The Commoner.
ii
Economy.
Uncle Hiram (just back from the big
city "I don't think, that nephew of
our'n is got as much money as ho
ake out he has."
Aunt Emiiy "Why, I thought you
mid he had such a nice home in the
city."
Uncle Hiram "Bub I didn't tell ye,
nothin' about him havln' both them
little girls o' his'n playln' on the same
planner at once. I toll ye he's a-git-tin'
hard up. San Francisco Chronicle.
Shopping Hours.
Two bills to regulate the hours of
British shopmen and salesgirls are be
fore parliament, while an amendment
offered by Lord Salisbury himself
foreshadows the probable tenor of a
measure satisfactory to the cabinet.
This amendment provides that "pro
visional orders" fixing hours may be
passed by local authorities, subject to
revision, by parliament.
This law will be the first step in
Great Britain to regulate the hours of
male adults, and will be closely
scanned as a possible precedent. Of
its necessity the report of- the lords'
committeo permits no doubt. Says the
Saturday Review:
"It was already known that eighty,
eighty-four, often ninety hours a week
are worked in many shops, not includ
ing hours; worked after closing. ' It
has been shown that these hours are
spent in surroundings insanitary, in
bad atmosphere,, in circumstances caus
ing that dread disease known popular
ly as consumption, and others of a tu
bercular character."
The life of a London shopman is
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Matthews Piano Co: Lincoln, Nobraskn, Gen
eral Agent for Nebraska.
BRMD HEW STEEL ROOFiie
BenRfet at Reeeirers' talc
Sheets either HtcHTU
AteabrVeriHipcd. Ne
tools except a hatchet or
hammer is seeded te-ktr
the1 roofing. We funtlsk
tree with each, oHer
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ABauaretncanslOOeanarefC Writ for Free CiUfofM
Ko. im en flraeral HorefaaadlM. Chicago Howm
Wrecking Co., Wert th and Iron St., Chicagolii.
made even more unbearable than this.
i statement would indicate by the "liv
ing-in" system, under which . clerks
spend practically the entire twenty
four hours upon the premises; And
the unions of shopworkers confess
their inability to secure better condi
tions. In New York long hours of labor are
still too often exacted. But in the great
retail shops working-time never ex
ceeds sixty hours per week, except
in December; and to compensate for
Christmas overwork but fifty hours!
per week are usually required in mid
summer. And this, policy pays. -New
York World.
Compensation.
My stock haa gone down and my tailor
has sent
To request that I settle my bill;
My landlady asks with a frown for her
rent,
And there Isn't a cent in; the till.
The governor storms and my mother's!
in tears;
There's a coldness- betwixt me and!
Nell,
But I'm utterly dead to regrets and to
fears,
Foe my meerschaum is coloring well.
I've a cold in my head and a pain in
my back,
My eyes are like lobsters in hue;
The horse that I played came in last
at the track,
And I'm sure that I should have felt
blue.
But I walked into town, and I walked
all the way
With a step it's surprising to tell,
And I'm gayest tonight in the ranks
of the gay,
For my meerschaum is coloring well.
At first I had fears of what looked like
a crack,
And my breath came in gasps of
alarm,
But oh, how the joy of my heart
flooded back
When I found that 'twas nothing to
harm.
And so ever since I have nursed it
with care,
With thrills that my heart cannot
quell,
And I've bored all my friends to relate
the affair
That my meerschaum is coloring
well.
Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Smart
Set.
(INGE IN A LIFE TIME
H jsofMneaongatodo&omethlngs.U'soic&ieaoaKB
bf to toy wagoa it yon buy the right kind. The-
Cannon's Corn Story.
Congressman "Joe" Cannon of Il
linois is a man of strong likes and dis-.
iikes, and never does anything by
halves. In the list of his likings, so
far as culinary matters are concerned,
his fondness for green corn takes first
rank, and on this score he tells a good
story at his own expense.
After a long sojourn in Washington
he returned home and started out to
look after his political fences in his
district. At a small village hotel,
where he stopped for dinner, a
scanty plate of fine roasting ears was
placed before him as a side dish. Im
mediately ho abandoned the main bill-of-fare
and applied himself exclu
sively to the green corn. When the
plate was depleted he called for more
roasting ears, and continued his feast
until he had made his entire meal
LEARN PROOFREADING. from the staple product of.tUe inois
ir jou poaseaa a fair education, why not utillie It at a gentet" prairies. The hotel keeper noticed
ad aocrewll profcuiou ylaf SIS to 815 weekly T Situation li.- arn.av nf nnha ufnnlrofl iinnn n
Jwaj ofeuJaabii We are U orictaal iBMruotor by mall. tn aiTay 01 CODS StaCKea Upon UlO
sohjb coBsxsfOKDSNOx school, Fhiiadeiphiaplato of the tall politician, whose idon-
ELECTRIC HffoN
lasts that; long under ordinary conditions. First tJio Hfo
ef a wagon depends upon the wheels. ThU one Is
equipped with our EleetrloStecl Wbcels. with straight
er stagger spokes and wide tires. Wheels any height
from Si to 60 In. It lasts because tires can't get loose, no
re-eettin?, bubs can't crack or spokes become loose, fnl
loss can't rot, swell or dry out. Angle steel bounds.
THOUSANDS MOW IM DAILY USE.
Don't buy waron ur.tll voa ertoer free book, "Vans SaTtsga."
ELKOl'lUG WHEEL CO., Box 2S8, Quitter, JUs.
tity was unknown to him, and said:
"Say, stranger,, what in thunder do
y.ui want to board at a hotel for? Tke
jlaco for you to put up at is a livery
stable Don't you know green fodder
i a dum slgnt cheaper in a barn than
In a house?"
During the remainder of "the cam
paign Congressman Cannon retailed
thl& story to his constituents and
turned it to good account among tno
corn growers. Saturday Evening Post.
Mid-August.
August, Sweetheart of the sun,
Summer work is nearly done.
vnile' the idle days are going
List thy ardent lover's wooing.
Now the year Is in Its prime
Take thy brief vacation time.
Stubby fields are brown and yellow,
Pippins ripe are growing mellow.
Ranks, on ranks of shining corn,
Jeweled by the daw of morn,
Whisper in the evening airs
Like a legion saying prayers.
Farmer boys, on loaded wains,
Harvest moon on gathered grains;
Tender hearts a bit forlorncr,,
Summer's turned another corner I
E. C. Tompkins. In Frank Leslie's
Popular Monthly-
A New Adtt Pfantv
A large fertilizer chemical plant is
now in course of constructioa at At
lanta, Ga., which will bo used by Ar
mour & Co. The plant will cost near
ly a half million dollars, and will bo
situated on the Southern railroad and
Seaboard Air Line; The buildings,
when completed; will' consist of a sul
plftirlc acid plant with a capacity of
sixty tons of acid per day, and a man
ipulating plant to take care of the
various, materials used in the manu
facture of commercial fertilizers.
Armour & Co. has- been extending its
fertilizer business greaciy of late and
using its own materials in the manu
facture of commercial fertilizers,
which It sells direct to the planters and
farmers, thus avoiding middlemen's
charges and retaining control of the
animal products. The animal fertil
izer ingredients claim superiority over
cotton seed meal fertilizers, owing to
their preponderance of nitrogen, and
are largely used.
The Virginia-Carolina Chemical
company, familiarly known as the
"Southern Fertilizer trust,," has with
in the last six weeks purchased the
eight plants of the Southern Cotton
Oil company and sqme twenty indepen
dent cotton oil plants. This move
has evidently been made with the Idea
of controlling cottonseed meal, which
it can use in the manufacture of fer
tilizers, and thus be independent of
the packing houses, from whom it has
for many years been buying large
quantities of blood, tankage, bone,
etc., known as ammoniates, and used
In the compounding of fertilizers.
Chicago Tribune,
Knighthood.
There is lively excitement among
the mayors of the new municipal bor
oughs included in the district of Lon
don, for it Is intimated tnat King Ed
ward will confer knighthood on every
one of them when their terms expire
In November. His majesty's desire is
to commemorate the first term of these
mayoralties, and to emphasize for fu
ture candidates that the oflices carry
with them possibilities of high honors.
Heretofore these mayors were not
very highly thought of by the great
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ones of London town;
The king's action will make mmn
curious additions to the list of knights.
uno or tne mayors across whose
shoulders the royal sword will be. laid
is an East End saloon-keeper, another
is an advertising agent, and the, ma
jority are comparatively humble wage
earners. That a saloon-keeper should
hare a chance, of knighthood is a great
shock to the fastidious, who forget
that so many members of the house of
lords are brewers. Ex.
Lullaby.
Last night a brown bird flew straight
into the west,
Straight into the glow of the sun
set's red light,
And see, he comes back with its fire on
his breast,
Speeding to tell a wee baby good
night, Before his eyes close,
And to dreamland he goes.
The soft.alr is full of a blossomy whirl
Of tiny dreams, fluttering down from
the trees
Each one is as pure and as fine as a
pearl,
And all for a baby, his fancy to
please,
While mother sings low,
"Go, little one, go."
Up, up, In the darkness, the rosy stars
flush,
Like crocus buds, 'broidered on win
ter's black hem;
And, hark, through the stillness of
pine-scented hush,
Each note of the lullaby falls like a
gem;
Slow, tender and deep,
"Sleep, little one, sleep."
"O dear little heart, press thee closer
to me!
I love the soft touch of thy head'
sunny .gold,
Hedged round by my prayers through
the night thou shalt be,
As safe as a lamb in the sheltering
fold.
Thy pillow my breast,
Rest, little one, rest."
Pauline Frances Camp in the Boston
Transcript.
Cuba Libre.
It is not expected that the army will
be withdrawn from Cuba before next
winter, by which time congress may
have enacted enough legislation to
keep it there indefinitely. Philadel
phia Ledger.
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