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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1908)
SOME VERY SPECIAL SPECIALS The inducements we offer this week should bring every woman who has a Clothing need into our store as quickly as she can get here. What do you think of these prices on the well known quality of goods we carry? Look over the list and then hurry! CLOAKROOM nor the next S Asy we wra give too a j (t. to ouy raiwrwis Ciwms, ages - w i. ai ai rrmit Uiscount. - TW4L Lawn and Colored Gingfcama, Cham- orays ana mnies. Our prices are ncarked reasonable and by Rivin j you such discount It will bring 1 Tp prices to Sbcji nrtin tht mrt. cannot make Tour need ur ' J a l -' TSSSf Children's nwse i- vi--i. JV ATGEf ' " ana ,br eolorej materials. .1-5 OFF " 1 Children's Gmffcan Aprons. the J V t "Mary Jane" Uroooln make X tAriiAV r!ae Cheeked Gingham at 89c. 79 and 59c -Jill V" Y ' ' L", t 39 and 25e 1 . ONLY FEW GARMENTS LEFT IM BLACK TAFFETA SILK. S7.SS Values Satin linen Batons, to . -o 3 75 $. t aloes Satin Linen Eaions. to ! close $4.9 t!. values Satin T-inm rii. I V I eta- " ----..---..-........... .ao.uu - vafcjes Lace EUtoas. to ctoss.S4.9S SIS-SS values. 5-inea Ooats S7.9S 15 values. SS-in.li Coats $9.95 vahses. iS-bci Coats M 95 THE SERVICEABLE CRAVENETTE RAIN COATS. Tour ehoice of S13.S to S1S.M val es. now $7.95 Tomr cnorr of JS.ia to Sll.5 values, now . $4.95 Lace Curtains tl.lS M regular price Nottingham, special .......................... 75e J 1-5 wgnlar price Nottingham, special . . .... . S8c SITS regular price Nottingham, special $1,45 Si SS regular price Nxtingham. special ...... . ..... ST3S tX.TS regular price Nottingham, special ........ 2-25 Great Sale of Wash Fabrics This sale is only a special for Uus week to introduce the many novelties v are showing l popular prices. LOT 1 AT 5C 20 pieces of corded or plain printed Batistes, in assorted colors, worth. $C how 5c 15 nieca, of minted Lavas and Batistes, in assorted designs, worth, to HUr this week . ...9c 50 txeces of printed Lawns. Dimities. Batistes and Fancy Novelties. worth to lSc this week 2!e A lot of Silk Tissues, in plain or noral desires. Lisle Tissues. n stripe, rheekm or nlaids. and many other Novelties: worth to 3ic. on sale this ,,,1 . He Sne Silt Tfenai 'and Fancy Novelties, in wash fabrics, this week. 39c 1 - 'Var 3 , i nr ri a J Li I 1 Ginghams let of Fast Colored Dress Cmgfranw. in assorted stripes; special price, now Best quality of Book Fold Red Seal Dress Ginghams. colored cbects and ....12ie Have You a jfi' Shoe Need Madam We look after the shoe wants of particular women. The range of styles, the correct ness of shapes, the perfect fitting so characteristic of our shoes have taken a step nearer perfection this season than ever. High or low cut snees. Artistic shoe building. The season's best productions. Expert fit ting. Moderate prices &4.00, $30, $3JXX S20 and $240. At your service. Madam. Men's Furnishing Specials THIS WEEK SHIRT SALE Our regular stock of men's new spring Shirts, in a lot of neat pat terns too numerous to mention, sues 14 to The best $1.00 values we could set; on sale this week, each 89c HATS Men's, boys' and children's Hats, including the whole stock of new nobby spring bracks, at prices ranging from 154 to This week your choice of this welt-selected Head wear at 1 Per Cent Kscount from our regular price. . SUSPENDERS Men's Police Suspenders: extra good web, heavy leather ends; verv good raises at S$c; special this week, pair .....19c PANTS SPECIALS Special discount on all mea's and youths sumiaer Pants. This line is complete in every respect, and our regular prices appeal to all. for the qualities, we are showing. So come early, get your choice and save 1 per cent on our regular low prices. WASH TIES Just received, a grcss of washable Ties, in the new fast colors and white: as the first showing of these new fabrics, we make a special price for this week to in trod ace, at each 15c Some Great Silk Specials Suesine Silk AVAc This is a very soft fabric, the nature of China Silk only that it will wear better and is much finer; it comes in the following col ors: Cream. White, Pink. Light Blue, Tan, Reseda. Wine. Navy and Black; price per yard 74o S pieces of Heavy Jap Silk, in neat pink stripes: SOc value, to close . 