THE BATTALION. 17 DEFINITION OF LOVE. In response to a request for her defi nition of love, Miss Popsie McSwat, of Lost Creek, kindly replies: And what is love? It is a thrill That percolates throughout your breast And sweetly tickles you until You’re in a state of wild unrest! It is an effervescing sense Of sparkling rapture; sort of fizz Of heavenly nectar so' intense It makes you drunk with bliss! It is A sweet phantasmagorian dream That comes upon you while awake And monkeys with you till you seem With pent-up bliss to fairly ache! And that is love; at least that be The way it always works on me! THEIR PROPER SPHERES. The rain and the hen have their proper spheres As everything earthly must; And whereas a hen can lay an egg, It takes the rain to 1 lay the dust. TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE AgriculturaliMechanical College -•' = OF TEXAS =■• OPENED SEPTEMBER, 1899 Gives Thorough Scientific and Practical Education, with Theoretical and Practical Courses, Dairying and Stock Breeding, Agricul ture, Horticulture, Surveying, Mechanical and Scientific Engineering, Chemistry, Veterinary Science, Draw ing, English, and Modern Languages. EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS TO DORMITORY. An Equipment of Departments; Stand Pipe, Ice Plant, Laundry, and Electric Light Plant, and Sewerage System, making the College complete in every detail. NO TUITION, NO CHARGE FOR TEXT BOOKS, Except Languages and Military Science. Expense for entire Session, except for clothing, $140. Send for catalogue.