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WILLAMETTE PARMER : PORTLAND, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1881.
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COMFORT ONE ANOTHER.
Comfort one another;
For the way is growing diear,
1 he feet are often wcaty,
Anil the heart is very sail.
There is heavy bunl n-bearing,
When it seems that nonenie carini,
AnJ we half forget that eicr we were glad
Comfort one another;
With the hind-clasp close ami tender,
With the wcetness love ean render,
And the lo ks of friendly eyes.
Do not wait with grace unspoken,
While life's daily bread is broken;
Gentle speech is oft like manna from the skies.
Comfort one another;
There are words of music ringing
Down the aires, sweet as singing
Of the happv choirs above.
Ranomeil aiut and mighty angel,
Lift the grand, deep voiced evangel,
Where lorevertheyaropraising thecternallovc.
Comfort one another;
Bv the hopo of him who sought us
In our pciil him who bought us,
Paying with his pnei us blood;
By tiie faith that will not alter,
Trusting strength that hall not falter,
Leauing on the One divinely good.
Comfort ono another;
" Let the grave gloom lie behind you,
While the Spirit's word remind you
Of the homo beyond the tomb,
Where no more is pain orparting,
Fever's flush or toar-diop staitmg.
But the presence of the Lord, and for all his
people room.
CHOICE RECIPES. ""
Baked Aitlks. Tako a deep pie tin ami
scatter sugar liberally over the bottom; n half
an inch of sugar if the apples are pretty sour.
Pare the apples and cut into halves. Kemove
the cores carefully, then lay them, coro side
down into the sugar. Add a small cupful of
water and bake till perfectly tender, but do
not let them stew to pieces. When cold tako
up in a deep dish, and if any juico remains in
the tin, turn it over the apples. Add a little
sweet cream in dishing them out, Mild with
good bread and butter, this makes a relish able
a dessert as one can desire, Russets, Green
ings and Belmunts are all especially nicely
baked in this manner.
Pickling Afi'Lks The Summer and Fall
sweet apples make excellent pickles, supply
inn very we ne place of peaches and pears.
The Winter varieties of sweet apples do nice
ly also, thoueh generally requiring a little
longer cooking to make tender. Pare and cut
into halves. Carefu'ly remove the core, and
steam till a straw will pierce them easily, but
not till they soften and fall in pieces. Put in
to a pickle jar, and prepare the vinegar as fol
lows: To each quart of good cider vinejar
add two teacupfnls of best brown sugar, two
even dessertspoonfuls of ground cinnamon,
and one even dessertspoonful of ground clove.
Brine; all to a boil and turn hot over the ap
ples. After they have stood a few days, repeat
the heating of the vinegar, and in a day or
two 1 inger the pickles are ready for the tabic,
COTTAOE SWEET Cakes. Ingredients :
Flour, one pound; sugar, one-half pound; but
ter, one half pound; eggs, nine. The eggs
must first bo broken, the whites and yolks
beaten separately very light; then all mixed
well together and beaten with the hands.
Flavor with a teaspoonfnl of finely powdered
mace.
A Kick Bkkakfamt Dish. Remove the
skins from a dozen tomatoes; cut them up in a
saucepan; add a little butter, pepper and silt;
when sufficiently boiled, beat up nvo or six
eggs, and just before you senve, tarn them in
to the saucepan with the tomatoes and stir one
way for two minutes, allowing them time to
be done thoroughly.
Catsup. Halve your tomatoes, place them
in a firkin, with a layer of salt between each,
layer of tomatoes. Let them stand over night
In tho morning add sea-oning, cloves, allspice
and very little mace, and pepper and salt to
taste; then put on the stove and boil one hour.
Take from the fire, and strain; and bottle.
Hop Beek. Sugar, four pounds; hops, six
ounces; ginger, bruised, four onnccs. Boil the
hops, for three hours with five quaits of water;
then strain; add five more five quarts of water
and the ginger; boil a little longer; again
.train: add the sugar, and when lukewarm,
add one pint of yeast. After twenty-four
hours it will bo ready for bottling.
Ginger Beeu. Brown ugar, two pounds;
boiling water, two gallons; cream of tartar,
one .ounce; bruised sugar, two ounces. Infuse
tin ginger in the boding water, add tho sugar
and cream of tartar. When lukewarm, strain;
then add one half pint of good yeast. Let it
stand all night; then bottle. If desired, a lem
on may be added, and it may be clarified by
the white of one egg.
wheat, oats or green vegetables, or some of
each. In warm weather all that is needed is
plenty of green stuff, such as cabbage, beet
tops, fine grass, and anything else that they
will eat; this will help to keep them warm,
and being longer in digesting, it suits better at
night, as it is a long time nntil the next meal.
In Summer tho corn can be dispensed with al
together, and an occasional feed of buckwheat;
however, this last named grain should never
be fed iu any great quantity, as it is not cood
for them except as an occasional feed. Meat
should not bo fed to poultry (especially chick
ens), except in small quantity and at rare in
tervals, as it gives the plumage a gross ap
pearance, and forces tho comb and wattles to
a largo and coarso growth. Young chicks
should have as much boded coiumcal as they
can eat; when a couple of months old (accord
ing to growth, feathering and weather) they
can be fed cracked corn, wheat and other
grain. 1 he food for turkeys, ducks and geese
does not differ essentially Irom that of chick
ens, except that less grain and moro vegetable
food can be given, and on this account are
considered by some more profitable. Feed
young turkeys on any kind of soft meat mix
ed with milk, as they appear to do better
when they have milk with their food, some
turkey breeders saying that it is essential to
their health and growth. It does not appear
so to me, however, as many fine flocks of tur
keys arc annually raised without as much as
seeing milk, and in their wild state they never
get any, and', as fine turkeys as we ever saw,
were wild ones. When six weeks old, any
kind of grain can be given, and if kept clear
of wet or dewy grass and vermin, they are as
sure of living to Thanksgiving or Christinas as
any. other variety of poultry. Ducks and geese
will live and thrive on less grain than any va
riety of poultry; and if they have access to a
good pasture or meadow and flowing streams,
they wdl provide the greater part of their
own living. If fed grain, it will be n benefit
to them. Ducklings should not bo allowed
free access to the ponds or runs of water until
three weeks old, exctpt when hatched later
say in June or July tho time when hatched
in their wild state. Although in their nattu
al stite ducks get a great deal of animal flesh,
no kind of poultry will do well, will do with
out it with less inconvenience. Oco. Glenn,
in The F,eld and Jliver.
or cabbage leaves, and line the vessel with
them. Put a layer of pickles, cover with vine
leaves, and use very little powdered alum, not
more than a teaspoonful of powdered alum for
a whole gallon of pickles. As you build up
the layers of cucumbers and grape leaves, add
the alum; add cold, clear water, and allow it
to steam slowly, hardly simmer, for four
houis. This ought to give a green color to
the cucumbers. Wash them iu co'd water:
to one gallon of vinegar add a teosponful of
C sugar, a teaspoonful of whole black pepper,
ten cloves, about the same if allspicc.and a
half-dozen blades of mace; lwil the yinegir;
then, having placed your cucumbers in stone
jars, pour on tho boiling-hot vinegar, and
cover as tight as you can. This re-boiling of
the vinegar must bo carried on at least thrco
times, ond the pickles-recovered as often. In
two weeks they can be used. This is about
tho best of the manufacturing receipts.
Prevention of Fowl Cholera.
A Few Ways to Make Pickles.
Feeding Poultry.
