The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1897 Page: 6 of 8
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THE 1EMPL1; TIMES JUNE 25 1897.
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INGRATES.
It U the fretting pebble In the shoe
That makes the Journey seem so won-
drous long;
We cannot see the lark In heaven’s blue,
We cannot hear the robin’s happy song;
All this wo cannot do
Because of that small pebble in the shoe.
It Is the little note we cannot hear
That makes the tune so sadly Incom-
plete;
We stand afar off or we gather near.
We hold our breath—the music is not
sweet
To our unwilling ear
Because of that faint note we cannot hear.
It Is the petty falling of our friend
That makes us blind when we his life are
shown;
We will not see the rose the children tend,
For on its stem a tiny thorn has grown.
"You should your life amend!”
With scorn we cry to both the rose and
friend.
It Is the voice for which we wait in vain
That spoils the chorus of the world's
applause;
The praise It gives is like a sea in pain
That beats upon Insensate shores, be-
cause
Our hearts will only deign
To call that praise for which we wait In
vain.
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THE TRU
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HAVE THEIR INNINGS.
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HEM.TAKIfF
up saw the familiar face of her old-
time friend. A faint flush came to her
Those manacles we kissed;
We shrink at these small fetters on the
wrist.
It Is the ono dear face we cannot see
That comes between our clouded eyes and
Heaven;
Others perhaps are fairer—only we
Want but the sight that to us Is not given.
Lord, let us not lose Thee
Because of that dear face we cannot see!
—Flora L. Stanfield, in Woman's Journal.
It Is the galling fetter on the wrist
That gnaws the heart and eats into the
Intent upon its links, our eyes have missed cheek as sh© put Out her hand to re-
Those greater chains which keep us from cejve tjie one extended to her, and an
odd little fluttering about the heart
made her catch her breath for a min-
ute; but she soon regained her usual
quiet dignity and asked, as they
walked along, the conventional ques-
tions concerning health and relatives.
As they stopped at her gate Alfred
B&id:
“I’m in Southfield only for to-
night. I rather hoped you’d ask me
to take one of the old-fashioned cups
of tea with you, Elizabeth.” “You
will be most welcome,” she replied,
and together they entered the house;
and as there was still an hour before
tea they sat on the little piazza over-
looking the garden and talked of other
days.
Now reminiscing is rather a dan-
gerous pastime for a man and a woman
who have once cared for each other.
The frequent use of the personal pro-
nouns “you” and “I,” with the closer
HER WEDDING PRESENT.
“I declare, it seems to me I’ve done
nothing hut make wedding presents
for the last live years. I’ve about de-
cided to name a day soon and let peo-
ple send presents to me; it will he the
nearest I’ll ever come to having a wed-
ding.”
The speaker was Miss Elizabeth
Henderson, spinster; the person
spoken to, Helen Ramsey, u young
neighbor who had corns in to see and
admire the dainty table-center worked
by Miss Elizabeth’s own hands, be-
fore it should be sent to a young girl
soon to be married in the village.
“Why don’t you? Suppose we say
the loth of next month?” was Helen’s
laughing response as she rose to go.
“That will he as good a time as any,
I guess,” Miss Elizabeth replied, with
a smile, and she straightway forgot
all about it.
| But Helen Ramsey did not; and
that very afternoon she started out
to propose to some of Miss Elizabeth’A
friends that they should carry out the
little joke and give her a surprise
party on the 15th of the following
month, taking with them some gift.
“She’s always doing everything for
everybody,” said Helen, “and it will
be a nice time for us all to show her
how much we appreciate her; there
couldn’t a thing succeed in this town,
from a church fair to a new habv,
without Mies Elizabeth’s help.”
The project was eutli JBiastically re-
ceived, and it soon became known
throughout the village that Miss
Elizabeth Henderson was to have a
wedding-present surprise party on
the 15th; but not a word of it reached
Miss Elizabeth’s unsuspecting ears.
She went on her way as calmly as ever,
presided over the meeting of the mis-
donary society without tnc remotest
HIGH DUTIES ON BUTTONS.
ii Injustice to the Poorer u< Mid-
dle Classes.