33e . S pieces of Foulard Silks, in dots and stripes, on navy and tan grounds, special value 50c :T-inch natural Pongee Silks, a cloth that will wash beautifully anj wear like iron, at 69c, 79c 3 inch natural Pongee Silk, quality as above mentioned .. .. - . 89c 12 pieces of Rough Pongee Silks, in colors, leather. Brown. Reseda. Tan. Wine. Navy, white, gray and black, special" for this week 65c IS pieces of fancy Pongee Silks and fancy Taffeta Suitings on sale this week at a spe cial price 89e 36-inch Black Taffeta Silk, a splendid value at $1.:5. now to close 9Cc 3S-inch Black Pean De Soie. special quality for coats or suits; SI. 5 value, to close .. S5f 3C-toch Pure Dye Wear guaranteed Black Taffeta, our $1-75 quality, to close, now.... $1-35 lililsialiul 017-021 O St. OPPOSITE CITY HALL WAISTINGS To Close 35 pieces of WsisriBgs. such as mercerized plaids. Raye embroid ered, embroidered Jacqusrds and plain s..fcized poplins; values op to Sue. now, to close . WHITE GOODS SPECIALS 23 pieces of 40-inch plain white Lawn; a very good quality; worth -up to 2c yard; special 43 pieces of fancy White Suitings, such as Dotted Swisses. Embroidered Swisses. Barred Swisses. Checked Swisses. Mercerized Brocade and Novelties; now on special sale .... DOMESTIC SPECIALS 10 pieces of fast colored Dress Prints, in colors gray, ind:go, red and black; Tc values; this week 5c 25 pieces of lc Brown Linen Crash Toweling, special Be 54neJi Diamond Hill Muslin Cambric. 12c quality; special 9c 36-inch Brown U. Muslin. Preston quality; special this week 5c SS-inch Dress Percales, dark styles only: 8c value, to close tc SA pieces of 32-Snch Dress Percales, in light or dark colors; our regular 124 quality, to close . 9c 36-inch standard quality Silkolines. in plain or fancy Persian and floral designs; now to close 9c 10 nieces of Art Tickings, floral designs; special, to close...... ...22c 25 PIECES SUITINS 12C tka 25 pieces of plain white linen finished Suitings. 3 inches wide; week, special .... . 12le Pure linen white Suitings, 3S inches wide, at . ... 25, 40 and 50c Colored Dress Linens, at 15. 25, 35 and 50c The Church and Labor s OSOSOS05050SOSOS050SOSO0OeOS050SOSCK0$OS0505050 Many a stinging rebnke is adminis tered to the Church by workingmeB. who are absolutely unfamiliar with the facts in the case. Let's eonfess at the very outset that the Church, like every other organisation, and in stitution, with high ideals and par- poses, is falling far short of what it should be, because It is being so large ly directed by men and women who are the possessors of ' considerable human nature and that should ex plain a great deuL know nothing about, and for which it receives no credit. For instance, a great deal is said about the Church's lack of interest in the people when charity is needed. Two things are forgotten or unknown when this charge is made. In the first place; it is unquestionably better to have most philanthropic and char itable work upon a large scale done by experts who win really help and not harm through their efforts. Be cause this is true, the Church is rep resented in. and practically controls And. like some other organizations J through, its membership, nearly every labor unions included the Church is great philanthropic movement of any doing many things which outsiders I consequence vhtea is scientifically m THE LIMELIGHT j DECLARED VAR ON TAMMANY -- Senator Patrick H. McCarren, better known as "Long Pat. has declared war upon Tamma ny as a result of his defeat in the New York state Democratic convention, and declares that never again in the lifetime of any member of that convention will New York elect a Demo cratic mayor. This is no mere idle threat, for McCarren has a memory that is longer in pro portion even titan his body, and never yet has he forgotten an ill turn. In his early life McCarren was a cooper, but be saw a way of making "barrels' of a different kind by entering politics. He got bis start as deputy collector of customs at New York, and he gladly gave up his Massachusetts home to accept the job. A few years later he got into the legislature and later was elected senator. Hugh McLaughlin, the Democratic boss in Brooklyn, stood by McCarren. recognizing in him a coming man. In the end McLaughlin was kicked to one side and McCarren became the leader of Brooklyn and a power Tammany had to reckon with. "Long Pat" was accused by Tom Lawson of having found a place for his name on the