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ABOUT THE TIME TO DO IT.

This is about the right time.
That is, if you care to be neat.
Ii net. no matter
It is easier to BE- poor than to be rich,
to be sloven than to &c neat.
That is for some folks.
1t is timc to clean the house.
AID to clean up about the yard.
Aud til: garden.
And the farm.
And about the shop or places of
business.
Isyou are farmer, working for
money to pay taxes for the support Of
boudholdcrS it is time you were at
work.
Fix up the barn, nail all the loose
boards on tight, straighten up your
fence posts, drive a stone or stake IN
the ground to keep them straight; nail
in loose boards or pickets, put whole
rails in place Of broken ones, and use
the broken ones for wood; don't leave
them on the ground to rot; strengthen
the weak spots in the fences all about
the farm.
Cut the weeds and sprouts away
from the corners of fences. Clean out
the barn-thc bay-the stables the
cellars. Drive nails or hooks to hang
shovels, fails, harness, &C., on. Patch
little holes before they become big
ones. Disturb the rat nests. Fix up
the hog pen. Put your plows, drass,
forks, shovels, rakes, &C., in order
Give your horses or oxen more feed
and less whip. Keep good. .natured;
save what you earn till you spend 1t
for needed Improvements, and you Will
soon be rich.
Then clean up the door-yard. Sell
the scraps of old iron to the foundry
men. Sell the old vials and bottles to
druggist. There are enough old
yials in houses to fill all the drug
stores in the country. Pick up the
pieces of old tin, brass, copper, sheet
iron, &C., and put them in box IN the
woodhouse, shed or barn. They will
come handy or can be sold.
Keep little boxes for big nails and
little ones-for screws, taeks, &c.-
Have place for the hammer, the saw,
the file, the chisels, the little tools so
often needed
When done using them don't drop
them in the grass or dirt; run Oft and
leave them, but put them where they
belong. Then you can find them when
wanted.
Fix up your wagon. Prune your
trees and vines. Rake the bones, and
such stuff about the premises into
heap and burn them. Try to be neat,
even if it is hard work, and see how
much better your farsn Or house Will
look, and how much better you will feel.
Transplant few trees.
Set out few flowers.
Plant some flower seed.
Train vines up the door and win
dows.
Be good-natured.
Speak kind words to the wife and
children.
Don't use them like hogs
Don't spend your money for whiskey
better buy school books for your chill
dren or dress for your wife.
Try and be somebody, and others
will helpyou.
Bea good, earnest, nd-hearted man,
and see how much happier you will
be.
And when Sunday comes, rest, that |
you may be ready for work on Monday: |
When your work is done 90 home and
romp with the children-read to your
wife-open your heart, and have lit
tic fun.
Don't bea slovenly farmer-,ra slo-
vculy housekcepor.
See how much you can do to-day or
this week to beautify your home, and
see how much proudcr of it you will be
next week.
Then clean out your shop-your Of
fee
Wash the windows.
Clean the dirt from doors.
Put things in order.
BE somebody.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-08-27


Mr. pleasure that
Bradley exceeds in economy and beauty
roof l Mansion oasr with the Bradley Patent Enamel FAINT
outside HOTEL
most nny to SAY gives conclusion will say this tes-
nonial ofa liberty
A0"'~' "' W. ''yons spcctfunv ALBERTSON,
Mansion House Hotel u Cor St. Paul Streets, Baltimore
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Mansion n W. Cor Fayette and ST. Paul Streets Bamo

PrnIc affords mach pleasure to state that il; Jy ISL Front ont
"ldey Patent Enamel PANT
West Lombard Street agent and to y to its superior!
alo
ready for use in quantities 20 suit
where which mpar and dura
will give them satisfaction than
possibly anticipate "M H. "I->n
front Street theatre
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-08-27

