A GAME OF CHECKERS. Bow Young "Grove" Cleveland Defeated the Village Boaster. There comes a pleasant story to my •MS of President Cleveland, says "Hal iton" in the New York Times. It goes to show that in his younger days, be fore ambitious thoughts began to surge through his brain, he could not have been the sententions, phlegmatic per son over whom Washington correspon dents are worrying themselves to death wilhbiteof desciiption just now. On one occasion, at least, he saw the hu morous aide of a little episode and en joyed a quiet laugh. Young Mr.Cleve land— I 'Grove* was his title in the days I write ef—happened to be spending a few days at the home of a relative in a reposeful hamlet, one of those places whose placid excitements alternated a mong the railroad station, the meeting house, and the village store, where the mail was pigeon-holed and everything from rum and calico tc flat head nails and ginger cakes was doled out. The young man's visit was during the win ter, when the place was desolate and dreary enough. When he got his bear ings, tired of tramping around in the snow and ice, he sometimes dropped in to 'Uncle Silas's, the village store. One gray-skied afternoon he came upon the regulation circle of gossips. The fa miliar old Franklin was blazing out i'.s heat over in the corner and the solons were busy ruminating and varying the monotony of their thoughts with fre quent *chaws.' One of the characters of the place was sandy-haired, small eyed,pucker-faced Ike Sanders,a prod igious boaster and a self-constituted au thority from the text of the parson's last seruion to the shingling of the dil apidated school house. This local Sir Oracle was a confirmed checker player. Laay and shiftless, the long winter hours were passed by him up at Uncle Silas', where from a favorite corner he watched tor victims. On the afternoon that Grover entered, the excitement in the corner seemed to be running oyer. Even Uncle Silas had quitted hi# seat behind the counter, and with his spec tacles perched up among his thin locks, his hands clasped on his backbone, he stood eagerly watching the checker board. A milder-faced, middle-aged ' little man was nervously bent over Ike's slow and impressive moves of the checkers. The game was close, and Sanders' opponent, no other than the village schoolmaster, had held a slight advantage; suddenly Ike surrendered one of his men to the foe, who prompt ly seized the opportunity. Another man was yielded, and then the trap be came apparent, and the devoted domin io rushed to his ruin. •Ha ha Inoho I Why,you can't play checkers any more than you can scrape the sky,' was Isaac's taunt as he grasp id bis victurv. 'lf ye'd set down and study the board for a couple o' year yes moight win a game once in a while, but sho' yer al< poor fool folks at checkers roun' here anyhow.' The poor schoolmaster, his thin - cheeks pinking with mortification, shrank back with a faint excuse for his defeat. Ike carelessly rearranged the draughts, boastfully placed the board over on the firkin, and looked up with a challenge in his eye. 'Say, Uncle Si las,' be called oat, 'have ye got anybody else thinkin' they can play checkers here ? No ? Well 1 guess yer liaint ; so's nobody wants to play about with me, yes moight as well pnt the board away.* Uncle Silas rubbed his wrink led hand across his forehead, admitted that Isaac was a master at the game, and was makin preparations to place the well fingered checkers behind him ou the desk, when the young stranger, pitying the defeated- schoolmaster, hav ing watched the game with some inter eat, and inclined to attribute its loss more to nervousness than lack of skill, foupd voice. 'I say, Mr. Sanders, would you mind toying a game with me ?' 'With you ? Sbo\ young fellow, you don't want to play against Ike Sand ers 1' 'Well, I would be willing to try.' 'Oh, come; you can't play nothin' a gainst me; I'm tired of beatin' this vil lage, anyhow. Now,take the advice of a friend and don't waste your time, young man.' 'I might give you some trouble, though.' 'Humph I you're sassy enough about it, and to take down your conceit a peg or two I'll let you have a game.' Once more the firkin was moved into place, and the knot of spectators peered oyer the shoulders of the contestants, and old Silas again resumed his wonted attitude. As the game adyanced there was no aonnd in the room save the clat ter of the wooden blocks as they chang ed from square to square. The young player's black men wedged themselves ! boldly in among the 'whites.' Isaac began to pucker up his thin lips. Soon his fingers opened and shut nervously as his fist lay against his hip and h's left foot tapped impatiently,on the pine hoards. His moves became hasty and his manner irritable. Lookers-on took in the situation; glances of relief were , interchanged, some bolder ones nudg ing their neighbors, and soon half-sup pressed snickerings were heard. Ike 'didn't know what folks meant by dis- j turbin' the game.' When a few more moves effectually placed him in coven try and his lemnants were completely hedged in he began really to under stand his under hp dropped,, and he had ooly voice to murmur: 'Wa'al, the first game's yourc, and that's all ye kin reckon on.' The second game start-; ed. The result was as before. Ike's •nemies crowded forward to see him 'put down by that there young Gtoye Cleveland.' Another and another vic tory was wrested from the crestfallen Ike. When the fifth contest failed to change the tide, Sanders,unable to con trol himself longer, dashed board and checkers to the floor and pushed his way out through the door, followed by jeers and laughter from former victims now become tormentors. The little schoolmaster's piping crok was not the weakest instrument in the orches tra. Yonrtg Mr. Cleveland received I enthusiastic congratulations, his eyes I flashing triumphantly and a smile lurk ing in the creases of his chubby face. It is related thai he only laughed quiet ly the next day when he heard the dic tum of Mv. Sanders, which has made a good many folks in these later days rank plagiarists: 'Some folks do have dog-gasted luck!' ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Are you disturbed at night and broken of your rest by a slek child suffering and crying with pain of cutting teeth ? 1 f so, send at once and get a bottle of Mas. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TKBTHINU. Its valut, is Incalculable. It will relieve the p*>or little suf ferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there Is no mistake about it. It enresdysentery and diarrhoea, regulates the stomach and bowels, cures wind colic, softens the gums, ro duces Inflammation, and gives tone ami energy to the whole system. 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