The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-01-05

open arms. With youth of his pro-
clivities and inherent weakness the
outcome was inevitable. At no time
overload Of study. he regarded resi-
dence in college as a most desirable
emancipation from the restraint of
home life. The love of books he con-
sidered a pose and he scoffed at the
men who took their reading seriously.
The university attracted him mostly
by its most undesirable features, its
sports, its secret societies, its petty
cliques, and it's rowdyism. The broad
spirit and the dignity of the alma
mater he ignored completely. Directly
he went to Yale he started in to en-
joy himself and with the sophisticated
Underwood as guide, went to the
devil faster than any man before him
in the entire history of the university.
Reading, attendance at lectures, be-
came only a convenient cloak to con-
ceal his turpitudes. Poker playing,
automobile joy rides, hard drinking
became the daily curriculum. In
town rows and orgies of every descrip-
ton he was soon recognized leader.
Scandal followed scandal until he was
threatened with expulsion. Then his
father heard of it, and there was q
terrible scene. Jeffries, ST., went i'm
mediately to New Haven and there
followed stormy interview in which
Howard promised to reform, but once
the parents back was turned things
went on pretty much as before. There
were fresh scandals, the smoke of
which reached as far as New York.
This time Mr. Jeffries tried the plan
Of cutting down the money supply and
Howard found himself financially en-
barrassed. But this had not quite
the effect desired by the father, for,
rendered desperate by his inability
to secure funds with which to carry
| on his sprees, the young man started
in to gamble heavily, giving notes for
his losses and pocketing the ready
money when he won.
Then came the supreme scandal
| which turned his fathers heart to
! steel. Jeffries, ST., could forgive much
in a young man. He had been young
himself once. None knew better than
he how difficult it is when the blood
is rich and red to keep oneself in
| control. But there was one offence
which man proud Of his descent
could not condone. He would never
forgive the staining of the family
name by degrading marriage The
news came to the unhappy father like
a thunder-clap. Howard, probably in
a drunken spree, had married secretly
a waitress employed in one of the
sporty" restaurants in New Haven
and to make the mesalliance worse
the girl was not even of respectable
| parents. Her father, Billy Delmore
the poolroom king, was a notorious
gambler and had died I'M convict
stripes. Fine sensation that for the
yellow press. Bankers Son WEEDS
Conyict's Daughter So ran the
scare heads" in the newspapers
That was the last straw for Mr.. Jef
ries. ST.. He sternly told his son that
he never wanted to look upon his face
again. Howard bowed his head tc
the decree and he had never seen his
father since.
All this the young man was review
ing in his mind when suddenly his re
flections were disturbed by q friendly
hail.
Hello, Je1ries, old sport! DOM
you know fellow frat when you ser
him?"
He looked up. a young man Of
athletic bnild, With : pleasant, franl