NEW STATIONERY HOUSE.
=. r. STOKES

HAS Just opened, in the new and hand
some building Immediately opposite the
Phoenix Office, on Main street, complete
stock of
STATIONERY,
Comprising Letter, Cap and Note Paper, Of
all sizes, qualities and of every description;
Flat Papers of Cap, DENY, Doube-Cap, Me-
dunn, Royal, Super-Royal, and Imperial
sizes, which will be sold in any quantity, or
manufactured into Blank Books OF any size,
and ruled to any pattern, and bound in any
style, at short notice.
ENVELOPES
In endless variety-all sizes, colors and quail
Tics.
BLANK BOOKS
OF every variety, Memorandum and Pass
Books, Pocket Books, Invoice and Letter
Books, Receipt Books, Note Books.
ARCHITECTS and DRAUGHTSMEN will
find {, complete stock Of materials for their
use Drawing Paper, in sheets and rolls,
Bristol Boards, Postal Paper and Boards, Oil
Paper, Pencils, Water Colors, in cakes and
boxes, Brushes, CrayonS, Drawing Pens.
SCHOOL STATIONERY
OF every description; great variety Of Con
ycnicnt and useful articles for both Teachers
and Pupils.
PHOTOGRAPH Albums, Writing Desks, Port
toioS, Cabas, with boxes, and countless
variety of
FANCY ARTICLES.
Also, most elegant stock Of Gold Pens
and pcnci! Cases, Supcrbly Rubber
Goods.
INKS.
Black, Blue, Violet and Carminc, Indeible
and Copying; MuciIage: Chess and Back
CANNON Men and Boards Visiting and We'd
ding Cards, and everything usually kept in Il
First Glass Stationery House,
Which the subscriber intends this shall be.
lie will still conduct his BINDERI and
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY and Pa
PER-RCLING ESTABLISHMENT, which
has been in successful operation for over
thirty years III this State, and to which he
will continue 10 devote his own personal at
tention., His stock will be kept up full and
complete, and his prices will be found always
reasonable, and he hopes to have share OF
patronage.
E.R. STOKES, Main Street,
Nov. IS, 4G-tf Opposite Phoenix Office
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Fisk's Metallic Burial Cases,

THE SUBSCRIBER has constantly or
hand a fullassortmcnt of the above approved
cases, of different patterns, besides collins
of his own make, all Of which he is prepared
to furnish at very reasonable rates, with
promptness and despatch.
Persons dcsirous Of having cases sent b!
railroad will have them sent free Of charge.
A Hearsc is always on hand and will be
furnished at the rate of $40 per day.
Thankful for past patronage, the sub
scribcr respectfully asks for a continuation
of the same, and assures the public that
no effort on his part will be spare. to render
the utmost satisfaction.
R. CHAPMAN.
Nevberry S. G., July 81.
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Ma LINE County, Nh, September 9th, 1872
Paint Bhtimorc-DR SIR
all
pantA 1t
The
fast
Enamel other paint he
recommend the public one OF the
'''! '''A 'e' s" Yonrs Vcv truv JAMES HALL.
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Free Transportation.

WE are prepare! to grind from one TO
one hundred and fifty bushels Corn per day,
and will furnish free transportation OF their
grain to and from our mill for our patrons
free OF charge.
WEBB, JONES & PARKER.
Apr. II, l6-tt.
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CHAMBER Dcccnlb
KxlcnrDEH SIR The paints we received from you % na'e been alpt"
entire
qualities and aiptHy all kinds Of surface mate
to
'o""0 "" "''' 0' Your trplv JACOB STOUFFER
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or ~ o0O Per Day! Agents Wanted! !!
90 20 DAIS All classes OF working rco-
ple Of either sex, young or old, make more mon,
e. 1t work for us in their spare moments. or all
the time. than at anything else. farhcniATS
free address e., Stinsur Co. Portland
N-iu- Jan. u. Ply.
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j, NJ SILL,
Interesting to All.
Apr. %, l6- ly.eow'

Nv term Of office having expired, re-
spectfully notify all persons who had liens,
deeds or mortgages recorded during my
term of Office, to call Oh Me>SrS. 4 Jones
Jones, who will deliver the same.
Nov. u, 4S-tf. TliOS. IL. LANE.
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COTTON STATES
= 2 e
I..NSUR ANCE
COMPANY.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
MACON; GA.

