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Especially prepared for commencement and wedding gifts. HucA repairing and Engraving. See Fleming First Everything in Watches and Clocks Repaired RET AIRING ONLY HARRY ENSLIN IMS. 1 2th St. MONEY LOANED mm TaooaenoM rooda, pianoa. mm, c: Wag er abari tiiaa, No caarre for pa pore. Ke interest la edvaaoa. Ma pebbeity or U ra. Ve guarantee better tatu thaa ethar aaaka. Money aaU immediately. COLUMBIA 21 CO. UT Seat lata. FORTUNE IN RARE COINS Fat Picking for Watchful Cashiers in Stores. Bartenders and Street Car Conductors. Cashiers la stores ati restaurants, ticket agents at theaters and railroad stations, bartenders and conductors on errs are in a fair position to be com collectors of rare coins, as they handle every kind of money piece from foreign coins to old-time money of the United States. A saloonkeeper in Harlem declares he has made a small fortune during the last few years by sarins the rare coins that are taken over the bar. "I hare a tin box filled with rare United States pieces." he related, "and I could hare a collection of for eign coins if I so desired. Tou wou.d be surprised to see how anxious some men are to get a drink at the expense of spending a rare old coin for its face Talue. Sllrer and paper currency that pay a good premium are siren to my bartenders for face Talue. I hare often noticed a reluctance on the part of the holder before parting with the coin. He will give a last look at the money and then place it on Una bar for the refreshing beverage. One man told me that a coin had been In the the family for nearly a century. He wanted only one drink and was afraid I would not take the coin because of its age, I gare him the drink and change for the piece at its face value, and he was overjoyed." PUT ON MOURNER'S BENCH Littie Dorothy Explains Break in De votional Exercises for Her Family of Dolls. Little Dorothy is the daughter of a minister. She has a family of fifteen dolls, one of them being a parson. Dorothy Is deToted to her treasures. FOr a long time she held religious service for them, but suddenly the services were discontinued, only to ba as unexpectedly resumed. "Why did you stop the services, Dorothy.? she was asked. "Oh, the colls decided not to hare them any more." "But why were they started again?"! "They all voted that way. that is " Dorothy hesitated, but she added, regretfully, "All except the clown and the Teddy bear." They were regarded as incorrigible by the minister's small daughter. Next day at the services they were seated, immediately In front of the doll preacher, the other dolls occupying less prominent places. "Why are the clown and the Teddy bear sitting so far forward?" in quired Dorothy's father. "Oh." was the reply. "I thought they most seeded to hear the sermon." Impossible Road. Chauncey M. Depew frequently dep recates the comparisons that are drawn between American and Euro. ;-ean railways. "These comparisons are unfair to us." he once said at a banquet in New York. "When I'm told how very safe the European railway is I think of the Kola Chucky line. "The president of the Nola Chucky lice once waited on me to request an exchange of courtesies. 1 interrogated" him. and he said proudly: On our lice, sir, not only has a collision never occurred, but on our line a collision would be impossible. " 'Impossible r said I. Oh. come. T know that the latest automatic safety devices are excellent things, but im possible is a large word. " U's literally true with us, sir, he replied. " 'How can it be? said L "'Why, said he, we own only one train." Taxing Bachelors. One of the smallest of the German principalities Is undertaking a very big experiment in financial legislation. The diet of the elder of the two prin cipalities of Reuss. which lie in cen tral Germany, to the southeast of the Thuringian Btates. carried recently a resolution in favor of increasing the state income tax by S per cent, of the tax on Incomes between 130 and 300. and by 10 per cent of the tax on Incomes exceeding 300 a year in the case of unmarried persons of eith er sex who hare reached their thir tieth year. The diet consists of twelve members, and the resolution was car ried by seven votes against five. The super-taxation of bachelors has often been proposed in other German states, and was jocularly referred to as a pos sible form of imperial taxation by the Emperor William. Dark Problem. There are those who are dreadfully intolerant of Ignorance about New York. The other day, for Instance, a lady, obviously from many hundred miles away, boarded a Broadway car at Times square. "Does this car go to Third avenue?" she asked. A look composed of equal parts of pity, rage and disgust spread over the conductor's face. "Will yon please tell me. lady, how this car could get onto Third ave nue?" he asked coldly, as soon as he could enunciate. Bill the Philosopher. Wise remark, by Bill, the Philosoph er: - "There's one good