March.
THE WEST SHORE.
The Wtsi horc,
A Twl Page Monthly JlluarsM. Paptr, ptibliihed at
L, SAMUEL, J WahinEtOB-rt.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,
Inrl.uliDB I'utUK to any part of the United State.:)
Ou conv. one year, S
Single Numlwn. 10 nU
Printed by ilo. H, limit, cor, Front & Wahinglon
Foil tii WbhtHiuhib.
TIIK FI.OWKK GAKDKN.
BV IIKNKY MIM.KK.
Time for gardening is nearly at hand
and it is well to make the proper prcjara
tions. One of the very first requisites for
successful gardening, is good soil. I'oor
soils can be improved by manuring. Well
rolled manure of any kind is belter than
fresh. If, however, the former cannot be
obtained, any kind may be used. Refuse
from a chicken-coop, or the scraping from
a cow-yard, are very good. Fresh horse
manure is not good, as it generates too
much heat and rots slowly. If fresh
manure must be used, mix it well with the
soil, adding sharp sand to it, and it will
make a good bed. In most of our clay
soils it is safe to add a bushel of sand and
a large wlieel-lwrrow load of manure to p.
bed of 4 x 15 feet. A good comjKwt for
nexl year can lw made of one jart sand,
(plastering sand is I rest,) two parts manure
and three jiarls sod, Mix it twice through
the summer and keep moist, adding ashes
and any other offal.
In sowing flower seeds for the summer,
we must not plant all kinds at once; some
should not be sown till the ground is
thoroughly warm. We start first with
Pansy, Mignonette, Sweet Pea, Snap
Dragmi and larkspur. Dahlias may be
set out early; put them deep enough, so
that four inches of earth is over the top,
thus we have them in bloom by 1st of July.
After these, when the ground is a little
warmer, sow Verbenas, Petunias, Ten
Weeks Stocks and Portulaca.
AIkiuI 1st of April we sow Asters,
Ziuias, Phlox Trummondis, Hakims, and
last of all Kverlastings; these are atl sum
mer plants or annuals. Those that bloom
only ihc second year, (biennials) can be
sown al any time of laic spring. Amongst
these we name Columbine, Carnation
Pinks, Camiunulax, Sweet William, Wall
flower, and others. Cover all seeds lightly;
there are more seeds lost In' too deep
covering than any oilier cause. Should,
however, a cold rain of several days follow
immediately after sowing, we are almost
Mire to loose most of our liner seeds; it is
therefore wise to sow half the lockage
first, and the other half eight or ten duvs
idler. Pansy, Asters, Verbenas, Petunias,
Zini.is, Phlox and Kverlastings, can be
raised in a box set in a warm place in
doors, and then transplanted; most of the
others do not transplant well.
In sowing and planting flowers we look,
of course, for the best effect, and that we
can make by sowing seeds of one color in
a tied or clump. A bed of scarlet Verbena
gives a greater show titan a mixed one,
and so with all flowers. Try it once, even
if only on a small scale,
Most house plants do well planted out,
and make a tine show all summer. In the
(all they can I planted in the same jhxs,
by pruning tow and roots, and it, the plant
ing out, gives them a new lease on life.
All the (ierauiums, single .ami double,
wriefutcd iff plain, make line beriders,
that is plant out well, and bloom abun
dantly all hit turner. lantanas make beau
tiful garden plants, Kuclui.is and Iidv
Washntgtou dt-raniuins, if planted out,
must 'we slude against the noon sun.
We arc fietnienily asked w Inch are ihe
,-cst flowering hruU to set tun. I will
give twcKe ot the hot, such as can I
had at ntot the florist in or aUmt Port
land. I add time of hUmting and com
mon hight:
I, Snow I -all, April, 5 feet; J-3, Purple
and White I iUc, April, 5 feet; 4. lVuisu
CiNtilia, May, J feet; 5, Japan Quince.
