fresh ones by the swift process of the Revolutionary Tribunal, which in mockery of justice caused the prisoners to be brought before its bar in companies of ten to fifty or even more.

Rank or talent protected no one.

In dark and ugly cells the prisoners were kept, there waiting for the last hour. If once in prison, they could never think of ever being pardoned, but were doomed to die. They heard the clocks strike the numbers they would never hear again. The time wore on.

Their hold of life was strong and it was very hard to loosen. If one could peep into the prison, one would see some of the unfortunates walking to and fro in restlessness, others sitting quietly and think­ ing about things gone by and yet to come; others again setting a stern, brow against the events of the near future. This alone should

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have moved the peopled heart, but they* were in no relenting mood, and heartless indifference appeared in its real color. And •when the last hour was at hand, the prisoners were marched into a large room adjacent to the prison. Here their hands were bound on their backs and they were led to tlie wagons which would hurry them to their end.

These wagons, called tumbrils also, jolted heavily through the streets of Paris. The people, being so accustomed to seeing these daily carrying the bands of unfortunate men and women over the rough roads, paid very little attention to them, unless a prominent person was on the list. In fact, nothing could call forth their sympathies. They more or less rejoiced in seeing the human offer­ ings carried to the altar for the Republic. The doomed, being on their last road, are by every revolution of the wheels below them brought nearer to their end. They court the last observation of their surroundings and inhale the vaporous atmosphere of these bloody regions. There is no way of escape, they must yield their head for “La Republique.” And as the reader follows these tumbrils, which on important instances plow a real furrow among the swell­ ing populace, he at last arrives at the place of execution.

As a rule this was the market square. Here the unfortunate passengers were taken off the wagons and led to the deadly instru­ ment which terminated the lives of so many—the guillotine. It was the portal of death. Two big poles were vertically planted in the ground. Over the tops of these a crossbeam was placed. On this a heavy and very sharp razor blade was fastened, and when it fell down, its extremities were guided in the grooves cut in the vertical poles. Below, a few feet above the ground, a platform was erected, on which the body of the person to be executed knelt or lay. The head of the doomed rested in a groove cut in a crossbeam, on which the platform was fastened. The executioner merely pulled a rope or pressed a lever, in this way causing the insatiable knife to fall.

And thus ended the lives of so many victims of this bloody epoch.

Many children of the Universal Mother, so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.

The scenes about the guillotine were the bloodiest history ever has shown. Benches were arranged around the scaffold and rented to the spectators, like seats in a theatre. The market women, who were known as tlie “Furies of the Guillotine,busied themselves with their knitting, while watching the changing scenes of the bloody spectacle. The people were so hardened by the continued flow of blood and falling of heads that it never aroused their sym­ pathies to see the victims being deprived of their life. If they would not see blood, they would call for it. It even came to pass that they demanded the lives of little children—almost the climax of cruelty, of barbarism. The people fell to so low a stage that it became second nature to them to do things of this kind.

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With rejoicing crowds around them the doomed approach the platform on which their body will rest for the last time in this life. Some have a sad and worried face, others show a non-fearing brow to the instrument which will terminate heir life and hurry them to the beyond. Some go to death with curses, seeing the ter­ rible judgment which is awaiting them. Those, however, who lived They a life of Faith go to the altar as calmly as sheep. know that the agonies of death last but a few seconds, after which they will triumphantly walk through the portal of heaven and there live ever in joy and happiness. Though their hearts thump, they say no word, but calmly lay their body on the blood-smeared plat­ form, and without one sound receive the cut which delivers them into their Heavenly Fatherland, where peace and joy forever reign.

“I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whoso­ ever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”

In the French Revolution experience has thus shown us the low stage to which man can sink. The common people are long-endur­ ing and patient, but when once their ire is incensed they become so furious that nothing is too cruel for them—they become real beasts.

May God, our Heavenly Father, be our protection and may He never give the pen of the historian an opportunity to depict a second era of this kind.

E. W. T.,，19.

I)ER HOHEPUNKT IM DRAMA “DIE JUNGFRAU YON ORLEANS” Wenn irgend einer ein Drama liest Oder vor sich auf der Buhne abspielen sieht, so wird von vornherein seine ganze Aufmerksamke|t auf einen Punkt ini Drama gelenkt, namlich den sogenannten Hohepunkt. Der Hohepunkt Oder die Krisis ist der entscheidende Moment fur den Helden. Ist dieser bisher von Sieg zu Sieg geeilt; hat er bisher alle Feinde ueber den Haufen geworfen, so sturzt er jetzt von der schwindelnden Hohe hinab in den gahnenden Absrund. Auf cliesen Punkt driingen nun auch alle vorhergehende Ereignisse im Drama. Dem Dichter aber wird die schwere Aufgabe gestellt, den Hohepunkt, klar und deutlich herauszustellen, sodass der Leser nicht erst allerlei Hindernissen aus dem Wege gehen muss, um jenen zu erkennen. Dieses hat in der Tat keiner besser verstanden als unser grosse Dichter Schiller. Auch in der Jungfrau von Orleans hat er dies klar bewiesen. Im Folgenden wollen wir nun sehen, wie vortrefflich es ihm gelungen ist, den Hohepunkt darzustellen.

Wie schon vorher gesagt, wird der Hohepunkt durch das Vorhergehende motiviert. Um die Sachlage richtig zu verstehen, miissen wir unsre Aufmerksamkeit zuerst auf die vorbereitenden MoPente leiten. Das erste, das unsre Teilnahme in Anspruch nimmt, ist die Heldin, Johanna df Arc, die Jungfrau von Orleans, und ihre

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gefahrliclie Laufbahn. Hier haben wir vor allem im Auge zu behalten, dass die Heldin einen zweifachen Kampf zu bestehen hat, namlicli, einen ausserlichen gegen die Englander, ihre Landesfeinde, und einen innerlichen gegen ihr eigenes Herz. Nicht aus eigenem Antriebe ubernimmt sie den Kampf gegen die Peinde, sondem auf Befehl Gottes. Wahrend sie noch als einfaches Hirtenmadclien auf ihrem vaterlichen Landgut die Schafe hiitet, erscheint ihr die Himmelskonigin und meldet ihr, dass sie es sei, die auserwahlt sei, das Yaterland aus den Handen der Englander zu retten, die jetzt schon die Halfte davon besassen. Mit Entschlossenheit nimmt sie iliren Beruf auf. In rascher Aufeinanderfolge schlagt sie die Feinde in drei Schlachten; zuerst bei dem Dorfchen Vermanton, wo sie mit nur sechzehn Fahnlein die grosse Heeresmacht der Gegner besiegt und in die Plucht schlagt; wenige Tage darauf entsetzt sie auf ebenso wunderbare Weise das stark umringte Or­ leans. Kaum aber haben sich die Englander einigermassen gesammelt und erholt von diesem grossen Schlage, so taucht die kuhne Jungfrau sogar in dem feindlichen Lager auf und zerstreut abermals die Feinde wie Spreu in alle Winde. Hier gewiimt sie gewissermassen zwei Siege. Der Herzog von Burgund, der bisher gegen sein Vaterland gefochten hat, wird durch Johannas Bitten bewogen, einen Separatfrieden mit den Franzosen zu scliliesen. Gemeinsam flihren sie jetzt den Kampf gegen die Englander. Scliliesslich finden wir die Jungfrau ganz oben an der Marne, woliiu sie das Heer der Feinde in unglaublicli kurzer Zeit getrieben hatte. Bei Reims stellen sich die Englander abermals den Franzosen, zielien jedoch wiederum den Kurzeren. In wilder Flucht gelit es weiter dem Norden zu. Johanna steht nun nichts mehr im Wege, ihrem Konig in der Kronungsstadt Reims die Krone aufs Haupt zu setzen.

Somit hatte sie sich des ersten Teils ihrer Aufgabe entledigt; die Handlung gipfelt in ihrer Kronung des Konigs.

Wie schon oben gesagt, hatte Johanna nicht nur einen iiusseren, sondern auch einen inneren Kampf zu bestehen. Wenn wir den Bedingungen ihres Auftrags ein wenig Nachdenken schenken, so erscheinen sie uns schier unausfiihrbar, zumal da Johanna, die Ausfuhrerin, nur ein schlichtes Hirtenmadchen ist, ein Wesen von Fleisch und Blut. Sie muss namlich alle zarte Empfindungen fallen lassen, aller Liebe entsagen: “In rauhes Erz sollst du die Glieder schniiren, Mit Stahl bedecken deine zarte Brust, Nicht Mannerliebe darf dein Herz beruhren, Mit stind’gen Plammen eitler Lust.”

So lautete das Gebot der Himmelskonigen. Sofort fragen wir uns: "Wird sie es halten konnen? Kann dies zarte Madchen der Liebe entsagen?” Wir sind besorgt «m sie, und wir haben jetzt schon eine Vorahnung, worm das entscheidende Moment in der Krisis bestehen wird.

Dann erfolgt Ansturm auf Ansturm auf ihr Herz. Der erste

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193 derselben findet statt gleich nach der Einnahme des englischen La­ gers. Hier findet sie der schone, junge Englander Montgomery.

Fiinfmal bittet er sie, sein Leben zu schonen, und fiinfmal verweigert sie ihm die Bitte. “Nicht den Unverteidigten durchbohre! ruft er ihr entgegen; doch Johanna bleibt ihrem Beruf getreu. Er bietet ihr ein Losegeld an; er bittet sie, ihn zu schonen wegen seiner Jugend; er bittet sie, ihm das Leben zu schenken, weil seine holde Braut und seine teuren Eltern ihn daheim erwarten; endlich, weil es schwer sei, in der Fremde zu sterben, fern von der lieben Heimat: Doch umsonst! Johanna kann und darf ihn nicht schonen. Wohl fuhlt sie sich zu diesem schonen Waliser hingezogen; aber sie muss ihn toten, denn es treibt sie die Gotterstimme. Sie trostet ihn mit freundlichen Worten und zeigt Mitleid fur sein trauriges Geschick.

Schliesslich fordert sie ihn mit geradezu liebreichen Worten zum Zweikamph heraus. Nach kurzem Gefecht findet Montgomery seinen Tod, obgleich es Johanna kaum libers Herz bringen konnte, sein Blut zu vergiessen.

Bald darauf wird der zweite Ansturm gemacht, und zwar von Dunois und La Hire. Diese treffliclien Waffenbriider, denen jedes Madchen in Frankreich mit Freuden die Hand gereicht liaben wurde, bieten Johanna ill re Liebe an. Beide haben Ehre und Reichtum in Fulle. Prinz Dunois, auf dessen Iierz noch nie ein Weib Eindruck gemacht, fiihlt sich zu diesem armen Hirtenmadchen hingezogen.

Vor alien Grossen und Adeligen des Reiches bekennt er seine Liebe zu ihr. Nicht verschmaht das konigliche Blut, das in seinen Adern rinnt, die niedrig Geborne. La Hire, obwohl nicht vom Adel, steht doch dem Prinzen Dunois an Heldenruhm und Tugenden keineswegs nach. Auch er tut offentlich seine Liebe zu ihr kund. Diesen beiden Herzensfreunden, die bisher in Not und Todesgefahr fest zusammengehalten hatten, droht die Liebe zu einem Madchen die Ursache eines bittern Streites zu werden. Nur ein Wortlein aus dem Munde Johannas, und sie ware das glucklichste Madchen in ganz Frankreich. Wie es aber in dem Herzen Johannas aussieht, kann sich wohl kein Mensch vorstellen. Besonders fiihlt sie sich zu dem treffliclien Dunois hingezogen. Wie gern wiirde sie ihm nicht als Gattin folgen! Auch erwacht in ihr das Verlangen, einen eigenen Hausstand zu grlinden. Doch sie muss ihrem Beruf ge­ treu bleiben, und so schlagt sie die Werbung ab, obwohl es ihr ausserst schwer wird.

Nach diesem lieftigen Angriff ist Johanna total umgewandelt, was sich auch in ihrem ganzen Benehmen offenbart. Sie ist nicht niehr dieselbe, sie spricht nicht mehr mit ebenderselben Entschlossenheit wie fruher, sondern zaghaft und zerstreut. Die lange Waffenstille angstigt und bedriickt ihr Herz, und sie sehnt sich nach Kampf, um hierin ihrer bedrangten Seele Ruhe zu verschaffen. Als endlich die Englander ihr Heer zu dem letzten Treffen aufstellen, sturzt sie sich mit geradezu rasender Kampfbegier in die Schlacht; und sofort erkennen wir, dass sie nicht mehr dieselbe ist. Sie ist

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nicht melir die reine Jungfrau; mit Scliaudern sehen wir, wie weit sie von ihrer Bahn abgewichen ist, und es ist klar, dass der Hohepunkt jetzt unbedingt folgen muss. , Wahrend Johanna in dem wirren Sclilachtgetiimmel umhertobt, Tod und Verderben verbreitend, tritt plotzlich aus den Reihen des verhassten Inselvolkes ein Ritter hervor mit kohlenschwarzer Rustung und geschlossenem Visier. Beim ersten Blicke fordert ihn Johanna zum Zweikampf heraus. Langsam weicht er zuriick, die Jungfrau dicht hinter ihm her. Endlich, in einer oden, nnenschen5r Halt. Als sie leeren Gegend abseits vom Schlachtfelde, macht er nahe an. ihn herankommt, beriihrte er sie und forderte sie auf mit arglistiger Verstellung, den Kampf aufzugeben und nicht nach Reims zu gehen, da das Gliick, das bislier ihn Bundesgenosse war, hier an der Marne von ihr weichen wiirde. Sie verachtet seine Warnung und dringt mit grosser Entschlossenheit auf ihn ein. Sie erhebt ihr Schwert, ihn zu toten; doch er beruhrt sie sacht, und wie gebannt bleibt sie stehen. Darauf gibt er sich zu erkennen, und, umgeben von Pinsternis, Donner und Blitzen, versinkt er in die Erde. Seine Absicht aber hat das Gespenst,—denn ein solches war es,—erreicht, namlich Johanna zu verwirren. Und so hat der Gott lasternde Talbot, der kurz zuvor in der Schlacht gestorben, noch in seinem Tode geholfen, Johanna zugrunde zu richten, indem sein Geist aus der Holle aufstieg und der Jungfrau erschien. Wir aber sind iiberzeugt, dass Johanna, wenn noch mehr solche Angriffe gemacht werden, diesen keinen Widerstand leisten kann, und fiihlen daher, dass der Hohepunkt unmittelbar bevorsteht.

So ist es aucli. Kaum ist der schwarze Ritter verschwunden, so erfolgt der letzte und schwerste Ansturm auf ihr Herz. Johanna ist noch so erschuettert durch. das Auftreten des gespenstischen Rit­ ters, dass sie kaum genug Energie und Kraft hat, dem Ansturm zu wiederstehen. Lionel, ein Offizier des englischen Heeres, suchte sie vergeblich auf dem ganzen Schlachtfelde, um den Tod seines Peldliern Talbot zu rachen. Zuletzt findet er sie in jener oden Gegend, wo der schwarze Ritter sie eben verliess. Er dringt auf sie ein, und nach kurzem Gefecht schlagt ihm Johanna das Schwert aus der Hand. Lionel jedoch ge denkt sein Leben so teuer 'vie moglich zu verkaufen und ringt mit ihr. Johanna ergreift ihn von hinten am Helmbusch und reisst ihm den Helm gewaltsam herunter, dass sein Gesicht entblosst wird; zugleich ziickt sie das Schwert mit der Rechten. In diesem Augenblick sieht sie ihm ins Gesicht; sein Anblick ergreift sie, sie bleibt unbeweglich stehen und lasst dann lang­ sam den Arm sinken. Sie kann es nicht ubers Herz bringen, die­ sen schonen jungen Englander zu toten. So hat sie ihr Geliibde gebrochen; denn die Liebe, die Liebe, die ihr doch aufs strengste untersagt war, ist in ihr erwacht, und so tut sie denn, was sie nicht lassen kann, sie schont Lionel. Als sie merkt, was sie getan hat, bricht sie in schmerzliche Wehklage aus. Lionel’s Teilnahme fur sie wird hierdurch erregt, und auch er wird von heisser Liebe zu ihr

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ergriffen. Als ihm Johanna ihre Liebe gesteht, merken wir, dass sie gefallen ist, und dass die Katastrophe jetzt beginnt.

Nachdem Lionel die Flucht ergriffen hat, kommt Johanna erst zum vollen Bewusstsein ihrer Schuld, und infolge unsaglicher Gewissensquallen sinkt sie olinmachtig in die Arme des herbeigeeilten La Hires. Der Hohepunkt ist jetzt bereits uberschritten: Johanna ist von ihrer schwindelnden Hohe gestiirzt. Audi wir fiihlen das grosste Mitleid mit ihr, doch wir miissen auch sagen, dass es nicht anders hat kommen konnen wegen des schier gebrochenen Gelubdes.

Und soviel steht fest: sie hat ihr Versprechen nicht gehalten und somit sich schwer gegen Gott versiincligt. Und ebenso schwer muss sie jetzt bussen. Es geht schnell bergab mit ihr. Kurze Zeit nach der Kronung wire! sie von ihrem eigenen Vater angeklagt, alle diese wunderbahren Taten mit des Teufelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hilfe vollbracht zu haben: eine Anklage, wie sie wohl schlimmer nicht erhoben werden kann. Johanna schweigt zu derselben, und dies wird als ein Gestandnis ihrer Schuld aufgefasst. Sie wird von ihrem Konige verbannt; von den Ihrigen verlassen, irrt sie clrei Tage lang im Ardennerwalcl umher, wo sie (lann von den Englandern gefangen genommen und auf eine Festung gebracht wird. Sie entrinnt auf wunclerbare Weise tier Gefangenschaft und findet bei einem Ausfall ihren Tod. Wir selien liieraus, wie ausserordentlich gut Schiller den Hohepunkt in diesem Drama herausgearbeitet hat. In dieser Hinsicht ist und bleibt es, mag einen sonst gleich manches andere in der Dichtung nicht befriedigen, ein Meisterwerk.

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HUE AND CRY. Separated from the rest of the world by mountains and twenty miles from its neighbor city lies Knowlestown, a peaceful city of eastern Montana.

Nothing definite is known about the early history of Knowles: town except that it has never had a policeman nor a mayor, The public affairs have been run, ever since the city was settled, by a learned man v/ho is at present, an octogenarian. This individual saw to it that the peace was never disturbed, acted as chief of the Knowlestown fire-department and in fact all the public affairs of the city were in his control. He made the city ordinances, and he could enforce them because he was a born organizer and leader of men. Theopholis Knowles is the name of this personage, That he is a very learned man one may perceive by his euphonious name, so at least the fair sex of Knowlestown aver, and also from the fact that he has a portrait of Thucydides hanging in his bed-chamber and Demosthenes Olyntliiacs lying on liis desk. Nothing definite is known about the early history of Theopholis Knowles, except a few

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wise things he is supposed to have said when a schoolboy and these were handed down to us by an old spinster who solemnly avers that she knew Knowles’s school-teacher.

Though so little is known of his boyhood days he certainly has established a history for Knowlestown and himself during the last thirty years.

In 1871 he visited Chicago, the largest city of Illinois, and as he says to this day, he saw the cow that kicked over the lantern which started the Chicago fire. The citizens of Knowlestown tell us that while he was in Chicago he walked on many of its streets, in fact lie knew most of them by heart, that he ate at the largest cafe­ teria, that he saw a six story building and had a long talk with its mayor concerning spring plowing, yes, he had actually been in that great city for almost a whole day. Knowles’s visit to Chicago was of great importance to Knowlestown, in so far that he brought with him the highest ideals of practical government. He would talk for hours on socialism and democracy, using such sesquipedalian words as “federal;” “referendum;” “judiciary” and others.

The first improvement Theopholis Knowles introduced into Knowlestown, after his return from the central metropolis was the “hue and cry,” an old ordinance by which a criminal was chased from a city by the inhabitants. That such an ordinance was needed in a town was doubtful but good Theopholis wanted to be on the safe side in case of emergency.

Knowlestown had not long to wait, however, to see how this ordinance would work for exactly one month after its introduction the occasion came.

It happened one dark night as the good Theopholis winded liis way homeward after having made an informal address at a Sheep Shearers’ Convention, that just as he was passing Bill MacLuffey’s General Merchandise Store he noticed an object struggling with something in the door-way of the store. The night was too dark to see plainly so he listened. It sounded to him as though some one was tearing the clothes from another and at the same time applying a club on the victim’s head. A shiver ran up and down his vertebra.

The thought flashed through his mind that a murder was being committed at mid-night in the peaceful city of Knowlestown. Was it possible? He pealed his eyes to see more clearly but without venturing nearer he could learn nothing more and to go nearer was to risk his life. If only some one were with him he would surely catch the murderer. Then wouldn’t it be nice to have his picture in the “Leader” the next day? Suddenly the thought struck him that lie ought to call out the “hue and cry” and with the aid of his trusted citizens drive the criminal from the city. A loud thud from across the street made good Theopholis feel of his arms and knees to ascertain if he were still flesh and blood, then pulling his surtout Murder, murder, closely about him he cried out into the night: help, murder,” and “Murder, murder, help, murder” the mountains

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echoed back. Then all was so still that Theopholis could hear his heart beat.

From out of every house the inhabitants of Knowlestown rushed forth, armed with pitch-forks, cudgels, rolling pins and knives, yelling murder at the top of their voices. Theopholis shouted out commands at the top of his voice and a charge was made on MacLuffey’s General Merchandise Store, where the supposed mur­ derer taking himself to be the victim of this furious mob rushed down the street followed closely by his enemies. Three more blocks and he would be out of the city and once so far, he could easily lose his followers, but alas, a stone meant for his head hit him on the leg. Letting a doleful cry escape he fell heavily to the ground; a few seconds yet and he would be dispatched.

The cry stopped the mob and you can imagine how surprised everyone was when by the aid of a torch the pursued was found to be Bill MacLuffey’s goat that having tired of his regular diet pro­ ceeded to the door of his master’s store and ate part of the carpet, tearing off piece after piece.

The inhabitants of Knowlestown went home talking about the excitement they had had, all but the good Theopholis who crept into a nearby straw stack and pinched himself to ascertain whether he R. C. T”，18. had been sleeping or not.

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m NEW YEAR RESOLUTIOINS. It is but a short time ago that our ears were ringing with Hap­ py New Year,” and “Did you make any New Year’s resolutions?”

Does any one still remember that New Year’s wish? Is lie still keep­ ing the resolutions? As an answer to the latter question we usually hear, “I’ve broken them all a long time ago,” and January is not even past. Most of these resolutions are broken in the first week of the new year. Is it harder to correct an error in the beginning of a year than at any other time? It should not be.

But most of our New Year’s resolutions are made without a second thought and without a need for a reform. They are made because some one else made a similar one or because it is custom to make resolutions on that day. If made in this manner, it is nothing extraordinary that they are so readily broken. In thus making and breaking resolutions we harm ourselves in as much as we lose con­ fidence in ourselves and also place ourselves in a bad light with our friends.

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Others make resolutions in order to be “tough.” They seem to think that a broken New Year’s resolution is something to be proud of. Resolutions made in this manner are not to be encouraged and are such as spoil the otherwise good custom of really making use of New Year’s Day as a day upon which to look back on our past life and try to remedy errors in the new position of life that is just be­ ginning. A real New Year’s resolution, one that is needed and is really to be kept, will not be trumpeted out as are the ones men­ tioned above. The objection to New Year’s resolutions is their being made public. If a reform is needed and is to take place, why not make it at the time when the need is felt? Then if these reforms are only felt on New Year’s Day, why not make them and keep them without telling everyone else about them? Our friends have reason­ ing power as well as we and will notice our weaknesses, and, if they are true friends, will be willing to help us overcome them.

When a resolution is spread, it always seems as though the person who has made and spread it wants not only to mend his own error, but also to tell other people how bad they are and how much they need a similar reform. In this case it would be well to remem­ ber Chaucer’s line, "Tempest thee noght al croked to l’edresse.”

D. A. V. E., ’18.

A LITTLE REMINDER. “This is a dead place, not even intercollegiate basketball; what should a fellow do (luring free time?” Such and similar remarks are heard now. The idea of such remarks! They’re absurd. If nothing else, why not go outside? There’s fine clear air which will drive away the drowsy effect that a heated room has on one. Furthermore, have you ventured out into the gym? Have you seen the new equip­ ment? Yes, it’s there. You who thought the old apparatus was not good enough to exercise on, there’s new apparatus out there now.

Make use of it, that’s what our gym is there for. Yes, there’s enough apparatus for everybody, let’s show that we appreciate it. Of course, you’ll have to use system even when you take exercise. Don’t go out into the gym once a month and then overdo things and then wonder why you are stiff and lame the next day. Overtaxing your body does not help; under those circumstances you would be better off not to take any exercise at all. If you want to derive any benefit from the gym you’ll have to make use of it regularly. If you do not bowl or if you are not in condition to take gymnastics or play basket­ ball, come out and watch during your free time. Don’t only look.

Follow up every little detail, watch for the many little points in everything and see if you won’t get over the idea of calling every­ thing “dead.” Oh, there are all kinds of things that afford diversion if you will only make use of them.

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they sit in their rooms and study all the time. It’s well and good to do your duty for classes, but doesn’t your body need attention?

Men，s sana in corpore sano, is what the Romans said, and it’s true.

If you don't keep your body in good condition, the mind won’t work as it ought. So no matter how well you like your studies, don，t forget your physical condition.

A. Z.，’18.

ON THE LITEEARY SOCIETIES. During the last few years the masters of ceremonies of the lit­ erary societies have had a hard time in getting members to take part in the programs. Some of the members, it seems forgot that they had duties to fulfill. They fancied that as long as they attended the meetings and were honorable members of the society they were do­ ing their share. “Let someone else do the work, I don’t feel like it,” or “I have no time to take up literary work” were the excuses most frequently heard. These excuses certainly do not show the right spirit. A true philomath is a worker. He is a worker because he wants to learn; and he wants to learn because he loves learning.

