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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
INSANITY AND mArEnS4L LOVE.

1t has oflen been said, The hearts
memory outlasts the mind's.'' . There
is fine medical Judgment in taking
advantage of this general fact, and
silently wooing back the reason of an
insane mother, by tempting her nat
ural affection. The following touch
ing case is reported in the Staunton
(Va. indicator
Some months ago lady was com.
mitted 10 the Western Lunatic Asy-
lum as patient, one phase of her in
sanity being almost complete silence.
She appeared TO know or notice no
one. A few days ago her daughter,
a little prattler not yet two yeart old,
which she had not seen since she was
bereft of her reason, was brought to
see her. The mother had greatly
altt redin appearance, her hail
being cut off and the change in her
mental health had heen reflected in
i.tr features, but the child sprang to
her at once, and clasping her around
the knees, buried her face in her
dress, crying:
"Irs my m9mma-m my own, own
mamma ~
The mother hardly noticed the
child, but the little one climbed into
her lap, and commenced stroking her
hair with its little hands, all the time
grooming, "Hly own mamma ~
In little while the mother began
to notice it, and shortly the maternal
feeling fully re-asserted itself in close
clasps of recognition and affection.
Since the visit the patient has UNDER
gone marked improvement.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
TEE rESszaEss sE8x.

Blessed is the man who IS penniless
for he Is never strickea-for d dollar.
The dead-head anncyeth him not
neither is he pursued by the book
agent,
He is not grslsped By the lightning
rod sellers. The lunch fiend tarnetb
away from him. The trinket vendei
passeth him by He IS not asked to
invest in church lotteries.
He hath no friends to treat J" he Is
poor and hath no enemies.
When he riseth IN the morning his
stomach is not rebelIious from over
feeding; neither does he ehink his silver
and say: How shall I get rid Of these
dimes"
When he eateth he IS not vexed with
multitude Of dishes.
His lands will never take INTO them
selve wings, neither viii the fire de-
your his water-lotz
He is not perplexed about taxes.
neither careth he for Tie rise IN Lana
ber
He toileth not for gold nor orate. b like
Jones en- silver
He hath no ties for money, therefore
careth not to deinonetizs: nevertheless
a dime VIII he not refuse, nor turn
away from five-ccnser.
Yea, gllerkin viii he relish, and
storm the outworks of a stselclad bis
cult.
He loseth nons 6ut himself; he is
selfish; yea, fond of fish, CLANS in
chowder, oysters raw, and lobesters in
vinegar viii he not despise.
He msketh his lair in bar-roon
he squatteth on keg while it Is day,
and sleepeth IN a barrel at night.
Where the scent of whisky Is, there
he is found; he snuffeth the lunch with
a frenzy. and erieth, ha, hal at the
chink Of glass. He liveth like a ring
tailed inoke, and dieth ike 3 spotted
ijehesaphat
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

DUTCH CURE ron DRUNKENEss. -
The following cure for drunkenness is
practieed in Holland The patient
is shut up in room, and debarred all
communication, except with his ply
sician. AS often as he pleases, spirits
brandy, whisky, gin, etc., are
given him, but mixed with two.thirds
water all other drinks, such as beer,
coffee, wine, etc., are mixed with
one-third brandy. The various
viands, too, that are given him
bread, meats, ETC., are all prepared
with brandy; consequently the pa
tient is in a state of continued intoxi-
cation. This lasts abb ut FIVE days !;
at the end of that time, he asks with
entreaty for some nourishment, with
out his request being complied with,
and not until his organs absolutely
abhor alcohol. The Pure IS complete,
and from that day firth tho very
smell # spirit ;,roD!dses the effect of
an enetic.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
rHr rswE. os slEEs.

Some of the great Generals whose
names are familiar to Us have made
wonderful power of sleeping, for !,
few moments, even on the battle,
field. The Duke of Wellington, just
before the attack on st. Sebastian, Ia
Spain, found that the preaching bat
teries would not be ready TO open the
attack for two hours.
stThe best thing that We can do,
he said, sis to sleep" and slipping
off his horse into trench, he was
asleep in an instant.
Napoleon, at the very crisis of the
important battle OF Wagram, order
ed up his reserve, which he never
did except in great emergencies. Con-
fident that the movement would be
carried out. and would insure the
victory, he ordered his bear-skin to
be spread ON the ground, and in a
moment he was in deep sleep. He
slept tor twenty minutes, and his
staff began TO be alarmed; but, wax
ing, he issued further orders, with
out asking any questions, as if he
had not slept. CoBde, the great
French General, had similar power
of sleeping for few moments before
and during great battles.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
ORIGIN OF rmE wArEn-c-an.

