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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
Catching the Early Train.

One of the greatest delights of board
ing in the country for the summer is
the pleasure man derives from his eff
forts to catch the early morning train
by which he must reach the city for
business. When he gets out of bed he
looks at his watch, and finds he has
plenty of time so he dresses leisurely,
and sits down to breakfast in O calm
and serene state of mind. just as he
cracks his first egg, he hears the up
train. He starts, jerks out his watch,
compares it with the clock, and finds
that it is eleven minutes slow, and that
he has only four minutes left in which
to get to the depot In fearful hurry
he tries to scoop the egg out of the
shell, but it burns his fingers, the skin
is tough, and after fooling with it for q
moment it mashes into hopeless mess,
and he gets his fingers smeared. He
drops the whole concern in disgust,
grabs hot roll, and scalds his tongue
with quick mouthful of coffee then
he stuffs the roll in his mouth, while
his wife hands him his satchel, and tells
him she thinks she hears the whistle.
He plunges madiy around the room
looking for his umbrella; then kisses
his wife as well as he can with all that
unswallowed bread distending his
cheeks, says goodbye to the children
in lump, and makes dash for the
door. Just as he goes to the gate he
finds that he has forgotten his duster,
and he charges back after it, snatches
it up, and tears down the gravel walk
in frenzy. He doesn't like to run
through the village, because that would
be undignifed but he walks furiously.
He goes faster and faster. Half way
down he does hear the whistle for GER
tain. He wants to run, but he knows
that he will start up the yellow dog
there by the sidewalk if he does. Then
he actually sees the train coming in at
the depot, and he feels that he must
make rush. He does. The yellow
dog becomes excited, and tears after
him. Six other dogs join the chase,
one after the other, and bark furiously,
and frolic around his legs. Small boys
contribute to the excitement as he goes
past, by whistling on their fingers, and
the men at work on the new meeting
house knock off to look at him and
laugh. He. feels ridiculous, but he
must catch that train. He gets desper
ult Wllcu lie lliS VI Sldcheu up uutll GWO
or three women, who are on the side
walk discussing the servant-girl ques-
tion and the price of butter. scatter to
let him pass. He arrives within one
hundred yards of the depot with duster
flying in the wind, cont-tail horizontal,
and the yellow dog nipping his heels,
! ilst as the train begins to move. He
puts on extra pressure, and resolves to
make that train or perish. He reaches
it as the last car is going past He
seizes the hand-rail is violently jerked
around once or twice, but finally lands
on the step on his knees, and is hauled
in by his coat-collar by the brakeman,
hot, mad, dusty, with his trousers torn
across the knees, his shins bruised, and
three ribs in his umbrella broken. Just
as he gets comfortably into the car the
train stops, backs up on the siding, and
lies there for half an hour, while the
engineer fixes broken valve.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
A Defence of the MOdOcs.

Hon. J. X. Luttrell, Congressman
elect from the Third California District,
writes to Commissioner Smith, of the
Indian Bureau, an account of his recent
visit to the scene of the Modoc war,
and says he has been able to arrive at
only one conclusion in reference to it,
namely: That it was caused by the
wrongful acts of bad white men. He
was Informed on what seemed to him
reliable authority that the Modocs were
compelled to slaughter their horses for
food on the Klamath Reservation, and
having exhausted this means of sub
sistence were compelled by hunger to
seek the fishing and hunting grounds
on their old reservation on Lost River.
Mr.. Luttrell urges an investigation OF
the causes of the Modoc war, and re-
grets to say that never was there time
since the organization of the govern
.ment when there was SO much corrup-
ton and swindling-not only against
the government and the people, but
against the Indians-as is to-day being
practiced on the Indian reservations on
the Pacific coast
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
CalifOnia's Need of Greenbacks.

