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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY THE
WOmen'S Christian Temperance rnisB.

YB who drink in moderation hear,
pray you, the adnoniiion Of one,
who, finding himself al last bound
by the chain Of intemperence, is
struggling to free himself from its
iron grasp. "The most deprayed
and wrstched of human beings Is he
who has practiced vice 30 long that
he curses it while he yet clings TO it
who pursues 1t because he feels ter
rible power driving him on toward II,
but, reaching IL, knows that 1t will
gnaw his heart and make him roll
himself I'm the dust. Thus 1t has
been, and thus II Is with me. The
deep, surging waters have gone over
me but out Of their awful black
depths could / be heard, would cry
out to all who have just set q foot in
the perilous flood. For am net
one OF those, who, II they themse'v
must die the death the most t. DO
and appalling Of all others, that would
drag or even persuade one other soul
to accompany me. But / would cry
10 others not 10 come with me. Could
the youth who has just begun ts taste
wine, and the young man his first
drink, 10 whom II Il as delicious as
the opening scenes OF a visionary
life, or the entering into some newly
discovered paradise where scenes Of
undimmed glory burst upon his Vis-
i'm, but see the end Of all that and
what comes after, BY looking into my
desoIation, and be made TO undeT-
stand what dark and dreary thing
| it IL fer a man To he made TO feel that
he Ia going over precipice with his
eyes wide open, with will that has
lost power to prevent it could lie
feel the bedy OF the death out Of
which cry hourly with feebler and
feebler outcry, 20 be delivered; could
he know how constant wall comes
up and out from my bleeding heart
and begs and pleads with great sg-
ony TO be delivered from this great
demon drink; could these truths but
20 home TO the hearts and minds OF
the young men Of the land could
they feel but for one single moment
what am compelled to live and bat
tie and endure day in and day Out,
until the days drag themselves into
weeks that seem like months, and
months that seem like years, pleas
ures and joys all gone; yet compelled
to live and endure, or rather die on;
could every young man feel these
things as I am compelled to feel and
bear them, it seems to me that it
would be enough to make them,
while they yet have the power TO do
it, dash the sparkling damnation to
the earth in all the pride of its nant-
ling temptation"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12

ope. He gave this to Ready Jim, one
Of his old time parls, and told him not
TO take off the blank envelope until az
ter he was dead. and then deliver the
letter inside to where it was addressed,
and keep his mouth shut about the
whole business Ready promised, and
the next day Bill was hung and died
game.
After he was dead Reddy took OFF
the black envelope and read the ad-
dress. II was to GEORGIA. That
made him curious, and the lettor burned
bis hands. He bad always had an idea
that there was something behind the
murder which Bill was trying TO con-
ceal, and he thought that this letter
might tell what it was. so after hold
ing il four days he gave it 10 the sher-
in, who opened it. This is what was in
it:
DEAR OLD PAID. - The games
square. You saved me, and I've saved
you. 1 amt mad OF hurt because you
didn't come back and take the murder
off my shoulders, for wanted to get
through anyhow. The cards are against
me, and there's no use Of lighting luck.
! only write this TO tell you that some
Of these id fools about here may
think queer CT the business and look
into it, 30 get AZ lar out Of the way as
you can. You'd better 90 home and
drop your way Of life. There amt no
good in il. Good bye. BILL.
That let in lot OF light. Georgia"
had killed the man and Bill shouldored
the blame. They tried To lind him,
but he was gone. lie had put out for
it when Bill was FIRST trieI. They never
heard Of him again.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12
WAR VINE HAS DoSE FoR wenES.

