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No. The great snow storm Of

sas- The great snowstorm Of lat
week appears to have extended oyer
t'.e country far and wide, South ps
we'll as North Trains and maiis
we're Delayed Of course, in many in.
Stsue~s, snow bound On the track. and
business fora day or two WAS Al a
stand still. Nothing could move but
shoyek. The thermometer has also
had its chance to tell a large story
forty degrees below zero in Maine on
Christmas day; twelve below in VDr'
mou', and very cold every where in
New England. South, in Baltimors
and Washington, the weather ~ui
uuulual, bitter
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REPENTANCE.

lie kissed me, and I knew twas wrong.
For he was neither kith nor kin.
Need one do penance very long,
For such tiny little sin!
He pressed my hand. Now that's not right
Why will men have such wicked wayss
II didn't take minute, quite.
And yet it seemed like days and day..
There's mischief In the moon, know,
For Tmqvite sure saw her wink
When requested him TO 70.
mran' it soo--'' least sh'af'
But after ALL I'm not to blame
He snatched the kiss. / do think men
Are quite without all sense Of shame
Iwonder If he'll come again7
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Rccollections Of Don QuiXOtte
Here ara a few extracts from Don

Here are a few extracts from Don
Qui1otts
Beauty in a modest woman is like
FIRE or a sharp sword at a distance
neither doth the one burn nor the 9th
or wound those that come not toe
close to them.
Keep your mouth shut and your
eyes open.
Self praise depreciates.
The dead to the bier. the living to
good cheer.
All women, let them be ever SO
homsly, are pleased to hear them
selves celebrated for beauty.
Squires and knight-errands are sub.
jsct to much hunger and ill-luck.
Liberality may be carried too fa'
in those who have children to inherit
from them.
Virtue il always more persecuted
BY the wicked than beloved by tht
righteous.
Every one is the son Of his OWL
works.
No padlocks, bolts or bars can Sc
cure 4 maiden rs we'll as her own re-
serve.
Wit and humor belongs to geniu
alone.
The wittisst person in the comedy
IL he that plays the fool.
There is no book 50 bad but that
some good thing may be found in it
We are all rs God made US, an<
oftentimes a great deal worse,
We cannot all be friars, and var
ious are the paths by which God con
ducts the way to heaven.
Covetousness bursts the bag.
1t is easy to undertake, but mor'
difficult to finish a thing.
This term is equally applicable tt
all things-whoever is ignorant il
vulgar.
Other mems pains are easily borne
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By THE New York Herald i,

