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GRANDMA.
A stitch always dropping in the everlasting
knitting.
And the needles that I threaded, no, you
couldn't count to-day:
And I’ve hunted for the glasses till I thought
my head was splitting,
When there upon her forehead as calm as
clocks they lay.
I've read to her till I was hoarse, the Psalms
and the Epistles,
When the other boys were burning tar
barrels down the street:
And I've stayed and leirned my verses when
I heard their willow whistles,
And I’ve stayed and said my chapter with
fire in both my feet.
And I’ve had to walk beside her—when she
went to evening meeting,
When I wanted to be racing, to bo kicking,
to be off:
And I’ve waited while sho gave the folks a
word or two of c reetin r,
First on one foot and the other, and ’most
strangled with a cou/h.
“You can talk of Young America.’’ I say, “till
you are scarlet.
It’s Old America that has the inside of the
track’. ’’
Then she raps me with her thimble and calls
me a young vsrlet.
And then she looks so woe-begone I have to
take it back
But: There always is a peppermint or a
penny in her pocket—
There never was a pocket that was half so
big and deep -
And she lets the candle in my room burn way
down to the socket,
While she stews and putters round about
till I am sound asleep.
There’s always somebody at home when every
one is scattering:
She spreads the jam upon your bread in a
way to make you •■•row.
She always takes a fellow’s side when every
one is battering
And when 1 tear my jacket I know just
where to go!
And when I've been in swimmin j after father
said I shouldn't.
And mother has her slipper off according to
the rule,
It sounds as sweet as silver, the voice that
says ”1 wouldn't
The boy that won't go swimmin; such a day
would be a fool: ”
Sometimes there’s something in her voice as
if she gave a blessing,
And I look at her a moment and I keep still
as a mouse—
And who she is by this time there is no need
of guessing:
For there’s nothing like a grandmother to
have about the house!
—Harriet Prescott Spofford.
Little Corners.
Georgia Willis, who helped in the
kitchen, was rubbing the knives.
Some one had bean careless anil let
one get rusty, but Georgia rubbed
with all her might; rubbed and sang
softly a little song;
In the world is darkness,
So we must shine.
You in your little corner,
And I in mine
“What do you rub at them knives
forever for?” Mary said. Mary was
the cook.
“Because they are in my corner,”
said Georgia, brightly. “ ‘You in your
little corner,’ you know, ‘and I in
mine.’ I’ll do the best I can, that’s
all I can do.”
“I wouldn't waste my strength,”
said Mary. “I know that no one will
notice.”
“Jesus will,” said Georgia, and then
she sang again; “You in your little
corner, and I in rains.”
“This steak is in my corner, I sup
pose.” said Mary to herself. “If that
child must do what she can I s'pose I
must. If He knows about knives, it's
likely He does about steak,” and she
broiled it beautifully.
“Mary, the steak was very nicely
done, to-day,” Miss Emma said.
“That’s all along of Georgia,” said
Mary, with a pleased red face, and
then she told about the knives.
Miss Emma was ironing ruffles; she
was tired and warm. “Helen will not
care whether they are fluted nicely or
not,” she said; “I’ll hurry them over;”
but when she heard about the knives
she did her best.
“How beautifully my dress is done,”
Helen said, and Emma, laughing an
swered, “that is owing to Georgia,”
then she told about the knives.
“Xo,” said Helen to her friend, who
urged, “I really cannot go this even
ing. I am going to prayer-meeting;
my corner is there.”
“Y'our corner! What do,you mean!”
Then Helen told about the knives.
“Well,” the friend said, “if you will
not go with me, perhaps I will with
you,” and they went to the prayer
meeting.
“You helped us ever so much with
the singing this evening.” That was
what their pastor said to them as they
were going home. “I was afraid you
wouldn’t be there.”
“It was owing to our Georgia, said
Helen; “she seemed to think she must
do what she could, if it were only
knives.” Then she told him the story.
