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ALL USED WOODEN TRENCHERS.
LYRIC THEATRE
Matinee 3:00 P. M.
Evening 7:45 & 9:00
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Selling Dress Goods
At the Other Fellows Loss
$1.25 and $1
Spring Weight
Dress Goods, yd
This fortunate purchase of light-weight Wool Dress
Goods, for spring wear, enables us to offer our patrons
An Opportunity Extraordinary
All-Wool Dress Goods, light colors and spring weights
cloths that sold for $1.00 and $1.25 your fQf
choice at, per yard
Mall Orders of $? and Over Expressed Free. Send for Samples
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A. FLIIN SIC IN
of satisfaction is shown when s
dealer is recommended by his
customers. It is our happy lot to
say that oar oldest patrons are
onr bett salesmen. .
They Know Coal
bought here is always clean and
free from slate, and they also
know that a ton with us means a
ton never less. Has your expe
rience been altogether of that
character.
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Ball 182. Auto 3812
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Substitutes for Crockery Ware Nearly
Two Hundred Years Ago.
Our readers may like to be remind
ed of how comparatively late in our
history the absence of cheap crqekery
kept the wooden trencher in use. In
the eighteenth century, silver in the
dining room and pewter below stairs
were abundant for all dinner table use
In large and wealthy households.
: But that the number of metal plates
and dishes was insufficient to meet
the requirements of extraordinary oc
casions is seen in a description of a
dinner given by Lord Malton to his
tenants in 1733.
It was at Woodhouse that the feast
takes place at which we hear that
" 'tis an out of the way thing, the
people are to dine upon wooden dish
es; they cut down wood on purpose
to make them of."
One of the company describes the
affair in a letter to the Lord Straf
ford of the time, Lord Malton's neigh
bor at Wentworth castle.
"There was in the prayer hall six
tables made of deals with benches,
such as in the tents att Boughton
fair. Att four of them there might be
about 32 people, the other two some
thing above half the number, the
tables being less.
"Our dishes stood single, the table
allowing no more; first dish, roast
porke; 2nd, turkey; 3rd, venison pas
ty; 4th, cold beefe, roast; 5th, fruit
pudding; 6th, a goose; 7th, aple pye;
8th, a hogg's head in souce; so then
the course began again, and kept in
this forme to every table.
"We eate upon trenchers and wood
dishes, and drunk in horns; my lore
did the same. The horns held neai
pints and the punch was made strong,
and the common people drunk fuli
horns just after dinner that 2 or 3
horns would make them drunk oi
sick."
It is noticeable that ale was drunk
at my lord's table, but as he was re
puted not to keep "any great stock
of malt drink," punch was served al
all other tables as being "the cheap
ost liquor to make treat of."
"A treat" meant taking too much
and this was so successfully accom
plished that "there was one man
found dead, supposed to be choaked
with punch." Country Life.
Trees Planted by Insects.
The uses of worms in wood ana
field have been discovered by G. A.
Andrews. It has long been known
that squirrels aid the forester by
burying nuts, of which some sprout
and ultimately develop into trees, but
that also he is indebted to earth
worms for like services is knowledge
new. It appears that the dry flat
fruits of the silver maple are frequent
ly used by worms to plug the aper
tures of their burrows in the fashion
long since described by Darwin. In
districts too dry for them to germi
nate under ordinary conditions a cer
tain proportion of maple seeds thus
drawn into their holes by the worms
were found to sprout and grow into
seedlings, and, although these ulti
mately perished under the influence
of the late summer drought, Mr. An
drews thinks that under less unfavor
able conditions a certain number
would survive. He believes that by
planting trees worms more than
amend the damage with which
they are credited through destroying
seedlings in the gardens.
400 Suits and Overcoats to be
closed out ill a hurry your
choice of these at
saso
some of them worth twice the
price we ask by all means
come in and see them.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF
THE LABOR QUESTION
Exterminating Head Hunters.
All efforts to subdue the "head !
hunters" of Formosa having been un- j
successful, a campaign of extermina- j
tion has been entered npon, and now
when a company of head hunters is lo-
cated the place is surrounded by a
wire fence. The wires are charged :
with electricity. The soldiers begin I
to shoot; the savages stampede, and
then the deadly wires get those that
the bullets missr There are about
100,000 of these, head hunters infest
ing the eastern coast of the island,
and all efforts to make them desirable
citizens have failed. They recently
lured a party of 300 Japanese and
Chinese into an ambush and killed
them all but three, for the mere pleas
ure of killing.
Talented German Empress.
Empress Augusta Victoria is a thor
oughly womanly woman, but she is by no
means the mere hausfrau that she is
often supposed to be. In fact, she
has decidedly artistic tastes and ' is
a sculptor and painter of no mean
ability. In her husband's study at
Potsdam there is a lifelike bust of
the emperor In bronze and several
of her sons have been portrayed by
her in marble. Her majesty is very
fond of beautiful fans and she has
soma valuable specimens of them.
Many were gifts from the emperor,
and one was made of feathers of the
'grouse that fell to his gun. Some
others, beautifully painted, bear the
signatures of great artists.
Russian Woman Novelist.
The new Russian novelist who
writes under the' name of Ivan Stran
rnik is in private life Mme. Anttchkoff,
her husband being a professor in the
University of Kiev. She writes Jn
French entirely, because, as she ex
plains, she liked to say freely what
she thought, a thing Impossible up to
this year in Russia. It was Mme. An
itchkoff who Introduced Gorky to
A the west by translating a collection of
his tales into French. Her own books,
which number about half a dozen, are
designed to give an idea of life in
Russia among the upper middle
class and of the Russians outside of
VII. CHAPLAINS FOR ORGANIZED
LABOR.
