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never bcin' on time TO- nothln' an
bimeby his pa got clean discouraged
an took TO drink.
Just nachully ] seer a heap OF him
a'ter that. me kceDin' bar to tho
tavern them days. nm no got 20 he'd
tell me his troubles. like a mar will
when they won't nobody but the bar
keep listen TO him no mo-. him gittcn'
garalous.
"'Yo' all hain't cdicated him proper
I says an he fair 'yplodes.
"'I lick him every day. religious.
he says. They can't nobody do no
mon that
but ! says, Lickin's Ia good TO- a
boy, O. co'se, but they's MORN that goes
to a edication. Pears like go all Is
done give him jots and TITLES. as the
Good Book says. but is neglected mo-
important matters. Thing to do ]
says. is to learn him to play poker.
TIL amt nothin' ekI to draw poker TO-
to d'velop his character an learn him
them traits whatll make a man outcn
him II he's got It into him.
But he says. rs done tried to learn
him that. o. co'se, but pears like he
goes TO sleep every time 1t m his
turn to deal. Plays n tol'able good
game. too, on'y TO- not Akin his mind
onto 1t like he'd ought. reckon
mebbe he amt got no mind to TX.
An he takes Il couple O. mo drinks
an goes home. leavin' me with en-
sid'abls OF a problem to think about
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By DAVID A. CURTIS.

-. said old man Greenlaw with
reminiscent CLEAN In his
eye ut says what OPPORTUNITY is n
Wild boss. II a man cotches OF him he
wants to git on an ride immejit, but
II he waits TO- TO git a saddle an
ordl onto him the hoss'Il git away.
! disremember whether twas n
o the prophets or one O. the patriots
zone said II, but that don't make no
ptc1ar difference. They's n heap O.
sense into II. an whoever twas. he
khowed c'nsid'able bout HOSES. Bein'
wise ss It's. It mought a been Solo
mon said II. only TO- him KNOWN mo-
oout women n he did about out do
spots, reckon mebbe 1t was him
anyway. seein' he done wrote proverbs
chcernin' nigh bout everythin' they
was, whether he knowed about em or
not. Some on EN- 10 wuth remem-
b'rin'.
II alays c'sidered this un was one
. the best O. tho lot. bein's practicl a.
us. IN n I evcrybody'd ought TO
70 cyarry out into his daily life.'
oh. I don't know" said Mr.. Owen
rsppsr. "Th'aint many what's in the
nsh!t o cotohin wild bosses ey'ry day.
rsars like tn amt no grs't value TO IL
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tryin' 10 learn Buh Cartcret nothin'
when he done said that. His idee was
some crude. o. coise. hut It showed
what they was the makir's Of a pIrycr
into him, nachul, so I done laid back
an watched him grow up.
Must "A been nigh bout a year a'tar
that what tn old ledge co,ne into the
tavern one day AL beat no. He'd been
drinkin' Industrious all that time, an
he want no SIGH man s he had been,
but he was right pow'ful. even at that,
an | seen what Bub must n did n
heap q practisin' III that niger To-
to make y good a job oil It 3 he sho'
had.
The ledge he took three or TO-
drinks aio' he cd speak. he was that
did up, but bimeby he says:
"~Grecnlaw, | reckon Bub is mo- Of
n man right now n ever reckoned
he was liable to he. lie done give me
the biggest llckin' ! ever had this
mawnin'. Somepin must a woke him
up
S | says to him, He's done been
awake all the time an ! tells him
what Bub d done said to me. He lis
tened attentive, an they come a heav-
emily smile onto his battered old face
what showed he had mo- p'rcntal pride
into his offspring n I'd ever gave him
credit TO.
"'Now,' he says. Il en- die happy.
My son il actually got some brains.
An he laid down In the corner an
died"
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MC ~ H@NIeS Sz0WzD MENe AE LESS NM ceN7cc

