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cnces in Slam and blocked Prance's pur
poses everywhere. Russian designs and
French pretensions go hand In hand. The
Avar beginning in the Balkans must
Anally Involve the continent, and France,
with Russia in arms, can muster more
real armies, a more warlike soldiery,
than the triple alliance or the English
shopkeepers.
This Is the intimate reasoning of
French und Russians. This is the om
inous underplay of the drama Just be
ginning in the far east.
This is a long step from the Mace
'donian question, but it has been the pro
phecy of diplomats for years that when
the Avar cloud burst there would be no
stopping until the map of Europe had
been materially changed. Perhaps Tols
toi Is right in the abstract. Only those
who read the stars can guess any better
at present. ARTHUR FIELD.
Sigma Mppa
, Gpsikn
Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded at
the university of Alabama, March 9, 1856,
and although Its progress was greatly
retarded by the civil war, the organiza
tion has since been extended until its
chapters reach from Massachusetts to
California, and from Wisconsin to the
Gulf. There are sixty-two chapters in
all, five charters having been granted by
the last National convention, which met
in Washington during the holidays. The
colors of the fraternity are purple and
old gold, and its flower the violet. The
fraternity publication is the Record.
The chapter at the university of Ne
braska, known as Nebraska Lambda Pi,
was granted a charter in 1892, and at
present has twenty-four active mem
bers. Last summer arrangements were
made with Prof. Barbour, whereby the
fraternity secured a five-year lease on
his bouse at 122S R street. The house
was completely remodeled with the idea
of converting It Into a modern club
house, with ample accommodations for
eighteen men. The house is situated only
half a block from the campus, and con
nections have been made with the uni
versity whereby classes are rung in the
house the same as in the university
building. Eighteen men live here.
The active members of Sigma Alpha
Epsilon are: William Wallace, Cliff
Crooks, George Shidler, Leon Jouvenat,
Will Shork, Murray Townsend, Willard
Clapp, Guy Greemvald, Eric Seicke,
Roscoe Davidson, John Bender, Oscar
Velt, Norton Ware, Earl Eager, Ralph
, Minor, Wray Llndlay, Arthur Millenz,
Clarence Steen, Roscoe Gore, Elmer
Robinson, Ed QuIUin, Alvlnous Hayman,
William Slzer, and Frank Brown. The
members-In urbe are: Ray De Putron,
Arthur Beckman, George Bartlett, Al
bert Fawell, Hugh Edmiston, Fred
Funke, Ed-Funke, Ray Elliott. Edward
Roth, Guy Peters, Everett Sawyer,
Elmer Holben, Orile Thorpe and Arthur
Ryons.
Alfred Beckman, Allan Field, Ted
Faulkner and Elliot Graves are pledged
members.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon will celebrate
Founders" day with a banquet at the
Lindell on March 7.
A German clergyman, on a journey,
stopped at a hotel much frequented by
wags and jokers. The guests used all
their artillery of wit upon him, but he
ate his dinner quietly, without seeming
to observe their jibes and sneers.
One of them at last, in despair at his
forbearance, said to him: "Well, I
wonder at your patience! Have you not
heard all that has been said to you?"
"Oh, yes; but I am used to it. Do
you know who I am?"
"No. sir."
"Well, I will Inform you. I am chap
.lain of a lunatic asylum."
"Tommy, how are you coming on at
school?"
Tommy First-rate, ma.
"Mention the names of some of the
domestic animals." "The horse, the dog,
the pig." "What animal is that which
lives mostly in the house, but often
makes a. dreadful noise so that people
cannot sleep?" "Four-legged animal?"
"Yes." "Doesn't let people sleep?" "Yes."
Tommy (triumphantly) Piano. Golden
Days,
Gerald May I kiss you?
Geraldine Mother is In the next room.
Gerald That's all right; your father
can Idas her.
"Is he a friend of yours?"
"Ob, yes! He never takes advantage
of me except to benefit himself."
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By U. Francis Duff.
The Arizona sun blazed down until the
wastes of sand and alkali seemed to
dance before the eyes. The sky was an
arch of polished steel across which the
great disk of white fire swept glowing
in its tedious track from east to west.
The waves of heat blazed up from the
furnace-like surface, and beat against
the faces of the trudging column. Alkali
dust flew in clouds, choking the brick
red marchers, and aggravating the
agony of parched and burning throats
In which the mucus thickened, till It was
as cotton.
For thirst had fallen upon them. Three
hundred soldiers were caught In a desert,
in which all the water-boles bad dried
up, forty miles from the nearest station.
One small tank of water, drawn by six
mules, must last them over that hell of
waste. The Colonel, upon realizing the
situation, made a rapid calculation, dis
covering thereby that one pint every ten
miles for each man would exhaust the
supply. He knew, also, that even ex
perienced soldiers, when half crazed
with thirst, might, in their extremity,
forget not only the army rules and reg
ulations, but, for that matter, any other
rules and regulations under heaven.