War Is not so sore an evil as in
Temperance, for some virtue can fiour-
ish on the battle field, and some. .hu-.
manities can find place of rest upots
the point Of the sword. But there is
no room for virtues in the cuP.sor for
humanities in the bowl.
or the the worst foes that women
bave ever had to encounter, wine
stands at the head. The appetite for
streng drink in man has spoiAk Akd the
lives Of more women, ruined more
hopes for them, brought them more
sorrow, shame aud hardship, than
any other evil that exists.
Tho country numbers tens of thous-
ands Of women, who are widows N
cause their husbands have been slain
by strong drink. There are hundreds
OF thousands of homes in which We
men live lives of torture, going
through all the ehaDges es Offering
that lie between the extremes Of fear
and despair, because whom they love
like wine better than they do the
women they have sworn to love.
The sorrows and the horrors of a
wife with drunken husband, of a
mother with drunken son, cannot
be described. The shame, the indig-
nation, the sorrow, the sense of dis
grace. the poverty, land not unfre-
quently the beggary), the fear and
fact of violence, the lingering and
life long struggle and despair oi
countless women with drunken huS-
bands, are enough to make all women
curse wine, and engage unitedly tc
oppose it every where as the worst
enemy of their sex.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12
Selected story.
SANDY BILL. /"
HONOR EVEN AMONG THIEVES - -.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROMANCE.
Lock Melsue IN califOrnian

Lock Melsne In CALIFORNIA;.
"Did know Sandy Billl Well,
should say sol Smartest and ugliest man
ever on the frontier. Knew him first
in Dead Mans Gnlch when they found
the placers there. Bill came down to
wash dirt, but he soon got tired of that
and took to cards. But cards got away
with him. He wasn't strong enough
for them. He used to say after he got
right bad that the black spots stained
his heart and the red ones his hands.
He was sullen like at times, and then
there was trouble. He'd pull gun
quicker than fash, and there would
be cold meat for the coroner in the
wink of.an eye. Bad man Bill was.
They wanted to get him out of the
gulch once, and the camp council held
meeting on it, but the undertaken got
the council drsnk and made 'em vote
Bill should stay. He was good for one
branch Of business at least.
Bill was cross-eyed and when he got
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12
WHAT STRONG BRING DOES.


This was the terribly suggestive
statement crayoned on the blackboard
which stood on the platform at the
Chicago noon-prayer meeting the
other day
sIt costs So, 900, ,0Oo, GOO a year in
money.
It makes so per cent OF our insane
It makes SO per cent OF our paupers.
1t makes so per cent of our crimi-
nails.
It causes directly "A per cent of our
murders.
It sends forth IS per cent Of our
vicious youth.
1t sends one every six mInnt6
to a drunkard's grave =
anll a.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12

A Kentucky COW raised on the farm
of Erastus Ellsworth, of East Wind
sor Hill, has a remarkable record.
April Is, 1877, she gave birth to
twins one male and one female |;
March Is, 1878, she gave birth to
tripIets, two males and one female,
making FIVE calves in eleven months
and three days; July ., 1879, she
gave birth to twins, both males; Oct.
Z, 1880, che gabe birth to triplets, two
males and one female, making ten
calves in the three years five months
and twenty-one days. The calves
have all been Of good size, healthy
and handsome, and have been raised
on the farm.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12
THE SILVER LINING.

There's never day 30 sunny
But little cloud appears;
There's never life 20 happy
But has had it, time Of tears;
Yet the sun shines out the brighter
When the stormy tempest clears.
There's never q garden growing
With roses In every plot,
There's never heart 20 hardened
But has one tender spot:
We have only to pruns the border
To find the forgot-me-not.
There's never . cup 10 pleasant
But has bitter with the sweet
There's never path 20 rugged
That bears not tho print OF feet;
And we have helper promised
For the trials we may meet.
There's never q sun that rises
But we know twill set at night;
The tints that gleam In the morning,
AtevenIng are just as bright;
And the hour that In the sweetest
Is between the dark and the light.
There's never dream that's happy
But the waking makes US sad;
There's never dream OF sorrow
But the waking makes US glad
We shall look soma day.'kiEh wonder
At the troubles we have had.
There's never q way so narrow
But the entrance IL made straight.
There's always guide to point us
TO the "little wicket gate;"
And the angels will be nearer
To soul that is desolate.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-08-12