There is one thing : must understand and
follow before re can expect any great success
in keeoing poultry of any kind. Our fowls
may be of the very best strains, our runs,
houses and ventilation the best, but without
nrnrr food our stock will not amount to
mnch. One point in which so many of us, es.
pc dally young breeders, fail in is in a lack of
svatem in our feeding. Whatever we do we
should do regularly, not that we should do as
a great many other people do, begin feeding
corn and then feed corn, corn, corn forever,
imnlv because it is cheap, or because the
fowls seem to like it. There is no one food
that we can give our fowls that it would be
proper to feed them continually; but if we had
to be confined to one kind, it should not be
corn, as it makes the fowls too fat, if they use
feed enough to satisfy their hunger. For your
laying hens in Winter, feed for breakfatt a
good mush composed of wheat bran, the use
less potatoes, carrots, turnips, a few onions,
and once or twice a week some cayenne pep
per, boiled or scalded well and then well stir
red together. If mixed with milk, either
iwett or sour, all the better. For noon, feed
STurKED Peppers. Chop a largo cabbage
finely; add one large spoonful grated horse
radish root and one dunce of white mustard
seed. Mix all this well. Cut pieces out of
the stem ends of largo green peppers, large as
a silver dollar; fill with the stuffing, ami sew
the pieces n again with cotton thread. Then
take vinegar enough to cover, spice with
cloves, mace, and allspice, whole. Boil, and
when nearly cold pour over the peppers. No
salt is to be used. Mangoes are stuffed and
pickled in the same manner.
Swekt Pickles. Peaches, pears, apples or
cantaloupes (muskniellon): To every seven
pounds of fruit allow three and one half
pounds of sugar and one pint of cider vine-
Car t.u.n nimiuui uihole .luvcs, two.ot stick
;.M,0n -i !"' -'" "I'Ptcs snouW
be pared only, not divided. Then in each
stick two whole cloves. The cinnamon should
be boiled in the vinegar. Put the piepared
fruit into a stone jar and pour tho vinegar,
scalding hot, over it. Kepeat this for three
mornings. These sweet picnics will be found
delicious and will keep any length of time.
The melon should bo cut iu stripes as if to
serve fresh on tho table, and should not be
too rine. Simmer them 30 minutes slowly in
the prepared vinegar, and they will need no
further attention except to keep closely cov
ered, and they will continue good for a year.
Pickle Nasturtiums Soak forthico days
in stronc salt and water; then strain, and
pour boiling vinegar over them, omitting the
spice. Note Vinegar should never ue al
lowed to boil over one minute ; it loses
strength thereby. To pickle onions: Peel
and boil in milk and water for 10 minutes;
strain and pour over scalding spiced vinegar.
Only the " silver-skin " should be used. To
pickle mushrooms: Stew in salt and water
until tender, then pour boiling spiced vinegar
over them, and cork tightly wJile hot.
Floral Cabinet.
KNITTING.
Thanks to our friend Mrs. E. J. M., who
linds time ta writs a few lines, and hopo some
of our lidy readers will give tho information
desired. We had supposed the word purling
meant to throw the thread forward and over
theneedlu before knitting the stitch. How
ever, we would like to know for ci-rtain.
Jack Frost is a terrible trial; one must be de
prived of all the luxuries of a garden and we
should want to emigrate to sunnier climes.
U.s ios Co. , Or. , Aug. 23, 1 88 1 .
Editor Home Circle:
Mill some one of the lady writers to the
FaKMFK tell me what is meant by " Purling "
a stitch in knitting lace, and obligo one of
your many
The followiog paper gives the results of some
recent experiments, made (under the direction
of the Department of Agriculture) by D. E.
Salmon, 1). V. M., for the prevention of what
is commonly known as chicken cholera. A
detailed report of the investigation will be
contained in the forthcoming annual publica
tions of tho department:
Although the cholera of fowls is an exceed
ingly virulent and fatal disease, destroying
vast numbers of birds of different specicR, and
remaining on premises for years after being
once introduced, we are satisfied, after a long
scries of experiments, that there are points in
its natural history which enable us to control
it with comparative cise, and with a consider
able degreo of certainty. These points are:
1. The virus is not diffusible. That is. the
disease germs are seldom if ever taken up by
the air ond carried any considerable distance
to produce tho malady. The v.rus remains in
the fixed form, and is generally, if not always,
taken into the body with the food; it is dis
tributed over the grounds, feeding-places, &c,
in the excrement of affected birds, and the
food, drink and gravel are thus contaminated.
Healthy birds may be kept in coops within a
few feet of the sick ones for months without
contracting the disease; but if the former nre
now placed in the same inclosure with the lat
ter, they sicken in a few days.
