THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: AFI.TL 12. 1003. College Girls Who EW YORK, April ll.-Ech N spring wnen me midyear exam I inations are over at Darnard I and the freshmen tuvp nroved that they can hold their own In the field of learning a man- daw i Bent them from the aophomore study to array themselves In Greek attire and prove their valor on the field of battle. The custom of holding Olympian game was established In 1PC.1 when the class of l'J5 flrat challenged the freshmen class to meet tham In a aeries of Greek athletic con tests. In the contents 16 carried off the greater number of laurel wreaths. The next spring the Greek games were Omitted because the elders of 10OS, "In council assmhled," decided that It would be unwise to risk their dignity aa sophomores by encountering the warriors of 190". Put this waa the only lapse, and from that time on Greek has meet Greek every spring In the Barnard theater, the sophomore clasa being the victors on each occasion. This year tho contests were so much elaborated that they had to be held on the greater floor space of the Thompson gym nasium. At the end of the room a stately altar had been erected on which In an an tique urn the eternal fires were burning. At the right and left of the draped and gar landed altar the presidents of the contest ing classes took up their posjtlons. the sophomore president carrying a dignified owl, the muscot of the clans. At tile given signal two doors at opposite ends of the gymnasium opened and the rival classes marched slowly down the Sides of the room and halted, facing each other, when the leaders had reached t'.io steps of the altar. Bach girl was dressed In cla.'slc robes ornamented with bnnds of red or brown so that th" spectators might be able to distinguish the contestants by the class color. "hen the classes had taken their respec tive place the fresh-nun chorus entered to a rlow rhythmic dance whhh they iiecom r::led with the clash of cymbals. As they sv.-a.ved slowly tip th room they chnr'.cd ni ode to youth which had been trinalnted fr t: e Oreck and net to music by t'.vo r ' era of the class. n the freshman chant hud ended the t i ! ' r.oro chorus entered from the oppo !:" d-rr. Over their while togas t'.iry vve a brown pnllu trimmed with gold and f'r'r wh"e sandals ' were fastened with I : '"n r'lk ribbon. Green wreaths nrna t "r:,r; t:ielr lo"senel hair and In tlv-lr I:--it- the carried garlands which they l I ill above tln lr heads, lirt to one side, t i :i to the oth"r, as they marched slnwly tl'trugh the gymnasium singing the love !it.is rf the Antigone. The words which tic sor'-ionores had chosen were supno?ed to alh-.dc to their own Invincibility in pio-' turlns the powers of love: Eros unennquered In strife, Eros In thrail all thtre holding, Re.itln the whole night through on th? soft-blooming cheeks of the maidens, Over the sea dost thou roam and dwell'st In the hall ot the rustics. Thee there la none ran escape, neither of gods nor ,of mortals, How John (Copyright, W, by Frank G. tarpenter.) s i LnBc April (special uor 1 rcspondence of The Bee.) Jk ( I Take a seat with me on the mua veranaa of the mua hotel at Entebbe and look out over Lake Victoria while T tell vnu aomethln of this Uganda protectorate which the British have recently added to their share of the white man's , burden. You had best keep your hata on. There are lizards and scorpions in the thatched roof overhead and some may fa,ll down upon us as we talk. I advise you. also, to tie your, shoes tight and by nd means to rest your bare feet on the floor. It Is true It Is plastered with cow dung and mat ought to keen out the ants and Jiggers. The latter Insects, however. hav way of crawling In under one s toe nails and laying little sacks of eggs In tha skin, which. If they hatch, may cause US the loss of our tons. I have had ten Jiggers taken out of my feet since I came Into Uganda, and now Eplfras, my native servant, goes over my toes every morning. Do you see that black band moving across the path down there In front? It la wads up of ants which will attack you If you come near It. They are the famous warrior ants, whose bite feels like red-hot pinchers and whose heads have to b torn from their bodies before they will let go. They are far more . dangeroua than that baby lion who la tied with a clothes Una about bis neck to a tree near by. He la only about aa big as a Scotch collie and Is not old enough to know how strong he Is. He was brought In last night by a traveler from Lake Tanganyika, who also owns the two gray parrots with red tails, wno, perched In the tree above It, alternately whistling and scolding. ara On tha Kqaator. Before we begin our talk let us took around and try to realise where we are. This mud hotel Is called the Equatorial. It Is situated right on the equator and by