VOL. XV. Jbiccllancou Occupation for Women. In last week's Review we published an extract from the last census report pur porting to giVe the number of women employed in all the leading occupations in the United States. Singularly enough, farming, the occupation of more than half of tho population of the country, was omitted from the statement. As a comment on this fact, we appended to the extract in question an item of infor mation regarding a woman farmor, and a successful one too. Wo have known quite a number of cases of successful women farmers. It is doubtless true that the inability to herself perform much of tho work on the farm is a draw back to all but women who possess an unusual degree of executive ability suf ficient to overcome this disadvantage. But there are many kinds of farming which offer inducements to those good women who desire to support themselves, and right hore let us suggest to farmers not wives, they always have more than they can do but to farmers' daughters who are thinking longingly of situations in stores or offices in cities whore they will be able to earn their own living easily, pleasantly (?), that they will do infinitely better by adopting some way of maintaining themselves by their own labor which will at tho same time en able them to remain at home, and which calls for such knowledgo and experience as may easily bo gained on the farm. Dairy work is admirably adapted for women farmers, and there is no reason why any farmer's daughter should not, if compelled to earn her own living, be come a successful dairy farmer. Poul try raising is infinitely more appropriate work for women than clerking in a store, proof-reading or reporting, and far more remunerative. So with bee keeping, and now, with the improved facilities afforded for its pursuit, silk cul ture. An esteemed lady correspondent told us, a few numbers back, of two plucky girls who, left fatherless, kept a home over their own and their mother's heads by market gardening. All agri cultural papers have said a good deal, from time to time, about giving the boys a chance. Now we say to our farmer readers and friends, give the girls a chance. Don't ask your girls to toil on, from young girlhood, without a chance for self-improvement or self-adornment, save what they or their mothers must try for. As girls grow up, don't condemn them to an unceasing routine of house hold drudgery, unenlivened even by a bit of bright ribbon for their ''bonny brown hair." Let the girls learn how to cook, iron, wash and keep houso gener ally, but why keep them at that and nothing else? If Jane can come into the city and earn money in an office, why not utilize her talents yourself? She can save you many a dollar by keeping your account books (perhaps you do not keep any, but you ought to, all the same). Your poultry account you know nothing about perhaps; you havo eggs, and occasionally a chicken. Now let Mary or Lucy take charge of that; it will bo better for them than sweeping and ironing, and they can make their pin-money out of it and con tribute something toward paying a strong hired girl to do tho hard, rough domes tic work. A farm is a manufactory and a counting-house as well as a farm, and there is room for all the intelligent help you can get, and you can employ all young peoplo profitably at homo, but let them feel that they are earning some thing for themselves as well as for you, and see if it does jiot. help keep them at homo until the right sort of a man conies, a courting, and then give tho young people your blessing and help them to get the start in tho world which perhaps you lacked yourself, and for want of which there tiro more gray hairs in your head and your wife's than there pughf to be. TVnnurs' Review. The tore of Display. ' Perhaps "The Slavish Habit of Imita tion" would havo been a better heading, fis leing tho foundation of all the tjouble. As a nation, wo are sadly lacking in or iginality; wo linvo not the moral courage to adhere to our own idea of comfort, when the prevailing modfl dictate other wise; we are afraid of being tirmod cc centric." If Mr, A., who has an abundance of this world'o goxls,Mib-cribes liberally to the chnreh fund. Mr H.. not to be out done, subscribes a like amount, although he ha not the remotest idea where'itho money U to come from. Mrs. A. gives a large party, and Mrs. D. immediately fol lows hor example, although the oxpenso incurred will of necessity deprive the little B.'s