The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-06-29

at daggers drawn Whatever dissen.
sions there are, they are open at least,
and they are more in words than in
fact. The Republican qnarrels howev.
sr are more secret they rankle, the
factions end il hard 10 forgive each
other the leaders all feel sore over
some one point, and unless some unfor-
seen circumstance should intervene the
breach in their camp will grow wider
instead Of being healed ap."
The Hendricks boom for 1884 is
growing very strong, and during the
past week has really assumed large pro-
portions. An Indiana Congressman
said the other day: "If Hendricks Is
nominated he will carry his State by q
Tremendous majority, and il II came to
an issue between him and Mcdonald,
he would carry the latter of his feet"
The Commencement season il in It's
height now, AID in every Aection Of the
country colleges are grinding out de-
grees Mt rate calculated 10 Gil even the
staunchest heart with alarm. Particn-
laIly IN this the case with the Law schoos
Over one hundred young limbs Of the
law were graduated last week, and the
fFst question that arises IL what Is 70
become Of them : Surely the proper
ton Of lawyers 20 clients Is already too
large, and nine out Of ten practitioners at
the bar earn scarcely enough money 10
pay Office rent or wear passably respect
able clothes. IL is almost a pity to see
men full blooded lawyers from twenty
10 fifty years Of age, working in law
Offices at prices frequently less than Eve
dollars and seldom more than twelve
dollars q week. OF course when men
areHlriven to extremes, they will do al.
mos: anything 70 make money, thus
those disengaged lawyers foster litiga.
ton at frightfnl rate.
You slip in street and fall, ibflicting
All irjrry which may be painfnl enough
bat is not very erious. The occurrence
If possessed Of any features at all worth
recording appears in the newspapers.
In less than ten hours you will have
the cards Of at least half dozen law
yers, all Of whom are anxious to begin
a suit for damages at once for from fifty
TO seventy-fivs per cent. Of the pros
pectise winnings. Why, there would
not be one tenth the divorce suits, if il
we're not for impecunious lawyers who
egg on foolish women who come TO them
under the influence Of mumentary ex.
citement, and thus take steps which
cannot be retraced in a life time.
IL is the same with the medical pro-
fession. Ofcourse q great many young
physicians 60 out of tho city, 60 West
to grow up with the country. Bat for
every practitioner that means TO earn
bis spurs in the West we get one from
there, who having earned little local
reputation thinks that the world would
stsp still were he to hesitate longer
about impartihg his knowledge to the
larger circle whom it is possible to
reach in the metropolis. 0ne half Of
onr practitioners would starve If they
did not find other occupations to keep
body and soul together until the long
expected bell sounds, which summons
them to o patient.
Mr.. Edwin Booth and his daughter
Edwins, are on their way back to this
country. Miss Booth returns To ren-
der the last days Of her lover happy,
who is dying of consumption. The On
gagement is oueof many years standing,
and al the friends of the young lady
and young man deeply regret that there
scarcely possibility of happy end
ing. Mr.. Booth, by the way made
more money during his short engage
ment in Germany, where he played
with a German company, than in Eng
land. This certainly testi6es to the
high admiration in which genuine art
is held in the Fatherland.
Jay Gould finding that despite his
millions he could not get into any recog.
nized Yacht Club, has together with a
number Of other plutocratic nobodies
who aim to be considered sportsmen,
because it's the fashion although they
have neither inclination nor taste for it,
decided to form steam Yacht Club of
his owp. Steam yachting can scarcely
be considered sport. Indulgence in it
requires neither skill, courage, judg.
ment or enterprise. One may just as
well GROSS the river in a ferryboat as in
one Of these costly toys. They are
nothing but costly advertisements of