would play her very best, and she had no doubts concerning the result. When she had won it was just possible that she might be generous to her crestfallen foe. Dick's course of action was far more delicate. It was necessary for him to win, but it would not do for him to win by much. He must regulate his play by hers, and win cleverly rather than easily. The thing would have to be done artistically. For if he should arouse her suspicions now, if she should discover his deception ere the long campaign was finally crowned by victory, his case would indeed be hopeless. But he believed that she liked him. Perhaps afterwards she would not be so very angry when he told her. It was evident from the very start that Dorothy was in form. She had the honor, and her drive was one of her very best. Dick followed, and in the desire to just outdo her, and no more, brought off a genuine foozle. His brassy served him well, and he landed on the green, at last, one stroke to the good. But Dorothy was genuinely a better putter than he, and with a really good one she halved the hole. Dick, slightly annoyed by his failure on the green, made no mistake about the second hole, the longest on the course. He permitted himself one of his naturally long drives, which Dorothy always regarded as pure flukes when they occurred at decent intervals, and won the hole with ease. After that he was content to halve with her for a while, and found that he was required to play respectably to do so. For Dorothy, fairly on her mettle and always a plucky fighter, was playing well above her game. In mere length he was naturally her superior, but her accuracy of approaching and her really splendid putting almost sufficed to bring them together. He came near to forgetting his own shame in his pride. for the good fight that she was making. The game went on with few fluctuations, and Dick was 1 up when they came to the last nole-perhaps the most difficult on the course. It is played at an angle, with two ugly hedges to be surmounted and a nasty approach on to a green that is not a credit even to a small club of little fame. Dorothy was making her last bid to save the match by winning the hole, and Dick, of course, required merely to halve it. She was worth watching, he thought, with her bright lips firm-set and her brown eyes almost stern in their earnestness. He could hardly bear to disappoint her by winning the match, although it meant so much to him. But, all the same, he was bent on halving the hole. As it turned out, it would seem that for once he miscalculated her play, or else Dorothy rose to undreamed-of heights. She played the hole faultlessly and dropped her ball beside his upon. the edge of the green, without a stroke between them. Dick looked at the. balls, remembering his weakness in putting, and realized that perhaps he had cut the match too fine. He putted first, with little hope of success, for the turf was rough, and to his joy his ball rested within six inches of the hole. Surely that was good enough to win the match, for Dorothy could scarcely hole out at that range! She putted at last, with huge deliberation and great skill, having examined every inch of the ground, and Dick. gasped as the ball crept straight and true towards the hole. Surely it would turn away as his had done! No, she had allowed with her strength for the slight final slope, and, with starting eyes, he saw it disappear. Dorothy had won the hole and halved the match. For a little while he could not manage to congratulate her; it seemed as though he had lost his chance and de One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. ceived her to no purpose. Then at length he turned to her, and to his surprise she was watching him with a strange, soft look in her eyes, and a little smile about her lips that he had never seen before. I am glad to be able to record that these things brought to the surface the good that was latent in Dick Marston's nature. He was suddenly stricken with genuine shame for his unpardonable of fense. If-if she really had it in her mind to be good to him, he would at least speaks first, even though it should ruin his last chance. "You've saved the match, Dorothy," he said. "And now there's a confession I must make to you, although I hate to do it. I'm not-I wasn't really a beginner at golf." "What?" she cried, and it hurt him to see the change in her face. "You weren't really a beginner?" "No," he answered slowly. "I deceived you. You asked me why I didn't take it up down here, and suddenly I saw that it was the one chance of getting you to be kind to me. It was a low thing to do, but I always meant to tell you soon." Dorothy had flushed and her eyes were very angry. "So you let me do my best to teach you," she said. "You let me talk foolishly about it, I daresay, when all the time you were smiling to yourself? You let me think I was better than you, and played badly yourself on purpose? You even proposed this last match-Oh! I think it was horrid of you, Mr. Marston!" That hurt Dick sorely-more, perhaps, even than she had intended, although she was very, and justly, angry. For a little while he did not answer-perhaps he could not-and then, in utter desperation, he made the old, old plea, that never loses its value or its truth. "I'm utterly ashamed," he said. "And I've only one excuse, Dorothy. I