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

searching for 4 quick fortu ne in the
diamond mines of South Africa. Three
months later, more dead than alive
/ he found his way to Johannesburg. II,
/ here fell in with an English captain
and made his way 10 London and ther
to Liverpool. and after four years OF
adventure. trial auJ sickness he LANDED
once more in New York.
Harvey was a changed man-chaugeC
/ this time in earnest. lie had learned {
/ most valuable les son. one worth going
All the way 30 AREA 10 learn. my boy
He had learned to know the value of a
/ dollar.
Being a p,rsc,sriug fellow, he de
sired to raise himself 10 a better posi-
ton in society. knowing that an edu
cation was necessary. he looked for q
3 school where his limited means would
+ hold out for the longest time, and IN a
few weeks after we find him enrolled
a. 4 student OF law at Ann ArbOr.
North of University hall to-day still
stands a building that, had it tumbled
down 20 years ago, would still have
been old. This building is owned by
some church corporation which fur
nishes students with rooms in the old
shack at miserably low rates.
But more miserable than all else are
the rooms; these are devoid of furni-
ture, save a rickety old table. chair
and a rusty stove with a crazy pipe,
some dry goods boxes and broken
looking glass. The decorations were
he work Of spiders and flies of genera
lions gone. The windows, for the most
part. were minus glass and stuffed up
with copy books and old paper. Here
Harvey was located. just across the
way was the local chapter of his fra
ternity. Little did his wealthy broth
ers think that the Tramp Law" as they
called him. possessed their most sacred
OF secrets. knew their grip. had mem
orized their ritual and was indeed q
brother in good nding.
II was the night of the junior hop.
Across the campus the gay young dane
ers assembled from all parts of the
country were whirling, enmeshed in
tire mazes of the waltz.
Il was just midnigh.. Harvey had
lesson in common law pleading. He
crossed the fiOCT 20 the window. The
dingy old building shook in the wind
that moaue, bitterly out Of doors. He
brushed aside the frost from the pane
aud looked IT, silent meditation toward
the scenes q gayety and grandeur. He
reflected on his own position; thought
az a time when he was part Of a similar
CAV assemblage. and how now he was
poor and more miserable than the
rnaessnen that were knocking their
heels together without.
lie sat down before his dim fire. and
thoughts Of another junior hop came
20 him. lie was back again in the good
old days; Bessie was by his side; he
saw her tender ewes looking into his:
she seemed just as she did that night
in the conservatory VIXEN. for the first
time in his life he felt the warm and
gentle pressure Of the hand of the wom-
an he loved. His heart beat lively aid
his body thrilled through and through
Strange il IS" he said TO himself.
~thaf a beggar dares love- As the
blaze din med and the Goals bIackened
he Thought of his career. Of his wealth.
lis life. his adventure aud. last of all.
his poverty. ''Such is life" he said to
himself. why not write a story about
il all? Ii seems more romantic than
real. anyway. People would read it and
be interested in the characters they can
never know. and besides. I need a pair
Of shoes ard new coat badly"
\ few weeks later in Sunday paper
there appeared a NEST interesting col