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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Mr.. Jules Lumbard Omaha, realizes il he did
Before the truth of the old adag that curses like chickens
oos In respects Mr. Hubbard is fine old gentle
As singer he has few equals r this He
whoe-soued gentleman His chief claim
during civil he
rallies order induce other enlist He well
the he doubt
great aid But couple of
Hubbard bued in against the labor unions of Omaha He
things against the unions called bad
his opinion that anarchy and
chief weapons unionsm Indeed Mr. Hubbard of the
the republic urkcd the labor
patriotism contained in the business
associations of fact Mr. Hubbard extremely
his opposition the labor Unions
Immediately the pressthe daily and social preside
would have wakaway Surely such popular
old would be elected by
vl,eln,ng Why, musical artist. society swell
leader would that Mr. Hubbard elected
by overwhelming
he wasn't Hubbard made speech in which he
very things about labor unions and union men The
papers anarchists dug that speech reprinted ii
among union of the city The
much spluge, but election day they proceeded
10 bump Mr.. I.umbard--and they bumped him good
Certainly have i'll feeling against the
Surely he did want the votes and
Labor these anarchsts these users
Having launched forth his the
his immediate vicinity
Hubbard the fact that he opposed by the
enl
phasis-he had the good not to thrust
gentleman whose patriotism certainly would nave led
him to decline it when coming from such source
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Will M. Mavpin, in "The Commoner."

folk in Missouri and Illinois. And you
couldn't make a room look as rest
full with Turkish rugs, md melton
carpets and Assyrian dewdads, as
you can with warm, thick 'hit-an'
miss rag carpet like our grand
mothers used to- make. When you
walk in on one of those rag carpets
you just feel like. kicking Off our
shoes, fiinging your coat i'll I, corner
and Hopping right down in front OF
the stove TO get r I, genuine rest
None OF your dinky little old dingy
rugs that decorate 4 polished floor
like postage stamp on a No. 10 en-
velope. Not much! When you STEP
on that rag carpet yn: know it's
tackled down and that it won't slip
out from under you and throw You
up against a lot of bric-abrac piled
in artistic abandon on a wobbly
onyx table that stands precariously
smash the gold fish globe if it top
pies over. Not much it won't. You
know that carpet, nude by a. bright
eyed old mother who's cheeks were
rosy and whose mouth always wore
smile. and not by Sore-eyed Turk
sitting cross-legged on a dirt floor and
rags that came from nobody knows
where-I say, you know that carpet
will stay right there under your feet
and not go to forcing you into a
gymnastic exercise that will betray
your stiff old joints and your forty.
four inches around the waistband.
The old rag carpet is a perpetual
invitation to a good time. When you
see it you know you are welcome.
But when you enter room with a
waxed floor and job lot of imported
/ rugs scattered here and there you
just feel in your bone, that the host
is wondering il the --ails in your
shoes are going to scratch the floor
or break thread in the rugs.
Ever drink cider and eat apples
and crack walnuts an. hic. orynuts
and pop corn in roorl that had a
waXed floor and lot of dingy rugs
from Alb ..'ssinia or Hindoostan or
Turkestan or some other foreign
parts? Not bit of it. But in a
low-ceilinged room whose rough floor
was covered with a rag carpet you've
done all those things and had more
fun in minute than you could have
on waxed floor and :. lot of rugs
in aswholeS generation. And you re
momDeT just SuCn room, 100. AnO
you'd give all the imported rugs and
waXed floors and electric lights and
artists proofs and modern plumbilg
and everything else in your house il
you could just slip back into that
room for one evening and sit there
surrounded by the same loved ones
that surrounded you, o so many years
ago. You remember every stripe in
that old carpet. That red was a
part of your sisters dress. And
right over there is q dull gray that
recalls a pair of pants mother made
for you and which father busted off
one day because you forgo. to pull the
weeds out of the onion patch And
that stripe was part of fathers
old overcoatLtle one discarded
the winter he sold the hogs at such
good price. And that one, and
that one, and that one-yes, you re.
call 'em all. Talk about imported
rugs!
what has become of the old
fashioned carpet?"
It has gone out with lot of other
good things to make way for tawdry
display of ostentatious wealth. 1t
was a luxury that h: to give way
as sacrifice to foolish pride: a
comfort that had to be put behind in
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
Brain Leaks

