The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1892-01-29

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Good advice to the girls is not TO pro.
pose until they can support husband.
Another evidence Of Portland's metro
pslitan character Is the establishment OF
q riding school, all the same as In New
York and other big cities.
A Eugene physician gives n practical
test In regard 20 the purity OF water
Place It In glass and shake violently and
u there Is Impure animal matter contained
Il will betray the same BY the smell
prlneville Is anxious to receive n
proposition for the tonstruction OF the
Oregon Pacific thr )ugh that city. Il Il
Allen alonP Is willing TO put up $1,000.
The real estate market Ia growing
hrmer. A live year IL promised for Albany.
The best market for any city, though, is
where sales are followed by building.
Some people think cards of thanks have
TO be issued for almost everything, which
is not the case, and in fact the practice Ia
going ard should go out OF fashion. II
was carried to the extreme recently In
Kansas, where a woman thought II proper
TO send TO local newspaper card In
which she thanked her kind friends for the
valuable assistance they had rendered In
helping her 10 secure divorce.
The new Australian ballot law requires
that the state ticket of each party shall be
filed In the secretary of states office nj
least forty-iive days before the election.
This Is the reason why the democratic
convention has been called TO meet earlier
than usual this year. The county ticket
must be filed In the clerks Office thirty
days before the election IL he'd.
In this big town there IL a bill collector
who Is a dandy. says the Portland Ore
gonIan; On hls left side he carries q
wooden sign which reads: III am a bill
collector. collect BILLS that other men
cannot collect" This man also has q
eow-bell. When he spots n man who does
not pay his BILLS he takes station In front
OF the place where tie man L.. II the
debtor does not cone forth he rings the
bell as an indueement. The result IL that
the debtor invariably pays the bill.
Tie following item has appeared IN
several exchanges "They have finished
and now have In operation at Lebanon a
woolen mill costing tl20. .000." which
shows how news becomes twisted by n
few miles travel. II Is paper mill, and
q good one.
The Springfield Union says that the
newspaper has become Indispensable "a
our daily life, Is easy Of demonstration
We kick and exclaim: "Pshaw there's
nothing In the paper" but II the ca rier
fails 10 deliver IL there is a hasty visit tc
the Office and an indignant demand tc
know the reason. The daily paper ap'
peals 20 every class OF readers. There /,
no one whom II does not interest In some
way.
II would be no credit 10 the United
States 10 go TO war with Chilli ut the
present time. The cause is not great
enough. Several sailors on a spree IN
the worst quarters Of Valparaiso wer,
killed. VIII the Y S shed blood fol
anything bordering on such q cause,
These are days Of arbitration and com
promise and that should be the spirit In
this matter.
Hon w Lair Hill said 10 a Seattle
Press Times man: ~ have received
this morning adSices to the effect thai
the Oregon senators are still pressing
the claims Of MFR Joseph Simon, aud The
Washington senators are still standing
by their recommendation OF myself; anC
that. while nothing can be predicted
with much pOsitiveness, my appoint
ment is probable. Sill | am not count
ing much upon it; am not going 10 be
greatly disappointed II defeated. aud au
not going into the cave OF Aduilam IL
any event, because there Is too mucl
iun ahead in Washington for any sensi
bic man to go into q cave with uniunnS
associates as long as he can help It,"
The stayton Times says farm hAndi
will be IN demand in the spring, becaus,
the old man and all Of his boys will b.
running for sffice.
A Salem paper Ia trying TO boom the
Willamette Hotel by declaring It's pro
prietor looks like the author, RudyarC
kipling.
Rev Mcmillan. Of Seattle, refuses I,
allow church socials 10 be held in IN,
chapel OF the church, claiming II Is no
right, and general trouble has resulted
among the congregation thereby.
Alfred Holman, formerly Of the Seattl,
Post-Inteiligencer and Oregonian, hai
become managing editor OF the Pacifi,
Rural Press. A great change, perhap,
upward. As All left the p. /. on account
of an attack on temperance orato
what will he do on the farmers paper
that always stands mp for temperance.
Here Is live local growl from th,
Salem Statesman: Salem could wei
afford 10 get along without about hall o
her policement; II those who remainet
were required 10 attend 10 their duty
Try 10 find policeman some day, anC
see II you can do IL.
People have long memories, accordin,
TO the OregoniaD, which says: Will "
Watts, OF Yamhill, who IL 10 20 TO On,
Lakeview landoftice, please bear In mint
that he is not TO claim place on ths
republican electoral ticket this year? n
is sixteen years since 1879, but the ma
tional complications that grew out of IN,
postmastership at Lafayette that yeai
are not yet forgotten.
The grangers Of Linn county are yer,
much alive, and earnestly resent beins
considered otherwise, Not long ago the
Northwest Reform Journal, a paper SAID
TO be published in Portland, and claim
ing to be working in the interests OF the
farmers, saw iit TO go out OF it's way tc
stigmatize the grange as "a dead cock
in the pit gone to seed and ought
to be gathered TO its fathers" besides
denouncing several leading members ol
the grange. The Linn county grange
retaliates by publishing long series ol
resolutions passed by them, the gist Of