of their summer trip to the country. Personal adornment should by no means be neglected; but dress, which is too expensive for ono's means, is an in vestment that brings little comfort. Our young ladies make a mistake in dressing extra vantly and spending lavishly; young men of real worth and small means have not tho c6urage to marry women who must imitate their wealthy neighbors. The, fashionable wedding is another il lustration of the love of display. Brides- elect seem as lavish with their strength as with their money; indeed, it has be come proverbial, that tho bride is worn to a shadow by the preparations which precede a great display. Judging from its effects, the passion for display may be considered ono of the greatest evils of our time. It has been followed by the saddest results unhappy homes, crime and premature death. For eigners who visit this country romark the restless, feverish manner, and the tired, worn, prematurely aged faces of business men, many of whom aro carry ing burdens unjust as they are unneces sary. More humblo conditions of life would spare to his family, until ripe old age, many a man whose over-exertion to gratify the passion for display, shatters his nervous system, and dooms him to death in tho very prime of life. It is a noteworthy fact that the husband does not talk business to the wife, except when asked for monoy, and oven then he gives her no definite idea of his affairs. Low is a woman to know whether she is extravagant or not, when she has no idea of tho amount of her husband's incomo ? Women are not so witles about business as most men believe them to be; they have great powers of in genuity, and if informed as to the real state of affairs, -might mako tho allow ance, however small, suffice for all needs. Certain it is that if we all had the moral courage. to stint thejove vof dis play, we should hear more of domestic happiness, and less of paralysis, lunacy and suicide. Lillian Mayne. On the Nehalem. Whatever drawbacks there may bo to the enjoyment of lifo hero, ill health is not likoly to be one of them. Some men aro never contented anywhere, whilo others aro " always at homo " and satisfied. I believo I am one of tho lat ter. Here, in this isolated valley, six miles from a neighbor, twolve from a post office and thirty from a store, hemmed in by the everlasting hills, liv ing in a log hut chinked with moss, I am well contented. I havo good health and a good appetite to enjoy the rough faro, and am surrounded by some of God's loveliest works. A little prairie, surrounded by an evergreen forest, on threo sides of which runs the very beautiful North Nehalem, softly mur muring over its rocky bed .and passing in its course in full view of our door. On tho opposite side, and also in full view from our door, a lovely cascade falls over a rocky bluff and is scattered into spray ere it reaches the river, forty feet below, filling tho air with itsimusic night and day. And, too, for those who delight in procuring a goodly portion of their food from wood or stream, we have in the woods a plenty of meat in the shape of elk, deer, bear and pheasant ; or fruit, salmon berries, blackberries, thimbleberries, and huckleberries of four varieties ; in tho water we havo plenty of fish of various kinds. Then we can add to all this plenty of hard work, and the mot particular ought to bo contented, 'but men are so queer." Several havo a-kod' me tho que-tion "What is tho chance of getting good government claims on tho Nehalem t" Through your kindnos, I wish to answer all at once, I do not wish, to havo any come and say I raised l(opos not antici pated;' to I will speak plainly There are only a few desirable claim yet' va cant, and they aro unsuneyod. Thero are also a very few good railroad claims. Tho second day" after I located on my claim, a neighbor ca'mp up and asked inn if 1 did not want eoule elk meat, f told him that oik moat would go well about now. "Well," says he, "we will git it" o oil we started, and in a ehort time we hud a fine pccunon of that noble animal at our feet. Wo had line sport and got about 100 pound of stripped meat, together with horn?, tal low and hide in all worth about $ 10, Corr Register, " When you don't know what ails you ; whon you feel aches and pains all over; jou feci tired and faint, uo Brown's Iron Bitteri. A wonderful reviver. PORTLAND, OREGON, Company Manners. Good manners do not consist in obedi ence to any set of rales, and the absolute