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GLEANIX(;s IN HEE CULTURE. 



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h'ss it is oiMiiRi's. priipt's, lemonade, or soinc- 

 thinji (if thiit sort." 



"OliI hut tlicsc are the verv Ihiii^rs you inust 

 >i(»f eat. ril ^fei you out of t liis snarl ; and now , 

 mind yon, you ai'e to iia\ <■ only niill<, meal hidth, 

 p\nH' w ater " stfaifilit." no lemons or susar. nof 

 any tiiinp of tiiat sort." 



'• Itut. <ioi'toi". how al)out the ' cravings of na- 

 ture heiiiii an infallihle jiuide.' etc'.'.*" 



•• TIh^ i-ravinsis of nature may be all right, 

 and, aitain, they may be all irrong. Rea.son 

 and experieiu-e must guide and direct even na- 

 ture's ealls." 



lie prescribed for me, and thought I wonld be 

 ready to go on in a day or so; hut one day, l)ofore 

 1 had got free from the fever, a friend drove up 

 witii a liuggy, and wraps enough to give even a 

 sick person an aii'ing safely, and I cor.sented to 

 go over to Mt. Taltor to see a iield of Everbear- 

 ing strawlierries. Tlie day was pheasant aild 

 warm, and I thought tlie air wonld do me good. 

 Dear reader, don't ever try to take a buggy-ride 

 \<hile you havi' a fever. Itdoesn't work well. 

 In two or thiee days we called the doctor again, 

 for I was having cliills and fever evei-y day. He 

 pronounced it nervous malarial f(!V(M', the same 

 as I had last August. 



•' Now look h(>re. doctor, has this fever got to 

 have a run of three or more weeks? and liad I 

 not lietter send at once to Ohio for my wih>'.*" 



"Oil, dearl no— at least not just yet. I'll tix 

 that fever, at least I tliink I will.'' 



" But, doctor, this cough 1 have every night 

 will kill me if it isn't stopped." 



He left a pri'scription for the fever and anoth- 

 er for the cough, and said he didn't think I 

 would need to liave him called again; but if I 

 did not get right along, to send him word. 



Now. I was inclined to get exasperated. He 

 wasn't In the hous<^ more than twenty minute.s, 

 and yet seemed so sure. He said my lungs were 

 all right, that I wouldn't ha\e another run of 

 the fever, and that he could stop the cough. He 

 charged 82.50 for (»ach visit, and I was very 

 much inclined to lose faith in him, and doctors 

 and humanity in general. But everybody said 

 that Dr. Gels'ce was all right, and so I submit- 

 ted. The fever next day was later and milder; 

 and the day after still more so; and the cough 

 began to abate, so I became more reconciled to 

 my milk-and-water diet, and in a week I was 

 ready to travel again; but I felt very much as I 

 did after my fever of last fall. The moral of 

 this is. that, without a physician's advice. I 

 should have done just the wrong things. An- 

 other moral is. that there is progress in medicine 

 as well as in otlu'i' things. H the intelligent, 

 educated young doctor of the present can tell 

 you in twenty minutes just what you n(>ed to do 

 to get well, it is cheaper to pay ^2.M for it than to 

 have a doctor call in every day for a week, even 

 if you pay him only S].()o for each visit. I am 

 pleased, also, to note the perfect agreement Ix^- 

 tween the skilled physicians of Ohio and one 

 from so far ofT as Portland. Oregon. 



Now, d<'ar reader. I am ready to go on with 

 my story. 



Portland. Oregon, is a progressive city of 

 about <X).(XK) ijeople. They don't have any cel- 

 lars under th(^ir houses, because stuff so seldom 

 freezes in their ordinary rooms, and because so 

 much rain would till their cellars. Neither do 

 they have cisterns. The water out of the river, 

 sent all over the town by the waterworks, is so 

 very soft they thju't bother to makt; cisterns. 

 They don't have any alley oi' back slr<!ets. Ev- 

 ery street is a front str(,'et. Tin; consequence is. 

 all rubbish is pitched out in front. As every 

 one burns wood, and as the wood is all pine or 

 cedar, which isquiti- bulky, the wood business 

 is quite an industry. Tiie woofl. in four-foot 

 lengths, is dumped in front of each dwelling. 