pay roll cf the Standard Oil trust to the tune of $24,000 a year. He was accused also of bring in the pay of the sugar trust to an even greater extent. Several of the other big corporations are said to be very friendly to him. What does "Long Pat" do with the money he rakes in so easily? He does not spend It on riotous living; indeed, he is very abstemious, a conces sion to a bad stomach. He is a devoted son to a decrepit old mother, but she was brought up ta poverty and her wants are few. His one extravagance Is race horses, upon which he has spent several fortunes. He is an inveterate plunger, both on horses and on cards. helping the poor; and the poor do need that, kind of help in spite of the jeers of those who do not give that kind or any other kind of assistance. Glance down the lists of officials who are responsible for the social and ameliorative work in New York City, for example, as it is given in the two inch thick "Directory of Charities' in that city, and you will find this to be true. Practically all of the money which goes into these hospitals, or phan asylums, schools, clubs, and other charitable institutions, comes from church people. Once in a while the saloon-keeper, the politician, or some other individual or society, seek ing notoriety, win hand out a small check in behalf of the unemployed or the distressed, and the impression goes out among workingmen. that these are the only folks who are doing anything to help conditions, while others may have, for years, been do ing far more substantial things quietly, systema-jcally and without very mnch publicity-. Nor nK3t the impression remain un disturbed that these enterprises are supported mainly by the rich, who have gotten their wealth by sweating the poor. Our churches and the insti tutions supported by them are sus tained by the great middle and work ing classes. There may be in the Church some who have made their wealth dishonestly, or, at least, throcsh suspicious methods, but the great exploiting class who should be strocgly rebuked by all honest peopl are not in the Church, as a class. For instance, there is a particular organi zation in one Church, which spends annually for its educational, social and religious work, about one million dol lars. If every church contributing over one thousand dollars a year toward that fund should suddenly-stop its contribution, it would have prac tically no effect upon the million dol lar fund. The second fact to be remembered is that the Church actually does help the poor, directly and specifically. Naturally, it doesn't say very much about this work, by pointing out the people who have been assisted, and indicating the amounts and the ma terial which they have received. The Church does not engage in charitable work in this fashion. But every church has a board of officers or a special coniauttee to care for the poor. These men and women never really so rarely that the word never is justi fied tell anybody who has been helped. That the Church is doing nothing to help the poor and the oppressed in the way of charitable work should, in all fairness, be forever put oat of the minds of workingmen. Rev. Charles Stelzle. FOR A NEW ROCK ROAD. City. Bonner Sprinqs and K Km, Clubs at .Worfc The Kansas City (Kas.) Mercantile club at a meeting held recently dis cussed the question of rock roads. Rc-solntjons were adopted favoring the plan of building a rock road from kir City. Ka&, to Bonner Springs, Kas. A delegation of mem bers from the Bonner Springs Com mercial club attended the meeting. J. 1. Waters, Frank "Warner and others spoke in favor of the road. Arrangements were made to have committees from both clnbs meet from time to time and push the road proposition. The committee appointed to inter view the county commissioners to see what could be done toward build ing such a road, reported that the commissioners had used all the avail able funds for road improvements at present, but that the members of the board seemed favorable toward using a large part of the road taxes, which are due in next December, to bcild the road. Fire in a Kansas Elevator. The Midland Elevator Company's elevator at Marysville, Kas.. was al most totally destroyed by fire. Fred Cockerill, the manager, was working in one of the bins in the lower part cf the building with a lantern. The lantern exploded and Cockerill was severely burned about