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WILLAMETTE PARMER: PORTLAND, OREGON, JULY 21. 1882 Edited by Mm Harriot T. Clarhc. MAKINO THE BEST OF IT. There is nothing bo cheering To him who has trouble As to stick a bright pin in The obstinate bubble. He'll find life half sunshine; And, as to the rest of it, That may be lightened By making the best of it. You're sighing and brooding, My newhbor, that's certain Quick 1 Let in the daylight By lifting the curtain. Now toss off the burden And have a light breast of it But, if you must bear it, Why, then, make the best of it. At door, or at at window, Go out on thought's pinions Forget your surroundings Enlarge your dominions. Your neighbors have sorrow Who are not in quest of it, And many, full many, Are making the best of it. You meet with a friend, He seems gay even jollyj You know he has care, You are shocked at his folly. Why, man, though he suffi rs, He'll not tell his guest of it He's breasting the billow He's making the best of it. There's nothing that makcth, When woe drains his vitals, The face so transcendent As patience through trials. It makes the heart better, And this is the test of it; .That patience brings faith When we're m iking the best of it. Mrs. M. A. Kidder, in Ar. '. LciVjtr. Haw to Treat an Enemy. If you have an enemy, and an opportunity occurs to benefit him matters great or small, act like a gentleman, and do him good service without hesitation. If you would know what it is to feel noblo and "strong within your self" do this secretly, and keep it a secret. A man who can act thus will soon feel at ease anywhere. It is said of Callot, tho eminent French artist and engraver of the seventeenth century, that he was ouce slandered in a pas quinade by a certain nobleman of the court. At that; time, to have one's portrait engraved by Callot was an object of ambition with the highest dignitaries of tho kingdom. Callnt's answer to the injury was to publish a superbly exceuted likeness of his enemy, with an in scription settine forth his titles and great deeds. To this day tho incident is cited as an instance of proud nobility of soul. Callot was in the highest sense polite. Politeness is shown by passim; over the faults and foibles of those whom you meet. Cultivate this especially towards relatives. The world is severe in its judgments of those who expose the faults of kindred, no matter what the provocation may be. Vulgar fami lies are almost always at feud. It is not po lite to detail injuries which you may havo re ceived from any one, unlesi t.icre exists sjme urgent necessity tor so doing. To Wash Calico Dresses There is an art" about washing dyed goods, which, wliii ouce acquired, will never bo for gotten, and w ill moreover, scr o you in good stead many, many timei. Bright colored dresses should be well shaken and all the dust beaten out after each day's wearing. A ilreas keeps clean, and looks bright much longer if the dust is shaken from it every day. And, too, if it should need mending it should bo done before being washed, then there is no marked difference between the garment and patches. And patches should never bo seen, or at least not noticeable, if it is avoidable. Plaid and gay-colored dress goods should be washed in brau water. Turn a pail of bo'.lfhg water over two quarts of wheat bran, and let it Btand and cool, then turn off tho water and wash the dress as quickly as possible; pass it through a rinsing water-and dry in the shade; dresses of this kind should never be dried in the sun. Thus treated the color will not wash out in any degree. Then iron it on the ivrong side, as you should do all printed dresses. This method consumes some time, but it will be found to pay, as by it all calico dresses may be made to keep their color until worn out. ' Filberts. A writer in a Southern journal says: "The 'shiub which produces the filbert nut is indi genous to this climate. Tho writer well re collects to have gathered them, when a bov, from the wild bushes, which produced the nuts most abundantly. They have, however, been exterminated many years. They are grown in Europe entirely, on the ditch-banks, and one million dollars' worth, or more, are aunually imported thence, none being cultiva ted in the United States for market. All know'that they bring a g od price. It i i only necessary to plant the nuts in the spring on the banks', well prepared, and cultivate tie plants, which spring well one year, and after wards they extend themselves by off-shoots, take entire possession of the bank, and in three or four years begin to bear, affording an abun dant annual crop, which affords rather amuse ment than labor to gather, and the bushes furnish a pretty fringe t the fields. Thus the ditch-banks, which are usually nuisances, whether neglected or clean by an unprofitable expenditure of labor, may be rendered very profitable to the farmer and ornamental to his fields. Florida' Famous Saurian. A traveler in Florida lately wrute: Every lake I taw in South Florida large enough lad its family of alligators. Near the settlements where they are frequently shot at they dissp pear at the approach ot mm. They virit each otlrcr from lake to lake. When a man, wo man or child overtakes one in the wood, the beast runs to the nearest water. If hemmed in, he stops, swells and Uowi like a mad bull. They handle their tails right lively in resist ing an enemy or flipping a hog or dog in their great mbuths. I remember asking what they ate. "Anything from a pine knot down," was the answer, as if a pine knot was their highest food. When their stomachs are opened they are found to contain pine knots and black mud from the bottoms of the lakes. They cat, however, many of the best fish and thp largest tnrtles of the lakes. The Floridiana do not think the "gators" dangerous. Boys go into the lakes swimming where the alliga tor litres, and are not disturbed. One twelve feet long is considered grown. Down in the Kissime river they grow to an enormous size, having been seen eighteen feet long. These that are not accustomed to man, I am told, are dangerous. I heard of a young man that was bitten while swimming in the Kissime and soon died. Their teeth occupy a prom inent place in Flonda jewelry. Some people eat their tail. Just before a rain they are heard to bellow somewhat like a young calf. At night they frequently make a great splash ing in the water. Ex. CHOICE RECIPES. Baked Apple Dumplings. Pare, halve and core the apples; put a tablespooufnl of baking powder and a little salt into one quart of flour; mix into a cupful of butter. Mix stiff with milk. Roll out and cut into strips, and put around tho pieces of apple. Into a pudding dish put one quart of water, one teacupfiil of sugnr and a small lump of butter; set it on top of the stove and let it come to a boil; then put in the dumplings. Bake in the oven. French Cream Cake. Take 3 eggs, 1J cup fuls of sugar, 1 teaapoonful of baking powder, I cupful of sugar, and 1 tablespoonful of wa ter. Make and bake as usual. When the cake is done, split it while warm, and spread with cream. Boil 1 pint of sweet milk and 2 tablespoonfuls of cornstarch. When the milk comes to a boil, stir in slowly 2 eggs, I cupful of sugar, nnd J cupful of butter. Flavor to taste. White Cake. Take the whites of 10 eggs 1 cupful of butter, 2 cupful of sugar, 3$ cup fills of flour, with 2 tcaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted in it, and i cupful of sweet milk. Flavor to taste. Lerro i Cake. Take 5 eggs, 1 cupful of but ter, 1J cupfuls of sugar, 2 cupfuls of flour, 4 teaspoonfuls of sweet milk, and 2 tcaspoon fuls of baking powder. Jtlly for it is made of 1 large cupful of sugar, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, and the juice ot two lemons. Heat all together, and boil till of tho consistency of jelly. Jam Cake. Take 1 cupful of butter, 1 cup ful of jam, 2 cupfuls of sugar, 3 cupfuls of flour, 1 cupful of buttermilk, 3 eggs, 1 tea spoonful of soda, 1 tcaspoonful of mace, 2 of cinnamon, and 2 nutmegs. Best Cake in tho World. Take 1 pound of whito sugar, 1 cupful of butter, 1 cupful of sweet milk, 4 cupfuls of flour, C eggs, 2 tca spoonfuls of cream of tartar and 1 tabl.suoon ful of soda, or 2 tcaspoonfuls of baking pow der. B;at the butter, sugar and yolks of the eggs together very lightly; then add flour, milk and wlntes ol eggs, put uie cream oi tar ta' in tho Hour and dissolve the soda in a lit tle water. If bakina pond r is used, tift it into tho flour. Cup Cake. Take 4 cupfuls ol flour, 3 eggs, 3'cupluls of sugar, 1 cupful nf milk, 1 cuptul of butter and 2 tcaspoonfuls of yeast powder. Spongo Cake. Two cupfuls of sugar, 2 cup fuls of flour and 5 eggs, beaten 6ep.iratcly. Stir tho whites with the sugar; then add the yolks and put iu the flour last, and stir only enough to mix Will. Add a piuch of salt, and flavor with lemon. " Soft Ginger Bread.--Take 4 eggs, three- quarters ot a cupful of butter or lard, 1 cup tul 01 sugar, 1 cupiui oi moiasses, i iauie spoonful of ginger, 1 teaspoonful of soda dis solved in buttirmilk, and flour enough to make dough. Tea Cake. Use 4 eggs, 2 cupfuls of sugar, 1 rmifnl of lmtter or lard, i cunful of butter milk, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and flour to make dough. Too Good a Talker. Scene A small lawn on Seneca Btreet, Timo Noon, Personages A parrot sunning itself on the porch beaide its open cago door, and a strange dog wandering upon the lawn. The parrot speaks first: "Sick! Sick 1 Sick him!" Tho Jog with his ears and tail erect, looks about for something on which to charge; he espies the parrot, and an exciting scene ensues. From out the