JUNB 17, 1S10
The Commoner.
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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.
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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
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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. I
hope not. Why, he seemed to me
then to be a centenarian is that
what you call 'em? And I don't feel
a day over twenty, and if you say
I look to be forty-seven, I'll collide
with you, so there! I don't look it.
Brain Leaks
Some men make money; money
never made a man.
People prone to give advice are
chary about taking It.
Men who think twice before they
speak are always being asked for
favors by men who spealc twice be
fore they think,
When it becomes cheaper to pre
vent industrial accidents than it is
to pay for them, we will have fewer
industrial accidents.
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live acres of fruit troca planted within
flvo years. For information address tha
Jantha Plantation Co., Block G90, Pitts
burg:, Pa. They will, plant and caro for
your trees on shares, so you should
mako a thousand dollars a year. It Is
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