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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21

A Speciflc For Diarrhea.

Considerable has been lately said in
medical journals concerning the value
of milk as remedial agent in certain
diseases. An interesting article upon
this subject lately appeared in the Lon
don LUX Journal, in which it is stated
on the authority of DR.. Benjamin Clarke
that in the East Indies warm milk is
used to great extent as a specific for
diarrhea. A pint every four hours will
check the most violent diarrhea, stom-
ach ache, incipient cholera, and dysen-
terry. The milk should never be boiled,
but only heated sufficientlyto be agree
ably warm, not too hot to drink. Milk
which has been boiled is unfit for use.
The writer gives several instances to
show the value of this simple substance
in arresting this disease, among which
is the following /. The writer says = " 1t
has never failed in curing in six to
twelve hours, and [ have tried it,
should think, fifty times. 1 have also
given it to dying man who had been
subject to dysentery eight months, lat.
terly accompanied by one continual
diarrhea, and it acted on him like a
charm. In two days his diarrhea was
e.,
fat man, and now nothing that may
hereafter occur will ever shake his faith
in hot milk. A writer also communicates
to the Medical Times and Gazette, a
statement of the value of milk in twenty
six cases of typhoid fever, in every one
of which It's great value was apparent.
1t. checks diarrhea, and nourishes and
cools the body. People suffering from
disease, require food quite as much as
those in health, and much more so in
certain diseases where there is rapid
waste of the system. Frequently all or
dinary food in certain diseases is reject
ed by the stomach, and even loathed by
the patient /; but nature, ever benef-
cent, has furnished n food that in all
diseases is benefcial--in some directly
curative. Such food is milk. The
writer in the journal last quoted DR..
Alexander Yale, after giving particular
observations upon the points above
mentioned, viz: its action in checking
diarrhea, its nourishing properties, and
its action in cooling the body, says :
We believe that milk nourishes in
fever, promotes sleep, wards off deli
rum, soothes the intestines, and, in
fine, is the SIM qua non in typhoid
fever" We have also lately tested the
value of milk in scarlet fever, and learn
that it is now recommended by the me-
dical faculty in all cases of this often
very distressing chi1dren's disease.
Give all the milk the patient will take
even during the period of greatest fever;
it keeps up the strength of the patient,
acts well upon the stomach, ard is in
every way blessed thing in this sick
ness. Parents, remember it, and do not
fear to give it if your dear ones are
afflicted with this disease. r..
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
The Railroads and the Farmers,

Raising Corn and Wheat in Illinois and
Getting Il to Marlket---Sixty Bushels OF
Corn Buys Two Pairs of Boots.
The great apostle of the farmers
movement, writes correspondent from
Illinois, the man who planned the or
ganization of the farmers, and, by his
earnest, well-directed efforts, has done
more than any. other to give it shape
and make it Il power, is S. M. Smith,
Secretary of the State Farmers Asocia-
ton, and himself plain, hard working
prairie farmer, native of Connecticut
Until I met Mr.. Smith, the correspond
ent adds, had been unable to get any
clear idea of the exact grounds of the
farmers complaints. Railroad Extor-
tion," "Uniust Discrimination, y"
" Monopoly" are general terms freely
used by the farmers, but Just what con-
stituted them was unable to find out.
One of my first questions, therefore,
was whether the farmers of this State
the people of the East hearing of the
wonderful fertility of Illinois soil sup
posed the farmers who had been here
to-do, comfortably situated class of
pCOIiS' MI. pAultu Icplleu Illdb lulS
was q very erroneous idea. "The ma
iorlty of the farmers of this State" said
he, s. have hard work to support their
families. Year by year new mortgages
are given to pay new debts, and it is the
exception rather than the rule for far
mer to be saving anything. At least
one-half of the farms in this part of the
State are mortgaged for money bor-
rowed at ten per cent. interest, and the
majority of them will never be re-
deemed. You let it be known that a
man in tins village has thousand dol
lars to lend on tirst-class security, and
he will have dozen applications before
night !' 49,.
!" Have these mortgages been given
for balances due on farms purchased, or
for money borrowed after the farms
have been paid for ?"
In some cases they represent part
of the purchase money of the farms, but
in most cases the farmers have been
obliged to borrow because they have
been running behind. Nobody can
make anything farming here unless he
has q large farm, and I'll tell you by
and-by why, with plenty of land, man
can make little but even then, he
can seldom realize ordinary interest on
his investment. Now have here good
farm, and you can see what have made
of it. But never could have paid for
it in the sixteen years have been here
from the profits of farming. was sue
cessful in little speculation, and made
enough to buy the land"
"The railroad men say that you far
mers are extravagant in your living;
that during your years of prosperity the
silk dress got into the family, and that
you have never been able to get it out
in short, that you are indulging in
style Of living wholly unknown among
you few years ago"
"It is not so," was the reply. eff
you will notice The little boxes of houses
in which the most of our farmers live,
with almost nothing about them to
make them attractive, and tien if you
could go into them and see how soeanly
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
A Quiet Citizen.

The Pail mall Gazette notices that q
disagreeable character has just been
taken into custody in Asia Minor:
"The Smyrna correspondent of the
Levant Herald reports the capture of
Deli Mustapha, (mad Mustapha,) san.
culinary freebooter, who frequented
the neighborhood of Nymphio, where
he has for many years resided undis-
turbed by the authorities on account of
his reputed insanity, madmen being in
vested with special sanctity in the
eyes of Mohammedans. From the tales
related of the mad robber,' he must
have been a terrible nuisance to the
neighborhood, and it is not surprising
that his capture should be regarded
with satisfaction. Upward of hund-
red persons are said to have been MUIR
dered by this interesting creature.
The house where he lived was carefully
avoided in the day time, and after night
fall none dared to approach it, for it
was during the night that Mustapha
used to prowl forth and perpetrate his
tempted to rid the country of the
scourge by sending troops to capture
him. but the supertitious terror attach
eel TO MS name endDleu Hill W seJ ill
armed force at defiance. Sureya Pasha,
however, lately resolved to secure him,
and about three weeks ago dispatched a
body of troops under command of a res
olute officer, with orders to take Musta-
pha dead or alive. Anticipating des-
perate resistance, the troops carefully
surrounded his house, gradually draw
ing closer until Mustapha who had not
at first perceived the maneuvre, was
caught as in net. Perceiving the sit
uation, he mockingly defed the soldiers,
and on the latter attempting to set fire
to his dwelling he became furious.
Rushing forth from his doorway, yata-
CHAN in hand, he dashed into the midst
of his assailants, wounding several of
them, until he was felled to the ground
by the butt-end of pistol. He was then
bound and dragged to the nearest sta
tion on the Cassaba Railway, whence he
was conveyed safely to Smyrna, where
crowds hocked to see him, as, loaded
with irons, he was conducted to the
dungeons of Djezair Khan. 1t is be-
lieved that he will be decapltated,
which, assuming the stories told of him
to be correct will not be more severe
penalty tn n he has right to expect"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Ingenious Devices OF Cruelty.

Western papers mention an unusual
instance of cruelty perpetrated upon a
boy fourteen years old, in Liner town
ship, Marion county, Iowa, by two men
named McKissick and Hart. The boy,
who was living at McKissick was ac-
cused by the men of robbing the others.
With pistols in their hands they fercely
threatened him with death if he did not
confess. Failing to extort confession,
the raw-hide was mercilessly applied, at
short intervals, till the evening, when
he was taken to well some ten feet
deep, with about five feet of water in it,
and, with q rope round his neck, he was
lowered repeatedly head foremost into
the water, until nearly drowned. The
same night he was taken up stairs in
McKissick's house by McKissick and
Hart, and there laid on his face on the
floor, his feet bound with rope passed
over the rafters SO as to draw his feet
some twenty inches from the floor. His
hands were bound behind him, and
drawn up in the same way to abouj the
same elevation, and his head lashed to
a bed-post by q cord from his neck. In
this condition he was left until 10
o'clock the next morning, when some
neighbors discovered and released him
from his position, more dead than alive.
McKissick and Hart, who are both men
OF property, were arrested, and held to
answer for assault with intent to inhict
great bodily injury, and also served with
notice in u civil suit for five thousand
dollars damages. ... 49,.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Facts and FancieS.

