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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
Labor,

Labor" says the R-v. Newman Hall,
" as mighty magician, walks forth into
a region uninhabited and waste; he
looks earnestly on the scene, SO quiet in
its desolation; then waving his wonder
working wand, those dreary valleys
smile with golden harvests--those barren
mountain slopes aie clothed with foliage
the furnace blazss-the anvil rings
the busy wheels whirl round--the town
appesrs-the mart of commerce, the
hall of science, the temple OF religion,
rear high their lofty fronts-a forest OF
masts, gay with varied pennons, rises
from the harbor-the quays are crowded
with commercial spoils, the peaceful
spoils which enrich both him who re-
ceives and him who yields-representa-
tives of far off regions make 1T their
resort-science enlists the elements OF
earth and heaven in its service-art,
awaking, clothes Its strength with beau
ty--l,terature, new born, redoubles and
peipetuatt s its praise-civilization smiles
liberty is glad-humanity rejoices-
pity exults, for the voice of industry
and gladness is heard on every hand !;
and who contemplating such results,
will deny that there is dignity in
labor Z"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
A Legitimate Enterprise.

By the prospectus Of the Grand Dis
tribution to take place at Washington on
November Esd, for the benefit Of the. New
York Founding Asylum, and the Soldiers
aud Sailors Orphans Home of Washington, d.
c., 1t will be seen that the enterprise Possesses
certain unique features which have already
commended IL to the confidence of the public.
Among these an important one Is the fact OF
its being endorsed by the us. Commissionar
of Internal Revenue, whose special permit is
thus extended for the first time to an outer
prise OF the kind IN question. This permit, in
TACT, is q guaranty for the character of the en-.
terprise, and may be set down as one of the
causes OF the rapidly with which tickets for
the distribution have already been sold. The
voice of the press throughout the country has
also been earnestly in favor OF the enterpris
another strong warrant Of the fairness aud
genuine character Of which is likewise appar-
ent in the names of the parties interested iD
carrying it out. And 1t Is to be understood
that the persons so interested-for the most
part leading bankers and merchants are act
uated by no selfish motives of gain in thus
giving their support 10 the enter rise, which
is simply a Legitimate one for the benefcent
object set forth in the prospectus.
Alter the pOstponement OF the drawing of
this distribution, IL Is now positively fixed to
take place at Washington, ID. c., November
23, proximo No tickets will be sold after the
evening of November 2l.
Mr.. P. Z. Devlin, the we'll known printer
and stationer, 81 Nassau street, is the General
Agent of this enterprise Daily Nesos, ". Y.
NoU. /.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
The Camel and the Leech,

Modern research has determined GU
rious circumstance of an organic con-
trivanee in the camel aud the leech, un-
like as they are in structure, functions
and habits, which has reference to sup
plying them with food from storehouses
in their own bodies till supplies are at
tainable from other sources. The hump
is an immense collection of fat in reticu-
lated cells piled one upon another,
which is concentrated food. When fod-
der cannot be had, as frequently occurs
on their long caravan travels in the des-
ert, peculiar set of absorbent vessels
draw upon the magazine-the hump
carrying the fat into circulation till food
from without puts stop to the draft on
the back. The hump is very sensibly
diminished at times, even being almost
completely leveled, but that which was
thus borrowed to sustain life temporarily
is immediately replaced when the stom
ach is set in motion again in its accus-
toned manner. The medical leech or
blood sucker, low as it is in the organic
scale of life, is as carefully provided for
in regard TO the contingencies of life as
the king of the country. As the blood
passes down the gulley of the leech, the
current divides right and left to enter
two lateral tubes, instead of entering di-
rectly into the stomach. These canals
are folded, zig-zag, backwards and for
wards, in loops, as it were, from the head
to the tail. When perfectly filled, the
leech lets go its hold. 1t is then plump
and full, with stock of food on hand
that may last from one to two years, in
Case it has no opportunity to take an
other in that long time.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
The 'Suez Canal.