Real charity has no advertising
bureau.
Self-sacrifice doesn't mean sacrifice
for self.
We always envy boy who has an
old maid aunt.
Life is made up Of trifles, but it is
unwise to trifle with it.
Some fathers think that in order
to be fair they must fume.
Some men wouldn't know what ia
do if it were not for their brass tags
The man who is always we'll
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
A Boys Complaint

When I was JUS :. little boy" pa
often says to me,
81 had more fun Soin' t school
than anybody roun';
An, if there wuz some mischief up
I'd purity shore t be
MIXED up in it worse than tn rest
NV all tn boys in town
l rccollect Onct on time An then
he tells a tale
Nv how him an some other boys
JUS played a orfle trick,
But now, if jus bat eye in school
he says he'll whale
TIL very stufiin' out o me-Say,
that JUS makes ME sick.
A few days jus fore liollere'en pa
lays his paper down
An says: Ma, reco1lect tn time
we young kids in Blue Hill
JUS tore up sidewalks. fences, gates,
an purt' nigh wrecked tn town.
Then up an told bout how twas
done, an'laugheds nigh fit t kill.
So Hollere'en / done tn same, an
gee, twas lots O. fun.
But pa caught on an he wuz mad
I saw that at glance.
He says to me, says ne: Look here
that's gotter stop, my son."
Then took me t tn woodshed
where he busted Off my pants.
brung a buster out.
An while we wuZ eatin' it he
says: Ma, recollect
TIL time me an tn other kids snaked
some from OIL Bill Stout?"
%~yx ~ all Inc f,pc
bites that his shirt bosom f1ecked
An pa he laughed Z st At t kill
about that melon raid,
So on that night some boys an me
went out an swiped some. too.
But pa found out an iarruped me
Gee, how that hick'ry played!
Now l don't think it's hardly fail
t. act like that. Do you:
faint fair FIR pas T. talk about tn
fun they had, an then
Turn roun' when they've boys wv
their own an say we oughter be
Ashamed t act so orfle bad, an tel
us t. be men
An quit such wicked things like
that. 1t don't look squat t. me.
Pas had his good tin but if 1 JUS
undertake a trick
He tells us havin' played when he
was JUS about my size,
He scowls an says: ''Will-yum. yor
go an git that hick'ry stick"
An when pa whips yt better be-
tn fur JUS fairly flies.
1t amt no fun t be a boy nowadays
cause parents say
The things they done when they WI,
srSt sr1t 10
An they expect their kids to be LORD
Fauntelroys each dav-
An then they talk wv the. good times
an that's what MAKES me sore.
No melon raids. no Hollere'en; jus
sit aroun' o, psnaw!
Amt we boys golrer right to kicf
tn way they're treating us?
When I grow up to be man an gil
T. be a pa
You bet my boy can have his fun
an l won't raise no fuss.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
wonders how so many doctors make

wonders how so many doctors make
a living.
1t is hard to sit before a steam
radiator and call up recollections of
happy past.
Some people start into save for a
rainy day and then become frightened
at the first little cloud.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned woman who always had a few
'pem'mint lozengers" in her reti-
cule?
When a man complains that he is
down on his luck it is pretty safe
to guess that he is also down on his
pluck.
One of the easy marks is the old
fashioned gentleman who still thinks
that it is a lawyers business to settle
disputes.
When a man gets the notion in his
head that the world is against him
he is very apt to be willing to let
it be against him.
Once in a while we meet a man
who boasts that he neve-' whips his
children. but we reserve judgment
until we know the children.
The worst feature about being sick
is that when you are just getting well
and want to tell your friends how sick
you were, he turns in and tells how
much sicker he was a few years ago.
Why is. it that when these cooking
school experts give demonstra-
ton they usually broil porterhouse
steak that would put the average
workingman's weekly wage into
crimp for thirty-six hours?
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
Unfair

How much do you make a week?"
asked the visitor of the Office boy who
81 make about nine bones a week,
but de boss keeps six of en-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

order to satisfy a foolisI fancy for
artistic sense"
When our ship comes in we're go
ing to dig right down into the hold
and if there isn't big rag carpet
there We'll refuse to receive the ship.
If there is, then we're going to put
that carpet right down on the par
lor floor, and the first visitor who
turns up his or her probocis in a
sneering way is going to fail to re.
ceive an invitation to take chair.
That's what We think about the
old ia ShiOued rag Garnet
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
Failure