March, 4 feel; 6, lVuliia Crcnata, double,
Mar. 1 feet; 7, Weigelea Rosea, April, 5
feet; 8, Flowering Almond, April, 3 feet 1
inch; 9, Plumlcavcd Spireea or Bridal
Wreath, 6 feet, March; 10, Spireea Revisi,
double, white, nearly evergreen, 4 feet,
May; 11, Purple Berberry, 6 feet, purple
leaves and red berries all winter; 12, Or
namented Thorn, 6 feet, bunches of red
berries all winter.
Six best hardy garden roses:
Mad. I.a Fay, pink red; Aimy Vibert,
pure white; Giant of Matties, dark; General
Washington, dark rose; Hermosa, rosy;
L'Patrizzi, dark velvety.
Twelve hardy plants:
Tree Peona, White Pcona, Old Crimson
Pcona, Lily of the Valley, Golden Banded
Lily, Double White Primrose, Pansy.
Tritoma, Double White Lichinis, Bleeding
Heart, Chrysanthemums, Piumbaga, blue
creeping.
All these shrubs and plants named are
hardy, and give good satisfaction. There
are many other shrubs, foses, border
plants, lilies and bulbs, but the above will
make a fine show, at reasonable prices.
Shrubs, roses and herbaceous plants, that
have stood two or more years in the same
place, should have a shovel-full or two of
manure spaded in aliout them, shaping
them into form by cutting out some and
tying out other branches.
KEKP YOUR MONEY IN OREGON.
Among other things that Oregon needs
besides immigration, is the keeping of
money made within its boundaries at
home, here, where it belongs. In early
days, this State was kept poor by the fact
that people came here only to make
money, then to return to the States, taking
with them every dollar of their wealth;
and it is only lately that some of our oldest
residents have at last concluded to make
Oregon their future home, and those who
came among us have any idea of becoming
permanent settlers. Others who amassed
large fortunes in legitimate vocations have
gambled them away in the stock markets
of San Francisco, or squandered them in
riotous living in some of the cities of the
East. All these things of course had a
tendency to keep this, a young State, in
comarative poverty, but now that we are
well under way, and with people of mean
domiciled among us, wc look for some
thing different, we want to see the money
made in this State invested in this State,
and not sent away to other Stales and
foreign countries for business ventures.
Surely if the dollars can be made here in
the first place, does it not stand to reason
that this is the proper place to keep litem ?
There is nothing which so iniMverishcs a
new Slate as the constant drawing off of its
life-blood for ihe benefit of others. ( regon
is like a great warehouse feeding the capi
talists, but never receiving anything in
return.
The money which is sent to the San
Francisco banks by many of our business
men, if used here as used there, in manu
facturing and other enterprises, wouid not
only enrich them and the State, hut make
them hlcsMiigs instead of curses to the
community. It is self-evident that where
ever capital is unlocked and used, labor
ers, mechanics, farmers and bitsines men
crowd in, and by their very presence in
crease the capitalist's pelf and the mone
tary standing of the entire commonwealth.
If the San Francisco and foreign banks
can use Oregon's money to such an ad
vantage as lo le able lo pay a round
(tercentage, why can't our capitalists do as
well by investing it similarly here, in rail
roads, steamtxuts, or manufactories ? Upon
what meal tux's this our California feed
thai she should produce the only men
with brains enough to make monev with
money ?
We (rccjuentl) read of how the Chinese
are ruining the country ly sending all their
money to the Celestial Kingdom, but fail
to see any difference between this practice
of the Mongolians and precisely the same
thing among the Caucasians. In our eyes
the one is as much a "Chinaman" as the
other.
Stephen Girard is credited with saying
that after the first ten thousand dollars are
made, money-making becomes an easy
pastime. How is it then that the people
who arc able to make money here out of
nothing, who have according to Girard
gone through the hardest part of the fight,
should so abjectly publish their inability to
enter into undertakings, beneficial to them
selves and their fellow-men, by shipping off
their hard-earned dollars to afford an easy
"pastime" to foreign business men.