thing about it. Anybody who talks about himself all the time hasnt time to be a knock er." Know any of 'em? San Francisco! How She Shopped "I wasnt responsible." Baird said. "I always had known better than to venture into a department store with a woman bent on shopping. "but. you see, I was on my wedding trip. So when Anne suggested going shopping I smiled fatuously and consented. "Anne made for the- elevators and led me to the topmost floor. Being totally Ignorant of the correct method of storming a women's store, I took it for granted that starting in at the top was the rule, -and that yon got docked if yon didn't begin that way. I be lieve it was the floor where you get fitted and altered when you buy ready mades. I bashfully slunk along be lind Anne as she strolled down ma hogany corridors through the doors of which came wails and complaints and storms from women in the process of being altered and fitted. "Just as I opened my mouth to ask Anne what she had bought to be fixed and when she had nought it, she turn ed on me blandly and said she was ready to go down to the next floor. "There was a furniture display there and I think she priced every piece of it. In half an hour my head was a mixture of Flemish bookcases, ma hogany dining room sets, rococo screens and tea wagons. "Much as I loved Anne, I began to feel pale. I figured out that my whole annual income would Just about pay for what the dear girt apparently had in mind. "When she began ivTg- vrith the attentive salesman about an JfSOO carved chest I drew her aside. Hy dear, said I in quavering tones, "real ly, you know, we cant afford an eight hun "Silly! she said. 'As if I didnt know that! Why, I'm not going to buy any furniture I'm just looking! And she sailed out of there under the outraged eyes of the salesman with out turning a hair. "How women do It I cant figure out they undoubtedly possess a sort of courage that men lack. "When I got my breath I found we were on the china and glass and pic ture fioor. We priced about $100,000 worth of stuff there at least Anne did. The salesman was so Impressed by her air that he did his best to sell her a dozen plates, very cheap at Jl. 500. I assure you that I got cold chills, so realistic was her assumption that possibly if the plates pleased her she might condescend to have them sent to our address. "And she was absolutely Impervious to my agonized glances. "She considered sets in rock crystal and she turned up her nose at $100 coffee cups. At last she led me down to the floor beneath. It was full of hats women's hats. Anne almost purred. What on earth she wanted there I couldn't imagine, because I distinctly remembered hearing her say that her trousseau included ten hats. "She didnt give me a chance to point out to her that she could wear only one hat at a time, because she promptly had the head milliner and two earnest saleswomen surrounding her. "That girl tried on thirty-three hats by actual count and. as each one was more expensive than its predecessor, you can Imagine the state of mind I was In. I never knew there were so many different kinds of birds and leathers and things in the ; whole trorld until that day. I saw myself proceeding through the rest of our trip lugging bandboxes and just as I was working up an extremely bitter frame of mind Anne smiled sweetly at me and said she believed she was ready to go. J "We left the saleswomen reviving each other and proceeded to the silks and velvets. It was perfectly wonder ful how much Anne knew about quali ties and wearing abilities. She routed six salesmen before she descended to the linens and lingeries. I wont at tempt to relate our visit to that floor, but some time I want to tell you about a 1500 tablecloth and napkins to march. j "The rest is a sort of mist. .1 know that at last we found ourselves in the basement among the kitchen furnish ings. There Anne simply had a glor ious time pricing things. tTp to now she had bought absolutely nothing, so I woke up with a start when she ran out from a dark, underground corner with a teakettle In her hand. " "Isn't this a dear? she asked. 'And only 50 cents think of it! How love ly it will look in the fireplace! So she bought it. "That isnt alL When we unpacked it at home she deliberately marked a 12 In front of the .50. Then the first time her cousin, who Is one of those women who pride themselves on knowing the value of every article on earth, saw it she threw up her hands " 'My dear! she cried. 