The water-cure, or hydropathy,
owes its origin to tho fertility of in
vention of a Silesian peasant, ViBcenz
Priessnitx. Having at the age of
thirteen sprained lis wrist, young
Priessnitz intuitively applied ii 10 a
pump; and afterward, to continue
tho relief thus obtained, he bound
upon it wet bandage. Re- wetting
this as 1t became dry, he reduced the
Inflammation, but excited rash OF tn
surface of the part. Soon after, hav-
ing crushed his thumb, he again ap-
plie.l the bandage and the pain once
more subsidized, but the rash reap-
peared. He inferred that the rash
indicated an impure blooiI; aud this
conclusion was strengthened by the
result OF experiments which he was
induced TO try upon injuries aud al
GERS in the caso of some of hi4neivb-
bors, since the rash in some instances
appeared after the treatment, and in
others did not. Thus he wls d 10
frame for himself humoral path
ology of all diseases, and a doctrine
OF the elimiEatio of InoSbific mat
tiers by ttcrisis. y According to this
view, the cure OF diseases is TO be
effected by ftyoring the activity of
those orFans through which the puri-
flcation Of the system is carried on, and
through regulated and pure dietary
and correct regimen, preventing fur
ther morbi accumulations. In hts
nineteenth year, being run over by a
cart, PriessiIz had some ribs broken
and received severe bruises; ON
learning that the physicians pro-
nounced his case hopeless, he tore off
their bandages, and recovered under
the renewed application of the UNI
schlag, and replaced the ribs by in
hating the lungs while pressing the
abdomen against window-siIl This
incident confirmed the idea, and In
timated the practice of the water
cure. ~ TAppleton's Cyeiepedia, re-
viSed adftiou
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
srrrN EFT BrsDLE OF GROAss.

II being generally known that no
colleetion would be taken up, there was
Al unusual large attendance of Lime
Klners, and when the bell rang the
audience 10 order every bench seemed
taken Brother Gardner looked the
very picture of rosy health as he shook
the kinks out Of his spine, and said:
"Gem'len, what am dat objeck on
dat sky blue stool ober dar2"
Oats de water-pan," was the an
swer.
jess 50, gem'Ien-Jess 50. If dat
pail war painted red or blew what
would it bep
tsNuffin but a pail"
Jess so agin. If we shud paint
dat pail, an feesco de handle, and sill
yer plate de hoops, an call it de Tower
oh London, it wouldn't be de tower
emmy moar dan it is now. We IL all
agreed on dat-all but de women My
ole woman, w am black as de one
spot of spades, lame in de LEFT legg, an
wild no moar bewty dan de hind end Of
butchers cart, frizzes curl ober her
LEFT ear, ties red ribbon aroun' her throat,
puts ON hustle, squeezes her corset till
she can't holler, an sails down de street
wild de ideah in her ear dat she's tur-
key oh de first water She reckons dat
nobody can gaze on her wideut shiver
OBJ admiration, an dat folks will enag-
inc dat | own all de corner lots on de
Brush-fa'm But she's noffin bat my
ole woman, arter all-nofiin but a bun
dle'o groans an heap o aches. Walk
out on dc street an what dye seei
Ebery female in de Ian rubs paint on
her cheeks an powder on her face Dey
frizz deir ha'r squeeze up deir corsets,
nip along on deir toes, an deir hull aim is
to deceive de men inter believin' dat
sey am hansum and lubly. De uglier
and de meanel-tookin' de women am,
de more she frizzes an de harder she
nips. De less money dey hev to dress
on de richer de duds are, and mear jew
elry dey wave aroun'. A man stans up
in de broad light o day, an de hull
world kin see if he's humlby an ugly an
lame an sneaky, but de weman sails
along in a cloud of gorgousaeas, an de
lameness an deception doan' come out
till after she's got you fast. Ef a pig
is pig, why shud we call him = cock
s.ovei Eff woman is woman, why
de need of all dis paint an powder an
nippin' arouni De white man doan'
'preeiate it, de nigger is sick of it an
l tell you, gem'len, dat de time am cum
in when dis country am gwin@ TO sigh
mighty hard for return u lie days
when clean calico dress al, IA Letlthy
woman went aroun IN c0m.'ans. -
Detrit Free Press.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
now TO LOSE THE Appetite FoR DRINK.