did it because I wanted you so very much-because I couldn't get on without you, because it seemed the only way to see anything of you at all. I'd like you to believe that I'm not naturally a liar.” Her face was turned away from him, and he could not see her lips soften a very little at his words. They had touched her by their evident truth, but she could not forget her wasted pains or the pleasure that her teaching and his supposed inferiority had given her. It is probable that the sting of these thoughts would have lost the day for Dick had not a flash of genuine instinct. come to him. At last he said the right thing-perhaps the only thing that could have saved the situation. "I have learnt from you," he said. "Your putting will always be better than mine. It was your putting that genuinely saved the match for you. It has always been my putting that has kept my handicap up. Don't you think you could forgive me, Dorothy?" She knew somehow that now he spoke the simple truth, and that he would never deceive her again. Also, the thought of her putting, of that final "You can't call it anything too bad," putt, seemed to take away the sting of Dick admitted, very miserably. "I don't want to say anything more about it." Dorothy said, very scornfully. "But I don't think we'll play together any more, Mr. Marston. I'm -I'm rather disappointed." his deceit. Dorothy turned to him with a very little, very charming smile. about her lips and in her eyes. "I suppose-I suppose I shall have to try," she said. ¶ Jimmy McGlade strikes straight from the shoulder. He writes as he strikes. VOL XXIII. MY PLATFORM JOHN F. HOGAN, Founder, Detroit, Mich. To combat Socialism. To uphold our Representative Form of Government. To promote respect for Constituted Authority. To assist in a better mutual understanding between Capital and To sustain workmen in their demand for Just Compensation. To make clear that the interests of both sides are mutual, and To advocate Individual Initiative as the basis for all Social, In- To Defend Integrity of Family, Love of Country, Reverence for Ο NE of the most interesting and fascinating studies in school Physics unfolds to us many of the mysteries of nature and We learn, for instance, that nature is a NATURAL "combiner." So also with water. The natural merger of Hydrogen and Oxygen forms one of the Without air and water, animal and vegetable life on earth would Both air and water, therefore, are natural combinations of gases. It may be asked, if combinations were unnatural, why did not two or more. Physics also tells us of Equilibrium. "Stop rocking the boat," means YOU. No. 5 Equilibrium, we are informed, is a state of balance between various opposing forces and influences. This Equilibrium is of three kinds, stable, unstable, and neutral. To show more clearly what we mean, let us take, for example, a boat lying in the river. In order that the boat may not tip over, the monster engines, the freight and other heavy articles are placed in the bottom of the boat. The center of gravity is lowered and thus stability is insured. This is the only condition that will permit the boat to be driven safely through the waters. The center of gravity being low the boat is in stable equilibrium and will continue in its normal position just so long as the Equilibrium is maintained. If the great engines and freight are placed higher up, however, a condition known as unstable Equilibrium results, the balance is disturbed, the boat rocks at the slightest disturbance and is liable to capsize at the first possible opportunity. Apply this fundamental law of Equilibrium to business. More than 90 per cent, of business in the United States is conducted on credit-and credit is builded on the solid foundation of honesty of our business men. Storms, in panicky times of the past, have rocked the boat of business-attempts to capsize it were made-but without avail. Believing firmly in the honesty, uprightness and integrity of their fellow men, business continued its course along lines of prudence, and sanity. Business in the United States remained in stable equilibrium. We are now passing through a period of stress and peril. The consequences of the World War, have only to a slight extent been driven home to the people of America. While we are at peace with the world, still we are trying to gain some of the world's business so that our own people may not suffer too severely from the results of the world conflict. A little shock, a sudden attack, may disturb the present stable business equilibrium-then the boat will capsize! The many political attacks on "Big Business"-and whatever affects "Big Business," likewise affects "Small Business,"—have tended to destroy advantages already gained in world markets. They have also tended to undermine confidence in the honesty and integrity of our business. Hence, they have tended to destroy stability. If these political attacks were sincere, and based on real wrongs, no criticism could justly be made, but, the political attacks were not sincere-they were made by political quacks for selfish political ends! The result has been a lack of confidence in Business-with consequent loss of investment and increasing lack of employment. The peril is imminent-Stop Rocking the Boat! ¶ Political persecutions of big business, spells disaster to the wage earner. |