Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27

include severest Moorish and horid Gothic
Chinese, Indian, Hindoo; and some present
rare combinations of all known styles
with Q good deal of originality thrown In.
, All are surrounded by statues, fountains
filled with preserved ginger and similal
cruel paths and marble benches, and 30 gen
ial Is the climate that ho vers preserve ths
color and fragrance from year to year, max
ing the Psao continuous garden Of perpet
ual spring.
Do you see tha. man salloping pellmell
with infinite clatter down the street, drag.
ging strange brown bundle behind that
bumps over the stones like huge rubber
ball? You would hardly imagine that he
Is making butter-now wouid you?-bui
such is the case. All tho butter that il
eaten in Uruguay is made In that same
primitive manner. The modus operandi Il
as follows:
Novel Way Of Making Butter.
The dairy man pours the milk (waym
from the COW, without straining), into an
inflated sheep skin, which has the wool side
turned IN. he ties 1t securely, bitches it to
his saddle by good strong 1asso, and gal
lops off to town-perhaps five or ten miles
away, with the sack humping along behind
him. OF course, the churning Is thorough,
and by the time his destination is reached
the butter 10 made. Then he has only to 20
from door to door among his patrons, laden
| ing out desired quantities with a wooden
| dlpper. To be sure 1t does not taste much
like the lubricator We are accustomed to at
home, being white as snow and resembling
curd cheese; but 1t has the merit of being
sweet and without the abomination of salt,
which has no business in civilized butter
Though the better class of Uruguayan
farmers have all manner of modern agri-
cultural implements, they cannot be per-
suaded to try churns. They say that Yam
kee butter tastes only Of salt-and maybe it
does lack the flavor of sleeps wool
Another noteworthy thing about Monte
video is the fact that she has twice as msny
daily papers in proportion to the number Of
inhabitants as New York, London, Paris or
Berlin, for she boasts Of % with 4 popula-
tion of barely 125,000. These papers are
not published so much for the dissemination
OF news as for the propagation of ideas, and,
therefore, they give about six columns Of
editorial to one OF intelligence.
Every Politician Has His Organ.
The reason for having so many. news
papers is because every public man requires
an organ ip order to get his views before the
public. The editors are ordinarily poll
ticians who devote their entire time to the
discussion of political questions, and expect
the faction to which they belong to furnish
them the means of living while so employed.
Each paper has q director who holds the
relation of editor in chief; while sub
editor is man-of-all-work, edits copy, looks
after the news, reads proof and stays around
the place to keep the printers busy. There
Is never staff Of editors or reporters as in
the United States and seldom more than |
two men In the Office; in fact there is no |
such thing as q reporter in all Spanish |
America, what little news there IL being |
gathered by the editors The director gen |
orally has some other occupation. He may
be a lawyer or judge or member of Com |
gress, and his political sympathizers are ex-
pected to assist him in furnishing editorials,
At the capital Of each Of the South Amer
lean Republics there are one or more pub
locations supported by the Government for
the promulgation of DEGREES, decisions Of
the courts, official reports and laws passed
by Congress- The paper which sustains the
that happens to be in power
receives financial assistance, or "subven-
tlon," as it Is called, from the Government.
This usually comes in the form of sinecures
to the editors, who receive generous salaries
from the public treasury for their political
and professional services
They Issue When the Forms Are Fun.
Except in few of the larger and moro
cities there are NO regular
hours of publication, but papers are issued
at any time from o'clock In the morning
ill 10 at night, whenever there is matter
enough in type to fill the forms. 1t seems
odd to have yesterdays paper delivered to
you in the afternoon Of to-day, ,pbut it often
occurs Papers often quote from one an
,ther. They select their news as ship
builders choose timber-wheti 1t is old and
,ough. Compositors are not paid by the
,eive weekly wages, seldom more than s. or
S10. The printers are mostly natives, al
,hough few Germans are found. There
ire no typographical unions or trade or
CARNATIONS in South America In the larger
,ities the papers are delivered by carriers
md sold by newsboys on the streets; but in
mailer towns they are sent to the postofics
% be called for by the subscriber as regular
nail The subscription price is inordinately
ligh-seldom less than $12 per annum and
'ften double that amount In some of the
'lleged Republics there is censor of the
'ress, to whom copy of each edition Is
before it Is published. This
ometimes causes inconvenient delay, if the
ensor happens to be out of town or other
wise engaged, for the issue must be with
leld until his august signature is placed
pon each page of copy.
The Freedom Of ths Press.
Although freedom of the press" Is
oasted, cases of Imprisonment are common
f editors who have too freely spoken their
minds in opposition to the prevailing !
overs. journalism has its disadvantages
ere, for the party in power to-day NAV be
ut of power tomorrow and the editors ,
rho supported 1t clapped into prison. A
ase in point was that of the editor of ,
" Cdmpson, in Lima, Peru, who, a few
ears ago, published an attack upon the !
congress of that Republic which was very
lild compared with articles that are fire. I
uently directed at our lawmakers; but he {
as imprisoned six months for 1t, and his
lachlnery, type, ETC., confscated and sold | 9
,r the benefit of the Government. !
street fight is the editors delight, and |
Though an account Of it may not appear c
n several days after the occurrence, the 8
ritter gives his whole soul to its description. t
he following is literal translation OF the :
oening Of one Of those articles:
A personal encounter Of the most trans. | Il
,ndent and painful interest occurred day | n
store Yesterday, In the street OF the n
wenty-nfth OF May, near the palatial resi- e
,nce, OF tho most exalted and illustrious p
snor Don Comana. and was Witnessed by p
rand concourse Of people, whose excite. 4 9
ent and demonstrations It is impossible to | d
iequately describe. "
A dog tight would be treated in precisely c
e same manner. Everything is "surpass- !,
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