An incendiary fire in Portland, Ore
gon, destroyed nearly all the buildings
on twenty-three blocks.
A woman at Litchfeld, ILL.,, was RI
diculous enough to sew her peach-trees
up in bed ticking last fall, and now she
has an orchard full of peaches and her
neighbors have none.
At Fair City, Perias Bridge, and
Broad Greek, and elsewhere on the
American frontier, accounts of Indian
autrages have caused the people to leave
heir farms and crops.
At Browns saw-mill in White Haven,
Va, laborer, named Frank Donnelly,
fell while at work near large circular
saw and struck his head against it. In
an instant his head was cut off.
A member of the Princeton, Kansas,
Farmers Grange was taken sick, and
being unable for week to plow his
corn, eight members of the Grange
went to his field and plowed it for him.
A shower of reptiles fell in Minnesota
recently, and some one has described
them as about six inches long, with
gills and fms, and four legs. The same
kind of animals are found in q Mexican
lake.
Bony Nash, the Cincinnati gambler,
whose death was recently recorded, was
congratulated short time before the
event upon looking in better health
than usual, when he replied, bet
you 800 don't live wei ek." He won.
A newspap er editor at Cynthiana,
KY, has sent bill of $75 to Judge
Arthur, of the Sixth District, for print
ing one of his speeches in Congress last
winter. The ground for this singular
action undoubtedly is that a man who
draws $4,000 back pay which does not
belong to him is fully able to pay for
his "puffing.
A farmer of Rochester, N. Y, had the
wheat from twenty-one acres of land
threshed last week, and found the yield
to be over forty bushels per acre. the
aggregate amounting to eight hundred
and sixty-three bushels. This sounds
something like old times, when the
Genesse Valley was the finest wheat
producing region in the country.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Caring for an Umbrella.

An incident that befell recent trav-
eler on a New Hampshire railroad is
thus told by the Portsmouth Chronicle:
He had occasion to get out of the car at
New Market Junction, leaving his UNI
brella lying across the seat he had va
Gated. Returning, two nicely dressed
ladies sat in the seat ahead, and as he
resumed his sitting one of them said,
" You may pass me that umbrella, if
you please" He replied, SIS it your
umbrella, madame?" 81 will take
charge of it," said she, and the accom-
modating gentleman passed his UNI
brella over to the lady. Then a pause.
"Now, if you please" suggested the
gentleman, 81 will trouble you to re-
turn my umbrella. It's silk one and
a good one. 1 paid just $40 for it, and
I'd dislike very much to part with it,"
The passengers by this time had become
interested in the conversation, and, as
the umbrella was returned to it's owner,
the lady who had shown such peculiar
interest in it was observed to flush
deeply, while the owner regretted that
he had found it necessary to rebuke
her
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
The Surf.Board Sport at Hilo.

