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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
A Sea. Shell Bathihg.Tnb,

When our little boys and girls have
seen sea-shells foot in length they
probably have considered them very
large indeed. But what would they say
to shells 30 large that they make excel
lent bathing-tubs for grown-up menP
In the seas near the Molucoa Islands
the enormous clam called Trid@na is not
rare, and it is the shell of this clam that
the natives of the Moluccas use for bath
ing or washing tubs. They are very
handsome shells, and when polished are
often taken to Europe, and used as fonts
in churches, or as basins for goldfish in
ornamental grounds. The flesh of the
Trid@na tastes something like oysters,
and is much priced by the Molucca
Islanders. One Tridmna will make a
meal for twenty persons, and the shell,
which has to be cut with an ak from the
rock to which it grows, is SO heavy that
it makes quite good load for horse.
Hearth and Home.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
Hired M0urners.

All about London, says an English
correspondent, you see advertised "cheap
funerals" You can be shrouded, coffin
ed, and buried, with four mourners, for
about twenty dollars. OF course these
mourners don't know who you are, what
you are, where you came from, or where
you are going to, but they will look as
if you were the last friend they had or
expected to have on earth, with yard
of black Grape dangled and waving from
their hats like SO many pirate flags; and
when you are covered up, they will ad-
journ to the dearest public house, and
over their porter and cheese prays for
some one else to die as soon as possible,
with cash enough to be mourned over.
No cash here, no mourners. All these
professional mourners have red faces and
bottle noses, black suits, secondhand,
well mixed at the seams, and black gloves
one-third too large. The friends and
relatives within the carriages have all
the semblance of woe on them. The last
appear contented, and many never enjoy
ride in a coach save on such mournful
occasions. Who ever saw any one shed
tears at city funeralp If you would
have your friends sweep not for me
when am gone," die in the metropolis.
Tears are for the country, along with
dew, flowers, sunshine, snakes and hop
toads.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
CONSUMPTION.

The census returns for 1870 give val
liable information in regard to this fatal
disease in our country. Cold and near
ness to the sea are specially favorable to
its development. The New England
States average about twenty-five per
cent. OF deaths from consumption; that
is, one in every four deaths is from this
disease. New York is a little less
twenty per cent; Illinois, eleven per
cent. Colorado eight, and Utah only
six per cent; California, on the Pacific
coast, increases to fourteen per cent.
Going from north to south, the ratio
of decrease is about the same as from
east to west. Michigan shows sixteen
per cent. of deaths from this cause In
diana, fourteen per cent; Tennessee,
twelve per cent; Alabama, six, and
New Mexico only three per cent.
Contrary to the general belief, Min
nesota has large percentage OF deaths
fourteen per cent. But this is partly
due, no doubt, to the large number OF
consumptives who go there too far gone
for recovery. New Mexico, by the stat
istics, is the best place for all of deli
cate lungs. Their chances OF recovery
will be more hopeful there than else
where.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
Church Attire.

Consciences are much more readily
put at ease in the matter of church.
going than they once were. Mrs. Jones
loses sight of hers in the fact that her
cid bonnet will look shabby beside Mrs.
Smiths new one, although Mrs. Jones's
bonnet was very pretty and becoming
the Sunday before. Her daughter Ara
bella does not attend the evening SER
vice unless invited by Mr.. Augustus, for
the reason that Mr.. Augustus's coat is
always of "elegant fit," and his gloves
delightful color" and he holds the
hymn-bool in such ga graceful way !"
and, uice uersa, Augustus invites Arabella
because she is stylish" and "tashion-
able," and the "other fellows of his set
will envy him." If you do not believe
this, stand at your window some fair
Sabbath morning while the church bells
are ringing, and watch the passing
crowd. There is the same pitiful mock
cry from beginning to end. The color
of the dress, the multitudinous trim
mings, the hump at the back where the
waist terminates-all the deformities of
fashion in silks and laces are initiated
by the poorer class in cheaper materials,
and Bridget drapes her shawl in exactly
the same way as does her mistress. Join
the crowd, and you will hear as you
pass along that "Mrs. ID. has new silk
of the loveliest shade, that it is made
but you hurry on, and hear that Miss
G. has worn the same dress all the sea-
SON." that +" Mr.. P. has a new diamond
pin !" that "he is paying attention to
Miss NJ" and that Miss M. is not
stylish )" and so on ad ilfnitum, were
you not at the church Chicago
Pulpit.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

