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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
Who the Healthy Girls Are.

Girls, whose ages range from twelve
to eighteen, have an ideal standard of
size, and if by chance nature determines
otherwise, it is punished for its presump-
ton. What corsets cannot effect, arsenic,
slate-pencils, chalk and vinegar can /;
and when all these aids are brought into
requisition, the saints are rewarded by
pallid cheeks, puny physiques-waists
that q hand can almost span. The
mother knows that in the hour her little
girl modestly requests that the hooks
or buttons be set back-for mamma, gee,
1 can run my hand between my dress
waist and myself, and 1 do feel so untidy
with such bag hanging round me, "
that the warfare has begun, and until
the day Of her decline, the apostles in
junction, to "keep the flesh in subjec-
tion," will be scrupulously obeyed. Be-
tween the eras of swaddling- band, and
corsets and crineline, there used to be a
peroid OF few years, when arms and
limbs could climb trees and scale heights
like their progenitors, mentioned by
Darwin, and muscle, sinew, and blood
bade fair to hold their own. The little
bareheaded, tanned girl of ten, astride a
bridleless and saddleless horse, or pad
ding down the stream on raft of her
own constructing, had season of pure
animal enjoyment, and it was thought
enough if she grew plump and rosy,
was early to bed and early to rise, and
could sing the Gives" to the tune of
Yankee Doodle. She must have been
far in her "teens," or out of them, be-
fore che caught glimpse of the model
young lady, with tapered waist, pinched
feet, fastidious appetite and general
air of languor prevailing every move
ment and utterance. She looked upon
the lay-figure with admiration, and
forthwith commenced remodeling her.
self, but with indifferent success. GAS
the twig is bent, the tree is inclined y
Nature had good start, and she would
not yield to art without hard struggle.
The few robust women of fifty to-day
are the ones whose young lives were
free and careless as the birds, whose
clothing never tettered limbs nor pressed
lungs, whose impulses and instincts were
pever checked or killed outright by
Mrs. Grundy's structures. - Woman's
Journal.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
The Plumage of Birds.

The differences Of color and plumage,
according to the sex of the same class of
birds, are very remarkable. AS a rule,
the male bird has more ostentatious
plumage than the female. But this rule
has its notable exceptions. Peacocks,
pheasants, grouse, birds of Paradise, and
perhaps hardly to be mentioned in
such gorgeous company-our own black
bird, have very dull and unconspicuous
mates; yet the female toucan, bee-eater,
parroquet, macaw, and tit are, in almost
every case, as gay and brilliant as the
male. This anomaly has been explained
by recent naturalists by the influence OF
the mode of nest building. The true
principle, with very few exceptions,
seems to be that, when both sexes are of
strikingly gay and conspicuous colors,
the nest is secreted, or such as to conceal
the sitting bird, while, whenever there
is striking contrast of colors, the male
being gay and conspicuous, the female
dull and obscure, the nest is open, and
the sitting bird exposed This import
ant theory is best illustrated by few
examples. We will first take some Of
those groups OF birds in which the female
is conspleuously colored, and in most
cases exactly like the male. In some Of
the most brilliant specimens of the king
fisher species, the female exactly resem-
bles the male. Kingfishers mostly build
their nests in deep hole in the ground
The male and female of the snowy mot.
mots are exactly alike in color, and theil
nest is in q hole under the ground. Puff,
birds are often gayly colored. The sexes
are exactly alike. The nest is in slop'
ing hole in the ground. The barred
plumsge and long crests of the hoopoe
are common alike to the male and fe
male, and the nest is in hollow tree
The barbets are all very gayly colored
and, what is remarkable, the most bril-
liant patches are disposed about the heat
and neck, and are very conspicuous
The male and female are exactly alike
and the nest is in hole of the tree
The same remarks apply to the groun(
cuckoos, save that they build domeC
nest. la the great parrot tribe, adorned
with the most brilliant and varied colors
the rule is that the sexes are exactl.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

