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Ah. h"w 1 laughed until 1 cried O'er Hilly'a sentimental screed; Th- well I knew the loyal pride That lay behind Us HI'tpsBeO1 creed. Ha 1 he not hattled for tue wi ll, When once a spiteful boy had said raisi"l and I the word did s !1J My golden locks were "fiery rod?" Ar 1 had he not true-hearted hoy g ved up his pence to buy a treat, then with quaint, transparent loy, Laid down the treasure at my feet? Ts true I corned his snuliby" nose. His freckles and his warty hands; His odd, old-fashioned, home-made clothes. His servile mien at my commands. Ar 1 with a slrl's strr.nce wayward whim. Behind my checkered pinafore, I J'.lrw-d In making s;ort of him, Jkciuse myself he did ador. poor Hilly! years have come and pone Since last I IslMI into your eyes. And saw. like some poor wouiel.-.t .wii, TOUT look of anguish on SbrpftSO. And I have Uned mld scenes afar, Hll quaffed life's up ur.to the lees; And on my hoart Is many a s -ir Of wouruilngs nutd-' by hate's decrees. And oft 1 wonder, after all. If with that little blotted linn That lies leneath time's somber pall, I did not lose "My Valentina" BOSS l'earle. in Chicago Tribune.

us, I an t'nui everyone of the Heil, from IVggy, who was 10, dow n to Ruing ( bo ws six. ami despi.ed a crybaby), w hen old Mr. Pigeon mined awnv. He

M sued a tried ar.d trusty friend. ami, i( lie was on, mji Ii aomu'i-i'Mi! c 'in al; -ion. He was always ready to go fishing or coasting with the boys, or to take the girls to drive; gJtbOOgh lie was a lunchclor tad lived alone, gad had a double carriage end tJ.e burgos nfrlgh on Pippin Hill because he had so I.ttl'" a heart, iVgrv said. Be knew as much about the w did thine in the WOOda a "The Hunter's Own Hook." and on a rainy lay or w hen one had the mump or the measles he wmiid tell stories by t tie donrn stories that were worth Ulling. too. for he had boon " TOOnd the rld and home again." and knew all . re w as to k r: about eann i ii.ils am! ai.eers and wild men. and all such ui-tinruivhed atul interesting- jHopl, It h::ppned that the only liotiseson i t : i-toj of Pippin BUI WtM the Hel- . (Iuxset.he Ik'lK house may have recehntd that name ieeaus la a Hell yssjwkeof hischildren as his "small fry." anyway, that Ls what ceryon in Kloo ins boro' ealhd it) and the old I' RtHMI house, which had iicii nt:il to Ibis Mr. i'ipism'a pram I father. The h -uses hacked up to each other, ami there waa a mutual haekyanl fence, of course, it wu ery de.siraMe that tile neiphlMirs should le friendly ami COBgCBÜa); more than this. ÜMN ' a mutual apple tree. The gnarled old "Ii.'li-top cweetinp" wi directly on the boundary line between the tiwoea1 "es. and the mutual fence had been rut in two to make space for it. It-; branches were low ami spreading, in spite of it. high top, and they spread WHrjf impart ially over the Hells' smooth lawn and over Mr. Hip-eon's on-hard. I dropped their delicious fruit early, the first aweet apples that there were almost asceiily as if it were measured ii each of their owners' land. The only difference was that the Aupust. funshine lay longer upon XIr. 1'igvon'c - ' . o the- 1 1 t nl and y ellow, mellow pI juicy npplea dropped tiKn Ins ore.'ianl pr.is and he toss.-! them up to Christine in her neat in the low ' eh of the tree, the seat that he hail h for her. it "voa ChiiatJne who thoupht the niost of Mr. i'ipcon and lie of her. boe.e.ise they U.Jh had a tw i4, Christine "'id She would always Keak of her 'rouble cheerfully, even jokinply. You v- lW scarcely have thoupht that she hiinded it at all; it wa a spinal weakrifw which had bowed her- shoulders and T""ded her head to one side. The ''hers didn't mind much when Chrishe nM left oat of thinps; they were Maf'lk, merry md. but Mr. i'ipron '"d always remembered hor. His w it was in one of his leg: he had to W an uncomfortable iron boot, rind