The button manufacturers, present
and prospective, are unusually greedy
In their demands for tariff duties. Mc-
Kinley duties are entirely too slow for
the button infants. The following Is
part of a statement madelby button im-
porters:
The proposed duties op buttons, as
per schedule of the finance committee
of the senate, are as a rule prohibitory
and would prove a severe hardship on
goods used by the poorer and middle
classes, and also manufacturers of
various garments used by the mass of
our people, such as low-priced shirts,
underwear, clothing, etc. The follow-
ing data will give some idea of the in-
equalities of the proposed duties:
Agate Buttons—Present duty, also
McKinley bill, 25 per cent.; proposed
duty of one-twelfth of one cent per
line per gross, plus 15 per cent, ad va-
lorem, would average from 67 to 161 per
cent., bearing heaviest on the class of
goods that make up the great bulk of
the importations. The following sched-
ule, taking the styles that sell, shows
the range proposed:
“we,” the recalling of scenes and cir- -vyhite lentilles on card sold to
cumstunees associated with tender
memories, the finding that one re-
members some little thing the other
said or did, all this serves to rekindle
an emotion that formerly held sway,
Equals
posed ad val.
suspicion that while she was pleading k^ghing voices in the hall made Miss
for money to put up a new school Elirabeth go to investigate. She
building in South Africa, her hearers
so, all unconsciously, perhaps, these
two were being brought nearer to-
gether as they sat side by side in the
sweet June air, and as they talked at
the little tea-table, where Miss Eliza-
beth presided with such grace, mak-
ing the fragrant, tea and passing it to
him in one of the dainty old-fashioned
cups he remembered so well from
years gone by, when the Henderson
tea-table had been larger and many
had gathered to partake of its bounty
who would return no more.
day. What wonder, then, that, be-
fore the clock struck eight, words
were spoken and promises made, and
the love of other days, which had not
been quenched through years of ab-
sence and misunderstanding, was re-
newed, 60 that as they stood, hand in
hand, looking out upon the golden
sunset, there was a new light in Miss
Elizabeth’s eyes, and a sunrise in her
heart.
A ring at the doorbell called them
hack to their surroundings, and
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were mentally wondering whether
■he would rather have silver or table-
linen; and addressed herself to the
task of inducing her Bible-class to
elub together and purchase a new set
of maps for the Sunday school, with-
out ever dreaming that the members
of it were just about to club together
and purchase Stanley’s “History of
the Jewish Church” for her.
About a week before the eventful
day Mrs. Ramsay wrote to an old
friend who had moved away from
Southfield: “What ridiculous plan
do you suppose Helen has concocted
now? She has gotten the town all
stirred up about a scheme of giving
a surprise party to Elizabeth Hender-
son. It all came from a joking remark
dropped by Elizabeth one day totho
effect that she'd given wedding pres-
ents all her life, and now thought
she’d name a day and receive some.
Helen has planned the affair for the
15th, and people are actually going to
her house with all kinds of presents.
Of course everyone is glad enough to
have an opportunity of doing some-
thing for her, but isn't the whole af-
fair absurd ?”
Now it so happened that this part
of the letter was read uloud by its re-
cipient. Mrs. Greene, to her husband
and to her brother, a certain Alfred
Carver. Years before there had been
a close friendship between him and
Miss Elizabeth. *‘The only love affair
Elizabeth Henderson ever had,” the
townspeople said; but it had ended,
no one knew how or why. Mr. Grceno
laughed heartily after hearing the
letter and said: ‘Han’t that just like
Helen Ramsay?” But Alfred Carver
made no comment, only saying, as he
left the room: “Was that affair of
Helen’s to come off on the 15th?”
On the afternoon of that date, ai
ICae Elisabeth waa returning from a
found herself in the midst of a merry
crowd, and Helen Ramsay said:
“Don’t you know, Miss Elizabeth,
that this is the day you set apart for
receiving wedding presents?”
Before the astonished lady could re-
ply she was led to an easy-chair, and
packages of all kinds and descriptions
were laid in her lap, at her feet, and
all about her.
“Isn’t it a good time to tell our
friends, Elizabeth?” whispered Al-
fred Carver, as he bent over her chair.
So Helen was called, and after a
Bhort conference with that astonished
young lady, it soon became known
that the one thing needed to legiti-
mize Miss Elizaljeth’s wedding pres-
ents—a prospective bridegroom—was
near at hand; and such a genuine sur-
prise party as it proved to be to all has
never been known, before nor since, in
Southfield.—Ada Sherwood, in Dem-
orest’s Magazine.
