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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
The Peanut CrOp,

There are some fears of peanut fam
inc. North Carolina sends but 1000
bags this year against 10000 for the
same time last year, and the supply
from Virginia is short one-half. The
new crop only coming in by October, we
have thus four months over which the
stock in hand must spread, and from the
meagre proportions of that stock it can
readily be seen to what extIemities the
public may be reduced. Anything like
a corner would produce an absolute
famine, and even without unfair prac-
tices nothing but the most rigid econ
omy can avert distressing pinch. All
things considered, the time from now till
the new crop comes in in October is per-
haps just that very season of the year
In which peanuts are most in demand,
and that the scarcity should develop
itself just at this peculiar juncture is
therefore particularly painful. The
latest advices indicating the African
market quite easy, hopes were at one
time entertained of receiving a supply
from there; but between the length of
time the round voyage would consume,
and a singular reluctance of sailors to
visit the richest peanut coast, by reason
OF the extreme preference of the natives
for white meat, that expectation is not
now referred to on Change. Nothing
seems left for us but the incubation of
economy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
Sounds OF the Sea.

When shell is held up to the ear
there is a peculiar vibratory noise which
children assure each other is the roar OF
the sea, however distant they may be
from it.
Philosophically investigated the pc
culiar sound thus recognized is a phe-
nomenon that very much porplexed
learned gentlemen for long while. The
experiment is easily made by simply
pressing spiral shell, common in col
lections, over the cerebra of either ear.
If large shell the sound is very much
like that of far off cataract. Now
what causes itp
Every muscle in the body is always In
state of tension. Some are more on
the stretch than others, and particularly
those of the fingers. 1t is conceded that
the vibration of the fibres of those in the
fingers being communicated to the shell
it propagates and intensifes them, as
the hollow body of violin does the vi
bration of its strings, and thus the acous-
tic nerve receives the sonorous impress
sions. Muscles of the leg below the
knee are said to vibrate in the same
way, and if conducted to the ear produce
the same result.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
Art Mummies,

A horribly grotesque proposal appears
to have been made about the remains of
Mazzini. Some of his admirers, it seems,
consider that it would be fitting trib-
ute to his memory to convert his body
into a mummy, preserved by some new
scientific process. The corpse of the
great patriot would be handed down to
posterity, in ghastly resemblance to his
former self, as monument of the devo-
tion with which he was regarded; or
rather, it may be of the physiological
skill of some of his disciples. There is
something, it need hardly be said, which
CRATES upon ones feelings in this unique
suggestion and yet we can imagine,
without much trouble, that something
might be said in favor of it by ingenious
advocates. We cherish the lock of hair
OF departed friend; we value every
insignificant object which has been sane
titled to our minds by association with
him. Why not preserve the body, which,
to say the least, has been much more
closely connected with him than any ex-
ternal piece of property? Would there
not be something incomparably inter
esting, when once we had surmounted
our present prejudices, in national
Valhalla, where, instead of mere statues
the actual bodies of our heroes should
receive our tribute of gratitude? Sup
pose that in Westminster Abbey, Chat
ham himself, instead of his craven i'm
age, still gazed down upon us in the at
titude in which he thundered his great
orations; or suppose that the approach
to tho hOusnS of Parliament ,,,o, cx,,o,l
ed by the actual bodily cases of Fox and
Burke and Falkland and Hampden ::
would not the impression upon an un-
sophisticated intellect be far keener than
at present? What is the philosophy of
the disgust which relics excite in us, at
least in this wholesale form, whilst the
fragmentsry relics of ancient saints have
long excited the affectionate reverence
OF vast multitudes Of believers ?-Satur-
day Regiep.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
The Spartan Brevity of the Telegraph.

