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HOW 70 60 WEST.

This is an inquiry which every one
should have huthfag answered before
he starts on his journey, and little
care taken in examination OF Routes will
in many casses save much trouble, time
and money.
The &C, 3 & @. r. r." running
from Chicago, through Galesburg to
Burlington, and the 81, B. &W. Route
running from indianapolis, through
Bloomington to Burlington, have achiev-
ed a splerdid reputation in the last two
years as the leading Passengers Routes
to the West. At Burlington they con-
meet with the B, 4; NJ. Il. II. and from
the great Burlington Route, which runs
direct through Southern Iowa to Nebras-
ka and Kansas, with close connections
to California and the Territories and
passengers starting from Elk County, on
their way westward, cannot do better
than to take the BURLINGTON ROUTE.
This Line has published pamphlet
called "How to 60 West," which con-
tains much valuaole information; large
correct map OF the Grea' West, which
can be obtained free of charge by ad-
dressing the General Passenger Agent
OF the B, & NJ. r., Burlington, Iowa
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WV ANTED, Agents and Peddlers for
w our PRESS AND STRAlNER--
Presses and strains jams, herbs, vegetables,
lard, tallow, meats, cheese, sc. Every
family wants it. Sewing Machine and
other established agents are finding this
very profitable Circulars free. Littlefeld
x Dame, No. l02 Washington ST., Boston,
Mass. nl2-tS
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United States Internal Revenue.
Notice to Spccial-Tax Payers.

The law of December "a, 1872, requires
every person engaged in any business, avo-
cation, or employment, which renders him
liable to
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-05-29
MEETING OF THE REPUBLICAN
COUNTY COMMITTEE,

The members of the Republican
County Committee, are requested to
meet in Ridgway, on Tuesday. June
10th 1873, to transact such business as
may come before them.
By Order,
E. SOUTHER, Cha irman.
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denoting the payment Of said Special Tax
before commencing business
The taxes embraced within the provisions
of law above quoted are the following. viz:
hectlhers....... '....'''.''.'''.'' ''''' '-oV w
Dealers, retail quor................... 20 %
Dealers, wholesale llquor...... loJ 10
Dealers in malt liquors, Wholesale. 80 90
Dealers in malt liquors, reta''"...... 20 90
Detail dealers in leaf tobncco........ 500 90
and on sales of over ,0O0, fifty
cents for every dollar in excess
of $1,000.
Dealers in manufactured tobacco. 90
Manufacturers of stilis................ so 90
and for each still or worm manu-
featured 20 90
Manufacturers OF tobacco. .......... is 90
Manufacturers of cigars 10 o.
Peddlers of tobacco; first class
(nore than two horses so 90
Pcddlers cf tobacco, second class
1.-TWO horses ......,........ ........... % 90
PedIlers of tobacco, third class
zone horse Is 90
PedGlcrs OF tobacco, fourth class
ION foot or public conveyancc).... 10 90
Brewers of less than 800 barrels. 80 90
Brewers of 800 barrels or more...... 100 GO
Any person Who shall fail to comply with
the foregoing requirements will be subject
to severe penalties
Special Tax Payers throughout the
United States are reminded that they mnst
make application to the Collector Tor
Deputy Collector) of their respective dis
trcts, and procure the proper stamp for
the Special Tax \ ear, commencing May ],
1873, without waiting for further notice.
q. p. DAVIS,
Col Int. Rev 19tn Dist, Pa.
Application may be made to, anl,ta II ps
procured of
p. FORD, Deputy, Collector,
nlOi4. Smchport Pa.
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Miss Johanna Mavgnossen, of Chicago,
aged something like forty-three, walked
three miles before daylight the other
morning for the purpose of hanging her.
self to a post in the back yard of her
!aithless lover.
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SPECIAL TAN,
\ STAMP

to procure anil place coaspicuously in lis es-
taJljshmem or place Of business,
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denoting the payment of said Special Tax
before commencing business
The taxes embraced within the provisions
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P. w. HAYS,
DEALER IN
Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries,
and General Variety,
FOX, ELK CO., PA.
EGrsey II. %.
yln47tf.
P. w. HAYS,
NJ EW STAGE ROUTE.
j. c. BURNS, Proprietor.

