Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-11-13

He had learned a most valuable
lesson, one worth going all the way
ia Africa to learn. He had learned
to know the value Of dollar.
Being preserving fellow, be de-
sired to raise himself to better po-
sition in society. Knowing that an
education was necessary, be looked
for school where his limited means
would help out for the longest time,
and in few weeks after We find him
enrolled as student of law in that
greatest of all Western colleges at
Ann Arbor.
North of University Hall today
still stands a building that, had it
tumbled down twenty years ago.
would still have been old. This
building is owned by some church
corporation which furnishes students
With rooms in the old shack at mis-
erably low rates.
But more miserable than all else
are the rooms these are devoid OF
furniture, save lickety old table, a
chair and rusty stove with a crazy
pipe, some dry goods boxes and a
broken looking glass.
The decorations were the work OF
| spiders and flies of generations gone.
The windows, for the most part,
were minus glass and stuffed up with
copy books and old papers.
Here Harvey was located. just
across the way was the local chapter
of his fraternity.
Little did his wealthy brothers
think that the Tramp Law as
they called him, possessed their
most sacred of secrets, knew their
grip, had memorized their ritual and
indeed was brother in good stand
ing.s
1t was the night of the junior hop,
Across the campus the gay young
dancers, assembled from all parts of
the country were whirling enmeshed
! in the mszea of the waltz.
1t was just midnight; Harvey had
put in hard night over a still hard
er lesson in common law pleading.
He crossed the floor to the win
dow. The dingy old building shook
in the wind that moaned bitterly
out of doors. He brushed aside the
frost from the pane and looked in
silent meditation toward the scene
of gayety and grandeur.
He reflected on his own position
thought of time when he was 9
part ola similar gay assemblage and
hhow now he was poor and more mis-
cradle than the coachmen that were
knocking their heels together with
| out.
He sat down before his dim fire
and thoughts of another dim hop
came to him.
He was back again in the good old
days; Bessie was by his side; he
saw her tender eyes looking into his;
she seemed just as she did that night
in the conservatory when, for the
first time in his life he felt the warm
and gentle pressure of the hand OF
the woman he loved. His heart beat
lively and his body thrilled through
and through.
"Strange it is" he said 20 himself,
"that beggar dares love-
As the blaze dimmed and the Goals
blackened he thought of his career,
of his lie, his adventure and, last OF
all, his poverty.
"Such is life," he said to himself.
"Why not write a story about it
all ? 1t seems more romantic than
real anyway. People would read it
and be interested in the characters
they can never know, and besides
need a new pair of shoes and new
coat badly
A few weeks later in a Sunday
newspaper there appeared a most in
terceting college romance about the
junior hop in Ann Arbor. :.
A pale and sickly newsboy was
vainly trying to sell his wares in a
crowded parlor car.
Travellers fatigued with long
and hard journey, and chilled with
the cold even in the car, were not
interested in the paper, and only one
was affected by the pale look upon
the face of the poor and thinly clad
boy.
This was very handsome young
lady. She was tired of her journey
and seemed weary of the world. She
purchased all the papers because she
pitied the boy.
She looked them over. Her eye
CHANGED on college echo. She read
the story, for she used to know COL
lege girls and fellows, too, for all
that.
The story finished, the paper at
her feet, this very handsome young
lady unconsciously lent a charm to
her beauty by the tear in her soft
blue eyes.
The next day shortly before noon
there was light step upon the din
gy old staircase that led to Harvey's
room, and there was light rap at
the door. Harvey, thinking it was
his wash woman. called ont: