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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1910)
HER POINT OF VIEW. Sweet Maid You must remember that our was a summer engagement. The Man That means. If you see anyone you like better, you'll break it? Sweet Maid Yes. The Man And It I see anyone I like better Sweet Maid I'll sue you for breach of promise. softTwhite hands May be Obtained In One Night. For preserving the hands as well as for preventing redness, roughness, and chapping, and imparting that vel vety softness and whiteness much de sired by women Cutlcura Soap, assist ed by Cutlcura Ointment, is believed to be superior to all other skin soaps. For those who work in corrosive liquids, or at occupations which tend to injure the hands, it is invaluable. Treatment. Bathe and soak the hands on retiring in a strong, hot, creamy lnthcr of Cutlcura Soap. Dry and anoint freely with Cutlcura Oint ment, and in severe cases spread the Cutlcura Ointment on thin pieces of old linen or cotton. Wear during the night old. loose gloves, or a- light ban dage of old cotton or linen to protect the clothing from stain. For red, rough, and chapped hands, dry, fis sured, itching, feverish palms, and shapeless nails with painful finger ends, this treatment Is most effective. Cutlcura Remedies are sold through out the world. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., sole proprietors, Boston, Mass. right Against Plague Goes On. Although the survey of the past year's anti-tuberculosis work shows that much has been done, the reports from all parts of the country indicate that this year the amount of money to be expended, and the actual number of patients that will be treated will be more than double that of the past year. For instance, special appropria tions have been made in the various municipalities for next year's anti tuberculosis work, aggregating $3.97G, 500. In addition to these appropria tions over $4,000,000 has been set aside by the different state legisla tures for the campaign against tuber culosis this year. Besides these sums, a largo number of the present exist ing institutions and associations are planning enlargements of their work, and new organizations are being formed dally. A Good Head for Business. "I want a hat pin," said little Mary of four years, as she gazed eagerly at the cushion full of sparkling orna ments on the milliner's showcase. "How much is It?" she asked, after making a very deliberate choice and laying her purchase money, a bright penny, on the counter. "Oh, nothing," returned the kind-hearted Mrs. Briggs, as Mary's mother was one of her regu lar customers. Imagine her amuse ment as the little "bargain hunter" said most eagerly: "I'll take two, then." Delineator. An Antl-Suffragitt Argument. Mother Johnny, if you don't bebavs I shall spank you. Johnny Er don't you think It would he more womanly to use indi rect influence? Excused. "Shame on you! You came home last night actually tipsy." "So I did, my dear. I just couldn't resist the pleasure of seeing two ot you at once." Every tlnio we see a sponge It re minds us of some men we know. To Brighten Nickel. Tho "Oman who does things herselt always has on hand a can of aluminum paint with which she brightens her nickel trimmings that have become tarnished. It is wonderful bow fresh looking a house can be kept by small efforts. Usually but one or two coats are nec essary, aa when put on too thickly tbe piiint peels off. There are some housekeepers who even go so tar as to learn renickellng, but the paint is a good substitute. cheaper and much more easily ap plied. Delaware Farmer's Mouser. N. H. King owns a remarkable Eng lish mocking bird, which has estab lished a reputation as a mouse catch cr and takes the place of several cats. While King was the field with the bird it caught ten mice in less than an hour, killing them all. King puts tho bird in his barn at night, and says It la keeping it freed from rats and nice. Bottled Horseradish. The following is an excellent way of preparing bottled horseradish: To each coffee-cupful of- horseradish grated, allow one teaspoonful of white sugar and a pint and a half of good vinegar; bottle and seal. Horserad tish should be put up n the fall, Octo ber or November being the best sea son for It. The root may be pre served whole by taking up before the .frost Beta in and burying in damp and, from which it may be removed when required for use. CLEARED THE TRACK ENGINEER'S QUICK ACTION THAT AVERTED WRECK. N Time to Apply Brakes, He Hurled Train Upon Rock and Brushed It Aside Grievance of Railroader. "Yes," said an engineer, one of the group of six who were telling of their eiperle nces, I have known sev eral exhibitions of nerve that have a right to be