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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1911)
AN EXCLUSIVE POOR FARM N On Can Be Admitted or Assisted Except Thoao Who One Paid Taxes. ProTiJic. R. L, enjoys the use or theunost valuable pocr farm owned by any municipality la the world, alt be cause Eoeueier Knight Dexter in 1S24 made a bequest lea Ting a bis, stone strewn meadow and several parcels of land for that purpose. Today the property la Talued at bo less tbaa $L&M.QOO. and U In the center of one of the most fashionable residence dis tricts of ProTtdence. But wblle this la a poor farm. It is a very exclusive oaw to say tbe least. By the terms of a very rigid and Iron clad will, none can be admitted or assisted except those who one owned and "paid taxes upon real estate 1b Providence or who father or mother was a real es tate taxpayer la that city. No other Rhode Islanders and no person from any other part of the Tnlted States or from any foreign country may knock at the portal to obtain admit tance and secure shelter and food. The Dexter asylum is more than, etf-supportlns. With a limited at-! tendance, so to speak. It Is said that the Interest on InTeetment or income Is enough to furnish every Inmate a trip to Europe each winter, with ac commodations at the best summer ho tels in the summer. During the hard times ta Providence, when there was. a great need of work for poor people, an old clause in the Dexter will pro Tiding for a stone wall built around the place was taken advantage of and naany poor peopi were given work. National Magazine. WHY CONDUCTOR WAS MAD Because Youth Disowned Acquaint-, a nee With Woman Whose Far Remained Unpaid. There was an uncomfortable conges-, Hon at the rear end of the pay-as-you--enter ear, every one trying to get out: of the rain and mud and only a third, fearing their nickels ready. A young; man gave the conductor a quarter, re ceived his five nickels and dropped one of them Into the box. ""Here,"" shouted tie conductor, "put in an-i other nickel." -What for? I alnt two people,1 retorted the young man angrily. -Well, who's that woman up there?"! "1 don't know. I never saw her before.- -Well, she dtdnt pay " But the in sistent passengers demanded atten tion and the nan at the box had to drop the subject. aHhoush he looked lata the car later, glaring with espe cial disfavor at the youth who dis owned acquaintance with the woman whoa fare remained unpaid. Gam All Right. While playing, an engagement in St. Louis a couple of seasons ago, Tom Lewis struck np an acquaintance with a wealthy Texan living In the same hotel There was a ball gam sched uled that day between the Browns and a visiting club and Lewis Invited his new friend to go out and see It. The battle was a particularly hot one, the gam going to an eleven Inning tie. When they got back to the hotel the Texan, who had become Imbued with some of Lewis' enthusi asm, began to recount the scenes and close plays of the gam to the hotel derk. -Well,- said that worthy. Tm glad yon saw such a good time." -Wall, now.- said the Texan. "I reck on as how It was a good game all right. Why. sir, them two passel of youngsters just played and played till plumb dark and nary one made ary one." Passing of the Tollgat. The passing today of the old toll gat at the northern entrance to the ty Is well worthy of the fireworks, oratory, and general Jubilation which It has inspired. Strangers entering Baltimore by the Reisterstown road could hardly believe that this was realty a city of the fifth order, when a village functionary bad first to lift a bar and demand their pennies be fore they were permitted to enter the sacred metropolitan confines. The good roads movement, so intelligently urged and fostered by Governor Crothers and the Democratic party, baa already don more to Instill life and enterprise and a new spirit Into the counties of this state than all oth er movements of recent years com bined. The passing of the old toll gate is symbolical of the new order and the larger spirit of enterprise and progress. Baltimore Sun. Mr. 4. B. Duke's Ploughing. ta spit of the distractions of the Tobacco company's reorganisation, Mr. James B. Duk bestows muck atten tion upon the work of developing and beautifying his three thousand acre es tate. Duke's Park, near SomervUIe. N. J. Not Infrequently oa his tours of Inspection he personally directs the laborers. On day h took the plough from the hands of a alow, awkward foreigner, saying: -Here, let me show you how to pkragh a furrow, rv not forgotten bow I dtd that when I was a boy In South Carotiaa.