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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1880)
40 THE WEST SHORE. February, 1880 sands of bushels of wheat per year. Such a farmer must seek the broad open prairies, however distant from the ship. Hut the gradual clearing of forests has marked the progress of American farm ing for two hundred years, and the re sults have been the too rapid destruc- 1)0 FARMERS WISELY CHOOSE OCCU PATIONS FOR THEIR SONS? At a late meeting of the Syracuse Farmers' Club, Mr. Edwards said : " A farmer has two sons ; one has strong physical development and a natural taste for farming; to use the hoe and follow the plow day alter day is both tion of trees, and too complete denud- ; congenial to bis feelings and his health; ing of the New England and Western ' l1ls mma rcsts 111 (lulct satisfaction as he states. If this process continues and l6o.k.ou UP?" f?hwbld acrcs' , . ... and views with manly pride the grow- clears ofTthc only str.p of forest region j jng .ocks nd fattening herd, and cs nlong the I'acific slope, west of the timates in dollars and cents their value. Cascade mountains, it will prove a dire I The other son lacks the physical calamity to all the settlements of the interior, and a waste of our surest source of income. inclination of the parent rather than their own. It is a fact that most of the failures result from not putting the right man in the right place. Had Franklin always been kept at the tal low chandler's trade, the lightniag might never have been subservient to the will of man in transmitting our thoughts from continent to continent in a moment of time. Had Edison been put upon a farm, and kept there, his whisperings would not now be heard from city to city." THE BRIGHT SIDE. Look on the bright side it is the right side. The times may be hard, tiik CKOICBi In view of such facts as these every intelligent immigrant and settler must and will make his own choice of a home. No man can wisely choose for his neighbor. It is the glory of our freedom, and the genius of our liberal government to offer every citizen a choice ol his home on the same terms and under the fewest restrictions. Wood Rfthcfl with the bits of chdfCOfl in them, mid coal ashes, too, are excellent physic for fattening pigs, l'igs can not stuir t b em se I v cs, week after weel., without their lMtm Hchs getting out of order, and the bits of strength of his brother, but has fine, sensitive nerves, and a deep thirst for scientific or legal knowledge. He goes j but it will make them no easier to wear to the fields with his brother, with i a gloomy and sad countenance. It is heavy tread because it is his dut) to go, j the sunshine and not the cloud that lint his thoughts are among the planets, j gives beauty to the flower. There is trying to calculate their distances from j always before or around us that which the earth, and the influence they have should cheer and fill the heart with fcv warmth and glad ness. The sky is blue ten times where it is black once. You have troubles, it may be. So have others. None are free from them and perhaps it is as well that none should be. They give sinew and tone 10 life fortitude and courage to man. That would be a dull sea, and the sailor would never acquire skill, were there nothing to disturb its surface. It is the duty of every one to ex tract all the happi ness and enjoyment he can from withir. and without .him, and, above all, he should look on the MAZE I'UZLE. I'race through the while spaces between the lines and gal to the star in letter C, without cross ing a line, will lie "SUCCESS," charcoal check upon the seasons. Such a boy can never I bright side. usion. i in '""king after the fitness of their boys n the lonK run tne Kreat balance lights icgin- fur their chosen business, as they would 1 'tse' What appears ill becomes well acidity and regulate them, and help to makc ., Rliccnisfui farmer,no more than nil M'l 1IK II .1 1 H IIU"-, .1 .1 1 . ' Tiji.i the other can make a successful astrono- The ordinary routine of dining seems n,cr. Parents should at least be as wise in rnveden to lie in wild confui Soup sometimes ends instead of b ning the dinner. Iced soups and cold fish are dainties to the Scandinavian palate. Much of the soup is nauseously sweet and flavored with cherries, rasp berries, and gooseberries, and often has innenroon cakes nud spikes and cin namon floating wildly about in it. This is eaten as a sort of dessert, and in cold, and is often beautifully clear. In ancient Sparta to grow fat was a crime, and the ofl'ender was punished at the whipping-post. In modern America it is a virtue, and the possessor What though things do look a little lark ? The lane will have a turning, and the night will end in broad day. iii training their colts. J!ut how is it ? i tnat wrch appears wrong, right. A farmer goes out to examine his young horses; there is four-year-old "Dick," large, strong, close-jointed, and mild tempered, slow and steady, a good horse for the team. There is young Flora, smaller, long-jointed, with deer like limbs, and high temper, can be made to trot in I.ao, worth $5,000. No farmer will ever make the mistake, and put Dick in training for the race-course and send Flora to haul stone. Now, his boys are just as unlike as his colts and need as different training. The of adipose matter is rewarded by an judge naturally wants bis sons to be alderman's chair or seat on the su preme bench. So fakhions from age to age. come lawyers, so, too, the minister, Tiiky Go Together. A citizen entered a saloon and called for a cigar. The bar-keeper handed out the box, and a cigar was selected ; but the cus tomer did not appear to be very much pleased with it. " Where's the corned beef?" he inquired. "I've got the cab bage here" indicating the cigar. A young lady never wastes the sec ond look on a man with a limpsy collar and a soiled shirt front. She knows he is married. When a chiropodist enters a ball- - - i iiv i, ituiupooisi enters a Dan- change n.erchant mechamc and farmer too j room, should the band play "See the I often insist that their lioys follow the com-curino horn , "