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I T lin t the tame old Heiaeibsrg,
I to be sure, when tht alumnus
cornea back to Stanford In pilgrim
age now, ami yet the legends of
the good old time cling ever to the
shrine.
Remember that day at college,
years ago, when they ahaved our friend
B T B . don't you know, waa a fresh-
man who presumed to wear side whiskers.
The aophomorea couldn't raise hirsute
adornments of that aort, and so they
warned Mr. B that the whlakera must
ecme off. They didn't, and so an Indigna
tion meeting was called In the men's room.
At Stanford they would call It the "bull
pen." In the Middle West the "bum room."
Plans were laid and B waa kidnapped
on his way to an exam. Then the boys laid
him out four sophomores sitting upon his
anatomy to keep him down, while the
others, each In turn, took a hand at a
biological raxor, much the worse for wear.
and ahaved one-half of his face clean as
baby'a. The other half they would not
touch, cut, with Ita wealth of aldeburna.
turned the owner loose to go to class one
chei-k shaven, the other unshorn.
Commencement time brings back other
recollections of old "Heidelberg,
Out there on the campus still stands
the tree beneath which Harry and Evelyn
used to spoon. Poor Harry! All the
"spooning," all the fun at his expense
never stood him in good stead, for Evelyn
married away from the college town and
left him behind to mourn.
It was all this way with Harry. They
had made him an associate editor of the
News, and one of hla duties each week
waa to carry the manuscript to the type
aetter In town. There, on the linotype,
the News would be set and sluga made
for the lines, and these Harry carried
back to college next morning, so that
they could be printed on the university
press.
One night Harry waa going to oall on
Evelyn right after tea. He hadn't time
to go home with the aluga, and of course
he would atay too late to take them from
town that night. So, In his Prince AJ
uert, Harry bore the slugs to the home of
his fiancee. Once enwrapped In her
'narms an nought or them vanished, and
-sisissv 1 1 1 rn
'.'Jy-'rT'
see a senior go about with a brlmle.w
mtim or a erownless brim at anv time!
out at Berkeley.
There la another custom at Berkeley that
Is unique among our colleges. It ail hang
about the tale of an axe just a plain,
everyday axe. Many years ago. as years
go with college students, the boys from
Iceland Btanford came up to Berkeley
brandishing an axe as a symbol of what
they would do In the forthcoming athletic
contests. California, of course, could stand
no such taunt, and made a rush for the
axe. The enemy fled, the home guard in
pursuit. The Berkleyltea got the axe, and
In their turn, then fled. Thta time the
policeman became Involved and all the
town was out. Stanford got Its axe again,
and again there was a race for It.
Then a demure young Berkelylte'came,
new. upon the scene. Clever lad that he
was, he worked In with the enemy until
they thought htm one of themselves. Then
seeing the sxe bearer hard pressed he
made him give blm the axe, being fleeter
of foot than the timid bearer. So the axe
was passed over, and to this day reposes
in the archives of Berkeley. Once a year
they bring It out, and tell the story of
the glorious victory.
And ths bonfires! Those are distinctly
Western In the way of college customs.
As In ths old university towns of Ger
many, that likewise lived off the students,
perpetual war exists between the student
and the townsman of Berkeley. One day
in the year, as with our more Eastern
when with mldnle-ht Himr i.ft h,,. ' Hallowe'en the law Is set aside and
1 was with the slugs behind him.
The next day Papa found ths two boxes
n the porch. They were wrapped about
with paper, and heavy. My, so heavy!
twenty pounds apiece, or more. Papa had
neen In politics and threatened with
dynamiting once or twloe. and now felt thel baJid plays "Boola
nonr had come. Fool him? Not he! He! the West.
irlephoned for the city police, and they Berkeley, too. has Its memento to the
-m up tneir explosive expert. Olngerly Coiu nranka and eaoacdes. They had
one oustom In the corps which, while not
everything Is open to pillage. The more
difficult to steal, the more fit for the pyre,
and the young men of Berkeley scour the
town for things for the firs. AU Into one
great bonfire, and then, over that, proper
eulogies, to accompany while ths college
the song of songs in
ns undid the paper, only to And Harry's
slugs. He. however, in his clumsiness took
them along to Police Headquarters. There
the reporters got hold of the story, and
being accustomed to reading from sluga'
discovered the origin of the matter. Of
course they published the story, bringing
In all the romance and glamour' of a col
lege wooing, and Harry knew nothing of It
until he came to clasa.