one arm be fore he could escape from the blu. Records of Two School Child Hilda and John Whittington of sswimeshmd. Uncomshire. England. jiare a remarkable school attendance record. John has not been absent for a single day for seven and a half years, daring which time a correspondent h 9 tacto Tnr statistics has esti- jnaxed be has covered 6,000 miles in his journeying to and from his home Mil the schoolhouse. Hilda Whitting ton has an untarnished record ex tending over six and a half years, dur ing which time she is said to walked S,0M miles In search of knowV edge. The children have gained quits a stack of prize books, and this Tear they have been awarded the Holland (Lincolnshire) comity medals. London Graphic The Society for the Destruction art Vermin is an Knglish organization, with the object of warring on thosats In that country. Senator's Superstitions. The Baltimore Sun has collected a lot of anecdotes of the late United States Senator William Pinckney -White. Maryland's "Grand Old Man. One of them shows that the venerable statesman stood in horror of the mystic 13, and particularly Friday, the thirteenth. Once when about to seat bimgeif at the dinner table he noticed that he would make the thirteenth per son, and told those already seated to proceed that he would wait a while. The reason for his hesitation being suspected, his granddaughter "Why, grandpa, stt down; with mo there are only f rite and a half. Aft er this sally the grandfather ) ry assented. "And again,1 Sun, "it may have been fate that de creed that his last illness should have come on that Friday the thirteenth of which he stood in fear. Needs Touch of the Cross. There Is a righteousness that ossified and cold; it lacks but the touch of the cross. CONRIED AS THEATER MANAGER. Under the headline "Conried's Re tirement,' the Berliner Tageblatt says: "Conried's fame as a manager reached its zenith in the winter of 1994. when, despite the curse of Bay reutb and In the face of the war coun cil, he took possession -of "Parsifal. The bishops (?) who wept over the offense to religion helped to advertise it. The rich were seized with a 'Parsi fal" Sever and had to see the. perform- The receipts ran up to 220,000 marks, and the back -stair dramatists wrote that Bayreuth had been out done. ' the same business ea parity was shown by Conreid when be pro duced on the Metropolitan stage the operettas of Johann Strauss and nH-locker. Britain's Second Largest City. Probably not one person in a hun dred knows which is the rronfl largest city in the British em Dire. It is Bombay. Baby is Burglar Alarm. Its Cries Rouse Parents. Robbery Is Prevented. Big Merion. Pa. An infant's cries proved the best kind of a burglar alarm, and caused the routing of two would-be Invaders of the home of Ed ward A Casey of the Provident Life and Trust company, whose fine resi dence is on Highland avenue. It nipped In incipiency the well-laid and partly-executed plans of those who had proposed robbing the house. Mrs. Casey heard the plaint of the youngster, and in passing the head of the stairs on the way to the nursery, heard an unusual noise on the first floocv She aroused her husband, who quietly proceeded to the library. There he heard someone at work at the win dow, and. turning on the gas, came face to face with two men who were about to remove the pane. With the flash of the gas the offenders lied, and, as Mr. Casey was not prepared to fol low, they got away. Investigation showed that the burg lars had removed the putty from the frame and were about to remove the glass. While the Catholic church member ship in this country reaches 11,371,970 and the Methodist only 3,036,667, there are more preachers of the lat ter denomination than of the Church of Rome. Travels on -Sea Bottom. Paris. A submarine has built by a company at Bizerta for sponge fishing When sunk it can travel on a sort of wheel along the bottom of the aea, being worked by two submarine oars from the inside. It collects sponges by means of a mechanical gripper, and has electrical searchlights, a telephone, and a a peak ins tube by which it can communi cate with a boat on the surface. The submarine has already been down to a depth of 330 feet. Great Chance for Science. Now they've discovered air on Mara, After this the scientists ought to strive for another triumph, and try to discover air in a closed street car.