No Person can take these Bttters accord
ing to directions. and remain long unweT, provided
their bones destroyed by mineral poison other
means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point
of repair
dyspepsia or Indig estion. Headache, paia
in the Shoulders Coughs, 1ighnsss of the Chest Diz
ziness, Sour Eructatons Of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Papitaon of the
Heart, Inflammation Of the Lungs, Pain in the regions
Of the Kidneys and hundred other painful symptoms
the offsprings Of Dyspepsia. In these complaints
it has equal, and bottle will prove letter guaz.
antee of its mlsrts than lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, in young old.
married or single, at the dawn Of womanhood, the
turn of life, these Tonic B,ters display so decided
influence that marked Improvement is soon percep.
tible.
For Infiammntory and Chronic Rheu-
matisM and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Inter-
nent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver Kidneys
and Bladder, these Btters have equal. Such Dis
caused by Vitiated Blood which Is generally
produced by arrangement Of the Digestive Organs.
They arc n Gentle Purgative ms well as
Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit OF acting
as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or lnfan
nation Of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious
Diseases
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter. Salt
Rheun, Bloches Spots Pimpes, Pustaes, BOils, Car
buncles, Ring-werms, Scad- Head, Sore Eyes, Ery-
spelas Itch, Scurs Discoloraons Of the Skn Humors
and Diseases Of the Skin, Of whatever or nature,
literally dug up and carried out Of the system In
shert time by the Of these Bitters.
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
the most wonderful Invigorant that sustained
] WALKER, Prop'r n. H. MCDONALD g. CO.,
Druggists and Cen Agts, San Francisco and New York
eB- SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
Disease Recoils

From the system that has been inyigorated and resu-
lated by course OF that most benencsnt Of all vege
table eixrs, Hoststter's Stomach Bitters. Such, at
least. is the inference compelled to draw from
the testimony Of thousands Of persons residing in
healthy districts who attribute their escape from the
epidemic and other complaints which prevail thore in
the spring and autumn solely the of this great
protective and preventive medicine. Many Western
and Southern farmers and planters, invariably
they and plant in the spring and reap and gather
In the fall administer It at those to their fam
lilies and employees, and take it themselves from twice
to three times day. The demand for it In the fever
and agus districts bordering the Mississippi Ohio
and Arkansas Rivers Is immense and wherever the
natural conditions such to generate intermit
tent evers 1t is held in the highest estee both as an
antidote to the atmospheric virus which provokes
them, and swift and certain remedy for those dis
tressiug forms disease 1t is almost unnecessary to
say that this renowned tonic and renovator is now
generally accepted standard specific for indiges
ton, biliousness, nervous distempsr, rheumatism,
physical weakness and mental dependency, not only
by the public at large, but by all unprsjudeed mod
cal men. The vast popularity Of the Btters has Of
course led to many countsrfeits and limitations.
against which the community requested to be on
their guard.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
We clip the following from the Troy On

We clip the following from the Troy On.
Y.) Wing:
Some three months since DR.. r. " Pierce,
of Buffalo, N. Y, commenced advertising in
the Wing, an article called "Dr. Sages
Catarrh Remedy We believed at that time
it was one of the many catch penny arrange
ments to swindle people out of their money,
but during the past few weeks have become
convinced to the contrary. We know of sew
ers! prominent citizens who have suffered
from that loathsome disease "Catarrh," and
they pronounce DR.. Sage's Remedy no hum
bug, and in several instances have been en-
tirely cured. We desire to give DR.. Pierce
the benefit of the same.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

LONELINESS ON THE INCRRAsE.-A mar ked
increase OF female loveliness is the eye-delight-
ing result of the immense popularity which
Haqans Magnolia Baln, has obtained among
the ladies of America. Compilations radiant
with snowy purity and tinged with the roseate
hue of health are commonly met with when
ever 1t is used. For the sallow and unwhole-
come appearance of the face and neck, which
utterly counterbalances the effect of any per-
sonal attraction the owner may possess, 1t
substitutes that clear, pearl-lke complexion
which is such transcendant charm in woman,
and renders the toughest skin as soft as Genoa
velvet No one is more astonished than the
person nsing 1t at the marvellous transforma.
ton which 1t effects in these particulars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
English Ivy In Rooms.

