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.
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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