confused mass of dog hair and parrot feathers comes tho shrill cry: "Git out 1 D n you, git out I" Dog breaks for street. Parrot, after looking at herself from head to foot, gravely exclaims: "Polly, you talk too much I" $200 00 Reward t Will bo paid for the detection and conviction of any person selling or dealing in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation Hor Bitters, espe cially Bitters or preparations with tho word Hop or Hors in their name or connected therewith, that is intended to mislead or cheat the public, or for any preparation put in any form, pretending to be Hor Bitteks. The (?enuine have cluster of Green Hops (notice this) printed on the whito label, and arc the purest and best medicine on the earth, espe cially for Kidney, Liver and Nervous Dis eases. Beware of all others, and of all pre tended formulas or recipes of Hop Bittum published in pipers or for sale, as they are frauds and swindles. Whoever deals in any but the genuine will be prosecuted. Hop Bitters Mfo. Co. Rochester, N. Y. A North or England paper speaks of a young farmer who "ran rapidly through his property." His property was an open field. He wore a red shirt, and a bull was in the wake of the young farmer. Co To Headquarlrrs. Wc often hear the remark and justly, too that the MtCammon pianos and Whituey A Holmes Organs are the best, but are high in price. Being the best, they are the cheap est. A poor musical instrument is dear at any price. McCammon makes eery part of his pianos in his ow n factory and under his own supervirion. There is only one other f c tory in the United States that does this. A full line of thesa celebrated pianos and or- 5 ana can n seen at the lare music store of . II. Bobbins & Son, together with the largest and best stock of small musical instruments in the city. Also, a large itoek of pictures, frames and mouldings of even- description. We buy all goods from the factory. Gite us your orders. It ill pay you ti go to headquarters J. H. ItocBiss i. Soy, No. 229, First street, Portlaud, Or, 1m jfoij fyhf f luMreifc THE EARLY RAIN. Down through tho misty air, Down from the gloom above, Falling, nattering everywhere. The rain comes quick with love. Softly the missel-thrush Sings in the golden storm; The robin under a laurel-bush Waits for to-morrow morn. Drip, drip, drip from the eaves, Pit, pit, pit on the pane, Swish, swish, Swish on the drenched leaves, Listl 'tis the song of the rain. Grasses are bendin? low, Green is the corn and thick; You can almost see tho netties grow, They grow so strong and quick. Soft is the wind from the west, Softer the rain's low sigh; The sparrow washes his smoky breast, And watches the gloomy sky. Stirred are the boughs by the breeze, Scarcely a leal is still, Something is moving among the trees Like a restless spirit of ill. Standing watching tho rain, Do you not seem to hear The voice of God outspeaking again ' To man's ungrateful ear ? Promising plenty and peace. Garners with treasure heaped, That seed-time and harvest shall not cease Till the Harvest of Earth be reaped. The Arqosy. INaULARPLDRALS. Bemember, though box in the plural makes boxes, The plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes; And remember, though fleece in tho plural is fleeces, That the plural of goose is not gooses nor geeses; And remember, though house in the plural is houses, Tho plural of mouse should be mice and not mouses. Mouse, it is true, in the plural is mice, But the plural of house should be houses, not hice; And foot, it is true, in the plural is feet. But the plural of root should bo roots, and not reet. Chatterbox. OUR LETTER BOX. It is good to see so many of our little read ers taking an interest in tho temperance roll, being so ready to sign their names to a pledge not to use any sort of intoxicating drink. Children most generally take a right view of things, and before their minds are contami nated by bad associations, they are good judges of right and wrong. Every child has a little friend called a conscience that tells them when they are not iu the right path, and as they grow oldtr they still have this monitor to remind them of good or bad act ings; but this conscience will sometimes get blunted if tho child docs not listen and follow the path that conscience says is rijjht. There aro some who aro old now that have lost all feeling, and who now find that this friend has left them entirely, btciuso they have neglected to listen to warnings. Aunt Hetty hopes that every ono who signs tho temperanco roll will kep a tender conscience, so as not to forget tho promise. If any of you aro ever tempted to break tho pledge little conscience will bo sure to remind vou of it, and if you heed you are always in the right. Our first letter this week is from Eastern Oiczon. and it gives a very pleasant idea ot a lifo up