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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
Whether Common or Not
Will M. Mavpin, in "The Commoner."

your card and your manuscript and
l will look over your jokes a little
later. If we accept them l will send
check to your address,"
Never mind the check. You are
welcome to the jokes said the new
humorist. Il do not really need the
money, although 1 could send some
more to a needy friend of mine in
Chicago. Here is my card. Good
day"
Handing his card to the humorous
editor the new humorist bowed polite
ly, gave his wig a push to starboard,
donned his hat and airily walked out
of the room.
The exhausted humorous editor
gave one look at the card and then
fell over in faint.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
Brain Leaks

A hungry man is hard to reason
The real Christian does not have
to tell it.
The cheerful giver mas no need of
a press agent.
Some men pay so much attention to
the proper curling of their mustaches
that they have no time left to cult
vate their brains.
An honest constituency is the best
cure for graft.
Life is what we make it-death
the way we take it.
Some men mistake their moral dys-
pepsia for religion.
You can always see good bargains
when you are broke.
A tract may save a soul if the
stomach is irst attended to.
good employee is worth some
thing besides the wages paid him.
The man who chooses his words
seldom has to make any of them good.
Some men are sorry for the poor
only when their own pockets are
empty.
The man whose creed excuses our
shortcomings is always welcome
evangelist.
by what he makes; God judges it by
what he does.
People who look on life as joke
seldom see any laugh to it when the
real point comes.
The man with millions can never
understand why men with jobs should
go out on a strike.
Individual suffering appeals to some
men who are unmoved by the thought
OF millions in distress.
You may safely judge boys pro-
gress at school by the interest his
father takes in the schools.
When a man is SO old he has lost
interest in the circus it is time he
began closing up his mundane affairs.
The workingman who is trying to
support large family on $3.50 day
is seldom interested in the foreign
policy of the nation.
You can always borrow trouble
without collateral but it is a cinch
that you will have to pay compound
interest at usurious rates.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
A Drying Rack.

II should think that merry-go-rcund
the boys have built in the back yard
would make your head reel?"
"It doesn't; but on wash day it
makes my clothes reel"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
Press HumOrist
Oil, Etc. Cleveland, o.
Strange Things in Texas

Strange Things in Texas
j. M. Lewis, the poet-humorist on
Houston, Texas, Post, sings about 'In
the Fall'' in part as follows:
Nov the corn is shocked and standin'
in it's dry an rustlin' rows,
And all round. them an between
EN- the big yellow punkins CLOVIS,
And you hear the click an clatter of
the mowers in the wheat,
And the golden rod is clinging round
your knees and under feet
We have long known Texas to be
a wonderful country, but this is a
new one on us. We never knew be-
fore that they waited until after the
corn was ripe and shocked to harvest
their wheat. We saw some corn down
in Texas once, and it looked just like
the corn we raise up in Nebraska.
The Texas wheat, too, did not seem
to differ a bit from our Nebraska
wheat. But Texas has a wonderful
climate, and perhaps the corn down
there is cut and shocked in July and
the wheat harvested in September and
October.
Or it may be that Brer Lewis is
mixed up in his agricultural data Men
closely confined to a c1uttered up
newspaper Office are apt to become
mixed.
Yet, after all, Brer Lewis may have
merely stretched his poetic license a
bit If that is allowable we beg leave
to submit the following:
when the crocus lifts it's petals from
above the drifting snow,
And the waving corn is nodding in the
long and stately row;
When the ice upon the river is SO
smooth and three feet thick
We can hear the merry reaper in the
wheat fields going Click
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22

A small boys idea of the board of
health is six meals a day.
When the landlord raises the rent
he expects the tenant to raise it also.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22

Lincoln Building Trades Should Together and Organize
Strong Central Body.