All that do not have this spirit ought to join the Philapostrophean Society, the Society of Slackers, or if they like the German term better, the Drueckeberger Society. But not all of those who hold back are of this sort. Some would like to do literary work for the practise and experience that is in it. They would like to accustom themselves to speaking before people. They know that it takes practise to make a speaker, and that by taking part in the literary program they can learn a little elocut:ion. But they are afraid that things might not run off quite so smoothly as they would like and that then they willl be criticised. It seems that not a few have an entirely wrong conception of the word criticism. I am sure that all would take more interest in literary work if they all would know the right meaning of criticism.

Criticism is not fault-finding, nor is it what we colloquially call “slamming.” Criticism is the art of judgment and is applicable in all fields of human accomplishment. It is, however, with literature and with art that criticism has most significantly busied itself. Now, criticism, as applied in our meetings, is both helpful and suggestive.

Without it, we could make no real progress. It may be called the mother of improvement.

Criticism may be either favorable or adverse. The criticism of a book is usually either favorable or adverse while the criticism of a speech is usually partly favorable and partly adverse, that is, the speech in general may be excellent and therefore merit favorable comment while at the same time some thought or sentence in the speech may be unlogical or untrue and the criticism therefore ad­ verse. Most declamatory work is criticised in general, that is, the

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critic pronounces the work as well delivered, well built up, and as a whole, good or excellent. If a speaker receives such a criticism, he may rest assured that his attempt was successful. I once heard a critic give a speaker the following criticism,一“You did the best you could.” “You did the best you could,” to some this does not seem to be a desirable criticism because the best that some can do may be far from being perfect. “He has done the best he could,” however, implies that he has tried his utmost, that he has lived into his work and that he has gained something by his work. Nothing better can be said to a speaker about his work than what was said to this speaker. It is the highest praise anyone can obtain for his achieve­ ments. Such a criticism every speaker should try to merit from the critic for his work; and it can be achieved through diligence.

R. C. T., *18.

TO BE CONSIDERED. It seems as if many members of the Literary Societies have an idea that the societies are there for entertainment. This, however, is not the reason for them at our institution. Our purpose is to de­ velop elocution. There are some in the societies who have joined with this end in view, but there are also some who join simply be­ cause they want to have a good time. So with the audience. How many really attend the meetings to benefit by them? Very few. Most of them want to be entertained. This surely does not help the so­ cieties along in an educational way. It is rather a hindrance, for if the programs are of a serious order, those who do not enjoy the entertainment are inattentive, and nine times out of ten do some­ thing that disturbs. Now, if we want to get the most out of our liter­ ary societies, we shall have to do some reforming. As a reform movement the following could be accepted. Instead of inviting everybody to the meetings, we ought to have only the members of each society and the faculty members present. The meetings ought to be more like a recitation. This would help the societies to a great extent. Those members who joined simply for the purpose of en­ tertaining and being entertained would soon drop out, for they would term the programs “dry.” Then only those who are really working to develop themselves in the line of speaking and oratory will remain. They would work to deliver the best they have. They would not be indifferent. In short, they would be willing. And with the help of the faculty members they could improve. It’s true, those who are willing get something out of the societies now also. But much more could be accomplished if only willing ones were members.

It is also true that there is good practice in speaking before an audi­ ence. But then the audience should be willing to pay attention to those “dry” programs, as they are called. Besides, if the members of the societies are present, isn’t that audience enough? It is just as

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liard and probably harder to do your best before well known people as it is to speak before a strange audience.

If we must needs give public programs, why not have them at the end of the season, after the societies have had a training for a few months? Of course we need not prohibit visitors; for if the meetings are run more like a recitation, those who want to be en­ tertained only will soon drop out of the audience. In this way we shall have all willing members and also a willing and a more crit­ ical attendance, which will be of much more benefit to the Literary A. Z./18.

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PHI GAMMA RHO REINDEBS PK0G1UM. On Dec. 15,1917, the N. W. C. band, appearing as the first num­ ber on tlie program of the Phi Gamma Rho Literary Society, play­ ing the beautiful strains of Laurens’ “Sky Pilot,” opened the pres­ ent season for Northwestern^ literary societies. In spite of the fact that the Philomathean, which generally rendered the first program of the year, failed to render its program, for some reason or other, the Phi Gamma Rho was, as usual, on deck with a good program.

Mr. Meier, who arranged the program, deserves to be complimented on his capability as a Master of Ceremonies.

The opening address by tlie President of the society, John Henning, was very good. 1-Ie related how tlie society had been formed for the purpose of making its members proficient in the art of speaking. As our institution does not offer a course in elocution, the student must get that from another source; and that source is the literary society. He then continued by giving valuable advice for the speaker, admonishing him not to become discouraged after the first few attempts but to persevere and he would finally triumph.

Before closing with an admonition to all to take an interest in the welfare of the society, not only by becoming members, but by ap­ pearing on the programs often, lie heartily recommended original composition, debates and the presentation of plays.

Mr. Falk deserves honorable mention for his selection, which besides being very well rendered, was original and well worked out.

“The Coon Rehearsal/1 although somewhat lengthy, was very well rendered and tickled the hilarious vein of tlie audience. The Col­ lege Quartette was, as usual, up to its former high standard, The critic for the evening was Prof. Westerhaus. The following is tlie program: Sky Pilot .Laurens March __ ―Sousa N. W. C. Band 1. Opening Address by the President— J. F. Henning

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XJhland E. Pankow T. Korner Der Teufel in Salamanka O. Eckert Der Hohepunkt im Drama, “Die Jungfrau von Orleans” E. Falk The Coon Rehearsal W. Lehmann, E. Tacke I. Geibel Die Turkenkugel R. Kremer Fox The Foreign Policy of Washington I. Boettcher Steter Tropfen hohlt den Stein---W. Heidtke Selection College Quartette

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rilll.OMATIIEAN RENDERS PROGRAM. Up to the present time the literary societies have been accustomed to render their program in the chapel of the Recitation Hall Satur­ day evenings, blit owing to the fact that the college coal-bin is not over-full and the prospects of filling it slight, the recitation hall is not heated over night thus forcing the literary societies to find an­ other room for their meetings. For its program Jan. 12, the Philomatlieans chose the Music Room in the old dormitory.

As usual with the first program of our literary societies, a musical organization appears as the first number. In this case the select orchestra performed this ceremony. The selections were full of snap and well rendered. In his address the president of the so­ ciety, Mr. R. Timmel, urged his fellow members to remember that they were Philomatheans and put their shoulders to the load. He also explained the word criticism, showing that criticism is not only faultfinding. The Junior Sextette, appearing as the third number on the program, was very good. The fourth number, an original com­ position by H. Albrecht entitled “Der chinesische Gelehrte” was very well rendered as well as exceedingly interesting. The third musical number on the program followed next in the shape of a piano-duet by the virtuosos K. Kraus and B. Westendorf, who, al­ though they can not read a note, were forced to give three encores by the audience. The last literary number “The ••Evolution of Writing and Writing Materials,” an original composition by E. Jaster was very well rendered as well as interesting. The dialogue “Die Sachsische Dorfschule” concluded the program. The critic for the evening was Prof. Huth while G. Gieschen performed as master of ceremonies.

AUS DEM SEMINAR. Past alle Studenten fanden sich am Morgen des 9. Januar zu den ersten Vorlesungen im neuen Jahr ein. Die, welche sonst auch gewohnlich zu spat kommen, liatten diesmal gliicklicherweise den

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schweren Schneesturm zur Entschuldigung. Am Nachmittag folgte die Wahl der Beamten fur das zweite Tertial. Folgende wurden gewahlt: Otto Medenwald, Prases.

Martin Wehausen, V. Prases.

Martin Nommensen, Sekretar.

Richard Jahnke, Schatzmeister.

Herr J. Ross von Milwaukee, ehemaliger Student des Seminars zu St. Louis, der seine Studien durch vierjahrige Tatigkeit als Lehrer unterbrochen hatte, trat nacli den Perien in die erste Klasse ein.

Herr Beck, von unserm College in Watertown, machte vor Weihnachten rnit seiner Schwester und Freundin einen kurzen Besucli hierher, um sich das Gebaude anzusehen.

Die folgenden Herren besucliten in Dezember die betreffenden Studenten: Alvin Lutzke von Beaver Dam seinen Bruder Paul, Wil­ helm Meinel von Jefferson, E. Kiessling und Arnold Wegemann von Chicoga Wm. Haar.

Sonst ist wirklich keine Neuigkeit vorhanden, vielleiclit ausgenommen, dass sich die folgenden vorgenonunen haben sich in diesem Jahr zu bessern: Herr Hahn, Herr Retzlaff und Illusionsrat Kock.

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BASKETBALL. Although many students of the collegiate department take part in gymnastics and bowling, the interest of the student-body is main­ ly centered on basketball, in which very many are active during the winter months. Since no intercollegiate games are played, class games will be played on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. The games this year will be made still more interesting than before, since for the regular games the whole gym floor will be used, which will enable more speed than was possible when only half of the floor was used. Shortly after the Christmas vacation the class teams appeared on the gym floor to limber up tlieir joints and muscles.

The senior team will be made up of the same men who played on the championship team of last year. Duxe, the captain, who sel­ dom misses a trial for a basket will play center. Lange, Lau, Wacker and Timmel are out for forwards. Meier, Henning and Zeisler will fill the guard positions.

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able to turn out a good team even though many of their players were lost. Siefert is their center. Brandt and Tacke forwards, Falk and Albrecht guards.

As for the sophomores, even though they have lost players like Sternbeck, Mielke and Bublitz, they are pretty optimistic, since they have found men like Dahlke for center and Kemp for forward, with hopes that Bublitz will resume his studies. The rest of the men out are the following: Press, captain and forward; Stern, Voges, Timmel, guards. With these players out on the floor the sophomores won’t be put down as easily as might be assumed.

The freshmen are out to give everybody a good scare, and judg­ ing from what they showed in practice games, it is not altogether improbable. Liesener, captain, Steffen and Monhardt will play guards, Uetzmann, center; Felten and Brandt, forwards.

Up to date the managers have not arranged the schedule, al­ though we know that each team will have to play twelve (games.

m PACIFIC STAR. After our return from our short Christmas recess we found but few new journals on our table. However, the Christmas number of the “Pacific Star” did not escape our notice, and we were eager to see wliat improvements this paper has made.

The cover design was still the same, but why talk of changing this when you have one so plain and neat? Also the type was the same large and clear kind, although several printing mistakes were to be found. The contents were, if not better, at least as good as that of any of your previous issues. It contained material of differ­ ent kinds, arranged in a well-balanced order.

Already the first article drew our interest as being a topic of great note, “Cardinal Wolsey.” Those of us who were made ac­ quainted with this man in the course of English history will find especial, interest in it. The English, too, was simple and fluent, and the structure of the sentences and paragraphs clear.

The story of “A Sad and Happy Christmas” showed considerable • imagination on the writer’s part, since it contained a very good plot compared with the length of the narrative. In one case the writer sad: *'It was thoughts such as these, etc.,’’ which would sound better if he had said: ^Thoughts such as these, etc.” In another place he

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said: “It was thoughts such, as these, etc.,” which would sound better this to “He heard the words.” Otherwise the language was good.

The Address was interesting and well deserved its place in your paper.

The other story “What Christmas Brought” also contained a fair plot. The language, although not perfect, was as good as could be expected of a Freshman. We wish to call attention to one little thing. The pronoun “he” was the introductory word of three suc­ cessive sentences. This could be avoided by changing the construc­ tion of one or two of these sentences.

“A Retrospect of the Nineteenth Century” was, as the theme al­ ready implies, a brief review of the progression made in the world of science, art and literature during the past century. The article contained one queer sentence, “In America colonial times, the re­ strictive policy of Great Britain, kept our commerce within narrow bounds.” The word “America” should be “American，” and the comma after “Great Britain” should be dropped, in order to enable one to see through it. The composition on the whole, was well worked out.

Of the editorials we especially enjoyed reading “Who are In­ ferior Nations?” and “Horatio Viscount Nelson.” However, the other editorials were not of minor importance either.

We fancy your idea of bringing some of your Alumni to remem­ brance in your paper.

The “College Notes” and “Athletics” column were well edited.

“Exchanges” also pleased us, since it really did justice to the aims of an exchange column, although the discussion of the separate papers was somewhat short.

Your Joke column is undoubtedly one of the best of its kind in any of our exchanges.

m -—Paul Behn of Eagle River has resumed his studies at tlie insti­ tution after an absence of four months. He is a member of the Quarta Class.

—Rev. Kuhlow of Waterloo and Rev. Schumann of Pond du Lac were visitors here Jan. 2.

Sc.herf, *20, J. Hermann,，21 and 0. Hermann, Prep., spent their Christmas vacation in Watertown.

—A. Matzke, *18, was called to his home in Forestville by the ill­ ness of his mother.

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一E. Ebert, who is teaching school at St. Paul, called on friends in the building Jan. 5. 一W. Gutzke, ’17, and R. Vollmers，’16 stopped off here on their return to the seminary at Wauwatosa.

—Francis Keppler, formerly a member of the class of，20 visited friends in the building before he returned to his studies at St. John’s, Delafield. 一On Dec. 28 our friend “Wurster” Wenzel became uncle for the fourth time. 一G. Press, ’20 spent his Christmas vacation at the home of A. Wenzel, Prep., at Marshfield. While there he transacted some press­ ing business, according to Wurstie. 一Theo Kock, ’19, returned from his Christmas vacation on Mon­ day, Jan. 7. 一Owing to the heavy snow-fall on Sunday, Jan. 6, Seniors and Sophs were forced to absent themselves from their studies in order to clear the walks. 一“Happy” Froelich, Prep., returned to his studies on Monday, Jan. 7. 一Irwin Gamni, ’16，of Seattle, Washington was a visitor at the institution on Monday, Jan. 7.

—E. Huber, Prep., spent his Christmas vacation at the home of C. Plautz, Prep., at Moribel.

—“Jumbo” Guth and “Shorty” Haegele took in the sights at Mil­ waukee before they left for home during Christmas vacation.

—“Jeff” Priebe,，19, has not returned from his Christmas vacation as yet. 一E. Beyl,，21，returned from his vacation several days late, as did the Brandt brothers. 一Dudley Rhoda, Prep., returned from his Christinas vacation on Monday, Jan. 7. Poor railway connections.

—During the Alaskan blizzard of Sunday, Jan. 6, L. Brutus Bernthal made the trip back to school from Ixonia per pedes. Let’s ap­ ply for a medal, Lucus.

—Not to forget, our diminutive Hens Bierwagen, ’21，spent his Christmas vacation at the Gamm home on College avenue. 一Imagine, kind reader, our little bewhiskered Benny Westendorf perched on an iceberg in the middle of Lake Michigan yelling “Mein Schatz, mein Schatz!” at the top of his bass voice. Then have “Sock” Krauss come along in a dinky row-boat and throw banana peelings in his face. (In the next issue Benny gets revenge on Charley.)

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m —Pat: Why is a solar eclipse like a mother whipping her little boy?

Deputy: I don’t know. Why? Fat: Because it is a hiding of the son.

—Prof: (Zu Schroder, der nicht aufstand, als er gefragt wurde): Schroder is wohl ein Unterseeboat geworden.

Schroder (aufstehend): Was? Prof: Na, schiessen Sie ’mal Ihren Torpedo ab. 一A cigarette advertisement reads: “The fragrance of rare to­ bacco permeates the deserted room—” Ught one of them, boys, when you want to study and have too many vis:itors in your room.

Another Use of Adversity.

It isn’t a disadvantage to have a wooden leg, after all; for a man with a wooden leg can hold up his socks with a thumb tack. 一Schumacher: In our country we have eight thousand annual murders. ' —Kockie: Why did your class run away before the professor arrived?

Venus: That was to be a strategic retreat.

A Fable.

A number of ministers accepted an invitation to a farm-place for a chicken dinner. On this farm there lived a wise old lien, who was the proud mother of twelve spring chickens, six roosters and six hens. While the old hen was scratching up her dinner, the farmer’s wife caught up the little roosters and prepared them for the ministers, who ate them with great relish.

When the mother hen returned, she said to the remaining chicks, “Where are your brothers?” **Tliey have ‘entered’ the ministry,” was the reply.

“Well,” said the hen, thoughtfully, “they would have made poor daymen* anyway.”一Ex. —Prof.: What is a skeleton?

Gab: One whose inside is out and whose outside is off. 一Sock: What are you doing here?

Red: Playing mule.

Sock: You need not play that at all.

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Couldn’t Suit Her. Do you guarantee these colors fast?” asked the customer at the hosiery counter. “(Certainly not, madam，’’ said the new clerk in the fullness of his knowledge. “Black is never considered a fast color, you know.

But I can show you something pretty swift in stripes.”一Ex. ―Prof.: When does the sun get overhead for the man 23y2 de­ grees?

Hitchcock: At ten o’clock at night.

—Question: Machen Sie eine Disposition von einem Haus. Was ist wesentlich?

Answer: Die Kiiche.

—Billy: Come on now, Biinger, you have not paid attention one minute today.

Bingo: Someone took something away from me.

Billy: So much the better. Then you have fewer things to play with.

—Eckert (im Griechischen): Ich kann keinen Verstand kriegen. 一Prof.: In what position did Clive’s army stand to its leader?

Student: Behind him. _Jeff: I say, do you know how much copper is worth now?

Boozy: You can get a penny’se worth for a cent.

OUB ADVERTISERS. (Without them this paper could not exist.)

General Stores.

SchempC Bros Co. W. F. Brandt & Son Co. Chas. Fischer & Sons Co. Men’s Clothing Stores.

Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. Hoffmann's CADET UNIFORMS The Pettibone Bros. Mfg. Co. Drugs and Stationary.

Gamm Corner Drug Co. Bittner & Tetzlafl.

Owen's Drug Co. William Gehrke.

Eberle's Drug Store.

Chas. J. Salick.

W. D. Sproesser Co. Wiggenhorn & Son. Hardware.

W. G. Pritzlafl Co. D. &. F. Kusel Co. Furniture.

C. P. Nowack.

P. G. Keck & Co. Photographers.

Denninger's Gallery.

Watertown Photo Co. Doctors.

Dr. T. C. Abelmann.

Dr. B. H. Cook.

Dentists.

Dr. E. J. Hoermann.

Dr. A. J. Schlueter.

Dr. P. F. Schlueter.

Candy Shops.

Baumann's Parlor.

The Princess Confectionery.

Shoes Stores.

A. Kaliebe.

Geo. W. Spohn.

Leo Ruesch.

0. F. Kurzweg.

Barbers.

Sim Block.

George Zoelle.

Bert Froemming.

H. E. Swalby Chas. Sommerfield Cigars and Tobacco.

Sonnemann & Amann.

Juniata.

Schlueter Bros.

Wiggenhorn Bros.

Groceries.

Bentzin’s Grocery.

Fred Bittner.

J. E. Heismann.

G. V. Kolili

And the Following: Watertown Creamery Co. Wm. Gorder Co. Barker Lumber & Fuel Co. New Method Laundry.

Chas. Moy H. C. Reichert, Teacher of Plano, Violin, Harmony.

Bank of Watertown.

Aug, Gamm, Crockery.

R. P. Koenig & Co., Millers.

Chas. Heismann, Painter, Picture Framing.

City Dry Gleaning and Pressing.

Siegler & Schlueter, Insurance.

Tom Makas

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Whether it’s a suit or overcoat, tone prevails.

Don't thinklfor a minute that you have seen or worn styles bright as the Collegian styles, for you haven't. Ycu’ll realize it the moment you see them.

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will like thcaroma and the tasteof our beat grade of newlj imported Teas and Coffees. There can be nothing more de­ licious and invigorating for breakfast, luncheon or tea.

Our pure teas and Cofiees have excellent drinking qualities, and they are truly economical, as so little is needed in compa rison with the commoner brands. Let _t us induce you to make a test of them. You will con­ tinue to use them yourself afterwards.

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Pianos and Victor Victrolas A large Stock of Records con­ stantly on hand.

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O NARITA 10 CENT CIGAR

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New Method Laundry A.

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OWEN’S DRUG STORE 412 MAIN STREET NEAR CORNER OF FIFTH

Agents for Seneca Cameras and Photographic Supplies

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ADVERTISERS Spohn’s Shoes Mm’s Fall & Winter Footwear Latest Styles Lowest Prices 216 Main Street next to Sohempl's Students1 Headquarter 瘍

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Get that feeling of satisfaction that you are entitled to.

Football-Basket Ball Base Ball equipment Sweaters-Skates-Jerseys

College Athletic Sopply Go. No, 5 ^ 7 Wells St. Milwaukee, Wis.

Our shoes will appeal to men who want style, quality of leather and workmanship.

A. KALIEBE

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CHAS. HE1SMANN “THE PAINT MAN”

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108 THIRD STREET

Dr. Frank F. Schlueter DENTIST 215 MAIN STREET NEW OFFICE

Watertown, Wis.

TRY IT BE=E BUY IT #IA days oUfREE TRIAL ON AN

Then if you think you can get along without it return same to us.

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CUTLERY and RAZORS. Examine our Line befor buying

D.& F. Kusel Co. 108-110-112 W. Main St.

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Basket Ball and all kinds of

Cbe Store of Quality Your friends can buy anything you can give them—except Your Photograph Denninger’s Studio 312 Main St.

W. A. NACK FRESH AND SALT MEATS FISH and POULTRY IN SEASON Phone 19-W

Sporting Goods

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AT THE BRIDGE

No. 621 Main St.

WM. PAPPAS Fruits, Candy, Ice Cream, Soft Drinks Cigars and Cigarettes Cor. Main and Filth Street Telephone 107-W

Dr. T. 0- Abelmann PHYSICIAN and SURGEON

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HERTEL & HOFFMANN BUILDING

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BITTNER & TETZLAFF Watertown*s Leading Drug Store

The R«xall Store

203 Main Street

Dealer in

RELIABLE FURNITURE UNDERTAKER AND LICENSED EMBALMER Private Chapel Up-to-Date Equipment 313 MAIN STREET Z•多.系^tsictsnt

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Res. 1 Phone 51-W

Watertown’s Leading Furniture

Store F. G. KECK & CO. 110-112 Main Street.

You will find a complete line of F RAJ ITS of all kinds in season at

John E. Heismann CASH GROCER "5 MAIN STREET

TELEPHONE 62

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DENTIST Over Wiggrenhom's Jewelry Store Entrance on First Street

COR. FIRST and MAIN STREETS

Telephone No. 258

FIRST-CLASS WORK

R. P. KOENIG & CO.

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Finest Grades HARD WHEAT, WINTER WHEAT AND RTE FLOURS

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QUEEN— Best Family Rye Flour Corn, •Oais, Screenings, Oil Meal, Buffalo Gluteni Feed. Cotton Seed Meal, Calf Meal, Timothy and Marsh Hay, all kinds ground Feed. Special Attention given to farmers custom work.

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Striving to gain and retain your friendship through deserv­ ing it, is always our aim.

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PETTIBONE UNIFORMS FOR COLLEGE CADETS ARE THE STAND­ ARD AND IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN. Used in America's fines Military Schools and Col­ leges. Are made to INDIVIDUAL measure by expert Military Tailors.

Pettibone operates no “sweat shops” but up-todate Uniform factories.

Uniforms fit like a glove, add to your boys* appear­ ance and m a k e them STAND OUT.

Besides Uniforms Fcttibone makes a complete line of Cadet Equipment— Swords, Sabres, Belts, Trumpets, Metal Orna­ ments, College Caps, Flags, Pennants, etc.

But write for College Cadet Catalog 335.

Prices most reasonable.

Pettibone # Cincinnati

WHY SHOULD I

Buy Clothes Now? Maybe you have asked yourself that question.

HERE ARE THE REASONS: Clothes are costing more every day as wool becomes scarcer.

Our Fall and Winter Goods are worth much more than we paid for them.

Overcoats will be very scarce for next winter, if you’ll need one buy it now.

Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes are guaranteed to give satisfaction.

You'll not have another chance like this to buy such clothes for so little money.

Hoffmann’s Your Clothing Store 107-109 MAIN ST.

WATERTOWN, WIS.

George Zoelle’s

Barber Shop Right Across from the Postoffice

STUDENTS： deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check.

No matter how small—your aocount will receive careful attention.

BANK OF WATERTOWN QLltc

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CHAS. MOY Watertown Photo Co. HAND LAUNDRY First-Class Work_

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THE BLACK AND RED C!

Volume XXI.

Watertown, Wis., February 1918.

Number 9

NUTZBRINGENDES LESEN. In unserer Zeit wird viel gelesen, mehr als je zuvor. Sobald die Kinder die Fibel absolviert habcn, beginnen sie Marchen und kleine Erzahlungen zu lesen, und je alter sie werden, desto mehr lesen sie. Jeder, tier nur kann, greift in unserer Zeit zur Zeitung Oder zu einer Zeitschrift Oder zu einem Buche, um zu lesen. Nie hat es so viele Zeitungcn und Zeitschriften gegeben, nie ist des Biichermachens so viei gewesen, nie hat man so viele offentliche Bibliotheken geselien wie in unsern Tagen. Und welchen Zuspruchs erfreuen sich cliese! Immer findet man dort eine Anzahl Personen, die entweder an Ort und Stelle lesen Oder Lektiire fur das Haus auswahlen wollen. Ist es nun lobenswert, dass so viel gelesen wird?

Unter Umstanden, ja. Das Lesen ist gewiss ein sehr gutes Bildungsmittel. Aber nicht jedes Lesen ist nutzbringend.

Da muss man fragen: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welches Lesen ist nutzbringend?â&#x20AC;? Auf diese Frage wollen wir im folgenden eine kurze Antwort geben.

Wenn unser Lesen Nutzen haben soil, muss man vor allem darauf sehen, was man liest. Es steht fest, man kann nicht alles lesen.

Dazu ist unser Leben viel zu kurz. Die Literature von Jahrtausenden steht uns zur Verfiigung. Aber schon der Werke der alten Klassiker sind es so viele, dass ein Menschenalter sie nie bewaltigen kann. Dazu kommen die noch viel zahlreicheren Werke der spateren Schriftsteller. In unserer Zeit vollends will das Biichermachen kein Ende nehmen. Jeder versucht seine Kunst und hilft den Lesestoff vermehren. Und dann die unzahligen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften! Aber es ware auch der Miihe gamicht wert, alles

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zu lesen, das auf den Markt kommt. Nur ein geringer Teil hat eigentlichen Wert, und besonders ist dies von der Literatur unserer Zeit zu sagen. Die Schriftstellerei ist zu einem Gewerbe geworden.

