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THE WEST SHORE.
iiIho has very fine noil, esjMscially the portion south of
tho IUvI IiIIIh and west of Jefferson. While the greater
part of thin county is level, it hills are equiilly fertile
and even more beautiful. On the east of French prai
rie the foot hill country in becoming well settled and
valuable. The " Horse Heaven " section is near the line
of Clackamas and Marion. The Waldo hills begin altout
six miles from the Willamette and rise gradually for ten
miles toward Sublimity, which was named from its out
look. Beyond there they join the foot hills. You cau
follow the hills and valleys far into and among the Cas
cades, finding settlements bid away in cosy recesses, or
planted on mountain plateaus, where shack ink rests pre
vail. Mehama is a village oil the North Sautiam that
has quite an extensive country beyond it This is a fa
mous summer resort, and many while away July or
August lounging or fishing in the vicinity, camping in
tho woods, or stepping with Mrs. Mehama Smith, for
whom tho placfl is well named. " So ono ever know hor
but to love her " excellent meals. There are sottlemonts
miles and miles beyond there. Silver creek, which puts
into tho Oloqua below Silvorton, is another favorite place
for summer camping parties. The falls of this creek
form a very grand and lieautiful natural object, one of
the most attractive to 1st found anywhere. There are
many beautiful places among tho foot hills and moun
tain valleys, and mineral springs, with health-giving
projMirties, exist all along the Cascado range.
Salem has, Is-sides tho old established Willamette
University, public schools of high excellence The
IHtlioliea have thore ono of their host schools, whore a
great number of the young Bre educated. Four miles
north of Salem tho Indian school, originally established
at Forest drove, is uow in operation. It has several
hundred pupils, comprising young of both sexes, from
Alaakn to the southern tribes, including some from
nearly every trilw north of California. Chomawa, as
the plaw is called, little over a year ago was a wilder
ness. One of the aWigiual forests sUkh! there, and
great work had to bo done to hew down tho lofty firs
and prepare the place for civilized uses. Tho lioys of
the Indian school havo done this work, and now lioauti
fiil grounds are there, on which stand elegant buildings.
The old time forest is cleared awny, but tho new growth
remains in places, giving relief to tho landscape by
shajH.ly groves. This school is doing an excellent work,
as tho Indian lads and lasses are becoming genuinely
oivilixml. Tho hoys havo military traiuing, and show
that thoir tastes and capacity are not inferior to tho
whites. A brass hand is organic among them, and tho
young fellows who comix it play well for their time
of traiuing.
Marion comity has the three characteristics of Ore
gon. It represent the state admirably, and whilo no
Utter, more beautiful, fertile or excellent than other
jiarU, it KNtseses historical interest peculiar to itself.
Oregon U full of beauty and romance, as well as of praci
tical value as a most productive region. Every county
in tho stale will furnish matter of eeci,d interest to the
public. There is no land that is more attractive or de
sirable as homes. S. A. Clahke.
"TOO MANY IRONS IN THE FIRE."
This is an old proverb, another version of which is:
"Ho that hath too mfiny irons in the fire, some of them
will burn." This morsel of metaphorical wisdom, evi
dently the work of a blacksmith, is, of course, intended
as a warning against undertaking too much, and, at first
sight, sounds like a prudential maxim, well adapted to
secure elticieucy and singleness of aim on the part of all
workers. But, more closely considered, the precept
shows for itself what it really is a piece of narrow
minded, petty prudence, adapted only to the guidance of
incapablos and fools. The fact is, nobody who is good
for anything needs any such cowardly caution about
having too many irons in the fire. Shovel, poker, tongs
and all, those masterly workmen keep always hot and
always busy. The rapidity of their daily accomplish
ment is only eqiwlod by its variety. Both their combi
nations and their execution are such as perplex and
startle little minds, and lead them to repeat in full chat
ter such petty maxims as the one now under considera
tion. It is by such men that human progress is ad
vanced, inventions aud discoveries are made, fortunes
are won, and all valuable improvements and reforms are
achieved.
HOW TO COOL. A CELLAR.
A groat mistake is sometimes mode in ventilating
collars and milk houses. The object of vontilation is to
keep the collar cool and dry, but this object often fails
of Iwing accomplished by a common mistake, and in
stead the collar is made both warm and damp. A cool
place should never be ventilated, unions the air admit
ted is cooler than the air within, or is at least as cool as
that, or a very littlo warmer. The warmer the air tho
more moisture it holds in suspension. Necessarily, tho
coolor tho air the more this moisture is condonsed and
precipitated. When a cool cellar is aired on a warm
day, the entering air being in motion appoars cool, but
as it fills tho cellar the coolor air with which it becomes
mixed chills it, the moisture is condonsed, and dew is
dejxwited on the cold walls, aud may often bo eeon run
ning down them in streams. Then the collar is damp,
and soon becomes mouldy. To avoid this, the windows'
should ouly be onod at night, and late the last thing
before retiring. There is no need to fear that the night
air is unhoalthful it is as pure as the air of midday,
aud is really drier. The cool air enters the apartment
during the night, aud circulates through it. The win
dows should bo closed before sunrise in tho morning,
and kept closed and shaded durinc the da v. If the air
of tho cellar is damp, it may be thoroughly dried by
placiug in it a ieck of fresh lime in an oiwn box. A
pock of lime will absorb about seven pounds, or more
than three quarts, of water, and in this way a cellar or
milk room may be driod, even in the hottest weather.