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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
How Young Men Fall.

"There is Alfred Sutton home with
his family to live on the old folks" "
said one neighbor to another. 1t
seems hard, after all his father has
done to fit him for business, and the
capital he invested to start him SO fair
ly. 1t is surprising he has turned out
so poorly. He is steady young man,
no bad habits, as far as L know he has
a good education, and was always con-
sidered smart but he doesn't succeed
in anything. / am told he has tried a
number of different kinds of business,
and sunk money every time. What
can be the trouble with Alfred? I
should like to know, for [ don't want
my boy to take his turn"
"Alfred is smart enough" said the
other, "and has education enough, but
he lacks the one element of success.
He never wants to give q dollars worth
of work for dollar of money, and
there is no other way for young man
to make his fortune. He must dig if
he would get gold. All the men that
have succeeded, honestly or dishonest
ly, in making money, have had to work
for it, the sharpers sometimes the hard
est OF all. Alfred wishes to get his
train in motion, and let it take care of
itself. No wonder it soon ran off the
track, and smash-up was the result.
Teach your boy, friend Archer, to work
with a will when he does work. Give
him play enough to make him healthy
and happy, but let him learn that work
is the business of life. Patient, self
denying work is the price of success.
Ease and Incidence eat away not capital
only, but worse still, all of mans nerve
power Present qualification tends to
put off duty until tomorrow or next
week. 1t is getting to be rare thing
for the sons of rich men to die rich.
Too often they squander in half-score
of years what their fathers were life
time in accumulating. 1 wish 1 could
ring it in the ears of every aspiring
young man that work, hard work, OF
head and hands, is the price of success. u
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
How Counterfeiters Work.

When the rebellion broke out, noted
counterfeiter, says reporter for the
U. S. Senate Secret Service Bureau.
saw an excellent chance to "make
money, "by initiating the postal and
legal-tender notes which then appeared.
He went into it on wholesale scale,
and his efforts at this time were i'm
mensely profitable. He got out fair
counterfeit plates of the S1's, the two's,
the $10's, and the $20's, which all sue
ceeded finely but his specially success
full effort was an imitation fifty-dolar
legal-tender, which proved the most
dangerous counterfeit, as we'll as the
most accurate imitation, of all that
ever were got out of that denomina-
tion.
After fully half million dollars of
this dangerous note had been put upon
the market, Bill, the counterfeiter, was
arrested on suspicion but, so well had
he covered up his tracks, that nothing
could be proved against him, and he
was again released. His success with
this operation led him to undertake a
still greater venture and he deter
mined to go to work and introduce a
bogus one-hundred- dollar compound
interest-bearing note, which were then
greatly in demand and for which he
thought he would find ready market.
Bill, consequently, by liberal outlay
of money, induced an attache of the
Treasury Department, through the
agency of handsome woman-who
figured somewhat prominently in the
affair-to break his trust, and take q
wax impression of the back of the plate,
from which the genuine note was being
printed, from which an electrotype
was subsequently procured. The young
man who had been led into this crime
died suddenly, short time afterward,
in Washington, before he had been sus-
pected of the crime of which he had
been guilty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
improvements in Iron Production.

ALondon inventor, named Crampton,
has devised furnace which is claimed
to resolve the ethree problems of the utili-
zation of coal dust, the perfect combus-
tion of fuel without smoke, and me-
chanical pudding The furnace is now
in operation at the Woolwich arsenal.
1t consists of cylinder revolving about
horizontal axis, and divided into two
chambers, upon four bearing wheels let
into bed plate on the ground. Around
the furnace at one end is a toothed
wheel, which gears into pinion con-
nection with small engine, by which
it is said to revolve. There is a circu-
lar opening in the bridge or partition
between the two chambers. Into one of
the latter, the combustion chamber, the
comminuted coal dust mixed with air is
blown, and there consumed. The inte-
rior is lined with fire. brick, to which the
Stag from the iron melted in the fur
mace forms protective covering, being
equally distributed over the surface as
the cylinder revolves. At the end of
the working chamber is fue leading to
the chimney, and which is arranged
with counterbalance weight, SO that it
can be removed when the charge is to
be introduced, or withdrawn. AS in
the common reverberatory furnace. the
products of combustion pass from the
first into the second chamber, where the
heat is applied for the publication of
the charge. sr.@
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
Tricks Of a Smuggler.

