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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-07-05

You have both the preventive and the cure, with this
great and good quality, that it will never undlr any
circumstances, do you any injury.
No change of diet necessary. Eat the best you
can get, and plenty enough of it.
DREcTIoNs FOR UsE.-Adults, one tablespoonful per
day. Chi !dren ten years, dessert spoonful: hill
dren from five to eight years. teaspoontul AS no di
recons be applicable to all constitutions, take
sufficient to operate on the bowels twice day.
Yours truly, DONALD KENNEDY.
Price $50 per bottle. For sale by every druggist
in the United States and British Provinces
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

Fortunate, weary of breath" There are
sixteen cases of each nationality. Six
of the Americans slumbered unto death
by swallowing narcotic poison, five shot
themselves, two took Paris green, two
cut their throats, and one hanged him
self. OF the Irish, six took poison, four
hanged, and two shot themselves, two
leaped from windows, one drowned him
self, and one cut his throat.
OF seven English suicides, four took
poison, one hanged himself, one cut his
throat, one leaped from the roof, and
one hanged himself. There were three
French suicides, of which number one
hanged himself, one cut his throat, and
one leaped from the roof. The remain
ing thirteen of the total number, and
scattered through various nationalities,
ended their lives by all the different
plans above specified, except one, who
threw himself before a locomotive. II
is interesting to note the Germans pre-
ferred the most violent deaths, even in
the choice of poisons, such as Paris
green, strychnine, etc., the imost active
and deadly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

whom nature intended to be firm allies
and inseparable friends into hostile
camps in which the great law of love
and mutual forbearance is extinguished
by selfish passions. The law of force,
whether expressed in trade associations
preventing other men from exercising
their inalienable right to labor where
they can find work, or in combinations
of capitalists seeking by lock outs to
close the avenues of labor, are equally
reprehensible and should never be allow
ed, under any provocation whatever, to
take the place of the divine law: What
soever ye would that men should do un-
to you, do ye even 30 unto them nor
will such ON unnatural and criminal
substitution ever be possible, if poor men
will remember that it is the duty and
therefore the right, of every poor man
to strive to become rich by honest, intel
ligent and patient labor, and if rich men
will remember that the possession of
wealth, which is the fruit of the general
effort, confers no right to its use as an
engine of oppression or coercion upon
any class which is concerned in its pro-
duction. Let me then record that, dur
ing long life passed in active business,
1 have never known any but evil conse-
quences to all classes, and especially to
the innocent, to result from strikes, lock
OUTS or other forcible measures designed
to interfere with the steady and regular
march of productive industry, and feel
justified in an earnest appeal to both
workmen and capitalists henceforth to
regard each other as equals and friends
and to initiate the great example, so re-
Gently set by the enlightened govern
ment of Great Britain and the United
States, in the submission of their differ
ences to arbitration; and not to expect
to reform social evils by combinations
designed to force either side into the ac-
ceptance of unpalatable terms, by the
stern logic of starvation and indiscrimi.
nate ruin. Reform to be of any perma.
nent value, must be based upon personal
virtue, not force; and it seems to me
that the millennium will not be far off
when each individual shall set about re-
forming himself rather than society, ant
conforming his life to the great law O.
loving God and his fellow-men. Will,
1 thank you my young friends-I hat
almost said my children-for this mani
festation of your respect and gratitude
so touching because SO full of love, le
me ask you to accept of this feeble bu
heartfelt reply as kind of flast will ant
testament Of the garnered experience o
an old friend, whose days are almos
numbered, and who asks only to be re
membered as zone who loved his fellow
men,"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
The Art of Living Well-A Rival of Mr..
Bryant.