Then the wood-sawing nuichine comes along. 

 It is a two-horse engine aad lioiler, mounted on 

 something like a dray, drau u i)y one large horse. 

 .\ huge l)u//.-saw stands at the rear end of Ihi' 

 dray, and two men will saw up a cord of foui- 

 fool wood in ten or lifteen minutes. As they gca 

 ."lO els. i)ei' cord, fuel to run the engine thrown 

 in, they do very well. The wood is then got in- 

 to the woodhouse and split as needed. As it 

 " always rains " in Portland, it is one of tlie line 

 arts to get the wood dry. 



1 have never seen in any city such beautiful 

 lawns, and .so many of them, as J .saw in 

 Portland. Tiie abundant rains, and no frost to 

 make the lawns ever look brown, (explains it. 

 I saw hardy roses in full bloom in the ojien air. 

 in the mitltlle of I)eceml)er. Peojile wcic nuik- 

 ing garden and planting pi^as at I he same date. 

 The peas come up and grow more or less all 

 winter; and when spring comes, they push up 

 and make iiods very (piickly. Cabbage-plants 

 are also s(>t out in th(! fall, and any time during 

 the winter when most con V(mi lent. 



I had a very pleasant visit from Mr. I). 

 Ivaulfman, of Needy. Oregon. He told rae 

 of having his l)ees gather hoiu-y from the 

 willow in February, during om? .season, so they 

 stored in the sections as high as 30 lbs. per col- 

 ony. The princii)al honey-|)lant among the 

 nuiuntains is an evergrc-en shrub called "fal- 

 lal." Friend Kauttman very kindly presented 

 m«^ and the friends with whom I was staying, a 

 nice lot of beautiful honey from that source. 

 oThere are a good many Chinese in Portland, 

 and Tiiany of them, I am told, are men of 

 wealth. For the first time in my life I saw here 

 a Chinese woman on the streets. She was rich- 

 ly dressed, much as the men dress, only she wore 

 nothing on the head. I am told they are al- 

 ways bareheaded when on the streets, no mat- 

 ter what the weather is. .Judging from a sin- 

 gle specimen, I should call Chinese women very 

 graceful and pretty. 



As I moved out of Portland (Dec. 21) on the 

 way to Seattle, Washington, I was much stirred 

 by the sight of the steamboats on the river. It 

 reminded me vividly of a similai' sight when I 

 was attending school, aliuost 40 years ago, on 

 the banks of the Ohio River. Oh what beauti- 

 ful green fields, right here in winter time! Yes. 

 and gardens too, and orchards, where the apples 

 are not yet i)icked. 



Very likely almost everybody knows that 

 there are feiiy boats large enough to carry a 

 whole train of cars; but I shall have to confess 

 1 had no thought of such a thing until our train 

 actually ran on such a ferry to cross the Colum- 

 bia River. Thei'e were three tracks on the 

 ferryboat, and the train was divided into three 

 sections. The boat was so large that the weight 

 of the locomotive and train hardly sank it per- 

 ceptibly. As we left the ferry I saw men pull- 

 ing sturgeons out of a fishing-boat, many of the 

 lisli being as large as the men who raised them 

 with pulley and tackle. 



The Columbia River salmon is a inost delicious 

 lish. as 1 happen t,o Ifnow. for tln^ doctoi' told me. 

 when I needed some solid food besides my milk- 

 and-hrotli diet, to eat fresh tish. Se;ittle is an- 

 other new and pretty city of about ,50.000 inhab- 

 itants. 



A great deal of fault is found with railroad 

 companii^s, express and telegraph companies, 

 etc. 1 want to say a. word of luaise for the lat- 

 ter. On Monday, Dec. 21, my good wife felt as 

 if she could stand itno longer to think I w-assick 

 with my old fever, and she not near me, so 

 Ernest .sent nn; the following telegram: "Moth- 

 er wants to go, if you are willing. Wire an- 

 swer." 



I do not know what time Monday this was 

 sent, but it went to Portland; and. tinding 1 



