New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-10

are many silversmiths in the place and the proper
plate is a heavy one of silver. which is worth no
small sum. These highly priced room
decorations and many of them are sacrificed much
to the indignation OF the worthy householders
Il quiet during my first two years and
studied hard but the FIST junior term pulled
down the Golden Texts which brought from home
and started acquire new wall decorations. On a
dark night, armed with heavy screwdriver,
sailed OUT The first two &oorrlates easily.
and 1 had them safely under my coat. The third
door tried huge silver plate. and it was put
stay. 1t prize, and 1 certainly wanted
it So intent was / at the prying that I did not
notice approaching footsteps, and before knew
anything was wrong seized from behind or
course I lost my nerve and my knees began to
shake. I squirrned but the grip was frm-mighty
firm for woman, for it was woman who had
captured me
Omen the door Eliza she said to the girl who
was with her-her daughter, as discovered after
ward We will hold this thief and telephone for
the police
You can imagine how I squirmed at thief and
the howl for mercy that 1 set She was OBJ
durate however and dragging me into the hall
way. knelt upon my chest
Strike a light Eliza she ordered and then
they looked over
He don't look like thief, mother said the
girl in the softest voice and just then the sweetest
1 have heard. Perhaps he can explain.
1T was time for me confess, and I did it
very we'll telling the truth about college and ex-
pressing true contrition
- Let him go, mother she begged. Can't You
that he is telling the truth
she let up, but I had forgotten the other
signs and they tumbled to the floor Straightway
she seized me again Now. Mr.. Thief. what have
YOU to saw for yourself?' cried, and Eliza read
off the names of of their neigbbors Then
she started the telephone. A look of utter
despair from caused her TO hesitate 1 started
TO beg again. I told them my father was a min
ister-a truthful but mistaken argument. Then
-O,rIG hraa her
heart if 1 locked up Eliza began to weep and
| could feel the mothers grip looseEing
LII let you go two conditions She said,
finally First YOU must return these door plates
and apologize for having taken them Second you
must report every week, and tell me every
thing YOU have done that is wrong
al would have promised anything TO get away,
| and / always keep promise. did report to her
every week for nearly year, and then she let me
report to Eliza three times a week, and"
He paused.
..Au on account of Eliza?' questioned one .s5
Yes all on account of Eliza ne laughed, and
| 1 got her for keeps the day / got my degree
Mother gave us the door plate for a wedding gift
Which was sort OF rubbing it in observed one
oh no." he explained. 'the house went with
the door plate
The Yale chap told a story, which he unbushng-
" claimed for New-Haven. but which is told in
most OF the colleges in the country.
II of the historic youth who had large
sign concealed in his room, when the president
Of the university and his chief proctor descended
the house in search of it. There way of
hiding it or of making a successful escape The
student locked the door broke the sign and placed
it in tn. fire which was burning in the CRATE When
the president reached the door the young man was
kneeling the side of his bed, evidently in prayer
''Of course We can't disturb this cody young
! man." said the proctor.
1T should hardly be necessary, returned the
president: but he not when, he
| was about to take his eye from the keynote, he
4 saw him take up Bible and read iii firm tone
! from the book of Matthew
AN evil and adulterous generation seeketh after
| a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it,
1t was the of the from Princeton, who
until this time had kept his peace. Our stolen
7 signs from Trenton mostly, but don't know
any particular story about them. My WIFE, though,
| once turned a sgn-stealing trick that neat,
and in its way reminds Of the recent action
OF the Harvard faculty
she went Smith, you know. and Northamp-
ton is far from Amherst. 1t before she
knew me"-he said this in an apologize way
that she went to Amherst for Junior Week. The
room some senior vacated for her we'll stocked
with signs and her quarters Smith were
| barren. for she never could steal outright. The
morning she left for home she bundled up a dozen
signs. sent for an expressman and shipped them to
| Northampton. Then she left little for the
senior, which read Thou Shalt Not Steal"
Just then undergraduate fresh from Harvard
Square rushed into the library. The host knew him
and called him What they in Cambridge do
ing about the signs?" he asked.
I'VE will lose it, suppose" said the student,
sadly. "Prexy sent out a communication Mon
day which was supposed to satisfy, but didn't. He
said the faculty was merely enforcing a rule
passed eight years ago and that each student could
recover his signs condition that he would
display them in his again would return
each article to its rightfu1 owner Just think OF
taking the things back, Tossing up and apologize
ing. Most of the fellows will lay in a supply,
and there is some talk of raid the name plates
which decorate the faculty houses"