2. The rlnu mutt becarried upon the grounds
frequented by fouls, beore they tout fact the
disease. It is not probable that this disease
originates, in any considerable number of
cases, in any other way thai by contagion.
There is a possibility that it may originate in
occasional instances by filthy surioundings, if
closely confined, or by feeding on decompos
ing substances ; but there are few facts to
support such a conclusion, and it appears cer
tain that in the vast majority of cases the dis
ease is imported and kept up by contagion
alone.
It is thus brought upon farms either (1)
with sick or infected fowls newly acquired,
(2) with the blood or parts of the bodies
of dead birds carried on the feet of people, or
brought by dogs or otln-r animals, (3) with in
fected manure or feathers, or (4) possibly by
wild birds, animals (rabbits), or even insects
that have contracted the disease, or have
eaten the blood or bodies of affected birds re-
houses aro a considerable distance apart, to
recently acquired poulty. It is only in dis
tricts more thickly peopled, and then in ex
ceptional instances, that the germs are car
ried by wild birds or animals, or by injects.
More About Dish Washing.
Ever since the introduction of this subject
by Stella Eyes, I have been wanting to have
my say on it, but have been too busy with
real dish-washing and other household labors
to do much housekeeping on paper. I want
to give my voice and vote against the dih
mop and the boiling water; at least I should
not want my dishes dealt with in this fashion.
Why this particular branch of housekeeping
should bo so disliked and dieaded, 1 cannot
conceive. I think when I set about my dish
washing, that I am performing nearly tho
easiest part of my house keeping. Nor do I
think the ordinary dish-w ashing very hard
upon the hands.or detrimental to their beauty;
still 1 know many housekeepers think other
wise, and look upon it not only with dread,
but witn absolute disgust, as if it was a hu
miliating and almost disgraceful task. "This
horrible greasy dishwashing," they say, "if
only I could g t rid of that!"
Sometimes, when I Bee the meana used by
some housekeepers diminutive tablo or sink,
small dish pans, ragged and sour dish cloths,
and soWcd wiping towls or the process adopt
ed by others piling their dishes promiscu
ously into the diih pan, greasy meat and
butter plates along with silver and glass;
pouring over them boiling water, to cook fast
the potato, or soup, or whatever is upon the
dishes, leaving them sticky and rough and
unwholesome to touch anJ sight I do not
much wonder at the outcry. The secret of
pleasant and easy dishwashing lies in plenty
of soft water; largo table or sink; largo pans
for washing and rinsing; soft linen dish cloths;
not too large, yet large enough that they may
be wrung from clear water and used to wipe
tin ware, . baking dishes and the like; and
clean soft wiping towels that will not lint. Ab
for the dishes proper, one for pots and kettles,
and one for the stove; and one should never
under any circumstance be substituted for the
other. I do not intend or wi.h to make a
cast iron rule for other people to wash dishes
by, but for myself I like to take au abundance
of soft water into my dish pin, adding a little
(particularly for breakfast and dinner d alien)
good clean soap. This keeps the silver and
tin bright and shining, though I know tome
contend that it make them dull and brown.
It it the haid soap that does that. I put the
dishes through this; the'glass and silver and
cleanest diihes first, then the others, adding
more soap and hot water at need, then put
through the rinse water of which there mutt
, r.n.nvn them from llie brillC. WMW""aw,lm uuma. .. v,...B,
dishes a trivial task, while it leaves the wip
ing towels comparatively dry and clean
When the dish washing is completed, I put
such dishes as will be required for thu next
meal iu orderly arrangement en the dining
room tible, tin rest in as orderly arrangement
iu the ctipuorrd. In this way dish washing
may be made, if not as artistic as working
with worsteds or playing on the piano, a
pleasant and easy task, as I think, nnwiso to
be dreaded or abhorred. Cultivator and
Country gentleman.
White Bed Spreads.