Authorized Capital. :.........:2, ,ooo, 900
Guaranteed Capital. al............ 100000
Deposited with State Comptrollers
for Security of Policy Holders. .Sl50,oO0
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Has been before the American public
OVER THIRTY years. It has never yet
failed to give perfect satisfaction, and has
justly been styled the panaceafor all ex-
ternal Wounds, Cuts, Burns, Swellings,
Sprains, Bruises, &C., &c., for MN and
Beast No family should be @ single day
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-08-27

without this Liniment. The money re-
funded unless the Liniment is as repre-
sented. Be sure and get the genuine
MEXICAN MUSTANG LINIMENT. Sold
by all Druggists and Country Stores, at
25c., Soc. and s100 per Bottle Notice
style, size Of bottle, &c.
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JAMES HALL.

4R,
Bradley Patent
gives satisfaction wherever have used
furnished the Bradley Paint last fall
recommending
with the durability your excel
will to advantage
Brads which durable holds it's
slongcrth H
Yoprs truly E. c. GARRETTSON, and Painter.
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urc White Lead Lseed Oil and znc Chemically Combined

VIII lat three times rs long as the best mixed il the ordinary
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
Ratio of Live Stock to Population.

PROF. THERoLD ROGERS, of Oxford
University, England, has compiled Curl
Gus table showing the proportion of do
mesticated live stock to population in the
chief countries in the world. 1t shows the
following results:
Great Britain: one COW to every II per-
sons: one sheep to every person; and one
pig to every 10 persons.
France has a cow to every persons; a
sheep to every person, and pig to every
6 persons.
Sweden has a cow to every 1-2 per-
sons; sheep to every 2 "a persons; and
a pig to every 13 persons.
Norway has COW to 2 la sheep to
and pig to is persons.
Denmark has cow to "a sheep to l.
and pig to AZ persons.
Prussia has "a COW to 5-a sheep to l.
and pig to persons.
Wurtemburg has a cow to IA sheep to
3.4-and pig to Z persons.
Bavaria has cow to "a sheep to L.
and pig to 5persons.
SaXony has COW to Ga sheep to y
and pig to s persons.
Holland has a COW to "A sheep to A.
and pig to II persons.
Belgium has a cow to Ia sheep to O.
and pig to s persons.
Austria has COW to Ga sheep to 2
and pig to persons.
Switzerland has a cow to LA sheer
to 5-and pig to Z IL persons.
The United States has cow to person
"a sheep to each person-and pig t.
IL persons.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
Religion i'm Novels.

IT is very noteworthy how many of the
best novels of the present day touch with
more or less distinctiveness upon ques-
tions of religious belief. We set aside, of
course, those many stories-some excel
lent of their kind, others the veriest rub
bish-which are confessedly stories with
a purpose, written to advocate some
favorite view, in which the illustration of
certain theological tenets is of the very
essence of the book. In these, if we only
know the name of the writer-sometimes
fairly accurate guess may be arrived at
by merely glancing at that of the publish
er-the reader is enabled at once to fore
cast the kind of fare which is provided for
him, and will proceed to read or not to
read according as his bias may incline
him. But even in those which assume no
such didactic office, and whose writers
would fairly repudiate any such design as
proselytism, the great problems Of relig-
ion, instead of being tacitly ignored OF
disguised in vague generalities, are as
sumed as having a momentous influence
upon human life. They are not brought
prominently into the foreground, perhaps
but they are evidently present to the mint
of the writer as elements OF grave impor
tance. If our generation be indeed so ir
reverent and irreligious as it is said to be
the traces of character are not to be fount
in our highest works of fiction. If ther
is skepticism in them, it is skepticism II
the better sense of the word. The doubt
are those of the honest dOubter; tn
questioning is not of sneering or cap
, tious kind, but has the earnest tone of tn
inquirer who seeks an answer. Even
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
Rubies.

