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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1908)
Patty's Visit to By Evelyn Snead Harnett Copyright, by Shorurtory Pub. Co.) Patty Eldred was pink of cheek and browc of hair, which was perhaps the reason that when the colonel, her fa ther, promised to take her to the re union in Louisville she ordered a pink umbrella edged with' a gold-brown tripe. Patty had always gone everywhere with her father, but that everywhere was neither far nor wide, as, with the exception of the Lee ball at "The White and two trips to Richmond, she had never left the town'of Dins more, where she had first seen the light. The excitement of making so extended a trip Inclined her to airs, so when she waved her hand from the back of the train te the crowd .of devoted swains who had come with Sowers and candy to speed her on her way, she rather hurt the feelings of Will Rogers, whom she was supposed to favor. A the train was about rounding a curve he had run by the car calling: Tve a great mind to get ahead of these fellows and meet you in Louis ville." To which she had replied: "Do yon think I would look at you by the side of the gallant Kentuckians? If you know when you are well off you will stay where you are." Which retort roused a certain qual ity in Will that he went home and packed his valise. Dinsmore was on the highway and trains were plenty. Patty's train must needs make so many stops to pick up soldiers and their families that it , was late by two hours. The colonel grew fidgety, for he was on the program for an an swer to the first speech of" welcome to the national committee at eight. As they left Lexington he looked at his watch, made a calculation, and announced that by the time he had taken Patty to the hotel and dressed himself he would he Just one hour too late. Arrived in Louisville, he put his daughter and her belongings into a coupe and gave minute instructions and large money to the driver. "As I engaged the rooms several days ago, you will have no trouble whatever," said he as he banged the carriage door. When she reached the hotel the crowd in the lobby was somewhat confusing, and Patty became a trifle nervous. A cheerful bellboy piloted her to the desk, where she registered in a good vertical hand, and. with an air that she fancied was nonchalant ly cosmopolitan, asked to be shown to her rooms. The clerk questioned and Investi gated and reported that no rooms had been engaged and that none were to be had. Patty's looks appealed to him. and he heard her tale and ad vised her to go up to one of the par lors, where her father should be sent the moment he arrived. Patty entered the very red, and white room and settled herself In a big armchair near the window, where the roar of carriages and the buzzing of many voices fostered meditation, but prevented slumber. She was unaware of the lapse of time when she was suddenly brought to a conscious ness of her surroundings by the en trance of a si ring of porters bearing ctus with which they rapidly trans formed the parlor into a dormitory and then Oh. horrors! an awful man in the corner actually began taking off is clothes. Patty fled only to bump against more men In the corridor and more cots. Making her way back to the office now swarming with gray coats f-he again (ought the desk. A strange clerk listened politely to her tale of woe. He was certain that her father had not yet arrived; but as he might come at any moment he advised her to stay in sight and impelled by the pink cheeks and brown eyes he even went so far as to wake a sleeping sol dier and make him vacate his chair. Tired as Patty was. she was too for lorn and nervous to sit still. She was also embarrassed by the attention she attracted so many men all staring. She left her chair and went over to a less conspicious place by the wall. A little farther on she spied a glass door ajar and edging her way towards it found that it led to a dark empty room containing a row of chairs shrouded in white. She chuckled as she found that here she could escape observa tion yet still remain in sight of the desk. In she slipped, closing the glass door and, lifting the sheet. climbed into one of the chairs. "Funny place for a' dentist," she said aloud as, settling herself with a relieved sigh, she fixed her eyes, on the big register distinctly visible on the clerk's desk. As soon as a fami liar head bent over that register she was ready to come to light. In the meantime here was soothing darkness and rest from staring eyes. The chair offered a comfortable reclining posi tion with its cool linen head-rest Fatigue dulled her brain and before she knew it she slept. She did not see a white-jacketed man come out of the bar-room, open the door, pull down its green blind lock a safe and stagger away, but. with the soundness of tired youth and health, slept on. Their came the colonel, holding him self with extra straightness, flushed with lb success of his speech. Meet ing the cast-iron smile of Clerk Num the Reunion ber Three he signed his name with a flourish and asked to be shown to his rooms. Rooms!" repeated Number Three, making the word unnecessarily plural. 