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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
CHINESE "HELLO GIRLS"
HoivE ME- wo SING" INSTEAD OF
NO. UMPTY-sTEEN.
In San FrancIsco's Chinatown Girls In
Native Costume Attend Switch
boards In Pagoda-Like
Exchange.

San Francisco, Cal.-The strangest
hello girls" in the strangest tele-
phone exchange in the country are ten
little Chinese maids in Chinatown, In
this city. 1t is the only foreign ex.
change in the United States, and was
built about year ago. It Is one of
the show places of the section, always
kept ready for inspection
1t Is not an easy matter for the
telephone company to secure these
picturesque but practical Chinese
girls. 1t was almost unprecedented
for any little maid from Chinese
house to go out to business, but long
practice has proved that nice young
girls are indispensable to the tele-
phone business, and 1t was not likely
that white girls would be sufficiently
acquainted with the Chinese language,
80 diplomacy, persuasion, concessions
to custom, the erection Of josh and
many arguments had to be tried to
fill the positions In the new exchange
with the proper young persons. No
shirtwaists and no skirts and puffed
hair do these hello girls adopt for busi-
ness wear, but their own comfortable
and becoming Chinese costumes.
While the switchboard seems an In
congruous setting for these Orientals,
the rest Of their background Is In har-
mony. An artistic sense and probably
an eye to the commercial effect Of
such an attractive showplace caused
the constructors to make the exchange
typically Chinese in architecture and
decoration. The exterior resembles a
palace In China, consisting Of three
pagodas. The interior woodwork is in
rough cut material finished In ebony,
and the walls are paneled with glazed
tile. Highly colored fresco decorates
the upper walls and the inevitable
dragon is prominent. The latest Occi-
dental ideas are carried out In the tel
ephone equipment The San Francisco
telephone directory has to have a spe-
cial section devoted to the Chinatown
exchange, but printed in English, in
which you call for China whether
you want Wong Gin Tuck or Yee Sing
or the incongruous person Gay Wo, or
an American named Elmer Jones, who
comes to live In the district. Instead
of by number the Chinese call by
name when they want connection.
The Chinatown exchange Is man.
aged by an American-born Chinaman,
Loo Kun Shu, who has been In the
telephone business for ten years. The
Chinese are fond of telephoning and
patronize the companies to a remark
able degree, subscribing for the best
class of service in their homes or
places Of business. The Chinese gov
ernment last year sent over a dele
cation of Cinnamon to study tele-
phony, and has appropriated $2o,OOO,-
900 for national system of telephone
and telegraph.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
Copyright 1901. The BObbs-Morrill Coz
SYNOPSIS.

MAD Dan Maitland, on reaching his
New York bachelor club, met an attrac-
tive young woman at the door. Janitor
O'Hagan assured him no one had been
within that day. Dan discovered wom-
ans finger prints in dust on his desk,
along with a letter from his attorney.
Maitland dined with Bannerman, his at
torney. Dan set out for Greenfields, to
get his family jewels. During his walk
to the country seat, he met the young
woman in gray, whom he had seen leav-
Ing. his bachelors club. Her auto had
broken down We fived r. Bv ruse she
lost" him. Maitland. on reaching home.
surprised lady in gray, cracking the safe
took him for a well-known crook, Daniel
Anisty. Half-hypnotized, Maitland opened
his safe. took therefrom the jewels, and
gave them to her. first forming a part
nership in crime. The real Dan Anisty
sought by police of the world. appeared
on the same mission. Maitland overcame
him. He met the girl outside the house
and they sped on to New York in her au-
to. He had the jewels and she promised
to meet him that day. Maitland received
'Mr. Snaith," introducing himself as a
detective. To shield the girl in gray,
Maitland, about to show him the jew
els, supposedly lost, was felled by blow
from "Snaith's' cane. The latter proved
gems. Ansty, who was Maitlands dou-
BILE, masqueraded as the latter. The
criminal kept Maitlands engagement with
the girl in gray. He gave her the gems,
after falling in love at first sight. They
were to meet and divide the loot. Matt
land revived and regretted missing his
engagement.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
One a. m.