uselessness of manuals of etiquette in forming even their rudiments is duo to the fact that their very essence is adapt ability, what wo call "company manners" suggests tho unpleasant vision of a thin veneer of conventional politeness,through which ignoranco and vulgarity arc plain ly visible. The reason of thi, however, is not that thero is any innato impropri ety in modifying one's behavior in ac cordance with one's surroundings but that, unfortunately, tho assumption of ceremonious courtesy is with many peo ple so rare an effort that it has all the awkward stiffness of an infrequent and unfamiliar impersonation. The general notion that a perfectly polite person is exactly the same in all companies is not tenable for a moment, as thero are ac tions which would be tho ho'g' th of il! breeding in ono place, and the very es sence of good breeding in another. In deed, the difference between good man norland "company manners" is that ono is the natural expression of ordinary courtesy, self-control, aud knowledge of tho world, whilo the other is an effort made for some temporary purpose, or to bring ono's self into harmony with unus ually difficult surroundings. Extra pains taken for this purposo is highly commendable in principle; but those who make the effort rarely aro apt to do it awkwardly, and so have broueht tho endeavor itself into disrepute. In one of Mrs. Gaskell's most charm ing stories there is an old ladv who is a typical member of thoancienno nobesse, aristocratic, refined, and fastidious to the oxtremest point. Her perfect manners are founded on the truest nobility of na ture ; and it happens, in the course of the story, that she sees occasion some what to relax her fastidious exclusivo- nesi and to admit, as evening guests, a worthy couple whoso birth and breeding are not equal to.their meriiA3ifcteabq, ing handed round one of theso guests', who had never boforo partaken of the meal excopt when seated at a solid table, is embarassed by having to hold her cup, and having, further, no plate for her bread and butter, sho spreads a laruo handkerchief oyer her lap to catch the falling crumbs. The other, better born. if not better bred, visitors titter among themselves, but Lady Ludlow, tho hostess silences them by drawing out her own handkerchief and spreading it over her knee to prevent her guest from discover ing that hor action is tho cause of the mirth about her. It is such manners as Lady Ludlow's that Mr.TennyBonmeans when ho calls them "not idle, but the fruit of noble minds," and ho has given an examplo of such when Geraint, tho chivalrous knight, saw his fair lady about to lead away and groom his horse. His instinct was, of course, to prevent hor, but on hor lather's explaining the case, we are told that Referencing the custom of the house, Geraint, from utter courtesy, forbore. Now, while it will hardly be denied that the actions of Lady Ludlow and of Prince Geraint wero tho perfection of courtesy, it would be dangerous to lav upon the axiom that drinking tea with a lap protected by an outspread handker chief, or sitting in a hall while a young lady groomed your horse, could possibly bo consistent with conventional polite ness. They aro instances of com pany manners, dignified by that tender ness for tho feelings of others which is the roof of good breeding, and that ready adaptability which is its flower. It is well known that Louis XIV., that martinet in all mattors of etiquette, Kinted out as the politest man in his do minions an Englishman who silently entered tlio royal carriago boforo the king in obedience to tho "Aprcs vous, monsieur,'' of his majesty. London Queen. Eras of Pantaloons. "Can you reiuomlxir tho stjlos of pan taloons that-have prevailed in this coun try?" "Let mo seo," said tho tailor; "yes, they are all before mo in my mind's eye. There wore tho breeches of tho period immediately succeeding the revolution. They were short reaching only to the knees, mostly madeof cloth, buttoning at tho side. Tho wealthy wore them of velvet, or cordnrov , as the fancy seized them, or of doe cloth. The first long pantaloon, as I have told you, were inertly comfortable bag, and this was principally due to tho fact that they were homespun- made by willing, but unskillful hands. The first improvement was when thev were so altered in con struction its to button elsewhere thau at the side. Suspenders were, ,not used FRIDAY, OCTOBER 36, 1883. until comparatively recent times, some