there. Tommy writes again, so wo shall consider him a regular correspondent. Oscar does nicely for the first time, and ho must try again and see how much ho can im prove on the last. Blanche shows that sho has taken great care in writing her letter, which is quite per fect. If all boys and girls could ouly realize how great an accomplishment it is to write a nice letter, they would all try hard to du well in spelling and writing. We are very glad to get another letter from Emma; she has been silent so long. Aunt Hetty is very sorry that there were no letters published last week, but she was away up in a part of Eastern Oregon. Then the letters are not very plenty just now, so it may be a good idea to let one week go by and seo how the letters will be missed. Maybe some of our little friends will write again if they see that there are so few left in the Letter Box. St. Helens, June 29, 1882. Editor Home Circle: As I see you have a temperance roll, I thought I would tell you about our Band of Hope : First, mamma printed little cards of invitation (liko the one in this letter) and sent me around to e cry house in town where there were children. We havo good times at our meetings, which are on Saturdays now, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, because of the pub lic school. We commence with singing and prayer, then lesson from a temperance lesson chart, recitations, select readings, then sing ing, marching and close. We had a picnic not long ago on a piciic ground not far from town. Wo played games, swinging, had lunch, lots of lemonade, which was good, for it was a very hot day, then closed with sing ing. All said they enjoyed the time very much. We hae a library of temperance story books, and little papers called the Giant Killtr. The Bind of Hope was started last January; we have now about fifty members. Yours truly, Blanche Aimmi. Dextek, June 22, 1882. Editor Home Circle: I am sorry I did not write sooner, but will write now and tell you that I received that beautiful book "For our Boys;" many thanks for it I am going to fchool all the time, and that is one reason that I have not written sooner, but our school will be out next week, and then I will write oftner. My pa returned from Illinois about the 10th cf May. He brought me a shotgun, a present for me and brother Johnnie from my uncle in Illinoi, the same gun my pa bought when he wai a little boy by saving his money one penny at a time in old England. He also brought a pair of socks, knit by my deir aunt, who is blind. Yesterday I received another nice book called "Zigzag Journeys in Classic Lands," a present from my ma for learning my lessons. I think it pays to study hard and do your best all tho time. I have ono hen that has nino little chicks; sho had twelve, but a stray cat came and killed two, and one fell in a tub of water and was drowned. The old hen is Piymouth Rock, but the little ones aro brown Leghorns. I will close by wishing the Farmer great success. Tommy U. Harrisbdbo, Juno 28, 1SS2. Editor Home Circle I I am a little boy 9 years old; I go to school; I study Fifth Reader, spelling and arithmetic; our teacher's name is Nat. Hudson; we like him very well. I have a little pet dog; his name is Toby; ho catches rats. I would like for you to put my name on tho temperanco roll. I will close for this timo, wishing the Farmer great success. 0car D. Env. Saosix, W. T., June 20. 1882. Editor Home Circle : I promised to send you some Indian relics some time ago, but I forgot it, so I thought I would send them now. Tho bones aro what they wear on their wrists strung on a string with some beads, and Bometiines they woar them in their cars. Ono Indian I saw had three little brass rings in each year, one above the otb.er. I have seen them with holes in their noses, but never saw ono with a ring in his nose The large beads are the same they have to string around their necks and wrists for necklaces and bracelets. I guess the small ones are like those they put on their mocas sins. There were a good many Indians around hero this spring. I am not much afraid of them now, but I confess I do not liko them; some of them aro rather saucy, and,when they are all paiuted up they are very ugly looking. There is a wild flower that growa around hero that is very pretty; it is pink, and shaped like a star. I will take some up this fall, if I do not forget it, and send them to you. Ma nnd I are very fond of flowers. Wo tako I'M' Monthly Mayazine. We were very sorry to hear of his death. We hao a few flowers this summer. 