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to be true, ami in the n t place he Mould have told us,"..j,il 1', sgy. Hut it reully pruvrtl U be true. Mr. Plgeuo'a sister bia own blttfl hod gone to law to obtain a share of her grandfather's estate, which he had failed to boqueath to her liecause rIic had gone contrary to his wishes iu soine way. ami the only nJiarc that ahe could have ite that old estate on Pippin Bill. Perba pC tlie law might force her to take something else as her share, since lie h:ul held pnOMS fcion there no long; but she was llitty. and he should pic it up to I n-1 . That was what Mr. Pigeon said in RMWtr to the indignant mWltfl tlOlsl Of lh'Hells. She waa Bitty that was all he would say; perhaps it wasn't much of a reason, but the liells understood. We all Know w hat it is to gie up things to peopat just bnontlSf bhej are Iky or Polly or John. So it happened that the Hells' dear Mr. Pigeon went away to a little house that he owned down at IVrpiankct Mills and M i-.s Mehitable Pigeon came to live at the old place on Pippin Hill and owned half of the high-top sweeting tree.

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il was September w hen she came was to threaten to have Tommy Hell arte-!.. I, because when he shook their 1 f the tree her side ahook too, and .ic Mkid tiie top of the tree leaned toward their side and more apples fell there, SO when the apples were picked and divided she must have an extra bnobeL She threatened to have their yellow- kitten drowned been UM he scampered after the Hying leaves in her garden, and, she did hao their cross gobbler killed because it ron after her red morning gown, as a gobbler will, you know, and gobbled at her. !!' a.sn't much lo-s, and she sent him horne plonked and drensed, with tbc tntmgci that ohfl should have eaten him if She had not fenred he would be tough. Sbe coasplninod that Deoky'a peacock sqttnwked Bad Dicky's guinea pigs squeaked, and the rone on their stable Bad "a rusty squeak" that kept her awake night.; rind if one of the little Hells mounted the fence she came out and "shooed" him olf as if he were a chicken. Christine, w lin w'xs inclined to look on the bright side and to think well of every OMt said that she would probably (.'lowbetter when tin y got Ix-tter acquainted, and she gave Tommy ami little Kufus the cents each not to use their Ix-an s'ingers mer Ute fence or make faces through the knothole.

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- im iMi. n ne hiCMiiu yniu to tue temptation to make face throup-li tho knothole again. Christine turned a little pale when aba heard thin a Unit Mr. rigeon, and she put, m her thinking cop. She couldn't go to sObOol like the other!, she couldn't go skating; in fact, there were so many thing-, sho couldn't do that it would 1 1 iir boon ery discouraging to one w ho believes less tiriuly than ( hristine did that things us well as people were going tO be batter? bat thai gaVVO her all the more time to wear her thinking cap. And Christ! ne'l thoughts were pretty apt to blossom into deeds some way. ( hristine had made the Christmas wreaths of evergreen and holly from their own Pippin Hill woods, and she bad tent two beauties' to Miss Ptgoon, who hrnl promptly returned them with the message that she didn't want such rubbish Uttering up her bouse. Now whet, t hey heard t bat sad ne w s from Mr. Pigeon she was making valentines. She had a very dainty knack with Uitb pencil and brash, for a 14-year-old girl, and her valentines were more beautiful than any that could be bought in the shops, or so the IlloomsUiro' young people all thought. The fashion of sending valentines might wane elsewhere, but it always flourished in BloOmoborOj perhaps because ChrktUna Boll kept it up. She sent them to the. very last people who expected to have a valentine to neglected old people and forlorn sick people, to Biddy .Maguire, just from the old country, and "kilt" with homesickness, and to Antony l'urke, the old miser, for whom no one had a civil WOfd and who, perhaps, didn't deserve one. And for every valentine that was disregarded or thrown Impatiently Slide, a doneu made little warmth and comfort in a sad heart; for noliody has yet beg II a to understand how great is 1 be day of small tbl tigs. Christine n as more mysterious than usual this year about her vnlent.in-s; she colored when Peggy said shu would Utter semi one to Mis.s Pigeon, but they iioicr thought she would; they thought she was only sensitive alninf herCbristBM wreath. When Mr. Pigeon went away he gave Christine an old desk that be bod had ever since he wasaloy. It had initials and hearts and anchors cut Into it and Waa Whittled nt every corner; VOU. would have ItOOWl if you'd si-en it anywhere that, it bad belonged to a boy. Hut Christine would have it. in her own room; she thought it was baOUl i ful. It had his boy -letters and diaries in it. and sbe had lauirhcd and

