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SOCIETY NOTICES.

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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
WOLF IN SLEEPS CLOTHES.
An "Open Shop" Concern That Strives
To Deceive People.

The Crowell Publishing Co., publish
ers of "Woman's Home Companion .
are suffering the displeasure of the
reading public against their attitude
toward Organized Labor by continu-
GUS stream of ''stops" and protests.
Realizing the gravity of defending a
weak position and in order to stem the
tide of public denunciation, they have
taken up the child slavery problem in
an attempt to divert attention from
the policy pursued in their own insti-
tuition which makes child slavery pos
sible. The Child Slavery problem is
being used by the Crowell company in
order to appropriate themselves corn
mon feeling, and no doubt every reader
of this article will agree that a man
or firm having bitter prejudices
against Labor is not only untitled for
right thinking on the Child Slavery
question, but is extremely liable to- act
in a questionable manner in connec-
ton Herewith. If they are biased
against members OF organized LdDOT
that bias is sure to work detriment
to the children in slavery. 1t is not
only unwise but very dangerous to al
low the responsibility for the Child
Slavery movement to rest upon the
shoulders of a concern that has re-
peatedly given practical demonstra-
lions of their opposition to decent liv-
ing conditions, and until they clean
their own dirty linen they cannot hope
to receive the support or confidence of
the public in a movement that means
so much to the welfare of the coming
generation.
"Woman's Home Companion" has
opened up their Anti-Child Slavery
League headquarters at Madison
Square, New York, and most pitcously
appeal for subscriptions with the
promise of emancipating children from
slavery. To prospective subscribers we
say Beware"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
ASTONISHING LAND VALUES
United States and Canada Rich in
Examples of Rapid Rise
in Prices.


To chose who are skeptical of the
wisdom of investing money in real es-
tate, there are nunn> @'ous instances of
cities where every inch of land is of
great value which b we been built upon
sites formerly sold for little or even
given away. The United States and
Canada are rich IN such examples
Canada especially has been the scene
of great bargains in land. During the
first years of its history James I. made
a free gift of the whole Of Canada, to-
gether with Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia, to the famous Lord Stirling
Some 200 years later member of the
suite of the governor of the colony
was granted 100000 acres of land by
William Nv. Later this was increased
by the addition of 100000 acres. Sixty
years later Canadian land company
was given 100000 acres, 2.000,000 be:
Ing paid for at the rate of 60 cents an
acre, and the rest free gift. AS late
as 1880 the Canadian government &C.
tually made the Scotch-Canadfan COM
pany present Of s2,500,000 in cash, az
a bonus, with free grant Of Is, 0O0, 00G
acres. As there were many conditions
as to the development of the territory
in the terms of the grant, the bargain
was not so one-sided as it at first ap-
pears.
Everyone knows that the whole OF
Manhattan island was sold by the In
dams for $24. Yet plot Of ground
which was once farm, and was grant
ed and still belongs to Trinity church.
yields yearly income of $1O,O00.OOO.
Pennsylvania, the second most popu-
lous state in America, containing
scores of prosperous cities, has an
area of about 5000 square miles. This
tract of land was given over to Will
liam Pinn in settlement of compare
lively trifling debt which Charles II.
owed to PENIS father, and which he
found himself disinclined or unable to
pay in cash.
The same improvident king was the
one who rented 100000 square miles
of the land about Hudson Bay for a
yearly rental of two beavers and two
elk per annum. This has proved to be
one of the best speculations in land on
record. Some 200 years after the deal
the company of owners sold the major
part of this vast territory to the Cana
dian Federation for $2,5O0,00O, and in
the meantime it had been bringing in
an average income of 100000 year.
Not more than 270 years ago the
present site of Liverpool was sold for
$3.50 by small London syndicate,
who had bought il from Charles I. for
less.
The site of johannesburg and most
of it's gold mines, which are said to
contain over $14,O00,O00,O00 worth OF
the precious metal, we're sold less than
80 years ago to an Englishman named
Pratt for the sum of 81, 500. In spite OF
its cheapness it was a bad bargain for
him, for because of his activity in the
first Boer war his property was conf1s-
Gated and he was driven to England In
penniless state.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
FAMOUS RAILROAD DOG.
Travels on the Bangor and Aroostook
Line and Is Popular and
Privileged.

