Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-06-19 | Page 6 | Made Him Feel Lonesome

MADE HIM FEEL LONESOME Sam Blythe, on the Water Wagon, Found That He Had No One to Play With. Two years ago Sam Blythe, the writer, elected to mount the water cart. He became boastfully, painfully selfishly arid. For a time false friends tried to lure him back into the shacklesbetween shack-lesbetween September J5, iin and June 23, 1512, he received 418 bottles of whisky from 312 persons but they finally gave it up as a bad job The other day Blythe was talking with two serfs of the demon at the Waldorf By and by their mania came upon them. They began to edge toward the bar. "Well, Sam, see you later," thev said. ' "No," said Blythe. "Dunno. You may not care to have me in your lit T l?nrt,t I"' 1 am g0lng riSt along. I will drink water, or buttermilk or ginger ale, or any non-alcoholic thing you say, but I am not going to stay out here all alone." tt,"h l' yU're welcome." said the bond slaves, feebly. "No, I am not," said lilvthe "I I spent tho best 20 years of my life me , a Colloctlo of drinking mends, and now I have no one to Play with."-cincinnati Times a .