change, in the right direction, in last year's drill compared with former years. During the com ing spring we anticipate more earnestness on the part of the cadets, judging from the manner in which the new cadets performed last fall. We all feel grateful to our worthy Commandant (Lieutenant S. S. Pague) for his interesting work in our behalf. * a:* We notice in one of the prominent college papers of Penna. "A letter" from "Pandemoni um, Shady Side." The author must have been af fected by delirancy, or imagined himself writing for a "yellow backed" novel. The piece, to say the best of it, is unfit for publication in a paper to the public in general, and less fit for publica tion in a college paper. The following remarks we quote verbatim. "A person's business here is decided by his life on 'earth. For instance, the man who coined the word "chestnut" has to haul Rider Haggard's imagination up an inclined skating rink by means of a Keely motor engine, using only a spoonful of ice water; while some of, the boodle aldermen drink hot punches, recite the Presbyterian longer catechism and are waited on by a demon in an intoxicated dress suit." "Take my advice, old boy, and before you come down embezzle about a million from the L— tobacco•store. Satan's mother in-law will think more of you." • We do not think a college paper should be entirely filled with "solid Matter," but anything that even smells of profanity should be excluded. "Old Henry VIII., of England, is here and has married an E— girl." A young man, H. J. Furber, jr., not yet twenty years old, is planning to found a great . university at Chicago, on the Heidelburg plan. He proposes to devote $r,000,000 as an induce ment for other citizens to join in the movement. German universities are just beginning to play foot-ball. • THE FREE LANCE. THE CHILDREN'S ANGELS The Master told us about them, Or else we should not have known Of the great, glad children's angels Who stand for them near the throne The face of the Heavenly Father, Their angels always behold ; They live in unbroken vision, Afitr in the City of gold. Their beautiful brows are lifted, Evermore in dazzling sight Of the Father's unseen glory, His unapproachable light. Yet His ineffable brightness Does not blind, but fills them still With higher raptures of service, Sweeter worship of His will. These strong, glad, worshipping angels Who dwell in excess of light, Loves, each, some dear little earth• child And cares tit him day and night.. 'We cannot know how they help lion, Nor what the mysterious tie, That binds pllll3 Mid deathless angels To frail little ones that die, The Lord of that country sends them On (glands sweet but unknown, To little "heirs of salvation," The jewels who are 111:4 own. Sometimes in dingiest alleys, To the little one he guardeth, , The starry bright angel conies. And, then, though the little one see.: Nor knows the angel is there, His clear little heart is lightened, :His form is suddenly fair. For the glistering angel garments Throw a brightness into the place; And glory as from the Father, Falls on the childish thee. So the strong and tender helpers Cheer the glad, or the sad mid lone, But 1. think they oftenest visit The fatherless, motherless one, No little heart is Onfriended, His angel is near him still, The little ones cannot perish I It is not the .Father's will I —Christian litor
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