The especial attention of the Secret
Service of the United States having
been called to the fact that large
amounts of valuable laces and iewelry
found their way into this country in
some mysterious manner, without pay
ing duty, during the years 1866 and
1867, it was at last ascertained that
these smuggled goods came through
Boston. A especial" Captain s.
was sent to the Custom House at that
port to "work up" the case, and for
several months this gentleman was on
the q,i UiUe watching the European
steamers carefully, but without avail.
One fine morning, however, this officer,
while on board of steamer which had
just come in from Havre, observed q
large deal box, which was being trans
ferred to the shore. His suspicious
being aroused, he inquired what it con-
tanned, and was answered that it was q
corpse-an American who had died
abroad, and whose body was being sent
home for interment in his native soil, at
the request of his mourning relatives.
Not quite satisfied with this explana-
ton, the officer ordered the box to be
opened. Inside was handsome black
walnut coffin. Still suspicious, he or
dered the lid of the casket to be un-
screwed, and there lay the dead man
sure enough, the body slightly decom-
posed. The casket was quickly closed,
and the box nailed up and taken away
without further investigation.
A short time subsequently similar
occurrence took place. Another steamer
arrived from France with another corpse
aboard, it was said, addressed to other
waiting, mourning friends in America.
Somewhat confounded at the apparent
mortality going on among American
citizens in France, Captain s. Or
dered also this box to be opened before
leaving the ship. This was done, and
there was another elegant casket with
silver mountings, handles, etc. This
unscrewed as before, and there lay the
corpse-the cold blue face and head
and neck-there could be no question
about the fact. The coffin lid, which
opened a third of its length upon silver
hinges, was just being thrown back to
its place when the officer insisted, to the
surprise of the sailors, that the entire
lid of the casket should be removed.
This was done at once, and, horrible
to relate the fact, the trunk and bowels
of the corpse were found to have been
removed, and, in place of the contents
for which intended, the cavity in the
casket, for two-thirds of its length, was
filled with shallow tin boxes, hermeti-
cally sealed, containing some eight
thousand dollars worth of choice
Mechlin and other valuable laces
These, of course, were seized and con-
fscated, while the mutilated corpse
went on its way, according to address.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
How He Beat an Editor,

An October magazine relates the fol.
lowing incident of Cagliostro, the
noted swindler of his day. 1t says
Expelled from France, Cagliostro re-
turned to London and Masonry. A
newspaper quarrel, in that day of small
things in Newspapers, made him tenn
porarily famous throughout England.
One De Morandi, editor of the C0urrier
de rE'urope, accused him of being
rogue. This editor was happily witty
over a statement of Cagliostro's s that. in
his princely travels in Arabia, he saw
pigs fed and fattened on arsenic
sprinkled food. When thoroughly
saturated with the poison, so that their
sides stood out with fatness, the pigs
were marched into the woods to be de-
voured by lions, tigers, leopards, and
other carniverous animals, who always
died Immediately after their poisonous
repast. 1t is rather tough story, and
De Morandi made great fun of it, offer
ing to eat any amount of the pork.
But the Count turned the tables on his
editorial prosecutor by Offering to put
up twenty-five thousand dollars that he
would fatten pig on arsenic, and that
De Morandi and himself should eat a
hearty breakfast of it, the survivor to
have the fifty thousand dollars. The
pork, he told England, would kill De
Morandi, but he was immortal. The
editor declined the test, not caring to
risk his life even in hopes of winning
twenty-five thousand dollars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
A Singular Case.

