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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

Why
Why don't the wife who slaves redot coal
the 10 he spends for tobacco would running
relieve of one-haf
adding thousand
show by the records
than does coal rangeto nothing of the in
labor With the
litter
ling rustic split. Scratch cooking
No long waits for the hot enough boil the
When the cooking done valve and the
There strikes called union
have striking. The who don't buy his wife gas
when the
deserves find his wife strike when he home the
More than be boycoted the
gamated Fellows enough regard
their them advantage all labor saving
health saving and that they demand for
themselves
If the housewives of Lincoln tong sweating
will their
them their fight until the
lowing to their domici1e,
Let the Housewives Union Of Lincoln inscbe upon
We Demand usce-and Gas Stoves forth panopied
the robes of
will capitulate without resistance
What about for fuel? Cheapest fuel You
do the cooking washing and family of
month or eand there's coal to kindng split
litter to clean No waiting for the
and make the kitchen The
the have the hottest flame imaginable When the cooking
done the heat turned oand the kitchen the
NICE handy, convenient comfortable that
wonder that wife Lincoln would
range
If don't believe what about gas ask neighbor
who We who wouldn't dare
ting the And he wouldn't do anyhow
The people all
sell cheap. Better the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
Railway Time Table

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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

Satan seldom worries about the
man who always has an excuse handy.
The most successful men are those
who have profited by their mistakes.
The man who takes an interest in
his work is seldom without employ
ment.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12
THE PRINTERS
Nominate Officers and Nominate An.
other Delegate to Toronto.

The Typographical Union met in
regular session last Sunday and was
notified that it was entitled to two
delegates to the international conven-
ton at Toronto. 1t was decided to
elect second delegate and to select
a member who was going to Toronto,
anyhow, thus saving the expense. H.
w. Smith was nominated for the posi-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

These days of the
We the spectacle of the farmer riding sulky pillow
big red unbreaand his wife pulling
get bucket of the we'll offices
down YEARLY work reading morning
while electric fans cool their fevered prspirng bos-whe
kitchen redhot
and boil and bake and stew and fry and
In print shop
switch and the job of ITSELF the having only
and gay shove the blank sheets the
the house the wife bends YEARLY wahtub bowling
back she overt
fashioned
Wyn thunder don't the organize labor
strike for labor saving machinery?
strike of United wouldn't
than wentyfou hours Indeed for the would be
starved into submission before the strikers could their hair crp
ed discuss the situation and lay plans for
pcketing the kitchens.
by organization cooperation
hours improved sanitary conditions which
improved labor saving devices materially
sundy ways-hi the working
these things compelled labor
old twelve and thirteen hours without improved machn
Imagine union printer cigarmaker,
eaherworker a
other skilled would work
10x12 feet size with big steel full tilt and the
poyer in Bayhack
give thought their who that
Of thing day the year. beginning O'Clock the
morning and keeping it up until z 80 in the evening
But the union who wouldn't do himself perfectly
willing that his wife should One that he doesn't think
Another The
would kick Sis
ncks his employer asked him work thirteen hours day within
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

bate was listened to by large mum.
Der of Omaha's union craftsmen, and
they cheered the winning team vocife-
rously.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

Speaking about "the good old days."
the only kind we'd give snap for
would be return of those wherein
we were a barefooted boy. clad in a
roundabout and headed for grandmas
over Sunday. -.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Tune shall unfold what plaIted cun- hing hides.
 --Klng Lear.
Birminuham's Building Boom.

Birmingham real estate is looking up. Values are hardening, even rising, and tho-e who think the top has been reached will soon see that they have not properly grasped the situation. on every hand and among all sorts or people there Is confidence in Birmlng- ham real estate, and this confidence extends to suburban as well as to cen tral, property. Any property in Greater Birmingham Is considered valuable. It is considered property that will year by year advance in value.
 Beyond a doubt several important buildings will be erected in this year. The High School building, the Masonic building, and one or two additional slsyscrapers are assured. The build ing boom of 1905 has not been fully inaugurated, but it is springing, and before the year is far advanced we may witness the most active building season of this city's entire career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Aldermen Pay Fare.

Tt Is difficult to get in the habit of always being provided with car fare when one has been accustomed to riding on complimentary passes" said Alder man Ben F. Barbour, as he turned his pockets wrong side out looking for a dime to pay his car fare on an Ensley car yesterday.
 You will see.s said the Alderman to his fellow passenger. with whom he was sharing his seat, that I have checks in my possession which call for several hundred dollars, but which are absolute ly worthless when 1t comes to paying car fare. Here is my card and if you will lend me car fare until we get to town I will gladly pay you 100 per cent in terest for the use of the ten cents.
 ''The City Council, of which I am a member. made a New Years resolution that henceforth we would cease riding free on the street cars"
 You don't mean that you all made this resolution and that you are still holding out" asked the stranger in amaze ment.
 Yes" replied MT. Barbour, tuntram- meled by any premises to the people with out any hope of reward or fear of con- demnation, we voted ourselves out of the privilege of riding on street car passes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
VIII Prevent PanIcs.