'how many do you want?" "Two," answered the colonel, "or dered two weeks ago. My daughter has already taken possession of one of them; I ask to be shown to the other." The clerk looked at the signature: N. A. Eldred. Eldred Park, Dinsmore, then went behind a mottled glass box and consulted another book. Next, he called a tired straw-colored woman, who examined various pigeon holes. Returning, he announced with the same fixed smile that no letter had been received, and behind the words the colonel's sensitiveness saw doubt. My daughter is here," he said with quiet firmness, pointing to the modern characters inscribed some lines above his flourishes. "All I ask is to be shown to her room." Number Three did not know any thing about that party, as he was night-clerk, just come on duty, but he pointed to the blank opposite the party's name, proving that she had not been assigned a room. A very spick and span young man here bent over the register. "Why. Will how on earth!" 'Came by train after yours, colonel. Where do you suppose she is?" 'These people don't seem to know or care. Come, help me find her. One thing is plain she couldn't get in here, so went somewhere else. Of course she left a message, but nobody seems to remember it. She should have written a note, but one can't ex pect an inexperienced child to think. I see nothing to do but make the rounds." In the congestion' caused by 30,000 extra inhabitants not a carriage was to be had, so the colonel and Will were somewhat longer than need be going to all the. hotels and prominent boarding houses. But their search was fruitless Returning to the hotel nothing wonld do but the colonel and Will mnst investigate the sleepers on the parlor floor, and soon they had a lot of half-dressed men rudely awakened. Not one had seen Patty, hut reveral told the colonel to go to a certain place to And her. All night the two distracted- men hung over the telephone in the office Oh, Horrors! An Awful Man Actually Began Taking Off His Clothes. of the Holt House, but for them it was silent. That signature was all they had to hold by. She had been there once she might come again. At six came the barber. After pay ing a morning call on the barkeeper. as was his custom, he took his towels and soap to make ready for business. The office was almost deserted. The smart drummer was pricking up his ears over a newspaper tale of million aires; the little fat man who had slept on a Flab was writing a telegram and exhaling steam; a couple of maids on wet knees were wiping up the marble floor; a row of dusky bell-boys were nodding on a bench: and . the clerks behind the counter were busily writing. Suddenly a piercing scream broke the stillness. Will and the colonel jumped to their feet there was some thing familiar about that scream. Clerxs, bell-boys, maids, men and bar keeper followed the sound to the bar ber shop. At the door, flying straight Into Will's arms, came Patty, a big swipe of lather on one cheek. She looked at Will, at her father, and ut tered a glad cry. The frightened bar ber hurried to explain he had mis taken her curly head for a customer. But Patty had forgotten her terror and her sorrows. She continued to. embrace impartially Will and her father, leaving big dabs of tear-mixed lather on the coats of each. Will looked ecstatic. An embrace from this Virginia girl was as good as an "I will" before the altar. Suddenly she recovered herself, straightened up and said with dignity: "I thought I warned you not to come." "But willing to be compared to the fascinating Kentuckians, I have ven tured to disobey you; you seem to have succumbed at first sight." WIFE OF THE NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR U ' Baroness Takahira, the beautiful and sador to the United States, likes America and the diplomatic life at Wash ington. SISTERS ARE BRAVE. TWO SOUTHERN GIRLS MAY RE CEIVE MEDALS. Julia Bolton, Aged 12, Saves Drowning Companion, While. Etta, Age 14, Saves Mail Sack When Tossed . Into Stream. Memphis, Tenn. For their remark able acts of bravery, Carnegie hero medals will probably be awarded to Misses Julia and Etta Bolton, aged 12 and 14 years respectively, daughters of H. H. Bolton. They lived near Hat tiesburg, having removed recently from Mobile. Etta and Julia, with Miss Stella B re- land, 17 years old, and Miss M. Extein went swimming In Purvis 'creek, not far from the Bolton home. Miss Bre land suddenly lost control of her limbs and sank. As she went down the sec ond time Miss Extein cried: "Stella is drowning!" Julia Bolton dived just as Miss B re- land sank for the third time, and caught the drowning girl by her left foot. After a desperate struggle she pulled her friend to the