A writer thus speaks of the winter
decorations of rooms with English ivy
the best of all house plants, perhaps
though many give the preference for
single specimen to the Gala Lily.
The use of English ivies for the pur-
pose of decorating living rooms is more
extensive every year, and cannot be too
highly recommended. Being very
strong, they will live through almost
any treatment; but study their peculi-
arities, and manifest willingness to
crafty them, and they will grow with
out stint. Most houses are too hot for
them, as indeed they are for their own
ers. Neither plants nor people should
have the average temperature over 65
degrees Fahrenheit. Take care not to
enfeeble your ivies by undue heat or
excessive watering, and you will find
they will not seem to mind whether the
sun shines on them or not, or in what
position or direction you find them.
Indeed, so much they will do of them
selves to render room charming, that
we would rather have an unlimited
number of them to draw upon than
anything else in nature or art. Do you
wish the ugly plain doors that shut off
your entry from your parlor to be arched
or curved, like those in the drawing
rooms of your richer neighbor; buy a
couple of brackets, such as lamps for
the burning of kerosene are sometimes
placed in, and screw them on the sides
of the door. Put in each plant of the
ivy, the longer the better; then train
the plants over the top, against the sides,
indeed any way your fancy dictates.
You need not buy the beautiful nor the
costly pots the flower dealers will advise
common glazed ones will answer every
purpose, for by placing in each two or
three sprays of Coliseum ivy, in q
months time no vestige of the pot can
be discerned through their thick screen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
The Best Society.

"No company, or good company"
was a motto given by distinguished
man to all his young friends. 1t was a
motto he had always endeavored to fol-
low as far as lay in his power, and it was
a very wise one.
Another man, of high position in the
world made it rule to associate with
high-minded, intelligent men, rather
than with fashionable idlers and he
said he had derived more intellectual
improvement from them than from all
the books he ever read.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton often
spoke of the great benefits he had de-
rived from his visits to particular fam
lily. Their words and example stimu-
lated him to make the most of his
powers. at has given color to my
whole life," he said. Speaking of his
success at the university, he remarked,
"I can ascribe it to nothing but my Wis.,
its to this family, where 1 caught the
infection of self-improvement."
Surely, if our visits have such an in
fuence upon our characters for life, it
should be matter of serious Importance
to us in what families we allow our
selves to be intimate. Boys and girls
form attachments very easily, and often
with very little forethought. In this
as in all things else, you should not fail
to take advice of those who are older
and wiser, and never, never choose for q
friend one against whom you have been
warned by those who dearly love you
There are people whose very presence
seems to lift you up into better, high,
er atmosphere. Choose such associates
whenever it is in your power, and the
more you can live in their society the
better, for both mind and heart. "He
that walketh with wise men shall bC
wise; but companion of fools shall be
destroyed"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

THE VALUE OF TIME.-To show us
the worth of time, God, NEST liberal of
all other things, is exceedingly frugal
in dispensing with that for He never
gives us two moments together, nor
never grants us a second till he has
withdrawn the first, still keeping the
third in his own hands, so that we are
in perfect uncertainty whether we shall
have it or not. The true manner of
preparing for the last moment is to
spend all the others well, and ever to
expect that. We dote upon this world,
as if it were never to have an end; and
we neglect the next, as if it were never
to have beginning.-Feaelen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

A TRUE PIoTURE.-How many men
there are who have ground and ground
to make money, that they might be
happy by-and-by, but who, when they
have got to be fifty or sixty years old,
have used up all the enjoyable nerve
that was in them9 During their early
life they carried toll and economy and
frugality to the excess of stinginess, and
when the time came that they expected
Joy, there was no joy for them
Beeeher.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