Senator Foote, of Mississippi, in his
"reminiscences of early times, tells o
horrible story Of Governor of that
State as follows:
Alexander McNutt was coarse, bru-
tai man, with certain sort of ability
and huency in speech, calculated to en-
tertain the masses, but an arrant cow
ard. He formed a valuable partnership
with one Joel Cameron, very success
full cotton planter at Natchez, and grew
rapidly wealthy but suddenly the peo-
pie of Mississippi were shocked by
learning that Cameron had been MUIR
dered, and that four of his own negroes
had been arrested for the deed. These
negroes were tried and hung, McNutt
being particularly oficious in bringing
them to justice. One of them, named
Daniel, very intelligent, though des-
perate man, began, before his execu-
ton, to throw out dark hints of McNutt
being an accessory to the murder, and
was only silenced by threat that a
dentist should be sent for and his teeth
drawn-a very strange proceeding,
truly. Daniel remained silent after that
until the day of his execution. The
negro supposed he would have the OPP
portunity of saying last word on the
gallows, as is usual in such cases but
anticipating this, McNutt had arranged
to defeat the intention, and when the
negro began speaking the drums of the
guard commenced to beat, drowning
his voice, and in the midst of the tu-
multi he was swung off. Immediately
thereafter McNutt secured the arrest of
free negro named Byrd, whom he
charged with completely in the crime.
Byrd was familiar with the affairs of the
purtners, and McNutt doubtless feared
he would betray some secret. Byrd
was tried twice, each time convicted,
and each time the Supreme Court an
nulled the sentence and sent the case
back for rehearing. But McNutt pur-
sued him like q bloodhound. He was
tried third time, and again convicted.
He made n statement the day before his
death, which he submitted to Governor
Foote, who was his counsel, in which
he charged the murder directly upon
McNutt, and adduced facts strongly
corroborativc. He also gave state
ment made to him by the negro Daniel,
above referred to, and in support Of the
charge referred to the fact that within
a few months after the death of Came
ron, McNutt had married the latter's
widow, and had come into the whole
of his property. This statement was
suppressed at the request of Gov
ernor Foote, and McNutt permitted to
go unmolested. Byrd was hung, though
there seemed to be, outside of the jury,
who had doubtless been tampered with,
a universal belief in his innocence.
McNutt afterward became Governor of
Mississippi, and was prominent can
.didate for United States Senator, but
was beaten by Mr.. Foote. In the course
of his recital the latter relates that
McNutt and Cameron were guilty of
the most horrible treatment of their
negroes. They beat them in the most
inhuman manner, and murdered them
without fear or restraint. The case of
one is related who was held upon burn
ing Goals until the fire consumed his
yitalS
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
The Dog and Prairie Wolf.

The resemblance between the dog
and coyote, or prairie wolf, is the sub
ject of an interesting paper by DR..
Elliot Coues in a recent number of the
american Naturalist. A table of
measurements of the two species shows
a very close argument between them,
even though one of the terms of COM
parison be so highly specialized va
the coyote and the dog are frequent,
with the resulting mongrels fertile /;
'and in every Indian community on
the.plains," says DR.. Coues, "there are
mongrel dogs shading into coyotes in
every degree, all having the clear wolf
strain, and some being scarcely dis
tinguishable from prairie wolf. The
most striking difference between the
coyote and the dog is their physiogno-
N.Y." That of the coyote is character
lied by DR.. Coues as being intermedi-
ate between the VOLTS and the fox's,
but more "doggy" than either. Audu-
bon's figure of the coyote is said to be
faithful enough, though the front view
of the upper figure is too "foxy." The
coyote face occurs in many cur-dogs,
especially the slender-nosed kinds, but
the true coyote lacks almost entirely
the frontal prominence of the latter
animal, its face from occiput to mouth
deviating but very little from a straight
line. Its lips are thin and scant, com,
monty showing the teeth, and always
parting when the animal is dead. The
differences between the skull of the
pointer and that of the coyote are
trifing compared with the discrepancies
existing in different breeds of dogs,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
A Mocking Bird Risen from the Ashes

A mocking bird in it's cage was saved
from the ruins of the rear buildings of
the Holiday Street Theatre, Baltimore,
on Saturday last, by Mr.. Thomas Mox-
ley. He had left the bird in charge of
Mrs. Linton, who so barely escaped
with her children on the night of the
fire. Attention was called to the bird
by his singing amidst the desolation of
half-consumed room in the second
story of the building at the Fayette
street entrance. Mr.. Moxley was both
surprised and delighted to find his bird
alive, though terribly altered from
Tuesday last, when he had been fed.
No water or food was found in the cage,
and the bird was nearly famished. A
part of the cage was slightly scorched,
and it seems wonderful that the bird
was not smothered to death,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
Fifty Miles i'm Two Hours and Five
Minutes.