spreading out our legs we could almost straddle the aame. Nevertheless, we are about 4.000 feet above the sea and the cool breeses'from Victoria lake maks the air a delightful as Virginia In June. There ara oranges and lemons growing out there In the garden, great beds of feathery papyrus ara waving to and fro on the shores and we can see tall palms -with Ihelr whispering leaves everywhere. ' W are right on the edge of Victoria Nyansa, about as far Inland aa the west ern shores of Luke Erie are' In from New 'York and right In the heart of the African continent. That lake was not known to tha world until about fifty yeara ago. and Prattle of the ITTLK Margie's papa had raised LI a full beard during a month's I absence from home. Upon hla return no auempiea to kiss Msrgls aa usual, but she wouldn't have It "I don't kiss Strang men,'" sha said. "But you kiss your papa," ha protested. 'Is It possible you don't know me?" "You'ra not my pspa," replied Margie. "My papa la bald-beaded on bla face." "Can any little. by." asked the new teacher, "tell ma tha difference between a lake and an oceanT" "I can," replied Edward, whose version had been learned from experience. "Lakes are much plsasanter to awallow whan you fall in." Mlnlatar is your father working now, Johnny T Small Johnny No, air. Minister Why, only last week ha ttdd ma ha had a Job. Small Johnny Taa, air; but tha man ha waa working died. "Tanunyv jraa hav bean to eharch-two Men who live wut a day; on those whom thou holdest comes madness. The hearts of the Just dost thou turn to evil aside for their ruin. Thou stlrrest up anger and strife, yea e'en among men that are kindred. Victorious aye is the love glance that passeth between youth and maiden: It sits tn the seats of the mighty, the peer of the land and Its power. For never may mortals' o'ercome In strife with divine Aphrodite. The translation and music of the aopho more chorus had also been done by mem bers of the class, and to them the laurel wreath was awarded by the Judges, who were members of the departments of music and languages In Columhla university. As the sophomores were also voted the heller costun.rd, their chorus In Itself, won nine points In the final icor. - iLi ,t;-' ; i -i -) vvr fi't -''K ' 'fV, Lift - Mt - y Pi .. : Sprite '';p-:; v J ;V ..J -rt v 1. . -13.-IV vt-aw -,. 1 Afler the choral irfgirn; canm tho in.v cation to the gods by the freshman pre dent. Zeus was earnestly called upon to h nd the contestants on both sides "the strength of Hercules and the swiftness of Mercury that they might acquit themselves well In the eyes of the gods." The soplto- Bull Governs Four today a large part of the land surround ing It are unexplored. The equator goes right through the lake and It Is only about sixty miles south of it that the German possessions begin. This part of Lake .Vic toria belongs to Great Britain, and all the vast territory extending from here to the Mediterranean, Including Uganda, the Sou dan and Egypt, is practically under tha control of John Bull. He has every foot of land on each side of the Nile, which begins Its course by flowing out of Lake Victoria at 'Rlpon Falls, 'not far from here, and winds Its way for K.90O miles before It empties Into the Mediterranean sea. As the crow flies the distance Is far ther than from Philadelphia to the Great Salt Lake; and the country contains some of the richest lands upon earth. Every one knows of the wealth of Egypt, which has never been so rich as slnc the British took hold. The Soudan has vast territories equally fertile; and Uganda, away down here at the Nile's source among the high est of the African mountains. Is In some respects richer than all. tTa-aada Protectorate. Indeed, tha English officiate tell me that Uganda la the cream of the African con tinent, I have now been traveling some weeks through It, and I believe they' are right. There la no other place where so many valuable crops can be . grown. In some of the provinces the natives raise grain with practically no cultivation, in others coffee grows wild, and everywhere there are bananas and other tropical fruits. In another letter I shall write of the great possibilities In cotton, which Is already being raised hers and there; and shall treat of tha stock growing prospects which promise to make Uganda tha great moat basket ot England. Tha land la one of great forests as well as of rich plains covered with grass. It Is a land of rubber, and It has vast re sources In fibers which' may be used for the making of paper, rope and cloth. I have already spoken of tho bark blankets which are used by a million or more of the natives ss dresses; but I have said nothing of the raphla fiber which Is brought here to Entebbe for shipment to England, where It brings as high as $150 a ton. This country can raise hemp as good aa that produced In the Philippines, and China grasa and sisal are said to thrive equally well. Tha Uganda protectorate la rich In min erals. Hematite ore Is found almost every where, copper has been discovered In the central province and gold Is said to exlut Youngsters Sunday mornings in sucenslon. That Is doing splendidly for you." "Yes'm. Last Sunday tha preacher wits going to talk about Jonah an' the whala, but he only talked about Jonah. 