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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Hints About Dresses.

A single row of trimming straight
down the middle of the front breadth
OF the skirt is very stylish. For in
stance, n row of shell pleating, of cut
steel buttons, or else three or four of
the new bows made Of long loops OF
doubled silk, with the ends finished with
an ornament like the head of tassels, or
the funnel-shaped affairs that suggest
the upholsterer's ornaments on cur
tains.
Horizontal and diagonal tabliers are
newer than those made of several per-
pendicular bands or puffs. The cross.
wise tabliers are reversed pleats, or else
understanding folds, tackled on each
width, or else groups Of crescent-shaped
folds with bands of jet trimming be-
tween each group. Diagonal tabliers
are merely piped bands Of the material
of the trimming, or else shirred puffs.
Throat knots, side knots fastened on
the left OF the belt, or else knot with
long ends for the front of the waist. are
ornaments found on French dresses.
They are sometimes made of watered
ribbon, especially on black dresses,
but are most frequently Of doubled
silk, two or three inches wide when
finished.
New sashes of black velvet are two
long straight pendent streamers, trimm-
ed with lace and jet, or else fringed,
while halfway down them q pretty lit
tie pocket is simulated. Sashes of wide
ribbon are now worn directly in the
middle of the back, and consist of two
long ends with the top laid over the fiat
loops, that avoid giving bouffant ap-
pearance.
Tortoise-shell buttons, very large
and exquisitely carved, are Just intro.
duced for trimming suits of camels-
hair, velvet polonaises, jackets, etc.
White silk tabliers, wrought all over
with white jet frosty. looking white
beads-are to be used for ball dresses
OF white and pale-tinted silks.
Demi-trained skirts of dinner dresses
are without over-skirts, but are trimm-
ed with three kinds of trimming. The
back breadths are founced from the
belt to the edge, the side breadths are
| covered by long square -cornered width
of satin or velvet tackled fatty to the
skirt, and the front breadths have q
tablier OF reversed pleats or else eff di.
dSonal DdnuS.
Sleeveless basques of light blue o,
pink silk, with insertions OF Valencien.
mes lace let in the silk, or worn ovel
dinner dresses of black silk.
The long heavy over-skirts, now worn
are sewed to the belts of the lower
skirts, making only two pieces in the
costume-that is, the basque and skirt
In such cases the over-skirt must oper
behind, just as the lower skirt does
Ladies will find it good plan to tacl
the new oyer-skirts Gn several places il
the seams) to the lower skirt, since the
simple straight breadths nov used are
easily blown out of place, and the beau
ty OF the costume impaired thereby. Ii
some plain but extravagant dresses the
long straight breadths are made o
doubled silk. This, however, seem,
useless expense, as a deep facing il
quite sufficient,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Winter and the Poor.

There are signs already abroad of o
hard winter for the poor, and for por-
tion of the labOring class. The busi-
ness panic and the shrinkage of values
are causing considerable numbers of
manufacturers and employers of labor
to discharge their workmen, especially
in the trades directly or indirectly con-
nected with railroads. Other branches
of production, that have no immediate
connection with railroads, are cutting
down expenditures and reducing their
laboring force, partly because they are
not making their own collections easily,
and partly because they wish to be
ready for the new state of prices soon
to commence. The recent deadlock in
moving products will bring back its re-
action for months to come. The West
ern dealers who were indebted to East
crn merchants and forwarders have
been unable to meet their obligations,
and delay and caution have obstructed
the links of commerce and exchange all
the way through. The final loss will
come on labor at both ends of the chain.
This can last but short time. Busi-
ness will soon recover. The poor will
be ultimately better of, as they will en-
Joy hard-money prices and stable
currency. All that they buy will cost
less, though their own labor may com
mand apparently lower wages. Specie
currency is the blessing of the laboring
class. But during the transition, and
in recovering from this temporary stop
page of business, our benevolent COM
munity must expect to assist the poor
est of the working classes. Children
must not be left houseless, or to suffer
for bread, or to grow up exposed to
temptation and crime. Let each be-
neyolent person resolve that his own
misfortunes shall not dry up his little
benefactions, but that something shall
go still from his superfuities for the
aid of the hungry, naked, houseless,
and neglected,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Battle Between a Mouse and 6
TarantUla.

