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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1905)
CHANGES IN AFRICA 03O8 O HALL BROS. 1308 O The Swell Christmas Dinner on the Yukon TRAVEL IN -THE DARK CONTI NENT NOW EASY. Many people do not realize how much a housewife appreciates a nice piece of aluminum or nickle ware. GiMSsfinrj Ofoii , Coffee Percolator, Meriden Carving Sets all sizes, fine .steel, blades, pearl, stag and bone handles. Bargains in Tocb for Boys Box containing eight diift . t tools of good tempered steel 25c Odd tools in small sizes, A complete line of Waterville hand-forged pocket knives just received, everyone guaranteed. 1 308 O A wwwww I Wfliat M.e Like j for Clrnristinnias Presents THERE are so many beautiful things in a men's store from which to select presents that we can not name them all; but you can rest assured that any man will ap preciate a fine house coat, smoking jacket, bath robe or a pair of pajamas. He would be pleased with a pair of silk-lined gloves or a silk umbrella; or a traveling bag or a suit case; a fur-lined cap or a night robe. Or you might buy him two or three elegant neckties a man never has too many ties. Or buy him a couple of fancy shirts nicer than he would get if he were buying for himself. Few things would please him more. Handkerchiefs are always acceptable, and a silk muffler makes a nice present. All these things, and many more that men like, you can find here in the best of quality and at prices much lower than you will be able to get elsewhere. This store is THE STORE OF ECONOMY and you must become acquainted with this feet. You will not be satisfied till you come and see. In our Children's Department you can fit your boy out from head to foot for a sum total that will surprise you. Dress him up in a fine new suit for Christmas you can't afford not to good clothes certainly tend to make good boys. In our Men's Suit and Overcoat Department we are offering superb garments of unusual quality for less money than you will be asked elsewhere for the commonplcca kinds the suits from $5.00 to $18.00 the overcoats from $5.00 to $20.00. In your shopping excursions this week don't fail to come and see if you can not find what you are looking for here. SPHER 104-106 JuuumWW OOOCOOOOOOOOCKX Your Cigars Should Bear This Label.. Oi iMir.inri . om oi tha Chv 0Uk.iv union-made hj$ (Efllifirt. iMthtCtfttteonUMtw Kmnuf imvtuwMHiia'iiiiLXMiiuwiuiiruiiai Antr-ci. n oruauniw oevoua reins aa (mm Cxutt tm ah ammWi UiraMMMMi im aanrti ' All MliliaiMlWIAWOhltAftWMb Agywwl It is insurance against sweat shop tenement goods, and against disease. You can't miss it if you buy the boys or girls a pair of SKA TIES They tike 'em better than anything. We sell the old reliable Barney Sr Berry make. Prices, 65c to &&. 73 Baking Dioh or Tea Kettle to choose from. Jill sorts of things. Prices to suit every purse. HALL - iH WE SAVE YOU MONEY North Tenth Street One door north of O HHMMHMMHHHr International unionoT Cigars. IMhit boa ! im tYi teCUssWocVs iCMUiBf tlwt. President. and LOCAL kJ WM'twH- rut Softy Razors See the New $3 Razor" its a Bargain Safety Razors Gillet, Gem, Zinn and Ever ready, $1.00 to $5.00, all in -nice , leatherette cases, suitable for gifts. Clark's Charcoal Carriage BROS. 4 We are expert cleaners, dyers and finishers of Ladles' and uen tlemen's Clothing of all kinds. The finest dresses a. specialty. m THIJ NEW FIRiu H AC FOR PRICELIST. PHONES: Bell, 147. Auto, 1292. 1320 N St. - - Lincoln, Neb. arm mm Heaters, $3.00. 1308 O - - - X- - X- ' X-X-X-X-X-X-, X-X-X-X-3f X-X- x- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- x-x- -X-X--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- Street MadscrTs Market 1348 0 STREET GOOD MEATS Cheap for Cash In the winter of '93 at a brand new mining camp on the Yukon there was a select society. One dark afternoon just before Christmas, with the mer cury standing below the zero mark at some 20 odd, and a bitter wind sweep ing down the river, the host blew into the cozy office of the agent. "I want you to do two things for me." "AH right," said the agent, with ready courtesy, "what do you lack?" "In the first place," said the host, "I want you to take Christmas dinner with me." "That's easy," said the agent. "In the second place, I want you to help me out with the dinner." "Take the whole house if you want it." "No, I don't quite want the house," said the host, "but I want that little Freiichman, your cook what's his name?" . "Louis