Poison, spreading disease land death I'm
many localities. for which quinins Is no
genuiene antidote, but for the effects OF
which Hostetter's Stomach BIuers Is not
only thorough remedy, but a reliable
preventive. 10 this fact there II an over
over period of thirty years. All disor.
ders OF the liver, stomach and bowels are
also conquered by the Bitters.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
generally.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25

as fercely at his victims, and now
charged him with the blood of them all.
Troops of women, who had danced at
the deaths of those that he had sent to
the scaffold, now danced the Carmagnole
round the cart as it passed before the
house of Duplaix, where he had lived.
A woman, breaking from the crowd,
rushed to him, exclaiming, "Murlerer
of all my kindred, your agony fills me
with transport Descend to perdition,
pursued by the curses of every mother in
France I" When they reached the place
of execution Robespierre was first shown
to the people, and then laid down on the
scaffold with the bloody and nearly-dead
bodies of his brother and Henriot. The
batch consisted of twenty-one, and
Robespierre was executed last of ALL
When he was raised up to be led to the
guillotine he presented most CHASTITY
figure-his sky-blue coat covered with
blood and dirt, his stockings slipped
down about his heels, his face ivid as
death, and tied up in a bandage. The
executiorer plucked the bandage away,
and let the jaw fall. He gave a dread
full yell, which struck every heart with
horror, and the next moment was put
under the ak. Samson held up the
hideous head to the people, who shouted
with delight, and then went away sing
ing. One poor man, as he gazed on that
head, said, eyes, Robespierre, you said
true-there is a God
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25

A loss of $4,000 was incurred at
Denver by the destruction of q number Of
buildings on Cliff street.
Mrs. Irene Crandall and her child
we're found dead in the road near their home
IN Grant county, MINI. 1t is thought they
were murdered by her husband
Twenty days were consumed in San
Francisco in obtaining jury to try Isaac Kali
loch for the murder of Charles DeYoung.
The large livery-stable of L. Levy was
burned at Nebraska City, and two helpers
named John Jackson and Frank Otto we're
burned to death.
About 500 men and women of Chi
cago are given to the habit of smoking opium.
South.
The cotton warehouse occupied by
Allen & Crawford, in Columbus, Ca, was
burned. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
A number of Swiss farmers of the bet
ter class have determined to settle on land in
Eastern Kentucky. number of the colonists
~ f6 dIIlYeu. Iuo Dulh Oh UneIn Will come IN
I ii.
Frank Twiggs, convicted Of the MUIR
der of William Driscoll, in Burke county, Ga,
last November, has been hung at Waynesboro.
The wife of William Fowlkes has
been found guilty of the murder of her hus-
band and sentenced to be hanged, at Peters
burg, Va.
Frank Twiggs hes been sentenced to
death at Waynesboro, Ga.
United States Deputy Marshal W. F.
Gary was killed in Kicking county, S. c., H. an
illicit distiller named Kelly.
A large eagle attacked boy as he sat
at breakfast in his fathers house near Milton.
N. G., dragged him ont through the open win
dow and tried to carry him off. The fight was
desf crate one, and would have ended in the
death of the boy had not the bird fatally in
jnred itself by striking its neck upon a sharp
stick which stood upright in the ground The
father was attracted to the scene by the bows
cries, but, thinking the eagle was the devil,
ran away as fast as his legs would carry him.
The boy was terribly mangled.
The lower house of the Arkansas Leg
isl, ture has resolved to submit to the people
constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale
of liquor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25

