High School Column

[Thls column lias been glven lo the studenta of the High Scbool, and Ihey wlll edlt and conduct it.l ïlie class In chemis'r will finish tbelr work tliisweek, and will take tip astronomy next week. The Higli School Chrlstian Assaciation are to have a bible reading next Frlday afternoon. All are Invitad. People, it soems, will never tire of " chestouts." The Arena will discuss the wonian suflVage question Friday evening. The junior social at John Condon's, last FriJay evenlnji, passed off very pleasantly. About fifty or sixty juniors were present. There will be no examination next week, but the week following an examination in geography will be held in Supt. Perry's room, Wednesday afternoon. In a fc'W weeks the Arena society will get out a new prtated constitution. So many amendments have been mide to (lic one in nse at present that it was decmed ndvisable to incoporatc tliein in. Somo timo ugo there was talk of puttinz up a fl ie on the school The flug staff U therc, but the fUg has not yet put in appcarance. All the school buildings in Detroit have fk;s. Wliy sliouhln't we have one also? Consider what a time la grippe will hova nu tlu ia.. - - '- -"-- ■ " appears at the bar of justice and is asked, " How muny times have you tempted my children who worship at the shrine of learning to teil flbs ?'' Tbe answer must bc: "The number is legions and legions upon legions." The just judge will say, '"Cío henee - into the country where tliere are no chllling breezes, and where sneezin; and cougliing and colds ure unknown." Lee R. Salisbury, '91, ha9 received a good and lucrative position in the general freight office of the Cincinnati, Saglnaw & Mackinaw Unilroad. He left Monday to assume the duticsof bis new position. Mr. Salisbury has formerly been in the employ of rallroad companles and has a good record. Tliis being his favorite line of work, we hope lie will some time tind himself in a way-iip position in his professlon. A young man has come to a bad state of aflairs when he fiuds himself unable to be a gentleman, or what is worse still, unable to behave himself like a gentleman wlien in tbc prcsence of a large number of co-laborers. Wlien a student enters our Hbrary lie should be aware of the fact that a large majority of students wbo o tbere, go tor the purpose of study ing, and that tbey have a right to demand that the room be free from unnccessary disturbance. We are certain that better order in the library would be gratify ing to all who go tbere to study. No one ihonld be misled into the erroneous Idea that our library is packed wlth a lot of hoodlums. Far from that. Many would regard it as being condncted on a model plan. But we believe that students who have been advanced far enough lo enter the II. S. should have manners enough not to steal the valuable time of others by ruthless disturbance. Those who reftue to learn to deport tliemselves decorously should be dealt with in the strictest terms: As a sample of coarsc, )ow born journalism commend us to the editorial of the Hausfreund on D. L. Moody's meetings n lts last issue. lts slighting referencei to that noble mon's great work atul its vein of thouglit are wliat one might hear in the slums and uniong the viclous. Yet we Imagine even tbere would be found more respect for what is elevating and doing good in Mr. Moody's sermons than is noticeable in our amrchlstic contemporary. Considerable lodlgnation exista imong tbose w!io are taking tbe paper, but trying to stop it, at sucb drivel as g tbere thrown ofl'. Millions of dollars througiiout the north aml west havo been tied up thls fall and winter because of the mud blockade on the roads. Tliis ought to set everyotie to thiuking how It coiild bc avoliled, No one ia regponsible for the bad roails, but it Is only a question of time when farmers, mercbants and drivera will vralfe up to having thell roads built as the brides are, on a cash bais by a contractor undcr bonds. Th at s tbc only way and we wish our legisla tures coiild bc dragged tlnougb the mud for a few weeks So that tliey could reallze the necogsity there s for a change. Speaking from personal experience we sliould remark tbat the grippe is a giipper. Wlien t gets a right good hold of you it doesn't leave anything for the imaginación to do. It filis the bill all completcly by itself. It commeiices about your fon-head, tcars around over your eyeballs, making thom feel very mnch as does an ngly ulcerated tooth wlien toucbed by the fórceps; tben it steps around to tbe back of your neck, cears down your spine with a ningara rush il lied witb icebergs, and without dlTiding its power auy rolls along down the bones of eacb of your limbs, picking off tbe flesh In cxcruciating tortures, all tbe time roaring, and rusliing, and ciowdlngi surging like a furious tliuruler storm with a cyclone nttacbment, and tben it seeins as if tbe storm bad been belatcd, and was making up time fnster than any passenger train ever did. You may roll, and toss, and fume, and pluiige, and tear your garmcnts, but tbe grippe still retains its excruciating bold and seems to exult in each keen twlnge of the muscles and flesh. Tben your affrighted friends send for the doctor. After bours of agonizing wailing be finally comes. He looks you over, feels of your pulse, makes you bold the fever thermometer under your tongue in such a way as not to bite the concern in two In your frenzy, lauglisat you, wants to know "f life is wortb. the living f" Coolly informsyou that you'll wisb yourself dead to-morrovv, and after giving you antipyrene powders for a four hout's diet to be followed by thrce or six grain capsules of quinine every hour until you begin to feel a glimmer of returning consciousness, be departe with a cbuckle as he bids you good night and Lopes "you will haye a gooil rest now I" As the fever goes down and tbe ache beglns to let up a trifle, a sick sleep comes to you; you drop off in to a doze and dream that all tbe chambera of horrors in the world had formed tbemselves into one vast panorama of actual fact and insisted upon giving you a compulsory free entertainment. You awake frora tbis with great drops of perspiration standing on every part of your anatomy: then as you open your moutli to draw in a breath that your nasal organs refuse to allow, 30a are reminded that all the uiucous membranrs of your body have been turned wrong side out and covered with a slimy substance that tastes very much as the combineil product of a gas and slaughter bouse in August smellf. That is the fint sta;e of convalescence. The otiiers are something of an improvement over that, but at the end of three or four days you feel very much as if you had bad your ambition remoyed by being run tlirougb the dry kiln of a furniture factoiy. The doctor seldom ever comes the second time, he knows bettcr, but he slyly tells all yoar friends tbat }-ou have the grippe and the first time you show yourself down town bas them ready to fue their salutations at yoii.