Da ist es denn schwierig, das Brauclibare auszuwahlen, das Wertyolle vom Minderwartigen zu unterscheiden. Wir mussen mit Vorsiclit und Umsicht unsere Auswahl treffen.

Welche Auswalil sollten wir denn treffen? Sollten wir etwa das, was gerade in der Mode ist, lesen? Das hatte zwar einen gewissen Nutzen. Man konnte dann in der Gesellschaft glanzen, ftir einen fortschrittlichen, modernen, auf der Hohe der Zeit stehenden Menschen gelten. Aber das ware ein fragwiirdiger Nutzen. Es wiirde kein Gewinn fiir den Verstand, fiir das Herz und das Gemut dadurch erzielt. Es hatte auch keinen Nutzen, etwas nur deswegen zwar walir, zu lesen, weil es spannend und unterhaltend ist. Es manchmal braucht unser Geist solche Lektiire, um die Gedanken abzulenken. Es ist darum auch nicht unter alien Umstanden verkelirt, hier und da einen spannenden, wenn auch sonst minderwertigen Roman zu lesen; aber solche Lektiire ist nur ausnahmsweise auszuwahlen, sonst wirkt sie nachteilig; mit der Zeit gewinnt dann der Geist Gefallen am Oberflachlichen und Seichten und verliert den Geshmack an ernsten Dingen.

Auf moralischem Gebiet ist die Folge schlechter Lektiire vielleicM am schlimmsten. Der gewohnliche Lesestoff des grossen Haufens sind heutzutage die sogenannten â&#x20AC;&#x153;dime-novelsâ&#x20AC;? und solche Geschichten, die der Sinnlichkeit dienen. Diese Lektiire hat aber eine nachteilige Wirkung. Besonders unsere Jugend sollte solche Bucher nicht in die Hande bekommen. Die Polgen von solchem Lesen sehen wir sehr haufig in unsern Irrenanstalten und Zuchthausern. Wie manche Person endet nicht dort, die die ersten faulen Gedanken aus solcher ungesunden Lektiire schopfte!

Was wollen wir denn lesen? XJnsere Lektiire sollte unser Wissen bereichern, unser Urteil scharfen, das Gemiit vertiefen, und den Charakter starken. Wir sollten unsere Lektiire so wahlen, dass unsere Kenntnisse in der Geschichte, in der Geographie, in der Naturwissenschaft, kurz auf alien Gebieten erweitert und vermehrt werden. Solches Wissen ist von grossem Nutzen. A'oer die Lektiire sollte nicht nur unsere Kenntnisse erweitern, sondern auch unser Urteil iiben. Sie muss zum Nachdenken anregen. Religiose Werke sind da besonders wertvoll, denn in ihnen finden wir die wichtigsten Fragen erortert, die das Menschenherz bewegen. Aber auch unsere ubrige Lektiire soil derart sein, dass sie uns Gelegenheit bietet, unsern Verstand zu iiben und uns ein selbststandiges Urteil zu bilden. Auch unserer Schonheitssinn sollte bei der Lektiire zu seinem Rechte kommen. Besonders aber sollte unser Gemut vertieft und unser Charakter gebildet werden. Wir sollten fiir die Freuden und Leiden unserer Mitmenschen ein Verstandnis gewinnen, fiir alles Gute und Edle begeistert werden. Die Lektiire bat einen grossen Einfluss auf unsern Charakter, und besonders das,

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was wir in der Jugend lesen, gibt oft den Ausschlag fiir das ganze spatere Leben.

Will man einige Dinge anfiihren, die besonders gelesen werden sollten, so ist vor allem unsere liebe Bibel zu nennen. Beide Bibeln, die deutsche und die englische, gehoren schon der Form nach zu den vollendesten Werken aller Zeiten. Unsere grossten Dichter haben sich an der Bibelsprache gebildet. Auch ist es fur den, der die notigen Sprachkenntnisse besitzt, von grossem Nutzen, die Heilige Schrift in den Ursprachen zu studieren. Die Bibel ist unsere beste Lektiire. Sie ist das Buch der Bucher. Ihr Inhalt ist lauteres Gold.

Sie lehrt, was kein anderes Buch lehren kann: den Weg zur Gemeinschaft mit Gott. Auch ist sie kein Buch, das sich nur an eine bestimmte Menschenklasse wendet. Sie hat jedem etwas zu bieten, und jeder kann sie verstehen.

Die Werke der alten Klassiker sind auch nicht zu verachten.

Von wunderbarer Schonheit sind Homers Epen, die Ilias und Odyssee. Fast jeder, der etwas griechisch gelernt hat, liest wenigstens einen Teil derselben. So gibt es noch zahlreiche andere Werke des klassischen Altertums wie z. B. Ciceros Reden, Virgils Aeneis, Platos Schriften, Demosthenesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Reden, die gute Lekture bilden. Wir lernen aus ihnen die Geschichte der Vorzeit, die Denkweise und Gebrauche anderer Volker kennen.

Noch melir aber sollten wir die modernen Klassiker studieren.

Wo in der Profan literatur gibt es Herrlicheres als bei Goethe Oder Shakespeare? Von ihnen konnen wir unendlich viel lernen. Ihre Sprache sollen wir uns aneignen. Aus ihnen lernen wir unser eigenes Leben kennen. Die Schriftsteller der allerletzten Zeit sind jedoch nicht so viel zu lesen. Ihre realistische Darstellungsweise steht oft im Widerspruch mit den Gesetzen des Schonen; sie enthalten auch nicht selten moralischen Schmutz und sind so nicht geeignet, den Menschen wahrhaft zu bilden. Nichts destoweniger lasst sich auch noch manches Gute bei ihnen finden. Besonders sollten wir uns aber vor dem allzuvielen Zeitungslesen huten. Wir mussen zwar Zeitungen haben, um uns auf dem Laufenden zu erhalten; doch sollten sie nie unsere Hauptlektiire werden.

Aber auch die beste Auswahl verburgt an sich noch kein nutzbringendes Lesen. Man muss auch wissen wie man lesen soli.

Man sollte nicht etwa so viel wie moglich lesen, denn das fiihrt zur Oberflachlichkeit. Sehr gut ist es, wenn man viel lesen kann, ohne oberflachlich zu werden. Doch fur den Durchschnittsmenschen ist das unmoglich. Der Vielleser liest schnell iiber Dinge hinweg und denkt wenig oder auch garnicht iiber das Gelesene nach. Wenn nur sagen kann, dass er dies und das gelesen hat! Solches Lesen fiihrt aber zu gar keinem Ziel.

Man sollte vor alien Dingen mit Verstandnis lesen. Dazu gehort, dass man unbekannte Worter und Redensarten nachschlagt und sich einpragt. Jeder Satz muss genau durchdacht werden, und endlich muss man sich bemuhen, das Ganze im Zusammć&#x160;&#x2018;bang zu

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verstehen. Auch sollte man auf die Schonheiten in der Form achten sodass man nicht nur die Mittel zur Darstellung des Schonen kennen lernt, sondern sich auch seinem Zauber hingibt und an seiner Lektiire Freude hat. Das ist auch ein nicht zu verachtender Gewinn. Solcher Gewinn wird aber nur so dauernd sein, wenn man mit der Feder in der Hand liest, und besonders wichtige und sch6ne Stellen niederschreibt und sich Auszuge macht. Cicero sagt: “Nul_ lus dies sine linea.”

Mochten wir alle die Wichtigkeit nutzbringenden Lesens erkennen und taglich einige Seiten, einige Kapitel in einem guten Buche lesen! Wie viel wiirde das zu unserer Bildung beitragen!

Welch ein unvergleichlicher Gewinn ware es taglicli mit den grossten Geistern, die die Welt je hervorgebracht hat, zu verkehren und den Geist mit dem Besten und Edelsten, das in der Literatur niedergelegt ist, zu nahren!

Das Edle zu erkennen ist Gewinnst, Der nimmer uns entrissen werden kann.

C. S.,，19.

AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE’S ADYENTUllE. I’ll never become a famous detective,” mused Richard Jones, alias “Dicky,” “if I sit quiet and don’t put my ideas into practice.

Now, it says on page four of my book, *How to Become a Detective，’ that one of the first things an amateur must learn to do, is to shadow.

In order to follow out this plan I shall have to discover a suspect.”

Brimful of ambition, Dicky left his boarding-house and made his way thru the fast gathering shadows of night toward one of the notorious gambling-houses in the slum district of the city. While he was slowly walking down the street, his brain formulated plan after plan, and we might be tempted to say, “Alas for the indivdual whom Dicky shadows.” About a block from the gambling-den, he suddenly became alert and, keeping within the shadows, he walked with quickening pace toward a man who was just entering tlie place.

To any one but our fledgling detective he appeared to be an ordinary man，who, after a hard day’s work, wished to find a little recreation; but Dicky^ vivid imagination decided that he walked stealthily and that his general demeanor was characteristic of tlie criminal type described in his detective book. “This man surely needs watcliing，” he thought. .The place where Dicky had discovered his suspect was in a lo­ cality admirably adapted for crime and misdemeanor. The houses were old and dilapidated, the streets narrow and poorly lighted, and just across from the gambling-den was a vacant lot littered with rubbish. Such places as this were very common before the days of sanitary ordinances.

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debris and made a fairly comfortable seat for himself from which he could watch, every person who left the building. An hour passed, and the noise of traffic in the neighborhood had ceased. “How quiet and dark it is,” mused Dicky, “I wouldn’t like to wait here much longer. Guess I’ll go over to some restaurant and have a lunch. He surely won’t come out for an hour at least.” Rousing himself from his reverie, he said half aloud, “A pretty detective I’ll make; doesn’t it say on page eight of my book that patience and perserverance are very important factors in the art of shadowing? Here I am allowing my thoughts to wander at my first trial.” Resolved to succeed, he got up and paced up and down the narrow street; but that awful feeling of drowsiness again took possession of him and he soon re­ sumed his seat. His head dropped forward, and in a short time his faculties were overcome by Morpheus. With his head resting upon his hands he was soon dreaming of bank-robberies, diamond plots, and other cases interesting to a detective.

Boom, boom, boom. With a start our sleuth awoke. The clocks in the distant towers were tolling out the hour of midnight. Dicky was on his feet in a moment and looked over to the gambling house.

Fortune surely must have beamed graciously upon him; for just then the man who had excited his suspicion was issuing from the door. Dicky’s moment had arrived. With the stealth of a cat he fol­ lowed the man until he turned into the gate of a fairly respectable house. But instead of entering the front door, he sneaked around the side of the dwelling and began to fumble at one of the windows.

Dicky’s pride surely swelled somewhat. His surmise had been cor­ rect; this man was a burglar.

From behind the shrubs of the neighboring house he watched the man open the window and disappear inside. Dicky’s imagina­ tion now ran wild, and in his mind he saw how he would catch his thief, get his own picture in the papers, and with such a reputation have all the police forces pf the city on their knees begging him to enter their employ at a good salary. This all coursed rapidly thru his brain; but he checked his wandering thoughts and made his way toward the front door of the house. “I won’t follow the plan of the common detectives who either follow the thief thru the window or wait for him outside,” he thought, “but shall enter the front door and surprise him. V\\ be nothing, if not original.” Silently and with careful tread, he tested the first step. It creaked ever so slightly, and lie waited a full minute before he ventured farther. Then feel­ ing his way cautiously, he gained the door without a mishap. Drop­ ping on one knee, he applied his eye to the key-hole. Nothing was to be seen but weird shadows cast on the walls by the dim hall light.

Aparently satisfied, he arose, grasped the door-knob and slowly turned it. To his surprise the door was unlocked. After he had cau­ tiously opened it, he glided inside and shut it after him. Suddenly a monstrous shape jumped out of the corner behind the door and with the swiftness of a springing tiger hit Dicky with a round stick,

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•which to him appeared to be at least twenty feet long and four feet in diameter. Taken absolutely unawares, his legs failed him, and lie sank to the floor a huddled heap. The perpetrator of the deed came forward in the shape of a corpulent woman with a rolling-pin in her hand. Approaching the object of her wrath, she glanced into his face, and uttering a shriek, fled from the room; she had been mis­ taken in her quarry. The shriek aroused Dicky, and he beat a hasty • retreat for the door. The stillness was again broken by the same womans voice accompanied by several resounding “wacks” probab­ ly delivered by the identical weapon which had caused the prominent projection on Dicky’s head. “You poker-playing scoundrel,” the voice went on, “this is a pretty time of the night to get home. I’ll teach you to spend all your money for foolishness and leave me hardly enough for a bare sustenance.n Dicky felt the fast growing protuberance on his head and remarked, “Slie certainly looked and acted starved,” and with that lie wended his weary way to liis board­ ing-place, bearing the remembrance of his first real adventure and its startling outcome.

E. A. J.，’21.

A MERITED PROMOTION. The speedy high-powered motor truck of No. 28 was the pride of every fireman of the company, and to be assigned to it, his ambition.

On account of its unusual length, it took a cool head and a steady hand to run it through, the city streets and tlie wheel-man who guid­ ed the rear end had to be constantly on the alert so that the machine might not skid and crash into some vehicle that chanced to be near.

One fine day in August, Lieutenant Leonard Meyer, the wheel­ man of the truck, sat in the doorway of the fire-house with his chair comfortably tilted back against the wall. Near him, also idly loung­ ing, was his chum and fellow fireman, John Armstrong. The captain was filing reports and other satistics in the office, so Leonard was doing watch duty. During their leisure time the two friends were discussing the narrow escape they had the day before.

“That was a close shave we had yesterday,” said John, “and, if it hadn’t been for your presence of mind, we might now be lying in the hospital instead of being here.” **Oh, I don’t think I did more than any man with common sense would have done,” answered Leonard, reddening a trifle, as he was very modest and never cared to have his deeds spoken of.

“Well,” replied John, “I was certainly given a shock that I will remember and will give you tlie credit for having saved my life.”

The above dialogue was about the following incident. An alarm had been sent in and a minute later the truck was manned and off.

Edward Perry, the captain’s favorite, was driving and Leonard was at the wheel. The speedometer already registered thirty miles an hour, but Perry kept crowding the motor to increase the speed. It

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was nothing unusual for them to travel at a break-neck speed, but on this particular morning the pavements were wet and the thor­ oughfares were crowded with traffic. With the aid of the gong they managed to keep a narrow lane free from obstructions, through which they could safely pass.

Soon they reached Howard Avenue and attempted to turn to­ ward the left. Perry had shut down some on the motor, but, as the pavement was slippery, was still going too fast to make the turn in safety. The front end of the machine safely cleared the street rail­ way track, so Perry put on more speed. But when the rear wheels struck the track, they skidded toward the right. Leonard realized their dangerous position and jerked the wheel around as far as possible. Instantly the truck bounded over, but before he could turn the wheel back again the machine had swung so far to the right that a collision with a street car, discharging passengers, seemed unavoidable. The pedestrians were horrified to see the terrible predica­ ment the firemen were in. However, just as the collision seemed imininent, Leonard managed with a supreme effort to get control of the machine and in another instant they whizzed past the car with only a hair breadth’s space between them.

It all happened in a moment, but perspiration was streaming down Leonard’s face as they once more were speeding down the street. Only his coolness and self possession made it possible for him to avert the collision.

On arriving at the station after the fire, which proved to be only a minor affair and was extinguished without much effort, Leonard was complimented by his friends for his coolness. The captain only sneered and said that Leonard would have to be more careful, or he would be in danger of losing his position. Perry felt uncomfortable for he realized that all had been caused by his recklessness, yet he could not endure the praise his rival was receiving at his expense, so he walked away with the captain.

After this conversation at the door of the fire-house John left Leonard at his post and went about setting things in order on the second floor. Here was a suite of rooms completely furnished and affording recreation for the boys in their leisure time. Even though they were bachelors, a neater and tidier set of rooms could not be found.

Leonard picked up a monthly magazine and soon became in­ terested in a short story. He was frequently interrupted by alarms coming in over the wires, for all the fires in the city were automatic­ ally recorded at every station, and the person on watch had to be wide awake in order to distinguish the alarms coming under his supervision from the many others that were being constantly sent in.

Thus it happened, that, while Leonard was very much engrossed with his novel, an alarm from box 4516 was sounded. In an instant he was all action. By pressing a button he sounded a gong that aroused the other men from their reveries and by the time he had

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started the motor and was at his place back of the wheel the other men had slid down tlie metal pole from upstairs and were at their post and off they went.

In a few words Leonard informed the men of the location of the fire, wMch happened to be in the tenement district. Everyone knew wliat that meant. Not a second must be lost if they wished to save the building and its tenants. They literally whirred through space.

Up 63d Avenue they sped, only slacking up a trifle to make the turn into Drexel Avenue. There, just a few blocks up the stree, clouds of could be seen shooting up into the air. Throngs of dense smoke s curious pedestrians were hurrying after them, eager to get near the scene of excitement.

The machine was brought to a sudden stop at a safe distance from the burning dwelling, a three story brick structure, the home of seventeen poor families.

All of the inmates had apparently escaped from the building.

Some were walking about scantily clothed and excitedly talking to the bystanders, while others were screaming and bewailing the loss of their furniture and other household goods.

The fire had originated on the second floor, where a woman had carelessly left an iron near some linen with the current turned on, while she had gone about town shopping. Hence the fire had gained considerable headway before it was discovered.

No time was lost by the firemen. The captain quickly shouted his orders and then turned in a second alarm. Inquiries were made . whether anyone still remained in the building and to their horror the firemen learned that a deaf lady, who with her daughter, occu­ pied an upper apartment and could not be accounted for among those who had fled when tlie cry of “fire!” was raised. Several of the fire­ men headed by Leonard scaled the building with their ladders and found the two women lying on the floor, overcome by the smoke.

Leonard and John entered the room in spite of the smoke, and, in order to keep their own liands free for the descent, they bound the hands of the unfortunate females together. Each then slipped the arms of one of the women over liis head and crawled toward the ladder. The added burdens scarcely offered an impediment to the two stalwart chaps and in a few moments they reached the ground and were relieved of their charges.

By this time the building seemed doomed. The heat was becom­ ing so intense that it was a torture to remain in the vicinity.

Tongues of flame were already eating their way through the roof, sending showers of cinders high into the air. The awful roar of the fire mingled with the cries and shrieks of the mob was almost deaf­ ening. Everyone expected that the firemen would now leave the building to its fate and direct all their efforts to saving the nearby dwellings from destruction.

But the captain was rather dull and was in a dilemma amid the chaos and disorder surounding him. He was not a young man and

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had received his commission not so much through merit as through political pull. Consequently he often gave commands that were not reasonable.

So it happened that he now ordered some of his men to run a hose line to the roof, hoping that he could still keep the fire under control. All the firemen realized tliat he was needlessly and unwise­ ly exposing his men to danger, as the walls of the building alreadythreatened to topple over and bury the brave men under tons of smoking debris. However, they obeyed the command of their super­ ior without a murmur of displeasure. Leonard, not being in the cap­ tain^ favor, was instructed to take the lead. Four brave companions followed him up the ladder, while the eyes of the surging crowd were riveted on their every movement.

J The roof was reached and a steady stream of water, directed by the able hands of Leonard, was played on the flames. He was so absorbed with his task that he did not hear the shouts of warning.

Suddenly a sickening scream arose from the horrified spectators. The wall swayed to and fro for an instant and then fell to the earth with a deafening crash. Even the stoutest hearts grew faint, when they saw the unlucky victims coming down to certain death.

In the meantime several companies had responded to the sec­ ond alarm and with them came the fire chief. He took the situation in at a glance and issued his commands accordingly. The buildings surrounding the black mass of ruins were kept under a spray of water, while a rescue party was formed by volunteers to search for the unfortunate men buried in the ruins. The bodies of Denis Mc­ Carty and Thomas Conway, badly burnt and disfigured, were dis­ covered near the top of the reeking mass of debris. A moan was heard nearby and they quickly began a search, which resulted in the finding of Leonard, who had been thrown some distance by the force of the fall, and whose leg was held fast by a fragment of the wall. They succeeded in extricating him from his uncomfortable position and carried him out of danger. The corpses of Joseph Hall and Pat Moran were found late that evening, but they were so badly mangled that recognition was almost impossible.

Leonard was soon brought back to consciousness by repeated applications of restoratives. A physician made careful examination to determine the extent of the injuries he received and reported to liis anxious friends that, beyond several severe burns and ormses, nothing serious was to be found. This was good news, still 1 friends were filled with sadness to behold their comrade m pitiful condition and carried him home with heavy hearts.

Even though he was badly shaken up and suffered unto.d agonies from his burns, he was soon able to walk ab°ut o f • Two weeks after the accident he received summons to pp the fire chief. ,immediately ushered Arriving at his office in due time, lie wasbig chief *was busy at into the presence of that worthy man. The

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his desk, but looked up with a smile when Leonard entered.

“Young man,” he began, “draw your chair up near my desk. I have something important to say to you.” “You have been on the department for three years,” lie continued, “and during that time several favorable reports have reached me regarding your conduct.

And in these I was made aware of your coolness, clear-sightedness and ability to command when others are likely to hesitate and be­ come confused. For some time I have considered Captain Boyle inefficient, and after what happened at the tenement fire, which you have reason to remember, I believe I am justified in saying this and in discharging him. Now a man of your calibre would be highly de­ sirable in his place.” Then he handed the commission to Leonard and begged him to accept the proffered promotion.

Leonard was so overwhelmed with surprise that he could only stammer a few words of thanks. Nevertheless he managed to com­ pose himself enough to accept the appointment and to say that he would try to prove himself worthy of the trust so implicitly placed in him.

With a light heart he returned to the engine house and there another surprise awaited him.

The boys had already heard of the old captain’s discharge and welcomed his successor with, three lusty cheers. He was placed on the shoulders of the two most stalwart fellows and carried upstairs.

There was a sight that made the tears come into Leonard’s eyes. A long table had been procured and was loaded down with eatables, such as would make even a prince envious.

Everyone did justice to the feast and with their glasses brimful of sparkling wine the firemen proposed a toast to the new captain, who they all believed had well merited his promotion.

W. P. H., ’21, '

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IE&ttnrial0 DELIBERATION. When Louis Philippe was an exile in America, he was a guest at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. Noticing his host’s voluminous correspondence, the exile asked the retired gen­ eral whether he did not fear that some of his deeds or words would come up in judgement against him when the historian was mak­ ing up the estimate of his career. General Washington answered, “I have never said, written, or done anything which I have regretted.” . _ • General Washington had never regretted anything he ever said or did, because he thought twice before he spoke and deliberated before he acted. , How many of us can say of ourselves what General Washington told Louis Philippe? It is true, some of us reflect and consider what we say and do, but then very often we regret afterwards, while most of us deliberate only when deliberation is necessary and urgent, yes, and some few of us never deliberate.

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he met and solved difficulties the way they must be solved and not the way lie felt or wished like solving them.

Unlike Washington, most of us reflect only when we feel and think we ought to reflect. In times when our good name and repu­ tation are in danger of being lost or ruined through, what we say or do, we deliberate, but aside from such moments we forget that God gave us the gift of deliberation. We speak and do things every day without hesitating to consider the consequences, so that finally some of us forget what it is to reflect. Without weighing matters we do something rash, and then wonder why our reputation is not wliat it should be and why we have lost friends and gained enemies.

For example, an ill report is heard of a student; immediately his reputation is blackened through false gossip and invented sto­ ries. Then the truth comes out, and the guilty party regrets what he did, but the evil already done may not be remedied.

Whenever we catch ourselves speaking hastily and doing sometlimg precipitant let us think of Washington’s words, “I have never said, written, or done anything which I have regretted.”

R.C.T., 18. 本

LINCOLN’S HONESTY AND WHAT IT TEACHES. When we recall tlie name of Lincoln, it is with a feeling of re­ spect, of reverence, of love. Lincoln is a most worthy example for us to follow. Would that we all followed his simple traits, above all his love for honesty. Honest Abe he was called, and no name more fitting could have been bestowed on him. Honesty is the most ill-treated, the most sought-after thing on earth; the ideal for which we should all strive; the highest truthfulness to and with itself and God. Let us not forget that an honest man in God’s most noble work; that much of the knowledge on which we depend is founded on the confidence in the honesty of mankind. If we are imbued with the true Christian spirit, it ought not be impossible for us to speak and act honestly. Are we not all anxious that the future bring us success and triumph? To acquire this success, we must be hon­ est in our thoughts, words and deeds; honest in our dealings with our fellow-men. For our success generally depends on our honesty.

To acquire this ideal of honesty, we must begin by being honest with ourselves. How often do we not try to convince ourselves that it is an impossibility for us to do something, when we know it isn’t?

We must be honest with ourselves. We must place a certain con­ fidence in our ability to speak and act honestly, though our weaker self whispers, “You cannot.” When it does speak thus, we must answer, “You lie.” And when we have overcome this feeling of dis­ honesty, we must seek to cultivate the honesty we have acquired in its stead. Honesty can easily be cultivated by applying our good­ will and self-confidence. Honesty is the plant, good-will and confi-

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dence are the roots.

Pour upon these roots the water of life, God，s word, and we shall acquire the ideal for which we have been so painfully striving. Therefore let us keep sacred the memory of Lincoln and his love for honesty. And let us always bear in mind that “sin has a great many tools, but dishonesty is a handle which K. K.，，18. fits them all.

WHY INOT? There is one trait that seems to be found in all people. It is that peculiarity of human nature to think ill of others and to spread such thoughts. Rumors are spread, lies are told about certain individ­ uals, in fact anything that would defame him or spoil his reputa­ tion is used. Because this woeful state of affairs exists throughout the world is no justification for our having it at Northwestern. But we have it: If we enter a room where a few are conversing, we notice that they are very often painting someone black. Of course, these conversations might in many cases be true, but what good does it do to tell everybody about some one’s mistake in order to defame him? If a person is spoken of harshly and some of those present have an unbiased opinion, they will not without further Inquiry ac­ cept such bad report and there is likely to be trouble. And besides, have you thought of the many topics for such conversations you have afforded?