where about 1840, 1 believo. Distinctive stylos in breeches date from tho close of the war. Then there camo garments tight at the waist and to the knees, where they bagged enormously, giving the ap pearance of swelled joints. The pockcti wero called 'top pockets,' and could bo reached onlv by pulling the vcsMip to the chin. Later they were cut hign in the waist and medium in tho legs. This was a return to first principles. The noxt trousers to achieve popularity wer thoso miserable 'tights.' Thoy fitted tho nether extremities like eelskins, and' suddenly swelled to awful proportions at the bot tom. They were the invention of a row dy, and it was a shame decent peoplo ever wore them. I'm glad tney'ro gone. The hip pockets came into fashion along with the 'tights.' Young bloods fain would carry pistols, and, it beinjr found cumbersome to add another )ocket to the coat, tho inoffensive breeches were subject to tho gross imposition. At first the buttons of these garments wero made of bone, then of rubber, later of motal, and now of metal in tho shapo of rivets, that decay only when the breeches are deceased. Tho present styles are ele gant, and a decided advance on any that havo preceded. The trousers of to-day is as complete an institution as can bo wished for. There are well-contrived recesses for tho watch, tho pistol, the whisky flask, keys, knife, comb, hand kerchief, pocketbbok; in short, every thing that the most fastidious man could desire to have about him. Tho only thing left for man to do is to learn how to wear breeches. Tall, slim men, with spidor legs, should wear close, but not tight-fitting, garments; fat men look best in tight pantaloons; swells wear stripes ; gamblers, plaids ; Quakers, quint colors ; ministers', plain black cloth. Re porters glory in broadcloth, much to the disgust of tailors." Philadelphia Pross. Dofi'r Instinctive DUllkM . Almost all dogs have an instinctive dis trust of trampsjiml this may possibly bo understood upon the ground that theso individuals havo a hang-dog look about them, and soem to be intent upon somo mysterious business which is pro vocative of suspicion at the first glance. Dogs aro excellent judges of character ami of tho signs which indicate a per son's intentions, and aro quito ablo to distinguish a man who is intent upon his own business, and ono who is inclined to meddlo with what does not concern him. Anotlrr object of common attack by this race of quadrupeds is the log of a breech wearing footman ; and it will bo obsorved, that tho most dignified and solemn of these ornamental gentlemen, are apt to lose their presence of mind as soon as they becomo awaro that there is a spaniel, or oven a pug, sniffiing around their calves. In this instance it is prob ably the inviting look of tho part at tacked which proves too strong a tempta tion to the canino mind; and it would bo hardly fair to includo this among tho cases of unexplained antipathy. It is believed that tho snappishness of pet dogs, when their mistresses aro touched or approached, pnocdfl from jealousy, and doubtless this cause will account for hundreds of ill-tempered acts indulged in not only by .ugly poodle and toy ter riers, but by parrots, monkeys and many other tamo croatures. But why sh-uld a dog, walking along tho street, pick out one cart or carriago rather than another to run behind and bark at? Why should ho snarl and snap at somo good-humored man who in vain attempts to conciliate him, whilo at tho very first sight ho will bo reconciled to another of morose and surly character? In many of theso cases tho reason is to be found in Bomo episode of tho animal's lifo, unobserved or for irottcn by other people. Dogs are quick observers, but had at generalization, aud it vvjll often hapjKm that one who Jim been owo maltreated by a man wearing a particular costume, will bear malicoall his lifo against others clad in tho same garb. London Globe. When nuy druggist or dealer tries to sell you, or tells you that somo other remedy is as good or letter, when you ak for Amnion's Syrup, look him in the faco, and you will sen that God has stnmjwd ujioii his countenance in un- mii-tiikahio characters the vviru cupidity, and by investigation ymi will find h is recommending some decoction oi ms own that costs linn onlv a low cent' to prpiro, or somo patent remedy upon, which hemake a huge pndit. AhU. foi Ammen's Cough Syrup Take no other Buy n l."