A beautiful bed covering can be made with
little labor, and will be very durable. The
articles employed in its fabrication arc tlvo
yards and a half of rather fine, unbleached,
40-inch cotton, and a pound of No. 8 white
stocking yarn Draw some pr:tty pattern,
like a grape vine, with leaves, grapes and
tcndiills, or a lily wreath, with long stems
and leaves. Have the wreath run all around
the four sides of tho spread; just baste the
seams together till the design is drawn, so as
to hive no breaWin tho vine. In the center
of the spread have a pretty bouquet to match
the bolder. A blue crayon is best to mark out
the pattern, but a common lead pencil will do.
When tho design is completed, take out the
basting and lay one-half aside, ns it is lighter
to work and not so cumbersome to hold in the
hands. Take tho yarn in a large-eyed needlo
and nork out tho design in au overshot stitch,
just like muslin embroidery. Mind to keep
the form of tho pattern perfect, and have the
stitches all go ono way.
One who has never embroidered such a
spread can have no idea how rapidly the work
progresses, or how fascinating it is, or how
well it looks. The cloth must not be wet be
fore working, as the stitches set so iniicn
easier. When both sides aro wrought, sew
up the seam and join the work ever it, so that
the continuous vino will not appear broken.
After it is completed, wash and bleach the
spread, and it will last with p'Obcr care, a
Eciicration, and can be handed down to the
grandchildren as a specimen of handicraft.
It is very easy to wash, not weighing over
two poinds and a half. White spreads arc
certainly the best outside covering for a bed,
be :.iuse they wash so easily, and when clean
always look fresh and new.
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Chrysanthemums.
.sjfoil ffjt lii!ilrci.
AT MOTHER'S KNEE.
Safe to the fold the Shepherd leads
His little lambs at close of day,
And thus my darlings come to me.
At last grown tired of their play;
And while the twilight shadows full
O'er hill and mead iw from above,
1 draw my little lambkins safe
Within the fold of home and love.
0 drowsy eyesof blue and brown I
0 nod ling heads! I understand;
Ti8 time two little travelers start,
With mother's aid, for Stumberlaud.
So fold tho dresses snug away,
And free the restless, dainty feet
From shoes and stockings. Tins at last,
My litt e lambs, refreshed and sweet,
And robed in white, beforo me kneel
With folded hands. O Father, Thou
Who art tho Shcpln rd of Thy flock,
Bow down Thine ear and listen now
To each lo.v, childish prayer that these
My children offer up to Thee.
Hallow tho twilight hour O Lord,
That brings them thus beforo my knee.
And so, through all theso silent hours
Which lie between thu night and day,
They shall not fear, since from tho fold
Thy love will drive all foes away.
Sleep, littbtoucs, oh, sweetly sleep,
Till morning sunbeams gather fast;
And safe from Slumberlaud you come
Back to your motoer's knee nt last.
OUR LETTER BOX.
just
The
readers. Harvesting has
-nmmpnced in this valley, (Indian.)
crop will be very good considering the very
dry Summer we have had. This in a terrible
fm.tv nliu-,.-ue have had frost every month
so far since Winter. I think there must lie
some plcatanter places in Oregon than this is
K. J. M.
Chrysanthemums are among the most beau
tiful of our autumnal flowers and aro deserv
ing of more general culture than they receive.
Like pansies, they delight in cool, showery
weather, and grow rapidly in the long dewy
nights of Autumn. They never show for much
until in October and November, buttheirpro
fusion of bloom make them very welcome
then. The white varieties .arc the most beau
tiful, notably the dwarf species, the flowers
of which are very perfect and double, and the
plant in full bloom resembles a miniature
bouquet. They are very strong and luxuriant
growers, sprouting from the roots vpry freely.
The greatest ami most free growth is not,
however, conducive to the production of the
largest and best flowers, because of the imiicr-
Those intended lor flowering should be kept
well pinched back. This pinching back must
only be performed when the pots that thu
plants occupy aro well filled with roots, never
immediately after taking up or repotting. It
is also better, whenever plants are to be pinch
ed back, to have them moderately dry at thu
roots, especially if the pots have indifferent
drainage so that tho plants have become sod
den at the root. Watch must be kept for the
chrysanthemum's worst pest, tile earwig,
which hiilcs itself in the very heart of the
growing branches and makes a "square meal"
of tho very tenderest morsels. Unfortunately
they not only consume the foliage, but what
ever noiut thev wound with their mandibles
is bo poisoned that further growth is arrested.
