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5 . 'i V k lute DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 28, .YFIELD EDITORIAL MUSINGS 1000. 3 rations Gained Ftom the Buttermilk Demijohn and Living Oat of Doors a Little editorial headquarters have aoved to the hay neids the 10 weens. i"c cunui uuu jointer oats that he wanted into hny, hut the country Is Issed prosperous that It was kible to hire anyone to cut a mower, and after a long be gave It up and got a friendly fcor to tackle It with a scythe end before working hours, for i known to all, our neighbors onest people and work for a Our youngest man neighbor fclojed on the electric alligator Ine boat that Is hauling In the d rock to make the model load that Uncle Sam and Judge are constructing between them a few days he had it all down, e had to help rake It up and into cocks and then got a man team to draw it to the barn low It away. As the teams are hployed on the electric roads beet Improvements we had to iclty express delivery wagon to i the hay. With another neigh help, it has all been stowed The exercise, the perspira- he long pulls at the buttermilk iihn, the sweet sleep at night, pnstituted a delightful braln- k outing at home. King in the open air is a de- lil feature of outdoor life, and litor hns virtually been eating, Sg, working, sleeping and writ Hs editorials out-of-doors. The car bills of fare advertise mutton chops, but those take on a new relish when over the coals under the of a tree. Pile up a few stones i the size that Jacob had for a i hen he saw the angels climb- i and down tho lnddor to heaven bank your Are against them. be wire broiler holding the w means of a green bunch at febt angle to do them Just right, lie with salt and pepper whllo Jot over the fire, butter lightly t them right off the bone with and teeth In tho way ap- of nature, with a little fruit I slice of rye bread and some H butter, wash it down with Fell water from a demijohn ft water drawn from atdcen Flth the old-fashioned bucket, u havo a feast fit for tho Kal- 1 the Longworths put together leakfast, substitute coffee niado open tin bucket and drank d put on the finishing I For fruit, eat your Logan off tho vine with the robbins. we the coffee would taste bet ! of a demijohn. I haye a de- appetite for that forbidden and anything tastes better a demijohn than out of the lot glass. , aieepmg out of doors has great merit. The stars aro the celling. You can imagine you feel tho swing of the world as it wheels its under side on top to bo exposed once more to its diurnal bath of sunshine. There come cool rippling breezes at night, even when there Is no wind, and your rest is so sound that the pale streak Ings of dawn seem to have reached over to kiss the last fading traces of the belated twilight of midsummer. All night there will come twittering of birds as some robbin or hedge sparrow nestles a little nearer its mate and threatens to crowd it off tho perch. There is no dark brown flaor in your mouth when you sleep vout. Tho undertone of silence is penetrated by the chirping of crick ets, tho droning of . cicadae and the thrilling of an occasional frog In some water hole. The night has many surprises, and enhances the sweetness of the faintest and most rudimentary music. I havo listened to a couple of boys tramp by a few blocks away, accompanying each other on mouth organs that came across the cooling stillness of the night with the effect of the choicest orchestral music. The same is true of tho discordant ocal Intercourse of a bunch of house cats. Their acri monious howllngs Interspersed with yells of fiendish triumph get mel lowed down by the atmospheric, per spective of the night until they are quite musical and take on some of tho qualities of a lullaby mixed with infant squalls. While I was wo'rking in my hay field and thinking on some of the social problems of the day one of my neighbors, who Is a Socialist, got over the fence and wont to work on the other side of the field. Ho called in a cheery way that, he wanted to show what a good neighbor ho was in helping me to save my crop, Pret ty soon our winrowB brought us near enough for general conversa tion, and I found his talk very enter taining. Ho told nie how a great Socialist lecturer was at Salem be fore the primaries, and some of tho most nctlve political aspirants at tended and gave all manner of en couragement to tho cause ho was presenting. One who was a candi date for n state office, and has been n prominent Republican politician, told tho lecturer that tho Socialist reform was sure to come about. "Nothing can 6top it," said tho office seeker of the other party. "Powder and bullets cannot stop it," ho added, and then led my friend and neighbor out to one sldo and wanted to