Elbridge Barrows, of Great Works,
Me-, who has a barber shop in Old
Town, is the owner of Bob" the
travelling dog. Bob is known all along
the line of the Bangor & Aroostook
railway and is petted and made much
Of by the railroad men.
Bob scorns the society Of other
CANNES, takes no interest in the ordi-
nary sports and pastimes of dogland
and has devoted his life to a studying
of railroading.
At first Bob's trips were confined to
the short stretch between Great Works
and Old Town in company with his
ciaster, but he soon began to essay
ronger journeys by himself. At what
ever station the fancy seizes him he
alights from the train and prepares
to stay a part of the day and perhaps
al night and he never lacks for a
warm corner to sleep and enough to
eat, for the hospitality Of all railroad
employees is extended to him.
Bob cannot read. of course, and 1t
IS unlikely that he can tell what time
it is by looking at a clock. Anyway
no one has ever seen him scanning
either time table or timepiece. Never
theless, Bob always knows, no matter
whether he be in Boston, Old Town,
Caribou. Bangor or other station, just
when the train will start and what
route it will take. With the last
warning signal of the conductor Bob
leaps aboard the train.
Bob's favorite position when the
car is not crowded is the window side
Of oeat, with his paws resting on the
little table in front. He Is invariably
a masdal passenger. never growls be-
cau.A a,:.ss S'sAin is behind time, doesn't
ask the conductor for all kinds of
unnecessary information and treats
the brakemen and train boys with
neverfailing courtesy.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
RAILROAD ST Tk,N GARDEN
Suggestions on landscape Treatment
of Groun Is {. ad APP
proachus.

In lecture delivered last summer
at Chautauqua, Lester G. Griffith hint
ed in very prctical manner the ap-
plication of landscape gardening prin-
ciples to railroad property. He point
ed out that the station, including both
buildings and grounds, is focal point
through which the travelling public
radiates. To introduce and direct the
passengers to the town, is the con-
trolling principle in station g.ounds
design. Natural existing features may
often be made most attractive part
of the station parks. A stream, pond
or piece of woodland may be so united
with the rest of the grounds as to be
an intricate part and that with a most
pleasing effect.
The materials applicable to railroad
planting need to be hardy on account
of the dusty and smoky conditions
which they must endure. The short
lived flower patch is poor and ex
pensive apology for the vastly superi-
or and less expensive perennial plant
Ing. Moreover, with us throughout
the year. Heavy masses of single
species of plants are more effective
than the mixing of individuals of sew
eral species. These single specie
masses are to be so placed that they
easily blend and together make har-
mon1ous whole. Charming seasonal
effects may likewise be produced.
Aside from having station grounds
and the right of way well arranged
and properly kept for the good Of the
passengers of the road, they should be
SO treated because of the educational
influence exerted upon the commune
ties reached by the road. The spirit
of regard for beauty and order will
be felt farther than the borders of the
line. Every passenger will carry with
him an impression that will sooner CT
later materialize in some form of do
nestle or civic improvement. The
railroad thus creates an object lesson
for promoting good taste in outdoor
art and for civic improvement. The
railroad not only betters its own con-
dition but at the same time becomes a
public benefactor.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Decided to Leave zoin.

Mr.. o. w. Davis, formerly a news
paper man of Humboldt, who has for
several years been in charge of the
printing establishment at Zion City,
and who wrote a short time ago to the
effect that he was still on top and
that wholesale housekeeping was go
ing on, now writes to relatives at Sa-
lem, that he has gone into the real
estate business in Chicago, and it is
presumed that his business project did
not pan out as good as expected al
though no particulars are made public
Mr. Davis was the originator of the
Salem interstate chautauQua.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
FoREcAsTINo BIG FLOODS.
Most Destructive Inundation for
Fifty Years Accurately Foretold
by Weather Bureau.

Early in 1897 kilograms were posted
in hundred cities along the Mfssis-
sippi, warning the inhabitants to pre-
pare for tremendous floods. These
warnings, says J. e. Watkins, in the
Technical World, went SO far as to
name the exact date-sometimes two
or three weeks off-when the coming
food would be at it's height, and even
stated the number of feet above low
water mark the water would reach.
They were signed by the chief of the
weather bureau at Washington.
The Inhabitants OF Cairo, New Or
leans and of the, towns and cities be-
tween read these sensational messages,
looked out at the shrunken Father of
Waters flowing calmly along within
its banks and shifted CONTEMPORARY.
They were not going to be scared by a
lot of fool scientists in Washington!
Only a comparatively few timid people
were at all alarmed or even impressed.
These went so far as to move their
valuable property up onto high ground,
and were we'll laughed at for their
pains. Even the newspapers took the
matter up, and scolded the govern
ment for allowing the weather bu-
reau to Brighten neerlessly lot of
silly old women.
Finally the date set for the coming
Of the flood arrived, and with it came
the water. The greatest flood for more
than half century swept down the
Mississippi and overlooked more than
$4,000 square miles OF land. The main
streets of hundred towns and cities
were under water; and, at some points
practically the only property not dam
aged was that of the ridiculed people
who had needed the despised warning
Of the weather bureau And 1t was es-
timated that property to the value Of
SIS, 900, 900 was saved, which would
certainly have been destroyed but for
the advance notice which its owners
had been wise enough to heed.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Pensions to Railroad Employees.

