THE EXCLUSIVE LIGHTING
COMPANY OF LINCOLN
Your company makes a special feature of its ef
fort to please in furnishing the best of lighting
service at reasonable rates.
Electrical appliances give excellent results when
operated by our lines, because of the standard
quality of tne current.
LINCOLN GAS & ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.
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SNOBBERY BELOW STAIRS.
The Way English Servants Ape Their
Master's Airs and Graces.
Writing on snobs in the New York
Tribune, Frederick Townsend Martin,
the society millionaire, says:
We are all familiar with the ludi
crous snobbery among English serv
ants that existed in the time of Mr.
Tickwick. Not so many of us. how
ever, appreciate what snobbery exists
today in the realms of the servants'
hall. I was once visiting Baron Ferdi
nand Rothschild, wbei. my valet came
to me and asked if he could go to Lon
don by the morning train and get back
In the afternoon.
I said to him, Why do you want to
go?"
He replied: "Oh, sir, as we are only
stopping here a few days, I did not put
in my evening suit, and last night,
you being a foreigner, I found myself
ranked above all the others and had
to take precedence of those . who were
traveling with dukes, earls and vis
counts. 1 outranked them all and took
in the housekeeper to dinner. And my
mortification was great when I noticed
that every one of the men around the
table was in evening clothes, and I
alone was in my ordinary black suit.
By the way, sir," he continued, "per
haps you. being an American, don't
know that in the servants' hall the
ralets and maids are always called
after their masters' and mistresses'
names. They don't call them Lady
So-and-so, but simply by the last
name. Thus, Earl Cork's servant
would be called 'Cork.' And in the
servants hall they are seated at the
housekeeper's table In exactly the same
grade and rank as that observed by
their masters and mistresses upstairs."
MAIL POUCHES.
They Cost From a Few Cents to Thou
sands of Dollars Each.
Uncle Sam has twenty-eight differ
ent kinds of mail bags in service, and
they range in cost from 22 cents to
$2,156 each. There are mail pouches
for almost every conceivable use, and
you can ship almost anything that
comes within the postal regulations
with a minimum of loss and breakage,
says Harper's Weekly. Probably the
most peculiar mail bag Is the one ar
ranged for carrying bees. Sending
bees by mail was a difficult operation
before the "bee bag" was .adopted.
Usually the ijeesarrlvedat their des
tination Qeatl or so exEaustetl That
they were of little use. Now these
little honey makers can be shipped by
mail several thousand miles in the
"bee bag" without suffering and can
obtain air and a good supply of food
during their transit.
Mail bags are made of various mate
rials. The cheapest are of cotton and
the most costly of leather. Those used
on fast expresses are re-enforced with
metal so that they can be flung from
fast moving trains without damage.
Even then these bags, or "catcher
pouches," do not last much more .than
a year and a half, while some of the
cotton bags used for the work will re
main in service upward of ten years.
In parts of the west, where the mail
must be carried for many miles on
horseback, special pouches are in use
for slinging over the animal's flanks.
In the far frozen north special bags
are made for sled transportation, and
In the cities a bag in use for pneu
matic tube service is made of a com
position called "leatheroid." The or
dinary cotton mail bags are woven so
closely that they are practically wa
terproof, and in the weave there are
thirteen stripes of blue. Each country
marks its own mail pouches in some1
individual way. so that if one gets
lost in a far country its ownership
can be readily detected.
Nearly (ij.000.COO mail bags are used
each year by the whole country., and
as I hey are being worn out all the
time the supply has to be kept up.
There are mail bag hospitals, where
tens of thousands of them go every
week. One such mail bag hospital re
pairs upward of 5.000 a day. These
crippled bags are in all sorts of dilap
idated -conditions. A railroad wreck
may injure several hundreds or thou
sands, and these must all go to the
hospital before entering active life
again. Christmas is responsible for
much damage to the mail bags, owing
to the hard service they get. and im
mediately after the midwinter holiday
season several hundred thousand bags
go to the hospitals. .
Mail bags are the most traveled of all
articles in use today. They are con
stantly moving, and it would be im
possible to estimate the number of
miles a bag ten years old has traveled.
Up to Henry.
"You talked in your sleep last night,
Henry."
"Did I, my dear? Wh-what did I
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say?"
"Henry, you are leading a double
life!"
"No, dear; don't don't say that. I
think I must have been having a bad
dream if I said anything that seemed
to indicate'''
"A bad dream! I should think you
were having a bad dream. You kept
yelling 'Robber!' 'Rotten!' 'Kill him!'
'Run it out, you lobster!' and a lot of
other things that were just as absurd.
I want you to confess now-fully and
freely and I promise you that if it is
anything a good woman should for
give I will forgive you." Chicago Record-Herald.
UNtON TRUTHS.
How many times has a manu
facturers' association ever estab
lished a shorter workday. In
creased the pay or bettered con
ditions in any trade or calling?
Not once In a thousand years.
Only labor organizations do that.
If, all the members of organ
ized labor would try as hard to
use their purchasing power in
their own Interests as some of
them try to weaken the cause,
either by refraining from pav
iiifj dues or intending meetings 3
or by hostile criticism, the move- T
j mem would be so strong that 4-
i the employers! in, any city could "I
T not be united against it. "1
j- t.
Not Surprised.
"Funny thing about Boliver." said
Wiggins.
"What's that?" asked Bjones."
"Why. they operated on him for ap
pendicitis the other day, and. by gin
ger, when they came to look there
wasn't anything there." said Wiggins.
"Well, I'm not surprised." said
Bjones: "I never could see anything in
Boliver myself." Harper's Weekly.
Modern Childhood.
Grandmother And uow would you
like me to tell you a story, dears?
Advanced Child Oh. no. granny; not.
a story, please! They're so stodgy
and unconvincing and as out of date as
tunes in music. We should much pre
fer an impressionist word picture or
a subtle character sketch. Indon
Punch.
THE
ONYX
FOUNTAIN
The fnest in the west. Just the
place for those delicious summer
drinks.
Lincoln's popular after-the-mati-nee
and after-the-opera resort.
Good service quickly performed.
The parlor de luxe.
RECTOR'S
12th and O St.
E. FLEMING
1211 O Street
Jewelry and wares 01
Precious Metals.
Best selected stock in Lincoln.
Here you can get anything you
want. or need in the line of
jewelry, and at the inside
price. Especially prepared for
commencement and wedding
gifts.
Watch repairing and
Engraving.
See Fleming First
OFFICE OF"
DR. R. L. BENTLEY,
SPECIALIST CHILDREN
Office Hours I to 4 p. m.
Office 21 18 O St. Both Phones
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