bank, where the other girls helped get her out of the water. Miss Breland was uncon scious. Julia Bolton was thoroughly exhausted. Both were taken to the Bolton home, where they were soon joined by the father of Miss Breland. Etta Bolton was a free rural mail carrier in Alabama when she brought fame upon herself. She was driving her mail wagon 'across a swollen stream over a rickety bridge. .The structure gave way and the girl, horse. wagon and contents were pitched into the turbulent waters. Miss Bolton swam out, then plunged again into the torrent, and though the current was sweeping her down stream, she removed the harness from the horse, gathered the sacks and pouch under one arm, and, guiding her horse with the other, struggled to the shore. She reported to the post office on foot. Word of the girl's heroism, when re ceived at Washington, elicited the fol lowing letter: "Miss Etta Bolton, Carrier on R. F. D. Route 1, Mobile, Ala.: Receipt is acknowledged of your letter of the 16th ultimo, reporting the finding of the letter box keys lost by you during the recent washout on Bolton's creek. "Your courage, presence of mind and regard for the safety of the mail in the face of the great danger which con fronted you have the commendation of the department. Very respectfully, "C. A. CONRAD. "Acting Fourth Assistant Postmaster General." When President Roosevelt's atten tion was called by a Hattiesburg resi dent to the heroism of Julia Bolton in rescuing her drowning companion, the citizen received the following letter: "The White House, Washington. RIVER BOA T Device Proves Great Aid to Navigating River in Alaska. Dawson. The steamer Sarah, which has arrived here from St. Michaels, is perhaps the first stern-wheel steamer in the world to have a wireless equip ment. The big packet, which plies be tween here and St. Michaels, has found that the apparatus is of im mense aid not only to herself, but the other vessels on the river. She was in communication with the wireless station at Circle City before arriving and after leaving that station. Tie Circle City station is at the head of the Yukon flats, where the river gets very shallow in summer time, and information was sent from the station about shoals and bars which had been reported. The government telegraph line runs on the banks of the Yukon river for several hundred miles, but not where accomplished wife of Japan's ambas My Dear Sir: Your letter of the 18th instant, with inclosed clipping, has been received. In reply, I would sug gest that you communicate with Mr. F. M. Wilmot, secretary of the Carnegie Hero Fund, Pittsburg, Pa., setting forth the facts in the case to which you refer. Yours very truly, "RUDOLPH FOSTER. "Acting Secretary to the President' Since then custodians of the Car negie Hero Fund have been communi cated with in regard to giving each of the Bolton sisters a hero medal. The matter is now under consideration. OXFORD GRADUATE BEGS JOB. Lieutenant in Boer War, Hungry, Wants to Wash Dishes. Cincinnati. "See. I have just 15 cents one dime and a nickel. Sat urday night my room rent is due. haven't a friend in the city, sir, and I want work work of any kind, sir. Washing dishes would do, for haven't eaten a substantial meal in a week." This was said to Mayor Markbreit the other day by a tall, gentlemanly young man, smooth shaven, wearing a fancy waistcoat, neat clothing everything betokening a prosperous man, rather than one on the road to starvation. "Lambart is my name, sir; Charles E. Kielcoursie-Lambart, Oxford gradu ate, lieutenant in her majesty's serv ice during the Boer war, cousin of the earl of Cavan, and bnt we'll let that pass. I'm not looking for charity; What I want is work." The mayor w?H try to find him em ployment. He told the mayor that he was best man at the duke of Man chester's wedding in 1900. Then he had $25,000, but horses, wine and women dissipated his fortune. IS YOUNGEST OF FIREMEN. Boy of Six Sleeps in Firehouse and An swers All Alarms. Columbus, Ind. John Hendricks, six years old, son of Capt. William Hen dricks of the local fire department, is probably the youngest "fireman" in the state. Nothing delights him more than to be allowed to sleep at the firehouse with his father, and when he has any spare time from seeing that the horses are in shape and the wagons ready to go out he practices sliding down the pole which the firemen use when they are on the second floor of the building and an alarm sounds. One night John was sleeping with his father at headquarters when the gong tapped. He was out of bed like a flash and yelled: "Come on, papa I'm the first man ready." He slid down the pole ahead of the members of the department, scrambled to a seat on the hook and ladder wagon, and went to the fire. USES WIRELESS. it 13 of most aid to steamers. The Sarah can now communicate with St. Michaels by wireless after leaving Kaltag and with Circle City after leav ing Rampart, or in going