River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-28

her. but keep it still. The wedding is
to be in June. know father will con-
sent. Vel have the affair in Boston,
30 all the fellows can be there. Well
90 TO Europe for the summer, and will
Z go into business with father when we
ret"rn. I came to Harvard TO scale
Peruassus. but find myself wcrshipping
81 the shrine OF Diana. Blast 4, old
man, brace mp and congratulate me,
and lets have bottle" II had only
stopped with one bottle pToba Dl y
would have done better in my philOs-
ophy examination next day. | only Gel
ebrated occasionally in college. and this
was one Of the occasions. Oh, what a
night.
As II neared the first of June Harvey
was almost constantly in Boston. lie
and his bride-to-be were ever together.
The fellows all wondered what the
freshman was going 70 do when exam
nation day came round. Harvey, how
ever, was preparing surprise for them,
F but, alas. for the poor old chap. there
was in store for him the creates of all
surprises. He came into ny room one
night; l shall never forge, he look
upon his face / have seen men die in
Z the throes OF morta. agony, but pain
was never pictured more wildly on any
I face than il vas upon that of poor Har-
/ vey that night.
He held in his rembling hand tele-
+ gram; / knew some terrible calamity
+ had happened. His rather-his old and
respected father-was a bankrupt and
defaulter 1t is too painful even az
this time TO 90 nto details Of that SAD
night.
How all the fellows looked ard acted.
None could say a word. Harvey, poor
/ Harvey, cried like a child. And when
saw him who yesterday was the man
/ Of all men to be enyied; when l thought
I of his broken home-this stigma of dis
grace the world would put upon his
f name; OF how. perhaps, the prison cell
vawned for his father, aud when, above
all. guessed the thing that CALLED him
more than all else, his love affair, 1
cried myself The news was spread
broadcast throughout the country by
the morning papers. "Big-headed Har-
vey, Railroad Manipulation, Bankrupt"
I Harvey's heart was broken; his spirit
was crushed
Hastily penning a few lines to Bes-
sic. in which he referred to the sudden
downfall of his family. of his disgrace;
+ their present difference in position, life,
stc., he gatherd his belongings together
and in half an hour was off on a mid
night train for New York. lie would
not stay over a day. lie said on leaving:
Fellows. | want you to remember me
a. Harvey, and not a. a beggar."
lie would not and could not go home.
/ lie would only De useless to his parents
I in their hour of woe. He could not
bear to go back to town a beggar where
he had once been prince.
I Harvey shipped out of New York on
a steamship bound Tor San Francisco.
+ that had gone down OFF the coast of
( Lower California. After a vain effort
. 10 find something worth doing in the
city of the Golden Gate. he shipped out
OF Frisco as common deckhand on
the fast boat for Japan After a few
months of kuockabout life in Yokohama
and Toxic he fell in with party ~
pearl fishers and was faring well until
heavy sen tossed them all upon the
rocks of Australia. lie next tried sheep
herding away back in the hills, where
he lived for months with no company
but his dog and his sheep. He was
stricken down with deadly fever while
one of a party of adventurers who were