Three or four hours after the battle
between the tarantula and the scorpion,
the tarantula was stirred up and found
to be as sprightly as ever, to all appear
ances having suffered no bad effects
from the stings that had been given bim
by the scorpion. A sprightly little
mouse was now put into the bottle, and
as he entered the tarantula bristled up
spitefully and commenced the attack.
Walking toward the mouse quite rapidly,
he gathered himself, when within a
short distance, and jumping into the
air, descended upon the back of his
mouseship and seized him by the back
of the neck, encircling him with his
long legs. The mouse evidently had
not comprehended the situation until
now. Over and over they rolled, with
all the advantage in favor of the taran-
tula. In about two minutes the spider
let go, and both went to their corners.
Afrer they had rested the bottle was
tipped, and encouraged by his success
in the first round, the tarantula again
made the attack. The mouse exhibited
game" and lodging the tarantula,
which tried to regain its former hold
upon the mouse's neck, seized the spider
in his teeth just as the latter fastened
his fangs into his back. The mouse
sunk his teeth into the body of his foe,
and blood spurted ont quite freely.
This was more than the tarantula had
looked for, and vainly he tried to shake
the mouse off. After he had had his
bite "out," another rest was taken.
During the three hours that they were
in the bottle together, about twenty
rounds were fought, in four of which
the mouse bit the tarantula through the
body. The bites of the spider did not
seem to affect the mouse injuriously.
When the last struggle ended, the
tarantula retreated to his end of the
bottle, keeled over upon his back, and,
after q few cOnvulsive kicks, expird.
The tarantula was overhauled after he
died, and his fapgs measured Il little
over a sixteenth of an inch in length.
The mouse was as lively as ever next
morning, and when last seen had sue
ceeded in getting out of his prison and
was sitting on end, making a meal of
something he had foraged.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
A Bold Robbery.

Nearly four miles below the village of
Catsktl, on the west bank of the Hud-
son, resides Abraham Post, worthy,
well-to do farmer. at about 6:30 p. NJ,
q lew days since, Mr.. Pest, his wife and
daughter (tbe latter about twenty-five
years of age), his son Edward, and
their hired man, an Irishman, were
quietly eating their supper, when the
door leading from the main hall to the
dining-room was abruptly pushed open
and six men entered and rushed up to
the table. Each one of the scoundrels
drew revolver, and leveline the wea.
pons st the head of each member of
the family, warned all to keep quiet or
they would blow their brains ont.
While five Of the robheys thus held tbe
live inmates Of the house quiet, the
sixth one drew four pairs of new hand
cuffs from underneath his coat and in
regular order snapped the bracelets
upon every person at the table except
the daughter. The latter showed no
fear, but while the Handwriting was pro.
crossing gave the thieves such o severe
talking to, that finally, becoming
exasperated, one of the robbers stepped
mp to her and said +; "Well, you are so
sassy, L guess we'll handcuff you, too"
and the scoundrels handcuffed the whole
family together, including a colored
girl, VINO entered the dining.room at
the tlma. Not feeling perfectly safe
even then, the thieves procured q bed
cord and firmly tied that around the
entire family, and then one of them
stood guard over the captured group
While the others commenced to ransack
the house. They entered every room
IN the building, tore open bureau
drawers, broke open trunks, smashed
locks on closets, and secured about
81 600 in money and valuables.
For over one hour the thieves re-
manned in the house, stealing whatever
they could lay their hands on in the
way of valuables. They even approached
their bound victims laughingly, and
toook rings from their fingers and put
them on their own. They also sat down
to the supper.table and ate all they
wished to. While they were eating,
Edward Post endeavored to free him.
self. He told them he had seen two of
them the day previous at the Catskill
Fair, and one of them replied well,
what of it?" When they got all they
wanted, they bade the family good
night and departed. For one hour
afterward the imprisoned men and wo-
men tried to free themselves, and finally
the son did get loose, when he started
for Catskill Village, and told his story.
The Sheriff and others repaired to the
scene as quickly as possible, and with
the proper keys succeeded in releasing
all. Immediately the services of the
telegraph wires were impressed, and a
statement of the case was sent to all
prominent points, together with an offer
by Mr.. Abraham Post of 1000 reward
for the arrest of the rascals. None Of
the family were injured.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
A direct Vote for President.
what II is Proposed to Substitute fo,
the Present Electoral College.


