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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
WORD WITH LINCOLN MERCHANTS

Mr. Merchant though make slightly better profit
the trust made cigars handle than the Lincoln made
cigars do realize that long money?
Of course you want to know why say this.
In the first place. the the made
out Of Lincoln Secondly time
sell trust made do that towards depng
Lincoln of a
There about thirty
Lincoln made preference made cigars would
not be long until there would be $50 200 cigamakers
coin Two hundred cgarmakers working full time in Lincoln would
mean increase of $4,000 week the roll and that would
S. 600 week with The poorly paid work
the trust
pennys worth with you
IF rs cent of the cigars Lincoln
Lincoln line business would beneficial
Because would from $50 week the business
channels of the city.
and local pride and patriotism Get those Lincoln
made cigars from under counter and put them the
spcuous places cigar Instead of making
patriot hunt for Lincoln made cigars make the ancer of cooe
made cigars the hunting Keep much Lincoln
in Lincoln possible Build business by in
creasng the number of Lincoln who do business
with you
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19

Pa 276. Pueblo. Colo IS seventh IN
the list with a rate of 36s5- Alto
gether there are more than a score
of small cities. half of them in Penn
sylyania, the rest in Nex Jersey.
Massachusetts,, Michigan. Ohio. Indi-
ana and Maryland, in which the
death rate by violence exceeds the
highest rate in any large city The
highest rate for large city. 1903
per 100000. is found in Pitrsburz
If to this be added the death rate
from typhoid fever and other prevent
able diseases, PIttsburz may be
deemed fairly entitled TO such glory
as may attach to the fact that human
life is held cheaper within its boun-
diaries than in any other civilized
community The total number OF
deaths by violence in 1906 and the
rate per 100000 inhabitants from
that cause in seventeen of the larger
cities are set forth in the following
table.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
CONCERNING MADDEN.
How Organized Labor Views Convic-
ton of Crooked Leader.

We are pleased to note the con-
viction of the infamous CRATER known
as Skinny" Madden, of Chicago, who
was proven to have exorted 81 900
from builder as a fee for adjusting
some labor difficulty in connection
with the mans business, Madden hold
ing himself out as an authorized rep
resentative of organized labor for the
purpose. While it is generally sup
posed that this man, who has been
guilty of numerous Matchmaking and
extortion schemes in this way, is con-
nected with organized labor and one
of its chosen and trusted officials,
such is positively not the case He is
business agent of the Junior Steam
filters union of Chicago, an organiza-
ton unknown outside of that city and
not affiliated with organized labor in
any way whatever, not being repre-
scented in any legitimate governing Ia
Dor organization in the city, state or
nation. 1t is simply band of credu-
lous workmen controlled by gang of
conscienceless grafters and plunderers
for their own exclusive profit Madden
| is at the head of this gang and has
reaped a rich harvest out of the sim
plicity and subserviency of the MEM
bers of the so-called union. He has
lived in luxury, enjoying every high
priced pleasure, and all the while u.s.
| ing his every opportunity to foster
his graft and keep up his show of
stateliness and wealth. His conduct
has brought reproach on the labor
movement, but the censure is wholly
unjust and unfounded, for he has had
nothing whatever to do with real Ia
Dor organizations.-Min Union
Advocate
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
GOOD ONE ON eoMPERs.
Why the Labor Leader Did Not Be-
come a Pulpit Orator.

At recent meeting of the Chicago
president of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electric Railway
Employees, told a story of how Samuel
Gompers first entered the labor move
ment. Mr.. Gompers, who was present
at the meeting and heard the story
said its chief merit lay in the fact
that it was not true, but it wasn't bad,
even if untrue. This is about the way
Mahon told the story:
You all have heard of Brother
Gompers, but probably some of you
took up the profession of a labor agi-
tator. He originally was intended for
the ministry. l will not say what de-
nomination he belonged to, as that
is one of the forbidden subjects in our
labor organizations. Anyway, he was
an assistant minister in a certain
church. and he was called on one day
to officiate at a christening. Young
mined to Guido the old minister He
believed this was his opportunity to
display his wonderful oratorical pow
ers- Taking the infant in his arms,
young Gompers said: My friends, we
are gathered here to witness a most
interesting and important ceremony.
Who knows what this child is destined
to become? Who knows but he may
yet sit in our legislative halls in Con-
gress? Who knows but he may yet
become a United States Senator and
have his name written on the pages
of history as one of the worlds great
est statesmen? Aye, my friends, who
knows but he may yet have conferred
on him the highest honor in the gift
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19