The ruby ranks third in hardness among
precious stones. Its color varies from the
lightest pink of rose tint to the deepest
carmine. Specimens are often found in
which blue is exhibited i'll one part and
red in another; sometimes the two colors
are more Of less intermingled, producing
purple shades, and even greater variega-
tions are occasionally seen from the pres
ence of additional colors. A ruby, either
too light or too dark, is not as desirable as
one of an intermediate shade. The most
highly priced are those of the "pigeon's-
blood'' color, pure deep red, free from
the casts of either blue or yellow. This
shade exactly agrees with that of the fresh
blood of a pigeon as seen when dropped
on white paper. The best rubies are al
ways set transparent, but those deficient
in color are backed by a foil of appropriate
shade. In buying stone set with foil the
purchaser will naturally be on his guard !;
but where it is without back it may be
supposed that its real color is apparent at
glance. Not so. Some swindling jewell
ers succeeded in the plan of lining the in
side of the band made to encircle the stone
with crimson enamel of such shade as to
lend proper hue to faulty gem.-E~.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
Death of q Noted Woman.

ONE of the strangest careers of modern
times has just terminated in the death of
Lady Peterborough at Damascus. Forty
years ago she was one of the most noted
women in Europe, and her residence in
the East has long been sort OF scandal
lous romance. The daughter of the late
Admiral Sir Henry Digby, beautiful, wit
ty, and rich, she married in 1924 the Earl
of Peterborough, who was afterward
Governor-General of India, and who at
that time was one of the most brilliant
men of the day. She was about seventeen
years of age at the time of her marriage,
and Peterborough, who was WldoWer,
was thirty-four. They lived together
some six years, and her dissolute conduct
was cause of scandal for some time pre-
vious to the catastrophe of her elopement
with Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, cele-
brated roue, then Austrian Minister in
London. The event caused an immense
sensation in the world of aristocracy and
fashion. Peterborough procured a di-
vorce from Parliament and never married
again; but his runaway wife soon sepa-
rated from Schwarzenberg, and in 1882
married Baron Venningen, Bavarian.
firing of him presently, and with her
great wealth and personal destinations
having little difficulty in procuring di-
NolSOo uhuCl lllC laws VI ONi uiuhg
she was married in succession to five other
individuals; but as none of these unions
met her expectations, they were all dis
solved after a short duration. In 1913 she
was living in Athens with her eighth hus-
band, Greek colonel, Count Theodoki 4;
but without waiting to become a widow
she had this marriage also dissolved, and
set out for the Levant. During journey
from Beyrout to Damascus she found a
new affinity in the person of an Arab
camel-driver, known as Sheikh Abdul,
whom she married after the Arab fashion,
and who was the ninth and lastof her
conjugal partners. For whole year she
accompanied him on his journeys between
Beyrout and Babylon, faithfully fulfilling
all the duties of a camel-driver's wife,
even to milking the camels. Tiring OF
this nomadic life, she built for herself a
charming palace in Damascus, where she
has since lived in her own style, great
object of curiosity to all European travel
ers. Abdul, continuing in business as a
camel-driver, was always Hospitality en-
| tertained by her whenever he came to the
place. And now she is dead, having COM
pleted nearly three score and ten years,
leaving colossal fortune to her relatives
of the Digby family in England, and q
memory of warning and of shame.-N
| Y. Sun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
A WillfuI Woman.

A FEMALE argonaut of fearful vitality,
tall and extremely ugly lie, called at
the postoffice yesterday, rendered ninety
nine coppers to the urbane clerk, and
asked in lieu thereof three cent stamps.
The official remarked that he could only
receive four coppers as a legal tender, and
at the expense of deal Of precious time
endeavored to convince the female that he
was guided by certain rules, and had no
latitude in the matter. She waxed wroth,
and remarked that when in the course of
human events it became apparent that
United States coin was to be refused by a
United States official, she thought her
forefathers had died in vain, and consid-
cred it her duty to bring the Government
to account. Then she paced the corridor
of the postoffice until she had made thir-
ty-three separate tenders of the coppers
and obtained thirty-three three cent
stamps. During her transaction with the
clerk she gave him much unsolicited ad-
vice, and otherwise contributed to the
enjoyment of SPECTATORS Francisco
Bulletin.
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Paganini.