1 havo a sister in Oregon who is coming up here in a few days; sho has two little boys whom I havo never seen, and 1 want to seo them very much. You may put my name down on the temperanco roll if you please. Neither of my brothsrs (I have three) nor my father use whisky, and only ouo of my brothers uses tobacco. Well, I think you must bo tired of my busy "chatter," bo I will close, hoping you will get the things I sent all risht. I am very truly yours, Emma C. Misnek. Prineville, Juno 13, 1882. Editor Homo Circle: I thouoht I would w rito a letter to tho Homo Circle, but I hao to get ma to copy it for mc, as I cannot wiito very well. I am 10 years old. I never went to school much. I read in tho Third Reader. I will tell you what I do to help : I was dishes, look after the chickens and turkeys, milk the cow and drive tho team for pa when ho is cleaning up the ground. Wo havo beta cleaning up tho jard and lots. We pick up all tho bones and put them in a pile near the hen house with the trash and bum thtin tor tho chickens and tur keys; they run to it tho first thing when they aro let out. Pa brought a pair of Brouzo tur keys and a pair of Plymouth Hock chickens from Salem; tho hen has laid forty-two egg since April. I nave- irieu to raise magpies, but they all die. Ono of our neighbors has one that can talk, Tho prca-.hcr was at their house one day and he was praying, when the magpie told him to "Cork up." Wo havo a nice flowerbed, but it is too cold for flowers here, only a few do well. I havo a cat, and my sister has one. Wo catch a great many fish in tho irrigating ditch. I am tho baby, and am namod after an aunt who died in Cal itornia. and my grandma who died a loni whilo ago. i;i 1 r "T . .. IU- 4 i semi my nuiuu iui euu ui(i' Lucia Naomi Piiimilk. ancc roll. AN ARCTIC HERO. The diary of Lieut. Po Long extends from Oct. I to Oct. 30. It is the record of terrible suffering borne with indomitable heroism and ending in death. '1 litre iu not in literature a nobler or moio pathetic story. De Long and his men died of cold and hun ger. They supported life during thirty days by the adoption of every means known to shipwrecked men except cannibalism. No one seems to havo thought of that horriblo expe dient. At first they had a little dogmcat, and they managed t) shoot two or three ptarmi gans; then they weic redutcd to tea made of willow twigs and to alcihol. At last they gnawed tho leather of their lxiots and bits of deerskins, and then, too weak to contitiuo their march, lay down to die. They were slowly dying of starvation for fully three wcoKs, and in this condition ha I to resist as best they could tho terrible cild. Through it all they never lost their courage. "All hands weak and feeble, but cheerful," wroto Do Long, when it must have been perfectly clear that nothing but a miracle could Save the par ty from death. There is not a line in the whole diary of complaint or murmuring aaignft God or man. It too often happens that discipline vanishes among shipwrecked men, and that the selfish desire for life leads to inhumanity, if not to actual crime, 'I here is no tuch stain iu tho story of the crew of the Jeannettc. Lieut. De lying seems to have maintained his authority unquestioned to the last, and his men evi dently share! bis generous spirit. For days they dragged a sick comrade with them lashed to a sled, and never teem to havo thought of abandoning him in order to increase their own chances of reaching a settlement. Tho officers and men never manifested the slightest hesi tation between duty and selfishness. They clung together and helped one another loyally while living, and so long as the survhor had strength their dead comrades were given Christian burial. There was apparently no differcne In tho bearing and levotion of Do Long the American, Erickton the Dane, or Ah Sam the Chinaman, K' try man of the lit tie band wAs a hero, knowing how to do his duty and doing it with unflinching faithful ness. In their distress tho shipwrecked men turned fur help to God. In De Long's diary there is constant mention of religious services. When the faithful Alexy, was dying tho Sur geon baptized him, and when all hope had gone we are told that "all un'ted in saying the Lord's Prayer and Creed." The humble, cheerful trust iu God and submission to His will, of which De Long's diary gives constant evidence, show us that it was a band of Chris tian heroes that perished in the Siberian snow. Bitterly as wc may at first sight regret that so many nolilo lives have been lost, the men of the Jeannctte'8 crew did not die in vain. Their fato suggests that beautiful passage in tho Prayer book where we thank God for thoso who have departed this lifo in His fear. Do Long and his men have made us prouder of our humanity. They havo shown us to what sublime heights of heroism educated of ficers and ignorant seamen can aliko attain. They have given an example of calm and cheerful performance of duty which is without price. They have shown us onco more that taith in God can survive all suffering. Let us thank God for the life and death of these ho- oio men. It is