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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-16

Anappeal VIII be held at the Commissioners y
office, in Ridgway, on Saturday, July oh,
1870, at which tire those feeling themselves
aggrieyed may present their case before the
Commissioners.
JAMES PENFIELD,
n., Msrcantile appraiser.
Ridgway, May Goth, 1870.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-16

DISEASE OF THESE ORGANS REQUIRE
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
Not to Be 0utdOnc.

A very pious and Jealous Chaplain
of a Confederate regiment called on a
Colonel not particularly noted for
moral observation, in order to tall
about the religious interest of his
men The Chaplain was politely re-
c,ived and requested TO be seated on
a camp stool.
Il believe, Colonel said he,," that
Won have one of the finest regiments
in the service"
"Ycs, think have" said the Col
oncl. I'LL
well, do you pay much attention
to the religious instruction OF your
menu
mot much; very little is said
about the Scriptures in the drill
book
well, just called TO mention the
fact that in the 18th regiment the
Lord hath blessed our labors wonder
fully, and ten have already been bap-
tizca.' Cribs was a rival rcgiment)
. Is that so, pom honor?' asked the
Colonel.
"Ycs sir, am pleased TO say that
it is
Sargent" said the Colonel, calling
10 tie orderly, 'havc fifteen men de-
tailed immediately to be baptized
I'll be id if that ar 10Th regiment
can Guido us in that respect.
The Chaplain took OCCASION to bid
the Colonel good day, and left.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
Be Careful OF the Teams.

The farmer who does, mot know that
there is danger of iniuring his team
whether it he horses or oXen) by over
work the first warm days of Spring
must have had very small experience,
or been a poor observer. The warm
days of early Spring produces q relax,
ing effect upon the muscles OF man and
beast. There seems to be letting
down of the whole system. Men who
have labored every day during the
Winter notice this effect upon them
selves, and complain of n lassitude that
units them for severe toll The same
would be true of cattle and horses il
they could speak. ISL e.
But it is often the case that the farm
er's team stands idle most Of the time
for several weeks i'm the latter part OF
the Winter, and becomes, in degree,
weak for the want of exercise. Ii
team thus treated is put to blowing
when the first warm weather comes,
there is great danger that it will be SO
overcome by heat and fatigue as to be
permanently injured. We remember
seeing oxen nearly ruined in this way:
Only the most careful drivers should
have charge of the team when it is first
put to the Springs work in the field !;
full work should not be expected for the
the first few days. The capacity OF a
team for labor on the farm during crop
ping season depends very much on
the treatment it receives during the
first week.
Another thing, horses and oxen at
work need water often. The plowman
carries his jug of water, and leaves his
team to rest while he goes to the house
for drink. But the team works harder
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
Religion In English Life.

OF everyday religious expression
i'm England, a writer in Hearth and
Home says:
"Scarcely family-at least none
who lay claim to any degree Ct re-
spectability-fails to have family SER
vice at least part of the day. These
devOtions are not irreverently rapid
or tedious, rs often with us; but arc
short, crisp, and reverent. The SER
wants come in, bringing with them
Bibles, and the benches OH which they
sit. Men do not profess religion as
it is understood by us, seldom sit at
me t without grace, as it is here call
ed. 1t consists i'm few words, such
as The Lord make us thankful for
his Sons sake or For what we are
about to receive, the Lord make us
thankful! At her breakfast-table
where the queen appears as q woman,
and lays aside the queen, she frequent
ly says grace. dincd the other day
informally with the Lord Mayor OF
London. lie came from the bench
where he sits as magistrate daily,
laid aside his robes and triple gold
chain, which are the insignia of his
Office, and approached the dinner Ia
bic, around which stood several gem
tlemen. In a simple and unaffected
manner he said grace and asked his
guests to be seated. Nor is this cant.
The merchants of London have an
outspokcn way of talking of religion,
as if it was no appcndage, or a thing
ofwhich they need be ashamed. They
gather in their counting-roOms for
prayer; have clubs that meet weekly
for studying the Bible; go among the
lowly and neglected OIL Sunday; gath
or little congregations where the reg
ular ministry cannot go, and form
that great column, five thousand
strong, who, OH every Sunday, go out
TO do among tho masses their work
for their Master"
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"
than the driver, and, probably needs
drink as often, yet many teams are
taken out early IN the prairie field
where there tno water, except i'm the
drivers jug, and worked five or six
hours before they can get a drop. Is it
any wonder that they are injured by
drinking too much when they are led
to the spring at noon3- -, ss- +.
A TUB OF WATER FOR THE TEAM.
Now, as an act of kindness to the
horses and oxen that serve man SO
faithfully, and as a matter of economy,
we recommend that in all cases where
the water is not in, or very near the field
In which the team is at work, tub or
barrel be furnished and filled with wa
ter as regularly as the plowman's jug.
This, with q bucket, may easily be set
in the wagon and taken to the field,
and the team should be permitted to
drink once at least every half day.
and Oftener if the weather, is warm.
If every one would adopt this plan we
should hear no more OF Hwater foun-
der ," the teams would lie more vigor-
oas and hardy, and perform more labor
for their owners. Journal of AgricM
ture. .fitl f.f iA gof.si p .a.i 1,sf. -f1f:r
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
How to Graft Grapes.