commenting on the recent Mnrder Of
Mrs. Lampley in Baltimore very just
ly remarks. that when an aged lady
cannot be left alone in her own house
without running the risk of being
murdered, it is time for us to be
ashamed Of our civilization. Crime is
on the increase in the mils, Of us, and
it must continue to be 80 long as the
worst offences against aw can be COM
mitted with iGtan.ty. Our laws are
good enough. What is wahte.! is the
execution Of the laws. a few months
Of rigorous Justice and some whole
some examples would do world Of
good When viii the reign Of law be-
cn and the reign ol license cea:5.
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Herald, Frederick.
JACOB CRAMER, Chairman
WILLIAM P. JONES, Secretary.
May, 1885.
Frederick Town April %, 1910.
How sweet are Hymen's silken cords
Unto each faithful lover;
When mutually their minds agree,
Each day new joys discover.
MARR1ED-On Sunday last by the
Rev. Mr.. DavidF. Shaefer, Mr.. Tho
mas fens to the ahtiable Miss Eisz-
Fe'1e0 =
l8l0,) in Frederick Town, by the
Rev! Mr.. Higgins, Mr.. Henry Barck-
man to the amiable Miss Rtbccca
CAamper.
NOTlCEl-All persons indebted
to the subscriber by bond, note or
book account, are requested to make
immediate payment to John Markell,
in Frederick Town otherwise COM
pulsory measures will be used to en-
force payment.
BENJAMIN STALLINGs.
May 10, 1910.
March %, l8ll.- MARRIED On
Tuesday. the 10Th instant, by the
Rev. Patrick Davidson, Mr.. David
McQuickery to Miss Elizabeth Hof-
man, all Of this town.
NEw-TowN, Frederick county,
Sept. IA. 1910.
Mr.. Bdrtg,s,
SlR-Many people Of this county
being under the impression that |
have consented, if elected, to serve
as member Of the next General AS
sembly Of Maryland, and that I will
be one of the candidates at the next
election, ! therefore deem it my duty
to declare publicly as l now do, that
shall not be a candidate nor could
| serve if the people thought proper
to elect me.
| AIN yours.
PATRICK McGILL.
na- April %. 1927. - FREDERICK
FREE ScHooL.--On Monday, the 10th
of March, 1927, at the Annual meet
ing Of the Board of Directors Of the
Frederick Free School, the following
mem oers were elected Directors for
''ti tisorgs tiscfgI;s" "B|a1iizzell, Stuart Gather,
| Ely Dorsey. Richard Potts, Seth Thom-
son. Frederick Nusz, David Boyd,
! Nicholas Turbutt, John P. Thomson,
Jacob Baer, Robert McCleery, L, P.
W. Balch, Isaac Wysong, Michael
Buckley, lie Wis Medtart, William R.
Sander.on, William Ross, John Nc
poneld, James NJ. Shellman, George
Schultz, Cyrus Mantz, Jonathan Ea-
der, VIM, b. Tyler, George W. Ent,
George Engelbrecht, Thomas Carlton,
Jose ph NJ. Palmer, John Nelson, Al
bert Richie.
After which the Directors elected
the following officers:
Richard Potts, President;
William Ross, Woo prs,d',s
William Tyler, " " "
George Baltzell, Treasurer.
Lewis Modtart, Secretary
fOf the above named Messra. Isaac
Wysong and George Engelbrecht are
still among the living in Frederick
the others are dead
/ NorIcE is HEREBY GIVEN, That X
petition viii be presented to the next
i Legislature of Maryland, to widen
and straighten the Public Road lead
ing from Frederick Town to Emmi's
burg; that is to say, from Frederick
TO Moses Worman's mill; from thence
20 Peter Curfmans tavern; from
! thence to Mrs. Myers tavern; from
thence to Creagerstown. and from
! thence to Eumitsburg
Angus, II, 1922.
In May, 1925, John Kunkel, Geo.
W. Ent, Frederick Nusz, John Baer
of William and John Rignev were
Trustees Of the Poor OF Frederick
County.
n@- The Rev. Mr.. Morrison will
preach in the Presbyterian church. on
Sunday morning next at 10 o'clock.
Nov. %, lS2S,-New Beer at Wm
Small's Brewery, Very good a, usual
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No Sabbath.

In a prize on the Sabbath, written
by journeyman printer in Scotland,
which for gular power of language
and beauty of expression, has never
been surpassed, there occurs the fol-
lowing passage. Read it and then re-
feet for awhile what dreary and
desolate page would this life present
if tho Sabbath was blotted out from
our circulation.
"Yokefellow think how the ab-
straction of the Sabbath would hope
lessly enslsve the working classes, Of
labor thus going on in one monotonoua
and eternal cycle, limbs forever strain
ing, the brow forever sweating, the
feet forever plodding, the brain for
ever throbbing, the shoulders forever
dropping, the loins forever aching, the
restless mind forever scheming
Think of the beauty it would ef.
face, the merry-heatedness it would
e1tinguish, Of the giant strength il
would tame, of the resources of nature
it would crush, of the sickness it would
breed, Of the projects it would wreck
Of the groans it would e1tort, Of th'
lives it would immediate, and Of tn,
cherries graves it would prematurely
dig? Sec them toiling and moiling
sweating and fretting, grinding aue
chewing, weaving and spinning sew
ing and gathering, moving and reap
ing, raising and building. digging anc
planting striving and struggling-ir
the garden and in the field, in sht
granary aud in the barn, in the fac
tory and in the mill, in the ware.
house and in the shop, on the noun
tain and in the ditch, on the road
side and in the wood, in the city ant
in the country, out at sea and on th'
shore. in the days Of brightness and o.
gloom. What picture would thu
world present if we had no Sabbath.
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Pretty Women.

