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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1909)
nif wageiyorker By W. M. MAUPIN SBKiSU Chicago man who was married by M omn Is In Jail and safe at last. The Berlin police will now bare a ripping time with a certain, prisoner. The smallest baby on record bas been named after Mr. Taft. Wby on axa didn't tbey think of Bonaparte? CoUarless coats are threatened, and we trnst the summer will see the restoration of cuff-less trousers. Having caught one of the rippers the Berlin police might indict bis suit able punishment with his own knife. And now a college professor de scribes Roosevelt as a "combination of St. Paul and St Vitus." Minne apolis will resent this. On rare occasions the czar of Rus sia Jt compelled to muster np cour age enough to go downtown. He is a great potentate. Hiram laxint Is doing everything ossib!e with his smokeless and noise less firearms to save the feelings of the man who bandies the weapon. It yon care to make a little money get an option on a race course for fly lag machines. Air grants are still to be had for the mere taking. The 5-doilar-anounce dog of Mme. Tetrazlnni is dead. The singer bad named It Salome. Perhaps It thought it bad better die. American sailors feel that it is nr. to them to protect this country tc their last drop ot blood since Helen Gould lives here. A golf cabinet should be more effec tive than a tennic cabinet in that one game permits far more conversation than the other. London's suffragettes are having as much excitement as U circumstances permitted them to participate in elec tion riots. English Is to be tanght In the Gaute mala schools. There is a nation that can see the hand of destiny without waiting to feel it applied. If Castro sheds tears over his ex clusion from Venezuela It is a sign that reports exaggerated the size ol the treasure chest with which he de parted. Virginia man sees a moving-picture murder scene and goes out and kills somebody. Woman sees moving pic tures of Collinwood fire and goes crazy. Tbey do move. The new remedy, "radio-thor," Is ex pected to cure old age. This is the finishing blow to the Osier theory and realises Ponce de Leon's dream of per petual youth. Modern science is the real miracle-maker. London newspapers, it seems, charge something like a dollar a line for pub lishing notices of society events. Tel It is the fashionables who are called the smart set" not the publishers who get their money. Charges are made by his country men that Munji Bey. the Turkish con sul at New York, has been guilty of grafting on them by means of bis of ficial position. If the charges are true we should like to know if he imported that vice from Turkey or absorbed it after he came across the ocean. To hear that a steel bar may be stretched almost one-third of its length before breaking may not be news to the engineers, but it is contrary to popular estimates of elastic sub stances. Such is the report of a test of the tensile strength of a piece of bridge material made recently. Castro was quoted the other day as saying be would return to Venezuela, live there as a private citizen and be good. But Venezuela, through Presi dent Gomez, has forbidden the return to that country ot Castro and his fam ily. This will probably "go," and Castro will stay where he is or some where else outside of his native land. The report from Oakland, Cal.. that a young woman of that city is facing Invalidism tor lire because of blood poisoning contracted from careless handling of carbon paper for mani folding should be a warning to type writers in general. The coloring mat ter used in carbon paper is said to be dangerous when it gets into the throat or eyes.- It did not seem very gallant in con gress to accept from two women the gift of an Island for military purposes and to accept it in such a way that it did not have to give the formal "thanks" to the donors which would have allowed them the privilege of the floor. Bat congress probably reasoned that the precedent of two women on the floor would prove equal to all the male contingent and sacrificed gal lantry to the instinct ot self-preserva tion. Bromine, useful in medicine, photog raphy, the manufacture of dyes and in certain metallurgical operations, is produced commercially in only four states ot this country Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and est V irginia. Last year 'a output was 1.S79.496 pounds. Anyway, tnere are too many wild animals in Africa. A rhinoceros is among the natural resources that do not need