STUDENT LIFE 44 panions “nobly planned” who are ready at all times to warn to comfort and to command There are not many things which will give one more enjoyment than the possession of at least a few good lxxks Benjamin Franklin said: the inimitable Mr Micaw-be- r “If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away and Mr Pickwick Henry Esin An investment mond Becky Sharp and Amelia from him the knowledge always pays the best Ivanhoe Richard Sedlev d interest” What pleasure we would Jcanie Deans Maggie Tulliver Old Silas Marner and each have in a library of our own bright-haire- d little Eppie who the results of a nickel saved here have stood the test of years seem a quarter there a cheap theatre all the dearer to' us Among the avoided old books the one which we should Buy the best books and read never neglect is the Bible the Rook them Trashy novels and cheap of Rooks A lack of Rible reading magazine stories are not for college has characterized the last few destudents for our feet have been cades and the unvarying opinion set in high places and we are rehas been expressed that the Engsponsible for our time and talents lish language is by so much tire Spend your spare moments in the weaker and we as a people are so Library remembering always that much the poorer “no matter what his rank or posig We should form the tion may be the lover of books is habit For a small sum judichilciously invested we may surround the richest and happiest of the V A dren of men” ourselves with friends and com After reading a half dozen or even fewer of the new books with how much pleasure we greet the old masters Dickens Thackeray Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot Our old time friends David dear Aunt Betsy Trot-woo- d Cop-perfie- ld Lion-hearte- book-buv-in- An Adventure with a Mountain Lion Standing on the eastern shore of Jackson’s Lake and looking westward toward the foot of the noble Tetons one sees a massive granite wall more than a hundred feet high and extending nearly two hundred So yards along the lake shore is it surrounded by a completely dense pine forest that it cannot be seen except from the lake Here on this cliff of rock was enacted the scene of our story Late one autumn day a surveying party under United States Deputy Surveyor Win O Owen worked their way along the slope of the mountain and through the thick forest down to the edge of the lake The men were intending to follow around the lake shore to their camp some three miles away but soon discovered the wall of rock over which they could not pass A council was held and it was decided