Florida Agricultural College - Pinakidia Yearbook (Lake City, FL)

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Woe is cl lk HE time was Friday evening, and the place was all over the campus and through all the barracks. For the truth ot the matter was our herowl suppose we will have to call him a hero, though To use the ordinary language of the ordinary boy, he was broke. He was not only short of money, but, to make matters worse, he was in debt. His laundry bill for the past month was unpaid, his incidental fees for the terni were due, his board bill was staring him in the face, and he owed every one of his friends so much that he could not see how he was ever to pay them before comniencenient. But this was not the end of his troubles-he was in love, and so desperately so was he I qs ny , rf N . I , I r fu z L K If I N ,I he has never done anything like Dewey has-but, as I said, our hero was in a desperate strait. M N -' 9 . . I Q Q x u Cl 1 5l . - . - . f - . ' that he did not think he could exist away from the fair object of his adoration, and it was L utterl ' ini ossible for hini to solve the robleui of how he could art from her after coinnience- , 5 P P P 5 ment. But just now the present uiiseries had driven away all thought of the future troubles. As I have said. it was Friday nightg there was to be an opera in town and he was broke. He had spent his last dollar the night before in purchasing seats for himself and his lady, and, having a few cents left, he decided to buy some candy to tickle the palate of his beautiful fairy. COh, girls, what troubles you do bring your admirers i11to sonietinies !J The only candy he could find to suit his purse was some peanut candy and some striped stick candy, so he purchased a nickel's worth of each and wanded his way toward the barracks, happy in the thought that for one ti111e he could treat his creditors all alike. 75

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But on this Friday afternoon the clouds hung low and threatening, and he kept looking anxiously at them. and, thrusting his hands deep down into his pockets, as if he were searching for the dollar which wasn't ther'-. As the afternoon advanced the rain began to fall slowly, but steadily, like the earth on a cofiin where are buried our dead hopes. a As can be imagined, the young man was at a loss what to do. He went to the 'phone and rang up the proprietor of the livery stable, intending to hire a carriage again on credit, only to receive the encouraging news that he had a bill there of several month's standing, and no carriage could come without the money in advance. People who are familiar with the lives of our college boys will readily see that there was only one course left, and it was astonishing to see how rapidly he changed after he discovered that there was no hope of procuring a carriage. In less than ten minutes he was suiiering from sick headache, dyspepsia, rheumatism, sore eyes, sore throat and several other diseases of a similar nature, any one of which would, he felt sure, cause his death before Monday. He borrowed a pen, ink and paper and carefully worded the following' note: DEAREST ALICIA :- It is with a sorrowful heart, as well as a pen and ink. that I write you this short note. I had thought to be by your side again to-night, and to enjoy the exquisite delight of feeling the touch of your dainty fingers on my coat sleeve as we zmlkfd together down the street. But fortune has robbed me of my pleasure. I have been threatened all the week with pneumonia, and this afternoon I was taken down by a chill directly after the time for drill formation, and now I have a high fever. 'YVords cannot express to you my grief at being zuzablc to be with you this evening. I am told the play will be Hne, but it is not for the play that I care. I am always supremely happy when I am in your presence, and it seems baud, oh, so hard, that I must be so disappointed this evening. Ever yours, EVERETT. The cadet was on the sick list until the following Wednesday. 76