The u. s. Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections is composed of
two Republicans and one Democrat.
The eohenie lately put forth by the
committe, looking to such an alteration
of the organic law that the present
mode Of electing President and Vice.
President will be abolished, exhibits.
therefore, the opinion of representative
men OF both of the great nolitical par-
ties. Presented to the Senate as the
product of an unanimous committee, it
is not likely to create serious division
in that body-certainly not party di-
vision--and we may, therefore, regard
it as n foregone conclusion that within
the next three years, and before the
next Presidential election takes place,
the Electoral College will be abolished,
and direct vote for President and
Vice-President by the people on this
plan ordered. The scheme proposed by
the committee, however, does not con-
template the eresure of State lines.
While the people will vote fer Presi-
dent instead of electors, the relative
power of the States, as in the present
system, will be preserved. Each State
will be divided into as many districts as
it is entitled to representatives in Con-
gress, composed of contiguous territory,
and as nearly equal in population as
may be, and the person having the
highest number of votes for President
in each district will be considered to
have one district vote for President.
Each State will also have two votes at
large. The person who shai have the
highest number Of district and State
votes shall be President.
A majority of ali the votes, as in the
Electoral College, is not required, and
the contingency of an election by the
House of Representatives is thus avoid
ed. In practice this plan would work
as follows : The State of New York,
with its present population, would be
divided into thirty-two districts. Dis
trict number one would probably be
composed of Queens, Richmond and
Suffolk counties, as at present, and on
the day appointed for the election the
people of the district would assemble
at their respective polling places and
vote directly for any persons whom they
pleased for President and Vice Presi.
dent. At the close of the poll the re-
'uih no hiiSh1 biullIt tuuo ltSuuIichS,
5000; Grant, 5000; Banks, 1000
Morton, 5000 /; scattering, 1000. In
this case Hendricks would have the
Presidential vote" of the district,
which would count zone" for him in
the general count. The same process
would obtain in each OF the other thirty
one districts. Thus in the general
count the State of New York might
cast for Hendrics 13 district votes,
Grant 10, Banks 4, Morton 3, scattering
2, and Hendricks having the largest pop
ular vote in the State, would have two
additional Presidential votes added to
the number given above. On a stated
day Congress would collect all the dis
trict Presidential votes and the State
Presidential votes, and the person hav-
ing the largest number of such votes
would be declared to be President ; the
same provision being applied to the
choice for Vice President.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
About MRetser and I.v

Petroleum V. Nasty tells how Mr..
Will Carleton's most famous poem came
near being lost in the waste-barrel.
" Betsey and 1 are Out" was first sent
to the Toledo Blade in Mr.. Locke's ab-
sence, and his partner looked at the
verses and threw them in the waste
basket, which, as Nasby says, chap
pened to be barrel" When he came
home, Mr.. Locke went fishing in the
barrel, and the first thing he pulled out
was this poem, which happened to catch
his eye. Whereupon the senior partner
mildly inquired, in tones of thunder,
DOCK, don't you know any better than
to throw away such stuff as that ? We'd
better print it," The last verse was lost
in the fragments, and tho editor wrote
to Mr.. Carleton, asking him to COM
plete it. But he kept no copy, and had
to compose an ending which don't leave
much doubt in the minds of the Toledo
Blade people who is the real author of
the ballad
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06

LET Us CoNsDER.- the intro
duction of distilled spirits in the Six
teenth Century, they have been habitu-
ally prescribed as remedies. We know
that alcohol, in all its forms, is perni-
cious to health. Kno10ing these things
and that under the system of treatment
which includes their use, the mortality
among the sick is, and ever has been,
enormous, is il not worth while to try
the effect of remedy which combines
in their highest excellence the qualities
of Tonic, an Alternative and Regula-
tor contains no mineral bane or MUIR
derous alkaloid or alcoholic poison !;
does its curative Office without pain and
with uniform certainty DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BrrTERs fulfills all these con-
ditions, and is now effecting the most
extraordinary cures in cases where every
" specific" of tho faculty has ignomin-
iously failed. Consider, in view of
these facts, whether any sick person is
justified by reason and common sense
in declining to test the virtues Of this
undefied and irresistible remedy
Io117
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Dnsfifntinn Arhid SnlendOR.

Doubtless there are many persons SO
situated, say the New York charitable
societies, in their appeals for aid, as not
to appreciate the fact that to large
class of other persons the coming of
winter is dread calamity. Yet it is q
terrible fact that the season of operas,
and theatres, and balls, and sleighing
parties--of warm and cheerful palace
halls in the city, and houses glowing
with great wood fires in the country
is the season of distress to many thou
sands, the season to which they look
forward with serious apprehension.
Darkness aud despair appear to sur
round them wherever they look. 1t is
estimated that six hundred thousand
people in New York city make their
homes in tenement houses. OF these,
one hundred thousand are women who
live by manual labor, of whom the
greater part are unmarried.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Ocean Monsters:

Last month while an American bark
was on its way to Norway she became
in the vicinity Of the Upper Lotfodon
Islands. Suddenly the sea was seen at
a short distance TO heave unanimously
as if moved from u profound depth.
Suspecting the presence OF whales, the
officers of the ship took the precaution
to place the crew at the sides of the YES
sci armed with graphing irons and mus
kets loaded with ball. Soon afterwards
fifteen enormous marine monsters were
seen swimming toward the ship. One
of them with half its body out of the
water passed the side of the vessel, and
as it did so it was riddled with balls
from the muskets of the crew. The
shots killed it instantly An examina-
ton of the prize showed that it was not
a whale, as had been thought, bus that
it was specimen of the cetacean fami.
ly, known rs the physetermicrops, the
latter application being given to it be-
cause of the smallness OF it's eyes. This
species is the most terrible, the strong
est, and the swiftest of the formidable
mammifers which frequent the waters
of the Arctic seas. It is prompt and
audacious in combat, and seeks its
prey with ferocious avidity. The re-
cognized msnarch of the polar seas, it
pursues, attacks, and devours the strong
est of its kind. With it's powerful
teeth, sharp, conical, and bent inward
toward the throat, this monster tears
its prey to pieces, and, ION occasions, in
ordor to secure possession of q seal,
will crush enormous blocks of ice upon
which the latter may be floating. The
specimen killed by the American crew
was found to measure over seventy five
feet in length, and its bulk, as it lay
upon the water, equalled that of a me-
dunn sized bark.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
Cruelty TO Animals,

During recent visit to England,
says Dio Lewis, L was surprised and
panied at the many evidences of cruelty
among the people. l stood on the COR
uer OF Regent and Oxford streets two
hours, and counted the number of cuts
received by horses. 1t was 46S, and
the whips used by the cab-drivers there
are very severe. When L returned to
America, / spent the first two spare
hours (Which happened to be the bust
est on the streeD on the corner Of
Broadway and Canal streets, in New
York, and counted the number OF whip
cuts within the range of my vision.
1t was IA, and the whips used by the
New York drivers are nothing compared
with those used by London drivers.
During seven weeks in London | saw
a woman beaten by man in the street
nine times. have never witnessed
such brutality in America.
The new game of Polo on horseback,
inaugurated last summer in the pres
ence of royalty and uncounted nobility,
on the Grand Park at Windsor Castle,
L witnessed. The ruel tortures to
which the beautiful ponies were SUBJ
iected would not be permitted in the
United States. Not only would ladies
and respectable men refuse to look on
and approve, but the authorities would
be compelled to interfere.
Still, in some of the highest ladies
schools in England grown women are
whipped, and in the colleges the beat
ing of the younger boys by the Older
would not be submitted to by American
sayages. 1t is not matched by anything
in history.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
DIR. J. Walkers California Vim.

