Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1883 — Page 6

• A SONG OF LONG AGO. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. A song of long ago, Hing it lightly—sing it low— Hing it softly—like the lisping of the lips we used to know When our baby—laughter spilled From the hearts forever filled With a music sweet as robin ever thrilled! Let the fragrant summer breeze, And the leaves of locust-trees. And the apple-buds and blossoms, and the wings of honey-bees, All palpitate with glee, Till the happy harmony Brings back each childish joy to you and me. Let the eyes of fancy turn Where the tumbled pipins bum Like embers in the orchard’s lap of tousled grass and fern; And let the wayward wind, Htill singing, plod behind The cider-press—the good-old-fashioned kind! Blend in the song the moan Of the dove that grieves alone, And the wild whirr of the locust, and the bumble’s drowsy drone; And the low of cows that call Through the pasture-bars when all The landscape faints away at evenfall. Then, far away and clear, -Through the dusky atmosphere, Let the wailing of the Kildee be the only sound you hear. O sweet and sad and low As the memory may lajow .Is the glad—pathetic song of Long Ago!

A CHANGE IN FORTUNE.

Mr. Timothy Bloom, salesman in Mr. Crabbe’s big retail dry goods store, was -stealthily eating his lunch in a dusty corner amongst some empty packing boxes. It was not a very good lunch, and warm as the day was, he had but one glass of ice water to drink with it A very mild, pleasant looking young fellow was Timothy Bloom, with eyes like a pretty girl’s and hair parted down the middle; but he was rather doleful at this moment for Crabbe, senior, had just lieen abusing him for permitting a lady, who was uot to be suited by mortal salesman, to get off without buying anything. He had likewise informed hiin that he had been five seconds late that morning and would in consequence “be deducted in eighth” on Saturday evening. That was not pleasant, and Mr. Crabbe’s manner was not pleasant, and the dusty corner and the stale sandwich were not pleasant. And who nan wonder that poor Timothy Bloom, looking up at a row of decorated corset boxes above his head, and taking his idea from the winged infant picture upon them remarked, under his breath: “I wish I was a cherub.” At this moment, even as the wish fluttered up to the corset boxes, a little boy, about three feet high, bearing on his bosom a badge with the enormous number 1189, came around the comer, and fixed his pathetic eyes on Mr. Bloom’s glass of water. “I say, Mr. Bloom,” he whispered, pathetically, “won’t you give me jest a mouthful of that water? Mr. Crabbe says us cashes an’t to have no drinks, and Fm chokin'." Mr. Bloom smiled pitifully at the child, a forlorn widow’s assistant bread winner, and said mildly, as he held out the glass: “Here, Johnny, take halt I’d let you have it all if we were not limited to one glass ourselves.” “Guess water is gettin’ dear,” said Johnny, eagerly swallowing the share allowed of the cooling draught, but scrupulously careful not to exceed the permission. “Thank ’ee. You’re a brick. Mr. Bumps hit me a lick when I asked him. Here have the paper? A customer left it on the desk. Save it for me to take home to mar when Igo home to-night. She likes to read the murders and them things " “Cash 1189!” shrieked a. female voice. •‘Cash! Cash!” “It’s Miss Pringle. I must go," whispered Johnny, and sped away in terror. There were ten cash boys in the store, and they had been numbered high to sound well Mr. Bloom peeped around the boxes at the dock, saw he had ten minutes more to himself, and opened the paper. The first thing his eye lighted on was an advertisement of a fine country seat for sale, and he read it through—4he description of the stables, bams, bath tubs, conservatory, veranda, lawn and kitchen garden; the well, octagon parlors and cupola; the tiled halls and frescoed oeilings,as though he intended to buy it for himself that afternoon. Then he oast his eye upon an account of how Mr. Mullen had beaten Mrs. Mullen, and been arrested for so doing; and then he found himself reading a paragraph to the effect that the heirs of Timothy Bloom, of Lancaster, England, if living, might hear of something to their advantage by applying to Jones & Johnson, . - street. “My name,” thought Mr. Bloom, at first. Then, with a start, he remembered that he had heard that his grandfather was named Timothy. Certainly, he came fTom Lancaster, England. His her,fat David Bloom, had been an only son. He