alike. All build in holes, mostly in trees I;
but sometimes in the ground, or in white
ants nests. If, on the other hand, we
take the cases when the male is gayly
colored, while the female is much less
gaudy, or even quite inconspicuous, we
find totally different system of nest
building. Take, for instance, the chat
terers. These comprise some of the most
gorgeous birds in the world--vivid blues,
rich puppies and bright reds being the
most general colors. The females are
always obscurely tinted, and are often of
q greenish hue, not easily distinguished
among the foliage. In the extensive
families of the warblers, such as thrushes,
f1ycatchers and shrikes, as also in the
case of the pheasants and grouse, the
males are mostly marked with gay and
conspicuous tints, while the females are
always less pretentious, in the matter of
external beauty, and most frequently are
of the very plainest hues. Now, through
out the whole families the nest is
open; and hardly q single instance
can be mentioned in which any
one of these birds builds domed
nest, or places it in a hole of q
tree, or underground, or in any place
where it is efeotually concealed. In
these facts, the larger and more power
full birds are not taken into considera-
ton because, with these brilliant col
ors are, as rule, absent, and they de-
pend principally on coneealment TO Sc
cure their safety, The apparent reasons
for this difference in the color of the
plumage of the sexes of different species
is very naturally explained. We have
seen that when the female bird has been
in the shade as regards rivalling her
lord and master in the way of !" fine
feathers" the nest was always an open
one. The female bird, while setting on
her eggs in an uncovered nest, would be
much exposed to the attacks of enemies
and any modification of color which
might render her more conspicuous
would often lead to her destruction and
that OF her nestlings. Those birds, on
the other hand, who, male and female,
can boast equally attractive plumage,
build their nests in holes and crevices,
and have, therefore, much less to fear
upon the score of discovery. Once a
Week. ..- ..r. i.
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open the blind) "and l was to keep who
called. There, do believe she's coming
now no; but she'll be back before long,
depend ont" And then she fell ter tell
ing him big stories about the marshes
and the swamps, and pot of gold that
was said ter be buried on the place, no.
body knew where, and it didn't matter
and Mr.. Bal rister Jest answered "No,"
and Yes" and "Ah," without hearing
a word of it all, till Miss Marigold be-
gan for to think him the miserablest
company in the world, when, by-and-by,
the fore-door opened, and in came my
lady, Lucy Ellen, flushed and beaming,
dressed in her good clothes, with her
sunshade and her violet gloves.
"Oh, Mr.. Barrister," she cried, "have
you been here long? How glad am
ter see youp And then she stopped and
changed color at the strange, strange
look in her lovers eyes-or the eyes that
he'd been her lovers an hour ago-which
he'd took u terrible sadness.
"I am going away" said he, then.
81 wish ter bid you good-by, and to
thank you for-for much pleasure and
many-many hospitalities."
"But you will come this way ag'in,
and come up ter see us 7" said Lucy FL
len, lighting up, thinking he only want
ed little encouragement. !" We hev
not lost you altogether Z"
No, Miss Lucy, L shall never come
this way ag'in. You he0 lost me alto
gether, if that is anything: and II hev
lost more than any one; hev lost my
faith in womanhood." And then he took
up his hat ag'in, and bowed himself out,
and they never set ewes on him ag'in
And them's jest the reasons why Lucy
Ellen Marigold never got merried. 49,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
Liquid Gold.

One of the prettiest sights the human
eye ever rested upon is pure gold in its
liquid state, We saw in the Branch
Mint, yesterday, jar containing several
gallons of the liquid, partially precipi-
tated. t The liquid is the color of pure
sherry wine, and greatly magnifies that
which is precipitated in the solid state
Looking through the side of the jar al
the gold which had settled on the bot
tom, it presented splendor and mag
nifcence such as we never witnessed
even in the most brilliant tsunset-an ap-
pearance not unlike that which one
would imagine the vault of heaven
would present if inverted and lined
with solid gold and lighted by a sum.
mer sun. The assayer had his eye peel
ed while We were examining the jar
Carson Register.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03
LOVE AT SEA.

Foam-crested waves, from morn to night,
That met all round the deep blue sky,
With here and there sail in sight,
Which came, then vanished TO the eye.
Our glittering wake shone far behind,
A path of silver reaching back;
With sbrill voice sang the salt sea wind;
The petrol lowering In our track.
Linked arm in arm, when skies were fair,
We trod the deck with thoughtless aim,
Or sometimes, idly seated there,
Watched the fair sails which went and came.
Or, gazing down along the deep,
We marked the long, dark indolcnt swells,
Aud saw the bounding porpoise leap,
And heard ON board the half-hour bells.
Oh what to us was Times swift flight
Or Time itself, beyond name?
oh what to us the noon or night,
To whom all seasons were the same?
For love possessed our souls, and drew
His rosy veil before our eyes,
And, stepped in bliss, our souls looked
through H...
The open gates of Paradise.
Left far behind the new world lay;
Dim, distant, shadowy, and vast,
The old world rose before our way,
Replete with records of the past
What time fair Hesperus, rising, cleaned
In crimson deeps where sank the breeze,
The red sun from the far west seemed
To drop into the purple seas.
And on the farthest verge of night
Rose the full moon, like some pale nun,
r.. ....l.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

"Social cataclysms," says the Chicago
Republican, " are the effects of the opera
tion of that principle of natural selection
by which all nature, animate and inani-
mate, is pervaded." The Louisville Jour
nal is in raptures over the information.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-03