hire him to work for him on promise of an office. But ho was not to bo hired, and had to decline the proffer of Republican money. An other reform aspirant offered my Socialist neighbor a horse and buggy to use and plenty of whisky and cigars to hand out to the voters. This was also declined. It was all very funny. Tho Socialist made a good hand and really gave me a groat deal of Information about the tenets of his political faith. He would not take any pay and when ho found I had hired a man by the hour to help me, he quit on the ground that ho did not wish to take that man's employ ment away from him by his volunteer services. When he was assured that the other man did not want tho job, but was only working after his rogit- i lar day's work was over to accommo date me, he came back and helped me until the hay was in the barn. At the end of the hard work I took him. over to the house and gave him his choice of some buttermilk or any other contents of tho refrigerator that he might prefer. Wo talked of the old time grain harvest when nearly every farmer thought ho had to have whisky for the harvest hands. It took from ten gallons to a barrel to make a big grain harvest. There were no self-binders, and the hands bound around the field by stations, If the team was slow It took four hands to bind the three stations, but many farmers found It paid to push the team and have a fresh team to put on at noon, and keep the five binders busy, and they were kept on the jump. The reaping machines In the seventies got to havo tho self- raking attachment. Raking the bundles from ono of the old-fashioned apron reapers, that carried the grain as It fell, was a hard job. Binding a station waB no small task, but took a full handed man. He mado his own bands of the grain, and if the grain was hort or weedy, or full of thistles It tried his patience, and made a man want to take something besides water to help him around. Coming In wet with perspiration nt night, washing at the pump, eating three meals and two lunches, threo times as much as the same man would eat now, sleeping on Improvised, beds In the barn, or right on tho sweot smelllng hay itself, was all part of the harvesters' life. After harvest we generally got a Job stacking and sometimes stayed till threshing. To pitch bundles on tho wagon was not easy, and a good pitcher who could land a bundle right to tho stackers' hands, was always sure of a job. Tho stacker laid the bundles with heads pointing in, and pressed them all down with his knees. Tho art was to make them water proof, and have the stack bulge out as If It roso from the ground, and then tapered to a beautiful spire-like point. I have traveled across tho Iowa prairies when one could not seo tho horizon for stacks of grain. There are few Western men who have not helped make n grain crop. From carrying water to tho hands In the hot blistering fields, binding a station with another boy whon neither of us could make a full hand, to tending the men on tho stack, or bucking awa.y straw at tho tall of a We own and offer the following Wully Selected High-Grade Bonds amounts to suit purchasers: Oregon Water Power nnd Railway Company, 6 per cent. Bonds rrtland City and Oregon Railway Company, 6 per cent. UowU N'crthprn r?i..:- rJ. .. f r-oiifnm!., ( tax exemnt5 ncr cent. Bonds ----.. uivvtllb V-UUlJUIiy Vt " -f - ' G'V of Seattle, Washington, Water, 5 per cent. Bonds C' of Walla Wnlla. WnnliSntftnn. Water. 5 per cent. Bonds G'y o Prescott, Washington, Water, 6 per cent. Bonds Glyof Corvallis, Oregon, Water, 5 percent. Bonds G'y of Mc.M innvil!R. Orpdnn. Wafer and LUht, 5 per cent. Bonds Cj'y of Dufur, Oregon, Water, 6 per cent. Bonds Cj'y of Tillamook, Oregon, Water, 6 per cent. Bonds G'y of Cottage Grove, Oregon, Sewer, 5 per cent. 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Neighbor Truelove was In almost as' bad a fix as I, with respect to harvesting a field of wheat and onts across the road from mine. It stood until dead ripe and then he had to get In and do something. Ho bor rowed an old-fashioned cradle from an old-fashioned neighbor and swinging it right lustily for a man of his age, in a few days had the field down. Underneath his fine crop of grain enme a grand stand of red clover, so he left tho' stubblo about a foot high to shelter the young clover, really showing that he was a far-sighted farmer. He laid off a straight winrow of grain nnd then with rake In hand proceeded to bind it up after the old style. Truelove did a good job and will havo nearly a hundred bushels of grain off his two acres and a clover crop besides. It was a real pleasure to stand and lean over the fence and see my neighbor work, nnd yet It was an honester pleasure than working my neighbor. He has his grain all bound up nnd shocked nnd tho green oak and fir trees on all the elevations form a beautiful background to the golden sheen of the stubble fields, whllo In the nlr there Is glimmering the mist of autumn like a golden halo over tho finished work of nature Alas, there be many who cannot see these beauties of summer. Avast, ye dwellers in tho polluted cities. Get behind me, Satan, with they golden crown beckoning mo to becomo a plutocrat and abide In tho counting-rooms of wealth. I would rather set my lipe to that remljohn of cooling liquid In the corner of tho hayfleld, or get a long and satisfac tory swig of buttermilk ffrcsh from tho stone churn, hnnded to mo by a plump woman with sleeves rolled up and face red with honest thought homely domestic duty well-performed, than quaff apolinarls or sip high balls paid for with tainted coin among the so-called great men of the earth. To love one's neighbors, to live in amity and concord with nil about one, to have no designs of a selfish nature at any living human being, to love them all and wish them well and be ready at all times to give them a life along tho road of life If it be for their good and the good of tho community, and then go your own way along tho highest concep tion of your own development, re ligiously keeping out of everybody's way, Is surely henen on enrth. Then to Ho down In tho shnde of a treo and steal a nap, when nobody Is watching and know that you are not going to bo docked on tho payroll, is a Httlo chunk of satisfaction that cannot bo expressed In the Impoverished con dition of the English language, and threshing machine, or holding sacks as far as estimating Its value in cold Co; rices to yield investors from 4 to 6 per cent. despondence invited RIS FtaOTTTFTCS. Bankers PRTLAND, OREGON when tho old half bushel measure was filled at tho side of tho thresh ing machine, and tho sweeps of tho old-fashioned horse-power went around with a man on tho center of the gear cracking ills whip merrily to the eight teams that drove the separator, I have done all tho work connected with grain harvesting. I have-gone a step farther and worked in the flouring mills whoro tho grain was received nt tho scales hopper, went up tho elevators, and thence via the conveyors into tho great bins, again to como back into tho packers, where It was nalfed up In barrels and branded. Then I havo helped team It to the railroad, and to tho Missis slppa river, where It went its way to market. These aro tho recollec tions of a hard-working but happy boyhood, that I cannot but think was as good an education as any college could give.. How all these thoughts and ex periences como thronging bnck from merely going out nnd working a few hours each day in tho hay field, where I am raking and gathering up a few loads of oats hay for horso and cow feed. Tho smell of tho ripe grain, the shimmering of tho yellow straw, the silvery tassels of tho oats heads, the dry brown earth that has done its duty In bringing forth a crop, the song and twitter of the harvest home birds, tho golden tints of autumn coming into tho air, the general feeling of ripeness and ma turity of things all this is a Joy and a pleasure that Is worth living over once more, How real and genial Is the smile of earth and sky, how faithful is mother earth! Even though robbed of hor product, the faithful old damo Is putting forth a mighty offort to sprout a second crop of oats out from among the brown dry clods tho passion of re production strong Ja death. Nature i cash, nil tho money in Wall Street can't purchase it for thoso who aro not prepared for it. - o Suno Cure ror Piles. Itching Piles produce moisture and cause itching; this farm, ns well as Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pllea, aro cured by Du. Bo-an-ko's Pile Rem cdy. Stops itching and bleoding. Ab sorbs tumors. 50c a jar at druggists, or sent by mail. Treatise ttce. Write mo about your case. Dr. Bosanko, Philadelphia, Pa. fl v -mr-a Losing it, d-y ut.r ur hua uomg nothing to .save it? As thougli you can lose your hnlr and heep ityi tool Then stop this fallinc. Stop It at once 1 You Can certainly do it with Ayer's Hair Vigor. It feeds the hair, gives It strength, keeps It in place. And it makes the scalp healthy, cures all dandruff, and Keens the hair soft and clossv. Trv It and be hannvl j.o.ajtoo, Hair Falls I.owlT, Mt. n THE CIVIC PROBLEM. From the Improvement Point of View Address by J. Horace McFnrlnml, Iliirrlsburg, I'a., President of the American Civic Association. The civic problem, It seems to mo, Is peculiarly a matter of improve ment, and thereforo tho Improve ment point of view would seem to cover all the problems. Looking nt this subject from the standpoint of tho American Civic association, I ennnot but put It against tho correspondence and the occurences of tho three years dur ing which I have held an executive relation to the association and its predecessors. Considered thus, It seems to me that tho problem is largely one of demand and desire on tho part of those who would gladly do tho civic duty presented to them if they could bo advised of Its needs and Its ex tent. There Is no doubt that a great public places moro sightly and sometimes actually beautiful. I will not touch upon tho Improve ment along political lines except to say that as tho public conscionco with regard to nsh-plles, baokyurds and other primary civic sins is aroused, tho same conscience turns toward better city officials and hot ter regulations. If my point Of view Is correct, and the civic, problem Is In an encour nging stntc, what remains to bo dono by those Interested? I can answor in ono word everything! This awakening must bo strengthened, and if we can ever kcop paco with Its growing needs, wo mny thon be come pure missionaries, and go openly to tho unenlightened. Wo must mako our efforts concrete Wo must make our position nnd our work known to tho end that applica tions may bo properly and promptly mado by thoso who feet tho stirrings of the Improvement Impulse. Moro than all, It seems to mo that wo must, some of us at least, tako this matter up as thoso do who so euro tho underwriting of great mis- tlfnilDitirf nmilfl lin ntmln nflinfn 1m . ,, . , .- i slonary enterprises. Wo must Bccura Is ns vet no fecllnc for civic. Ini- . . provement if tho agencies most of us know of could bo efficiently used; but speaking from tho experience alluded to I am strongly convinced that all present resources and activi ties used to be directed primarily to tho co-ordination nnd use of tho ob viously strong desire to do right In a civic way being expressed by many communities all tho time. The civic problem dealing with j homo nffalrs had hardly been esteemed nB ono purely philan thropic. I present, however, and maintain, that It Is a purely philan thropic problem, taking rank with missionary efforts of nil kinds, and therefore to bo sustained Jimt as any missionary effort Is sustained.. It would be as reasonable to ex pect tho South Sea Islander to come with cash In his hands to pny tho missionary who is to turn him to ward ways of right thinking nnd right doing as to expect tho com munities that show an awakening toward civic righteousness to thus pay for tho propaganda to uplift. Nevertheless, they do It moro than occasionally, and this is only another showing of tho strength of tho de sire nnd of necessity for conserving tho forces for civic uplift townrc! meeting tho present opportunities boforo undertaking to foster now ap plications or to create new needs. I havo no hesitation In saying that as I look at it tho civic problem from tho improvement point of view pre sents fentures of great oncourngo mont. Tho whole public Is nwake to tho need of Improvement. It Is manifested In Httlo nnd In large ways. A woman In a Httlo southern town will write about cleaning up hor own back-yard; a town official of a northern city will nsk how to take caro of garbage, and numberless other applications for Information and for aid como from all parts of the country. Tho encouragement Is not so much In tho amount of good work being dono ns it is in tho an xiety of tho people to bo worked with nnd to bo directed. There Is, however, tho further en couragement of much actual accom plishment. Cities nnd towns nil over tho country are doing bettor, nre cleaning up; nre making their streets, nnd houses, and parks and I support; not from thoso bonoflted, but from thoso who glvo of thelf abundance for tho uplift of man kind. With nil this oncourngemont, thon, nnd with tho situation existing, there Is work for every man, woman and child, grent or small, humble or prominent, who feels tho willingness to .do something to mako our Amer ica a better and moro beautiful placo to live In. What this work Is and how to do It Is tho purpose of the deliberation of nil tho 'organizations nssoclated in this civic conference A Pleasant Way to Travel. Tho nbovo Is tho usunl verdict of tho ti'avolor using tho Missouri Pacific rnihvny botwoon tho Pacific coast nnJ tho Knst, nnd wo belicvo that tho sor vico nnd nccommodntloiis givon merit this statement. From! 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Never before was there such widespread interest in this institution. A visit to the State Fair of 1 906 wilt be a liberal education. It will show you what Oregon has done, and, more important, it will point the way to the magnificent possibilities of the future. , No one can afford to miss the Oregon State Fair for 1906. Few patriotic peo ple who can s? are the time will miss it i ' ' -i t