Chan. Reticker, the celebrated rider,
performed his extraordinary feat of
riding fifty miles in two hours and a
half, at the Greenland Race Course,
Louisville, Ky. Attwenty- eight minutes
pas5 3 the word was given, and off he
started for his first mile. Each of the
arrived at the end of mile, but, after
the first ten miles had been accom-
plished, three of the horses were taken
away, not being in good condition, leav-
ing only seven to run the remaining
forty miles.
Total time of running, / hour, so
minutes, and 313 seconds. Time lost
in changing horses, IL minutes and 4sa
seconds.
Total time of race, including chang
ing, 2 hours, minutes, and twenty
seconds.
Reticker thus accomplished the race
"a minutes and 40 seconds quicker than
he proposed to do it,
Mr.. Reticker states that the time ac-
complished is the fastest on record in
the United States. This is greatly due
to the horses, all of which are Kentucky
thoroughbreds.
Mr.. Reticker used the old fashioned
California Spanish saddle in riding, and
also has peculiar bride. The track
was somewhat heavy and was very
dusty, the dust flying into the riders
throat, compelling him to drink water
at times to moisten his lips; otherwise
he was in good condition, and felt as
well after the race was over as when il
began, .as-.. s ...s.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
VOL. Ill.
The River Path.

No bird-song foated down the hill;
The tangled bank below was stl
No rustic from the birchen stem
No ripple from the waters hem
The dusk OF twilight round us grew,
We felt the falling of the dew;
For, from us, ere the day was done,
The wooded hills shut out the sun.
But on the rivers farther side
We saw the hill-tors glorifed-
A tender glow, exceeding fair,
dream of day without its glare.
With us the damp, the chill, the gloom;
With them the sunsets rosy bloom
While dark, through willowy vistas seen,
The river rolled in shade between.
From out the darkness where we trod
We gazed upon those hills of God,
Whose light seemed not of moon or sun:
We spake not, but our thought was one.
We paused, as if from that bright shore
Beckoned our dear ones gone before:
The voices lost to mortal ear.
Sudden our pathway turned from night:
The hills swung open to the light;
Through their green gates the sunshine showed.
long, slant splendor downward flowed:
Down glade and glen and bank it rolled:
1t bridged the shaded stream with gold
ana, borne on piers Of mist, allied
The shadowy with the sunlit side,
- So" prayed we, "when our feet draw near
The river dark with mortal fear,
y And the night cometh chill with dew
o Father! let thy light break through.
- So let the hills Of doubt divide;
So bridge with faith the sunless tide;
: So let the eyes that fail on earth,
On thy eternal hills look FORTH
= And, in thy beckoning angels, know
The dear ones whom we loved bolow!r
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
Pity the Poor Printer,

A writer in our Monthly has evident
ly been inside composing room, if he
has not dug living out of q case. ~
He thus sums up the result of his ex-
perience:
Working for forty editors and scores
of authors, every one of whom is as
sensitive as a sore thumb, and as lively
and interesting as hornet, no wonder
that printers die young, and only
paGhydermatous grizzly, mulish spe-
cimens get their share of life.
Happy infants, early blest
Rest in peaceful slumber; rest;
Rescued from the thumps and jeers
Which increase with growing years"
"The writer wishes ha could offer
himself as an awful example of the
perils which environ the man who
NEEDLES with cold-type.. A thorough
ly trained printer should have had a
stepmother and then . stepfather, and
then have been bound out to tanner,
and then have married scolding wife
and lived in a smoking house, and have
had family of babies who were afflicted
with the collie. He should have added
to all this discipline q thorough knowl.
edge of science, art, law, languages,
theology, history and biography. IT.,
in addition, he has q vicious-looking
countenance and an amiable disposition,
he may stand some chance with those
authors and editors but the probabili-
ties are, after all, that they will worry
him to DEATH"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-10-09
Not Remarkable.