At recent meeting of the Farmers
Club of the American Institute, David
S. Wagner, of Pultney, New York,
who has originated three3new and dis
tinct methods of preparing stalks for
grating, was called upon to describe
the method by which success was the
most certain in grating grape vines
He exhibited the instrument used in
preparing the stalk of the vine to re-
ceive the graft. 1t consisted of a COM
mon stiff-backed saw, with keen steel
blades, attached to the end of the saw,
and sit at an angle inclining to the
saws edge.
Having used the saw to cut off the
vine at such place as is considered de-
sirable to insert the graft, the operator,
instead of splitting the stalk, uses the
saw to cut kerr as deep as the scion
should he inserted, and either by draw
ing the saw toward himself, or pushing
it through the kerf from him, the steel
blades at either end of the same cut the
kerr to a true level, ready to receive
the scion. BY this process q quick
workman can graft several hundred
vines per day, the scions and stalks be-
ing cut evenly and rapidly. Mr.. Wag-
ener says that he has always succeed
ed in grating grape vines with as little
percentage of loss as on pear or apple
tree. He gratis the vines after they
have started in the spring. +
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How 10 Reclaim Poor Land.

This is an object that nearly every
farmer desires to accomplish at some
period, and almost every man has ms
own ideas as TO the manner in which
it can best be done. The Cincinnati
Gazette reasons i'm this way:
The cheapest manure which the far
mer cal, obtain is clover. But il is
often the case that land has become
so poor and thin that it will not pro-
duce clover; or, ifit does, only what
is short and Of q 'meagre growth.
Darn yard manure, Of course, Is al
ways a valuable fertilizer, aud never
comes amiss. But the grea; trouble
with many farmers is, that they have
not got enough Of 1t, -, ~ :,
! In Inc New England States muck
for many years past has played an
important part in restoring fertility
TO. wora out soils. This is dug out
nom old pond holes in Q dry time.
It Is sometimes applied just as It rs
duyo mn. and sometimes 1t is mixed
and co,npostcd with barn.yard man-
urc. salt. ashes, etc. 1t ia also largely
used strcwcd OH stable floors, tO. be
mingled with the softer excrements,
and TO absorb tile urine of animals,
and Ly using It In this manner it eau
SEES an immense increase TO the. pile
of turn-yard rnanure.s In many paris
of Ohio and Indiana it ia impossible
for farmers to procure the kind OF
muck referred TO. But if our farmers
have not muck, il is not difficult to
get a plenty OF RICH allavial soil from
the banks of rivers and creeks. Cart
ing this away in dry time, and keep
ing it under shelter, and turning it
over with q spade at odd times, when
there is nothing else very important
to be done, and sometimes in the fall
mixing the salt 10 this dried aliuvium,
it forms an admirable article to be
used as an absorbent in stables dur
ing the winter months. And in the
spring a very large manure pile is the
result. Nor need the farmer wait till
spring before he applies it to his lands.
With the fresh excitement and the
urine of animals thus intermingled
with plentiful supply of dry alluvi-
um. 1t is ready to be carted at once,
when the ground is frozen hard, and
strewcd on fields seeded to winter
grain. If first placed in heaps, how
ever, and then scattered just previous
to, or at the commencement of some
of our winter rains, this would be a
still better way. soF l,,ra o..,LuEg
On all old worn and partially play
ed out farms, it would be true policy
to sell but little if any hay, grain or
straw. Enough animals should be
kert 10 consume nearly everything on
the farm, AID all the eXcrements and
urine of these animals should be care
fully saved. On the rich and almost
inexhaustible soils of the States fur
Their West of us, it may do to farm
differently, selling grain, hay, etc.
Besides this being the true policy OF
the Ohio and Indiana farmers, in Or
der to keep up the fertility of their
land, it is also at the present time
much the most profitable branch of
agriculture. Meat of all kinds is
scarce and dear, and there are no
signs of any glut to the market in tho
futurp
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vious to his death, that if ever visited
his native place, 1 would seek out his
old friend. But when. L inquired for
you, they unfolded terrible story to
me, Mr.. Strong. They told me of a
desolate and broken households; of q
blue-eyed boy that fatner's heart
might SO well delight i'm, who had left
his home i'm disgust and dispair, for one
on the homeless waters; of the gentle,
suffering wife, who, faithful to the last,
went down with prayer on her lips
for her erring husband, broken-hearted,
to the grave, and of the fair-haired or
phan girl, who followed her mother in
little while. Oh it is sad, sad stO-
ry l have heard of my fathers old
friend?" -
alt was L! it was I that did it.! 4
killed them ~ cried old Bill, lifting his
bowed head, and gazing on the lady,
every feature expressive of Sach wild
agony and helpless remOrse, that the
she shuddered at the despair her own
words had caused. Wide, wide-open
stood the door then, and the lady pass
ed in.) ff .i.i o. i.a .4si.y.i-.K
A soft hand was laid soothingly on
old Bill's arm, and a voice full of hope
murmmed-"Even for all this there is
mercy. There is q redemption through
the atoning merits of Jesus, and You
well know your first step toward it,
Sign the pledge. In the name of the
last prayer Of your dying wife, and of
the child that sleeps by her side, 1 ask
you, as your friend, viii you do it?"
:" / WILL" said old Bill, while he
brought down his closed hand with
such force on the rickety pine table,
that it rocked beneath it and CLEAN
of hope lighted up his features, as he
seized the pen and paper the lady plac-
ed before him, which paper contained
a declaration, binding all who signed
it to abstain from the use of intoxicat-
ing beverages; and when he returned
it to her-in bold, legible characters,
there lay written beneath it the name
of William, Strong. r.--- .f.--rr 8
There was an expression, almost lu-
dicrouS from its intenseness of curiosi-
ty, on the bar-keeper's physiognomy,
as the lady, after her long Interview
with old Bill, passed quietly through
the shop, and the expression was not
lessened when old Bill, a few moments
after, walked through without taking
another glass of grog; and he never
passed over the threshold again.-P6b-
hcation of the National temperance
,SOciety. 4s..1 t.'rl
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H.t s...ef..G ZZIEoI