The failure to adopt greenbacks as
the currency of our state has been one
of the chief obstacles to an increase
of population from the Eastern States.
A man with ten thousand dollars in
greenbacks considers himself worth
ten thousand dollars in New York, but
when he lands in this state he finds he
has only about eight thousand five hun
dred dollars. We may undertake to
convince him he can purchase as much
here with eight thousand five hundred
dollars as his ten thousand dollars will
buy in any of the Western States, but
he will be found slow to realize the force
of the argument, and ten to one will re-
pack his valise and return to the land
where one dollar is the equal of anoth-
er. If we only lost those who came
and saw and returned, we should have
little cause for complaint, but we lose
more. We lose every man who is told
by them that greenbacks are not money
in California. The adoption of the ma
tional currency will largely increase
the tide of immigration to the Pacific
coast.-Sd', francisco Chronicle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
A Great Organ for Baltimore,

Mr.. Thomas Winans is building an
immense organ in connection with his
private music hall, conspicuous for the
tall chimney, which towers above the
buildings and trees of his splendid city
residences in the western section of the
city of Baltimore. This organ, it is
understood, will be, when completed,
the largest ever constructed anywhere,
and is being built without regard to
cost. As there is more or less expert
ment in the structure, Mr.. Winans has
been reticent abSut his plans and pur-
poses, but it is known that Pomplitz is
the builder, and one of the mammoth
wooden "pipes for the instrument be-
ing noticed on the street recently, at
tracted general attention. The "pipe"
was thirty-two feet in length and about
two feet squrae. 1t was painted yell
low and looked like huge smokestack.
1t is understood that the organ will
have over twenty-five bass pipes of this
size and description, besides forest
of smaller pipes, requiring altogether,
it would seem, the wind of hurricane
almost to make 'em blow. 1t is also
stated that it will be year yet before
the organ is finished, and thatit will be
run by steam, and it is intended to
eclipse the organs of the world, includ-
ing even the pride of Boston. 1t will
be in fact sort of concentrated jubilee
in itself when it is once set agoing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
The Largest Railroad shops in the
World.

Located in Cheshire, one of the mid
land counties of England, and situated
on the London and Northwestern Rail-
way, some five sixths of the distance
between the metropolis and Liverpool,
is Crewe, small and insignificant town
by itself, but city of no mean impor-
tance when considered in connection
with the vast works which it contains.
The establishment which supports, and,
in fact, forms the town, the population
and extent of which is about half that
of Worcester, Mass, was originally laid
down by George and Robert Stephen
son, and is. known as the Crewe Works,
or, as it would be termed in this coun-
try, the shops of the London and North
Western Railway. Here no less than
six thousand hands are employed,
building or rebuilding the two thousand
locomotives used upon this longest of
English railways, or working upon the
two hundred and twenty engines which,
it is calculated, are always at the works
for repairs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
Endemann Process of Preserving Meat.

According to DR.. Endemann, an ex-
cellent method of preserving meat con-
sists in cutting it into thin slices, and
ceeding 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The
operation should be completed in three
or four hours, III which case the pro-
duct is hard, and may be easily ground
up in a mill, when it is in condition
fit for use. The fibrine and albumen
are not coagulated, and consequently
are still able to take up water, and thus
expand to their natural condition. The
meat powder prepared in this way has a
light brownish-yellow color, slight
smell like that Of roast beef, and a very
pleasant taste. For making soup, two
ounces are to be boiled, with the usual
ingredients, in sixteen ounces of water.
Such soup is much stronger than when
prepared with half a pound of fresh
uncut meat, as the latter does not give
out its extractive material so completely
after any amount of boiling.
Half q pound Of this powder, if
stirred into the proper quantity of
water, with the addition of an egg, may
be treated exactly as if it were the best
fresh meat and the fact that the fibrine
and albumen in this meat powder are
not coagulated renders it q valuable
substance in cases of weakness, where
stimulating food is required, as it is
more easily digested than raw meat,
while, on account of its minute sub
division, the action of the stomach is
facilitated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
Francis Joseph and his Frau.

