Putnam patriot., 1916-11-17
From the Editors Desk

Have you paid your election bet? You might as well. Whats the use of hanging onto forlorn hope. If you backed your opinion with a few iron boys-as perhaps we did-whats the use of making the stake holder carry it around in his jeans? He only ac- quires the habit of having money without acquiring the habit of spend ing il, or even anticipating spending fl, and he knows he can't save 1t. Of course If you took the right side and paid up while under the false i'm precision that it was the wrong side and got pineapple hair cut or took over new lid or new wife you can't return IL. But If it WAS just long green 1t would seem as if you would like to get rid of it at the first possible moment before your wife sees the roll and wants Q new bonnet or your girl sees it and wants few extra miles in . buzz wagon or weeds out all of those little expensive dishes on the Ia carte. Dis appointments don't mean nothin 10 us no more. To go to sleep at 2 g. m. and dream how you will spend few extra williams and then to wake up and find you won't spend them A-taiI, that you have even got to go without your slice Of favorite pie for the next :few months, Is a preparation that makes the ups and downs of life's sea es- pecially the downs-seem no more than the gentle roll Of old briny At iantic- Pacific in their camest of moods. We are writing this on Mon day p. m., and would say to you fel low republicans, at this hour and date pay up join the torchlight procession, or at least put talow dip in the win dow and g1ther together a sickly smile and advance it as the real Iickled. to death article. No use a. grouching and no one is going to steal these great U. $. AS. Democrat or Republican we all want peace and good times, and the currency that pro | 'em neither can our democratic broth CTS. We'll all be in the same boat and her chances are our chances. If we can't afford band and the bright lights we'll make the best Of the moonlight and the murmer Of the sen but anyhow let's look cheerful, feel cheerful, and give our brothers chance to show us.
 Ten mills make cent, ten cents make n dime, therefore we acknow ledge the sum of 100 mills from our friend, the Hon. William Harrison Souvenir Taylor, late of Putnam, now of Hartford, Baldwin's lunch, and al
 WAYS husllin, This is not an nc know ledgment of indebtness. We are merely telling you less fortunate that Souvenir, a former newspaper, man, well realizing that the country editor has more !chances to take chickens, spuds, onions or sweet cider as value received than he has to fondle real money has sent us as present, no re- turns or favors expected, one of the new dimes, desigrets mark and all, re. gently sent out from the U. $. treasury. We acknowledge the favor and keep 1t before us on our desk for who knows but that it may be n nucleus of for tune. We only hope that Souvenir will become millionaire and that the U. S. will get out a new coin of say, about ten thous and, face value. When we get that one we will break loose and sideslep the weekly issue for n period of some length end take just Il bit of the reward in this world s.that Is coming to every newspaper man in the world beyond. In the meantime we are not deprecialing the little gift. It is appreciated. We will keep it by us till hunger, thirst or some pathetic story from some tramp ptinter'with a more acute hunter or thirst than our own draws 1t from our pocket.