“I believe I will go in here again,”
said the minister, stopping before a
poor little house. “I said yesterday
there was no use, but I must do what
I can.” In the house a sick man was
lying. Again and again the minister
had called, but he wouldn't listen to
him: but to-night he said, “I have
come to tell you a little story.” Then
he told him about Georgia Willis,
about her knives, and her little
corner, and her “doing what she
could,” and the sick man wiped the
tears from his eyes and said, “I’ll find
my corner too; I’ll try to shine for
Him.” And the sick man was
Georgia’s father.
"I believe I won’t go to walk,” said
Helen, hesitatingly. “I’ll finish that
dress of mother's; I suppose I can if I
think so.”
“Why, child, are you here sewing?”
her mother said; “I thought you had
gone to walk?”
“Xo, ma'am; this dress Beerned to
be in my corner, so I thought I would
finish it.”
“In your corner?'’ her mother re
peated in surprise, and then Helen
told her about the knives. The door
bell rang, and the mother went
thoughtfully to receive her pastor. “I
suppose I could give more,” she said
to herself, as she slowly took out the
ten dollars that she had laid aside
for missions. “If that dear girl in
the kitchen is trying to do what she
can, I wonder if I am? I’ll make it
twenty-five.”
And Georgia’s guardian angel said
to another angel, “Georgia Willis gave
$25 to our dear people in India to-day.”
Twenty-five dollars?” said the other
angel. “Why, I thought she was
poor.”
“Oh, well, she thinks she is, but her
Father in heaven isn’t, you know.
She did what she could and he did the
rest.”
But Georgia knew nothing about all
this and the next morning she bright
ened her kaives and sang cheerily:
In the world is darkness,
So we must shine.
You in your little corner,
And I in mine —The Pansy.
Overheard in the Toy Closet.
“Heigho!” said the wax doll,
wearily. “I’m awfully tired. I sat
through two doll’s teas this afternoon,
and then stood on my head in the cor
ner for one mortal hour. I don’t know
which is stupider—tea, or standing on
one’s head.”
“They’re both hard work,” said the
rubber doll. “Hut think of me. The
baby left me in the bath tub this
morning, and I was under water for
forty minutes. I never got such a
soaking in my life. I’m afraid I
caught cold. Doesn’t my whistle
sound a little hoarse?”
“It is sort of squeaky,” put in the
hoop; “but I’d rather be squeaky in
my voice than dizzy. I was going
round and round for an hour and a
half steady this morning; and the
worst part of my work is that the
more I attend to my duties the more
the children hit me with a stick.”
“I’m very sorry to have to hit you,”
said the stick. “It hurts me just as
much as it does you.”
“I know, my dear,” returned the
hoop. “You are as gentle with me
as you can be. I suppose I ought to
be glad you are not made of hard
wood, like the bat.”
“Yes, indeed you ought,” cried the
baseball. “I’m nearly dead being hit
in the head by that old bat.”
“I miss you as often as I can,” said
the bat.
“That’s true enough,” said the ball,
“but I think it’s pretty hard on me
just the same. The only pleasure I
get is in stinging Bobbie’s hands
when he catches me. I hit his palms
so hot and hard yesterday he had to
drop me. lie thought I was a bee.”
“Well, isn’t there ever going to be
any rest for us?” asked the wax doll.
“Seems to me we ought to have a va
cation.”
“You’ll get it,” said the old rag
baby up on the shelf. “Wait until
after next Christmas, and you'll have
just as much rest as I’m getting, and
you won’t like it much. Mollie used
to play with me all the time, but last
Christmas when you came I was tossed
up here, and here I’ve been ever
since.”
“Why don’t you complain?” asked
the rubber doll.
“Yes—and g-et given away!” re
turned the rag baby. “I might be
worse off than I am.”
“So might we all of tis,” put in the
baseball. “I’m satisfied with things
as they are. Let’s be happy as we
are.”
“That’s what I say,” said the sing
ing doll, “and if the rubber band will
accompany me, I’ll warble you all to
sleep.”
And the rubber band good-Dataredly
agreeing, the singing doll did as she
promised, and very shortly the toys
were all snoring away as contentedly
as can be.—Harper’s Young People.
Allgel Mings.
