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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1911)
PROPER WINTER GARB 'THE KIND OF CLOTHING that will keep the body warm and the heart light. Quality clothing that gives the services the weaver is entitled to for his money. And the real bargain price is right now when the man of taste and judgment wants seasonable, up-to-date Clothing. Suits and Over coats $10 to $30 The Clothing values that have made this store famous val ues for right now that will be offered elsewhere after the season is over, at the same price as "Wonderful Clearing Sales." Now is the time to make your selections of Holi day Garb. Xmas Presents You can select from our stock of Clothing, Furnishings Shoes, etc, the most appro priate and pleasing Christmas gifts for father, brother, hus band, son or sweetheart, gifts that will be appreciated use ful gifts. Men's and Boy's Wear We sell everything worn by men, young men, youths and boys and what we sell is the very best the market affords. Good fabrics, snappy styles, perfect makes the real Cloth ing bargains. Remember, we have no "end of the season bargain sales. ' ' We make the bargain prices all the time the price now, others will advertise as bargains later on. It will be to your advantage to study our system. f C. GUARANTEED ff SL u AIX WOOL Ifef IB ON THE CORNER SPEIER & SIMON Tenth and 0 Street ON THE SQUARE Origin of the Four Poster. In medieval times, when life was very insecure, it was usual for people to sleep on a bed which was surrouud d by sides of boards with strong post at the four corners. These sides contained sliding doors, which could toe fastened inside. When men retired t rest they took a weapon with them. If attacked in the night they were aroused by the noise made by the crashing in of their wooden defense And were able to defend themselves. When the law became strong enough to protect human life the sides of the bedstead were gradually dispensed with, but the four posts remained. The boxlike bedstead still survives, in the rural -arts of Scotland and is al most necessary where the earthern floors and imperfect ceilings cause much damp. Emily Bronte in "Wuth efing Uelphts" describes one of these bedsteads in the old mansions as form ing a "little closet.- Mr. Lock wood, who had to sleep in It. says, "1 slid back the panel sides, pot in with my light, pulled them together again and felt secure." there Ts n ancient Egyptian papyrus from which the following has been de ciphered: "Pronounce not the name of 1. A. O. under the penalty of the peach." This has been supposed to be a death warning to those who might be tempted to reveal mysteries in con nection with the religious rites of the priests. The Romans probably learned of Prussia acid from the Egyptians. His tory has it that in the reign of Tiberius a Roman knight accused of treason drank poison and immediately fell dead at the feet of the senators, a sig nificant circumstance, inasmuch as no other poison has the almost instan taneous effect of prussic acid. He Lagged Superfluous, rtttsfield. in the Berkshire hills, had la the o!il days, like many another New En sr. ami town, a number of men and wotnea who were called "charac ter."" Oue of these was Bill Brown, a aaan unfortunately addicted to drink and frequently intoxicated for days at av time. On one occasion he went into the hop of the local hatter. Sir. Smith, and asked for the best beaver in the tore. Mr. Smith produced the desired article, saying as he took the money. "That beaver will last a man a life-tinie.- Biil went proudly down the main street with his fine beaver on his head aad immediately celebrated the event with a protracted debauch. When he recovered he returned to the shop with a roost disreputable hat. ."Look here. I thought you said this ftjere beaver would last me a lifetime." "So it would." rroirW Mr. Smith. "If you had died when you ought to." 'Youth's Companion. The Light Was There. A well known New York clubman was found by a police officer very late one night in a pitiable state of intoxi cation. The wretched fellow stood be neath a lamppost, which he was kick ing with might and main. Slightly amused, the policeman watched him a moment. Then he said: "Here. sir. what are you doing there T No reply. Only bang. bang, bang the tipsy one dealt the lamppost three more kicks. What are you doing?" repeated the policeman. The man delivered another quick volley of very furious kicks, and then, looking up. he said: "Oh. 1 know she's in all right, "cause there's!! hie a light upstairs." "Merely that 1 refused your hus band twenty-five years ago," replied the little southerner as she moved away to seek a more congenial atmos phere." The Vegetarian Oyster. Oysters are most exemplary in the matter of diet. The oyster la well nigh a vegetarian, living almost ex clusively on seaweed, including