Newberg graphic., June 04, 1914, Page 4, Image 4

resting at the gatew ay
Newberg Graphic of her the feet continents,
her snowy bos­
e. a . W OODW ARD
$1 JO Per Year in Advance
ur. JONS 4, 1914
MEXICO A GOUNTRY
F U L L O F C O N TR A STS
In the M a j number o f the Na­
t i o n a l Geographic Magazine
there is an article on "‘ Mexico
and Mexicans,” b j William Jo­
seph Showaiter, that is full of in­
teresting information for any
one w ho is in any w ay interested
in that country. In speaking o f
th e many contrasts noted in his
travels he says:
om rising to the clouds, she pests
serene in the majesty of her
might. She guards vast treas
ores o f gold and silver; emeralds
and opals adorn her brow; while
the hem of her royal robes,
dipped in the seas of tw o hemi­
spheres, is embroidered in pearls
and the riches o f the sea.
“ ‘ Mother of western civiliza­
tion!
Cradle o f the American
race! A thousand years have
been gathered into the sheaf of
time since her first cities were
built.
When the Norsemen
coasted our western shores she
had villages and towns, white-
walled temples, and spreading
palaces. W h e n the Pilgrims
landed • at Plymouth Rock, a
hundred years already h a d
passed since the soldiers o f Cor­
tes had battled with the hosts o f
Montezuma. In no country in
the world can you pass so rap­
idly from the blazing shores of
the heated tropics to the region
o f perpetual winter, from the
land o f the palm and the vine to
the land o f the lichen and the
pine.’ ”
The Graphic editor fed at the
Yamhill Hotel in McMinnville
a t the noon hour last Monday
by invitation of the School Fair
board, with J. C. Cooper, pres­
ident of the board, N. C. Maris,
the state school fair hustler, and
the editors o f the Yamhill Rec­
ord, Carlton Sentinel, News Re­
porter, and Telephone Register.
Matters pertaining to the amuse­
ment and entertainment features
o f the fair were freely discussed,
and withal it was a very enjoy­
able occasion. It is purposed to
hold another meeting soon, when
it is hoped that every newspaper
in the county may be represented.
“ Perhaps nowhere else in the
w orld is there a country so full
o f contrast as Mexico. With a
university established b e fo r e
John Harvard, Blihu Yale, or
William and M ary were born,
th e masses o f its people are hope­
lessly ignorant. With a hospital
founded before Jamestown was
even dreamed of, it is one o f the
most backward regions of the
earth in a medical way. With
natural riches greater thad those
o f a thousand Midas’s, its mass­
es are just as poor as the pro­
verbial church mouse. With a
constitution as perfect as any
organic la w in the civilized
The Graphic has received a
world, it is a nation whose rulers
lengthy
communication from the
alw ays have been a law unto
railroad
commission giving their
themselves.
decision in the matter of the ap­
“ Effigies o f Judas Iscariot—to
plication made by the Newberg
be burned, crunched, exploded, or
Telephone Co. for authority to
hanged by the neck until dead—
increase certain rates. I t is too
may be bought in the same stores
long for publication, but the gist
th at sell the latest creations of
o f it is that some concessions
the dressmakers’ and the milli­
have been made, though not all
ners’ arts from Paris. A bull
that were asked for. Within the
ring, built o f American steel and
city the rate granted is 25 cents
concrete, stands within earshot
higher, with the advance in the
o f the Republic’s leading hotel,
country about the same.
and the sound o f the perfervid
cheering o f the sun gods as they
If it is as bad at Ilwaco, Wash­
applaud their favorite matador ington, as Watson o f the Tribune
when he executes a brilliant pass, puts it you w ill do well to hold
and the band responds with the your nose when you go to that
Diana, may be wafted into the salt-sea resort. He says:
very precincts of the American
There are politicians in Pacific
Embassy itself.
county so crooked that they have
“ Here you will see a Mexican
half-breed, barefooted, wearing
a dollar pair of trousers, a fifty-
cettt shirt, and a ten-dollar som­
brero. There, a t a single glance
and within the length o f a single
-city block, you may see an In­
dian “ cargador,” a donkey, an
ox-cart, a carriage, a railroad
train, a street car, and an auto­
mobile—almost every type of lo­
comotion since Adam.
