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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
An Irish Pig-Fair.

The PEASANTS pig, the Gentleman that
pays the rint," the favored, spoilt son, al
most the lord of the cabin, when, for the
first time In his life, he finds himself for
chilly driven the way his master chooses,
which, of course is the way he perseveres
i'm objecting to, enters the fair in ve;y
bad state of mind. His temper-never,
at the best of seasons, half so sweet as
his flesh-has become morose, and some
thing Is sure to occur to render him saw
age. Among other things, he is sure to
quarrel with the pig next to him for pre-
cedence of place, and the immediate con-
sequence-tor this pig is in quite as bad a
state of mind as that pig-the immediate
consequence is fight. By fight, we do
not mean an ordinary routing of snout to
snout, but savage fight of wild beasts.
They stand upon their hind hoofs and
fight in lion-and-unicorn fashion. 1t is a
fine thing to see pig under such unusual
circumstances, and shows that he is not
merely creature of fat and cracking, to
be roasted or made bacon of, but an ami
nal whose blood, when reused, inspires
him to fight to the death against what he
considers injuries and insults. The most
amusing part of the whole affair is the
dismay of the respective owners, and their
anxiety to separate the furious combat
ants, because a pig that has been over
driven in coming to the fair, or had a seri-
ous stand-up fight, is always reduced I'd.
or 3D.. pound in his market value.-iSt
PduES 1TdGdzi1e
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Making Maple Sugar.

For boring the trees half-inch bit is
large enough; the holes may be bored so
that the sap from two may be run into
one bucket, which may be hung on an
iron hook driven into the tree for this pur-
pose, midway between the two: conduc-
tors may be made of pine or sumac, or,
better, use metal ones made for the pur-
pose combining both spile and hook.
In gathering sap where the trees are
clase together, it is good plan in order
to prevent mistakes and save labor to
paint one side of your buckets white. The
first round you make in gathering, turn
the red side out; the second the white
side This done you will not need to run
to the tree a second time, nor miss one, as
you may see the gathering you have done
some ross distant.
The camp should be centrally located,
and if possible where the principal carry
ing will be down hill since this will greatly
facilitate the labor. Indeed at one of the
most complete camps we ever knew, in an
Eastern State, the sap was carried in pipes
as water flows, The pipes being disconneet-
ed at the close of the season, cleaned and
carefully laid away to dry.
When the sap is put to boiling, it should
not be allowed to flag, but the process
should be driven as strongly and evenly
dS poSalDlCs ulltll d sllHCicllt HudHtily VI
syrup is obtained for straining, which is
usually performed through clean, thick
wooden strainers. This operation being
performed into suitable vessels, deep ones
being proper, after standing some hours
to allow impurities to settle, the clearer
portion is poured off for sugaring. 1t
is boiled until the air escapes in puffS, the
proper consistency being ascertained by
taking little of the mass on a piece of
glass and observing the granulation on
cooling. This is also known by taking
little between the thumb and finger, press
ing them together and drawing them
apart the films will adhere and may be
drawn ont thin and will be brittle. 1t
may also be dropped into cold water, and
if the mass of wax breaks readily upon
getting cold it is ready for stirring into
sugar. Caked sugar is supposed to be
stronger and to retain its flavor better
than grained sugar.
The residue, or that remaining after
pouring of the top of the vessels, may be
put into the kettle, add about pint of
milk to ten gallons of syrup and skim off
the scum or froth as it reaches the boiling
point.
If molasses is wanted, it should not be
boiled so long as for sugar. If teaspoon
full of pulveriZed alum is boiled with each
two gallons of syrup it will prevent gran
ulation, or if put into air tight cans and
sealed it will keep perfectly.
In boiling sap, copper or brass kettles
are far preferable to iron but if these are
used, the most scrupulous care must be
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
CerebrO.Spinal Meningitis.

