The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-24
By 1ELETr BURGESS AND WILL. IRWIN.

Leland Stanford, Jr.. University lies TIE
little town of Woodsidc, where nj, over
worked student may forget his cares. "
the lows Of rural society. When rain has
been plenty and crops good, the farmers
OF The country gather at Woodside anu
bring their girls Undergraduates oc-
casionnlly condescend to be among lbos
present aud they arc strictly q ~. IN y. ~.
fellow may be AZ lonely as Parrish hers.
But he fries eggs Il lie comes from the
university. Cross.cyod Or slow In the
head, 1t makes no difference II he wears
Junior plug
The Venus OF woodside, III my time,
was Nellie Hawkins. She certainly was
a winner. She went through every dance
In tho country that year likc prairie
fire, burning men up right ana lett.
woodsids was the main office OF her
heart cracking establishment. She used
to drive 10 the dances SIN her oiu
fathcr who slept In the dressing room
while she twirled. When she got ready
to 10, shed ring him up all rested ana
ready for another days work
Well, they gave dance nj Woousiue
lust before Thanksgiving III my freshman
year and a lot Of us went. Nellie was
there, OF course. and looking DANGEROUS.
In my Young Innocence laid Tor her ana
prepared for victory orsdeath. got the
second nazurka; then I located the thiru
waltz; finally, ! persuaded her TO CUT out
a rcd.headcd farmer who had the last
lancers, and we smiled down the hall the
social success Of the occasion. But
rejoiced too early.
we were whirling OH grand right ana
left" when saw the red headed zap VINO
owned that dance making for our corner
OF the hall got to Nellie just then;
we stopped and swung to our place.
You see that fellow" she said TO me.
~ do" said I who is he's
'IIe thinky hos my steady" she says.
but l amt 80 sure. There are others
Then she turned her azure beads on me
and persisted with Joy.
Just then the farmer got there, He
didn't say word to her, but lc fess OF
my arm.
Look here, young fellow" he says.
&"I'd like to see you outside after this
dance" I
"You ain't afraid, are you?" she says.
when he had sloped.
We'll, I was. A man with the ague
would have seemed like a marble statue
alol.g slde OF me. But her asking that
way settled my nerve. was ready to
die game. went outside with the fell
lows to sec fair play and VIE mixed
always maintained that l hit him
once: but 1t must be my vanity. for no
one else saw me score. The red-hcaded
gap was Il cyclone on ball-bearings. He
nauled me untiilhis native mercy assert
cd It seit Excvse me If I drop the veil.
Tho light and gayety went out of the
occasion for me- Nell Hawkins saw what
was left OF me. when ! was getting my
coat. She didn't say anything; she Just
stood or and gave me the silvery ha- ha.
It was a harsh night for little Edward.
was only freshman then and real
ize now with chastened sense that !
deserved to be kicked. But 1t everlast-
;ringly got to me at the time So, for
personal vengeance and the glory OF the
college collaborated With the compo-
! site freshman intellect and we struck
scheme. 1t involved Parson Jones.
Besides being the greatest bucking full-
hack ever, Jones had the pulpit fever, and
was studying for the ministry No one
over saw how he could play foot ball.
He looked meek and serious. and he was
stoop shouldered and not very big. HIS
muscle didn't show much through his
clothes.
His chief trouble about foot ball was
that he would naturally sail in and fight
III the other fellow played dirty ball.
and this used to bother him lot. One
time In match game, he went up to the
referee after the first half and said: See
here, you'd better rule me oil the grldl-
ron struck that quarter back without
provocation." But the referee only said
II didn't see 1t, you get back to your
position"
There was one year he sworo he
wouldn't play at all. He said that he
couldn't keep his temper. once 1t got
started. and he ought to avoid ten1pta-
tIon If he ever expected to preach. 1t
took the whole college to get him into
the eleven again. But we had TO keep
good watch on him. because we knew
that IL he ever got started to smuggling
In a practice game he would pull out
for the season. The second team went
In that year with instructions to run
away IL Jones started in to fight
TO resume. We knew that the Parson
would do the trick for us, ii we could
ever drag him UP to Woodside and turn
him loose on the red headed farmer. But
1t took considerable scheming to bring
1t OFF. The Committee OF Investigation,
found. however, that there was going to
be the biggest time OF the year at Wood