"And, Grandma Elsie, cannot you find some use for the stay-at-homes?" asked Max. "Chester and myself for instance. Would there be any objection to having 'Old Glory' set waving from the tree tops to-day?" "None whatever," she returned with her sweet smile. "I, for one, never weary of seeing it 'wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.'" "I think anyone who does isn't worthy to be called an American!" exclaimed Lucilla with warmth. "Unless so unfortunate as to be only a South American," remarked Eva with a smile. "You would not expect such an one to care for our Old Glory." "Oh, no, certainly not; it is no more to them than to the rest of the world." "But I dare say it is a good deal to some of the rest of the world; judging from the way they flock to these shores," said Chester. "Which I sincerely wish some of them wouldn't," said Lucilla; "the ignorant, idle, and vicious. To read of the great numbers constantly coming in often makes me tremble for our liberties." "Honest and industrious ones we are always glad to welcome," said Chester, "but the idle and vicious ought to be kept out. And as our own native born boys must be twenty-one years old before being allowed to vote, I think every foreigner should be required to wait here that same length of time before receiving the right of suffrage." "And I heartily agree with you in that," said Captain Raymond. "But unfortunately we have too many selfish politicians--men who are selfishly set upon their own advancement to wealth and power and care little, if anything, for their country and their country's good--who, to gain votes for themselves, have managed to have the right of suffrage given those worthless, ignorant foreigners in order to get into place and power through them." "I haven't a particle of respect for such men," exclaimed Lucilla hotly; "and not much, more for some others who are so engrossed in the management of their own affairs--the making of money by such close attention to business, that they can't, or won't look at all after the interests of their country." "Very true, my dear sister," said Max, with a roguish look and smile, "so it is high time the ladies should be given the right of suffrage." "The right! I think they have that already," she returned with rising color and an indignant look, "but domineering men won't allow them to use it." "Why, daughter," laughed the captain, "I had no idea that you were such a woman's rights woman. Surely it is not the result of my training." "No, indeed, papa; though you have tried to teach me to think for myself," she returned with a blush and smile, adding, "I am not wanting to vote--even if I were old enough, which I know I am not yet--but I do want the laws made and administered by my own countrymen, and that without any assistance from ignorant foreigners."