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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-15
kOREA'S new WOMEN
CONTINUED From Page Fourteen.)

IN the church after our ceremony. or
as near that as Korean ideals will per
mt. Today the million odd marriages
winch take place yearly are as par
barous as those Of. darkest Africa.
Children are often betrothed at birth.
ana a seVen-yedr-Old girl NAV be mar
fled to q man Of twenty. or a boy of
or a BOY OF nine to a girl of nineteen.
As a rule, the marriages take place
before the children have reached the
age OF pupils Of the first class in the
nigh schools, and a girl is an old maid
at eighteen or twenty.
Among the queer wedding customs
IS the gluing the brides eyes shut. SO
that n can see nothing, and eepin
them 50 tor two or three days. An
other is that the bride will not speak
to the groom for at least a week after
the dbl and a third that a fight
k place between her friends and
mis- on the way to the and
the one represented by the party de-
feated is considered unlucky. Neither
pride nor groom sees each other until
they are married. After that the girl
Is practically the slave of her hlIs-
Dand and his parents. who may treat
her as they please. AS she grows
older, or when her husband is tired
OF her, he brings one or more second
AIRY wives into the house and she has
TO submit. Divorces are EASY on the
part on the husband, but they are con-
sldered disreputable, and domestic
troubles usually result in adding a
or SO to the establishment
rather than showing the old wife out
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-15

If that's tn kind IL a job
a sultan has, Til ave it for amy wan
to take that wants it. Why, be hiv-
ems. whin tn young Turks com to
search tn palace like tn pthrites
they are. to find if he'd left amy mon
ev behind, divvil tn thrace they
found IL amy thing hat I'd thrade
FIR me back room. I begun to feel
soory FIR tn DOR old miscreent. In
stead Of lollin' on a sofy an listenin'
to tn song IL tn mockin bur-rud in
tn p~omgranite threes while ladies
firm tn chorus Of tn Black Crook
famed him with fans " peacock
feathers, tn miserable Old haythen
was locked up in a garnet with a re-
yolver in his hand ready to shoot
amy wan that come next or near him.
He suffered firm dyspepsia an he
cudden't sleep nights. He could ate
nawthin' thronger thin milk toast. He
was FORCED by fashion to have five
hundred wives viii wan was abund-
ant. Take it all in al. he led a dogs
life, an I bet We he's happier now
where he is. watherin' tn geeranyums,
mowin' tn lawn IN sneakin' into
Constantinople iv a Saturday night an
seem Circassyan girls dancin fr tn
first time in his life. His children
are all grown up an safe in jail. He
has four hundred and eighty-nine
less wives, but eliven are a good many
in tn suburbs; he has put away a few
paiSthreS for q rainy day. Out-iV-
dure life may improve his health an
l shudden't Wondher if ye'd read some
day in tn pa-aper: At tn StambooI
county fair tn first prize FIR Poland
Chiny hens was won by a. Hamid, tn
popular ~eX-sultan.'
"Ye can't tell anything about it.
Give tn poor man a chance, says I.
There ma be tn maxim iv a dacent
citizen in him afther all. What OPP
p~orchunity has he had, tell me? What
We eNpict firm q man that niyer was
taught anything betther thin that he
cud do amy thing he wanted to do
without bein' down FIR it. It doesn't
make amy difference whether It's a
policeman or tn Rajah " Beloochis-
tan, be Cora. put a club in his hand
an tel him that he. a use it. an he'll
begin usin' it tomorrah. He'll break
wan head tomorrah, two tn next day
an befure he's been on tn foorce "
tn throne q year it'll be q Nhack on
tn chimbly befure he says: How are
ye.' By an by he'll get SO NANNY GeO-
pie afraid il him that he'll be in dan
ger, an thatll make him afraid iv
thin an thin he'll be more danger
Gus thin ever. d'y mond? TIL only man
We need to be afraid IL is tn man
that's afraid IN We. an that's What
If Id thought bout it Whin / r-read "
me frind mudherin' eopIee Id've
known they'd find him thriblin' in a
room an shoOtin' at tn hired girl
Whin she come in with his porridge.
SO I'm glad afther all hat l didn't
put in me application. / want no mar
TO fear me. Id hate to e more " a
coward thin I am"
What are these Turkish athroci-
ties " been readin' about?' said
Mr.. Hennessy.
Il don't know" said Mr.. Dooley.
I don't keep thin. Have q cigar
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-15
BETTER STAY AT HOME.
Carolina More Desirable Than one
Thousand Square Feet in Okla
h6nD3
(WiIkesboro ChronicIe.)