Missionaries and others sojourning in for
eign lands should not fail TO take with them
good supply of Johnson'S Atody,,e Liniment.
1t Is the most reliable medicine for all pur-
poses there is in the world.
Contagious diseases, such as horse oil, CLAN.
der, &c, may Ge prevented by the use of Shsr-
fddn's Cavalry Condition Posoders. Persons
travelling with horses should take note of this.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

. CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ring worm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections cured, and the
skin made soft and smooth by using the
JUNIPER TAR Soar, made by CAswELI,
HAZARD & 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, 1872-09-19

REMEDY FOR AsTHMA.-We think we
are benefiting our readers when we in
form them that relief for Asthma can
be found in using Jonas Whitcomb's
Remedy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

HAVE you A couoH, Cold. Pain in the Chest, or
Bronchitisf In fact have you the premonitory symp
toms of the "insatiats archer, eonsunptionY II SO,
know that relief is within your reach in the shape OF
DIR. WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHRRRY, which, in
many cases where hope had He'd has snatched the VIC
tim from the yawning grave.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

About $4,000 steel shuttles for sew
ing machines, embracing twenty pat
terms, are turned out monthly by the
Billings and Spencer Manufacturing
Company. of Hartford, Conn.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

If you want information in regard to
Railroad Bonds, write to CHARLES W.
HAssLER, No. Wall Street, N. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

AB QuIcE As A FLASH OF ItonrNfyo does CRIsr-
ADoRos EXCELSIOR HAIR DYB act upon the hair,
whiskers and mustaches chameleon tnts but the
purest Raven or the most exquisite Browns will be
evolved. ~
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

Use less of Dooley's than of other Y east or
Baking Powder, rs 1t is much stronger. Put
up full weight. Give 1t fair trial. Grocers
sell it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

In ONE TO FIVE MINUTES, Headache, Earacha, Neu-
ralga, Lame Back, Darrh9a Groups, Sprains and ALI
similar complaints, are relieved By FLiaGs INSTANT
RELIEF, or money refunded.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser, having been permanently cured OF
that dread disease, Consumption, by simple remedy
is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers tho
means of cure. To all who desire it. he will send a
copy of tho prescription used, Gree of chargej with
the directions for and using the same which
MA BRoNcHITIs, &c. Parties wishing the prescription
will please address -
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
1874 Penn St.. WilamsburCh ", v
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
THE EARTH AND THE SUN.

Exceptional Phenomena OF the Present
Season-The SUMS Come eotion with the
Earth.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

A GENTS Wanted.-Agents make more money at
IA work for us than anything elsa. Particular ca
@. sTIssos Co.. Nns Are PatitsheTs, Portland Me,
September it-lsIa
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19

Honest energetic, God-fearlng men and women
,an have pleasant profitable work no risk or capital
Write to II. L. Hastings, Lindall ST., Boston, Mass
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-09-19
$1,000 4
A. REWARD
W hIhIu For any care of Blind.
hUu Bleeding, Itching, or u
hH cerated Piles that De
BIHG's PILE REMEDY fails
IN 1hH to cure. 1t is prepared
" hh pressly to cure the Piles
NY ~ and nothing else. Sold by
all Druggists. Price sl.o0

Instead OF plaster. Felt Uarpe &c Send staInpe
for circular and samples. @. az, Camden. Nj.
LIVERY GOOD HgSBANp AND FATHER should
IL send at once for our Circular Eugene Manufac.
turing Co., i42 Fulton St.. New York.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14
LOOK OFT FOR THEM.