was an only son himself. Well,theD,te was Timothy Bloom's heir, if it should prove thatthe Timothy Bloom inquired for was really his father’s father. “But, oh paha!” said Mr. Bloom, “this sort of thing couldn’t happen to me. It’s some other Timothy, not poor old grandfather.” And he copied the address of Jones A Johnson into his pocketbook,and wait back to his counter quite cal nly, though he wrote to Jones & Johnson that night However, wonders will never cease. When Tim Bloom, the meekest of all young salesmen, went home that Saturday evening with a “deducted’ salary and a scolding, he found Mr. Johnson himself in his boarding-h6use parlor, and an examination of the family Bible in his possession, and of a certain bundle of yellow letters that Mr. Bloom had more than once decided to burn, but had, fortunately, spared, settled the matter. Half 8 million of money had come to him in the regular course of nature, and he was richer not only than Mr. Crabbe,but than any of his most fashionable customers. jt was a wonderful surprise to little Tim Bloom, and he scarcely grasped the idea at first. Even after he had told his confident, his landlady’s pretty grandMr. Bloom remembered the placard over the water-cooler: “Cashes not allowed drinks;” “A cash who drinks deducted one-half,” and though that if Mr. Crabbe really had a heart this must be known one in private. The boarders were not “sociable;” he treated them to ice cream several times, and took Hetty White to a concert or two He improved his mind in libraries and museums, and set up a bookcase of his own, into which he put a miscellanous assortment of volumes; but when one day he received a perfumed envelope, inviting him to a lawn-tennis party at Mr. Crabbe’s country seat, he felt that the dissipations of the wealthy had just begun for h’m. He accepted, of course and went attired in perfect style, and looking very well, indeed. , He returned bewildered. Miss Crabbe sang and danced, and was “stylish.” She had set her cap for him, and bbe —yes, actually Mr. Crabbe—bad plainly allowed him to see that ho would give his consent to the match. “Two months ago he called me a ‘stupid idiot.’ Two months ago he snubbed me whenever he spoke to me," thought Tim Bloom. * : ¥es, this is the old story; everybody, everybody, even old ‘Mrs. White, flattering and cringing to my money. I wander whether Hetty is the daughter, Mehitable White—a pretty, pink-cheeked, capable damsel, called Hetty for short -he on'y went so far as to think of a pair of patent-leather boots and a diamond cravat-pin. Hetty awakened him to a full realization of his changed condition by saying, rather seriously, and looking away from him: “Of course grandma’s won’t suit you any longer, Mr. Bloom, and you’ll never have to go back to Crabbe & Co’s again." “By George! I never thought of it; so I shan’t," said Tim Bloom. “No more counter-jumping for me; and if Mrs. White will let me hire the back parlo'j Fll take that Go away? Not I!” “Not yet; its too soon,” said Hetty to herself; “but he’ll go when he quite understands.” “Let me congratulate you, my dear Mr. Bloom," said Mr. Crabbe, bowing as he parted from the departing clerk as he did to the carriage customers at the very sto re-dooo. “Ihave always felt superiority in you over the other young men. I said to my daughter, Belinda, tne other day: “If it were not for giving offence to ethers I should ask Mr. Timothy Bloom to our little evenings. Something •'t the money. I wonder whether Hetty is the same?’, And in the seclusion of his own apartment poor, young Tim Bloom actually cried; though Mr. Crabbe called that evening and took him to a charming stag party, whqre the guests were principally in the'dry goods line, and in every direction one's ears caught the remark, “sold a bill of goods to a man,” and where everyone scorned to drink anything less costly than champagne. “You rascal,” said the excellent father on the way home, “I see you are afraid to speak, but I know you couldn’t keep your eyes off my Belinda last Wednesday.” “Could I hope for your consent,if she " “My dear boy—ha! ha! ha! Why, ask her and see!” cried Mr. Crabbe. It has always been the wish of my heart, even when you were a poor clerk, and she (don’t say I told you) always admired you—always!” At nine o’clock, one night,Mrs. White’s door bell rang, and a messenger boy handed in a letter—a big letter, with a big seal and “immediate” on it. What could it be? Something about the property, of course. Mrs. White carried it herself to Mr. Bloom’s room, and as she handed it in, saw him seated beside a table on which stood wine and a tray of delicacies. Mr. Crabbe was at supper with her boarder. , 1 “Excuse me,” said Timothy.

