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18 Are You Wasting Your Money? "Are you sure you get full value for your money ex pended. Suit cut to your or der, hand tailored, with the snap that gives you an at tractive appearance. Tail ored by Union Tailors with pride in their product with perfect measures to work from could not do otherwiso than turn out the best in the land. The test lies with'you, the proof with us. Extra Pants $5.00 a pair. Scotch Woolen Mills UNION TAILORS 133 South 13th St. J. H. McMULLEN, Mgr. Auto. 2372 Bell 2522 I.J OFFICE OF DR. R. L. BENTLEY, SPECIALIST CHILDREN ' Office Hour 1 to 4 p. m. Office 21 IS O St Both Phone LINCOLN, NEBRASKA RECTOR'S White Pine Cough Syrup U quick and positive remedy for all coughs. It toq coughing a pells at night relieve the soreness, soothe the irrita ted membrane and stoq the tickling. It is an ideal preparation (or children as it containe no harmful anodyne or narcotic. 25c per bottle RECTOR'S 12th and O St Wageworkers Attention SSSSSi Plenty of it. Utmost Secrecy. 129 So. nth St Kelly & Norris Dr. Chas. Yungblut ROOM No. 202 DentiSt BLOCK AUTO. PHONE 3416, BELL 656 LINCOLN, -:- NEBR. DISEASES OF WOMEN All rectal disease such a Pile, Fistula, Flure and Rec tal Ulcer treated scientifically and successfully. DR. J. R. HAGGARD, Specialist. Office, Richards Block. MS TO AID WORKERS Plan of Operations of the Eng lish Labor Exchanges. SEND MEN WHERE NEEDED. Main lda la to Bring Together the Labor Supply and the Demand. Fares Paid to Distant Points Rules For Applicants. Nothing hus occurred in the British industrial world iu recent years which has attracted more intention tuau the Inauguration of the government labor exchanges through au act of parlia ment passed last year, which has been very generally approved. The royal com mission ou the poor laws recom mended unanimously the establish ment of these exchanges. They are not designed to furnish temporary aid to the unemployed, hut to direct labor where It Is uecded. The central idea is that the Information of "want" and "wanted" shall be periodically sent from branches to central offices and thence transmitted to other locali ties. When necessary advances will be made to pay fares of unemployed per sons to points where their labor is needed, such advances to be refunded from wages. On the opening day, Feb. 1. nearly eighty exchanges- were iu operation, and thousauds of applications for work were received. These represent ed all classes of labor and did not seem to come to any considerable ex tent from the shiftless and incompe tent. Employers also made use of the exchanges. The registration of applicants for employment is to hold good for seven days from the date of registration. The officer in charge is to undertake no responsibility with regard to wages or other conditions beyond supplying nny information In his possession as to the rate of wages desired or offered. Copies or summaries of any agree ments mutually arranged between as sociations of employers and workmen for the regulation of wages or other conditions of labor In any trade may, with the consent of the various parties to such agreements, be filed at a labor exchange, and any published rules made by public authorities with regard to like matters may also be filed. Doc uments so filed are to be open to in spection on application. No person is to suffer any disqualification or be oth erwise prejudiced on account of refus ing to accept employment found for him through a labor exchange where the ground of refusal is that a trade dispute which affects his trade exists or that the wages offered are lower than those current in the trade iu the district where employment is found. -. When an applicant for employment has been engaged through a labor ex change at which he is registered to take up employment at nny place re moved from the exchange or from his ordinary residence by more than five miles by the quickest route or by such other distance as the board of trade may direct from time to time, either generally or as regards any specified district, the officer in charge may at his discretion make an advance to the applicant toward meeting the ex penses of traveling to the place of em ployment. . The advance may be made at the request either of the employer or of the applicant. . The person at whose request the advance- is made mast give tsuch undertaking with re spect to the repayment of the advance as the board of trade with the consent of the treasury may from time-to time prescribe, either generally or as re gards any specified district or class of applicants. In making advances care is to be taken to avoid unduly encour aging rural laborers to migrate from the country to the towns or between Great Britain and Ireland. The ad vance ts not to exceed the amount re quired to defray the applicant's fare to the place of employment and Is to' be made by the provision of a ticket or pass or in exceptional cases in cash: The question of 'strikes and lockouts- was given very careful consideration- by the framers of the general regula tions, and the following rules have been adopted governing this matter: Any association of employers or workmen may file at a labor exchange a statement with regard to the exist ence of a strike or lockout affecting their trade In the district. Any such statement shall be signed by a person authorized by the association for the purpose. Such statement shall only be In force for seven days from the date of filing, but may be renewed within that period for a like period. and so on from time to time. If any employer who appears to be affected by a statement so filed notifies ta a labor exchange a vacancy or vacancies for workmen of the class affected, the officer In charge shall Inform him of the statement that has been filed and give him an opportunity of making a written statement thereon, The of ficer In charge, in notifying any such vacancies to any applicant for em ployment, shnll also inform him of the statements that have been filed. 