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unday Bee. FOR ALL THE NEVfS THE OMAHA DEE BEST IN THE WEST PART WO EDITORIAL P GES 1 IO 11 VOL. XXXIX-XO. "26. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNINU, DKCKMBEU 12, llMH). SINGLE, COPY FIVE " i ' CENTS. The Omaha Millions of Handkerchiefs Hlinply marvelous the variety. Gift handkerchief of every ronrrivaMe sort from everywhere. You utirely buy to greatest advantage here for direct Import In IJennett quantities asiurcs It Take the savings that are yours tomorrow. IX THK IlKI'AI.TMKXT Women' Linen Embroidered In itial Handkerchiefs, in box, ft.OO en's Swiss Embroidered and ace Handkerchiefs, 6 in box. H."iC Linen Embroidered Hand kerchiefs; 15c, 23e. 8.V, ftOc to $1.00 Linen Lace Edge Handker chiefs; Iflc, 2Sc, BOc to $2 Armenian Lace Handker chiefs; ."c, BOc, 73c. to $2 Appenzelle and Maderla Handkerchiefs; 2Bc, 8Sc. BOc to . . .91. BO Plain Linen Hem Btitched Hand kerchiefs; lBc, 2Bc, 8Bc to BOc AT THK IIOOTH Women's Linen Hemstitched and Initial Hand kerchiefs Be Men's Linen Hemstitched In itial Handkerchiefs 10c Men's Japanese Initial Hand kerchiefs Be and 10c J U 1 rv 77 Mil l I 11 I El ' V J J7 II V'! 11 1 v I r Another Great Suit Sale Swiss Embroidered and Hem stitched Handkerchiefs . ,10 : Women's Embroidered Swiss Initial Handkerchiefs ....Be Drawn Swiss Handkerchiefs Be Linen Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs 10c Kodaks for Christmas The simplicity of the kodnk is suh that anyone ran take ictu,re successfully There In no fussing with chemicals, no dark rooms, no complications of any kind. Kodaks as gifts are always sure of a permanent welcome. No. 1A, Folding Pocket Kodak, very light and com pact; make pictures 2Hx4Vj inches; 12 exposure without reloading 913 No. 3A, Folding Pocket Kodak, post .ard size; size of - pictures, 3Vx4,4; lens, double combination; weight. 23 ounces $90 Wo. a Brownie Camera, easily operated by childrer fine lens and shutter; pctures 2'x3t4, at (3 Vo. 3 Brownie Camera, as simple as No. 2; make , plctuies 3'x44, at 14 Ruby Oil Lamps, $1.00 kind, orange and ruhv glass 60o Ruby Klectrlc Bulbs 7Eo Itetoucliing Outfits 65o White Enamel Trays, 6x7, for 3So Interchangeable I,euf Albums, 7x9-in. SO leaves. 86o Interchangeable Leaf Albums, 10x12 In., leaven at 91.50 If" A Rug opportunity Monrtav any run In our store, third floor de portment. Small rag and room-sir rugs. Vnreservedly your pick of any. 10 Off Carpet weepers A perfect sweeper, well made and nicely finished. oras as satis factorily as any $3.00 sweeper. A f A No "phone orders one to a cub- 31,l,J tomer, each Christmas Silks Tomorrow we feature black rllks at a very low piiie. There is nothing more appro priate as a gift for mother or wife. In this lot are 3-ln. black taffetas, cashmere ile Sole, Peau de Sole, messultnes and tweeds; values tl.lil. $1.25 and $1.50, at. yard., 89c New Dress Goods 59c We have opened this week over 100 pieces of beautiful new serges, panam.ts and butlstes, especially for the holiday trade. These are splendid all wool materinls and sultuble for dresses for any season. Choice of black, cream, blues, ins. arays. old rose, reseda, green and other good shades, yard.... 59c Crowds Grow Greater in Toy Town v Pyrography and Pictures Christmas reinforcement are in HKain Over a thousand as sorted plarques in every size Doxea single and three-ply for carving; ; also taborettes, Dutch stools, tie racks, etc. m. 19 lien , UULlllS 25c to $1.50 and large line of novelties are shown See demon stration., - ' . . ,: v Our picture store 6howa over 3,000 framed pictures, pastels, oils, water colors, engravings, etchings, eto. Finest and largest assortments In all Omaha SECOND FLOOR. - ' ' W3& Skates for Boys and Girls 49c m a large quantity Barney & Berry make 75c; special 49 Complete lines also We offer tomorrow Ice skates; regular price of the higher grades. rational Razors Best $2 iuality; limited lot for Monday, at 980 GUlett'a Safety Kaior, IncI Weeden Steaixt Engines, abso lutely safe and guaranteed, up right and horizontal, 4 styles at Glascock's Blaok Boards to hang on wall a5 Others up to $3.50. team Trains with locomotive, tender and cars, guaranteed to run $10 values for 9S.00 Implex Typewriters, Pr'lcal and educational 9, 9i 3 Come to Bennett's toy town for tlte true Christinas spirit. The humdrum of the good natured throngs, the gayety of the cliild ren, tlie buzzing of trains and engines, the beating of drums, the funny antics of the animals and mechanical toys are very inspiring. No joys like these Christmas Joys. Take an early car tomorrow and come. Best time now to make your selections. Printing Presses A complete line. at . 