Oregon City Enterprise,
One of our most reliable, as well as
beautifully printed exchanges, is the
illustrated "West Shore," published at
Portland, Oregon. The terms are only
r.co. ner annum, and it is a splendid
family paper second to none on the Pacific
coast. Snohomish Star,
CLEANING PRINTED SHEETS.
A method recommended by a foreign
contemporary for cleaning printed matter
and engravings consists in fastening the
sheets to a board by broad-headed tacks,
and washing it with clean water, to which
a slight percentage of carbonate of
ammonia has been added. This process
must be conducted very carefully with a
soft brush. The paper is then to be rinsed
off with water, and ihe operation repeated
on the back side as soon as it is dried. It
is then to be moistened with water
acidulated with pure wine vinegar, and
again washed with water, to which a
little chloride of lime has been added.
Finally, it is washed off again and dried in
the air by sunlight. Indus way it becomes
extremely white without any injury to the
impression. Some valuable engravings
have, it is said, been completely restored
by this method.
Making a Fire. A Danburyman put a
pair of nine dollar shoes in the stove oven
to dry the other day. There was not much
fire in the stove and so he closed the oven
door. The next morning he built the fire
without the thought of the shoes, and it
was not until an hour later that they occur-
ed to him, They were ruined then. The
soles were turned up in in a playful man
ner, and uppers resembled somewhat the
coast of Maine. He didn't say a word.
Sadly and silently he was removing them
with a shovel, when his wife came in and
saw with a glance what had hapjiencd.
"Well, that's just like a man !" she in
discreetly exclaimed. "Why didn't you
have sense enough to look into the oven
before you started ihe fire?"
He hadn't said a single word of his loss,
but now he s)Kkc :
"Gush dum my eyes if I'll ever build
another lite !"
And he is keeping his word. When
will a woman learn wisdom ? Danburg
The West Shore for February, is an
improvement on any previous number, and
the publisher deserves credit for his enter
prise. Oregon should be proud of her
illustrated iwjwr, and every one of her
citizens should help to sustain it. Dallas
Itemiser.
BARBER & NICKLIN,
DENTISTS.
HureMWini to Hatch A Thomson,
V KlrilL, Portland, 011.
OREGON BAKERY
F. 01MTZ, - . . Proprietor,
Wrrt HU, meit tm ear. f Plat, Portland,
Manufacturers of all kludi of
Crackers. Rread. Calces
' '
! AND PANTRY.
' PILOT. SHIP AND HAVT BREAD
Alway told below Han Francisco prim.
WT BATH KBFO BMl PR HP A RATION OP MOUNTAMT BALM
" Thf lwt preparation al the Buliu yet otft-ml to (lie
people' Tlie luont palatable, the tmngcat, and the nio
agreeable lynip of that great renitdlul aent jet pr- .
nurnd la rum pounded lu tlie moat can-ml and Klenttno
nuniier, thnKotlradinK all IU tiH-ilU'itml vnlue. Thli uj
tlie ureal hrallnii Balaam for all'evtluni of the. throat and
tive tonic Thuae who need a reliable preparation of thit
Balm, which I iwlfjirnoua to our own 8tnte, are invited
to trv WrailiiTlonl' Preparation and aattofy t newt Tea
that it liuaull the virtuca tliut we diiltn lor it. It nUtt
tone to the mind and ImhIj, liicreaMta the appetite, and la
raeinnii!iLredcoii.Uutloii or nervous pnittratlun.lt
1h an invaluable remedy. It uiiriliea the blood, atreujfth
rns the wlmlf ivKtem. Improve dluemtoii, n-g-ulittca the
K-rix-tiiiiii. kiiiiIiihIIy lirliiKlhKaltout a restoration to health.
Perfectly hanuh'M for all ne and both arses. Tim drat
duae irivea relief-try it. Jlnnulactun il by eatlicrfurU
Co., IrniicttUta, Salem, Oregoa Price W ceiita.
