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Union Men Want Pianos
MADE BY UNION LABOR
We sell the only two makes of Pianos
made entirely by Union Labor, sold in
Lincoln, Remember the names of these
makes (two):
The G-OazeBtomt Biros.
OF NEW YORK, and
The Buslh (Serts
MADE IN CHICAGO
Our terms of payment are so easy and prices so reasonable, none
need be without a Piano in their home. We are the oldest music
house in the State and you will be sure to get a square deal if you
buy of us Remember our firm name and location
MESCOTT MUSIC COMPANY
138-142 SOUTH 12TH STREET
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
We Don't
Claim to be a
High "Toned" Store
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Tone costs money everybody knows that. It costs
about 1 0 per cent for "tone" in many stores and about
1 2 per cent for actual business expenses. We cut off
the "tone" and the 1 0 per cent. If this is true, and we
assure you it is, can't you see we can sell cheaper than
the "tone" stores and still make good money? If you
are looking for reliable merchandise without "tone" we
are your huckleberry.
LINCOLN CLOTHING CO.
Corner Tenth and P Streets
SELLING LAND AT AUCTION
Up to the cloeing hour 554 bids had
been received .at the government's
general land office on the "big pas
ture" claims of the Kiowa country,
which are now being sold at auction.
Of these bids 270 came through the
mails. Judge J. W. Witten, chief of
the legal department of the general
office,-expressed surprise at the small
number of bids received thus far. He
attributes this to the fact that nearly
everyone is waiting to see how many
bids are going to be made so as to
regulate the amount he. must bid to
get a claim. In the pasture there are
2,531 tracts subject to sale, and of
these 132 tracts are leased land and
will be sold subject to lease. At pres
ent there is not a railroad in the pas-
i ture, except a, road that crosses a
! small corner of it.
i Three steamers which arrived in
Xew York from the . Mediterranean
brought 4,670 steerage passengers. The
Slavonia brought 2,088, the Koenigin
Iuise 1,294 and the Moltke 1,288.
LINCOLN HAS 52,000 PEOPLE
According to the Commercial Club statistics, there are about
52,000 people in Lincoln, at least 50,000 of whom take three meals
a day. The Gas Range will cook breakfast for the ordinary family
in twenty minutes. The average time of getting breakfast on a coal
range is about an hour. Now, if forty minutes could be saved at
each brcaksast in 10,000 homes, that would be a saving of time and
labor worth while e saving of 400,000 minutes, 6,666 hours, 278
days. Think of it; 278 days saved each morning for the breakfasts
of the people of the little city of Lincoln! But the saving will apply to
dinners and suppers, so that to all the homes we save 834 days of
time by the use of a Gas Range one day two years, three months
and fourteen days. Not only would you save this time, but you
would save fully 20 per cent, of the cost of your coal.
Why not arrange to start at once in saving your share of this
immense, useless expense.
LINCOLN GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.
The
John Mitchell
Sltoe
EVERY i Union , man)
should take a Spec
ial pride in increas
ing the demand,. Jor
The John Mitchell
Shoe demonstrates
beyond contradic
tion that Union la
bor gives the great
est valueto.
the
UNION
MAN
Don't take our
word for it.
Call ' and ex
amjne the'
John Mitchell Shoe.
You 11 immediatelj
agree that it is the
Greatest Shoe Value Ever Offered
Sold Exclusively in Lincoln
-BY-
LINCOLN CLOTHING CO.
HORTHWEST CORNER TENTH & P STREETS
Cahur Unions Arr 3htmg
Jffnr WorUVWtiu? &aab
By HENRY ABRAHAMS,
Secretary Boston Central Labor Union.
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S order to understand this question we must, to be fair, disabuse
II our minds of all prejudices or bias and judge the trades union
A trade union has been defined as an association of work
men skilled or unskilled for their economic and social improve
ment. This we all will admit is a laudable object.
Prior to the formation of these unions of mechanics, in
the good old times when we were compelled to work from 16
to 18 hours a day, when we had to take store orders for our pay,
1 when men and women were imprisoned for debt, when little
children were in every factory and were kicked and abused when too sleepy
to work, we had no trades unions of any account in these United States.