CNilkesbOro ChrOnicIe.)
Mr.. VIM. J. Horton. Of ElkTille, Va
in town & few days last week. IL
recently returned from q p~rospecttl-
trip through Oklahoma and othH-
States in that section. He says I'll
principal industries are continual
strong winds laden with sand thai
STILES you, sickly mean water, and cE-
clones. and the principal o~ccupatio-
of the people is making 'dug-oUts
and running into them to escape thA
cyclones. He says that the wind con-
stantly blows SO hard that you have
to hold on your lat with both hands.
for if it once gets away from you.
you can't catch it unless YOU have 6
grey hound or jack rabbit trained for
the business. He says he has com
to the conclusion that standing room
in Western North Carolina is nor
desirable than a thousand quar7 feet
in the section of Oklahoma he saw.
He will probably locate at WiIkesbor2
for awhile.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-06-15

Newed CATER the ceremony
Dearest, do you really think I'll prove
a satisfactory mate?
Mrs. NeWed-Oh, [ guess you'll 90
as a mate, all right. Now look me
over and tell me What you think OF
your acknowledgements.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Personal Matter Now.

western editor has the following
to say of the Swat the Fly cam
paish' Il .s.H
1.-THE Sentinel has been neither en-
thuslastlc nor hopeful concerning this
swat the fly business. but it can be
depended upon hereafter to swat the
fly at every opportunity. Some I'M
regenerate human yesterday evening
left an unscreened window open near
the editors desk and two million lilies
have been making life miserable for
him all day. The editors present in
terest in 'swatting the fly recalls
story told by Judge King of Mime
apolis when he came home from the
Fhlllppines with the Twentieth Kan
sas, of which regiment he was men,
Der. According to King there was in
one OF the companies a young fellow
who had been taking mighty little in
terest in lighting the Filipinos. This
particular young soldier had great
fOndness for meat gravy, and had
been going too much without it during
the campaign against Aguinaldo and
his forces. One evening the soldier
got hold of little bit of meat, hunted
up pan, built little fire and started
to fix himself some gravy. He was
near the front and the Filipinos were
keeping up a desultory firing Just as
the gravy was done and the soldier
was taking it off the fire stray
Mauser ball struck the handle of the
pan and dumped meat, gravy and all
into the fire. The disappointed soldier
for moment viewed the fire liz Which
his hopes of a satisfied appetite for
gravy were being rapidly destroyed
and then in righteous and profane
wrath he ran for his rife. The rifle
secured, he opened rapid fire in the
direction of the insurgents, saying:
Heretofore have taken only a per
functory interest in this fight From
now on it is personal matter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
SunfIower Philosophy.
(Atchison Kan. Globe).

(Atchison Kan. Globe).
1t is hard to determine whether some
men are towards or only cautious.
Killing weeds is more patriotic at
present than waving a flag and sing
ing The national air.
When woman has been married
twice we can't help thinking she is a
little bit proud of it.
PERHAPS one reason mother never
looks natural when lying in her coffin
is that it is the first time her family
ever saw her hands folded.
When there is a spot on the table
cloth at the guests place, and the
hostess offers no apology to him, it is
time for the guest to take the hint and
60
The average girl brought up in re-
ligious family has the same fierce de-
sire to become a missionary that boy
has 20 go out West and fight Indians.
The real dread of mon is not the
devil, but old age. An old gentleman,
who is considerably past 20, yester-
day worked II hours on a farm below
town picking peas. He managed to
earn 81 cents. He needs pair OF
shoes and is working to earn them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
The Merchant Marine.
(Kansas City JourralO

The formal Inauguration of a sys-
tematic and determined campaign in
behalf of ship subsidies is move
ment which is particularly timely.
The delay of a few more years under
present conditions would witness the
complete elimination of the Stars and
Stripes as a merchant marine flag.
On both sides of the continent the
same deplorable spectacle is presented.
On the Atlantic coast there are no
American ships plying to the great
Continental tourist ports in the pas
senger trade or carrying the ocean ton
mage of American exports and imports,
while only few vessels flying the
American flag make their way to
England On the other side of the
United States the dwindling Oriental
tonnage is a sinister monument to the
shortsightedness of our business poll
cies, the climax being reached in the
recent law which is gradually wiping
out the last opportunity private enter
prise has OF competing with the other
countries of the world.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
President w. n. Taft.

