"ONE o'clock and all's well." It is the sentinel on his lonely vigil. A few dark figures appear in the streets of the third battalion. Tent flaps are raised, heads peer forth, from officers now comes the low command "Company X, Fall in!" and stealthy figures glide from the impenetrable shade There is a clink of steel, a dull glint, a stumble and a curse. "Load magazines." It is done with fumbling fingers benumbed by the damp night air. "Silence there; squads right." Out from the city of tents moves a shadowy mass, winding away to the West.
   Half an hour later the army of the Third Battalion gains the crest of a lofty hill overlooking the camp of the enemy. Beneath them the silent soldiers see what seems to be a fairy city. A sentinel moves sleepily back and forth unconscious of the danger. "Fix bayonets." Now is the time. It reminds one of Napoleon's army on the heights of Rivoli. "Charge!" Like the hordes of Alaric they sweep down upon the camp. A heavy discharge of musketry, a thrust of bayonets, a cheer of victory, and the cadets have had a taste of midnight warfare.

   The Military Department is maintained by the state at several thousand per for the purpose of teaching young men (1) How to change clothes quickly and repeatedly in a limited space (1x1x6); and (2) how to expand their expressive vocabulary. The military department is also brave. Do not drill unless you can wear puttees. At camp, if you wear puttees you can play poker all night, otherwise you go to the guard house. They even put you in the guard house for trying to come home in the morning. They make you sit on a heap of sandburs with your feet in a mud puddle until the cook comes at daybreak and takes you away. The rest of the "day after the night before" you spend in various sweet pastimes. You divide the sticks of timber for the cook's fire; you entice the pensive little

eyelet from the bucolic potato before removing its rustic skin; you help the cook stir last evening's dishwater into the morning soup; and mark which side each egg is to be fried upon.
   Guard duty implies that you press your trousers and wander forth in the stilly moonlight, between midnight and morn, to apprehend those who come home late. Do not become discouraged if, in following a fleeting shirt-tail between the tents, you stumble on a stake and disfigure your face. Merely rise with a happy smile and pursue him again -- undaunted.
   The captain is a person with a loud voice, a shiny sword, a sponsor, and a pair of puttees. A lieutenant is an important nonentity.

 

  TOP ROW
 White, Lieut. Col.
 Krug, Major, 2nd Battalion
 Selleck, Major, 3rd Battalion
 Letton, Capt., Regimental Adjutant.
 Van Dusen, Capt., Co. K
 Newman, Capt., Co. M

   BOTTOM ROW
 Guthrie, Capt., Co. B
 Paine, Capt., Co. I
 Wirt, Capt., Co. F
 Spaulding, Capt., Co. E
 Steinhart, Capt., Co. D
 Warner, Capt., Co. A