is yours," said the agent. "And I want a whole lot of other things," said the host, with a sigh. "I'm afraid I'm up against it hard." "What's the game?" said the agent. "Well, you see, it's this way," saio the host. "I've invited the governor and his son, and the general and his wife, and you and I make up the party. Further, I have asked each guest to choose some dish he would like for dinner, and, however difficult, I have agreed to provide it." "Well, I admire your nerve," said the agent, "you must imagine that San Francisco or . New ' Orleans is just around the next bend- in the river. Do you know what . the word Yukon means?" "No," said the host, despondently. "It means, 'nothing to eat.' " "Before we go any further," said the host, entirely ignoring the agent's tri umph, "what is yours?" "Rum omelet," said the agent, with out a moment's hesitation. "Hum!" mused the host, "rum, of course, but that means fresh eggs, with nothing but scrambled eggs in the town. Canned, eggs - won't, omelet ; I've tried 'em." ' "Blackie's got a hen," suggested the agent, "she roosts on the foot of his bed to keep from freezing to death." "Yes, I know," said the host, "but she laid her last egg on the steamer just before it reached town. No hope at all there." "He's up against the real thing now," sang the agent with delight. "By the way, what did the others choose?" "To begin with the easiest, the gov ernor's son wants some dish cooked in the French fashion." "Why not let Louis make a caribou saute?" suggested the agent. "Jst the thing." "What next?" "The general's wife wants fresh po tatoes. No evaporated or granulated spuds go." "Got any?" asked the host anxiously. "Frozen ones," said the agent. "Will they do boiled?" "No, mashed, ' said the agent, "whip 'em up with a little butter and canned cream and then brown 'em in the oven." "Bully," said the host, lapsing into the vernacular of the west and rub bing his hands together. "What does the governor want?" asked the agent. "Marrow on toast," said the host du biously. "Holy smoke!" exclaimed the agent. "Not a cow brute this side of Dawson, and tHat is 775 miles up the Yukon. Better start an airship for Seattle at once. There are two horses in town, you might buy one and hold on a minute," as the dawn of an idea ap peared in his eyes, "wait till I go out and look on the roof of the cabin." He stepped out of the door and re turned in a few moments looking mys teriously triumphant. "What's on the roof of your old cabin?" said the host skeptically. The agent tiptoed dramatically up to him, put his hand to his mouth and said in a loud stage whisper, "Moose shanks." "What?" said the host. "Frozen moose bones full of mar; row," explained the agent, beaming. "You see I have had several moose hams this fall, and as fast as the meat was cut eff Louis threw them on the roof of the cabin, intending to make soup for the dogs. Now what will be the dogs' loss will be the governor's gain, for those bones are full of mar row, everyone of them." "Shake," said tne host as ho extend ed his right hand. "Now let's see," said the agent mus ing, "what's next? O yes, the general. Bet you the drinks I know what he wants. He wants booze." "You're not so much," said the host, laughing. "I guessed that myself. When I asked him, he put the whole proposition in as few words as possi ble; all he said was, 'lashin's o' cham pagne.' " THE LAST SUPPER LEONARDO Bartholomew. James the Younger. Andrew. Judas. Peter. John. "That means plenty, I suppose,' said the agent. "Of course; got any?" ' "I've some extra dry, $75 a case,' replied the agent in his most business like tone. "Send up two cases." "Now," said the host briskly, "these matters being settled, how about eggs?" "There are the suicide's eggs," mur mured the agent. "What," said the host incredulously,, "did that man who hanged himself with a wire from a beam in his cabin have fresh eggs?" "Why, didn't you know," said the agent with sufprise, "it was brooding on 1S,000 eggs that caused him to com mit suicide. He thought they were all bad, you see." "But they weren't all bad, only he didn't find it out until after he -was dead," protested the agent with a. grin. "I was a member of the coroner's jury that sat on the case, and when we in vestigated the effects of deceased we found sixteen barrels of fresh eggs worth $2 a dozen. "Let me tell you what to do when you go to buy your eggs," continued the agent, not noticing the interrup tion. "Take a pocketful of money, a