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7 3 THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1916. SIX 'i i. 3 1 'l f t f ' u 1- ? i 1 1 i i li f: t I ' f I t i' i J H M t 5 t Sunday Is "Fun Day" Down in Gay Capital of Argentina , By MAROARKT MASON, Sunday ii fun day Down in 'U. A." Out to the races, Off to the play, On with the dance, Down with the te', Those who arc straight laced Beit stay away. Buenos Aires, Aug. 30. Down here in the Argentine they remember the Sabbath day and keep it wholly for pleasure. In tue early morning it is true the women go to Mass hut the masses go to make merry in tho public places. Jt is smart to drive or motor every fine Sunday morning at Palermo, tho big city park of Beunos Aires. Then home for an elaborate luncheon of many courses which is called brakl fast here, in the afternoon to dosh off to the races or a boxing match is the racy or striking thing to do topped off with a cup of te' and a dance or two at the Plaza. After a late and lengthy dinner thoro is always Grand Opera or the theatre. Bo endoth the "day of rest. ' T$o wonder some of the papers are too exhausted to get out a Monday edition and tho Art Museum hasn't the strength to open its doors. When you do pry your way into the Museum on Tuesday however, you fool there is not much loss to art by it's Monday closing. At present there is a modernest ex hibition of tho works of Zito Oittadini in an annex of the Musouih. New York, I am sure, would go quito mad about Zito. Most anyone would havo to to appreciate him. One tBBty little bit of his conserva tively dubbed "A Htudy" seems a hectic and sanguinary portrayal of an enflamod tonsil. Several small eanvases however of sea nnd rocks in gorgeous coloring look, at a safe dis tance, strangely like what they are in tended for. Art may be long but Buenos Aires isn't exactly long on art. Thut is art 8 confined to painting. Architecturally Buenos Aires ranks well and as' to its monuments and groups of statuary, they put thoso sculped monstrosities in most of our North American cities, especially New York, to shamo. To bo sure like every thing else in Buenos Aires whether it be to cat, to drink or to wear tho sculptured art is imKrted but ovan so good taste lias been shown in its selection. The numerous imposing and beauti ful monuments coimneniorntivy of his torical events and Argentine heroes and tho many rarely lovely marble nudes in tho "purks, unspoiled by the bath towel dinporios -of our, Binug North American ultra-squeninishness, will undoubtedly do much to stimulate tho native art ,to a higher level in tho (niuing generation. The Avenedn de THE NEW CHURCH ORGAN Mayo, so startingly likfc a Parisian boulevard, is flanked at one end by the beautiful and stately capitol and at the other by the presidential palace. An atrocious coat of old rose paint has earned for this latter edifice the name of the Rose Palace. It's most fitting sobriquet would be the 'Pink Palace for Palo President..." Just adjacent, the cathedral in the impressive style of an old Greek temple, is also hope-1 lessly ruined by a coat of dreadnaught grey. Just why this hankering after! tho paint pots is beyond me. J At the shrine of musical art, the i elegant Colon theatre, where Grand Opera is adequately and artistically , presented all Buenos Aires nightly doesi devotion. Here the Argentine woman comes in-1 to her own and in exquisito evening attire she .sits for the nounco in regal equality with hor lord and husband. Not only to the strains of Leoncavallo, I Puccini and Straus does tho pulse 01 the Argentine respond. He sways as rapturously to the snycopatiou of North American ragtime as it is man gled by every ubquitous hotel and restaurant orchestra. Toward the arj of Isadora Duncan, however Buenos Aires has remained unmoved. This undraped nymph of Terpsichore in nu red to the cold and drafts of many a Continental stage, has been forced to retire shivering before the DUgnting frost of her reception here. And while on tho subject of the dunce let me off immediately with this idea. Tho real Argentine Tango is danced only by the primitive and ele mental natives outside or in the low dunce halls aud dives within the city. No cultured Argentino lady or gentle man could or would do this dance in its true elemental state. The Argen tine Tango that we know was cvblved in Paris and owes littlo save it's title to the