Happy-go-lucky college daya. once again
at hand I Kach and every college with lta
own peculiar customs, interesting ever to I
he collegian and the layman as well'
Out at Stanford, at Palo Alto, each Oct o
her. they hold the "plug-ugly," unique'
a nnns our collegp ceremonials. That night'
the juniors present the "plug-ugly" tare i
locnl In plot, more local In lta allusions !
the product of the en of some member of;
the gifted class. Then, at the end of the
play, the plot manages to Introduce the
entire junior class, wearing the new plugs
Indicative of tnelr rank, a well as rough
rown corduroy trousers.
Ttii entry la made the signal for th
seniors to rush to the attack, attempting
In any way they c:in to break the "plugs"
of their colleagues. Luckily, mei, 0".
take part In the farce, and so the women
escape the scrimmage. But from the
bleachers about the oval the rival call
of the classes mingle like some tocsin of
old, spurring on the men to victory
In fict. In the far West of the United
States tho hat seems to be the favorite ln
tlgi.iu for rank and for attack.
Probably no university in the world pre-'
sents a more unique exhibition of head
gear than the University of I'a.lfornla at
Berkeley. Xot alone must hats undergo
the "plug ugly" ceremonial, but the more
battered an.: worn they have become the
better they Knit the purposes of their own
ers. The more battered, the moie ui.in,..
muu kii mwir ill wiry wv'fl- 1
exactly haxlng In the precise sense of the
word, was frowned down upon by the r acuity.
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CANADIAN BEET AND MAPLE
SUGAR.
1TH the farmers of Ontario
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The " PI3"-U jy ' custom a,t Lelamd
Jptajiford University OH
senior
a m m
W anxious to raise su?ir beets. It
Is nevertheles now certain that
there will be fewer ucres planted
this year than there wero last
year, wnen the total was
The fasulty resolved that that must be caalons such as these, particularly llttlng
ab.tidoned. Kxubciant spirits, howevtr, to the hour.
must be let out Komewliere, and so It was; But not for long la the college student
suggested that the rival faction devoteiaad. .Life la too full to overflowing will)
their strength to building a mammoth "C exuberance and animal spirits for that
on the hill behind the university. In Tur- Out he bursts again In his "Hoola" and
key travellers will know of their approach then the class yell, aa
to a town from afar by the crescent cut. for bidding alma muter adieu.
Into the rock on the steepest mountain-j
side about. So here, the alte of California! . -M.t,,,.! T.lfnlinr TLnA
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proximately 15,000 acres. This is
because many of the men who would like
to grow sutrar beets are unable to tlnd a
market for them, either at home or In the
United States. The farmers throughout
this section of the province, who raised
beets last year almost without exception,
found the crop a very profitable one. the
yield running from ten to twenty tons per
acre, often netting the farmer from l&u to
$t per acre clear profit. The beet mnr
factories at Wallaceburg and Berlin, the
only surar factorlea In the province which
operated last season, are both contracting
for slightly Increased acreage this year,
but as they had all they could handle last
year will not be able to furnish a market
for more than two-thirds of the acreage
Mint could taslly be contracted for this
season.
The Marine City fMlch stiirar fnt,ir
when last year was a heaw tiurrhnr
Ontario beets, haa fallen into financial dif
ficulties a ad will not ouerate this eeasnn.
it made quite a number of contracts for
beet acreage In the Chatham district last
fall and many of the farmers, with whom
these contracts were nuule, have been un
able to And another market, and will plant
tobacco Instead of beets. The Wlartoa
sugar factory, which was Idle lust year.
It Is definitely announced, will stand idle
again this year, the litigation in which It
is Involved having been settled too late
to permit of contracts for a crop for this
season belns; made. The Keystone Com
pany, at Whitby, on Iake Ontario, has
contracts for some 2.000 acrea of augar
beets, but will probably have to find an
export market, and It Is claimed th:tt ths
duty ot fl a ton on beets going Into the
United States Is practically prohibitive).
Negotiations for the establishment of beet
sugar factories at ChHtham und Dresden
are well under way and promise to be
successful, but It Is now too late f.ir them
to secure crops for a run this season.
A report Just Issued by the Hon. Sydney
Fisher, Minister of Agriculture of the Do
minion government, gives the following
facta regarding maple augar:
The augar making season is now ovsr,
and while this province (Quebec) was not
quite up to that of previous years, the
season was a fairly good one, and in ths
other three sutfar making provinces was
ahrmt nn to the usual. Sugar and syrup
I . ... . . . . I , ., - . Inlurln I 111 1
the Attest mannerire made in lour ,.,ow,.-- ?
bee isew ijruiiswici mm .o ........ ...
and enormous quantities are turned out.
