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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
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Westerton was almost cut; Burress
was under the seat sparring for wind;
Slim was giving an imitation OF coal
barge in a heavy sea. and the rest OF
the passengers were in various stages
from hiccoughs to conyulsions.
rs Boozey comfy wifi his 'itty weeny
teeny Birdie?" chirped the bride.
"Boozey is so happy wifi his Ivy
wizzy!" gurgled the husband; ''how's
my little girley wtrly?'
'Oh! she's such happy wappy little
fing!" giggled the dotty dame, pinch
ing her piggie's ear. whereupon the
brewer tried to hand the bride another
gasoline gaze, but the old lady caught
him with the goods.
rs i'd to my face you go behind my
back to make googley-googley eyes
ad somevun-yes?" she growled, and
in minute the brewers brow was
busy with the window pane.
"Sweetie looks at Petite and Sweetie
sees that Petie's petty face is getting
sunburned, SO it Isl" cuckooed Mrs.
Daily; "and Sweetie has a dcod mind
to tiss him, too.'
They opened newspaper, crawled
under cover, and began to bite each
other on the chin.
go as far as you like!" said Slim.
then he went down and out.
The man who helped to make Wee
hawken famous had his head out the
window watching for an ice-wagon.
and Mrs. Brew was industriously
muttering "Du bist Elm Narr! Du Dist
Elm Narr!"
Just then the train pulled out and
saved our lives.
Dave, Frank, Bill, Slim, Charlie,
Malcolm, and rushed feverishly up
to the other end OF the car to cool on,
and there we landed on the outskirts
OF bunch Of drummers. who were
tanning each other with fairy tales
about the goods they sold.
''Ill back three OF the lads in that
collection to dream longer than any
other drummers on the track.
It's q pipe that they can sell bills
to each other all day and never wake
up.
A guy named Mutt Dawson was
holding forth.
He's a most reckless spendthrift
with his words, and the meanest man
to the English language T ever
listened to.
Mutt was telling them about hypno.
thing John Wanamaler merchant
prince in Pikesville. Ind. to the ex-
tent Of 5000 for open-work socks, farm.
er's size. and then chap named Jack
Dean sent his balloon up by telling us
how he sold the Siegel-Coopers, Of
Bugsport, Ia, $500 worth of Panama
hats for horses.
The Hot Air association was in full
session when Buck Jones caromet
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21

Dear Bunch: I'm headed for home,
but the hurdles are holding me back
1 met whole flock of "the boys" in
Rochester yesterday morning, and
since most of 'em were making a
flying leap for New York. you can be-
lieve me it was swift squad of sports
that climbed into one of Mr.. Pullman's
sleep-wagons and permitted them
selves to be yanked over the rails.
A bunch of brisk ones--believe me!
There was Charlie Hammond, lead
ing man with the kitty, the Kash
Girl" Company; David Terrence, first
heavy with the melodrama entitled
THE Haunted Automobile; or, Who
Stole the Muffier?" Frank Westerton,
first low sad with the "Crazy-Quilt
Burlesquers; Emmett Corrigan, who
is lecturing through the provinces on
How to Play Bridge Without Impair
ing the Tonsils;" Malcolm William,
the handsomest leading man in the
show-business = when completely
shaved; William Burress, the Bath
Robe King; Charlie Abbott, who sells
that fine Monticello honey-dew, and
Arthur Shaw.
Shaw travels for clothing house
in Cincinnati, and they call him Slim
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21