The subscriber having secured the con.
tract for carrying the U. S. Mail between
REYNOLDSYILLE & BROCKWAYVILLE
has placed on tha. road a line of hacks.
Hacks leave the Exchange Hotel in
Reynoldville every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday on the arrival OF the Brookyille
stage, and return the same day. These
hacks connect at Brockwayville with the
Ridgway stages, making connection with
trains on the p. & Z. Road, both east and
west. Every attention to the comfort of
patrons of this line will be given, and a
liberal patronage solicited.
Aug, 1924.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-04-23
How to do Good?

Mamma, said LITTLE girl to her mother,
Il do want to do all the good can; but
then, you see, mamma, 1 IN only little girl,
and have to be at school all the day, and
1 don't know much. And what can do :"
"Wen my DEAR" said her mother, " did
you ever think how long you live at time!
Is it an hour, or minute, or a second"
80 mamma! who ever heard of anybody
living sohoJe hour at once? Why, we have
Just to live little bit at time-a second or
so at once,
swell, my child, if God only gives US
life by the second, don't you think we ought
to try and do good By the sscond2 If we
cannot have an hours life at once, ought we
to try and do an hours work at once? ]
have read in a book by an old author these
words; Life is made up of two heaps-one
of sorrow and one of happiness; and who
ever carries the very last atom from one to
the other does Gods service. Now, my
child, there is never day in which you do
not carry a great many atoms to the one
heap or the other. Do you think you have
carried any atoms to the jog, heaps to day
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The Antiquities From Cyprus.

The Metropolitan Art Museum OF New
York City, very young institution, has al
ready established a good name for enterprise
aud forecast. It's managers have just
achieved great success in the purchase OF
General Cesnola's unique collection OF curl
osities from the island of Cyprus. That
gentleman, though an Italian by birth, has
been for several years the consul of our
country to Cyprus, and during his stay there
has employed all his leisure III making eXca
vations among the ancient tombs and ten
Piles, and bringing to light some of the best
treasures from the past that has been rescued
from oblivion during the entire century,
Some five or six different civilizations have
been distinctly traced in these antiquities
the Assyrian, Phnniciau, Egyptian, Grecian,
and Roman. 1t is well known that Greece
received her gods and arts through Cyprus,
and the connecting link is here found In the
greatest clesrness
To the student of ecclesiastical history
the collection will be of eminent value. 1t
was to Cyprus that Paul sailed at the very
outset of his ministry among the GentlleS
and in no part of his life did he display greater
courage than when he preached the Gospel
to the licentious and corrupt occupants OF
that island. Sergius Paulus, the chief ruler
of Cyprus, became convert to Christianity,
and we can well imagine the influence OF
that event upon the life of the entire popu-
ation. The depth of idolatry, at the time
of their evangeliz alton, and yet the great
progress in mechanical arts, are alike re-
vealed in this valuable collection. There
are in all>some $4,000 pieces, which consist
of many statues, 1, 500 lamps, 5000 vases,
| 2 600 coins, 600 gold ornaments, ZOO pieces
of glass of all descriptions, 300 pieces OF
bronze, and 100 inscriptions. There are
500 vases of diff rent designs.
General Cesnola took for his antiquities
the low sum of $4,000 gold, and is now
engaged in unpackiug and asserting them in
house in West Fourteenth street in this
city, They will require twenty rooms
When we remember that at the time of the
outbreak of the German and French wal
Louis Napoleon was In negotiation for this
remarkable collection, and that later the
British Museum was merely quibbling about
details before closing its bargain with toe
owner, Mr.. John Taylor Johnston, Of New
York, stepped in and bought it entire in
the name of the Metropolitan Art Museum
We have every reason for congratulatiOn
There is no other collection in existence
which supplies the missing links in ancient
life and worship that this does. 1t will, We
are informed, be ready for inspection by the
ensuing winter.
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ApnsEhp1a 8nras.
and Home. -