Why people should expect this canal
: to be different from canals in general,
do not know but have never yet met
q man that had seen 1t who did not ex-
press his astoniahment at finding il " Just
less !" Possibly, the great name OF its
designer, the length of time during
which it has been before the world, and
the splendid baptism which it received
in November, 1869, with all the Kings
and Princes of the earth for its sponsors,
have cast glamor ever it, making it
appear more wondeifu full than il really is.
But as you gradually become familiar
with the utter barrenness of the country,
void alike of food and shelter-the
trcacherous nature of the soil, which
runs like treacle into the canal from
either bank, necessitating the constant
working of dredgers to keep the passage
clear-the merciless heat, striking us
heavily even in April-the furious
squalls of wind and rain, Zone of which
vets us all to the skin, provoking our
Captain to observe sarcastically that
"them book-larned folks what says it
don't rain in Egypt, had ought to come
here and try" ,")-as you realize all this,
you begin to admire, in your own de-
spite, this little ribbon of light-green
water, twenty.six and half feet in
depth, by seventy to one hundred feet
broad, drawn sthwart the dull brassy
yellow of the everlasting desert-the
enterprise which, begun by an Egyptian
KING nearly thirty centuries ago, has
received its completion in our own day
from the hand of French engineer.
But picturesque it certainly is not.
Two interminable lines of grayish-yellow
sand, growing gradually higher as we
advance southwark: huge dredger,
every now and then, lying like a castle
upon the water, with its clamorous
freight of blue-shirted men and red
capped boys, who rush to stare at us
as we pass stray canal steamer (con-
temptuously apostrophized by our skip
per as Putting Billy from Ismailia, with
good accommodation for one passenger,
provided he be a thin one; few little
stations, consisting chiefly of one hut
apiece, with resident population OF
two men and a dog such are the lead
ing characteristics OF the great interna-
tional thoroughfare. The only really
impressive part OF it comes after leaving
Ismaills, when, under the glorious
moonlight of the south, you can anchor
for the night amid the lonely vastness OF
the Bitter L Ike, with wave after wave
OF purple hill rising up far away to the
west against th transparent sky. Then,
all the wonderful past of this strange
country seems real and present enough
but when, at noon on The following day,
Won find Yourself off SueZ, with the Z
and o. Hag floating on every side, and
English beefsteaks and Euglish news.
papers awaiting your pleasure, the nine
teenth century asserts it eli cnce more
-ChdmberS'S journal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
The Lake Champlain Bridge.

The trestle work of the new railroad
bridge across Lake Champlain is
eighteen hundred feet long, and it is ia
tended, at intervals of one hundred feet,
to build piers thirty feet square at the
bottom, and twelve feet by thirty at the
top. The boat to be used as draw bridge
is three hundred feet long, thirty wide,
and twelve feet high, contains two hun
dred and fifty thousand feet of lumber,
weighs about three hundred tons, and is
expected to draw two feet of water.
Eight hundred piles, length eighty feet,
we're required to build the trestle work,
from either shore to the draw; this lat
ter is TO be connected to pier by
hinges, and swings back and forth like
q door, by means of Il chain running to
the pier, and operated by a twelve.
horse engine. The contract price for
the whole structure, including the boat
ready for the iron, is $4,000, but will
probably exceed that sum.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
Salmon Traps in France.

To some it may be mystery how the
eggs OF fish are procured to carry on the
system of stocking rivers, which has of
late years been SO largely practioed.
AT the spawning season the male sal
mon ascends the river first, as if to pre-
pare spawning ground. Acting on
this, the fisherman secures male salmon,
and, muzzling 1t, fastens it by thread
TO a stone, which he sinks near spot
that he prepares, as near as his experience
will enable him, in imitation of the
spawning ground.
In front of this prisoner is set the
trap, with its deadly points upward, and
a very slight catch only, holding the
strong spring down.
The female coming up, filed with her
roe, sees the male, and supposes the
ground ready for the eggs. AS she
Swims over the trap, she strikes the up
right needle, loosens the slight catch,
and the two sides fly together. The
fisherman then comes, takes her up, re-
lieves her of her eggs, impregnates them.
and sends them to Huningue to be
Matched. The females taken in nets con-
tain eggs too young to be artifcially
Matched, so that, cruel as it seems, this
method is necessary to the success of pis-
ciculture, as no less than two millions of
eggs are procured by it, which no other
system has been successful in securing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