Now we who profess to be Christians ought not tolerate this in our midst. And if we put Christianity aside, is defaming a man a good practice? Does it help matters any? If some one is talked about, those who are unprejudiced will think twice before accepting anything that is told them. And if some agree with you, what does it avail you to drive your point home since it is accepted without your efforts? "Wouldn’t it be better to tell the person in question him­ self? Then if. he is in the wrong and is corrected, he has a chance to improve, and if you are mistaken, you have a chance to be relieved of a wrong impression. So after considering this, you will inevit-. ably come to the conclusion, that is better, perhaps not easier, to speak to the person in question and admonish him in a friendly way, helping him bear his infirmities and not making them larger than they are.

This pertains also to opinions as to our musical organizations, in fact all the different kind of societies. Probably they are not run according to your opinion. Will they profit by your tellng some one else and not drawing their attention to the mistakes? And if you should be mistaken and do not make your opinion known to them, you will not learn your mistake and will continue to labor under the wrong impression, although it may be your honest conviction.

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should they know what your standard of judgment is, if they don’t hear your opinions?

This question ought to be given due consideration, for in most cases of misunderstanding one or the other is always mistaken, be it in word or deed, or in opinions and impressions. To err is human, and we are all human. So if you must needs give your opinion, tell the right party, and don，t beat around tlie bush. Be straightforward, which is the trait of a man and not of a coward. Why not be a man A. Z.,，18. in every case and under all circumstances?

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Alumni Notes.

―Lieut. Malcolm K. Whyte, *10, was married to Miss Bertha Lieut.

Kitchell at Topeka, Kansas, January third of this year.

Whyte is at present at Camp Custer.

—Miss Theodora Bittner,，05, is teaching school at Stockton, Cal. —Theo. Meyer, ’08, agent for the German American Insurance Co. of N. Y., has established his headquarters at Wausau, and since Jan. 20 is father of two little girls, Dorothy and Margaret.

—Paul Geo. Zeisler, ’09, is at present president of the La Crosse Monumental Works, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

—Walter Bodamer, ’17, passed through Watertown Feb. 9, on his way to New Ulm, Minn., where he lias accepted a position as instruc­ tor in Latin and English at D. M. L. C. , —Geo. W. Hauschild, ’00, is an associate editor of a new quarterly magazine called Hispania, which is devoted to teachers of Spanish.

He is still teaching in Los Angeles, Cal. —S. Probst, ’09, has accepted the position of professor at our in­ stitution.

AUS DEM SEMINAR. :

Gustav Schlegel kehrte am 9. Feb. wieder in unsere Mitte zuriick nach einer Abwesenheit von zwei Woclien, in der er als Lehrer in der Gemeindeschule in Two Rivers tatig war.

Walter Bodamer nahm am 10. Feb. fiir den Rest des Jahres von uns Abshied, da er dem Ruf, der von New Ulm aus an uns erging folgte. Dort wird er als Hilfslehrer angestellt sein, bis die vakante Professsur wieder besetzt werden kann.

Paul Lutzke war den 26. Jan. der Gast Pa说or Huths zu Pal­ myra. Am nachsten Tag predigte er in Milton Jet. Die vielen schweren Schneesturme bereiteten manchen Kummer und manche Sorge unter uns..Am scliwersten empfanden es

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die armen Schlucker, die gewohnt sind jeden Tag aus der lieben Heimat einen Brief zu kriegen, und nun durch die selir verspatete Post anderthalb bis zwei Tage warten mussten. Viele besonders die, die in der Stadt ihre liebe Heimat haben, hatten ihre Plage mit der *car-service.* “Ja am Sofa hinterm Ofen ist’s warm genug,” sagten sie, “aber bis man erst hinkommt.”

Merrill ist eine Stadt in Wisconsin. Sie zahlt etwa 9000 Einwohner. Beinahe so gross wie Janesville. Dies wissen wir so genau, weil uns gelegentlich so von ungefahr ein Brief von diesen Stadten zugeflogen kommt. Die Biirgermeister, wies scheint, schicken sie. Doch diese Anmerkung nur, weil Herr Glaser in kurzer Zeit eine siebenbandige Geschichte Merrill’s herauszugeben gedenkt.

Otto Pluedemann, ehemaliges Glied der ersten Klasse, besuchte uns nach Weihnachten und wohnte etlichen Stunden bei. In der Dogmatik stand man da gerade bei der Lehre vom kindlichen Glauben.

Fritz Weindorf genest zur Zeit dieses Schreibens von einem schweren Anfall von Tonsilitis, dass ihn mehrere Tage von den Stunden weghielt.

m The evening of the first Saturday in February is one which the members of the Phi Gamma Rho will not soon forget. Not because they had rendered another good program. That has become second nature to them. No! something far more important; they have finally won a debate from their opponents, the Philomathean. After losing in five successive debates the year before, the society lias “come back” and won the first debate by a unanimous decision. The members of the society are in high spirits and are determined to wipe out the disgrace of the year before.

The debate itself was one that is much touched upon at the present day, namely, Government Ownership and Control of Rail­ ways in the United States. E. Falk and W. Lehmann of the Phi Gammo Rho defended the question, while G. Gieschen and M. Stern of the Philomathean argued against it. Speaking in the words of the critic: All parts should have been memorized better. Mr. Gieschen was nervous, while Mr. Stern did not treat the entire subject.

Honorable mention is due E. Felton for his admirable work at the organ. ** ’Tis not the gun, but the man behind the gun,” as the critic said. Also to 0. Eckert for his original composition on the Caste System in India, which was highly interesting and very well rendered. Not to forget the Sophomore Septet and E. La Haine.

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Although this was the first appearance of the Septet, they performed well and deserved the applause accorded them by the audience. E. La Haine had his recitation “Der Schenk von Erbach” well memor­ ized and brought out the thoughts of the poet to a considerable de­ gree.

Mr. Heidtke, the master of ceremonies, was complimented for the fine program. It was well arranged, the heavier numbers first and then the lighter material. The critic for the evening was Prof.

Westerhaus.

PHILOMATHEAN PROGRAM. Under the able jurisdiction of Master of Ceremonies, Walter Beck, the Philomathean rendered a short but interesting program.

Although it boasted of but six numbers, the program was so ar­ ranged that fatigue and unrest were out of the question.

The Senior class, with the exception of a few, opened the pro­ gram with a song. After they had responded to an encore, Mr. Koch ascended the rostrum. His composition entitled “Conversation” was very well rendered and worked out. In order to enliven the audience after Mr. Koch’s long address, the Junior Quartette sang “Love’s Old Sweet Song.” It is hardly necessary to write a pane­ gyric here. Everyone knows them by this time. Mr. Kupfer was the next speaker. He chose as his topic the German proverb “Not entwickelt Kraft.” The piece was well memorized but lacked life and expression and could have been worked out better. The last number but two was a reading “On Taste in the Choice of Books” written by H. Fielding. Outside of a few mistakes in pronunciation the number was very well rendered. And now that the audience might not go home in too serious a mood, Messrs. Kraus and Westendorf entertained the audience with their original Capriccio. All that has been hitherto unheard of in the field of humorous research was handed the audience. The critic for the evening was Prof.

Huth.

Measles, measles, everywhere And not a germ to catch. ―For the last four weeks we have had in our midst the renowned predatory, extenuating, anticosmetic, misanthropical microbe, com-

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monly yclept the recalcitrant measles germ. Albeit this germ pre­ fers to dwell in rustic haunts, and in seeking one, encountered the amiable, cartilaginous, incasement of Parmer^ confusion, common­ ly yclept “knoick.” From thence it proceeded via stilts to the phy­ siognomy of our dear friend and coppersticker, Klondike, where it devastated and almost annihilated his facial pulchritude. ’Tis said he was agreeably surprised. Becoming disgusted with, these two abodes, Sir Germ wandered aimlessly about, leaving desolation in. his wake. Last but not least, our ‘Ada，fying Capnotist, that unob­ trusive, diminutive symbol of human lethargy, the editor of this column, was attacked by this harrowing persecutor of mankind.

Ergo, he is not able to harrow his readers with distressing compli­ ments this month.

—The Rev. Bretscher from Lebanon visited Hans Groth, Prep., Feb. 1.

—Uncle Matzke and Lange’s Bell were at Horicon Jan. 24 and 25.

—Miss Amalia List visited her brother Johnnie, Prep., Feb. 2.

—Stueber Bros, went home together, but one came back alone.

—Room 55 has lost its worthy “confusius” Theophil Voges, ’20.

Eheu me miseruml —Luther Vohs, ex ’18, intends to enter the aviation corps, At present he is stationed at Camp Grant, 111. 一Irene Bernthal visited her little brother “Luscious” Feb. 2.

—Jerry Press, ’20, honored the population of Milwaukee with a visit Jan. 12. 一Abie Blumenthal, Prep., went to Milwaukee for liver sausage Jan. 21. He returned Jan. 27 and found that a box of cliucking had been devoured by those eminent gormandizers, Zei, Dave, Eddie, Wurstie. ―Farmer Huettel has gone home for a short vacation to rest his weary brains. 一Leo Timmel, brother of the two Smokies, witnessed the battle between the Seniors and Preshies Feb. 2. He brought good wishes and Ray’s report with him.

—Prancing Jim Heidtke, accompanied by his vociferous frere Theodore, aggrandized the treasury of the North Western Railroad Co. to the extent of thirty cents, by journeying to that spirited burg of Juneau Jan. 26. On account of the high price of coal, which com­ pelled the generator of Juneau’s lighting system to cease all opera­ tions at sunset, the populace had hit the hay. Jim reports that it required two hours of vigorous pommeling to arouse the sonorous sleepers, before he could obtain a nights lodging. 一Herman Scherf, *20, the famous hash-exterminator, left for Mil­ waukee to have his tonsils removed, to provide for more room for the hash. ock Krauss .has been assiduously studying psychology, in to prove that his walk two miles from the Junction on Jan. 26 was not dertimental to him. He argues that, although it was a

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walk of five miles, the time flew, and his muscles have been strength­ ened much. Arriving at his destination the inmates of the place, whither his thoughts flew before he arrived, suddenly called out: “Hello, brother.” This is said to have frightened Carl much, and hie was sore displeased. However, he picked up courage and entered.

He was seen safe and sound in the Dormitory sometime later. Ah, Carl, many have gone through the same tribulation. May this teach you a lesson. 一Emil Zillmer, ex-，18, stopped off between trains on his way north. He is cow-tester for an association in Kewaunee county, and was on his way back from a state meeting of the testers held at Mad­ ison on the sixth and seventh of February.

—William Schmidt, ex-’18, visited us Feb. 8. He has matrimonial aspirations.

• CO-ED NOTES 一Misses Margaret Haack, Lynda Zickert, Clara Ruppert, and Mabel Mansfield entered as special students in the commercial course.

—Miss Hattie and Esther Detert atended the high school class play at Waterloo, Jan. 31.

—Miss Gertrude Schatz visited classes, Jan. 21.

—Misses Doris Ott and Esther Detert spent Jan. 18-20 in Milwau­ kee. Upon their return they were compelled to settle a serious matter.

—Miss Ella Detert and Esther Gevers visited classes, Jan. 26.

—Miss Margaret Koenig spent Jan. 25-26 in Milwaukee. While there, she attended the Junior reception at the Normal school. 一Miss Lydia Pankow has discontinued her studies, having ac­ cepted a position as teacher at the St. John’s Lutheran school.

M. K.

m Interclass basketball is now in full swing at Northwestern. A schedule that gives each team nine games to play, or in other words, that gives each team three games against each of the other teams, lias been made by the managers. Up to date each team has played three games. As to the spirit that has thus far been shown by the various teams, the Freshmen deserve honorable mention; not only does the team show its “pep” in fast and snappy worR, but also the remaining members of the class show theirs, by cheering their team with yells and songs. The Sophomores have sorely disappoint-

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ed us in the last two games. The first game, whicli was against the Freshmen, was fast and every one expected to see the Sophomores end the season as first or second place men, but judging from the last two games, our fond hopes will be shattered. The Juniors are showing up well. These same Juniors, who were afraid to start basketball this year, are now showing up fine. This team, although it has not very much, speed, has shown a considerable amount of fight. Little need be said about the Seniors. As has always been customary at Northwestern, the Seniors show little interest in basketball, yet they have not lost a game this season. Captain Dux, whose last year’s record was 20.44 points per game, and Lau, one of the last year forwards, have not played this season, the former hurt his arm and the latter has just returned from the isolation hospital; little boys sometimes get the measles.

On January the twenty-sixth two games were played.

The first game, between the Seniors and Juniors, was not very fast, nor was there any star playing. The Seniors were the victors. The Juniors were allowed but 14 points, 2 of these were made in the first half, Tacke, their captain, scored 8 points. Lange, Wacker, and Krauss took care of the score for the Seniors and made 39 points to which Zeisler added 2 more. The second game, between the Sophomores and Freshmen, showed more speed and was more in­ teresting. The boys of green won this game. Brandt scored 8 bas­ kets. The final score was 30 to 17.

On January the thirtieth the Seniors again were victorious, the Sophomores being the victims. The score was only 58 to 15. Tlie Sophomores did not play as well as was expected of them. This same day the Juniors had set their mind on “doing something” and defeat­ ed the Freshmen by a score of 24 to 12. Albrecht and Falk showed their caliber by stopping the Freshman scoring machine almost en­ tirely.

February the second witnessed another victory for the Seniors, when they defeated the Freshmen by a score of 45 to 23. According to some of the Senior players, this was their hardest game this year.

As was mentioned above, the Seniors lack interest in the game. The result is that their pipes have not been laid aside, and when meeting the snappy Freshmen, a lack of “wind” was felt by the *18 men. The class of 1919 this day also won their game of basketball. This team has made its mark, and we are all looking forward for a very sucessful season for the Juniors. As an admirer of the Sophomores, I do not like to say much about their playing in this game, but I do hope that they will soon do better. The Sophomores made 14 points against the Juniors，41.

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Following are the lineups of the various teams: Class ’19 Class ’18 Forward Lange Tacke Forward Wacker Brandt F. Siefert Center Krauss Guard Meier W. Albrecht Falk Guard Zeisler Substitutes

Class ’21 Class *20 Press Brandt A. Felton Kemp Dalke Liesner Uetzman Croll Steffen Timmel K. Monhart Kremer

Besides these teams we still have a Faculty team and various Prep, teams. In the prep, department the Quarta class will un­ doubtedly win most of the games. One may witness some interest­ ing games between the youngsters.

Playing basketball is not all that is done in the line of athletics, however. The running track is being used daily by some few, who are most likely training for next year’s football squad. Then there are others using the other apparatus. Some few are preparing for the ring, at least they are making frequent use of the boxing gloves. The most interesting boxing matches thus far were those between Shorty Haegele and Elmer Prenzlow. Again others have not yet forgotten the campus, upon which they have tried to play football, but make most use of it as a short cut just before 10:30 p. m.

Bl

m

Our Exchange table this month looked rather empty, since for some reason or other—possibly on account of snow-bound trains一 some magazines that otherwise reach us did not appear. Neverthe­ less, we express our thanks for those we received.

Augustana Observer.

Our eyes immediately struck the odd cover-design of the “Augustana Observer,” as this was rather conspicuous. It was, how­ ever, not by any means unappropriate, although the drawing was in some places out of proportion.

The paper used was of a fair grade and together with the clear print offered easy reading-matter for the eyes. Yet printing-errors were too frequent throughout the paper.

The literary part of your magazine opened with a college song, “The Sons and Daughters of Augustana.” The spirit expressed in it

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was that of true students. In some places the sentences were con­ structed somewhat awkwardly, undoubtedly caused by attempting to obtain correct rhythm. As this is not always simple, we dare not judge too harshly, also considering that you are but amateurs as well as we« An article of great interest to us was “The Slums,” and we are anxiously waiting for its continuation in the next issue. Already the word “slum” causes one to shake and think of the sad conditions in which so many people of our modern large cities are. The first four sentences of the article would have made a better impression had the writer used a little more variation in the construction. The word “slum” was used as subject and was in tlie first place of these four and let sentences. The second paragraph begins “Step across us.” Why not be a little more uniform in the use of the verb? In one place you use “first hand information,’ where first and hand should have been connected with a hyphen. The article showed several general mistakes, as the wrong use of the comma—especial­ ly in separating restrictive and explanatory sentences—and of the conjunctive pronouns. A little more preciseness in some expres­ sions would also have improved the article greatly.

We decline to say much regarding the “Letter from the Front,” as we can readily understand that letters written in a hurry, as this one undoubtedly was, cannot be without mistakes and that a man in the camp is inclined to do this in a hurry. Nevertheless, we thought it appropriate to publish this letter.

We were pleased to hear something more in detail about your library.

The editorials were both topics concerning your paper and stu­ dents, the first one encouraging the students to aid in raising the standard of your paper, the second explaining the need of a stu­ dent’s sick benefit society at Augustana. They were ably written.

The “General News” and “Organizations” columns gave us ample information about the activities at your school. Your “Music” column showed that your students take great interest in music, and that they have enough opportunities to accomplish something in this art at your institution.

The seminary and alumni notes, as well as “Exchanges,” were well edited. “Athletics” afforded us sufficient information as to your activities in this field. “Observatory” contained several good jokes and the humorous article, “A Disertation on Bald Heads.”

Short articles of this kind in the joke-column help as well as jokes themselves to enliven the minds of the readers after reading the other departments of the paper.

As the first issue of the new staff, the January number was as good as could be expected of a new staff, of amateurs, as you call yourselves. However, do not think this to be the best you can do, but work and you will accomplish more. We wish you great success!

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，Tis easy enough to giggle and grin When the jokes are funny and full of vim, But the student worth while Is the guy who can smile When the joke is directed at him.—Ex. 一Prof: How do you preserve fruits so that they don’t ferment?

Wise Freshie: Put them in alcohol.

—McGraw: In cablegrams the word “sweetheart” stands for $12,000.

Wurstie: That’s cheap. 一Das Geschwatz is gerade wie ein persischer Fluss; es fliesst hinaus und verliert sich im Sand, kommt aber sonst zu nichts.

—Jap: Aren’t the hamburgers nearly finished, or did the stove go out?

Red: Man, how should the stove get out; the door is locked?

Hcayeiily Interference.

Marion was saying her prayers. “And please, God,” she peti­ tioned, “make Portland the capital of Maine.” ,4Why, Marion,” said her shocked mother, “what made you say that?”

Marion settled herself comfortably in bed. “ ’Cause I made it that way in my lamination paper,” she said, “and I want to be right.”— —Ex. One of Balls5 Deep Ones.

Potratz, you’re cracking such dead jokes. I suppose nature therefore provided you with black hair to serve as a drape.

—Kr~se: Man, you have SOME brains!

Abe: Did I know it?

—Professor: If you would see a rainbow at noon, what would it be?

Stehesel: A straight circle.

The Modern Henry of Canossa.

A certain gentleman of the Freshman Class had made prepara­ tions to discontinue his studies. His friends, however, used all their machinery of harangue and bombastry in trying to induce him to stay. But this learned gentleman, who possessed more information in any sphere knowledge than any person he encountered, or any company into which he entered, discharged his arguments on them without ]mercy and refuted all their arguments.

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The following day, however, he received an important letter from his parents. He spent some time in perusing and reperusing the letter, counting the letters on every page, and weighing every phrase, nay, every syllable in the nicest scales of criticism.

Later an indistinct thought of peril, which he could neither under­ stand nor ward off, seemed to float before his eyes. For hours he would sit debating to himself, whether he should discontinue his studies. Like Henry of Canossa he would stand for hours like a penitent before his trunk debating to himself.

One night the roommates of this gentleman heard a peculiar sound, which seemed to come from the lockers and sounaed to them as though some mice were tearing some handkerchiefs or nibbling some sausage. They all rushed to their lockers to cliase away the mice, but failed to discover anything out of order. However, upon closer examination they lieard from whence the sound came. In one of the lockers they found this gentleman in great mental agitation, Every gleam of joy had faded away from his features, and gave way expressions, first of melancholy, and then of : to the most intense agony• With his both hands lie rubbed and scratched his head, and even made several attempts to tear out some of the hair of his head.

With great difficulty the roommates calmed him.

With tears in his eyes he told us that he had made preparations to leave the institution, when suddenly his parents informed him through a special delivery that he must stay. This letter came to him like a deus ex machina. It broke down his whole nervous system and deranlged his mental faculties. He detested to stay, but also feared to disobey his parents. Finally lie determined to let fate de­ cide the verdict. He, therefore, got up and crawled into his locker to “flop coins.” But fate was against him. With great displeasure lie must remain at old Northwestern. .The honorable roommates alleviated his grief and raised his spirit, by promising him that his great question may be settled in a literary debate, which will turn out in his favor.

JUNIUS.

DIE MASERU. Was ist es, das jetzt jeden plagt Und jeden am Gewissen nagt?

Warum ist jedem jetzt zu Mut, Als ob er sich nicht fuhlet gut?

Im Spiegel schaut sich jeder an, Ob er nicht was bemerken kann Vom Ausschlag, den jetzt yiele haben, Sowohlt die Jlingling* wie die Knaben.

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Jetzt sind schon dreissig eingeschlossen, Eh* kaum vier Wochen sind yerflossen.

Wohl mancher dacht: “Ich krieg sie nicht” Doch wie er schaut nach sein’m Gesicht, Da wird die Sache offenbar, Dort steli’n die Masern hell und klar; Voll Schrecken birgt er sich im Bett Und denkt sich: “Ach ist dies ’ne Kett!”

Die Internierten jubeln laut Und essen Kniep und Sauerkraut.

Um achte schon im Bett verborgen, Erwachen sie erst spat am Morgen.

Doch schliesslich ist der Spass vorbei, Und alle wollen wieder frei.

Die Masern sind ’ne schone Zier, Doch besser tut man ohne ihr.

1产物 !

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AD EDITORES. Unto Those About To Depart, Most gracious Muse of poetry, give ear to my complaint! ’Tis come to me to bid farewell to men wlio bear no taint.

Thou mighty steed of verse, o Pegasus, draw near; Lend unto me poor mortal a condescending ear. *Tis but a bit of aid from you I humbly now implore, To write such lines of sad farewell, as ne’er were heard before.

List ye, o gentle readers, what I would have you hear: My theme shall be the editors so long to us so dear.— The editor-in-chief is he, who has been yclept Zei, Bright, cheerful, sturdy, stalwart, witli true unflinching eye.

What more then can be said of him, except to hear him sing?

For in the art of singing you can’t show him a thing.

There is one song that he can sing, I hear him singing now; ，, This little songlet bears the name, “Sweet Alice, where art tliou?”

I prithee, gentle Muse, bestow on this good youth your grace; Make him a mighty leader and a pride unto liis race.— But lo, behold ye, readers fair, I see another form!

Methinks it is the man with name of Eggers born.

Hipes was a man who always had a fluent gift of gab, That’s why they delegated him to get his little ads.

On any moon-lit evening you will hear him softly sing, “Sweet Esther, Queen of Sheba, name the day, I have the ring.”

Sweet Muse, wilt thou bestow on him a kind and loving glance?

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Guide safely this true, noble youth in the paths of his romance?— Hold on there, Peg old boy, you’ll never leave today, Until you’ve given me the words for all I wish to say.

Ah, noble steed, thou openest mine eyes and let’st me see Another man who always was so near and dear to me.

Lo, ’tis the noble Da-da e’er a leader of his clan; He was the wizard in all sports, a sturdy type of man. time his battle-cry did echo o’er the field, Full man To cause men to grimly fight, his enemies to yield.

Fair Muse, if thou wouldst cast on him thy mild and tender eyes, Grant him the foremost rank among the men in knowledge wise.— Again, o noble steed, wilt thou forsake and leave me here To cope with mighty verse and rhyme, to make my visions clear?

Stay but a short time ardently I prithee, fiery steed, For there are two more men to whom I’ve much to say indeed.

Again thou help’st me tho’ I’m but a mortal mere, Thou sliowest me a type of man who is immune to fear.

All, Herb, tliou art among those men to serve our noble land.

Be true to us, to country, and give the flag thy hand.

Kind Muse, grant unto him thy fair, bright, guiding star, Watch o’er him, keep thy bounteous love and grace from him ne’er far.— Now, noble steed, grant unto me, one more long look serene, That I may see that little man with whom 1*11 close my theme.

Ah, Heine, thou art very small, but knowest very much, For on thy gifts for learning fair Wisdom left her touch.

We’re for aye to you indebted for your criticisms fair.

May Ella, thine own Muse of love, bestow on you her care.— But lo, my visions vanish, Pegasus, old boy, art fled?

Thou trusty steed who staid and true my aimless thoughts hast led?

Stay but until good wishes on these friends I do bestow.

And wish them luck and happiness, man wants but little else below.

The Black and Red bids you farewell, you’ve served it long and well, May you ne’er forget the paper till you hear death’s solemn knell.

Unto Those Who Yet Remain.

When in the course of human life, a man must praises share, ’Tis hardly more than just that he to every one be fair.

Therefore, o gentle readers, can you stand a little more?

For I must dedicate unto the other men this lore.

The College Notes are written by the famous William Dad; To cram liis column full of wit, was to him a natural fad.

Variety’s of life the spice, was Daddy Leg’s belief, And next year we all hope to see him editor-in-chief.

0 gentlest Muse, guide thou his pen, leave him not in the pinch, And lie will prove to be a man who from duty will not flinch.— Ah, here we have the little Kurt, who loves the Co-eds fair.

Just mention clothing stores to him and lie’ll be in the air.

No more will he his satire vent upon his readers’ rep,

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But all the same, we must concede, his Locals had some pep.

Grant, fairest Muse, unto this youth a private railroad car, That he may see his lady love who’s from this place so far.— And last we have tlie mighty Rex, (this title Caesars bore); His gentle jokes woud even make a cow with laughter roar.

No more we，ll hear tlie students liowl about his scathing jokes; Don’t mind the things they say, 0 Rex, they’re nothing but poor blokes.