classed among the heroic One occurred about 12 years ago, on the Penn sylvania lines west of Pittsburg. Sam Galloway was one of the best engi neers that ever drove an engine over any road. He not only knew all about an engine, and how to handle it, but he was per fectly cool and collected under all cir cumstances. "He was hauling a fast train, and had left Pittsburg more than an hour late, with orders to make it up. It was In the spring of the year, just as the ground began to thaw. He was going at a 50-mile gait rounding the base of a hill on one side was the hill and the other a creek, some 40 feet below when he saw a great rock, which would weigh more than a ton, suddenly fall on the track a short dis tance ahead of him. His first Im pulse was to apply the brakes, but there was no time to stop, and to hit the rock seemed certain to topple the engine and train into the creek. Instead of reversing he pulled her open another notch or two, the train fairly jumping forward as It felt the in crease of power. He struck the rock under full headway, drove It from the track, rolling it down the side into the creek, while the engine and train fair ly leaped over the broken rails. The blow was terrific, and jolted passen gers from their berths in the sleeping cars, but they were saved by the quickness of Sam, and his nerve." "Well, boys," said an engineer who bad been running on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad for 32 years, "I have, perhaps, been fortunate, and have never had what , you would call any peculiar experiences. I never touch a drop of liquor under any circum stances, yet I feel sure that if my train should meet with a bad accident and a number of lives were lost, some newspaper reporter, and probably the general public, would try to lay the blame on me, and say that I was drunk. That is one of the things with which railroad men have to contend. The public has the idea that we are a set of rough, hardened men, who care little for life. An engineer knows that his life is in danger, and if he did not think anything of the passen gers, he is not going to take any risk that he can avoid. If an accident does happen, his first thought is to protect his train, if there is likelihood of an other train coming in either direction. It is not so much thought of himself or the lives of his passengers as it is of his duty." Wonderful Automatic Device. A new device for the prevention of train collisions was recently tested on the Erie tracks between Newark and Nutley, N. J. The device Is an elec tric one, and is intended to obviate head-on collisions. When the fast-ap proaching trains equipped with the new device get within half a mile of each other, the air brakes are set au tomatically, not with the usual sudden ness in an emergency, but with a grad ually increasing force, the same as a skillful engineer would employ in bringing his train to a halt at a sta tion. The trains stopped far enough away from each other to avoid mishap, and all this happened without either engineer moving a hand toward the tnrottle lever or air brake, the device working automatically. The inven tion is operated by a third rail, the shoe from the locomotive touching the rail, and receiving power through it both for the operation of the emer gency brake and also for a telephone. The principle is similar to that of the block-signal system, the track being divided into zones. The brakes can be applied sharply or their operation may be graduated, so that trains may be slowly brought to a standstill. Scientific American. American and British Mileage. The total railroad mileage of the United States is greatly in excess of that ot Great Britain. The reason for this is an obvious one. One need only to compare the area of the two coun tries to find it. If the United States had no more railroad mileage to-day than there is In Great Britain it would be utterly out of the question to move the freight production of the country. As in all other countries, the building of rail roads in America has followed the line of necessity as the country was set tled and brought under cultivation. According to "Poor's Manual of Railroads of the United States" for 1908, the total railway mileage then was 224,382.19, with 99,651.19 miles of second tracks and sidings. ThiB makes a total trackage of 324,033.38" miles. The number of passengers carried for the year was 860,648,574, and the tons of freight moved, 1,722,210,281. The statistics of railroads in Eu rope show that in 1900 there was a to tal mileage of 175,000. THE NiGHT FREIGHT. She'n running fine, old V9; we see her Rliostly Btnurn As we face the slent with icy tet or Hwinis a wet brakebeam: For nights like this wo dure not miss the lonely roof patrol, When wet brakes