The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-31
~ - MI HCamc From One Who
N1nO11I0uI,1IIH Had Seemed Un8rdfcfM
"a NlllHulul OVllls BY r. TOWNSEND SMITH

I was starting for the Office of the
I Henderson Wvcckiug company, by
whom WIS employed as n diver.
when 10y STEPPED NJ TO tue ana
/ banded me a telegram:
Alec is caught in the Clapham reservoir
| Come duicklN and set him cut.
MABEL
ran for the station to take q train
for Clapbam and found one made ny
to start IN twenty minutes. But IL
seemed M hour before | was rolling
out oC the station on u Gfty minute
trip. While | am maklug il | will tell
how | canc To- receive the telegram.
received Couuou school educa.
ton. one day in the school yard
saw one of The boys take Il doll from
little girl. aud. holding it by its legs,
he smashed its china head against tue
hard sandy GROUND walled up 10
tue boy aud without saying word
slapped As face, OF course there was
y tight. at which ! got the credit OF
having thraShcd my antagonist BGt
this WAS rather because the boy
fought was IN the habit of doing mean
things for no cause whatever rather
than Tor ANY advantage I gained over
him,
The little Girl whom bad bcirieud
ed surprised me after the bgbt 10y max
ing face at me Children are but M
grown men aud women, and ! suppose
my rescuting her III treatment was like
Interfering IN family fcuds. for every
body knows that protection against
tyranny in the ease OF those who are
fond Of each other is liable TO result
disa strously to the protector. Refrain
ing from showing any feeling Mt the
girls iugrnttude. walked on With
my hands IN any pockets, whistling 4
tune To uake it appear that II was
matter of no consequence,
During the rest of my school days
had the modification 10 experience the
III will of both This boy and girl, both
of whuia seemed To have taken dis
like To ne II was a period when we
Were passing out of childhood into
youth. aud for the several years re
naming before we flushed school
something about the girl knew not
what-was growing upon me. Her
treatment OF me panied ne-indeed.
would have given my best tennis rack
Ct for n smile from her, Wpcn our
last term M school WAS flushed found
myself in lovc with her. True. was
but sixteen years old and she dfteen
but my experience in the matter has
proved that the younger the person
the more violent the iovc.
II was very distressing for me to see
n girl whom | had bcfrieuded aud
whom ! loved not only showing repul-
sion for me. but lavishing her admira-
ton upon the boy whose malicious
treatment OF her | had punished But
in matters of the heart Que never
knows what q woman viii do and
man is not much more 10 be depended
upon Be this as 1t may. | saw my
love grow TO womsnhood laviships her
affection on the person who had ont OF
pure deviltry smashed her doll think
that as Il child DER turning against me
was natural. AS a woman il may have
been encouraged by-iny-mvnl ---'.'
Fate threw the three 9sY us tose4t4her
not only as children, tAit fhfter wt'fAitf
become men AMI women. The girl
secretly worshipcd married my rival.
and attended their wedding, though
rather rs her guest than his, for my
intimacy was always rather with her
family than his. There was II colducSs
between ne aud him that never wore