We copied in recent number of the
Journal an account given by the poet
Bryant of the mode of life which he had
pursued for many years, and to which
may fairly be attributed his remarkable
health of mind and body at very ad-
vonced age. A Georgian, who processes
to be 96 years of age and carpenter by
trade, has been moved by Mr.. Bryant's
letter to give his own method of pre-
serving health, which is somewhat diff
ferent from that of the poet. He says :
al get up about five in the morning,
drink about six or eight drinks of good,
solid corn whiskey by about eight o'clock.
By that time have lacked off and dress
ed about five hundred feet Of plank,
more or less, then take breakfast.
"My breakfast is generally smother
ed chicken and stewed catfish or two
or three trout; sometimes two or three
shad, with beefsteak and ham and fried
eggs, with two or three dozen boiled eggs.
fifteen or twenty batter cakes, with a
little coffee or tea-say about six or
eight cups-just as 1 feel about the num-
Der of cnps. l then joint, tongue, and
groove the plank. By about one o'clock
1 am ready for putting up or down, at
which time dine.
my dinner is not always the same
but generally take about three or four
quarts of turtle and pea soup, small
baked pig or a roasted goose, sometimes
quarter of lamb or kid, greens, beans
peas, onions, eschalots, potatoes, cabbage
and other like vegetables, by which time
have drink ahout fifteen or twenty
drinks of old, solid corn whiskey. After
dinner put up or down my plank. a:
the case may be; take few drinks dur
ing the time, say about twelve or four
teen.
81 then take the last meal, which il
generally called tea; don't use any
meat; drink about six quarts of good
buttermilk, with about one and hal
or two pounds oflight bread take about
four drinks to hold it steady, lay dowr
about eight, and rest better than if
had crowded my stomach. then res
well, dream pleasant dreams and ris'
early again.
"This has been my mode of living
through life. l am stout and active
weigh from two hundred and sixty t.
two hundred and seventy-fve pounds
health fine. My head is as black as {
gander's back. 1 am not very extrava
CANT in using tobacco only use abou
two or three plugs day, say one and {
half pounds; smoke some and chew the
balance-not that l like the weed us
it only to keep the flesh down. apple
tons Journal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
The Wonderful Grove Of Palms at Rio
JaneirO.

1 hardly know how to describe this
garden. There are one hundred and ten
palms in two rows-a fine gravel walk
about forty feet wide running between
them. These palms, set out as straight
as an arrow, are crossed at one end by
another path with about as many palms
on each side as in the first row; the
whole forms the letter T. A fountain
from the aqueduct which supplies the
city plays in the centre of this grove.
The trees are perfectly straight, with no
branches until near the top, where the
whole cluster is. The whole tree is,
should say, about seventy-fve feet high !;
the upper part of the trunk is perfectly
green, the lower part is bottle-shaped.
Every variety of palm is to be found in
this garden. Plots of flowers are be-
tween every walk, and of the brightest
colors; most Of the walks are lined with
hedges, trimmed up to square corners,
flat on top, and are little larger than
at the ground. These hedges are in per-
feet line in their trimming. So true
and perfect are they that first took
them for blocks of wood cut out and
painted green. Every kind Of tropical
fruit is found in this garden. The Or
ange, lemon, pineapple, cocoanut, fig,
bread-fruit, mango, guava, caju, plan
tain, banana, and don't know how
many more, whose names do not re-
member, and the fruit never saw be-
fore. Bowers covered with running
vines, having seats under them, were
filled with humming birds of gayest
plumage. Bamboo canes, in spots, were
growing so thick that mouse could not
have crawled through the clusters. The
canes were forty feet high, some of them
and perfectly straight. Think of a fish.
ing pole as straight as an arrow, thirty
or forty feet long, not as large as your
wrist at the butt, with perfect taper
down to nothing. This garden is about
one-fourth as large as Central Park
New York, or about as large as Boston
Common. Like the park, it is not fin
ished yet. A line of horse cars run to il
from the city. This line is owned by
some New Workers, pays 40 per cent. t
year dividend, and the stock can't b,
bought for money. Although negroe
and whites are on equality here Il meal
the free negroes), no man can ride in th'
cars unless he has on a cravat and col
lar.-J0urnaL Of q Tourist.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
A SagaciOus Dog.