“Oh! certainly,” said Mr. Crabbe. Timothy opened the letter, read it, uttered a deep sigh, and passed it to Mr. Crabbe. Mr. Crabbe read it and turned purple. “Do I understand it?" said Timothy, hiding his face. “Your lawyer says the property is no longer yours—that your grandfather was not the right Timothy Bloom, and that the real heir will demand a restoration of all that you have spent already.” “Yes, I was right,” said Mr. Bloom. “But, Mr. Crabbe, after all I shall do very well I can go back to your store, and Miss Belinda has quite a sufficient little fortune of her own. We can still be happy.” Mr. Crabbe leaped to his feet. “Sir! sir!” he said, “this is a great piece of impertinence, sir. You haven’t spoken to Belinda.” “But you assured me— ” began Timothy. didn’t” shrieked Mr. Crabbe. “A least, I was mistaken. I came here with the intention of telling you, upon my word and honor, that she can’t endure you; and as for the store,you were a most incompetent salesman. There is no situation open. Sorry for you, but— Good night, good-night.” ■ “Good night,” said Timothy. Then, as the door closed, he took up his letter and carried it to old Mrs. White, who, with Hetty as assistant, was seeding raisins for next day’s pudding, sitting one on either side of the drop-light in the dining-room. . “I shall have to give up my back parlor,” said poor Timothy. “And as for my half hall bedroom, I don’t know how to pay for that; for Mr. Crabbp won’t take me back.” “Time-serving old wretch!” said Mrs. White. “No matter, Mr. Bloom. I’ll trust you. Intentions being right, I never will be hard on my boarders, and you can keep the parlor until it is hired, because it’s more comfortable.” “And try to keep up your spirits,” said Hetty; “for, after all, money isn’t everything.” “It seemed too sudden to last,” said Mrs. White. “I never trust these lawyers.” . So the good souls comforted him, and after a whueTwlien he asked Hetty to take a little walk with him, she consented. There was a little park on the other side of the street, and though the gates were looked they walked around its railings. Their talk was. long and earnest, and at last Timothy said: “Well, Hetty, poor as I am, will you promise to marry me some day?” And she had answered, “Yes, Tim,” very simple—and so it was settled; and for a young man, recently reduced from affluence to poverty, Mr. Bloom certainly looked very happy as they went home together. But it was only when Mrs. White had given her loving consent to his marrying Hetty when they had enough for bread and butter, that he made confession: “I can’t keep to myself any longer, grandma. I wrote that letter myself. I’m as rich as I ever was, and Eve tested my friends. Old Crabbe has proven false and you have proven true. I felt sure about Hetty all the while; and when we are married you must live with us, and there shall be no more hard work and boarders for you in this world, you dear old souk” After which the reader is to understand a wedding and a happy life|for alL—{Mary Kyle Dallas in New York Ledger.

Beginning to Squeeze.

Wall Street Daily News. Two or three years ago a Jersey City pension lawyer took the case of a widow who wanted about $2,000 back pay, and the papers went to Washington to be hidden away among the cobwebs until some clerk had nothing else to do but examine them. After three months had passed, a young fanner called to ask about the case, and regularly every ninety days since that time he had dropped in with his: “Well, any good news for the Widder Jenning?” At his last visit, the other day, the lawyer replied after the same stereotype fashion and added: “Do you live near the widow?" “Only one farm between us.” “And she has told you to watch for the money?” “Well, not exactly that, but I’ve kinder taken it upon myself to do so. If the Widder Jenning gets that $2,000 before the first of April my heart is going to yearn to marry her. If she don’t git it, I’m going to marry an old maid with twenty-one acres of land and a yoke of oxen. I wouldn’t have come in to day but the widder she’s a winking and the old maid is looking purty as a bed of onions, and things is beginning to squeeze on me.” Miss Anna K'*ng, living eight miles from Anderson, has been cured by prayer of an injury to her ankle which had compelled her to walk on crutches for a long time and had been pronounced in- ’ curable.' '

THE TARIFF BILL.