1 All of the expense Is borne by the government, a, special appropriation being set aside for the purpose. State to Have Real Printer. Oklahoma printers are jubilant over the new state printer bill passed at the present session of the legislature. This act provides for the election of the state printer and requires candi dates to have at least eight years' ex perience as u journeyman printer, and the term "Journeyman printer" is de fined as a printer wrfo, has served an apprenticeship of at least four years. LUNCH AT THE FACTORY. ' How the Silk Mill Girls Partake of Their Midday Meal. I have implied that the eating of tie midday meal is a very haphazard oper ation. Only in the rarest cases is a separate lunch" room provided. In a study of thirty-two factories in a sin gle industry we found ju.it two that did so. The dinner "hour" la almost universally a half hour, so that only the few girls who live practically at the factory door re enabled to go home. Those who are left have at their disposal within the mill a seat on the oily floor or on a bobbin tray Iu a room which often reeks of ill smell ing raw material. Iu the summer it is possible to go out of doors, and where the location of the factory makes it practicable this is the general rule. But sometimes this wholesome alter native is not offered. I recall one factory situated on a bed of fine coal dust between two rail road tracks. The sole choice lay be tween a seat ou the coal heap In the blaze of the sun or on the oily floor of the mill in an atmosphere where the noise of the machinery gave no possi bility of rest. Some of my most vivid and painful recollections of thf noon hour call up pictures of weary figures crouched on a heap of spools, their heads sunk between their hands as if to shut out the clatter of the machin ery on account of the short lunch pe riod some factories keep their machin ery in motion instead of shutting it down their shoeless feet on s floor strewn with the remains of thejr own and other luncheons. Florence San vllle, Secretary Pennsylvania Consum ers' League, in Harper's. HELP THE HATTERS. Every Union Workman Should Wear a Label In His Hat. Nothing In the' whole history of or ganized labor has been more striking, spectacular or manly than the heroic struggle of the union hatters of the country for elementary rights against frightful odds. That the organization of this craft has been able to maintain itself and keep on presenting an un daunted front to its assailants is really wonderful. And now it is winning new triumphs, which is also a remark able, thing: Recently it gained three big factories in Philadelphia. It is the duty of every union work man to help the hatters all be can. and one way In which he can be of serv ice to the heroic and struggling union is by demanding the union label In ev ery hat he buys and getting his friends to do the same. This will not cost him much exertion, and it will be of substantial benefit to an organization that has suffered much and is entitled to all credit for the manner In which It has met the issues involved without quailing in the presence of its foes or surrendering anything of Its manhood. The Philadelphia houses which have returned to union conditions complain bitterly of the manner in which they were treated by the Manufacturers' association and declare they have had enough of fighting the unions. Minne apolis Union Advocate. British Laborers Warned.- Courtenay W. Bennett, British con sul general at New York, in bis annual report to the British government cau tions emigrants against assuming that New York is an Eldorado for the workingman. "It is not." he i says. "The expenses of living are so high and so constantly rising that a 'man in regular work in the United Kingdom at lower wages is as well if not .better off than his fellow workmen in New York at the higher wages here, 1 while If out of work be is better off at home. It is- estimated that to live- in decency here- a man with a wife and two children- must spend just $1,090 a year." For Better Living Conditions. Boston Central Labor union dele gates' have Indorsed the principle of old age- pensions, called for a more-adequate- and effective inspection of the- .factories and workshops of the state and- favored tbe calling of a state convention of representatives of all the centraF labor unions in the state for the- purpose of discussing the best means of bettering the health conditions- ia the homes and workshops.. LABOR BRIEFS, i New York, ministers are aiding letter carrier ah in their crusade ior a national law assuring one day of rest iu seven for all mall men. ' Unionists of Nova Scotia are going; to- attempt to secure the enactment of a law compelling employers to recog nize and treat with organized labor. The sheet metal workers of Toledo. O., are revising their constitution. making