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Bot Instead of growing better their new neighbor grew wotoa. she had the mutual fence built up ten feet high, she had the branches of the sweeting tree lopped oil where they Interfered with the fence, and Christine's seat thrown down to tin ground so roughly that it was broken. She said she had let people impose upon her all her life, and she v .isn't going; to any more. Papa Hell, w ho was an easy man and absorbed in his business, said be supeaod t hat so many children and si-m aking things did make them troiibl OOCDC ncighltors; but he thought they fhould have tO remonstrate with Miss Pigeon aiiout the feme, becauoe It took away eo inuch of their sunshine. Christine begged him to wait; she always would believe that people were going to ha hotter, end she knew then-must he something pood nlxiut Miss Pigeon because sbe looked like her hroi her "only the twist seemed to be in her mind, poor thing!" It was November trhea Christine's scat was thrown out of the tree, so she could notha! c used it any more tiint seasonally way ; and w hcnariyoncnsked her how she was going to do without it in the spring, she alw ays answered: "Perhaps MisH Bitty will lie good by that time." Hut that transform at ion didn't seem in the least likely to anyone else. She never forgot that Mr. PigOOB had said she was Hitty, though how she could ever Im Bitty to anybody was more than the other young Hells could understand. Christine would bow- to her. toe, und smile, shyly, although Miss PtfOOUOOly scowled dreadfully in response. Far more diflieult to forgive than th -irown wrongs was the injury she had indicted upon her brother. He WTOtt to them doleful 'letters which sliow.il plainly how homesick lie waa for the good air and the good fellowship of Pippin Hill. Ore of the ncighlmrs who saw him nt Perpia.nket said one would hardly know him he had "pined away" so. fter that little Uttfua (honomhly)

cried over them. And now she had found iu that old desk material for the very queerest valentine she had ever made; and although she 1 i ked to share the fun of making her n'. ntim s w ith the others, she was a little secretive about that. What should the paper ho bot a h-af f r ji i one of thcold diaries, one side all written over in an unformed, Iwiyish hand; and this is w hat was written on it, the ink faded l y time: "I cant bare to rite l-eco hlty bOI tho fever n rid t cant b.ir- knot to rite hecos It RMO like t.-IInK somhoddy. she h"ld nil hand tlto wlnti she 1 i 1 knot now . nvboddy last nlto lund I did knot let th.rn si nd me to bad the fellers say If slMltosa .II I hsv other sisters hut they arc knot hity the fellers do knot understand wen rajrbody ais sbe win ewer hav a io :ike our apusta hlty sals the Tom Tlnki r verse and that nie ns nie as Is rte on the 1st le. f of this iMry ml iihtho Is Thomas Tlnkham riireon hlty has itott a Tcmiier but so hav a ;. "il Metiy l'.'.iie and slio is (JoikI v iv insldi! ami she Is blty and she and 1 vi lli alwys llv together but I cant bare to fit ny nero for l want to now what the dokter sals, they say a feller must he A Mai but wen It Is hlty I rant har " Here the words become illegible on the old yellow paper: there were Motf and smudges asof tears. Though valentines are suptoscd to he dainty. Christine didn't try to clean it a bitl And on the unwritten side, instead of painting any of her pretty flowers or drawing hearts or cupids, she only wrote "the Tom Tinker erse" which llitty had lovingly ipiotusl to her hrot her: " Tom Tinker's my true love, sod I am his drar. I'll gang alonir rl' him his IgstgOl to bar." It certainly was a very gjoeer mien t;i.e. Chrietlne thoughl it would prob ably le returned, even roOOl iconi folly '! n the Christmas wrent.h it Miss

