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The Commoner.
Vofl. j, No. aii
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THE HOME DEPARTMENT.
The Message Prom Judea,
Across tho years and dlstanco wide,
Across tho continent and the main,
Through all tho changes that divide,
Tho mossago comes to ub again
Of Him, who, midst tho accusing hand
That stood tho erring one boforo,
Stooped down and wrote with sinless
hand
His law to sinners: Sin no more.
Oh, flrmor than tho sculptured stono
That sacrod mossago over Btands
Tho ono lino writ hy Him alono,
Eternal in tho shifting sands.
Eternal, though tho trampled mould
Had hut a singlo hour sufficed
Within its fading shape to hold
Tho message of tho living Christ.
For glr.d tongues spread it far and
wido,
And told it o'or and o'or again;
And thus it ever shall abide
Engraven in tho hoarts of men.
He loved not sin, yet ho forgave
Tho doer of tho deed abhorred;
His justice lifted handB to save,
Not menaced with tho glittering
sword.
In laws of love ho did descry
Our frail humanity's best hope;
Not in tho rule of eyo for eye
Not in tho axe, the stake, tho ropo.
Oh ye who take Christ's name, yet fear
To follow whore ho led tho way,
Why should you doubt his precepts
clear
For guidance in your little day?
Think welljjipnfdst your fear or wrath,
irjuarist were wiui you now, as iuou,
rouiu no approve uio aoom 01 uuuui
Invoked upon your fellow-men?
Oh, it Indeed to do his will
And walk his ways bo your desire,
Seek not to make his good an ill,
Mercy a cheat, and Christ- a liar.
If wrong could over right a wrong,
Or life could ho by death restored,
How had tho ills the centuries throng
Been banished from Thy earth, 0,
Lord!
Oh, listen to the gontlor voice
That bids all hate and violence ceaso,
And trust sad earth may yet rojolco
Within tho blessed reign of peace.
Francis FiBhor Browne, in The Dial.
A Place For Everything:.
One of tho greatest trials tho tidy
housewife is called upon to undergo
is the presenco in the home of the dis
orderly perspn the person who, liter
ally, has a place for everything, said
place being generally wherever the
"thing" happens to fall, to bo tossed
off or tumbled down. From attic to
collar, from front porch to back gate,
this person leaves a trail of careless
and slovenly disorder, which greatly
Increases the work and inconvenience
of every one about tho premises.
That tho disorderly person was
"born so" is no excuse, because a taste
for neatness and a habit of putting
things away properly can be acquired
by oven the most poorly endowed in
this respect; and it is really far less
trouble to do everything woll than to
do a few things very badly, The bus
iest person always has the most "time"
because such a person must be sys
tematic and painstaking in having ev
erything in its own individual place,
in order to successfully meet tho ele
ments upon his or her strength and
time.
I know wo see a great deal of "ad
vice to mothers" upon this subject,
and sometimes we do get so tired of
having all tho responsibility thrown
upon us; but, after all, it is tho mother
who must tako it upon hersolf to en
courage in tho coming man or woman
and latent talent for tidiness and sys
tematic habits. Tho mother may, her
solf, bo lacking in this particular, but
if she is conscientious and observing
sho will see that tho littlo feet follow
hers, tho littlo eyes see as hers do, and
tho littlo hands copy after her work,
and sho will thus seo tho necessity of
greator ondeavor upon her own part
to kcop everything in tho very neatest
ordor her strength will allow.
And in this work sho may bo greatly
holpod by' leading the littlo ono along,
teaching it this stop, training it in
that, insisting upon It thinking for
itself, and showing how greatly tho
work is facilitated by doing every
thing, even the most trilling, in tho
best manner possible. A good littlo
bundle of patience and persistence will
bo required, but wo aro always patient
with anything we lovo, and we do lovo
tho littlo, helpless things, and oven
patience and persistence in ourselves
may bo acquired if we will it to bo.
Thore aro many little, inexpensive
conveniences easily made, and tho con
stant use of which will tond greatly to
ostabllsh habits of order and neatness
even in tho most slovenly. It is only
nocessary to use the brains a great deal
and tho hands a little. A shelf here
and thore, a row of hooks, shoo pockets
tacked upon tho doors, inside of clos
ets, wall pockets in convenient places,
paper racks, boxes neatly covered with
paper or calico, with lids hinged on,
and the hundreds of littlo contrivances
which will suggest themselves to tlw
orderly house-mother, will save much
time and labor, and help to establish
habits of neatness in tho family from
largest to least.
Insist upon use being made of these:
never allow anything to be stuffed
away in haste; tho untidiness will
make itself manifest just at tho wrong
time, or tho article will bo wanted and
cannot be found without a prodigal
waste of time and temper. Do not al
low the boy, when he comes In, to
throw his cap in "any old corner,''
kick his shoes and stockings under the
table, toss his coat on top of it, and
dump his school-bag into the only easy
chair in tho room. Do not let the las
sie add her belongings to the reigning
confusion of scattered garments, and
do not allow tho boy to go out to play
while you insist on the girl doing the
"straightening up" for both. The boy
must bo taught to care for his own.
Do not allow a half dozen garments
hung upon ono hook, even on two, in
any haphazard manner, while the oth
er half-dozen are thrown down on
tho closet floor to swell tho already
disorderly heap of shoes, stockings,
rubbers, handkerchiefs, collars, lacey,
blacking brushes, etc. It will take far
less time to hang them up properly,
put them away In tho boxes, wall pock
ets, shelves, and drawers, than it will
to hunt them out of tho tumbled mass
when wanted.