have been II written this way: Wash
ington ana Putnam met at ~Shanley's
on September 10. 1876. How long they
sat around the table in the grill is not
known. Historic data indicates that
they must have remained i'm Shanley's
for n long time. however. inasmuch as
1t is well known that they both woke
up the next morning in Harlem. Some
authorities may dispute the assertion
that when they did coinc up for air
they felt messy. but the fact remains
that after their night In %Shanley's they
began to mix things up the minute
they came up for air. and the Battle of
Harlem tSeptembcr l6. 1870 resulted
that day"
There you have a complete picture
simply bccause It's concrete. Why
docs Ere content himself with saying
that Washington and Putnam went
into Shanlcy's" Right at a time when
Secretary OF War Baker calls attention
To the fact that the boys OF &c were a
lot of rummy bandits Ere merely states
in his book that Washington lived at
3 Cherry street and John Hancock
lived at j Cherry street.
IIl'I tul''l oi' laws ZIG StIi -cN -
dent fact that both were OF the Cherry
Hin gang. They were a couple OF
sharpers. those lads were. Why not
back up the Angel Child to the extent
of saying so point blank? Some place
in among the half thousand pages Ere
tells OF Washington quitting Cherry
Hill. Easily he could have followed
history tn tho extent OF adding that
Washington, Putnam and Old Man
Hancock. after leaving Cherry Hin,
wen M the Hudson, singing raucous-
~ as they strolled. and held up tho
Empire state Express as It Numbered
down grade into Garrison. n. Y. Tie
subsequent bloody quarrel at West
Point over the division of spoils col
lcctod from the mail cars may be an
cicnt history. but the details bear re-
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pcating. especially in n book laying
claim to the completeness that Ere
aims Mt.
"t'or shame" some. perhaps. will
cry upon reading this urge TO tell all
about the bandits Of Revolutionary
days. Why shameful? Those birds
OF the early day of u Republic. as
Secretary Moot Baker so ably pointed
out during the recent campaign. had
their choice of leading lives Of right
or Of staggering blearlly
along the wide and pansy strewn path.
They chose their bed. SO let them lie
in Il. George Washington, John Ham
cock and the rest OF that ans OF low
life Broadway burglars-thc word Is
used advisedly-bacli in those early
days, made Cherry street what II is
to-day. and l hope they're satisfied.
Therefore I see no reason why their
viciousness should he CLOSED over ny
everybody except Moot to-day.
Scarcity OF white paper prevents
the complete listing here Of Frc's vari-
Gus examples Of carelessncss, never
theless the effort will he made here
and now tn wedge into this effort at
'stN II NM VI NiV 80
his guide to New York overlooks.
Greenwich Village. says his book
was once an Indian settlement. II
still is. so why not say so? New
York. according to Ere, uses 500, 900 900
gallons of water n day. For what?
Where? How? The statement, az
n one knows who strolls up Broad
way at the cocktail hour. is too silly
10 discuss.
lie gives a tabulatcd list Of vi
insane asylums but fails to dwell upon
the accepted fact that there aren't
enough. Judged on n basis Of near
monthly or yearly averages says Old
Ere Rider in his paragraph headed
Climate. "the climate of New York
city does not offer Oh tho surface any
very striking contrasts" &c. Mean
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half an hour Of reading in the library
at Forty-sccond street, first got the old
chief stewcd and then hornswogslcd
him into handing vcr the island in re-
turn fos IA bunch of junk. among which
were n high wheeled bicycle, n Cana
dian FIVE dollar bill. "A fiv car that but
toned down the back tthc Historical
Society has manuscripts and very early
prints to prove these assertions) and a
cluster Of Montana diamonds.
Why not. so long as one is telling
about the transaction. invoice the sixty
Guildcrs worth OF goods? II with the
help OF words the goods are piled be-
fore ones eye. then one gets a grasp
of the transaction. II George AIDE had
said when writing about a show girl
'Shc was a young woman OF no educa-
ton" who would have cared whether
she was educated or not? But he
didn't. "She knew that Columbus dis
covered America and which brand OF
cold cream wGs the best and let it go
mt that" George wrote when he felt
impclled TO tell about the lady's intel
lectual qualifications. George said "A
PEACEFUL there. didn't he?
You, Mister Tor Missus) Header. may
wonder what this is all about. It's just
.his-it's a kick against the laziness
Of Old Ere Rider. Ere goes to unbe-
lievahle ends 10 turn ont a half thou
sand page book about New York-the
best book, we'll admit. OF ite kind ever
turned out by anybody-and stimuli
taneously lies down on the Job.
Listen 20 the way he sights things
"A tablet yer the doorway at 1893
1905. W. SIDE" writes Fire when talk
ing about Broadway, was placed there
by the Sons Of the Revolution to com.
mcmorato the meeting here OF Wash
inEton and Putnam, Sept. Is. 1915"
Does he impress sufficiently upor
his readers that number 1893 Broad
way Is ~Shanlcy's restaurant? How
much stronger tho paragraph woult
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an introduction. has its pages num-
bered in small type, xiv. XXxviii. xl.
whatever that Licans-and so on. An
Introduction OF a book always will te
considered n poor. anTmic apology
until Il asserts itself to the extent Of
having its part Of the book regularly
numbered on each page.
Right OF tho bat. or on page Xxx.
OF the introduction. Ere tells OF the
purchase OF the island OF Manhattan
in these simple words: "ln 1926.
Peter Minuit. Third Director General,
purchased the entire island Of Man
haitian from the Indians in exchange
for goods worth about so guilders
GEO. The concrete facts arc avail
able to anybody. Why not list them.
All good poetry, m and any all
around oratory must be concrete TO
be good. II a man says: II sh!ncd
my own shoes this morning" he may
seem &c bc concrete, but he isn't. The
listener gets n hazy idea. despite such
concrete items az shining n shoes
and morning. that an abstract work
was performed.
But let the ma say: II shined my
" shoes this morning on tho top
edge of the bathtuh.' That's concrete,
Now you've got the picture-the fat
gentleman. putting, places the dusty
tan shoe up on the white enamel; next
