Demorric if atch
Bellefonte, Pa., May 28, 1915.
EE ET EA,
STRATEGY OF A WIDOW.
“That Miss Elsie Davis is a charm-
ing girl and I congratulate you highly,
Mr. Norton,” said Mrs. Benton. “But
what a pity that she seems so jealous.”
Warren Norton flushed deeply. He
resented Mrs. Benton’s words, but he
knew that they were true.
Elsie and her mother ware summer:
ing at the Glen Pass hotel, and War-
ren Norton was spending his vacation
there.
That evening Mrs. Benton made
overtures to Elsie, who had regarded
her with sullen aversion from the mo-
ment of their introduction. However,
the accomplished woman of the world
soon managed to thaw the heart of the
undisciplined, inexperienced girl.
“Yes, Warren is a dear boy,” she
said, “but like most men, I am afraid.”
“What do you mean by that?” de-
manded Elsie, flying to arms at once
on John’s behalf.
“lI mean, dear, that a pretty face
would turn his head. A man’s heart
may be loyal, but the best of them
cannot resist passing attraction.”
“It is not true!” cried Elsie, turning
scarlet.
“Unfortunately it is true, my dear,”
replied the widow, laying one hand
caressingly upon her arm. “It is only
too true, and I can prove it to you.”
“How ?”’ demanded Elsie.
“By bringing your Warren to my
feet within two days,” Mrs. Benton an-
swered.
“You can’t do it,” cried Elsie scorn:
fully. “But I will let you try, Mrs.
Benton, and, if you succeed, I will
have nothing more to do with War:
ren.”
The next few days were wretched
ones for Elsie. True, Mrs. Benton did
not succeed within the period that she
had allotted herself, but it was evident
that Warren was strongly infatuated
with her. There were angry scenes be:
tween the engaged couple. To Elsie’s
astonishment Warren, who had always
been so penitent and self-exculpatory
on former occasions, now appeared
brazen.
“Elsie, Mrs. Benton is the sister of
John Benton in the Philippines,” he
said. “I have told you often how
John is my best friend. We have not
seen each other for years, and it is
natural that I should like his sister.
Come, be friendly with her, Elsie, and
let us all be happy together.”
“0, I hate her and I hate you!” ex:
claimed the jealous girl; and, pulling
off her ring, she flung it upon the
table.
Elsie was not the type of girl who
dominates over her mother. The elder
woman had seen how things were go-
ing; perhaps she thought that Warren
was giving Elsie a lesson, for she of-
fered no consolation when Elsie an-
nounced that the engagement was
broken off and that they would start
home on the morrow.
Elsie did not go down to dinner that
night. But afterwards a feverish de-
sire to see Warren again forced her to
dress and go downstairs. She knew he
was with that odious Benton woman,
and she could not go away without tor-
turing herself by seeing them together.
Poor Elsie reached the veranda just
in time to see the couple disappearing
together along the most secluded of
the many beautiful walks of the Glen
Pass. They were walking slowly
side by side, and it was evident they
did not dream that Elsie was any-
where near them.
At the end of the walk was a hedge
of box, round which the road wound
into a pretty little summer house.
Taking her stand behind the hedge,
Elsie heard the conversation.
“Poor Elsie!” said Warren in a low
voice.
“Poor Elsie!” said Mrs. Benton in a
very meaning one, and Elsie, standing
behind the hedge, set her teeth hard.
To be pitied was the last thing that
she could endure.
“I feel guilty of disloyalty to her in
having permitted you to plan this,
Mrs. Benton,” said Warren.
“My dear boy, it is the best thing in
the world for her,” replied the elder
woman. “A sharp lesson was neces-
sary, and as the sister of your best
friend, I feel that it is my duty to give
her that lesson.”
“She thinks I am in love with you,”
said Warren.
Mrs. Benton laughed merrily. “When
my fiance, Mr. Boyd, arrives tomorrow
she will be undeceived,” she said.
“Now, Warren, a word of advice. I
am going to tell her that it was all a
plan of mine in order to bring her to
reason and cure her absurd jealousy.