Telegraphy threatens to revolutionize
manyof the established rules of syntax,
and to Introduce novel forms of express
sion into the language. The tedious
ness OF transmitting intelligence by
telegraph suggests every practicable alb
breviation, and therefore are not only
all minor words omitted, but all circum-
locutory forms of expression are dis
pcnsed with, as far as possible, and the
utmost conciseness consistent with in
telligibility practiced. The general
reader sees little of this, as dispatches
are for the most part filled out and cor
rected before they go into print; but
there is growing disposition to publish
messages i'll the sententious shape in
which they pass over the wires There
is no good reason, that we can see, why
this should not be done to q greater ex-
tent than has as yet become common.
For instance, when despatch is received
stating that John Smith suicided this
morning." why is it necessary for the
editor to carefully elaborate it into
"John Smith committed suicide this
morning.? The meaning is as appar-
ent i'll one form as in the other, and the
same sense is all that is intended to be
conveyed. Telographic columns are not
designed to teach either grammar or
rhetoric. Yet even in this view, such
examples would be as serviceable as or
dinary lessons in false syntax. But we
are simply contending for the adoption
OF the briefest Ineligible forms of ex-
preston; and therefore assume that for
mere news mentions such sentences as
Convention recessed till P. NJ, or First
National Bank burglared last night"
are as good as any other way of COM
municating these important facts.
Whether they be or not, such modes of
expression will gradually creep into
general use, and custom will force their
adoption among the accepted idioms of
our language. We expect ere long to
say, with the authority of common
usage, "Yellow Jacket has assessmented
$40 per SHARE" or "Crown Point has
dividended So per share" Is it not bet
ter than the roundabout way of "has
levied an assessment Of" or "has de-
clared n dividend Off" 1t is not our
purpose to be Jealous pioneer in this
reform, but with sincere belief in the
doctrine that "brevity is the soul of
wit, and tediousness the limbs and out
ward flourishes," we shall hail its growth
with Observation-Disclosures (NeU.) En-
terpriSe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
Why We Should Wear Boards.

There are more solid inducements for
wearing the beard than the mere i'm
provement of a mans personal appear
ance and the cultivation of such an aid
to the everyday diplomacy of life. The
hair OF the moustache not only absorbs
the moisture and miasma OF the fogs,
but it strains the air from dust and the
SCOT of our great smoky cities. 1t acts
also in the most scientific manner, by
taking heat from the warm breath as it
leaves the chest, and supplying it to the
cold air taken in. 1t is not only a res
pirator, but with beard entire we are
supplied with q comforter as well, and
these are never left at home like the
umbrellas and all such appliances when
they are wanted.
Moffat and Livingstone, the explorers.
and many other travellers say that at
night no wrapper can equal the beard.
A remarkable fact is, too, that the beard,
like the hair of the head, protects
against the heat of the sun; it acts as
the thatch does to the ice-house but,
more than this, it becomes moist with
the perspiration, and then, by evapora-
ton, cools the skin.
A man who accepts this protection of
Nature, may face the rudest storm and
the hardest winter. He may go from
the hottest room into the coolest air
without dread and we verify believe
that he might sleep in a morass with
impunity; at least his chance of escap-
ing the terrible fever would be better
than his beardless companions.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
IncOnyenient Etiquette,

The New York Ecentng Mail tells the
following good story:
A professor III one of our Western
colleges, whose bodily presence was weak,
but who, having tall spirit, was de-
termined to bate no inch of the respect
due to his office or himself, disappearing Q
also of the lax conventionality of the
frontier" requestod the students when
ever they should meet him, DIR. H., their
friend and their professor, to take of
their hats This enactment did not
suit the Western temper, and stirred
slightly the Western pulse. No remon-
STRANGE, however, was offered, and the
Doctor, who had been visited by mis-
givings as to the result, breathed freely,
felt that the rough point was rounded,
and felicitated himself upon his firmness.
Returning one evening from supper
party, in unusually genial mood, DR..
III. assembled the long flight of stone
steps leading to his rooms. When about
half way up he deserted Mr.. G. from st.
Paul coming down, both arms clasped
around a bundle Of kindling wood. As
he drew near the Doctor uttered his
bland Good evening !" (thc rising
English infection managed to nicctyl
touching his hat as he spoke. The Min
nesotian returned the salute de rigeur,
unloosing, as he did so, the fatal faggots
with n fall like thunder. Hop, skip,
and jump could not save the unfortu-
nate Doctor, when, sent surely by his
evil genius, at this moment who should
appear. upon the scene but Captain K,
the one-armed hero from Wisconsin,
striding rapidly down with his Satur-
day nights pail of hot water
Because his friend was in grief should
he pass him by? Beholding his chief,
for the moment stripped of office, caper-
ing upon the stairs, should he refuse to
salute him? He, to whom regulation "
was both law and instinct ? Never
and his faithful cleft :" sought his hat,
away went the pail, bump, thump,
splash, DASH
"Confound you both," roared the un-
fortunate recipient of college honors,
rubbing and wringing by turns
Hot water is known to be emollient
1t may have expedited the Doctors re-
covery. Certain it is that after few
days seclusion, during which there came
puffs of camphor and opodel-
doc from his quiet room, and, "like
horns from Elf-land family blowing"
the echo of much din and ghostly laugh
ter from distant halls and corridors, the
Professor again stood before his class.
There was something in his whole air
and department as new to him as to
them-something suggesting not exact
ly defeat, but rather deprecation-non
or as then and there de-
scribed, "Unstarched, by Jove limp as
any ragw
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
Reduced to the Banks.