8ald he'd preach the rest of It today, and I had to go again today to hear about the whale," Dorotheas father was sitting befora a window in his country hou with Doro thea on his knees. He wss looking across the fields with unseeing eyes, when tha lassie broke In on his reverie with. "What ara you looking at, papar" "I waa looking Into the futura, my dear." "Tha futura, papa! I thought It was Into tha pasture I" "Fer two cents." said the boy with tha dirty face, "I d knock v down!" "Hera'a da two cents," said tho boy with ragged trouasra, tossing tho colna at his foot and squaring off belligerently. "Now eoma on and try It. durn yet" "Wofa do user' rejomad tha other boy. picking them up and barking away, "Kln t no sense n knoekln a foliar down w'an ye i .? mun 'ln wtdou oln' It. eaaT 'Chicago Tribune. Are Struggling to Become Expert in Greek Games ' f ? ---- V . - ' V - .v. . ,iwwsw.-l! fw"'j. ' In v some places. There are also deposits of white china clay of groat value In cer tain localities, and tho natives themselves make pottery from It. . I'sranda the San Sees It. But suppose we take a look at Uganda as the sun sees it. The country lies on the roof of the African continent., Where It borders Lake Victoria it Is about as high up In the air as the hlgljest of tho Alle ghenles, and the crater of Mount Elgoh, which rises In the central province a little north of that lake, kisses tho sky 100 feet higher than the top of I'lke's Peak. Away off to the east are Mounts Kiliman jaro and' Kcnia, and at the west are the mighty highlands of Ruwenxorl, which vie with those of Kllimunjuro itself. The country is almost, surrounded by water. On the south Is Lake Victoria, on the, west are Albert Edward and Albert Nyanza Joined by the Senillkl, and further down la the Nile. On the east Is Lake Rudolf, an enormous body of water, and throughout the whole country are beautiful little lakes, ponds, rivers, and creeks. The general nature of the country is rolling. It has many hills and hollows and undulating plains, wdth swamps in the valleys.. The hills are covered with grass and they roll over one another as far aa the eye can see. The swamps are often spotted with woods, and one is never out of sight of the papyrus, the tall tassel like grass of which the Egyptians made paper. As to tha extent of the protectorate, It contains altogether more land than New England added to new Vork, Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. It has a bigger population than New England and bigger than that of any state of our union, with Uie excep tions of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illinois. The people all told number be tween 4,000,000 and 6.OuO,00O, and of these considerably over l.OOO.OCO are Christiana. These are the seml-clvlllzed Baganda, in whose country I am now. Fl GreTrtProrlnces. The British have divided up this terri tory Into five provinces. Originally they made six, but, within the last year or so, they have taken off the lands lying east of the lake and given them to British East Africa. That province contains the naked A ...Illy U i:. M ilk Py? hi v : . Million Natives of Kavirondo, of whom I have already writ ten. It Is traversed by the Uganda rail way, which terminates on the lake at Port Florence. The five provinces of Uganda consist of the kingdom of Uganda, the central province to the east of It, tha western province lying between it and Lakes Albert Edward and Albert, and the Rudolf and Nile provinces at tha north. The central province, which Is almost directly north of Victoria Kyaiza, is fertile to an extreme. It borders on the Kavirondo country, and many of its peo ple go naked. It is densely populated, and Its people raise cattle, sheep and goats. They also do considerable farming. ' One of the most characteristic features of this province is Mount Elgon, which ranks as one of the high mountains of the conti nent. It Is an enormous volcano, whose lower slopes are covered with forests and on whose top are frequent snowstorms, although it is almost on the equator. Among the curious features of this mountain are Its caves, which have been inhabited by the natives for ages. They uso them as homes, and aststables for their cattle, sheep and goats. -The cat tle caves are never cleaned, and" the manure of ages beds their floors They swarm with fleas and the stench Is terrible. Roads are now being cut through tha cen tral province by