AN English paper has given an inter-
esting and curious account of Paganini,
which it would be worth the while of any
one interested, as so many people are
nowadays, in questions of temperament"
to read. 1t is common to talk about the
artistic or poetic temperament as if there
were no differences between one poet,
painter, architect, or musician and an
other-the fact being that the differences
of aesthetic temperament inter SeSe are
almost as great as the differen between
these again and all others. The tempera-
ment of a man, for instance, on whom
physical causes act oddly and instantly at
times, at others not at all who travels
with the greatest speed from place to
place, taking care in the hottest weather
to have the carriage windows closed who
delights to talk loudly while rafting over
the roads; who resents being spoke to while
arrival at his hotel throws all the
doors and windows open to take an
"air-bath;" !" who is very fond of money.
but carries papers of immense value in IA
pocket-book, mixed with concert tickets
and letters; who seldom notices scenery
or cares for the sights of foreign towns :;
who cares little where he sleeps or what
he eats or drinks, but when he goes out
to dine generally eats so much as to bring
on illness; who is in the habit of remain
ing taciturn for days, at other times
however, of joining in conversation "free-
ly - who, after dinner, habitually sits
in his room in total darkness till half-past
ten, when he goes to bed !; who is continu-
ally mixing with men, but has no friends;
who is faithful to both his parents, is at
times very generous, and who, if any one
mentions music in conversation, relapses
into sullen silence or goes off into some
other part of the room-what sort of a
temperament is this, poetic, artis tic. archi-
tectural, dramatic, or lunatic? 1t is none
of these, it is the musical temperament,
the traits having all been manifested by
Paganini himself.-N. Y. Nation.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-04-17
Contagious and Infectious Diseases.

DIR. SYMEs THOMPSON, a well known
English physician, recently lectured on
the above topic in London and from his
discourse we CLEAN the following:
1t is considered settled fact that dis
eases of a contagious nature are caused
and spread by influences largely within
the sphere of human government and
control. Every form of infectious fever
has its idiosyncrasy. Enteric fever and
cholera tend chiefly to disseminate them
selves through water, passing into the
wells and fountains of daily supply, and
at times travelling from house to house in
the milk cans of easy conscienced dairy
men. Scarlet fever hilsernates in drawer
and, after long months, comes forth with
some old and cast aside garment, to be
thrown with it around the throat or head
of some new victim, and so start thence
upon fresh career. Typhus fever crawls
sluggishly from hand to hand and mouth
to mouth, and is immensely sociable in
its spirit, languishing away when con-
demned to solitary confinement. Typhoid
fever generates itself where filth, over
crowding and impure habits of life pre-
vail; and relapsing fever glides in the
track of privation and misery.
The means now known of controlling
these evil ministrants are, in the main,
careful isolation of the sick, the preser-
vation ofthe water from which daily sup
plies are derived in uncontaminating
purity, the uninterrupted ventilation
! alike of hospitals and dwelling houses,
| the immediate removal from the vicinity
| of active human life of all eXcretions of
the sick, and the destruction of their NOR
bific influence by mixing them with an
| tiseptic and disinfecting agents (such as
carbolic acid, sulphuric acid, chlorides of
| lime and zinc, permanganate of potash,
and charcoaD, temperate living, avoid
ance of any kind of eXcesses, and above
all the cultivation of an intelligent famili.
arity with natural laws.
| In regard to antiseptics and disinfec.
tants, DR.. Thompson states that it should
be understood that agents of the
character of carbolic acid are properly
antiseptics, and operate mainly by arrest
ing the process of fermentation and de
composition, while agents of the nature
of Condy's fluid (permanganate o
potash) chloride of lime, and especially
charcoal, are disinfectants, and act by alb
sorbing the noxious products of decom
position. This he showed by experiment
a few drops of carbolic acid causing
cessation in the evolution of gas bubble
from fermenting solution of sugar an,
the violent color of Condy's fluid was in
stantly discharged when combined witt
water in which was trace of sulphurete
hydrogen. The lecturer also exhibits
remains of rat which had been placed il
jar of charcoal six years ago. Only tn
bones and few hairs were to be seen
and although the jar had been coveret
with but a piece of paper, throughout tn
heightened period of decomposition, n
trace of disagreeable smell was at an
time emitted.