Hilo is one of the very few places in
the Sandwich islands where you can see
truly royal sport-the surf-board. 1t
requires q rough day and heavy surf,
but with good day it is one of the
finest sights in the world. The surf
board is tough plank about two feet
wide and from six 70 twenty feet long,
usually made of the breadfruit tree.
Armed with these party of tall, mus
cular natives swim out to the first line
of breakers, and, watching their chance
to duck under this, make their way
finally, by the help of the undcr-tow,
into the smooth water far off beyond the
surf. Here they bob up and down on
the swell like SO many ducks, watching
their opportunity. What they seek is a
very high swell, before which they
place themselves, lying or kneeling on
the surf-board. The great wave dashes
onward, but as its bottom strikes the
ground, the top, unretarded in its speed
and force, breaks into huge comber,
and directly before this the surf. board
swimmer is propelled with speed
which we timed, and found to exceed
forty miles per hour. In fact, he goes
like lightning, always just ahead of the
breaker, and apparently down hill,
propelled by the vehement impulse of
the roaring wave behind him, yet SEEM
ing to have a speed and motion of his
own.
1t is very surprising sight to see
three or four men thus dashed for near
ly mile toward the shore at the speed
of an express train, every moment
about to be overwhelmed by roaring
breaker, whose white crest was reared
high above and just behind them, but
always escaping this engnlfment, and
propelled before it. They look, kneel-
ing or lying on their surf-boards, more
like some curious and swift-swimming
fsh-like dolphins racing, as it seemed
to me-than like men. Once in a while,
by some mischance, the cause of which
[ could not understand, the swimmer
was overwhelmed the great comber
overlook him /; he was flung over and
over like piece of wreck, but instantly
dived. and reappeared beyond and out
side of the wave, ready to take advan-
tage OF the next. A successful shot
launched them quite high and dry on
the beach far beyond where we stood to
watch. Occasionally man would stand
erect upon his surf-board,. balancing
himself in the boiling water without
apparent difficulty. The surf-board is
one of the ancient sports of Hawaii. l
am told that few of the younger genera
ton are capable of it, and that it is
thought to require great nerve and
GOODNESS even among these admirable
swimmers, and to be not without danger.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
What Danbury Says.
No man can be successful poetwhose
liver is not diseased.

No man can be successful poet whose
liver is not diseased.
People who think they can wear moth
ing cheaper than $50 pants should feel
of q stoop before sitting on it. A Dan
bury youth neglected this precaution,
Sunday evening, and wore overalls
Monday.
At one time Saturday there were five
bald-headed men in one of our dry
goods stores, looking vacantly about,
and each one thoughtfully rubbing his
head with finger that had thread
tied about it,
"What shall I give my boy to make
him honored and respected ?" writes an
affectionate father. Education and
moral precepts were once required to-
accomplish this purpose, but diamond
pin now covers the ground.
A Slawson woman unostentatiously
points to the fact that the funeral of her
late husband cost but eighty-two dol
lars, which is fifteen dollars less than
the neighbors thought she could do it,
and yet there is not one of them who
can say that anything was spared to
make the occasion success, and one
long to be remembered by all who par
ticipated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
A Valuable Invention,

The cheapest, most simple and prac-
tical fire-alarm for ordinary household
purposes is small weight of lead or
iron made to adhere to the ceiling of
each room with piece of wax. When
the temperature becomes elevated
above that of the ordinary atmosphere,
the wax will lose its adhesiveness and
allow the weight to drop. The weight
can be attached by a wire to all the
bells in the houseor to sound anyalarm
extemporised for the purpose. The
weight should be kept away from stove
pipes and out of the sun, and one
should be placed in each room and hall
way. They will not fail to give the
alarm when there is any excessive in
crease of temperature, and no house
should be without them. This alarm is
not patented, and is free to be used by
all without money and without price.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
What Farmers Say.

A large convention of farmers was
held in Wayne county, Ia, which NOM
mated full county ticket. The follow
ing was the call that brought the far
mers together:
Fellow Warmers and Laborers Turn
a deaf ear to the allurements of party.
They are the siren songs which will
lead you to certain ruin. Rise up as
free and Independent men, resolved to
think and act for yourselves. Show
these tricksters aad traders in the sov-
ereignty of the people that you are no
longer minors, and that their services
as the guardians of your interests can
we'll be dispensed with. Go to your
township conventions, and select your
best men to represent you in the COM
ing county convention, that they may
select Wayne county's best men to fill
the several offices at your disposal this
fall.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Food Exports and Where They Go To.

