Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-05-29

on the old iron lamp in which we hat
to burn hogs lard This lamp wa.
made with a short spout for the wicl
to lie in, and one end of the wick cam,
out in this spout to burn The handl,
at the other end of the lamp was 81
arranged that it came up over tn,
center of the lamp. so as to hold tn,
lamp level. With small chain thi.
lamp could be hung up. A cottor
cloth. twisted, served as wick
| Father put up Il milk house and il
March commenced to make butter. an,
i'll April. to make cheese.
Brother Thomas and took III
claims adjoining, and We milked the
cows morning and evening for oul
board. We built log house of one
room on our claim. We made ii a five
cornered house. the fifth corner being
| for the fireplace. In May We dug two
troughs and started a LANYARD. on a
small scale. We used the troughs for
watts. and alder and hemlock bark for
tanning purposes. We dried the bark
and pounded il fine We burned oyster
and clam shells and used the lime to
take the hair off the skins We made
sole leather out of beef hides and for
the upper leather, We used deer and
cougar hides.
| BY the first of November. We had
our leather ready to make shoes. We
brought kit of shoemakers' tools with
us, and father and | made the shoes.
| made the ladies shoes. We brought
with us number of lasts of different
sizes.
, For sewing We put a number of
strands OF shoe thread together-the
| length We wanted-and we twisted
and waxed this string, tapered the
ends and put hog bristle on each
end for needles. 1t was a nice piece
of work to put the bristles on so they
would stay. This we could do to per-
| iVNtiOh IL thSs VII llltN COulu
not be put on again.
We made our shoe-pegs of maple
| and dOgwOod, well seasoned. sawed the
length and size we wanted the pegs to
| be. We split off slabs the thickness to
| make square pegs, and shaved the
slaps to make the pegs sharp at one
end. We used stick with a notch
against which We held the slabs and
sharpened first one side and then the
other. A strip of leather with a slit
in II was fastened to the shoe board.
We took two or three of the sharpened
slabs and held them with the left hand
against the leather which served as a
lever for the knife. and. with the point
OF the knife held to place by running
it in the slit in the leather, We split
off the pegs.
The crop we put in on Cowlitz
Prairie turned out well, and We hauled
it over early in the fall, or enough of
it to plant to keep us until We grew
our first crop on Chambers Prairie
The winters of 1856 and 1S46-7 were
very mild and pleasant. We made
rails to fence in land to protect our
crops. We raised plenty Of wheat,
potatoes. peas, and other vegetables
We had wheat coffee and pea coffee
and We could always change from one
to the other. Boiled wheat and milk
made an extra dish for supper.
Father and mother were highly
pleased with this country and they
thought that there was no place like
it, fat beef of the range in February
and plenty of oysters and CLANS foI
the digging One beef would give us
sixty pounds of tallow, and in those
days tallow was an important item.
That same spring of 1S4S, We built
the log barn which stood over half g
century and finally had to be burned
on account of it's being unsafe for the
stock. 1t was built similarly to those
already described. except that thi.
barn had five apartments. two for hay
and grain, one for stalls, one for tn,
wagons and one for threshing. 1t wa:
a long, narrow barn, and all undel
one roof. The clapboards were put OF
with wrought nails from England
The sheeting was Of logs, put on th'
right distance apart to use four-foo
boards.
Thomas and had been looking for
ward ard calculating to return t
Missouri in two years to see our girls
that we had left behind us. In 1874
mother received letter from our oil,
home. telling about what had takel
place since We left, and among tn,
news was the marriage of a certain
young lady. and this had the effect O
making me contented to remain OF
Puget Sound.
This was sensible decision. for
during the winter of 1S47, indians
broke out and massacred DR.. and Mrs
Whitman and many others at the Mis-
sion. near Walla Walla. The peopl
of Oregon raised company of volun
teers to subdue the Cayuse tribe, tn
only hOstiles. They succeeded IL
bringing the leaders to the justice
We. on Puget Sountd, did not know
about the trouble until it was all SET
tied. The Indians here were friendl.
and they were glad to have the Bos
tons-as they called the Americans
come. About this time gold was dis
covered in California, and Thomas an,
| got the fever to go. as brother Jane
was there.
THE first pipe-organ was made by Az
chimides in geo B. G..
THE first dictionery was made by Chi