j Pigeon sliould gm-ss w ho sent it and I she would be likely to guess that it enme from the Hclfry; for sbeknew that

hot brother had givm them many of his belongings. She sent It with fear and tremblinp. ami she told none, of the others, for th

older oliis seemed, in their heart, to share the feeling of Tom and little liufus, that the only form of approach to Miss Pigeon was bean-sluiger in band I he valentine wasn't returned; hut Opt hing m cimil tocomeof it. The Hells' Jang beard from Miss Pigeon's Jane that her mistress bad neuralgia. One day after March had come-, urn! a bluebird bad boon seen to alight upon thu high-top W Opting tree, aa Christin c.iine along the forden path t here come a shrill, imperative voice ItUTOUgh Uiu knothole in the fence. "If you have any more of those leaves, ütuff them through the knotbole; if you have the w hole diary tlirovv it over the feivce." Of cumse Christi: e wasn't going to do that with the diary that sis med so precious; but die did semi it around to Miss Piggona door by old Jeremy, the gardanert for none of the boys would 0. It vv a.s aiiout a week after that a man made, under Miss I 'peon's direction, a new scat in the OTOtchof the apple tree a scat that was delightfully comfortable for a Uaek that wasn't straight. Miss Pigeon seemed to know just how. When it was finished she went up and examined it nnd tried it. Then she enUed to Christine, w ho was sitting on the porch. "I'm nggltgnlromui old woman. I was born cantankerous," she said. wB0t there's your scat!" No one at the Hclfry knew what to think of Miss Pigeons it was little hufua' opinion that a food fairy had tapped her with her wand and turned her Into .something else, and he was mneb disappointed to And, oo peaplng through the knothole, that she looked just t bg same. "It's delightful," Christine said, slowly. "Hut it isn't gflUsetljf what 1 meant bv the valentine," she added, to herself. But a few days after, what Christine bad meant by the valentine really did happen! Sometimes things that seem too good to Ih true do come to noon la this world. Miss Pigeon mounted tho high buggy in which she drove herself and Went down to Pequguket when she came back Mr. PtgOOO was with her! Tommy discovered it lirst as they dTovc Into the yard and raised a shout. All the young Hells rushed pell-mell into the apple tree and dropped from its branches into Miss Pigeon's orchard--c.en Peggy who was 16 ghcntlng and laughing and crying all together. They (mite forgot M iss Pigeon until her harsh voice brokg into t he w hirlw ind of greetings, with all its harshness there waa a auner little qnarnr in it! "He's conic back and he's going to st;iy," she said. "It is he that belOBgg here and not L If you're born w ith a cross-grained disHsition you've got to g t over it when you're young or you'll have to have motc'n a ten-foot fence betweon y ou arid other people! I'm going back to nursing' people in a hospital yes, I eon, though you wouldn't think it and they like me! There's a doctor 1 kiow who has invented a new contrivance for for making backe straight" her voice really broke now, hut she recovered herself instantly; "they're easier to .straighten than crooked dispositions! I'm going to send one here, and I want her to try it." She nodded toward ( hristine, and then she turned away suddenly. Little Kufus ran after her prudent ly keeping his hand on the hma-el Inger in his pocket. (They had discovered at an early st.iire of tlieaeqpuilntnceg thai if Mi- Pigeon bad a weakness it was a terror of the lie.mslingcrs.) "Arc you really just the siinie? Didn't a good fairy turn yon Into something else'.'" he demanded, breathlessly. Miss Pigeon turned and looked down upon him, her strong features working. "TOO, she did!" sbe gOBWt red. gruffly. "Did slu- tap you wi'h her wand'.'" puraoed little Rafua, eagerly , delighted with this continuation of beliefs that were scorned in his home circle. "She didn't tap me with a wand." said Miss Pigeon; "sbe sent me a valentine!" Sophie Swett. in .V Y. Imle pendent. AN gP-TO-ItATK VAI.KNTINK.

