Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-07-11

thoughts; from that evening did Harry
Percival, who had never loved before,
love fervently and passionately; from
that evening did George and Harry
cease to be intimate friends, and very
soon they became bitter enemies.
And from that evening seemed to date
the ruin and downfall of one who had
always stood first in his class; one,
who before had never sought the intox-
icating glass became reckless OF him.
self, and endeavored to seek relief from
sorrow in the flowing bowl, amid the
revelry OF his fellow-students, Each
night he sought his room inebriated.
But Harry Percival forsook his old
| haunts of vice for Clara's society, car
ing as little for his lessons as ever.
Each morning he sought to meet her
in the street, that, if possible, he
might receive one smile, one token of
recognition, one look of love to cheer
his heart Each evening he was to be
found by her side; by him the wine
cup was forsaken, the college debau-
cherry neglected.
But George Liveston took his place,
Both alike proved reckless II study,
for George cared little for the future,
while Harry dreamed not of manfully
/ fighting the battle OF life, but only of
/ basking in the sunshine of Clara 5
| presence.
Harry Percival and Clara Boards
| ley were engaged. Never did youth
| love so desperately as he, and never
| was youth more deceived. Clara loved
to flirt; and that same heart that could
| profess eternal devotion to George
/ Liveston, then cast him aside with
! out one sigh of regret, as she beheld
/ him on the downward road to ruin,
could in likemanner deceive Harry
| Percival, and only waited for sutti-
cient opportunity so to do, hoping
| that, like George Liveston, he would
down his love in the wine-cup, and
I she be free to seek another victim.
| 1t was Commencement Day. George
( Liveston came forward upon the
stage. His cheeks were flushed his
| very manner showed that even now,
/ at the close of his college course, had he
4 been indulging too freely in the intoxi-
eating beverage. His theme was
| Our Mission, the mission OF him
/ self and classmates. Alas, What
I hope, what prospect had he?
4 The next orator was Harry Percival.
He spoke eloquently; all eyes We're
turned upon him. His theme was
"A Young Mans Hope" How he
/ dweit upon the bright future, the flat
tering prospect before him and fellow
students. The exercises over, the
palm of success was allotted to him.
Student after student was now bid
ding farewell to those with whom for
years he had spent many hours in
pleasant intercourses, wandering to-
gether by the green pasture and still
/ waters of knowledge" George and
Harry had parted, perhaps never
again to meet on earth Clara and
Harry had said farewell, made pledges
of eternal devotion to remain true to
each other. All seemed bright TO him
Often would he visit her, and in few
short years, when he had obtained
his profession, would he claim her as
his bride.
A few weeks only had passed wher
she wrote to him desiring to be
released from the engagement, she had
never regarded it as serious. Harry
FASTENED to her side; more earnestly
than ever pleaded his love; spoke o
their VOWS which were registered il
heaven, those pledges which he be
lieved were binding, and which wer'
acknowledged to be fact; he entreat
ed and urged her to pause No, sh'
never did, nor never could love him
They parted. He often afterwards
sought her society, but was as Otter
refused.
Many were now her admirers, trut
and noble youths, who could not re
sist her charms, believing her nobl,
and true, base and false as she was
Harry again sought her, only as {
friend, advising her to cease her de
ceit, or the time would come when he
nearest friends would forsake her
, She needed him not, and in disdaiI
|, cast away his advise.
Little did she know whom she hat
rejected, and how soon she would b
called upon to entreat of him as h
had OF her.
On that very day when theil
engagement was broken did h
VOW from that hour mot, Xix
| George Liveston, to drown his sorroy
, in the wine-cup) but that he woult
/ with new zeal, new energy, devote him
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scribe his name high in the Temple 0
/ Fame. And nobly was he rewarded
, for his years of toll.
! And where, all this time, was Georg
I Liveston? Had he sunk deeper ant
! deeper in vice, or had he found one il
: whom to care? Had he again been
! worshipper at woman's shrine? Yes
) he had found one Of the purest Q
earth's beings, one who would remain
q to him as true as the needle to tn
) pole. But, alas! again was he doom
ed to disappointment. Death cam
g and robbed him of his treasure; and, a
D he beheld that form, once 50 beautifu
4 now cold and lifeless, he thought Z
) the past, OF his first love, and of he
!, who now slumbered in the new-mad
grave; and he vowed to live me-
! fife; he saw there was nothing pei
1 manent this side of heaven; he woul
|. seek to gain an entrance to tina
. heavenly mansion where sin and sol