Mr.. Snapp, blacksmith, owns two
dogs; one, terrier, four or five years
old, the other, half shepherd and half
cur, about twelve or fifteen years old,
and consequently very feeble.
In the winter, between the hours for
breakfast and dinner, and dinner and
supper, these two dogs may always be
seen perched up just far enough from
Mr.. Snaps forge to escape the sparks,
but still near enough to keep warm.
As soon as the hour for dinner comes
which they know even better than the
apprentices in the shop-they are both
off at full run, each aiming to secure a
place behind the warm kitchen stove,
which is only large enough for one dog
at time. Now the terrier, being the
most active, almost always gains the
coveted place, leaving the poor old.dog
out in the cold. Now comes the curious
part of my story:
The old dog being thus left out in the
cold, one bitter day, put himself in a
thinking attitude, and set his wits to
work to devise some means by which he
could get the terrier out of the coveted
place. AL at once an idea seemed to
strike him. Taking advantage of the
good "watch dog" qualities of the ter
rier, he made feint toward the garden,
barking furiously, as if some one was
intruding at that point, when, true to
his nature, out popped the terrier, not
to make feint, but to make pell-mell
rush to the extreme end of the garden,
pushing the old schemer just outside the
kitchen-door, who no sooner saw the
terrier enter the garden than he popped
too, not into the garden, but behind the
warm kitchen stove, curled himself up
and waited, with cunning twinkle in
his eye, for his young friend, who no
sooner made his appearance, and seeing
the situation, then he tried exactly the
same stratagem with the old dog, with
as little success as if he had tried to fly.
Finding that to fail SO signally, he in
turn put his wits to work.
After disappearing in the garden for q
few moments he made his appearance
right in front of the kitchen-door, with
large bone in his mouth, and set to
work on it as if he was enjoying il
hugely.
Now, what dog could resist such g
tempting sight At least, the fellow
behind the stove could not, it is plain
for, sneaking cautiously out of his snug
retreat, he made a sudden dash for the
coveted bone, which he secured very
easily, to the surprise of all for few
minutes only, as the mystery was soor
cleared up; for, no sooner had he pos
sessed himself of what he soon found t.
be nothing but an old dry bone they
had both gnawed hundred times, thar
the young rascal had secured the goot
warm retreat behind the stove-whicl
he certainly deserved after displaying 81
much cunning-leaving the poor OLE
fellow out again in the cold, there tt
contemplate the proverb: at takes 1
thief to catch thief"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
Curious Statistics of Suicide In New
York.

Some of the details in the case of the
one hundred and one suicides for the
year 1871 (nearly two per week), re-
corded in the bureau of vital statistics,
and hitherto unpublished, are interest
ing. Seventy-nine of these were males,
and twenty-five females, and out Of
that number twenty-seven chose death
by hanging, twenty-one by shooting,
and eleven by drowning; Dine cut or
stabbed themselves, seven jumped from
dizzy heights, twenty-five took poison,
and one placed himself before locomo-
tive. 1t appears that the Germans dur
ing the year have been the most prone
to take their own lives, having furnished
forty-six or nearly one-half of the en-
tire number. Hanging seems to have
been the favorite form of suicide, there
being twenty-seven, plurality over all
methods adopted by them to shuttle off
the mortal coil" OF the forty-six Ger
mans who chose other methods than
hanging, eleven put an end to their ex-
istenoe by shooting, seven used violent
and active drugs to poison themselves,
three leaped from windows, three cut
their throats, one stabbed, and another
killed himself with hatehet, and three
chose death by drowning.
Native Americans and the Irish are
next upon the roll of those rashly i'm
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
New York Markets.

FLOUR AND MEAL-The market continues exceed
ingly duh for all grades with prices generally
decline not general and connpedd mainly to ship e
ping grades, Rye -four lower. Corn meal very
r% with sale Of n yeow Western e SO We
shipping extras, S625 $685. bakers and family
ssa5. Rye four S4sS % s5se aGa Corn %eai ssSc Ss q
dywine.
GRocERIEs-Raw sugars less active, yet fair
trade noted; prices are firm; sales 81 9Ac. for
fair to good refining. Coffee more active; Moasses
and rice meet with only limited jobbing trade.
SUNDRIEs-Rosin firmer st s2.55a s2eO for strained
Spirits turpentine unchanged at 46h 47c. Petro-
leum lower and dull at 25Ac. for refined. Linseed
tive at 93c Iallow quiet al . u exc Freights less
active and rates easierj to Liverpool, by steam,
grain Cd.
GRAIN--wheat a &c. lower under decline in
Liverpoolj business moderate; sales at sL5O sl5i
70 Tor soft No spring, SlSl SLb2 Tor straight do
for red and amber winter. oats firmer and fairly
aetiyei sales at g 69c; for Ohio and State and
@and d.; sales at ss7s for western T Rye dn f and
heavy. Corn &C. better, with brisk demand /;
70 @ for sa%P aaS son e
low and white Western, and sSc for round yel-
PRovIsIoNs-Pork again lower and dull; sales at
Sl5l2k s15.z5 for new mess and slS 1880 for
Western prime mess active for the future; sales
at saS7h sl5 for July and August Beef dun and
out activity; sales at 7he. for shoulders and IL
i2hc; for hams Dressed hogs quiet at &C. for
and lower, especially city; sales at 9hc. for No l,
l0c for fair to prime steam and l0hc. for kettle.
Future sales at 19h 10Ac. for July.
CoTToN-Spot moderately active and Nc higher ;
futnre active at an advance Of Ac. ; sales on the
spot at lshc; for low middling, and 2OHc for mid
ding uplands For future delivery sales at 1880.
for June 20kc for July, 20c for August 1850. for
Septembtr lsAc for November, and Hac. for De-
cember.
LIVE STOCK MARKET-The market for beeves was
| fair but closed with a downward tendency. The
native cattle were sold at II a l2ac. y ~, with
few at l3c. and Texans at 10l6 lOAo. Common
Ohio, Virginia, and Pennsylvania lambs at 81 a
10 and good to prime Jersey and State do, at
| for the few live hogs on the market For cars OF
Fat heavy hogs, holding at &C. p ib; Axe, was bid
average, sold at &C. Dressed hogs continue steady
al q &c. p 10.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
Late Post Ofllce Regulations Respecting
Special Reauest Envelopes.

