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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28

ed over his misery, often reading to him
the letter from his mother.
The poor man promised to marry the
girl and make all the reparation in his
power to the family, but the brother
was deaf to entreaties. At last the part
ner--dwindled to skeleton-died and
the brother, after burying his victims
emaciated corpse in the sand, resumed
his journey to st. Louis. There he gave
out that his partner had died while on
his way through the Rocky Mountains,
and in proof of his assertion delivered
the letters. The will was also proved,
and the girl became the dead mans heir.
Two years afterwards the brother was
shot by Indians, and before he died con-
fcssed what he had DONE Some hunters
visited the place and dug up the skele-
ton, around the neck of which still was
the chain by which the poor man when
living had been fastened to the fatal
rock. The spot is still pointed out to
travellers, and the tale told of how the
brother, day after day, eat his meals in
the presence of his wretched prisoner, but
would not give him SO much as a crumb
or a cup of water to slake his thirst.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
To Those About 10 Marry.

Ny advice is to marry as quickly as
possible, for none but those who are, un-
happily, versed in such matters can be
aware of the manifold minor, to say no.
thing of major, evils which a long en-
gagement entails. The position of an
afiianced pair, after time, becomes al
most ridiculous. Premature congratula-
tions are poured forth by some over-en-
thusiastic friends, while others cease to
believe in the reality of an ultimate set
tlement, and become suspicious of the
sincerity of your professions, and almost
personally affronted at your delay. Then
the difficulty of sustaining, with appro-
pirate effect, the character OF an en-
gagged man is something enormous.
say nothing of the difficulty which
lady in that delicate position has to
encounter, for we all keow that they ex-
perience but little difficulty in making
themselves perpetually agreeable-at
least before marriage; but with regard
to man, think of the amiable and ex-
cusable deceptions he is forced to be
guilty of-the real distaste, but profess
ed pleasure, with which he accompanies
" the beloved object" to the festiue board
of some oppressive family friend, where,
for two mortal hours at least, he has to
sit, the observed of all observers, next to
the idol to whom he has been paying un-
ceasing devotion for the greater portion
of the daa, and to whom now he has to
make himself agreeable-having ex
hausted every scrap of news, every con-
coivable subject of conversation He
is afraid to venture upon any tender
aside, for fear he should be thought silly !;
or to keep much to generalities, for fear
he should be considered slow.
1 have, indeed, remarked engaged
couples who have been content to sit in
blissful silence wrapped i'll contempla-
ton Of their approaching happiness /;
but such II state of quiescence is rarely
observable, and can scarcely bc preserved
for an indefinite period.
One of my earliest recollections of
such a couple is when they were sitting
in this state of tranquil calm, and form
ing a very limited hand-in- hand mutual
assurance company of their own; but
their example is scarcely to be quoted,
as the partnership was shortly afterward
dissolved forever, and the lady and gen.
tleman are at present thousands of miles
apart, and each belonging to another
firm.
1t is impossible for man of business
not to sympathize with an eminent ply
sician, who informed his future wife that
he had no time for courtship but that
if she would marry him, and be ready
on certain day, he should be happy to
meet her at the church and make her his
bride. Temple Bar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
Saturday Night.

What blessed things Saturday Nights
are, writes some one in the Iribune, and
what would the world do without them !:
Those breathing moments in the tramp
ing march of life; those little twilights
III the broad and garish light of noon,
when the pale yesterdays look beautiful
through the shadows, and faces " chang
ed long ago, smile sweetly again in the
hush; when one remembers "the Old
folks at home," and the old-fashioned
fire, and the old armchair, and the lit
tie brother that died, and the little sister
that was translated"
Saturday Nights make people human
settheir hearts to beating softly as they
used to, before the world turned them
into war-drums, and Jared them to
pieces with tattoos.
The ledger closes with clash; the
iron-doored vaults come to with bang
up go the shutters with will; click
goes the key in the lock. 1t is Saturday
night, and business breathes free again.
Homeward, no! The door that has been
ajar all the week gently closes behind
him; the world is shut out. Shut out
Shut in, the rather. Here are his trea-
sures after all, and not in the vault, and
not in the book-save the record in the
old family Bible-and not in the bank.
Maybe you are bachelor, frosty and
forty. Then, poor fellow, Saturday
Nights nothing to you, as you are moth
ing to anybody: Get Il wife, blue-eyed
or black-eyed, but above all, true-eyed-
get little home, no matter how little,
and little sofa, just to hold two, or two
and a half, and then get the two, or the
two and half in it, ofa Saturday Night,
and then read this paragraph by the
light of your wife's eyes, and thank God,
and take courage.
The dim and dusty shops are swept
up the hammer is thrown down, the
apron is doffed, and labor hastens with
a light step, homeward bound.
Saturday Night feebly murmurs
the languishing as she turns wearily
upon her couch, land is there another
to come Z"
Saturday Night, at last" :" whispers
the weeper above the dying, "and it is
Sunday tomorrow, and-to-morrow "
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
Fire Without Flame.