conserving. Then, again, re marks the Chicago Tribune, what pos sible use could the average man n at a domesticated hippopotamus? TRAVEL MADE SAFE FEW ACCIDENTS ON RAILROADS OF UNITED KINGDOM. Remarkable Work in Doing Away with Casualties That Would Seem to Be Almost Unavoidable in This Country. The following report concerning rail road accidents in the Vnited Kingdom is furnished by : - 1 . r- i i T ' btephenS Of 1IV- mouth: , . rall - "Serious road accidents are of rare occurrence In the l-nited Kingdom. a n d when they do happen such gen uine and thorough official inquiries are held as are best likely to pre vent their repeti- ! tion from the same causes. During the 30 years ended In 1906 only one pas- senger was killed on the rail- roads of the l ui.eu iv. n5 iu .--. a n snn r-k-fk OT. Juur"- amputation, for the sewing and ban one was injured in every ,300.000. In .,,, nf , an . .,,-.,. i!"L 'iJnSfST !- i every 70.000.000. and one injured every 3.300.000. "Other interesting statistics with regard to the risks of railroad travel are given in the report of the railroad department of the board of trade. The total number of passengers and rail road employes killed last year was .117 and the number injured S.Sll, while in the ten previous years there was an average of 1.160 killed and 65 injured. The increase among the injured was mainly among railroad employes. The average number of fatalities to passengers during: the 0 years previous to 1907 was nearly 22. These and other figures quoted for the period take no account of the Journeys of season ticket holders, and therefore they slightly exaggerate the actual risk, as this class of passengers has materially increased in recent years. The number of passengers killed in train accidents last year was 18. of whom 11 were accounted for in the one disaster at Shrewsbury, while 13 railroad employes were killed and 36 injured. "Casualties to passengers during the movement of trains, apart from rail road accidents, are of course much more numerous, a fact due largely to the carelessness of the passengers themselves. The number injured last year in this manner was 2,132 and the number killed 102. the average for the previous ten years oeing 1,702 injured and 121 killed. The apparently large increase in the number of non-fatal accidents to railroad employes apart from train accidents, is to be account ed for by a new order of the board of trade which now requires informa tion of such casualties whenever tbey are of a character to cause the in jured person to remain away from his ordinary work for a whole day. More over, between 1904 and 1907 the num ber of railroad employes has increased by abont 40.000. The actual killed last year was 441 and injured 5.577, while the average in the previous ten years was 452 killed and 3.972 injured. The value ot automatic couplings is proved by the fact that of the 18 railroad employes killed and of the 57 injured, in coupling accidents, onlv one was killed and one injured in a case in which the cars had automatic couplings. The nature of the accidents in which the 102 passengers were killed, apart from train accidents, was as follows: Six fell on the track or sta tion platform and 27 between the train and platform in entering or leaving. Twelve were killed by being struck or run over after falling off platforms, ten met their death through crossing the tracks at stations. 31 fell out of car riages while the trains were running, owing almost entirely to the way in which English passenger coaches are built, and 16 were killed in other ac cidents. Fifty persons were killed last year and 30 injured while passing over level crossings, although these are all carefully watched and guarded by em ployes of the company. The number of trespassers killed was 447, including suicides, and 133 were injured. when it is remembered that there are 23.101 miles of railroads in the United Kingdom, and that the total track mileage of single lines is 39,008 without sidings and 53.156 with sid ings, and that the passenger traffic is enormous, it is to be seen that the dangers arising from railroad travel- Ing in the Vnited Kingdom are indeed slight." The "Pensy's" New York Station. The Pennsylvania railroad has com pleted the Seventh avenue granite fa cade cf lis new station, which will be the main place of entrance and exit for the public, although there will be others in Thirty-first street and Eighth avenue. Approximating in height the Bourse of Paris, with Roman Doric j columns resembling those of the el-! liptical colonnade which partially sur-! rounds the