Most genlte Muse, bestow on him the gift of Reuter’s wit, We know lie’ll not pass'up the chance to make good use of it.— To you wlio yet remain I wish the Muses’ blessings rare, May you be worthier than before of the Black and Red so fair.

Alas, I feel it slipping, that gift of writing verse.

That balky steed, on whom I ride, won’t guide my sayings terse.

Pshaw! it is gone at last, that steed whose going I so feared; Gone! and mine eyes run over for the praises I have reared, To see such men departing from among us men of wit.

O Pegasus, give me a word that in this line will fit!

Thou answerest not! Thou’rt gone! ’pon my word it is a shame, That poets such as I but live to leave their liumble name.— SOCK, *18.

EVENTS BROUGHT ABOUT BY 1NTEGR0 SLAVERY IN THE U. S.

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The most important event in tlie history of our country is the institution of negro slavery. No question was ever mentioned and debated on so much as the question of slavery. Slavery, the insti­ tution which led to the Missouri Compromise, to gag resolutions, to the Omnibus Bill, to the Republican party, etc.

The institution which nearly overthrew our doctrine of being the land of the free, and of which Lafayette said: I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery. Of which Madison said: It is wrong to admit into the constitution the idea that there can be property in man. .From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the end of the civil war this institution was the center of many important events.

In 1619 when the Virginia House of Burgesses, the first elected representatives, met, twenty slaves were brought from the West Indies to Virginia. Thus slavery and democracy were Introduced into our country at the same time. Slavery, however, grew very slowly in the colonies during the seventeenth century. Very few people had slaves, and those were the wealthier families of the middle and northern colonies. But in the eighteenth century, after England in the treaty of Utrecht demanded a monopoly to carry slaves from Africa to Latin America, slavery increased to a great extent.

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The colonies tolerated the importation of slaves until they were prompted, by the cruel treatment which they received, to prohibit it. Slaves were branded and mutilated. On their journey across the ocean they were crowded into small cabins in which they could scarcely breathe, which resulted in the suffocation of many. Those who took ill were mercilessly thrown overboard. Is it any wonder that the Virginia House of Burgesses passed bills forbidding the im­ portation of slaves? These bills, however, were vetoed by the king, for who was deriving the most benefit out of the slave trade? Ever since the treaty of Utrecht, England received the greater shares of profit in trading slaves, even Queen Anne herself had money in­ vested in the trade.

So the king, not considering the question morally, but simply economically vetoed any bill whicH would have minimized the profits of his country. This is one of the charges brought against the king by Thomas Jefferson when he drew up the Declaration of Independence, when he says: He has waged war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty, in the persons of a distant people (namely Africans) who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their trans­ port thither.

As the colonies grew and different types of industry were in­ troduced and developed in the colonies, it became manifest that the home of the negro would be in the South, since that climate suited his physique. In 1715 the population in the middle colonies con­ sisted of 9 per cent, whereas south of the Potomac the negroes com­ prised 25 per cent of the population. So the colonies were not a free land, but a land in which slavery was recognized by law except in those parts where no economical benefits could be derived from it.

During the Revolutionary epoch the sentiment was very much against slavery. The Continental Congress prohibited slaves to be imported into the colonies. After the war Jefferson suggested that slaves be purchased by the state and colonized. This was tried but it resulted in a total failure, for more negroes were born than those that were taken out of the country. Finally slavery was recognized by the constitution of the United States, because the members of the convention thought they liad no right to abolish it, since it was a domestic institution.

Many people were dissatisfied and petitioned Congress to abol­ ish the institution. These petitions were continued to the end of the Civil war. Attempts were made to impose a tax of ten dollars a head on imported slaves, but they failed. In 1898 Congress finally prohibited the importation of slaves, which was the only step taken against slavery, whereas on the other hand legislation was favorable to it. In 1793 a fugitive slave law was passed. Under it a runaway slave could be seized wherever found, and without a jury be reclaim­ ed at the decision of a local judge. Ini792 Kentucky and Tennessee were admitted, and Louisiana in 1812. All these states sanctioned

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slavery, whereas only two free states were admitted, Vermont in 1791, and Ohio in 1803. Besides in 1803 the immense territo of Louisiana was purchased, in which slavery was allowed to carried on wherever it had existed before the purchase.

Then came the question of slavery or no slavery beyond the Mississippi. In 1820 a bill to admit Missouri as a slave state was put before Congress. The Union consisted of eleven free states and eleven slave states. Now if Missouri had been admitted either as a slave or a free state the balance in the Senate would have been upset.

Besides, the admission of Missouri would very likely have settled the policy as to the admission of other territories west of the Mis­ sissippi. The Senate broke even when this bill was up. But the house of Representatives having more Northerners was against the ad­ mission of Missouri as a slave state. When the bill was put up James Tallmadge moved to amend it to the effect, that the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited,一 and that all children born within said state after admisssion thereof into the Union shall be free at the age of 25 years. This passed the house, but was rejected by the Senate. As neither would yield the bill went over to the next session of Congress.

By the next session of Congress Maine had obtained leave from Massachusetts, to which it belonged, to apply for admission to the Union as a free state. This gave Congress a chance to preserve the balance in the Senate. So Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. Another bill was passed which, it was hoped, would settle the issue of slavery, the Missouri compro­ mise. This bill embodied an act which admitted Missouri as a slave state, but forbade slavery in the rest of the Louisiana territory north of 36 degrees 30 minutes.

The Missouri Compromise, however, did not settle the ques­ tion of slavery, moreover its effect was tlie reverse. It was prevalent among all other political questions. It caused the rise of abolition­ ist sentiment. Antislavery newspapers were aroused. Newspaper men like Lundy and Garrison grew more aggressive.

Garrison, however, was too radical in his views which weakened his favor in the eyes of the antislavery men. He was one of those of which Charles Sumner declared, that an omnibus load of Boston abolition­ ists had done more harm to the antislavery cause than all its ene­ mies. He was too extreme. Garrison’s writings urged on negro insurrections, the most horrible one being led by Nat Turner in Southampton county.

Although most of the antislavery people were against those of the extremist sect, they were finally driven to act in tlie same man­ ner when the South tried to exclude all antislavery documents from the mails, and even tried “to muzzle the liberty of petition and de­ bate in Congress.” A bill to this effect fell through, but tlie South succeeded in passing the following gag resolution: That all peti­ tions―relating in any way to the subject of slavery or the abolition

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of slavery, shall without either being printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action shall be held thereon.

This resolution was unconstitutional, for according to the Constitu­ tion Congress cannot make any law that abridges the right of the people to petition the government for redress of grievances. Al­ though men like John Quincy Adams opposed this bill, it was passed and was in force from 1836 to 1844. This and similar unconstitu­ tional acts agitated the Northerners and drove many antislavery men into the ranks of the abolitionists. In many states antislavery men formed a political party, the Liberty party. This finally led to the Republican party “which twenty years later triumphed in the election of Abraham Lincoln,_the man who gave slavery its death blow.”

Before the migration to the west there was always a possible chance to settle the slavery question. The North and South could have divided into two republics. But now the struggle was for the West, the pro-slavery people trying to get there before the anti­ slavery people, and vice versa. This struggle between the North and South for the West grew beyond control and ended with the Civil war.

When, after the Mexican war, the United States received Cali­ fornia and New Mexico, a bill appropriating $3,000,000 to pay Mex­ ico was introduced. Immediately Wilmot proposed an amendment to the effect that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude should ever exist in any part of territory acquired from Mexico. The South was indignant at this and said that Wilmot had infringed on th( rights of the Missouri Compromise. So when Oregon applied foi admission to the Union an amendment was made that nothing should authorize the prohibition of slavery in Oregon so long as it was a territory of the United States. Oregon, however, was ad­ mitted as a free territory. When California drew up her constitution forbidding slavery and applied for admission to the Union another crisis arose, since the number of free and slave states was again even. The North wanted to abide by the Wilmot proviso, the South wanted the Missouri Compromise to be operative. A heated debate was started and ran into the thirty-first session of Congress. This debate led to a critical situation when Robert Toombs of Georgia declared that he was for disunion.

In the midst of this grave crisis Clay came forward with the famous Omnibus Bill. He proposed the admission of California as a free state; that New Mexico and Utah should be organized without reference to slavery, but on the squatter sovereignty principle, which, left the people’s discretion determine whether they wanted slavery or not; that the slave trade should be abolished in the Dis­ trict of Columbia; that Texas should be made smaller and receive $10,000,000 as a recompense; that the rendition of slaves should be made more efficient.

Many of our greatest statesmen spoke on this bill. Benton, Cass,

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Bell, Douglas, Davis, Seward, Chase, Hale, the “great triumvirate” of American statesmen Clay, Calhoun, and Webster. Webster made his famous seventh-of-Marcli speech on this bill. He was against slavery, but rather than have the country disunited, lie was for com­ promising.

Senator Seward made a famous, eloquent speech against this bill. He was merciless in criticizing Webster for agreeing to Clay，s proposals. He asked whether people, who are founding social and political institutions for many thousands, should establish human bondage or allow it to be established. In the course of his speech lie appealed to the moral law, or as he called it, the higher law. This speech incited the antislavery sentiment still more. After debating for six months the bill was finally passed and it was hoped that the slave question was settled forever. And for four years it surely seemed as i£ the slave question had died out.

But in 1854 Douglas introduced a bill for the organization of Kansas and Nebraska. These territories lay north of 36 degrees 30 minutes and according to the Missouri Compromise slavery was for­ bidden in them. On this point the conflict broke out once more.

Douglas said that the Missouri Compromise had been superseded by the Compromise of 1850 and was therefore inoperative. The North was indignant at this and denounced Douglas, but after a continuous session -of 37 hours Douglas won out, and a bill was passed which, provided that the slavery question should be decided by the character of immigration into tlie territories. The result of this bill was that pro-slavery and anti-slavery people made 汪 rusli for the possession of Kansas. The trouble started when the first election took place, when “an unkempt, sundried, blatant, picturesque mob of 5000 Mis­ sourians marched to the polls.” Fraud was resorted to, which is proved by the election in the town of Lawrence. There were only three hundred and sixty voters registered, but seven hundred and eighty votes were cast. In this unlawful manner the South succeed­ ed in sending pro-slavery territorial delegates to Congress. The antislavery people in Kansas were opposed to this and organized an anti-slavery government, in Kansas, at Topeka. This struggle for the upperhand led to a civil war in Kansas. “Bleeding Kansas” as this event is called, was the result of the popular sovereignty prin­ ciple of which. Senator Douglas was a staunch upholder.

After Douglas' term was about to expire, he went to Illinois to campaign for his re-election. Lincoln, the Republican candidate, was opposed to the doctrine of “popular sovereignty” and clialleneged Douglas to a series of debates on this question and the extension of slavery. Douglas held that it was unconstitutional for the govern­ ment to prohibit slavery, since by “popular sovereignty” it was left to the people to decide. “But,” Lincoln asked, “how could a territory forbid slavery when Congress itself could not? The territory was a creation of Congress. Did it have more power thiaii the Congress which created it? Could water rise above its source?”

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G. A. ZEISLER W. H. LEHMANN

H. C. EGGERS H. C. SCHUMACHER K. A. TIMMEL

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These debates were watched by the whole country and through them Lincoln gained a national reputation. When he was nominated as candidate for the senatorship he made the following assertion: In my opinion the slavery agitation will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself can­ not stand. I believe this government cannot endure half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it,—or its advocates will push it forward till it shall became alike lawful in all states.”

Lincoln was defeated in his run for senator, but two years later was elected president.

When the legislature of South Carolina heard of Lincoln’s elec­ tion, they met to urge on their threat of secession and on the twen­ tieth of December, 1860, they passed a resolution, dissolving the Union subsisting between them and the other states, under the name of United States of America. By February the next year Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Texas had followed. On February fourth, delegates from each of these states met and framed a new constitution, organizing the Confederate States of America.

The election of Lincoln was no cause for secession and the ap­ prehension that he would destroy the institution of slavery was un­ called for. In his inaugural address Lincoln expressly said: I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. Further he said: The Union is unbroken and to the extent of my ability I shall take care that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed. When he said this he sure­ ly included the fugitive slave law. He deemed this as the simple duty on his part and he firmly gave the assurance that in constitu­ tionally defending and maintaining the Union bloodshed and vio­ lence was unnecessary, unless it were forced upon the national authority.

But the South liad already forced violence upon the govern­ ment by seizing most of her property. And when Lincoln gave no­ tice to the governor of South Carolina that supplies would be sent to Fort Sumter, the South gathered and bombarded it until it was surrendered. Until then Lincoln did not take drastic measures.

After the Civil war had started Lincoln wanted to compromise with the South and settle the issue peaceably by compensating all owners of the Confederate states if they would liberate their slaves.

But they declined because they doubted his sincerity and power to be square with them. Realizing that he could get no support and driven to the utmost, Lincoln issued his proclamation of emancipa­ tion in which he solemnly declared, “all persons held as slaves with­ in any state, or any designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free,” namely after tlie first of January, 1863,

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Since slavery still existed in some of tlie states in the Union, Congress passed an amendment, the Thirteenth Amendment, liber­ ating all slaves in. the Union. Tliis amendment was ratified by the necesssary number of states and became a part of the constitution.

After the war another amendment was passed which, provided, “that neither the United States or any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for loss or emancipation of any slaves.” The Confederate States were not admitted into the Union until they had ratified this amendment.

It is difficult to say whether slavery could have been abolished without war. The question was debated by our greatest statesmen and they could come to no conclusion. Compromises were made and agreed upon but all in vain. The question became bitter and more bitter until a crisis was reached. No conclusions could be reached as long as the “house was divided against itself.” It had to become “all one thing or all the other.” It is true the debt of the Civil War, in lives as well as financially, was enormous. But when we consider that it removed the curse of slavery from our country, we may say that the awful sacrifices were not made in vain.

A. Z., ’18.

EHEU ME MEASLEGERM,

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I am a little measle germ with such a cute little father and such a cute little mother. They are just the cutest creatures you can imagine. If you listen closely, I will tell you a little story.

We, my father, mother and I, were living peaceably in a little village we called Germville. Not because there were any germs in the town, but because our name was Germ, and our neighbour’s name was Germ, and every body’s name was Germ. Life was a per­ fect dream for us there until the present year. So many families are moving out of our city. Smallpox, who had been our neighbour for many years, was among the first to go. Soon after Scarlet Fever lgft, but he soon came back again, looking pretty yellow under the gills. He said that the weather had been unfavorable so that there was little doing for him at present but that there might be better chances in the future. Outside of that he gave such an interesting description of the world beyond our little circle that that night, Mumps, Typhus and Chilblains left and haven’t been heard from since. Although I never did like Mumps because he carried on so it as though he were a big swell, I missed his company anyhow, used to be such fun to play tag with him. Oh, lie was so slow. So was Chilblains, whom we used to anger when we played leapfrog and bumped into him. He would run home crying and have liis mother wrap him up in mosquito fat. But now I am sorry I teased them and wish they were here.

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Fate soon took pity on me, however. One day a figure in a large black mantle came to our house and had a short talk with my par­ ents. As soon as it was gone, my mother called me into the house and told me to hurry up and get ready for a long journey; Mr. Pestilence had just been there and had secured a little work for us.

I did as I was told and was ready long ere our visitor of a short time ago came that night to bring us to our field of labour.

Our journey was as uneventful as it was rapid and in a short time we were at our destination. Father sent me to bed while he and mother received their instructions from Mr. Pestilence. As we were new to the work, our task would be light. We were simply to go to the cities or corpora of the gens humana, of which there were a great number in this part of the country, and make ourselves at home. He warned us, however, not to stay too long on one corpus.

As soon as we saw Pace Plain or the land beyond neck Isthmus rise into mountains of red fire we were to go to another corpus or fall a prey to Formaldehyde.

Next morning mother had a broad grin on her face when she woke me. “I have a surprise in store for you,” she said, “come into the parlor.” And what do you suppose I beheld? You can’t guess.

About a million little brothers and sisters—oh, such cute little dears.

They were all over; on the floor, on the walls and even on the ceiling.

While I was admiring the new addition to the family, fathei burst into the room and asked for me. Finding me, lie bade me tak< about a thousand of my brothers and sisters with me and follow him We had not far to go before we came to Corpus Agricolae, as father e then took me aside and gave me the instruccalled the place, tions Pestilence had given him, and left us.

Having myself and the other limbs of the family to feed, I be­ gan exploring the region in search of food. Oh what a funny coun­ try. A dense wood was located at the extreme end. As I stood for a moment admiring it a beast poked its head out and asked what my business was. I was so frightened that I fled and almost fell into Eye Water, had I not hung on with all my strength to a breakwater which divided Eye Water in two. I travelled along this, which sloped off gradually to both sides, until I came to a steep precipice.

Glancing down from this perilous height I saw two great caverns out of which a gust of wind was pouring, that it almost took my breath, away. Retracing my steps I returned to my companions.

Imagine my surprise when I saw them one and all in front of the woods from which I had so lately been forced to flee. Upon coming closer, I saw that they had something in their midst, no one else but my enemy of a short time ago. He was lifeless now and we were about to transport him piece-meal to our stomachs when sud­ denly the ground under us began to rise. We thought it was sport at first. But soon the rising ceased and we were entirely surround-

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ed by mountains of glaring red. Then I knew that we were doomed; for this was what my father had warned against.

But I did not give up hope. Soon the whole corpus seemed to move. All at once it vibrated, groaned and shook from end to end.

I fell to the ground. Here I found a host of my companions with whom I journeyed home. Mother and father were surprised to see us but lent a glad ear to our story. Mother deplored the fact that five hundred of her children were missing, while father said we had been lucky and told us he would bring us to another place tomorrow.

“And I’ll look out for the mountains this time,” said I. W. L., *19.

DER CHINESISCHE GELEHRTE. Es gibt eine Klasse von Lenten in China, die vor alien andern den Vorzug hat; die bei Reichen und Armen grosses Ansehen geniesst, deren Meinung in dem abgelegensten Dorfchen, wie auch in der Hauptstadt yiel gilt; eine Klasse, die in den kleinsten Streitigkeiten, und auch in den wiclitigsten Regierungsangelegenlxeiten (las entscheidende Wort spricht. Dies ist die Klasse der Gelehrten.

Mit wenigen Ausnahmen steht es jedem Chinesen offen, die Laufbahn eines Gelehrten einzuschlagen. Es ist das hochste Ziel, das sich ein cliinesischer Junge stecken kann und der Wunsch eines jeden Vaters, dass sein Solin in diesen bevorzugten Stand aufgenommen werde.

Der Kursus, den einer erfolgreich beendigen muss, um ein Gelehrter zu werden, ist schon seit fuufundzwanzighundert Jahren im Gebrauch. Er umfasst Religion, chinesische Geschichte und Tra­ dition, ein wenig Geographie und Unterricht in cliinesischer Litera­ ture. In diesen Disziplinen eignen sich strebsame Schuler eine grosse Gewandtheit an, vor allem eine staunenswerte Entwickelung des Gedachtnisses; denn sie miissen Tausende von Spriichen des Konfuzius auswendig lernen. Die ganze Wissenscliaft aus dem grauen Altertum wird noch heute ohne Veranderung studiert.

Dies erklart manches, das uns sonst unverstandlicli ware, z. B., dass noch vor Kurzem chinesische Gesandte in Amerika glaubten und behaupteten, die Welt sei yiereckig, bei einer Sonnenfinsternis versuche ein grosser Hund die Sonne aufzufressen, man miisse Papiergeld fiir die Toten verbrennen, und ein Fuchs konne, wenn er wolle, sich in einen Menschen verwandeln.

In dem ganzen unermesslichem Reiche der Mitte gibt es Schulen, in denen Knaben die alten Weisheitsspruche auswendig lernen.

Man liort sie von Morgen bis Abend ihre Verse aus voller Kehle hersagen. Ihr einziges Streben ist die Regierungsexamina zu bestehen und dann ein Glied der herrlichen und hochangesehenen Klasse der Gelehrter zu werden.

Die Regierung halt jahrlich in alien Stadten Examen ab, bei denen der erste und niedrigste Titel “das knospende Talent” ver-

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liehen wird. Den nachsten Titel “der beforderte Schtiler” kann man sich in den Hauptstadten der Provinzen erwerben, wo alle drei Jahre Examen abgehalten wird. Der hochste Titel “der eingeschriebene Gelehrte” wird alle drei Jahre nur in Peking nach einem uberaus scliwerem Examen verliehen. Nur wenn einer den hochsten Titel hat, wird er zu den Gelehrten gezahlt, und niir dann kann er ein Staatsbeamter werden. Bei diesem Examen werden die Schu­ ler drei Tage lang in einer Einzelzelle examiniert. Besteht einer das Examen nicht, so versucht er es das nachste mal wieder. Manche werden Greise von neunzig Jahren, ehe sie ihr Ziel erreichen konnen. Man stelle sich den langen Weg vor, den Studenten von den entlegenen Teilen des Reiches zuriicklegen mussen. Oft pilgern sie zweitausend Meilen zu Fuss liber Berg und Tal nach Peking. Von ungeheuren Entbehrungen und Strapazen erschopt, sterben viele auf dem Wege, manche noch wahrend des Examens.

Wenn aber einer nach glucklch bestandenem Examen in seine Heimatstadt zuriickkehrt, geht ihm die ganze Binwohnerschaft mit Jubel entgegen und im Triumpfzuge zieht er in seine Heimat ein.

Er ist der Held des Tages. Von jung und alt wird er angestaunt, verehrt, ja fast vergottert. Sein Name ist in Peking in die Ehrenliste der Gelehrten eingetragen. Nun gehort er zu der hochsten Klasse im ganzen Reiche, und vor allem, nun ist er ein Kandidat fur irgendein Regierungsamt.

Es gibt aber viel mehr Kandidaten als Amter. Ein Sprichwort in China heisst: Einmal ein Beamter, immer ein Beamter: Dies schliesst alle Kandidaten ein, denen es absolut nicht erlaubt ist, gewohnliche Arbeit zu tun, selbst wenn sie deshalb darben mussen.

Tausende warten jahrelang auf eine Anstellung.

Manche von den Wartenden konnen niedrige Anstellungen als Schreiber und Privatsekretare bekommen, die Mehrzahl aber bleibt auf der Warteliste. Von diesen werden manche Lehrer, welche die nachste Generation der strebsamen Schuler zu demselben zweifelhaften Los heranbilden. Andere werden Arzte, die klug reden, ihren Mitmenschen aber nur wenig helfen konnen. Wieder andere wer­ den von Beruf Geschichtenerzahler. Sie schlagen ihr Zelt irgendwo an der Strasse auf; stellt sich eine kleine Zuhorerschaft ein, so tragen sie Geschichte, Tradition, Pabeln, Liebesgeschichten und Gedichte vor. Nach jedem Vortrag wird ein Korbchen herumgereicht, in das jeder anstandige Chinese seinen Groschen legt. Noch andere werden Wahrsager, die man in alien denkbaren Angelegenheiten um Rat fragt; etwa an welchem Tage ein Kind zum ersten Mal in die Schule gelien darf, welchen Beruf man ergreifen solle, wo ein Toter begraben werden muss, wie tief das Grab sein soli, und was man darauf pflanzen darf. Die Wahrsager haben meistens viel Beschaftigung und ein grosses Einkommen. Aber fast die Halfte der Ge­ lehrten kann garkeine Beschaftigung finden. Diese Arbeitlosen leben von den milden Gaben ihrer Verwandten und Freunde. Sie sind

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unzufriedene und niedergeschlagene Menschen und verfallen mehr als andere dem Opiumlaster.

Seit fiiufundzwanzighundert Jahren wird diese grosstenteils tote Wissenschaft fleissig studiert, ohne dass irgendein Fortschritt gemacht wird. Millionen yon Chinesen haben auf diese Weise unter ungeheurer Miihe und Arbeit ihr Leben nutzlos hingegeben. t)och sind in letzter Zeit in China Universitaten nacli europilischem und amerikanishLem Muster gegriindet worden und haben auch grossen Zudrang. Infolge der politischen TJmwalzungen ist es zu erwarten, dass moderne WiIssenschaft im ganzem Reiche der Mitte zum Wohl des Volkes eingefulirt wird.

Welch einen schweren Kursus muss nicht ein Chinese, der zu Anselien gelangen und ein Staatsbeamter werden will, durchmachen!

Welch bittre Enttauscliung trifft nicht viele derselben, naclidem sie ihn beendet haben! Wie mlissen wir iiber den Fleiss und die unverwiistliclie Ausdauer solclier Studenten staunen. Halten wir den Vergleich mit itmen in Fleiss und Strebsamkeit aus? Wollen wir, denen doch ganz andere Dinge, besonders das Wort unseres Gottes, in unserr Anstalt dargeboten werden, hinter ilinen anstelien?

H. A. ’20.

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY, or SUCCESSFUL ADVERTISING. Jack, the janitor, groom, and errand boy, a domestic matter of indispensability under the roof of the prosperous Miss Adams, was attempting to make his locomotion along the side-walk, which leads to the Ford Speedway, look like a languid roaming. He was hang­ ing on to a rope on whose other end was fastened a collar that al­ most choked a vicious-looking, bow-legged bull-dog, who made furtive experimental darts into every direction. This young whelp sent his sniffing attachment steeringly before him on the pave­ ment and insisted upon making every tin-can, door-step, and gutter subject to an absorbed, contemplative nasal examination, and wist­ fully he peered into every garbage-can by the way-side. It lay in the sphere of Jack’s calling to take this fragment of canine impet­ uosity out for a daily airing.

Miss Adams, who was on the wrong side of thirty-five, took as much pride in preserving Sammie’s (that was tlie cur’s nickname, his real nomenclature was Apollo) aesthetic inclinations and musical abilities as she did in selecting healthful food for him, and pro­ viding for sufficient fresh air and exercise to relieve him from his aggravating asthma. Jack, therefore, was trained to refrain from addressing the dog in convenient language when the latter’s youth­ ful skylarkings and monkey tricks aroused his anger.