In the appropriation by Congress for
the supply of stamped envelopes and
newspaper wrappers for the fiscal year
ending June 30th, 1871, it is provided
that special devices and the address of
correspondents will not be printed un-
der any circumstances whatever. The
printing of cards and requests across the
end, has been discontinued. In future
they will be printed on the left hand
upper corner. only. Business avocations
or employments will be excluded from
cards and requests. The name and ad-
dress of the writer only should be given,
without any reference to his occupation.
No variation will be made in the style
of type, the color of ink, or the form of
request adopted by the Department I;
neither will cards or requests be sur
rounded by border of any kind.
From two to eight cents more per hum
dred will be charged for most denomi-
nations than under present regulations.
These changes take effect on the first of
July, 1871, and any order in conflict with
the new regulations that may be re-
ceived at the Department on and after
that date will be returned untitled.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

Nor MERELY TO TICKLE THE PAL
ATE, but to infuse health and vigor into
the enervated and diseased system, is
the high purpose and sure effect of DIR.
WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs. This
famous restorative creates no sudden
flash of excitement, to be succeeded by
increased debility and ten fold of gloom.
1t braces the relaxed nerves and i'm
parts permanent tone and regularity to
the whole animal machinery. Dyspep-
sia, liver complaint, physical prostra-
tion, diarrhea and in fact nearly all
complaints that are organic, yield to its
operation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

Ducks are said to do good service in
exterminating the potato bug. A gen.
tleman OF P:qus, Ohio, put pair of
Muscovy's into his potato patch, which
was literally swarming with the bugs.
The ducks ate the bugs with such avidity
that the latter were soon exterminated,
and the patch has not since been troub-
led with them. The ducks did not ap-
pear to suffer any ill effects from eating
the bugs, and were not very slow in
"taking in all they could discover.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Bromophyte
And Rose Fertilizer.

Every gardener, nurseryman, conservatory, and
cabbage raiser, should use our FOOD FOR
PLANTS" II will kill all slugs, bugs, worms, and
insects that nfest the or house pantsstop the
borer, and kill the cabbage werm Don't fail to send
boxes and can be sent everywhere. Price 25c., 50c
and 81. Agents wanted in every town. To be had
at all seed stores. To dealers liberal discount.
Address N. Y. BROMOPHYTE GUANO CO.,
40 broadway. LOMBARD d co.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

Agents, Read, Decide, and Act .'-I want
every person in the United States and New Jersey
who wishes 10 make money, TO send me their name
and address, and get samples and circulars FREE, of
some new articles needed in every family, and as
saeable as steamboats, at two cents apiece. Agents.
II you want employment that will pay you from $40
enterprise or humbug. Address w. IL. CHIDEsTER,
267 Broadway, New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

For loss of cud, horn all, red water in
cows, loss of appetite, rot, or murrain in
sheep; thick wind, broken wind, and
roaring, and for all distractions of the
kidneys in horses, use Sheridan's Caualry
Condition PooderS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

An Irishman called at drug store to
get a bottle of Johnson's Anodyne Lini-
naent for the Rheumatism; the druggist
asked him in what part of the body it
troubled him most. "Be me SOUL" said
he, 81 have it in every houl and corner
er me-"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

