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this meeting was considered by him only an incident 

 in his campaign, and on the day set for its opening 

 he fired the first gun. 



Among a number of roadhouses that are to be 

 reached on the various drives from the city (-all of 

 which have been a serious menace to the morals of 

 the city for years, not only in encouraging drunk- 

 enness but as links in the white-slave chain) was 

 the Milwaukee Inn. Many attempts have been 

 made to close this place, or at least to mitigate its 

 evils; but as it is beyond the corporate limits of the 

 city, and just across the county line, it is out of the 

 jurisdiction of both the city and county officials: and 

 as Portland and Multnomah Co. were the chief suf- 

 ferers, the officers of the county in which the house 

 was located, after the manner of some officials, pre- 

 served themselves in peace and official blindness. 



At ten o'clock on the morning of the day which 

 our young Governor had announced as the opening 

 of the war, he appeared at the Milwaukee Inn, with 

 a company of about fifty carefully picked men of 

 the Oregon militia; and after reading a military 

 proclamation to the proprietor, reciting in clearcut 

 language tlie unlawful character of the place, warn- 

 ing all persons against frequenting it, he took 

 charge of the establishment. There was placed at 



clear that he was guilty of any thing. The sheriff 



was on hand, but he declared himself helpless. 



Without question it was the work of liquors, ship- 

 ped in to di-y territory. 



the gates a guard sufficiently large to enforce the 

 martial order which was affixed to the door. Gov- 

 ernor West states it is hi^ fixed purpose to proceed 

 against other roadhouses and liquor concerns, say- 

 ing "I do not care who is responsible for condi- 

 tions ; they have got to obey the law. It makes no 

 difference whether it hits the big breweries or the 

 lessees ; they have got to be good, or they will see 

 their finish before I get through with them." 



Being questioned recently as to his right to 

 invoke martial law, he replied that no one doubted 

 his right to call out the militia to protect property 

 against lawlessness, and he considered the children 

 of the State as valuable assets as houses and stocks, 

 and he proposed to test his right to give them the 

 protection derelict officers had failed to give. What 

 the next move will be one can not tell ; but our gov- 

 ernor is aroused ; he is made of stern stuff ; he will 

 have the support of good men and women, and, so 

 far as we can decide, he has the law on his side. It 

 is needless to say we will keep The Union Signal in- 

 formed as to the progress of this war. 



May the Lord be i:)raised that we have at 

 least one governor who is not a coivard, 

 and afraid of the liquor men. If we could 

 liave this man or such a man for President 

 of the United States I should begin to 

 tliink the millennium was at hand. 



^®m\\m R3®{t(i 



FERMENTED MILK; ALSO SOMETHING IN RE- 

 GARD TO MILK AS A HEALTHFUL FOOD. 



A good friend of 'Gleanings has placed 

 in my hands a jDamphlet of 30 pages, from 

 the Department of Agriculture, entitled 

 "Fermented Milk." It discusses buttermilk, 

 lactose, yoghurt, kumiss, kefir, etc. It is 

 well known that the people of Russia, Tur- 

 key, and other northern European coun- 

 tries, have for ages lived largely on fer- 

 mented milk. Many of those who live to 

 be a hundred years old or more have been 

 in the habit of subsisting largely on various 

 preiDarations in the line of fermented milk. 



There are many valuable hints and sug- 

 gestions in this bulletin ; and I am glad to 

 know that public attention here in our 

 country is' turned toward having butter- 

 milk and various other productions from 

 milk take the place of beer and other in- 

 toxicating liquors. God speed the day when 

 good nourishing health-giving milk shall 

 take the place of intoxicants. 



This pamjihlet calls attention to the fact 

 that it is not every one who can use milk 

 largely ; and many people at times find it 

 better to cut off milk for a time. That has 

 been my case for years. After drinking 

 milk freely at meals for a month or two I 

 often find it does not agree with me; but 

 after a spell I can take it again all right. 

 I believe there is a general agreement, too, 

 that buttermilk or fermented milk in some 

 form is more wholesome, as a rule, at least 

 with many people, than rich fresh milk. I 

 wish to emphasize one thing that is very 



clear and plain to me; and I think the same 

 will be true with most people. Neither 

 nulk, ice cream, nor any thing else, should 

 be taken between meals. Even a little fruit 

 in hot weather, while all right during meal 

 time, makes disturbance if taken between 

 meals. When you feel a hankering for 

 fruit, especially during these hot summer 

 days, drink a good lot of soft pure water 

 and you will soon forget the craving for 

 fruit; it is very much better for me to eat 

 all my fruit at the time of my ''fruit sup- 

 per," about five in the afternoon. At this 

 time I eat all the fruit I care for, of vari- 

 ous kinds, and it causes no disturbance 

 wliatever. Nature seems to have caught on 

 to the program, and plans regularly for it 

 day after dsij. Of course, no milk is used 

 with my fruit. I take the milk in the 

 morning and at noon. 



After the above was in type we received 

 the following from the friend who sent us 

 the pamphlet mentioned: 



It seems to me that in your list of simple foods 

 which you recommend there is one or perhaps two 

 that might very appropriately be added. One of 

 these is the old-fashioned "clabber" of our grand- 

 parents. This, when well made from pure unskim- 

 med milk, and thoroughly cooled, makes as refresh- 

 ing and wholesome a dish as one bent on simple 

 living could well ask for. To be sure, individual 

 tastes differ, and what may be acceptable to one 

 may not meet the requirements of another. While 

 there is little doubt that clabber rightly made is a 

 very good thing for those who relish it, it would be 

 hard to conceive of any thing much more danger- 

 ous than the product one would get by attempting to 

 make it with contaminated milk. It is, therefore, 

 very necessary to know at the start that the milk is 

 pure. It should also be borne in mind that acid 

 fruits, apples, cherries, etc., are things to be omit- 

 ted at the time curdled milk is eaten. 