A Massachusetts, farmer says: "My
cattle will follow me until leave the
lot, and on their way up to the barn
yard in the evening stop and call for a
lock of hay"
Smithson says there is nothing at all
remarkable in that. He went into
barnyard in the country one day last
week where he had not the slightest ac-
quaintance with the cattle, and an old
bull not only followed him till he left
the lot, but took the gate off the hinges
and raced with him up to the house in
the most familiar manner possible.
Smithson says he has no doubt that
the old fellow would have called for
something if he had waited little
while, but he didn't want to keep the
folks waiting dinner, so he hung one
tail of his coat and piece of his pants
on the bulls horns and went into the
house.
The LOOKING GLAss.-To repair the
silvering on mirror, the following
method has been recommended by good
authorities: Clean the bare portion on
the glass by rubbing it gently with fine
cotton, taking care to remove all dust
and grease. With the point of knife
cut upon the back of another glass a
portion of the silvering of the required
form, but little larger. Place drop
of mercury upon it.. This spreads, and
presently the piece of amalgam may be
lifted up with the blade of knife, and
transferred to the place to be repaired.
Press it with a piece of cotton wool. 1t
hardens speedily, and the patch is as
good as any other part Of the mirror,
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-24
A Healthy Drink.

With the permission Of the Board
OF Health, we wish to present . few
statements in regard to . beverage
which is said to have very ben e fetal
effect on the human animal during
the heated term. The ingredients OF
the drink are quite cheap. and it does
not require . professional 'cobbler
shaker" to build up the alluring liquid.
A bucket Of cold water with certain
quantity Of oat meal stirred in it IL
the sum and substance OF the receipt.
Several persons have tried it, and ind
It to be not only victuals and drink,
but mighty refreshing" A high
authority ~ the Medical journal of
Edinburgh says OF oat meal: That
in Its raw state, when II 10 mixed IN
with water, II is becoming . fsvori,e
dish. The brose OF Aud Scotland Ia
becoming favorite dish-and We are
glad to note this, because we believe il
TO be . healthy aud muscle FORMING
commodity-with the hunters and
trappers Of the West, who are submit.
ting oat meal ia this form for parcbed
and Indian corn. The same brawDy
power. OF enduranc.
are proverbisl, whose scorn Of fatigue
10 known to nil readers Of travel and
natural history-havs found out tina,
. very acceptable drink is mad. by
putting about two teaspoonful- Of oat
meal TO tumbler Of water. This
they, the hunters and trapper-, aver
70 be the best drink they can use, -
II 10 at once nourishing, uns,imuls.
une and satisfying. - Erchange.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-24

When crowd Of jayhawkers star
ted disturbance In . Texas church.
the other day. the preacher raised up
shot rum and said: civilian Del
10, cit down. or I'll make It painful
for you.n William sat down and was
- quiet rs lamb.
Joseph G. Cloud started from Phila-
delphia last Monday to row to New
Orleans for . wager Of 81, 900; the con.
ditioD being that he will not sleep on
shore till he reaches the latter place,
The boat will be carried over the
mountains and put into the Ohio Riv-
er. The boat weighs sixty pounds.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-24

The Chicago yourna, Of Consnaerce
advises Western farL.srs to diversity
industry, develop local resources, en-
courage manufactures near the farm,
make population denser. create on
your own soil - many centers OF
commerce rs you can, do everything
in your power 10 bring consumers to
your dOors.f
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-24

A Tennessee lady pressnssd -
husband with pair OF twins and II
due season added triplets. .DeAr me,
exclaimed an astonished nslgbbor, II
s'pose Mn. stebbing will have quad
rupeds next, and then centipedes."