-eoiit or M cent bottle. Ted it yourself, ft stands upon ito rneriti. "Do not put article which havo held milk into liot water," tayiix domestic re ceipt. Is this an admonition not to drop tho baby into the wdfh boiler? ' Be Tou a Lady 7 " We remember reading somewhere an anecdote of tho ludicrous consternation of a poor emigrant laborer, who for tho first time heard his employer spoken of as a "gontloman." Ho had been brought dp in England, where his only notion of a gentleman was that of a consequential and peremptory being in good clothes, who swore at and kicked him. Thq New Haven Registor tells the story of a poor hoy in that city, whoso idea of a "lady" was quite as unfortunate; and who camo by a happy nccidont to concludo that thero must be two kinds. Perhaps he was right jn his conclusion. At any rate, tho nico girl who gave him his first im pression of what a true ladv- is, doserves all tho credit of tho story. Ab a vounjr lady walked hurriedly down State street upon a bleak Novem her day, her attention was attracted to a deformed boy coming toward hor, carry ing several bundles, Ho vrw thinly clad, twisted his limbs most strangely as he walked, and looked before him with a vacant stare. Just boforo tho cripple reached the brisk pedestrian ho stum bled, thus dropping ono bundle, which broke and emptied ft string of sausages on the sidewalk. Tho richly-dressed ladies(!) near by held back their silken skirts and whis kered quito audibly : "How horrid I" while soveral passed by, amused by tho hoy's look of blank dismay, gave vent to their feelings in a half-suppressed laugh, and then went on without taking further interest. All this increased tho boy's embarrass ment, no stoppod to picK up tho sail-1 Banes onlv to- let fall another parcel. when in despair he stood and looked at his lost spoils. In an instant the bricht' facodstraneror stepped to tho boy's sido anu saic, in a tone oi tnorougn Kina- hens : ' "Let mo hold the other bundles while you pick up what you havo lost." In dumb astonishment tho cripple handed all ho ht-ld to tho young Samar itan, and devoted himself to securing his cherished sausages, When these were again strongly tied in tho coaisetorn pa per, her skillful hands replaced tho par- cols on his scrawny arms.as sho bestowed on him a smile of encouragement, and oid : "I hope you haven't far to go " The poor fellow seemed scarcely to hear the girl's pleasant words; but looking at her with tho saino vacant stare, ho asked: "Bo you a lady !" "I hopo so ; I try to bo," was the sur prised response. "I was kind of hoping you wasn't." "Why?" askod tho listener, with curi osity quito aroused. " 'Cause I'voseen such aHoallod thorn selves ladies, but they never sppko kind and pleasant like, 'ccpting to grand uns. I guess thoro's two kinds them as thinks thoy's ladies and isn't, and them as what tries to bo and is." Spreading Manure Broadcast. "Manure from tho yard or stable," says Prof. Johnson, "rarely contains such an amount of volatilo fertilizing matter o should deter from spreading it broadcast on tho surface when mst convenient. Unless manure is very rich as from grain fed animals, aud is in un active state of fermentation, hot and smoking, and ox halos a distinct smell of hartshorn there can bo no loss from exposure, and in any case tho loss will bo loss by spreading over thinly than by dropping in small heaps, because threading means cooling and a lois of formontation. But man ure, when proporly handled, need not waste from evaporation. A moderate and rogulated heating of fresh manure results in the formation of liuiuio acid, which becurcs tho ammonia from loss by ovnimrntion. This moderate heating it should have licforn hauling out, or in cold weather before it heats at all. Tho advantages of spreading the manuie from tho wagon us it is drawn out are, a saving of laljor and au oven distribution of the holublo salts (ammonia potash, phosphides, etc ,) in the hoil by rain. If the manure is heaped on tho field find gets a heavy lain before spreading, the giound under the heaps receives an un due hharo of tho best part of the manure Independently, however, of loss by evaporation, there may bo circumstances when it is host to get tho iiiauuro into tlm ground before it Jiju a luiucu to bo- oiiio dry, for it distribute much better when moist and swollen with waterthan when 'chippy' or Wuiffy' in foxturo, and is reaily at unc! to act as mauuro, where as dry manuie must recover moisture boforo it can le of any use," Heard