If Interviewing fountain, like that
sought for by DeSoto, should burst
from the earth at every mans door,
thousands would turn their backs on the
healing springs within arms-reach to
run after pretended remedies. The OBJ
servant, everywhere, accept DIR. WALK
ER's VINEGAR BITTERs as the greatest
medicinal blessing of modern times, but
on the other hand multitudes dose them
selves with poisons, while this we'll
spring of health is accessible to all. II
purities the animal fluids, regulates
every function of the body, calms the
nerves, invigorates the vital organs
and is an unfailing specific for indiges.
tion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

The belief entertained by some geolo-
gists of the pres ent day that the age of
our globe reaches scores and even hum
dreds of millions Of years is very inge.
niously confuted by a recent writer in
one of the foreign scientific journals, a
principal objection to the belief in ques-
tion being that the sun could not have
lasted such length of time without be-
ing burnt out. 1t is found, for instance,
that the heat which falls on a square
foot of the earth's surface exposed to the
vertical rays of the sun is equivalent to
1874 70 .t-pounds per second-or, about
seven thousand horse power per second
is radlated from every square foot of the
suns surface. If the sun consisted Of
coal it would be burned up in five thou
sand years But a pound weight falling
to the sun from an infinite distance
would produce six thousand times the
heat generated by pound of coal If
as is scarcely probable-the sun be sup.
posed to have been originally nebulcus
mass filling the whole solar system and
all indefinite space beyond it, the
total amount OF heat produced by the
grsvitation of the particles into a con.
densed globe would suffice to maintain
the suns heat for over twenty million:
of years, even supposing the particles tc
be quite cold. Bnt, supposing them tc
be very hot, the hest generated would
suffice for more than three times that
period. Such a heat could be generated
by the collision of two great bodies like
the sun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
4 Good Word for Bridget.

My dear Madam might agree with
you entirely, that servant girls are q
nuisance; that they have followers, that
they spend their money for show, and
that they gad about the streets just as
often as they can steal away; that they
will have forbidden shindies in your
Kitchen, and tilch your tea and sugar by
the pound. You cannot possibly prevail
upon them to tidy up their own room
they inevitably stay out till midnight,
when you positively limit them to ten
o'clock you may he sure of impudence
unlimited to your very face, and gossip
in abundance behind your back and
truth is as foreign to their tongues as
tatters or tawdiness is essential to their
dress. And then, when, as you truly
say, you have given them home for
years and years, and treated them as
kindly as you know how, off they go at
three days notice, make fools of them
selves by getting married, and take in
washing-and yourself And, in short,
to quote your admirable summing up,
you really cannot trust them out OF
sight. But, my dear madam, who Is to
blame? If Amanda, up stairs, with pale,
spirituelle face, and delicate, do-nothing
hands, is to spend all her time and ed
ucated brilliancy in catching husband
and spending tor him her annual ten
thousand, why is downstairs Bridget
with ruddy, healthful face, and stalwart
working arms, to be debarred from join
ing her honest heart and helpful hands to
some piece of masculinity more useful
after all, than many an Amadeus of the
parlor? If Dulcinea and Floribel and
Lillian are to do thus and so in then
way, why not Mary and Ann and Mar.
garet in theirs? Your astonished eyes
open very wide.
"Why, they're only servants"
Yes, dear madam, only servsnts-only
human beings. For we have heard il
family hinted-don't whisper it to Mrs
Grundy, it wasn't from her-that ser.
want girls are actually constituted much
as we are ourselves. "You have given
them home!" Has it ever been such 6
home as, poor though you might be, yor
would for moment think of for your.
sell? "You have treated them as kind
ly as you know howl" Don't you know
a much better way for better" people
Kindness and a comfortable home cos
little pains and less money. Have yor
spent either All, madam, if GOES cienct
makes towards of all, how you ought tt
quake before that " only servant" re
sponsibility OF yours
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

