The Raymer enterprise., 1915-09-30
OH LIES HIGHWAYS
5TRanoE MEETINGS THAT FATE
WILL r7iNc ABOUT.
sraeustes Of the Sam: University, In
Different Circumstances, comnuned
In the Ncrssern Woees-"The
Weary Ways Ct Man."

Weary Ways Ct &en."
h graduate II great university was
campeG one night SIX years ago in the
woods Of northern Michigan. He and
his companions, lying upon a bed of
spruce ooughs, With their feet to the
fra OF blazing pine roots, heard twigs
cracking out in the darkness. They
sat up quickly rs maa emerged from
the shadow into tie freight, e young
man, unshayeh, uhkenpt. battered by
fate, and carrying a bundle under his
arm.
The stranger ate ard then be sat On
his launches by the ire, with his
knees in his arms, and smoked and
talked. III a lauge OF the c5Ayersa'
ton the graduate. looking dreamily
out toward the shadowy forest aisles,
and hardening to the sougaing Of the
night wind in the pine trees. quoted
this Bit from Mathew Agnolds Dover
Beach"
The sea Of fdlth
Was ONCE teo. At "a fIll. and round
earthly giHre
Lay lie Die tDlis Of a bright girele
fgrId
But now only hear
Ils mellHcbd.f ls8G, Wit.draHlng roar.
4 treating, b tie breath
Jf the uisat-wtsd, down the vast edges
drquf.
Ana naked shingles of tie worl1
There he paused, ard Immediately
die stranger TOOK up tlta quotation and
continued II:
"a, love. IL us be true
To nne another. Tor the word, which
seems
10 lie hasgFe Us l.Fu a lard Of dreams.
So various. sa beautiful. 50 HHw,
Hath tea.y neither j1y, For loye. nor
light,
Nor ceriude, nor pcaae, nor Eelp f9r
pain,
Swept hy confused alarms 0t struggle an!
flight
Where i5n5.alt armies clash BY night.
The stranger was a graduate OF the
same university. For seven years he
tad been drifting, with no dshnite
ai1., but always Carrying IN Ais bundle
three lroAa. the "Ruhalyat." "Medita.
t-GHs at M6roua Aaraiea' and the
"OAord aook OF English Verse"
The stranger took ffsm lis bundle
The b9ta Of verse, aa2 TIE other grad
usts dug out u lis Eaapsaca a coay o.
Matthew Arag.4 asers, and 'aera,
hy the frsiisAt y the ,,Fsst, they e..
changed tlAhs, a:e sat ua,ii morning
talhirg, aat t.ea ttey ate again ant
Tia stranger TOOK hts bun4le gsder kis
arm. aud, as they sack hauds IN part,
ing, he quoted 7. u. Browns.
Te hye within cave--it iB mpat good; +.
Fut if iioe mai-as day
and samr1nu come ana sny:
''l.e! ! have gatlerea ias;Gts in The
woddt"
Efn let hlfd stay
And Light IRE, and fan tomresal
meed.
So sit IN morning, when tie Light Is
sNn
That ne HIS path ulay reud,
HHeh bid Tie nsn1o'-speac
His morning is mol tisine, yet mrst thou
own
They have cheerful warmth. those
asliag on the stonel
And so they parted. and each forgot
to ask the cthsrs name, and they
never met again.
n
One day last week that same uni.
versity graduate, who had been camp
ing in the northern woods, went into
a restaurant en- Grahd ayeaue III
Kansas City for a bite and a sup. II
was cheap 'sh5Ft order" place The
won.an who ca.de 70 take lis crfer
glanced at a httle golden watch key
that hung from his fob aud smiled.
When she returned with his ten.cent
rlate Of beaEs and cofIee shs boxed
again at TIE key. waich was the in.
sIsnia of the Hi Beta Kappa honor
fraternity, and said:
"Et tn ia Arcadia yixisti?4 t"Ana
you have lived in Areadiag"1
The graduate stared III astouish.
mesit, fingered Bis fraternity key. and
as,.e1:
you recognize that?"
u? Certa!nly lltve a key myself.
Int keep il in niy raom."
And low came ygu here? What's
the story?'
For answer she quoted this i.ne
from Ernest Dawson;
The weary ways Of men" and went
for another order Of Kansas
City Star.