At festival at reformatory in
stitution recently, gentleman said
of the cure of the use of intoxicating
drinks: 81 overcame the appetite
by recipe given me by old DR.. Hat
field, one of those good old physicians
who do not have percentage with a
neighboring druggist. When 1 called
on him, he said: Now that you
have the moral courage I'll tell you
the tonic which l have used with
effect among my friends for twenty
years. expected of course some
nasty medicine stuff but no; he
prescribed an orange every morning
half hour before breakfast. Take
that, and you willneither want liquor
nor medicine I have done so reg
ularIy and find that liquor has become
repulsive. The taste of the orange
is in the saliva of nay tongue, and it
would be as well to mix water and
oil as rum with my taste.n
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
FLOATING.

Men are drowned by raising theil
arms above the water, the unbuuyed
weight Of which depresses the head.
Other animals have neither motion
or ability to act in a similar manner,
and therefore s.tiTn naturally. When
man falls into deep water, he viii
rise to the surface, and win continue
there If he does not elevate his hands.
If he moves his hands under the
water, in any way he pleases, his
head will rise so hish as to give him
free liberty to breathe; and if he will
use his legs, as in the act of walking
up stairs, his shoulders will rise
above the water, so that ne may use
less exertion with his hands. or apply
them in other purposes. These plain
directors are recommended to the
recollection of those who have not
learned to swim in their youth, as
they may be found highly advantage
Gus in many cases. s.-Sapitariaa
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

A SUGGESTION WORTH FOLLOW
ING.-Said a reformed ineberiate :
'sBehind a simple glass of ale that
sparkles and foams with such a delici-
Gus look, 1 see innumerable other
glasses, not so delicious, but still in
viting, containing rum, giR, whisky,
benzine and all the i1numerable
devilish concoctiOns that lead to pow
erty and hopeless misery. Often
have / stumbled over the first glass
with temperate desire, and thereby
kindled a fire that refused to be
quenched until all behind it had
been consumed, and utter exhaustion
compelled cessation. Bitter expert
ence has given me wisdom, and
now can see the old serpent coiled
beneath the foaming ale, and have
sense enough to avoid its stings by
turning my back upon the tempter. .
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
YANKEE NOTIONS.

The first tin peddIer started On his
travels in Massachusetts IN l740- Tie
first Franklin stove was put up in T55.
In I760 shirt collars came INTO use, and
the one-horse chaise was introduced.
In 1T70 wooden clocks began to tick,
and 1850 saw the first umbrella "a
1906 PbiladelPhia attempted = baE:l
hard coal and failed In 1867 the FIRST
steamboat went up the Hudson. n
1877 stoves were had in Heeting-hosses-
In 1922 Boston was lighted with gar,
and steel pens were invented IN lsz0
India rubber shoes we're for sale. Ia
1882 railroads were built. Ia 1888
.sLoeo FocoH matches were had. and
the Democratic party was called BY that
name. In 1883 envelopes for letters.
In 1910 sun pictures taken and burning
auid used. In 1874 the telegraph. n
IS47 the sewing machine, which las II
SO great a measure kglteHed tie labor
of sewing women. In 1850 Hsosac
Tunnel was commenced; ard IA 1888
the Atlantic telegraph was laid.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
eREAr erEsTIoN sErnaKD-

.sDear Mr.. Hassksye, should one
take ones soup from the side or end Of
the spoon 3-EDw.p Oh, well, If you
have got SO stuck up and proud that
you have to eat with a spoon, We don't
suppose it makes any difference, but we
s.,npose you have enough reverence for
s.le good old days and the grand old
simplicity Of the better times, and take
your soup as your father did; blow it
until it Is cold, then lift the plate with
both hands, and empty it BY steady
and long continued suction, making a
fiipperins sound with your lips at the
conclusion of the services to indicate to
the waiter that yon are ready for the
next course. It's these new tangled
ideas that are driving the o.1 simplicity
and the old purity out Of style and ex-
istence, and crowtling society to the
edge of the awful precipice thas leans
and totters in crumbling wea s9e.ss over
the fathornless abyss Of ea44aotfaa and
destruction
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
HAWK AMONG HENS.