Public gossip in Vienna, says cor
respondent of the Baltimore american,
represents the Emperor and Empress
as by no means very happy in their
conjugal relations. Her photographs
in the windows show her to be very
handsome woman, about thirty-fve
years of age. She is said to be of re-
markable intelligence and sprightliness
of manner. The royal palace is in the
heart of the city, and the Emporer re-
sides in one wing of it and she in
another, living entirely apart except
when they meet on state occasions. He
lives a very loose life, and, like the
kings of the olden times, has an abun-
dance of royal female favorites. Cor
ruption and lack of virtue is the pre-
dominant trait of the court of the en-
pire. This, at least, is the general
conviction of the people, and, Judging
from the fact that there are annually
born in the general hospital from five
to six thousand illegitimate children,
Vienna may fairly be set down as a city
of very loose virtue in all grades of
life. They are quite different class of
people from the staid and solid popula-
ton of Prussia and Northern Germany,
more resembling the French and Italians
in their habits, and modes of life and
ways of living.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

Twenty summers have elasped since 1t was brief.
ly announced that new vegetable tonic and alter
ative, bearing the name Of Hostetter's Stomach
Bttters, had been added to the list Of Preventive
and Restorative mediciens. The modest advertise
ment which invited attention to the preparation
stated that it had been used with great success in
private practice, a cure for dyspepsia, bilious
complaints, constipa ion ana Intern ttent fever.
1t was soon discovered that the article pos essed
extraordinary properties The people, of every
class, tested its merits as tonic stimulant, cor
rective and restorative, and found that its effects
more than fulhlled their hopes and expectations
From that time to the present its course has been
upward and onward, and it stands to day at the
head of all medicines CT it's class, American i'm
ported, in the gnitude Of its sales and its repu-
tation as a safe, agreeable and potent invlgorant
and restorative. For languor and debili y, lack oI
appetite and gastric disturbances, so common dur
ing the sgmmer months it is absolutely infillible
Indigestion, bilious disorders, constipation, ner
vousness, periodical fevers, and all the ordinary
complaints generated by a vitiated and hum d at
mo osphere, vanish under it's renovating and regu-
laiing influence. This is its record avOuchod by
volumes Of Intelligent testimony, ex tending over a
period Of i fifth OF century, and comprehending
the names Of thousands OF wellknown citizens be-
longing every class and calling. In Europe it IS
thought great thing to obtain he patronage Of
royalty for a "pate t medicine" hut Hostetters
Ritters has been spontaneously approved by mil
lions Of independent sOyereigns, and its patent
consists in tueir endorsement.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
An other Description of Capt. Jack.

An army officer, who was a member
of the party to which Capt. Jack sur
rendered, has written to friend in Bos-
ton, under date of June 3, the following
description of the Indian chiefs appear
ance at the time:
Jack is tine-looking Indian. His
countenance indicates intelligence and
power of command. He is light-colored,
with small dark eyes, good forehead,
auuiline nose, high cheek bones, sunken
cheeks, and small mouth. He is tall,
five feet eleven inches), has broad
shoulders, is muscular and sinewy,
moves lightly and easily, and has evil
IDENTIFY great power of endurance. Since
his captivity he has shown no fear, and
when he delivered himself up he did not
tremble, nor was there the least agita-
ton in his features, but drew himself
up with fair show of pride. He was
dressed in tightly fitting clothes, with
moccasins for easy walking or running ;
but asked and was permitted to change
them for clean ones. Having made his
toilet behind the rocks, he reappeared
in a clean striped shirt and dark pants.
His youngest wife also arrayed herself
in a clean white dress and red sash.
She washed the face of the really beau
tiful child she had, and dressed it III a
neat red sack, trimmed, 1 think, with
black. So the royal party marched to
headquarters, Jack looking proud and
externally clean, where he expected
from the big chief Gen. Davis a re-
ception becoming his rank among the
Indians. The General, however, ig-
nored his claims entirely, and ordered
him chained"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and other
cutaneous affections cured. and the skin made
soft and smooth. by using the Juniper Tar
Soap, made by CAswELL, HAZARD q Co., New
York. Be certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap
made by us, as there are many limitations made
with common tar which are worthless - Com
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
A Queer Sort of a Jail.

