The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1889-08-15
"a Romance Of Courage.

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A few miles distant from the old
college town Of Hanover, N. H., there
is q farmhouse that was once the
scene OF midnight fracas, in which
pretty girl was the heroine, and set
OF Dartmouth college boys a most
amazed crowd. As it happens, the
girl Is now married to the ringleader
in that escapade and they live very
happily in a great city near the Allan
tic coast SO the young woman must be
called Jennie Smith merely to indicate
that that was not her NAME
TWAS in the autumn OF ,188- that
the Dartmouth college sophomores,
having got over being freshmen, de-
cided that the new freshmen were ris-
ing above their places in way that
WASN'T olerable, and that a concreted
system of hazing must be inaugurated
to even up things One of their chief
objects of sophomore wrath was Gill
bert Smith, a big, goed-natured fellow,
who calmly refused to recognize in a
sophomore anything superhuman.
This Smith lived in the large farm
house on the road to Lyme. A few
OF the more daring sophs got together
and voted to raid the farm house and
instruct Smith a little.
Il was black, chilly night when
the band of regulators crept up the
Lyme road toward the Smith farm
house. It was dark in the house, ex-
cept one window, from which light
CLEANED, as if to welcome friends in
stead of enemies. With no particular
computations, however, the sopho-
mores, after drawing over their head
masks made of shirt-sleeves, stamped
up the porch, and without knocking,
filed into the sitting-room where Jen-
ME Smith sat reading alone. Anyone
who has ever seen shirt-sleeye mask
will understand that the fendish sight
made the girls pretty eyes fill with
terror. But while asking what they
wanted in as steady tone as she could
command, she knew what the nswer
would be.
s'Where's your brother Gil?" was the
gruff chorus.
what do you want him for?''
ITO teach him better manners, :"
came the sepulchral reply.
.'He is very sick in the next room, .
said the girl. pleadingly. You
would not. touch sick man, would
you pr 81
Had the expletive ..RatsN then been
invented the students would have used
it unanimously. AS it was, they in
various other ways expressed their
conviction that the sickness was an in
vention to shield the big freshman,
and they proceeded toward the cham
Der door with evident intention O.
opening it.
The young girl, with blazing cheeks
and flashing eyes, went over to the
door and stood there to bar the way.
''Stop!' she commanded, with both
arms uplifted as if to ward off the
whole world from the sick man with
in.
The students, still disbelieving the
story OF illness, though thoroughly ad
mired her bravery, pressed a little
nearer, and one made as if to oper
the door. Quick as flash the girl
caught a big cavalry saber from the
wall where it hung and lunged savage
~ at the masked figures. This time
they fell back, but not before the cloth
over the face of the foremost was
dyed with blood from cut in the
check. This ended the hazing, TO
the boys valiantly begged her pardon
and marched back to Hanover lost i,
admiration.
/ The husband of Jennie Smith, who
was not Jennie Smith, wears a sabe1
mark on his cheek to-day New Yorl
Press.