in a boudoir: "Meruy on mul What aro thoso horrible sounds ii stairs?" "Oh, that's nothing but dear George; I suppono ho lias loH hii collar button again." ' NO. 37. Skagit Valley. A Skagit farmer called at our office yesterday and left somo information of interest about tho doings of the people in that section. It has been, ft good sea son, take it nltogothor ; farmors, loggers, townfolk and Rteamboat men having done well pecuniarily. Tho country has developed as never before, and though butlittlo has been heard from,' It outside it has mado a long stride,, for ward. Hay turned out especially fine this yoar, tho average yiold lielng about three tons to tho aero and the product of superior quality. A roady salo awaits, the whole crop at $16 a ton on the river bank. Considerable has already been sold and brought to Seattle On steamers and barges. Potatoes also did well this year, and, on account of the dry weather, aro above the average -in, quality. Four hundred bushels to the acre is n common yield). As with hoy, tho prico for potatoes is up thisyear.and tho demand is greater than tho supply. Oats did poorly on tho tide flats, but up tho valloy averaged well. Taking good find bad yields together, it is thought sixty bushels nn acre for the whole region is not out of tho way. Oats are also vorv salenbln arid nt hiffh rates. The valloy farmers practice mixod culti vation, all irrovvintr more or loss nay. grain, vegetables, fruits, stock, poultry1! etc. Post-Intelligencer. The Ohehalem Mountain Land. The Hillsboro Independent says : Mr. Brisbine of Yamhill county, a relatiyo of Mr. Fleming of this place, brought ua A , fino specimen of millet this week. It is five feet high with strong stalks and largo and well filled heads. It is the finest millet wo havo scon in this State. It grow on tho farm of John Titmnn on ' tho Chehalem mountain. This moun tain has n strong and productive soil, and produces fino vegetables, fruit and grain. When it is cleared up it will make one of tho finest producing distriota in tho State. This season, which" has beoh so bad for fruits in all parts of tho State ex cept Southern Oregon, tho Ghohalotn mountain orchards (Aro bearing good crops. It requires muscle, energy and. porBovoronco to clear up this land and get it under cultivation, but after that is done this mountain land boats tho valley for strength of soil, pasturage in tho dry seasons, pure water and freedom from malarial diseases. Tho man affoct od with a cough in tho valloy who goes ' up thero and stays a few days, quits couging and gains strength and yigor lOver theOaseadei. The Rcattlo Post-Intolllgonoor says! "A. O. Eckilson, n civil engineer, long in tho employ of the Northern Pacific Rail road, has orgnnizod a party and will at onco proccod to tho Cascade Mountains to locato tho tunnel for tho Cascade di vision of tho Ndrtncrn Pacific Railroad. J. G. Scurry will work from tho east sldo and Mr. Eckilson from tho west. The Cascado branch is now building from both ends. A largo force Is now em ployed on this side, working from Seat tlo to Green river, by way of tho Cedar river vallov,and sovoral miles of grading has already been completed. On tho eastern side f tho mountains Mr. Ben nett, who was recently awarded the con tract for a 125-milo section, oxtending from tho Columbia river west as far as Yakima City, is pushing his work nhead as rapidly as possible" From tne Oold Fields. Thos. Humphiey has just returned from an oxtendod prospecting tour north of hore. Ho roortn that thoro Is no doubt but what valuable mines havo mines have been discovered on tho Cuur d'Alenn. Parties, hro in town, havo received letters from their frionds who havo been for somo time in tho new mines, stating that thoy are making from I 'r to 20 per day to tho man, and that they will not lxi homo until tho winter drives them outof tho mines, (sit po"riihlo that tho gool old days of '10 are returning! Boomerang. Taken. A fow years ago, not tnoro than four or five, much of tho land along the rlvor fioin l'riuevillo to its mouth, was yet va cant and open to pre-emption, but now marly all of it thut is arable at all U taken, In fact it was not then thought that men would lo crazy onough to settlo on a flat where tho sagebrush grow from threo to six feet high, and thickly set, at that. But such was the case, and thoso who havo fortunately taken tho?o tracts of land aro making what in a fow years will bevaltttiblo farms. Prinovillo rvtwi.