^
“ You may tread the burning
sands of a tropical desert with
tlye wet of the perpetual snow o f
tow ering mountains still upon
your shoes. You may take a
single railw ay journey o f 36
hours in which the people you
see at the railroad station will
be dressed in four different
weights of clothing.
“ Land o f the inordinately rich
and of the abjectly poor; land o f
the aboriginal Indian and o f the
twentieth-century business man;
land of perpetual snow and of
«inending summer—everywhere
you turn there is contrast, high
lights and deep shadows. P it­
tin g indeed is Ober’ s beautiful
Apostrophe to this wonderful re-
gion:
_ v
.. >
“ ‘ Mexico lies at the meeting-
place o f tw o zones—the Temper­
ate and the Torrid—and from its
geographical position, combined
w ith its altitudes, possesses a
greater variety of soil, surface,
and vegetation than any equal
area of contiguous territory in
the world. Basking in the sun­
shine o f the tropics, her head pH-
low ed in the lap of the North,
to employ a monkey wrench with
which to screw their shoes on.
When one o f these fellows meets
up with a road fund, a campaign
fund or any old fund at all, he
gazes upon it fondly and extends
both hands and coos softly, low ­
ly, sweetly: “ Let me tangle my
hands in your hair Jeannette, for
it ’s soft as the floss on the silk,
my pet.”
On page 7 will be found the
first of a series of stories on “ The
Rolling Dollar,” six in number,
which w ill appear in the Graphic
from week to week. We are all
hunting for the dollar and our
'readers will no doubt be inter­
ested in following these stories.
MY MIEN THEY 8ET
A Lw»d«n RMUurmnt That
YOU GET BARGAINS EVERY DAY
M d F m A Idl* Actor*.
O n « o f the most remarkable
teorsnts in London— that city o f
surprises— is described by s w riter
in the London News. I t is in one
o f the narrow streets leading from
Covent Garden to St. M artin’ s Une.
I t is e small and obscure piece,
but when it ia noticed o f in vitin g
appeerenoc. T h e windows are cur­
tained and only s b rief notice an­
nounces that food ia to be obtained
within.
“ Theater land,” says the w riter
o f the article, “ ia all about it, and
teemed to know i t
T h ere could
be no donbt about the profession
o f its clients, who evidently regard*
ed it as e re tre a t They were on
terms o f 'easy friendship with the
tw o preaiding ladies. One gen tle*
man who had lunched, end wno had
a face lik e doom, perhaps p ertly (by
the look o f his clothes) because be
was hard up, and partly because
tragedy may nave been his job,
ad the landladies without paving
with a bow that would have done
justice to an ambassador, and
o a t T o o r old B ill,' said a fashion­
able young lady who sat near. ' Tt*s
tim e his hard luck had finished.*
A question concerning the dis­
tinguished looking bat shabby H am ­
let, who had just gone out revealed
e “ most heartrending fact” to thé
visitor. T h e tw o proprietors o f
restaurant tom e years since «
actresses. They were in G eorge Ed-
wardee* first company. Now they
entertain any one with good food,
bat i f it happens that one is a “ pro­
fessional” and cannot pay fo r one's
meal because disengaged, “ why, then
you m erely bow and go o u t T h e
good ladies w ill understand.”
“ N o r,” says the w riter o f the ar­
ticle, “ is it a question o f chalking
it up. Actors and sailors— who are
the only folk nowadays among
whom it ia recognized that i f you
cannot pay that is no reason why
>u should not eat— register nC
you
back k debts o f th at sort in th eir ac­
count books. But they remember.