What house You may bay it, or build it, rent;
It may be a mansion, cottage, tent;
Its furniture costly, or humble and mean;
High walls may surround it, or meadows Of green.
Tall servants in livery stand in the hall,
Or but one little maiden may wait on you all
The table may groan with rich viands and rare,
Or potatoes and bread be its costliest fare.
The inmates may glitter in purple and gold,
Or their raiment be homely, and tattered, and old
IT'S house, and no more, which vile money may
buy;
It may ring with laugh, or but echo sigh.
But home must be warmed with the embers Of love,
Which none from its hearthstone may ever remove,
And be lighted at eve with a heart kindled smile,
Which breast, though in sorrow or woe, may be-
guile.
A home mus. be ''hOme, for no words can express
it
Unless you have known it, you never can guess 1t;
It's in vain TO describe what it means to heart
Which can live out its life on the bubbles of art.
Il may be pslace-it may be a cot
Il matters not which, and it matters not what
lis dwelling perfumed with the incense OF love,
From which to its owner tbs death TO remove.
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Or Morrison and His BEST Friend. "

DR.. Morrison, the we'll known Chinese
missionary, was poor boy, but be rose to
do great work in the world. His father,
who belonged to the Great Market Presby-
terrain congregation in Newcastle, was last
maker, and brought up little Morrison to the
carpenter trade When young man he
had to work twelve to fourteen hours a day,
but he still managed to redeem time from
sleep for study and prayer. On Saturday
evening he might have been seen putting
in order the little shop, which was after
wards to be used for prayer, meeting
The desire to be ENTHUSIASTICALLY a
missionary to the heathen-grew on his
mind, and after proper training, he was sent
forth, the first Protestant missionary to the
teemiug millions of China,
The following incident in his journey,
when he first set out for China, is worthy of
record. He travelled by way of America,
and the first night he stayed in New York
he was placed, we are told, in an apartment
where little child had already gone to sleep.
Awakening in the morning, she turned as
usual to talk to her mother, but seeing a
stranger, where she expected to find her
parents, she raised herself with look of
alarm, and fixing her eyes steadily on his face,
she said, "Man, do you pray to GOd?" go,
yes my dear, was the reply, 81 pray to
Him every day. God is my best Friend" "
She then lain her head back on her pillow
and again fell asleep, as if she felt there
could be no danger, even in her being alone
in the room with the traveller, if he prayed
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Domestic Habits of George Washington.

At the close of George Washington's il
lustrious administration, In 1896, he retired
to Mount Vernon. In a letter to friend he
described the manner in which he there
passed his time. He rose with the sun and
made preparations for the business of the
day.
by the time have accomplished these
matters" he adds, breakfast is ready
This being over, l mount my horse and ride
round my farms, which employs me till it
is time to dress for dinner; at which | rare
ly miss to see strange faces, come, as they
say, out of respect to me. Aud how differ
ent is this from having few friends at the
social board The usual time of sitting at
table, walk and tea, bring me within the
dawn of candle light; previous to which, if
not prevented by company, | resolve that
as soon as the glimmering taper supplies the
place of the great luminary, | will retire to
my writing table and acknowledge the let
tiers have received. Having given you
this history for day, it will serve for
year.
Washington was remarkable for his pune
tuality. IL is said that whenever he made
an appointment to meet Congress at noon,
he almost invariably passed the door of the
ball as the clock was striking twelve. His
dinner hour was four o'clock. He allowed
FIVE minutes for variation in timepieces, and
then took his seat at the table, whether his
guests had assembled or not. He would
often say to late corners:
"Gentlemen, we are punctual here. My
cook never asks whether the company has
arrived, bat whether the hour has. -
In the year 1889 he was in Boston, and
appointed eight clock in the morning as the
hour when we would set out to visit Salem.
AS the Old South clock was striking eight
he was mounting his horse. A cavalry
company in Boston had volunteered to es-
cort him to Salem. Not expecting such
punctuality, the company did not arrive in
season. They put spurs to their horses and
overlook Washington just as he was passing
Charles river bridge. As the troops came
gathering up, Washington said to their com
mauder with smile:
Major, thought you had been too long
in my family not to know when it was eight
o o'clock"
Captain Pease wished to sell General
Washington beautiful span of horses
Five o'clock in the morning was the appoint
ed hour when the general was to examine
them at the stable, The captain arrived
with his span at a quarter past FIVE. The
groom informed him that General Washing
ton was there at five clock, but that he
had left to meet other engagements. This
was in Philadelphia. Captain Pesse had to
wait week before he could get another OPP
portuuity to exhibit his span.-Caristia@
Weekly
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Only a Pin