the hotel towel Is called into play and
ruined; the bathtub liz next 20 ruined
also inasmuch as there are brownish
era scars on the enamel after the
rough soics OF the shoes are placed
back upon the bath mat. Shining
shoes means nothing. Shining shoes
ION the top edge OF the bathtub" is
everything bccause II is concrete.
Amt II?
peter Minu!t purchased the entire
island of Manhattan In exchange for
goods worth about co guilders." The
sentence pictures how much to your
mind? Nothing. AS long rs an au-
thor goes Ia the trouble of digging
back into history to find who bought
tho Island and the money value OF the
goods he paid for the land, why moi
list the goods?
Peter. as any student may learn ir
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climate Is right; but why not a sem
tence OF elaboration upon its mean
ness?
New York girls wear daytime street
clothes. Ere says further, which will
make Visitors think they are looking
upon the hort sleeves and low necks
Of womcn dressed for n party. Eve
ming clothes is right-thc girls as a
vuic are just getting home from the
night before. Does Ere know this
and conceal II for fear OF exposing our
shame or is he merely trying to ham,
booZle wise visitors who are devils in
their WI home town"
"New York Is to "A large extent n
closed up town on Sundays" Ere
warns the visitors. Yes. il is. Oh
yes-it-is, oh, yes. yes. yes. yes. yes.
Nobody could get n drink If his tongue
was hanging out that far in New York
on a sunday, Or enter a theatre. or
dance or anything. He'll get fat, Ere
will. kidding us.
lie tells us in his book that the
subway guards call out each station,
hut he does not hint at n key to the
language they use. When tipping n
waiter. says Ere. don't give less than
10 cents lie gives no hint OF what
would happen in case a visitor seated
at a table in. say, Jim Churchill's or
Jacks, offered a tip as high as 10 cents.
And not even a word Is devoted to the
hat boy OF broadway,
lie explains with maps and every
thing how to get into Vail street
easily, hut fails to tell how to get out
~ Wall Street easily Hc liSts only
1000 theatres here. including tho movie
houses Of the greater city. but neClects
To- tell the people VINO have set them
selves back the price of his book that
the 1000 merely includes the number
NJ new theatres opened in n given
week.
In his list OF picture exhibitions
which the visitor should see Ere tell.
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Old Fremont Rider. 10 open his book
prcmeditatedly at random on page -
and reading the paragraphs devoted TO
soda fountains. ten rooms and con-
f%cctioners. els known to Harvard stu
dents as serving the best ice rcam
soda in New York"
To Harvard students, eh? To what
Harvard students? When did lIar-
ward students become authorities on
ice cream sodas? What Harvard stu
dent ever tasted ice crcam soda?
Laughter. laughter. laughter. When
SO sweeping n statement Is made. why
not at least attempt to bolster UP the
statement with something like a hint
Of authority? Is Alumnus'Ned Guilt
nan Of the Harvard Club and Jacks
restaurant an authority on Ice cream
soda? Is Johnny Williams. impre-
sario for John Drew and n Harvard
man. an authority to be sought when
the cxcellences Of Manhattan ice cream
sodas are under discussion? Is Alum
nus and Playwright Eddie Sheldon?
II these and many other readily ap-
p~roachablo Harvard lads arc ice cream
soda authorities. why not q little bit
Of concrete testimony from each?
Trustworthy arc the efforts OF Old
Doc Rider or uny n else who pa
tiently digs up and turns out more
than half a thousand pages Of infor-
nation about Manhattan. but while
they're At 1t, why not spend another
half day on the Job and wind things
up.
1t 4. with this thought in mind tina,
I here suggest addcnda which Old
Ere Rider should have finished. lie
begins. for instance, with ono OF those
lndlccs that never rise to the dignity
OF having their pages numbered !, ?
3, 4, 5, G., Z and so forth. The index
which in this case is another term fol
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%kN7WC e
AzNNED mr.
AspNHE
ME ~T
N1jM.
D FRANK WARD O'MALLEY.
THERE'S q time In the life Of
every native born New Yorker.
which includes the Colonel,
D. Wolf Hopper. Mayor John Hooray
michel, John D. Crimmins. Dudley
TAld Malone. Honest Jawn Kelly and
psrhaps . score Of other citizens Of
Manhattan. when he says with the
aif.satisfied air Of a discovcrer, "D'yuh
know what I'm going to do some
day. people: No? Well. when I'm
sure that no one Is looking I'm going
TO climb aboard one Of those Seeing
New York rubbcrneck buses and See
New York.
But he never does. never did and
perhaps never will. And therefore the
shop girl from Nanticoke who
to Manhattan annually on her ten day
or two weeks vacation and spends a
part of It aboard the rubbcrneck bus
really knows more about the town
than even the Colonel. who knows
everything about more things than
anybody.
Along has come n book. however,
which starts right out on the first page
70 tell all about the greater city and
keeps on telling facts until the last line
Of The last. or 5osth. page. Riders
New York City" Is the title OF the
work. and the fact that Mr.. Rider has
10 more claim OF title over the city
than the rest Of US transients does not
enter into tho matter. The book has
green cover decorated with n golden
something which at first glance might
te mistaken for a harp reclining upon
lis r string. a cover color combination
which any one will agree is al 1t
should be.
It's a modern Manhattan Baedeker.
except that 1t is green instead OF red
and also except that all Its fat pages
are devoted to New York city instead
Q: mere mcasly page or two. as in
the Baedekers and the other books OF
the Baedekcr kind devoted to things
American. And doubtless when Old
Scout Fremont Rider finished the last
me OF the last page OF the manu-
script OF his book. locked his desk and
went down TO Gilligan's place on the
corner for a lemonade before turning
IN he was sure. as he thought things
over whilo pensively stirring the
candl.d cherries around with his straw.
that he had said everything that pos
slbly could he said about our city.
why see New York after seeing mS'
book" no doubtless asked.
But there's no such thing as COM
pleteness. Completeness takes perfec-
ton for granted. Who IL perfect?
Nobody.
"Hetherlngton's drug store says
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01

