Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-09-04
CLANS.

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The following description of a CLAM
Ebake" is taken from the Ore9on Demo-
crat ofsa recent date. II will be re-
imembera that its editor Gen. Mart
BrowD) participated in the recent Ma
sonic celebration at this. place. The
kgnofancs of our Webfoot friends on
some subjects is painfully manifest.
Friend Brown don't appear to have the
most remote idea that clans are veg
etable and grow on trees. Hear him:
Z As many of our readers, like ourself until
this event, never saw a clam-bake, we shall
| here give them some idea of one. The first
thing is to get the clans, which is done by
making a contract with the Indians to go
and drive up the clans from their native
heaths, the said Indians being promised one
half the wool and half the increase when
4 they bring the CLAIMS 10 the contractor. Then
everybody who wants baked clans assemblies
at the clam corral and help lasso the poor
creatures and drag them, bound head and
foot to great burning pile upon which they
| throw them and let them bake. The feathers
are not picked off the CLANS, but are allowed
to remain to preserve the flesh from being
too suddenly scorched while the baking pro-
cess goes on. They are shaken well while
baking and are carved with meat cleaver as
soon as taken from their funeral pile. The
bones are taken out and the meat soaked in
coal oil and gin, when It dissolyes into liq
uid and is poured into great big hole i'm the
ground, dug in the shape of pool or duck
pond, and everybody who wants baked CLAIMS
! gets down on his hands and kneesand drinks
out of this pool with the mouth. It is lap
| ping good luck" and will fatten people up
| faster than any other grease we know of. No
well regulated family can afford to be without
a clam-balle at least during the dog days.
baking clear to every thinking, discerning
mind, and hope we have conferred a lasting
benefit on heretofore benighted world. We
are. sure our Olympia friends will applaud
the accuracy of our description, while every
| Briton on Vancouver Island will Join in a
grand chorus of Gear! carr
The editor OF the Oregon Farmer,
Mr.. S.-A. Clarke, goes into heroics over
our delicious bivalves. Who will not
say that they are worthy of the highest
inspiration of the Muse?
Far in the East, where the Orient skies
Search wide Himalayas for valleys most
dear
Lies s6s gem gem, # the East-tho fair vale of
There rare flowers bloom and spice winds are
| Iifeis half langour and love fills the rest,
There waters from Deep cooling fountains
t0d v are flowing; }-p. La@] 40
III IS songs rom Moore sings Of the far-off
GATEWAY, = .t'@F ,ft -t
Where nature in bloom and in perfume
wherethe happiest hours fill the long looked
That brings to the Valley its Feast of the
iun Roses. a.
But we of the West have our valley of waters
"eN'' Eternal 81 ~ 'Sn0i's '"'"iins 'o'o"'0
And gathered here and there the sons and the
4 .t.y daughters ;.f.~.s .. s4.i..s +
! BY one mystic tie held in friendship super
Here manhood supreme to the far West dis
A power that rude Nature to mind can sub
Here womanhood blossoms more fair than
That grow where the Orient lends them it's
Let bloom and perfume fill the wales Of tho
1908 East, .'7' - .+'
But ours are the boons that in life count the
Perfume and roses would make poor feast
To those who have tasted the CLAIMS of the
| "a West $50 .4.itE ali ~
The wales d the East may pour fountains of
But their men and their maidcns are poor
The CLAIMS Of the West, are far greater
lEsJ treasure n 81 iff*a y 800 - ~ .
Than, the flowers that cluster in Orient
7 bowers. -. ;-,...--- =, =. :
From The shore Of the occident westward we
| q. >. look - ~ VI 1t teH1 %H4iAs7 gfa }i't>
Ger the ocean, where SAUNDERS the far East
ern shore,
And the songs that Tom Moore has put into
| = his book Al 4tr.,.s-f adj T.. sft.9tE vH
Come. back TO the mind as in days gone
't before NH5ES -ssA5Es h''5-t -
But, I'VE pity the mem and the maids of
! Cashmere . .ts,,ft.a , s,.{
When we think they have never a clam
sofog within reach, 9Sitl1siC : q! 9Gin'atl'hJ8
For high in, the mountains they lack the
no als,1ntiantlyf fantsa aaa taas Puget isoShd
-a,nr ReaehpasmTof CO Oh alta@ s-i9aiv