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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
LIFE OF COLLEGE MEN.
Students Columbia University Now Have Ideal Quarters
Societies Provide Outlet for Youthful
Spirits
Spirits

Columbia students are making tradi.
lions for themselves and their alma
mater nowadays, and are striving with
enthusiasm to compensate for those
14O years of lost time when the uni
versity was In the heart OF the town
and so hemmed in by unacademic
surroundings that student life, outside
of the classroom, never had half a
chance.
Nobody ever heard of college mem
cries clustering around a hydrant or
city lamppost or Of college traditions
being fostered along the curb line OF
paved street. There must be a yard,
or a fence, or an old tree or the cary
ing of many names and class dates,
that men graduated fifty years apart
may have the same knowledge and
memories of and that they can tell
stories about when they go back to
commencement.
Columbia got these things or their
equivalents when she moved up to
Morningside Heights in 1898 and the
students have made the most of them
ever since.
A graduate of '99 who was a fresh
man and sophomore in Forty-ninth
street and junior and senior on the
Heights is better able to appreciate
the change than anybody else.
why, when we were downtown"
said a member of that class the other
day, Columbia was nothing more
than a great day school with college
courses. There was practically no
student life. The close of the last
lecture practically wound everything
up for the day and then the students
scattered to their homes and boarding
houses in all parts of the city and saw
nothing of each other till the next
morning"
Somebody asked the New York Sun
these questions the other day: SIS
there now typical university life of
the Columbia students? Has the in
stitution an individuality of its own or
is it swallowed up in the life of the
city,"
The first question may be answered
In the affirmative and anybody who
lives on Morningside Heights will tell
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Kappa Beta, burlesque on that
learned and time-honored institution
Phi Beta Kappa.
Phi Kappa Beta has key, too. But
its lower end is a spigot, It's handle
Is pretzel and the fat part is decor
ated with crossed pipes, stein and
the Greek letters. To be eligible for
membership in Phi Kappa Beta a man
must be very close to the foot of his
class and when initiated he must take
an oath never to join Phi Beta Kappa.
There is but little chance of that VOW
ever being violated.
Professors and students in the Ger
manic department have their Deut-
scher Verein and drink their beer and
talk about things Teutonic on a COM
mon level. Then there is the Societe
Franchise and the Kings Crown. The
latter society, which was founded only
i've years ago, takes its name from
the old iron crown George II. of Eng
land sent to the college when II was
founded in 1854 to signify his good
Will and approval. The crown still is
In the possession of the university, but
for 100 years 1t never suggested the
organization Of society to anybody
until Columbia got elbow room.
Before she moved up to the heights
Columbia had no Varsity nine and no
Varsity eleven. There were OCCASION
ally class teams. but they were not a
factor In intercollegiate sports. Co
lumbia's only gymnasium in Forty-
ninth street was rented room over a
stable.
Boating has acquired new interest
for the students and there's an en-
thusiasm for the crews that was never
possible when the river was miles
away.
And Columbia's interest in indoor
sports and track athletics dates only
from the time that the students got
their South Field and their gymnas-
ium on Morningside Heights.
And then there's the College Tav-
ern, run by Mike, former bartender at
the Buckingham, who moved I'M TO
Morningside Heights when the univer-
sity did. Slim sophomores can congre-
gate In the tavern and thoroughly en-
JOY themselves thinking they are get
ting fast and going to the dogs. and
the simmer they are the more FIRE.
quently do they call attention To the
Imaginary rotundity of their corpora.
tons and sigh Beer did it."-New
York Sun.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
A Persian Solomon.

OF the distinguished authos OF
Persia none. perhaps, has enjoyed a
wider popularity than Sadi, who lived
in the thirteenth century. He was a.
traveller and close observer, and his
anecdotes and short stories are des-
cribed as being founded on his own
experiences and observations. In
Persian Poetry for English Readers
Mr.. S. Robinson quotes the following
from Sadi's writings:
A pupil said to his instructor
What am l to do. for people incom-
mode me with the frequency of their
visits to such degree that their con-
versation produces a great distraction
of my valuable timer"
The teacher replied: ITO every
one who is poor, lend; and from
every one who is rich. borrow. They
will not come about you again."
Another example embodies excel
lent advice: A silly fellow, having a
pain in his eyes, went to a farrier
and asked him for remedy. The
farrier applied to his eyes something
which he would have given to an
animal, and it blinded him, upon
which they made an appeal to the
magistrate. The magistrate said:
This is no case for damages. II is
plain that this fellow is an ass, or
he would not have gone to farrier.'
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
Girl and Grammar.