You stay there till I come back, and I
shall bring her with me.”
And she stepped off along another
path toward the hotel, while Elsie
heard herself sob in the darkness.
‘What a fool she had been! She saw
it now, she remembered all Warren's
misery in the past, caused by her
doubts of him. She was not worthy of
him. She—she—
Suddenly she felt two arms about
her. Very miserably she raised her
head. Warren stood beside her.
“Elsie! Ypu heard?” he cried.
“0, what a fool I have been!” she
said. “What a wretched jealous fool.
I deserved this, Warren, to teach me
to trust the man I love. Do you really
love me, Warren?”
Warren slipped the ring on her
finger again. And in the conscious-
ness of their new-born trust they were
so absorbed in cach other that kindly
Mrs. Benton, approaching in the dark-
ness, took a by-path back to the hotel
instead.
(Copyright. by W. G. Chapman.)
ing, and Nicolay and Hay say that
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WITH THE SACRED FLAG SHE LOVE
®
Float ever, droop never, ferever, old flag!
Though the armed world assail you, what coward would lag
To rise in defense of our beautiful flag?
By a thousand campfires have
the vows of our sires
Ever been that the flag should still reign;
And they battled and bled till
the rivers ran red,
But the flag floated free from all stain.
Let us keep it unfurled to enlighten the world—
Right's emblem as ages go by.
Ever glad to the sight is that banner so bright
As it rippies in glory on high.
—Walter G. Doty, in National Magazine,
FIRST TROOPS TO |
ENTER RICHMOND
Thirteenth Regiment of New
Hampshire Volunteers Lays
Claim to the Honor.
OR many years there was discus-
sion of the claims of several bod-
ies of Union troops for the honor
of having been first into Richmond,
the capital of the Confederacy, on
April 3, 1865, a few hours, or possibly
only an hour, after the last men of
the gray had filed out of the city.
The chief claimants for the honor
have been the Thirteenth regiment of
New Hampshire volunteers, of which
John M. Woods, former mayor. of Som-
erville and now department comman-
der of the Massachusetts G. A. R., was
a member, and the body of colored
cavalry, the Fifth Massachusetts, and
that day led by Charles Francis
Adams, son of the then minister to
England.
There has been much said, and there
was much to say, on both sides. The
actual priority would seem to belong
to the New Hampshire regiment, and
some of the facts of the story of that
great day are summarized here.
informal Surrender.
The mayor of Richmond with some
of the citizens met General Weitzel a
little before seven that morning a little
outside the limits of the city. To that
point there had advanced a detach
ment of Union pickets, perhaps 60 to
70 men. Here an informal surrender
took place.
Then General Weitzel and his staff
proceeded into the city, followed by
Lieutenant Prescott and his force of
pickets, and preceded by a squad of
the general's orderlies from the
Fourth Massachusetts cavalry, com-
manded by Major A. H. Stevens. The
general established his headquarters,
as is well known, in the house which
Jefferson Davis had made the White
House of the southern states. James
Ford Rhodes says that the evacuation
was completed by seven in the morn
Lieutenant Prescott reached capitol
square soon after that hour.
General Weitzel soon sent back an
aide with orders to get the first bri
gade he could find and bring it in to
act as a provost guard. At the same
time he sent word for all the rest of
the troops to remain outside the city
and take possession of the inner line
of Confederate defenses.
NMarched Into City.
The first brigade met by the aide
proved to be Gen. BE. H. Ripley's bri:
gade of Gen. Charles Devens’ division
of the Twenty-fourth army corps. This
brigade was headed by Devens with
the New Hampshire regiment to which
John M. Woods belonged. They
marched into the city with colors fly:
ing and bands playing and reached the
capitol some time between eight and
NAAN
nine, on a glorious spring morning.