Strong Central Body
There is every why the building trades council OF Lin
con should Building Trades Counciand
why they should The Allied Printing Trades Council Of
benefit the printing trades The four constituent bodies
realize its benefits and day.
The carpenters br<masons, electrical workers. plumbers
ater paerers painters and abore could organize and maintain
only WELD immense influence for good
among could benefit
organized labor in general.
Now that the building drawing to close active
effect Much
stronger effective organization be
during and when the next spring
building will be position aer treatment
should be in laying the groundwork for Building
Trades Council
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
After Riley


When the frost is on the punkin an
tn folders in tn shock
You can see us madly chasin' round
an round a city block,
For the coal bin now is empty an
the air is gettin chill
An we got to buy some fuel with no
coin to pay tn bill.
We have spent our summers wages
where the many pleasures flock
An tn frost that hits the punkin
gives yours truly quite shock.
Sing and Smile
What's the use of weeping?-Tears
will never smooth the way.
What's the use OF signing ?-Sighs
were never known to pay.
Just keep singing and keep working
though the skies are often gray,
And the -orld will give you some
thing worth the having.
What's the use OF kicking-Any mule
can do the same.
What's the use of growing ?-GrOwl-
ing never won game.
Just keep singing and keep toiling,
yours the victory or blame,
And the world will give you some
thing worth the having.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
The Reason

'Why do you call your servant girl
Dove'?"
Because she is such piece
maker"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22

hour rule and prefers to give up his
union card.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22
Railway Time Tables
BURLINGTON RAILWAY.
Qepot 9Th and 2 Sfa.

Depot Ttn ana r SIS.
Trains Going East. Leave Lincoln.
Chicago Flyer via Omaha ......" 5:45 am.
Chicago Limited via Omaha
and Council Bluffs ..........+ 600 pm.
Omaha and Pacific JIG. Pas
SenSer S,lV.oU d.Ins
Omaha Passenger ............. 4:35 pm.
Chicago and Omaha Fast Mail 1858 p.m.
Schuyler Passenger via ASH
Portsmouth via Louisville -. s:9s Pm.
Nebraska City and East 500. .ss $500 l.m
Chicago Flyer, via Louisville J.. e:Is am.
Chicago Limited via Omaha. :.1o:25 am.
Chicago and Omaha Fast Mali .1s:so An.
Plattsmouth via Louisville -. $50 pin
Nebraska City and East ....*10:3s am
Trains Going West. Leave.
Portland. Seattle and Dead
Denver and Hastings Flyer =. 7:os am
Denver and Hastings Flyer - $50 pm.
KearneY Express .......... .ss10:53 I'm.
ger .................... .1o:53 am.
Crete, Sutton and Fairfield ..ss 500 pm.
Edgemont &: Alliance Passen-
ger via Germantown ........s $50 pm.
Grand Island Passenger VIA
From the West. Arrive.
wood Express ....... .4:15 pm
Denver and Hastings Flyer -. 5:35 am.
kearney Express ........*A 1:45 pm.
McCook and Hastings ........" $40 pm.
Crete, Sutton and Fairfield .s"10:1O am.
Edgemont & Alliance Passen-
ger via Milford ....a $40 pm.
Grand Island Passenger via
Germantown $1,000 am.
Trains Going South. Leavs.
st. Louis and Kansas City Spe-
St Joseph and Kansas City Ex- ~
Beatrice and wymore Passen- 80 p'''''
Beatrice and wymore Passen-. 80 >-'
ger .................ss $40 pm.
Table Rock and Tecumseh pas
senger ....................s ~" 600 pm.
From the South. Arrive.
st. Louis and Kansas City Spe-
cial ..................... :55 am.
st. Joseph and Kansas city Ex-
press 80. ........" $500 pm.
Beatrice and Wymore passen-
ger 1920 pm.
Beatrice and Wymore passen-
ger Observation-Disclosures. .*+10:10 am.
Table Rock and Tecumseh pas
senger NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. =" 500 I'm.
Trains Going North. Leave.
Columbus Express via Milford
and Seward .........s s 500 pm.
From the North. Arrive.
Columbus Express via Milford
and Seward .a+10:20 am.
Daily.
"-Daily except Sundays
80 Daily except Saturdays.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-09-22

MISSOURI PACTFTC.
Depot 9Th and SITS.
Trains Going South. L
Kansas City Express ........9:15
Kansas City and st. Louis Linz
lte0 .1U:lS
From the South. Ar
Kansas City Express ...........7:10
Kansas City and Sc. Louis Linz 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-26
news Or minnesota.
State Fair.