The chances are it will not be done
away with until the pitchers who use
il have had at least year in which
TO become proficient in the common or
garden variety of foolers.
There is no question but what this
form of delivery has had, and al
ways will have. a bad effect ON the
hitting end of the game. Any time
a pitcher has the spit ball" working.
and by that is meant having it break
low and fast, he is practically unhit-
table.
The saliva slant" takes more of
u break than an ordinary curve ball,
and what Is more, when handled by an
expert. II can be made to break either
in or out.
1t is practically impossible for the
batter to follow this break in the ball,
and hence his inability to hit IL sue
cessfully.
Fans seem to have taken dislike
TO this form Of pitching. particularly
when the opposing finger has the
home batters on the run with it,
When the home twirler is making
monkeys of the opposition with the
splitter" there is very little said
against 1t.
Another reason given for it's aboli-
zion Is that it causes the fielders to
make errors. which otherwise would
not have occurred.
This is especially true where an
infieider. who is obliged to make a
hurried play. grabs the ball on the
molstened side. A wild peg is the
usual result.
But after all is said and done 1t is
unlikely that the splitter will be
abolished. for ii would hardly be
fair to the men who depend on this
form OF delivery for their success.
The pitcher who uses the damp
shoot is only taking advantage OF
his peculiar skill In this line, inves
tigation having shown that there is
something besides merely wetting
the ball which makes 1t so hard to
hit.
1t took Ed. Walsh. Comiskey's great
pitcher. q c.s1ple of years to acquire
The splitter" and II would surely be
hardship to deprive him of the use
of It after he has worked it to a poin,
where II Is a near-science.
IL It is abolished plenty of time
should be given to the spit ballers'
To acquire some other form of de
livery with which they can retair
their effectiveness One season will
surely not be too long.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
oorando Coming to America.

DOFando, the Italian runner, who
finished first. but was disqualified, in
the Marathon race at the London
Olympic games, is coming to America.
1t 10 expected that he will race against
well-known American long distance
runners at Madison Square garden No
vember 25. John j. Hayes. winner
OF the Marathon; Tom Longboat, the
Canadian Indian runner, and A. A.
Shrubb, the English professional
champion. who has been employed at
Harvard as a coach, have been invited
10 meet the Italian at that time.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
Hair md Heredity.


Gertrude and Charles Davenport,
connected with the Carnegie institu-
tons station at Cold Spring Harbor.
N. Y, writing in the American Nat
uralist of the results of their observa-
tons on the "Heredity OF Hair Form
in Man." say it is now possible to pre-
dict from the hair of parents the form
of their children's hair, whether
straight, wayy, curly or frizzy. They
find that the following rules are al
most invariable: 1.-Two blue-eyed.
straight-haired parents will have only
blue-eyed. straight-haired children.
Two wavy-haired parents may have
straight. wavy or curly-haired chill
dren, but the chances " curly hair are
slight. Two curly-haired parents. may
have children with either straight.
wavy or curly hair. and the proper.
ton of curly-haired offspring will prob.
ably be large"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
NO NEW STARS PRODUCED
During 1908 GOLF SEASON
Records Show More Boys Playing
Than Ever, But Youthful "Phe-
mons" Are Lacking.

The 1908 golf season was not rec
ord breaker SO far as developing
youthful "phenoms." In fact, it is
quite evident that the past season has
been unusually barren in this particu-
lar, although tournament records
throughout the country show more
boys playing the game than ever be-
fore.s
In the recent national championship
at Garden City. N. j., the younger ele-
ment cut practically no figure. By
this it Is not meant to infer that the
honCrs were carried off by battle
SCARED veterans. On the contrary,
most Of the glory rewarded the efforts
OF young men, but not boys.
A glance at the names of the four
that adorned the, semi-final4 bracket
Max Behr, Fred Herreshoff, Jerome D.
Travers and Walter ]. Travis-fails to
reveal anything bordering on extreme
youth. Behr graduated from Yale
several years ago. while Herreshoff,
who lost to Behr in this semi final
round, missed by the narrowest of
margins chance to reach the final.
a distinction he gained in 1904 at
Baltusrol, when he was a youthful
prodigy.
So far as Champion Travers is
concerned, this remarkable golfer eel
ebrated his twenty-hrst birthday last
May. which was after he had gained
the triple crown of national, metropol
itan and New Jersey title holder. 1t
is, therefore, hardly fitting to refer to
Travers any longer as "the boy"
The blush of youth has long since
faded from the cheek OF Walter Travis
In fact, almost from the time he be-
came prominent as a golfer he has fire.
quently been referred to as the "Old
Man" Always playing with head as
well as hands, Travis has been able,
in scores of notable encounters, to
more than Offset the greaterrbrilliancy
of his youthful opponents by exercis-
ing rare judgment at critical stages.
There have been times, however,
| when even with this great exponent
of the game execution has not kept
pace with intention.
| Because Albert Seckel. western
| entrant, enjoyed the distinction Of be-
| ing the youngest player in the recent
championship his movements were
watched with more than passing inter
est. but the boy did nothing to startle
! any one.
| When Warren X. Wood carried
Travers to the home green during the
national tournament at Euclid a year
ago the Chicago boy was promptly pro
| claimed as the coming champion. YET
he failed to qualify at Garden City.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
We Trust You for Anything
Used in the Home