Sfea VITA I vife r'Slfc ' fife? u'M

She's up to date and nway beyond. And many worship at her shrine; Slo- s.-iit oa arrow throujih my h.-art And claims nie vs her v ab utiiiu.

Vitleiitlnn to Kick Doll. Dolly, doUy larttacl O, dolly, dolly mlno! They laiiRh hecaugg I tell thm That you are my ab-ntlne. They think that I shall tiave, dear, A doll In place of you ; Now, don't be frightened, dolly. For that's what I'll never do. 1 knew j our nose Is BOlttd I know ons eye Is Rone; My father said this morning That you really were forlorn. Hut Ihafa the very reaon Why you should always be The very detract dully In the whole round world to me. If my nose shook! pet broken. If I looked queer and will. Would my marania exchanRe ma, For another bran-new child? -Helen Marston. In Our Uttle Ones.

HOW ABOUT THE REVENUE? lh atoclyroelty Theory of High I'rotev Ii.id 'Ulouitrlt.. "lieciprocity," says a protection or gan, "is free trade in dissimilar and nou-eomeUtive products." That is, one country will admit free articles which it does not produce in consideration of the other's letting in five what the latter docs not produce. Then why was the third section of the McKinley bill called a reciprocity section? Th s section threatened rettsV iation by taxing sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, uiiIcsh the countries producing them let in our export at rates which the president thought were fair.

Are sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides commodities w hich we do not proline.? On the. contrary, we p.-oduce sugar, mohiMics and hides, three out of five of them. As no retaliation was attempted against countries producing ten, w e may eliminate that and say that three out of four were articles which we produce, Tho definition quoted shows that th. so-called McKinley reciprocity, dev i.sed by Senator Aldrich, was not reciprocity at all, since it was not mainly in products wliieh this country does not produce. Put s-uipcxe we let in free nil the comBodltlee which this country does not produce in sufficient qunntity to supply the fronte of the peopio. That lets In sugar free, loth raw and refined. It lets in WOOl free, localise we produce but little more than half the wool needed by the people. There is a variety of other articles to which the .same remark will doubtless apply, but these two are Imported in large quantities. None of this clnss of art idea will yield a dollar of revenue. Of course, then, you must g I nil the customs revenue from articles imported that gOBtpehl w ith our dome-tic products. What is the result? TTaving put the noncompetitive nrticle on the free list, you must fet revenue bv tcixeson competitive trtielea. "Bo much the irtter," says the too hasty protectionist, "since we can thus tax competitive articles nil the bicher." Put they nre already taxed Well-nigb up to the point when Importation cease. If you put on mrnre tax importations will be smaller, nnd If you go n far as the protected interest demand you will stop Importations Bltoccthrr and cut off nil the revenue. The notion that higher tariff means more revenue is obsolete to n larrc extent. Many of our tariff rates prohibit Importations in any quantity worth nnmlng. Others nre very near to the point of prohibition, nnd another turn