- Another day h took the place of the boss of a gang of workmen and before he got through he dismissed five tor Inefficiency. The Sullivan Law. Magistrate Did he carry concealed weapons? PoUcemaat Tea; he had his fists ta his pockets. The Useful Verb To Get There is no word, ions or short, la the English language enable of per forming ao much labor to a clear, in telligible sense as the verb to get. And here Is an old time specimen of its capabilities: "I got on horseback within ten niiu ntes after I got your letter. When I got to Canterbury I got a chaise for town, but I got wet through before I got to Canterbury, and 1 have pot such a cold as 1 shall not be able to tat rid of In a hurry. I got to the treasury about noon; but. first of all. I got shav ed and dressed. I soon got Into J'- se cret of getting a memorial before th board, but I could not get an answei then. However. I got intelligence from the messenger that I should most like ly get one the next morning. As soon as I got back to my inn 1 got my sup per. When I got up In the morning I got my breakfast and then got myself dressed that I might get ont in time to get an answer to my memorial. As soon as I got It I got into the first chaise and got to Canterbury by 3 'clock, and about tea time I got home." Ave Maria. Wellington's Subtle Retort. Wednesday. 19th October. 1S36 Lord FUxgerald made us laugh at dinner today with a story about John Wilson Croker. whose pertinacity of opinion Is well known. He was laying down the law after dinner to the Duke of Wellington and. according to custom, asserting the superiority of his own Information on all subjects, having even flatly contradicted the duke, wbo had mentioned some Incident that had taken place at the battle of Waterloo. At last the conversation turned npon the use of percussion caps for muskets of the army when Croker again main tained a directly opposite opinion to that "which was urged by the duke, wbo at last good humoredly said to him. "My dear Croker. I can yield to your superior Information on most points, and yon may know a great deal more of what passed at Waterloo than myself, but as a sportsman I will maintain my point about percussion caps." Thomas Raikes" Journal. The Larch In Labrador. The soil and atmosphere are so cold and dry in faraway Labrador that scarcely any Tegetation thrives at alL The larch is a species of pine tree which is found In all northern coun tries, but Its growth Is so stunted in Labrador that a specimen found on the most southern part of that dreary land was but nine inches In height and the trunk was but three-eighths of an Inch In diameter. A careful examina tion of the miniature tree revealed its age to be at least thirty -two years, for there were that number of ring growths shown In Its small trunk. The very cold currents pouring down from the north and the fact that Labrador has less sunshine than Alaska, to gether with several Inland climatic conditions, make the summer seasons shorter and colder than are those of Alaska. Exchange. The Smoky City. A Pittsburg man once submitted a Pittsburg story to a New York maga zine and got a wire from the editor: -Will accept story if cut out UbeL" So the Pittsburg man hurried over to New York and asked the editor whom he bad libeled. -Ton have libeled your native city, air.- was the reply. "Why."" said the editor, tarning over the manuscript, "don't you say here on page 23 that the heroine clutched the air desper ately ?" -Tea. Go on." -And then two paragraphs further down you say she washed her hands. Well, that" The editor frowned angrily at the author. -That. sir. Is a fool and disgusting libel on Pittsburg's air.- Detroit Free Press. Told Him His Fat. Family secrets will out It has been the ambition of an Overbrook mother to marry her daughter to a young civil engineer who is on the road to bril liant success. But the young man. much In love with the daughter as he Is. has not fully decided whether to ask her to marry him. visiting at the home the other even ing, the young man encountered little Bobbie. -Are you going to marry sister?- asked the lad. Much embarrassed, the visitor stam mered that he didn't know. -Well, you are," returned Bobbie, with emphasis. Philadelphia Times. ' As We Speak It. A German who had come to Amer ica to master our language was being shown behind the scenes of a vaude ville theater by one of bis American friends. That man.- said the American. In dicating an actor with a wave of bis hand, -is taking off his makeup to make np for another take off. The German departed sputtering. Success Magazine. H Might Be Offended. -See that dog. Kathi? It has taken the first prise at ten shows and Is valued at 1.000 marks." T wonder If I dare offer him a bit of sausage?" Fl legend Blatter. Sam Thing. -Reggie invites me out to dinner very oth r evening." -I suppose you Just dote on him?" T table d'hote on him!" Satire. Slew Gam. Madge Was George fooling while you were playing golf? Marjorie Gra cious. I hope not! Why. I accepted him. Lippiacotfs. PARROT AS GERM CARRIER Physician Finds the Bird Is Subject to Disease Human Beings May Contract. Better not keep a parrot. A physi cian has discovered that birds of this species are subject to a disease called