Manager Semon of the Bijou theatre is determined that patrons of that pop uiar playhouse shall have no further ex- cuse for panics. He has provided each of his ushers with a powerful storage battery lamp shaped something like a policemans club. that throws a strong steady light. These lamps can also be used as flashlights and will last for sev- eral years, without rechargng. When by some unexpected accident the lights of the theatre go out the ushers will take at the doors and about the house, with their battery lights brightly burning TEis will not only quiet the audience but in case of disaster would direct the peo- pie to the entrances.
 On rare occasions the lights have gone out for a few minutes and it has always teen rather difficult to preserve order, while nervous people invariably get ''panicky." Usually a speech was made from the stage to reassure the audience and the orchestra was requested to play until candles could be brought into re- quisition or until the current was turned on again.
 Hereafter the electric lamps will do away with candles and there will be no danger of panic in a dark house. They can also be used by the tNhers in seat ing late arrivals when the lights have been turned down. manager Semon's idea is a novel one which could be followed to advantage in other theatres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Cotton Planters Trust.

"The Witherspoon plan and all other suggestions regarding the regulation of the price of cotton, now so much under consideration, suggests the idea that the farmers are about to fight the devil with his own fre' and I am glad of It. re- marked a visitor at the Hillman.
 Webster defines a trust as an organi- zation formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of com modties,' and that's exactly what the cotton producers propose to do with the heecy staple: and yet I know of no class of people who have thus far so strenu- ously fought the trusts as have the farmers of the south
 Even the state of Mississippi, which produces thousands of bales of cotton on its own convict farms has resolved to join in the movement with other plant CTS to hold its product for price to be agreed upon and yet Mississippi has stringent laws against trusts For that goodly state to enter such combination in the face of it's own statute looks para doxical, but under all the circumstances excusable. Certain it is that the cotton planters of the south have greatly suf- fered at the hands of trusts, combines and gamblers, and it Is high time they were doing something in their own de- fense."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15

well the composers psychologist pro cesses. The opera is an allegory. Ye- nus represents the principle of evil and Elizabeth the principle of good. Tannhauser represents the human scul that yields easily to temptation while Wolfram is the type of man of strong will and abiding piety.
 Thus it is seen that Wagner's op- eras, artistically and intellectually form a class to themselves. All the recent master composers have been influenced by Wagner's ideas. Verdi, after writing many operas in the ol1 Italian style, struck out on the reform line, and became Wagnerian in a marked degree. And Richard Strauss is out-Wagnering Wagner in some pas- ticulars. But there has been but one Wagner just as there has been but one Beethoven and que Shakespeare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Watch Night at the Authors Club.

The last night of the year Is gala one at the New York Authors Club. All the celebrities in the literary world of Goth- am are apt to be there. and it is a red letter evening. The club has. rooms in Carnegie Hall. Books, rare manuscripts, antique prints. etc., are everywhere. A chairman is selected who calls for speak CTS, and wit anecdote, and lively re- miniscence flow until midnight; then the lights turn low and all rise and sing a stave of Auld Lang Syne, while the vast Metropolis below Is alive with din of ring ing bells and joyous whistles.
 Of course a big spread is served, and pipes of peace and good fellowship are passed around.
 Here you are apt to meet E. c. Sted- man, alert and bright-eyed, wearing gracefully his seventy odd years; Ham, ilton Mable, well groomed and thought full; Dr. Van Dyke. poet, preacher, and essayest; George Cary Eggleston, brus- que and genial Oscar Strauss, who likes to affiliate with his literary friends; Partridge, the sculptor, whose noble Ten nyson adorns the rooms and dozens of the younger craftsmen all eager and ambi- tious.
 After the crowd has thinned out, some oe the old stagers settle down for last goodnight chat and smoke, for as one of the pioneer members half humourously said, "The pest time at the Authors Club, is after all the Authors have gone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
NEGLECTEDSONG WRITER
 WHO DIED Al YEARS AGO

Athens, Pa. At fifteen he entered Jeffer- son college at Cannonsburg, Pa., but soon returned to his native place to pursue his favorite studies with private tutors. As a diversion he learned to play the ffage- olet, thrummed tn guitar and banjo and studied piano playing.
 In 1S42, when he was a merchants clerk in Cincinnati his first song, "Open Thy Lattice Love-" was published in Balti- more. Two others, Uncle Ned" and 70 Susannah!" were immediately taken Up by minstrels and became universally pop ular. Their success caused him to re- linquish a business career and devote himself entirely to musical composition. He wrote both the words and music of all his songs. Thus he was engaged until his death in New York, 1864. Personally he was a man of charm and culture. He was familiar with the French and Ger man languages and was a respectable artist in water colors.
 If this man had written nothing to en- dear him to all Americans My Old Ken lucky Home" Is enough to win the ten- der regard of all Kentuckians. Will the people of Kentucky continue to neglect Stephen Collins Foster forty-one more years?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Perry countv,s Possibilities.