of the scr'W will mnlie them unite so. The t heory that hierher rates mean more revenue applies only to noncompetitive srticles, or others taxed much leow the point of prohibition, and even they MsOy be go hlirh that the people will buy them In smaller quantities. As to nrtieles mod tteod at home, when the rale I already hiirh. an increase of the tariff will he more likely to reduce revenue than to raise it. Then whence come the even tie? luisvine Courier-Journal. IToteetloti I What Tliey Wmit. The republicans are determined upon en extra session for the purjxj.se, they say, of perfect ing n tariff measure which will increase the revenues of the United States. If this indeed be their pnrpOOg then they cannot ret-nact the McKinley statute Of October, 1890, because that act was flailed an act to reduce the revenue. The republicans will go into special session to perfect a tariff bill ou the excuse of increasing t he revenue, but. will take no sort of meatus to that end. They will meet for the purpose of Increasing tlu protection already accorded ovcr.ibumlantly to American manufacturers. Their policy is to make not a revenue tariff, but a tariff for protection mainly, and they are to-day. ns they wen when Harrison was nominated in I MM, in favor of levying prohibitive duties. I'nder such a tariff bill ns the republicans in the extra sss;.hi will 4iss exports will fall off and the tariff will not yield the deeired revenue. Them is pertinent gad emphatic objection, therefore, to the republican hypocrisy involved in the ftutement that they ihsiire an extra session of eoi-,-gregg for the purwsn of passing a tariff bill to increase the revenue. The party does not w ant a tariff lot revenue, but a tariff for protection, ami that, is w hy it will have a spcial sesion of congress early in the m-w administration. --Chicago Chronicle. Tho Ohio Shepherds. The political shepherds from Ohio &r w olves in sheep's clothing. They frankly said Ix-foro the Dingley committee that the tariff they demand is intended to shut out foreign wiol altogether. They admitted thai their purpose is to double the price of domestic wool and give it a monojsily. They did not deny that this would greatly inOffOaeO t he price of warm clothing. They confessed nlso that their schedule is not intended to produce revenue, but rather to prevent it. This is all Ihn public cares to know about the howl of the

wolves for more "protect ion." If their demand shall lie granted the voters w ill do the rest, as they did in 1890 and Is'.i2. X. Y. World. Hurting ThetnselvM. American BMUrafhctOfOfl ore constantly complaining of tleir inability to compete with the manufacturers of Kutopc, nnd are demanding protect ive tariffs to shield them from E&UTOpeun competition. The nations of the world accept their statements for truth, and when they have need of manufactured goods they avoid America and American manufacturers, because Americans have proclaimed to the world that they

i iiinot make grsvds. and sell them ns

cheaply as Kuropeans can. They do not

tell the truth when they make sucb statements, and the American pcopie

know it, but the eople of other coun

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THE SELECTION

OF SHERMAN.

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(irowlns lletter. The world erow better, so they aar; More getritle, dlmlfhd nnd sunny. Perhaps no ons will think tome Oer, That comlo valentines are funnr Washington Stir.

Trada suppression is the Dingley

idea, as it win the M Km ley Kien. Hut

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American people will not be long in

diow.sng it. N. V. Wa d,

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dgpoMati There U considerable critielem of Mnj. McKinley' selection of Senator Sherman for the post of secretary of state. It is a well-know n fact now that the fceloction was made solely for tlie piiijiosc of making a place for Mark Ha una, who i-pires to be a senator of the United States, und while it may be pre.- itned that t lie president-elect feels that Mr. Sherman is in every way eJigie ble for the position to which he will w it bout doubt be appointed, it Is still a fact that serious question is raised aa to Iiis fitness for the very delicate work lie may reasonably expect to lie called upon to perform. Of course, there may be a spice of parti nanism in the criticism that is leveled at the proposed appointment, hut it is doubtfui that it can be fully accounted for In this way. The Washington corresjondent of the St. bonis Bepnbllt suys among other things: "The selection Of John Sherman for ths secretaryship of state creates the most profound surprise In Washington, and especially among the senators who have had to do with Sherman, day in and day out, for years. It Is rather unaraclous to say Mjrtbloa reardin a man as venerable In years as Mr. Sherman, and one, too, it must be said, who lias rendered such conspicuous public services. Hut It 1 a matter of common notoriety here, well known to all the senators of all political parties, that Mr. Sherman has by no means the intellectual strength he had years ago. He has been falling for two years with great rapidity. I'hyslcally he is still strong and SCtiVO. Mentally he has been growing f.-i ble for some time, and notably since th last session of congress." It would seem, in view of this, that the exigencies of Ohio politics fall short of justifying tho selection Mr. McKinley hi. made. There is a po-ssihility that the reüd purpose of Mr. Sherman's appointment will laJI, as it is far from, eloagr at present that Mr. Banna can. succeed in his offorts to reach the senate, but the Mansfield statesman will doubtless receive the honor intended for him in spite of the miscarriage of the plans for Mr. Ilanna's exaltation. If the worst shall be icalized in respect to Mr. Sherman it is to be hoped that the president-elect will be found to have been more fortunate in his selections of men to fill the other important places in his officiaJ family. It wasbroodly hinted sone months ago by an eminent republican that Maj. McKinley is a weak, an impressionable man, and if this is true, the preside tit -elect ought to have some stn.ng men about him. Weakness from top to bottom of tlie administration would prove most uiifor

