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THE PATRIOT
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ER AND BETTER THAN WE FOUND IT.
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TEN YEARS
AFTER
By SADIE OLCOTT
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Algernon Witney was a romantic
youth. His mother was the very oppo
site. She was a hard headed, matt**
of fact woman. When Algy was grow
ing up there lived near by the Wit
neys a family of Bentons. They were
wealthy, while the Witneys were in
moderate circumstances; Alma Benton,
an only child, was about Algy's age,
and the two children were playmates.
Alma was a delicate child and was
very much petted. When Algy reached
an age to think of marriage his mother
noticed that he and Alma were begin
ning to look upon each other in a dif
ferent light from what they did as
children. One day she said to her son:
"I wish you to understand that on no
account will I consent to your marry
ing Alma Benton."
"Why not, mother?"
"That I don't care to tell you. If you
see her ten or fifteen years from now
you will know without my having told
you."
Algy was somewhat surprised at his
mother's objection. The Bentons being
wealthy and Alma being the sole heir
to their property, he had supposed that
his mother, who seemed to have a keen
eye to pecuniary advantages, would
have urged rather than opposed the
match. Alma was just the kind of
girl to please a young man of nine
teen. All her motions, her words, her
acts, were subdued. Even her laugh
was delicate. Despite his mother's
warning, Algy lost his heart to her.
There was another girl in the neigh
borhood that Algy met occasionally,
but did not fancy at all. whom he
reckoned his mother would be pleased
to see him marry. Martha Bonfield
was next door to homely, but she was
barely sixteen, and some girls when
passing from childhood into woman
hood are like a grub changing into a
butterfly.
Martha inherited from her mother a
good deal of hard sense. But this was
lost on Algy. The pink and white com
plexion, the coral lips of Alma were
quite enough with him to outweigh all
the common sense of a dozen girls.
But when Martha's red hair and
freckles were considered the compari
son was especially odious.
There was trouble for the young lov
ers on both sides of the house. The
Benton family were as much opposed
to the match as the Witneys. They de
signed 'their daughter for a rich hus
band. A taste for riches is a growing
taste —the more we have the more we
want.
The upshot of it all was that Alma
was dominated by her mother. Her
lover had the manliness to choose for
himself. But since the girl he wanted
would not marry him without her par
ents' consent lie was obliged to content
himself without her..
f HIM DRINK?
""' Dally N©^.]
Sev<*Fal years passed. Alma Benton,
under her mother's leadership, made a
matrimonial campaign abroad, but
came back to America unmarried. Al
gernon Witney after her departure
found nothing to remember about her
any more than a figure painted on
china, and, though he struggled hard
to make himself believe that he was
heartbroken, he was finally convinced
that, though he could never love again,
he was not suffering.
Meanwhile Martha Bonfield's hair had
; turned from its original dull red to au
i burn, and her freckles had disappear
ed. When Witney felt bored he used to
go to see her for an evening's chat.
Some of his romance had evaporated,
and he was entering upon an age when
a career interested him. When he fell
into romance Martha shut up like a
clam; when he talked in a practical
vein she occasionally said something
that struck him forcibly. One day he
said to his mother:
"Mother, I have always believed that
you would like to see me make a match
! with Martha Bonfield. I have decided
that if Martha is willing I am ready
; to accede to your wishes."
"Nonsense! You're not going to ac
cede to my wishes at all. You have
discovered that there's something in
Martha that you want."
This turned out to be true. Algernon
Witney, without fortune, married
Martha Bonfield, without a cent. Wit
ney became interested in money mak
ing, and in his wife he found a good
manager, who was interested in money
saving. The two got on together well
I enough till they saved enough money
to work with, then began to accumu
late a fortune.
Ten years passed. A good deal may
happen in ten years. The Witneys
, were now well to do and paid some at
tention to social life. One evening
when at a function Witney was intro
duced to a Mrs. Hetherington, a
scrawny woman of about thirty, whose
scantily covered collar bones did not
deter her from wearing a decollete
costume. Witney was about to move
on to avoid getting tied up with this
unprepossessing bunch of skin and
bones when she said:
"Algy!"
He looked at her, vainly trying to
place her.
"Can it be that you have forgotten
i,me, Algy?"
I Heavens! Could this be Alma Ben
ton, the woman he had loved? The
cheeks were hollow; the teeth, once
white, though fragile, were interspers
ed with gvid ones or braced with gold
bands. But this was nothing to what
she said when she began to talk of
former times. It was all—well, he
called it horrible.
