The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, August 23, 1901, Page 11, Image 11
The Commoner. ii Economy. Uncle Hiram (just back from the big city "I don't think, that nephew of our'n is got as much money as ho ake out he has." Aunt Emiiy "Why, I thought you mid he had such a nice home in the city." Uncle Hiram "Bub I didn't tell ye, nothin' about him havln' both them little girls o' his'n playln' on the same planner at once. I toll ye he's a-git-tin' hard up. San Francisco Chronicle. Shopping Hours. Two bills to regulate the hours of British shopmen and salesgirls are be fore parliament, while an amendment offered by Lord Salisbury himself foreshadows the probable tenor of a measure satisfactory to the cabinet. This amendment provides that "pro visional orders" fixing hours may be passed by local authorities, subject to revision, by parliament. This law will be the first step in Great Britain to regulate the hours of male adults, and will be closely scanned as a possible precedent. Of its necessity the report of- the lords' committeo permits no doubt. Says the Saturday Review: "It was already known that eighty, eighty-four, often ninety hours a week are worked in many shops, not includ ing hours; worked after closing. ' It has been shown that these hours are spent in surroundings insanitary, in bad atmosphere,, in circumstances caus ing that dread disease known popular ly as consumption, and others of a tu bercular character." The life of a London shopman is THE LUDWIG PIANO IjfagBlfll BBqI STRICTLY HIGH GRADE Awarded modal, Paris, 190Q, Endorsed by Artists, Musicians, Teachers and 15,000 pleased purchasers. UNLIMITED. GUARANTEE. LUDWIG & CO., Mfrs., New York- Matthews Piano Co: Lincoln, Nobraskn, Gen eral Agent for Nebraska. BRMD HEW STEEL ROOFiie BenRfet at Reeeirers' talc Sheets either HtcHTU AteabrVeriHipcd. Ne tools except a hatchet or hammer is seeded te-ktr the1 roofing. We funtlsk tree with each, oHer 'AAVMttanJ lutliikibw Bm& .. .. 3all3 u.v. nana U.i3u laji A IlUn pnrBIIUinCI mm.w w ABauaretncanslOOeanarefC Writ for Free CiUfofM Ko. im en flraeral HorefaaadlM. Chicago Howm Wrecking Co., Wert th and Iron St., Chicagolii. made even more unbearable than this. i statement would indicate by the "liv ing-in" system, under which . clerks spend practically the entire twenty four hours upon the premises; And the unions of shopworkers confess their inability to secure better condi tions. In New York long hours of labor are still too often exacted. But in the great retail shops working-time never ex ceeds sixty hours per week, except in December; and to compensate for Christmas overwork but fifty hours! per week are usually required in mid summer. And this, policy pays. -New York World. Compensation. My stock haa gone down and my tailor has sent To request that I settle my bill; My landlady asks with a frown for her rent, And there Isn't a cent in; the till. The governor storms and my mother's! in tears; There's a coldness- betwixt me and! Nell, But I'm utterly dead to regrets and to fears, Foe my meerschaum is coloring well. I've a cold in my head and a pain in my back, My eyes are like lobsters in hue; The horse that I played came in last at the track, And I'm sure that I should have felt blue. But I walked into town, and I walked all the way With a step it's surprising to tell, And I'm gayest tonight in the ranks of the gay, For my meerschaum is coloring well. At first I had fears of what looked like a crack, And my breath came in gasps of alarm, But oh, how the joy of my heart flooded back When I found that 'twas nothing to harm. And so ever since I have nursed it with care, With thrills that my heart cannot quell, And I've bored all my friends to relate the affair That my meerschaum is coloring well. Paul Laurence Dunbar in the Smart Set. (INGE IN A LIFE TIME H jsofMneaongatodo&omethlngs.U'soic&ieaoaKB bf to toy wagoa it yon buy the right kind. The- Cannon's Corn Story. Congressman "Joe" Cannon of Il linois is a man of strong likes and dis-. iikes, and never does anything by halves. In the list of his likings, so far as culinary matters are concerned, his fondness for green corn takes first rank, and on this score he tells a good story at his own expense. After a long sojourn in Washington he returned home and started out to look after his political fences in his district. At a small village hotel, where he stopped for dinner, a scanty plate of fine roasting ears was placed before him as a side dish. Im mediately ho abandoned the main bill-of-fare and applied himself exclu sively to the green corn. When the plate was depleted he called for more roasting ears, and continued his feast until he had made his entire meal LEARN PROOFREADING. from the staple product of.tUe inois ir jou poaseaa a fair education, why not utillie It at a gentet" prairies. The hotel keeper noticed ad aocrewll profcuiou ylaf SIS to 815 weekly T Situation li.