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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1879)
January, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 11 CHURN SLOWLY. "Don't ply the duller m tut, my deer, It's not eo (rood for the butter, And will make your arms ache, too, I (ear; And put you all In a flutter Fur this la a rule, wherever we turn, Don't be In hute whenever you chum Churn ilowly! "It you'd aee your butter come nloe and iweet Don't churn with a aervoun jerking, But ply the duber slowly and neat You 11 hardly know that you're working; And when the butter hu come, you'll say, 'Yes, this is surely the very beet way' Churn slowly!" Sarah Ktabla Uunt. FLORAL DISPLAYS AT FAIRS. A fine display of Aowen forms one of the most attractive, instructive and altogether de lightful featurea of a popular fair. Moat ag ricultural societies recognise this fact and of. fer premiums to exhibitors; but it ii seldom that the floral show is one-tenth as good aa it might be, with a little more interest ou the part of flower growers and eflbrta from the managers POMEGRANATE BLOSSOMS. Fomegranate blossoms! heart of fire, I dare to be thy death, To slay thee while the summer tun It quickening thy breath, To rub the autumn ol thy wine, Next year of all ripe eeodt of thine, That thou maytt bear one kiss of mine To my dear love before my death, For, heart of Are! 1, too, am robbed, Like thee, like thee, I die; Whllo yet mv mmmor tun of love It near and warm and high, The autumn will run red with wine, The autumn fruite will twlng and thine, But In that little grave of mine I shall not see them where I lie. Sam Met A BEAR-BACK RIDE. Foon too Kami.y Dttuwrnn. -The healthy adult requires food which will give the stomach work to do. The stomach require work as much as the legs or arms. The nutriment of food for aurh should not bs abstracted anil ready priqutrvd, aa, fur instance, it is in milk, eggs, meat; it is better that the stomach ab stract it by the prooesa of digestion from fowl. Willi the tick and ths yuung, however, the case is very different. Tho atomauli of a strong man it like a quarts crushing machine, capable of doing vigorous work. That of a dytpeptio is About 15 years ago there was a very big ahe bear and her three ouba, one a yearling and two small ones, which traveled up and down the coast and oft-times would kill my oattle. She was very cunning and would only oonie around in very dark nighta. I hunted for her from time to time, but failed to find her. One day I tracked her to the beaoh where I found that she came to eat a dead Mai She bad to pass through some willows and a email creek. So I masts) Ills HIV mind to net UP one of the willows that night, and as ahe came by to try and ahoot her I asked a man by the name of Jonathan Wright to go with me. We went at eun-down and got up one of the willows and waited on til two o'clock in the morning before- ahe name. It being very dark under the willowa we oould not see well. The three ouba oameHrat and commenced to drink water. We mistook the Yearling cub for the she bear, and aa well as we could aim, fired. The cube gave a howl and ran back, and at the same time the she liear came down through the willows, tearing everything right and felt She came under .. " ........ ..... .nd sat unand waa ... aj ... h.n f shot her. She com- wj"I va aw " " - - the M and menceu w cougu , , died. Wright wanted to go home. So we got , -l . , r( ,,d (or the house. down irom we irw i" - ,, I A a ...mil we niet the CUbft Itie 111 liouiu jmoum. m F"...- , , . yearling cub made a jump rt Wnght end he J. . .B L-a I I it. The cub umped anoi at is, irai iiu.wov. back and then jumped at me and at the aame time I And and mUd 1 it The wLi.i ...i , tin umi time tnu my gun minaeii me, u , cub ran between my lege and upeet me, and as I fell, I pot out my handa to catch myself, a. the X b,w-b.tw--Y to the cud a Pace sue my --- by the hair on hU rump. J"2MR went me ciio pucaeu sy I off. Wright hallooed and asked J 1 was going" I told him-eoone. I W ttat I w going home, and inm. wmon waa mi mur . . w ll , ... i ti. tbrM cube. It, a lew nays eiver i save - - Pad, in Pacific Rural Pro. AT AN FLORAL TENT of the exhibition. It is very exoellent to have a good show of potted plants, but if effort be confined to thia direction the numb, r of oom petitora must necessarily oome from a narrow circle around the fair town. On the other Hand, if dne attention be given to showa of out flowers, the oompeting collections may oome hundreds of miles with very little trouble or expense. For the artistic designs on this page wo are T. N.w York Km apeak, of the Sandwich Mends aa having leaped, in the last hall I ceo tury, AUIUCULTUHAL quite different, aud may need great care to en able it to tin Its wnik, at all. nek stomachs, however, may be traiued by slew degrees to do their work well by givlug them juel the right food. proerly uhewed, and stopping ike ex penditure uf nerve i in other directions eo that the blood may go to it. Hy euub a euurso half tho dyspepsia might be avoided or mired. UtraH a IhoUk. -I Ihl li 1 I Ml lull III tKllt. I l'fPoM Unslaked lime eompresetil into cartridges, or TABI.K FOR ...... v.. vi-t th. r-elalireted florist, of indented vo "' Rochester, N. Y. from Darberum w sai -t.- Kinma preeente a greater advance over KL.or.iPAi. T roe OiiA-Prof. Palmier.. - - ...i I. .,! an of Naples, has reoeowy ppatuswmaltow.thepntyofolU to be i,,,b7edofbythereeisiso. that they offer to fmmtrJk mm ondcivity of the Utter. EXHIBITING PLOVVKMH. need looaely'and.weU tan pod dowa in the hole, using water or other liquid to saturate end ex pand it, ia now proposed for eee in fiery eoej mince. ItiselaJinmltbatUieMlvaBUgeesahe derived from its nee ere economy In the pro duction wieli meklng leee sleek then by aeing ordtnsry Muting .wdiri hvse ol eolliere era lu leee dengerf the breaking ami ehatterlns; ol . ml bsrk of the eharge whieh is eeoeeielly chars. teneUe at the) eee of gunpowder u evowtedi and the quality of the atiuMphere ia ralber improveit by lie use then otherwiee. JmicsMvKtAJi. efUuh, lei ehameha ha II. than Queen Victoria over the Conquerer