The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-07
a ROMANCE OF COURAGE
How a Heroic Young Woman Aston
ished a Crowd of Dartmouth Boys

ished a Crowd Of Dartmouth Boys
From the Nel0 York Star.
A few miles distant from the old college
town Of Hanover, Y. H, there is farm
house that was once the scene Of a mid
night fraeas, in which pretty young girl
was the heroine, and a set Of Dartmouth
College boys q most amazed crowd. As it
happens, the girl IS now married to the
ringleader in the esca pade, and they live
very happily in great city near tue At
lantlc coast, SO the young woman must be
called Jennie Smith, merely TO indicate that
that was not her name.
Il was IN the autumn of 1SS- that the
Dartmouth College soDhomores, having
Just got over being freshmen, decided that
the new freshmen were rising above their
places in way that was intolerable, and
that concerted system of haz,ng must be
inaugurated to even things up. One Of the
chief objects Of sOphomoric wrath was
Gilbert smith, & big, good-natured fellow,
who calmly refused to recognize IN
soph' IN re anything superhuman. Thi
Smith lived in the large farmhouse on the
road to Lyme. A few of the more daring
$ phs got together and voted TO raid the
farm house and instruct Smith a little.
1t was black, chilly night when the band
OF regulators crept up the Lyme road to-
ward the Smith farmhouse 1t was as
black in the house, except one window,
from which light cleaned, as if to well
come friends instead Of enemies. With no
particular compunctiOns, however, the
sophomores, after drawing over their
heads masks made of shirt sleeves, stamped
up to the porch and, without knocking,
Fl ed into the sitting room where Jennie
Smith sat reading alone. Any one who
has ever seen a shirt sleeve mask will under
stand that the fendish sight made the girls
pretty eyes fill with terror. But while ask
log what they wanted in as steady tone as
she could command, she knew what the an
swer would be-
Where's your brother GilF was the
gruff chorous.
What do you want him fora"
TO teach him better manners, came the
sepulchral reply.
he Is very sick in the next ROOM" said
the girl, pleadingiy. You would not touch
SICK man, would youH
Had the expletive "Ratsl" then been in
vented the students would have used it
unanimously. AS it was they in various
other ways expressed their conviction that
the sickness was an invention to shield the
big freshman, and they proceeded toward
the chamber door with the evident inten-
ton of opening it.
The young girl, with blazing cheeks and
flashing eyes, went over to the door and
stood there to bar the way.
"StopW she commanded, with both arms
uplilted, as if to ward off the whole world
from the sick man within. The students,
still disbelieving the story of illness,
though thoroughly admiring her bravery
pressed a little nearer, and one made as if
to open the door. Quick as fash the girl
caug big cavalry saber from the wall
where it hung and lunged savagely at the
masked figures. This time they tell back,
but not before the cloth over the face of the
foremost was dyed with blood from a cut
in the cheek. This ended the hazlng, for
the boys vahantly begged her pardon
and marched back TO Hanover lost IN al
miration
The husband of Jennie Smith wears a
saber scar on his cheek to-day.