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"'y . APRIL 23, 1909 The Commoner. 13 ""1',Wjp'.f(Bl ' W'JSaiwirj-'Ti The Open Season April now, and I must take Hod and reel and hunt a lake; 'iramp the shore light-hearcet1, glad; Cast out 'neath some lilypad. Fill my lungs with clean ozone, Lift my voice in lusty tone; Watch the white clouds sailing high 'Cross the blue of April's sky. April now, my desk is clean; Trees and grass are showing green; Tang of springtime in the air Goodby, now, old office chair! Off I lay life's weary load And go tramping down the road Down the road between the trees, Drinking deep the April breeze. April now, and field and stream Bathed in April's golden gleam -B.id me up and haste away Where the sunbeams dance and play. Out from dusty, dreary mart, Close to Mother Nature's heart. Out where springtime wakes anew 'Neath the April sky of blue. April now, and songbirds wake Echoes from each bough and brake. Green the grass beneath my feet, Mowers spread their odors sweet; Out across the field and fen, Onward through the woodland glen, Where the long, black furrows lie 'Neath the sheen of- April'B sky. Don't It Make You Mad To have a well-dressed, suave young man. enter your office just when you are busiest, greet you with a smile and a handshake and give you the impression that he is an acquaintance, and then draw a pros pectus from an inside pocket and begin pointing out the beauties of "Robincarps' Travelogues" in 'steenty volumes, dollar down, dollar a month? To have the telephone ring in sistently just when you are incubat ing a bright business idea, and then, when you answer it, have the man at the other end of wire ask you if it would be convenient for you to set tle that little coal bill? To have your wife say, "Dear, the children must have some new shoes," just as you flatter yourself that you are going to get through the month without letting your bank account get into the red ink department? To find that you'll have to buy another jag of coal before you can be right certain that you'll not freeze to death before spring really comes? Plainly Stated "What is the salary?" queried the applicant for the position. "Young man," replied the prospec tive Employer, "this Is not a salary job. It will pay wages. There are no sinecures In this establishment. Now if you want to draw a salary you'll have to look elsewhere. If you want to work for wages, take off your coat and report to the foreman." The Difference A lot of men, rendered desperate by insolent disregard of their rights, go on strike to enforce a demand for better treatment and better wages. Angered by attempts to force them into submission they throw a few stones. Immediately the militia is called out 'and the strikers aro put down by the strong- army of the mil itary. A half-dozen men, scheming in a back room, corner the world's wheat supply and force up the price until thousands are deprived of bread, and children are forced hungry to bed. Misery stalks in the wake of the "wheat corner,'- but Instead of forc ing the schemers to quit by bringing the militia to beat them back, they are hailed as great financiers and their fortunes pointed to as a sample of what may bo accomplished through industry and opportunity in this republic of the free. Quite a difference and the differ ence is all in favor of the striker who throws the brick. Afterthought The shade of Demetrius the silver smith wandered sadly along the bank of the Styx. "Why this pensiveness?" queried the shade of Ananias. "Alas," replied Demetrius, "I lived a couple of thousand years too soon to take advantage of a great oppor tunity." ''Explain, please," cried Ananias. "Had I lived a couple of thousand years later," continued Demetrius, "I could .have saved time and mon ey. Instead of going out and rais ing a sweat trying to arouse my fellow craftsmen to the danger threatened by that fellow Paul, I could have hurried to the nearest federal judge and secured an injunc tion." And the more he thought about it the sadder grew the face -of De metrius. However, a lot of men now oh earth have profited by the mistake of Demetrius. Remarkable "I heard a man tell a fish story last Sunday that took the prize." "One of his own exploits, I pre sume." "No, he read it." "Big story, was it?" "Not so big as it was remarkable. It was about a fisherman named Peter who admitted that after fish ing all night he hadn't got a nibble." Another One "I see you are writing of 'things that have disappeared,' said a friend to the architect of this department the other day. "Yes; have