Recently I attended a meeting of a
bartenders' union. The group of men
assembled in the lodge room were in
telligent and alert rather above the
average in the trades unions of our
country. But the thing that most
startled me was the fact that this was
the first local labor union meeting that
I had ever attended which was opened
and closed with prayer, by a regular
ly elected chaplain. The chaplain in
this case was a bartender. I was later
informed that this was the custom in
Jere Sullivan's organization, through
out the entire country.
There is, of course, pretty good pre
cedent for this office. Practically
every benevolent order, as, for in
stance, the Odd Fellows, Woodmen,
Masons, Legion of Honor, Royal Ar
canum, etc., have such officials. The
United States congress, the Senate
and the State Legislatures have their
chaplains. Every man-of-war and
every regiment has its chaplain. Even
a circus recently appointed a minister
ae its chaplain, who will hereafter
travel about with the group of a thous
and employes.
A number of Central Labor bodies
have appointed such officers electing
the Ministerial Fraternal Delegates
to the position. Several state bodies
during the past few years have re
quested local ministers to open their
meetings with prayer, and the last
two national conventions of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor were similar
ly opened. I recall that, at the conclu
sion of the prayer offered at the Min
neapolis convention, President Gom
pers remarked that he was glad that
the day had arrived when a minister
of the gospel could ask for God's bless
ing on a labor convention. ' And why
not? It's far more consistent with the
fitness of things to ask God to bless a
labor meeting which is working for
peace and prosperity, than to pray for
the success of an army which bent
upon a mission of murder.
Why not extend and elaborate the
plan? Why not have every Central
Body appoint as chaplain the frater
nal delegate from the Ministerial As
sociation? The moment or two en
gaged in quiet when wi should pray
for the Almighty's blessing on the pro
ceedings of the session will help more
materially in the betterment of condi
tions than some other preliminaries
in some labor bodies. This chaplain
might be enlisted in many other ways.
There are special occasions when his
presence will help decidedly in pro
moting more harmonious relationships
both among the men themselves and
as between the local trades unionists
and the general public. He'might as
sist in the obligation of new members.
He could preach, an annual sermon, to
trades unionists and their friends, par
ticular on "Labor's Memorial Sunday,"
on the second Sunday in May, as sug
gested by the last American . Federa
tion of Labor convention. He could
be secured to give special lectures on
labor subjects. ; . '
Why not, then have a chaplain in
every Central Body? The office might
be passed on from man to man. There
are few ministers who would not feel
honored to occupy such a position in
the great labor movement which is
coming to mean so much for the wel
fare of the people. Rev. Charles
Stelzle.
WANTED The wife of every print
er in Lincoln, in order to live up to
the ancient customs of leap year, to
bring her "hubby" to the Twenty-fifth
Anniversary, February 26, Fraternity
Hall. ,
wiwi:imveiiuuii. . x iiv urucie govern
ing the- chartering of state' and local
bodies, which provides that these bod
ies be chartered if It is shown that
they confine their Work to the build
ing trades only, was adopted. Work
on the constitution will be resumed
today. ..:' -
PRISON-MADE GOODS.
BUILDING TRADES.
National Organization Completed and
Will Affiliate.
Washington, February. 15. It was
decided at yesterday's session of the
convention of delegates representing
the building trades unions from all
parts of the country called here for the
purpose of forming an organization
called "The Building Trades Depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor." - v "
The ; new organization comprises
the national and international unions
engaged in the building. Industry af
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor. Much of the time yesterday
was devoted to a discussion of the
I constitution and by-laws presented to
Convicts Produce Annually $35,000,000
Worth of Manufactures.
Products to the amount of $35,0;
000 annually are manufactured by the
convicts of this country. In New York
the furniture used in ! the public
schools is made at Sing Sing and Au
burn prisons, and other articles, such
as whips, lashes, , etc., are convict
made. Missouri, ; however, furnishes
a greater ' output of convict-made
goods than any other of the states,
and -in all the states about 50,000 con
victs in 296 penal and reformatory
institutions are employed at produc
tive labor. ...-..-"
Quite one-half of the prison-made
articles are .manufactured under con
tract, a single contractor owning and
controlling, it is claimed, the cloth
ing output of eight prisons in Six dif
ferent states. In the states of Mis
sissippi, Virginia, Alabama and Flori
da the. convicts are a source of profit
to the states, while the contractors
pay for their prison labor about 57
per cent, a little over half what is paid
free labor for the same class of work.
Ninety per cent of the , framefe or
trees for riding saddles, practically all
of the wood-bound cooperage used by
the great western packers and scrub
bing and shoe brushes in great varie
ty are supplied by prison contractors.
In some states,. New York, for in
stance, convict-made products are not
sold outside the state. The average
annual cost of a convict's board is
151.37, the average annual cost for
guarding and attendance is $56.55, and
the average annual productivity under
the contract system is $984.' To pro
duce with free labor an equal output
with that represented by convict labor
would require an annuad outlay - in
wages of $14,925,429, and it has been
estimated that in productive efficiency
three free laborers, on an average will
equal that of five convict laborers.
Brooklyn Eagle. -
. Ice Trust Inquiry.
, . Attorney General Jackson's investi
gation of the American Ice Company
was formally opened oefore the grand
jury in New York. .
I Russia.