750 to 35.98 Soils The best selected line In town. Everything' from a tiny 5c bisque doll to a $15 dressed doll, also complete lines of doll para sols. Jewelry sets, furs, etc. Also sleds, shooflles, rocking horses, desks, "-hairs, go-carts, buggies, etc. The Christmas Slippers WOMKX'H Nl'LLlKIKRS Like cut, In brown, black, gray and red felt, fur trim- AT med, best kind of warm house slip- mitJ Krs, at, pair Womvn's Fell Slippers with felt soles 7Bo Women's FUt Slippers, with leather soles. ..: .91.36 Women's Foot Warmers, hand made, fleeced wooT soft leather soles pair , 91.00 Women's all leather fleece lined shoes, plain pat ent and kid tip. .TT. .63.00 and 93-60 Women's, black felt laced shoes,' fleece lined, kid .' protectors on leather soles fl.7 Watches, Diamonds, Fine Jewelry Th.-re Is no other Jewelry display in this city bo all-embracing and so prolific with rich gifts as Bennett's. We are featuring very extensive lines of solid gold and high grade gold filled jewelry at much less than exclusive dealers must ak. Wonderful Diamond Exhibit No matter how modest or how liberal you are in your requirements, we have ust the dia mond for you; prices range.. Q to 8700 Special Monday carat white diamond: perfectly cut, 14k Tiffany ring, fur.$35.0O Women's 0 size or men's 16 size gold filled. 20 year watches, Klgln or W a 1 1 h a in move ment 99.95 Others. .91.00 to 9150 Sterling silver Picture Frames, 69o to 910.00 Sterling 1 silver M-h Brushes 910 to $50 TOCBKEX.XAS 91.98 to 935.00 Handsome pearl han dles, dlrectolre trim med, gold an! ' ellvor handles, gun metals. etc. Matchless variety for f hriftiuuR. Solid gold Cuff But tons, at. .1.S8 to 950 Solid gold Stl' k Pins up from 91-00 rincst I.atbr Goods Mads, 9100 to 950.00 Men's find women's traveling cases, music rolls, card cases, med icine chests, jewel boxes, collar bags, ci gar and cigarette ciises, etc., all W to Yt less than uaiial. Gloves are Popular Gifts If Men's Sllppsr Tan and biacK, alligator, all leather soles per pair ; 750 Man's Slippers Vici kid and pat ent leather trimmed 91.00 Msa's Slippers Kverett style tan and black vicj, cut high pair ' fl-6 Man's Konuot Tin and black with turned soles iou Children's Lag-gins Fine style and black, construction .91-60 Embroidered Slippers- Men's Operas Tan kid Jlned, non-slip salr Kverett style, patent trimmed , at, pair '.60o Children's Vulllflers Red felt. ,' leather soles; 4 to S for.,..90o IU to 11. 91.00: 11H to 2. 91-16 Drown ..916 assortments; bearskins in lluster Hanging Mission Mantle Clock A clock and a shelf combined and an attraotlTe pieoe of furniture, handsomely finished in dark brown mission. ZTeeds no key simple In' construction and a perfect timekeeper. 'Cr ana Wem Junior. Including 90 atnmi.a uu et uding 100 stamps, up from '..93.60 If Tool Chests, filled with best . quality, up 'rom 95.00 Mannal Training' Benches, va rious kinds, up from ..99.00 Air Xlfles for boys, up from 65o ranching Bags, SI. 8 kind 98o 11 7f kinds 91.35 Boxing Olores, up from 91JI3 Chafing Dishes $7.f.O kinds, spe cial 95.00 Coffee Machines JS kinds for. 93.00 joffee Percolators nickel and nickel copper, 93-60, 93-75 Chrlatmas Tree Holders 86o Electric Sad Irons, at .94.60 Animal Cookie Cutters loo and 10 stamps. f .3 For the Wlor or hall, ti plate rail for the din-' ing room. Appropriate in deur Book shelf for library. Shelf Is 39 inches long. Brass hands, figures and chains. We have sold hun dreds of them. Special Mon 1.98 Glove certificates allowing the recipient to make her own selections when it pleases her on sale In the glove sec tion We Issue them for any amount. Women's Lambskin Gloves 2-clasp, all colors and size3, pair, at $1.00 Women's Mannish Cape Gloves in black and colors, 1-clasp, pair, at $1.50 Women's Real Kid Gloves, all colors. 