DIR. j. Walkers California Viz"
egar Ritters are purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the IA.
tive herbs found on the lower ranges G
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIr-
TERsH" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the grea5
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovator and Inyigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history CT the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BTTTBRS in healing the
sick OF every disease man is heir to. They
are ce,'t'u Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver aud Yiscerai Organs, in Bilious
Diseases,
The properties Of DR.. WALKERS
VINEGAb B'l"TERS are A perient, Dlaphoretlc,
CarmLnatiye. Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter. lrritant, SCdoritic, Altera'
tive. and Anti Bilious.
R. II. MCDONALD a. co.,
Druggists and Ger CTS. San Francisco CALIFORNIA;
and cor. OF Washington and Charlton SITS. " Y.
sold by NIL Drugvists aud d. alers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06

THE WEEKLY
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Address, "THE YorkC City.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06

A GOOD REPLY.-It is related that up
on one occasian, when Commodore
Judkins was in command of the Scotia,
fussy little gentleman came to him
just as the steamer was leaving Liver
pool, and asked him if he thought the
Scotia would arrive in New York upon
a certain day in time for him to eateh
the noon train for Philadelphia. Jud-
kins looked at him a moment in silence,
and then, .lking out his wat.h, replied:
" l fear, sir, we will be five minutes too
latep
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pmples, ring-worm, salt-rheum, snd other
crtnpoous affections cured, and the skin made
soft end smooth, by using the JUNIPER TAR
Soar, made b7 ChswELL, HAZARD d Co., New
York Be certain to get tho 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, 1873-11-06

The SEWING MACHINE Sw1NDIE. The
Nashua IN. H.) Telegraph says, " The
manufacturers who have recently been
engaged in the manufacture of sewing
machines in Nashua affirm that the ac-
,ual cost of the best $65 machiles is q
little less than $13 The way people
have been swindled is about the same
as robbery" "
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06

WHOLESALE ARREST OF CoUNTERFEIr-
ERs The United States Government
Marshals in East Tennessee and west
ern North Carolina made simultaneous
arrest on large number of PERSONS en-
gagged III the sale and passing of coun
iertelt money. The secret service de-
tectives have been on the trail of their
victims for the last five L.onths. The
East Tennessee prisoners were taken to
Knoxville.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-06
UNSOLICITED EVIDENCE OF ITS MERITS
pEAD poITOwTNG

DR.. A. L. SCOVILL is the inventor OF several
meGical prepar a,iuns which have become very
popuiar, and have been literally use1 Among his
inventions are " Hairs Balssm for the Lungs ~ and
- LiverwOrth h and Tar.n For the past ten years =
better remedy has been offered 20 the public. Read
IN" f,llOwing letter f!on DIR. sCov1LL referring
it:
Ms>sRs. j. n. HARRIs& Co.,
GeHts-I make the f. lowing statement from 9
perfect conviction kGowle ge - the 'e1ts OF
LlLENs LUEG BALsAM Ia curing the most ueep-
seated Pulmonary CDnstumptiOni have witnessed
its effects the young and tue old can truly
say that is by far the Uest expectnraut remeiy
with which am acquainted. For Coughs, ID all
the early stages uf Lung Complaints, believe 1t
TO he certain cure, aud ifevery family would keep
It by them ready 10 administer upon the first Rp-
pearanca of disease bout the Lungs, there would
be very few cases Of fatal Cnnsumution. 1t causes
the phlegm and matter 10 rise without irritating
those delicate organs (the Lungsg and with ut
producing constipation Of the bowels 1t also gives
strength to the system, stops he nigbt-sweRts,
and changes al the morbid sCcretions tu q healthy
state. Yours, respectfully,