24 THE BATTALION. sans. Texas is an agricultural and mechanical country and will demand such knowledge from her successful citizens. r Ihe Alumni and Alpha Phi banquet in June will surpass any we have had in the past. It is imperative, if you wish to be present, that you send ^2.00 for your plate to F. E. Giesecke, College Station, Texas, at least ten days prior to the banquet. Prof. H. W. South says his horse threw him. We most respectfully suggest that he ask Dr. Mark Francis to give him a few private riding lessons. For the benefit of the resident Alumni and their bachelor friends, the following recipe is printed by request: To make hair grow, and to prevent its being gray. — Bay rum, 1 qt.; table salt, half a tea enp; castor oil, one drachm; tincture of cantharides, one drachm. This tonic is very stim ulative and not oily enough to be disagreeable. The ex-students of the university of Texas have been called on through the press to take some active part in shaping leg islation for the benefit of their Alma Mater. So it behooves our Alpha Phi men to bestir themselves and get chap'ers well organized throughout the state. The January number of The Battalion was an Alpha Phi edition. If any ex-cadet did not receive a copy it was due to one of two causes, viz:—that we did not know positively where he was, or that the number of copies was not sufficient to send each man one. However, some copies have been re turned unclaimed, so if any man wants one or wishes a friend to have one, a postal with the full address and the request wiil get it for him. L. J. Kopke, ’79, writes that he is engaged on a system of extensive improvements at Sabine Pass. Kopke is a fine civil engineer and is steadily forging to the front. .The edi tor of this department will be glad to have letters at any time from an} ? of the graduates containing news about their friends or about themselves. W. A. Trenckmann, editor of the Bellville Wochenblatt,