A guard was detailed for the water
tank, with "Lieutenant Dick" in com
mandotherwise. Lieutenant Richard
Roberta; rough and loud, ever ready
with a blow for brawlers and laggards,
but a man of "sand." A pint was Issued
to each man at starting. Ten miles on a
pint of water and Tophet itself a para
dise by comparison! Ever hotter glowed'
the sun ever fiercer the blazing flats of
sand and alkali. The miles fell slowly
behind heart-breaking links in a chain
of suffering. Five, six, seven, eight and
the column was growing uneasy. Noth
ing definite that one might put his finger
on just simply uneasy. Some of the
men had developed a curious, dry, rat
tling little cough; and when they spat,
the throat contracted spasmodically with
an awful aching. Only two more miles
surely they could stand that! And they
did. But the ground seemed unstable'
beneath their feet, and the hands that
fumbled at the throats shook as with a
palsy.
Another pint; and again the long
crawling line shambled on. What sort
of country was this, anyway, in which"
the sky spun so, and the distant moun
tains seemed wheeling to meet them?
Then there was a curious swelling and
throbbing in the temples. And that ex
cruciating ache in the throat would
nothing stop it? Six miles of the lap
were passed, and the Lieutenant was
struck with the hollow-eyed, deathlike
look of many of the men. The lips of
all were swollen enormously. Seven
miles was the column moving, or was" it
simply the earth moving under them?
And were they moving with It, or against
it? But the dull jarring of the wagons
and the muffled mouthing curses of the
mounted drivers not too thirsty for
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wonderful skill as a horsewoman, Mile. Helene Gerard of Paris is in this coun
try to give exhibitions of bareback riding. For several years she has
taught the elite of Paris how to ride side saddle and astride.
that chained them to reality. Eight
was the water never coming? Occas
ionally a plodder slipped softly to the
earth, his face showing an ugly, pasty
white through the red and grime. Nine
and endurance, long tried, flamed up fiT
mad protest. An ominous rattling of
unshouldered arms, a grating crunch of
the sand, not noticeable when they
stepped before the grind of decision
and the whole body moved as one man .
upon the water-tank. No man spoke;
nor was it necessary. Their staring
faces spoke for them. The stock little
Lieutenant, with the Durham-bull head
and small blue eyes, set his teeth. He
knew the grip was coming. The horses
were stopped and men swarmed up on
the tank only to find the lids closed and
padlocked. The guard fixed bayonets,
and, gently as might be, thrust them
down, the iron jaw of Lieutenant Dick
working as he expostulated with them,
crying that the guards had not had, nor
should they have, any more than the
regular ration, and that himself would
march the whole distance without touch
ing a drop that their only hope of sav
ing their lives lay in husbanding their
little supply.
A glistening hedge of bayonets sur
rounded the tank more precious than
all the riches of earth. The click of
breechlocks, as some of the maddened
men forced home the cartridges, punctu
ated the Lieutenant's speech. He, with
bared head and foam-flecked lips, faced
the main body of mutineers no longer
the reckless, care-free, kindly jesters of
the day before, ready to toss up with
death in another form and let the result
go as It might, but rather creatures who
had gone back to primitive instincts;
those instincts which had animated their
far forefathers in the gloomy forests of
Europe ages before, when they fought
the wolf and the cave-bear breast to
breast.
And still, so ingrained was discipline
so much was it a part of themselves
that even now there was a sort of sys
tem in their actions, albeit they were of
a nature that tended toward the doing
away with all systems whatsoever.
Twenty rifles leaped to as many shoul
ders, the officer staring fixedly Into the
blnck muzzles, with one hand raised in
protest which was not wholly lost even
upon that mob.
In the instant of hesitation he spoke
again; and in the great stillness which
had fallen upon them it seemed that his
voice, might be heard for miles. In
hoarse tones, which had yet that certain
ring which no man ever hears unstirred,
he asked if there was one man among
them who would march beside him to
the journey's end without water. Lieu
tenant Dick did -not speak hurriedly, but
he lost no time- There was death In
those fumbling fingers. It might be
simply accident; but some accidents
might as well have been design.
A lizard rustled across the sand at his
feet: the sun beat; the far hills glim
mered, and the whole landscape appeared
to bend toward them expectantly. Then
a little, sandy, "sawed-off" fellow who
had been picked with m-ny misgivings,
simply to fill the ranks, separated him
self from the mass, walked to one side
and stood at attention; a big Norwegian
followed; and in the general rattling of
rifles being "recovered," the drummer,
with an eye for situations, beat a long,
quick call to the road; the column swung
into line and moved off Lieutenant Dick
tucking under each arm a rifle which he
had gently taken from a couple of boy
soldiers, leading the way. The civiliza
tion of a thousand years, acquired
through racking stress and travail, had
proved itself adequate. From Out West.
She that naggeth a man sitteth down
to many a lonely meal. g1
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