Plaza of St. Peter's in i Rome, the Pennsylvania's facade of j Milford pink granite extends for a I trifle more than 430 feet between I Thirty-first and Thirty-second streets in Seventh avenue. Xew York Times. . rrw up. com causeu me cote d Axur express-to break down near IXIjon, FraneCTrecently. The water in as frozen hard. The pas- gers had to pass the night in the the taBSbT i Ke i-" village READY FOR IMMEDIATE USE. Hospital Car Available a an instant's Notice. Like the other units of the local recking train, the hospital car pro- I vided by the Southern Pacific Com pany for service over the division ly ing betwevn San Francisco and Santa Barbara is one of the finest of its kind ! ever built, says the San Francisco j CalL It stands always in readiness j to be hooked up to the wrecker or j to be attached to the division super- ; intendent's special at a moment's no tice should the wreck be of such na- " lure as to demand it. It is a wonder- . tmnatt uninmut f- ttw Mi 'of the injured on the spot, and their l , . . " . .- itaL R -s .Q deta-, M jp,ete operating poo in the , nsrmiiwnt instihiHnns Ewnr iHi -.f.-, ... .-....,. ,h, transportation of the wounded; every known surgical instrument; every necessary appliance to insure proper surgical attention and cleanliness for the accommodation of the injured is there. Light, perfect ventilation, and heat appliances are installed. At one end of the car is an operat ing table, sterilizing apparatus, oxy gen tanks, cases of surgical instru ments, running hot and cold water. j closet of fresh linen, sheets in short, pvprvthiny enraonn .-.-. r... f Md must be performed im- mediately to save life or limb. The rest of the car is fitted up with com- fort able hospital beds. Under the coach are stored in chests' stretchers, crutches, acetylene gas generators so that a steady, powerful light for night operations may be bad; also axes, saws, crowbars, chemical fire extin guishers and every conceivable appli ance whereby the rescue of victims pinned under the wreckage may be expedited. Three regular local surgeons stand ready to answer the emergency call within 15 minutes after the summons reaches them, whenever the wreck is of such a nature that their services are required. Dr. O'Connor, who is head surgeon ot the little corps, and Drs. Coffey and Gardner constitute the force. Assistants and nurses are taken along at discretion. DREW LINE ON BANANAS. Railroad Man Insists That Fruit Barred from His Office. Be There was a look of pained surprise on the face of John A. Gill when he entered his office the other day after his trip to Sacramento. He gasped for breath. His face turned purple, and it was feared he was about to suffer a stroke of apo plexy. All he could do was to point in the direction of the unconscious Walte G. Berkheiser, who, with his feet on the desk, was devouring a large ba nana, while the skins of that delicat fruit strewed the floor. Gill finally regained control of hi. sieech. and placing his hand on Berk heiser" s shoulder, said in a sepulchral tone: "Ah. you have forgotten." As Berkheiser's mouth was full of banana he could not reply. "And skins on the floor, too," con tinued Gill in a Hamlet sort of voice. "The base ingratitude of employes," cried Gill. "It is nox six months since I slipped on a banana peel and I vowed then never to have one near me, and especially in my office, but when my back is turned, regardless of my feel ings and the evil effect the sight of a banana has upon my nerve,' you de vour them in my office and eat them as if you actually liked them. "Berkheiser, my boy. if I were not such a just man. and with so amiable a disposition. I would fire you at once. Never again eat a banana if you want to- learn railroading from me or wish to ' stay in my ' service." San Fran cisco Call. What Thieves Won't Steal. The last thing the woman did be fore leaving the flat was -to put four rings in the clock on the mantel. "So thieves won't get them," she said. "I should think that would be simply inviting thieves to run away with them," said her friend. "That Is a handsome clock, and thieves like handsome clocks." "They do," said the woman, "but they never w-ill steal this clock. It ticks too loud. Xo wise thief will run away with a clock that goes like a threshing machine. It isn't the alarm about his person that he is afraid of, "for. he can stop the clock, but the occupants of the flat are Iikely to return before he gets safely away. and if a loud-ticking clock is gone, they ! wiH 111155 11 lbe -miEnte tne7 steP in- I side the door, and maybe give him : hot chase for his plunder.' One Way to Fame. "Has he done anything since he left college?" "Well, he's made his name pretty well known." "Indeed." "Yes. his praise is in many mouths." "Well." wellt How is that?" "He invented the club cocktail that bears his name." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Traffic on Indian Railroads. The total number of passengers car ried by the railroads of India in 1907 was 305.890,000. against 271.006.000 in 190G. The earnings - therefrom j amounted to $50,150,000, against $45,- ! 618,330 in 1908.. The third-class pas- j gpnger traffic amounted to 4,101,000. j I Japan Building Locomotives. Works at Hiogo have just completed the first modern locomotive ever built ' 1 in Japan. ; IT WAS NOT HER BACK. Woman Had No Idea of Being Proxy for Medical Trsatment. A. missionary, discoursing upon fndta, told of a woman 'who bad come to her complaining of a very sore back and desired that she pray for its cars. This Mrs. Jackson did. but the woman again appeared before her and declared that the back was still in a bad condition. Mrs. Jackson advised the use of an application of iodine, and brought out a bottle of the drug to apply npon the afflicted part of the woman's anatomy. But she regarded the bottle suspiciously and acted as though it would hurt her were she to use it. To allay her fears upon this score Mrs. Jackson applied some of the drug to her own finger and showed ... .. . . . .. I ner that it wouia cot num. ana uu she had better allow her to put some of it upon her back. -.- , womin "if wnillJ ! -How so?" inquired Mrs. Jackson, i .,. sympathetically. . "Because." replied the woman, "it is ay old man's back that is sore." NOT A WEIGHT LIFTER. "Is the baby strong?" "Well, rather! Ton know what a tremendous voice he has?" -Yes.-, "Well, he lifts that five or six time an hour!" A Dubious Tribute. The young theological student who had been supplying the Rushby pul pit for two Sundays looked wistfully at Mrs. Kingman, bis hostess for the time being. "Did you like the sermon this morning, if I may ask?" he in quired. "Ton done real well with the material yon selected," said Mrs. Kingman, with much cordiality. "As I said to Zen as on the way home, Tve heard a dozen or more sermons preached on that text, and this young man's the first one that ever made me realize bow difficult 'twas to explain.' " ! Youth's Companion. , Inviting. Recently two well-known Washing ton society women making calls ar rived at the house of a certain friend, and, after ringing the bell, waited. No answer. They rang again, and after considerable delay the door was opened by the new cook, who asked: "Phwat do you want?" Upon being told of the nature of the call, the girl replied: "Oi! Stick yer cards between me teeth. Oi've been making bread."- Harper's Weekly. No Wonder She's Cross. The woman who has a thousand petty cares and annoyances while (the Buffers with headache or side ache must not be blamed if she cannot ahrays be angelical ly amiable. What she needs n t-hooghtful ness from her family and snob a simple and natural remedy as -Lane's KtJufc Med icine, the herb tea that makes weaK wom en strong and well. Sold by druggists and dealers, 25c Questionable. "Has she a sense of humor?" "I can't tell." "Why not?" " Because she looked serious when he told me she admired your, sing ing." Wasted Years. . Nan So, after six years' courtship, all Is off between Tim and Tiny. Fan Yes; they loved not. wisely but too platonically. Wmp -nainle m TTai1'm Wizard Oil to stop pain because they know it always good. jroonsn people ay expen Aftk your drsggjts about it. When a man gives more than a dol lar to charity he usually manages to get caught in the act. run ctnn ra to l-t day. PJLZO OLNTM BNTisffU-JMtoed U core xfi- ca st Itching. Blind. Btoedimc or t-notrndl nx t-ie i From the blackmailer's viewpoint, keeping secrets is a paying business. The auto nas proved that it has both come to stay and come to go. Samson was the first actor on record to bring down the bouse. May xj mosvevv oveccoma toy Tcec ipetsonoegiu-S(Sr ststoaca $ onc.nVy ieuSicQ VoxoSwe. TOTveySyrap tjUajtt $ SeaTOY&id. ewaAs avctJTBTukt Ws sofaft asstsXtsnu'to TvaJute men; be ratno &spense& wv toqg&gs vjnruitA Qjreteass irAuTe,aA&& o supQT'cidtaX JutvcVvows .v-ui-t,anw-l dsyeoul-V WQ-C-ty )jpourwper inhaveTv, prefer tots.ond r$ft Ywi umdbp, CALIFORNIA Fic Syrup Co. SOLO BY ALL -LEADING OMUCCISTS " mi UlLOWr-BCOUlAB PfBCE SO PCS BOTTUS NAME OF JEFF DAVIS WILL BE RESTORED TO TABLET ON CABIN JOHN BRIDGE. Story of How