Little Kate’s claims to beauty are
hampered by a pair of remarkably
large ears, which stick straight out i
from the head and seem to get larger
all the time despite the tender offices
of a fond mother and other admiring
feminine satellites of the small dam
sel. Kate has heard these large ears
mentioned frequently, but does not
seem at all disturbed by their size and
general aggressiveness. One after
noon the little maid appeared on the
lawn, just fresh from her bath,
and arrayed in the fleeciest of
airy white gowns. “Come here
this instant and kiss me love
ly Kate,” exclaimed an enraptured
admirer, “you sweet little summer
girl! You look like an angel only you
haven’t any wings,” Kate advanced
graciously and bestowed the desired
salute, with an unwonted generosity
then she waved her small hands
toward her head with bewitching
grace and asked jocosely, “No wings?
What's the matter with my ears?” —
New Y'ork Tribune.
But That Isn’t What It Spalls.
“What does g-l-a-s-s spell?” asked a
backwoods teacher; but there was no
answer.
“When the window is broken what
do you put in it?” was the teacher's
next question.
“Pap's ole hat,” said one of the boys
promptly. _
.Johnnie's View of It.
Six - year - old Johnnie walking
through a cemeterjyand seeing inscrip
tion on tombstone, “Not death but
sleeping,” said:
“Well, I know if I was dead I
wouldn’t tell a story about it!”
Twins.
Johnnie, seemg his twin cousin for
the first time -Isn't it funnymamma?
Mamma—What, dear?
Johnny—Why, this baby is a philo
pena.winter ~
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
AD VALOREM DUTIES.
rbl* Substitution for Specific Duties, a
Step Hack Into Ilttrburistn; a Law Im
possible to Honestly Enforce; Aban
doned by all Other Null inns of tno
Earth, but Now Dressed Up by South
ern Theorists.
The most startling feature in the
Wilson bill is the change made almost
entire in the senate, from specific to ad
valorem duties. The house bill started
the change, the senate committee com
posed of three southern members have
extended it over 90 per ccut of the
whole list.
Under the McKinley act every duty
was, where possible, levied on the yard,
pound or quanity. This avoids under
valuations, bears equally upon all and
is the only rational method. Mr. Wil
son claimed the committee had been
induced to take this step so as to show
exactly how much the importer was
contributing to the general tax. Does
it give salt less or more savor to know
that the duty of Sc per 100 pounds,
which the importer pays, equals SO per
cent of the selling price of home pro
ducts'.’ If the duty be found too high
on any article it may be reduced, but
the rate should be one which would be
fair to all, easily estimated and not a
weapon for fraud.
The German shoddy goods maker can
swear down his prices so as to flood our
markets with the "cheap and nasty”
goods as they have done elsewhere.
Adulterations are cheaper than honest
goods and will be bought in at so much
less that we will get the itch outside
and dyspepsia within from their use.
These ad valorem duties are con
demned by the almost unanimous ver
dict of those whose opinions are en
titled to respectful consideration. The
judgment of every secretary of the
treasury investigating the subject from
Hamilton to Manning is invoked in re
futation of the democratic position. It
is unnecessary to quote from the un
varying testimony of secretary of the
treasury, from our customs inspectors
and from our consuls abroad, who all
have close and daily experience in the
practical workings of this subject It
will be sufficient to quote from Mr.
Cleveland's secretary of the treasury,
Manning, under dale of December 7,
lS8f>, as follows:
‘It is desirable that in revising and
reducing rates of duty they should be
made specific instead of ad valorem, so
far as the nature of the merchandise
will admit. Theoretically considered,
ad valorem are preferable to specific
duties; but in practice, under such
rates as me have had and must continue
to have for years to come, the former
are the too easy source of deception
and inequality at the custom house, j
Congress has it in its power to change
from time to time, as may be advisable,
specific rates so as to meet any perma
nent change in values.”
Secretary Manning summed up the
whole matter as follows:
“One hears it often said that if our
ad valorem rates did not exceed 25 per
cent or 30 per cent undervaluations and
temptations to undervaluations would
disappear; but the records of the de
partment for 1817, 1840 and 1857 do not
uphold that conclusion. Whatever suc
cessful contrivances are in operation
today to evade the revenue by false in
voices, or by undervaluations, or by
any other means, under an ad valorem
system, will not cease even if the ad
valorem rates shall have been largely
reduced. They are incontestibly, they
are even notoriously inherent in that
system.”