impossiblo that their heroism can fail to bear its priceless and perennial fiuit. But let us havo no more costly sacrifices of life in the vain search for tho polo. It is idlo as w ell as ungenerous to blame the projectors of the Jcannette expedition for its disastrous failure. The vessel was to follow a route hitherto untried, and there w as ample justi fication for testing tho question whether the polo could bo reached by that routo. Explora tion becomes unjustifiable i lily when it is de monstrated that tho end sought cannot bo at tained in spite of every ellort and sacrifice. When the Jeaunetto sailed it hail not been de monstrated that tho polo could not bo reached by steering northward from Wrangell Land. Her experience has-now proved that tho ico barrier is as impenetrable in that direction as it is wheruver elss it has been attacked. Tho chances that the polo can over bo reached are now so iufiuitesin-.ally small that wo aro not justified in wasting any moro lives in polar expeditions. To eciul out another expedition would show a reckless indifference to human life of which any nation ought to be ashamed. Lt us closo the record of hopeless heroism and useless suffering iu tho frozen sea with the story of the noblest of all tho arctic heroes, Georgo W. Do Long. X. )'. Times. Building Barbed-Wire Fences. An Iowa correspondent of tho Country Gen tleman writes: I put up 700 rods last fall myself, and I can speak from experience. I do not know how high a fencn is required in irginia, but 4 feet is all that is required in Iowa I first got good whito oak posts, 7 feet long, and put tliein iu tho ground 2J feet, 2.5 foet apart, using a good heavy post for tho end, or whciovir braces were required, 1 think it is best to put ill good heavy posts all along tho line, for al though thcro is no straiu on tho post, yot it docB not tako a small post long to rot out. I put in braces ovory 20 rods; tho barbed-wiro men adviso putting them 40 lods npait, but 1 oan gtt tho wiro tighter by straining a shorter distance. Tho braces should bo 10 feet long, and should strike tho post about 32 inches from tho ground, having a good Hat stako driven in for the braces to rust against, at the lower ends. If tho braco is higher on tho post thu contraction of the wiro will pull the post un. H.iviii's nnsts all set. I took a nlasteriiu! lath which is just 4 fett long, and markeTl it oil as a gang') for tho wire. My last wire i put in inches fiom tho ground; eecoi il wiro 32 indies from tho giound, and third wiro 48 inches fi oni tho ground. I then got my gaugo, and with a pieco of chalk inarktd on tveiy post tho place tho wiro should go. I then took a small sled (or "stonu boat," as your Eastern people call it,) and put a box on it 1 feet long and 2 f tet wide, and nailed standards on it. In this box I had a coiner divided offt) hold any t ols I mignt need, sucu as pincers, hatchet, wire stretcher, staples, etc. I put an iron rod through the spool of w ire and laid it in front of tho standards on tho box, then hitched a hoiso to it, and, after fastening the wiio on tho eud post, drove along tho lino ol fence, allowing tho wire to run off thu spool. In putting the spool outliosltu, place u so the wire will run off tho top of the spool, not from tho underside, for should it run from tho under sido it is inoro apt to "kink," After running wiro tho full length o! fenco, I took my hatchet, wire stretcher and a pouch, full of staples. I then stretched thu wire to the first braced post as tight as I could draw it; tho twist of wire allow b for contraction in cold weather. Do not bo. afraid of breaking the wire, for if it is giod, a man cannot break it. After getting it light, then o back to tho starting post and ftaple the wire to each pout, going toward the stretcher. Proceed in this way until the fence is finished. 1 lound it best to put thu top wiro on first, and build tho fence downwurd. Ill stapling the wire, do not drive the staples too tight, for they may cut tho wire. Have them fit against the wire but not tight. Theie aro several kinds of stretchers in tho market. I used one calhd tho "Littlo Giant," which did the work well. It sells for $1 hero, I used tho "Glidden" wire, which tost Oi cents per pound, gilvanizcd, 17 ounces to the rod. I would not put up painted wire if it could bu bought at 3 cents per pound. I do not think it necessary; to put a board on the fence, as tho wiro will make fenco enough, As for stock getting hurt, I think that all bosh. If a man thows thu fence to the stock and makes them examine it, they will not get hurt. When I turn my team out for a play iu the grass patch, they are very cartful to !eep away from the line of posts, because I led them up to the fence, and made them rub their noses against tho barbs. I never could get them up to it again. I put iu 40 