Circular No. IA of the Department of Agriculture was written by Milton Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils, and it relates to the Orangeburg soils that are found in spots all the way from the Caroinas to Texas inclusive. The soil survey of Perry county, Ala bama, made at the instance of Rep resentative Underwood, shows that there are 82,000 acres of Orangeburg sandy loam in that county, and there are lesser, but considerable areas, in other states.
 Perry county seems to be exception ally favored with lands that will pro- duce a high grade filler leaf from Cuban seed.
 MT. Whitney says that tobacco grown on orangeburg soils would no doubt bring good prices as it's nature and reputation became known. The bureau has grown two crops, one in Texas, and the other in Perry county, Alabama, and it's crop Of 1903 has been marketed. It commanded from 25 cents to 40 cents a pound. The cost of growing tobacco under normal con ditions in Perry county, for example, should not exceed 10 cents pound, and the average yield would be 600 pounds an acre. Perry county, it is plain, can readily cut down its cotton acreage by increasing It's tobacco acre. ago.
 The bureau of soils is anxious that Perry county this year. and it will send an expert there to advise all who desire to engage in the new industry an expert who will see that the right soil is selected and the right methods used afterwards. It hopes in that way to induce a dozen or more farmers to plant small areas of tobacco-say from two to five acres each. The farmer who has soils of the Orangeburg type needs in addition barn about SO feet long and 3U feet wide in order to cure crop from 5-acre field. Such a barn would cost about $400.
 The good people of Perry can not only render themselves secure against the boil weevil, but they can reduce the general cotton crop by seconding in every possible manner the efforts of the department of agriculture, which stands ready to instruct the farmers and to aid them in marketing the next crop. MT. Underwood has, in fact, put the farmers of Perry in position to revolutionize farming wherever Or angeburg soils exist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Mayor prennen ExnIalns.

number of local politicians were ral- lying Mayor Drennen yesterday morning about his recent interview in The Age Herald regarding President Roosevelt.
 It will be remembered that the Mayor had said that he went to Washington with an unfayorable opinion of the Pres ident, talked with MT. Roosevelt two minutes and came back sounding the Presidents praises.
 q see that a Montgomery newspaper, MT. Mayor" said one of the company who called on the Mayor yesterday, says that you found out in two minutes while you were in Washington what the people down in Montgomery have been unable to discover in ten years"
 ''Well," said the Mayor, there's noth- ing remarkable about that It takes a Montgomery man about five years. you know, to find out what a Birmingham man can discover in as many minutes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Payment of Poll Taxes.

All electors are not qualified elect ors. None between the ages of 21 and 45 will be qualified electors hereafter unless they pay by or before February 1 the sum of one dollar and fifty cents to the tax collector. Registration for life or otherwise, under the temporary, permanent or any other plan, is of no value unless poll taxes are paid by February 1. They can be paid in Feb ruary or in any subsequent month Of the year, but such payments will not qualify the dilatory elector. The man, in other words, who neglects to pay his poll tax by February 1 cannot vote in any county, municipal or state election of the year 1905.
 It should not be forgotten that poll taxes are cumulative in this state. The man who does not pay his poll taxes by February 1, must pay three dollars on February 1, 1906, in order to be- come qualified elector and each year of neglect increases his burden of tax on some subsequent first day of Feb rrary. A man who neglects to pay his poll tax, not only deprives the pub lie schools of needed revenue, but he puts himself outside the electorate of the state. He disfranchises himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Supremacy of the Rattleship.