An experimenting Detroit chemist
took piece of threadbare cotton cloth,
smeared it with boiled linseed oil, and
placed it in the centre of chest filled
with paper and rags. Although the
room was not tight and the weather was
cold, there was a smell of fire about the
room in eight days Unpacking it the
experimenter found the rag half charr-
ed. In April he made similar expert
ment with pair of painters overalls,
which he rolled up with pine shavings
and crowded in next to the roof-boards
of a'loft. In a week the smell of smoke
alarmed workman in the next room,
and the overalls were found to be. on
fire. And during the hottest weather
a handful of old cotton rags, not smear
ed with oil, became hot enough when
hung up in tin box in the sun to light
matches which he had placed among
them. These facts show the necessity of
caution in putting away rags, especially
those that may be saturated with oil,
benzine or otherinhammable substances
-Elehange.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
AbOut Gas Measurements.

The following article from the Journal
Of Applied Chemistry New York;, will be
interesting to those who live under the
gas light. The writer says
The custom of paying for gas by the
cubic foot, without regard to its illumin-
ating power, is like buying all cloth at
q uniform price per yard, without any
questions as to the fneness of the wool.
No one. would like to pay as much for
shoddy as for cashmere, and yet shoddy
gas is the principal article now furnish
ed to customers, while the price actually
paid calls for the best gas that can be
made. 1t is really surprising that
monopoly of such monstrous charac-
ter should be permitted to maintain
itself so many years i'll an enlightened
community, and the cause must be
sought for in the want of confidence in
any Legislative enactment to correct the
evil under the corrupt government that
has afflicted our city during the past
few years. The people have preferred
to be heavily taxed rather than to get
into any alteration on the subject; but
now that honest days begin to have
dawned upon us, it seems to be good
opportunity to appeal for more light to
those who sell that commodity in the
shape of gas. The city companies should
be compelled to furnish gas of prescrib-
ed density and fixed candle power.
Some of the London companies pride
themselves on keeping up the illuminat-
ing powers Of their gas to the maximum
standard of fifteen candles, and in twen-
ty-two English works the gas from the
best coal ranges from twelve to fourteen
per hour. 1t is difficult to say what the
average in New York may be, but from
some observation made by ourselves
with Bonson's photometer we are dis
posed to put it, in cold weather, at be-
low ten candles. Besides the loss to the
consumer in the amount of light afford
ed by poor gas, there is another differ
ence which tells in favor of the company.
Assuming Tie specific gravity of the poor
gas to be ), and that of a rich gas $50,
the former will pass through the burner
much faster than the rich, and increase
the bills of the consumer from 30 to 80
per cent. without any corresponding in
crease in the photometic power of the
gas. There. ought to be fixed stand
ard, say sixteen candles prescribed by
law, and an inspector appointed to see
that the companies comply with it, and
in case of any breach of contract heavy
penalty should be imposed. 1t is not
darkness that we want, but light, and
for the sake of the thousands of poor
sewing women and worl1ingmen some
thing should be done to save money and
eyosight. Let quality, not quantity,
govern in this matter. We have plenty
of gas, but not enough of light.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
The Test for Burning Oils.

Pour a small quantity of oil in a saucer
or other shallow dish, and pass lighted
match near the surface of the oil. If
you detect any small blush flashes, or
puffs, or if the vapor takes fire, then in
either case the OIL is unfit for use. Be
sure and have the dish and oil at as
warm a temperature as they would be in
the shade on hot summers day. Re-
Gently, in single month, three women
were burned to death in the City of
Pittsburg by kerosene explosions. We
have before us a sample of the oil used
in one OF these cases, and any person
familiar with kerosene can tell instantly
that it has been adulterated by the ad-
dition of benzine. On the application
of match, as above described, it takes
fire as instantaneously as gunpowder.
The oil was purchased for a good article,
but if this simple test had been applied
its true character would have been dis
covered, and the life of the wife and
mother would have been saved.-Ee-
change.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
4 Curious Incident.

Mr.. Flauddin, in his narrative of a
residence in Persia, relates curious in
cident which occurred while he was at
Ispahan:
1.-THE Persian servant of a European
had been stung by a scorpion, and his
master wished to apply ammonia, the
usual remedy in such cases, but the man
refused, and ran off to the bazaar. When
he returned he said he was cured, and
appeared to be so. The European, rath-
er surprised at this almost instantaneous
cure, questioned him, and found that he
had been to dervish, who, he said, after
examining the wound and uttering a
few words, had several times touched it
with a little iron blade. Still more as
tonished at the remedy than the cure,
the European desired to see the instru-
ment by which the latter was said to
have been effected. At the cost of "a
small pickech he was allowed to have it
for few minutes in his possession. At
ter careful examination, finding moth
ing extraordinary in the instrument, he
made up his mind that the cure was
mere trick; that the dervish was an i'm
postor; that the scorpion sting had not
penetrated, and that his servant had
been more frightened than hurt. He
threw the blade contemptuously upon
the table, when, to his great surprise, he
beheld it attach itself strongly to knife.
The quack's instrument was simply a
magnet, But what power had the load
stones attraction over venom? This dis
covery was very odd. Incredulity was
at nonplus, and yet the man stung by
the scorpion was cured, and he who had
cured him was in great renown at tspa-
han for the treatment of that sort of
wound
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
ReWarding Honesty,

The Detroit Free Press, of Wednesday,
gives this Yesterday morning lady
from the East, who crossed from the
Great Western depot to the Detroit and
Milwaukee road to go West, dropped
her pocket-book in the depot at Windsor,
and made outcry enough to scare every
one within a block A ragged little
boy, with his hair sticking up through
an old hat, and his toes peeping out of
his boots, came forward with the pocket
book, which he had found. 1t contain
ed, as the lady informed the railroad of
ticials, $1,000 in bonds, $1,000 in notes,
and $1,000 in greenbacks, making its
cash value to- her as good as $4,000.
She was, of course, well pleased with
the boys action, and asked his name,
age, the circumstances of the family, and
finally opened the pocketbook to re-
ward him. She hunted all through it,
found two ten cent shinplasters, and,
handing them to the lad, told him to al
ways remember that a good action was
sure to bring good reward. The boy
jerked off his old hat, thanked her, and
ran off to buy ten cords of wood and a
barrel of flour and other stuff to last his
widowed mother until spring. He's
going to look for pocketbooks all the
rest of the winter, and when he finds
another, he's going to hand it right
over-probably.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28

A remarkable fact in connection with
good ventilation is that men will eat
more wnen they have plenty of fresh air
than without. DIR. Reid mentions that
men in large manufacturing establish
ments have struck for higher wages
when cook system of ventilation has
been introduced, as their former wages
were insufficient to procure the increased
amount of food demanded by their im-
proved appetites,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
A JananeSe CarOusal.

A correspondent in Japan writes the
following "On the west coast, during
our homeward journey, the Governor,
who had accompanied us for two days,
managed to let us see an Aino dance.
We seated ourselves in our tea-houses,
the sliding doors on one side were all re-
moved, and the Amos, under japanese
officer, assembled in little yard ada
cent, and were directed to dance and
sing for our entertainment. The feast
commenced by generous distribution
of saki (rice whiskey) to them to warm
them up to their work. They drank
prodigious quantities of this before man
ifesting any excitement, but when it be-
gan to work they cut some eccentric
capers in wild style, singing songs
that appeared to have been buried for a
long time low down in their stomachs.
Their dance consisted Of hopping, bow
ing, clapping their hands together, and
then striking their thighs and breasts.
One of their songs was translated to us,
when it appeared to be song of thanks
to the japanese, from whom they had
learned how to make saki, and were
wonderfully indebted for such civilizing
influences. During the singular per-
formance they initiated birds and beasts
quite well : in drinking they were pro-
vided with peculiar shaped sticks these
they laid first across the bowl, then
raised the whole TO their foreheads. We
felt conscience-stricken at having been
instrumental in inficting upon these
poor wretches the duty Of indulging in
such drunken orgie as this proved to
be, and imagined from the amount of
liquor that they drank, that they would
be "off duty" for week but early
next morning, when we rode out of
town, we found them all apparently in
the best of spirits, waiting to see us pro-
perly off on our journey"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28

INDIAN RECORD OF TME.-There is
no word in the Indian language for the
word "year." Indians reckon time by
the return of snow, or the springing up
of flowers, and the flight of the birds
announces the progress of the seasons
The motion of the sun marks the hour
of the day; and these distinctions of
time are not noted in numbers, but in
language and illustrations of highly
poetical character.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28
POETR Y.
A SUNIMER-DAY SONG.
BI GEORGE MAC DONALD.

The morn awakes like br00ding dove,
with outsprcad wings ,f gray
Her feathery clouds close In above.
And roof Il sober day.
No motion in the decps of air!
No trembling in the leaves!
y still contentment everywhere,
That neither laughs nor grieves.
& film of sheetcd yer gray
shuts in the oceans hue;
White.wiuged friucc.s leave their way
Behind in go' ge1us blue.
Dream on, dream on, o dreamy day
Thy ve:y clouds A. dreams;
Ton child is dreaming far away
lie is not wher he seems.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-03-28

The contested will case of the late G.
Damn, Esq, of New Orleans, still pro-
crosses, and causes some tall swearing
among the contestants.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-14
$4,000 CASH DISTRIBUTION?
GRAND GIFT CONCERT
A FIXED FACT.
SEPTEMBER 20 THE DAY
YOUR TICKETS NOW OR NEVER.

The vast sales OF tickets already made, and
the increasing demand for them from all
quarters, having determined the Trustees
that the GRAND GIFT CONCERT for the
benefit of the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KEN
TUCKY. advertised for SATURDAY, SEP.
TENDER %. 1872, shall positively come of
on that day without postponement, the man
agement now notifies all who expect to par
ticipate In the drawing that they should buy
their tickets ut once. Delay for a few days
caused many who wanted tickets at the Con-
cert In December last to go without them.
Some living IN Louisville waited until sales
were closed, expecting, no doubt, a post
ponement, and then offered fifteen, twenty,
and even twenty-five dollars. for tickets
which the day before were offered to pur-
chasers at the regular price. Others living
at a distance sent thousands of dollars by
mail and express. which got here after sales
were closed, and ha6 TO be sent back.
These disappointments need not occur again
II the warning now given in due season Is
needed.
The drawing will begin precisely at o
O'Clock saturday morning, September y,
1872. IN the great hall Of the Public Library
building,and continues until the one thous-
and gifts are all drawn.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-14
CONTINUED from yesterdays BuLLErIN.l
SPEECH
OF GOV. b. CRATE BROWN IN
SPRINGFIELD, 9TH, INST.

That feature, however, which is more
sharply defined than all else in the deal |
ing of the president and his party with |
the colored race at the south, is the rigid |
isolation they have been induced 10 main
tain. To that end every legal and politi-
cal appliance has been directed. To that
end special laws have been invoked from
o partisan congress, such as that of July
10, 1867, and March IL, SOS. The latter
was supplemented by the ku-klux act of
April 20, 1871, and still further enactment
in the same behalf was demanded in the
session OF 1872. To that end the opera
tions Of the freedmsns bureau was prosti
tuted, the military intervention chiefly
directed, the officers of the army converted
into political agents, and the service made
a stepp,ng-stone to the gubernatorial chair
or the United States senate. To that end
even crime went UNPUBLISHED, the peniten-
tiaries were transformed into partisan
schools, and in one instance of 205 con-
victs pardoned on the eve of election, 100
were negroes. To that end the control of
the sonthern states was organized upon
an almost exclusive colered vote, and has
been held fxedly by the same tenure ever
since. The doctrine nculcated there has
been, and it still is, an imagined necessity
for protecting liberties which they are
taught to believe are threatened. In the
states themselves, when ascendancy had
been thus achieved, the local legisl
was promptly engineered in the same
channel. The election laws, the registra-
ton laws, the militia laws, the tax laws,
are all illustrations in point, The band
ing together Of the colored population in
secret loyal leagues, formed the ground
work for a system of intimidation and
cajolery which brought the whole Of il
into subsection to one sinister influence
1t was direct appeal for caste rule
With an unchecked control in all those
states, with every possibility for securing
support from the entire community, II II
AS indefensible as it is significant that the
administration efforts should have been
only in the direction where ignorance sc
much prevailed, and where bad passions
were SO easily excited. This alone would
convict 1t OF design to rely upon an easy
wrought alienation, rather than any moral
force. 1t was the hazardous incentive to
war Of races for the sake OF political
gain. To band them soldly in the strug-
gle for control was TO ignor the whole
genius of republican government, and in
wife u collision sure to develop into vio-
lence. This, of course, involved the ann.
ing Of the race, as well as its consolidation
into political unit And the facts fol
lowed swiftly upon the inference. Thu
garrisoning by such armed partisans Of thu
states Of Arkansas and Louisiana; th'
declaration and enforcement Of martha
law by Governor Holden, Of North Caro-
lima, through a colored soldiery; tn
clandestine enlistment of fourteen negrt
regiments and illegal purchase Of arms 70
them by Governor Scott, Of South Caro-
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-14
Total 900 Gifts. all Cash 500. 900

Total 900 Gifts, all Cash SjO0.000
The Concert itself will be the most brilliant
orchestral display that ever occurred in the
West. One hundred performers. gathered
from all parts of this country and from
Europe, under the direction of Professor
Hast. will contribute 10 this grand musical
carnival. And TO afford ample room for
every ticketholder to enjoy such an unusual
musical festival, the Concert Will be given in
Central Park, where arrangements have
been made to accommodate all who may
come.
Persons holding whole, half or quarter
tickets will be admitted to both the Concert.
and Drawing, and none without such tickets
will be admitted 10 either.
PRICE OF TICKETS.
Whole tickets. sl0 halves, 50 quarters,
$3.50: IL whole tickets for 500 - for $3.50
~ for $500 li3 for : 900: 30 for $500
51j for $4,000. No discount on less than 500
worth of tickets AT time.
In accordance with numerous solicitations,
arrangements have been made with all the
railroad and steamboat line, leading into the
city for round-trip tickets good for six days.
to all person, who may wish to attend the
Concert or Drawing. such tickets will be
furnished by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lex
ington Railroad, the Louisville indianapolis
and Madison Railroad. the ohio and Mis.i.-
sippi Railroad the Louisville and Cincinnati
MallDoat Line anu llt IsoulsNllle, OWcn>Doro
and Henderson Mail Line Packets.
All agents are required to close sales and
make their returns In full time to reach this
office by Thursday, September %. To do
this successfully those located at great dis
tance- must close some days before the 2jth
All tickets to which gifts are awarded will
be paid without discount by the Farmers
and Droyers' Bank, either in currency, or by
sight draft upon the Fourth National Bank
of New York, at the option of the holder
The tickets must first be presented at this
office, Room No. 4, Public Library building.
before they will be paid by the bank.
The drawing will be published in the
Louisville papers and New York Herald, and
official copies sent 10 purchasers, to whom
tickets have been sent by letter.
THOMAS q. BRAMLETTE,
Agent Public Library of KY. Public Library
Building. Louisville Ky. 9-6cod&w2w