I have before me the following list of reforms brought about by or
through the efforts of the trade union :
1, fire escapes on factories; 2, inspectors of factories; 3, protection
from dangerous machinery; -1, abolition of child labor; 5, ten-hour day;
6, ventilation in work shops; 7, scats for women where possible; 8, weekly
payment of wages; 9. two outlets to mines; 10, protected wages of wives
from attachments; 11, industrial and evening schools; 12, boards of 'arbi
tration; 13, abolished truck stores; 14, guaranteed workers wages by lion;
and, 15, Australian ballot. ' r
We might add, free text books and public employment bureaus. Con
trast this with the time when hours and wages were fixed by law.
Of course, we have a small number who denounce every man of
wealth, but. their infhtence is exaggerated. Just as there are men in all
walks of life who believe the socialist "a drunken German, loafer," the
Jew a 'money shark," the Italian vicious, the Irishman s a brawler and
destroyer of peace. All this is not true; it is overdrawn. Human nature
is much alike in all. ;';.
We have taken of all nationalities and creeds, and in the words of
Hon. Carroll D. "Wright, banded them together, when church and state
failed, and made them citizens, and good ones. '
We are opposed to war. i - r
We believe we will yet have a. higher civilization.
Does1 all this make for the good of the whole, or only a part of our
citizens ? - " . . '
We mean to make things over; we're
tired of toil for naught.
We may have enough to live on, but
never an -hour for thought.
We want to feel the sunshine, we want
to smell the flowers;
We're sure that God has willed it, and
we mean to have eight hours.
Wet Strtg 0f
By KATE THYSON MARR.
, We may ungratefully
forget one who . has fa
vored its, we may lose all
count of old and sacred
obligations, we may find'
it difficult to recall even
the names of those who
have loved us,ybut noth
ing under the blue vault
I 1 f heaven can ever blot
out the name and every incident or look, manner and bearing of the wom
an who has stamped herself upon our heart by her faculty of being dis
agreeable. v
Standing in the front rank of the disagreeable ones is the artistic
fault-finder, who would want to coach even St. Peter himself. Women
are generally in the vanguard of this division. If the man in the moon
were within long-distance call of such a woman she would object to his
lonely smile. -
The whining woman, with a ceaseless lament that no one loves her,
and no one wants her, is enough to drive the average mortal 'into hysterics.
She can throw aii ice spray over the merriest gathering. Perhaps she is
to be pitied, although the fault lies with her. :
Another "disagreeable" is the cold-water thrower. You tell your best
story in choicest manner, expecting, of course, appreciation,, instead of
which you eneouner a cold stare that mutely; questions whether you be
a fool or plain crazy. Every one who has tried it knows it to be hard work
to entertain one whose face is about as expressive as a blank bank check,
and when the effort falls flat, you wish some one would kick you for having
made a fool of yourself. . ;
It is folly to contend that such moods cannot be controlled. They are
cultivated and propagate on indulgence. '
By DR. EDWARD M. HART WELL.
Former Director of Physical Training. Boston
Public Schools.
'.' Appreciation of ' the
principal forms of out
door pastimes and sports
is doubtless more general
and keen among the Eng
lish than any . other peo
ple. It seems safe to say
that a larger proportion
of the inhabitants of
England derive bodily
benefits and mental' recre
ation from cricket than is the case in America or any country on the con
tinent of Europe with respect to any athletic sport that can be named.
One reason why the average American collegian or university student
gets less out of athletics than his English contemporaries is found in the
spirit of insensate rivalry that leads aspirants for athletic honors to regard
their rivals as enemies to be overcome at any cost, and to consider the win
ning of matches as the chief end of athletic sports. The cultivation of
this spirit springs to some extent from the willingness of American youth
to consort with professionals and to profit, by their counsels and. devious
devices. .;, . - ':-'-v i
Most of our athletic sports are o exotic origin, and due allowance
6hould be made for the crudeness which usually attaches to zealous imita
tors and promoters in fields in which, among us, sound traditions and ex
perienced guides were lacking. Bat matters are on the mend, and the
constituted guides and governors have begun to realize the nature of their,
duties in the premises, so that prospects of clean sport and sane athletics
are brighter than they have been for a decade. '
As we become less primitive in our conception of the pleasures of life
and the uses of recreation, we shall become less provincial in our manners
and methods of utilizing our leisure. To get the most out of outdoor life
and athletic sports we must strive tor a larger measure of
ity, moderation, courtesj' and good
will: ; "
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