out in my town." said a Kentucky
editor, everybody doesn't use as cor
rect English as they do in Boston. inst
as in Boston everybody doesn't drink
as good liquor as we do in Kentucky
mot long ago young woman from
the Hub came out our way to spend
some time on farm mile or two
out of town. She had met the farmers
folks somewhere and came out to try
her hand at chicken raising. being an
enterprising young lady.
"One day she came into the store NJ
one of our merchants with half a
dozen chickens tied together by the
feet and laid them down on a sack
while she negotiated a sale. The
merchant observed that they were IN
rather an insecure position.
"'Will they lay there, Miss Julia.,
he asked, with never a thought Of b,a
grammar since he left school.
"'Oh, no., she replied, half bnshipr
and half reproving; they are all roost.
ers.
"Since then the merchant has beer
trying to coax Miss Julia to opit
chicken raising and go to school teach
ing, and the rest OF us are becoming
more particular in our language when
the young lady is around. New YORK.
Herald
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
Billionaire's Busy Night

That famous Millionaire, Mr.. Key
worth Joynes, president of the Cake
Trust, was preparing to leave his
Office at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-sixth
Street, the financial center of the city,
for his residence in Chicago, now ex-
tending all around the shores of the
Great Lakes, and the favorite dwell
ing place for people of fashion. He
touched button. His Office chemist
appeared armed with a curious piece
of apparatus. Already Mr.. Joynes was
reclining upon steel couch of some
what unusual shape.
Suspend my animation" said the
Millionaire, briefly, land tube me
direct to my house."
Without a word the chemist applied
an electrode to Joynes' mouth, and
another to his nose. In two seconds
he ceased to breathe. In two seconds
more, as the attendant touched but
ton, the couch shut up in a cylindrical
shape, and vanished with a great
rushing sound through hole In the
wall, which opened suddenly at its
foot The couch was cartridge, and
Joynes was on his way in his private
tube to his luxurious home beyond
the Lakes and the headwaters of the
Mississippi. The transit consumed
exactly five minutes. With another
great rushing sound the cartridge slid
into the padded receptacle in the bill
lionaire's own bedroom and there
opened automatically. The bedroom
chemist was in waiting and a few
moments suficed to restore Joynes'
suspended animation. The chemist
vanished, valet appeared and the
president of the Cake Trust proceeded
in leisurely manner to dress for
dinner. Afterward he sat some time
over his cigar-seemingly in deep
thought.
Presently he rang. A solemn butler
appeared.
"Tell the dining room chemist l am
ready" said the Millionaire, without
looking up.
The butler retired noiselessly and
Joynes rose from his chair and
strolled toward a curtained recess,
WhSAO olOOu q COuSA W the
one that had brought him to his pal
ace of a country seat By the time
he had settled himself to his salts
faction upon this article of furniture
the chemist stood obsequiously at his
side.
"The Midas Club" said the billion
aire, and a couple of seconds sufficed
to start him whizzing through the
earth toward that famous gathering
place of the arbiters of finance and
fashion in the heart of the city of
London. The cartridge dropped into
its place in the club tuberoom, one of
the staff of club chemists set the new
arrivals lungs going again, and in less
than eleven minutes after leaving his
dining room Joynes was walking
through lofty apartments "ten thou
sand miles away" exchanging mods
with the presidents of other trusts
and leaders of the realm of fashion.
he sat down and ordered drink of
plain whisky. Then at his imperative
ring a bell boy appeared.
Find out" said Joynes to the
youth, whether the Baroness Won
Ochsenreiter In Thuringia has a
tube"
81 beg your Excellency's pardon,
sir" the turnkey reported, but
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

you Columbia has an individuality of
Its own so pronounced that 1t has put
It's stamp on the whole neighborhood
of the hill.
In the first place there is a univer-
sity colony of over 5000 people. To
be exact, Columbia's population, in
Guiding the faculty, the undergradu-
ates and the students of the profess
sional schools, is now 5,4O0.
That is practically double the figure
of 1897, the last year on the old site.
And the student body has gained as
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
Phi Kappa Beta Key.

much in the cosmopolitan features as
In numbers.
Before the move uptown, Columbia
students who didn't live in New York
or the immediate neighborhood we're
rare. To-day there are students from
almost every state in the Union and
from abroad.
There are no university buildings
for the housing of all these young
men and women. but there are whole
blocks of apart ment houses, within
I've minutes walk OF the class rooms,
occupied exclusively by students, so
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
idn't bring either coat or hat. +"

didn't bring either coat or hat"
Before five minutes had passed the
young Millionaire was speeding In a
mile-a-minute motor car through the
most historic part of Germany on his
way to Castle Ochsenreiter.
AS the bell in the castle tower
struck the hour of nine. Joynes' eager
ring at the gate sounded through the
ancient halls of Ochsenreiter. After
space. which seemeu an eternity to
the impatient man listening to the
echoes repeating themselves through
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

the vast pile, an aged seneschal, ar
rayed in orange livery, undrew the
bolts and peered at the visitor.
"The Baroness" said Joynes, sis
she at homer"
Madame bid me to expect a gentle
man of foreign speech at ten hours.
Mein Herr is without doubt the Excel
lency in question, though a whole
hour early. 1t is, NIGHT wahr, the
Excellency Aller-Kuchen- Handlung-
Gesellschafts President ,Ioynes?"
The visitor acknowledged the i'm
posing title.
"a note, then, from Madame the
Baroness for mein Herr" continued
the old man, extending a dainty bit
of paper sealed with the Baroness's
crest-an armed man riding upon an
aurochs.
Joynes eagerly tore upon the en-
velope. In the light of the electric
cluster that hung from the portcullis
arch he read:
Dear Keyworth-So sorry. Meet
me at the Grand Opera house in
johannesburg at eleven tonight
Hastily.
"ARETHUSA Won o."
Joynes rushed out and climbed once
more into his hired motor car. An
other wild dash through the night and
> was back at Hofbrau. From Hof
brau he was tubed to Rome-from
home to Cairo-from Cairo direct to
johannesburg. 1t was not much after
ten when he shot from the Grand
Opera House tube into his private
box-where his box chemist was in
attendance during the entire opera
season against just such an unexpect-
ed arrival. Joynes seated himself
and gazed across at the Baroness
seated in the box opposite, resplend-
ent in all the jewels of her illustri-
GUS house and surrounded by some
of the richest men of the age.
When the curtain fell on the second
act the president of the Cake Trust
made his way to the Baroness's box.
She had already smiled at him
across the pit-now she extended her
Laintily gloved hand.
$50 glad to see you." she said in
her softest tones, 81 knew you would
come. l just had to have one more
man for the little supper I'm giving
in Paris tonight, after the opera
and l thought, after 1t occurred to me
that you couldn't get to Ochsenreiter
in time to join me there-that I'd
have you meet the party here, so we
could all return to Paris together in
a six-barreled cartridge" And the
Baroness Won Ochsenreiter turned to
another of her guests and chartered
away till the curtain rose again.
Joynes sat in the background and
looked rather solemn for one so
highly honored. "Reany." he said to
himself. 81 can't see why she made
me ride in that confounded motor
car to that desolate Ochsenreiter
hole" Then he watched the Baron
ess for awhile ION the other hand"
ne admitted. II never saw the divine
Arethusa look so stunning as she does
tonight. My mind is made up. She
is the woman for me. I'll ask her to
be my wife before the sun rises in
Paris-or l am not the President of
the Cake Trust, and one of the richest
men of all times"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A Topeka minister recently prayed
that the mayor of that town might
either be converted or killed, as the
Lord might see fit 1t is always we'll
20 give the Lord choice in these
matters.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

adjoining houses across the street
from the campus.
This holding of the students to-
gether in the hours of fun as we'll as
during lecture room and laboratory
hours has given new life and energy
to all the old societies and caused the
organization Of lot of more, serious
and otherwise.
A sample of the several new socie-
ties that are not serious is the Phi
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

An Eastern contemporary remarks
that all this less" business began
with the "chainless bicycle" We may
be in error. but II seems TO us the
bottomless pit was mentioned earlier.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

they get all the fun and advantages
of dormitory life. And the rooms are
adorned with college flags, foils, box
ing gloves, stolen signs and lanterns
and all the other conventional trophies
of a thoroughly appointed students
den.
Psi Epsilon and Delta Psi have built
handsome chapter houses of their own
near Riverside Drive and Eve more
Greek letter fraternities occupy FIVE
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

The Baltimore burglar who tried
skirts as disguise came near being
caught by the 'pesky things" This
teaches that each sex should accept
philosophically the handicap of its
own clothes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Those ladies who are writing to the
white house to make suggestions in
regard to the arrangement of the fur
niture might send along certificates
showing how their husbands voted at
the last two elections.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A Cleveland minister says that the
modern prayer meeting lacks "juice."
II the observation is based on the
absence of the old-time "hurrah" we
can name several kinds of juices
which might remedy the defect.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Again DIR. Koch is proved mistaken.
DIR. Koch's brain seems to have been
a breeding ground for the germs of
error. That is, conceding that his
critics are right.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A New Jersey court has decided
that palmistry is "a crafty science In
tended to deceive the supplemented"
Perhaps that court thinks it has made
a discovery.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A Mississippi judge has instructed
the grand jury to indict people for
playing progressive euchre for prizes.
Perhaps he has nice. fiattering pic
ture of himself that he would like to
have published
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Sir Charles Beresford says that bat
tleships are cheaper than war. DR..
Hale would add that the costs of The
Hague court are cheaper than battle
ships.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A poet named Vrchlichy has been
elected a member of the Austrian
house of peers. If his poetry is any.
thing like his name he must belong to
the Browning school.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A man from Kentucky was driven
crazy by quart of whisky which he
drank in Kansas City. He must have
been a son of Kentucky merely by
adoption.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Secretary Cortelyou asks only a
trife of $7000,0OO for his new depart
ment building. Let him have 1t.
What's a dot like this for such rich
nation?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Rudyard Kipling has lost a lawsuit,
which will doubtless occasion some
chortling over among the Goths and
shameless Huns.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

oil has recently been discovered in
Dublin, ireland. If they find 1t in pay
ing quantities Ireland may yet be
taken away from the English.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

The governments snake expert gets
a salary of only $50 a month. But
that's as much as anyone who deliber-
ateiy becomes a snake expert ought to
get.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

II the pituitary gland is responsible
for the physical growth OF such giants
as Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott
and Phillips Brooks, let 1t alone.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

The committee reviewing the
United States statutes has decided
that the United States 'is." Yes, is
and ever shall be.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

When all the novelists are in the
legislature and all the pugilists are on
the stage we may look for some siren
uous uplifting.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Wireless telegraphy seems assured,
but wireless politics is as much OF a
dream as ever
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Good news for the little herring
Gamers down in Mainel The sardine
fisheries in France this year have
failed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Later on Miss Thaw may wish she
had minded mamma, but girls viii be
girls, and there is no use talking to
them.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Keep in mind that most of the we'll
TODD people of to-day acquired their
property on the get-rich-slow- but-sure
principle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

STILL when you come to use the
word "fewwhere" it doesn't look well
an print.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Now that a use has been found for
the pituitary body there is renewed
hope for the vermiform appendix.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

For the best way to manage chill
drsn, consult bachelors and women
without any,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

A man is known by the company he
keeps; a woman by the company she
keeps out
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

Now that the danger is past, It
should be noted that no one has called
him the Bowen OF contention.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02

The cost of the coal strike hearing
lie estimated at $4,000. And the
public win pay that. too.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-02
ALI. HAVE TROUBLES.

II Dame Fortune treats on he
blu be the
Never lose pluck
Just put down.
Yes refuse to treat with trouble;
Yoi will find there is
should tackle
PIE Of
And will quickly be to pass by
day;
Is it because is t
But need our
And we do not need to It, shuhing
For friends o
ute
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-11-12
WILLIAMSISLEADER
ptnetrsiK siuOni, sakss Nsaiss-
iioas Fd Tease 0ffkeS
Int CluluS NET LAST SATURDAY
Representative Nsetsiisn " ~ os~ea
Ano> >stioa-tn -UxmoSrstiS Lessss
Thankrd

wAshinGton. sP-clAi The D~ns-
cratic mcml-rr q the Houss- in
-Aaru. :, tho capitol r~i~cssd R~rr~-
s~ntau,c~ JOAN : Williams. q Ms
si~slppi As the unanimous choice -
the minority for sP-as~r This acison
makcs han the minority leader q tho
co-ainE Congress Representative
Gcntx. n Mcclellan. mayor elect of
Ne~ Iufk. received An ovntiou IA hs
entered the caucus and ~As ouogrst-
ula,.d by tls coll aEu-s On his vic
t0ry By n FialuE vote. on motion cf
Nr. Cooper. a. Texas seconded by Mr..
Williams. 81 Mississippi. aal = hAif
lorcn oih.rs. the thanks - The
,aucu. were extended 20 Mr. Richard
son. - Tenncssc~ Eh~ .-tiriuE minori.
Is leader. fsr A. services t. The
party Mr.. RichArdsou r-sg-onded.
thanking hls colleagues In turn. Mr.
Hay. II Virginia. presided. Messrs-
CoNhcrt - Missouri and Smith. of
fAfAAAi - a Af.A a. FfAAfAA4Nhr 80
Williams Wa plsccI In nomination by
Mr. Cooper. q Texas. Mr.. Nan6ivcr.
- Missouri. seconded the nomination.
which WAS thc oaly one placed be-
fnT, ihe cauru- The newly chosen
l-aicr rcsp1EIei In an address.
thanking IL. caucus
Nj Williams Was greeted Nith Ap
plsu.. a he cam. Ia and ~As ap
plaul,I during The course uf bis r--
marks He said the Democratic party
was more united nov than II had been
for years and that it, prospects for
success al coming elections were excel
lent lie said ho .sould De- the mouth
piece ~ the party. the term ''lcader"
being I misnomer for him.
The other nominees Of the caucus
are a follows Chas 4 Edwards. of
/ Texas. for clerk of the House: = v.
/ B.ookshire. of Indiana. serseantai
arms: \ l.. Julien. do0r-kceper: J.
Is jackson. uf Alabama. postmaster.
J.. G. Bagby. ~ Virginia. chaplain.
II Hill. 81 Ohio. James English. 90
! California. G. knight. 81 Georgia ana
Joseph Sinnot special employees. IA
cept for one of the positions Of spe.
cial employees. there were no con
tests.
Ar. Williams. Of Mississippi. offered
a resolution. which was adopted.
| providing that the Democrats be- al
| lowed one more representative on the
ways and means committee and that
! the Democrats be given the same
! representation they had on committees
, in the Fifty sixth Congress
Mr. Baker. OF New York. proposed
( the following resolution. which vaz
I referred 20 a committee.
Resolved. That regardless of the
! practice Of the Republicans. IL IL the
! sense OF the caucus that its members
| 10 not accept passes or fayors from
/ the railroads"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-11-12
NewS in Brief

The Japanese minister a, Washing
ton has received from bis
government an explanation OF General
MacAthur's charge that the Japanese
Consul at Manila promised to tie
Fuipincs-
The annual rate o. expenditure for
tranporting mails in the United States
is ss3. .504 ,5se.
The report of the Commissioner Of
Education shows that 17.46o. 900 pupils
are enrolled in the public ani private
schools of the United States
Senator Morgan. Of Alabama, says
be believes the Democratic national
ticket next year VIII be German and
Mcclellan.
A Provisional gsyeTHmert was es-
tablished at Panama for the new re-
public OF the Isthmus and the colun-
bian warship Bogota sailed away af-
ter firing upon the city without doing
much damage.
1t is believed by some that the Unit
ed States was cogniZant OF the revosu-
ton on the Isthmus of Panama.
The Empero-s OF Germany and Rus
sia met at Wiesoaden, Germany.
Senator Hanna in an interview said
the result In Ohio had not altered his
position on the matter Of Ehe pres:-
Dental n6mnxE0n ia EOa