PtovMom of the Act a* Passed by the Senate.— General Bednetion of Thirty Per Cent. Estimated. The following is a full synopsis of the tiriff portion of the revenue bill as it passed the Senate: Schedule A.—Chemicals were reduced by the Tariff Commission from twentyfive to thirty per cent on existing rates The changes made by the Senate have been in the direction of further reduction. Phosphates and fertilizers have been placed on the free list. Deductions have been made upon nearly all drugs and dyes. The only exception is the increase made upon the extract of sumac to satisfy the Virginia sumac industry. The exceptional increases in this schedule are the restoration of lead products, zinc and spelter to the olu rates. The rest of the chemical schedule was reduced. Bichromate of potash was reduced to three cents, and anniline dyes to thirty-five per cent advalorem. This change is important to dyers and cotton manufacturers. A large number of chemicals now dutiable are placed on the free list by the Tariff Commission,and this number was considerably increased by the Senate." There was, however, an increase of the duty on saltpetre of half a cent a pound. Schedule B. Earthenware and Glassware.—The rates remain practically as reported by the finance committee with the exception that common window glass was reduced cent a pound. The rates of the committee were about 5 per cent less than the rates reported by the Tariff Commission, and were intended to be equivalent to the present rates. The Tariff Commission increased them on account of the abolition of the duties on packages and inland transportation. The Tariff Commission’s increase is 15 per cent advalorem. The Senate reduced this to 10 per cent and abolished charges and inland transportation, which the committee claim will make the rate of duty about five per cent less than the existing law, the reduction being entirely the effect of the abolition of the duty on packages and inland transportation. Schedule C. Metals—The rates adopted by the Senate are in some important particulars considerably lower than the rates reported by the tariff commission. Iron on remains at the same rate, fiftv cents a ton, as fixed by the tariff commission, which is about the present rate. Pig iron, wrought and scrap iron are reduced from $8 to $6.50 per ton; steel rails from S2B to $15.62 per ton. Bar iron is reduced on an average about *4 cents per pound. Russia sheet iron is reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents per pound. Sheet iron is reduced an average of cent per pound. Tin plates are reduced from 1 1-10 to 1 cent per pound. Cotton ties remain unchanged, and wire rods, iron and steel; the basis of barbed wire is substantially unchanged. Wire, steel and iron is reduced on an average of %of a cent per pound. The rate on all steel below 5o per pound in value, is fixed at 40 per cent ad valorem. This is an advance of 10 per cent on Bessemer blooms, and on all the lower grades 1 of steel, which under the present law are admitted as “steel not otherwise provided for” This statement of the increase, however requires explanation. The Treasury Department has assessed 45 per cent on this class of steel as “manufactures of steel not otherwise provided for.” The United States circuit court in New York has decided that this steel must be in simply as steel not otherwise provided for, at 30 per cent ad valorem. The increase of 10 per cent therefore, in the Senate bill is a reduction of 5 per cent on- the practice of the treasury, but an increase of 5 per cent over what the United States court says the law is. There is no doubt that the decision of the circuit court will be affirmed by the United States supreme court so that really this is a practical increase over existing law; the present rate "being 2% cents per pound on all enumerated steel valued at less than 7 cents per pound. The rates on steel above 5 cents per pound, and not above 7, are as under the present law. On steel valued at 7 to 9 cents per pound there is a reduction of % cent a pound on the present law; above 9 cents per pound in value, a reduction of % cent per pound. Steel in forms not specially provided for remain at 30 per cent ad valorem, the present rate. The non-enumerated classes of, manufacture of iron and steel are fixed at 35 per cent On all various enumerated forms of manufactures of iron and steel the rates adopted by the Senate are substantially those of the tariff commission, which are an average reduction of 20 per cent, below the present rates. Schedule E. Sugar—The reduction of sugar below No. 13 Dutch standard in cold# is about 18 per cent or 45-100 cents per pound. This would be a reduction of the revenue from sugar of $8,443,000 The reduction of sugar above No. 18 Dutch standard is about 28 per cent, of the present rates. This is a hq?er reduc-

