The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1901-05-31
I SEA CHANGE.
WAS occasIoned by a
1 Small Boy.


liandS cldsped about his drawn u
ana hIa head dropping upon BIZ
sd gtimy breast Beneath bill
ing broWs he hooked out toward
ea at the purple. white trimmed
x tlIo innocent blue skySat the
hoFis6D. forever unreacbable, for
fair. Jet changing In beauty BY
from q clear lavender line to o
ana misty shore. from mountains
pld ana ned to the alaDaster walls
grit palaces.
roWned at the Sea and sky, for
dare Of the furnaces was still be-
M eyes. Though the spicy sea
blew upon his breast, yet the
az the blue figure was In his nos
ald tho blasts Of hot aIr still co.
him. Now he turned bis head
ntiy and glanced a the upper
where the few passengers the
hip cRrEsed were sitting talking
Sdtng q their ease. II was SO In
Some were always floating easily
q no expense OF otherO. He felt a
raEe TO think that be should be be-
lc1klng up 1t them. 1t was his
taulA. Once he might have made
rs 4 different thing, but now his
mas axed. He could never grow
GrOmtt.
BE banged to the rail and looked
Wn q the waves climbing coura-
oUGly npweFd, only to fall again, as
stO moci life's vain endenvors. How
~ and soothing the water would
n to bis oVeFheated brain and body!
There Was,a sneer upon his hard lined
fc0 60 be looked again toward the up
deck. What did any life amount
theirs as we'll as hIs7 Yet how they
ouId hment II they thought It all
aon pms to an end!
hen hB Il was caught by the fg-
Of . small uos 9Th upturned face
and hands In his pocRSAs, standing be-
/ side . man. And suddenly the ship
I and - faded from his eyes, and be
cav another boy IN a big, Tapping
4 straw hat and brown overalls. with
I bare feet. coming down a still, dusty
kead that wound IN dull complacency
llakNeen blackberry and strawberry
Sipe appls trees and wild cherry
bds1es. The boy climbed 70 the bound
y cry half fence, half stone wall. Of the
ofchard and felt sudden twinge in his
fOg 80 ha pushed his bare feet through
the long bush grass and stumbled on q
gFiped apple. He sat again on the
- step without the kitchen
8 mother came up behind
lue and white cracked cup
msia and dropped warn
Into his upturned hand
ire hotP' he could hear hel
and 4 aroused him with a start
He booked down at the old trousers ant
@lthy shiIk They seemed to contain q
Z moEa than physical, moral, contamI
nation. That country boy had come Il
EblG. From the peaceful sameness Of
that quiet life to the ugly monotony o.
thia. earning mean living by the
meaDest Of labor and spending thosC
earnings for. not merely mean. for de
basing. ObJectn.
Tbs hast time he had been in America
10 had gone to a sailors bethel ant
had thought that after this voyage hi
would go away into some farnway
country place and DO better. whert
fields were green and q living might b,
wTested from earth, not fire. Bat a
liverpool good resolves went with thu
eaFnlngA Evidently this was what b,
was born for, ten days OF mIsery-h,
could not get used TO the furnaces
week o. what some men called pleas
uFo and then the furnaces again. Ant
% q would 90 on until He turned
again and locked down on the waves
How easy II would bel There woul,
be On9 StokeF the less, and 1t woult
give him distinction for the frSt-no
che seeon6-t1me in his life. The frs
time bad been when be left his countr!
home to make his fortune. He hat
INSIDE Il well. 9Hs neered again. tina
bEtteFege Of sneeEs, at oneself. Then h,
Wattod aR0und the wheelhouse at thl
stern and leaned against the rail at tn
4 back aa0 looked down at the waite
sWiEfipB Ia q widening Poughenet
path from the beating OF the screw. l
WaS pale blue. with flmy rufies o
white and here and there fold Of deli
eats gEean. Then as he Sazed the wax,
eemed live thing, rather man!
inEa and tileiH little lips OF foam me
whispered. Come" and LAUGHED
hi him as q fool because he hesitatcd
lGA hls hand on the Pail. Not that b,
was afraid oh. no!
agT The man started. he clunI
b ~ Eali ss II TO steady himself.
-helloi Anything the matterY
IS the small boy be had seen OF
ne peg deck few minutes before.
.tpo Browied the man, leaning again
over tlse rail-
we BOY moved nearer and leaned
owe him. "Water'S pretty, isn't
eFs was no answer. After a mo-
men3 The bOg began again, "say. Isn't
tT
900 was silence. Near the
d ned 70 the rail- 3 small
alEEnn smsllaal and