And so it happens that when an an
tor's luck turns he does not desert
the little restaurant. H e comes to
lunch again and leaves as much as
would cover a dinner fo r tw o at the
beet hotel.”
M* Was Not Su porot it lows.
All wool Crepe Dress Goods
|
)
G roceries
A ll wool crepe dress goods, all colors, the
regular $1.50 values, are now e .
on sale at per yard................... ^ 1 * U U
T h is is the m ost p o p u lar p lace in
Summer Cotton Crepes
|
i
tow n to b u y groceries an d sawe
m oney.
W e are offering our Summer Cotton Crepes
now at a special price « n
j a «
per yard a t.............
15c and 25c
1
\
|
£
£
r
~
ord er.
0 (”
3 cans Full Weight Standard
Coro fo r............................
3 cans Full Weight Pink
Salmon fo r.................. —
25cand 35c
, r e ...
Beautiful Summer Silks
Our Summer Silks are Plain and Figured
in fell Colon; special
a.
rn
values per yard a t.......
25c to SOc
W e can fix you out on the
Lace proposition
AuJv
2 cans Highest Grade Solid
Packed Tomatoes...............
O G L*
2 cans Highest Grade Solid
Packed Maine Coro............
£ DC
4 pounds Best Grade Lump
Starch .............................
O ff-
“ GC
2 packages Grape Nuts
o ff-
£
j
4 pounds Good Head Rice
OC JX5T yd
O ff-
25c
* 25c
3 packages Corn Flakes
Our Zion City Laces
\
trial
8 cans Full Weight Standard
0 (“
Tnmfltnna fnr
. . mlA/v
Cotton Voiles
I
G iw e os a
’
A ll other groceries priced in propor­
1 f
1
Children’s Straw
i Hats
t
W e have a nice assort- « £
ment; each..................
tion to above- Try buying groceries
at Baird's and save your money.
«
K>C and ZOC
•
i
'
T T f _ !
1
1
-
p
*11
.
1
•
W e want your Eggs; will pay top cash pnee
red 37
°
E. C. BAIRD
A captain o f an ocean lin er tells
the follow in g story: Com ing from
the old country was a very nqrvons
old lady who com plained that
was sure there was a rat in her
stateroom.
“ K eep it there, madam,” said the
captain.
“ But do you like rats?” asked
she.
“ I ’ve got a nest in my cabin,” re­
torted the brusque seaman, “ and 1
never disturb them.
When they CRUDE MINING IN COLOMBIA. ; rt
leave the ship 1 d a ”
Natives Used to P a n ' the Streets of .
“ W hy, you must be superstitious,1
Quibdo For Platinum.
" the dsme.
U nder the prim itive m ining con­
o, ma’am ," wound up the cap­
ditions o f today the Choco district
tain, “ I ’ m not, but the rats are.”
o f Colom bia stands second only to
Russia as s producer o f platinum.
Quoor Rooords.
M ost o f thq gold and platinum ex­
In M exico and Peru the ancients
ported are obtained by native wo­
used a cord about twd feet in length
men, w orking tw o or three hours
tigh tly spun from m ulticolored
per day. T h ey use the antiquated
threads and to which a number o f
ground sluicing process as a pre­
sm aller threads were attached, like
lim inary to get rid o f the coarser
a frin ge, to keep a record o f events.
gravels and then w ith th eir “ hateas”
T h is waa called a quipo. Each color
separate the m etals fro m 'th e sand
o f frin ge denoted a certain thing.
and gravel.
Sometimes white stood fo r peace
T h e bates is a wooden pan, shap­
and red fo r w er; in other records
ed lik e a very shallow inverted cone,
white stood fo r silver and yellow fo r
eigh teen inches in diam eter and
gold.
These cords constituted a
three inches deep at the center, with
register o f births, deaths, marriages,
tw o sm all handles or knobs on the
population fit to bear arms or the
rim . T h e women handle the bateas
stores in the governm ent maga­
w ith great dexterity, throw ing off
zines.
