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About The Wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-???? | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1910)
STOP! MyUncle'sStory By A. B. SEARLE Copyright, 1910. by American Press Association Are you Wasting your Money? You can have your suit made to your measurement with snap that gives the wearer a distinc tive and attractive appearance; hand tailored t o perfection. Made from all-wool fabrics. Fit guaranteed. Scotch Woolen Mills . UNION TAILORS 133 So. 13th Street J. H. McMULLEN. Mgr. Bell 2522 -:- Auto 2372 ' OFFICE OF DR. R. L. BENTLEY, SPECIALIST CHILDREN Office Hour I to 4 p. m. Office 21 18 O St. Both Phone LINCOLN. NEBRASKA RECTOR'S White Pine Cough Syrup I quick and positive remedy for all cough. It toq coughing spell at night relieve the soreness, soothes the irrita ted membrane and stoqs the tickling. It is an ideal preparation (or children as it containe no harmful anodynes or narcotic. 25c per bottle RECTOR'S 12th and O St ORPHEUM Phones: Bell 936. Auto .1528 Week Beginning May 9th Fine Program Don't Miss It Matinees at 2:30 Evening at 8:30 15c and 25c , 15c. 25c. 35c. 50c Wageworkers Attention XS55 Plenty of it. Utmost Secrecy. 129 So. i ith St. Kelly & Norris Dr. Chas. Yungblut ROOM Dentin TSac No. 202 AUTO. PHONE 3416, BELL 656 LINCOLN. -:- NEBR. DISEASES OF WOMEN All rectal diseases such as Piles, Fistulas, Fissurs and Rec tal Ulcar treated scientifically and successfully. DR. J. R. HAGGARD, Specialist. Ofdcs, Richards flock. What a change half a century baa made In methods of travel: In 1S30 to reach New York from Cincinnati, then the Queen City of the West, one might go a part of the way by steam boat, another by stagecoach and the balance by canal. In such convey ances people were thrown together In timately, and lifelong friendships were often made. The passenger canalboat was the first to pass out of use, and there are few living who remember it as a method of travel. It was Id 1845 that one of these pas senger canalboats was being dragged along by a borse on the towpath. There were do staterooms, only berths something like those on a modern sleeping car. Between these was the cabin, where the passengers lounged during the day and evening. At that time the professional gambler worked in the narrow channels of the period. He was on the steamboat, but did not disdain the canalboat. On this canal boat a portion of the bow bad been curtained off, and in It were card ta bles. At one of these tables sat a proi fesslonal gambler fleecing a youngster of twenty. That youngster was my uncle, and I got the story I am about to tell from him. He had been deputed to carry some $8,000 from Pittsburg to Harrisburg. How the gambler knew that he had the money with him be did not learn. My uncle played with the sharper till he had lost all the money that bad been given blm for his expenses, then began to play with his trust fund. He quit at 11 o'clock at night, having lost half of the $8,000. The next morning was Sunday. A service was held In the cabin conduct ed by a clergyman slightly past mid dle age. My uncle was much impress ed with bis appearance and the fervor with which be spoke. His accent was that of the southerner. My uncle said that the clergyman attacked gambling. telling a number of interesting, many of them pathetic, incidents, in which some foolish person had been robbed of all be possessed. In these stories the speaker showed an Intimate knowledge of all forms of swindling at cards. He was looking straight at my uncle while he talked and seemed to be speaking to blm personally. Then my uncle remembered that while playing with the gambler he had seen the clergyman standing among those overlooking the game. Notwithstanding that it was Sunday my uncle was eager to renew the play, hoping to win back what be had lost. He argued that to lose any part of the fund with which he had been In terested would ruin him the same as If he lost the whole. Therefore Sun day afternoon he proposed to the gam bler that they go to their curtained space for more play. The gambler. who knew well enough that the youngster would be after him. assent ed, and they were soon at play. Of course my uncle lost steadily. His last thousand dollars was slowly melting away when who should walk in but the clergyman. He stood look- Ing at the game for awhile, then said to my uncle: "Boy. you can't play with this man. He's a professional gambler and is playing with marked cards." Picking up one of the cards lying on the table face down, the speaker, rub bing his thumb on it, said. "The king of clubs." Then, turning It over, his prophecy proved correct. In the same way be told the value of other cards. They were all provided with minute points that could be felt, but not easily