Foam-crested waves, from morn to night,
That met all round the deep blue sky,
With here and there a sail in sight,
Which came, then vanished 10 the eye.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30

The price of admission to the French
Fair is fixed at fifty cents, and prizes are
offered to persons selling one, two, five
and ten hundred tickets. A paper will
be printed in connection with the Fair, to
be called the Balloon.
The malice of woman has brought
the Young Woman's Apprentice Associa-
ton to an untimely end, and the mourn
ers 90 about the streets.
Extensive preparations for Easter are
going forward. Many of the Protestant
as well as Catholic churches will be hand
somely decorated. One enterprising
florist already has orders for twelve
hundred bouquets. besides a large num-
Der of other decorations. A cross made
for the ST. James Church during the cele-
bration of the Forty Hours Devotion, "
was thirteen feet in length, composed of
heath, white carnations, callas, and one
| thousand rosebuds.
| A new style of advertising is to give
open air exhibitions OF steroscopic views,
Every other picture is a tablet bearing
the advertisement OF firm PERCIE.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30
Railroad MANAGEMENT.

writer in Kentucky paper, contrasting
present railroad management at the South with
that in vogue at the time when the roads were
new, tells some rich anecdotes. 1t was the
practice in those days to select the President
and superintendent from among successful
business men without regard to special quaifi-
cations or practical knowledge of rairoading
The result was that while some few became
distinguished i'll their new vocation, more dis
played utter incapacity. One of these latter. on
being asked what kind of chairs he intended to
use on his road, replied that they chad not
furnished their offices as yet; the common
spIit-bottomed chair would do them for a while. p
Another President, newly appointed, ordered a
lot of "crooked links, FUSED to couple cars to-
gether, which have different nights of draw
heads) to be taken to II blacksmith shop and
aightened he wouldn't submit to such waste.
This same man once confidently asked one of
his road officers, when both happened to be
looking at a passing locomotive, "where the
steam struck the big wheel to turn it round"
Another visited the East to procure machinery
and rolling stock, and in making the contracts
could not tell the gauge of his road! He had
to telegraph home to find out Since then.
railroad companies have come to understand
that if their roads are to be run successfully
of men acquainted with all the details of the
business, and who are first class in every re-
spect.
There is Il world of truth in the above.
which we find in the Boston journal.
No business in the world so much requires
intimate knowledge, experience and prac-
teal acquaintance with all its details, as
that of railroad management. This is
particularly applicable to new roads, in
which the labor of organizing, directing
and getting to work is very great, and in
which railroad experience cannot be dis
pensed with, any more than new ship
can be fitted for sea by green hand.
What is true of all other business, has
four-fold force in the business of railroad
ing
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30
From the Portland Press,
Hon Isaac Reed Not a Despot.

"DOWNFALL OF ANOTHER DEspoT."
To the Editor of the Press: In your
issue OF the 10th inst. the above is the
caption of an article relative to the cleo
ton in Waldoboro'. Isaac Reed was a
candidate tor town office and defeated by
less than one fourth of the voters of the
town: an unusual occurrence, truly.
This is not his first defeat for the office of
selectman, since my recollection. He was
the regular Wing candidate and defeated
by the rum candidate" yet he survived.
He will probably su rvive this and again
be heard from. That Mr.. Reed has had
and now has influence in this town is true.
He bears no "Despotic Rule" His most
effective weapon is kindness. At the
commencement of the rebellion it was
said creed has ruined himself; his course
buried him forever" What was the re-
suit +? In 1868 he was nominated for the
Senate by conventions of the then three
parties and elected nearly unanimously
a few "copperheads'' only opposing. So
he again survived. | have been his NEIGH
Dor for more than forty years and know
his whole life. Active In business; hon
est and truthful in all his acts; a friend
to the poor and distressed; always ready
to aid in all reforms and charities his
morals never questioned; if thisis the char
acter of a "despot" his despotism is of the
right kind. Nor A POLITICIAN.
Waldoboro', March goth, 1871.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30
Letter From Rockiand.
Correspondence of the Journal.