of P.ttsDurg. Pa have just succeeded
in securing an agreement with all
the proprietors in the city for an
eight-hour day. which will go into
effect July l.
The union carpenters of Dallas
Tex propose to inaugurate the Sat
urday half holiday
The membership OF the United Mine
Workers is now sos. 600 in good stand
ing the largest number in the organi-
cation throughout it's history The
gain during the past year was Is eS9
Governor Harmon of Ohio has APP
pointed Charles WirmeI of Cincinnati
to the Office of labor commissioner
Mr. WirmeI is an active member OF
the Engineers Union
President Lee " Hart SAYS the
prospects OF organizing the moving
picture theater branch of the rhear-
rical and amusement industry are
good New unions were recently formed
in California, Ohio and Kentucky
After two years strike. painters
III LII " al 0SfAAlCr -sAo- NOAk eAk-fA 4[-
mands-
Carpenters in Pittsfield Mass So
cured Saturday half holiday without
strike Slate and tile roofers have
organized
The street car men in Benton Hzr-
Dor, Mich, are kept awake trying to-
find ways and means of spending thar
| II cents an hour which is generously
doIed out to them
/ Jewish carpenters in Brooklyn who
are on strike for an increase of wages
I from 81 to $3.50 day. are winning
out Over half of the contractors
have come across
/ The supreme court OF New York
has upheld the constitutionaIfty OF
the law requiring railroad corpora
lions to pay their employees twice a
month
The forty-four hour week was car
ried by a majority vote on the Print
ers' Wage Board In Melbourne Aus
tralia, recently, the chairman voting
with the employees representatives
whereupon the master printers re-
signed from the board
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
General Mention
Brief Items of News Picked Up Here
and There
and There

The Georgia locomotive firemen
who struck against the policy of en-
ploying negro firemen have won.
The railroads are now operating trains
again, but with white fremen. For
nine days railroad traffic was at a
standstill. and not a single act of
violence was reported.
Six hundred lumber workers in
the neighborhood of McCloud, Calf.
are on strike. Troops have been
called out, ostensibly to preserve or
der, but in reality to break the strike
The International executive board
of the Piano and Organ Workers
Union has decided that it is within
the powers of the affiliated locals to
assess their members as high as 10
cents week to aid the striking hat
tiers.
The seventh convention of the
Woman's International Union Labor
League will be held in Louisville, KY,
June Is.
A strong union of bod carriers and
building laborers has been organized
in Erie, Pa.
Painters and Decorators have signed
closed shop agreements with nine
firms in Erie, Pa
Seventy-seven members were in
itiated in the Pittsburg Bookbinders'
| Union during May.
The general offices of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners at
Indianapolis is now situated in an up
to-date fireproof building just erected
| by that organization.
The Order of Railway TeIegraphers
has purchased the southwest corner
of Eighth and Walnut streets, in ST.
Louis. for 100000, and will expend
another $4,000 in the construction
of a club house and headquarters for
the order
Fourteen striking brickyard en-
ployes in town in New York state
were arrested for parading Prob
ably they will be charged with vioIat
ing the liberty of United States citi
zenship
The Sheet Metal Workers Union
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
OUR AWFUL DEATH RATE.
Annual Slaughter in American Indus
trial Institutions Appalling.