People of New Orleans who pay FIVE
eIghths of the State taxes, see to it. I'm
pOverished people of the country parishes,
see to it. The holders of State bonds,
at home and abroad, see to it.
1t might be suggestiveIy added see
to what See that the rotten hulks
of past political power don't cum
Der the way: see that the voice of the
people, chained down by those who do
none of the voting and all of the grOwl-
ing, aud who are in the first rank to get
fat office, TO which their interest does not
entitle them, see to it that these public de-
mOralizers have no chance at the bellows,
no finger in the pie again. The State in
debtedness has not been increased one cent
by H. c. WarmOth. On the contrary, vii
lainy in the Legislature, by which the debt
could be increased, was killed off by the
$25, 100000 amendment, suggested by Gov
ernOr WaTmoth, who has destroyed by his
veto more Jobs than ever have passed. The
State debt is but 10000 900, all told. See
to it. The State taxes are levied to pay the
interest of the bonded debt, and we say,
bully! We believe in paying debts-see to
it,. The augmentation in the city debt has
been made by the rOse-watered Democrats
see to it. With the bad deeds of past ad-
ministratiOns numbering the records, and
for which the present administration has to
pav-eChO answers, see to it.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14
sevenfh Distrlct Conrt.

Vincent Chubby has brought suit against
Juan BriSOlara for writ Of sequestration
directing the sheriff to take into his posses
sion a certain lottery ticket until further
order Of court. The sheriff could not take
possession of the ticket as the defendant
denied he was in possession of the same,
and Mr.. SamboIa attorney for the plaintiff
has ruled him into court to show cause why
he should not be punished for contempt in
refusing to deliver up the ticket, thereby
disobeying the order of court and the writ
Of sequestration. The plaintiff claims that
he is the lawful owner and proprietor of a
coupon or certificate for One-twentieth Of
the ticket No. u ,SlJ folio 3, in the Havana
lottery which was drawn on the thirtieth
of July, 1872, the whole Of which ticket won
the prize of 100000; that said coupon with
other property was stolen from Chulby'5
premises, corner of st. Philip and Clai-
borne in the night time, on the twenty
second Of July last, by person unknown.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14
BrutaI OutraRe in Texas.
We copy the following from the Hill
horn. Hill county. Texas. ErpoSit0r.

We copy the following from the Hills
borO, Hill county, Texas, Erpositor:
One of the most brutal and cOwardly out
RACES ever perpe trated by fiend in human
shape was committed at Fort Graham, in
our county, on Tuesday of last week, the
facts of which are as follows: For the past
three weeks there has been camping in the
vicinity of Fort Graham family from Den
ton county named Scantlin, consisting of
Mr. Scantlin, his wife and step daughter, a
child of five years, which he has been in
the habit of shamefully maltreating. On
Monday of last week Scantlin took the child
and whipped it with an OK whip until he
nearly killed it; he also tied the child in his
wife's dress and threw it into the water,
while he pelted it with stones; dragging the
little sufferer out, he hung it up by the
thumbs and so cruelty kicked and beat it
that the blood ran in torrents from its body;
after which he attempted to end its life by
hanging.
The mother, at the imminent risk of her
life ran for assistance and aroused some
mon living near, who soon brought the vii
lain to a stand under the soothing influence
of double barreled shOtgUns. He had pre-
liminary trial before Esquire ChildTess,
and was committed to the Waco jail for
safe-keeping, there to await his trial at the
next term of the district court. He is only
twenty-five years old.
If the citizens of Fort Graham had not
been peaCeable, law-abiding people, this
incarnate devil would have been lynched
on the spot. At last accounts the child was
still alive, though in very critical cOndi-
finn
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-14
Hnnd.Rook of PoIifIcs 1872.

The Hand Book of Politics for 1872, com
piled by Hon. Edward Mcpherson, Clerk
Of the House of Representatives,, has
just been received. 1t is published at
Washington City by Philip & .SoIomons,
and sold by subscription only. Orders
should be addressed, with the price 50 50l
to George Francis Dawson, posto1fce box
No. 663, Washington, D. c.
The work includes the staple information
indispensable to the politician or to any one
who would effectively investigate or dis
cover the political condition of the country.
The course of legislation. judicial and ex
ecutive action and the party movements is
here closely and satisfactorily given. Mr..
Mcpherson has herein done an invaluable
service, and it is gratifying that it has been
performed by so experienced and mastery
a hand