Cognomen of President of the Confederacy Was Obliter ated from Structure During Civil War. Washington. The was issued recently: following order The secretary of war. by direction ot the president, has Instructed the chief at engineers of the United States army to take the necessary steps to restore the "me. of lettoa I as secretary ot wr to Cabin Joan Bndre. to Cabin John Bridge. Cabin John Bridge is a great stone arch, until recently the largest in the -. I -X . -. Pnn.u5 a picturesque gorge in the upper Potomac valley, seven miles - " " " , " .T : ports the aqueduct through which the I -., f w..i-.,... -,.. also serves as a highway bridge on : . that much-traveled way the Conduit l road. The mutilation of the arch bas been commented on by millions of peo- t pie ana annougn the subject is an old one the real story of the erasure of i Davis name has only lately been told. The erasure has been variously charged to Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, chief engineer of the construction of the Washington" aqueduct, and to Ed win M. Stanton, secretary of war un der President Lincoln. Neither of these was responsible. The order for the erasure of the name was given by Caleb R. Smith, secretary of the in terior, in June, 1862. William R. Hut ton. who was an en gineer in the aqueduct construction. t and who became chief engineer of the work, has given the following ac count: "In June, 1S62, at the request or the secretary of the interior, Caleb K Smith, to whose department the aque duct had just been transferred. I ac companied the secretary and a num ber of members of congress to inspect the aqueduct. We went np by boat on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. "Opposite Cabin John several of the party disembarked and walked to the r uncompleted bridge for a nearer view. Secretary Smith remained on the boat. Returning in hot haste, Galnsha Grow, a member . of congress from Tablet on Cabin John Bridge with Name of Davis Obliterated. Pennsylvania rushed np to Mr. Smith and said: 'Do yoa know that rebel Meigs bas pat Jeff Davis name on the bridge T "Turning to me, the secretary said: "The first order I give yon Is to cut Jeff Davis' name off the bridge. "A few days later I was appointed chief engineer of the aquedncL Not taking the secretary's remark seri ously I did nothing about the removal of the name. A week later, Robert Mclntyre, the contractor, arrived in Washington to resume work on the bridge, the work having been tem porarily suspended pending the ar rival of materials. He called at the interior department to pay his re spects to Secretary Smith. The sec retary told him to cut Davis name off the bridge, and the first thing Mc lntyre did on returning to the bridge was to set a mason at the work of cutting off the name, which was in raised letters." Cabin John bridge is 450 feet long. The span is 220 feet wide and the thickness of the arch and the width of the roadway on top is 20 feet. Across the arch and below the road way runs the conduit, which is nine feet in diameter. The arch is com posed of 1,200 cubic yards of Potomac bluestone, 852 yards of concrete and 516 yards of brick. The height of the roadway above the stream is 100 feet and the cost of the arch was $254,000. Teaching in Chile. - The Chilean government is rapidly adopting educational methods along the lines of those obtaining in tbe United States. It may be said, also, that that country is in a highly pro gressive stage in the matter of pub lic instruction, according to the re ports that have come to the state de partment at Washington. In a recent report, Alfred A. Wins low, United States consul at Vat paraiso, says: -"The Chilean government is giving educational matters greater attention than ever before, and there are indi-v cations that American ' educational methods are more and more appre-. ciated from the number of American, teachers employed in the higher schools of the country. "At present the government bas un der construction 18 public school build ings, besides a very large number that are being remodeled and refurnished. This should make a good opening for: up-to-date American school furniture and supplies. To date a very large proportion of school supplies has come from Europe. "Where American educational meth ods have been adopted they have be come popular. This is especially true in private schools in different parts of tbe -country." i I I r-r w rVSVAi3. VORTI H0DNTAD6 OF COLD Dsricz Cfcssge of Life, says Mrs. Chss. Barclay GnuniteTCIe. 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