•‘A Urrnir to Stool.”
That muHt have been embarrassing
information to the United States senate
which Statistician Carroll I). Wright
furnished that body last week concern-
ing the labor cost of lumber in this coun-
try and in Canada. His figures showed
that, while the average wages in Canadi-
an sawmills is $1.41 and $1.71 per day
here, the average labor cost of 1,000
feet of lumber is $1.28 in Canada and
only 94 cents here. The decreased cost
You’ll Admit
That judicious advertising
pays. Then an ad in a
paper that is read by the
greatest number of people
is one way of judicious ad-
vertising. THE TIMES
is that paper.
Want Proof
of our circulation? Drop down and see us, or
‘phone us and we’ll come to see you. It'll only
take a few minutes to thoroughly convince you
of the truthfulness of our assertion, and be
dollars in your pocket.
JOBBING TRADE.
Present Pro-
duty,
No. Lines. Price. 25 per ct. duty.
----- - — 0.190
0.285
0.26«
0.287
0.316
0.347
BUTTONS FOR MANUFACTURING
TRADE IN BULK.
Mineral..14 0.138
Ivory....16 0.145
LentUle..l8 0.163
These buttons are not made here, nor
are they likely to be made. First, be-
cause little or none of the raw material
required has been found here; second,
because the total sales being limited to
this country would not warrant the
investment of the necessary capital in a
plant needed to make the various styles
wanted. It is evident that the intention
is to exclude these goods in the interest
TT , of some higher-cost goods. The pro-
Iler8 must be a lonely life, he ; p08ec] duty would be a. real hardship and
thought, as his had been for many a j bear heavily on the class of people who
buy “china buttons,” as well as on the
manufacturers of cheap shirts, under-
wear, etc.
Bone Buttons (to sew on)—Vresent
duty, 35 per cent.; McKinley bill, 50
per cent.; proposed duty, from 106 to
194 per cent. These goods are mostly
sold to manufacturers of cheap under-
wear, children’s waists, corsets, cloth-
ing, etc.
Prices of Llneaa Go lip.
When the tariff bill was about to be
framed the republican leaders stated
that they desired to be moderate and to
avoid anything like excessive rates.
Mr. Aldrich, when introducing the
amended measure Into the senate,
claimed that hlB rates were generally
lower than those of the house bill. The
'linen schedule, however. Is a notable
one of many exceptions. In it the sen-
ate rates are higher than those of the
house and much higher than anything
ever before known.
Under the McKinley bill of 1800 lin-
ens were assessed 35 per cent., with a
few exceptions as high as 50 per cent,
ad valorem. Under the rates proposed
by the senate a large proportion of the
goods in everyday use will be ussessed
from 65 to 85 per cent, and in some
instances over 10O per cent. The fol-
lowing table shows some of the changes
in the cost of medium and low grade
linens:
Price per yard.
New duty. Pres- New
Per cent. ent. bill.
Damask tablecloth...........109 26c 37V4c
Crash for roller towels.......62V4 8 9^i
Colored canvas for dress lln-
Ins*..........................69 8’,i 16U
Clothing linens................ 99 16 22ti
Linen for butchers'aprons.. 66 J9!4 22*4
The domestic manufacturers in whose
interests these changes are supposed to
be made have stated that they do not
desire over 50 per cent, duty on linen
goods, and one of the principal manu-
facturers of linen and cotton handker-
chiefs in America (of Acheson, Harden
& Co., Passaic, N. J.) ,states that he does
not desire any advance of duty on his
goods.
The gross injustice of these duties
can be appreciated when it is remem-
bered that, owing to climatic condi-
tions, good fiber flax cannot be grown
or linen manufactured successfully in
this country, and when it is further re-
membered that the kind of linen taxed
is the kind that is used by the poorest
There are other ways
of advertising; we are prepared to satisfy you
in any of them. Let us know your wants and
we”li take pleasure in assisting you.
In Need of Stationery?
YVe can also satisfy you in anything in that
line—Envelopes, Letterheads, Billheads, State-
ments, Cards—in fact anv and everything in
the job printing line we do at the lowebt poeBi
ble cost to you consistent with first-class work
and a full count.
The Times
Up to date in everything.