tion on those above than those below* No. 13 Dutch standard. Schedule F. Tobacco.—The notable change in the tobacco schedule is the inci ease on tobacco used exclusively for wrapping, known as the Sumatra tobacco, from seventy-five cents to $1 per pound. Schedule G. Provisions.—Most of the articles in the schedule remain unchanged. Barley and malt are reduced five cents per bushel Rye is raised a quarter of a cent per pound. There is a light increase on oranges, and lemons and bananas are put on the free list. There is a large reduction in dried fruits, figs, raisins and sweetmeats. Oat meal is reduced one-half cent a pound. Chocolate and chicory are reduced. Schedule H. Liquors.—The notable change is an increase on the duty on champagne of one dollar per dozen quarts, and corresponding increase in pints. Schedule J. Cottons. —There is an average of about 35 per cent advalorem reduction on the'present rates. There is 'a general reduction upon all articles except ing the hosiery cotton laces, embroideries, lace window curtains, insertions and cotton velvet. These articles are all increased from 35 to 40 per cent, ad valorem. Hemp, jute and flax.—Raw hemp is increased from sls to S2O a ton, and jute butts put on the free list Schedule K. Woolens, —Tbe clothing and combing wools are reduced about ten cents on wool below thirty cents in value, and twelve cents on wools above thirty cents. Carpet wools are reduced one-sixth of the amount of the duties; from three cents to two and one-half cents for wools below twelve cents in value, and from six to five cents above the specific duty. Woolen goons and all manufactures of woolens are reduced on . an average to 35 per cent, ad valorem. The reduction on carpets is at least 35 per cent, on present rates. Schedule L. Silks. —The rates are reduced to fifty per cent ad valorem from sixty per cent,, the existing rates. Schedule M. Books.—Are reduced from twenty-five to fifteen per cent, ad valorem. Books in a foreign language are put on the free list Blank books and paper are reduced to twenty per cent, ad valorem. Schedule N Sundries.—The reductions generally average twenty-five per cent Coal was put at seventy-five cents per ton. the existing rate. Salt is reduced twenty per cent below the present rates, with a proviso that salt used in packing meats and fish shall be free, and the duty shall be remitted on salt used for curing purposes. This makes salt almost free except table salt The rate on hats and bonnets is reduced about thirty-three and a third per cent The reductions in the bill, it is estimated by the finance committee, will reach thirty per cent

HOW IT EFFECTS A MAN.

Take a little wife, The prettier the better; Pat her cheeks, and when She wants to kiss yon—let her. One of these old days You’ll feel one inch taller, When yon see her hug A chopping little equaller.

A Year at Castle Gardea.

New York Herald. The annual report of the Commie sioners of Emigration for 1882 was forwarded to Albany last evening. It is the largest document of the sort which the board ever issued, and it deals with many questions which have recently attracted much attention, by reason of the Legislative Committees’ inquiries and newspaper exposures. It appears that there were 520,855. passengers landed at this point during 1882, of whom all were aliens but 44,260. This exceeded the total immigration of 1881 by 70,717, and was far larger than any previous year. Of last year’s arrivals 198,468 were Germans, 52,768 were Irish, 44,517 were Swedes, 40,849 were English,and 27,487 were Italians. The avowed destination of the immigrants were as follows: New York, 166,824; Illinois, 51,331; Pennsylvania, 46,398; Ohio, 23,362; Michigan 20.415; Minnesota, 20,198; lowa, 16,666; Massachusetts, 14,602; New Jersey, 11,849; Missouri, 9,353; Connecticut, 8,153; Indiana, 5,355; California, 4,521; Dakota, 2,833, and Rhode Island, 2,410. The remainder were divided among the other States, the South receiving a surprisingly small number. The larger number—36 per cent—credited to New York is explained by the fact that many immigrants made this city their stopping place for a time and afterward go permanently to the West or elsewhere without making known their destination to the commission. The cost of receiving and caring for the immigrhnts per head was, in 1880, 40 cents; in 1881, 38 4-5 cents; in 1882, 44 cents. In all preceding years since 1847 the cost ranged from $2 to $2.50 per head. • The reason why a rumor travels is because it gains currency, and therefore makes money and can afford to travel. ~