Gilbert White tells most dramatic
story of a neighbOr who had lost
most of his chickens by a sparrow
hawk that came down between IA
faggot pile and the end Of his house,
to the place where his coops stood.
The owner, vexed to see his flock
diminishing, hung net between the
pile and the house, into which the
bird dashed and was entanglod. The
gentleman's resentment suggested a
fit retaliation ; he therefore clipped
the hawks wings, cut off his talops,
and, fixing a cork on his bill, threw
him down among the brood-hens.
"Imagination," says Mr.. White,
tscannot paint the scene that ensued /;
the expressions that fear, rage and
revenge inspired were new, or at
least such as had been unnoticed be-
fore the exasperated matrous up
braided, they execrated, they insult
cd, they triumphed. In n word,
they never desistel from buffeting
their adversary till they had tori
him in a hundred pieces. .-Scri6ne'
for February
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

A VIcKsBURa wife informed her
husband the other morning that
she was working herself into the
grave for the want of a girl, and as
he went out, she leaned back and fell
to weeping. The children were maxi
ing noise in the hall as he passed
out, and he called out: "You want
to stop this racket! Your mother
won't live week, and when you get
q step mother here next spring, she
won't put up with any such fooling 70
When he came home to dinner, his
wife met him with smile, and said
''Isn't ours a cosy home, Richard,
with only our little family to leok
after ?''
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
Humans r.,n,,rr. NJ

TwEED's FAITHFUL WIFE.-They
were married when the man was
a ehairnaker, and they might have
had happy career had the former
remsined honest. They lived in s
plain manner, mingled with meehan.
les society and we're the parents oil
two boys and two girls. good-looking
and healthy children. The meretri-
cious era has come and gone like a
dream. The airis are married.
Each had a diamond wedding, and
each has sunk into ebscnrity and pow
erty. The two sons once held fine
appointments in the service of the
ring, but they are now only lounging
around the city hall. The ill-gotter
wealth is nearly all gone. a million
and half has passed into the hands
of the lawyers.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

A SOUTHERN paper says that some
months since q young lady, twenty
five years of age, went into Botetourt
county, Va, from an adjoining county,
and took charge of school. The
lady with whom she boarded soon
thought she could see an attachment
spring up between the school-narm
and her son of eighteen; but when
she approached the lady on the sub
iect, she was told that her son was
altogether TOO young to be attractive
in her eyes. So she dismissed all
suspicious at once. Friday evening
the school closed, and on Saturday
the teacher left for home. Sunday
morning, after the rest of the family
had left for church, this young man
followed on, and now they are one
flesh. It seems that when packing
her trunk TO leave, she took care to
put in nearly all of his clothes, and
had also made arrangements to have
some one meet him with conveyance
a few miles from home.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

ToADsTooLs.-It is important to
know the difference betweent toad
stools and mushrooms but it is not
worth while trying to learn this diff
ference unless you belong to Every
long-lived family, and don't object to
being poisoned at tho end, It takes
years to find out, and auth rites diff
fer. The only sure test is to cat one.
If you live 1t Is a mushroom II you
die, it's a toadstool.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
II. MOaAt Rell.Puneh.

Punch, broshers, punch with care,
Punch IN the presence Of the bs--keer=irs !:
A one-eent clip for a lager baire,
Atwo-eent nip for a whisky Square,
A quarter I dollar for regular tsi-s.
Punch, brothers, punch :ith care.
Punch IN the presence Of the custosnai-e
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
"TnE ACER.s
sr Fozr