2-clasp. at ...gl.50 "Womfen'B Cape Gloves, English tans for street wear, 81.25 Women's $1.25 Mannish Cape Gloves; tans only, fine $1.25 quality, at 79 Fancy Linens Make Charming Gifts Quite the prettiest, inexpen sive doilies, centers, scarf and lunch cloths we hata shown at these prices, are un the counters for Monday hoppers. There are em broidered', hemstitched, drawn and lace effects; all a third under value 1.50 KIND ...ou ' 73c KIXDS 49 Table Damask 72-inch bleached, all linen, always $1.25, Monday, at, yd $1.00 Linen Table Sets 2Tyard cloth and 22-inch napkins, best $7.50 values, set . . . -$5.08 Hemrtltched Napkins 15-Inch, all new, doz., up from . . . $3.00 $4.00 and $5.00 24-inch Linen Napkins, worth $3.75, dozen. at $3.00 Comforters, 72x90, knotted and sewed $2.75 values, $1.08 12-4 Cotton Blankets, fine, soft and looks like wool, $2.29 11-4 Wool Blankets, plaids and plain colors, $6.60 values, tor . $5.00 i. V . i. ? Blankets and Comforts Grey cotton blankets, 11-4 size, soft and warm, $1.50 quality, at, per pair $1.10 Comforters, cotton filled, 72x78 hand tied, $2.25 regularly, for $1.69 One hundred strikiiiK, new tailored suits in aain laM week. Our heavy suit business keep the stock constantly chsnif. Ins, with new lines in every week. These late purchases are made from manufacturer, who are now clearing their establishment at great sacrifices. These suit! are stunningly beautiful, rich in quality and actual -J3.(H) values; Monday With a $5.00 Silk Petticoat in any color, included, free im p (ill Still Gearing Long Coats We repeat our offer tomor row to sell choice of any col ored cloth coat in out stock at $1'3.M) - this includes $;J0.(M), $;?3.(K) and $45.00 coats; the finest garments, from America's foremost makers Women's Ijong Kimonos Pretty, fleeced fabrics, at $1.2. 1.75, $2.23 to $;1.73 Women's Long Kimonos Plain and fig ured crepes. $1.23, $1.75, $2.50 to $.1.73 Long Silk Kimonos in plain and Oriental designs; nonie,with shirred waist, very new, $3.00, $0.93. $.05, $10.00 to $15.00 ) Wk 'fr 1 $25 Eiderdown )tathroles for women: sred and gray, $3.05, $5.00, $5.05, $10.00 to $17.30 Silk Waists Plain and braided yoke taffetas, beBt colors, now at ' $3.05 Silk Petticoats All colors. In cluding knit tops, $1.03, $5.03 Silk Waists New plalda and Persians; very handsome styles, at . .$10.00 and $12.00 Sweater Coats for women; red, white and gray, $:M0 to $;i.05 Gas and Electric Lamps, Cut Glass, China, Brass Goods. Etc. Splendid discount Monday on our choicest Christmas lines. Interest in. tenslfie- ns one realics the great a(j. tantaties of these sales. ' . 30 Only Sample Iimpi, gas unj "Iectrlc por tables, very beautiful styles 'vith values to $15. AU go tomorrow, at $3.98 Cut Gleee Greatest assemblage In Omaha; two big booths and eight big tables laden with rich, sparkling pieces, all 20 OFP Hand Painted China The famous Htouffer line, , connolamirs know what that means, a grand treaty Hrmany' . . ,V. . .'. . "30 OTT Dlnoerware Haviland, French, Herman, Austrfiin. Kngllnh and American open stork atterns. R plenlsh or buy for gifts, all Monday . .20 OTT Monday in Bennett's Big Grocery Bennett's Golden Coffee, lb... 88c and 30 htampn. Bennett's Teas, ai-sorted, lb. ...4Bo and- SO stamps. Tea SiftiiiKS. lb. Ik ISo and 10 "tamp. i Capitol Baking Powder, can..a4o and 20 stamps. Mignonette Peas, 8 cann SSo and 10 -tamp. Rlchlleeu Seedel Ralalna, pound package ISo and 10 stan p. Franco-American Plum Pudding can 85o and 10 itampH. lten's Boda and Oyster Crackers. 18-lb. box "Lia California Pitted Plume. lb..iaHo Kumo Catsup, large bottle 83e and 31 stamp". Blue Borax Starch Go pkf. Wax Tree Hartley's l'ure fruit jar and 20 stamp. .100 Jams, . . .880 Beauty AsparaxuH, can S0o and 10 stumps. Iiouble Stamps on Granulated Huar. Bennett'a Capitol Mincemeat, 3 packages 25o and 10 stamps. Pride of Bennett's Klour, per sack ....91.59 and 80 Htampa. Schepp's Cocoanut, lb. pkg...8So and 10 tamp. York Violet Toilet Soap, 3" cakes at 850 and 10 stamps. Diamond 8. Chili Sauce, bottle 15o and lu (tamps. Mincemeat Mason pint Jar and 10 ataini s. Royal Tomatoes, 2 cans. ... and 20 Htamps. Golden Rod Noodle, pkit. Double StRinpa on Bultdrine. Brick Cheese, lb 80o and 10 stamps. 