From 1858 to 1866 the name of Bennett
Pieters was very well known in this city.
1t was connected with the Red Jacket
Bitters, which were then popular bev-
erage, advertised largely in the papers,
and posted on fences and black walls.
Pleters himself was popular man
among his set /; he kept, good saddle and
carriage horses; had rooms at the Sher-
man House; gave excellent suppers,
where the guests were not called on to
drink his bitters, but were regaled with
champagne, which was perhaps no bet
ter, but certainly much more expensive,
and did not openly offend any of the
proprieties. His income was large one,
but he spent it easily, and did not, like
a good Chicagoan, put it in real estate.
He failed to lay up treasures in this
orthodox quarter, and hence when ca
lamity came upon him he had nothing
to fall back upon. In 1867 some indi-
vidual, thinking that he also might make
a little by going into the bitter business,
began the manufacture of the Red Cloud
Bitters. Pieters represented this as an
Infringement of his rights, and brought
suit to have his rival enjoined. The
matter was tried in the United States
Court. An expert chemist analyzed
Peters productions and they consisted
of poor whisky, favored with tansy,
dogfennel, jimson weed, or some other
substance which possessed no special
medicinal virtues. Ultimately, the court
decided that his rights had not been in
vaded, and that Red Cloud and Red
Jacket might have separately and indie
pendently originated bitters. This hurt
Pieters, but not half as much as the
analysis. People had supposed that his
bitters owed their rare virtues to samples
unknown to the white man, gathered at
midnight in primeval forests, by grim
Indian chiefs, or dusky Indian girls,
dark, but comely, like the tents of Kcdar,
or the curtains of King Solomon, the
secret having been specially commune
Gated to Pieters under circumstances of
so private a nature, that they never be-
came public. When the illusion was
dispelled, the sale of the Red Jacket
stopped, and Pieters' income diminished.
The less money hehad the more he drank.
He got involved in trouble with his
partner, and finally, in 1869, after the
defeat of Gen. Solomon, and his depart
ture from Washington Territory, he ac-
cempanied him along with O'Brien,
Hayden, Church, &c. He returned from
there few months ago, and, after lott
ering around the city doing nothing, last
Monday he enlisted as a cavalry recruit
In the regular army, and embraced this
desperate resort of reduced gentleman.
Tribune, June 10.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
RIDGWAY, PA. THURSDAY, JULY IS, 1872.

low jumped off his horse, caught him
by the shoulders, shook him, laughed,
and ended by kissing him like a girl.
" Paul Forbes Bless Jou, boy How
did you come here?"
Paul jumped to his feet, turned red,
and then burst into shout of laughter.
"You were the seeress? l know you
were!
The lieutenant nodded. "Do you be-
grndge the dollar for his prophecy Z" he
said. "As I look back now, l don't
quite approve of my manner of teach
ing you your lesson, but you have shown
yourself n better scholar than 1 feared"
"Becn appointed assistant surveySc
of this Territory, sir? Attached to the
Exploration Party under Gen. Hay. L
can't tell you all now, only that have
the position for ten years, at fine sala-
ry; and mother and Clara are snug and
happy as they never were before. What
do you think of that, Uncle Jem?"
Uncle Jem wrung his hand. "Think?
Why, that you must have worked hard
to achieve so much, Paul"
"Yes, yes, it took hard work !" nod
ding. cts queer, too, what tritics will
drive fellow on road, ell z"
Several months after, the lieutenant
came upon Paul one day, who was look
ing at bit of yellow paper, covered
with figures and lines.
ado you know" said he, looking up,
"there's u puzzle that took me years to
work out? l did it just before 1 left
home, and l found the answer to it
nothing"
The elieutenant paused, smiled. "Hard,
healthful study, good profession, and
good income will not serve for pot of
gold, then, Paul 7" he said, with shrewd
twinkling in his eye.-Ihe Companion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
A Millionaire In SackclOth and Ashes,

