rn, when
parents and their children are seated by the fire, remote from worldly
clamor and all the world's desire, when eyes are soft and shining, and
hearths with love aglow, how pleasant is the sinking of songs of long
ago!

GUESSING VS. KNOWING

If I were selling nails or glass, or pills or shoes or garden sass, or
honey from the bee--whatever line of goods were mine, I'd study up that
special line and know its history.

If I a stock of rags should keep, I'd read up sundry books on sheep and
wool and how it grows. Beneath my old bald, freckled roof, I'd store
some facts on warp and woof and other things like those. I'd try to
know a spinning-jack from patent churn or wagon rack, a loom from
hog-tight fence; and if a man came in to buy, and asked some leading
question, I could answer with some sense.

If I were selling books, I'd know a Shakespeare from an Edgar Poe, a
Carlyle from a Pope; and I would know Fitzgerald's rhymes from Laura
Libbey's brand of crimes, or Lillian Russell's dope.

If I were selling shoes, I'd seize the fact that on gooseberry trees,
good leather doesn't grow; that shoe pegs do not grow like oats, that
cowhide doesn't come from goats--such things I'd surely know.

And if I were a grocer man. I'd open now and then a can to see what
stuff it held; 'twere better than to writhe in woe and make reply, "I
didn't know," when some mad patron yelled.

I hate to hear a merchant say: "I think that this is splendid hay," "I
guess it's first class tea." He ought to know how good things are, if
he would sell his silk or tar or other goods to me. Oh, knowledge is
the stuff that wins; the man without it soon begins to get his trade in
kinks. No matter where a fellow goes, he's valued for the things he
knows, not for the things he thinks.

WHEN WOMEN VOTE

"Jane Samantha," said the husband, as he donned his hat and coat, "I
would offer a suggestion ere you go to cast your vote. We have had a
bitter struggle through this strenuous campaign, and the issues are
important, and they stand out clear and plain. Colonel Whitehead
stands for progress--for the uplift that we need: he invites
investigation of his every word and deed. He's opposed to all the
ringsters and to graft of every kind; he's a man of spotless record,
clean and pure in heart and mind. His opponent, Major Bounder, stands
for all that I abhor; plunder, ring rule and corruption you will see
him working for; all the p