Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-25

his strength and his tastes. He wanted
to do something that he liked to do.
He objected to wedding the garden be-
cause It hurt his back. He told his
mother how wedding affected him. what
pain it produced and she saw that the
boy was pale and told his father how
he suffered After that father did the
wedding or hired a man. Horseback
exercise never affected him unkindly.
! He could ride a bicycle seven miles to
a ball game, play his position and ride
back again without being unduly af-
always brought on pain. When. he
grew old enough to look for a Job at
wages the old trouble came on at the
slightest exertion in the bayfield,. He
couldn't husk corn because it panied
him so. Mother was sure that some
| insidious disease had factened on her
sons vitals but the doctor couldn't
seem TO find anything organically
| wrong and even father now and then
expressed cruel doubts founded on his
appetite which pain in the back never
appeared to seriously affect.
| AS he grew up ne accepted" u
number OF situations but didn't seem
to hold them long. Something was
wrong with the employer. Many en-
! ployers appear 10 be utterly devoid OF
consideration and he seemed fated TO
draw the least considerate. So he spent
(, most of his time at home. His old
trouble often kept him in bed long
after the family had breakfasted but
| it rarely forced him to bed before mid
night. It was strange too, that he
| should be so weakly" Father was
strong enough to work every day and
mother did her own washing. Himself
was big and husky to look at. The
trouble was internal. hidden but not
/ less acute because of that. The neigh
bors used to say that he was lazy but
| you know what neighbors are.
He married young. Such cases al
ways do. There's something about
youth who can't pitch hay and girl
who is too sickly to wash dishes that
impels to adolescent natrimony Yes
he married There's a Jill to match
! every Jack. He found his
( Shortly after that the fall occurred
! and crowns were broken as in the an
| Gent rhyme Neither OF them wanted
to go after the pail OF water and
/, neither proposed TO begin. That wasn't
what she got married for. Jack fell
down and Jill came tumbling to the
divorce court 1t was the best way
| out. He went home and she went
home. There was always three meals
day at home without the effort OF
earning or cooking them. His matri-
monial trouble aggravated his old
weakness He found himself unified
for any more severe exertion than
! that required in playing pool and
watching with whom his divorced jill
went to the picture shows.
| That was q long time ago. He IS
still looking for job. He walks
summers all over the country with
tin can to boil coffee in seeking en-
plovment. The LADY Of the house
knows him as type. He comes TO the
back door and whininsiy asks could
you give me something to eat, iaoy
and soft hearted ladies hand him the
leavings thereby robbing some honest
! dog and he goes on looking for 9oo
suited TO his own conception OF "hst
ne has coming to him. For he has
never los, the impression that he
ought to have been bank president
or a ca pitalist of some kind. He sees
In every prosperous person VINO mas
worked hard an enemy and a roboer'
He has never had a chance.
Ha will 20 on looking for a JOB.
Some day he will actually get pain
and somebody will And what Is ielt OF
him under a haystack. There VIII De
almost as much left as before the pain
struck him in earnest for there never
was much. And he or rather the 'hihs
that somebody found will be bundled
into wagon and hustled to the
county morgue. Perhaps 1t viii DC
buried. Maybe it Will go down TO the
university town as q "cacaVer. II
lit does it will have furnished about
the only excuse it had for being in
existence.
This boy made his own story. Faith
er's lack Of mastership and mother
weakness of affection helped him
Among them az they wrote ne san
dest and most tragical of all human
interest stories-the biography OF a
life utterly wasted.