Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — Don’t Snub the Children. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Snub the Children.

One afternoon recently I stepped into a store, says an observant woman, to purchase some needed urtioles. Ther > were customers already in the store, and immediately after my entrance the door opened to admit two tiny mites of humanity, who came in timi ly hand in hand. Theolerk m charge had j ist finished with the first customers, and turning to mecourteou.lv inquired if I would exeu.e him if he waited on the children first, “for,"he said “I 1 1 ways feel -nxi ms to send children home as soon as possible so their mothers won’t go; worried i,bout them * Now, in common with many other mothers, I have often felt quite anxious over the long absence of a child sent on an errand, eften sent ior some little article nood d in a hurry, and how often the reao ou of the delay has beou “They would not wait on me until all the big folkr were gone." But it ev-ry clerk and storekeeper was so thoughtful ns the one referred to. how muoh better it would be xhev H ot tbi “. k of kee I )in 8 the t. others and fathers of tin children waiting so then why the little folks who teprfseni their parents, who, by their coning show tnat owe and consideration are expected for the.nu How many extra steps -hev avqiV, a tired m ther and how often the 104V4®? A .<*. ,} t.ftjm lift a care from that mothers heart. Older people can lookYmt for themselves but everyone should look out for the children. Wait on them as soon a< possible, do their bundles up snugly and their pleased little faces and grateful looks will warm your heart even if vou don’t realize it - Kansas City Times/ • lOE -—Oue quart of water, the jnloe of four leTons, one pound of su -ar. Mix and strain Jnst before freezingladd the whites of two eggs. The Democratic State Convention will convene at Indianapolis next Wednesday, June 24th While the exports of American manufactured products will be the largest in the historv of the country this y»ar under the Wilson tariff, the value of th»goods im ported into this country ia smallei than during either year that the MoKinley tariff was in operation. In 1892 the foreigners flood'd our markots with $355,(100,000 of dutiable goods; in 1893 with $400,000,900 worth of like goods, while in 1894nndei the Wilson tariff Put $354,000,000 woit was imported, The value this year will be even less. A big iron company at Binning am* Ala., has ju»t closed a oontraot with a foundry company at Genoa, Italy, forsoo ton |of pig iron, to be used i . making steel. Another Alabama fnrnaoe expects to ‘ell in Italy 50,000 tons of its yearly output hereafter. These Alabama manufacturers of pig iron compete with and undersell English manufacture rs. Notwithstanding the fact that Alabama iron is displacing the English pig in the European markets, and that this particular infanl industry" needs protection abou’ as much as a stalwart miner needs a nursing bottle, yet in the f oe of this demonstration, and of the shipments of Amer. ioan armor plates to Russia and American rails to Japan tho cohorts of McKinley'!m i are gathei ing at St. Louis to shout for “more protection.”