Chrysanthemums arc very readily propagated
from young shoots, are very hardy, and a very
desiiable and showy class of plants.
Hints About Dresses.
Shirred waNts with belts, shirred fronts
with a pnlT befow and two deep pleating put
cm in curves, and some simple back drapery,
or else full straight back breadths, will bo
tvlish and prcttv for wash drt sacs. A young
lady's Scotch gingham drees should be a belt
ed basque that may either be shirred or pleat
ed in hunting jacket Btyle. '1 he skirt may bo
flounced up one side and have a Greek over-
skirt draped to show tho eido flounces. A
shirred-yoke belted waist fastened behind, and
a full straight round skirt with three or four
rallies and a sash will bo pretty for a mull
dress. A simple model for a Summer silk has
a diirrci basque and round skirt. The skirt
has two deep flounces widely shirred acioes
the front, nearly covering it; a panicr scarf
across tho hips, ami bouffant back drapery.
Late Chickens.
A lady subscriber wishes to know how to
put up cucumbers in good style. We find this
in an exchange, and hope it is not too late to
be of service :
Pickleu Cucumbers, If you gTow your
own cucumbers mere is no iruuoie auuut -
ing fine gherkins. hv cry elay w hen tney are
of the richt size, not more than two to three
inches long, pick them and put them in stone
jars or buckets, rut in a layer ui iuj w,
then cucumber, until Vf"r ve.nl la full;
ihpn nnnr water in it cnoUL'h to till it-
placing a lioanl with a weight on top. Water
must be itroug enoueh with salt to fl-at an
egg. Whenever you have as many encumbers
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Pick over the cucumbers,
Lite chicks may be made inoir profitable
than early ones. Chickens from eggs set in
August and September may be kept warm iu
tieht glazed houses and fed, so that they will
grow continually through the Winter, ami if
they come later all the lietter, if they are well
kept and fed. The earjier broods be salable
at good prices when the maiket is bare of
chickens, and the later ones furnish Spring
chickens long before the usual supply comes
to hand. Spring chicken hatched in the Fall,
or even in Wiutcr, are rare, but not entirely
unknown to a few persons, who have made
thediieovcry that with good feed, warm quar
ters, a warm mens at least once a day, warm
drink and cleanliness, there is no difficulty at
all about raiing them, and at a good profit.
HW'rvi llural.
It ii often among the very best milkers and
butterinakers that fccrvous animals occur, and
wo cauuot afford to have their value thus im
paired. No violence should be allow edamoug
the ..owaatany time; but, if you have impa
tient iitiii or are quick temp red yourself, let
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except the knives, f.rks and vpooru. which I . some person ww. .iocs not get m.u ....
wipe at once) while I finish up iy kettle
and stove, itni nukts the wiping of the
as some may be as I do not wai t my china cocked and spoil-1
toft and wilted. Put your salted nicklcs in a Uj J turu into another pan to drain (all;
tub of old water lor twenty-iour nours, men,
at the end of that time, repeat the soaking or
freshening process. Have a kettle not iron
nor copper, but enamel and take grape leaves
milk the nervous cows, A cruel nun oukui
never to have charge of any stock whatever
Our litter box, we aro sorry to say, is not
as full as it should be, not having ono left
over for next week. While traveling about
this Summer wo met a number of our little
gills and boys who promised to wiite soon,
but not one letter has come yet from those
wo saw. Emma's letter will bo read with in
terest by all, as she has beeu silent a long
time long enough to bo almost forgotten.
Yes, Emma may well speak of tho happy
school days for the nieiyory of those days
will form the brightest and most pleasant of
all youthful recollections. Everything looks
so bright in tho future to the young, even
though the lifo may bo hard and thu burdens
heavy for such young n'muldeiv, yet the heart
is buoyant with hope. Thu present, with its
little won ies and vexations is swallowed up
in tho pleasant castles that every ouo builds
for.the future. Then when old age really
comes, wheu youth and niiddlo age are past,
then comes a time when the memories of
school days and childhood uome, ami sad it Is
if that childhood had not been made happy.