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and telephone-poles, Jack finally reached the Ford Speedway. This was a lovely park amidst whose charming flower-beds and shrub­ beries were situated attractive, inviting green benches. Here all the day long talkative white nurses and maids wheeled about little rubber-tired perambulators with wee pickaninny gents and ladies of a rising generation in them, or sat busily knitting and stitching while little specimens of the human race, who had outgrown the gocart age were practising queer manoeuvres to master gravity on foot. To this green oasis of the big city desert Jack daily steered his locomotive paraphernalia with Sammie. Whether the better quali­ ty of the atmosphere or the regrettable fact that all roads lead to the et — et— (oh well, I should worry) eternal feminine induced him to frequent this place I give anyone three chances to guess.

Upon arriving at the Speedway, Sammie made a bee-line for a bench whereon was established “Miss” Esther, nursery maid to little Nellie Jennings, and, by way of welcome to Nellie, who had just learned to place the center of gravity in the right place of her plump anatomy, although, ’tis true, her legs still wobbled consider­ ably at the joints, deposited both paws on the little novice’s solar plexus. This gymnastical effusion threw the unguarded Nellie quite out of balance and completely capsized her, but she looked bewitchingly magnificent and daring just before she landed.

Mutual attraction had, in the course of time, made Nellie and Sammie as inseparable friends as Esther and Jack were, and child and dog were soon agreeably employed in performing marvelous feats of Phonico and Gymnastics on the green while Jack resumed his pipe and the thread of yesterday’s conversation by way of an­ nihilating time.

After having sailed around on the sea of conversation for some time Esther and Jack obliged the call of nature and went around the corner to insert some refreshment into their systems. Because the refreshment counter was but a block’s distance, and because both were a little too proud and sensitive of the public’s gossip to take the whole outfit of liuman and canine youthfulness with them, they took the child into their midst and tethered the dingbusted Apollo to the go-cart to keep it from running away. He was then left alone.

He felt the importance of his situation full well and sat there with, gravity rooted in his hazel eyes, counting off the diamonds in his collar to find out whether or not this was to be his day. He had just finished parading an association of wonderful reflections through, the seat of his intellectual faculties, in whicli he was the successful pursuer of several impudent neighbor-cats, when his at­ tention was arrested by the appearance of another of his species on the premises who was eyeing him with what lie conjectured to be malevolent intent. Undoubtedly his reverie of the victorious en­ counter with the feline folk of the nine lives possessed him to pur­ sue the course that he did, for lie boldly moved toward his canine

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brotlier witli malice in his eye. In so doing he, to liis astonishment, drew the light perambulator after him. The other was taken by sur­ prise, but lie suffered Sammie to come up to him with an indifferent air and, trying to impress him, he turned around and looked about him as if lost in admiration of the scenery. This, putting it in the dog’s vernacular, got Sammie’s goat, and he, therefore, also looked around in search of something interesting. Just then his supposed enemy darted off with a skip and a jump. The race was up, for one could see by the way he elevated his sniffer that he was bound for his kennel. Sammie scampered after him like mad, wishing tlie perambulator everywhere only not where it was. The park was al­ most deserted now, the day having nearly expired, and thus they performed their ruthless steeple-chase without interruption.

Imagine the consternation and despair of Jack and Esther on their return to the Speedway precinct. The whole blooming park and its outskirts were carefully searched and researched till dark­ ness, no stone was left unturned towards the recovery of the lost, but all in vain, the bird had flown. They could only convey the heavy, crushing news with trepidation to their respective mistresses.

Miss Adams heard the intelligence and was knocked speechless for one minute (no exaggeration whatsoever) then fainted without the customary ceremonies, revived after several resuscitative appli­ cations, and then the discharged Jack glided over the threshold, set adrift on the icy flow of her verbosity. Miss Adams entertained no doubts that this would be her undoing, but it wasn’t. On the con­ trary, she lived to do a wise move, she advertised Sammie’s loss in all papers of tlie town.

In the meantime Sonnie was leaping with fire after the depart­ ing intruder, who was hustling along in full sail to save his hide.

The foolish pursuer followed right on the shirker’s evasive heels, and no sooner did his pursuit come to an end until the ostentatious­ ly flapping ears and dozen zig-zagging legs that made up the coward­ ly skedaddler landed with a triumphant bound directly into a kennel.

Feeling better in there, the fugitive began hugging himself and reached out to wallop tlie oncoming unprepared Sonnie on the snout that made him behold the glory of the whole milky way.

The pursued had led the pursuer to the outskirts of tlie town.

Near the dog’s kennel was erected a somewhat larger one with two windows in the front and a stove-pipe on top. Rising to the noble altitude of nearly ten feet, this useful smoke-stack pointed to a bet­ ter world and was pleasantly suggestive of hot buckwheat cakes for breakfast, and the smoke leisurely curling out of it assured one of an inhabitant beneath it. Indeed, this somewhat unfashionable shanty was occupied by an eccentric bachelor, who had suffered heavy disappointment in life and had received disastrous grievances at the hands of the world. This had made him somewhat sliy, in­ ducing him to avoid the world by seeking this secluded place for an abode. His next neighbor was at least six blocks distant. He had

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abandoned the career of a scholar and now kept body and soul to­ gether by dint of wielding the rather unprofitable paint-brush. He flourished this instrument with a goodly degree of dexterity, but little did he reap from his painted cornfields and gardens. His sole companions were his dog and pipe. He was just trying to catch the setting sun on the canvass when the dogs made known their being in the neighborhood by rending the air with a quantity of musical phrases, that shook the old tin-chimney in its very foundations.

Sonnie undoubtedly, seeing so many stars out, conjectured the moon to be hid some place also, and therefore began a tuneful serenade in her honor. He began in heart-rending trillers: “We are sailing along,” and finished with the ditty about Mary and her faithful lamb while the other in the kennel warbled “Gaudeamus igitur” at the top of liis voice, beating time with his tail on an old tin-can. Dear me! It was mirabile visu!

Bachelor Pete had a musical ear and found it not amiss to go out and take a look at the band-boys. He came out and stood like a duck in thunder at the sight of the clamorous duet and the rubbertired vehicle. The sight of that perambulator made Bachelor Pete feel very uncomfortable. He regained his composure at once, how­ ever, elevated the outfit to his shoulders, and thus transferred the baby-conveyor into his shanty lest anyone should see it on his premises. Then he disposed of dear Sonnie, who yelped at the pitch of his breath: “Noli me tangere,” by tying him to a door-knob. He then reclined his shoulder blades on a horse-hair sofa, lighted his pipe and tried to draw smoke and a way out of the difficulty from it.

“I surely cannot steer this omnibus down the alley in search of its owner with that cur following me like my shadow. What would the people say! I wonder why he took the trouble of losing himself out here, anyway! I have half a mind to tie that dray-wagon to his signal-system and send him away with a flea in his ear whence he came. No, wait a minute, I know what I'll do. I’ll advertise this find in the “Green and Gray” and await the outcome.”

It was one of the eccentricities of Bachelor Pete never to spend money for a newspaper; for, said he, they wanted nothing of me, and I will nothing of them. Having made a B. A. at J. H. College, he thought it appropriate to stay in a literary connection with that school. This lie did by reading the “Green and Gray” which daily published the march of events at J. H. College.

“Well,” said he, “then I，ll have to be up and doing.” And so he up and did. He asked the “Green and Gray” to advertise his find.

The Advertising Manager of that college paper, finding the proposi­ tion a capital joke, writes a broadside of a notice with much descrip­ tive material that fancy supplied.

Miss Adams meanwhile repaired to the Public Library to reas­ sure herself that her advertisement was satisfactorily published in all the papers. She scanned them all. Just now she was attacking the “Times” and reading to her satisfaction the notice which in-

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formed the public tliat a beautiful canine individual of the bull-dog type, who liad gooseberry eyes and whose distinguishing trick was to wave his tongue at friends when bidding them welcome or fare­ well, had been lost, and that promised the finder of said individual one hundred dollars. No good came of the notice, however, no one had heard or seen of the dog plus cart. Three days passed thus and Miss Adams visibly lost weight. On the fourth day she chanced to pick up the “Green and Gray” and, in turning over its leaves in a desultory manner, was thrown on her beam ends by the elaborate notice of a dog and perambulator being found at 14023 Fadeaway Ave. Directly the notice struck her retina she set the American peo­ ple agape. One magnificent bound brought lier outside, with an­ other she landed in a taxi and down Fadeaway Boulevard she sailed, driven by highly explosive gasoline, and then she was miserable until she made her third and final bound into Bachelor Pete’s front yard.

The latter was just complying with the order of the city which demands that all rubbish and brushery be cleaned off everybody’s premises, id est, he was taking a shave, when Miss Adams inflicted her amiableness into his shanty. He considered himself lucky that he was not the object of the lady’s search, for that gave him time to think the state of affairs over with deliberation. He kept his one eye on the door-knob in case a sudden retreat should become expedi­ ent, became as weak as grape-juice and began maltreating his pipe with unusual puffs. To be on the safe side, he stealthily grabbed for his hat. In the meantime Miss Adams conferred tearful oscillat­ ory welcome to her Sonnie, drawing him to her over-flowing heart until you could hear his collar-bone crack, while that darling was overdoing a preposterous waving of tongue and tail in exuberant, indescribable joy. After much heart-rending explanation between those two, Miss Adams beamed a smile at Bachelor Pete that knock­ ed his pipe out of his mouth and swept his hat riglit off his head.

Luckily that article of dress was caught on his collar-button behind where it remained for some time, until Pete reached back and un­ hooked it, only to turn it over and over in his hands and contem­ plate its condition with alarming seriousness, and—but let us dis­ miss the subject here.

This simple narrative does not profess to be a romantic story, but simply an urgent invitation to meditate on the adequacy of ad­ vertising. In what way advertising lias proved to be remunerative in our tale, let us, therefore, briefly sum up, and it is appropriate that it be done in business-like manner. With apologies to Posey, therefore: First, Sonnie now leads Pete around on a string and calls him master. Not alone that, but he rejoices at the thought of being the property of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Kniep, joint owners.

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serious calamity, Jack and Esther became bold again and agreed upon committing matrimony.

Thirdly, the “Green and Gray” one day received the pecuniary reinforcement of five hundred almighty dollars for having rendered exemplary good services, from grateful Mrs. Pete Kniep.

Ergo: “It pays to advertise.”

BY THE AD MGR. THE TRAGIC CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR.

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When Abraham Lincoln in liis debate with Douglas, 1858, spoke the words, “That is the real issue. It is the eternal struggle be­ tween these two principles—right and wrong—throughout the world,” he little thought that he would soon be the head of the Nation and that a great rebellion would be soon going on to destroy this Nation, only to replace it by one that was to introduce slavery.

But it turned out so. A civil war broke out upon the nation. And who could tell the result? Yet every person knew that if the Re­ public went down liberty and self-government would be out of ques­ tion for ages.

Should this happen it would mean shame for the whole Nation.

However, the people, guided by the President, soon saw the danger.

An army of more than two million men was mustered to quell the rioters. For four long years the battle raged furiously.

However, this army was not raised by conscription or draft; the men in it were volunteers. Men of every age left their occupations and came to give their lives, if necessary, for the welfare of their country.

Battle on battle was fought, and the battlefields were strewn with the slain and wounded; the hospitals were filled with wounded and suffering, and prisons with captives. Thousands lost their lives that the Nation might not perish. What a great sacrifice! To leave home and all the loved ones, without any hopes to return or to see them again.

Such was the army under the able leadership of General Grant, an army full of partiotism and courage. And many a time did Grant put in a good word for this army or praise them for its merits.

Their patriotism and courage can hardly be doubted when we call to our attention the innumerable battles which they fought, and these on their own soil. They marched by day and by night in an unaccustomed climate, fought courageously, and finally achieved the great victory for the right. They then dispersed to their homes and again took up their peaceful pursuits as citizens of the Republic that was saved through their and other’s valour.

But we may stop to ask: Wherefrom had they this great patriot­ ism and courage? They were not fighting to conquer any land or to inflict evil on some enemy; they fought for liberty and for their

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country, to bring about a new civilization, at the head of which was to be freedom to all.

While millions were yet rejoicing over this great victory and while peace blessed the whole land, the President of this great Nation, Abraham Lincoln, was struck down by an assassin. And all hearts that were until then rejoicing, were suddenly filled with deep sorrow. Surely there was every reason to mourn.

To conclude with let us quote the words of a modern writer: “The corner-stone of National Independence has long been its place; and on the head of it is inscribed the name of George Wash­ ington. Tlie Union soldier placed another stone by its side—the Declaration of Independence, with all its promises fulfilled. On this stone Liberty inscribed the name of Abraham Lincoln.

G. H.,，18.

“UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT BEARS A FKO職•” “Well, Yanking Yegg, do you feel yourself slipping tonight?”

With these words Slippery Louie greeted the school’s most efficient jazzer and dictionary stand. The Yegg was a good scholar and an excellent athlete. He had just ended a successful season as sub on the champion checker team. But he had one weakness; namely, that he was afraid of falling out of bed.

On this particular evening he was especially downcast, partly because his bosom friend Gerardo de Innocentia had related to him the sad story of the girl and tlie sock, and partly because lie liad overheard a conversation between the afore-mentioned Louie and his room-mate, Dolly Dumper, to the effect that he was to be the object of their midnight raid. He had studied long and hard that afternoon, while tlie rest of the students had been enjoying tlie basketball games. He was tired and weary and longed for his com­ fortable spring-bed; but the fear of being spilled constantly kept him at his desk. The remaining inmates of his room liad long since hit the alfalfa and were sonorously sleeping. Tlie clock in the old church tower was slowly tolling out the eleventh hour, when our timid symbol and ideal of punctuality decided to roll in. Amid the weirdest of forebodings he dismantled and pulled the sheets over his learned cupola. And the clock said, “Eleven fifteen.”

About midnight his side kicks heard a most deafening roar like unto breakers dashing against the shores of California. It seemed someone was* attempting to annihilate the .locker door. They switched on the light and were astounded to see Yanking Yegg ad­ ministering death dealing blows to his locker door. They held liim and tried to calm him in his frenzy, thinking that he was perchance suffering from a night-mare, but to no avail.

Finally he realized that lie was pounding on his overcoat, which hung on the door, thinking it was someone trying to upset his bed.

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ishly crawled into bed. In a short time he was vociferously snoring the Barcarolle from the tales of Hoffman, gallantly assisted by the noble Chief Rain-in-the-Face, who was breathing deafening after­ beats.

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Meanwhile the innocent Gerardo de Innocentia was peacefully dreaming of his lady love. There lie lay, his eyes winking at each other and his face wreathed in smiles of joyful anticipation. He saw her gathering flowers on the mead and his arms shot forth to clasp her to him. Suddenly she vanished and an ugly sock heaved into view. Gerardo clenched his fists in rage and attempted to slug his rival. But lo, he was powerless. A strange spell held him as in a trance. He was cruelly compelled to watch the movements of the perambulating sock. The fair lady smiled coquettishly at the stock­ ing and invited him over to the house to partake of some Ambrosia and Nectar. Poor Gerardo nearly flew into hysterics. He tore him­ self loose from his captor and rushed after the couple. Here he voiced such sentiments as ne’er were invented by man. Why, he deliberately bawled them out, and threatened to get even.

Suddenly he hit the floor with a sickening thud. It was clearly a case of Dumperitis, undoubtedly perpetrated by some admiring colleague. The very next day his terrible dream came true and that is wliat he had related to his friend the Yanking Yegg, on the eve of that person’s adventure with the locker-door. But what was hap­ pening to the Yegg?

Our friend, the Yanking Yegg, was sweetly dreaming of Greek conjugations and Hebrew declensions, when he beheld a wonderful vision.

He felt himself transplanted on invisible wings to the realms of Latin participles and hay fever. Here lie was crowned king of the Latin sharks, who placed upon his head a crown of Canada thistles and tissue paper. There he sat upon a throne vested in kingly robes such as mortal man has ne’er seen. Surely lie was a sight worthy of the admiring glances cast in his direction.

Suddenly his friend, Gerado de Innocentia, appeared at his side clothed in smiles and garments made by the celestial clothiers, Minnie Muse and Company. They began to plan destruction on this omnipresent sock, who had so cruelly stolen Gerardo’s only hope and joy. But what was the never-sleeping sock doing?

The two gems and specimens of human driftwood beheld him gallantly escorting the sweet virgin to her abode. Here he enter­ tained her and her kin oil the pianoforte and kidded along a wee mouse lie had espied in one corner. The two kingly creatures had their features transformed from smiles into frowns. They solemn­ ly clasped hands and vowed vengeance to the lowly sock, who had shattered another romance with such, abruptness. Suddenly they felt themselves slipping from their pinnacles of kingly elevation and they glided back to Mother Earth like a student trying to get in by ten-thirty when it’s ten twenty-eight and he’s over on the

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west end. They hit the sod with a bang and found themselves sit­ ting on the bedroom floor amid an avalanche of bed clothes andshoes. The terrible Yegg had been dumped and with him Gerardo, his friend. They sleepily adjusted their belongings to their intense satisfaction and crawled back to bed to sleep out the small hours of mom.

They were a so rry looking pair when the next morning they emerged from their downy feathers. Suspiciously they looked over the students at the breakfast table, but nary a one bore a trace of guilt upon his noble countenance. But there were two in that vast assemblage who inwardly laughed in blissful glee. They were the only ones who knew what was what and why. For weeks they had cherished the fjond hope of attaining the opportunity to dump Yanking Yegg and Gerardo de Innocentia, and at last they realized their fond hopes. All’s well that ends well, but bear this in mind, “Uneasy lies the head that bears a frown.”

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Ottnrials VOLUME XXI STORED AWAY.

The Black and Red has ended another year of its existence.

Volume XXI is complete. It is time for some of the editors to say farewell. Should we, the old editors, rejoice that this task is over?

It might seem so, for we are relieved of quite a burden. It might appear, after the Black and Red has been printed, that it cost very little effort . The fact, however, is that hard work and inexhausti­ ble energy is necessary before it goes to print. It is true, we did look forward to this day on which we could lay down our pen, but now that it is here we are loath to leave the staff. We surely gained some experience while we served on the staff and that’s why we reluctantly retire. But since the time is here it is not befitting that we stand in the way of the new staff; for they are anxious to be initiated into their new and added work. But before parting we would ex­ press a few remarks that might be heeded by the new staff and by the rest of the students.

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One tiling that ought to be striven for is unity among the staff members. Work together and pull in the same direction. Don’t let any personal feelings interfere with your staff work. If you sliould liave a grievance against any of the editors, don’t let that hinder you from doing your best for the Black and Red. If you do, no one is harmed, except the Black and Red. Not only among the staff members sliould unity be preserved, but also with the rest of the students. Don’t consider yourself a privileged character because you are a member of the staff. If, however, you do, always bear in mind that this privilege involves just a little more work. And if you are willing to do this work well, you wont have much time to think about ttie privilege.

On the other hand the rest of the students should be willing to help the Black and Red along. The Black and Red is not supposed to be publishied by tlie staff alone, but by the students of Northwest­ ern. Lend the staff your hearty co-operation. It’s true, in the last year some non-staff members have done as much work for the Black and Red as some of the staff members. Those to be mentioned are Matzke, Timmel, Krauss, Westendorf.

The editor-in-chief was never refused when he asked their aid. But not only when they were asked did they respond, tliey also undertook work of their own free will. So my sincere wish is that in the future all the students will take interest in tlieir paper. Not only a few, but every one.

Instead of sitting in the corner and criticizing, get up and do some­ thing. The profit gained will then be larger on both sides. Always remember, the Black and Red is helpless, it can’t produce itself much less improve itself; it will be what you make it; it’s not the Black and Red, it’s YOU who has to do the work.

The following are the members of the staff of VolumeXXII: William H. Lehmann, *19, Racine, Wis__ Editor-in-Chief Erich A. Falk, ’19, Milwaukee, Wis______ —Business Manager Paul G. Albrecht, ’19, Renville, Minn_____ Advertising Manager Karl G. Sievert, *19, Weyauwega, Wis___ ________ Exchanges Ewald M. Plass,，19, Watertown, Wis___ __________ Athletics Kurt A. Timmel, ’20, Oconomowoc, Wis___ ______ College Notes William P. Holzhausen, *21, Muskego, Wis ____________ Locals Waldemar M. Heidtke *20, Manchester, Wis-Campus and Class Room Good luck to the staff. May the Black and Red flourish under their guidance.

A. Z.，ylS. A WORD OF THANKS AND APPRECIATION. Before we depart from the staff we are bound to express words of thanks and appreciation to the many alumni, students, and other friends who are subscribers to the Black and Red. We certainly ap­ preciate your loyal support, but we would beg those few who are in arrears kindly to pay their subscription.

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We also thoroughly appreciate the spirit of those who send us letters of encouragement, commendation, and criticism. These let­ ters spur the Black and Red staff on to better and more conscientious journalistic effort.

A word of thanks and appreciation is due to those Alumni who send us items about themselves and other graduates. It has been our desire to make the Alumni column an important factor. It would raise the standard of the Black and Red and also produce more in­ teresting reading matter for the Alumni. By furnishing news from all the Black and Red can be made interesting to all.

Our advertisers are not to be forgotten. They are extremely necessary in making the publishing of the Black and Red possible.

Therefore we emphasize at all times that the students patronize our advertisers, for that is the best way to show our appreciation.

We heartily thank all those who have loyally supported us and wish them the best of success in all their undertakings.

A. Z.,，18.

ALUMNI

THE MYSTIC NUMBER NINETEEN. On the Nineteenth of June of the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred, Nineteen members of the class of that year were filed by the President of Northwestern and received from his hand the in­ strument which informed a palpitating world that the foothills of Parnassus had been reached by an intrepid band of nineteen. Nine­ teen Baccalaurei Artium the grist of seven years’ grinding. Until that day the number “nineteen” had been a mystic charm. On the Nineteenth of any month the class felt equal to any task, felt immune to the attacks of misfortune that are so frequent in undergraduate life. On such a day the most intricate sentence of Euripides was as easily deciphered as tlie signature on one of those checks of father’s.

Line nineteen of the most difficult of Horace’s Odes never offered any difficulty.

In those days the “class“ was a tremendously big thing. When­ ever the class agreed on anything the rest of the world might con­ sider the affair settled. That is why the number Nineteen was so significant. But that fine solidarity is gone. The Nineteen has dis­ integrated into nineteen separate units which have, no doubt, felt free to form new mystic combinations; they have all but forgot that earlier incarnation, the Nineteen.

The enterprising and optimistic Editor-in-Chief of the Black and Red has asked me to lend my humble efforts in an attempt to solve the mystery of the nineteen of Nineteen—and many other sim­ ilar mysteries. He would like to have news for the alumni column

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from and about alumni. He is not yet an alumm^s; therefore he still has hope that something might be done. A genuine alumnus of Northwestern may be recognized by the fluency with which he disposes of all questions about his classmates and the old school; if a man answers such questions to the point he is an xmdergrad or a rank imposter, if he be a genuine alumnus lie invariably answers: “I don’t know.”

Some alumni seem to think that alumnus is derived from alum and promptly proceed to adopt the astringent qualities that go with that tart compound. That is entirely unwarrented. Instead of puckering up your mouth in silence, let fond memories of those un­ forgettable days dispel the wrinkly disfigurement of taciturnity一 and let the Muse of Blarney take again the place it filled so abund­ antly in the days of the Mystic Nineteen. Let us, Class of Nineteen, let us tell teacher and all the rest on each other. Let us come out into the open and prove to each other that the comradeship of a score of years ago is sustained with abiding loyalty.

By writing to those I knew (past tense) best, I hope to reach all alumni about whom the Editor so feelingly complained. If Old Nineteen justifies the trusting confidence that dwells in the Editor’s breast, I feel sure there will be dozens of other classes that will say: “If that bunch, has the effrontery to parade its trivialities before tlie public it’s time for us to rescue from oblivion the tremendous ichievement of our lusty youth.n The time may come when rival classes of yore will bid against each other to buy space in tlie Black and Red. Wouldn’t that be glorius, Mr. Editor, almost like millenium? Let’s hope, who can tell what those rascals that used to fight with us of Nineteen will do?..........

In my study hangs a picture. Our Nineteen. Some of us look a little crude and boyish,—but it’s a grand picture, a wonderful pic­ ture. No work of art has brought solace to my heart in hours of distress as this one has done time and again. I like to smoke and look at that picture. Behind the smoke there arise scenes of joy and sorrow that the greatest poet could not describe as well as that little line that runs down Jack’s nose. I can see him, and Nic, and Ben, and all the rest of us, plotting and counter-plotting deciding our temporary destiny. Sentimental, am I? Maybe.

Why not send a letter to the Black and Red about the past or the present so that all the fellows can dream afresh when they look at the old class picture? Our dream characters are suffering from arrested development; most of them remain just as they were Oil that 19th of June. That’s well enough but it puts too much re.straint on the dreamer. Give us a little aid by telling what hap­ pened since.

If there were nineteen planets and each one of us were on a different one, we could scarcely know less about each other tlian we do.

Life was soon complete for those two splendid fellows of ours,

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Paul and Gerhard. Their story is finished now these many years.

Because ours is running toward its end a few years later, the seven­ teen that are left will have the sensation of writing an epitaph for a wraith, when the time for epitaphs comes for us—so little are we in touch with each, other............

The last Black and Red tells me that George is in Los Angeles, teaching—Spanish. How well we remember when lie came out of the East, resplendent in his tight-fitting New York clothes. It was the unanimous opinion that a fellow coming from there and wear­ ing such apparel could not be truly moral and trustworthy. And yet, George, old chap, it didn’t take us long to find out that your heart, away down under your funny sty]lish clothes, was 24 carat— and we made you class president. And that was an HONOR.—So you’re teaching Spanish, are you? And why? In the old days we wouldn’t even order “chicken Spanish” at the hotel because we didn’t know what it was. And now you’re teaching it, that is, teach­ ing Spanish. Carramba, Colorado maduro, vuelta abajo, Jimenez, and Mi Lola. ‘Tis a beautful language; I just dote on Havana poems. Speaking of poems— There’s something I have always wanted to tell you, George, I，ll do it now: You unwittingly helped me to find one of my favor­ ite bits of verse. Mark Twain is the author and these the lines, Punch, brothers, punch with care, Punch in the presence of the passen-jaire.

