Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-12-09
THE QUIET LIFE

IL. Yale aged iWenty, came out OF the
cultured East and settled in little
trans Mississippi town az professor Of
mathematIc, in B.ockt College.
Mr. Andcrs" said President or
son, as he met the newcomer at the
steamboat dock, 81 shall bc glad 10
have you make your home at our
house. We are rough and crude here
in the West and perhaps you may
fee more at home with Ia than else
where"
Thank you. sir" said Prof An
ders, a tall. thin young man with
small brown side whiskers and seri-
Gus face. You offer pleasant solu-
lion to a problem which has perplex-
ed me greatly"
Prof. Anders moved his chest OF
books and his trunk into two rooms
on the second floor OF Pres dent or
sons cottage. There he settled down
to a lifetime OF teaching trigono-
metry, solid geometry and the higher
mathematics.
Before he was forty the irreverent
students OF Blockit College called
him odd Zeke." and loved him as the
psrsonl1cation OF all that was schol-
arly, gentle and unwOrldiy.
When Prof. ARders hrst came to
live In the homo Of Pres dent Orson
the other occupants of the house were
the pres lent. his Wife and their
daughter and only cuud Alice, then
a happy little girl of eight From the
beginning the professor and Alice
were friends and cnuins
The pro essor read neI lt',e verses,
told her wonderful tales OF fairies,
and on one OCCASION AZ least was lie
tocted down ou al fOurs w.th Mss
AL e. mounted in s,ate upon his back.
'e's a Ion. explained the little
rr as tha professor scrambled up in
es.ar'as mcut from the floor, and
lm -ho lion tcuor
Which was perhaps, nearer the
tru,a than She imagined
Naeu Trof. Anders had lived in the
house ten years Hiss Alice was
.e4ft ful blooming girl OF eighteen.
As the professor saw her budding into
Nomaahood hc starred to shrink back
into hts SHELL hut the girl would
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ed than usual. Then one evening ne
sat down at his desk IN the corner
or his sitting room and wrote the ioi'
lowing letter:
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