The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1908-09-03
The
Interpretation Of an International
Love Affair

shat tateful power IL -
.pn individuals born at opposite snu9
az the earth and hurrfes them along
through varied scenes and vicissituues'
An Ignorant Of the others existence
tsi ging them together, sometimes IN
lSv and friendship, sometimes IN en-
ni5 and deadly hatred.
.q ese philosophic thoughts were sus-
es, d a few days ago as we doubled
f. taa torthwest corner Of a street in the
: lre-, Kaleidoscope city Of chicago
,i,. rat northwest corner was trult
fas.l. That fruit stand had with
t.lo many a change in Chicago's gov
inf ; powers.
b. lie aldermanic bodies had sue
reedeu each other, police chiefs hau
come and gone and were forgotten
mayo followed mayor; yet there II
stuoc serene amid the warning eIe-
ment Of municipal and state elections
and e Ter such tempests in tea-kettles.
% '--'nged foreigner after another
bravlns The sun and storm, raked IN
ks niukelB, doled out the bananas ana
nrned his native land, wealthy
ind. sndent. Truly 1t might De
.Js apple stand:
4 81 still stand in the undim-
d dor Of its mananas when
Pc trl Ter from ST. Louis shall
.tad Oh broken arch OF Clark street
re -a sketch the ruins Of the
= 3l,lding,
f7f stand, presiding over Its
was black-haired, black
.;-syehrowed, olive complex
hter q Greece, By that
sazir into those dangerous
...,. L.E. =, Was a stalwat form with
red hair. ne eyes, blue coat, brass
buttons. 81 er star on breast and
tasteed h' iory under his arm lie
looked good-natured and honest and
wore a well-educated blond mustache.
There was one defect in his physique
be was so round-shouldered as to be
almost humpbacked, His name was
Michael O'Callaghan, or, as he himself
put it, Officer Michael OCallaghan.'
There they stand the one, for aught
we know, a lineal descendant OF Leon
idas, If that worthy had yentured in
10 matrimony before he ventured into
Thermopylae and the other-it goes
without saying-a descendant Of some
body equally ancient and illustrious.
Yes, there they stand-from Ireland
and from Greece-making love to each
other on the curbstone OF busy street
in Chicago. Oh, Love, they say you
rule the court, the camp, the grove;
you do indeed, and you rule the curb
stones, the apple stands and the po-
lice force of the city OF Chicago
How MIR. Michael O'Callaghan has
ever succeeded in making love to the
fair Zoe-for that was the name OF
this Pythoness of the apple stand-the
boy Eros himself only can tell; for
Zoe's vocabulary in English was limit
ed to such trade terms as two TO- fife"
"three TO fife" and Michaels knowl-
edge Of modern Greek was, if any
thing more limited. Love laughs at
locksmiths, but the little rascal in
this case seemed equally to laugh at
languages, and the Tower Of Babel had
no more penal consequence for him
than If it never raised its defiant head
to offended heaven.
The officers beat embraced the To-
cality on which stood the apple stand,
and surely no policeman ever Travelled
his district so rapidly as he did Ever
and anon his bright star flashing CO.
ruscations of light, and his eyes, blue
as his native skies when it is not rain
ing there, flashing coruscations of love,
would round the northwest corner and
approach the apple stand
How much?' he would sag, holding
an apple which Zoe had FURNISHED that
morning with greasy rag, while the
Volapuk language Of love would say
more truly than ever Byron said it
Zoe mou sas apago,"
and Zoe would answer with a smile
and a not unmusical voice:
Two To- fife"
Then they would rummage amid the
fruit, their hands would meet. a little
surrepdtious squeeze of the fingers
would follow, and then this stalwart
suppressor Of Anarchists would march
along, twirling his club, lowly whist
ling THE Girl Left Behind Ne" and
dreaming dreams no copper ever
dared to dream before. These day
dreams generally took the shape Of a
nat on the West Side, with Zoe its mis-
tress and little Graeco-Irish O'Calla-
CHAN Growing and kicking up its heels
on the floor.
Several times each day that unspok-
en- comedy Of love was performed. Day
after day Michael boldly gazed into