the minute pine pollen of the water. Smaller animals form only 5 per cent of his food. He is a methodical feed er, always dining between the hours of 12 and 2 in the afternoon. When he wants his meals he simply opens his shell and lets the water flow in through a sort of gilL which retains the food, allowing the water to run out again. It is only in frosty weath er that the oyster goes off his feed. In order to protect himself as much as possible from the cold he lies with the bulging shell uppermost. In this position he cannot open his shell and must perforce go short of food. But he would sooner starve than let the cold water la to chill his delicate flesh. Bless him! London Chronicle. Penalty ef tha Puck. The EcT4iaus appear to have been acquainted with what is commonly vailed prussic a td. the most deadly f poisons. It is held that they dis tilled It from certain plants and trees, ttotablj the iea.-h. In .the Louvre The Retort Genial. A southern woman who is now past her prime, but whose ready wit still makes her a welcome guest wherever she goes, tells the following story about an encounter with what she terms a "northern iceberg:" She was at a musical entertainment at a pri vate house in New Tort, and at the end of a song which had been delight fully rendered she turned with an ex clamation of pleasure to a lady who i tat near and whom she knew by sight, but had never met. The wom an addressed looked at her in surprise for a mosient and then asked coldly. "Have I the pleasure of knowing youT No." was the answer, "but I felt at liberty to speak to you on account of your being under such Tery great ob ligasions to me." "Will you hare the goodness to ex plain what you mean?' said the New York woman haughtily. In Mourning For Tigers. The Mosa-Aroi. otherwise known in Darrang as Bagh-4-aroi. the tiger folk, a snbtribe or sept of the Bara race, still regard it as the correct thing to go into mourning for twenty-four hours or so whenever a tiger dies near their village. Solid food is tabooed no slight privation to the Kachari. stout fellows and. in face the navvies of Assam par excellence. Then at the end of the fast there must be a gen eral cleanup, the floors and walls be ing smeared with a mud, clothes and brazen utensils being thoroughly cleansed in running water and earth enware vessels that have been used at alt being actually broken and thrown away. Lastly, santi-jal. "the water of peace." is drunk and the flesh of a sacrificed Bowl or pig eaten by all the clansmen in common. London Athenaeum. Douglas Jsrrold In School ru;3as "Sen-old wrote "Black Eyed Susan" when he was twenty-one and contributed to Punch the immensely popular "Camlle Lectures" not long afterward. But at nine years of age young Jerroid had been scarcely able to read, and it was not until he was apprenticed to a printer, after serving for some time as a midshipman at sea, that he showed either desire or capac ity for intellectual improvement. The Tool He Used "I was throwing np dirt from aa ex cavation in the pavement one day," said an old laborer, "when a little old chap with white hair stopped to look on. I was as big as two of him. After a minute or two I rested on my shovel and looked up at him. Said I: " 'If you had to do work with a shovel for your living you'd starve to death before you could make a trench deep enough to bury you In." "I thought that was a smart thing to cay. and I laughed. Then he answered rue. He was a slow speaking man with a sort of drawL 'I might starve as you say he said. and yet I have a trade in which I use a tool very much tike yours. In fact many people who work at my trade use the tool to shovel dirt and filth with as you do with yours. This is the tooL "He handed me a steel pen. " la it a joke? I asked. " "It is a tool to make them with, he nodded. That is part of my trade. My name is Twain Mark Twain." "I have the pea yet." concluded the laborer, "and no dirt was ever shoveled with It" New York Globe. Mere Than Gratuitous. Apropos of the custom of some hos tesses to invite professional artistes to their house in the expectation that they will amuse their guests free of charge, a story Is told of Xme. Berthe Bady. the famous Parisian artiste, who was Invited to a social gathering and asked by the hostess to recite. She consent ed, and then, in order that there might be no mistake about the matter, the hostess said: "Hot kind it Is of you to work for us In this friendly manner !" The emphasis on the word "friendly" was so marked as to show clearly enough that the service was to be gra tuitous. After the recitation was over Mine. Bady took a silver card tray from a footman, and. Imitating the musicians In the cafes chantants, she made a tour of the drawing room and collected yhatever contributions were offered, and they were substantial ones. Then she handed them to her hostess and left the house. Lightning's