down stream after departing from Eagle City. The Sarah reports that Circle City has been sending wireless messages to Fairbanks for several days, but on account of their receiving apparatus could not get any in return. Plum Pudding Will Be Scarce. Washington. Smyrna figs and raisins for the Christmas plum pud ding and fruit cake will probably be scarce and high in price. The Syrians, who make the boxes in which those fruits are sent to this market, are on strike, so Consul-General Harris re ported to the state department. He said that the crops are almost ready for packing but there is.no sign of a cessation of the strike. LOVE FREES EXILE SAMUEL LEFF'S THRILLINQ ES. CAPE FROM RUSSIA. Fugitive Arrives Safe in New York City, Thanks to Effort of Brave . Woman Who Planned Daring Flight. New York. "The cunning and vigi lance of the Russian soldiers who guard the prisoners in the Siberian mines may be 14-karat, but they couldn't outwit the shrewdness of a little woman who aided me to escape imprisonment there a little woman who is now my wife and will join me here." Samuel Leff, 24 years old, now stop ping on East One Hundred and Third street, thus started the story of his thrilling escape to a reporter. 'I was a student of chemistry and engineering in a college at Barastow," he said. "Nearly all the students there had witnessed outrages commit ted by the czar's Cossacks. Jewish women and children were shot down in the street. There was no thought of liberty or even of common humanity among those soldiers, and many of us harbored resentment against them. 'One day, when the soldiers had aimed their guns at a group of women and children, I sprang forward and begged in God's name that no shots be fired. I was promptly arrested and thrown Into a dirty hole which the officials genially called a 'cell. 'Then I was sent to Siberia. That was in 1906. "Miss Mary RIttinger was accus tomed to bring food to the political prisoners, of whom I was one. Mary and I fell in love. The guards did not know this. Mary was too shrewd for them. She hatched out a plot with a student friend of mine, also a prisoner, whereby one night we stealthily got over the wall of the prison and got some distance away. "We wfere caught that ' student friend and myself and my friend was shot by the guards. I was taken back to prison and tortured. I will not at tempt to describe how those soldiers treated me. Just look at me. I guess that'll be enough evidence." The scars and emaciated appearance of the man seemed to bear out his statement. "Mary and I were manned just after my first unsuccessful attempt to gain liberty. We were married quietly. She also was arrested, and luckily sent to the same part of Siberia where the Russians sent me. "One day we were sent to pick wood In a forest. We had horses to carry the wood. When the guards were not on the alert we rode away on the ani mals and finally arrived at a town 300 miles distant, where we had friends. "On that awful trip, through sno- lush, water and mud, we nearly starved. My wife and I had to go without food. We reached Minsk. where we met revolutionists who heard our story and cared for us. Then my wife and I separated, she taking a different route, but bound for New York, where I also have friends. My wife reached Austria, I learned, after an exciting rush across from Minsk. "On the boat which bore me to this country there were two Russian spies. I knew them. They knew me. But I also knew, that under the American flag I was safe and here I am." LOST PIN ODDLY RECOVERED. Fraternity Badge Travels Far in Old Paper. . v Marion, Ind. Earl R. Hunt of In dianapolis, member of the 1905 class of De Pauw university," lost a Sigma Chi fraternity badge while driving from Greencastle to Cloverdale, In Putnam county, two months ago. The pin has just been found in the "beat ers" at the Marion paper mills. The supposition is that the badge, which was set with opals, was gath ered up in old papers which were baled and shipped to the Marion paper plant. The fraternity pin was dis posed of by the man who found it to a local jeweler at a nominal price. The pin was placed in the show window. where it was soon discovered by member- of the fraternity- and its owner was identified by the name and chapter on the back of the pin. MANY NEW TOWNS DISCOVERED. Mexican Commission Locates 7,679 Not Known Of Before. City of Mexico. The geographical. commission appointed by the govern ment seven years ago to map all of the towns of the country has just made its report. The commissioners make the as tounding statement that they discov ered 7,679 towns which were not ofli cially known to exist and which have heretofore had no federal control. Many of these towns are of con siderable size, ranging in population from 5,000 to 15,000 people. Most of them are situated in the remote re cesses of the Sierra Mad re, far re moved from ordinary courses of travel. Picked Trout from Bushes. Buffalo