BOYCOTTANCIENT
System That Is and Has Been
Universally Practiced.
R. Herminghaus
Dan Hellwig
Bell Phone 981
Auto Phone 2906
Herminghaus & Hellwig
122 SOUTH TENTH STREET
MANUFACTURERS OE THE
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Queen of Hearts" Cigars
S T R I C T L Y
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AND-
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Schmoller &
Mueller
Piano Co.
135 South Eleventh Street
Lincoln, Nebr.
The Oldest and Largest Exclusive
Piano House in the West
We carry the largest assortment of High Grade Instruments in the state
of Nebraska. Each and every one of our Pianos carry a bona fide guarantee
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for $200.00 and up. Our terms are the most liberal that can be had $1.00 a
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WORD ITSELF A BUGABOO.
Principle Involved by No Means Un
American No Man Has a Property
Right In the Patronage of Another.
A Hint to Trade Unionists.
Here is an Important point in prin
ciple for the trade unionist. Let him
have it clear in his mind. When an
enemy of trade unionism shivers with
horror at the very mention of "boy
cott," what is -his aim? It is to con
fuse and intimidate the unionist. He
wants to charge the unionist, in the
fraction of a breath, with lawlessness,
with cruelty, with "taking his prop
erty from a business man," with the
acceptance of the doctrines necessarily
Involving violence and public disturb
ance and.' above all. with "the adop
tion of a pernicious un-American prac
tice." That's a tightly bunched up
knot of unpleasant ideas to hurl at a
man in one word. It is sufficient to
flabbergast a Philadelphia lawyer, let
alone the average citizen, unread in
the twists and turns of the law, per
haps prejudiced. against the Irish, un
acquainted with the latest supreme
court decisions on the boundary lines
of material property and fervently de
sirous of having his. fellow citizens
look upon him as a good American.
Is withdrawing patronage from an
objectionable person or refraining from
buying objectionable things un-American?
In the early forties the abolition
ist newspapers regularly carried adver
tisements asking readers not to buy
slave made goods. The Anti-Slavery
Standard in 1843 had a standing adver
tisement of "free labor groceries" for
a store at Third and Market streets.
Philadelphia, and another for "free la
bor groceries" on sale at Fifth and
Cherry streets. The abolitionists,' stiff
necked Americans, ostracized slave
holders and religiously avoided their
products. Going back further, we find
in America, in 1765, on a national
scale, a refusal to import goods from
England, the - chief purpose being to
compel the rescinding of the tax on
tea. The name of the strongest organ
ization which promoted this movement
was the Sons and Daughters of Lib
erty. No one need get into a disturbance
by letting alone some one else. Re
fusal to patronize is not necessarily
backed by a club or a brickbat.
No business man has any property
right In the patronage of other persons.
A customer's purchasing money is his
own, to be spent as he chooses.
The "cruelty" of letting other people
alone Is general. The laboring men
who cannot deliver work up to the
quality and amount which other labor
ing men stand ready to deliver are let
alone by employers.
These observances but indicate the
direction which the laboring man's
mind ought to take when he is re
proached with that awful crime of a
belief in "we don't patronize." They
give him the proper , start to an inquiry
into his rights.
The important point to which we re
fer is therefore a little "chewing up"
of the word "boycott," separating its
imputations so they may be seen sin
gly, rejecting those that are unfounded
in fact and leaving a little something
of the genuine American traditions of
independence and of picking and
choosing for oneself. Yes; it is an
Important point not to get scared at a
wo"rd andT accepting or rejecting that
word as we may deem best, we go on
into the bottom principle involved and
then stand by our judgment on that.
Practically everybody boycotts to his
heart's content. Ethically it is wrong
for organized labor to boycott, but for
no one else. So prateth our enemies.
Samuel Gompers in American Feder
ation! st.
First Aid.
Speaking of the necessity for wide
spread education in first aid to the
injured, the St. Louis Times says:
"Perhaps it will not be taken aui:?s
if we call attention to the obvious face
that nine-tenths of all the trouble in
the world, is due to ignorance of cer
tain simple things. It might even b
said safely that all mishaps of what
ever kind mental, physical and spirit
ual are due to a want of experience
and training. Accidents of a thou
sand varieties, from drowning to the
taking of a dose from the wrong bot-,
tie, are in a majority of cases fatal
simply because there was not present
some one who knew what to do. In
juries which almost tear the body to
pieces are curable if the man of train
ing ani experience is at band. The
simplest injuries often prove fatal
when they are not properly attended
to, when the injured person does not
get the benefit of a little simple help."
How a Great Surgeon Died.
While Bichat, the famous surgeon,
was dying of typhoid fever he turned
to an old colleague who was sittinsr
beside his bed and said to him:
"My friend, 1 am lost, but it is some
consolation to know that my case is
very curious. . During the last few
days I have noticed some odd symp
toms, and I am studying them care
fully." "Oh, you may recover yet." said the
friend: . . ,
"That is impossible." replied Bichat.
"and if it were not for one thing 1.
would be quite willing to die."
"What is that?" askod the friend.
"I am exceedingly sorry," answered
Bichat. "that I shall not have an op
portunity to perform an autopsy on
myself after my death, for 1 know
that I would make some wonderful
scientific discovery."
An hour later be was dead.
When the World Was Drunk.
Nowhere in all the world today can
be found as many confirmed, drunk
ards as there were among the Thra
clans, the Iberians, the Celts or the
Scythians. The man who didn't get
drunk every day or two was regarded '
as queer. The Greeks were moderate
drinkers until they began to copy the
luxury of the Persian feasts. The Ro
mans imitated the Greeks. Then the
whole world went on a mad drunk. It
was a saturnalia. Caligula owes his
niche in the hall of fame to the drunk
en banquets with which he made even
Rome marvel. The excesses made
fashionable by such potentates as Lu
cullus. Nero, Verres. Tiberius, Caligu
la. Vitellius and Domitian really began
in the days of Pompeii, and they mark
the beginning of the end of the republicArgonaut.
Shekels and Half Shekels.
The early Biblical references to
pieces of silver do not in the original
convey tbe idea of coins, but of
weights, shekels. The Mosaic "obla
tion to God" was a half shekel, and
the shekel is explained by JosepbtiH
as equal to four Athenian drachmae of
the value of about 55 cents in Ameri
can money. Tbe first, Jewish coinage
under authority was, it is believed,
struck by Simon, the Maccabee. about
the year 140 B. C. It consisted of
shekels and half shekels. This coin
age had its value signified upon it,
"Shekel Israel." in Samaritan charac
ters. - - .....