A Saratega correspondent of the AL
bany Times says:
Among the recent arrivals ut Saratoga
is a young gentleman of great fortune,
who is regular summer visitor here,
and who has invariably made a great
display. This season he proposes to do
the place on quieter scale, on account
Of his mothers recent death. This is
how he goes about it: He has suite of
rooms at the Congress that, under his
supervision, have been so arranged as to
present q rather sombre appearance, for,
out of respect for his mothers memory,
they have been put in mourning. A
deep black border runs around the cell
ings, while the wall paper is of q very
gloomy color; the furniture which ar
rived to-day, is from Egypt, and is ex-
ceedingly grotesque in appearance and
mysterious in style nothing like it has
ever before appeared In Saratoga. The
gentleman announces that he will not
enter the ballroom this summer, but
will entertain his friends in his rooms
in an elegant and costly manner, of
course-no levity. He is to drive four
ln-hand, his groom and coachman are to
be attired in mourning; and mourning
lap robes, like funeral pals, are to be
spread over the seats of his carriages,
which will be painted in keeping with
the habiliments of woe. For these en-
blems OF sackcloth and ashes he pays
$500 per week. Shoddy society calls
this "tilial devotion" and speaks of him
as "such a good son." "but so odd and
eccentric" !" while the common-sense
people are unkind enough to call him
snob, and one of the most outre kind.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18
POETR Y.
THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER.

onuer yon cloud, In cool and quiet shelter,
Ihe happy herd lies browsing through the noon;
"h'e the dusty way must trudge, ana swoltcr
boneath the fervd sun of midday June.
blko come great bird the clouds above them hover;
lls Nature broods them fondly with her wings;
"hle l, who all my life have been her lover,
must toll afar from shsde and cooling springs.
U mighty Nature kindliest of mothersl
breathe cooling airs as soft as zephyrs mild
Spread wide your wings, that among the others
May share the shelters with your humblcst child.
She hears the surpliant, travol-worn and wcaried,
Her soft sigh rustles in tho breezcs bland;
fondcr 10 looming in the distance arid,
The great Rocks shadow In the weary land
July Old and Netp
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18

A New England advertiser wants /" a
woman who fears the Lord and weighs
200 pounds" and the editor of the sheet
in which the advertisement appears re-
marks that " the woman who weighs 200
pounds rarely fears the Lord or any
body else"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18

A Hudson lady, by mistake, paid a
dishonest peddler 800 bill, instead of
a 81 bill, for pineapple the other day.
She thinks pineapples are dear luxuries.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18

st. Paul and Minneapolis are talking
OF broad avenue or boulevard to con-
meet the two cities,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-07-18

A travelling menagerie consisting of
one man and bear is delighting rural
audiences In Indiana.
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
A MINIATURE ADMINISTRATION.

A NORTH CAROLINA FAMILY OF OFFICE-HOLDERS
-BRIBERY GENERAL AND INCONCEALLD-A
NIRTUOUS GRANT LEGISLATURE.
lFRON TBR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THB TRIBUNE {
WASHINGTON, Beaufort County NC, Sept. Is.
i have found nest Of genuine NepoEopuocans down
here in this little outoftheway town in Eastern North
Caronna-a family Which, having Cobbled up about all
81 thc Federal Offices IN this neighhorhood, has made
- dead set" ~ the state and county honors. AT the
head of this nusrious house Is Hiram +. suey United
States Assessor Of Internal Revenue member Of the
Lover House Of the North Carolina Legislature in 1850
and just elected the state Senate nom this district
As member Of the last Republican Legislature suley
was one OF the most plant tools in the hands
Of LitiiSneld. and. of course his vote was never
wanting when robbery Of unusual proportions
WAs be put through United States Marshal Carrow
has elected him 20 another two years incon
alton OF hs eminent services during his former term
secoud on the list stephen stney clerk 10 the In
ternal Revenue Assessor. and Aspirant for prom
tioa II Grant Is reelected. sydney T. stley is Post.
master az this place. and OF Carrows leatcnans IN
running the political machine Henry d. stlley Dep
uly Postmaster william stIey, ir- was. until re-
Gently. mailcarrer Washington 10 Goose Greek in
tLls county. lie Is nov out Of employment but viii
have 70 be provided for before the November eiSchon
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
GREELEY AND PHILLIPS.
TIE LOYALTY or TIE ONE AND TIE DI,UNIOS-
ISM OF TIE OTHER.
r. il u u nl--.L
Wendell Philips SAWS