Not until the rich and mellow chime
had merged into the stiffness did the
intruder dare again draw breath. Com
ing as 1t had the very moment that
the door had closed noiselessly behind
her, the double stroke had sounded to
her like knell; or, perhaps more like
the prelude to the wild alarum of
tocsin, first striking her heart still
with terror. then urging it into panic
flutterings.
But these, as the minutes drew on,
marked only by the dull methodic tick
ing of the clock quieted; and at
length she mustered courage to move
from the door, against which she had
fattened herself, one hand clutching
the knob, ready to pull it open and fly
upon the first aggressive sound.
In the interval her eyes had become
accustomed to the darkness. The
study door showed a pale oblong on
her right; to her left, and little to-
ward the rear of the fiat, the door of
Maitland's bed chamber stood ajar
To this she tiptoed, standing upon the
threshold and listening with every
fiber of her being No sounds as Of
the regular respiration of sleeper
warning her. she at length peered
stealthily within; simultaneously she
pressed the button of an electric hand
lamp. It's circumscribed blaze wavered
over pillows and counterpart spotless
and undisturbed.
Then for the first time she breathed
freely, convinced that she had been
right in surmising that Maitland
would not return that night.
Since early evening she had watched
the house from the window of top
floor hall bedroom in the boarding
house opposite. Shortly before seven
she had seen Maitland, stiff and
uncompromising in rigorous even
ing dress, leave in cab. Since
then only once had light appeared in
his rooms; at about half after nine the
janitor had appeared in the study,
turning UP the gas and going to the
telephone. Whatever the nature of
the communication received, the girl
had taken it to indicate that Maitland
had decided to spend the night else
where; for the study light had
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12

The sidewalks. north and south,
swarmed with children of assorted
ages. playing with the ferocious en-
ergy Characteristic of the young Of
Harlem; their blood-curdling cries and
premature Fourth-of-July fireworks
created an appalling din,' to which.
however. the more mature denizens
had apparently become callous, through
long endurance.
Beyond the party-colored lights of a
drug store window on Seventh avenue.
the electric arcs were casting sickly
radiance upon the dusty leaves of the
tree-lined drive. The avenue itself
was crowded with motor cars and
horse-drawn pleasure vehicles, mostly
bound uptown. their occupants seeking
the cooler airs and wider spaces to be
found beyond the Harlem river and
along the Speedway. A few blocks to
tfe west Cathedral heights bulked like
a great wall, wrapped in purple shad.
ows, its jagged contour stark against
an evening sky of suave old rose.
The short and thick-set body, how
ever, seemed to have no particular ap.
preciation of the beauties of nature as
exhibited by West One Hundred and
Eighteenth street on summers even.
ing. If anything, he could apparently
have desired a cooling breeze for,
after moments doubtful considera-
tion, he unbuttoned his waistcoat and
heaved a sigh of relief.
Then, carefully shifting the butt of
a dead cigar from one corner of his
mouth to the other, where it was al
most hidden by the jutting thatch OF
his black mustache, and drawing down
over his eyes the brim of a rusty plug
hat, he thrust fat hands into the pock.
cts of his shabby trousers and lounged
against the polished pillar even more
chcrgetcally than before, n that were
possible. An unromantic, apatheuc
figure, fitting so naturally into his sur.
roundings as to demand no second look
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
WAX FIGURES SHOCK ANTHONY
Comstock Brings Law Upon Owners
OF Show Windows Who Exhibit
scantIly Attlred dummies"

New York. = Several handsome
women have been on exhibition for
some time in show windows on Broad
way. All had good figures and posed
in various advertisements. But they
all had extremely red cheeks and
bold, fixed stare. In fact, 1t was said
II passer-by came within their range
of vision they never took their eyes
off him, and their raiment was such
that In an emergency any one OF them
might have taken off Salome without
having taken off anything else.
SO some persons complained TO
Anthony Comstock of the Society for
the Prevention of Vice. Mr. ComstocK
went to the manufacturers whose
show windows the women adorned
and ordered the women out OF the
windows.
Mr.. Comstock told the manufactur-
ers they would be liable to arrest and'
II convicted, to fine and Imprisonment
If they permitted the women to reap
pear in public. The manufacturers
promptly agreed to keep, the women
under cover. The women, thus SOL
emnly raided and convicted OF I'M
propriety, were made Of wax.
Mr.. Comstock said: Many COM
plants about the figures reached me.
The exhibition was harmful to good
morals. The figures were very objec'
tionable. read the law to the man
who put the figures in the windows
and they were taken out, that's ALL"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12

pcsite.
even from the most observant; yet one
seeming to possess a magnetic attrac-
tion for the eyes of the hallboy of the
apartment hotel (who, acquainted by
sight and hearsay with the stout gen
tleman's identity and calling, bent
upon him a steadfast and adoring re.
gard, as well as for the policeman
who lorded it on the St. Nicholas ave-
nue. corner, in front of the real estate
Office, and who from time to time
shifted his contemplation from the in
finite spaces of the heavens, the better
to exchange furtive nod with the
idler in the hotel doorway.
Presently-at no great lapse of time
after the short and thick-set man had
slowed away his watch-out of the
thronged sidewalks of Seventh avenue
man appeared, walking west on the
north side of the street and reviewing
carelessly the numbers on the illumin
ated fanlights; tall man, dressed all
In gray, and swinging a thin walking
stick
The short, thick-set person assumed
a mien of more intense abstraction
than ever.
The tall man in gray paused indefi-
nitely before the brownstone stoop of
the house numbered 2O5, then swung
up the steps and into the vestibule
Here he halted, bending over to scru-
tinize the names on the letter boxes.
The short, thick-set man reluctantly
detached himself from his polished
pillar and waddled ungracefully across
the street.
The policeman on the corner seemed
suddenly interested in Seventh ave-
nue., and walked in that direction.
The gray man, having vainly de-
ciphered all the names on one side
of the vestibule, Strengthened up and
turned his attention to the opposite
wall, either unconscious of or indif-
ferent to the shuttle of feet on the
stoop behind him.
The short, thick-set man removed
one hand from pocket and tapped the
gray man gently on the shoulder.
"Lookin' for McCabe. Anisty?" he
inquired, genially..
The gray man turned slowly, exhib-
iting a countenance blank with aston
isRment. "Beg pardon?" he drawled
and then, with a dawning CLEAN of
recoenition IN his eyes: why. good
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12

evening, Hickey What brings you
up this way?"
The short, thick-set man permitted
his jaw to droop and his eyes to pro-
trude for some seconds. "Oh," he
said in tone of great disgust, "helli"
He pulled himself together with an
effort. Excuse me, Mr.. Maitland" he
stammered, 81 wasn't lookin' for yeh."
"To the contrary, l gather from your
greeting you were expecting our
friend, Mr. Anisty?" And the gray
man smiled.
Hickey smiled in sympathy, but with
less evident relish of the situations
hrmor.
That's right" he admitted. Got a
tip from the c'miss'ner's Office this
evening that Anisty would be here at
seven o'clock lookin' for a party
named McCabe. / guess it's bum tip,
all right; but of course l got to look
into it."
Most assuredly." The gray man
bent and inspected the names again.
81 am hunting up an old friend" he
explained, carelessly; "a man named
Simmons-knew him in college-down
on his luck-wrote me yesterday.
There he is: Fourth floor, east. I'll
see you when l come down, hope, Mr..
Hickey"
| The automatic lock clicked and the
door swung open; the gray man pass
ing through and up the stairs. Hickey,
ostentatiously ignoring the existence
of the policeman, returned to his post
OF observation.
At eight o'clock he was still there,
looking bored.
At $3.50 he was still there, wearing
a puzzled expression.
At nine he called the adoring hall
boy, gave him quarter with minute
instructions, and saw him disappear
into the hallway of No. 9O5. Three
minutes later the boy was back,
breathless but enthusiastic.
"Missis Simmons" he explained be-
tween gasps, says she amt never
heard Of nobody named Maitland.
Somebody rang her bell while ago
an apologized for disturbin' her-said
he wanted the folks on the top floor.
l guess yer man went acrost the roofs;
them houses is all connected, and yuh
en- walk clear from the corner here
tub halfway up tub Nineteenth street,
on Sain' Nicholas avenoo."
"Uh-huh," laconically returned the
detective. Thanks" And turning on
his heel, walked westward.
The policeman crossed the street
to detain him for moments chat.
II guess it's all off, Jim," Hickey
told him. Some one must We tipped
that crook off. Anyway, amt goin'
to wait no longer"
II wouldn't neither" agreed the uni
formed member. Say, who's yer
friend yeh was talkin' tub, while
ago?"
"Oh, frien' Of mine. Yeh didn't have
no call to git excited then, jim
G'night."
And Hickey proceeded westward, a
listless and preoccupied man by the
vacant eye of him. But when he
emerged into the glare of Eighth ave-
nue. his face was unusually red. Which
may have been due to the heat. And
just before boarding a downtown sur
face car, "Oh," he enunciated with gus.
to, "hell!"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
1ranp Cut Of Her Hair.

Byesville, O.-"Have you got piece
of pie to spare?" asked tramp when
Mrs. M. G. Krist answered knock
at the door. She told him to step into
the kitchen. There, while her back
was turned, the tramp knocked her
down and cut Off her hair. The wom-
ans screams brought crowd and tho
tramp was chased. but he escaped
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
uncIe Eben on speIIblndlna,

"De difficulty bout some O. desc
campaign speeches." said Uncle Eben.
"is dat dey makes me SO powerful en-
thusiastic dat can't remember jes'
whut de gemman we're talkin' bout"
Washington Star.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1911-05-12
CHAPTER VIII.-contlnued.

VERY good. sor." The janitor-valet
had previous experiences with Matt
lands generosity in grateful memory;
and shut his lips tightly in promise
of virtuous reticence.
you won't regret it. Now tell me
what you mean by saying that you saw
me go out at one this afternoon?"
Again the flood gates were lifted;
from the deluge of explanations and
protestations Maitland extracted the
general drift OF narrative. And in the
end held up his hand for silence.
81 think understand, now. You say
he had changed to my gray suit?"
O'Hagan darted into the bedroom
whence he emerged with confirmation
OF his statement.
"'Tis gone, sor, an"
"All right. But" with rueful smile
"I1l take the liberty of countermand-
ing Mr.. Snaiths order II he should
call again, O'Hagan, very much want
to see him."
Faith, and 'tis mesilf will have a
worrud or two to whisper in the ear
av him, sor," announced O'Hagan,
grimly.
I'm afraid the opportunity will be
lacking. You may fix me hot bath
now, O'Hagan, and put out my even
ing clothes. I'll dine at the club to-
night and may not be back"
And, rising. Maitland approached a
h1f ;ah hA
several minutes, cataloguing his in
juries. Taken altogether, they
amounted to little. The swelling of
his wrists and ankles was subsiding
gradually; there was slight redness
visible in the corners of his mouth,
and a shadow of discoloration on his
right temple-something that could be
concealed by brushing his hair in a
new way.
II think shall do" concluded Matt
land; there's nothing to excite partic-
uiar comment. The bulk of the sore
ness is inside"
Seven p. m.
"Time," said the short and thick-set
man casually, addressing no one in
particular.
He shut the lid of his watch with a
snap and returned the timepiece to
his waistcoat pocket. simultaneously
he surveyed both sides of the short
block between Seventh and st. Mich
olas avenues with one comprehensive
glance.
Presumably he saw nothing of inter-
est to him. 1t was not particularly
interesting block, for that matter,
though somewhat typical of the neigh
borhood The north side was lined
with five-story/ fiat buildings, their
dingy-red brick facades regularly
broken by equally dingy brownstone
stoops, as to the ground floor, by open
windows as to those above. The south
side was mostly taken up by tow
ering white apartment hotel with an
ostentatious entrance; against one Of
whose polished stone pillars the short
and thick-set man WAS lomnging.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-31

Tho into-sight looks around $4,000, against
1873 ass last year and 130.116 in 1909. Ex-
portsm this week are much larger than last
year. Galveston clear 1900 bales. New
York advices this morning were bearlsh and
the market broke sharply after Liverpool clos
ed. causing a corresponding dip here 10 l42l
for July, but this market is sold out that IL
rallies quickly bearish pressure is remov-
ed.
The first news in regard to the unfavorable
cold weather came today In the following let
ter from Schulenberg. south central Texas:
1--WE have had enough rain lately, but the
weather continues too cold. Many farmers
felt induced to plant and planted deep. COT,
ton now coming up does not look at all well
yellow. even sickly, and some dying OFT.
feel pretty certain there viii be lois plowed
over next week"
BUTTER. CHEESE AND EGGS
NEW YORK, March 30.-Butter weak; re-
eeipts $40. Creamery specials, 22c; extras,
coke: firsts 1s@19c: seconds, 16@17c; cream
fists. 'i i7a1sc: seconds. iSaisxc; state dairy
first. 21@21lSc; good to prime, 1S@20c; com
mon to fair, 15917c; process special 1s0
1S15c; extras. INC; firsts. 1871 q l6c; seconds
i4Is d15c: imitation creamery first, 1914 gle
factory current make. first, 5hd16c sec
onds lie.
Cheese steady; receipts ASIA State whole
milk special. 14hd16c; September quality.
fancy coored, lac; do white 13@13l5c; sum
mer and fall make, eolored choice, l2a @lSe
do white l1Is 6121kc; late fall good to prime
colored. re; do. white, 10I5d11c; winter make
best. 101Se; do. common to fair 9@1oc; skins
2d1 Toe.
Eggs weak: receipts 31,5T0. Fresh gathered
selected extras. 17Q1sc; first. 15Q16c; sec
selected extras 17d1Sc; first. 15A 416c; sec
onds, 15c: fresh gathered dirties, No. l, 15c;
do No. 2 14614he; fresh gathered checks
1919 al4e state, Pennsylvania and nearby
white, 1sd2Oc; do. gathered white, 17@19c;
do brown 1sc: do. brown and mixed, 161
lie; western gathered white. lT@1sc; south
ern duck eggs 25d33c: western 30@82c.
KANSAS CITY BUTTER AND EGGS.
KANSAS CITY, March 30.-Butter: Cream
cry. 2Se; firsts, 20c; seconds. lse; packing
stock, 121sc
Eggs-Extras. 15c; firsts. 13c.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET
CHICAGO, March 30.-Butter steady; cream
cries 15G22c; diaries, 14@l9c.
Eggs steady: receipts Is, 167 cases; at mark,
cases included. 1216@1Se; firsts. lac; prime
firsts, 14hc.
Cheese Steady; daisies, 1sh@1s%c; twins
1919 G12Ac; young Americas, 1871 914c; long
POT potatoes : steady; choice to fancy. 4s@5Oci
fair to good, 46947c.
Poultry firm; turkeys, dressed lec; hens, I'VE
161sc: springs, live 161zc.
Veal steady; so to 90 ID. WITS, 59ee; 60 to
IS h. WITS, shGsl4c; 50 to ITO ID. wis.,
e@10c.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-31
EIGANTIC EXPOSITION
PLANNED FOR CHICAGO
BY Federation of Churches
and Leaders of LaymenS
Missionary Movement
CBy Associates Prsss.l


