Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-21

know all about it. Haint been over to
North Bridgewater:" know this is
true, for my grandmother told me Of it
and she had no talent for fiction.
p. Winthrop Bowers went to New
York with some Cape Cod ideas. though
perhaps none Of them was quite as pro-
nounced aS the old lady's. Peter they
called him al home. but he WAS deter
mined t. he a city man. That WAS the
reason he got into trouble And of all
the men on the staff Bowers had the
gro ate, faculty for getting into the most
kinds Of trouble at once None OF US
knew why the city editor took him on
and the longer he stayed with us the less
we understood it To be sure he had
hearty good natured way with him that
captivated every body who knew him. We
got to calling him Cocktail Bowers after
the first week because his laugh WAS in
fictitious and Billings declared that it
was better than cocktail to meet him
IN the morning
The city editor was very shy of cock
tails. His predecessor was enjoying
years vacation, without pay, in conse-
come to the notice of the chief, and he
had been chosen, we all thought. on &C
count of his rigid virtue rather than be-
cause OF any other fitness. That might
have been one reason why he took Bow
ers on Anybody could see in "a minute
that Bowers had never been on jam
boree in his life.
He lost no time In somewhat less
than week he showed up an hour late
at the Office. a gorgeous picture of TEN
porary ruin The pallor Of his face was
such that chalk would have made a
dark mark down his cheek, and his eyes
looked like two red. rising moons, with
dark clouds around them. Some Of the
youngsters laughed, and the older men
wondered whether he would catch the
reaction soon Bowers laughed
The reaction didn't come Sometimes
1t happens so though from watching
the habits of successive generations of
youngsters we rather expected 1t, when
the man WAS really a man at the bottom
1t doesn't take very many years to be-
Vome veteran in reporting and if
lnan gets beyond his third or fourth year
ilt IL uhtlN W TURN Out well 6uOu8u, dC-
cording to his nature. After five or six
ne will either have settled into an ire
deemable or have gotten start up
ward. OF have left the business Always
excepting the men who are born report
FRS. They stay where they are.
These-the veterans-learn to meas
nre the youngsters pretty accurately, as
4 rule and as ! said, haven't long to
wait to learn how their prophecies will
pan out Bowers puzzled US, though
Bowers, you're making the pace too
not for the first quarter said the sport
ing editor to him very kindly one day
You'll he ont of the race in the first
lalf mile if You don't pull But of
curse, though it was meant well, that
lid Bowers no good. He was waiting
or his lesson. as boys do 1t came-it
.iways does and because happened to
,e mixed up in it at two ends is why |
m writing this story
Long before the story developed itself
had become interested in young Bow
rs largely from curiosity, for philan-
hropic efforts grow perfunctory in the
abnormal conditions OF a newspaper Of
ice, and even your desk neighbor be-
ONES mere unit in the multitude
which is too numerous to be readily af-
rected by individual effort. Of course