The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-09-02
MISFITS.

MISFITS.
lAlbany Nimrods are preparing for a
General attack on China tomorrow and
there will probably be nothing left for
Russia and England to quarrel over. p
Even the elements are against the b
spaniards. A dispatch from Hong Kong = =,
says that recently 900 OF them were II
drowned while trying to escape from the ii
Philippine islands, at Cline when the b
natives were after them. /,
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Men just from Dawson say that the
price OF things will be as low as in Port.
land. That forty or fifty boats had gone s
up the Yukon loaded down. This leaves 6
nothing !or Senator Mcbride 10 do but 4
labor to get U. s. gun boat for the i
Portland exposition. q
The fare on the White Pass and Yu. I
kon Railroad is probably the highest of Il,
any railroad in the world. It has been
built l2 miles and $l.75 is charged for /
the ride over it, about Is cents a mile. I
The freight rate has not been anuounc.
ed.
Great minds run in the same channel. ,
l. Dewitt Talmage, who is in Portland 1
today lie opposed TO q large standing
army and says: 'Foy Q standing army
rall to the patriotism OF the nation is
all that 10 necessary to get as many men
as wanted" He is though properly in
iaNor OF q strong navy, an institution
that takes years 10 build up.
Mrs. Churchill. wife OF an o. Il. & n.
brakeman at La Grsnde has served no.
tice on each Of the city officers OF that
city that unless they proceed at once
and stop the crap monstrosity she will
proceed against them rather than
against the gamblers as an easier job
and more likely to succeed. Her course
was caused by the report that her hus.
band Loaf $50 in 9 crap game.
A gentleman from Eastern Oregon
tells a good story on II. n. Cockerline.
It appears that while driving buck
board he met freight wagon on a grade
on the side Of mountain, and he turn
ed out on the wrong side as he was
| afraid of upsetting. The driver of the /
/ freight wagon cody picked up shot gun
and told Bert to drive out OF the other /
side, which he did without parley.-Eu- |
gene Guard.
1t is fact that almost staggers one
that to whip nation, secure the indie |
pendence of country and the aoquisi- |
ton of two countries it cost the United |
States only go men killed in the army, |
IL in the navy and in the marines, n
total OF 279.
Frequently there are people who can
get up an item much better than the
editor. One in Scio showed the News
man the proper way as follows:
The 5. Z. Co. unloaded n cripple
lady at Shelburn Monday with a wooden
leg and lots of freight
Whenever the farmer gets a chance 10
make anything the railroad company
may be depended upon TO take advan-
: tage of it and gobble all the advantages
! itself. An exchange says the Southern
. Pacific tomorrow viii raise the California
rates on hay IS ton.
The Wells Fargo Company OF San
FraLcisco has sent out an eighteen page
pamphlet 20 prove that II is the essen
tial nature of documentary stamp TAX
that the burden fail upon the benefci-
arr. This is done in justification ofsstheir
! practice Of making the consignor pay for
. the war revenue tax stamp required In
:. expressage OF anything By them. In San
Francisco the company has been attack
u ed and accused of a lack OF patriotism
y because insisting on saddling the bur
e den upon the people dealing with them
' A man named Cochran has given thi
y President some reasons for holding tn,
Philippines, direct from the Bible. He
says:
Z. God says hold the Philippines. Rev
- elAtions 2:25: But that which We hay,
already, hold fast till come. Revela
tons 3:.l: Behold. / come quickly
. Hold that fast which thou hast (hy Dew
Q ey and God taken), that no man take tn.
a crown.
= No man can live, politically or socially
le in America who gives back TO Spain wha
]: we have fought for
!. de further declares personally that Go
q suggested to him the passage referred iS
?. At tie recent National Convention o
!; the Young Peoples Christian Union o
II the U. 7. church, at Saratoga, Rev
q Chas. F. Wishart, the retiring president
It Who spent several months in Albany il
II 1895, said on turning the Office over 4
! bis successo. Rev. Motfatt, . southern
man:
= Even war has its compensAtions
- England was = divided country until
= long series of foreign wars nuiIed il
Then Saxon and Norman aud Dane be
came EnRlishmen once for sli. The wa
from without solidified the nation q
ID nothing else could have done. Today vi
a. are in war terrible and bloody. Blu
y whatever bs lite curse and blight, 1t ha
st least brought this blessing unite'
'e nation. No longer is there East, West
b North or South: all is American, and tn
a dear old stars and stripes float over a Ian,
.I reunited, as We pray God, forever.
To the defence Of the nation and III
J. cause oil humanity, the boys who wor
lr 1.-THE gray are marching side by side will
n. tho boys who wore the blue. On tn
honor roll OF our heroes, q grateful na
ton puts Sampyon from the North an
schley from the south; Dewey of Ver
mont and Hobson of Alabama. Beior
the trenches OF Santiago, Roosevelt an
Wheeler fought side by side.
It is glad day for us when We can i
this great convention celebrate the reur
ion OF North and South. which has al
ready been celebrated in political hall
and on the tented field.
-. To Cleanse the System
Efectually yet gently. when costiYe {
To bilious, to permentally cure habitual &C
stipatiOn, 10 aw aken the kidneys and Iiv
at to healthy activity, without irritating
weakening Them. TO dispel headache