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About Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1912)
HAD NO USE FOR DOCTORS I SURELY A PERFECT MATCH i E HAVE the largest and most complete stock of PLUMBING SUPPLIES ever car ried in Lincoln. Latest styles up-to-date fixtures. Prices are lower than ever known before. Hose, Belting, Pumps and Wind Mills. No order too large to handle. None too small to command careful, attention. OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE 800 to 820 N Street WESTERN SUPPLY CO. VERNE HEDGE Abstracts of Title FOR LANCASTER COUNTY BOTH PHONES - RICHARDS BLOCK LINCOLN, NEB. When you want the best in COAL call GEO. W. VOSS CO. CLEAN COAL Auto 1393 and 1893, BeU A-628 1528 O STREET FIRST SAVINGS BANK of Lincoln DEPOSITS $742,000.00 The directors of this bank are 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 low aspne dollar Lincoln Paper Company We are headquarters for the Square Brand. Goods that are leaders for quality and price. Some things that might be needed. Printer Supplies Flats, bonds, book, ledger, linen paper, cardboard, envelopes, ruled goods and printers' ink. Wrapping Paper Wooden dishes, paprus pie plates, oyster pails. Paper Bags Ice. cream pails, clothing boxes, paper napkins. Twine Parchment paper, wax paper, shelf paper, tissue paper. Toilet Paper Building paper, carpet lining, .pattern paper, deadening felt. Stationers Goods Blank books, tablets, papeteries, pencils, pens, ink, notions, novelties and holiday goods. Perolin Sweeping Compound and On The Square Sweeping Compound. L. P. SINE, Manager Win. HYTE, Assistant Manager 1315-21 P Street Bell 255, Auto 6240 Lincoln, Nebraska Veteran Sailor Distinctly an Apostle of the Doctrine of Simple and Strenuous Life. . If there were two things which the late Sir Henry Keppel, the veteran admiral and personal friend of King Edward, detested more than anything else, they were doctoring and nurs ing. He was once told that Mr. Glad stone was ill. "Ah," ho said, "he is over-nursed. If he would do as I do climb up eighty steps, have a cold bath every day, and sleep with his windows al ways open he would never be ill." Sir Harry's temperament was not fitted for unmitigated domesticity, says Sir Algernon West in his "Me moir" of the famous - admiral. After one of his accidents, he tore off. the bandages the doctor had put on him and went away for a change and some amusement. His over-anxious wife in a day or two telegraphed to him: "How are you, and where shall I find you?" To her infinite amuse ment, the answer came: "Am quite welL You cannot find me." On another occasion he met Mr. Manley Sims', his doctor, who wanted to know how he was. He did not recognize him, and said: "Quite well, and all the better for not having seen that beast of a doctor of mine for some time." CREDENTIALS NOW IN ORDER Dr. Cook the Last "Distinguished" Guest to Be Entertained by Bu enos Ayres Journal. - In the course of his lecture on the city of Buenos Ayres, Burton Holmes showed several pictures of the edito rial offices of the great Argentine newspaper called La Frensa. In a portion of the ornate structure that house the journal's many activities there is a complete flat, handsomely furnished and fitted with every con venience that Paris, which the Argen tines copy faithfully, knows. This flat used to be maintained by the news paper as a place in which to enter tain distinguished visitors to the city. Mr. Holmes, in showing these pic tures, declares he felt very bad at first, when he learned about this hos pitable custom of the paper, to think that he was not considered enough of a distinguished stranger to be in vited to occupy the flat as a guest of La Prensa. But when he looked over the list of those who had occupied it his wounds were assuaged. The first of the guests was Puccini, the Italian composer; the second was Amunsen, the Arctic explorer, and the third was Doctor Cook of Brooklyn, of North Pole (?) and Denmark and the guest of the New York board of al dermen. "Since then," Holmes says in conclusion, "La Prensa has hot en tertained any distinguished visitors." Opium Habit Among Japanese. When the Japanese came into con trol of Formosa they found the opium habit widely prevalent, especially with that portion of the population that were of Chinese origin. The Jap anese discovered that 64 per cent of the male population were addicted to the opium habit. The greatest percentage of these were among the educated classes. In an endeavor to elucidate the point as to the instigation of the habit, the first step was traced In 93 per cent of the cases to the use of the drug by medical advice. Public opinion was at first hostile to the attempts of the Japanese In eradicating the evil; but now, owing to the judicious measures adopted, a strong public sentiment has arisen against the opium habit. Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. Making the Best of Things. There are several injudicious ways of making the best of things. One of them is Illustrated by the humble young curate, pictured long ago in Punch, who protested when the bishop, his host, expressed doubts of an egg the curate was eating. "Oh, no, my Lord; I assure yon some parts of it are excellent." Fancy looking on the bright sight of a bad egg! The effort was surely less Ingratiating than the curate supposed. Indeed this habit of seeing good in everything may be come the most unendurable of virtues as distressing as grim patience, which is a common and effective meth od of wearing, out the mind. I like to remember the complacent 'old lady who said, when a friend reminded her that she had had little trouble in her life. "Yes, but I've made the most of what I have had." Atlanta Monthly. Game Didn't Work. To illustrate how well the late "Ted" Marks was known in theatrical circles beyond the metropolis, a drum mer for a New York house told this story: "A lot of boys were sitting around in the lobby of a Kansas City hotel one evening, when one young fellow volunteered to take any one who would go along to the theater. I accepted the offer and we went to the box office, where our 'fresh' friend greeted the man inside with a hale and merry 'How are you?" and a re quest for two tickets. 'Marks,' said br, 'you know, Teddy Marks it's all right.' The man Inside gave the drum mer another look, and said in a very ool but determined manner: 'Noth ing doing. Something'll happen to you !f you don't move quick.' We did, and he paid my way Into another show to avoid meeting the crowd." With Their Dispositions, Team of Oxen Could Not Do Otherwise But Pull Toc-ether. "Isn't it strange the Baileys should ?iave married each other!" mused Mrs. .iirby. Not that she was particularly interested in the Baileys' marital af fairs, and if Mr. Kirty had murmured a comfortable "Uh-huh!" from behind his evening paper her mind would have speedily reverted to a less per gonal topic. But instead, he had unexpectedly replied: " 'Strange?' Not at all, my dear. They are unusually well mated as well matched as Ezra Pinney's oxen," and so Mrs. Klrby had been forced to an immediate defense of her position. "Why, William Martin Klrby!" she exclaimed, laying down her sewing and leaning forward in her chair. ''How can you think so! He is so big and handsome and indolent, -and she hasn't a lazy bone in her thin little body." "That's just what I said, Marcia Edgerton Kirby," returned her hus band, "but in your zeal for an argu "ment you- entirely overlooked my simile. "In that remote and 'dark ages period of my life before I knew you they offered a prize at the county fair for the best-matched pair of oxen. "There were some beauties brought in, so that everybody laughed when Ezra Pinney came driving along a great, handsome, slow-moving ox hitched up beside a wiry, scrawny lit tle beast that took two steps to the big fellow's one. " 'Lottin' on first prize, ain't ye, Ezry?' called out one of the men ironi cally. 'That's a finely matched pair o' oxen!' '"So they be!" agreed Ezry, compla cently. 'So they he! The best matched pair o' oxen in Wood county. One's willin' to do all the work an' tother's willin' he should!'" Youth's Compan-Ion. UNDER THE GRAND OLD FLAG Woodsman, Accompanying Tenderfoot, - by N Means, Actuated by Senti ment Alone.' Frank O'Malley, who hucksters words to magazines, admitted the oth er day that last fall he made his first trip into the woods. Mr. O'Malley told about the pleasure he took in outfitting for the trip that pleasure being added to by the assumption of friendly rela tions with the manager of a downtown sporting goods store. "I had known him by sight for a long time," said Mr. O'Malley, "for I have a little office immediately above the store he man ages. But I had never gotten acquaint ed with him. He seemed ah unap proachable.nnlr, stand-offish