you thought of some thing?" "Thought! Great Scott, man, I've worried. Every Monday morning I've worried about the disappearance of my last week's wages." Fine Business "What is Swaggerly doing now?" "He is in the cream separator business." "What company?" No company at all. He is help ing get through a revised tariff that will give the consumers the skim milk while the manufacturers get the cream. Then They Quarreled MOf Helen; Jack proposed to me last night, and he did it so eloquent ly and so poetically." "Yes, he has had a lot of practice. All the other girls in our set have refused him." In the Toils Increased tax on gloves and ho- ikary. The tariff barons have us tied, hand and foot. Aldrich's Changes Senator Aldrich, when requested to make a brief summary of the gen eral character of the changes pro posed by the sonato finance commit tee to the house tariff bill, furnished the following, statement: In the main the rates in tho tariff bill, as reported from the senate finance committee, aro lower than those in tho bill as it passed the house, tho actual number of reduc tions being about three times tho number of increases. Such increases as have been made have been largely rendered necessary to preserve tho symmetry of the schedules. A con siderable number of articles in com mon use have been taken from tho dutiable list of the house bill and re stored to tho free list. Tho great mass of tho rates reported aro below those of tho existing law. In schedule A (the chemical sched ule) tho principal changes aro in tho nature of the reductions below tho house bill. One important change is in putting distilled and expressed oils on the free list. In schedule B (earths and earth enwares) tho rates remain largely the same. In tho house bill, by a change in phraseology from tho ex isting law, the duties on commpn earthenwarq in two colors are raised from 26 to 60 per centum. Tho committee has reduced them to the rates of the existing law. In glass and glassware the rates remain tho same as in the house bill. ' The senate committee restored iron ore to tho dutiable list at 25 cents per 'ton a reduction of 15 cents a ton in this schedule throueh- out. Nearly all these reductions havfi hnfin rf.fHnrrl hv fho annntril committee. In addition to those made by the house, the senate com mittee has made quite a largo num ber of other reductions. The senate committee has retained the house rate on lead ore of 1 1-2 cents per pound, but it has been obliged to raise the rates on lead products throughout the bill to cor respond with this duty on lead ore. In schedule D (wood and manu factures of wood) the senate has taken the house rate of $1 a thou sand on rough lumber, a reduction of $1 from the Dingley law, and has retained the house rates on manu factures of wood, nearly all showing reductions from tho dingley rates. The only important changes in the schedule made by tho senate com mittee was the restoration of import ed hard woods to the free list. The senate committee left tho sugar schedule as it came from tho house, but reduced the house rate on sugar In biscuits and wafers from, 50 to 20 per cent. The tobacco schedule remains un changed. The agricultural schedule, includ ing meat products, remains practi cally unchanged from existing law, but where reductions were made by tho house the senate committee has restored the Dingley rates, in re sponse to the demands of farmers throughout the country and of the representatives of the great agricul tural interests. Fish remains as it came from the house. The senate has returned cocoa to the free list, believing an article of such general consumption, both as a beverage and in all forms of choco late, should no more be made duti able than tea or coffee. The committee felt that If it were necessary to Increase revenue it could be done better on luxuries than on the everyday necessities of life, and have pursued this policy in the construction of this bill. The senate committee has applied the same principle to spices andfcas, restored them to the free Hs.t, .where UK ALADDIN . Tf niTKP CI 9fl K nock ad .down JwmAf houwt, lunmw cottic. barm and nruM. W un rou half. Prk4 1 100 up taAaWrf- mlltAaffc. tAUfl t amtava-ai a. loft L .1. . .J . - In prlc ilva. Ho . ttondttarnpa for caUlo. HcfXh Anwltai ComlrucUw Co. pay Qry. MS. oBot 1 I In "" " Mm ORNAMEimi FENCE & IHJSIGNH, ALLSTKKr Haridflotno ctimper than wood-more durable. Hpedal prices to clinrchra and cento lerlcs. Don't buy a fence until you cct our frm catalogue. 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