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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
EVER WITH US.

That Old Home Influence for Good That
We Can Not Escape.
Men and women, you brag sometimes
how you have fought your way in the
world, but l think there have been
helpful influences that you have never
fully acknowledged. Has there not
been some influence in your early or
present home that the world can not
see? Does there not reach to you from
among the Canadian or New England
hills, or western prairie, or from south
ern plantation, or from English or
Scottish or Irish home a cord of inf1u.
ence that has kept you right when you
would have gone astray, and which,
after you had made crooked
track, recalled you? You want a
very swift horse, and you need to rowel
him with sharpest spurs, and to let the
reins lie loose upon the neck, and to
give shout to racer, if you are going
to ride out of reach of your mothers
prayers. Why, ship crossing the At
lantic in six days can not sail away
from that! A sailor finds them on the
lookout as he takes his place, and finds
them on the mast as he climbs the rat
lines to disentangle a rope in the
tempest, and finds them swinging on
the hammock when he turns in. Why
not be frank and acknowledge 1.-THE
most of us would long ago have been
dashed to pieces had not gracious and
loving hands steadily and lovingly and
nightly kept their stout grip on u.s.
Talmage, in N. Y. Observer
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
FIFTY SEVEN PENNIES.
The Starting of Great Religious College
in Philadelphia.

The Starting OF n Great Religious CoiieRe
in Philadelphia.
A few years ago little girl applied
to pastor in one of our large cities for
admission into his Sunday-school. She
there was no room for her. and that the
church was so small that no more
classes could be organized. Much dis
appointed, the little girl began to save
pennies-her family was poor-for the
purpose of enlarging the church in
order that she and other children like
her might be accommodated. She told
no one of her ambitious purpose, how
ever, so that when the pastor of this
church was called to her bedside few
months later, to comfort her in her Sc
we're illness, he saw nothing unusual,
only frail child of six and a half
years.
The little sufferer died, and week
later there were found in her battered
red pocket-book which had been her
savings bank, fifty-seven pennies, and
scrap of paper that told, in childish
print, the story of her ambition, and
the purpose of her self-denial.
The story of that little red pocket
book and its contents, and of the un-
faltering faith of it's little owner, got
abroad. 1t touched the heart of saint
and sinner alike. Her inspiration be-
came prophecy, and men labored and
women sang and children saved to aid
in its fulfilment. These fifty-sever
pennies became the nucleus of FUND
that in six years grew to two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and to-day
this heroine's picture, life size, hangs
conspicuously in the hallway of a col
lege building at which fourteen hun
dred students attend, and connected
with which there are church capable
of seating eight thousand, hospital fol
children named for the Good Samaritan
and Sunday school room large enough
to accommodate all the girls and boy
who have yet asked to enter it. A fairy
story? 1t reads like one, but happily i
is not one. The little girls name wa
Hattie May Watt, and the splendid in
situations described are located in Phila
delphia. -Harpers Young People.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Changing Truth to a Lie.

No truth stands by itself; it is related
to other truths. Therefore, to teach
any truth without reference, expressed
or implied, to it's relations, is to teach
falsehood. If an astronomer should as
sert that the sun stands still, and at the
same time leave out the fact that the
planets move in their orbits round the
sun, he would teach what is untrue. Re-
ligious teachers should be on their
guard against these half-truths Be
hold the goodness and the severity of
God" The last part Of this sentence
must not be omitted If it is, God is
misrepresented and the truth is changed
into lie.-United Presbyterian.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
SHORT TARIFF SERMONS.
Average Rate Per Cent.

Free trade dishonesty and deceit il
nowhere more conspicuous than in the
statements regarding the average ad
valorem rate of duty.
The subject is at best chimerical
one.
1t is like chasing rainbows to attempt
to calculate or anticipate future aver
age.
1t cannot be more than guessed at,
for the average rate does not depend on
the rate of duty, but on the value and
amount Of importations Thus the
average ad valorem rate may change
from year to year, while there has been
no change in the tariff whatever.
The only way, then, is to calculate
on actual values of importations and
duty collected.
This will not be true average but
perhaps the nearest that can be COM
puted.
Every free-trade paper in the country
is still maintaining that the average
rate under the Mckinley tariff is 60 per
cent. Now, what are the actual facts?
The latest figures at hand are those
ending September 80, 1891. During the
twelve months ending on that day our
imports were valued as follows:
Free OF duty. Als' 40 439 y
Dutlable,...... ..........s..... 4l3,2O3, 100 IL
Total. 1882, 66s sos 1;
Total duties collected during these
tWHlVe months. ......... ....... Nl33,UiU,U>O q.
1t will be seen, then, that during the
twelve months ending September 30, 1891
the average rate of duty on dutiable inn
ports was AZ per cent, while on total
imports, the honest way of reckoning,
it was only 90 per cent
The free trader is not only dishonest
in his amount, but he uses dishonest
method in getting at it. He only com
putes the rate on dutiable imports. BY
this mode Of reckoning Great Britain's
average rate is nearly 100 per cent
Suppose our $780, 900. 900 worth of ind
ports all came in duty free with the eX
ception of 100000 worth upon which
we collected $50 200 duty. Would oul
average rate of duty be so per cent?
The fact is, as nearly as we can cal
culate it, that our present average rate
is only 80 per cent-less than at any
time since 1851.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
A Warning to FavorIte Sons

The little boy picked himself out Of
the puddle where his rude playmates
had thrown him. He wiped the mud
from his velvet trousers, his silk stock
ings and his lace collar, and straight
ened out his long, golden curls as well
as their demoralized and bedraggled
condition would permit.
"This," he said, bitterly, sis what
comes of being mammals little petH'--
Chicago Tribune.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06

"Dear Saviour he whispered, 81
thank Thee that | have still little
more life for this work which Thou
hast given me TO do"
So these two men went each his way.
One was like noble ship aground on a
desert coast, its sails hanging idle in
the sun, its hull umbling to dust. un-
used and worthless.
The other was happy and eager in
his work, his influence blessing and a
benson in every community in which
he had lived.
Can the story of these men help our
readers to decide whether life is worth
living?-Youth's Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
a SuDerduous Son.

Mrs. Portly Pompous Ito daughter, in
presence of visitorl-Do we know the
Hogs, Clara?
Really, don't think we do"
Billy Pompous (who has good men,
ory)-Oh, ma, what fib. Didn't papa
say he owed Mr.. Hogg $4,000 and he
didn't know where in the world the
money to pay him was to come FROM
Texas Siftings.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
SIS he honest and reliable?"
A Pra ctical Man.

Deacon Hayrick-Goin' to marry PEN
elopc? Sho! She's nice gal, but she's
older'n y'r poor dead an gone wife was,
you know.
Farmer Rakestraw-I know it, dea-
kun, but no one else kin take my dear
wife's place. Penelope is the only one
that's got my wife's own receipt fel
spunkin pies.-Good News.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Short Tariff Sermon.
OUR HOME MARKET,

American wages enable us to live not
only comfortably, but even luxuriantly,
according to the standard OF other coun-
tries for the luxuries of foreigners have
become necessaries to the people of the
United States.
1t is this ability of our masses to buy
that makes our SPLENDID home market
| 1t is of several times greater value to
us than all the accessible worlds mar
kets combined
We consume over 80 per cent. of our
agricultural products, and this is also
true of manufactures.
Every worker at manufacturing in
this country consumes over 500 worth
of our agricultural produce per year,
the English laborer consuming only
"a. 40 worth.
The nearer producer and consumer
are brought together the more the profit
to the producer, the less the cost to the
consumer and the less the profit to the
middleman.
The nearer the farm and factory are
to each other the greater the home mar
ket, and the greater the home market
the greater the value of the farm.
Protection, by establishing and main
tanning diversified industries, has built
up home market in this country that
is the envy of the world in general and
of England in particular. No wonder,
then, that she is trying to break down
the tariff that protects us.
To repeal or lower present duties
would be to diminish our purchasing
power and destroy our home market.
Home production and home consump-
ton go together. If we lose one wo
must lose the other.
!. Andrew Jackson well said:
n Draw 7fomf agriculture the superintendent
labor, employ ii in mechanism and manufac'
i lures, thereby creating home market for your
fpreadstufs, and distributing labor to a most
! profitable account, and benefit to the country
| will result. Take from agriculture, in the
| United States, six hundred thousand men.
women and children and you at once give q
home market for more breadstufs than all
Europe Observation-Disclosures Economist.
THE CANADIAN Manufacturer defines
=, Canadian hugwumpery as follows;
"Mugwumpery gay be described as
that mental condition disappointed poll
ticians arrive at when, for reasons best
known to themselves, they find that the
political grindstone is imperative, as
] far as sharpening their little axes goes.
With some politicians when this condi-
ton is reached they either try some
other AK or some other grindstone; but
they keep up trying all the same" Add,
land they always become enthusiastic
over the achievements of other coun.
tries and generally sheer at the tri.
umphs of their own" and the description
of tie American mugwuup il complete
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Quick at Figures.

Young Featherly - Are these your
children?
Mrs. Brandon, yes The boy is five
years old and this girl seven.
Young Featherly-Well, how time
flies! 1t doesn't seem possible that you
have been married twelve years.-Les.
lies Weekly.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Corroborative Evidence.

81 consider the pen mightier than the
sword" said McFeeder, as he trans.
ferred the last two pieces of pie to his
plate.
81 don't doubt it," said his meek, little
wife. "Your habits at the table make
it seem very probable. Puck.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Rev. Pink PUNK on Honesty.

Most men are honest wen dey know
dey are bein' watched, deah breddern,
but de true test oh honesty is wen a
man has a chance to steal somethin'
without bein' discovered an he declines
to do it; OATS wot call honesty OBJ de
eighteen carat stamp.-N. Y. Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Here are the buyers of the whole
world. Now, which of them does our

Here are the buyers of the whole
world Now, which of them does our
free trader expect to capture by his
slower cost of productions" Even the
abiding faith of an American Cobdenite
can not hope for greatly increased sales
of the products of American mills in
the shadow of English factories, so
Great Britain and its 2,077 millions may
be eliminated. Next subtract France,
Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy, Spain
and Portugal Belgium, Canada, Switzer-
land Scandinavia and Australia, all of
which are protected countries, whose
policy is to preserve for their own man
ufactures a monopoly of the domestic
market The protectionist law makers
of these countries will see to it that no
very extensive captures" of their
markets are made by the United States
or any other country. There remains
then as the only part of this great
worlds market of 1883 million dollars
only 1,69S millions for which we can
even hope.
Well, what are our prospects for OBJ
tanning this remnant? Holland, the
most liberal buyer, exports nearly as
much iron and steel of all kinds as it
imports As for textiles, it usually ex-
ports quite as much as it imports of
them and sends to England three times
as much as it takes of British products.
India is beginning, with the help of its
extremely low wage rate, to supply its
own demand for manufactures and will
soon be a dangerous competitor in these
markets of the world" Cottons are
the principal manufactured goods
needed in the Orient, and it is al
together probable that the demand
of China, Java and Japan will soon
be abundantly supplied with Oriental
cottons at so low a rate that competi-
ton by either England or the United
States will be out of the question.
Turkey, Africa and the "other coun.
tries" have but few wants, and these
are for the most part such as we could
not supply.
Thus do the great markets of the
world disappear under careful exami
nation and analysis. If the whole
Sl,69s, OO0, 900 which represents the pur'
chases of the worlds neutral" market
were ptfsrsd to us in exchange for oui
: @4mestit Hxfket8e-eslIld. not afford tc
accepts 6hsat tyadeSs atleast ter
ti&es thts I'm s1h a9Assafy. All it.
profits arAkapt iSsrdnd.the risl
e ofdStSNk Sfansp6rtstfoh is re-
dusedS 70 a ytfinimum. Its benefits and
blessings are d9calculable, and it will
be dairy aud dismal day when thi:
- oplepdid -Sirthright is bartered away
pr Dat niserable mess of pottage
!" 1.-THE worlds neutral markets." Amer
lean Economist
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Foreign Markets,

What and where are the great mar
kets of the world for which the free
trader would give up our splendid home
market?
The following table shows the pur-
chases of the whole world in 1885, ac-
cording to that eminent free trade sta
tistician, Michael G. Mulhall:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
The Boy Was Careful

Little Son-Papa, my new sled is
broke.
Papa-That was very pretty little
sled, and I told you TO be careful of it,
II was. 1t just broke itself while we
was ridin' down BrealIneck hill on it"
"Who were riding on it?"
"Me an George an Jack an Dick an
Bob an Fatty an the rest."-Good
News
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06

Burglar appearing unexpectedly
Lookin' fer anybody, gent?
Man of the House ION the warpath)-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. me yes-no-
Why, you see, the fact is, the doctor
er-told me to take exercise with Indian
clubs; I-er-must have gotten this
pistol by mistake.-Puck.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06

The damps of death are coming fast,
My father, DER my brow,
The past with all its scenes has fed,
And | must turn me now
To that dim future that in vain
My feeble eyes descry;
Tell me, my father, in this hour
In whose stern faith to die.
In timer I've watched thy scornful smile,
And heard thy whitening tone,
Whenever the Christians humble hope
Was placed above thine own;
I've heard thee speak of coming death
Without shade of gloom,
And laugh at all the childish fears
That cluster round the tomb
"Or is it in my mothers faiths
How fondly do trace
Through many weary year long past
That calm and sanity face.
How often do call to mind,
Now she is meath the sod.
The place-the hour-in which she drew
My early thoughts to God
Twas then she took this sacred book,
And from its burning page
Read how its truths support the soul
In youth and failing age;
And babe me in its precepts live
And by its precepts die,
That might share home of love
In worlds beyond the sky.
My father, shall look above,
Amid this gathering gloom,
To Him whose promises Of love
Extend beyond the tomb?
Or curse the Being who hath blessed
This checkered path of mine;
Must l embrace my mothers faith,
Or die, my sirs, in thine?"
The frown upon that warrior brow
Passed like cloud away,
And tears coursed down the rugged cheek
That flowed not till that day.
Not-not in mine" with choking voice
The skeptic made reply
But in thy mothers holy faith,
My daughter, may'st thou die"
C. c. Cox, in n Y. Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
The Fact in the Case.