150 850 .50 EARLY COLONIAL HOUSES Hornet of Famous Families Were Not of Great Size. MODEST DWELLINGS OF GREAT o-fnllr4 Mansions Small aad Plata, A rr drain" to Modern standard KJahlrrata t'entnrr Abodes uf I hp Wrll-to-l)o. ,Ni;W YORK, Deo. 11. A boton lamlly .tiat recently went to nee a aeventeenth century ancestral bonne in one of the amallcr 'M.issachuse tin cities found it a moderate sited liuuee of very simple archi tecture, both within and without. That has been the experience' of moat Americans who luiiii up early anceatral houaea. W illiamsburg, Va., which has more daily eighteenth century and late aeventeenth n-n-tury kiiivIvuU than moat towns, has h udly a ainwle (;ieat house, and not one of elab orate aichitecture. The Impression that the arUtouallv homes of Williamsburg made upon an Italian youth of the mid eighteenth century period is embalmed In hia reported ' exclamation upon 'ooking round on the beauties at a dance: "flow can such angels live in such hov els?" Sui'.K' of I lie luKUt-t of the early colonial hou-n xtlll slund on the banks of the Po tomac and the James, but many of the hou.et once occupied by famoua irglnta families are neither very large nor of dis tinguished architecture. White House, the home of the Widow Custts, who brought Georice Washington a fortune, la a good slaed wooden house of plain aapect. Ueoig Washington himself was born In a ratner small and ery plain farmhouse and the house to which' he was taken as an Infa'it, on the plantation on the Rappahannock op posite Fredericksburg. was Just siich another. tireat Houses Were Made!. One of the early Im homesteads on the Potomac, not far from Wakefield, the birthplace of Washington, ea a plain ard rather amall house. The famoua Nelson "house at Yoiktown is a fine example of Georgian domestlo architecture belonging to the middle of the eighteen century, but It is not. a great house tried by the .tand ard of well-fo-do persons today. In fart it lias but twelve rooms. Ail over Virginia are late aeventeenth and early eighteenth century houses, the home steads of distinguished families, but hardly one in five h a great house, few seven teenth century houses are left in Mary land and the early eighteenth century houses, whether on the eastern or the western, shore, are mostly of moderate size. Ot.ly the great landowners built larga houses even In the eighteenth century. There are a few large houses 200 years old or more in and about Annapolis, but some of the famous brick mansions In tl at little capital are distinguished for symmetry and for the beauty of their woodwork rather than for their slxe. There stands in Montgomery county, Mai yland, one of the seventeenth century ir.E unions of the Cal verts. The house la historic. Here George Washington was a frequent visitor in colonial tlmea and there Is a tradition that upon one occasion he took too much toddy when visiting the Calvert of his day. Famoua men frequented the house for a century and a half. Clay often visited the Cal verts and It used to be said that he wrote out part of his compromise plan of 1W0 in one of the bedrooms of this house. The mansion is a symmetrical building of brick and Rtueco. handsome!:' pancllad within and roomy withal, but families to day that live on flO.fOO a year or less are building houses quite as large. .Noble, Bat .Not Extensive. ' Beverly on the Pocomoke river Is one of th noblest of eastern shore mansions, but it dates from the period of the revo lution, not from the seventeenth century, and handsome and dignified as It Is it does not rank In sixc with the consld r able houses of today. Sume of the eight eenth century houses of the rami region, once tlve homes of local magnates, would not comfortably house a moderately well-to-do family of this time. There are few great old houses left standing In Pennsylvania and almost none that goea tack much beyond th middle of the eighteenth century, f-ten-ton, the historic mansion on the edge of Philadelphia. In sight from the Baltimore Ohio railroad, is an jmposlng eighteenth century house with dignified rooms and beautiful woodwork, but there are halt a dosen modern country houses of much greater slxe within a few mllee of ftenton. Van Cortland t Manor House. In Van