John Ennis, of Chicago, defeated Ru-
dolph Gostz of Milwaukee, in 1O0-mile race
on skates in New York. race for 1000 a
side has been arranged.
Seven thousand men are at work on
one section of the railroad from the City of
Mexico to Toluca.
Seven American prisoners In jail at
Paso del Norte, Mexico, shot their guard and
made their escape. They were pursued, and
fight took place, in which three Of the Ameri-
cans were killed and two of the guards badly
wounded. The other four Americans surren-
dered.
The recently-discovered relics of Sir
John Franklin have been offered to the British
Government
Detroit seems to be going into the
bodybuilding business. One hundred and four
teen Glasgow ship-carpenters have come there,
and will work in a shipyard.
The stock of-the Western Union Tele-
graph is to be watered to O,OOO, 900.
The prospectus of the Worlds Fair
estimates that 100000 visitors will be attract
ed to New York, and that they will spend SIS
each.
The preliminary report upon the silk
manufacture of the United States shows the
total value of finished goods for the year end
ing June 80, 1880, was s34, 41O, 1853 number of
factories, 1888 amount of capital, real and per-
sonal invested, SIS, 899, 800; looms, 8, 467 !;
greatest number of hands employed any one
time during the year, s4,44O total amount
paid in wages, $9,107835.
During the month of December six
teen steamers and 203 sailing vessels were lost.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President nominated D. L. Bash,
of Illinois, as Major and Paymaster of the
Army.
The Auditor of Railroad Accounts has
sent communication to the Secretary OF the
Interior, recommending that the Thurman act
be so amended as to compel the Central Pacific
railroad to pay into the sinking fund so per
cent. instead of % per cent. of its net earn
ings
The President has withdrawn the
nomination Of George Fl. Forster for District
Attorney of New York
Secretary Sherman has issued a call
for 1915, 900, 900 in per cents. of 1884, on which
principal and accrued interest will be paid after
May 81.
The Hon. Hiram Barber, member of
the present Congress from Chicago, has been
nominated by the President for Receiver of the
Land Office at Mitchell. d. 7.
1t is denied that Senator Grover, of
Oregon, is so seriously i'll as to prevent his at
tendance at important sessions of the Senate.
Gen. Grant and Simon Cameron are
to be the special Ambassadors OF the United
States to Mexico to secure revision of the
traafies
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Greenbackers of Michigan aet in
State Convention at Lansing and nominated
John b. Chapman, of Coldwater, for Justice of
the Supreme Court. An unsuccessful attempt
was made to remove Moses W. Field from the
State Central Committee. resolution
of sympathy with the serfs of Ireland was
passed.
The Greenback congressman are said
to be figuring to organize the next House of
Representatives. According to their calcula-
ton, the Republicans lack one of majority,
and the Greenbackers propose to vote solidly
for their own candidate until the Democrats
join them in order to defeat the Republicans.
The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, who was
elected to Congress from one of the Brooklyn
districts as an Independent candidate has
written to a Republican Congressman to say
that he will act with the Republicans in organ
izjng the next House, and on political ques-
tons generally.
A Civil-Service Association has been
organized at Boston. Among the Vice Pres-
dents are Charles Francis Adams, Jr, John M.
Forbes, George William Bond, Senator
Hoar, President Seelye of Amherst Col
lege, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke,
Henry P. Kidder and Martin Brimmer
1t will advocate that the work of the Govern
ment be conducted on business principles
that competent employees shall be retained in
Office during good behavior; that Office shall
not be used to reward political 80 workers" and
the non-interfereuce of Congressman and Sem
ators in the matter of patronage.
Mr.. Elliot F. Sheppard has been
nominated for United States Attorney of the
Southern district of New York, in the place of
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford.
The Republican members of Congress
held caucus to consider the Apportionment
bill, and it was developed that the majority
favored $40 as the number. resolution was
offered that they insist on the adoption of
this number, but it was not pressed to VOTE
The Republicans of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, after balloting thirty-four days for
United States Senator to succeed Mr.. Wal
ell, who is understood to be opposed to the
Cameron dynasty. The new Senator is
at present member of the lower
house of Congress. He is described as
man of medium height, broad-shouldered,
blonde hair and beard, and is lame, the result
of an accident incurred in his campaign two
years ago. He is native of Tioga county, Pa,
is 43 years old, and was raised on farm,
taught school, served in the late war as a
Lieutenant, was admitted to the bar in 1864,
and has since been practicing lawyer.
Hon. Frank Hurd, of Ohio, gave a
dinner in Washington to about thirty Demo-
cratic free-trade members of Congress, at
which an organization was effected, and plans
were laid for an aggressive campaign through
out the country. S. S. Cox was chosen Presi-
dent of the association.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25
A Hard Case.

