The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-06-10

QuStrlOuS, aDle offspring 1t always mas.
The young man who told his best
girl that she was the apple of his eye
doubtless meant that she was a
"seek-no-further".
The charticler hat proves that not
only most city folks look to the farm
yard for their living, but also for
their styles.
Patronize those who patronize you.
Deal with the advertisers in your lab
or paper. They want you. Show
your appreciation.
Some men would almost as leave go
to church on Sunday as stay home and
read the funny pages of the papers
to the children.
The Medical Record is authority for
the statement that the adulteration of
food is carried on to such an extent
as to threaten the extinction of the
race in few decades.
Always stand up for the right, but
because you cannot turn the world
and make it over in day.
If you do not perform your part of
the obligation which you have taken,
how is it possible that you should ex-
pect the association to do theirs?
Many a woman as sharp as a brier
at the bargain counter has been
obliged to confess that she was fooled
in the selection of a husband.
| T. l.. Lewis, president of the Uuited
Mine Workers, has issued a statement
in which he declares that the men
have 100000 for strike fund.
This country could, no doubt, be run
great deal better if it wasn't for
the constitutional objection an Amer
lean has to letting any one run him.
! A lawyer wants $4,000 for advising
a client to marry man who lived
only week. Think what the lawyer
would have charged had the husband
lived year!
The British possessions in New
Guinea have large areas of hardwood
forests. The government sells no land,
about five cents per acre a year, plus
60 cents to $1.75 per thousand feet for
the lumber cut
Toronto carpenters have turned
down an offer made by the builders
exchange 20 set the rate of wages at
| 35 cents per hour. The brotherhood
and amalgamated men are working to-
gether in an effort to secure 40 cents
an hour as the minimum rate.
Russian laborers in Hawaii are not
docile enough and they have very bad
habits. The plantation bosses find
that they will fight and steal, rather
than work IA hours day in the cane
fields and mills. Isn't it awful what
a time the plantations have to get
slave labor.
The city authorities under the new
city government of Milwaukee propose
to get after the street-car combine
with ordinances enforcing better serv-
| ice.
Graft and fraud in the state lands
does not encourage the movement to
secure the forest reserves of the Fed
eral government by the states for con-
servation and settlement. What j
grating school of land spectators
will start up if Congress puts it
through!
In the Idaho primary law is pro-
vision for the expression of both first
and second choice for governor (and
probably for other officers). This
will enable the rank and file to III
most certainly name their choice and
bring out a strong vote, for every vote
will count. We must have the pre-
ferential vote in Nebraska.
The father of the referendum is I'M
known, but the modern form of it
first found expression in the province
of St. Gallen. in Switzerland, in 1880.
From there it spread through Switzer-
land. In some forms it was operative
in the sixteenth century. In New Eng
land it was in operation in the very
beginning of the settlements.
In West Virginia the awful explosion
in the Stuart mine last year. in which
80 men and boys were killed, was
caused by the most gross violations of
the laws of every kind regulating
mines, but the courts have decided
that no damages can be collected be-
cause the men knew Of the danger,
and because the explosion was an act
of Providence.
Court proceedings in San Francisco
disclose fish trust that doubles the
price of fish. potato trust that dou-