Hamline. The state fair of 1905 will
be held Sept. 4. to Sept 9, inclusive,
and will be the most comprehensive
ever held in the United States. 1t will
be much larger even than the great
fair of 1904. No industry will be neg
lected. Each department will be in
charge of a superintendent, selected
because of his competency and expert
ence in that particular line, and each
part of the fair will be given well-bal-
anced attentions The fair will not be
strong in some particulars and weak
in others. 1t will be strong in all.
For instance, the great sweepstakes
prize for creamery butter, which has
for several years past attracted an
enormous display at the state fair is
this year, increased from $500 to
ST, ZOO:
Another interesting prize and new
one, is that of 500 sweepstakes for ex-
hibits of corn husked and in stalk to
be shown on a table three by six feet
with wall space. This suggests the
developed Importance of the corn
growing industry of Minnesota. As
last year, 1000 goes to county exhi-
bits and similar liberal appropriations
are found all through the book.
The premium list is for free distri-
button. Anyone interested may OH
tain it by addressing Secretary E. W.
Randall, State Fair Grounds, MINI.
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SeaShe1l Bath the T,atast

Newport.-A seashell bath is the
latest innovation in household luxuries
that Mrs. John r. Drexel is Introducing
in her 0ehre Point home. Always orig
inal and noted for it when she was Miss
Alice Troth: of Philadelphia Mrs. Drex-
ell conceived the idea, which she terms
as happy medium between the lavish
silver baths and the prosaic tile. It was
while she was on a trip in her steam
yacht the Sultana to the Bahamas re-
Gently that she nade a collection of
shells, exceeding in diversity and beauty
anything ever obtained on the islands.
These shells she will now turn to use
in constructing the novel bath. Stripped
Of their outer layers and clipped to fat
ness. the shells are being cemented edge
to edge with a waterproof compound re-
sembling white coral, as aiming of the
bath. A transparent glaze will cover
them, and salt water, piped from the
ocean, will sparkle with the luster of the
seas own jewels.
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Indians.

White Earth.-Minnesota Indians
will not be included in the enumera-
ton of the residents of the state to be
made under the direction Of the state
census department.
Superintendent George Wright stat
ed that the enumerators would be in
structed to count only Indians who
were entitled to the rights of suffrage:
In the Leech Lake reservation large
number Of the Indians have partici-
pated in the allotments of government
money, which gives them the right of
citizenship.
The great majority of the Indians of
the state, however, are still wards of
the government and the Indian reser-
vations will be practically free from
the invasion of the census enumeration.
Vhe agents of all Indian reservations
have been asked for a complete state
ment as to the number of Indians en-
titled to citizenship.
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Life Insurance.

St. Paul.-Life insurance companies
doing business in Minnesota had a
remarkably good year in 1904, accord
ing to the preliminary life report of
Insurance Commissioner L. D. O'Brien,
which will be out in few days: This
report will show that the net earnings
of the legal reserve companies admit
to Minnesota were $l17,247, 1881 10 as
compared with approximately $50, 900,
600 in 1908.
The Minnesota department is one of
the few insurance departments in the
United SEtes- that prepares state-
ment showing the exact profit of each
company, and the annual report of the
Minnesota commissioner for this sea-
is much in demand among life under
writer's of other states. The plan of
preparing such table was inaugural
ted by Former Insurance Commission
err Z. H. Dearth and will be continued
by Insurance Commissioner O'Brien.
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Then l had the liveryman give me a
driver and two of the best horses, and
I started. The roads were in bad con-
dition from the rains.
THE first stop for change of horses
was at Muddy bridge, % miles away.
We got in there about nine o'clock at
night changed the relays on the fly.
and were off without break. Then
the roads began to get worse, and
wheels sank to the hubs It was
tough on the broncos, but they were
game-they must have felt how i'm
Dortant it was to go right on through
1t all, because they pulled their little
hearts out for me.
AT Sulphur a friend. Mr.. Davis. had
a pair of fresh horses for us. They
had not been worked in a month.
They carried us sailing through the
mud. About two o'clock in the morn
ing we ran into blizzard 1t was
binding. We could not see two feet
in front of us. Another of the ranch
men who had been watching for us
along the route, after changing horses
again. went ahead of us with a Ian
tern to look out for pitfalls in the
mud and warn us against slides.
When we got within 16 miles of
Rawlins another relay which had
been sent out to meet us was encoun.
tered. We could not swap teams in
the mud SO we went right on.
when We were within a mile OF
Rawlins l heard the whistle of the ap-
preaching train. We urged our horses
on and came up to the station at a
fearful pace. l had been cramped for
more than II hours, and was lifted
into the train. The train was on the
move as I stepped on the first step.
Then I breathed a sigh of relief.
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WOMAN'S WILD
MIDNIGHT RIDE
AN EVENTFUL TRIP THROUGH
STORM TO CATCH TRAIN.
is ASSISTED BY RANCHERS
Successive Relays of Horses Enable
Wife of Wyoming Lawmaker to -
Reach Bedside of Her Sick
Husband.