Cortlandt Park, is not a great house and Philips Manor House at Yonkers Is hardly larger. It la In New York as elsewhere in this country, there are few great nouses that date much before the revolution. The New York Dutch did not build big houses because they were not rich enough, end their case was Uiat of most New Knglar.J era and of most southerners. The early. Bettlcrs got to cover as soon as they could and there were few even In the second gen eration that could afford great houses. When New Englanders became enriched by trade In the period between the middle of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries they began to build big, comfortable houses. Many were merely enlarued from the early houses. Others, like the huge brick structures at Salem and other seaports, were built new from the foundations up. Hull! of Brick. Warned by the fires that destroyed many seventeenth century mansions, the New Englanders who enriched themselves In whale oil, rum, slaves and the China trade often built their great mansions of brick. The few seventeenth, century houses left In New England are mostly of wood, and early brick houses still standing are apt to be small. tlx or eight rooms often sufficed for a well-to-do sixteenth century family, and when tiere were more rooms they were often rather small. A $12,000 or $15,000 coun try house of to-day will have a living room bigger than that in any except the greatest of early eighteenth century houses. There were a few great early houses In the far 'south, but most of the early plan tation houses were of moderate slxe. The fact that the kitchen was usually In a sep arate building made It possible to build plantation houses comparatively small. Mount Vernon was not a great house when George Washington fell heir to It. When the cotton gin late In the eight eenth and early in the nlnteenth century made cotton growing very profitable. Ire planters began to build bigger houses. In the same way some of the big farm houses on the Delaware peninsula date from ihe early days of peach growing when the most successful farmers sometimes gut t urn (5.000 to $20,000 for their peach crop In a single season. What went on all over the older part of the country In the seventeenth and Hits, early eighteenth century went on In the middle west from seventy-five to a hun dred and fifty years later. Settlers In ihe Ohio valley were content with small and simple houses,, like William Henry Hairl son'a log cabin, until they began to grow rich tow-am! the middle of the last century. It was the same In Kentucky and Ten nessee. The big plantation houses of those states are seldom a century old. and the town houses were mostly simple affaire until well into the last century. Well-to-do folk In the middle west today would find It raVlier cramping business to live in the homes of their eighteenth century ancest ors, and moat of the great houses in '.hat region have been built since the '70s of the laat teului. BOOT WITH BEER AND SWORD German Student Corps is Before the Public Again. SOME OF THE DRINKING CUSTOMS Boraasla Corps of Bonn Suspended for Haslnic Duels la Which Real Wounds Are Sometimes Inflicted. BERLIN, Nov. 22. The famous "Borus sla Corps" of the still more famous Uni versity of Bonn has been suspended for the rest of the present winter term for "haiing" a young Hussar officer who had become unpopular with the most exclusive and aristocratic of student associations In the old university town. The kaiser is still an "active" member of the corps. This does nut mean that he takes any more active part in its doings than once every few years attending its "commers" or an nual drinking festival, ai.d paying a sub stantial annual subscription. Whether the recent haiing Incident will be followed by a duel or duels la not yet know. The cOrps ia punished by Its mem be i s not being allowed to appear In the streets In the well known Borussla white headgear or doing anything of a corporate character during the term of punishment. The mere "making hay" In the Husm officers' rooms was not the gravamen of the offense, but the fact" that It was done in the Prussian army by young volunteers to one who was their superior in rank. A court-martial, Indeed, for the sake of