From dc pablished records Hpt 1t
Nurcmburg, in Bavaria, VIC translate,
saws the Detroit Free Press, the fol-
lowing interesting facts relating 70
extremely hot seasons, IN tlmcs past;
In the year 1872 the earth cracked
by reason of the heat, the wells and
streams I'm AIsaco- all dried up, and
the bed of the river Rhine, was dry.
In the year 1852 the heat was so
great that sand cx60cd toettH SUMS
rays was hot enough to cook an egg.
In 1850 great numbers of soldiers
i'm the campaign against Bella died from
the effects of the heat.
1276-7 the crops of hay and oats
failed completely Ia n YIdTL j
In the years 1904 a mai. could
have crossed, dry yshod, over the riy-
ers Seine, Loire, Rhine and Dahube.
In 1881 a multitude of animals
persisted by means Of tho heat, which
was SO great that-the harvest dried
up. IN, q
In I44O the heat was extraordinary
In the years 1888, 1888, 'l540 and
l541 all the rivers were nearly dried
up. .4u-I.h ,,,t-.ss'
In 1856 there was a great drouth,
which extended over nearly the whole
of Europe. daaDliD BOii
In l6l5 and 1915 there was in Italy.
France and the Netherlands, an over
powering heat. .,,,,, -.-,,.,--
In 1913 there werc ifty-eight COM
secutive DAYS of extreme heat.li
The year 1913 was yer: hot, aud as
were the first three years of the cigh-
tcenth century.
Inl7IS it did not faim@ single time
from April until, Octobcr!'T The
growing grain was burnt, the rivers
dried ND. the theatres (bdt wherefore
is not statcd) were closed by command
of the. police The THERMOMETERS
showed 36 degrees Rcaumcr, cquiva-
lent to lib degrees Fahrenheit. In
irrigated gardens the fruit trees
bloomed twice. -.flf~-.gs ]
In 1923 and l724 there was very
great heat. ... .rfsV .ya.-.,0 20.
The summer of 1746 was very hot
and dry, The growing grain being alb.
solutely calcincd. 1t did not rain for
many months. l.--y.
The years 174S, l754, 176O, 1867. IT'S
and 1883, were also years in which
the summers were extremely hot L
In the famous. comet year-lSll--
the summer was very warm, and the
WINE produced that season was cOn-
sidcred very precious. ..-,...--..
In the year 1918 the theaters had
to be closed Oh account of the heat,
the highest temperature being 80
Reaumer, or Ill Fahrenheit.
During the three days of the. revo-
luton of July, in 1889, the tbcrmom-
eter stood at Sc degrees Centisrade-
about the same as 81 Fahrenheit.
In 1882, during the uprising of the
9Th and 9th Of July, the temperature
was about the same.
The Seine was nearly dried up in
1885. ''.-
In June, 1850, when the cholera APP
pcared for the second time, the tenn
peraturc was only about Is Fahrcn-
heit.
The highest degree Of heat that
man can Withstand for any lengthen-
ed period varies from 1O4 to LIZ OF
Fahrenheit scale. But with much
lower temperature numerous deaths
OccIlr.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-07-22
3 Poultry Houses.