She had married a man for his
money!
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The Unterrified.
"Trouble has hit me 'bout as hard
as he knowed how," says Uncle Gill,
"but he hain't never knocked me out—
not yit. When I'm down I take as
much of the count as is safe fer me,
but by the blessin' of God I'm soon up
ag'in, an' then it is I give him all that's
comin' to him." —Atlanta Constitution.
THE GREAT
GAME
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1916, fcy the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.
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The villagers of Chatham and Co
burg were four miles apart, and there
had been rivalry between them ever
since they were founded. If one claim
ed 400 population the other claimed
450. When the one built a church
building with a spire thirty feet high,
the other built a church building with
the spire seven feet higher.
There was one point which had never
been settled between the towns. This
was the championship checker player.
Sometimes one village held the cham
pionship for a year or two and then
had to relinquish it to the other. There
was talk for several years of having
thejauestion permanently settled, but
it hung fire until a man named Bob
Wittiker moved over to Chatham from
a village forty miles away. He had
played checkers ever since he was five
years old. At ten he could beat any
man they could bring against him. At
fifteen he won the championship of the
state. But no one in either village
knew of this. It was given out that
he played a pretty good game, and
when the Coburg people heard of it
they sent to Chicago and hired a man
to become a resident of the town long
enough to settle the question of cham
pionship. Each town made up a purse,
and the victor in the game was to re
ceive $25.
Ten men went over from Chatham
with their champion, and another ten
men met them. The twenty were to
see that the game was a fair one. It
was to be the best three games in five
and was played in Jhe town hall.
The game began on Thursday morn
ing, and that night nobody turned out
to the regular prayer meeting. The
first game lasted all that day and all
that night and was not decided until
Friday noon. The champion of Chat
ham, won it. This fact was telephoned
over to Chatham, and it set the village
wild with delight. New wagers were
made. New boasts were made. A lec
turer was to give a talk Friday night,
but he had to skip it.
The second game lasted through Fri
day night and all day Saturday. Now
and then the champions fell asleep foi
five minutes, but they were aroused
by the pricks of pins. At 7 o'clock at
night the second game was won by the
Cojmrg man. This made a game apiece,
and the excitement went up to fever
heat.
There were two churches in each
village, and the Sunday congregations
counted up about five women apiece.
Not all the sermons ever preached
could have Induced the men to come
away from the telephones. About 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon both checker
players were allowed to sleep for twen
ty minutes and then given a rub down
with hot vinegar and red pepper. They
started out playing again feeling pret
ty lively. The four churches were
closed Sunday night.
All day Monday passed and that
third game of checkers was not yet
decided. The champions were allowed
a little sleep and given another rub
down, and they got through the night
fairly well. At noon Tuesday old
Ephraim Watkins, eighty-five years,
who was the greatest weather prophet
for fifty miles around, sat on the post
office steps at Chatham and said to the
dozen men about him:
"Boys, we are going to have a
change of weather within a few hours.
I'll bet my old hat agin a chip that
we'll have the rippinest old thunder
storm any of you have seen in ten
years."
"Well, let 'er come," replied one of
the men. "It won't make any differ
ence to the checker players over at
Coburg."
"Don't you be too sure about that,"
piped the old man. "I don't say that
a friendly game of checkers is wicked,
but I do say that keepin' up a game of
checkers until it interferes with prayer
meetin's and sermons is kinder defyin'
the Lord."
In about two hours a black cloud
arose in the west, and all could see that
a thunderstorm was coming. The lat
est news from Coburg was that the
third game was about an even thing so
far and would probably not be decided
before the next morning. Old Ephraim
had come back just as the announce
ment was made, and on hearing it he
exclaimed:
"That 'ere game of checkers will be
within, an hour, no matter
On and After
MARCH Ist, 1917
All pasnenger trains of this railroad will arrive and depart from
LACKAWANNA TERMINAL
FOOT OF MAIN STREET
BUFFALO, N. Y.
BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH RAILWAY
I FaCtS Versus 1
A
Fallacies
FACT is a real state of things. FALLACY is an appar»
ently genuine but really illogical statement or argument.