ahleld Ini; so fashionable and Influential a body refused to regard the haiing Incident as anything but a practical Joke and acquitted the guilty ones, but the university authori ties, who are all powerful In H inn, sus pended the entire corps and "sent down" one of Its members. Some of the t'orpa. There are several aorta of atudent corps at every German oniverslty, each distin guished by a name like "Borussia" (the old form of "Prussia"), "Saxonia," "W'esl fallache," "Vandalla," "Teutonia," "Nor mannia" and ma'ny more, while runnlrg parallel with them are otl.ir student or ganisations chiefly of middle class students, termed Turnerschaften or Landsmann achafte.n. The corps properly so-called are sn ail corporations of a clublike character, usually numbering not more than from twenty-five to thirty members, with dis tinctive colors and customs, the latter mainly connected with beer and wine drink ing Every student of a German university dees not necessarily belong to a corps or other organisation, but probably 400 out of every 1,000 do. The remainder for various reasons, want of means a student should have at least $2,000 a year to belong to the Borusala poor physique or personal disin clination, belong to no corps or club. The student rorps and clubs of all sorts go back to the fourteenth century, when the first European universities' were es tablished at Bologna, Paris and Orleans. These universities were not such In the modern sense of the word, called from the universality of their teachings, but rather as denoting a corporation confra ternity or collegium, and were really cen ters of society In the towns where they were established. The most renowned of them was that of Paris, where arose the first student con, known as the German Nation of Parla, a corporation with stat utes, oaths, costumes, standards and other distinctive and gaudy features. At first, curiously enough it contained more Eng lishmen than Germans. The "nation" had a president, a treasurer and a notary to look after the legal affairs. Drinking was the main concern of the corps. In several university towns the various corps are the owners of fine club houses. Earliest of the Bodies. The earliea form of the German student corps was the landmannachaft. From thia the more aristocratic born gradually dropped off and formed corps of their own. To the landmannsohaft. composed of elders j and Juniors, the newcomers, called penriales, were admitted after painful ceremonies and test duels, ai d becume something like the "fags" at an English public school. The landmannachaft was not at first designed to cement friendship among the members, but more to keep alive the cplrit of nation ality. The puipoae of the corps Is now dif ferent It is to produce perpetual friend ships for life, and tills may account for the fact that the kaiser his so steadily stuck to the comrades of his Bonn and Borussia days. The custom of drinking "brotherhood" Is common at corps meetings. One, usually a newcomer, addresses another, siylng. "If 1 am not In the eyea of the gentleman too young or Insignificant, I would like to Inquire about him and be brotherly with him." The other replies: "Drink with me in God's name. It wilt please me much." Then he drinks out his glass and as he hands It freshly filled to the newcomer, adds: "My name Is So-and-so. I will do what pleases you." Then they are silent. but after a time Invite one another to reciprocal visits. At the end of the con versation some bite the glass, others let the wine or beer run down their nose like a channel into their mouth, while others again seize their glasses and locking their arms drink till tho glasses are empty. Where They Meet. One form of corps entertainment, which, however, Is now much modified. Is the Hospiz. I'pon Invitation the members meet In a Knelpe (or saloon) or In the rooms of one of the corps. The president Is seated at a table with a house key as sym bol of unfettered liberty before him. As members arrive he tikes away their sticks and daggers and deposits them In a closet. The guests sit down and are handed filled pipes and a "fldibus" or bluzlng pipe lighter. Bread, cheese and butter, followed by coffee, are offered. After this the real work of the meeting begins