York county, Maine, recently spent
$25, 900 in building new jail, and felt
very prodd of the result, until Wagner,
the Isles of Shoals murderer, undeceived
them. Now the Deputy Sheriff is
credited with saying that every lock in
it can be picked with a rye straw.
Wagner remarked to the Sheriff last
Tuesday "You think you have me
here all safe and sound but I have no
desire to escape, for if / desired to
escape, I could go out at any time.
Even if L was convicted / would not at
tempt to break jail, for if the people
want my life let them take it here in
Alfred" The Deputy Sheriff remarked
to Wagner that there was no danger Of
his escaping, for he had been assured
by Sheriff Warren that the cell where
Wagner was confined was perfectly Sc
cure. "Well," says Wagner, you
Just step around the corner and 1 will
meet you there in two minutes" The
officers thought they would humor the
man, and so stepped out of the alley
and round the corner to another pas
sage-way. Wagner in just about one
minute came out of his cell and around
into the alley where they were standing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

A young man has been arrested and
bound over for trial in Memphis, Tenn.
on the charge of depositing a postal
card containing obscene illusions in
the Post-office.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

The cathartics used and approved by
the physicians comprising the various medical
associations of this State are now compounded
and sold under the name Of Parsons Purqa-
tire PilS.-Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

LIKE LIGHTNING are the miraculous
Cures effected with FLAGG's INSTANT RELIEF.
Aches, Pains, Sprains, Bowel Complaints. etc,
CANNOT EXIST if this great medicine is used.
Relief warranted, or money refunded Conn.,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

We copy the following from an ex-
change, which is important, if true Chronic
diaTh9a of long standing. also dysentery and
all other complaints common at this season Of
the year, can be cured by the use internally }
of JollnsonS Anodyne Lininent We know
whereof we affirm. Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

Boston estimates that it used last
year S,763, ,2S5 gallons of milk, for which
it paid $2,979,516.90. One-eighth of
the quantity is regretfully admitted to
have been water.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

CRIsTADoRo's EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE
stands unrivaled and alone. Its merits have
been so universally acknowledged that it would
be supererogation to discant on them any
further-nothing can beat it.-Cont.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
Cure. CHOLERA, when all other Remedies Fail.

Cures CHOLERA, When al other Remedles FAN.
II gives Instant Relief from Aching Teeth.
In sections OF the country where FEVER AND
AGUR prevails, there is no remedy held in greater
esteem
FoR FEVER AND AGUK.-Take three tablespoonfuls
Of the Pain Killer in about half pint of hot water
well sweetened with molasses as the attacks COM
ing on Bathing freely the chest, back and bow els
with the Pain Killer at the same time. Repeat the
dose in twenty minutes II the hrst does not stop
the chill. Should it produce vomiting (and IT prob
ably will IL the stomach is very foul, take little
Pdin-KNer in cold water sweetened with sugar
after each spasm Perseverance in the above treat
ment has cured many severe and obstinate ca ses o
this disease.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
PAIN PAIN !! p AIN /!
WHERE is THY RELIEvER7
Readers, you will find it in that Favorite Home
Remedy
PERRY DA VIS PAIN-KILLER.

Ii has been tested in every variety OF climate and
by almost every nation known to Americans: 1t is
the almost constant companion and inestinable
friend Of the missionary and traveller, ON sea and
land, and no one should trdUel o, lakes ruers
tCithott il.
ITS MERITS ARE UNSURPASSED,
II you are suffering from INTERNAL PAIN,
TtUenty TO Thirty Drops ina Li.te Water Will al
most instantly you. There is nothing equal to
it, In a few moments it cures
C1ie, Cramps, Spasms, HeartJurn Did,Thea,
Dysentery, Fltr. Wind ia the BOrelS, Sour
MOnnch DusDe nSia. Sick ReddQcLe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
GREAT CHOLERA" REMEDY
AIM KILL Err