seen. Then, turning to tne gambler, he said. "Give the boy the money yon have won from him." The gambler put up a vigorous biuff. What you got to do with this busi ness, anyway? You're a parson and don't know any more about cards than a mule. You Just get out of here or I'll find a way to put you out" 'How much has be won from yon, boy?" asked the clergyman of my un cle. "Seven thousand dollars." "Give me what you have left The only way 1 can get your loss back for you from this man is to win it at bis own game There's honor among thieves. He won't do it one way, but he will another." My uncle turned over a few hundred dollars be bad left. The clergyman sat down, a new pack of cards was brought out. and at it they went At the end of an hour the clergyman had recovered $5,000. At the end Of the second hour he bad lost $500. At the end of the third hour he had regained all but $300 of my uncle's loss, and in half an hour more be had won every cent the gambler had taken. He shov ed his winnings over to the boy he had saved from- ruin. "There's only one man that can get the better of me on any . game of cards," said the gambler, "and I haven't Reen blm for eighteen years." "Warren Phillips?" "Yes." "That's my name." , The gambler looked at him in aston ishment "Yes; I was one of the professionals in. those days, though I never played any but a fair game; But I quit it and now look upon It with horror. I ran for years on the Prairie Belle and won a lot of money. It's all now in church es." And that's ths way my uncle was saved. ijPilt rW 2Z New Solid Oak Refrigerators Come in and see our line of Refrigerators and Ice Boxes. ' Made with rounded corners, galvanized or enameled lined, well insulated, new patent drip pan, cast bronze hardware. Refrigerators, $8.75 to $27.50 Ice Boxes $6.00 to $11.50 I I H. Investigate Our Low Cash Dept. Store Prices on Furniture I 2 I JOKE ON THE BARBERS. Corking Good Story Going the Rounds of the Press. . There is an old adage to the effect that one "must go away from home to hear the news." Here in Nebraska we never heard of the story about the Waterloo barber ordinance until we saw it in the eastern dally newspa pers, and from there It has been cop ied into the weekly papers every where. Here Is the story, date line and all: "Waterloo, Neb., April 29. An or dinance has been passed by the city council and signed by the mayor, and is effective at once, which, among other things, regulates matters rela tive to the cleanliness of barber shops, and then provides: "It shall be unlawful for any bar ber in this town to eat onions between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. No barber, while shaving a customer, shall insert his thumb or finger In the said custom ers mouth; shall not discuss the gos sip of the town and shall not use to bacco while working over a chair; shall not insist upon a customer hav ing his neck shaved or his hair singed." A violation of any of these provi sions shall subject the barer to rr rest and a fine of not less than $1 for each and every offense." Wouldn't that jar you? It's a safe bet that some of those Waterloo conn cilmen have gone against the "Dago" barber game. The breath of the av erage "Dago" barber is' said to be cal culated to drive a canine from undor the intestine cart of a slaughter house. THIS YEAR'SCON VENTIONS. May , Cincinnati, Ohio, Tin Plate Workers International Protective As sociation. May 11, Cincinnati, Ohio, American Federation of Musicians. May 23, Buffalo, N. Y., National Print Cutters' Association of America, June 6, Chicago, 111., International Association of Marble Workers. June 13, St. Louis, Mo. International Brotherhoot of Boilermaicers, Iroij Ship Builders, and Helpers. June 13-19, Omaha, Neb., Interna tional Stereotypers and Electrotypers' Union of North America. June 13, New York, N. Y., Interna tional Brotherhood of Tip Printers. June 13, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Inter national Brotherhood of Bookbinder.-,. June, third week, Columbus, Ohio, International Printing Pressmen ana Assistants' Union of North America. June 27, St. Louis, Mo., Internation al Union of Pavers, Rammermen Flagers, Bridge and Stone Curb Sui ters. June , Kansas City, Mo., Interna tional Journeymen Horeshoers' Union. July 4, not decided as to place, Amalgamated Leather Workers' Union of America. July 11, New York, N. Y., Interna tional Longshoremen's Association. July 11, Pittsburg, Pa., International Jewelry Workers' Union of America. July 11, Pittsburg, Pa., Internation al Jewelry Workers' Union of Amer ica. July 11, New York, N. Y., Interna- Porch The time has arrived when the pleasures of the cool even ings are spent out on the porch. Have you provided your selfe with porch furniture? 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