In view of this overwhelming testi
mony, it is purile to contend in favor of
the superiority of ad valorem over spe
cific rates, Against the opinions of the
mere theorists of today, I interpose the
substantial judgment of practical busi
ness men, experienced officials and the
practice of the most enlightened nations
on the globe. In ail continental na
tions except the Netherlands ad va
lorem tariffs have been substantially
discarded. France, Germany, Austria,
Hungary, Italy, Sweden and Norway,
Russia, Switzerland, Belgium. Portu
gal and Spain, as the result of long ex
perience with both S3Tstems, have set
tled down to the collection of their cus
tom revenues almost wholly to a spe
cific basis. It is more than folly, there
fore, to attempt to foist upon this coun
tr3r a system condemned by a century
of our own histor3T and the experience
of the leading European nations.
A SCENE IN' THE HOUSE GALLERIES.
A Democratic Speaker Threatens to Clear
Them Out Because They Know a Good
Thing When They Hear It.
Mr. Burrows, from Michigan, made
a notable tariff speech in the house on
January 9th last. In his closing re
marks he quoted trom “Bradstreet” a
statement there are, "in New England
65.200 unemployed and 154.000 depend
ent; New York and New Jersev, 223.
250 unemployed and 563,750 dependent:
Pennsylvania, 151,500 unemployed ami
449.200 dependent; Central Western
states, 227,340 unemployed and 443,
310 dependent; Northwestern states,
64,900 unemployed and 4,700 depend
ent; Southern states, 43,065 unemployed
and unemployed and 122,650 depend
ent; making a frightful aggregate of
801,885 people unemployed and 1,956,
710 dependent.
Yet the half has not been told. The
record of this year's industrial and in
dividual suffering resulting from pro
posed legislation will never be made
up. It exceeds the possibilities of
human calculation.
I implore you to abandon this sui
cidal policy. Have you not pursued it
far enough to become convinced of its
disastrous consequences? It is no longer
an experiment—it has become a public
crime. You have it within your power
to instantly relieve this appalling situ
ation. You have only to substitute for
the pending measure a joint resolution
declaratory of your purpose to main
tain existing laws in full force and'effect
duriDg the continuance of this admin
istration, and business activity would
instantly take the place of business de
pression. It would arrest the slaugh
ter of our flocks, open our mines, relight
the fires of our furnaces, unchain the
wheels of our industries, start every
spindle and loom: while whistles anil
factory bells would call the tramping
starving millions back from enforced
idleness to profitable employment and
the American republic would leap with
a bound to its accustomed place in the
van of industrial nations. [Prolonged
applause on the floor and in the galler
ies. J
The Chairman—The chair begs to re
mind our visiting friends in the galler
ies that sueii demonstrations are not
allowable under the rules, and a repe
tition of them will warrant the chair
in having the galleries cleared. [Re
newed applause.] The sergeeant-at
arms will be directed to remove visitors
from the galleries unless they cease
their demonstrations.
A Member—They vote, Mt. Chair
man. [Laughter. ]
They will vote ami their votes will
be counted.
Work, Not Hrag.
Working, not bragging, should be the
business of the campaign. Instead of
assuming that the democrats are al
ready defeated, go on with the hard
work needed to beat them. Tell the
voters what the democratic leaders
have done to deserve defeat, as by giv
ing the rapacious Sugar trust #50,000,
OOu of taxes. Organize in every pre
cinct, prevent ballot box stuffing and
get out the full vote. These are the
methods that lead to victory, not boast
ing about sweeping the state from end
to end because rome discontented dem
ocrats in the Fourth judicial district
slapped the first candidate—for a non
political office—who cTtme along and
relieved themselves of their wrath
thereby on the blunders ot their party
leaders in Washington.—Chicago Trib
une.
Star-Eyed Goddesa Speaka.