How Mr.. Taft does grow! When he
was first proposed as candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
Presidency of the United States he
met with strong opposition based upon
his relations with the Roosevelt ad.
mlnistration, many taking the ground
that he void be a dummy" and that
Roosevelt will still do the everyday
work expected of a Chief Executive
of this nation. The people of this
| country elected Taft by an unusually
large majority. Immediately upon his
election and Inauguration. President
Roosevelt hied himself to the wilds of
darkest Africa, thus placing as much
territory as possible between himself
and the man whom the Democrats had
claimed would be his mouthpiece.
President Taft has not appeared lone
ly for one moment. He has attended
strictly to business and has already
done a great deal toward Shaking
down the machinery of his admins
traticn.
The revision of the tariff affecting 80
odd millions of people spread over one
of the largest nations on the globe
has been practically accomplished He
has directed the writing into this bill
of tax against corporations and all
the while has by some rare gift pre-
served the confidence of the great
business interests of this nation in his
ability to ultimately solve whatever
problems are presented to him. When
sectional interests threatened to de-
lay the adoption of a tariff bill fair to
| all, President Taft, by his influence
and with the intelligent cooperation Of
the New England delegation, held the
Senate to the business at hand.
| From time to time, the President has
said what he had to say in regard to
the situation, in a quiet business like
manner which compelled attention and
the adoption of his ideas. Consequent
ly, the country was not greatly sur
prised when in his speech at Yale he
gave voice to the opinion that any
dominant party needs a well-organized
and efficient opposition. The Demo-
cratic press has put all sorts of con-
distractions on this remark, but the
people at large are prone to believe
that he meant exactly what he said.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Cuba-A State?

Cubas new difficulties raise again
the question as to whether she is capa>
BILE of governing herself This involves
the United States, for this country has
taken such a lively interest in her
affairs that the rest of the world eX-
poets her to see that CUBA not only
behaves but permits capital in
vested there to pursue it's business
way with safety and reasonable profit.
If Cuba does not see her way clear to
comply with the rules of proprety to-
ward her citizens as well as the
stranger within her gates, the United
States will again be called upon to
The United States intended in '9S TO
free Cuba or to make of her an indie
pendent nation There followed a more
or less stormy period of Cuban indie
pendence. The time came, however,
when the United States was compelled
to assume direct supervision
over Cuba's affairs. After a
time it was deemed safe to leave Cuba
to her own devices again and the
course of events indicates that she
has fallen into evil ways. The United
States of America cannot maintain a
save Cuba, annually, biennially or
triennally. She has business enough
of her own to attend to. If the situa-
ton again demands the interference Of
the United States, it is entirely rea-
sonable to believe that this country
will adopt Cuba and bring her up in
the way she should go, as a part of
Uncle Sans ever-increasing family.
The element of cost must be con-
sidered. The United States spent
$20OOO0,000 and several hundred
human lives to expel Spain from Cuba
That debt has not been paid yet-will
not be paid-and no one expects it to
be paid except as the money again
finds it's way into the United States
through commercial channels The
military occupation of the island in
13O6-OS cost 100000 The Cuban press
states that Cuba will not pay this
debt. 1t is doubtful if she is ever
expected to pay it, except as in the
case of the first debt, through COM
mercial channels. Many Americans
have gone to Cuba and invested their
money there on the assurance that
they and their property would be ac-
corded as efficient protection as can
be expected in any civilized country.
investments were made in good faith
and will be so recognized The next
time that the flag is raised in Cuba it
will be raised to stay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Reflections of a Bachelor.

