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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1881)
July, 1881. THE WEST SHORE. A WOMAN'S VICTORY. Across th rivr there live a woman who baa boon twioe married but is now a widow, pha ha on hild of hw firnt hnthsnd end two o( her teoond busband to snnport. When the Utter died ba wa in debt by an endorsement (or 91,000, and among bia as acta waa a aeoond mortgage 00 a amall farm which it would not pay to take owing to the site of the tint mortgage. How the wile man aged to work thingi when thrown on her own resource! makes quit a story of feminine New Koulsnd enterprise. Take, for example, the case of the worthies aeoond mortgage. The owner of the farm bad abandoned tb prop erty, and th holder of tha first mortgsga, real iiiog that some day ha would get it, thought it it, doe not belong to her, but hi children, and for all ber labor she has no ownership. Ill law is rather queer in its working some times, Uartfard Ltttrr to StringftM iVmMim", A Vit f u Mi I'nunim limn Wrvtlta I Im boiled oil and corn ataroh stirred into a very .Li I. 1 J I . 1 - ..A mJ.m iniCK )S1W. ADU I"!1"" i-umv with turpentine. Add no color for light ash. for dark ash and ohestnut, us a littl raw slenns; for walnut, burnt smber snd a slight amount of Venetian rd for bay wood, burnt sienna. In no oaa us mora oolor than ia re. quired to overcome tha whit appearenoe of tha starch unless you wish to stain tha wood. This Hilar ia worked with brush and rags in th usual manner. Let it dry 48 hoars, or until it ia in condition to rub down with No, 0 aandpaper, CLYDKSDAUC STALLION. Ws praatnt to our reader apoa thla page, aa illustration of tha superb ClydsedaU stalllor, 1'eriseuooi Taia magimioeat smwihm at ana famous Clydeedal boras u Imported fro Scotland by Messrs. Smith k VowxW. of Lake aida stock farm, Syraouse, N. V., in September, 18.H0, II ia a bora of Urg proportion, pow erfully built, deep-ohested, with broad quarter, good back, short legs, powerful, flat, bard bona, with plenty of hair, good feet, and splendid style and aotion. Ha 1 dark bay la solar, marked with a narrow atrip of white In faoa, white bind auklea, and a little rim of white V ;,y4-n 1 '.'jir-A ;--u'sv -Kjy I , " -"if - C!-f:DH,ii. - Yi Mr ia . Cu'i wis to begin early, and aa planted a crop on tha land in tha spring. Tb placky widow, however, finding it would tak bim several mm be to foraclnsa, got from th owner deed of tha land. Tlieo aha want and ploaghsd un der the first mortgsga man' cms and et the fields herself totobeaoo. Th other party was powerless ontil th machinery of th law bad Ueolnead bia bond, and, before that time, tha widow bad eat and removed br tobaeoo, and was Jaet as ntadi in. liy pluck and aotirity, wot king hard barwtf, aha got along, aapported ksrMlf and family, and. litU by IttUa, reduaed tha faoa of tn fl.OW debt, whieo waa in in farm of mortg M bey farm, and waa bald by a trnatea, and a ennld no morally be earn promised by him. finally by ber own Ishors ikaaWarod tha whole farm of dab and wiped tb BMrtgag ail off. Tbi perhapa all aoswera ilia oaeauoai wnatlMr larma can bs meM ta pay te Caasjaotioal Ta finish tb ator it may be added tbat th kasband bft n wtlL and o aqMtly tb fans bow that aba baa paid lor ('LYDKSDALK HfAIXlOS. wilbont maob gamming sp, snd if en eitr fin U AminI All ssain with tha same materi als, astng las 01L bat mora of saa) and tar peuUna. 1 ba aeoond anal ww ana ennna, n being supported by tb first eoat. Was tha asaond eoat ia hard, tha wood ia randy for finish ing op in sir daeired sir la of to nay degra of nloaty by following np in eai BMnooua. 1 aw loon a la is not UtMnle1 lay roeewooo, mwi win nit be eatiseTtnry if nsad thafwfof. T, f. I'ao; m l CW PaMtr. Ma. Joan, yoar alock la A Hsbl, Is ItT "Well, ym aea, sir," said Mr. J", 'WKyly don I andersUad ma en aim! was eioca m v k. 1 k kmla nl alnck stands at twelve, then it sUikaa two, and then I kaowe it twenty mlcate toaerea. A maT at Oiford Untvoraity, on being askad "WHo was Keenf" reptiadi "KeM We a ma wba wrote fabUs, and aold bU aapyrigbt for meat of potash." bia riant forward baa. II I 4 I bight, and will weigh I.M0 lbs. Ha la awry superior Clydeedal la every way. rarfwrctea waa tha winner of tb first prise In tha tlydeadela elaa al tha Kew York Htete fair, bU to Ai baay. N. Y., la I MO, ead stUesaaMUma -sand iba eoeeSal brsmiam of IIUO. gifaa lav the boat draft bree af any Saw a bread, eoea. peting with a nornbar af lw purled Harmna) rr eaaroa4.C1ydea.tateaadhrdrrftaUllten I (a also teak first prise at lb Utwadeg awewty faar, bebl a Hvraswa. N. Y-, ia IMU, aa tb boat draft atelltea. Messrs. nmlthe rvwau kav Urg Kek of tlydaadala and Uawbteteatea bar and Itoteteia eeUla, ad laastaasaesrasaiy, t ea(l4 af each, wbtek will b few ad af ia. tarMt 10 tevesa waa lis Baa aasmaia. Thay aombiaa la B ramwkaUa dagrea aetiv Ky with pbystoal atraagtk. Tbaa are assad 4 airabla qaalittea ia a draft karaa. and asswra B market fur than. They ara already aa thla eoewt anas OMalUal npfeasatetivaa af tb bread, and tbara hi raaas lur maay 1