Denver.-Mrs. A. H. Allen recent
ly reached the bedside of her hus-
band, Representative Allen, of Wyom-
ing, whose life for time was in the
balance. After a ride that Mrs. AL
len will never forget, for it was
through fierce storms, and the wilds
Of bleaks, barren, windswept Wyoming
an all-night drive through the noun
tains, every ranchman along the route
of IS miles from Baggs to Rawlins aid
ing in the effort to catch the morning
train on the Union Pacific to whirl her
half way across two states to the bed
side of her husband, whose life was
in danger in St. Joseph's hospital.
Mrs. Allen said: Il received word
that Mr.. Allen was very i'll after the
operation for appendicitis. l had been
receiving bulletins over the telephone
from Rawlins. That is 81 miles from
Baggs, and there is no stage out of the
place on Mondays. 1t runs every
other day in the week. About two
o'clock Sunday afternoon l was in
formed that I had better come to Den
yer at once. DR.. MCGEE, of Rawlins,
had sent Mr.. Allen on here and had
advised an operation. I was naturally
fearful about that and knew l must
get here in time for the operation.
There was a train out of Rawlins Mon
day morning at eight o'clock and l
decided to get it.
Il mapped out a sort of Sheridan'S
ride programme. We are we'll known
to the ranchmen all along the line.
got busy with the telephone at once,
and had dozen fresh horses waiting
for me at intervals of from 20 to %
miles between Bags and ~~Rawlins
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peal to the onlooker as diatinctIy for
eign, unlimited states-y. He feels SURE
he has been dropped down in foreign
land, and foreign land that he wants
70 linger in. 49,,
f. There are, l believe, but two cellars in
the town, for the river being higher
than the land, cellars are not popular.
The houses are built up high above the
morass-like soil. There is no place so
humble that it lacks carefully tended
hedge, concealing the houses founda-
tons, giving seclusion and adornment.
No house so humble but that it has u
veranda Tor gallery, as it is called here),
and few indeed are the verandas that
lack climbing rose and nearby blossom
ing shrubs. :. One small negro cabin
along the path of the street car was so
ested northerner took the pains to count
them;. they numbered two hundred-odd.
The gallery may be a cheap affair,
built of wood, small in size; or it may
be of generous dimensions, run around
the entire structure, with splendid pill
lars and capitnls. Sometimes it is of
ironwork, of finest workmanship. Rich
and poor live on the galleries, house
seems place to retire to only for sleep
Another institution particularly sacred
in this town is the banquette, where
the people promenade back and forth for
the evening gossip. the sidewalk much
more given over to sociability than with
us of the north.
In speaking of the old part of the
town one must certainly make mention
of the cemeteries, shrines and churches
so marked with the religion that dom
mated Louisiana: must at least speak
of the markets, surely worth visiting
and revisiting. A short newspaper ar
ticle cannot pretend to do them even
scant justice.
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city is badly in need Of sewers. that it is
badly in need of proper cleaning; can
not but approve that it is now spending
millions on the installation of a sew
erage system. The principal business
thoroughfare, Canal street, is dreadful
ly dirty, and surely those that rail at
modernization will allow new methods
of street cleaning.
But New Orleans is ahead of many a
town that reproaches her for these two
aforementioned civic crimes. She Of
fers the hungry the best of food at mod
crate prices. Residents say here people
eat better and cheaper than anywhere
else in this country. While we are not
ready to make this positive statement,
we do not hesitate to praise both the
cooking and the bills Of the numberless
restaurants and cafes.
New Orleans has delightful weather
nine months of the year, a great virtue.
New Orleans has the sweetest-faced,
sweetest-voiced shop girls; decided v1r-
tue. New Orleans has fine street car
system; a virtue, is it not, Chicago?
And how full of interest are her curios-
ity and antique shops, where are to be
seen (and bought, if one have the purse)
rare pieces from the homes of the early
French settlers, many of the first fam
lilies of France. AS one looks over the
treasures kept under the jealous eye of
the collector, one thinks back on those
early days of New Orleans, the French,
Spanish and creole people. And one wcu-
ders how soon the leaven of Industrial
ism shall have banished all trace OF
these.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER.
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GIRL IN OVERALLS PAINTS.
Disappointed by a Workman, Miss
Viola Van Ness Climbs the
Ladder Herself.