Parents aro too apt iu thu hurry of accumu
lating property to forget to lay up in the
chillis heart a fund of riches, in the w ay of
pleasant memories. These memories need
not cost anything; it takes very liltlo to make
the childish heart bound w ith happiness. A
trip in the woods, after berries; a nivlit's
camping i the mountains ; u visit to grand
parents, if planned with n care for making
the childi en happy, will add to tho fund iu
storo house of memory. It may he only thu
possession of a dog that will give thu greatest
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is filled with happiness in tho love and devo.
tion with which 'it 'follows the footsteps of its
little master. Thanks, for that very
nico description of tho hanging gardens. It
is well done. Oorgo say.s, very truly, 4hat
one cannot accomplish anything if thuy do not
try. When wo were young it was the fashion
for teachers to teach writiin.', they beuin
obliged to duvolu s mu time every day to set
ting copies lor their pupils. I here was one
sentence which was often set at thu head of
a leaf in the copy book -.
" There tu no excellence without lnhor."
So nothing can be well done without trying
again and again. Now-a-days a child must
bo sent to a writing school or they get but
little instruction or practice in writing; also,
in the matter of reading there aio but few
people now who are ablo to icail aloud, with
a proper regard to emphasis or punctuation,
just because there is uu attention at all paid
to reading aloud in tho schools. Tho same
may be said of spelling -no emulation is cre
ated by having a class toe tho mark and spell
until thu best speller stands iiloiiit at tho head
of the class, having spelled them all down.
It is a woeful mistake as may bo seen in the
poor spelling of this generation. The printer
makes it all right, if not many a good wiiter
would blush at their own manuscript. It
should be the duty of the dirt-ctoftof country
schools to see that reading, spelling and
writing should be taught daily iu the schools,
even if it lie considered old fashioned and not
endorsed by a teachcis institute, or consider
ed ntcess.uy by thu superintendents of
schools.
HosElitlKU, Oieuon, September 4, 1881.
Fd'tor Home Circle:
It has been quit" awhile since I contributed
my share to the entertainment of thu Home
Circle. 1 was not very well pleased with my
last effort, ami thought iieiluptit would be
better for mo to discontinue my letters until
I had something t. say. This is the last day
of our nU-asaiit vacation, and 1 must say that
I am a little sorry, for the happy days that
have just past weie most delightful and I
know that their sunny splendor will never re
turn to mo again, with all the free ami easy
happiness of this vacation. School is a very
pleasant place, however, and I hopo to derive
much benefit therefrom. Our much loved
teaihcr. Dr. Browne, left us and is now living
in Portland. We were ery glad that you
published Thomas I). Ogden's letter. He is
an Oregon boy that Mother thinks a great
deal of, and did not know what had become
of him. In her letter in the Circle of July
211th, Aunt L. asks: "Among the little ones
bow u-.anv can tell alsjiit the beautiful lung
ing gardens of HabWoii, ami why tney were
made!" I have looked for an answer to her
question, and not finding it, 1 wdl tell what
I have read about them. The halting (far
doiis aio famous ill liitKy and are Mie of tho
seven wonders of the world, They were built
l.v the Kiner of Assyria Ui please his Queen,
"J "" r ' .. .l
I who longed for something to iiiniud her ol Her
mountain home. They consisted of an arti
ficial mountain four hundred feet on each side,
rising by successive ten-aces to a height which
overtopped the walls of tho city. The ter
races were formed of a succession of piers,
the top of which were covercil by flat stones,
and on theso was put a layer of bitumen, very
much like our pavements of tho present day;
then earth was heaped on this pavement; tho
trees and Mowers were then planted, carchav
been taken while preparing these costly beds
to leave indentures or hollows in the pavement
for the roots of trees. Water was drawn from
tho Euphrates to irrigate these gardens, which
when growing finely, presented to tho eye a
most beautiful and fairy liko appearance. I
would liko at some future time to tell tho
girls and boys more about Queen Semiramis,
the owner of these womlcrous g miens, but do
not like to trespass on your valuable spaco
further at present. With many kind wishes
for the success of the Homo Circle, I remain
Yours respectfully, Emma.