SUGAR TRUST PROFITS.
John D« Witt Warmer Makes Seme
Bitlmtca mm* Score* tke T«it.
Ex-Congressman John De Witt War-
ner Is one of the best posted men in this j
country on sugar tariffs. When in con-
he carried the house for free
In a recently published state-
gresa
“rtrhr.«,m;7e;''ir„;rprf^u.n
of production in this country is attrib-
uted to the superior machinery used, ^uch lower duty I"put
Of course, the figures prove the free
trade contention that the rate of wages
paid does not indicate the cost of pro-
duction—that low wages are very often
more expensive to employers, and vice
versa. But these hard facts furnished
by an officer of the government will not
dissuade the lumber barons from their
purpose to get a tariff on Canadian lum-
ber so that they can the more effectually
___ _ rob American consumers. Protection-
meeting of the Wednesday club ihe tot* **" no^n* "J**®?
h«r „.m. >p,kra, Ji lootoj
on the finer grades.
Means Tens of Millions.
Careful estimates show that nearly
one-half cent a pound profit is given to
ihe Irust ou every pound of sugar re-
fined—a profit which means tens of
millions oi dollars. Such a duij assures
for It as great a power over the con-
sumer as it now enjoys over the pro-
ducer, and no single duty In the senate
measure requires a fuller explanation
the same combine Is enabled to net
an additional $10,000,000 by the oppor-
tunity given to it to Import at present
duty rates raw sugars from which it
can make refined to be sold by it under
the enhanced price assured it by the
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to the trust given by the Aldrich sched-
ule at from 35 cents to $1.14 on every
100 pounds of refined sugar.
Without attempting to give his argu-
ment as to each of the ways In which
the trust would be protected we give
his summary of trust profits as follows:
peclflo
Thirty-five
Specific differential (plus)........$> 13®$0 40
iiirty-flve per cent ad valorem
differential........................0 14i
0 21
0 85
Countervailing duty, say.......... 0
Additional by substitution of 75
per cent, ad valorem for specific
duties In low grades............. 0 00® 0 18
Total...............................*0 35@n 14
In the vast majority of cases, however,
the actual result la between 45 and 60 cents
per 100 pounds net protection to the trust,
and It Is Impracticable so to combine cir-
cumstances as to bring this below 40 cents
or above 60 cents for any considerable
amount
As an item of tariff taxation the
sugar schedule is ideal from the pro-
tectionist standpoint. Sugar is the one
article used by poor and rich to an
equal extent, and a tax on which there-
fore falls most heavily on the poor in
proportion to their ability to pay it.
Its production and distribution arc con-
trolled by a concern which is at once
protection” of from 45 to 60 cents per
100 pounds given the trust on its refin-
ing process alone should be considered
as sufficient when we remember that
the labor cost of this process is slightly
less than C% cents per 100 pounds—that
is to say, Senator Aldrich, in behalf of
American labor, proposes unduly to tax
wage-earners in order to give the trust
from five to seven times as much “pro-
tection” as it pays for all the labor in-
volved.
Next to the wage-earner the farmer
is dear to the protectionist heart, and
he is therefore equally favored by the
sugar schedule. Of late years through-
out the eastern and middle and many of
the central states the competition of the
far west has driven our farmers from
grain raising into fruit culture. This
has now so developed that except for
exports of canned goods—jams, pre-
serves, etc.—in which we ought to sup-
ply the world, the business of fruit rais-
ing lias, In its turn, become almost
profitless. And poverty is now assured
to those who are dependent upon fruit
culture by the proposed tux of two
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the greatest of our mean trusts and the , cents a pound on sugar. This increases
meanest of our gret ones.
It is consistent iherefore that on this
one article there should be levied more
than one-third of our total tariff taxa- j
tion, and that our people should be bur- j
dened by a tax of more than $90,000,000 '
that realizes less than $70,000,000 for |
the treasury and more than $20,000,000
by from 50 to 75 per cent, the article
which would make up from -tO to 75
per cent, of the total weight of the jams,
etc., the export of which might insure
living prices for the surplus fruits, but
which is now practically prohibited.
And this is “a government of the
people, by the people uml for the peo-
ple.” Whs are the ‘people V”
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Crow, J. D. The Temple Times. (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1897, newspaper, June 25, 1897; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth585534/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.