Mrs. Kindly Injecting one of the
twins)-My, my, how much you and
your brother look alike. 1t is very diff.
cult to tell you apart.
Twin-But it amt so hard, ma'am, to
tell us together.-Detroit Free Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
In Our BOARDING House.

Mrs. Hamonex (the boss) - Really,
Mr.. Scrimp, you shouldn't complain Of
my rates; find it hard to pay my debts.
Scrimp (grimly)-lf you paid in ad.
vance, madam, as you make others do,
you would have no debts.-PuclS.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
The Poet and the Star.

There was a poet in olden times
Who loved star but he loved in vain,
For it took much more than he earned with
rhymes
To pay what it cost for the stars champagne
--.IudQe
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06

A FEW months ago about every free
trade paper in the land was certain that
the,senate would notdare to reject the
separate bills for abolishing the duty on
this that and tue ether item in the Mekin-
ley list of dutiable articles 1t is signifi-
cant as showing the growing popularity
of the new law and the increasing con-
fdence in its effectiveness rs the plat
form of the party of protection that
these same papers now confess that
neither the fresI{ol bill nor any other
free trade mead e.can even pass the
senate, much less the presidents veto.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
No Restriction There,

Bagley - never restrict my wife
She does exactly as she pleases.
Bailey-And you?
Bagley-I 10 exactly us she please.
too.-Judge
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
SxtiriAl.

She-Did you see many pretty women
at the opera last night?
He-No; only their grandmothers
were there.-Jury.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
on His Guard.

Young Dinklebaum-Fadder, how
much is two und two?
Old Dinklebaum-Vat you want to do
buy or sell?-Judge.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Very lseprehensible.

Glim-American snowstorms have a
monarchical tendency sometimes.
Gimp-When?
Glim-When they turn to reign
Truth.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
Her Busy Day.

IL have no time" said the mermaid gay
To tie whale. as she tossed her head.
"rve got 10 stay at home today,
And make an oyster bed"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
FOR SUNDAY READING.
IN WHICH FAITH TO DIE.

ETHAN Aliens daughter was lovely, pious
young woman, whose mother then long in the
spirit land. had instructed her IN tls tzatEs e
the Bible. When she was about TO die she called
her father to her bedside, and, turning upon
him her pale face, lighted by lustrous blue
eyes, she said, with a sweet voice: Dear ia.
Their, am about to cross the cold, dark river.
Shall trust to your opinions, or to the teach
ings of dear MOTHER These words, like a
keen sorrow, pierced the recesses of his most
truthful emotions. Trust to your mother"
said the champion of infdelity; and, covering
his face with his hands, he wept like child
Earper's MONTHLY
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-04-06
He Had Been Tried.

A Texas gentleman applied to a
friend for information in regard to a
certain man whom he wished to employ
on his ranch.
SIS he honest and reliable?"
81 should say so. He is tried and
trusty. He has been tried four times
for stealing horses and got clear every
time" was the reply.-Texas Siftings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-10
not hold water-even the coarse and i'm
pregnable water Of Rome

The water of Rome is In many respects
like that of Mexico Mo. We stopped
there for lunch not long ago. Mexico Mo,
is one of the thriving and thoroughly pros
porous towns Of that prosperous and rap
idly growing state. But the waters of
Mexico Mo-, like the board bill of man
who boarded at our house once while en-
gagged in upbuilding his fellow man, still re-
mains unsettled.
The water of Mexico tastes some of JEFF
ferson City, but has a strong flavor of Cal
laway county. We went to the wash basin
at che eating works and turned on the
faucet. bet soon had to poke out the water
with stick. At table l asked for glass
OF water and the colored man and brother
went to this same faucet to get my glass
filled. A man in Mexico who had been
drinking considerably, ana was said to
have his skates on great deal of the time,
told me while l steadied him up against the
depot that his only reason for drinking was
that he had to cut away the sandb6rS in his
system every few daysfor run aground.
Mexico is at the confluence of the Alton
branch with the Wabash railroad. The
branch, as it is called, is a road which runs
from Cedar City, opposite Jefferson City,
or JEFF as it is called, to Mexico. In start
ing from jeff we got on a four horse bus
at the hotel, filling it inside ard climbing
| to the deck and covering the entire outside
to depth of four feet.
| We rode some distance to the ferry
across the Missouri, sometimes riding on
four wheels and then gaily tooling along
on one: could feel my late hair turning
gray.
On the way we passed the humble cot OF
a colored woman who lives on the corner
and who is the mother of two bright little
twins known as Eyether and Nyether
Each passenger had some bright little
episode to get off at the expense of the
broad and massive mother, but she took
our sallies good naturally and replied with
many little esprit du corps of her own.