"You collect doubtful notes, don't
you?" asked Gilhooly of Galveston
lawyer, who answered in the affirmative.
"Then collect this one, said Gilhooly,
placing a document in the lawyers
possession. The lawyer looked at the
document, and then said confdentially
to himself
"Ry the shades of the immortal Black
stone, this is one of my own notes for
thirty dollars that has come home to
roost. Welcome, little stranger p
"Have you collected that doubtful
note?" asked Gilhooly next time he saw
the lawyer.
eyes y replied the latter, "but Inev-
er had as much trouble in my life col
lecting note, but happened to know
where the party had some money, and ]
just gobbled it. The party kicked like
the mischief, but he couldn't help him
self. Ny fee in the case is 500.
Gilhooly was in high feather expecting
to get $40, anyhow. AS he got the note
for bad debt at five cents on the dollar,
he would still be doing very well, SO he
eagerly held out his hand for the avails.
81 can't pay you your $40 in actual
cash, but I'll give you my note for it.
You know it is as good as gold"
"But you don't pay your notes.
eff it's not paid at the proper time,
come to me, and I will see myself about
it. I have better facilities, as you well
know, for getting the money out of my
self than any other lawyer"
"Look here" said Gilhooly, getting
mad, ''if you don't pay me that so III
sue you"
"That's right in my line. I'll sue my
self on your behalf; but I want sic
fee."
"Tn give you the 80 you owe me tc
sue yourself for it, " said Gilhooly sheer
ingly.
ST am not big enough fool to take
such risks. Cash In advance is my mot.
to, particularly when dealing with slip
perry customers. y Galveston Nea0S.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25

The Senate Finance Committee, on tie morn
ing Of Tuesday, Feb % reported the bin to repeal
the taxes on bank capital deposits and checks with
substitute abolishing only the tax on deposits.
The substitute passed. joint resolution appro-
priating $4,000 for a monument to mark the
birthplace of Washington was adopted. Mr..
Logan tried to call up the Grant Retirement bill,
or have it made the special order for next
day, but the motion was defeated. The Legislative
Appropriation bill was considered in committee of
the whole, amendedin few particulars, and, on
being reported to the Senate, was read third time
and passed. The joint resolution providing for an
investigation of the alleged fraudulent statistics
used before the Halifax Fisheries Commits
sion was reported to the House of Repre-
sentatiYes and referred to the committee of the
whole The Agricultural Appropriation bill was
taken up and passed. Mr. Cox gave notice that he
would call up the Apportionment bill Wednesday.
The Sundry Civil bill considered, but action
taken. The Senate amendments to the Post
Route bill were concurred in. The Pension bill,
with Senate amendments, was passed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-25
Boston and New York.

So long ago as 1719, Daniel Neal, an
observant traveller, who ought to be held
in high esteem by Massachusetts, people,
wrote of the New England metropolis (:
"There are five printing presses in Bos-
ton, which are generally full of work,
by which it appears that humanity and
the knowledge of letters flourish more
here than in all the other English planta-
tons put together, for in the city of New
York there is but one booksellers shop,
and in the plantations of Virginia, Mary
land, Carolina, Barbados and the
islands, none at all. "
Happily humanity and the knowledge
of letters are no longer confined to one
corner of the country but, notwith-
standing the growth of an opinion that
Boston and New York are to occupy rel
atively the positions of Edinburgh and
London, the capital of Massachusetts,
still has a peculiar prestige as the oldest
center of literary culture in the country,
causing the eyes of the rest of the Union
to turn toward it with particular inter
est, glance compounded of respect and
Renaissance with something of insatia-
BILE expectancy. The privileged Bos-
tonian, it is true, laughs at Boston in
his quiet way. cit is capital place to
live in, F" said an eminent publisher who
has his dwelling there, 'sbecause then
you can go to New York. But if you
live in New York, where can you go p"
The mot epitomizes the sentiment Of
many among his townsmen but if
they sometimes join in the alien laugh
against their "little city," and recog-
nize a degree of smallness and con-
straint in its general attitude, they also
keenly appreciate the other side. So
do some Of our friends the New York
ers. One of the younger New York
poets, on visiting Cambridge for the
first time, said to me eve hear a
great deal about the failure of Boston to
quite appreciate the mental breadth and
energy of New York. But with all the
admiration [ felt for this region before I
came here, I find I didn't wholly APP
preciate it. There is such a thing as
New York Bostonism. "-Harper's Mag
0zine.