With overwhelming changes of party
majorities going on all about us—in
the face of such a popular rebuke to
tiic incapacity of leaders as no politi
cians ever received before in the his
tory of the country-—it is worse than
folly, it is a crime, for Democrats who
yet retain some self-respect and to
whom the people have been wont to
look for unselfish counsel, to bate their
breath and hold their tongue. The
feathers of the ostrich are fair to sec,
but his methods of self-protection aro
ridiculous. They are not to be initia
ted by democrats. The tariff bill which
is about to pass the senate is abomin
able. Practically, it will yield the con
sumer little, if any, relief. It presents
the democratic party in the character
of both a fool and a fraud, crippling
the cause without a shadow of com
pensation. The administration should
in some way—there are many ways—
disentangle itself. The house should
throw it out by a single vote. The
committee of conference should prompt
ly report itself unable to agree. '1 he
ways and means committee should as
promptly bring in a measure involving
revenue only—a simple tariff scale
raising SaO.OOU.OOO on fifty single items
—no schedules and no classifications
with their misleading subterfuges and
confusing incidents—and, if this be re
jected—as it doubtless would be—ad
journ congress and go to the country,
placing the responsibility where it be
longs, pledging the party to stand by
its guns and to fight its battle apon the
line of principle and honor until the
people shall decide, conclusively and
for all time, whether we are to live un
der a free trade system or under a
protective system.—Louisville Courier
Journal.
Who Deceives the Laboring: People?
Here I place beside each other a
statement of perhaps the greatest
Democratic economist living and the
statement of Grover Cleveland, uttered
about the same date upon tile same
subject.
CLEVELAND, THE DEMAGOGUE.
At any rate the consumer has foinu
life harder since this reform li. e.. the
McKinley tariff) than before, and if
there is a workingman anywhere who
lias had his wages increased by virtue
of its operation, he has not yet made
himself known.—Speech at Providence,
K. I., April IS!«.
ATKINSON, THE INVESTIGATOR.
There has never been a period in the
history of this or any other country
when the general rate of wages was as
high as it is today, nor a period when
the workmen, in the strict sense of the
word, has so fully secured to his own
use and enjoyment such a steadily and
progressively increasing proportion of
a constantly increasing product.—May
Forum, IS',):.’.
Added to the foregoing is the further
statement of Mr. Atkinson:
There has been during the twenty
seven years since 1905, subject to the
temporary variations and fluctuations,
a steady advance iu the rates of wages,
a steady reduction in the cost of labor
per unit of production and a corre
sponding reduction in the price of goods
of almost every kind to the consumer.
—May Forum, 1892.
The following is an extract from the
summary of the report of the bureau of
statistics of labor, written and issued
by a democrat under a democratic Gov
ernor, August 22, 1.892:
“It appears that there was a net in
crease in wages of 80,377,925.09 in the
year 1891, as compared with the
amount paid in 1890, and a net increase
in production of 831,315.130.08 in the
year 1891 over that of 1890. A simple
analysis of this table further demon
strates the interesting fact that of the
sixty-seven industries covered 77 per
cent of them showed an increase either
of the wages or produce, or both, and
that there were no less than 80,717 in
stances of individual increase of wages
during the same year.”
(Juorura Counting.
There seems to be a spirit of investi
gation which is growing daily, as to
the ultimate results of the late rule
adopted by the democratic house of
representatives, which provides for the
counting of a quorum. Underlying
this principle is the fact tha5 the ma
jority are responsible for the action of
the body, and therefore this method of
force is brought into use. If it be true
and its application i3 essentially neces
sary in the government of the house of
representatives, would it not be well to
substitute the same rule in the govern
ment of some of our states, by which a
very small majority are allowed to be
the governing power, notably in the
state of Mississippi, which, with a vot
ing population of 271,000 at the presi
dential election of 1S92 cast but 52.309
votes. The aggregate white vote of
the state is 120,000. The aggregate
colored vote of the state is 150,400.
Here 17 per cent, or less than one-flfth
of the voting population of the state,
controls the entire business and wel
fare of the people. Would it not be
wise on the part of the people of Mis
sissippi to raise the question of a quo
rum and adopt, if possible, the demo
cratic method that no businesscould be
transacted until a visible quorum were
present at the polls?