One of the curious things about
the story of death by violence, ac-
cording to the Technical World Mag
azine, is that human life is cheapest,
not in the large cities, though of
course the total number of deaths is
greatest there, as the casual OBJ
server might suppose, but in the
smaller cities. The Technical World
adds: Nowhere are lives held so
lightly as in the smaller cities of
Pennsylvania Measured by the
deaths of violence human life is
cheapest in Butler, Pennsylvania,
where the annual rate is 1874 per
100000 population. Pittston in the
same state stands second with a rate
of $685. Iron Mountain, Mich, is
third in rank with rate of 1907,
then comes McKeesport, Pa, 29O.1;
Shenandoah, Pa, 278.9; Pottsville,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
HOW COMMON SENSE WINS.
That in Organization Puts Chicago
Building Trades Ahead

If the Chicago building trades crafts
men had got a yellow streak wheHA
the open shoppers began to buster
and deserted their unions they would
not now be able TO point to achieve
ments of which they have right to
feel proud. The spring fights over
working conditions are all through
and they show that the workers were
not compelled to scab on their own
scales, but that some 40 900 men have
gained an average increase Of -
cents a day. besides many minor con-
cessions- This means that the or
ganized building craftsmen of the
Windy City are about So. eo0. 900 to
the good for the year II they had
no unions they would, in all probabiI-
ity, have been working for about >
per cent less than they are receiving.
What's the answer. Mr. Non-Union
Man? Have you got brain to tninkz
Toledo Union Leader.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
Proclaim New Sultan in Morocco.

Paris-Mulai Ell Kebir, younger
brother of Sultan Mulai Hafid, has
been proclaimed sultan of Morocco by
the tribes among whom he has been
a refugee for many months, according
to dispatches from Tangier and Fee.
The adherents of Ell Kebir are organ
iZing a formidable army the dispatches
say, and will start a campaign against
Mulai Hafid. Since the overthrow of
the former Sultan Abdul ASH by
Mulai Hafid last year, certain tribes
men have been clamoring for Ell Kebir
to claim the throne, declaring he is
the rightful successor
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19

of the people of this great country of
ours and wear upon his brows the
civic wreath of the chief executive of
our republic?'
Turning to the godmother of the
child, young Gompers whispered:
child named?'
Mary Ann came the whispered
response
That" said Mahon. lis how Com
pers missed his cue as a minister and
became a labor agitator''
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
Explorer shackIeton Rewarded.

acknowledgements Ernest Shackle-
ton, the explorer. who managed to
get within 10 miles of the south pole
on his recent Antarctic exploration
trip and who arrived here Monday,
found in his mail a letter from Wash
ington stating that he had been
awarded the Hubbard gold medal for
his work. The lieutenant is highly de-
lighted with this recognition of his
work as an explorer.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
Uncle Sam to Keep Eye on Hawaii

Washington, D. although the
state department has received no Off
cial information regarding the Jap
anese in the Hawaiian islands, it is
probable that a request will be made
on the department of the interior for
a report from the governor of the
island about the incident. If it is
made a diplomatic affair, the state de-
partment will depend on the depart
ment of the interior for the govern
ment's presentation of the case. No
statement has been received from the
Japanese foreign Office.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19
A Lessened Lumber Output.

Washington-Thel lumber production
in the United States was less in the
calendar year, 1908, than in the pre-
eeding year. according to a report is
sued by the census bureau. The de-
crease amounted to 17.3 per cent. or
from 1884, 900 to 80, 2S9, 369. 900
feet. While practically every section
of the country shared in the decrease.
il was most marked in the centers of
heaviest production, that is on the
Pacific coast, and in certain parts of
the yellow pine belt.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-06-19

]. ]. Show has sold his farm of 100
acres south of Beatrice to W. S. Nc
Hugh of Clay Center, a former resi-
ton was 1925 an acre, or $4,000.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
PLEUNDERFARM
RICH FIND IN AN ARTICHOKE
FIELD NEAR ROME.
Seven ScuIptured Blocks Valued at
More that 6o,ooo-Dispute Be.
tween Owner and Italian
Government Officials.

Rome.-Here are pictures of the
sculptured marble blocks recently
found in an artichoke field near Rome.
The story of the find is doubly inter-
esting as it supplies good illustra-
ton of what happens to people who
are indiscreet enough to make discov-
cries of archaeological value in Italy.
There is law in Italy which regu-
lates the ownership of archaeological
finds. The owner of the land, accord
ing to this law, is entitled to only
three-fourths of the find, while the
state takes the remaining fourth In
order to ascertain the value of the
find there is special commission COM
posed of government officials.
Now, it often happens that the own
er of the land is willing to pay cash
for the one-fourth claimed by the
state in order to acquire title to the
entire property, and in such cases the
commission, it is commonly believed,
overestimates the value of discovery.
When, on the contrary, the owner of
the land wants to sell, then it is
charged the commission underesti-
mates the value of the find. Further
more, the owner cannot sell what be-
longs to him except to the state with
out special permission.
AS to the find in the artichoke field,
Neapolitan named Carmine had
some money and looked around him to
invest it we'll He heard that farmer
owned some land on the Via Prenes-
tina, four kilometers outside Rome,
which he wanted to SELL and he found
out that the farmer was tired of
growing artichokes and wished to try
peas.
The land was not good for peas, Sig
nor Carmine saw, and it was excellent
for artichokes. He had no partiality
for any vegetable more than for any
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
RATHER AN APT COMPARISON
Humorous Thought That Occurred to
Jim When He First Occupied His
New White "Baid."

The prize to-day goes to Virginia
woman, who sends me this darky
story:
My colored girl not only keeps my
house in exquisite order, but is proud
of her own home and spends time and
money on it. She purchased white
enamel bed and l asked her If her hus-
band liked it.
"Yessum, Jim he like dat white bald
l done git-he like it all right. Las
night ! had done fix dat bald up wild
a spraid an l got new pillershams an
it look moughty clean an white. Jim
he ondress hese'f an git inter bald
an he lie dere and doan say nuttin'
twell hear him sayin':
"Lizzie-'
"'Well, I say, 'whatcher wan, Jim"
Lizzie, does yo' know what I
minds myself of in dis white baid?'
mo, Jim, doan know what yo'
minds yose'f Of
Jim he chockle and den he say:
"'t fly in a pan Of milk! New
York Telegraph.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
Homespun Gowns.

For spring dresses and suits of the
general wear" type, soft, plant home,
spun is the favorite material. 1t comes
in all the new olive and bottle green
shades, in the new plum and blue, and
in the castor and gray shades Wide
walled serges apparently are to be
much worn in navy blue and in white.
The vogue for white serge has been
on the increase for season or two,
but this year it is to be especially
marked. Two-thirds of the early sum-
mer serge dresses are in white, gray
or castor color. The proper white Is
that called oyster which suggests a
gray just off the white. Serge suits
of this sort are often most elaborately
trimmed-Harper's Bazaar.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15

other, so he decided to buy it. The
price paid was about $4,000.
Carmine set about breaking the
land. and one fine day while he was
at work one of his men said that there
was a large stone which he could not
move. Signor Carmine went to his
help, but even their united efforts
could not move it.
Then Signor Carmine scraped some
of the earth off the stone and found
that it was marble and that there was
a figure of woman sculptured on it.
Nearby another block of marble SINH.
larly sculptured was discovered. Sig.
nor Carmine had the two blocks re.
moved to the farm house and contin.
ued digging on the same spot. He says
that he discovered five other blocks
OF marble like the first two and moth.
ing else.
These blocks of marble are curved
and about five feet ten inches high
one inch thick.
Somebody informed the authorities
of the discovery and the next morning
early saw officials on the spot accom-.
panied by the carbineers.
When the correspondent visited the
farm few days ago there were in
fact artichokes growing on the exca.
waited ground. Signor Carmine says
that the struggle between him and the
archaeologists, the first and many 9TH
ers who followed him, has been very
hot. and it still continues.
"They," meaning the archaeologists.
says Signor Carmine, wanted to re.
move the find to museum and I op.
posed the removal. They threatened
to arrest me, but did not do It. They
claimed the fourth part of the find,
and I told them to take 1t. "The
fourth Of seven blocks is one block
and over a half; take two blocks
said, as your share and am satisfied
with the remaining Ave.
"They said they would not. Would
I sell my share to the state, they
asked. answered would consider
the proposition. Then the commits.
sion determined the value OF the dis.
covery and said 1t was worth 10000.
They were willing to pay me $4,000
for my share. I said that was too lit.
tie, as the find was worth 100000
and my share should be $4,000.
Now" concluded Signor Carmine,
~ shall walt until get an offer from
a foreign buyer. or course will not
be able to sell 1t, but then the offer
will increase the value of the find and
the archaeologlsts will have to pay me
what | ask. II not shall keep the
blocks here"
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
NOVELTY IN GINGHAM LINE
Recent Patterns Are an improvement
on the Conventional Severely
Simple.

A new gingham for small girls has a
square patterning made by crossed
bars of pale blue, pink, scarlet or yell
low on white background. Other
novel ginghams are shown with silk
figures in self-color, these taking the
form of diamonds, small rosebuds, leaf
sprays and round dots. The conven-
tional little checks in solid blue and
white are still seen, and for simple
dresses these are pretty
French calicoes, which are far more
expensive than the name may sound,
are quaint rarities sold by the yard at
the most pretentious shops. One de-
lightful design in this really exquisite
material was in pale buff, fiowered
with blue. Another showed brilliant,
tight little rosebuds with green
leaves against a white ground and
still another was in pale gray with
blue checks. ,.-.r
White Hamburg embroideries and
plain white braids supply correct trim
mings for all of these materials,-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
HAS GIVEN US NEW FABRIC
Striking and Beautiful Metallic Tis-
sue an Idea Evolved by Paris
Artist.

The artist craftsman as well as the
designers OF gowns in Paris are
quite thrilled over the marvellous dis
covery by an artist of new fabric.
He has invented it and will not give
the secret away.
He may have discovered the proc
ess, but no one else can find 1t,
and, therefore, all the orders for it
must come to him. He cannot satisfy
the demand, as all kinds of accessor-
les to the costumes are made of it.
1t is metallic tissue which is opal
escent. He makes it in several tones
OF gold, from the palest tint to a
deep furnished bronze, then several
tones of silver and an interweave of
silk threads.
1t has the aspect of coat of mail
and yet is so supple that 1t can be
draped into tunic over a satin
gown.
1t is light in weight, does not dis
color and has the lights of an opal
when the sun is on it.
The fabric can be used for dra-
peries on gowns, for bodice trim
mings, for long, tight sleeves in eve-
ming frocks. It's latest use is for eve
ming shoes with high silver heels and
splendid paste buckles in front.
1t is also made up by some of the
ultra-expensive milliners into era
watts to be worn with high-necked
afternoon and restaurant gowns.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15

or died, when I read about Lydia L.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; so
began to take it, and am well again and
relieved of all my suffering."- Mrs.
GEORGE yoRDY, Box 40, Marlton, NJ.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases we know of, and
thousandsof rytestimonialsare
on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form of
female complaints, Inflammation ul-
ceration, ,displacements,f fibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodicpains, backache,
Indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every suffering woman owes it to her
self to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound trial.
If you would like special advice
about your case write q cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
PROBABLY HARDEST OF ALL,
Wifey's Addition to List Of Her House.
hold Duties of Course Was
Not Personal.

After dinner the other evening Mr.
and Mrs. Brown started to speak of
their respective duties, and soon an
argument as to whether the husband
or the wife had the hardest work to
perform was in full swing. First
Brown warbled, and then wifey sang
"a wife, argued the good lady, has
to cook, wash dishes, clothe the kids,
scrub the floors. sweep the house,
make the beds, build the fires, carry
up coal, nail Stats on the back fence.
dig"
"Is that all?" sarcastically inter-
rupted Mr.. Brown.
mo" was the prompt rejoinder of
Mrs. Brown. In addition to those du-
ties every wife has to keep her hus-
band from making a fool of himself?"
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
No More Tired Feet,

1t is quite remarkable how much
more rested housekeeper is at the
end of the day If she makes 1t rule
never to stand at any of her house
work when she can sit.
One woman always used tall stool
when washing and wiping her dishes
or ironing small pieces. She finds she
can peel her vegetables and stir a
cake quite as well sitting as standing
The result is that she does not
know what it is to have tired feet
when night comes.
Gilpin observer., 1909-04-15
Novel Neck Ornament.

A red.haired girl was seen at the
theater In a neck ornament so fetching
that it promises to be copied by many
girls with ruddy locks and the eX-
quisitely white skin that goes with
them.
The girl, who had beautiful throat
and neck-long, slender and of lovely
texture-had coiled around her throat
a serpent made of glistening green
sequins, with eyes of jade. The opal
escent green tints brought out the
gold in the girls hair, made her eyes
seem bluer and her skin dazzling