No other product of field or orchard
leaped into prominence so quickly and
spectacularly as did the Loganberry.
According to those who have written
the history of the berry, it was propa-
gated in California by Judge Logan
Others deny this giving credit for it to
the plant wizard, Lutner Burbank, who
himself lately on seeing the Oregon
berry at the Panama exposition claimed
to be the author of its being, saying
the Loganberry was entirely differ
ent and that the so called Loganberry
was neither more nor less than his
Wonder. However it is not worth
while to enter into the discussion of its
creator, for after all who invented it
matters little.
1t was brought to Oregon by A. La
Toilette, but he did little with it, its
first prominence being gained through
the efforts of A. ri. Aspinwall and
sons who had just arrived from blizzcrd
swept Dakota when the berry was
brought to their notice. They began
its cultivation and put it on the market,
giving it place among the CONNER
cial berries.
The first patches planted gave fine
returns some, so it is claimed yielding
a profit of nearly 500 an acre. This
is probably somewhat exaggerated, hut
profits o. from $l4O 10 5000 per acre
were not uncommon.
Had Hard Shedding
The p,ites at this time were around
4 cents, but these shortly fell to half of
that or less: Like many other things
the high prices had caused tne planting
of quite an area to ''Logans" and the
supply was larger tnan the market
would abosrb. Then came time when
some drg up the vines and quit In dis
gust. Others held on, some even in
creasing the area and at the same time
/ trying to create market for the Der.
ry
] This proved a task of some magni
tude, but was finally accomplished, and
today the berry is pretty well known
and is steadily growing in popularity
throughout the United States.
Much of the credit for this is due
/ to u. S. Gile, who while in the cast
looking after the fruit business general
ly, and prunes especially, called atten
ton to the merits of the Loganberry.
A dealer from the cast bought and
shipped 20 carloads, selling the lot at
81 per crate.
The acidity of the berry made it un
suitable for canning, but it proved one
Of the finest "dryers'', retaining its
flavor to a remarkable degree,
Then w. J, Bryal, accidentally took
hand in aiding it, and from the news
papers poking fun at him about his fav
orite beverage, grape juice, someone
conceived the idea of trying the logan
berry as a drink producer.
"LOju' Gets Famous
1t was an inspiration, for wherever
the juice was tried came the highes
and most flattering concentrations fo
the "Loju."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01