The export of beef from the United
States in the year 1872 approached 27,-
0O0,0 pounds; more than half this
quantity was shipped for the United
Kingdom, and more than 1000, 900
pounds of it went to her colonies. The
export of pork exceeded $1,000, 900
pounds; nearly 13, 3,000,000 pounds being
destined for the United Kingdom, and
25,000,000 for its colonies. The export
of bacon and hams exceeded 246, 900, 900
pounds, of which the United Kingdom
took IT'S, 900, 900 pounds. The export of
lard reached nearly 100000, 900 pounds,
nearly 79,000,0 900 pounds being sent to
the United Kingdom. The export of
butter approached 100000 pounds,
$500, 900 poundsof which were shipped
for the United Kingdom. The export
of cheese exceeded 100000 pounds,
more than 5000, 900 pounds being sent
to the United Kingdom. The total ex-
port in 1872 of these six articles exceed
ed 600,000,00 pounds, of which the
United Kingdom took 345, 100000
PSo-4NS'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Killing a Cat.

There is a man on Franklin street,
Danbury, who has been engaged in the
past two months in a mighty effort to
kill O cat. In that time that unfortu-
nate animal has explored the bottom of
every sheet and stream of water within
six miles of Danbury, has had an unin-
tentional taste of the several new va
rites of powder, and has got so it can
tell in the dark without looking around,
the difference between half brick and
a whole one. The man himself hasn't
got whole piece of clothing in his
wardrobe, and has almost entirely lost
the use of one leg from rheumatism
contracted while drowning the cat, and
more scratches on him than the survivor
of four wives. His aged father says he
will take a chair out in the yard on a
pleasant afternoon, and will sit there
for two hours at a time, and look at
that cat and swear.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Brigham and His Wives,

Brigham Young is reported to have
expressed himself as follows in one of
his recent " sermons" in Salt Lake
City: 81 wish my women to under
stand that what L am going to say is
for them as well as others, and 1 want
those who are here to tell their sisters,
yes, all the women in the community.
L am going to give you from this time
to the 9th of October next for reflection,
that you may determine whether you
wish to stay with your husbands or not,
and then am going to set every woman
go your way And my wives have got
to do one OF two things, either round
up their shoulders to endure the afflic-
tions of this world, and live their reli-
gion-that is, polygamy-or they must
leave ; for l will not have them about
me. 1 will go into heaven alone rather
to have scratching and fighting about
me. l will set al at liberty. What, first
wife, too Yes, liberate you all. want
to go somewhere or do something to get
rid of the winners. I do not want them
to receive part of the truth and spurn
the rest out of doors. Let every man
thus treat his wives; keeping raiment
enough to cover his body, and say to
your wives, take all that have and be
set at liberty, but if you stay with me,
you shall comply with the law of God
in every respect, and that, too, without
any murmuring or whining. You must
fulfill the law of.God in every respect,
and round up your shoulders to walk
up to the mark without any grunting." :"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21
Cure for Bee Stings.

A correspondent Of British maga-
zine writes: son the 18th of April last
a young man, employed near bees, had
the misfortune of being stung. No
other remedy being near at hand, rec
ommended him to apply the common
soil to the wound, and it Immediately
relieved the pain and prevented the
swelling. Such receipt is more valu-
able than gold to all who have anything
to do with bees. 1 formerly used COM
mon blue for bee stings, but common
soil is preferable.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21

SUICIDE OF QUADRooN.-A young
quadroon girl named Medora Vining
committed suicide in New Orleans by
taking strychnine. A letter found on
her person revealed the information
that her lover had Tilted her, and she
committed the rash act in desperation.
The letter was addressed to her tickle
lover, and was couched in the most af-
fectionate terms, wishing him happiness
in another's love hereafter, and request
ing him to forget her, as she was doomed
for the regions of the damned.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-08-21

GooD PRICES several of th
watering places the prices are $5 per
day, and $40 addition for private parlor.
At private boarding-houses, SIG to $40
per week. Cosy cottages, with grounds,
5000 season, and $3.50 extra for sta
BILE. Some of the millionaires pay
$4,000 a season. A carriage in tho
morning costs Sc, and a pheton SO an
hour in the morning and 81 an hour in
the afternoon.