In 19ul the product amounted to 17.vn.xi5
pounds, the money value of which was
$1,780,4X2. Canada supplies over three-
sevenths of the output or me mapie nusur
Ut.lversltv may bs known from afar by
this srlfirantic letter on the slope. , c CREST Area have been very preva-
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the Far West, as In the Middle West, the! I After much searching the cause was;and syrup of the world, and is cipanie "i
closing of the collcse year hears mixed! found to be a huSe natural lightning, furnishing six times the quantity or augar
in with the Joy of taking the degree, the'rod. In the ahape of an Iron ledge In theland syrup she des if the owll,,r
s.rrow of passing from the old college 1 mountain side. Upon further lnvetlga t. n maples would4usn the w orK as tne c iuij
it was found that the ground was marr I .ova bcuhb. ,
At Ldand Stanford there Is a college 1 with Iron outcropplngs and that the bolts
sen. 'Hall. Stanford. H ill," sung on oi-jfrom the sky had ignited a'l the Ares.
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Planning to Foretell and Utilize Earthquakes.
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when he Is capable of mastering the in-(field. He was hastening to Naples last
lurlated forces of nature, not only to month to study the eruption of Vesuvius, j
escape harm, but clever enough to harness Just as he had been hurriedly despatched;
mea luiinlte powers to do Ins will? to Martinique In VJl to observe Jdjnt
i'roressor Thomas A. Jtggar. Jr.. of
Harvard University, an eminent specialist
in the subject of earth forces, he Just
announced, upon his return from a atudy
Pelee, when In Paris the news came to him
of the destruction of San Francisco.
It was this coincidence of disasters that
forcibly Un pre as ad upon his mind "the In
of the recent eruption of Vesuvius, that ! Competent of man to cope with natural i
the lime has arrived when man muat'make ' phenomena." From this Inspiration he has,
some practical resistanoe against such 'made hla annotincentvnt of a great ecten- j
phenomena aa recently wroug.nt havoc In.tiflc need. Should some pirbllc spirited
Italy and on the Pacific ooast. He be-1 persons artora an enuowmeni to estauisn
lleves that the time has come when ai American laboratory of seismology,
i systematic sclenllAc study of earth phys- such will be the story of Its birth,
lies will reduce the risk from earthquakes, HmX there been such a laboratory In ex
pand Toi-anoes. just aa man now reduces latenca It would have been repaid manl
I the risks wnlch can be anticipated by In-j fold by Uw savings even by the avoidance
, sorance. More than this, he believes that, of the disasters of only Ave recent years,
a fuller knowledge of such phenomena wlllTne losnes at Oalvesioii, fit. P.ene, Cala
lead to the discovery of methods of turn-jbrla, Naples and San Francisco would have
ing these sorces ot destruction to useful ;been lesa'apvalllng.
and
"Running ot ".Skull And Key" photo m.a Lovr-y
'If BrruerlT oootroiled and adeqUattiy
with the expenditure made lu
u. . . m ... .rJt,, a nuiiil,l.i - ui fnr ..nn.mv. the 'It Or,-uerlT COOiroUea and
and for the nialnten-, coai in lurnmrung man wuu yuw.fi.
i-..i.,n Ontario nnr 1MB IIUI mei n
western boundary or limits of ihe sugr
maple It extends Into Vermont. New
llaiiitishlre. Pennsylvania. New York and
Ohio In considerable quantities and a grvat
deal of maple products are put out there.
The sugar maple does not grow In lCurop
except in arboretums. The output of 1
w'll almost equal that of 1901. the best au
thorities say. but the season had g lust
closed no official Agures are yet l-nu -d.
A few years ago the Department of Stats
paused an Investigation to be. made totich
. thP prodtK-tlon of sugar of milk la
Switzerland, with a view to the Introduc
tion of that Industry In the United States.
The information required was rather hard
..t.tAln on account of the care with
' which Sw1 dairymen guard the s.-cret of
'extracting sugar from the whey, which Is
,1 hv-oroduct of their cheese factories.
M uj AMn.iu.lltinn um Atnu hm
f.'llttlT'hirni as by th partial transmls
i innr country of the immensely mors
?mm.rtan. co..dnsel milk Industry.
A i atr'otlc Swim., living In America, now
orooose slightly to Indemnify his nattvs
country fr tne vrlou t,Mm ut '
th,.. hive bn fr"m t!me t0 tlm ,r"
ferred to the United States by sending M
1 ' . ... .. tr. form nn exoerimental
"lT.r.on tn the Canton of Uas.lland.