it compulsory to attend a night school maintained by the union. The members are striving to increase their efficiency. Four hundred and fifty thousand wage earners in Greater New York are receiving wages smaller than $300 a year, the "minimum of decency" fixed by tbe annual report of the com mittee on congestion of population. The Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn railroad recently aunounced a '5 per cent wage increase for every employee to date from March 31. It is tbe third increase voluntarily granted by tbe road since 1003. The total wage in creases since that time average about 20 per cent. The United Brotherhood of Carpen ters and Joiners, the second largest in ternational union in the country, has sent a letter to Its various locals an nouncing that the twenty-ninth anni versary of its Institution will occur In August. The letter nnnounces that each local in expected to observe the event. Surgeon's Story He Saw the First Part of a Drama and Wat an Actor In the Second Part. By BEVERLY WORTHINGTON. Copyright, 1910. by American Press Association. I am a surgeon, and my home is in Florence, Italy. When a young man I studied at a college of physicians and Burgeons in my uative country, Amer ica, but, possessing ' a taste for art, concluded to change my profession. Coming here to Florence, I studied art for awhile, but soon saw that I did not possess the talent necessary to make an artist Having fallen iu love with this delightful city, 1 remained, hanging out my shingle as a surgeon. One night 1 attended a ball at the Pitti palace. It was my first appear ance among the aristocracy of Flor ence, and I was much Interested in watching the people there, few. of whom I bad ever seen. A young girl with a gentleman attendant on each side of her walked by me. The ap pearance of tbe three told a story. The man on her left was young, hand some, in every way attractive. Be on her right was past middle age and disagreeable looking as tbe other was engaging. As they passed me he gave the younger man a malignant look. The girl appeared to be much troubled. It was plain that her heart was with the man on her left, that she was con strained to choose the man on her right and that the two men hated each other on her account. "Everywhere." I remarked to my self, "tbe stream of life Is troubled. To be rich, to be prominent, does not render one immune from that which is disagreeable. Happy love has evident ly come to this young girl, to be inter fered with by one who, judging from her expression, has some claim upon her. How I should like to know tbe story!" 1 As I thought the last words I little dreamed that within a few hours a climax would come In the drama be ing enacted by these three persons and that I would come upon the stage for a, minor part. When I left the palace J went directly to my rooms and to bed., An hour later I was awakened from a sound - sleep by a violent knocking. I arose, slipped on a gown and opened the door. 'Two gentlemen In evening dress stepped into the room. "You are tbe American surgeon, I believe?" said one. v "At your, services" I replied. "You are wanted to attend a man dangerously wounded." said tbe other. You are chosen partly on account of your standing in your profession, but principally because yon are not one of our circle. We do not like our affairs to be known. I must ask you to per mit me to blindfold you." I objected to this, but one of the men put his hand to his hip pocket and drew forth a small pistol with mother-of-pearl mountings, while the other produced a stiletto. I picked ' up my bag of instruments and suffered them1 to tie a handkerchief about my eyes. They led me oat to tbe sidewalk, told me to raise my foot, and I stepped into a carriage. "Drive a roundabout way." I heard one of tbe gentlemen say. "No." interposed! the other. H may Meed to death We must go as quick ly as possible." There was no need to make turns. for I had no' Idea where they were taking me. In- what I supposed t be ten minutes the carriage stopped1. 1 was helped out and! soon by the in creased warmth- of the atr felt myself to be In a building. Then I mounted steps, and at hrat the bandage wns taken off my eyes. I was standing beside a bed on wfiivh lay mirabil'e dicta the young man t had seen walk ing oo the left of the- jrtrl at the Pttrt. 1 knew too well the danger of show ing any sign of recognition. "Seoore Dottorl;"" he- said with a fee ble voice, "I have beet stabbed on the left side here." uncovering. "It Is near the heart." It was near the- heart, trot had for tunately just escaped thwt organ. After an examination I assured the patient that If he kept perfectly quiet till the wound should heal he would recover. But I thought that, considering its close proximity to a vital organ, a sur geon should remain with him until a healing should be established. "Then." said one of the raep who had brought me. "yon must remain. We 9o not care that two surgeons should be introduced here Just now." "But my practice my patients?" "All damages to your practice shall be liberally paid for." I made a virtue of necessity and as sented. Meanwhile I had bandaged the cut and when I had finished' turned and looked about me. I was In one of those old palaces, as they are called In Florence, belonging to some influ ential family. The furniture, at least some of it. must have been several hundred yenrs old." The bed on which the wounded