originnl nativo daucc. Because of the associations of the name when the dance was first introduced down hero the smart set were very loathe to take it up nnd even at it's height it was danced but mildly in B. A. in comparison with it's vogue in Paris and the V. . A. .So here's whoro your long cherished delusion among the Argentine Tango goes bang O. LIFE NOT WORTH LIVING Seattle, Wash., Oct. 2. "This life to me is filled with sorrow and despair. I inn gone. Forget and forgive." This message written by Samuel W. Wade, real estate broker, was discover ed on the dock at tho foot of Harrison street here yesterday, and the duo that led to the recovery of his body from Puget Sound by the police Into yester da afternoon. He had committed suicile earlier in the dny, tho officials believe. Business despondency was believed to be tho cause of the suicide. They've got a bran now organ, Sue, For all their fuss and search: They've done just what they said they'd do, And fetched it into church. They're bound the critter shall be seen And on tho preacher's right They've hoisted up their new machine Jn everybody's sight. They've got a chorister and choir, Agin my voice and vote; For it was never my desire To praise the Lord by note. I 've been a sister good and true For fivemid-thirty year; I've done what seemed my part to do, And prayed my duty clear. I've sung the hymns both slow anil quick, Just like the preacher read, And twice when Deacon Tubbs was sick took the fork and led. Ami now their bold, new fanglcd ways Is com in' all about; And 1, right in my latter days, Am fairly crowded out. Today the preacher, good old dear, With tears nil in his eyes. Head "I can read my titles clear To niunsions in the skies." I always liked that blessed hymn I s'pose I always will; It somehow gratifies my whim In 'good old Ortonville; But when that choir got up to sing, 1 couldn't catch a word; They sung the most dog-gondest thing A body ever heard. Some worldly chaps was standin' near; And when 1 see them grin, I bid farewell to every fear, And boldly waded in. I thought I'd chase their tune along An' tried with all my might; Hut though my voice is good and strong 1 couldn't steer it right; Vvlien they was high, then 1 was low, And also contrawise; An' 1 too fast, or they too slow To "Mansions in the skies." An' after every verse you know, They played a little tunc; 1 didn't understand, an' so I started in too soon. 1 pitched it pretty middlin' high I fetched a lusty tone, Hut oh nlus! 1 found that I Was singin' there alone. They laughed a little I am told; But 1 had done my best; And not a wave of trouble rolled Across my peaceful breast. An' Sister Brown I could but look she sits right front of me; She never waB no singin' book, An' never meant to be; But then she always tried to do The bcBt sho could, she said; She understood the time right through, An' kept it in her head; Hut when she tried this mornin' oh! 1 had to laugh or cough. It kep' her head a bobbin' so, It e'en a 'most camo off. An' Deacon Tubbs he all broke down, As one might well suppose; He took a look at Sister Hrown, And meekly scratched his nose. He looked his hymn book through and through . And laid it on the seat, And then a pensive sigh he drew, And looked completely beat. And when they took another bout He didn't even rise, But drawed his red bandanner out And wijwd his weepin' eyes. 've been a sister good and true For five-an '-thirty year; I've done what seemed my part to do An' prayed my duty clear. But death will stop my voice I khw, For he is on my track, And some dny I to church will go And never more come back. An' when the folks go up to sing Whene'er that time shall be I do not want no patent thing A squealiu' over mo. Will Carleton. THE TATTLER sc fc c sc sfc sjc sjt sf jfc sc sc s(c sc )c sf "Lied to again," growled an ill na tured Missourian on the fair grounds Saturday. He had been tuld it always rained here at fair time. A lot of little things went wrong of course, but take it all in nil it was a grout fair. A man reports that he didn't got his money's worth at ono of the fair grounds eating emporiums. Of course he didn't. Nobody gets his money's worth of eatables anywhere. Among the near serious accidents re ported during the week is that which happened to a young man at one of tho dancing studios, lie bnrsted his galluses. The old fashioned wait is still in v;ogue with some