Once upon an evening bleary,
While sat mo, dreamy, weary,
In the sunshine, thinking DER
Things that passed in days Of yors;
While nodded, nearly sleeping,
suddenly there came creeping
Up my back like water seeplng,
Seeping upward from the floor.
''rTis : cooling breeze, mutsered,
aFrom the region meath the floor
Only this, and nothing more"
All, distinctly remember,
II vas In that sweet September
When the earth. and every member
OF creation that it bore,
Had for weeks aud weeks been soaking
In the meanest, most provoking
FogEy rains that, without joking.
We had ever seen before,
So knew It mutt be very
Cold and damp beneath the floor
Very cold beneath the floor
50 sat me, nearly mapping,
In the sunshine, stretching, gaping.
And q feeling quite delighted
With the breeze from meath the aoor;
Tin l found me growing colder,
And the stretching waxing bolder,
And myself feeling older
Older than I'd felt before;
Feeling that my joints were stifs-
Than they were in days Of yore-
Sitter than they'd been before
All along my back the creeping
Soon gave place to rushing, ieaping.
As If countless frozen demons
Had concluded 70 explore
All the euticle-the varmints-
'T~-ixt me and my neither garments.
Up into my hair. and downward
Through my boots into the floor;
Then felt myself shaking,
Gently shaking more snd more
Every moment more and more.
Twas the Ager, and it shook mo
Into heavy clothes, and took me
Shaking to the kisehen-eyery
Place where there was warmth in store;
Shaking till the china" ratified,
Shaking till my molars ratified,
Shaking, and with al my warming.
Feeling colder than before,
Shaking till It had exhausted
All its powers to shake me more
Til it could not shake me more
Then it rested til the morrow
When it came with al the horror
That it had the face to borrow,
Shaking, shaking as before.
And from that day in September
Day which shall long remember
It has made diurnal visits,
Shaking, shaking, oh, so sore.
Shaking oH my booss. and shaking
Ne 70 bed, if nothing more
Fully this, If nothing more
And to-day the swallows fitting
Round my cottage see me sitting
Moody, with the sunshine
Just inside my cottage door,
Waiting for the Ager, seeming
Like man forever dreaming,
And the sunlight on me streaming
Sheds no shadow on the aoo-;
For am too thin and sallow
To make shadows on the aoor-
Nary shadow sny more
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

The frontier people are b,sgins4ing to
find out what real comfort tie recently
erected telegraph IS. Dispatches Ike
the following are constantly passing
over the wires: From father to his
son DEAR SoN-Don't squander
money baying the cid woman them
striped stockings and that new hat she
wanted. Go to Kern's and get whisky
for it. Reply DEAR FATHER
grand jury has indicted me for playin
kear,ls, and I'm IN Jail. Send more
funds. I get enough to eat, but / amt
used to keepin' sich company.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

Some men were talking about tAa
nerve of William Tell inshootinganaplle
off his sons head. To vex an old Ia
dy who was listening, one Of the men
said: THAT was Dir. Tell; but what
did his wife amount to--why doescn't
history mention herl s'Ill bet hun
dred dollarsp called the oil lady, il.
an excited voice. ~In bet a hundred
dollars that she sat up half the night
before patching that boys trowsers 81
he'd look decent to 90 outp
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
From our regular correspondent
wAsnENGToN LETrER.

some Washington NOtorictics Who arc net
In Congress Professional women, Mrs.
Lawyer Lockwood and DIR. Mary walker
A persistent parade Of selni.snale attire
How DIR. Walker cnts pair Of pantnIoons,
and where Lawyer Lockwood sarcas;lcaIIy
wears her gold thimblc.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

The Albany Journal publishes an
interview between Mr.. Hendricks and
the devil. This is, it must be confessed,
the first hint that Mr.. Hendricks has
gone over to the Republican party.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

GRAT1TUDE is ike the good faith
of traders-it maintains commerce
and we often pay, MT because it is
just to discharge our debts, but that
we may more readily find people to
treat US.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03
sS66,247,9s9

A DERTorTER who didn't exactly
know how to get letter registered,
sent some money away the other day,
and he wrote on the envelope: Greg
istered with two-dollar bill inside" !"
Fearing that this might not be strong
enough, one of his friends wrote !:
.I'll swear that saw Jim put Two
dollars in this" The man who fools
with that letter will get into trouble.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

A Kentucky magistrate closed dis
pute between two lawyers and the
court in the following terms If The
Court is right, and she thinks she air,
why, then, yeu are wrong. and she
knows you IS Shut up.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

"MIss, will you take my armf'' Eyes,
sir; and you, too" "Can't spare but
the arm, miss" replied the bachelor.
Then she said: "I can't take it, as my
motto is, go whole hog or nothing"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

THE young widow who was buried in
grief is now alive and doing we'll. 1t
is only another instance Of premature
interment.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-05-03

A MAINE girl lett her clothing in an
open boat and hid herself, and when her
parents We're crying and saying if they
only had her back they would obey her
slightest wish, she appeared and said
she wanted to wary Jake.