CHICAGO. March 27.-An exposition
In Chicago requirins an expenditure of
500. 200 before the doors open and en-
ploying 10000 persons in its conduct is
being blanned By the declarations Of
churches and the leaders OF the laymen's
missionary movement The exposition
win be known as The World in Chica-
go and viii be held IN the coliseum II
VIII last a month and VIII bring togeth-
er missionaries. and exhibits from all
parts OF the world. The plan is 10 be
unfolded al the union meeting OF all the
Protestant churches to at the Cen
traI Young Mems Christian association
auditorium.
The exposition viii be modelled on a
similar one held IN London in 1908,
whle- was called The Orient in Lon
: don" and contained what was described
at the time as a missionary pageant
The feature Involved in the preparation
n additi IA to the gathering OF the ma
terial for exhibition and the construc-
tion OF the various exhibits is the train
ing OF the 10000 participants who so by
the name or stewards These people.
the majority or tnem young men and
women. viii be required 70 go through
q long course Of study in order 20 famil-
ferize themselves with the customs. man
ners. modes OF dres sand methods OF ma
tive manufacturing.
The stewards viii also be required 70
study the history OF missionary work.
the progress OF Christianity among the
different nations and among many par
uc-lar tribes OF savages and 10 explain
their knowledge in an interesting way.
japanese gardens and tea houses Chi
uese pagOtas. Egyptian bazars. Eastern
Indian zenas and American Indian te-ees
and Navajo blanket weavers. are among
the novel features 4sae date OF opening
the exposition viii be decided or to-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-03-31

NEW YORK. March 30.-The cotton market
opened steady at unchanged prices TO an adj
vance Of 4 points IN sympathy with the steady
showing Of Liverpool futures and the large
English spot sales, but sentiment was very
much unsettled owing t. renewed selling OF
one of the old bull leaders. and while these
offerings were largely taken by leading spot
people, II looked though the purchases
were against sale OF May May shorts were
buyers ard there was some support from Liv-
eriool. but prices gradually eased off under
the aggressive offerings Of the summer months
aud the market during the middle OF the
on old crop positions. New crop months were
again relatively steady in spite OF favorable
weather reports.
stop loss orders were reported later in the
forenoon and old crop positions sold y 70 IL
points net lower under continued liquidation
rected against July cotton. Around 14.24 for
Nav and 1897 for July. covering became more
sctive and prices rallied from the lowest be
ing about 20 points under the closing fig
ures OF last night at midday. The new crop
eased Off 20 net loss OF 466 points in sym
patty with the old crop weakness but recovered
or points OF the loss on the rally.
The market was less active during the art
ernoon and steadier on covering by early sell
ers reports that the recent cut in the price
q cotton goods had stimulated demand AMI
claims u better demand for spot cotton IN
the south. Prices rallied to within or
points Of last nights closing figures In con,
sequence but the tone OF the market was still
rather nervous and unsettled
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices on the
Tone. steady; middling. "A $500; quiet.