rods be tween a neighbor and nrytell. He pastures 12 he id of hoitesiu hi field, but not one of them will go near the wire. In this .State barbed wire fence is "the fence," for it will not blow down; cattle keep the weeds and grass out of the fence row, and it is the cheapest. I do not know how long the wire will last. I know some fence that has been up for six years, ami the wire looks jut as it did when put up. I find three wires plenty to fence against cattle; five wires will make a yood hog fence; they may go through once, but onto only, fur a hog is a little like a mule he does not like dangerous places, If Nearly Dead After taking some highly pulfod up stulf, with long tcatimoiiialit, tuiu to Hon Jlitteu. uud have no ftar of any Kidney or Urinary Tiou bleu, llnght's Diteasii, liiabttus, or Liver Complaint. Tht-se ilistases eauiut resist the curative power of Hop II iters; bvsidci it is best fa ally medicine on earth. ' The Spokan Plain. Tho Spokan Falls Chronicle has the follow ing editorial concerning tho great prairie that is traversed for thirty miles by tho Spokan iver and the N. P. R. 11., which has an aver age width of eight miles. We rode over the plain in May and remarked that a field of wheat four miles or loss from the falls, sowed in this gravel, was thrifty, in fact as good as any we saw in tho upper country. It is claimed that this gravel prairio will produce enormous crops, but thought that water can not easily bo got. If this prairie is valuable it oilers homes for a thousand families. The Chronicle says : Extending to the north and east of Spokan Falls is a large tract of land known as tho Spokan Plain. As yet tho greater part of this land remains unclaimed, owing to tho fact that the best lands near the R. R. are taken first. Now the immigration must go farther back from the R. R. This body of land, tho Spokan Plain, is capablo of producing better than is supposed. Wherever this land has been cul tivated as it should be, abundant crops havo been produced. Havinp visited all parts of tho plain, we can say that the part on which Spokan Falls is situated is the most gravelly of any. Messrs. A. M. Cannon and J. J. Brow no havo made their homes on tlii part of tho plain and are raising many things much finer in sire and quality than can be raised on high prairio soils. The early gardens, planted by thes3 gentlemen, have proven perfectly successful. Peas, beans, corn, radishes, on ions, lettuce, parsnips, turnips, tomatoes, squash, asparagus, cucumbers and cabbage ha e been raised w lth marked success. Tho apple, peach, pear, plum, maple, box-elder and other trees aro growing thriftily aud in another year will bear fruit. Strawberries have done well, and also all kinds of small fruit bushes. That tho soil of this plain is specially adapted to tho growth of fruit is an undeniable fact. It is proven by tho fact of pioduction iu several different places. Iu fact it is destined to bo to our part ot the Tcrritoi) what Walla Walla valley is to the southeast portion and adjacent paita of Ore gon, This alono will render the land very valuable. 1'iuit lauds aro valuable iu any country for thu fruit alone. But theso lands are not valuable alone for fiuits and vegeta bles, Secral men ha orated no crops of grain, aud tho grain is of icinaikably good quality. So far nothing but s) ring grain has been sown. At tho residences of the abovo named geutleincn may bo seen small Clops of grain at this d ite. Travelers from toward Colfax infoim us the grain in Mr. Cannon's ouclosuio presents as fiuo an nppearanco as docs much of tho grain along the road further down. Mr. Cannon also has blue-grass and cloer mowing finely. Among tho first comcis, tho question was ns to who would get tho liLht land, and now that tho available lands near Spokan rails aio one, tho sottleis are taking up tho gravel. Tiiero is yet several sections of it unclaimed. This land w ill produce a lino crop of wintor wheat, and wo pi edict that in a ycai' or two it will bo glowing largo fields of grain. -On the noi th sido of the river, opposite town, aro two fields of newly broki'ii gravel anil, and puties who did tho breaking immediately piotuiud themselves f.uius on tho plair. There are many advantages possessed by this land. It lies immediately adjacent to the railroad and to Spokan Pull's Clifton and Westwcnd. Its unusual level nature makes it .iV to cultivate', anil in ru nio mi nner roads auj where than the natural iluvesoii this piai io. It is also remarkably easy soil to subdiio and cultivate, and when well culti vated holds moisture far better than would bo credited without actual experience. There can bo no longer any doubt of tho value of this land. Tho gardens and grain produce, the latter especially, establishes this beyond doubt. 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