After all, ls the world 80 very al
surd in it" love Of pretty women ? J.
woman 50 very ridiculous in her chase
after beauty :? A pretty woman Is
doing woman's work in the world,
not making speeches, nor making
buildings, but ulsh ;"e l:f, .uAnls. ~-A
more beautiful. Man has forsworn
the pursuit Of love altogether.-Does
he seek for it himself, he is guessed to
be frivolous, he is guessed to be poetic,
there are whispers that his morals are
no better than they should be. In
society resolute to be ugly there Is no
post for an Adonis, but tn It Of mod
el or guardsman.
But woman does for mankind what
man ceases to do. Her aim from
childhood is to be beautiful. Even as
a school-girl she notes the progress of
her charms, the dispensing color Of her
hair, the growing symmetry of her
arms, the ripening contour Of her
cheek. We watch, with silent inter
st, the mysterious reverses Of thee
maiden she is dreaming of coming
beauty, and painting for the glories Of
eighteen.
Insensibly she becomes an artist,
her room is studio, her glass an acad
emy. TIE JOY Of her toilet is the JOY
Of Raphael over his canvass, of Mich
ael angelo over his marble.
She is creating beauty in the silence
and loneliness of her chamber she
grows like any art creation, the re-
suit of patience, of hopes, and Of a
thousand delicate touchings and re-
touchings.
Woman is never complete. A rest
less night undoes the beauty Of the
day; sunshine blurs the evanescent
coloring Of her cheek frost nips the
tender outlines Of her face into sudden
harshness. Care ploughs it's lines
across her brow; motherhood destroys
the elastic lightness of her form, the
bloom of her cheek, the quick fash OF
her eye, fade and vanish as the years
go by.
But woman still true to her ideal.
She won't know when she is beaten,
and she manages to steal fresh victo-
ries even in her defeat. She invents
new conceptions Of womanly grace ;
She rallies at forty, and fronts us nth
the beauty of womanhood she makes
last stand at sixty with the beauty
of age. She falls like Caesar. wrap
ping her mantle around her-"burled
in wooden 'twould a saint provoke. "
Death listens pitifully to the longings
of lifetime, and the wrinkled face
smies with something of the pretti-
ness Of eli htsso. - Ba|}ons Magazine.
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80 y IN 0cn 8llu ASz ns =. i.

Fit be true-and we suppose it is
that the stomach and the brain are
50 interrelated that the condition Of
one organ defines the state of the other,
then the man who teaches us the prop
er laws of cookery must be regarded
as benefactor of his species. One
Of our leading literary journals re-
Gently declared that more good food is
worse wasted in this country than any
where else on earth, and the fact is ad
mitted by all who have had the oppor-
tunity to break bread at European
tables. 1t is proverbial saying that
Freuchman will get three courses out
of bone, and the economies Of the
German are equally famous. The
dense populations, the low wages and
the distinctions of classes in Europe
compel the people to make the most
Of what they possess. There is a very
waste, and hardly any trace Of the
tendency to dyspepsia which is 40 Pc
culiar to Americans; and human life
is longer and happier in consequence.
Our people, bent upon getting through
the world in hurry, and generally
careless Of their diet, might learn
something from the Englishman, the
Frenchman and the German, and even
from the stolid Indian Of the Far West.
Better methods Of cooking, less haste
in eating, and smaller consumption Of
unwholesome articles Of food, would
not only lengthen the average term Of
life in this country, but also, by Civ
ing the American stomach better
treatment than it now receives, i'm
prove the quality Of the American
brain. We therefore welcome the an
ti-dyspeptic cook as one Of the most
useful Of our public instructors.
I@ A venerable relic has disap-
peared in London-the house in which
the great poet Pope was born--and
in the front of which his father, it
will be remembered, kept haher-
dasher's shop. This building was in
Plow Court. There has been a haber-
dashery in it ever since the time Of
Pope, until recently, when it was oc-
curied by chemist. In Germany.
such an interesting structure would
have been religiously preserved, but
the English, and we are sorry to say,
the American people have no such
reverence, especially when money is
to be made by not having it.
. .
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-28