Do you get the wonderful lilt and rhythm? Note the ingenious and original device to produce the rime. The theme is unique; never before has the poet immortalized the ticket-puncher--------It was a bright June day. We were gratefully sitting in the shade of the otherwise unspeakable boxelders. Then you struck up a chant of one word aimed at a solitary figure stalking through the other side of the park. The second and last syllable of the word was that ineffable―^jaire.” It was accented in the inimitable manner of Mark Twain，s poem. When I read the “PunchL” poem I was trained to recognize its beauty. I owe it to you that this joy came to me.

Thanks.

It would be an easy matter to revive memories of all the rest of But other alumni, no doubt, are bored with my the Nineteen. retrospections and reflections; they feel they have so much more in their academic history that is worthy of note. Well, all of you, Go ahead! Say something. The Black and Red wants it. The Editor asked me to say the word because I am an officer of the Alumni So­ ciety. I preferred to write on the more informal and intimate basis of a former student who is anxious to add fuel (there is no shortage of this kind) to the fires that burn on his altar of academic reminis­ cence. Come on, you Class of Nineteen Hundred! Come on, all of you, from Seventy to Seventeen! Let’s meet in the Black and Red with that enthusiasm that marked our greetings when the end of a H. K. M.,，00. vacation reassembled us.

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—The Reverend H. K. Moussa，，00, was seen in Watertown Mar. 8. 一John T. Nieghorn,，07, who has been in the service almost con­ tinuously since his graduation, is a chief yeoman in the United States navy. He is stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois. _The Reverend Paul Froehlke,，12, of Savannah, Illinois, an­ nounces the birth of a baby girl on February 8.

—A. H. Pankow,，09, until recently on the editorial staff of the Dakota Farmer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, has donned the kliaki and is being trained at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

—Martin Eickmann, once of the class of，08, and since 1916 cash­ ier of the State Bank of Gregory, South Dakota, is now in the Na­ tional Army. He is stationed at Camp Funston.

—Professor M. Wagner, ’08, inspector at D. M. L. College, lias not announced it, but we have it on. good authority that he lias taken unto himself a wife.

—The Rev. H. Parisius,，13, formerly tutor at Northwestern, re­ cently underwent an operation for appendicitis. The latest report is that he is recoyering quickly. ―Arnold Sprehn, '08, is at present in Bangor, Wisconsin, where he has a share in the brewery of said city.

—The Reverend E. Guenther, *08, is unofficially at the liead of the Indian Mission in Arizona. He has made the trip from Fort Apache, Arizona, to St. Paul in his Ford, and while there gave some highly interesting lectures on his work and the Indians. We would be glad to print some of these lectures in the Black and Red.

AUS DEM SEMINAR. ... letzten Preitag, als den 1. dieses Monats, wurde dos diesjahrige Pensum der Kirchengeschichte beschlossen. Am Montag darauf begann die Galaterexegese.

Pastor Raymond Huth aus Palmyra besuchte uns am 25. Feb. i Herr Benno Kupfer reiste am 22. Feb. nacli Watertown, um am bamstag Abend die Versammlung des literarischen Verelns mit emen Orgelsolo zu erheitem.

Den Herren W. Retzlaff und Art. Koehler wurde als GeheiinPQlizisteii grosses Verdienst -zuerkaimt, da sie beinahe ein riihrendes Abschiednehmen verhindert batten. ‘‘总tereopticon” endlicli angekommen ist, liaben die fii,JortTafe 气errn Prof. Kohlers auch ihren Anfang genommen. fail An 兰 Montag Abend in der Wauwatosa Kirche statt und falleu mitden Chorubungen zusammen. e -tierren Koch und Kiessling nehmen an den tjbungen des

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Concordia Orchestra teil, um am Konzert nach Ostern mit zu wirken.

Herr Alfred Schweppe, friiheres Glied der 1. Klasse in Watertown, jetzt als Lehrer an der New Fries Hochschule zu Wilmette angestellt, besuchte am 23. Feb. seine alten Freunde hier.

Herr Guenther Olfe, ein alter Freund aus N. W. C., erbarmte sich iiber die Bewohner der zoologischen Gasse und brachte ihn am 23. Feb. was gutes zu essen.

Die Pastoren Arnold Schulz von North Milwaukee, B. Grunwald von South Milwaukee und Otto Engel von Norwalk besuchten uns am 27. Feb. Walter Engel, fruherer Schuler in New Ulm, war vom 27. Feb. bis zum 2. Marz unser Gast.

Alfred Wehausen besuchte am 3. Marz seinen Bruder Martin aus der 1. Klasse.

Wir berichten hiermit, wenn auch ungern, dass leider in der letzten Zeit ein moderner Bummelgeist iij der Zoologengasse herrscht.

BAND HAS NEW DIRECTOR. Owing to poor health, Prof. Frank has been forced to give up his position as leader of the band. It is with sincere regret that the members of the band received these sad tidings, as Prof. Frank was a very capable director and enjoyed the esteem, admiration and re­ spect of tlie entire band. He lias taken an active interest in the band and its welfare, both as a student in years gone by and as a faculty member. He regrets as much to leave as the members regret to see him go.

R. Fenske will succeed Prof. Frank. He is also a capable mu­ sician and played the trombone while a student at this institution.

Success!

WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. Bang— Bang— Bang—. **What was that? And a band play­ ing too—the Star Spangled Banner at that. Take off your hat and salute. What for? Don’t you know it’s Washington’s birthday today?

Those college boys are better patriots than you. Look up there.

Don’t you see them hoisting Old Glory on the mast of the gymnasimn?”

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Such was the conversation overheard on Washington’s birthday when a detachment of the N. W. C. military company located on the roof of the dormitory fired three volleys, while the band played the “Star Spangled Banner,” and the flag was slowly raised on the flag­ sium. pole of the gymnasi The band customarily plays on the roof on this occasion, but this year an unseen foe, tlie measles, came in the way so that a good share of the band was under quarantine. But nothing can stop a true patriot. Tlie unquarantined band members gathered in the rooms above those of the quarantined members and thus the entire band played out of the windows.

In the literary meetings during February biographies on Lin­ coln and Washington, as well as some of their addresses were rendered. Moral: The measles can’t prevent a N. W. C. student from showing his patriotism.

THE MUSIC ROOM. During the past year the band room has been thoroughly reno­ vated. The walls have received a new coat of whitewash and been furnished with moulding from which about a score of framed pic­ tures of the different student organizations depend. A ruled black­ board has also been introduced, which is put to good use by the or­ ganizations, especially by the chorus. Green shades adorn the win­ dows, An ample number of neat and durable folding chairs have also been added. But still the room is not adequately furnished, for the orchestra has as yet no music cabinet of wliich article band and chorus can boast. Probably some alumnus or good friend of the or­ ganization will supply this need. But not only has the band room been renovated, it has also changed its name, and from now on we shall hear of it as the “Music Room.”

OFFICEES APPOINTED. After a strenuous work-out of about ail hour, Capt. Duxe of the military company announced that the following officers had been appointed: Sergeants: Corporals: I. K. Sievert I. W. Beck II. R. Timmel II. A. Brandt III. F. Brandt III. W. Heidtke IV. G. Press IV. A. Liesner M. Stern V. A. Fathauer VI. I. Boettcher K Timmel With this capable body of officers under him, Capt. Duxe hopes

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and are more instructive and interesting, or drop debating and push original composition more? The success of the past year warrants it.

With this number, the editor of this column has written his last “College Notes.” If they have interested you he is well satisfied, if not, he can only say that he has tried to do his best. May his suc­ cessor have none but the best of success. The work has been a pleasure and it is with regret that he makes room for a successor.

Adieu.

IN OUR ARCHIVES. On the rocky coast of Nemoterra lies a city far-famed for its practical whims and fantastical ideas. The placid waters of Aqua sea gently splash against the rugged shores of this city, known to the world as Oleo. Down on the rocky beach gaudily attired beings were basking in the warm sand or disporting themselves in the deep green waters of the rippling sea. It seemed as though the entire populace had turned out to take advantage of the beautiful weather and the enticing surf.

But let us see whether we can find any persons with whom we are acquainted. Ah! who is that man with the large feet, standingto bring the company up to the standard it has enjoyed in years^f gone by and even to set up a new one.

LITERARY SOCIETIES ON HOME STRETCH. With Easter vacation drawing near, the literary societies are on the last lap of their run for this year. It has long been the custom to commence shortly before or after Christmas with the literary programs and continue until the Easter recess. Both so­ cieties have again decided to abide by this tradition so that unless something unexpected happens the program on March 16 will be the last, leaving one program for each society.

Both societies have rendered very !good programs so that it would prove a hard task to decide which society is the better this year. In some lines great improvements have been made. Where in other years an original composition seldom appeared on a pro­ gram, almost every program of both societies this year, boasted of from two to five. This is certainly laudable. But in debating, little lias been done. To date only one debate has been held and only one more is being prepared for. Now the question arises, are debates the proper thing for our literary societies? It appears not. The material is for the most part copied out of books and memorized.

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near the edge of tlie Pier? Isn’t it tlie Mayor? Verily, we respond in the affirmative. He is playing tlie guitar and sweetly chanting an Italian love-song. We cannot catch all the words, but what we do hear i& something to this effect: “Amo te, o pulchra puella parva, ubi es tu?” The others are unfamiliar to us and we reluctantly pass on to snatch a peek at the various diversions and amusements. We come to a popcorn stand, and whom do we see behind the counter but our elongated friend, John Rodpatz, the president of the Council of Defense in Oleo, vociferously emitting strains by Remick from his pet trombone. Truly he is Orpheus in disgust. In the next stand whom do we discover but our worthy friend and coppersticker, Eillig Neffets, selling cigarettes and rook cards. “Kenoslia or bust” is his motto and right well does he adhere to it. Eillig had been ap­ pointed Chief of the Defective Bureau and captured the notorious heart-breaker Ygge Netlef, a former resident of Oleo. Ygge had turned traitor to his city and liad betrayed the plans of the coast guard defense to 01eo，s ancient enemies, the Sea Pirates. It is with sadness that we relate the fact that war threatened this peaceful city.

And now preparations must be rushed for its defense.

The very next day the mayor called a meeting of tlie Chamber of Co丨mmerce of which David Kitchee was president and janitor, Let uis take the liberty to attend this grave meeting. All members were present with the exception of Smiley Lemmit who liad been appointed head of the Fairgrounds Committee, and was that very day inspecting the stock of that place. We stop to take special notice of these interesting characters and their idiosyncrasies. The vice-president and librarian of this crew was Lerbert I-Iau who was neither hot nor cold, but luke-warm. He occupied the lower end of the table, and was assiduously reading the Top Notcli Magazine. The next man is the inspector of buildings and a master carpenter yclept Nitram Eimmiz. He was silently cleaning his binoculars and readinS the Jefferson newspapers to see whether her name was in the obituary notices. Next to him sits the stoical Terted Yduohc quiet­ ly philosophizing on the illusions of hope, firmly convinced that "Amor vincit omnia,” though it be blind. He was attempting to figure out the exact number of days till his next dinner on tlie farm.

TJje following chair was held down by the diminutive Einieh Fpaz, yho was trying to connect love with President Monroe. Evidently ris^?nses ha^e been consigned to oblivion. Next to him sits the toothless wonder, Da-da Snookums, who is disputing with Einieh •b paz，which one of them should become Ebert’s cousin. They ar°,° conclusion. But who can the next man be? He turns his nead and we encounter the grinning features of Lucius Brutus, the funny tyrant of «5wppniT!o^ Room *.從 8. He has just bawled out the janitor for not ButohPrgwhhn ^ 喊7 typewriter. Next we see the jovial Ueneral Advertising Company. He looks downcast. We*ll bet he had

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a set-to with Sir Otho Heyne about the elevated price of paper. Next to him sits inspector of shoes and general footwear, Gunmetal Shoe­ maker, who is arguing with David Kitchee about the velocity of .22 cartridges.

Behold, near the door stands the sergeant-at-arms, Onleb Long, with a baseball bat for a mace. He was appointed cap­ tain of the Oleo baseball team. But now we are at a loss. What is the next man trying to do? He has his empty dome on the table covered by a Latin Grammar. We ask the why and wherefore? Lo, Whisker Benny looks up sleepily and exclaims: “I am trying to sleep under difficulties.” Suddenly his neighbor arises, goes to the piano­ forte and begins to swell the breezes with Wagner’s sweetest strains.

Yes, *tis the Stocking, dyed in the wool. They thoroughly debate the question at issue and decide to leave all plans to the Council of De­ fense. The meeting is then adjourned, and we depart to attend the meeting of this other Council.

But eight members are present at this meeting, the others un­ doubtedly being at the Municipal Billiard Palace shooting pool. The president of the Council, John Rodpatz, calls the meeting to order, whereupon his worthy rival in chucking, Short Glassblower, makes the motion to suspend the rules of order and proceed with the pro­ gram. Just then the Jap of Brand shambles in singing, “Liebchen lass dich ktissen” in three flats. His face is aglow with smiles, for he has just returned from a visit with a mouse. But who is that modest looking young man sitting in the corner playing with his shoestrings? Why, it is the Canadian Statesman, Herman John. He seems to be contemplating on taking a ride in the rattling equipage of the Queen of the Sharp Corner. Is it a wonder lie looks so sad?

Sudenly the restive Bingo explodes with an outburst of enthusiasm and gives vent to his noisy ejaculations with flourishing gestures.

He makes the motion to appropriate $S,000,000 for ammunition and cigarette sheets. But the clownish Moses Jasper arises and vigor­ ously protests against this motion in an eloquent effusion of oratory, in which he mispronounces eighty-three jaw breakers and springs two new jokes. But at that it is well done. Next the gentleman from Racine Harbor, the doubtful Brinky, makes the motion to ad­ journ, to enable him to finish his lengthy dissertation on the Pana­ ma Canal, which he forced upon the audience at the Fie, Gamma, Row meeting. The lusty youth Ebertus seconds Monsieur Brinky’s motion to adjourn, giving as reason that he must go home and feed his measle germs, and finish his Red Cross knitting. The meeting is adjourned until a report has been made by the Suffrage Committee.

We shall now proceed to the meeting of this venerable assem­ bly. Patrick Klaf, the president of this committee, calls tlie meeting to order. All are present, excepting Mr. I. M. Lovelorn, who was assistant floor-walker at Sir Otho Heyn’s bazaar and lunch-room.

He had been fired from his position for eating too many peanuts and reading too many of Wagner’s baseball achievements. However, the meeting continued without the presence of this figure, import-

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ant in his absence. Secretary I. Neverwasdumped called the roll.

William Legs was made financial secretary, because of his high standing. Member Hans Piccolo, expert entertainer, asked the com­ mittee whether they would not spend a few lonely hours listening to him. Theophilus Woody, encouraged by witty Jeff Bbeirf protested yehemently. A spirited debate followed. Hans argued, that if it takes a horse nine weeks to pull a load of feathers four miles, it would take Jap, the only foreigner in Oleo, eight weeks to study three Hebrew verbs. Theophilus, however, knocked this argument cold by saying: “Plenus venter non studet libenter.” Dr. Treveis, 348, editor-in-chief of the city military company, then arose and moved that a new site be granted to Louissohn and Oslikosli Red, manufacturers of clothespins and Greek Grammars. The motion was made and accepted by Patrick Klaf. But suddenly the door opens and Mr. I. M. Lovelorn enters. How nervous lie is: He has either punclied the punching-bag or smoked three pimps in a run. Be that as it may. He offers as an excuse that lie has escorted Pete S, Slap to his home. The excuse is not accepted. Mr. Walter Shuftruslier makes the motion that the town advertise for a manicurist and for someone to help him out next time he lias two on liis hands/ He says he uses too much of his time, since lie lias other matters to at­ tend to, such as polishing mandolin strings, and the like. The mo­ tion is accepted by Hans Piccolo. But Mr. Sinker has a word to say.

He would suggest that all youths take interest in athletics.

He argues that exercise has much to do in developing the muscles.

After some consideration the committee decides to pass a law to this effect. Hereupon the motion was made to adjourn, A week later the joint meeting of these councils and committees was to be held. We shall await the outcome.

The day of tl the joint session has arrived, and we are invited to attend .When ro 11 is called we learn that tlie Committee on Public Economy is absent. Where can they be. Great consternation arises and messengers are sent to convey them to the meeting, After a tiresome hour of waiting, one messenger returns with the news that the Committee is having its bi-weekly picnic at the bend of the River Lapis. Everyone ruslies out there to see what is taking place.

We must follow, in order to see the fun. My, what a sight.

The Committee on Public Economy was just arriving at its des­ tination. The numerous and heavy packages were hastily dragged from under the driver’s seat and hurried into the shade, where they were prepared by the experienced and able head chef. Allbright of Brass, and his oriental assistant, Jerry de Squeeze; oriental because of liis fine leguminous tastes. President Timada called liis comrades around him and thanked them for their able assistance they had rendered the committee throughout the year and asked that Jimmy Eckert be passed up to bookkeeper for tlie ensuing year.

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original, most of his phrases having been taken from Koney’s Eng­ lish. Word Book. While preparing this speech Mr. Star forgot the first half of his topic and consequently talked only on cliqueism.

Before the next orator, Mr. Jim Fieldke could begin, the worthy as­ sembly was called to plate by Mr. Camphor and the stomachic deputy sheriff I Eatlots.

All responded with a rush for places, except Mr. Crowall, the great philosopher, who at that moment was inwardly debating with himself whether two are better than one. The deputy yelled, “Shoot the hash,” and he annihilated two baskets of this precious food be­ fore he could catch his breath. Mr. Timada then called for toasts, and that ideal of ignorance, French Jack, passed him the bread. His bosom friend Cewpie Manhattan yelled, “Holding,” and received a catsup-soaked hamburger in the left eye, which made him look like Albert de Shink after he gets through cleaning the furnace. All of a sudden a shriek was heard like unto the call of a manatee for its young on a rainy day. It proved to be the Faithful A1 de Nora who had swallowed a fork trying to drink water and eat beans at the same time. His intimate enemy Nifty H. S. Blazes was trying his best to locate the torturing instrument, but Al’s gizzard got in the way which made Nifty exclaim: “Man alive, I can see your break­ fast from liere.” The silent Anteater de Crammer then got away with three pies and a pound of gum drops, while everyone was look­ ing at Al. The amiable fat of the land, Nettie de Copper, then an­ nounced to the committee that the pastry end of the feed had been supplied gratis by Madame Cusser’s Bakery. But the best sight was, when Jacob v. Piscator dropped his little hook into a little brook and caught a little fish commonly known as carp. He had a difficult time handling this fish which snapped at and bit him in the neck.

The picnicers then decided to return to the city to rest up after their insatiable attack of gormandizing. The joint session was then called to order and elaborate plans formed for the defense of the city. We stay long enough to learn the outcome of the war.

The Oleos were victorious and are now resting on their laurels.

K. R. A. B.,，18.

Sic semper tyrannis.

m —With a sad heart and heavy eyes I, the unobtrusive editor of this column, must bid my readers farewell. No more will I give vent to my satire, no more will I prove detrimental to my readers’ rep, for I am thru with this job. I beg of you, dear readers, not to take offence at this, my last production. My pen is light, but my heart is heavy. You all have experienced the parting with a very dear

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friend. Thus it is with me. I must take leave of my bosom friend, the Local Column. Parting is such sweet sorrow, again farewell, dear friends, farewell.

—On Feb. 18, 1918, the Rev. J. H. Westendorf of Saginaw, Mich., visited his nugatory little son, Westie Ben to inform him that his report had safely reached home and proved satisfactory to everyone but Ben. Westie and Sock speared a good meal on this occasion and viewed the departure of the Reverend with sad stomachs. 一Smiling Jim Heidtke shambled the streets of Milwaukee Feb. 16. While in that village he broke two ribs trying to see the other end of the Arcade with his glasses in his pocket. Condolences Jim. Curiosity once killed a cat. 一Victor Thierfelder, Prep., received a visit and a box of chuck­ ing from his mother Feb. 26.

—The Rev. Bretcher of Lebanon visited Hans Grotlie, liis diminu­ tive nephew Mar. 4. 一Our esteemed friends and copperstickers, Doc and Swede, were seen with, our culinary fabricants one lovely evening last Sunday.

—Herb. Schumacher, ’18，passed liis examination for the draft Feb. 18. ：—Indomnitable Jake Spilman, ’20，enlivened the metropolis of Edgerton Feb. 22. While there lie played several sonatos and chucked the pantry bare.

—Harold Radloff, ’36, traveled to his home in I-Iustisford one day.

We see lie’s back again. ―Sergeant Chuck Blakewell and Corporal Luther Vohs, ’IS, and Corporal Galloway of Camp Grant were among our midst Feb. 22-24.

They are certainly looking hale and hearty.

—Our unobtrusive Eggie Felton is looking thru the city directory for more feminine names. Perhaps lie’ll be back with the mouse soon. z —Stoical Palmer Jahnke was in Juneau only to find out that he had become uncle, a son having been born to his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jahnke. Mr. Jahnke is an ex-member of the class of ’16. Heartiest congratulations. 一Westie got a pair of slippers on Sock’s birthday. Sock got one of them and verifies Westie’s statement that the slippers are made of good leather. He got one back of the knoick. ―Mr. F. G. Campen of DeF orest visited his son, Harold, and told him to quit smoking.

—Max Stern, ’20, is at home on account of the illness of his father. ―Mr. and Mrs. C. Brinkman of Racine visited their hopeless name-sake and son, Walter, Feb. 17. They also told Dad Legs that his folks still love him.

—Bel Lange, ’18, was at his home with his little brother, By, Feb. 23. Bel took his exam for the draft Feb. 26, and successfully passed it Congratulations, Bel.

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—One misty, foggy night in February three figures could be seen silhouetted against the dim lights of Watertownti. At:first they were unrecognizable, but they soon turned out to be our worthless friends, Nifty Dahlke, Jerry Press, and A1 Schujahn. They were wet and fighting mad. A1 was invoking all the Muses to wreak vengeance on Jerry’s head. Dahlke was kicking himself backwards, because his eyes had been blinded by the dazzling red foliage of a fair dome. > Jerry seems to have been to blame for this mess according to Al, who hasn’t recovered from the shock. Dahlke is still under the in­ fluence of the bewitching fire-fly so commonly called glow-worm.

They’re going to get it back on Jerry and his friend, the lovely Madge Wildfire. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to All. —Plumber Karsten, manager of Little Venice, was in Richwood Feb. 22. 一Miss Martha Ave-Lallemant, ex-*18, was seen in town Feb. 24.

—Mr. Rudolph Hinnenthal of the Great Lakes Naval Reserves vis­ ited the Uetzmann bros. Feb. 25.

—Again Jim Heidtke traveled to Juneau to visit his grandma and tell the mayor how to run the town.

—Rev. and Mrs. T. C. Uetzmann were visitors here Feb. 26. 一Mrs. G. Timmel of Oconomowoc visited her sons, the Smoky .bros., March 1.

—Wanted: Some fair damsel to while away a couple lonely hours with our modest little boy, Cocky. He has been isolated for a week 4 and is so lonely and sad that tear drops are continually coursing over his pinched cheeks. Won’t someone have a heart and take pity on him? You know how lonesome it is to be lonesome.

COED NOTES. —Helen Fischer who had a serious attack of “Heimweli,’’ spent February 21-25 at her home in Oconomowoc to recover. 一Esther Detert celebrated Washington’s birthday at the Detert farm in the town of Emmet.

—On February 18, Dorothy Huth registered as a special student.

—Waterloo was a lively burg on March 2 and 3, when the Misses Alice Schoenicke, Verna Wilde, Edna Detert and Gretchen Ott hailed into town. They were entertained by Esther Detert at her home in said burg.

—Verna Wilde enjoyed February 21-25 at her home in Hustisford. ―Anetta Feisst spent March 4 in Milwaukee.

—Margaret Koenig made a tour to Lake Geneva on February 22.

While there she attended the exercises of the Northwestern Naval and Military Academy. 一Hattie Detert had a few days vacation, suffering from an attack of bronchitis. She has recuperated, however, and is again able to be with us. Hearing the glad tidings someone said: Des freu ich mich.

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―Misses Adela Dornfeld and Lydia Pankow wish to make known to the general public, that Marshal entertained two distinguished guests, when they were there Peb. 21-25.

—Gertrude Busch of Jefferson entered Northwestern as a special student, March 4. ―Marie Abelmann entertained a number of friends Feb. 25.

—It is rumored that the coeds played a game of basketball on February 18 and won by a score of 13-12. They wont make：publi c, M. K. however, who the opponents were.

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Atlflrttrs BASKETBALL.

On February sixth we saw only one game. In this game the Freshmen defeated the Sophomores to a tune of 33 to 17.

The Sophomores were handicapped in as far as Timmel, their star guard, was in the hospital with measles. Games on February ninth were both postponed.

On February thirteenth we saw the Sophomores go down in defeat. The strong Junior aggregation showed their mettle by hold­ ing the Sophomores scoreless in the first half while they scored twenty points. The final score was 34 to 10. The second game was between the Seniors and Freshmen and needless to say the Seniors won. The Seniors began this game with their last year’s line up; but after four minutes of play Meier retired in favor of Wacker. Capt. Dux of the Seniors could not find the basket as well as lie did last year, partly due to the fact that liis arm was not en­ tirely well as yet. Score 34 to 19.

The games played on February sixteenth were interesting.

Everyone expected to see two close games. The Sophomores were strngthened by the return of their last year’s center Bublitz, while the Freshmen had lost Steffen for this game. The Seniors were weakened by loss of Lange, their greatest scorer, and Meier, stand­ ing duard, who has the enviable record of no trial for a basket and consequently no miss. The Sophomores showed a great deal of pep perhaps to give Bublitz a hearty welcome but still suffered a defeat.

Score: Freshmen 24, Sophomores 7. .The Seniors worked hard as they knew that two good men were missing. In this game Capt. Dux scored nineteen points, while Wacker stored away nine baskets. After ten minutes of play the Juniors lost Albrecht, their standing guard, who also boasts of bis record, it happens to be as good as Meier’s with, the exception lie has had at least one foul called on him. The final score was in

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favor of tlie Seniors, being 47 to 20. The games for February twen­ tieth were again postpond on account of the measles.