We have tried two kinds of poultry
and hardly know which we would
select tive were going to keep fowls
on q large scale. oil .n,,t q;,..p..s ~.
The great object to be attained in
all poultry house,, are cleanliness,
warmth, ventilation and convenience.
Warmth is only to, be secured by very
thick walls, or by double walls-the
latter being most efficient. A house
with the frame made OF stuff two or
thrce inches thick, the outer boards
being sound, aud having the joints
bsttcncd, while the inside is boarded
up with old but sound boards, makes
very warm house and does not cost
much. 1t ia more difficult TO arrange
Cor ventilation than for warmth, Tor
ventilation should he secured without
exposing the fowls TO currents of cold
air, and without the necessity of chill
ing the house. We confess that in
winter We have been unable to venti-
late thoroughly without lowering the
temperature too much. But if the
house is of a fair size in proportion to
the number Of fowls kept, there will
not be any great need for ventilation
during cold winter nights; and if the
house is kept clean, thorough ventila-
ton during the day will be sufficient.
Cleanliness is not difficult to secure,
provided our house is properly ar
ranged. We have employed two
methods of securing cleanliness. One
is to have the house movable, and
without any bottom or floor. A house
capable of holding dozen fowls COM
fortably, can be easily moved by four
men or the house can be placed on
wheels; or the sells may be left
smooth on the under side, and rollers
cut from straight and round timber
may be used. The house in which
our fowls did best was movable, and
was carried by four men. After
moving the house, remove all the
manure, taking with it a little of the
soil on which it rests; then dig the
plot over, turning the suface well I'M
der, and you will get rid of all often
sive matter. Two small spaces may
thus be used alternately, and the one
will be ready 10 receive the house by
the time the other is sOiled.- Country
Gentleman. ...-
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X o S X 90 !!
BLADDER.

Persons unacquainted with the structure and
functions of the Kidneys canno. estimate the
Importance of their healthy action.
Regular and sufficient action Of the kidneys is
as Important, nay, even more so, than REGULAR
ty of the bowels. The kidneys remove from
blood those Gillette matter which, if permitted to
remain, would speedily destroy life. total
SUSPENSION of the urinary discharges will occa-
sion death from thirty six to forty eight honrs.
When the urine is voided in small quantities
at the time, or when there is disposition to uri-
nate more frequently than natural, or when the
urine is high colored or scalding, with weak
ness in the small of the back, 1t should not be
trilled with or delayed, but KOSKOO should be
token at once to remedy the difficulty, before a
lesion Of the organs takes place. Most of the
diseases of the bladder originate from those of
the kidneys, the urine being impe-fectly seerc-
ted in the kidneys, prove irritating to tie blad
der and urinary passages. When we recOllt ct
that medicine never reaches the kidneys except
through the general circulation OF the blood
We see how necessary it is to keep the Foun-
tain of Life Pure.
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DISEASES OF TIE BLOOD.

"The life Of the flesh is in the Blood" is a
Scriptural maxim that science proves to DC
true. The people talk of bad blood as the
cause of many diseases, and like many popu
lar opinions this of bad blood is founded in
truth.
The symptoms Of bad blood are usually quite
plain-bad digestion-causes imperfect nutri-
ton, and consequently the circulation is feeble,
the soft tissues loose their tone and elasticity,
and the tongue becomes pale, broad and fire.
quently covered with pasty, white coat. This
condition soon shows itself in roughness of the
skin, then in eruptive and Lucrative diseases,
and when long continued, results in serious
LESSONS of the brain, liver, lungs or urinary ap-
paratus. Much, very much, suffering is caused
by impure bloo1. 1t is estimated by some that
one fifth of the human family are effected with
scrofula in some form.
When the blood is. pure you are not 81 liza
BILE to any disease. Many impurities Of the
blood arts. from impure diseases OF large
cities. Eradicate every impuriiy frcm the foun-
tain OF life, and good spirits, fair skin and vital
strength will return to you.
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3 Paper sometimes will not stick to
an old wall. Where there is danger
of this, paper hangers Use vinegar in
the paste instead Ofwater. eaa.,-.