The grasshopper having become some
thing too much of burden in UtaE, the
ingenious Mormons have contriyed a
machine to make it hot for him. 1t is
drawn by two horses, cuts swath
through the 'hoppers rod wide, and
makes hash of all that lie in its way.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29
THEA-N ECTAR
FRAGRANT SAPOLIENE

Cleans Kid Gloves and all kinds of Cloths and
Clothing; removes Paint, Grease Tar, etc, instant
ly, without the least injury to the finest fabric.
sold by Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers. FRA.
GRANT sAPoLIENE CO., SO Barclay St., New
York. as La Sale ST., Chicago.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

I00 TURNER'S, Mechanics, BIaclksmiths,
lOO Merchants and LnbOrers WANTED to
go to Iowa and Nebraska under the auspices Of the
ORANGE AND SUSSEX COLONY, to whom the best in
ducements are offered. For particulars address
S. II. SAVER. Deckertown, Sussex Co., Nj.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

A GREAT MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
MILLIONS Beur Testimony 90 tho
wonderful Curative Effects of
DIR. WALK EEs,S CALIFORNIA
VjhEel:4lR 3 IR||iI11gRS IRS
~ q
Azll!sII!s.A!'l; Azll!sI!. N!::1Ih II !hIl!7d;A
merce stN.Y.
v;nrrnr Bittcrs are not vile Fancy DRINK.
Made of Poor Run, Whiskey, Proof Spirits
aud Refuse LIQUORS doctored, spced and sweet
TIERS" Resorers" &C., that lead the tipper on TO
drunkenness and ruin, but are true Medicine, made
from the Native Roots and Herbs OF California,
free from oil Alcoholic Sttmulnnts. They arc
the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A
LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, perfect Keno
vator and Invgorator oftho System carrying OIL all
poisonous matter and drestoring blood to aheahy
condition. No person take these Bitters accord
ing to directions and remain long unwel, provided
their bones arc not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means and the vital organs wasted beyondt
point ofrcpair.
They nre n Gentle Purgntivc rs well ms n
Tonic, possessing also, the peculiar merit OF acting
as powerful agent in relieving Con gestion or infam-
,no,ior of tbo iror ond oil tho Visceral Organs.
iiio'ioii vi .I'o -. 'e. '','I ~" .~,-s t.,- a..
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, Whether In
vounp or old married or single, at the dawn of wo
nhood or a, +I,o ,rrr of irn tbose Tonic Bitters
y ~ ~ - ~'
nave no equal
For Inilnmmntory and Chronic Nheumns
| s;su, mud Cant Dvs,pnain mr. Indiuestfou,
,,:,. -. III I,...;.,.,, r.
uillous, Ncmiitcht anu ihtcr"htenl re'
crs, Dtscnscs of tho Dlood, LIVER hidneys'
ana Biaddcr, thesc DitteFs haNo oeeh n,os' sue
cessinl. such Diseases arc causeu oy Nitihtea
BLOOD, whicn Is geherahy prouu'ea W oe'""s''
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-06-29

SK ATi DON'T BE FRIGHTENEDl-A
OAA l. box Oroide Gold Fountain Pens
and copy of the INDEPENDENT, the best paper in
Sussex county, N. J., for two months sent on
cept of so cents or two boxes paper six months
for 81; six boxes and paper one year for g. These
Pens are warranted not to corrOde, and one dip Of
this Pen aciU aCrte three pages Samples receipt
of 10 cents. Address INDEPENDENT, Decker
town, Sussex Co., N. j.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-16

Most of the Protestant Churches of this
city are closed for the Summer. me ex,
nlanation of this is that in the mind and
t thea duty ~ of %orshiping. God IS q duty
which God does not require to be perform
ed during the Summer months. We are
afraid that it will yet be discovered that
the Almighty is not so lax. There is
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-16
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger

THE MORNING STAR has been started
with the approval of the ecc.esiastit-
authority of the Diocese, to supply an
admitted want in New Orleans. ana
mainly devoted to the interests of the
Catholic Church.
To prevent all failure, and to guarantee
the permanency Of the undertaking, II ID
based ON q Joint stock company, tho CAPT
tai of which is one hundred thousand
dollars, in Ave thousand shares, Of twenty
dollars each.