A statement representing the views of the general board of the navy has just been published, and in it the bat tleship is given first place. The author of the statement Is member of the general board. His name Is sup pressed. but we are told by wire that his views as expressed are the views ot the rest of the board and of the Secretary of the Navy as well.
 The object of the statement is to overcome the popular impression that the torpedo boat has supplanted to some extent at least the battleship, and the n:vy does not propose to be remitted to the less palatial and po- tential torpedo boat. The writer Of the statement does, however, admit that the Japanese torpedo boats did st the outset of the present war cripple three battleships, thus handing over t,is control of the sea to the Japanese, and rendering Russian success at least dubious. This occurred on February of last year at the opening of the siege of Port Arthur. 1t is claimed, however, that il Russia had had more efficient battleships the torpedo boats could not have done their deadly work victory went with the preponderance of battleships. It went, too, because the Russians were not alert, and twenty-four torpedo shots were fired at close range, of which number three took effect. No torpedo boat belong ing to Russia has fired an effective slot, and Russia had twenty-four at Port Arthur. The statement goes on to show that in the attempted escape of the Russian fleet on August 10. and again in the fight between Kami- mura's fleet and the Russian Vladivo- stok fleet no torpedo boat got in shot.
 Nor are cruisers valuable in battle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
VALUABLE BOOK RECEIVED.
Fist Annui. Report of Bureau of Amer
 ican Ethnology.

The twenty-first annual report of the bureau of America -ethnology to the Smithsonian institution for 1S99-190O has been received. The report is published by Director J. w. Powell and is printed in the government printing office at Washington.
 The report covers research in Arizona, California, Cuba, Indian Territory, Ja- maica, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Nova Scotia, Oklahoma, On tario, Wisconsin, Alaska, Argentina and Porto Rico. A vast amount of valuable data concerning the American Indians VI. peuslIqnd ST pus peudmoo ueeq seu this book.
 The volume is Illustrated with num- Der of very fine color plates of Hopi Katcinas. drawn by native artists and reproduced by Jesse Walter Fewkes. and several engravings of noted Indian chiefs of Canada. The color plates are elab- crate and are not only excellently printed, but are curious creations conceived by crude artists of another day and faith fully depicted for the modern student of ethnological subjects.
 Another valuable feature of this re- port is another treatise on Iroquoian cosmology, by J. N. B. Hewitt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Must Cite By Law Books.

When Capt. Frank S. White was prac- tielhg law over in Mississippi he was severely called down ny a justice of the peace for not reading his citations from law book said well known attorney
 captain White. on one occasion. was arguing case before a rural justice with all his earnestness of which he has an abundant supply. The justice. who may have been somewhat lacking in informa- ton Tn the law, nevertheless had a large amount of dignity and natural wit. To make his argument more effective Cap tain White, in the course of his speech, drew forth few sheets of the advance copy of the Southern Reporter. from which he began to read citations. He had not proceeded far in his reading when the Judge in very pompous manner, inform ed him that he would have to read his ci- tations from law DOCKS. that almanacs didn't go in his court"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
Waqner's Art.

Wagner's music is by no means un- familiar to the Birmingham public. At every festival given here under the direction of Benjamin Guckenberger Wagner numbers had a prominent place on the programmes and at least one of the great composers operas has been presented here by the Metropoli- tan Opera House company of New York; but this week our musical atmosphere will be more Wagnerian than ever before.
 Preparatory to the performance of "Tannhauser" on Thursday night there will be a number of "Tannhauser" lecturereclals by local talent. These advance entertainments will be essen tially educative and if any music lover is not fairly familiar with the opera before the curtain rings up it will not be because opportunities were lacking.
 No composer has arisen since Bee thoven's time who begins to measure up to Richard Wagner, the father of the music-drama. Wagner was a con structive genius, and as he was a man of letters as well as a musician, he wrote all of his own librettos. In this latter respect he had the advantage over the greatest of his predecessors.
 Weber may be said to have been the forerunner of Wagner. His orchestra tion especially suggests the so-called music of the future," but 1t remained for Wagner to develop the reform idea" and advance the opera to the highest plane of musical art.
 Wagner contended that the com poser should be his own librettist; that the text and the music should be closely connected and that the accom- panying orchestra. with its accentu- cltQ touC COiOl, ibNC o hCoodSsC as clear and informing as that deliv- cred by the singers. Beginning wiI Flying Dutchman," in which the leit. motifs are introduced, Wagner's or chestration is as prominent as the voices on the stage. In the earlier Wagner operas, including "Tann- hauser," the melodies are given to the singers, but in "Mestersinger" and the music dramas that follow that work the melodies are heard for the most part In the orchestra, the solo voices delivering the words in declam. atory fashion.
 Wagner was a poet and philoso- pher. and "Tannhauser" illustrates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-01-15
MakInq the World Go Round.

The sweet, simple. homely happenings that are the vital things in which men and women are universally interested. Fine writings and doings are all very well in a way, but most people like frankness, and plain story told without frills and furbelows. It is the little un- remembered acts of charity and kindness that count. The hale, hearty, good morn ings, and the tender goodnights, the smile, the warm handshake, the ''old fellow In stick by you" and the slap on the back. These be the things we live and die by. Little of the tragic or melo- dramatic enters into the lives of most or us. but we all have our moiety of daily joys and sorrowings, our secret yearn- ings, hallowed hopes. and these are the things that make our world go round