Only two or three days ago, an Overseer
in the mills found pin which cost the COM
pany about three hundred dollars.
''Was it stolen ?" asked Susie. " I sup
pose is must have been very handsome. Was
it diamond pin ?"
''Oh, no, my dear not by any MEANS
1t is just such pin as people buy every
day, and use without stint Here is one
upon my dress.
"Such pin as that cost three hundred
dollars" exclaimed John. q don't be-
lieve it.
But mamma says it is a true story, in,
terpOsed Susie.
"Yes, l know it to be true. And this is
the way the pin happened to cost so much:
"You know that calicoes, after they are
printed and washed, are dried and amOothed
by being passed over heated rollers. Well,
by some mischance, pin dropped so as to
lie upon the principal roller, and indeed be-
came wedged into it, the head standing out
little way from the surface.
Over and over went the roller, and
round and round went the cloth, winding at
length upon still another roller, until the
piece was measured off,. Then another piece
began to be dried and wound and so on
until hundred pieces had been counted off.
These we're not examined Immediately, but
removed from the machinery, and laid aside,
"When, at length, they came TO be in
spected, it was found that there were holes
in every piece throughout the web, and only
three quarters of yard apart. Now, in
each piece there were from thirty FIVE to
forty Eve yards; and at twelve cents yard
that would count up to about FIVE hundred
dollars.
"Of course the goods could not be classed
as perfect goods; SO they were sold as rem
nauts. at less than half the price they would
have brought had it not been for the hidden
pin.
Nov, it seems to me, that when boy
takes for his companion profane swearer,
Sabbatb-breaker, or a lad who is untruth-
ful, and little girl has for her playmate
one who is unkind or disobedient, or in any
way "a wicked child, they are like the roller
which took to its bosom the pin. Without
their being able to help it, often the evil in
fueace clings to them and leaves the mark
upon everybody with whom they come in
contact.
THAT pin damaged, irreparably, forty
hundred yards of new print; but bad compa'
nv has ruined thousands of souls for whom
Christ died. Remember one sinner de-
strOyeth much good therefore avoid evil
companions. "-Cbilas Treasury.
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symptoms of an overtazed Brain,

Sleeplessness is oftentimes the prayer of
the cerebral lobes for relief from work and
worry, and it should never go long unan-
swered Some of the greatest and healrhest
natures Of the world, like Goethe and Thor
waldsen, have had. talent for sleeping"
which made all their other talents shine at
their best, for the brain is never so brilliant
as just after awaking from sound repose.-
Sir Walter Scott found by experience that
his mind was cearest for thinking out his
uovels just after rising, and for that reason
he took pains to prolong as much as possible
MS morning toilet; and in the same way we
may explain the fact that Calvin loved to
compose while lying in bed.
In great and pressing crises, when our
work and our causes for worry are trebled,
he temptation is very strong to cut short
our hours of sleep; but these are just the
occasions when, if possible, we should sleep
the most. Gladstone has declared that when
be enters his home he leaves the cares Of
state behind him.
Sleep is food for the brain. If penny
saved Is penny earned, theh 10 economiH'
nerve force by rest is, within certain limits
TO supply nerve force by eating aud drinking
The motto of the overtaxed brain-workel
should ever be: More sleep, more sleep, anc
as much as possible of folding of the hand
to sleep. By day or by night, after neal
or before, early or late, in the horse-car o.
on the ferry boat, we should welcome eacl
desire to doze as an angel from heaven
The habit of very early rising, which, unde
the old dispensation, before the era of tn
telegraph, steam power, the press, and othe
agencies that rob US Of our nerve.force, wa
a virtue, we in this year 1873 should witt
all our might avoid. Early to bed and lat
10 rise makes the modern brain toiler health.
and wise.
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Ysddie at the Lords Table,

