Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-24

prevailed here before Cain delivered
the first smashing blow to his Hunuish
surprise attack upon that noted neutral
Abel. 1t must be true, for there is no
other way of explaining the butter. But
ter that must have been boarded away
in somebody 5 cellar back in those days
of the beginning of things, is selling
here Iow for $l.25 per pound. 1t would
mt exactly pass muster out in Iowa as
''stliotly fresh.
Flour, Made in PERSIA is selling
for sos barrel, yet some stores, by
means of mystic figuring, manage to
sell Persian bread for 20 cents a pound.
Coai sells for $50 a ton, though it is a
iecal product, being transported from
mines only 50 or rs miles away. Don
keys furnish the transport. 1t is not
known what the coal is used for Per-
haps il is burned in the temples in.
stead Of incense, as there is nothing
100 good for the good old Persian God.
Sugar 81 Pound.
Sugar brings 81 per pound, so taffy
pulling parties are not much INDUCED
n. Fairly good coffee may be bought
for $'.S0 a pound, and tea for $l.65.
Flour from Europe, from which real
bread may be made, is held at $3.50
barrel, and soap, which is classed as an
noxcusablo luxury yway, brings any
thing the merchant can get many sales
at NJ and more per cake peing mace to
foreigners who imagine they have TO
have soap. A fairly good pair Of shoes
may be had for $25.
II still is possible to exist pretty
ehcaply if one has no objection to a
constant diet Of chicken and eggs.
Chickens are produced locally in great
quantities, and almost every city dwell
er has his own feathered flock so chick
ems may be had in the market for 50
cents each, and eggs for 65 cents q
dozen. Sheep, too, are plentiful and
city broke, so mutton may be bought
for 20 cents pound The sheeppro-
ducing rural folk find that it would
take their whole flocks to buy shoes
for the family, so they go shoeless and
feast on mutton from sun to sun, The
butter is too much revered for its age
and powor to be eaten by the proliter-
lat.
Not Much Transportation
Transportation facilities arc scarcely
ideal here, and this always has been
given as the chief reason for the high
quently theloan and interest were both
furnished another good reason, and the
Persian peddler has been as ready as
the American butcher with that patri-
otto slogan, ''It's on account of the
war you know" The Persian, too,
shares with his American brethren
that painful and embarrassing hcsitancy
to change sudde~ly to. con account Of
the peace, you know and compromises
bv sayino nothing except that it is ter
riblc about the bolsheviki and the dry
weather
Everything is carried long distances
on donkeyback or by camel. An auto
mobile in the streets of Teheran at
tracts as much attention rs would a
camel train operating on New York
or Chicago elevated line.
Persia once produced almost us many
Persian rugs as Hoboken, N. j., but the
war almost swept away the markets for
these Injuries. Hence, the problem Of
unemployment has entered into the
q''nu'e lifo Of Teheran. Crops were bad
last season. Americans, including the
missionaries, have been active in dis.
tributing relief, by means of funds col
letccd in America.