Evanston, Ill.-Miss Viola Van Ness.
clad in overalls, painted her dwelling
Her deed set all South Evanston talk
ing. and the work was criticised by big
crowd that gathered to cheer.
Several weeks ago Miss Van Ness de-
cided the cottage needed painting and
she engaged a man to do the work. He
failed to appear and sent word the task
could not be started for a month. Then
Miss Van Ness made up her mind to do
the work herself.
Miss Van Ness soon found that skirts
impeded her movements on the ladders.
A sweater and overalls were obtained
For awhile the young woman worked
away on the ladder without her identity
being discovered. Then an intimate
friend recognized her and the news was
spread. The news spread quickly and
the crowd gathered.
A storm of cheers and criticism in
duced Miss Van Ness to retreat to the
inside of the house.
ut is shame" the young woman
said. Zone can never get thing done
within a reasonable time in Evanston,
I'll just simply have to paint the house
myself l really don't see why people
should interest themselves in what
do. Women paint flower pots and
plates, and do not see any reason why
they cannot paint houses. However, if
people are so curious, why III paint the
ouse at night or early in the morn
ing"
Miss Van Ness also declares that she
will paper the house if the paperhang-
ers do not appear on time. *
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door of his Office at the statehouse and
go to the farm for few hours This out
ing consists in showing the men at the
farm that, in spite of the frock coat and
the silk hat, he can do more work than
they can.
When Gov. Mickey put in his appear
ance at the Osceola farm few days ago
his foreman and some of the men
chaffed him about his soft hands and
muscles. The legislature had been in
session. and the governor had been
away from farm work a good many
months
You're hands'll be so full of blisters
that you can't hold a pen," laughed tht.
foreman when Gov. Mickey put on the
overalls and went to work where some
of his men were building fence. Mickey
held up his hands to show that they
were still calloused, and after a little
more good-natured chatting had been
passed he spoke up:
''I'll tell you what it is, boys. That
new board fence is not going up as fast
as would like to see it, and believe the
old man can beat the best of you when
it comes to mailing boards"
The men selected their champion,
whose work during the afternoon was
to be matched against that of the gov
ernor of the state. 1t was agreed that
Mickey should start at one end of the
fence and that his man should start at
the other end. The one who nailed the
largest number of boards during an
hour should be declared the winner
The governor reached the middle point
first, and had the laugh on the crowd
After this test of his ability the COVER
nor assisted in the work about the farm
during the rest of the afternoon, and
when chore time came he took his part
in feeding the teams and milking the
cows
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Sugar Factory.

St. Louis Park. Insurance adjus-
tiers are at work determining the loss Of
the Minnesota Sugar company. The
only salvage will be the value of the
old iron. The figures given out of the
loss sustained-about $500, 0OO-are UNI
changed. Fortunately for the beet
growers, the efforts of the company to
secure market have been successful.
and the Menominee Sugar company, of
Michigan, will take over all the sugar
beets contracted for by the Minnesota
company.