The Great Financier sat in his stump
tuous Office and thought earnestly.
My life has been d great success.
l have secured everything that the
heart of man could desire, money
fame, power-everything.
But you have not secured me-
whispered a something from out the
surrounding silence.
What are your" queried the Great
Financier.
Il am Love-
But I have secured control of the
money of the country. 1 have Sc
cured control of the coal mines OF
the country. l control the grain mar
Kets, the railroads, the mills and the
factories"
But you do not control me-" said
chilling voice from out of the sur.
rounding silence.
What is it that I do not controls?
queried the Great F1nancier.
Il am DEATH"
And when they found the Great
Financier in the morning they found
him captive instead of captor.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
soLsHAw GOES TO HASTINGS.

Fred J. Bolshaw, formerly night
yardmaster for the Burlington in
this city, has been transferred to Has
tings, where he has been made yard
master lg the place recently held
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

"A Year in He'll is the title OF just St
.scab" shop that long if he is good mechanic.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

We would respectfully ask Lincoln look
illustration the first of The Wagcwoker this
if the label
overais. And it isn't, don't think it ought
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
Just Thoughts

what has become of the old
fashioned rag carpet?" queries an
Iowa editor.
There are few of them left, and
Won will sind them in the quiet and
peaceful homes of the old-fashioned
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

"Song of the Shirt" be needed right here il
Lincoln Suppose good coutions be asked
future outdoor religious gathering
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

There vast difference between paronzng
and atronzng sweat shops and the of Lincoln
blind that difference. Give something patronng
well do the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Mr. Parry the carriage manufacturer who thinks he
light old he please his employees also rail
who thinks he ought be allowed charge public
old he plcascs Mr. Parry of coming
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

o Central Trades Union OF Philadelphia i'll
osng republican ticket that city miserable mistake
republican ticket only, and in fact the ticket
rngers gangsers the grae 1t named by
the vest Philadelphia candidates the
of the political machine in America There
nothing republican about either the candidates the
with exception OF the The Citizens ticket
ported and cearheaded citizens OF Philadelphia ans
ocs was forgotten IN 1he gea mg Than h Ge,si d E b
nssn was coune OF % ered
for endorsing the republican ticket that OF the
big citzen of labor unions
wall P s ns ] 1
time to es b w tho % biz ae
Union Council stood for everything that was rotten and
wto place his unionsm ahead of honesty and fair dealing
The union of Philadelphia had opportunity show
they held honest above purely selfish endand
Righteousness and against civic otennessand
tie with graft merely because
who oppose labor unions also opposing graft
Post having hard finding suckers up the
necessary to keep the Post name before the public
Mr. poo'ey Open Ship "eSshange
,e s s t7e had a r: dipped s sm
labor and not nd Gm the To nt nd the
gone press did the editor remember that he
thing this humble little newspaper
s Ag so w h do nos a
Mr. Parry the carriage manufacurer who thinks he has
light to pay any wages peases employs also
oad who thinks he ought be allowed charge the public
old he pcascs Mr. Parry has couple coming
We would respectfully ask every union in Lincoln look
illustration the first of The Wagewoker this week.
the label of Workers
on oveas. And if it isn't, don't you think ought
There is vast difference between home industry
and shops and the of Lincoln
blind to that difference Give something paronzg and
well do the rest
"a Year in He'll is the title OF book just written by St
Louis But his fault He to
a "scab" shop that long if he is good mechanic.
"Song of the Shirt be right
Lincoln. Suppose good cocutiOns be
outdoor religious gathering
The Postitc Union Busting Alliance engaged organ
:zing anunion unions Wouldn't
you?
The Labor Union will
Tuesday evening The proposed social has been
meeting the Woman's Union at l..
T. hall Saturday evening, November Be
let their assembly mouths know what their
business hands doing
Keep your eye on the squirrel!
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

The Postitc Union Busting Alliance is engaged organ
:zinp anti Wouldn't that ia
vOu2
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
A Greater on,