The NORTHWESTERN WHEAT CROP
Reports from all sections of the North
west regarding the crops indicate a NEST
beautiful harvst. In Minnesota and
Wisconsin the yield is literally immense.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
are already alarmed about their capacity
to store the 40,000,000 bushels of sur
plus grain they calculate upon seeking
a market there. Telegraphic a1vices
from forty-6ve points in Northern Iowa
Con the Sth inst.) speak of the wheat
havest as being nearly over and splen-
did crop gatht red-averaging near to
twenty BUSHES per acre oats good, and
heavy yield in most localities about
fifty BUSHES to the acre.-while in some
few spots the yield will be small; corn
promises splendidly in some places, but
in others the prospects are very dissour-
aging-sufering for rain, and only one
half or three-tourths crop expected; bar
ley, reports generally discouraging-un-
usually light yield, in many places
blighted and poor, and in some others of
excellent quality. Grasshoppers have
caused great loss in all grains in parts Of
Minnesota, Wisconsin aud Northern
Iowa; Rock county, Minnesota, in
southeast corner Ct the State, suffered
loss of full halt its crops in little over a
day, ending on 3lst ult., fortunately a
heavy rain and strong wind stayed the
destruction.
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ABOUT INSURANCE. There is prob
ably no business so generally participated
in as insurance in which so little is
practically known. Many think if they
insure a specified property for $4,000.
and the property is partially or wholly
destroyed, that they will recover the full
insurance, regardless OF the fact that the
property destroyed may not be of halt
the value. This is a common error,
though of course confined to the less n-
formed in such matters. Others, carry
ing a stock varying in value from S25,-
600 to 10000, aud an insurance Tor the
smalle SUN, suppose that, in case Of
damage by fire, involving loss of the
greater amount, they can recover the en-
tire face of their policies, when, in truth
the insurance companies are liah!e ouly
pro rat@ for the loss sustained. If the
insurance policies in plain terms for $780,
600, they will cover any loss on stock
valued at $50 900 to which they apply
up to their full specification But ii
they contain what is known as 'the aver
age clause" which leads, "It is under
stood and agreed that claims under this
policy shall only be for such proportion
of the entire loss as the amount of this
insurance bears to the whole value OF
the property insured" then in case OF
loss on any part of $50 900 stock, with
$4,000 insurance, the companies will
pay five sixts o! the loss and the insured
will bear the other sixth himself
These are pieces of information well
worth holding in remembrance, espec-
tally by the less informed on the sub
je ct Ledger.
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"Emotonal insanifer" is a new name
for whiskey.
Town committees on high weights are
not necessarily fat men.
If you are out in a driving storm
don't attempt to hold the rains.
When does farmer work a miracle?
When he turns his horse to grass.
A woman is like tar-only melt her,
and she will take any form you please.
To hold an umbrella over duck in a
shower is the height OF benevolence.
If the Granger movement succeeds,
many an old politician who has lived in
clover will so to grass.
Mobile, Ala, has just constructed her
first steamboat since the war.
Paris, Ky, has II barrels of whisky
on hand Tor each inhabitant.
Plize fighters challenges always con-
tain the appropriate words, "mean bus
ness"
The Kansas farmers are said to be
planting large numbers OF black walnut
trees.
Rochester has a Wolf in its police
force, Cleveland Lyon, Detroit But
ton and Chicago a Cartwheel.
New Haven Is to have a new railroad
depot two hundred and seventy-one feet
long and ffly-6ve broad.
Brooklyn lawyers have failed to make
gowns fashionable in court-rooms, and
have thrown them aside.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has di-
rected that the September interest,
amounting to about $4,000 600, be paid
on and after August 25, without rebate.
The Whitehall Times thinks Chiacgo
fitly named. for there is no place on the
Continent where a man can get rid of
his she-cargo with less trouble.
Postal cards are now used for the de-
lection of criminals Photographs of
the person are pasted on the cards, which
are sent broadcast in every direction.
The Californians have a new domestic
fowl, the chaparral cock or churra,
which is easily domesticated. and, when
properly cooked is said to be superior
to chicken for eating
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-28