cold chisel and a hammer." "What's all that for?" asked the host with a show of interest. "Well,you see the eggs are. In lard, like holes in a cheese, and the lard is frozen solid as a rock. The probate caurt.:,bas charge of the (matters and they sell the eggs for $2 a dozen in the lard, purchaser's risk. You have to get 'em out yourself. If you get six whole eggs out of a dozen you are a dandy. They won't let you use a steam thawer because it would boil all the eggs. I want to tell you that the probate court of this town is strictly on to its job. "Is there anything else that you want that you don't see?" "Yes," replied the host. "I want roses. They are my choice. But in latitude 64 degrees north, and in the dead of an 'Arctic winter, one might as well wish for a chunk of Polaris." "O I don't know," said the agent en couragingly, "how would a dozen 'jacks' and a dozen American beauties do, with a few sprays of apple blos soms to lay on the table?" "What's the use of trying to be funny," said the host in an Injured tone. "It's not in the least becoming." The agent made no reply to this but quietly stepped into the other room and returned presently with a birch bark vase in each hand. One contain ed large bunch of magnificent jac queminots and the other an equally handsome lot of American beauties. "Welli I'll be jiggered," said ; vthe host, catching himself just in time, "you could knock me down with a feather." "That's what they are," said the agent complacently. - "Spray a little perfume on 'em and after about two of the general's iash in's'" nobody could UelU'em". said the agent. "Where did you get them?" asked the host with interest. "O," said the agent, who was inclin ed to be poetical, "they fluttered down from the wings of Aurora!" "Fluttered, down from the wings ot geese," -replied "the host,; who was not in the least so. "Well, they are goose feathers," ad mitted tne agent reluctantly, "but you needn't be so disgustingly matter of fact about it. Besides I've got the ap ple blossoms upstairs in the store." "I must be getting home," said the host, worming himself awkwardly into his squirrel skin parkie. "Dinner at 6 o'clock sharp, and don't forget to send up all the stuff, including Louis, the marrow benes and the roses. Good night," and off he went. Samuel Hub. bard, Jr., in Sunset Magazine. Mission of the Wise Men. When the wise men came from the East to found Christmas day, they were mastered, not by religious con servatism, but by Christian expecta tion. They were dominated, not by reason, but by intuition by the genius represented in Job and in Da vid rather than by the calculation of Jacob or the saws of Solomon. This world is saved not by profit-taking merely, but by prophet-giving. A few wise men from the East, acting on in sight, created that glad epoch of de light in self-sacrifice which we call Christmas. Politics and worldly wis dom fought Christmas to the quick, but Christmas was conducted from the upper air resourding with rhyth mic benedictions not only of peace, but of peace based on good will. "Yule" Is Scandinavian. The word "Yule" has in reality nothing to do with Christmas. It is an old Scandinavian word, signifying the winter solstice, which was always kept as a feast by the heathen Goths. DA VINCI. 7 Thomas. 8 James the Elder. 9 Philip. 10 Matthew. 11 Tfiaddeus. 12 Simon. Journey Which in 1875 Took Stanley Nine Months Now Easily Made in Three Weeks Wonderful Transfer mat! on in Thirty Years. Count von Gotzen, the -governor of German East Africa, has made a jour ney to Victoria Nyanza and around the great lake,, which in distance covered and the circumnavigation of the lake much resembles Stanley's journey in 1875. But the two journeys are in oth er respects wonderfully different. It took Stanley nine months and six days from the time he left the Indian ocean to reach the lake, circumnavi gate it, and attain the chief town ef :he king of Uganda, on the north shore. The time required By Count von Got zen," however, to reach the lake, en tirely circumnavigate it and arrive in Uganda, within a few miles of the point where Stanley entered it, was seventeen days, six of which -were spent at three German stations on the shores. He was back in Mombasa, on the Indian ocean, just three weeks aft er he had left Zanzibar for his inland journey. Stanley made the journey through Lho jungle, scores of porters, carrying ala baggage on their heads, and six or seven miles a day was good work. . Sometimes he was delayed