"Say, Billson; what wa the riddle
of the Sphinx"
Il don't know, but I'll bet it wasn't
marker to- the puzzle Of trying to
patch up my busted automobile in a
rainstorm on a muddy road eleven
miles from home"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Special meeting of the Womans Union Label League c.
L. hall evening, November H. Be there.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
The Difference

The car of Russia IS worth forty
million dollars and has ten millions
year to spend. 50.
My bank account = in red ink and
the cars income for a day would
make my yearly wage look like a
busted toy balloon.
But l can walk whistlins; down the
street, while the car hikes under
the bed every time he hears a TO :
step in the hall, an he is so busy
lodging poisoned food that he
couldn't enjoy a dinn-r of boiled corn
beef and cabbage if h tried.
Taking 1t all in all, we'd rather
whistle and enjoy corned beef and
cabbage than to have 'steen millions
and be afraid to come out into the
open.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Some men let their assembly mouths know
business hands doing.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13
RegrettabIe Mistake

Hearing a noise in his room the
president of the Excitab, Mutual In
surance company sprang from his
bed. turned on the electric switch
and saw a, masked man, standing by
the safe.
How dare you invade my prem
ises?" demanded the awakened
sleeper.
Il beg pardon, boss said Bill the
Bug. II got twisted in me bearin's
an didn't know vince was.
didn't mean to butt in an work your
side of tn street.
Bowling gracefully and begging par
don for his unprofessional conduct,
Bill the Bug retired hastily through
the window.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

Keep your eye on the squirrel"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-13

The Central Union will in regular session mex
Tuesday The proposed beenp
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-30

ness, for the boys told me of several
tricks they had played on their father.
the emperor, which they had copied
from the Bad Boy" and il made me
blush when they told of initiating their
father into the MasOns. the way my
chum and 1 initiated dad into the Ma
sons with the aid of a goat.
L asked the boys how their dad took
1t, and told them from what we in
America heard about the emperor of
Germany, we would think he would kill
anybody that played a trick on him.
but they said he would stand anything
from the children, and enjoy il, but if
grown men attempted TO monkey with
him, the fur would fly. The crown
prince came in and was introduced to
me, and he seemed proud to see me,
cause his uncle, Prince Henry, had told
MIN about being in Milwaukee, and how
all the women in that town were the
handsOmest he had ever seen in his trip
around the world, and he asked me if
II was So ! referred him to dad, and
dad told him the women were the great
est in the world, and then dad made his
usual break. He said: Look ahere.
Mister Prince, you have got to be mar
ried some day, and raise a family to
hand the German empire down to, and
my advice to you is not to let them saw
off on to you no duchess or princess as
hOmely as a hedge fence, with no ginger
IN her blood, but you skip out to Amer
lea, and come to Milwaukee, and I will
Introduce you to girls that are so hand
some they Will make you toe the mark
and il you marry one Of them she will
raise family of healthy young royalty
with no humor in the blood, and YOU
won't have 10 go off and be gay away
from home. cause an American wife
Will take you by the ear if YOU show
any signs of wandering from your own
hreside, like lots of your relatives have
done"
Gee. but that made the emperor hot.
and he said dad needn't instiI any of
ms American ideas into the German
nobility. as he could run things all
right without any help, and dad got
ready to go, cause the atmosphere was
getting sort of chilly, but the emperor
soon got over his huff, and told dad not
TO hurry, and then he turned to me and
said: Now. little American bad bow
what kind of trick are you going TO
play on me, cause from what [ have
read of you 1 know you will never go
out of this house without giving me n
benefit, and all my boys expect it. and
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as we'll as anybody, but I can't laugh
until know what am laughing
about" and he told dad to make me
SHOW what was in the bottle, and I
showed the bottle and there was moth
ing in it, and there they stood scratch
ing themselves. and I told dad we bet
ter excuse ourselves and go, and we
We're going all right enough when dad
said, What is it you are dOing?" and
as we got almost to the door I said
Your majesty. 1 have distributed, i'm
partially, 1 trust, in the royal family
of Germany, half a pint of the hun
grlest heas that Egypt can produce
for they have been in that flask three
weeks with nothing to eat except them
selves. and I estimate that there We're
million cairo fieas in the flock, enough
10 set up housekeeping in your palace
with enough to stock the palace Of
your crown prince when he is married
and this is that you may remem Der the
visit Of Peck s Bad Boy and his dad
The emperor was mad at first but he
laughed. and when we got out of the
palace dad leaned against a lamp post
and scratched his back. and said TO me:
"Hennery. you never ought 10 have did
II. and l said, hat could a poor boy
do when called upon suddenly to do
something TO entertain royalty"
We'll" says dad, Il don't care for
myself. but this thing is apt to bring on
international complications and I
said. Yes, it Will bring Persia into it.
cause they viii have to use Persian
insect powder to get rid of them" and
then we went to our hotel and fought
heas all night, and thought of the
sleepless night the royal family were
having.
Well so long. old Pummernickel.
Yours truly, HENNERY.
Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. BowIes.)
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DERLIN. Germany.-My Dr. old