approval. If you don't find q saving Of Is to =
per cent. under the lowest prices. cash OF
credit. anywhere.
so Days Free Trial
AS you can't come to our store. we send the
goods to you on approval. Use them month.
and decide how you like them. Compare our
prices with others. IT not satisfactory. return
the goods at our expense. The months use
will not cost you q penny.
Small Monthly Payments
If you are satisfied. you can pay little each
"a months to pay. while you use and enjoy the
articles. We charge no interest and ask no
credit-and our dealings are all confidential
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
PITCHER JOSS MAKES
PLEA FOR "SPITTER"
Says Any Time a TWirter Has It
Working, He Is Practically
invincibie.
az Apoie JOSS.

The proposed abolition OF the spit
ball" by certain members of the
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21

because he's getting so fat that every
time he turns around he meets him
self coming back.
He's all to the good-that boy is!
And such a cut-up!
Slim knows more "look- Quit
there's-a-lady-over-th stories than
any other drummer in the business.
Then there was Nick Dalrymp1e and
Tod Gilpin-two live ones with full
set Of sparks flying.
Nick goes after the orders for
hardware house in Columbus, and he
knows everybody in the world-bar
one family living in YOnkers.
Nick has only one trouble, he will
paddle after the ponies.
Whenever he makes a town where
there's q poolroom his expense-account
gets fat and beefy. and Nick begins to
worry for fear he may win something.
He won $12 in Cleveland once, and
he spent $218 at psychologists that
night getting statistics on how it hap
pened.
Tod Gilpin cuts ice for a match-fac-
tory in Newark, and he's the life Of a
small party.
Tod's main hold is to. creep into the
reading room" of a RUDE hotel after
the chores are done of an evening and
throw aalve at the come-ons.
Tod tells them that their town is
the brightest spot on the map, and
they wal m up to him and want to buy
him sars aparilla and root beer.
Then when he gets them stuck on
hnr hn fnb
Pipe the gang to quarters and all
rubber!" said Slim, about half an hour
after the train pulled out.
In the seat ahead of us a somewhat
demure-i ,oking Proposition in rain
bow rags had -been sampling the seen
cry ever since we started.
We hld all given her the glad
glance, hut she was very much Cold
Storage, so we passed it up.
AS SliIl spoke, the Proposition was
| joined b. a young chap with loose
face, whit, had been out in the smok
| ing-room working faithfully on one OF
! those pafama panatella cigars that
bite you IN the finger if you show the
least sige of fear.
Just Il en- the train stopped for 8
few mins ties, and we were put wise
! to the fact that it was an incurable
case of b ide and groom.
| "Oh! \ oozey is back to his Birdie!'
said the rand-new wife. did BoozeJ
like his noky woky?"
| Boozey opened bunch of grins ant
sat down while WHEY patted his
cheek ant cooed:
'Is um. glad to get back to um'
little wife .pifey?"
mond BED IN to scream inwardly, will
Slim chuc fling like a pet porpoise.
Sweet, mustn't be angry will
i Petite, but Sweetie is sitting on Petie''
little han Il" said the bride, where
upon Nal: ohm Williams exploded. Eant
Slim bega to grab for his breath,
A Dutel. brewer and his wife, sa
right ahead of Boozey and Birdie. ant
every ont In awhile the old hop
puncher u ,uld turn around and bean
benignly vver the gold rims at tn
bride.
"BOOzey must snuggy-wuggy up close
to his Cod te and skeeze her itty hrn
no. no. I It her waist! you naughty
naughty"
The bra YER was back at the brid
with ancl Ter gold-rimmed goo-goo
when his I lie got nervous and cut in
lis i'd n turn your face to se
someding. yes?" she snapped. and tn
foam-builct ducked to the windo1
and began g eat scenery
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21

HoWS WY Title NiFsy Wiriys
over from the other end Of the car
and weighed-in with us.
Buck is sweller.
He thinks he strikes IL ON all occa
sions, but his clock is all to the pazaz.
Buck isn't drummer-nay! nay!
take back your gold!
He'll look you straight in the eye
and tell you he's travelling salesman
nix on the drummer!
think Buck sells canned shirt.
waists for the Shine Brothers.
And now, Bunch, here is where
affix one of Uncle Sans promises-to
carry to this document and drop it in
the little green box.
The Same Ever,
]. Fl.
Copyright. 1908. by &. w. Dillingham; Coz
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
WIN Require Much Wheat.