the native chiefs, and one would have no difficulty in Journeying through It. As to the Uganda province. It Is covered with roads made long ago by the natives, and one can go over a great part of It on a bicycle. Many of the English officials here own wheels and they are gradually coming Into use among the richest of the natives. WesteTnTiraada. ' Tha poorest part of the Uganda protec torate, is in the north. The country fades out into the desert not far from Lake Ru dolf, and the Nile province partakes some what of the nature of the Sudan. . As to the western province, that is high and healthy. It Is a broken tableland, a great part of It a mile above the sea, rising In soma places to high mountains. Tha coun try is well watered and a large part of it Is covered with a tropical forest filled with monkeys. The people are well devel oped black negroes who devote themselves largely to stock raising. They. have cattle with horns so large th&t they seem to ba t ..'.A,-,. . - . - '- .. . ' . QHOUP O B1NQU8U RJS0IDBNTS AT ENTEBBE. more president then poured a llhilon, sacrificing some to tho fires that burned on the altar, drinking of It herself and then passing It to her rival that she, too, might drink to the Olympic powers. After these ceremonies the contest in epic poetry was called. Each clasa had three leading the beasts, in this same region there are pygmies Just like those which Stanley describes as living In the forests of the Congo. These western natives are not so ad vanced as those of Uganda proper. Many of them go naked and others are clad only In aprons of burk cloth tied by strings around their waists. These natives orna ment their bodies with scars. I have seen some, who have their breasts and stomachs cut In such patterns that they somewhat resemble Persian shawls. Many of them file their teeth and altogether they are low in the scale of African civilization. Caoltal of 1'icanda. I wish we could send Unsle Sam to En tebbe and show him how John Bull handles these millions of savages. This country has more than half as many people as the Philippines and some of them have for ages been noted for their warlike char acters. John Bull tajtea care of them all with a few score of officials and about 2,500 soldiers. His soldiers are almost all native blacks, and most of them have been recruited from the country itself. There are a few East Indian slkhs, but the army Is mainly made up of what Is known as the King's African Rifles, who are com manded by British generals, colonels and captains. This force consists of 1,600 blacks and In addition there are 1,000 native con stables. It seems a small army to control 4,000,000 people. Nevertheless the country la kept In per fect order and law courts have been es tablished , in all the provinces. There Is a supreme court, to which appeals may be made. The people pay their taxes. In some of the provinces they are establishing schools and altogether they are far better off than they have ever ben before. Entebbe. The town of Entebbe Is the capital of Uganda. It has the greater part of the white population, which consists all told of Just 400 souls, embracing eighty-three women. The men are chiefly British of ficials. They are well educated young fellows, fond of sport and devoted to ten nis and golf, which they play almost every day. The women are, as a rule, fine-looking English girls,' tha wives and daughters of these officials. They dress as well us our girls at home, and If one could lift up this white colony and drop it down in any - . ' ' . . a " ' iiirles and. beginning with the frshm.-n, each poet stepped forward In turn find un raveled a long. papyrus, v hlch was fastened at one end to n piece of wood, In strict ac cordance with the custom of Ihe anclen s. Each poetic outhurst wis limited tn IB) lini h a;il the sul .lee's had to l;o "timely." Mol of the bnnls confined themelvs tn ouest Ions of college Interest and srent their i fr.rts In extolling the manifold vlfues and woridroirs deeds of their own partic ular class. Only once was a broader sub ject Introduced, and this was In the first epic, In which Zeus was pictured hurling Five Men The difficulty of Impaneling a Jury In the early courts of Wisconsin may be seen from a story related by former Senator Sjiooner ot tnat state. "Judge Irvln was on the bench, and a murder trial was pending. G. T. Long, familiarly known as 'Lucy' Long, was under sheriff. There was difficulty In get ting a Jury that knew nothing about the facts of the case. The regular panel had British East Africa city of England or tha United Statea tha people would not be out of place. And how do these people live? Well, here at tho clpltal they are better off than in many parts of the Interior. They have houses of sun-dried brick, roofed with galvanized Iron, Very few of the houses are of more than one