In the six years that the pension
system of the Pennsylvania railroad
has been in operation there has been
authorized to be paid in pension allow
ance to the retired employees of the
company the sum of $1,000, 087. SO,
made up each year as follows: 1905,
$a9o,ooo; 1904. 100000; 1903. $780,
374.32; 1902, 1923. 403.1O; 1901, $685.
5000. and 1900, $244.O19.97. During
the six years no less than 1900 en-
pfoyes have been retired and pen
stoned. 1t is singular fact that when
the railroad company projected it's
pension system strong opposition was
made by many of those who were to
be its beneficiaries. They are not crit
icising 1t now.-Newark Advertiser.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Railway Travel SAFE.

An amateur -statistician in one of
the government departments has fig
ured out the interesting fact that it is
about seven times safeS to travel on
the railways of the United States
than to stay at homo.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
The increase in assessments

The increase in assessments made
by the supreme council of the Royal
Arcanum last year IS held to be both
legal and and right by the full bench
of the Massachusetts supreme court
which dismissed bill brought by Ste
phen W. Reynolds and others against
the supreme council.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Her Good Fortune.

II have just been to see the arts.
who is painting my picture" said Miss
Millyuns. land it doesn't look a bit
like me-
Let me congratulate you," replied
Miss Cutting.-Indianapo 1entineI
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Jail-Breaker's offense.

The charge against a man named
Armstrong, who had made his escape
while being taken to jail, the other
day, was: THAT Armstrong got at
large whithersoever he would, to the
great hindrance OF justice and the evil
example Of all others In the like case
offending, and against the peace of
our sovereign lord the king, HE crown
ana dignity"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
HAS FULL FAITH IN JAPAN.
Jacob schiff Says Country Will Keep
Every Pledge.

Jacob Schiff, the American financier
on leaving Yokohama for Vancouver
expressed qualification with his visit
He said that he was particularly con-
WINGED that so far as Japan was con-
cerned, the principle of the open door
in Korea and Manchuria would be
scrupulously honored and that Japan
would keep faith in every direction
and meet every engagement, actual OF
moral
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Coaline ON the Rim.

An American railroad is experiment.
ing with device for coahng locomo-
ttv-s while travelling at full speed.
Tue trials SO far have been vary sue
aessful.-FoNE.Track Nsws.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Decide to Close Plants.

Manufacturers of window glass in
Indiana have decided to close their
plants from May 20 to June 10 on
account of the high price of fuel and
scarcity of skilled labor. other states
have been asked to take similar action.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-05-25
Thoroughly Professional.

Ibid you say that she is a profes.
sional nurse?"
II think so. Anyway, she's going
to marry him just as soon as be can
sit up."-Milwaukee Sentinel. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-28
CANT OPEN SAFES.
Admission of Air Immediately Starts
a Fire Among Contents.

San Francisco, April 2S.-There was
much activity today throughout the
burned section, many men being en-
gagged IN clearing away debris in par
ticipation of the construction of tenn
porary buildings. Further warning
was sent out 20. all who have safes in
the burned buildings advising them not
to attempt to open vaults or safes of
any kind for the present. Several per-
sons opened small safes taken from
imme diately took fire and were con-
sumed. There was less dynamiting Of
walls today, most of the dangerous
ruins having already been razed-
Army officers in charge of the refu-
gees camp at Golden Gate park re-
port that conditions there are excel
lent and that the refugees are so stu
ated that they not only experience no
suffering but no discomfort.
With few exceptions all tents have
been made watertight by being lined
with tar building paper. which was
the principal supply distributed yes
terday- The occupants of every tent
have been supplied with a field cook
stove and the refugees in need are
given double army blanket upon
request being made to the officer of
the day. Within the last 4S hours
fully thousand campers have left
Golden Gate park to occupy houses
they left in fear of fire or new places
they have found in the burned dis
trict. The Dominican Sisters have in
formed the Associated Press that
their college at San Rafael was not
damaged by the earthquake and that
studies have been resumed in the in
stitution.
The ship George Curtis. which came
10 dock at the Eighteenth street dry
dock at San Francisco yesterday, had
a collision while at sea and the second
mate of the vessel was killed, the cap
tain seriously injured and the ship
badly damaged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-28
MARKETS TODAY.
Possibility of Damage to Wheat
Helps Prices.
Moderate Purchases of Corn Due
to Unsettled Weather.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Hogs Are Quoted About Station
airy Today.
The Native Steers Bring About
Five Cents.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.