slip and lose thcr grip and death may bo the toll; So on we ko, on watch, although, to give our thoughts their duos. We must agree we'd rattier be back In the old caboose. The whistle speaks: the four lonff shrieks pierce through the mountains steep. And on we go. a light or so, some vil lage still In sleep: Then sharp and clear the trainmen hear the message on the rail, , Torpedoes! Slow and then we know that wet brakes must not fail. For grades are steep and chasms deep along the mountain roads, And death may lurk when brakes don't work and wet pins slip their loads. ' Then up the lino old V crawls through the siding gate. And puffs and snorts all nut of sorts be cause she has to wait: But palace trains with wealth and brains must rule both night and day. And homely freights piled up with crates must give them right of way: So here we stand while Pullmans grand are passing in a blur. The limited is miles ahead ere we pull after her. It's bleak to-night on footboards white and tho sleet slings like tine shot But our thoughts go back through the yawning black to the old stove glow ing hot: It's toot, toot, toot! and a rain of soot, and the pistons crash again. And back we go to the red lamp's glow at the end of the swaying train; The coffee pot is steaming hot and gay yarns rout the biues. Yes, mir'.h and cheer and a good pipe , near, and it's home in the old ca boose. Victor A. Hermann, in New York Sun. BOYS taught to be exact Discipline of Railroad Office in Early' Life Something That Is Never Forgotten. "The successful railroad official who sat at my side while traveling recent ly," says, H. H. Windsor in Popular Mechanics, "fell into a reminiscent mood, and was entertaining a number of interested listeners with stories of early railroading, before the days of air .brakes and other safety appli ances. Now, as every man knows who has had the advantage of experi ence in the general office of a large railroad, it offers the finest trainings a young man can have. So I said to him: 'To what one thing do you most attribute this fact? "Without a moment's hisitatlon he answered: 'The , discipliue which teaches the value of time.' Then he continued: 'A green boy enters the operating department, and he finds a condition of absolute exactness as to time; that 9:47 is not 9:40 or 9:45, or even 9:46, just as it must not be 9:48. It is 9:47. Neither a fraction of & minute more or less.. AtJuyne. in school and in tbe positions offered in commercial life, there is more or less latitude; even the banks allow some leeway in the payment of notes. But in the operating department of a railroad the clock which records the passage of time is the absolute mon arch of action.. And so the boy is taught exactness, and has constantly in his mind the doing of the thing to be done at the precise momentiwhen it should be done. Two or three years of this training indelibly fixes . the habit.' " -'" Exciting Trip of Surveyors. Thrilling were the' experiences of a party of Northern Pacific railroad en gineers and surveyors, under H. B Payne of Spokane, just returned froir the unsettled territory in central Ida ho. Payne and the crews worked ir the mountains nearly eight months and It is understood a feasible routt has been found to tap several of th rich mineral and timber belts. O' one of the trips, lasting 54 days, th' men did not see a human being out side of their own party. A score oi horses were lost and some of the mer had narrow escapes from death. Mucl big game was encountered in the hill and several fine deer fell before th' engineers' rifles. Payne made map of the country and these with othe drawings he will submit to the engi neering department at St. Paul earl this month. The line- contemplate by the railroad company will open ' big' territory hi Idaho and aid mater' ally In tbe development of the coun try for miles around. Barney Oldficld's Miracle. Barney Oldfield, the famous auto mobile driver, once gave a locomotive engineer a nervous moment out in In dlana. Oldfield was out for a road record, and was tearing down the road like mad toward a railroad crossing. He saw a train coming, but figured that he could get across the tracks a moment ahead of its arrival. Toe late he saw that the train would reach there the moment he did, and that he was in imminent danger of rosin;; his life. His machine and the locomo tive met, but at exactly the right min ute he turned in the direction tht train was going, ran up over the cow catcher with only two of his wheels on the ground, and the impetus ol his high spedd carried him across the cowcatcher, across the path of the train, and to safety in a ditch on the other side of the track. , The train went on without even slowing up. Remarkable Time by English Train. In