Park, Col. A cloudburst above this place sent a flood down the canyon and caused Buffalo creek to overflow. At Buffalo the water ran over the hanks and trout became stranded on the land. A large number of the fish were caught in low bushes, along the river banks when the water receded. They were picked off vines and eaten by the people here at the evening meal. The General Demand of the Well-Informcdl of the World baa always been for m simple, rirwiir and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known aloe; a laxative which phyaciaae could sanction for family use tin hit ita com ponent parts are known to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial ia effect acceptable to the system and gentle, jet prompt, in action. In i applying that demand with ifs ex cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Symp Co. proceeds along ethical lines and rebec on the merits of the laxative for ita remark able success. That is one of many reason wty Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna tm gjvea the preference by the WeB-Informed. To get its beneficial effect always bey fiie genuine msnnfactnred by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co, only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty canto per bottle. SHE GOT HER MAN HAPPY. Indian Woman Not Likely te Be Left Far Behind in Life's Battle. Writing of the famous Dean Kay of Topeka, in Suburban Life, Pa.il A. Lovewell. says: "Dean Kaye has had interesting ex periences during his soak-urns ia the wilderness. Once an Indian, woman came to his cabin. " 'Yon marry T she asked. "Yes, said the dean, 1 can marry folks. Have yon got a man? "Again the woman grunted, and de parted. About sundown she returned, dragging "with her an apparently abashed and reluctant brave. " "Got him, she remarked, laconical ly, producing her marriage license. The man knew no English, bat the woman prompted him when it became necessary for him to give his assent te the dean's questions. When ft was over the squaw paid the minister his fee and led her husband away te tri umph." . WHEN YOU GET RICH. Only Then Are Yon Appreciated far Your True Worth. Upton Sinclair, the novelist, was talking about wealth at Lake Pla cid. "It Is pleasant to be rich. be said. "Nobody can deny that. Many of the pleasures of wealth, though, are false and mistaken ones. , "When I was making my Bring by the com position of blood and threa der tales for boys and I coald tarn ont my I,60 words a day I knew a pale, bent, ink-stained old chap who wrote love stories. '"His stories did not pay; be was very poor;' bnt an aunt died, and sad denly the old fellow found himself m millionaire. "He saw me one afternoon on Broad way. He stopped his red car and we chatted about old times. "'And is ft pleasant to be riear I asked. ""Yes, it is, be answered, as be lighted a Vuelto Aba Jos and banded me another. 'And do yon know what is the pleasantest thing about it? Toe have an opportunity to make friends, friends who can anderstaad yon. Yon get at last to know people capable of esteeming yon for your own qualities alone. Yon find, sir, that you are at last appreciated." " Poptnous China. The population of the Chinese em pire is largely a matter of estimate. There has never, been such census of the empire as that which is taken every decade in this country. But the estimate of the Almanack de Gotha for 1900 may be taken as fairly reliable. According te that estimate, the population of the empire is. tm round numbers, about 40O.00.tK)e. It is probably safe to say that if the human beings on earth were stood wp in line every fooTtb one wosld be a Chinaman. Baked Ham. . Cover the ham with cold water and simmer gently Just long enough to loosen the skin so that it can be pulled o3. This win prob ably be from two to three boors, ac cording to the size of your ham. When skinned, put in a dripping pan in the oven, pour over it a teacup of vinegar and one of hot water, in which dis solve a teaspoon of English m Bake slowly, hasting with the liquid, for two hours. , Then cover the ham all ever to the depth of one inch with coarse brown sugar, press it down firmly, and da not baste again nntil the snaar has formed a thick crest, which it will soon do in a slow oven. Let it remain an hoar, after cover ing with the sugar, nntil It becomes a rich, golden brown. When done drsfa jTitm the liquor in the pan and pot on a dish to cool. When it Is eooL bnt pot cold, press by turning another sat dish on top. with a weight oa ft. Yoa never win want to est Bam cooked bk any other way when yon bare tasted this, and the pressing makes ft cat firmly for sandwiches or slicing. The International Congress oa Ta eerculosis will be held fa Washing ton next September. A great exhibi tion Illustrative of what is betas; done the world around la the fight -g-fnif the disease win be held fa eonnecUoa with the congress, and the two wfa continue from September 21 to Oe-