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JUNB 17, 1S10 The Commoner. 13 w elation of the insurgents was par ticularly vigorous on the part of Rep resentative Fitzgerald of New York, who charged them with insincerity in regard to a reformation of the rules of the house. Representative Clark, the minority leader, also vigor ously Attacked the special rule, and Representative Dixon of Indiana and Representative Underwood of Ala bama Joined Mr. Fitzgerald in flay ing 'the insurgents. Representative Dalzell defended the rule. Ho ex plained that the pending bill was a republican measure, which had been carefully considered in a caucus where there was free and full ex pression of opinion and ample op portunity to amend, and for that reason- it was not deemed proper to subject it to democratic amendment. The democrats, he said, under its terms were given an opportunity to offer a democratic postal savings bank bill as a substitute. Repre sentative Boutell of Illinois replied to the democratic criticism of the republican course by reminding the minority of the tactics they had em ployed in passing the Wilson tariff bill in 1894." The new United States customs court sitting as a final court of ap peals took up its first case June 7. The court was called upon to deter mine as to whether certain paints known as "bronze and scarlet lakes" should be assessed at 5 cents a pound or 30 per cent ad valorem by the customs authorities. The case is that of the United States, appellant, against Q. Siegle & Co., appellee, im porters of paints. The controversy concerns some paints imported from Holland in 1906 on which the firm was required to pay 30 per cent ad valorem. They protested that they should have been assessed 5 cents a pound and their protest was sus tained by the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York. All the new court judges were present, garbed in their black silk gowns, when the .clerk an nounced that the court was sitting and ready to proceed with the new docket. YT A M t.Maupirjr J Arfifa. -President Taft sent a special mes sage to congress recommending that the clause in the new railroad bill which gives the interstate commerce commission power to suspend rates after sixty days be changed so that the suspension may take effect immediately. On Juno 6 President B. P. Ripley of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; President F. A. Delano of the Wabash; President S. Mr Felton of the Chicago Great Western, held a conference with President Taft re garding the federal injunction suit against "the Western Traffic Associa tion's increased freight rates. At torney General Wickersham was present. As a result of the conference with the railroad officials, President Taft's proposition was accepted. The rail roads agreed to withdraw their in creased rates and not to make any other until the new railroad bill be came a law. The president agreed to withdraw injunction suits. Senator Cullom of Illinois has pre sented charges against his colleague, William Lorimer. The charges were made by Clifford W. Barnes, presi dent of the Legislative Voters League of the state of Illinois. Lori mer was charged with holding the senatorial seat that had been pur chased by bribery. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald says: "Many member! of the senate say that even with the sub mission of the confession of White and the indictments against Browne .the senate still lacks definite charges (Continued on Page 14) Old Things Coming Back The other day I happenod to pick up a "woman's paper" and the first thing my eyes fell upon was a little notice to the effect that "shawls are coming back." Then I dropped the paper and be gan musing. The old-fashioned shawl coming back? My, what a lot of memories that little announcement recalls to mind. The first thing I thought of was that song, "That Lit-' tie Old Red Shawl My Mother Wore." A 'long, long time ago a sweet-faced little girl sat under an apple tree, and to the music of a guitar in her hands she sang that song to me. The samo sweet voice sings it to me every now and then, but not under the samo circumstances I am not the only listener now there are-Bix oth er listeners besides myself Let's see, was it a cassimere or a cashmere shawl that mother UBed to wear. I remember that it was a col ored affair, with n fringe handsome ly knbtted, and that it had to be folded just so a long corner hang ing exactly in the middle of the back, and the front corners meeting just so, with a sort of coat-collar effect around the neck. Tho shawl father wore wasn't quite so scrumptious. It was a gray wool affair, and mother used to get out of patience with him because he was a bit careless about getting it on exactly right. She had to stand on tiptoes and father had to stoop over so she could arrange it just right, and he always showed I signs of impatience. But he had to stand for it just the same. And those shawlpins! Mother al always had a handsome one sort of a cameo business, all shiny and bright. But father's shawlpin. Say, he never could find it, and unless mother hustled around and got some thing better he would jab a big long spike-looking affair through his shawl and start out. Gee, wouldn't you like to see some sweet-faced little old woman ap proaching you with a handsome shawl draped over her shoulders? There are a whole lot of us fellows who owe more than we can ever tell to those old shawls. When we were babies didn't those shawls keep us good and warm? Norie of your fussy little dew-dad blankets with knots of baby blue ribbon and pink zephyr for us! Far be it from so! It was one of those thick, warm, soft shawls, and the way mother could hold it up by one end and I was about to say hold us up by the other and with a deft motion wrap it around us about 'steen times and have us so snug and warm that we could go right to sleep in a snowbank. Wrapped up in a few thicknesses of shawl we'd be stowed away on the bed in the side room, alongside of a dozen or so similar bundles, and then the mothers would get around the quilting frame in the sitting room and quilt and talk and talk and quilt hours on end. If the return of the shawl means tt return of the quilting bee and the elimination of the "pink tea" and the "kenslngton," we're going to re joice doubly. Of course if the shawl comes back it must bring with it some of the other old-time creature comforts. There is the "nubia," for instance. Say, didn't her face look mighty sweet, crimsoned by the cold wind and the excitement of skating, as it peeped through the folds of that flossy "nubia?" Dog-gone it, was a fellow to be blamed if he just couldn't stand the temptation and leaned right over and planted a kiss where it would do tho most good? If the "nubia" wasn't invented and used for that very purpose then I don't want a cent. And tho "wristlets!" Of course the ones mother knit were just as warm as any wristlets could bo, but they didn't begin to furnish the real comfort that was furnished by tho wristlets SHE knit! Not much, Mary Ann. The wristlets SHE knit had more colors than Joseph's coat, and while tho mother-knit wristlets mere ly kept tho pulse warm, tho SHE knit wristlets kept the heart warm and the mind busy. And if SHE happened to hang them on the Christmas tree, and you got a glance from her eyes aB the Sunday school superintendent called your name and you marched up to get tho package, all the wool in the world wouldn't make a covering thick enough to make you feel as hot as that one shy glance made you feel. Gee, you can fairly feel that "hot wave" yet, can't you? But there are some things that can not come back with tho shawl and the "nubia" and tho wristlet. The vanished years, for instance. And the smiles of faces long hidden by tho snows of winter and the flow ers of spring. And the echoes of laughter forever stilled. But just the same, is there anything more pleasant than just to sit here for a little while and dream, with half closed eyes, of the old, old days? Just the other day 1 got a little "commencement program" from the old homo town down in Missouri, and it contained some well-remembered names. Blest If some of tho grad uates weren't the sons and daughters of tho boys and girls I went to school with in that very same old red brick school house on the hill! Don't it beat all how time flies? Only yes terday you and X were framing it up so we could make the teacher believe we'd actually looked at the lesson before coming to class, and today we are sitting out in the au dience, prouder than peacocks, watching our own sons and daughters as they deliver their graduating ad dresses. Actually, we went to sleep last night mere boys and girls, and here we are today grown up men and women with boys and girls of our own big enough to graduate. When my father was as old as I am now I was about as old as my oldest girl is now. That is, when father was forty-seven I was twelve, and he seemed to me to be a very old man then. And every now and then. aB I loaf around the house and watch my kiddies playing, I wonder if I seem as old to them as my father did to me when I was their age. 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