the drinking. A huge can of beer stands on a stool be side the president. The latter calls for silence and by the rapping of the house key three times un the table the Hospiz Is duly opened. Thenceforward oMy the president pours out the beer unless he ap points a deputy during his absence.. The president's great aim and honor Is to make every one, Including himself, drunk. He begins by striking the table with his glass and saying, "signiftcat eln Gins!" In re sponse all drain their glasses. Then comes a "health to all," and this ,1s followed by a "health to each." "The ladles," follow, first toasts to the ladles of the city, then to ladles absent, lastly to Indies known to be admired by those present. Married women or women of doubtful reputation must not be toasted In the Hospiz. Their Dueling- Way. The nature and object of tne German student duels which characteilze all corp. are, according to the German view. Indeed, according to that cf the ka.s.-r, too, m expressed In one of his eaily spieilu:s. misunderstood by foreigners. Th y w ere originally meant, as they nr. meant to day, as a chivalrous exercise fur the pur pose of training a young man unfllnc.ilngly to stand up to his opponent, whether , on the university duelling ground or on the battlefields of later life. They we e, .and are. Intended to to use the kaiser's word to "steel" him; to cure him of any. dis position to shyness; to teach him to be quick and able to defend his own honor, and If need be the honor of his country. At first duels were confined to youths of noble birth and the burgher students were forbidden to attend the duels at the early universities, but as time - went tn 'youths of plebeian blood were admitted to equai rights with the nobles In this respect. Th peculiarity of the Germau practice of uni versity duelling Is that It Is, for the most part, carried on by blowB of a sword, not by thrusts of a full. The fencing of the French and Italian universities was in use for nearly a c'n tury In German universities, but the an cient sword practice has again been re. verted to as less likely to lead to serious or fatal results. Jena was the university which longest deluyed making the change. The contempt of the students there fist death was proverbial and, as the chroni clers say, "Imposing." In the middle ages the university duel was a swift and bloody affair known under the French nama "rencontre," and was so common that tin streets of every university town in Ger many rang dally nnd nightly with tha noise of students brawls and suddenly ar langed duels. Ktlqurlte of the Duel. At present In a university town if fun ordinary student who belongs to one corps annoys or Insults a member of another corps the two corps arrange a duel be tween the parties, and If the offender or challenger belongs to no ( corps he applies to some corps with which he Is acquainted tu arrange a duel for him. The duels may be what are called "cuin-cum" duels, lu which the bodies of the combatants ai almost fully protected, or "slne-slne" duels. In which they are hardly protected at all. The duels are usually with tho schlager (or broadsword) or with the saber, the latter being the more dangerous of the two, as with these strokes below the head are allowable. In the ordinary duel with the schlager blows are only directed at the head and from above, it la these which are the most frequent cause of the dis figuring scars so often seen on German male faces. The recipients of them ai proud of the "decoration," and It Is well kiio v. n that they excite hege admiration for the scarred one In the eyes of the acrage German woman as testifying ta his vlrhity and courage. In student duels the opponents dive not flinch a hair's bnadili before the descending sword, nor ai . they supposed to flinch when the doctor (a first term medtcul student perhaps) is eiigagfd in binding up their wounds. Koine times the wounding is faiclcally tragic. I', la no uncommon tiling for the greater part of the nose to be sliced away and then the seconds Immediatelyrecover the sliced purt to enable It to be at once sewn on again. The punishment of flinching la expulsion from the corps, or If the duel la a prelim inary test of ctiuruxe refusal of admission to ft. I