A company of Christians once met to OBJ
serve the Lords Supper. They met in the
open air. Many of them had travelled a
long distance to be present at the service
and to hear the preaching. Sitting at the
corner Of the table was poor half-witted
lad called Yeddie, who in his wanderings
from house to house in his native parish
called one day on the minister and asked to
be allowed to sit down at the Lords table.
The minister strOve 10 put him off as gently
as possible, but he pleaded, 90, minister, if
We but kenn'd hoo ike Him We wud let
ne" This so touched the ministers heart
that he gave Yeddie leave to take his seat at
the table on the following Sabbath
As the service proceeded, tears flowed
freely from the eyes of Yeddie, and at the
name Of Jesus be would shake his head and
whisper,
"But I dinna see him"
AT length, however, after partaking of
the bread and wine, he raised his head, and
looking in the minister's face, nodded and
smiled. Then he covered his face with his
hands and remained in that posture till the
parting blessing was given, and the people
began to scatter.
On the way home one and another spoke
to hin, but he made no reply. until passed by
some Of the boys. Then he said,
"Ah, lads, dinna bid me speak the day,
/ haze see the bonnie man.
When he reached the house he called
home, he did not speak much to the
granny who sheltered him. He left his
"parritch and treacle" untasted; and after
clapping the old woman, to show her that
he was not angry, he climbed the ladder to
the loft where his bed was to get another
look and another word "frae the bonnie
man. And his voice was heard below in
low tones; AYE, Lord, it's jist me that has
been sac lang seekin' We, an moo well bide
ave thegither. And then his voice grew
softer and softer, till it died away.
Granny sat beside the fire below, telling
neighbOr about Yeddie's strange words
and appearance. She said, "When he cam
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in, faint wi the lang road, he cried, Nae
meat for me, granny; 1 haze supped WI the
bonnie man, an moo I'm gaun up to the laft
to sleep wi him.
In the morning granny" called up to
him from the foot of the ladder. She called
again and again, but there was no reply.
She assembled, and there, beside stool, half
sitting, half kneeling, with his head resting
on his arms, she found Yeddie. She laid
her hand upon his head, but it was Cold
Yeddie had caught glimpse of Jesus, and
could not live apart from him. As he had
supped, so he had slept-with him.
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Melted Over.

1 stood in the foundry-yard. Great piles
of iron, all ready for the melting, gath
cred there. I noticed one heap of columns,
broken, bent, split, shattered.
went into the foundry. They we're "tap-
pins" the furnace, and the molten metal
flowed out in one Stream Of fire, sending up
sputter of sparks winter than the stars.
A row of men, on whose swarthy faces fell
the strange glare of the fire, stood little
way from the furnace to catch the iron in
ladies and carry it off TO be run in the mOulds.
knew those broken columns would some
day be cast into the furnace, sOftened, mel
ted, to run out in stream of fire, and be
moulded again in tall, Shapely pillars In
no otEer way could they be of use, They
must be melted over.
That very afternoon l saw mother all
bent and broken by affection. She had
parted with an only child. Just the Sab
bath before had the earth been broken for
that child's grave, l pitied that mother.
How keenly her Saviour felt for her! Aud
vet perhaps the only way to reach some ele-
meats in that mothers character, and change
them, was through affection The charac-
ter was not worthless; far from lit only
needed melting over. o! the pain of that
furnace of suffering, its smart, is agony
But in Just this way, is character sometimes
made over, its qualities shaped into the
strong, stately pillars sustaining the interests
of the Redeemer's kingdom !-American
IToSsoDopr
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PAsCAL's Confession" love poverty
because Jesus Christ loved it. l love wealth
because it gives me the means of assisting
the wretched. 1 keep faith with all men. l
do not render evil to those who do it to me !;
but desire state for them like unto my
own, in which l receive neither good nor evil
from the hand of man. l endeavOr to be
just, truthful, sincere to all men, and have
a tenderness Of heart for those to whom God
has united me more closely; and, whether |
am alone or in the sight of men, in all my
actions have in sight God, who must Judge
them, and to whom 1 have cOusecrated them
all.
''These are my sentiments, and all the
days of my life l bless my Redeemer, who
has put them into me, and who, from a man
full of misery, cOncupiscence, pride and am
bition, has, by the strength of his grace,
made man exempt from all evils. And to
this grace all the glory is due, since l have
in myself nothing but misery and error"