Oosiikk, Oregon, August 30, 1881.
Editor Home Circle:
As I havo not scon any letter from here for
Borne timo I thought that I would write one. I
never wrote a letter to n paper; but I am go
ing to try to write one, for if wo never try we
can never hope to accomplish anything. I am
a boy 13 years old. 1 have thrco brothers and
one sister older than I am, and oue sister
younger As all tho boys tell about their pets,
I will just say that I have not very many to
tell about. I havo a flue large "dog his name
is King; also had n pet fawn, but sold it about
a week ago. I did not go to school this Sum
mer, but I am going this Winter. I
study third reader, rudiment s of arithmetic,
writing and spelling. I wilLscud Aunt Hetty;
ono of my cards. I will eloso by wishing Aunt
Hetty many pleasures at the sea shore and
success to tho Farm kh. Skoriik Hamiiu.
Oxon.
The lollowmg is the composition of a little
boy in the Bishop Scott Grammar School,
Portland, Oregon, gives vcibatim et literatim:
Oxen is a very bIow animal. They aro very
good to brake up ground. I wood rather
have horses if they didn't have colic, which
they say is wind collected in a bunch which
makes it dangcrcsser to keep horses than ox
en. If their were no horses, people would
have to wheal there wood in a wheal barrow.
It wood tako them two or llireo days to wheal
a cord n mile. Cows aro useful to. I heard
somu pcoplo say that if they had to bo an ox
or a cow they wood sooner be a cow, but I
think when it eamo to be milked on a cold
winter morning, 1 think they would sooner be
oxen for oxen don't havo to raise calves. If I
had to be a ox or a cow, 1 would be a heffer,
but if 1 could not be a hcfler ami had to be
both, I would bo a nx.
A Lad's Wonderful Adventure.
A few days ago a boy nbuiit six years of
age, son of Mr. Henry Karnes, living on the
llroad Ridge, was scut on nu errand to a neigh
bor's limine. Unstayed so long that search
twenty feet fiiim tho giouiid. When asked
to descend, he dechutd that he could not, and
the man who climbed the tiee for him found
great difficulty iu breaking his hold. Heeould
not account for being in thu tiee; the only so
lution ho could give was that something cold
seemed tosei.u him .uiiiiiid tho waist, and tho
no.think Imkiiua was that he was up in the
tiee. Persons who iivimiiud the place say
that the boy's tracks could nut bu found near
er than twenty feet of thu tree, while the last
tracks seemed to have been made by skipping
or hounding. Tho buy has been to town and
has been eviminod, but thu above was all that
could bo decided. Was it an eaglu or a bear,
or what was it Luiidia .' (XJ'.J '"''
csiHiian.
When a Montana geiitlomnii puts on a pair
of long boots, a slouch hat, a pint ol whisky
mid two long, hirgo-sicd hiv Ivers iiud uknifo
that can reach clear through a row, lie is said
to bo "diessul to kill." And indeed he is,
though you can't always bo en tain whether
ho or tlm other man wll liu killed.
tfHTAllH
WUmm
obits
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always) Care and sever Dlsappo
tv nrlil'i meat Pala-RUi
for Man and Beast. Cheap, qnloL
and rallaMe.
lMTCIIKK'SCASTOlCIAItiiiot
Narcotic. Clillrtroii jrrow Hit
iiioii,AIolli!rri HUo, uiitl Pliynl
claiiH rccoiuiiioml CASTOIMA.
It ruKiiliittsH tlio IJowelrt, win'.-.
Wlnil Colic, alluyH FovcrlhliiHO-s
nail iIchtroyK Woriaw.
WEI DE MEYER'S CATARIUI
Cure, a Constitutional Antidote- for
thin terrible, maloily.by Absorption.
Tlie most Important Discovery since
VttocinaUon. Otlier roiuodlcs niity
relievo Cutarru, thin cure, at nnr
itauo before Cousnmjitiou sets in.