Qinar Ways. As every one knows, it Is dangerous to stand near a tree during a thunder storm, but If any one is so foolish as to do it he will do well to lean against the tree. If he does this the charge goes in at his shoulder, burning it, and then passes down the skin along the middle of the back. Arrived at the legs, it may run along one or both. It will seriously burn the knees and other prominent parts, get out through the stockings or bore a bole through the boots or destroy the boots altogether. But if he stands near a tree or wall without being in contact the stream of lightning may jump to the head bones and cause instant death. If it doesn't do this it will probably born the hair and travel over the skin of the head, going down the front of the body or getting inside it and doing terrible damage. IN LIFE'S AUTUMN The time of the "sere and yellow" are yoa prepar ing for it by saving tip? Are you laying up a part of your earnings putting some of your dollars aside and making them work for you? Just saving dollars is not enough you ought to make the dollars you work for work for you. The idle dollar is a useless dollar. It is worthless while idle. We'll make a job for your dollars put them to work. Deposit your savings with us. WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTEREST Come in and let us explain how we are able to put your dollars to working for you. American Savings Bank 110 South Eleventh Street Brevity. Robert Louis Stevenson was a close student of style and has left more than one interesting discussion of the technique of writing. In a letter to R A. M. Stevenson, dated October. 1SS3, he says: "There is but one art to omit: Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge! A man who knew how to omit would make an 'Iliad of a daily paper."" To men engaged in editorial v-Tit- , ing (which in America is the art of making ideas effective before a vast , audience) and to young men and wom en in college who are planning to en ter Journalism we recommend that the above few words of Stevenson's be committed to memory and put Into practice. Collier's Weekly. A Comet's Three Parts. A comet has three parts. The nu cleus is the bright, starlike point which is the kernel, the true potential comet Around this is spread the coma, a sort of luminous fog. shading from the nucleus and forming with it the head. Still beyond is the delicate tail, stretch ing away into space. And this to the world in general is the comet itself, though always the least dense of the whole. Sometimes entirely wanting or hardly detectible. the tan is again an extension millions of miles in length. Although usually a single brush of light, comets .have been seen with no fewer than six tails. Shamp Machine Company 317 Sooth Eleventh Street Lincoln " Nebraska Automobile Repairing a Specialty "Welded-All" machine for all kinds of electric welding Repairing of all kinds done promptly and at lowest prices consistent with good work. Antos for Hire at Reduced Rates Call Bell A2779 mm Named for Lincoln Made in Lincoln Test of the Ch en Test of the Taste Test of Digestion Test of Quality Test of Quantity Test cf Time Measured by Every Test.it Proves Best I BE MY IH.OBAR8ER &SONS LIBERTY Demand Liberty Flour and take no other, does not handle it, phone us about it. If your grocer H. O. BARBER & SON FIRST SAVINGS BANK of Lincoln DEPOSITS $742,000.00 The directors of this bank ere the same as the directors of the First National Bank of Lincoln 4 per cent Interest 'on Deposits We gladly open accounts for sums as lorn as' dollar Sheared In Installments. Sheep are put to double use in the northern part of India, in the Hima layas. They are driven from market to market with the wool still growing, and in each village the owner shears as much wool as he can sell there and loads the sheared sheep with the grain he receives in exchange. After his flock has been sheared he turns it homeward, each animal carrying a bag of grain. Got His Reward. Old Maid But why should a great strong man like you be found begging? Wayfarer Dear lady, it is the only profession I know in which a gentle man can address a beautiful woman without an introduction. London Sketch. Transferred Wealth. "How are you getting along in the law business, old man?" I have one client." "Is he rich?" "He was." Boston Transcript- It la better to find excuses for others than for ourselves. "SIP I THE CENTRAL 7 National Bank of Lincoln I CATOAl $l3t.MLM 'J Everything in Watches and Clocks Repaired OFFICE OF REPAIRING OMLT DR. R. L. BENTLEY, HARRY ENSLLN SPECIALIST CHILDREN "45"'MSt Office Hours 1 to 4 p. m. , Office 2118 O St. Both Phone I LINCOLN. NEBRASKA MONEY LOANED GLOBE HOTEL ISShJ&JSST m E. WILSON, Mm paid immediately. COLUMBIA 1329 P Street, Lincoln, Nebraska j LOAX CO. ITS Ssmt 12. Wageworkers Ehr. Chas. 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