February twenty-third afforded us an opportunity of seeing the Seniors a little scared. Being handicapped by the loss of Lange and Meier besides not having had any practice for a week, a result of the isolation, they seemed unable to cope with their formidable opponents, the Freshmen. The Seniors won by a close score of 40 to 36. On this same day the Sophomores showed that they could win a game if they were determined to do so, therefore they sur­ prised the Juniors. The Sophomores made thirty-one points, of which twenty-one were made by Capt. Press, while the Juniors made only twelve.

The games that were scheduled for February ninth were played on February twenty-seventh. This day Lange again was here and after the score had been piled up to 48 to 16 the Seniors made fol­ lowing substitutions: Henning for Capt. Dux, who played guard, Westendorf, our coming star, for his enemy and best friend, Krauss, the large man, Hoenecke, for the small man, Zeisler. Score: Sopho­ mores IS, Seniors 54. On this same day the Juniors bent on “doing something” defeated the Freshmen, score: 25 to 22. The Freshmen had lost Felten in whose place Monhardt played and scored eight points. Uetzmann was also missing. They, however, found a good player in the **Cherry Circle” man, Haegle, who stored away four baskets.

The game between the Seniors and Juniors that had ben post­ poned from Fbruary sixth was played on March second and resulted in a victory for the Seniors. The Juniors came back strong in the second half scoring thirteen points and holding the Seniors to but fourteen. In this game the Seniors were strengthend by their “old timer” Raymond Smoky Timmel. But alas after a few minutes of play the former star was obliged to stop playing. Smoky has been under the doctor’s care for some time and has not completely recov­ ered. Final score: 36 to 19.

The games tliat were scheduld for February twentieth, were played on tli sixth of March. The first game, which was won by the Freshmen by a score of 23 to 19, was of great interest. If the Juniors had won this game they should have had second place, as it is they are tied with th Freshmen for these honors. Both teams played a good game. The second game was a runaway for the Seniors, score SS to 14. In this game Meier ’18, standing guard was shifted to forward during tlie second lialf and shot four baskets while Lange For stored away seventeen baskets. Substitutions as follows: Seniors, Bernthal for Dux at center, Hoenike for Lange at forward, Westendorf for Lau at guard, Schumacher for Zeisler at guard, Matzke for Meier at forward; of these all but Westendorf scored one baskets; for Sophomores, Schujahn for Press at forward and Heidtke for Dalilke at center.

These games ended the basketball season of 1918. Following

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are the records of tlie three highest scorers of each team and the results of each team: Average Total Total Games per game fouls points played Name of player 4 18.57 130 7 Lange *18 f---------------4 15.46 116 Wacker J18 f-------------3 12.83 77 6 Capt. Dux，18 g, c and f.

2 10.70 91 sy2 Capt. Press *20 f---------2 9.11 82 9 A. Brandt ’21 f----------0 8 4 Schujahn ’20 f----------y2 2 7.22 65 9 P. Brandt ’19 f----------7 14 2 Haegele *21 c-----------2 6.75 54 .8 Felten ’21 f_________ 2 5.77 52 .9 Capt. Tacke ’19 f--------2 4 34 8% Siefert *19 c--------------2.66 20 Mgr. Timmel *20 g and f.

7y2 Total Total points Games L. points opponents W Team 0 9 178 447 Seniors ---5 4 228 221 Freshmen .

5 4 244 .207 Juniors___ 8 373 147 Sophomores A. M., ’18.

In a post-season game, arranged to play off the tie between the Freshman and Junior teams, the latter turned out the victor by a score of 31 to 13, thus supplanting the Fresliies in second place.

BASEBALL. With the coming of warm weather baseball practice lias begun.

A goodly number of men may be seen practicing every afternoon.

But this number is not sufficient. Why? Because many students who are able to play don’t come out. They reason thus: There are just enough candidates out now for a first and second team, and moreover, our names were not on the list for the first call to tlie standard, so why should we come out?

In regard to the list. The list contained only the names of the known candidates for the teams. If you take any interest in baseball whatsoever come out and show your ability. If nothing else come out for your own good, because you can derive unusual bene­ fits for the body and consequently for the mind. Come out for tlie good of the team. Try for a place and try hard. Competition makes a stronger team and a better balanced team than nine picked men ever made. Come out for both your own good and the good of the team. Help give our college an athletic standing. Do your bit.

With many of you rests the success of tlie team in future years.

Start baseball now. Break into the game early. Get on third, fourth or fifth team, anywhere, but play ball!

Don’t start tomorow; start today. Let’s start now.

BELL,，18, Capt.

m NEWBERRY STYLUS. The Newberry College Newberry, S. C. The Junior number of “Newberry Stylus” turned out to be quite a success and aided very much to raise the standard of your college paper. But why shouldn’t you accomplish as much as other col­ leges, if you work diligently, which it seems was the case in this is­ sue.

We were first given a short poem “Stubborn Pete.” As it was meant for a humorous selection, little can be said in regard to the language or style. It served as a means of putting the reader in a good mood while reading the more heavy material.

The story “A Tragic Mistake that Almost—’’ somewhat dis­ pleased us, not that the plot was incomplete, or poor, but it seemed as if the writer was in a hurry to finish; for some of the parts were rather indistinct. Probably this could have been improved by mak­ ing the story longer. Several peculiar expressions occurred in the story. For instance to talk of a “pretty wedding” is strange and is used very often by newspapers. To say “A year from their wedding” \s, more or less, a Latinism.

The essay on “American Patriotism” was a good article, writ­ ten in fluent language. It showed the real patriotism that ought to prevail among true Americans.

We especially found “The Rescue” to be of great interest. The writer possesses the faculty of bringing out exciting parts in such a manner that the reader is constantly kept in suspense, and is therefore forced to take interest in it.

Your editorial department contained three paragraphs which we thought liardly fit into this department, but under some college All three merely treated of some occurrences at news column, your school.

“Exchanges” was managed fairly. The editor of this depart­ ment at least tried to bring destructive criticism as well as to point out meritorious things. And that is the real object of an exchange column.

“Styloids and Personals” was not up to its mark in this issue.

It contained very few good jokes of the kind that appeared in issues before this.

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St. Peter, Minn.

Gustavus Adolphus College.

On continuing our search through the exchanges we soon struck “College Breezes,” a paper that always pleased us. The work showed in tlie January number was again very satisfactory and well deserves a compliment.

The literary department brought, first of all, the interesting story “He Went to the City.” The writer portrayed a common oc­ currence during this present war. The plot was simple, but a per­ son^ interest was, nevertheless, aroused by tlie easy flow of the language and the bringing out of the plot.

The essay on “A Righteous Peace” was, as might be expected, a talk on peace that would be of benefit to all. The writer took the standpoint of a true patriot, yes, probably overdoing it somewhat.

It is true, we all can and should see the evils inflicted upon us and should, if possible, help to defend our country, but we ought not to exaggerate too much. However, if every man in this country take this standpoint and show real, true patriotism, we will show our enemies a hot time. And that’s what we’re out for now. As far as style and language were concerned, we must give the writer due credit, for both were good.

The idea expressed in the editorial “The World-wide Vision” was good and worth while remembering.

Following this were several good accounts on some of your activities. Besides there was the paragraph “A Plea against the Use of Tobacco in the Army,” which contained quotations from govern­ ment records to show how detrimental the use of tobacco is, especial­ ly to the youth.

We were surprised at the great number of boys from G. A. C. that are now in Uncle Sam’s service.

Your “Bit of Wit” column was somewhat short. It is, indeed, difficult for one or two men to put out a good joke column, but your students ought to contribute here also, since this column is also in your paper for a good reason.

We were well pleased with the remaining departments except­ ing “Exchanges.” You seem to have adopted this part of your paper for general news.

Your college seems to possess quite a few all-around men for you are also putting up a good show in the line of athletics and ora­ tory. And you can easily keep this reputation, if you keep showing energy.

As this is the last exchange column written by tlie old editor, we thank the readers for being patient enough to read this column, and wish his successor great success. We also wish to extend our thanks for the exchanges which we received during the past months, and hope that our table will be supplied witli as many or more exchanges hereafter.

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—Jeff: It seems the people of Watertown simply come up here and take things without doing as much as to ask for them.

Hannibal: How so?

Jeff: I saw two fellows take a picture of our gym to-day. 一Gieschen: Come on, close the window; I’m cold.

Doc: Never mind that. Let’s hear your speech. Then we’ll get you hot in a jiffy, criticising.

—Brutus (translating: He pulled into the city): Is in urbem irapulsit. 一Prof: Was heisst “amandus?”

Choudy: Sie muss beliebt werden.

Prof: Sie miissen nicht immer an Feminina denken. 一Prof: Die alten Germanen assen “lac concretum.” Was wird das wohl gewesen sein?

Kockie: Ice cream. ―We surely must agree with Chaucer II., who said: “Love is blind.” Watch closely, and you can see that nearly as much paper is used up in a day for writing notes as it takes to make a magazine.

And this seems to be catching. Sir Lovewall and Lady Ketchum taught it to others who quickly learned it. And passing notes has become the latest fad.

—Kid Schempf: I cheer for the seniors because my cousin would be in that class if he would be up here yet.

Den abdankenden Redakteuren geweiht.

Was kann dieses alles meinen, Dass Editoren sich vereinen?

Das muss wohl nun das Banquet sein, Weil sich versammelt gross und klein.

Der Absch ied wird wohl freilich schwer Dem Zeisler, da er Redakteur Des Black and Red ge wesen ist.

Darum er tuchtig trinkt und isst Von alien Sachen, schlecht und gut, Das gibt den andern freilich Mut; Denn Hypes haut tuchtig auch hinein Und spricht: “Nun lasst uns frohlich sein.

Lasst fahren Griechisch und Latein.

Erfreut euch alle, gross und klein.”

Der Dada lasst sich garnicht storen, Obwohl die andern alle horen, Wie er sich wohltut an dem Essen, Das jetzt von alien wird gegessen.

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An Siissigkeiten will ich mich laben Von allem das wir heute haben, Der Herb Zigarren hat so viel, Da Heine doch nicht rauchen will.

Der Herb ist in sein’m Element, Er fuhlt sich wie ein Stuck Zement.

Und hiermit sei euch auch gebracht Viel Dank, da ihr manch，finst’re Naclit Bis zwolfe oft seid aufgebleiben Und Leitartikel habt geschirieben.

Wir gonnen euch dies grosse Fest, Lasst es euch schmecken，ihr lieben Gast.

B. J. W. ’18

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INDEX TO YOLUME XXI. .167 A Christmas Story----------------------238 Ad Editores------------------------------81, 142, 177, 224 261 Alumni________________________ 216 A Merited Promotion-----------------214 An Amateur Detective’s Adventure 67 Andern musst Du leben, willst Du Dir Selber leben 93 An Outing to Fish Creek Athletics_______________ 16, 41, 84,102,121, 142, 181, 204,229 274 50 At Parting____________ 21, 36, 80, 101, 120, 141, 203, 224 264 Aus dem Seminar______ 24 Beumarchais and the American Revolution College Notes___________ 10, 33, 77, 100, 118, 140, 174, 202, 225, 265 109 Condensed Milk-----------14, 39, 83, 106, 127, 150, 180 De Rebus Omnibus---------248 Der Chinesische Gelehrte 191 Der Hohepunkt im Drama “Die Jungfrau von Orleans” 26 Die Apachen_______ 246 Eheu Me Measlegerm 7, 31, 73, 98, 116, 138, 172, 198, 221, 259 Editorials___________ 9^ Ein furchtbar wiitend Schreckniss ist der Krieg— 2 Erinnerungen eines alten Pfarrgauls-----------------24 Events Brought About by Negro Slavery in the U. S. 25k Every Dog Has His Day, or Successful AdvertisingExchanges ______________ 13, 37, 81, 103, 123, 146, 178, 205, 231, 277 195 Hue and Cry-----1.19, 45, 88,107, 129, 152, 186, 208, 233, «279 Jokes----------------155 Joy to the World 18, 44, 87, 105, 125, 148, 184, 206, 227, 271 Locals__________ 57 Luther als Deutscher Volksmann-------------------------Luther als tJbersetzer der Bibel-----------------------------112 Luthers Kirchenlied--------------------------------------------.161 Marcus Tullius Cicero----------------------------------------21 Morning---------------------；--------------------------------------Nutzbringendes Lesen-----------------------------------------211 Peace on Earth---------------------------------------------------.156 Reformation, Division, Unionism________________ 51 The Class of 1917_______________________________ 62 The Goblins Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Out― 135 The Knave’s Tale-----------------------------------------------133 The Low Stage to Which Man Can Be Brought_____ 189 The Sacrifice-----------------------------------------------------5 The Third Night-----------------------------------------------70 The Tragic Close of the Civil War_________________ 255 The Trombone---------------------------------------------------.164 Tom as Hawkshaw--------------------------------------------•113 Uneasy Lies the Head That Bears a Frown_________ 256 Why Celebrate the Anniversary of the Reformation?

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W. D. Sproesser Co. Wiggenhorn & Son. Hardware.

W. G. Prltzlaff Co. D. &. F. Kusel Co. Fund C. F. Nowack.

P. G. Keck & Co. Photo㈣phers« Denninger's Gallery.

Watertown Photo Co. Doctors.

Dr. T. C. Abelmann.

Dr. B. H. Cook.

Dentists.

Dr. E. J. Hoermann.

Dr. A. J. Schlueter.

Dr. F. F. Schlueter.

Candy Shops.

Baumann's Parlor.

The Princess Confectionery.

Slioes Stores.

A. Kaliebe.

Geo. W. Spohn.

Leo Ruesch.

0. F. Kurzweg.

Barbers.

Sim Block.

George Zoelle.

Bert Froemming.

H. B. Swalby Chas. Sommerfield Cigars and Tobacco.

Sonnemann & Amann.

Juniata.

Schlueter Bros.

Wiggenhorn Bros.

Groceries.

Bentzin’s Grocery.

Fred Bittner.

J. E. Heismann.

G. V. Kohli And the Following: Watertown Creamery Co. Wm. Gorder Co. Barker Lumber & Fuel Co. New Method Laundry.

Chas. Moy H. C. Reichert, Teacher of Piano, Violin, Harmony.

Bank of Watertown.

Aug. Gamm, Crockery.

R. P. Koenig & Co., Millers.

Chas. Heismann, Painter, Picture Framing.

City Dry Cleaning and Pressing.

Siegler & Schlueter, Insurance.

Tom Makas

GIVE THEM TOUB TBABE!

The excellence of modern ready-to-wear I tailoring is not an acci一 dent. It is the imme­ diate result of the keen­ ness of modem busi­ ness competition which leads men to seek…and to find"-everything that will distinguish them from the crowd.

Possibly the one 、 greatest reason for the 、\ increasing sale of AdlerRochester Clothes with the most carefully dress­ ed men in this com munity is that these clothes typify the modem idea or looking well without apparent effort. Amciong those who \ give too little or too)much:thought to their dress, the disting­ ADLER; RCCHHST£R. Clottiea uishing thing to do is to give just thought enough. That’s all the man does who buys an Adler-Rochester .suit.

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608 Main Street

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Telephone 33-1R

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Looks” Count in Clothes!

Keep this in mind when purchasing your Spring Suit or Topcoat.

Kuppenheimer and Stadium Clothes look well and wear better. This season^ Style demands snugness in the Suits. We obtain this, but keep the clothes comfortable. The shoulders are narrow tread, but they fit.

You will look attractive, energetic, and trim in a Stadium or Kuppenheimer. Select yours before the as­ sortment is low.

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The QuicK=Stepping College Man will find more real fun in wearing Collegian Clothes than he has ever experienced in any clothes. These “natty” garments are shaped along bold lines and the fabrics sparkle with life.

Whether it’s a suit or overcoat, tone prevails.

Don’t think for a minute that you have seen or worn styles as bright as the Collegian styles, for you haven’t, You'll realize it the moment you see them.

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Co V. KOHLI

THE BUCK and RED CIGAR

DEALER IN

Staple and Fancy Groceries

NOW LEADS，EM ALL

Schlueter Bros.

and School Supplies

605 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

TOM MAKAS Shoe Shining Parlor 410 Main Sf.

Hat Cleaning a Specialty

f 05 Main Street

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WE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT

Barker Lumber & Fuel Co. LUMBER BUILDING MATERIAL. DEALERS IN

AND ALL KINDS OF

RE-SCREENED COAL WATERTOWN, WIS.

FIRST STREET Telephone 86

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Dr. T, 0. Abelmann PHYSICIAN and SURGEON

m LUNCH RESTAURANT 604 Main Street TEACHER OF

Home Cooked Meals 35 and 50cts.

-Hbt and Cold Lunches from 10c up Home-Made Pies, Fruits and Cigars

MRS- C. COSSFELD Phone 409.W

Watertown, Wis.

前 We have it!

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Anything in the DRUG LINE

BITTNER & TETZLAFF VVaterto.wn^ Leading Drug Store

The Rexall Store

203 Main Street

Dealer in

RELIABLE FURNITURE “ ..

UNDERTAKER AND LICENSED EMBALMER Private Chapel Up-to-Date Equipment .

3U MAIN STREET 弃》• €•麥.系iut,茗^%sx%tnut

PHonc 54-W

Res.1 Phone 51-W

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射udia 109 fHaitt

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HERTEL & HOFFMANN BUILDING

Watertown’s Leading Furniture Store

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F. G. KECK & CO. 110-112 Main Street.

You will find a complete line of FR.UITS of all kinds in season at

John £• Heismann CASH GROCER US MAIN STREET

TELEPHONE 62

PURE SUGAR

HOME MADE T

Candies ICE CREAM and SODAS 鹋溫TPK5TS

E. H. COOK, M. D. Practice limited to

EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SPECTACLES AND EYE CLASSES SCIENTIFICALLY FITTED Hours:

H. T. EBERLE，D_St 204? Main Street Carries Kodaks and all necessary Supplies also handles the Parker Fountain Pens

9:30 t o \ 1:30 a. m n ?

1:30 i to 4 p.m«| 5 Wed nesday and Saturday evenings

Sundays, 10 to II a. m-

Telephone 305-J

Office, Hcrtcl & Hoffman BUg.

Watertown} Wia

The Dainty Sampler

c I will like thcaronia and the tasteof our best grade of newly imported Teas and Coffees. There can be nothing more de­ licious and invigorating for breakfast, pure teas and luncheon or tea.

Coffees have excellent drinking qualities, and they are truly economical, as so little is needed in comparison with the commoner brands Let us induce you to make a test of them. You will con­ tinue to use them yourself afterwards.

FRED BITTNER,

UP-TO-DATE

501-3 N. FOURTH ST

GROCER

PHONE 135-J

€l)a$, Sommerfeld The Students，Barber Shop 202 m, main Street

Watertown’s Exclusive

CROCKERY

STORt

AUG. GAMM CROCKERY GO. 400 Main Stre〆

George Zoelle’s

Barber $bop Right Across from the Postoffice

STUDENTS: deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check.

No matter how small—your account will receive careful attention.

BANK Of WATERTOWN ©litcst

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CttAS. MOY Watertown Photo Co. HAND LAUNDRY N. 4th St. First-Class Wort.

“THE JUNIATA”

MEYER，S

GALLERY

114 Third St. A STUDIO THAT ALWAYS PLEASES

WM. SCHIMMEL & SON Carry » full line of

CIGARS. TOBACCO AND PIPES 204 WEST NJUN STREET WE SOLICIT TOUIPATlOlUeE

A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU THAT OUR STYLES ARE ALWAYS UP TO THE MINUTE.

‘糊M CORNER DRUG CO.” P. H. BEHLKE, Pres.

Telephone 464-W

KODAKS SUPPLIES EASTMAN AGENCY STATIONERY and SUPPLIES WATERTOWN'S PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS

m DRY MING JIND PH脱眺 WORKS

101 Haio Street, Watertown, Wis. Piione43

A Chance

You are taking a chance of losing your home and all its comforts II you do not cover with a pol icy in a strong Insurance Compa ny.

A Health and MM Policy takes care of your «*pay Check" when needed.

SIEGLER & SCHLUETER,lns. Agency over Farmers & Citizens Bank.

Cadie$f and Gentlemen’s

Garments gleaned, Pressed, Repaired ana Dyca 406 MAIN STRE.ET Watertown, Wis. We deliver to all parts of the city.

Easter ^ You cannot enjoy Easter Day, unless your clothing conveys that feel­ ing of revision and freshness you unconsciously feel in a new suit.

That | feeling will be increased.

I if you know your new suit is a make of nation-wide fame, and worn by dis丨窗::'.I criminating men the nation over.

Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes are the best :：A'l made clothes for the f money. Guaranteed strictI ly all-wool and guaranteed to give satisfaction.

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Spring Styles are in Display :In Furnishings, just natural:夢| & we are headquarters for

Stetson and Tiger Hats Wilson Bros. Shirts and Easter Neckwear Dress Gloves

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Buy quality—our nationally known lines insure you to getting quality—also style 一also right price.

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HOFFMANNS 107-109 Main St

Copyright Hart Schaffner & Mars

Watertown, Wi».

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Watertown Creamery Co.

The Shoe of Regrets

Manufacturers of

Fancy Creamery Butter and Ice Cream Wisconsin

Watertown,

S_ Shoes Spring Styles with a Capital “S，，

For men who care, and what man now-a.days is not actually "fussy” about his shoes. We have an assort­ ment of the very newest In up-to-date shoe styles. Look us over.

215 Main Street

GUARANTEED MERCHANDISE IS ALL

WE SELL If you haven’t used our goods it’s time you did.

Get that feeling of satisfaction that you are entitled to.

Football-Basket Ball Base Ball equipment Sweaters-Skates-Jerseys

College Athletic Supply Go. No. 567 Wells St. Milwaukee, Wis.

w There is just that mark of something different about our shoes that give them distinctiveness and sets them apart Irom the ordinary run of men’s shoes.

A. KALIEBE

616 Main Street

Chas. nmmm “THE PAINT MAN

PAINTER and DECORATOR CORRECT

Picture Framing

Get oup catalog

108 THIRD STREET

DR. E. J. HOERMANN

DENTIST COR. FIRST and MAIN STREETS

Over Wiggenhorn’s Jewelry Store Entrance on First Street Telephone No. 258

FIRST-CLASS WORK

R. P. KOENIG & CO.

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Finest Grades HARD WHEAT, WINTER WHEAT AND RYE FLOURS

$im Block Barber 115 Third Street

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Watertown, Wis.

QUEEN™ Best Family Rye Flour Corn, Oats, Screenings, Oil Meal, Buffalo Gluten Feed, Cotton Seed Meal, Calf Meal, Timothy and Marsh Hay, all kinds ground Feed. Special Attention given to farmers custom work.

Perfection Brand Coffee Sold in Watertown for 15 years by Wm. Beurhaus & Co. An excellent value and compares very favorably with any 35c brand, and worthy of a trial

PRICE 29c PER POUND 2 lbs. 57c

3 lbs. 84c

B_，s cs= Grocery 905 Main Street

Telephone 214

Groceriesand Fruit F. UTTECH & SON Telephone 191-J

WATERTOWN, WILLIAM GEHRKE DRUGGIST

3rd and Market Sts.

WISCONSIN

T.P.A

5c CIGAR • THREE SIZES

Fine Havana Filler WIGGENHORN BROS, CO.

THE VALDONA STORE

315 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

AGENCY FOR

SHEAFFER^S

PEN

Bert C. Froemming EAST END BARBER SHOP. 602 Main St.

Watertown, *Wis.

Phone 401-Y

105 Main Street

The Princess Confectionery GEORGE SPYROS, Proprietor

Tee Cream，0a_e$ and £_r$ WATERTOWN, WIS.

A. WIGGENHORN & SON

JEWELERS

FINE WATCH REPAIRING (PACTORY ■XPKRI8NCB)

Watertown, Wiscoosin

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Obtaining Friendship

by Deserving It. After all, business is a matter of dealing with friends. We have gained friends through deserving them—won them through honest goods, fair prices and square dealing. But holding friends is as important as winning them. If you will visit our store, you'll learn what we offer—in value, in quality and service—to deserve continued patronage. Whether your purchase be large or small, or you come only to visit, you’ll find this a cheerful place to be in.

Striving to gain and retain your friendship through deserv­ ing it, is always our aim.

CHAS. FISCHER & SONS CO.， United Mercantile Store

PETTIBONE UNIFORMS FOR COLLEGE CADETS ARE THE STAND­ ARD AND IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN. Used in America’s finest Military Schools and Col­ leges.

Are made to INDIVIDUAL measure by expert Military Tailors.

Pettibone operates no ‘.sweat shops" but up-todate Uniform factories.

Uniforms fit like a glove, add to your boys’ appear­ ance and m a k e them STAND OUT.

Besides Uniforms Petti­ bone makes a complete line of Cadet Equipment— Swords, Sabres, Belts, Trumpets, Metal Orna­ ments, College Caps, Flags, Pennants, etc.

But write for College Cadet Catalog 335.

Prices most reasonable.

Petione's J-Cinciiinati

DR. A. J. SCHLUETER

DENTIST Watertown, Wis.

313 Main Street ii

IVe Recommend

‘‘BOSTONIAN，， SHOES FOR MEN.

Leo Ruesch

W. D. SPROESSER CO. JEWELERS Pianos and Victor Victrolas A large Stock of Records con­ stantly on hand.

111 Main St.

，P_C NO. 259-J

210 West Main Street.

Watertown, Wis.

Smoke

New Method Laundry

Home Comer，Limit and Advance 5 CENT CIGARS AND

O NARITA 10 CENT CIGAR

Sonnemann & Amann

0. F. KURZWEG DEALER IN

FINE BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS. Please Give Us a Trial We Try to Give Satisfaction 402 Main St.

A. W. DI£TERf Prop.

218 First Street

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Give your Laundry to JOHN HENNING, Manager STUDENTS LAUNDRY AGENCY

OWEN，S DRUG STORE 412 MAIN STREET NEAR CORNER OF FIFTH

Agents for Seneca Cameras and Photographic Supplies

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