y ERLIN, Germany.-My Dear Old
- Pummernickel.-No we have got
pretty near home, and you would
ShJoy, 1t to be with US, because you
couldn't tell this town from Milwaukee,
except for the military precision with
winch everything is conducted, where
you never take glass of beer without
cracking your heels together like a SOL
ulef' and giving a military salute to
the bartender. VINO is the commander
in-chief of all who happen to patronize
ms par Everybody here acts like he
was at picnic in the woods. with a
large barrel of beer with perspiratfon
oozlnS down the outside and a srigot
or the largest size, which fills a schoon-
eF az one turn of the wrist. and every
man either smiles or laughs out LOUD.
ana you feel as though there was ham
plness everywhere. and that heaven
was right here in this greatest German
city There is laughter everywhere. ex-
cept when the emperor drives bv es-
corted by his body guard, on the finest
horses in the world, then every citizen
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will enjoy it, the same as I will: nov
let 'er GO
felt that il was UP TO me to do
something to maintain the reputation I
had made. so l said: Your majesty. I
VIII now proceed to make il interesting
for you, if you and the boys Will kindly
be seated in a circle around me-" They
got into circle. all laughing, and !
took out Of my pistol pocket a half-pint
flask Of glass, covered with leather, and
with a stopper that opened by touching
a spring, and I walked around in front
of each one of the royal family. mum
bling: "Eue-mene-mony-my and
opening the flask in front of each one
ana pretty soon they all began to get
nervous, and scratch themselves. and
the emperor slapped his leg and pinched
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his arm and put his fingers down his
collar and scratched his neck, and the
crown prince jumped up and kicked his
leg and scratched his back. and said
Say, kid, you are not hypnOtizing US,
are yoU? and l said. ''Ene-mene-mony-
my, and kept on touching the stopper.
By and by they all got to scratching.
and tEe emperor turned sort Of pale,
but he was going to see the show
through to the end. as long as he had
a ticket, and he said. What is the joke.
anyway" and ] kept on sa wing Enc
mene-mOny-my," and walking around
in front of them, and dad began TO
dance around, too. and dig under his
shirt bosom and scratch his leg, and
they all scratched in unison and
laughed, and a little prince asked how
long before they would know what il
was all about, and ] said my ene-mene,
and looked solemn, and dad said, What
you giving us?" and I said. Never you
mind, this is my show and I am the
whole push and everybody had raised
I'D out of his chair and each was
scratching for all that was out. and
finally the emperor said. Il like a joke
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TO a certain board of missions In this
way: I wish 81, 600 given TO the wo-
mans board. of which Miss Jane Smith
is q mana ger"
This was a piece of iHcOnSequenCe,
that had no i'll results, because the heirs
at law knew all about the board in
question and were aware of the iden5i-
" OF the particular Jane Smith con-
cerned. But that legacy might easily
have missed its destination / was
very loosely put down. and other gen.
tle-wOmen are warned TO be careful in
similar emergencies
Many good people distribute their
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dening.
IN the case of jewelry, curios. favorite
prints and photographs. ehe fiotsam and
Jstsam Of pretty and priced souvenirs,
the course should be the same. An af-
fectiOnate family will regard as pc
cuiiarly sacred the wishes left in writ
ing By father. mother or sister. though
they may not be legally attested. and
F. the keepsakes viii not fail to go TO the
persons for whom they are intended.
"A ring. a brooch, a string of beads. a
silver cul a piece OF china. may be left
by unc' or aunt. to a child not yet