WASHINGTON State became officially "dry" on January
1 1916, and Prohibition FALLACY, coupled with how
such law fails there, is convincingly described in the "Seattle
Star" (a Prohibition paper) under glaring headlines like these: jjgHMT J jk
"Drunkenness Increases in Seattle Under 'Dry' Reign." w
"Mayor Gill Removes Police Chief Lang, Who Fails to
"Sixty-five New Drug Stores Replace Saloons."
Liquor Law doesn't Check Influx or 'Wet*
'THEN this same leading daily paper of Seattle made con-
§§*■ fession of Prohibition failure in Washington State with LJ
declarations as follows: / fcl
' law in operation has proven inadequate
t0 stem tJie ever -»ncreasing flow of spirituous beverages.
£ '' ' only did drunkenness increase (in March) over the
1 S 1 ! im* ■, P revlous month, but it exceeded the two previous months r\
\: ]phLs X WS and more than double the February record.
; s~" ' r t lAimn "HP HE squad of tipplers who found their way into the Police *
a jj-1 W LII(UUK A Station during March numbered 294. During Feb
> jj SHIPMENTS '• ruary the number was H7. and during January 94.
Tamwrv 9\in ' **T?ECORDS in the Auditor's office at the Court House
-UrH ' IfcK) . « show that in January 2117 permits to ship liquor into
nebiuaanr«fi9 thc State wcrc issued. In February the number increased to
"»— j, |||U March 6250 4269 ' and in March to 6250."
\ - V (COMMENTING upon the deplorable situation under Pro
... - -> . hibition law in the City of Seattle the new Chief of
Police, Charles L. Beckingham, stated:
<<r PHE one thing I think the Police Department ought to
* do is to stop bootlegging in Seattle. Every man, woman ..
and child in the city knows that it is a simple matter to get >- 1 J
liquor. I think something can surely be done by the Police
Department to stop the illegal trade. The drug stores ought t3
not to get away with the stuff they are now pulling." _L
TO SUM up, the State of Washington, which was voted
dry by 18,000 majority, is now suffering the same sorry & $ "6^
experience of other States that followed the delusion of Pro- • © if BCjI (m\ fwTlffi
hibition FALLACY. The FACTS of increasing drunkenness )m 1# ~ jJ
and crime in Washington have already called forth petitions in
(J that State for a return to the licensed and regulated system % V T-tTi *1? A > f [
*J of dispensing alcoholic beverages. | 41U Jj 3|f jJk J U
|r| Pennsylvania State Brewers' Association =
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=»I»IH>IIIH«|oic= =^i°nnmiCl
what the telephone says.""
He would not say more, though hard
pressed to do so, and half an hour
later the first flash of lightning and
the first roll of thunder came to an
nounce a hard storm. It was a hard
one both in Chatham and in Coburg.
The hall where the game was being
played held a big crowd, and the light
ning picked it out first. It struck on
the roof, and most of the boards and
shingles were ripped off, and the bolt
knocked down every man who was on
his feet. Both champion checker play
ers fell off their chairs unconscious,
and the checkerboard was split into a
dozen pieces. There was a call for ev
ery doctor in town, and, though no one
was actually killed, there was a heavy
call for medical services. Such a thing
*a going on with the champion game
was not to be thought of and has not
been thought of since. All took it as a
warning from heaven, and the minis
ters on the next Sunday clinched the
matter by saying if it was not punish
ment for such dreadful wickedness
why didn't the lightning strike one of
the churches or Deacon Bennett's big
barn?
Curious Courtship.
In the strange land of the Tarascan
Indians in Mexico the visitor, after at
taining something of a friendly foot
ing, may still witness some of the
equally strange practices which the
first Spaniards observed. In courting
the lover goes to the well where his be
loved is accustomed to fill her water
Jar. He holds her shawl until she ac
cepts him, and then with a -stick he
breaks the jar which she holds on her
head and gives her a betrothal baptism
of water.
Dubious Compliment.
She (at masquerade ball)—Do you
think my costume becoming? He-
Yes, indeed. But you would be lovely
in any disguise.—Boston Transcript.
Swset Thing!
Belle—This yeilow dress is not be
coming to me. Nell—Why, dear, it
matches your complexion.—Baltimore
American.
He who reigns within hiraself and
rules prejudices, desires and fears la
more than a king.—Milton.
Even che smallest pieces of finely
broken glass can be easily picked op
with a little wad of wet absorbent
cotton, which can then be destroyed
by burning.
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