people, though mourned as dead. The fellow with a girl and only a dollar and eighty cents left of his loganberry money broke into a cold sweat when half way along the trail. At the quarter he broke for the pavil ion, where the show was free. Well, it's almost over, as the fat chap with the fat girl said when he put up the parasol. It was a splendid week for the politicians. OPEN FORUM i - i WE PICKED THEM, ONE BY ONE Tho only dogs visible on the grounds were hot ones. Some folljs are sufficiently more than satisfied to mnkc up for some dther folks' lack oP It. Aud old Salem wns fully equal to the occasion. " 1 Why the Journal is popular it prints the world's news to- day. ' Now that all stories of other grow ers of the luscious loganberry has been told, and none so surprising as the one 1 am about to relate and further more, contrary to supposition, I nm able to prove, J am going to tell a talc about a certain farm in Kaiser Bottom. Now 1 am not going to tell you the owners name, at least, not at present, but four years ago he came here from the wind swept fields of Kansas, just as many did before, and we hope will continue to to do. He was not a Kau san by birth, claiming Missouri as his native state, but anyway, wherever they came from is where real practical farming is taught, where barn yard fer tilizer is valued and straw stacks ore not burned up, but placed upon the ground where nature intended it to be placed. , With his wife he looked over farm after farm and finally their choice fell on a small tract in rich Kaiser Bottom and there they began to build tho home nest, on what could but slightly have reminded them of tho home they had left. In fancy I can see the other farmers shaking their heads over his methods, but he laughed and chatted and went ahead with out one doubt of success, why, where he came from he hnd real opposition in wind, rain, hail, drought, snow or grasshoppers and Oregon had none of these, and so -he whistled as he worked. Out of tho five acres of their originnl purchase ho planted three and three fourths (3 3-4) acres to lo ganberries, write that in numeral as well as words, because 1 gave these statistics to one man and he discourte ously said I either misrepresented the acreage or weight of produce, so I went again to the farmer and said, "Mr. Morgan, if I make a statement that you harvested twenty tons, one thousand three hundred and eight (41308) pounds of loganberries from three and three fourth acres of land, can you prove it, By slips from Gilt & Cof" and he replied, "I can, ulso Mr. Hrown who hauled my berries with his auto truck, can give you the same fig ures f rim his book and from which he collected tho cartage." I didn't ask him to take an oath on the matter for people who are well acquainted with T. B. Morgan or W. K. Brown seldom require more than their word, so resting on their joint assurance of correctness of figures I ngan state that on the farm of T. B. Morgnn one mile west of Kaiser school house, was grown, so far as previous reports show, the banner crop of loganberries in 19111, of twenty tons, one thousand three hundred and eight pounds, besides what tho pickers ate, of luscious lo.ju tnut, and I picked pick them. I feel a particular pride in that fact, also in this, that Mr. Morgan was prqud of his force of pickers, con sisting of some fifteen regular pickers, and an occasional friend who citmo for the dny aud enjoyed the jovial com pany, the fruit and kindly hospitality of tent life. There was no harshness, no unkindly reprimanding, no quarreling and when the work was finished, so pleased was tho lucky farmer that hc ordered five gallons of Zinn's best ice cream aud so well pleased with their employer were the ladies, that they bak ed the coke, and their husbands, fath ers, mothers, brothers, and some one elses brother- came to the kindly invi tation and helped eat the ice cream and the cake. Representatives of wonderful Oregon came and cut from these vines speci mens tp be exhibited at the Oregon state fair now in progress, and if you reallv truly doubt mv word, look at the fruit and go away and repent of the misdeed, (and that you haven t learned to marfe your own land produce its full quota. Understand me, 1 admire Oregon and intend to remain a resident so long as I can derive a livelihood herein, but I do dodore tho slipshod methods used by the average Oregon farmer, go look r "-i fnrm I have been lauding look also 'he farm partly under Mr. Mor gan s suiiei'intoiidency but belonging to F. J. Ci-apman and if you can find two more aetive plats of ground in this wonderful valley of the beautiful Wil lamette river, I want to see them. Be sides that, look the whole neighborhood surrounding have felt tho influence aud the farms around havo a general tasty, tidy, prosperous look. The method of puting up the new vines is especially good, you will not have to stand on your head to see under the trailing vines, neither do you pull great vails of purple mold up from tho ground as I did in the one other patch 1 helped pick; the vines are trained on three wires placed respectively about twenty eight, forty and fifty two inches from the ground. (I nm estimating- this from my own height and their position,)) There is no great bunches or tangles as if some careless hand had thrown the vines at the wire and said, "who cares," but they aro carefully placed to give light and air. There are no weeds to drabble one on a wet morn ing, though we gently reprimanded the farmer for spoiling our paths, he cul tivated every day tho ground we tram pled as we picked. At four thirt' every bright morning this rustler went from tent to tent speaking jovial greetings nnd soon the pickers were out among the sparkling dewey fruit, resting several hours in the day. The fruit .averaged from one hund red eight to one hundred fifty berricts to tho pound box and we understand that this is virtually the second crop picked from this field, but wo do not ask Mr. .Morgan to vouch for that state ment. He will please consider himself at liberty to correct any misstatement I 1 have made, as it was wholly uninten tional on mv part. A PICK E R, LATE HOP NOTES reltx Isaacson went to aiiverton tins week to take in 113 bales of hops for the Wolf Hop company. The hops were the Frank Froemnl lot, "I bales, nnd the J. A. Hesednhl lot, 32 bales, both purchased at 10 cents Inst week. McNeff brothers are credited with the purchase of 2000 bales of Oregon hops, among which is a lot of 100 bales from .Tones at Brooks. Somo growers ore wondering if this lot-belonged to MRS. MAY'S. LETTER to WOMEN More Proof that Lydia . K, Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound RelievesSuf f ering. Chicago, III. "I Buffered from a bad case of femalo ills. Lydia ELPinkham's Vegetable Com pound was recom mended and I took about six bottles. It fixed me up all right. ' The common symptoms of such a condition pain when walking, irri tation, bearingdown pains and backache, nervousness and dis ordered digestion- noon passed away. I look much better now than I did before, and I recommend the Compound every time for female troubles, as it did for me all it is claimed to do. if ou hnve my permission to pub- lish this letter." Mrs. J. May, 3548 S. Lincoln St, Chicago, 111. If you have any of the symptoms men tioned in Mrs. May's letter, remember what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for her, and try it your self. It is a good old-fashioned medi cine, made from roots and herbs, and it has helped countless numbers of women. If you need special ad vice, write to Lydia E. Pinknam Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman, and held in strict confidence. irnnTnTi i 'liit iiiTTTTmiTTH M. L. Jones, president of the Oregon Hop Growers' association. It is said that Livesley & company bought more than 5000 bales of hops in tho Silverton country, during pick ing at T,'j to Sj cents. If true this was the one lucky plunge of the season so far. L. L. Oribble has purchased tho Welch lot of about 75 bales at 914 cents. Later (Tuesday) he pureh'cd 25 bales from ('has. Beck (a par of the Beck-Welch lot) at 11 cents. This was the highest price pnid locally for hops up to Tuesday night. August beer sales exceeded last year's August sales by nearly 1,500,000 barrels, n gain of more than 21 per cent. This increase alone consumed 7500 bales of hops, figuring half a pound of hops to tho barrel. This in creased consumption of beer and hops iim'y stimulate the Oregon 'hop market somewhat. There is no apparent reason for -the disparity in prices in the Cali fornia and Oregon markets. Aurora Observer. ' ll A oreat m drinkers mow because their shows the cha any former coffee improved ealtK- elped them If you uo in its plate tide has h ect coffee hnuirts POSTUM TANT for temi days. 99