Orent Seduction In Prices at
NICOLAI BKO.'N
CENTRAL PLANING MILLS,
Cor. North 8econct nnd E SU., Portland.
RUHTICCEILINQ, MOULDING, ALL KINDS
of Cedar Lumber, Fluuring, tiunh, Door.
Bundtt, Bruckete, Urns, Tan hi, Fences, Ac,
Common 81 no Doom, 6an und Blind at Sua
Franelaoo privet.
4'HEH EHETA HOTEL, ftalem, UtfU
THJH 18 THE FIN KMT HOTEL NOPTIT OF
Hun FmncUco. containing 150 Ronmn, in
suit or Hingis und flttctl up with all the modern,
improvement.
Oninlbu from and to the Hotel Pre.
HOUSE OPEN ALL NIGHT.
THOMAS SMITH, - Proprietor,
Formerly of the " Empire Hotel,' Th Pulled.
P. A NMITH,
ARTIST,
Commrrrlftl Htreet, Maleni, Oregon,
KALHK IN 8TERE0SC0PIH,8TEltECUI
IC View. Kcenes of Halcm und surround I n?
country The only, place in Kill em lo get fl rat
el as PhotoirmpliR and IlR Hlse Portraits, in
ludlu Ink, Oil or Water Color.
D
Don't Send Tour Kooe; out of the Country.
UHuulucturer of
Glue, Curled Hair and Neata' Foot Oil.
la prepared to mpplr the State and Wnahlnston Terri
tory, at Shu KranrlM o Pi it Urder direct, or T. A. Uavia
It Co., Portland, Oregon.
AMERICAN LAUNDRY.
'PHE ONLY PLACE "iN THE STATE TO GET
1 jour
N11IRTN AMD COLL ARM
Done up In No. one style. Try them once and
you'll wear no other.
Our Luce Curtains and Blankets can't be beaU
Office, American Exchange Cigar Store, corner
Front and Waxliinvloti NtreetH.
Blate t iKauc Bin in 'h Cigar Store, corner First
and Alder alreeta.
Laundry, cor. F and Tenth sU.
THAT W. HARHIH, AT THE GREAT EAST
ern nothing store, No, 12S Flrst-nL,han the
beat RHKnrtment of Clothing, and sells at lower
rlcett than uny ol her hoaae in Portland.
Oregon Transfer Company.
OFFICE At Dray an Back Stables,
Southwest cor. Second and Stark Sta.
A LI, mVINEMR ENTRUSTED TO US WILI
iL be executed with care and dutpuluh.
ORDERS FOR HACKS PROMPTLY
ATTENDKD TO, DAY OR NIGHT,
'THE GERM AX rilARMACY"
OF WM. PFUNDER
Ankcny s New Theater Blocks
Cor, Flint and Ash Sta.,
Portland, Oregon,
Is The" Drug Store where
Pure Mntlflne
And Rare Chemical
Are dUpenaed.
Tha compounding of Prescription
a NN-cialty. Attendance competent,
A run stock or
Toilet Articles nnd Perfumery.
y Polar Roda Water Fountain with cholc
Symjitt and Mlueml Waters In lull operation.
REMOVED
To Corner of Front und Morrlauu HU., Portland.
D. W. WILLIAMS & CO.,
ftUfceiwoni to Williams A Myers,
Commission Merchants.
And Dealer la Orooerlaa, Oroftoa and
Uallfornla JProdneo.
A. C UIHB. W. ft. QILBKKT
GIBBS ft GILBERT,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
CerWll BalMlng. M Fires Hi, Partlamd, O,
WiU fivlM all t auru f ri la Uw lute, and
HJ paJUruUr aiuaitos te BimUmm l tt I, ft t'wurta.
THAT t
Himes, THE Printer.
Ia Uill in tha field, ind il fully pnparad to
EXCHANGE WORK FOR DOLLARS !
COME ON WITH TOUR JOBS
Md "philthy luker to
No. Five Washington St.,
Whm joo will pt Ihe bat work in tht city
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