psittacose. which Is peculiarly con tagious, and may easily be contracted by human beings. As a germ carrier. In fact, the parrot Is unrivaled. Now the Office Window is not par ticularly afraid of germs. They may be quite as bad. quite as dangerous, as they are represented. But what is the use of trying to get away from them? We cannot eat. drink or breathe without taking In germs. We associate with them from morning till night. They are bound to work their will with us anyway so we may as well ignore them and have as good a time as we can. before they get us. But the Office Window Is perfectly willing to take advantage of the germs as an ally against the parrot. This preposterous bird has nothing to recommend him except his unlike ness to the bird species. He does not sing, but squawks. He is regarded as worthless unless he can "talk." in a kind of harsh resemblance to hu man speech. He Is neither bird nor human; he is a disorderly episode in creation. He grates on the poetic souL He is a nuisance. New York MalL Opportunity at West Point. Deeply fixed in the thought of the more well-to-day. is the belief that anything like equality of opportunity or condition would be incompatible with their own enjoyment and with ef ficiency of work in the lower classes. The dignity of self -sustained leader ship on the one hand, and the spur of necessity on the other, seems to them the only forces v.hich can keep the world moving But this belief has really no higher authority than that of tradition end long-established cus tom. West Point, and in only a less degree the service outside, demon strates the iacpo:ence of wealth or privilege as a necessary spur to en deavor. Equality of opportunity, priv ileges, and pecuniary rewards are found to be in no sense incompatible with individual initiative, with effi ciency in work and with the general happiness. No loss results rather, the reverse from the absence of all ex traneous advantages, and from com pelling every one to stand on his own merit, performing the work for which be is fitted, without any reference to the pecuniary compensation which he receives. The Atlantic. is the dependable kind. Scientifically churned from pure, pasteurized cream it is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow, always pure, nutritious and delicious. Ask pour grocer. Its flavor wins favor. A GIFT GILLEN & nopirg for the Worst. i. son doesn't like you." racn't suspected that. What .ies you think he doesn't like me?" "I heard him wishing the other day hat you would buy an aeroplane." Incumbrance. "No." said Mr. Cumrox; "1 dont In the least disapprove of my daughter's marrying a title." "But you seem dissatisfied." "I am. What I object to Is the fel low that goes with it." An Appetizer for Xmas Dinner or any other Dinner HOPPE'S Oyster Cocktails An excellent cold weather beverage. Appetizing and in vigorating. Sold Everywhere in Class Bottles NOTICE OF ADOPTION. In re Adoption No. 322. of Man ley Fuglei, in the Comity Court of Lancas ter County, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested take notice that Orvflle H. Sheffert and Anna Sheffert, hus band and wife, have filed their petition and the relinquishment of Child Saving Institute of Omaha and of Edith Fuglei for the Adoption of Manley Fuglei, a male minor child with bestowal of property rights and change of name which has been set for hearing before this court on the 16th day of January, 1912, at 10 o'clock, A. M., when you may appear, object to and contest the same. Dated December 6, 1911. P. JAS. COSGRAVE, County Judge. By Robin R Rkid, seal Clerk. BEATRICE CREAMERY COMPANY Lincoln. Neb. WHEN YOU WANT TO SEND J PACKAGE GET Ka-We-Ba Chocolates Golden Rod Chocolates Bitter Sweet Chocolates Chocolates Coated Maraschino Cherries MANUFACTURED BY B0NEY - GOOD CANDY MAKERS LINCOLN, FLOD AND BRETHOUER SUITS $15 And up, made to measure, anion" made Clothes to your order for less mosey than "Cold Storage Clothes." Give ns a call and be convinced. .... EXPERT CLEANING AND PRESSING 129 South PRINTING When you have a job you want done well and quickly, phone us and we will he there in a minute with sample and price. MAUPIN-SHGOP PRINTERY Publishers of Will Maupins Weekly 1705 "0" STREET AUTO 2748 Naturally So. "All the parts in this play are fat parts." "They have to be when the play it self Is laid In Greece." Behind Time. "What is the matter with this rail way T" asked cne irate passenger. "This train is three or four hours overdue," : "Think of me." said the stockholder, "and have patience. Its dividends are three or four years overdue." OF GOOD CANDY NEBRASKA. EEM 11th Street Impossibility. "Dees ycur wife ever attend tout lectures?" "Of course not. that would never do." -Why not?" "Could any wife sit and hear her husband talk for two hoars without interrupting him?" An Inquiry. "Pop, when the rain comes down ta sheets " "Yes. son?" "Does it cover the bed of tn street?"