story, but they have wide . verandas and the rooms aro spread out over tha ground. Many of them are surrounded by beautiful gardens, filled with all sorts of tropical plants and trees. The houses are built far apart along wide roads of the red dirt of Uganda. Same of tho roads are lined with flowering trees, tho most common being the Cape lily, which Is now bearing a great mass of blue flow ers. Indeed, there are so many flowers and plants that one seems to be going through a botanical garden as ha walks along tho streets. Tha business part of the capital la given up to the East Indians. There ar a half dozen or more galvanized stores filled with goods to sell to the natives. The brown skinned merchants wear little yellow skull caps, calico pantaloons and long coats, buttoned high up In the neck. They have yellowish brown faces, dark eyea and curly black hair. The government bulldlnga ara acattered hero and there over tha hills. They aro usually roofed with galvanized iron. They have brick walla and wide porches. There aro no native huta In the town proper, and aa a rule very few buildings thatched with straw. Tha police barracks form one of tha exceptions. These lie on the western edge of Entebbe, and they consist of rude Nuba houses, with cone-shaped roofs. Central TTricsTn Hotel. The hotel here Is about the only one In central Africa. In most other places one has to havo his own tents or to stop with the officials. I am usually able to get in with an official, and this waa the casa at Kampala, the native capital. This new hotel is an oddity. It is made of mud and grass. The main building Is, I Judge, about fifty feet square and it measures about twenty-five feet to the cone of the thatched roof. Its walls are only twelve feet high, but tha roof does not begin for several feet above them, a space of a yard per haps being left for air between tha walla and the raftera. This main part of the hotel contains a dining room, a parlor and a billiard room, with kitchens off at tho side. Tha bed rooms are bungalow-like sheds made of mud and thatched with straw. They ara aome distance away from tho hotel Itself and run around the walla of tha compound. Each bed room opens out upon Defy the Thirteenth Hoodoo HO says Friday, the 13th, 1 un lucky In leap year? Not Katherine May Stuart or Louia Alien Conrad. They both dlfied every token of bad luck, ran away from outraged W parents and were married at the Morrison hotel In Chicago In tha presence of the Thirteen club on tha occasion of the thir teenth banquet that ia held on tha 13th of every month. The ceremony was per formed by Judge McEwen, who ia a mem ber of the club. The young couple were motoring through the parka on tha South Side on the after noon of tha 13th, relates the Inter Ocean. Tha beautiful spring weather inspired Ultra to bring an lght months' engagement tu happy conclusion. Tha license had been procured January 6. Miss Stuart is the daughter of Mrs. J. Stuart and the nl.ee of Mrs. Tom .Murray. It was principally because of the o tjeo lors of Mrs. Murray that the wedding had not taken place befora. Oh, let'a let the folka take care of them selves," the girl said, as they were Breed ing through tha parks. "Let's get married today." "But this is Friday; besides lt a tha Uth," said Conrad. II suffragettes from Mount Olympus In a Veritable storm of d 'gust and anger, Th professors who Judged the contest gave the. laurel wreath to this poem, which had been written by a f rcshnmn. As the aocnnd place, was also won by a freshman, tha younrrcr clasa gained eight olr.ts in this contest, against thu opho;nores one. The Greek wrestling, which should hsre been the next number on the program and which had proved the most thrilling event In all previous years, bad to be eliminated, aa tho exercise proved so strenuous and tha excitement of the girls became ro Intense that some of them fainted and others had to be carried from tho room completely ex hausted. Ill place of the tabooed wrestling rltscua throwing, an exhibition recurring much more grace and skill, was substituted. The ciassir rules were closely follov.ed as re gards throwing, position and distance. Ac curacy alone decided (he event, which was carried off In all three places by the sopho mores. The contest which niot nearly reproduced the spirit of ancient Greece w;la t e Javelin throwing. The distance of t lie throw was not very long, but the target was small and It required great skill and stiength to drive a . heavy Javelin true to thn mark. For this reason many a girl who handled her spear prettily enough was soon elim inated from thn contest when fatluue male her arm unsteady. The freshmen proved themselves by far the steadier throwers and gained six points against tho three which were won by the sophomores. To make the Greek games of a general athletic Interest