The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-12-04

Wheat Is alive. 81 cents Ia the highest
price paid when the granat.eS were full
for many years.
A patent outside exchange jast received
puts wheat In Portland at4I.ss pei GENITAL,
whereas Mt the time the market was 81. .67.
A good illustration of patents generally.
Linn county people have much 10 be
thankful for. II Is not necessary 10 make
a long list. Individually everybody should
be thankful One should live such life
that the spirit OF thankfulness be continual,
and not alone annual.
An exchange says "a prominent citiz en-
OF Salem has offered TO give $4,000 for the
founding Off public library In that city,
provided the Aka Hesperian Library
Society will raise $1,000 for the same pur-
POSE" We need public spirited men,with
unused capital, In all our cities willing 10
make such offers. Oregon cities are too
far behind the times In her public libraries.
One Of the inest successful patent
medicine men ever known In the United
States was Donald Kennedy, OF Roxbury,
Mass. Il Is said OF him that he never
changed his advertisement. The sale OF
kennedyt Medical Discovery has prob
ably paid profit TO lis proprietor Of more
than $4,000 week for the pact twenty
years, which knocks the props completely
out Of some modern ideas.
Some people are thankful because they
have gained something at some one else's
expense. That ID n poor spirit
Yamhill county has $500 voters and 10
newspapers, and that is tho county that
has furnished the grea. men Of Oregon.
No wonder.
Corvallis has three fddliDg printers.
the DEMOCRAT learns privately. This ID
published aa news item and without
any yindictive spirit towards our thriy-
Ing neighbor up the river.
There ID a big future for the Willamette
valley. Its growth will and must be a
general one. All parts must go ahead to-
bany IL the railroad center IL will event
ly take the lead.
Here IL ia before marriage In nine cases
out Of ten: 1.-TWO grooming lovers ON d
doorstep spoke Of their hearts and Their
happiness: II just know no other gir
has as good sweetheart as I've got
"And am equally sure there never lived
sweeter woman ON earth than you are. >
Then, together: "oh, ,ain't We happy
About year afterwards II will be
II You old hag.
The following Is the exact situation In
reference 10 Albany also, as well aa othei
| points, and it has become ridiculous. The
man who gets up the oregonian's per
sonals from hotel signatures making
everybody prominent merchants, should
receive some private instructions. "Ths
Salem merchant" In the OFegonian'
personal column IL growing TO be great
chestnut. Everybody who registers at q
Portland hotel, from leading ministei
to boot-black. 10 reported by the Ore
gonian - "Salem merchant.
Most men In getting married don't
have any resolutions. II the following
| by Theodore Parker made on marriage
were generally observed we'd have more
pleasant homes, particularly in divorce
| ridden Portland: First, never, except
| for the best reasons, TO oppose my wife's
will. Second, 10 discharge all duties for
her sake freely. Third, never 10 scold.
! Fourth, never 10 look eroes at her. Fifth,
a. s.sfff ia
Sixth, 20 promote her piety. Seventh, TO
bear her burdens. Eighth, TO overlook
her lollica. Ninth, TO save. cherish and
forever defend her. Tenth, TO semem-
Der her always in my prayers. Tnus,
God willing, We shall be blessed.
CM Horn killed two dozen ducks in
Linn county yesterday. Eugene Guard.
Some Linn county man will have to recs-
procate by killing two dozen ducks in
Lane county. At least that Is the pres
ent spirit oi the world.
There Is a silver lining around Albany's
prospects that is very bright. Property
in this vicinity will increase in value
many per cent in the next few years.
There 10 general feeling that there is
something in the report that there will
be harmony in the management oil the
Oregon Pacific, ANA that IL will go ahead.
There Is prevailing idea that fruit
cannot be raised in Eastern Oregon. The
following from the T.. o. upsets this: A
Waugh, the pioneer resident OF Birch
creek. this year sold $500 worth OF fruit
from his orchard, which III three acres in
extent, trees on one acre and o hall being
in bearing. One blue pearmain apple
tree yielded 5000 pounds. the fruit from
this tree alone bringing $50.
Foot races on the square are very in
teregting contests; but nearly all Of them
nowadays are frauds. The following
from The +. o. Is sample: The great
foot race this afternoon WAS fasco.
After some "jockeying" the two men
started. and ran over the line. Doyle
then stopped, and Kelley ran to the end
Of the track. lie then put on his coat
and came up town, accompanied by his
hacker, and followed by large and dis
appointed crowd. Much money was bet
besides the stakes, $500 a side. Just
how the bets will be decided is unknown
at this writing.
SEE HERE
A piano
At Klein Bros