ROCKLAND, March 2T, 1871
Our season Of mud has commenced unusually
early this spring. Yet, notwithstanding the
travelling is unusually bad for this season, our
citizens have become so accustomed to it, that
it very little retards their progress or business.
The lime kins, which now are mostly lin the
hands of the Cobb Lime Company, are all on
fire, turning out large quantities of lime, and
the large fleet of lime coasters, which have been
hauled up ut the wharVes during the winter,
are now bending their sails, and taking in car
goes.
The Cobb Lime Company, Notwithstanding
the repeal of its charter, has organized under
the general statute, which provides for the or
| ganization OF corporations for manufacturing
| purposes, and is going on swimingly. We
have yet seen no very disastrous results since
| its organization.
| The March Term of the Supreme Judicial
Court for this county, closed its session here on
Friday last, Judge Kent presiding. Very little
business was done during the term, aud but
few cases disposed of. Only one case was sub
mitted to jury, and in that no verdict was
rendered.
| The Masonic fraternity of this city received
| from the Legislature, the past winter, charter
| to build a Masonic Temple, and | am informed
| that sufficient money to build the same has
been already subscribed, and a lot OF land on
which to build the same has been purchased.
On Saturday evening last, on a call of the
Mayor, meeting of the citizens was held at
the City Hail. to take into consideration the
matter of building a large public hall in con-
nection with the Masonic building; but no
definite action was taken. However, it is to be
hoped that some such arrangement will be
made, as we are now without hall in the city
of any considerable size.
The season opens with a better prospect Of
business, than the past; and though the pros
pect for shipping is no brighter, still quite A
number of our citizens are preparing to build
vessels during the coming summer
The new city government has been organized
and the ever troublesome subject of streets aud
| street commissioners is now under considera-
ton. 1t is matter of fact that this city OK
ponds more money every year on It's streets
and highways, than any other town or city IN
the State, and yet they are hardly pasSable at
any season OF the year, owing to the great
amount of heavy teaming. 1t is to be hoped,
| but hardly to be expected, that some method
may be devised by our city government, where
by permanent improvement may be made in
the matter of road building.
Messrs. Weber & Hall, of this city, and Mr.
| Mayo, of South Thomaston, have purchased the
old Sears estate, at theBrook $50 called in this
city, and are erecting a Steam Mill, to be used
for the purpose of manufacturing hogshead
slaves, and as grIst mill. Great complaint is
made by owners of real estate on Main street,
in that vicinity, that thYe il no established
srn.lo nf tho strnat aud many who wish to erect
brick buildings are deferred from doing so fol
| that reason. NoMEN.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30
Book Notices.

THE LIBRARY OF POETRY AND S0NG. At
tort;or :, l,a ,l,.tiso,,,,,+ Of ,,,,,,t,
'e"'lon - '"l'o'' - '''' advertisement VI 's'n'N
"ah'eo .or tne sue Oh ''iS ne" ""u e'cS'''
WORK we nave MOI seen tue DOCK p'it there
Is every reason " pelIe'e tiat 1t j. one ol inc
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tionniiv excellent IN its mechaniral features
but While its Sbapey octave page, its beautiful
paper, ana hue Itu'Iine margin instantly al
i.tic If th hook lies ,yEer II o,,oht -
the choice aud wisdom of its selections To Nv
the opp99rlunlties for criticism seems sngulary
a., Ti'WSuomt taiu Door one leeIS mat
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30
The breach widens. Summers speech

The breach widens. Summers speech
of Monday opened yawning chasm that
no effort can close. The Senator, know
ing that he has the good sense of the coun-
try at his back, and all the argument to
strengthen his position. can calmly
await events. The disadvantage at
which the President and his followers
are placed is enormous. Grants known
obstinacy is such that he cannot be brought
to abandon this his pet scheme, and the
consequence will be thatthe radical house,
divided against itself, will have its newt
able fall fastened by the dissensions.
Whom the gods would destroy they
make mad" says the proverb, and prob
ably the maddest man in the country
to-day sits in the White House.
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Serious Acc ident.
ROCKLAND, Me-. March q

Mr.. Josiah II. Paine, was severely in
jured by a premature explosion while
blasting logs on Rankin Hill in this city
to-day. One hand was lacerated, and
his face and eyes were so badly burned
that he is in danger of losing his sight
and perhaps his life. Two boys, sons of
Messrs, Joseph Clark and Willard Gates
who were standing by at the time of the
accident, were also injured, the latter so
badly that it was thong his sight might
be wholly or partially destroyed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30

The Portland Advertiser says: "The Belfast
Journal has the best Boston correspondent of
any paper in this part of the country, but we
could never quite make up our mind whether
'Percie' was man woman" We endorse the
Advertisers opinion. Lewiston Journal
AS much curiosity has been manifested
to learn something concerning the writer
of the letters alluded to, we will state that
they are from the pen of Miss Melyina
A. Patterson, of Stockton, now resident in
Boston. She is a young lady OF decided
ability, whose name, we predict will be-
come more widely known in the world of
literature Her letters are much admir-
ed and extensively copied by the papers
of other states. The letter in which she
described the Musical Jubilee was the
best that fell under our observation. Mr.
Gilmore solicited q copy to be incorpora-
ted into his history of the event, which is
about to be published.
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