The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-11-21

OF that double centennial celcbra-
zion" said Harper, class Of 40
Harper, '46, is a little stewcd-up old
man with a pink face and beautiful
curly white side whiskers. Harper
weigh, us in active training az the
present time, and he wab5lr- badly
when be walks. lie was talking to
his grandson, '9G, who left the other
day for View Haven.
81 got out my old files OF the Lit
the other day" said Harper 15, and
] noticed. by the gods. sir, that
Harper. 90. won the running high
Jump at the field day exercises 10 49,.
IIis mark was five feet ten inches. II
takes pretty good man TO beat that.
oven to-day, sir Harper 'lG, won the
running broad, too. He jumped Is
feet ten inches on the level That's
been beaten often since, understand,
but when I was jumping they didn't
have amy pneumatic sulkies or any OF
these ayw-fangled contriyanccs. Why
there amt a horse alive to-day That
could catch old Flora Temple in her
prime Records Of COURSE Eut
they are made by the aid of all sorts
of mechanical coHtriyances, We
jumped and troitcd on the level in the
old days Why, / believe that even
now could go out and make some Of
these gar.ttc-smokiug athletes Iool,
foolish"
The obs man, leaning heavily on his
cane skipped across the room with
ai. .Ae ligaDncss and airy grace OF an
animated statue.
"tfaen YOU get down 10 New
llaf-a." be- went on, 81 want YOU to
see Fl Old 'Jauitor John is stul alive.
THE last time saw him was in 40
Iir was young fellow Of Is or 60
then. p.1 / ever tell you about the
time Ec boys put up the famous
skeleton job on him?"
The grandson smiled sympathetic
ully He had heard the tale on an
average Of once q month for Is years.
lint this was a special occasion. Be
sides. grandfather had an estate val
urt a' 100000 which would bc left
10 somebody, sooner or later.
"@by no, grandpa he said what
was G.P"
well You see, in those days" the
old man went on joyfuUy, They only
haa aHe skeleton in the physiological
laboratory s lot Of a.. young chaps
DrtS,e into The laboratory one ufghf
and srt'e he skeleton We called II
The cpIoH,. and We were all uuviou. ,
10 put Up q job on Prof Billy he
was the head Of the natural science
department then suppose he's iu
the same old chair, sim, rhP Well
~ ag"E tgs skeleton ont Piggy +
lsalston and i-,,gpys United
senator. now and we climbed the
taiJrst elm 90 the campus We tied
thc colonel up IN the tlptop branchrs
of the elm where every chap who
came down the board walk would See
st. when the bell rang for morning
chapel Rut 'Junitor John'-I'yc al
way. believed the little old cuss was
"a mind reader got up before five
O'Clock that morning and cut down
The colonel before any Of us had got
glimpse OF him.
I'VE sat up nights trying to figure
ont how we'd beat 'Janitor John out,
and finally Piggy he was the rich
IMAM ot the class with AN allowance
Of $50 O mouth-he spent $3.50 for
paddock and wc borrowed q log chain
from o man who lived out on the old
Turtle road. We took the colonel up
10 thg same old place aud chained him
to branch six inches thick Then
I'VE paa.prkcd the two ends Of the
chain together and threw away the
key We were sure that would fool
old John, but we sat mp all the rest
of the night 20 see what would come
Of IT..
Along about four o'clock old Iaui-
sor John came down along the walk
looking up iu the tops Of the trees.
when he came 10 the coloucl's elm
De stopped, took Of his cont. pulled
a couple of big files out Of his pocket,
and Skinned up the tree Ike a
monkey. IN less than two minutes
be was busy fling away al the log
cabin chain, and long before IL wa.
time to ring the FIRST bell for chapel
the colonel was back again IN hi,
glass case IN Prof. Billeys' labora
tory.
~ tell you there was no such thing
as getting ahead Of old 'Jauitor John,
and Is the old boy is on duty stiil ~
bet there are none Of the chaps o
the present day who can come it owe
him We were about as lively a 10
az the old college ever turned out, II
warrant you.
And the old eating club at sout,
Middle II cost as two dollars
week there for board, unless 20
helped wait on table Then you coul
.,-t three meals a day for one dolla