man lay was canopied. On tbe walls were paintings, some of which I recognized as masterpieces of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. There was no one Iu the room except the two men who brought me and the patient. I directed that a large lounge of antique pattern should be made comfortable for me to sleep on. as It would be best for me to be very' near the patient. Then the men who bad brought me left, one of them first say ing to me: 'Senore Dottori. we are very glad to hear you say that tbe patient has so good a chanc. for his life. When you leave here be discreet and all will be well with you, but if you talk well, all I have to say Is you will not talk very long." I remained a week at the palace, the name of which I did not know. In deed. I was not permitted to leave the room of the patient, my meals all be lng served there. My mail was brought me, and It was amusing for the first day or two to read the mes sages of my patients with reference to my sudden disappearance. Then I ask ed those who had kidnaped me to leave word at my apartments that I had been called to Sienna on u very Important case. This had tbe effect to quiet those who sought me. My patient turned out to be as en gaging a man us I had deemed him to be when he passed me in the Pitti palace. "Your effort," I said to him one day. to keep your drama it came very near being a tragedy from me would possibly have been successful bad it not been that I was at the ball at the Petti palace the night you were stab bed. I saw you pass me with the man who stabbed you and the lady for whom you were stabbed. So you see it wo"' ' safer for you to tell me the v ry, since' I have a part of It. " .ing myself to secrecy, rather i. .. 40 permit me to go away with what I already have unpledged." He was not only very much aston ished, but saw the reasonableness of what I said. . "I did not notice you." he replied, "at tbe ball and supposed tbat you had no position in court society. An Ital ian surgeon would have been uuavall able for us. We are all so interlaced socially, those below constantly watch ing those above and all watching one another, that we dare not trust nuy one of our own number. You. as an American, are not mixed In our jeal ousies, our disputes, our" "Assassinations." "You are wrong there. Thee are no assassinations in modern Italy. 1 fought with the Duke But I will tell yon the story and have every, con fidence that you will not reveal It. "I am Count Baradini. and . my an cestors have lived in this palace since the twelfth century. The man you saw on the other side of the senorina at the ball was the Duke of Abolino. a relative of the king. The senorina herself Is tbe daughter of the Countess Francoccio, an old family tbat sprang up under the Influence of Lorenzo de' Medici, commonly called Lorenzo tbe Magnificent. Senorina Blanca Fran coccio and myself have been lovers ever since I was sixteen and she four teen years old. Upon her entrance into society lately cj her eighteenth birth day the duke saw her and became de sirous of possessing her. He Is a widower, very rich and has great in fluence with the king. Soon after see ing Senorina Bianea be made a formal application for her hand. Her mother her father is dead urged ber to ac cept what is to be considered in a worldly point of view a better position than I could give ber. To be a duchess and rich is higher in the worldly scale than to be a countess and with no pos sessions except this old palace. As for Blanca. her heart is all mine, as mine is hers, and if left to . ber own will she would refuse tbe duke to marry me. ' Indeed, rather than wed with him she declares she will go into a convent. 1 "Tbe duke was expecting to have bis own way in the matter when at tbe recent ball at the Pitt) he discov ered tbat I was his rival. 1 was with Senorina Blanca a few minutes before we passed you. when tbe duke joined her and. by a look bade me give way to him. I asked the lady .to go with me into another apartment. Sbe as sented; whereupon the duke went with us. On reaching tbe other room Blan ca showed tbe duke so plainly tbat his presence was not desirable that be left us, giving me a malignant look as be did s" -hut plainly meant I am a man much importance to be in- terfe ib by such as you. "On leaving the palace tbe duke, who took ocasldb tw go out at the same time as I. jostled me. Seeing that I must have It out witb him. I sent him a challenge. "Just at present the king would be furions if be knew that members of tbe nobility to whom be looks for sup port, especially his relative, bad fought a duel. If 1 were known to have sent a challenge to the Duke of Abolino I should in some way be made to suffer. I met him within an hour after we left the Petti: but. realizing my posi tion, I did not dare even pink bim. He came very near killing me. as you see. and 1 doubt not will be disappoint ed If I recover. "The duke and my second joined In 'erence as to how to keep the mat a secret and decided to call upon you to attend me. "There you have the story so far as it has been enacted." ' The balance of tbe tale I learned from Count Baradini after he had re covered. Senorina Bianca was com manded by her mother to marry the duke, and the king sent a message to say that he would be pleased at a match between ber and bis well be loved cousin. Despite these commands and requests the girl flatly refused to marry any one but the man she loved, and when those who were conspiring against ber found It Impossible to move her they desisted, and finally her mother gave a reluctant consent tbat she should marry the count. When the wedding came off I 'was present and had a pleasant chat with the bride about ber husband's wound ing, of which sbe bad been kept In Ig norance till tbe affair had blown over. FAMOUS AGITATORS They Have Risen Up Wherever Tyranny Reigned. LEADERS OF ALL PR0GRESC. To the Men Who Were Not Afraid to Oo What They Knew to Be Right the World Owes All the Advance It naa iviaao. The word "agitator" is a favorite one with corporation officials. In the corporate view it includes any one who hus the courage to stand up and ex- nruoa hlu miiii-ii-fliiiiia unit (in1n1.inao.ktk I" " " . .v ........ 