The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-06
Reformation Of MCSWatt
BY Paul p. Harris.
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nT'SWATT'S college days were a
lVl revelations; not only to the fac
ulty. but to himself also. He had
never suspected the versatility of his
nature or the vastness of his resource.
He was summoned one day to APP
pear before the board, under COM
plant of having caricatured his Latin
professor on the class room walls,
thereby making that worthy to ap-
pear, his face wreathed in smiles,
dancing the 'couchy couchy" and cry
ing: ITO Hades with Caesar, ct tn,
Brute" and numerous other incopgru-
Gus and indicate things. McSwatt
arose to the occasion, aye, passed far
beyond it and made college history;
so completely was he master of the
situation that Jones, head professor
of Evidences of Christianity, inwardly
resolved TO espouse his canon.zation,
should McSwatt's soul soon take it's
flight
1t was not so easy, however, to pull
the wool over the eyes of his class
mates. "lndignation" Smythe, who
was member of n fraternity consti-
tutionally opposed to the one whose
rolls McSwatt's name honored, and
more or less dyspeptic, voiced the SEN
timent of the student body when he
stated. with his usual variations, that
McSwatt was a cheerful liar and an
inimitable dead beat. The remark
cost Smythe nasal hemorrhage; Nc
Swat the remainder of his reputa-
tion for the allegations were never
successfully controverted.
To drown his sorrow, McSwatt in
gratiated himself with the bibulous
crowd, and he lived to see the sorrow
completely inundated. He was often
err found at the inn than at the col
lege, and he consequently became more
proficient in poker than in Greek. The
quarterly report, sent home, ELECTED
much wonder, no enthusiasm. There
had been a series of extraordinary
drains on the family purse for such
odd purposes that the olu gentleman
was apprehensive lest the boy be de-
mented. The cost OF books alone, a
mere drop in the bucket of general ex-
penditures, was sufficient to have
started town library, and that of
dentistry mortgaged the farm. Hence
the elder McSwatt visited college, but
the magnificent library had taken to
itself wings, and there remained no
evidence of the dentists work. Even
McSwatt's wardrobe left much to be
desired. To tell the whole truth,
naught of it remained save light
summer suit which McSwatt, ST.,
fancied he had seen before, and which
ahe younger man was heroically en-
deavoring to make fill all Of the re-
quirements of the season.
The first view which the old gentle
man obtained of his offspring in his
college environments was through a
haze of tobacco smoke, and not calcu-
lated to inspire confidence for that
young man, with coterie of maudlin
companions, as mohgrel a lot as ever
disgraced an institution of learning,
was dividing his attention between a
hand of poker and a mammoth cuspi-
dor which he spat at with the regu-
larity of an automaton, an accuracy
college born.
McSwatt, Sr.. frightened the purse
strings. and the act induced a much
needed period of reform. Under the
stimulus Of parental adjuration, Nc
Swat settled to business, forged into
che frs. division Of his class, and his