1t has been figured that by 1850, 43
harvests hence, the United States will
have a population which. at the aver
age rate OF 61s bushels OF wheat .
person. will require full billion Of
bushels Of wheat for bread and seed.
Wall Street Journal. -
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
Navy Wants to Row Cornell.

The naval academy rowing author
tiles have determined to challenge
Cornell for either two or a fourmile
race Oh the Severn next spring. The
midshipmens determination to row
Cornell, a regular entrant at Pough-
keepsie, for four miles Is taken to
indicate that all hope OF sending a
navy crew to the big event on the
Hudson In 1909 has been abandoned.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21

rules committee Is
causing much spec
nlation among fans
and players as to
whether or not
such a move would
be advisable.
The general I'M
preston seems to
prevail that it will
not be done. Even
though the spit
ter" is abolished,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
Save Is to so Per Cent

world Our combined capital Is 81 900, 600. On
orr books are more than $50. 600 customers.
We own Is mammoth retail stores. located in
of a score of great factories. Thus we buy
and sell at prices which no other concern can
compete with. We invite any sort of COM
parison. You can return any goods. sent on
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21

Whatever you want for use In your home
will be sold to you on credit. Your choice of
1000 articles will be shipped on approval. Use
our goods 80 days before you decide to keep
them. Then. If satisfactory. pay q little each
month We mean that exactly. When person
wants to make his home more attractive. his
credit is good with US.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-03
Guides Torpedoes,

| axis the mercury is collected at the
end of the tube which is nearest the
axis, but it flows to the peripheral
end of the tube when the rotation Of
the wheel carries the blade below the
axis.
Now if a blade is arrested at the
contact position in which it is very
slightly inclined downward, the mer-
curry flows slowly through the long
curved tube from the inner to the out
er end, which it must reach in order
to effect the closure of the correspond
ing circuit. The transit occupies about
five seconds. Hence if the successive
impulses which rotate the wheel are
made at intervals less than five Sec
onds, none of the circuits which op-
crate the torpedo is closed until the
desired blade has reached the contact
position and has been allowed to re-
main there longer than five seconds.
Each operating circuit terminates in
one of the rings shown on the axis of
the Wheel
With a wheel of eight blades, two
of which are used to make and break
the circuit of the magnet which drives
the wheel, the torpedo can be influ-
enced in six ways. Thus, it's motor
can be accelerated, retarded, or
stopped, and it's rudder turned to right
or left, or straight astern. The arrival
of each blade at the contact position
is instantaneously made known by the
lighting of an electric lamp.
Greater precision in guiding tor
pedoes to their goal has been attained
by this wireless electric method than
by any other system yet devised. The
same method is evidently applicable to
the control of machinery at distance
in factories, in airships. on rail-
ways, etc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-03
HiEROGLYPHICS.
A Clever Trick with Which You Can
Fool an Evening Company.

This game, which is really trick,
is played with confederate, and if
cleverly done a ''goodlie companie''
may be deceived.
A Snowman, armed with long,
pointed stick, stays in the room, and
his confederate, the guesser, is shut
out, while the company thinks of a
word The guesser is called in, and
the Snowman proceeds to spell out the
word on the floor with sundry taps
and strokes of his stick.
The solution is simple enough. The
taps represent the vowels; one tap for
a, two taps for e, three for i, four for
0, five for u. and the guesser need pay
no attention to any other talking. Sup
pose for instance, the company Sc
lects the word book" The cue is
given in the sentence which the show
man uses to call the guesser in. He
would say, in this case, Better come
in," and the guesser would know at
once that the first letter of the first
word in that sentence will be the first
letter of the word to be guessed.
The Snowman taps four times
with his stick and makes a lot
OF misleading strokes and signs;
then he taps four times more for the
second o, then he says, in an off.hand
way, Kind Of hard, isn't?' or in any
other sentence introduced by the letter
k. He finishes up with more signs and
strokes, as If to puzzle the guesser,
who. of course, has already secured his
word.
The Snowman must be quick and
clever in placing his consonants at the
beginning of spicy sentences, other
wise the humor of the trick is lost.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-03

