Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1908-07-31
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



Korean bachelors wear skirts and
are not promoted to trousers until they
marry.
The electrical house of Siemens
Holske, in Prussia, employs more than
25,O00 men.
Mail orders for merchandise are
practically unknown in China and the
East in general.
Plans are making for supplying
Cairo, Egypt, with modern sewerage
and drainage system in the near fu-
ture.
Until a few years ago Moham-
medans were greatly opposed to pho
Biography, but now they have taken it
up seriously, and some photographers
Of real merit are found among them.
A mill at Great Darlington, Mass,
was shut down in most unusual man
ner a few weeks ago, when water bugs,
crowding into the space around the en-
gine-stop push button, produced short
circuit and the consequent stoppage.
Consul General Robert J. Wynne, OF
London, reports that before a commit
tee of the British House of Commons
interesting details were given Of the
scheme for establishing in Ireland a
new electric supply generated by peat
gas, the first of the kind in Great
Britain.
In Spain about the only kind of plow
in use Is a primitive wooden affair
with one handle and tongue. To this
is hitched a pair of small oxen or Of
mules yoked up like oxen. The driver
rests his right foot on rear extension
to keep the plow from jumping out Of
the ground, steadying himself by touch
ing his left foot when he seems likely
TO lose his balance.
Mrs. Humphry Ward at women's
luncheon in New York said of the lit
erary style of n popular novelist: 1T
is an insane style. 1t makes me think
of the schoolgirl novelist who wrote:
He sprang ardently forward, but
look of soft entreaty from one of
Pearls eyes and glance of warning
darted from the other in the direction
Of her aunt forced him regretfully
back into his chair"
Senator La Toilette says of the mil
lionaires who complain about the harm
that they and their affairs have suf-
fered from governmental attacks:
These winners, with only themselves
to blame, remind me of bad little
boy. He ran bowling to his mother
oh, ma, Johnny has hurt me" And
how did bad Johnny hurt mothers little
darlingY why, was a-goin' to punch
him In the face and he ducked his head
and 1 hit my knuckles against the
WALL"
Tampa, Fla, was the background of
Golding's narrative of 1.-The Young Ma
rooners" 1t and it's surroundings were
wilderness. Tampa is to-day the bust
ness metropolis of Southern Florida.
Last year it made and sold 2S9,0OO,C00
cigars, the largest number of clear la
vanas ever made in one year in any
city>in the world. 1t has 165 cigar fac
tories, employing 1000 people, with a
pay roll of nearly $10O0O,0O0 year,
and an output of S20,0OO,0OO. The pop
1lation Is about $4,000.
"Servillty will disappear" said Fred
erick Van Eeden, the Dutch poet and
economist, with the disappearance Of
our present unjust social system. Ser
vility-what despicable thing it is!
A young Dutch bOokkeeper lunched one
day in Amsterdam with his employer,
a millionaire tulip dealer. Suddenly
| the millionaire shifted. But, my dear
Hans, he said to the bookkeeper, I'm
afraid your egg is bad oh, SIR
murmured the servile clerk, flushing
deeply, 'really-er-some parts of it
are very good, indeed"
In humorous defense of outspoken
and frank methods Senator Tillman
says: "These people who always keep
calm fill me with mistrust. Those that
never lose their temper l suspect. He
who wears, under abuse, an angelic
smile is apt to be hypocrite. An
old South Carolina deacon once said
to me with chuckle: Keep yo' tenn
pah, son. Don't yo' quarrel with no
angry pusson. A soft answah am allus
best. Hits commanded, an fuhther-
mo-, sonny, hit makes 'em maddahn'b
anything else yo could say"
1t may become ere long a seriously
debated point whether a tax upon
bachelors might not be imposed to the
advantage not only Of the imperial ex-
chequer, but to the position of the ever
growing army of women In our popu-
lation. Such tax would be a revival.