IN- y y Il
1t is an External and Internal Remedy. For Sum-
mer Complaint any other form Of bowel disease
in children or adults it s an almost certain cure,
and has without doubt, been more successful in
uring the various kinds of CHOLERA than any
ther known remedy or the most skilful physician.
In India Africa and China, where this dreadful dis
ease is more or less prevalent, the Pain Killer is
considered by the natives as well as by European
residents in those climates, A SURE REMEDY
and while 1t is most efficient remedy for pain II
is perfectly safe medicine in the most unskilful
hands. 1t has become a household remedy. from
the fact that 1T gives immediate and permanent re-
lief. IT is a purely vegetable preparation, mad Q
from the best and purest materials, safe TO ket p
and in every family. It is recommended by
physicians and persons of all classes, ana to-day
after public trill of thirty yesrs-the average life
of man-it stands unrivaled and unexcelled
spreading its usefulness over the wide world.
Directions accompany each Bottle.
Price 25 cts, 20 cts, and 81 per Bottle.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

soRoFUIA, aud scrofuleus Affection in all their
FORMS are cured by DR.. Jsyne's Alterat've, and by
persisting in its use the taint is driven from the
system.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

" you have A0ue in any form, YOU will save both
time ana money by trying shalleubergeT's Anti
dets at once, The cure Is immediate,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
5 cts, 20 cts, and 81 per Bottle,
PERRY DAVIS q SON, Proprietors,
Providence, r. !.

j. N. HARRIS CO., Cincinnati, o.,
Proprietors for the Western and South Western
states.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
FoR SALE WHOLESALE BIT
JOHN F. HENRY, New York
GEO O. GOODWIN CO., Boston.
JOHNSON, HOLLOWAY CO., Philadelphia.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

SEf IN con per dayi Agents wantedl All classes
w 10 W. OF working people of either young
or old, make more money at work for us in theii
spare nom oil the time than at anything else
PARTICULARS free, Address g. STIEsoH CO., Port
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
Wheat Sacks,

Wheat Sacks are very important
item to the wheat growers of California.
We notice that a stat at.ment was recently
made by the President of the San
joaquin Farmers Club that San Fran
cisco firm, representing a capital of
$15, 100000, had offered to furnish 80,-
600 good, secondhand sacks for 81 cents
each
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
To Make Green Pickles.

A correspondent replies to the ques-
tion how to make green pickles." as
follows - If hard, green cucumber
pickles are wanted, salt down in dry
salt, putting layerof salt in a jar, then
layer of pickles, and so on until full.
This will produce pickles as green as
they can be made, but it is more costly
than making brine. If you have stock
to feed the salt to, it will be better than
the old process. Souring may be done
in the usual way. OF course the above
process is not calculated for manufac-
turers for market,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17
RAILWAYS READY RELIEF

The application Of the READY RELIEF To the part
Or parts where the pain or difficulty exists will af-
ford ease and comfort
Twenty drops in half tumber Of water will in
lew minutes cure Cramps, Spasms, Sour Stomach,
Heartburn, Sick Headache, Diarrhea, Dysentery,
Collie Wind in the Bowels and all Internal Pains.
Travellers should always carry bottle Of RAD
WAYS READY RELIEF with them. few drops
in water will prevent sickness pains from change
Of water. 1t is better than French Brandy or Bit
ters as a stimulant
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-07-17

!. DnEESS 4. ~. DODGE. VI D., No. ass S. Hasted 81
- ChicAAn Secillty InE TREATMENT or HEART DsEAsR
, 1873-04-05

1ar, as ho vas addicted I'd gambling and drink
Ing, and hin conduct ioa 70 frequent quarrola
botweon him md his wife md hor father and
.nothor. At Inst, Oh April 10, 1872, tho fact ~aa
discovered that torri6lo murder ha1 boon COM
initted ht t1la farhl. Tho mother md the daugll~
tor, Joanno wero found lying dead hotween THO
house atul tho bnrl, with their skulls fractured;
t',o old father wna liBcoyorqd not fnr of With
l!fH faco to tho ground anil two loop wounds in
tho bnok Of Tho loal. Tho two little girls woro
IN thu houso With t1loir hon1B frightfu1iy hat-
torod. CircumHtancoB oxctod HllHplcion against
tha priao,sr, and hp whs arrostot, whom his
c!otEaoH wero found stained with blood. Tho in
str''mont Will, which tho orline was committod q
What rondors tho mhttor moro tragtoal is TINT
the prtnotr9l witnesa against the ao9uaod In his
own aon,, Dernortlin, aged yoars, who with a
yonneor bro1hors woro spared iu Tie geuoral mass