A California "bach" has this to say
about babies: "a baby is not beautiful.
1t is big-hesded, malformed of limb, mis-
shapen of trunk, bloated and puffy as to
countenance, and comparatively hair
less as to scalp. A baby is not good. 1t
is selfish, wantonly cruel, thoughtless,
greedy, and ungrateful. It's immodest,
moreover, and is always executing some
shocking atrocity. A baby is not per-
sonally cleanly; it revels in dirt, and
takes sharp delight in being grimy
end smutted of cheek, sticky of palm
soiled in its raiment, and generally i'll
smelling. write these several indict-
ments more in sorrow than in anger ,and
confident in the justice and truth Of
them I invite discussion. Sir, you know
The facts are as above stated. Madam
you know it."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

SLEEP.-Sleep will do much to cure
irritabiiity of temper, peevishness, un-
eaSiness 1t will! build up and make
strong a weary body. 1t will do much
to cure dyspepsia. 1t will relieve the
languor and prostration felt by consump-
tives. 1t will cure hypochondria. 1t
will cure the headache. 1t will cure neu-
ralgia. 1t will cure broken spirit. 1t
will cure sorrow. Indeed, we might
make long list of nervous maladies
that sleep will cure.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

in penetrating its gummy fastness; The
contents of the stomach, only holt pre-
pared, pass on into the intestines, ma
king discomfort and trouble as they go.
ALI this may he avoided by mixing With
the milk some farinaceous food, such as
bread, or rice, or corn pudding. The
fsrinaceous particles will be SO mixed
through the mass of curd as to destroy
its cohesion and to make it easy for the
stomach to manage it. Even with this
precaution, milk should be used spa ing
ly at the outset, and the digestion shoald
be accustomed to its new work-for the
easy digestion of milk is q trick we put
aside with our childish things.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

A case of chronic rheumatism of un-
usual severity, cured by "Joanson's Ano-
dyne Liniment," is noticed by one of our
exchanges. A large bunch came out
upon the breast OF the sufferer, and ap-
peared like part of the breast bone.
The sweetest words in our language
is health. At the first indication OF
disease, use we'll known and approved
remedies. For dyspepsia or indigestion
use "PdrSonS' Purgatice Pills." For
coughs, colds, sore or lame stomach, use
"JohnSon'S An0dyne Liniment."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

Patients delighted, the doubtful sienced, and
all VINO have eyes 10 see, or ears to hear, more
than satisfied by the absolute certainty with
which HALEs HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND
TAR cures Coughs, Colds, Huarseness, and
every affection OF the lungs and throat, tending
to Consumption.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure Toothache in
one minute. Sold by all Druggists ~ 25 ceuts.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimpies, ring-worm, sslt-rheun. aud
other cutaneous affections cured, sI.d lAe
skin made soft and smooth, by usin- the
JUMPER TAR SOAP, made by CAswELL,
HAZARD g. Co, New-York. 1t is more
convenient and easily applied than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of
the greasy compounds now in use.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
A District Court in California has in

A District Court in California has just
rendered decision against the Central
Pacific Railroad, and in favor of a pas
senger, who rendered greenbacks, in
stead of com, in payment of his fare, and
was put off the cars. The Californains
will probably reconcile themselves, af-
ter while, to the currency which peo-
pie elsewhere are only too glad to have
in their possession.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

An indignant "Barrister writes to
the Times that in spite of the oratorioal
flourish Of Curran about the shackles
falling from the slave the moment he
touches British soil, ETC., etc, the slave
traffic between Tripoli and CONSTANT
nople, through the intermediate port of
Malta, still goes on. The "Bsrrister
saw five or six young female slaves at
Malta on their way to Constantinople
as a present to Pasha.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
TO CoNsUNIPTIvEs.