connection with the landing of the Cunard steamers at Fishguard in Wales, the Great Western railway of England has put on a new special train to London, which has been mak ing remarkable time. On a recent run a train with a total weight of 300 tons was drawn from Fishguard to London, 261 miles, at an average speed, Including one stop of four min utes, oi 61.2 miles an hour. REBUKING A BORE LIKE THE WORM, OLD GENTLE. MAN TURNED AT LAST Description of His Improved Condition Raised High Hopes in Listener, Until the Last Sentence . of His Talk. To a hotel noted for its baths foi the cure of rheumatism came a wom an, who at once made the acquain tance of every person, apparently foi the sole purpose of telling them hei Imaginary ailments, hearing them tell about their own, and discussing at great length the curative properties of the springs. ' She made a particular victim of an old man, who, being of a somewhat retiring, silent temperament, was ex-, tremely annoyed by her questions and oft-repeated tales of woe. Finally, one morning, when he was taking a sun-bath on the terrace sur rounded by a few congenial acquain tances, the woman approached, inflict ed upon him a renewal of her tire some conversation, and exhausted his patience. His opportunity for revenge came quickly. "Mr. Ladd," said she, settling weak ly into a. chair, "we have had so many pleasant discussions about our suf ferings and yet not half so pleas ant as they might have been, because I've been so frightfully racked with these terrible pains. Why, I looked into the glass this morning, and you have no idea how pale I was! I scarce ly knew myself. But what I wanted to ask you was this: What do you think of these baths? Have you any faith in them. And this climate par ticularly, and this air?" , "Madam," replied the old man, "I cannot speak so surely about the baths, but there is no doubt about the climate and the air. I can truthfully say i feel at home here. Why, when I first came 'here I weighed less by more than 50 pounds. "I could hardly raise an arm above my head. I could not speak an intelli gible word. I never left my bed with out being lifted from it by strong arms, and my hands were so useless that I could not pick up a knife and fork. Most of my days I spent half conscious or asleep upon my back, and I did not take any interest in the conversation of my nurse. "You can see now that I have a lit tle hair. When I came to this town there was not a spear of it on my head. I needed attention night and day. I was so weak and helpless that a child of four years might have chok ed me to death without its being in my power to resist. That was when I first came here." -' "Gracifaus!" cried the woman, ; ex citedly. "You give me so much hope!' How long have you been here? When did you first come?" '. ' i , . "Madam," answered the old man, solemnly, "I was born here." The Nation's Skull-Making. Scientists, like poets, can be dith ranibic and rhapsodical, and lead gov ernments into publishing works of fic tion m the guise of reports ot investi gations. So while admitting, to the full all that the American environ ment does in affecting and modifying the Inner being, mental outlook, and social customs of the many races which come from abroad, it will be with considerable skepticism that ethnologists read the latest report of the immigration bureau on quickly at tained physical modifications, noted in immigrants to this country, or at least that portion of the report which seems to show that structural changes follow mere living in this country, owing to better nutrition, etc. Of course where there are inter-marriages and a blending of types in parents it It to be expected, and is visible to the most careless observer. But, after all, what we are more concerned with 1b the Americanizing of the contents of the skultv American hatters and milliners can be depended on to pro duce hats to fit any shape of head. Dr. Glennon's Repartee. Perhaps among none of the thou sands who will shake the archbishop's hand and extend felicitations on the occasion of his silver Jubilee in the priesthood, are there any more loyal friends than the newspaper folk. Few of the craft, when; on occasion, the exigencies of the profession have made their curiosity in affairs of state embarrassing, have not been dis patched genially and tactfully with a Joke. It's the archbishop's way. Whether he is "jollying" a crowd of the guests at Father Dempsey's hotel, "kidding" a congregation of little newsies or "taking down" the impor tance of some grave and reverend fa ther, or "Joking" the affected dignity of some captain of industry, or "teas ing" the supercilious small talk of some fashionable maid or matron of society, or laying genial encourage ment on the distressed and pious old lady by laughing her out of her trou ble, the archbishop of St. Louis never lacks for his repartee. St. Louis Re public. Prepared. i Master Joseph, aren't you ashamed , to get into such a condition. Suppose 1 anyone found you outside like this. Servant It's all right, sir. I al ways have one of your cards on me. Reminded Him of Her. She What does the sea remind you of most? He Of you. She (flattered) Why? He Because It's never still. WOULDN'T MAKE ANY TROUBLE Mrs. Betsey Baxter a Type of Visitor Many of Us Have Been Called on to Entertain. 