________________
the gra vel and sand by a rotary mo­
tion and leavin g the gold and plati­
Siam's Weights and Measures.
In Siam the liquid measure used num dust in the common center.
A n oth er m ethod o f m ining th at is
is derived from a cocoanut shell
which is capable o f holding 830 extensively em ployed by these wo­
tamarind seeds, and twenty o f these men is d ivin g in to three or fou r feet
units equal the capacity o f a wooden o f w ater fo r the sand and gravel
bucket. In dry measure 830 tama­ containing the m etals and bringing
rind seeds make one “ k’anahn,” and it up in the bateas. This method
tw enty-five ’ V an ah n ” make one is usually more rem unerative than
“ sat,” or bamboo basket; eighty the sluicing process.
T h e gold workings have existed
“ sat” make one “ kwien,” or cart.
T h is is an example o f the prim i­ fo r centuries, but little has been
tive origin o f most units o f weight done in the developm ent o f the di%
and measures.
trict. T h e river gravels were being
washed by the Indians long before
A Strange Custom.
the advent o f the Spaniards, and
T h e Bsyanzi, who live along the this region furaisned much o f the'
upper Kongo, have a strange cue- gold th at was carried beck to Spain.
tom which makes life s burden to In those days the value o f platinum
the m arried women. Brass rods a rt was unknown, and when the Indians
welded into the great rings round brought the m etal down to the Span­
the neoks o f the wives. Many o f ish headquarters in Quibdo the plat­
these rings worn by the women inum was thrown sway.
whose husbands are well to do weigh
L arge finds o f this discarded m et­
as much as th irty pounds, and this al have been made recently in Quib­
burden must be carried by the do, and frequ en tly the earth exca­
wretched creatures as long as they vated fo r foundations has yielded
Hvs.
_________________
sufficient quantities o f platinum to
y fo r p u ttin g up the building,
A Tru e Heroine.
le natives were beginning to pan
“ W hat is your idea o f s heroine,
even the streets, thus uncovering
John?” asked the w ife o f his bosom
large amounts o f m od, which was
as she looked up from the novel she
injurious to h ea lth . t A decree was
was reading.
th erefore prom ulgated in 1913 pro­
“ A heroine, my dear,” answered
h ibitin g any fu rth er washing o f
John, “ is ■ woman who could talk
earth i in the streets o f Quibdo.
back, hat doesn’t.” —Chicago Newt.
•
v
*
«*»
_
PORTER’S
-•
.
.
.
v „. _^__r -- . r
CASH
STORE
Prices That Should Interest You
36 inch all wool serge, worth 50c, Special.... ........... 43
38 inch all wool serge, worth 66c, Special............... 47
62 inch all wool serge, worth $1.25, Special............. 95
Good line Ratina and Rippelet, Special... 15
65
Full size good muslin sheets, Special...................... 45
Pillow Cases, Special
............................... 12
2
c
c
c
c to c
c
l~ c
10 c
95 c
39 c
* 45 c
Men’s H alf hose, bought for 15c 2 for 26c hose.....
Big line men’8 dress shirts, $1.25 values, special ...
Big line men’s work shirts, full cut, special
MEN’S CLOTHING
We want to close out the balance of our men’s clothing
and are going to cut our price in half on the balance of
stock on hand (except blue serges).
1 1 0 .0 0 Suits now......................................
115.00 Suits
%
now.......................................
> 2 0 .0 0 Suits now...................... ..............
20 pounds Good Jap Rice f o r .....................
25 pounds Best Cream Rolled O a ts...........
20 pounds large white beans......................
20 pounds Sugar, Best Cane......................
21-2 pound tins Preferred Stock Pineapple
2 pound tins Preferred Stock Pineapple....;
21-2 pounds Standard Pineapple................
1 can 25c Salmon, Best Columbia River......
3 pound cans Pink Salmon.........................
1 dozen cans...~....................... .................
8 cans Best Standard Corn or Tomatoes.....