Chicago. April 2s,-WHEAT-The posi-
bility of damage to the fall sown crop
helped to steady prices July wheat open
ed sc lower to a shade higher. at 1873 a79e
to 791sc, and sold up to 7914c. Minneapolis,
Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of
The close was firm, with July up, at 1875
Q79szc.
CORN-Unsettled weather induced mod
crate purchases of corn. July opened a
shade lower to shade higher, at 46a461sc,
and sold up to 46Izc
At the close the July option was steady,
and up &c, at 461kI461zc
OATS-SmaU receipts and wet weather
were responsible for a steady tone in the
oats market. There was some -profit-talk-
ing in May, but the volume of trade was
not lower. July opened unchanged, at 307s
U3lc, and sold at 316311sc.
PRO isIQNS-Provisions were firm be-
1--we hogs. July pork was PIC higher, at
Sl5;so Lard was shade higher, at SS.671s.
Ribs were unchanged at $500
WHEAT-CaSh: No. , red. S7GS9c: No.
red, S5dS6c; No hard. 79GS3c; No g
hard, 75079c; No. northern. S1dS3c; No. 2
northern, base; No. 8 spring, 77aS2c.
CoKN-sNo. 2 473zG4l94c; No. 3. 471zc.
OATS-No- 2, 3114Q3115c; No. 3, 316315zc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-28

spot, but the tables which were the
most popular were the dinner and sup
per tables which were loaded down with
all sorts of good things. The affairs
was a grea- success and win net the
ladies something in the neighborhood Of
s10e. The merchants not only on the
North side but from the other side Of
the river as well, contributed literally
as did also the grocers. The Park
hurst Davis company sent a good dona-
ton while the pickles and condiments
We're furnished by the Otto Kuehne
company. Only one thing occurred to
mar the pleasure of the day and that
was when the president of the Ladies
Aid society thought she had lost the
church pocketbook containing about $50.
After the president had put in a bad
quarter of an hour it was discovered
that this valuable purse had been taken
care of by another one of the ladies in
charge, although she had the misfor-
tune later on to lose her own pocket
book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-28
DEAD NUMBER 1873.
That Number of Bodies Have Been
Found in Frisco Ruins.

San Francisco, Cal. April 2S.-Three
hundred and thirty-three bodies, victims
of the recent earthquake and fire, have
now been found by Coroner Walsh and
his assistants. Many of the dead have
been identified. All that were buried in
the public squares during the fire have
been removed to the several celneteris
of tn city. The coroner's data is fairly
accurate though his work and MS re-
ports are not yet complete.
Among the bodies identified yesterday
were four members of the Johnson fam
lily residing at 287 Clementina street.
The building there collapsed brylng
IN its ruins Nathan w Johnson, his
wife, Mrs Mary Johnson and 2-year-old
son, Harold Johnson, and Edward b.
Johnson, Nathan's brother. Fire later
destroyed what little was left OF the
building. The charred remains of the
family were buried in the Laurel Hill
GENE terry. They were exhumed yester-
day and identified by Clarence w john
son, brother of Nathan. Another body
identified yesterday was that of Bertha
Fabian. who formerly lived at 112 How
ard street. He was killed by Iallng
walls on the day of the earthquake.
There is nothing left but courage
and grit" said Charles F. Curry, sec
rotary of state. While making a brief
call at Franklin hall last night. "but
there is plenty of that to again make
san Francisco, what it has been and
always will be=the largest and most
important city on the Pacific coast.
Mature can not easily rob US of our
harbor and other natural advantages
over other cities on the coast. Those
who believe that San Francisco will not
be rapidly rebuilt and on a greater and
grander scale don't Know the spirit OF
the west@that made San Francisco the
greatest city and California the great
est state on the Pacific coast. 1t will
require years to rebuild. but it will be
done. San Francisco viii remain the
principal gateway through which COM
merce and trade to the Orient will
/ fOW.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-28
HISTORY OF THEIR LIFE WORK
Lives of Father and Mother Florence
Now Issued in Book Form.

A 200-page volume of the lives Of
Father and Mother Florence is just
off the press. The book is the work
of Hattie Sibren Campbell, a friend
who has been very intimate with both
Father and Mother Florence, who
have been known inseparably from
the local Salvation Army and its
work.
It is a simple story simply told. The
lives of two who have fought through
the troubles and pleasures Of several
score years A life simple in its min
istrations but strenuous for its good
works Mother Florence, who was
fatally injured in a runaway last sum-
mer, is represented by a poem or two
Several half-tone pictures Illustrate
the pages of the book, and included
in this number are those OF Father
and Mother Florence.
The receipts from the sale of the
book viii go towards Father Florence.
who is now past 20 years old but who
still retains an active interest in the
work of the Salvation Army.