The Falls City, Salem Lumber Com
pany is practically new firm though
its predecessors had been in business
in Salem for several years. Located
at first at Commercial and Chemeketa
it in 1914 bought out the Capital
Lumber Company, at $40 South
Twelfth street and consolidating the
stocks of the two companies, is now in
business at that point
While the company carries an i'm
mense stock, it relies almost entirely
on the local market for its trade, keep
ing a number of teams and delivering
its material to all parts of the city,
or in the country if desired.
While the name implies it is dealing
in lumber only, the company in fact
is building" firm. 1t carries every.
thing imaginable in the building line.
Lime, plaster, cement, hair, paint,
shingles, builders hardware, sash, doors,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01
Falls City-Salem Lumber Company
Carries Everything For Building

glass and everything needed in build
ing from the cement in the basement,
to the shingles on the roof and the
nails to put them on.
They have an immense storage build
ing at their headquarters on Twelfth,
which is filled with the very finest in
finishing lumber, and two blocks near
the Southern Pacific depot which are
used as lumber yards.
The company also has an office and
yard in West Salem, and employs in
all about dozen men.
Prompt delivery and first class ser
vice is assured its patrons. The prin'
cipal stakeholder in the company is
y. j. Cobbs of Portland and w. F.
Grier is the general manager. Call him
up if you are in need of anything in
the building line, and you will be
treated nicely whether you buy or not
for it is never any trouble to "show
goods. -
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01
SANTA WAS "a DANDY"

Someone, no matter who, maybe a
printer, was walking up Commercial
street Christmas eve. A little fellow
of five or six years was gazing with
longing eyes in window where train
of tin cars seemed waiting to "pull
out" The cars bore the awful label
prohibitive figures, "l5c." Someone
walked up to the little fellow and Civ.
ing him playful poke "Say, kid, "
he said, "Santa Claus was just around
the corner and gave me fifteen cents
he told me to give to little boy that
/ think must be you, to buy train of
cars, and here it is.
The little fellow tremblingly took the
money, and then with II "Gee, ain 7
Santa Claus dandy" he was in and
out Of that store in about two minutes,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01
Loganberries Come to Front
AsDrink or Dry Equally Good

The Salem Commercial club took hold
of the advertising end of the problem
and did good work in introducing it to
the public.
Special trains bearing delegations
from the east to the exposition were
met at the depot here by its represent
atives and the juice was served free to
the parties.
The S. p also got busy and served
the juice on the diners ON all their roads
and now with the "Loiu" only about
year on the markets it has establish
ed place for itself, and is looked upon
as staple of its kind in the temper.
ance drink emporiums of the country.
1t is put up here in Salem, in at
tractive shape, and is advertising Sa-
lem as well as itself. 1t has become
formidable rival to the famous grape
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01
ONLY FIVE SALOONS WILL
CLOSE IN POLK COUNTY

Dallas, Or, Dee. 3l.-Only five sa'
looms will be put out of business in
Polk county by the operation of the
statewide prohibition law. Three of
these are at Independence and two at
Falls City. Dallas voted out saloons
a year ago in Monmouth and West
Salem, the other two incorporated
cities of the county, have never had
public bars. Bota Sheriff Orr and
District Attorney Sibley have ex'
pressed themselves as anticipating
little trouble in enforcing the law
and no special appropriation has been
requested by either for that purpose
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01

juice, and indeed gives promise of send
ing that beverage to join those of alco-
holic tendencies, in the national scrap
heap. That the acreage will be largely
increased is beyond question, and that
it will become an important feature
with fruit growers is assured.
Oregon seems to be the natural home
of this berry, it not doing so well in
Californit or anywhere it has been so
far tried.
Salem "Loiu" is all right, and as
the stronger fluids have been banished
will take its place as first of all tenn
pcrance drinks. An appropriate slogan
for the "drys" to use with it is "try
Salem fLoiu it will not load you"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01

No man has suggested a reward for
those Chicagoans who go bathing in
Lake Michigan throughout the winter
in order to impress the country with the
mildness of Chicago's climate. The
News remarks: "Though Lake Mich
igan's smiling wave in the rose light
Of dawn CLEANS with the opal's liquid
iridiscent flame, the early swimmer
finds that it feels astonishingly like ice
water.D
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-01
WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT MAIL

Washington, Dec. 29.-German auth
critics reported here today that Foreign
Minister Won Jagow's latest instruction
to Ambassador Won Bernstorff includ-
ed a request that he seeks an investiga.
tion of England - seizures of mail des-
tined from the United States to Ger
many