The members of the Republican
State Central Committee are called upon
to meet in the Hall of the Hoase of Rep
resentatives, at Harrisburg on Wednes-
day, September Sd, at halfpast eleven
o'cock a. M.
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FIRE.-Bwning Of Lesser and
DiJle's Wagon Shop and j. S. Dc W.
Hyde's Harness Stop.-Lasl Monday
night at about quarter past ten, our citi-
zens were startled by the cry of fire
which was soon ascertained to be in the
wagon and blacksmith shop of Lesser
L. Dible. When first discovered the
fire was seen to emerge from the small
harness shop adjoining the wagon shop,
and from the fact that there had been
no fire in this shop, it seems conclusive
that the fire was the work of an incen-
diary. In few minutes the flames had
gained such headway that it was thought
that not only would the wagon aud
harness shops be destroyed but that the
tin shop of Hyde & Cody, was in immi-
nent danger, and the chances looked ia.
vorable for having a number of buildings
destroyed, if uotthat entire portiun of the
town. The bucket brigade, however;
was on hand, and ladders being accessi-
BILE were brought and placed against the
burning building, and as Galagher's run
flows Immediately under the wagon shop
affording an abundance of water, the
supply was almost exhaustless, and in
a short time stream was turned on the
fire by the brigade, aforementioned, re-
sulting in putting it out alter abou.
an hours hard work. The loss is
nearly $500 partially insured. The
loafer's brigade was also on hand aud
did efficient service as usual. Such ex-
ouisites should have a fire of their own
that they might learn to appreciate fire,
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JOB PRINTING.

Cards, Billheads, Letterheads, Note,
hedd, Tags, Envelopes, etc., neatly
printed dat the ADVOCATE Office,
Court House, RidgwaY, Pa.
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WE are in receipt of a marriage
notice from an Early correspondent, uu-
accompanied by the requisite amount of
-'filthy lucre," consequently VIC respect
fully decline to publish it.
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LUTHERAN SERVICES at the Court
House next Sabbath at IL a, m., ia the
English language, by Rev., Breueman.
Subject, "Baptism."
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ADVERTISING AGENCY
OF
WASHING GTON, d. c.

DzE5@ Advertisements inserted in papers in
every section of the country.
Eky% Rates Lower than those of anv other
agency in the United States.
GsS| Advertisers will consult their own
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NEW TINE TABLE.
Commencing July 7th, 1879.
ALLEGHENY VALLEY R. r.
TIE BEST ROUTE BETWEEN PITTS.
BURGH AND POINTS ON THE
PHlL'A. & ERIE r. r.

GOING SOUTH.
Buffalo Express leaves Cory at IL 90 m
Leaves lrvineto1, 6 Dam
Arrives at Pittsburgh 845pm
Night Express Leaves lrvineton, 525 pm
Mig ght Express leaves Cory 80 p m
Arrives at Pittsburgh 625a
Day Express leaves Cory 6l5am
Arrives at Pittsburgh 6O5 o m
Oil City Accom-. leaves Cory 43Opm
Arrives at Brady's Bend 935 D m
GOING NORTH.
Bffalo Express leaves Pittsburg at so a m
Arrives at Cory sos pm
lrvineton 10 m
Night Express leaves Pittsburgh $50 p m
Arrives at Cory 85Oam
A" " lrvineton Ii 55am
Day Express leaves Pittsburgh l2lOpm
Arrives at Cory. 10 45 p IN
Oil City Accom-. leaves B. Bend $50 a m
Arrives at Oil City I22Opm
Connections made at Cory and Irvine.
tou for points on the Oil Greek and the
Allegheny Valley Rail Road.
Pullman Palace Drawing Room Sleep.
ing Cars on Night Express Trains between
Cory and Pittsburgh.
Ask for Tickets via Allegheny Valley R.
r.
J. ]. LAWRENCE. Gen. supt.
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PERSONS desirious of attending the
NJ. 4. Conference at Brookville, will be
carried on the stage at half the usual
rates
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G.. G. MESSENGER, we notice by last
weeks Elk Dcmoc; at, has purchased
the material of that paper, Il. j. Miller
still acting as manager
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The oil men of Titusville continue to
discuss the feasibility of piping scheme
to carry oil from the region of its produc-
tion to Philadelphia A correspondent to
the Titusville Herald tells the oil princes
that they can, for 81 ,4O6, $50, lay a six
inch east iron pipe from Ti.usville to
Philadelphia, and with a system of pip
Ing and tanks distributed along the line,
deliver 100000 barrels of oil, yearly,
in Philadelphia, at cost, including in
terest on investment, Of S4l2,717. Nine
cents per barrel would be the actual cost
of delivering 10000 barrels per day.
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Transient advertisements per. square of
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Business cards, ten lines or less, per
year SIS.
Marriage and Death notices inserted
gratis.
Advertisements payable quarterly.
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A contemporary has been studying
phonotypy. Here is specimen: "Wat
kant'b ord must be ndurd.'