The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-17
TALKS GREEK AND LATIN.
Idaho CITY World

hO AAOSh0J OACeo oPAA 10 OIL
right now. It has a brand new
editor with scholarly attainments
and likewise titles-a rare col
lection of these glorious attain
ments and beautiful embellish-
ments- acquired by numerous
terms in various educational in
stitutions of the higher order.
He has "been through all the
degrees. At the top of the edi-
torial page we find his name with
but one degree of scholarship an
nexed, as follows: &c. Groven-
or Hale, Phi. D., editor" The
Mackay scribe, however, gives a
very extended and glowing biog-
raphy of himself and his various
high-grade accomplishments ac-
quired in numerous colleges,
universities and other temples of
learning where philosophy, Latin
and Greek and all the nologies,
ologies, also knowledgeies, and
other desirable things in the long
educational line, are acquired in
big, square chunks. He says
that besides being scholar Of
the first magnitude he has travel
ed some-lived in more than one
big city and passed through 9TH
ers, therefore is cosmopolitan
as well as metropolitan" That
is also an requirement that is
worth something. The Mackay
genius, to prove the truth of all
that he has said, prints his pic
ture" in his paper so that the
readers can gaze on his classic
features and be convinced. Prof.
G. Grovenor Haley, Ph. D., etc.,
gives his readers to distinctly
understand that he is particular
ly fluent in Latin and Greek, and
we naturally infer that he can
throw so much real animation
and lively vivacity into these
''dead languages" as to force one
who has never been on intimate
or speaking terms with the lingu-
istic corpses aforesaid, to believe,
without shadow of doubt, that
they are really very much alive,
robust. hale and hearty, and with
a spark of immortality in their
pure and beautiful souls that
will "never, never die." What
Idaho journalism has been yearn-
ing for with a never-ending and
ever ntensifying yearn, since
the unlettered, barbaric days of
long ago-"The days of old, the
days of gold," the days of the
bowling, hungry wolf. and the
bowling wilderness and the wild
Indian war whoop-what Idaho
has been yearning for, we start
ed in to say, was a real scholarly,
classical journalist, who can say
things in Latin and Greek and
the rest of us unfortunate scribes
can't understand, but at the
same time can admire the super
ior being who can toss from the
end of his tongue, with all the
ease and grace that comes OF
complete mastery, the long-dead
lingoes of a glorious epoch in
the history of the old worlds
onward march. This yearnine
is now at rest; the yawning GAP
has been filed; the long longed
for journalist with the high grade
scholastic attachments has set
tied down in our journalistic
midst to grow up with the coun-
try. We bid him welcome, thrice
welcome, with the hope that his
stay may be long and prosper
Gus, and the electric light of his
college acquired gerius reach to
the farther most dark corners oi
our untutored but dealy beloved
State. We extend to you, Prof
G. Grovenor Haley, Phi. D., F.
o. B., p. d. O., etc., most cor
dial welcome, and may your
scholarly presence in Idaho
! prove pleasant and profitable
alike to you and yours and us
in other words, to use a classic
Greek quotation, to ''youens and
weuns."