'La, now, Miss Doolittle, don't you go to a mite o' trouble on my acount," said Mrs. Betsy Baxter when she ar rived unexpectedly for dinner at the home of Mrs. Dorcas Doolittle. "You know that I'm a person for whom you can Just lay down an extra plate an' set before me anything you happen to have in the house. If you just fry a chicken same as you would for your own folks, an' make up a pan o' your tea biscuits that no one can beat, an' open a glass o' your red currant jelly, an' have a dish o' your quince pre serves, an' some o' that pound cake you most alius have in your cake jar you do that, an' have some pipin' hot apple fritters, with hot maple syrup to go with 'em, an some o' your good coffee an' any vegetables you happen to have in the house. I like sweet po tatoes the way you bake 'em mightily, but, la, just have anything else you happen to have. I'm one that expects an' Is willin' to eat what's Set before me, an' no questions asked nor fault found when I go vlsitin'. So don't you put yourself out a mite for me. If you have what I've mentioned an' anything else yotKwant to have I'll be satisfied. I ain't one that Cares very much about what I eat, anyhow. As the sayin' is, 'any old thing' will do for me." Puck, " . A Nasty Dig. "As nasty a dig as I ever adminis tered in my newspaper career in Vir ginia City," said Mark Twain, "was di rected against a man named Fer guson, f . "Ferguson, at Christmas time, in vited me to see the presents he had given his wife. They were magnificent gifts. The man expected, of course, a write-up. "well, he wasn't disappointed. The next day, in a prominent place on the first page of the Enterprise, I inserted this paragraph: "'John H. Ferguson's Christmas gifts to his wife are being much admired,- They include a diamond stom acher and many other beautiful speci mens of cut glass.'" Rich Territory Opened up. The development of the Brazilian Amazon valley must in time amount to untold wealth. In the states of Para and the Amazonas and the fed eral territory of Acre there are near the water's edge 10,000,000 rubber bearing trees of the Hevea variety. These trees if properly tapped will live indefinitely and steadily increase their yield. The state of Para is con siderably larger than Texas, and much of it will grow excellent cotton. The Worst of It. "Oh, she's awful. Whenever she tries to sing a song she simply mur ders It." i "But that's not the worst of it. If she'd only murder Is outright 1 wouldn't mind, but she tortures it so long." All Tired Out. TJo you feel dull, occasionally out of sorts? Headaches and Dizziness? The fault is either with your stomach or your liver. The safe, sure and easy way to get rid of either trouble is to take NATURE'S REMEDY. Take an NR Tablet to night it will sweeten the stomach and regulate the liver, kidneys and bowels. Easy-sure to act. Ge"t a 25c Box. ' The A. H. Lewis Medicine o., St. Louis, Mo. Pa's Sleepy Day. "Pa, what do you go to church for?" "Why er to listen td the sermon, of course." ; , "That's what I go for, but I can't hear it 'cause you breathe so heavy." In Demand. 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Here-: wad, "I propose to donate you $45, to be applied to the purchase of one of those new, topsy -turvy, wicker-basket hats." . - She looked up at him, very much alarmed at the sudden outbreak of ' generosity. -.,- "On condition you raise an equal amount out of the ten cents a week -pin money regularly allowed you," fin- isbed Mr. Herewad magnanimously.- Judge. - . '., Gave Himself Away. f1 . "Michael," familiarily inquired the employer, thinking he had seen his employe carrying one of the banners, in the St. Patrick's parade of the day previous, in which procession the Irishman had laid off work to march, "didn't I see you carrying something in the parade yesterday?" . "Yis," admitted Michael, blushing, scarlet, "but Oi had no suspicion me bottle made me hip pocket sh'tick out so much!" Illustrated Sunday Mag azine. " George Refrained.- - "George declared he would kiss tbe first woman that passed 'under the. mistletoe, and she was the colored cook." . "Did George kiss her?" 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