Ihs 10. .4Hlu t0u.Terl4L
Wendell Phillips says
u lave NJ Gey Tor lrv vs'rs 'ni s evey 81 north
ar fae b meet ia ee that lave iuho'i Oh
MOI sud ont n foolish colslepce sth continued "a
H. ersf hope W,a be esd ty AM ?! vAeIs ~ MAJ
voru b. fsnd 70 hiye pn4dpls. l. nytf hls tech'
Now, suppose Greeley mad taken sides with Philips
dnrng the twenty years In which he advocated dsuuOn,
ssaed the Constitution and tired 20 break UP the Gov
enmcn suppose he had la5Cred 10 prepare the North.
IN mind for a sectional separation on c ground ot
slavery; suppose he bad employed bis OWerIM anu
wide y-crculatcd paper as an agency for lTopaHtus
such principles throughout The country who eau
don't believe he would have destroyed the Union
and the Constitution. bat he would certainly have
done a good deal In the way Of creating public
oninion aud feeling unfayorable 10 their main
tiuapce He would have weakened that patrIotc
devotion 10 them which produced such masn!h-
cent uprising N their behalf twelve years ago. lie
would have added incaculaD. e. tho strength oi the
s,ufheru leaders IN tAer reces son m0NclncAL Mbch
Phuups SAYS that during those umer, Greeley AWAY
{" horribly disappointed hn, he really gives Greeley
the highest praise for Judgment poll cal wisdom ani
sfatesmnnship. The principles of FAllAps we're mar
row and destructive; the principles OF Greeley Ntfe
iro.a ~ s,uud. TIE principles OF Pumps Wond AAN c
plyer nj with slaNe empire IN lht SOUTH Tie
priuc.- L 2. LEY secured the prcseIN alon OF the
tul. and s.orftd 81 with univ e-sai uccd)u The dls-
un0 principes 81 Philips Wt.e lost when ie principles
of Grccry had saEei TIE Union. u D. tis career OF
PhI ps and not ui Greeley. when shows lduIe ailer
failure" u phillips had grown wise: Viih time, he
would devote the r-t Of his Aio 90 COM, 'sing hs OVID
foues aud euogSln tAe superSf sasaIy VI GTeeiey'
New-York tribune., 1872-09-28
AUGUST FANCIES.
A WATERNG-PLACE SONATA.
AT TIE WHITE SULPHUR sPRISGs-TIE RECORD
OF A DAY.

AT iliE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS-TIIE RHCORu
OF DAY.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va, Aug. "a
am fairly puzzled cannot for tho fo Of me concsys
"ht tnere IA In this place 10 inspire eyory jenkins who
comes near IL with long rgmarole Of vulgar persOnai
tes ana iuiaomo hateFy. which he straightway commu
oateS 10 ms FAMILIAR editor. and why it Is that It's uest
~ "oS' oi dosoilSSies arc never given 10 the public
10 NOT ehat the place Is vulgar, or tho tone common
Tue first delighted opinion expressed To mo nv a fason
aDioNew YORK lady just arrived, was How much better
toned was than any watering place she had ever via
fed" And young Englishman OF the new yIra1nia
immigration told mo that after iyo weeks spent In Tho
country. tins tho first place where he had met ta,
or gentleman Light and frivolous 1t m 20 high degree
indeed were 1t not that ono knows well how richly tho
reiaxau0n, tho curious and total reaction OF life In many
cases earned the utter shaowness OF tho main current
Of life bore would sicken ana sadden one as tho evera
Ing chase OF pleasure sometimes does at Paris, Asnn
however, find kind Of idyc and Deyerfailing enter
tainmcn In the White Sulphur, which tho position af
tho place certainly contributes Arriving here from sny
direction from the little open railway station over tho
skinabradng stage route from walk through the deep
meiOws or the wild noun side IL is all the same Or
pass little rise. some underlined shady limit, anC
straight your astOnshed mind translated and I'm a.
5eH Ia world tho exact opposite OF what has boon
dwelling upon before, while yearns for the palette Of
some Watteau OF the nineteenth century Broad flowing
lawns white Summer houses where a band plays music
which Is never severe; educated groves OF oak aud
maple and pine, shading groups Of idlors whore ths
Dolly Warden. never so becoming In such a scene
calls for Watteau more clearly than ever; a hundred
pretty low white cottages all around and In tho middle
great solid samon-colOred hotel OF most approved
hness' For weeks now, have been gazing upon tl.
scene each successive daily chord OF which has become
familiar to my mind, and nsensiby 1t has come sound
IN my brain Ike changing piece Of music. Were
musician think should make OF It sonata In
four movements, and begin It thus: