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Kansas University Weekly.
"A generous friendship, no cold medium knows, Burns with one love,with one re-entment glows. One should our interests and our passions be; My friend must hate the man that injures me."
Nor can there be a true fraternity except where all distinctions are unknown:There must be no rich or poor, or high or low, but all as equals meet without restraint in speech, or thought, or action.
Fraternity died on the banks of the Euphrates. It was re-born when the golden rule was uttered on the shores of the blue Galilee. To-day it is a vast army with many subdivisions; wherever the light of the cross has come, wherever people value liberty, wherever man is ranked above the chattel, you hear the tramp of this great host. It carries banners of help and charity. There is no glittering of bayonet, nor roar of cannon, nor bloody contest. It is an army of peace; the music of prosperity is in its tread; it scatters not bullets, but flowers. Every nation begins to feel its mighty influence. Venezuela has been saved from despoilment through the championing of her cause by a brother nation.
Miles from here, men and women from America are distributing among the downtrodden and oppressed people of Cuba the charities contributed by a people who have no ties to bind them to those whom they thus assist, except the ties of universal brotherhood. It is enough for America to know that far away a strange and foreign people need her symyathy and aid, and with generous hand she sends her offering, and may the day be not far distant when that last great barrier in the world's fraternity shall have been thrown down.
The world has been asleep until now. The human brain and heart, bound by centuries of oppression, are at last liberated. What was man doing for 6,000 years? To-day he is thinking; and all his thoughts are not of self, but of how he can better his fellow man.
Electricity has not only welded steel, but has welded humanity together. London and Paris are neighbors. China and Japan are at the tips of our fingers. We are photographing the unseen, and stand amazed at the possibilities
opening before us. Disease is being conquered.
Surely "throughout the ages, one increasing purpose runs, and the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." May it be the proud boast of fraternity, that it is in harmony with this increasing purpose of the ages, and that it too, is one of the great confederations of humanity that in the widening of men's thoughts is forwarding the great day of universal peace, when the question shall no more be asked on land or sea, "Am I my brother's keeper?" ALUMNUS.
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The Vanity of Boys—Illustrated.
"Everyone tells me, Jack, that this mustache improves my appearance wonderfully; that is, that it will when it gets long enough so that it can be seen without the aid of a powerful microscope. All there is about it I must do something to help it along, for that hop comes off soon and with this feathery down I would be a pretty looking spring chicken to accompany Miss Brandon," said Tom Dawson turning from the mirror before which he been standing anxiously examining his mustache to see if it had grown any since he looked at it not five minutes before.
"Does an idea," he continued "no matter how unsophisticated enter the crevices of your brain?"
It seemed to Jack Trenton as though he had heard about that mustache for the last six months and he feared that if his friend were allowed to brood much longer over its slow growth that an unbalanced mind or some other terrible calamity might be the result. For a few minutes he sat smoking his cigar in silence; at last he said: "Well that is right, Tom, with those bristles adorning your countenance you would not be fit to smile at a dog. Something must be done. O, I'll tell you, I was reading the other day an article in a scientific journal on the new uses of nitrate of silver. A solution of this is said to increase the growth of the mustache. Its power as an accelerator has just recently been discovered. Everyone will be raving over it when it becomes better known, for it works like