Vh'i voung trsarrlved last June in bad
Jmw.n on account of delay and neglect
rrng theTr stui-ment and half of tiiem
have dl What are left seem to be doing
wtu and in the curse of Afteen or twe'ity
veU. ano i eJ ,0 furnUh a trifling re-
II I Durnufai and that from them man may I , 'T ... . M, branches a",J movements; and for the nialnten-, coal in furnishing man with power. . i. , , .,o burden of the bill for sug..?.
VI Lw.Mw.riihVd Running over the history of disasters. ju , M are a nnc, of ,uch .tudy. there Is no institution I Of his confidence In the re.u.ts of the( He fro n " f , iron and cereajs,
M mrm power aa he does now rrom coal. !0ns la overwhelxned by the wholesale loss ! . m n, , Ii,i,,n. save he. In existence. The nearest approach to such work he sa.d:-"I think If we could gal! which. Ilk l' of tvlt. v.
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ep. M.i y1 jobservatlon and measurement of sarth ony ,wenty..u .Mpl7f Tom- war Tn-'T-nlid s",tesVea her Service v .lue ... oure science. Hut such wor. bscause It I. necessary to have some kind the soil of cu"n "".r rel.-
h , f ft. of s.tronomlca, ob.er-' v 6 fBr l&X'&VJ!
Of earth forces, soon.be -, .. since This service publish.- a. monthly ou .e. ... T,' " many human live, that are las. "un" more (Acer p.eudoplatanus, and the point-
I... sclent.Ao knowledge , 'Vr:":- i ""'V ,VM- Added and many maps. There is no para e ; - ? -""r-" V"" 3"T.r-ent conditions." led leaf maple (Acer platanoldes,. which
recast the tunes ol vol- ---- - r'f""io mis uok-tu oj.voiiio.o me loss of prop- vice anywhere m tne world io .ii - " ,',,:", 7,, 7 , ' . ' ...oat nearly resembles our red or swamp
s and earthquakes? C ..,..... .... ..u ,.r .uniy mounts lo incomprehensible sums. movements of the earth with lis wiery Vh. ..r,. Tc I m. II TA , f ; . Khen Is oa foot among members ...aide It has even been sugg-sted that
dentist, by the atudy of study. For such. study there is need of an Spendln his life in the contemplation of and atmoaph. nc envelopes. Astronomical studies. The practical application of first , A che" city Councd to ore n l l, me Lt niHill.iwI k Iiur,.,liire4
sv. warning of subter- endowment ,o provide the facilities.'' ,ucn ,acI. of n.tur.. not,g Z , obaervatio,' at work everywhere. Oc- importance preservation of htsn.n(Of t J 'JJ 'p,.-iule. the already far
and avert destruction of r or a great many ears the Harvard equipment whloh sieniu.ts in this sub- caaionally thev make a practical contn-, life and property. -nd Kv'.to. The caollal stock l.ro famed aut uuo. scene, y of the country. For
lii 1 lioua 1 -t VI Ulir itam well asi.uuj.IIB tiiiu ssuJCrv I, flVD HI If reil I . aUU Tfll I. j. tlr... V.iirl.in t.k II u V-lbT .11 OT1 OT lieiKlCHV. UUl mi- JU ill's i ivi"-- oB" - - i a--- -, s.r.-..--. 1.-.
n
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able by
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canoe
the s
tnodern data,
rauean tumult
life and urooerty? Are pop
to be overwhelmed by unforesee.-i caiastro
ltl.es of the earth's unrest, or has the
sod era saaa arrived at that sapient as
:llis. tK.. V.iirl,.,. ... tivlz 11 on or u
tut Just recently hss his mind been quick- vast sums spent on other subjects .,f le most all of their modern work is theoret
ni to a real lit.oa of the iniportancs p..n.t.e!:ir.B: lmuoriance Pr,.iria,ir 1........ ... v.. lr I i-tiv reLOjnixed some money
of uwre wWcavread study la his uiwscu.Uas aipvaled tur salcruardiiig apparatus, as of U Ui-;.bi veias to the' pi jiwis of inten.ai eiiiles,'' hs says,
for the future. "Ihe lime has come when I" -"
houlJ be p nt on the ear.!, a inarauo.e r..-K...v-. .u
forts wtaca, prUfcS tu.s
all! show
eleo'.r.c eute.
leV. s
Uaullful us they are. never display quits
ths vivid colors of our red ma.s.