Meantime the second ord. r had been
“ant and carried about, but somehow
. ‘ailed to reach tke regiment of col
ored cavalry which had then for sev-
eral weeks been in the command of
Colonel Adams.
the extreme right of the Union line,
and they obeyed an earlier request
from General Devens and it was the
only order of which they knew any-
thing, that they advance into the city,
and thus this colored regiment, headed
by the grandson of one president and
the great-grandson of another, earned
for itself a share of the glory of that
morning. >
General Weitzel himself in his re-
port says:
“At daybreak I started various di-
visions towards Richmond. General
Devens’ division came up the New
Market road and the cavalry, under
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., came up
the Darbytown and Charles City roads.
I directed them all to halt at the out-
skirts of the city until further orders.
I then rode ahead of the troops, along
the Osborne Pike, and entered the
city hall, where I received the surren-
der of the city at 8:15 a. m. '
Troops Placed in Positions
“Majors Stevens and Graves had en-
tered a little after 7 a. m. 1
ordered in immediately after my ar-
rival a brigade of Devens’ division un-
der General Ripley as provost guard,
and ordered all the rest of the troops
into position along the inner line of
redoubts about the city. . . .
“The first troops to reach the city
were the companies—E and H—of the
Fourth Massachusetts cavalry, who
were the escorts to Majors Stevens
and Graves, and their guidons were
the first national colors displayed over
the city. Next came the pickets of
the Twenty-fourth corps. After that,
as I was in the city and not on the
outskirts, I do not know what came,
and it is a matter of dispute, both di-
visions claiming the credit.”
Wherever the credit goes it will fall
somewhere in New England, and prob-
ably upon New Hampshire for prior-
ity, and Massachusetts will have a full
share. :
Fooled Enlisting Officers.
They tell a tale of an amusing in-
cident that occurred at a recruiting
headquarters in Indiana, where an old
man with flowing gray beard and
white hair offered himself as a sol-
dier. Of course, he was rejected. He
said nothing, but, hastening to a bar-
ber shop, had his hair dyed and a
clean shave. Then he came back, and,
declaring his age as “rising thirty-
five,” was unrecognized and promptly
enlisted.
Illinois Woman a Major.
Governor Yates of Illinois made the
wife of Lieutenant Reynolds (Seven-
teenth Illinois voiunteers) a major.
She accompanied her husband through
a long campaign, and was present at
the battle of Pittsburg Landing. How-
ever, she did no fighting, and her com-
mission was a reward for the im-
portant service she did in takirg care
of the woundead.
They were posted on’
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce as the candidate
! of the people and for the people the name of J.
Kennedy Johnston for the office of Judge in Cen-
tre County (being the 49th Judicial District) who
respectfully solicits your influence and suppoit
on his behalf for said office upon a non-partisan
icket.
COUNTY TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce that James E.
Harter, of Penn township, will be a candidate for
County Treasurer, subject to the action of the
Democratic voters as expressed at the primaries
on the third Tuesday of September, 1915.
SHERIFF.
We are authorized to announce that George R.
Richards, of Philipsburg borough, will be a can-
Democratic voters of Centre county as expressed
gt fhe primaries on Tuesday, September 2lst,
PROTHONOTARY.
We are authorized to announce that David R.
Foreman, of Bellefonte, Pa., will be a candidate
| for Prothonotary, subject to the decision of the
|"Democratic voters of Centre county as expressed
3t She primaries on Tuesday, September 21st,
RECORDER.
We are authorized to announce that W. Francis
Speer, of Bellefonte, Pa., will be a candidate for
Recorder, subject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic voters of Centre county as expressed at
the primaries on Tuesday, September 21st, 1915. «
] REGISTER.
We are authorized to announce that J. Frank
Smith, of Centre Hall, will be a candidate for the
nomination of Register, subject to the decision of
the Democratic voters of Centre county as ex-
pressed at the primaries on Tuesday, September
21st, 1915. ®
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
| We are authorized to announce that W. H.
! Musser, of the North ward, Bellefonte, will be a
i candidate for the nomination of Justice of the
! Peace on the Republican ticket in said ward, at
i She pH Maries to be held on Tuesday, September
st, *
We are authorized to announce that Charles L.
Gates, of the North ward, Bellefonte, will be a
candidate for the nomination of Justice of the
Peace on the Republican ticket in said ward, at
Jie primaries to be held on Tuesday, September
st,
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