'Did you get that kettle for only twelve dolalrs and, a half? Why. you got a perfectly tremendous bargain. It is werth dou ble you cant fool me on antlqmes! Where did you get it? "Oh. said Anne, nonchalantly, T picked it up while we were away. Z just happened to ran across tt- "So, after til." Baird concluded, T think I see how by spending half a dollar and five hours a woman can really accomplish something when she hoovttnr." WE ARE NEVER SATISFIED The Thin Man Bemoans His Fate, and the Fat Man Starves to Be come Thin. We are never satisfied. It seems, and the growls and walls of discontent rise all above us. showing that others feel as we do. The thin man bemoans his fate. He l eats fattening things and yearns to be I fat, and the fat man starves himself as much as a fat man's se'f control will admit, and longs to be thin. j It's pretty tough. j Over in the valley they grow alfalfa j " great crops of alfalfa that bring in j money, and our farm wont. It hurts i our feelings, but over on the alfalfa farm they cant make a ""peach, tree grow worth a cent, and they're kick ing about it envying us. It would seem that Nature would know better. Discontent is not nat ural, and it would appear that Nature might rig up some sort of an exchange by which discontented people might swap. The poor man who aches for dollars could go there and give his appetite for half the sickly rich man's pile, and It would be gladly given. The woman with the ostrich feath ers her sailor brother brought her could swap with the envious woman for a diamond and thus control her own longing. All we'd have to do would be to go to the exchange and register, and Na ture would do the rest. We'd list our discontented state and tell what would make us feel better, and sooner or later the exchange would be made and two discontented people would be made more contented. But no such ex change is being considered, and the two discontented parties to all these troubles are far apart. Galveston News. TALKED IN MUSICAL TERMS Policeman Shows Result of Long Duty at Door of Concert Hall, AH amateurs are familiar with the musical term "syncopation," but for the benefit of the non-musical it may be said that it is a word relating to time or rhythm, the precise meaning of which will be sufficiently indicated by the story. A celebrated conductor was conduct; ing a long series of concerts, and he had observed that it was always the same policeman who was stationed at the nearest door to the orchestra. Re marking upon this, he was Informed that the officer in question was be coming quite an expert in musical terms, etc, so long had he been on duty Inside the ha!L However, one evening he was passing, and meeting him accidentally In the corridor next night, the great conductor accosted him thus: "Officer." he said, "where were you last night?" "Last night, director?" replied the cop. "Oh. I was in syncopation." "In what?" gasped the conductor. "In syncopation off the beat, sir," replied the policeman. S The Colonial Shilling. j The value of the Colonial shilling I was gradually reduced from the Eng- j lish standard as the result of per- j sis tent coin slipping. As early as 1642 Massachusetts raised the rating of the Spanish dollar to 5s and Con necticut took similar action the fol lowing year. In 1645 Virginia raised the rating of the dollar to 6s. In 1652 Massachusetts established a mint and began to coin shillings that were 224 per cent, higher than the sterling standard. In 16S3 the Spanish dollar, weighing approximate ly 17 pennyweights, was rated at Gs 9d, while Pennsylvania valued it at 7s. : The consequence of these, vari ations In the colonies was that in 1707 parliament passed an act pro viding that the Spanish piece of 8 reals (dollar) Bhould not be valued at more than 6s. but Bullock tells us In his "Monetary History of the rnlted States" that this law was al most universally ignored. Finally New York and North Caro lina settled upon a rating of 8s to te dollar, and this valuation was gradu ally accepted and retained until our national monetary system was estab lished. Simple Spelling Move. A conference between representa tives of British and American societies to extend the movement for a simpli fication or English spelling has just been held at University college in Eng land, with a large number of profes sors connected with English universi ties, and the following from America: Dr. James E. Bright of Johns Hopkins university. Charles H. Grand gent of Harvard university. Dr. George Hempl of Leland Stanford university and Dr. Brander Matthews and Dr. Calvin Thomas of Columbia univer sity. The proceedings were private, but a report of the conference will doubtless be made public after it has been submitted to the societies repre sented. Foolish Question. "Are you going to permit your son to play football when he goes to col lege?" "No. I'm going to keep him from it in the same way that I have kept him from smoking cigarettes. "Oh, have you kept him from doing that?" "Certainly when he knows rm looking." . Is It Working For You? The dollar that is working for you is better than the idle dollar. Deposit your savings with us and we'll put your dollars to work for you. And they'll work day and night- We pay you 4 per cent interest on your deposits. A little bit saved every pay day and put to work for you, means a competence in old age. Idle dollars are useless. 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