1 vu cerning abuses that exist in tbe serv ice. But this blind antagonism is not altogether confined to corporations. There are some people who are bit terly opposed to agitators and who.- if they could only have their .own way. would eternally silence them by proc ess of law. and some of these people are good people, too. and call them selves Christians, though how a real downright, honest, conscientious Chris tian can take such a iKisitiou we ut terly fail to understand. The agitator is to society what a stream of pure ' spring water is to a pool stop the flow and the pool stagnates, becomes cov ered with scum and throws off Its deadly malaria on the surrounding air. It is the agitator that keeps society , from stagnating and imparts life to the community iu which he moves. The agitator holds au honored place in history in fact, the most honored. Moses was au agitator. He dared to stand out and agitate for better con-' iiitinfin for rhf iiiiiilrin nf lemul unit he had to flee from Egypt for his life because he protested against the bond age oi uis peopur. ( ujijan was an agi tator who protested against the wick edness of Abab and a corrupt court, and he had to See Into the wilderness to escape tbe vengeance of the kiug. rlous agitator. He was what the modern capitalistic apologist would call a calamity howler. And agitator could be placed opposite tbe name of uearly every old time prophet. Jesus Christ was the greatest of all airitntors. Hp enme ni'iiiiiiiindiniT n doctrine that would literally turn the whole world right side up. and be was bounded to tbe death aud crucified be cause be taught the doctrine of human brotherhood and the application of tbe Golden Rule. Paul was a mighty agitator, and be had for company tbe brotherhood of tbe apostles. 1 , . . . . Garrison was an agitator when be' protested against human slavery, and he was rotten egged and had many narrow escapes for bis life. Tbe reader of history is aware that- whpwvpr rvrannv hsii rAfemurl nrhnr. Qtrai T"i (. ti f hack pluikn nn k-i nifkwfhmitv the wrong, the agitator has always first got in his work. It is the agitator that always leads and swings aloft the hammer of the truth. The agitator is tbe man who is not content witb things as tbey are, but desires to Im prove them. He is the man who be. things and higher ideals. It is no- wonder that wrong-doers in hitrh nlaces. that corrupt corporations and unprin cipled politicians, decry and misrepre sent loe agitator. xuey Know wuai his work means, and if the people were wise denunciations from such a source should be tbe best certificate of char acter. -LU uie wic wuu uuvv sucu u uvi; and unreasonable dread of the agita tor we might remark that there is one and that country is China. China ' is the stagnant pool where all Is calm repose and where no turbulent life giving stream disturbs ana agitate Ti . ncvAt. .hininnF till f What LUU ft... . . Vft.UUt.kUt3 0U. .....ka k.Uk.. China is Christendom would be but out and protest against unjust condi- tions. ( Tbank God, reader, tbat yon live in a land where tbe agitator is a possi- unity, xlf uui kri i iui niiatwu ii an unfailing indication of life. Where there Is no agitation there is death... ' oxriKers rue ouigivn ui (m iruH, Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond. r i - - P.l Jf. ft I - pastor of St. John s Protestant Jfiplsco- pal church. Philadelphia, in a recent 13.71 111 W 11 VU k Uk.lUA.VU .U U1VUC1U Ufe" declared there has. been a con- : tmuous crocinxiou going on auu luai tne prosperity oi tne nation nas sen- nnalv 11 i.M 1 1 mill I? iillTM-l 11 ir f thfl ttTk)- ley 1.1 tivtT. ui . aiuuluvuu uiu. , "These men who represent large financial interests should assume : a greater degree of responsibility for the 1 . 11 Il Tl I 1. .. .1 . t .J . have so far shown. They seem to fear getting down on tbe level with hard handed workingmen. The present strike shows the absolute need for a practical brotherhood. "How nobly have our strikers dis played their devotion to Christ's cause! Tbey are true missionaries . of the cross, and I ball them as worthy to stand before any band of eastern cru saders who. tried in ages past to save the sacred tomb. They seek to rescue Buueiuig uuuiauiiv uuiu luv vn 1 v& greed, selfishness, evil mindedness and vulgar human ideals." n...i.:.l In.n.ftnra The Wisconsin Industrial insurance committee has made good progress In its investigation of the cost or acci dents and now has Hinder considera tion the first draft of a bill which prior to a new series of public bearings to W UCIU IU Allll 11 11 1 w DVUl w ftukui.- facturers and . to labor organizations throughout the state. '