for weeks while parleying with chiefs for per mission to cross their territory. Von Gotzen, on the contrary, made his comfortable journey in a well-appoint- ,,! ed train and was only two days in reaching the lake. The actual . time of travel, in fact, was only twenty-four r hours'; for trains on the Uganda rail road do not yet travel in the night time. Stanley made his way around the shores of the lake in small boats row- . ed by his black men. Several times m the lives cf the whole party were im- c periled by storms that came near swamping the boats. But the German -governor stepped from . the train at . Port Florence to the deck of a fine - ' and swift little steamer that carried him clear around the lake. He de scribes the .steam voyage .as .one .of Ills plcasantest experiences inAfrica. Now and then Stanley was attacked by islanders in the lake, who bad nev er 1 eard of white men .before and were bent on the destruction of the ex plorer's party. Many persons still re member the hue and cry that was raised in England when the news came of Stanley's fight with the na tives of one of the islands. The fact is, not a man of his party would have escaped if he had not used his guns. The German governor, on the other hand, was received at the three Ger man stations which he visited and at the capital of. British Uganda with cannon salutes, speeches, banquets and fireworks. Those "were festival days at SchiratI; Muansa, Bukoba and Entebbe, for it was the first time that a governor of German East Africa had visited the 700 miles of German coaet line around the southern h'alf of the lake. Thirty years have wrought this won derful transformation, and it is only lortyflve years since" Spekej1 the dis coverer of Victoria Nyanza, groping his way through unknown countries and unfriendly, tribes, was one year and four and a half months in reach ing the lake from the sea. -"Song of ' the ' Mountain. . So- rt all the cities. With their culture and their code, What rrinps you to my doorway By the lone and starry road? Tcu may "ome with seven pack-mules You mav walk or steam or ride. Eut you'll never, rever know me Till you come without a guide. Yon may come with rod and level. With compass and with chain. To parcel me for profit. And tarter me for gain; Yru may tell my ape in eons By the scars on drift and slide; Evt you'll never, never know me. Tiil you learn how I abide. Tou may range my slopes for sliver; You may wash my sands for gold; Vou may tally every jewel. Till my gems have all- been told. You may cross my wildest canyon, You may top my last divide. But you'll never, never know me Till you watch me wonder-eyed. You mufit sleep for nights together With your head upon my breast. The companion of my silence. The receiver of my rest. You may come with all your wisdom. To subdue me In your pride. But you'll never, never know me Till you love me like a bride. Bliss Carmen in the Reader. Sided with His Father. "There is a little chap in our town," said the suburbanite, "whose fathet and mother have words quite frequent-. !y, and have them loud enough to be heard by the neighbors. Tha burden of their recriminations, when audible, is, on the wife's part, that she ever lowered the Hicks family sufficiently to marry a Stubbs; and on his part that he ever honored the Hicks family by allying it with the house of Stubbs "One day last summer the young son of the house went fishing. He had barely got his line into the brook when he heard his mother calling him. s "'There it is,' said he disgustedly; 'the minutes the Stubbses begins to fish,' the Hickses begins to holler.' " Nickname Sticks to Coins. The standard silver coins being nsed in the Philippines are known as "Conairts," having been. named for Charles A. Conant, who was sent to the islands to prepare a coinage sys tem. The authorities in Washington objected to this nickname and direct ed that the coins should be known as Philippine currency. Before this order arrived they were, universally . called "Conants," and notwithstanding the official mandate the name has stuck. Cat! ' Miss Angles "While I was shopping to-day I happened to stop in front of one of those convex mirrors at Bergen & Co. 'a It was laughable; it made my figure look so ridiculous." Miss Speitz "Are you sure, dear, that it wasn't just an ordinary . mir ror?" Catholic Standard and Times. Will Be In His Family. The Woman "No! But I can be a sister to you." The Man "All right. Call your sister down, and 111 propose to her at