I would like to say a word about
"John;" but guess I better hold my
peace, only if "John's" mother had
made John "behave himself," when a
small boy, even if she had to enforce
her endeavors with a slim, tough hick
ory switch, John's wife would not get
so discouraged about the children.
Helen Watts McVey.
President Garfield's Advice.
"Lot me beg of you in the outset
of your career, to dismiss from your
minds all idea of succeeding by luck.
Thore is no more common thought
among young people than that foolish
one that by and by something will
turn up by which they will suddenly
achieve fame or fortune. No, young
gentlemen, things don't turn up in
this world unless somebody turns
them up. Inertia Is ono of the indis
pensable laws of matter, and things lie
flat where they aro until they aro en
dowed with activity and life. Luck is
an Ignis fatuus. You may follow it to
your ruin, but not to success. A pound
of pluck is worth a ton of luck. Young
men talk of trusting to tho spur of tho
occasion. That trust is vain. Occa
sions cannot make spurs, young gen
tlomen. If you expect to use them,
you must buckle them to your own
heels before you go into the fight. Any
success you may achieve is not worth
tho having unless you fight for it.
Whenever you win in life, you must
conquer by your own efforts, and then
it is yoursa part of yourself."
The Up-to-Date Baby.
It isn't correct any more to have
tilings daintily pretty for the new-born
baby just in order to have them dain
tily pretty. It is no longer the proper
thing to swathe the little body in yards
and yards of muslin and lace and put
him to bed in billows of down and
silk perfumed with rose or violet. Up-to-date
mothers no longer vie with
each other on the point of delicate
elaboration. They do not vio at all
any more. Their one object is to make
ovorything as sanitary and comfort
able as possible for the newcomer.
Sometimes they give a sigh for the
pretty bow or frill of lace, but after
all, everything in the new fashion
looks so clean and sensible and whole
some they come to see the other waB
only a perverted taste, and take no
pleasure in it Things have advanced
In tho last few years. The nursery is
one of them. Woman's Home Companion.
The Emergency Shelf.
The first time my husband walked in
with three extra people for dinner
nearly brought me to the Tergo of ner
vous, prostration. My dinner, already
cooked, consisted of four lamb chops,
six potatoes and two cups of custard.
It meant a scramble and a polite re
fusal of every dish on the table by my
husband and myself. After that day I
added what I called an emergency
shelf to my pantry. On tho shelf will
be found ono bottle of salad dressing,
one can of lobster, one can of salmon,
one can of deviled ham, three cans of
assorted soups, several bottles of fancy
pickles and a package of banquet waf
ers. Canned vegetables are of course
a necessity. As soon as 'anything is
used, replace it at once. The house
keeper who once starts an emergency
shelf will never let it dron ouL of the
pantry. She is amply repaid by hav
ing friends say they always. are cer
tain she is . prepared for company.
Chopped celery ready for a salad, can
also be aided; it makes a nice addition
to tho list, as salads are generally
liked by all people. Good Houeekeop-ing.
Defamers of tho Army.
A curious reversal of positions has
been brought about by the puerile at
tempts of small-bore politicians in
congress to divert attention from the
real issue in the Philippine debato
with mere noise and bombast about
the sanctity of tho uniform of a hJred
fighting man.
From denial that any cruelties have
been inflicted by soldiers upon tho
Filipinos, these vociferous patriots
have been driven by indisputable proof
of the charges Into worse than foolish
attempts to excuse and justify acts of
brutality for -which the perpetrators
have been placed In jeopardy of their
lives before military tribunals.
Tho defenders and apologists for
Gen. Jake Smith, not those who have
exposed and condemned his methods
of "benevolent assimilation," are seek
ing to place responsibility for proved
atrocities upon the army as a whole
If the army has been defamed and
apparently it has beon the defama-
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Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
tion lies in tho interpretation of de
nunciation of men like Smith into at
tacks upon the military body.
When the defenders of "Hell Roaring
Jake" sought to justify his monstrous
order by comparing the devastation
of Samar with fire and sword to tho
operations of Sherman and Sheridan
during the civil war, they committed
the crowning folly and changed places
with the bitterest of tho "unrecon
structed" relics of the confederacy.
It was a southerner, the son of a
confederate soldier, who resented with,
indignation the attack of scatter
brained republicans upon two of the
great heroes of the union army. It
was left to Representative Williams,
of Mississippi, to remind these amaz
ing blunderers that there was no mur
der in the war waged by Sherman and
Sheridan, that no southern woman wag
harmed or insulted, that there was no
killing of ten-year-old children, no wa
ter cure, no barbarity in, the civil war.
The intelligence of the party leaders
is discredited by their failure to close
the mouths of republican congressmen,
who stupidly refuse to take from the
president the cue that "nothing can.
excuse or will be held to excuse any
cruelty In the. treatment of the native
of the islands by members of the
American military forces." The only
way to preserve the honor of tho army
is to expel from the army every man
who disgraces his uniform. Philadel
phia North American (rep.).
Nails For. the Coffin Lid.
The democratic tfarty is getting
ready for an assault on the walls of
special privileges that will force some
thing to give way. Back of the demand
for tariff revision and trust regulation
will be found the people. And every
one of them will have a hammer and
a handful of nails to help nail down
, the lid of that coffin. Toledo Bee,
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