ranattb Blnghamton (N. Y.) Leader. PRODUCTION OF WEALTH. Th I'roteetlnnlut Idea of llrlnglng Ahorn lletter Times. "The immediate gglggtOO of the republican party," remarks a republican organ, "is to start up idle factories, to encourage investment und producer n, to furnish work at good wages to unemployed lnlsir." An excellent mission, but how is it to be achieved? Simply by the exercise of the taxing power of the goTeruinent. Nothing could be easier. Taxes nre to be levied on tilings that the people need, for the I (ii of the men with factories who can convince the leaders of the party that they rhould be helped. By the simple process of placing a tax on articles manufactured abroad the jieople nre compelled to buy at home and the home manufacturer can charge tlie value of the article plus the tariff and thus lie encouraged by huge profits to keep at work. These profits, ..f course, for tin- public welfare he will divide with the men b employs. The production of wealth is merely a matter of putting a government's lingers into the jsn-ket of one citizen and transferring the money there to the pocket of another. Prosperity can le made by forcing all citizens to chip in and pay for the running of a factory which nnother citizen would like to run, if big enough profits nre asgnred. Hundreds of pros pc roes citizens, with millions, can be pointed out

who are living pnfs of the effoetiveiiess of t he tariff as a promoter of prosperity. With a bounty on gooda anil

premium on idleness, fuctorioa will

be shut down, now and then, by wicked

combines, but the taxing power is unlimited nnd the favored manufacturer t . v. r suffers for prosperity while tha

suUstance of his fellow citizens, who must buy from him at his price, holds i nt. He can live in a castle, rule in a coach and have money to bum.

But if it is the mission of a party.

through the control of our govern

ment's taxing power, to start factories

and keep lalsir emploj exl ntgood wages.

why this indirection and the trouble

and annoyance of making up discrimi

nating duties? Why not have government factories for the. unemployed?

If we must have paternalism, let us

have straight, honest, up-to-date paterna.ism, freed from the ancient folly aad

wrong of monopoly privileges. Let us

e riil of the tax-roude millionaires and

give the money to the tax-supported

laborers. St. Louis Ih public.

It Is estimated that the total ap

propriations of the present conTesa will lie considerably io exeeasof $ L.000,-

(00,000 and w ill overtop the. highest ex-

pi-nditurefl ever voted by nny previous

congress by from $20,000,000 to $10,000.-

000. What the republican pol cy will be- and what the republican Tow 1 for mow revenue means are foreshadowed in these appropriations. The bigger tho deficiency, the better the cxi.use to Lay on the taxes for the favored Iwunty jfrabls rs; the heavier the appropriations, the richer the plm-ting for Iho party jobbers. St. Louis gepublic. Chairman Dingley declines to go Into the cabinet hecausa he could not personally supervise ciery brnach of work in the departmeut, and hia conscience would not permit him to assume responsibility under othor cordit ions. A rare bird is Dingley. He io w Lse enough to know that be Io not liuilt for execjttr station, UUoa 0b. server.