more and more every day, because of
their efficiency, durability and COM
pactness. They are used extensively
for the erection of buildings and gen.
eral work about docks.
These hoists are of the friction
drum type and are controlled by a
mechanical brake which acts directly
upon the drum. This brake is operated
by levers placed in convenient posi-
ton for the hosting engineer. The
power for the drum is furnished by a
motor which is started or stopped by
the ordinary controller, so common
ly seen upon the street cars. A Hin.
single drum hoist operated by IN IS.
hp. motor will lift I, 500 pounds. Freedom
from sparks gives. the electric hoist
q great advantage over the portable
steam hoist and boiler outfit. BID ss...z
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-03
THOUGHT CHILD WOULD DIE,
Whole Body Covered with Cuban Itch
-Cuticura Remedies Cured at Cost
Of Seventy-Five Cents.

my little boy, when only an infant
of three months, caught the Cuban
Itch. Sores broke out from his head
to the bottom of his feet. He would
itch and claw himself and cry all the
time. He could not sleep day or night,
and light dress is all he could wear.
I called one of our best doctors to
treat him, but he seemed to get worse.
He suffered so terribly that my hus-
band said he believed he would have
to die: l had almost given up hope
when lady friend told me to try the
Cuticura Remedies. I used the Cuti.
cura Soap and applied the Cuticura
Ointment and he at once fell into a
sleep, and he slept with ease for the
first time since two months. After
three applications the sores began to
dry up, and in just two weeks from the
day l commenced to use the Cuticura
Remedies my baby was entirely we'll.
The treatment only cost 75c, and
would have gladly paid 500 if could
not have got it cheaper. feel safe in
saying that the Cuticura Remedies
saved his life. He is now a boy of five
years. Mrs. Zana Miller, Union City,
r. F. D. No. /, Branch Co., Mich, May
II, 1906"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-03

in place and supporting them. A sim
pier method, perhaps stron ger one,
is shown in Fig. w., where the end
boards simply butt against the ends
Of the lengthwise boards, to which
they are firmly secured by wooden
pins driven through the end boards
and well into the ends of the others.
as suggested in the cut The joint
should be glued and the pieces should
also be glued before being driven in.
There should be one or more pins for
each board. Use a bit for boring the
holes for the pins.-David Webster
Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant first went to
school at Port Pleasant, O. The school
was crude affair, which he attended
only in winter and at other odd times
when there was no work on his ia.
Tiers farm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-03
WARFARE BYsWtREtE ss.
500 t$&4Ss -- ---7- - zs@ -, - 49, s%S.s:
Torpedo Which Is Guided BY Means
& q Of Electric Waves.

The attempts made in 1898, by Orl-
ing at Stockholm and Armstrong 1T
Portsmouth, to control torpedoes by
wireless transmission of electric. i'm
pulses, have led to no practical result.
Since then q company has been
formed in France, says the Scientific
American Supplement, for the study
Of the subject, and experiments, have
been made at Antilles with q torpedo
which is kept immersed at q constant
depth by means of . float which bears
the apparatus for the reception Of
aerial waves. ~
This apparatus includes a device by
which the different signals are caused
to operate the propelling and steering
apparatus of the torpedo without mu-
tual interference. The device here H.
lustrated is the invention of CADET, a
young French engineer. and has CIV
en- very satisfactory results. The cleo
trio circuits which govern the various
operations and reducing
speed, turning to right and left, ETC.
are so arranged with reference to q
sort of paddle wheel that each circuit
10 closed by bringing the correspond
ing blade of the wheel into a horizon
tai position.
The wheel is driven by a pawl at
tached to the arnature of an electro
magnet, each closure of the magnet
circuit bringing the second blade of
the wheel, for example, into the posi-
ton formerly occupied by the first
blade. Hence, by tapping the magnet
key and sending short impulses like
those which correspond to dots in
telegraphing, the operator can bring
the blades successfully into the near.
ly horizontal or contact position and
stop the rotation when the desired
blade has reached that position. But,
although in general, several other
blades have been brought into the con-
tact position in this process, the act
ual closure of the corresponding cir
cults is prevented by the following in
genious device:
Each blade carries serpentine
glass tube which contains little mer-
curry. When the blade is above the