The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-04-30

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THAT SPEcKLED MULE. Vim. H
r., who liyes downfby Cherry's Foun
dry, has speckled mule, and unlike
any other mule we ever saw he seems
Just & little contrary like; but we sup
pose it is because he is speckIed w,
observed VIM. trying to lead him oul
of the stable-lot into the street last
Sunday, and the mule walked hurried
Iy along after VIM. from the middle oi
the lot to the wide-open gate, going SO
cheerfully and rapidly along as to al
most tread on WINS heels and cause
him to hurry along right lively; but
Just as the leader stepped past the por-
tails Of the gate and that speckled mule
came square up with his ears even
with the gate posts, he just spread
those ears out against the insides Of
the posts, planted his forefeet little
forward, slid his hind legs at an ad-
vance incline Of forty-tive degrees, and
stopped. IT was a peculiar sort Of a
stop; more sudden than d short stop,
and perhaps not quite so violent as the
halting Of aspeeding locomotive when
colliding with an immovable boulder;
but at any rate the concussion was SO
great on WINS hater-bound hand
that he was jerketl back in the face Of
the mule with the force of q recoiling
cannon; but regaining his equilibrium
he began to pull forward on the rope,
expecting to drag that speekled mule
right out into the street. AT this i'll
slant the mule seemed to think some
body was calling himfrom behind, and
he suddenly began running backwards,
elevating his heels playfully in the
air and making sort of sculling
motion with his ears, winding his tail
at the same time with double-rotary
motion, which showed that the whole
mule machinery was in active opera
tion and wasn't healthy for anything
smaller than Northwest hurricane in
that immediate ncighborhood. VIM.
released his hand from the halter and
stood in a prayerful attitude for some
moments sadly contemplating the ter
rife propelling and oscillating move
ments of that speckled mule, and as lie
observed that with every downward
movement he receded little further
backward, smile Of fiendish triumph
gleamed athwart WINS countenancei
and scudding swiftly around the fence,
rushed to the back of the lot, tore down
a pair of bars, and the speckled mule
continued to work its heels and twist |
its tail and row with its cars until it
went out Of the lot backwards; when,
finding itself completely sold it walk
ed quietly and deprecatingly up to it's
master, Eand kneeling on one knee,
most humbly plead with VIM. to get
on its back and take q nice ride. VIM.
did get on, and as be planted his feet
firmly in the stirrups and punched q
Mexican spur about two inches into
that mules left flank, and as they both
darted away around the corner, some
nieelittle Sundays y-schoochildren heard
sounds issuing from Wm.'s tightly
closed lips which to them seemed likei
call for blessings OF something on all /
the mule race and the son Of that speck-
led mule j father in particular.
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PINT Cur PEOPLE, onr mind Z
was the otherday busily contemplating
some little-souled, narrow-contacted
people whom we find inhabit our own
Albany as we'll as all other communi-
ties, we ran across the following from
the pen Of gifted writer, and we could
not forbear aPpropriating it for our
columns; "a pint cup may not be
ill treated for not holding quart. This
is indeed new measure for moral OBJ
legation. The man undertakes your
argument, project, or improvement ne-
cause he cannot contain it. He does
NOT report you correctly because he
cannot contain all your ideas. He is a
pint cup. Your friend betrays your
secret. 1t isyour own fault. You put
too much IN a small vessel and 1t slops
over. Your neighboy has narrow views,
feelings and politics, and they do not
enlarge. Be gentle toward him, for
small measures cannot affcrd to be
very liberal, and pint cups core to
their growth early. They are reqnired
to hold but pint"
CfvIL RIGHTs.-A couple OF young
buck niggers, evidently having heard
of the passage Of the civil rights abor-
tion, feathered onto d pair Of skates
each and turned themselves loose to
sweat and stink in the skating fia'7 in
this city last Saturday; but to the hon
or Of Mayor Froman. be it said, they
were very shortly invited to step down
and out. Such conduct may be exeus-
able in such little nigs as these but
this question is liable TO assume great
er magnitude here as it has elsewhere,
and when it does, and these sable geu-
try undertake 70 thrust themselves in !
where they are hot wanted ''somebody !
will breed a powo'fnl scab on dere !
nose.r A well-raised negro will no !
more intrude himself where be is not /
invited than any one else who has been ,