sbrtjof man. Then I made a week-end trip to Atlantic City, and forgot to turn of the tap in my stationary washstand In my little office on the floor Immedi ately above the sporting goods store. ''Bo.',' ,says Mr. O'Malley, ''when I came back from Atlantic City, that's how I got acquainted with the' manager." In the Maine woods Mr. O'Malley ac rralred a guide named Fred. The guide watched with some apprehension as Mr. O'Malley took lengths of gun bar rel and jointed them together, and pre pared for his tour through the woods In search of big game. When they were finally ready to penetrate the for est depths, the guide came out with an American flag lashed to the barrel of his rifle. "What are you carrying that flag for?" asked Mr. O'Malley. "Well," said the guide. "you wouldn't fire on the grand old stars and stripes, would you?" Herbert Corey in the Cincinnati Times-Star. - " Congressman's oal Yarn. -. -The present winter) has been a rec ord breaker in Washington so far as the weather and the high cost of living bave been concerned. During the re cent blizzard many householders were caught unprepared, dealers couldn't begin to supply the sudden demand, ind coal wagons were all but raided on the streets. v One morning as Congressman Rob erts was on his way to catch a car tor the capitol he saw a coal wagon crunching through the snow a short iistance ahead of him, the negro iriver smoking a pipe and flapping his irms to keep warm. Just as it got In front of a house a woman threw 5 pen a front window, thrust her head jut, , beckoned to the -driver . and shouted: . , "Hey! Is that coal for Eaton r The negro took the pipe from his mouth and rolled up the whites of his yes with astonishment. He said: "Lord Gord, no'm; this here coal tfn't fur eatin' it's fur burnlnV Washington Post. As Others See Us. Playwrights seldom are impressive personally, according to Channing Pol lock, In his book, "The Footlights Fore and Aft." "On the whole," he remarks, "it is easy to understand the lisappointment of a hero worshiper to whom a companion pointed out Charles Klein. The author of a dozen luccessful pieces tells the story with great gusto. 'It was on a ferry boat, be relates, 'and two young chaps were Standing near the forward doors. As strolled past, one of them remark ed: "That's the fellow that wrote The Gamblers." "'My chest had already began to expand, when I caught the rejoinder. "Him!" exclaimed the other. 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The reply of Henry Clay Dean, the famous Missouri lawyer ef the earl; days, to a man accused of unspeakab crime, is historic. The . man asked the lawyer to defend him and admitted to him his guilt. "No," said Dean, "I will not defend you. You ought to be shot out of a redhot cannon, through a barbed wire fence into hell." She Couldn't Say. A little boy out in Stockton, accord ing to the Rooks County Record, said to his mother the other day: "Ma, am I a descendant from a monkey?" "I don't know," replied the mother. "1 never knew any of ' your father's folks." The father, who was listening, went out In the coal shed and kicked the cat through the roof. Kansas City Star. 8lgns That Foretell Weather. The country dweller has a thousand weather signs that the city man never knows. A red sunset means very little to the man in the street, but to the man among the lanes It Indicates rata and uud wather. Smoke that rises, straight in the air, is . another of the signs 'that a farmer noticeB and fore tells had weather. Circles ' about the moon, and, sun, streaks of greasy; clouds and the peculiar actions of birds and domestic animals are all in-.; dications of some change in the weather to the man whose eye has been trained to recognize the signs. Important Thing to Know. It is easy to understand why the na tlon is willing that millions be spent on a weather bureau. If we can only foretell through weather experts, goose bone "prophets, corn husk proe nosticators or in any other way Just what the weather will be from day to day, living will be made a great deal easier for us alL We can get the hay in out of that . thunderstorm or hold up that shipment' of perishable stuff that a solid freeze and ' weather will utterly ruin. Post-Mo item Statement. An Irishman saw "While - pa." s" v, through a graveyard these njprds v i H ten on a tombstone: "I ' still live.'.' "Be Jabbers, if I was dead I'd ovvsi u to it." Unidentified.