such modern contes's as hurdling und high Jum,iln are always In troduced. And since the flowing lines of a classic toga were not designed for effective Jumping and running the girls who enter theso events ulwa a gather up the super fluous amount of toga and tuck It up under their belts, for no merely aesthetic Im pulse can live when the honor of the class Is at stake. In both these modern events the sophomores proved their superiority, and these additional victories tnado th score 32 to 22 In favor of the older glr's. As usual the contestants now forgot ab.iut their Attlo calm and the games ended with a triumphal procession, of the victorious class carrying the captured laurel wreaths on high and shouting their class cries, which until this moment had been excluded from the program aa un-Greek. for a Jury been exhausted end a special venire had been Issued and was finally returned. " 'Well, Mr. Long,' asked tho Judge, "have you at last secured a sufficient number of Jurymen who know nothing about thls case?' " 'Yes, your honor,' replied Long. "Six of these men don't know anything about this case, and the other six don't know nothing at all.' "Minneapolis Journal. a little porch or ledge floored with mud and coated over with cow . duns; well smoothed down. The bed rooms ara floored the same way. but each has a rush mat made of papyrus reeds from Lake Vic toria running across it. The beds them selves oonslst of. a rude framework of wood, to which are woven strips of an telope skins. Upon these rush matting Is . laid and then a thin mattress ot Uganda cotton. Every bed has lta mosquito netting. This region Is very malarious and no one would think of sleeping here without such protection. As for the food of the hotel, It is fairly good for central Africa, al though it would bo poor anywhere else. Tho chief trouble Is the cooking, which Is universally bad. As to variety, we had at our last dinner a soup, some fish, fried brains, beef, potatoes and green peas. Our dessert began with a slice of pspala, a delicious melon-like fruit which grows on a tree here, and ended with coffee. The hotel rata Is $2 a day, Including rooms and board. It Bird Throagh the Chiefs. During my stay here I have had soma talks with officials as to how they han dled Uganda. They tell me that they rule aa far as possible through tha natives. Each petty locality has had its own sys tem of government and Its own lawa aa far as possible and the machinery is adapted to these systems. In Uganda proper the work la dona through the na tive council and tha little king or tho of ficers appointed to represent him, Tho council or luktko consists of twenty chiefs, each of which baa hla own county or dis trict with hla own court These countiea are subdivided and given over to subordi nate chiefs unlil there Is perhaps a OhJef to each village of any size. The chiefs re ceive money from the British government and in return they collect the taxes and turn them into the treasury. The taxes are assessed at so much to each but, tha amount being usually about II per year. This seems low, but when It Is remembered that It requires about a month of good, hard work to make a dollar out here in Uganda It will be aeen that It is pretty high after all. I have met many of the Baganda chiefs during my stay. They are very Intelligent. Not a few are able to read, having learned to do so In the mission schools. One haa written a book' and all are more than ordinarily bright. Not a few of them ara now keeping their court proceedings in typewriting, the native language having been adapted to the Roman letters so that the ordinary machine can be used. FRANK Q. CARPENTER, "Well, are you superstitious?" "What, me 7 Never! Be game. Wa will b married tonight and there la the and of It." Conrad called up his friend, Clarence Stevens. It was arranged to have tha wad ding performed before the Thirteen club. At 8 o'clock the young couple marched Into the banquet room at the Morrison ho tel. They were compelled to enter under an arch of, ladders. Then they were show ered with salt. When they were Introduced to the crowd there was a clash and 1U lit tle mirrors that had been hung about the room were smashed with tiny mallets by the guests. Then followed a shower of rice and all the guests sat down under open umbrellas and were walled upou by red-haired waiters. While tha weddiug ceremony was being performed the couple were showered with alt and rice. The groom inuue a speech. "This is how It happened." he said. "We Just couldn't stsnd It any longer. Theru was parental objection on one side and parental objection on the other, than there was love In the middle. There waa a long atruggle, but tha little god In the middle won out Ot all the lucky things the luokleat thing wa atruok yet waa tha gwud tortuna to ba married by tUa Thirtaea club," A 1 1 r