The advertiser, having been permanently cured
of that dI cad disease Consumption, by a simple
remedy, ia anxious to make known TO his fel Ow
sufferers the means of cure. To al who desi Q it,
he will send cpy of the pre- cription used tree of
charee) with the dill ections for prepa ing anu
usi x the same " hi h they will find suhk CURE
FOR CONSUMPTION ASTHMA BhoN ClilTls. &C. Par
ties wishing the presc1ipt on vii pl ease adul ess
Rev. EuW ARD A. Will On,
1854 south second st, William sbuI gh, N Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

The American Minister at japan
warns our Government of the possibility
of the Russian cattle plague being in
troduced into this country from the
West, as it has now reached the Eastern
Pacific coast.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

Sudden Changes il the Weather are
productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs
and Colds. There is no more eff, ctual
relief to bs found, than in the use of
4" BIoion's Bronchial Tr0ches."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

A correspondent describes Winnie
Ream in her studio "with arms bare to
the shoulders and her ankles likewise !"
which is certainly an airy costume for
this weather.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

TEA LEAVES A REMEDY FOR BURNS
AND ScALDs.-A poultice OF tea leaves
applied to small burns and scalds, afford
immediate relief The leaves are softened
with hot water, and, while quite warm,
applied upon cotton over the entire
burned surface. This application dis
colors an apparently tans the parts, and
removes the acute sensibility aud tender
ness,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
LIVE STOCK MARKET

LIVE STOCK MARKET.
The best cattle we're stld at l2I u ft and the
range for native steers was 10 a 12c.
The market for sh ep and limbs was firm s
a exc. y Id Tor sheep and a she. p 10. for mbs
The market for hogs osed weak at AZ 4,sc.
alive, anu 59 81 c. dressed
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

There were eighty-nine newspaper
establishments destroyed in the Chicago
burnt district, embracing daihes, week
lies, and monthlies.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

MIR. CHARLES w HAssLER, No. I Wall
Street, New York, is the person you
should wiite to if you wish to buy or
sell any Railroad Bonds.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16
vegeIius.

The great secret of its wonderful success It
strikes at the OF dsease by purifying the blood.
rest ring the liver and kidneys 10 healthy acliOn.
and tnvigorating the system.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

W.ixsH propr.tori X; II MeocsiLp Co, DruEgl.u
NIIITiOSS Benr Tes,;,nom onmsree M street, ., y: y:
Wonderful Curntiyo ETn,,s
-rhev are NOT n vile Fancy n,;,,, NJ =. No.
Rum. ybisLev. Proof Sniri,s o., D.r,s.
IJouors doctored spiced and 10 rIooso enc
toste called "Tonics IA ppetizers - "pes,ororv ,s
that land the tipp,er ON to III, I,, 49,.
,r1,e Medicine made from the Satve ro,,s a t,or,,
of California. free from nil AIcobolic s,imn-
Innt.. They are the GREAT BIOOD pUDI.
FER and A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE,
perfect RenovRtor and 1nvigorator of the System.
carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring thebood
toa henltbv condition No person can take these nit
- - =. ,..-.... -, xor,o,,, -, :,
ters according TO directions ana reilulh ohB Wwel
nroyided their bones are not destroyed by mineral
oi. -. o.,,o- ,,,o,,s ,na tbo vito orpans ,vos,aa
poison OF oIher mchis uhu tio 'iN o'bN''9 "usVeu
beyond the point OF repair
Thcy are e'eht'e t"rehi'e"s wen hsh
rome, PoSSesS''iE hSo' the Peo.''i 'c'" y, "c'nR
"S 'o"eii"i uE''' III 'e"e'inR O"'t'S.'o VI i'"Ai
hlation OF INC Liver, ana nI the NisceIM oIR""S
TUX fE"h LIE CoMI L." iNiS' W sou'S U.
ola hmrrieu OF ge' n' t'e u""n ., wo'n"hoo. Ut ~
ne TURN o ne uieSe o"c o!'VeIS nave no equn'
For ihhnhihniory hhu Chrohic hheumn-
inns. Rpuittcut mud Iufermitteut Re-
~, -,
rs Dlscnscs oi the blood' LiNer' hid-
ieys aud Bladder, these Bittcrs have been most
,rcossf,i s,,,,,, p;,,,, ,.. .,,.a,, ., y;.....t
-, I , 7"t' ~ 9os 'ie 0'H'eu ~ '''''c"
bloOd, which Is generally produc'db by arrangement
| the Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Head
che, Pain in the Shoulders Coughs Tightness Of the
| hest Dizziness. Sour Eructations OF the Stomach
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-16

A fight is a bad thing, but you had
better fight than not to have j. Monroe
Taylor's Cream Yeast Baking Powder.