- arn.av nf nnha ufnnlrofl iinnn n Jwaj ofeuJaabii We are U orictaal iBMruotor by mall. tn aiTay 01 CODS StaCKea Upon UlO sohjb coBsxsfOKDSNOx school, Fhiiadeiphiaplato of the tall politician, whose idon- ELECTRIC HffoN lasts that; long under ordinary conditions. First tJio Hfo ef a wagon depends upon the wheels. ThU one Is equipped with our EleetrloStecl Wbcels. with straight er stagger spokes and wide tires. Wheels any height from Si to 60 In. It lasts because tires can't get loose, no re-eettin?, bubs can't crack or spokes become loose, fnl loss can't rot, swell or dry out. Angle steel bounds. THOUSANDS MOW IM DAILY USE. Don't buy waron ur.tll voa ertoer free book, "Vans SaTtsga." ELKOl'lUG WHEEL CO., Box 2S8, Quitter, JUs. tity was unknown to him, and said: "Say, stranger,, what in thunder do y.ui want to board at a hotel for? Tke jlaco for you to put up at is a livery stable Don't you know green fodder i a dum slgnt cheaper in a barn than In a house?" During the remainder of "the cam paign Congressman Cannon retailed thl& story to his constituents and turned it to good account among tno corn growers. Saturday Evening Post. Mid-August. August, Sweetheart of the sun, Summer work is nearly done. vnile' the idle days are going List thy ardent lover's wooing. Now the year Is in Its prime Take thy brief vacation time. Stubby fields are brown and yellow, Pippins ripe are growing mellow. Ranks, on ranks of shining corn, Jeweled by the daw of morn, Whisper in the evening airs Like a legion saying prayers. Farmer boys, on loaded wains, Harvest moon on gathered grains; Tender hearts a bit forlorncr,, Summer's turned another corner I E. C. Tompkins. In Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly- A New Adtt Pfantv A large fertilizer chemical plant is now in course of constructioa at At lanta, Ga., which will bo used by Ar mour & Co. The plant will cost near ly a half million dollars, and will bo situated on the Southern railroad and Seaboard Air Line; The buildings, when completed; will' consist of a sul plftirlc acid plant with a capacity of sixty tons of acid per day, and a man ipulating plant to take care of the various, materials used in the manu facture of commercial fertilizers. Armour & Co. has- been extending its fertilizer business greaciy of late and using its own materials in the manu facture of commercial fertilizers, which It sells direct to the planters and farmers, thus avoiding middlemen's charges and retaining control of the animal products. The animal fertil izer ingredients claim superiority over cotton seed meal fertilizers, owing to their preponderance of nitrogen, and are largely used. The Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, familiarly known as the "Southern Fertilizer trust,," has with in the last six weeks purchased the eight plants of the Southern Cotton Oil company and sqme twenty indepen dent cotton oil plants. This move has evidently been made with the Idea of controlling cottonseed meal, which it can use in the manufacture of fer tilizers, and thus be independent of the packing houses, from whom it has for many years been buying large quantities of blood, tankage, bone, etc., known as ammoniates, and used In the compounding of fertilizers. Chicago Tribune, Knighthood. There is lively excitement among the mayors of the new municipal bor oughs included in the district of Lon don, for it Is intimated tnat King Ed ward will confer knighthood on every one of them when their terms expire In November. His majesty's desire is to commemorate the first term of these mayoralties, and to emphasize for fu ture candidates that the oflices carry with them possibilities of high honors. Heretofore these mayors were not very highly thought of by the great Mr. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, Km Unused (or arar 8CCTT TXABfl HlUJO.fH of MOTHZMfcr (L4r CHILBKST WHILE 1XKTJUK6, WW. PZXTZCT BCCC888. 'i 8O0THK3 & CHILD, SOFTENS U GUMS, ALLATB all. PAIN; CUKES WDf 0 COLIC, aad 1 tfca Wat taatij tot DIARRHOEA. &14 bj DrnsbU la trrry part af tea world. Barcra udiikfo Hi. VluknV EaatMac ftjnv.'aadUbtMrtfer MU. Tvgaat-Afa aratta UtiU. MUtataat aiaU. 1 30 uMlilMll DAYSnHJEHin ' Trial WEEES -IWMbm1' ' I Sjmmvnthinm fl VMSSHrfiiii JSfflHfl 501 11131 Styles fiJfinU At WHOLESALE PRICESI U year Atrr ilwi a W MONARCH MMXKAMX 1071 8TREL RAXQKH, i M M Brit mm ttittfA frwa inr man mall at ! WilOLMALK nut,r.j (Mint jmi tnm 110.9) to Mji MrrrtfeMsnUlWaJUii. 8ml ritr.K UtadJoou CUl.p Mth vbdU.aU frl tmt Ml iiMltu. bnt. 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AdJrraa CampbeLl jfc CO., 11 flum fit., Klgln, 111. ones of London town; The king's action will make mmn curious additions to the list of knights. uno or tne mayors across whose shoulders the royal sword will be. laid is an East End saloon-keeper, another is an advertising agent, and the, ma jority are comparatively humble wage earners. That a saloon-keeper should hare a chance, of knighthood is a great shock to the fastidious, who forget that so many members of the house of lords are brewers. Ex. Lullaby. Last night a brown bird flew straight into the west, Straight into the glow of the sun set's red light, And see, he comes back with its fire on his breast, Speeding to tell a wee baby good night, Before his eyes close, And to dreamland he goes. The soft.alr is full of a blossomy whirl Of tiny dreams, fluttering down from the trees Each one is as pure and as fine as a pearl, And all for a baby, his fancy to please, While mother sings low, "Go, little one, go." Up, up, In the darkness, the rosy stars flush, Like crocus buds, 'broidered on win ter's black hem; And, hark, through the stillness of pine-scented hush, Each note of the lullaby falls like a gem; Slow, tender and deep, "Sleep, little one, sleep." "O dear little heart, press thee closer to me! I love the soft touch of thy head' sunny .gold, Hedged round by my prayers through the night thou shalt be, As safe as a lamb in the sheltering fold. Thy pillow my breast, Rest, little one, rest." Pauline Frances Camp in the Boston Transcript. Cuba Libre. It is not expected that the army will be withdrawn from Cuba before next winter, by which time congress may have enacted enough legislation to keep it there indefinitely. Philadel phia Ledger. V 4