Some men go to the dogs gradually;
some get there Immediately by going
into politics.
The two persons to whom a woman's
voice can be sweetest are a small baby
she loves and large woman she hates.
1t is so next to impossible to teach a
boy to earn his own living that it's
hardly ever worth while to try if you
can support him.
There's hardly anything so good for
a mans standing in community as to
get lot of some other mans money
away from him.
All you would have to do to make a
woman interested in running sewing
machine would be to give it high
sounding name.-New York Press,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Iron.
"a the human race had

How long has the human race mad
iron? 1t is impossible to be precise III
the matter All that we know IS that
iron has been known to men 1or
very long time. In the time OF the
Assvriars it was extensively used,
iron saws. knives and other tools hav'
ing been found by Layard at Uneven.
Homer refers to the forging of iron,
while the hardening and tempering OF
steel appear to have been operations
in common use among the early Greeks.
The employment of kind of bellows
for the forging OF tools, presumably OF
iron, figures in Egyptian sculpture OF
1900 3. c.. Cast iron appears to nave
been discovered about $50 b. Z.
Through the agency of the Romans
the manufacture of iron was intro
duced all over the then known world
and into those regions where it had
not been previously known.-New York
American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
A Concentrated kentuckian.

(From the greensboro Inquirer
Notice-Know all men by these pres
ents that I, Shadrach H. Armstrong,
have coal oil for sale at Is cents a
gallon. Some say it amt good oil, but
I say it is. l will also tie your broom
corn, one-half for the other. | crush
corn every Thursday by toll gate.
Turkeys picked very promptly any day
of the week. Horseshoeing a speciality
at bits around. Watch and pistol re-
pairing guaranteed. Shoes half soled
while YOU wait. Umbrellas fixed anu
axe handles made for Is cents. VIII
teach Southern harmony and the fiddle
combine for So mo. Pictures enlarged
by new process, and my hot tamale
and hair oil recipes go $50 days for
Is cents Hair cutting only on Satur-
day evening, 20 cents a head. A good
stripper COW for sale. Also agents for
the Jones Wagon Hoist, the Tom NC
Elrath Tobacco Buster, and Foot s
Medical Advertiser. Rufe Langston Is
MY attorney and my terms is cash
first, because l know you; second be-
cause [ don't know you.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06

Rudyard Kipling was looking at the
World from the wrong end of his
telescope when he wrote that last
effusion
They said: Who has hate in the soul?
who has envied his neighbor?
Let him arise and control both that
man and his labor
They said: Who is eaten by sloth?
Whose unthrift has destroyed him
He shall levy tribute from ali because
none has employed him.
they said: Who has toied? Who hath
strven and gathered possession?
Let him be spoiled; he hath given full
proof of transgression.
1t is difficult to translate that into
State of Maine dialect, but if he
means that the World is going to the
external bow-wows just because
people are waking up to the soundnexs
of the doctrine of the brotherhood OF
man, he's little mixed that's all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Boiler EXPLOSIONS.

Some days ago the Journal COM
mented upon the fact that this
country still led the world in the num-
Der of its railroad accidents although
| in recent years, as a result of the more
general adoption of safety devices
there has been a most marked and
gratifying decrease, in the number Of
them. One of the great railway sys-
TENS of the country - the Penn
| sylvania-went through the year 1908
without the loss of a single one of the
millions of passengers which it
carried. Indeed there is reason to be-
( lieve that in a few years, notwith-
standing the fact that our railroad
mileage is considerably in excess of
the railroad mileage of Europe, travel
in this country will be fully as safe as
it is in Europe. There is still, how
ever, "A great chance for improvement
| in this country in the care of steam
boilers, although inspection today is
far more careful and general than 1t
was few years ago. In the twenty
| five years, from July l, 1882 to June
| go 1907 there were 1905 boiler
explosions in Great Britain killing
| G97 persons, and injuring 1850.
The Locomotive" from a recent
| issue of which these figures
are taken, states that from
January l. 1883 to December l, 1906--a
period of nearly twenty-four years
| there were 74O8 boiler explosions in
the United States killing 7144 persons
and injuring 1874. In Germany the
to 1907 inclusive-there were only 496
explosions, killing 319 people and
wounding Glib. During the same
period there We're S692 such explosions
in the United States killing 1851 per-
sons and injuring 13,151 The dis
crepancies shown by these figures are
little short of appalling. AS compared
with England this country has had five
times as many boiler explosions, ten
times as many killed, and seven times
as many wounded. AS compared with
Germany it has had seventeen times
as many explosions, with twenty
seven times as many killed, and
twenty-one times as many injured.
While it is true that this country
probably uses as many steam boilers
as both Great Britain and Germany
combined, this fact does not explain
the startling differences in the figures
above quoted. There can be no ques-
ton but what American methods of
handling steam boilers are far be-
hind those in use in Europe There no
man is allowed to handle a boiler who
has not served an apprenticeship and
passed rigid examination touching
his qualifications. While it is I'M
doubtedly true that the best class of
American engineers and firemen will
compare most favorably with those to
NC louLu hyWilere IN the world, IT IL
also true, that it is not uncommon in
this country to find high pressur..
boilers in the care of the merest tyros
"a condition Of affairs that would not
be tolerated for moment in the old
country. 1t is evident that the rules
and regulations governing the care Of
boilers in this country are still far be-
hind those in force in the countries of
Europe and it is to be hoped that the
startling figures given by the
Locomotive" may avail to arouse
public interest, and bring about a bet
ter condition of affairs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
The Sunny Side.

If you want to please your friend.
get through talking so he can begin
Atchison Globe.
Another increase in meat prices? Oh
WE'LL cheer up! Cabbage is nearly ripe!
Indianapolis News.
Praise Aldrich from whom all tariff
placed on the free list.-Youngstown
indicator.
Who says there is nothing in tele
pathy? Every time an animal is hurt
in Africa DR.. Long shrieks in agony
Denver Republican.
Yes, stree; the woods are full of men
who are going to establish aerial pas
senger lines, as soon as they dispose
of sufficient stock.-Gloversville Herald.
Speaker Cannon says: Il am only the
servant in the House, He is probably
the worst phase of the servant problem.
st. Louis Dispatch.
Growing children. says a writer on
household topics. require occasional
change. Yes, indeed. Some OF them
require it faster than pa can earn it.
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
A thief, says a Washington special,
entered the United States Senate and
robbed n number of visitors who went
there to listen to the debates. Easy
game, no doubt, as his victims We're
probably asleep.--Richmond News
Leader.
Progress in its eternal march tramp
les all over our fondest ideals Indians
in Michigan attended the funeral of a
noted red man in power launches In
stead of. canoes. If Hiawatha were
alive today he would probably be a
pitcher for a professional ball team
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Honest Meat Inspection.
Indianapolis News.)

News
There should be no doubt about
either the thoroughness or the good
Faith of the meat inspection at the
abattoifs and packing houses of this
country. The government pays enough
for 1t to obtain the highest class OF
skilled labor and perfect integrity
and certainly the public pays enough
for meat at present day prices-whic'i
have been going steadily upward for
the last few years to be justified In
expecting to get a wholesome product
for the money spent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Getting Ready for Real Work.
Chicago News.)

Having temporized for many
months in their languid search for
the miscreants who have been explod
ing bombs about the city at their own
sweet wills, the Chicago police and the
city hall authorities in general sud-
denly discover that the seemingly in
eXhaustible patience of the citizens is
astually exhausted. Therefore the
police must stop the bomb outrages
This is task requiring work and
enterprise and rational thought.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06

Joanquin Miller has started a
movement to build Poets home
There is a general impression that it
would he considerable easier to build
such home than it would be to find
poets toefill it. OF rhymesters we have
many, but poets are exceedingly few
and far between.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
Mr.. RockefeIIer's Pastors.
Chicago Tribune. }

AS a peaceable man. John d. Rookie
Teller must be grieved by his inability
to bring into amicable communion the
leaders in his own church family 1t
cannot fail to be distressing to him
that the pastor of his Cleveland
church, the Rev. DR.. Bastard, finds
himself i'll pleased by the ecclesiasti-
cal views and habits of the pastor OF
his New York church, the Rev. DR..
Aked.