During the first half of last year eight
hundred persons in New York were at
tackled by a singular form of disease. and
of the number, six hundred died. Ply
sicians call this disorder cerebro- spinal
meningitis, which being interpreted
means an Inflammation OF the membranes
enveloping the brain and spinal chord.
Throughout the Northern States it is
popularly known as spotted fever, in
the South as the cold plague, in Europe
by various technical and local names, and
in all countries as one of the most deadly
affections to which mankind is subject.
1t frequently, as in the present instance,
appears in the form of an epidemic, and
its history is, that these visitations are
liable to recur after longer or shorter in
tervals. Like epidemic diseases in gener-
al. it is no doubt largely preventiblc, and
the wonder is that with the extraordinary
fatality which has always attended it,
there has never been any united public
demand for the investigation of its causes.
or the means of staying its spread. But
in spite of this astonishing Indifference on
the part of those who are most directly
interested, physicians have obtained some
important facts which seem to link the
origin of the difficulty with overcrowding
and the prevalence Of filth, conditions
which at all times are too common in
cities and towns, but which, with a stupid
blindness to his own best interests, man
is forever tolerating. The evidence that
cases of this disease originate. partly at
least, through the operation Of causes
that lie within our reach, though not as
fully as could be wished, is still very con-
vincing.-GdIdJy.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
reriIs of the Season.

The inhospitable winds and chilly fogs of spring
are unwelcome visitors to the feeble and ailing'
and are by no means congenial to the healthy. II
there is any germ of disease lurking in the system,
tbey are sure to develop 1t, unless proper precau-
t,ons are taken to prevent such misfortune. Bill
ious complaints, dyspepsia, nervous debility, rheu-
matism, irregularities of the bowels, and disorders
which affect the Kidneys all aggravated by the
peculiar condition of the atmosphere at this sea-
son. Invalds who are subject to any of these dis
orders, or have predlsposition thereto, should
therefore forearm themselves against danger by
strengthening tie digestive organs, the nervous
sy stem and the muscular fiber with daily doses of
Hostetter's stomach Bitters. There is no period
Of the year at which stimulating tonic and regu-
lating medicine is more urgently required than in
the spring; and there is no preparation of that
class in which so many valuable restorative and
preventive properties are combined in such per-
fectly safe and harmless form as In Hostetters Bit
ters. 1t may be stated positively, as uncontradct
able fact that a of this agreeable vegetable
specific, commenced now and continued through
the spring months will effectualy shield the in
habitants of marshy and miasmatic localities from
| the intermittent and remittent fevers caused by
unhealthy exhalations from a wet soil.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Scrap Iron.

MANUFACTURERS should look well to
their scrap iron; do not waste piece, no
matter how small gather all together
assort, have different receptacles for steel
wrought, cast and malleable iron. The
wrought iron from the carriage shop is
the most valuable of scrap iron, but to
bring the highest Price there must be no
malleable or cast iron mixed with it (;
every pound of scrap has market value,
and it should be packed in barrels or
boxes and sent to market. If there be
any considerable quantity, it will pay to
send it to the mills and have it worked
up into bars. 1t is the small manufacture
ers who do not take care of their scrap,
but allow year after year to pass without
paying any attention to it, and scraps Of
iron can be found all over their, factories,
while boxes and out of the way corners
are filled with it, and hundreds of dollars
of what would make the best of bar iron
is allowed to go to waste.-ScientiJfc Amer
icdn.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Gentility.

remember reading of three unfortu-
nate ladies who were entertained one sum-
mer day at the house of country friend,
and whose consequent sllfferings were so
remarkable that they will serve to point
little moral. These ladies were very
high-toned, so to speak. They were so
very genteel and so extremely proper in
their manners, that If society cohferred
degrees they would have been Mistresses
of Social Arts and Doctresses of Social
Laws.
SO these three high-toued ladies sat
down to dinner in the house of their coun-
try friend and there were peas on the Ia
BILE. "Peas," wrote one of the immacu-
late trio, ''such as we never see in town
fresh, green, plump and luscious, all SO
delightfully."- hot and tempting! But as
the forks had only two prongs. making II
quite useless to try to eat peas with them,
we were obliged to leave the delicious
things on our plates. The family ate
their peas with their knives, but of course
we could not do that"
Now our opinion may be social heresy
but we certainly believe that true lady
would have eaten those peas with hel
knife. She would have done so simply
because she would have known that the
laws of true Loliteness made it imperative
upon her to use her knife in such case
But this genteel trio did not appear to un
derstand that politeness requires greater
attention to the feelings of Others thar
70 mere forms; that what is very gentee
in one pace is often quite boorish in an
other, and that there Is hyper-gentilitl
and a plu-propriety which is offensive
to the nostrils of a true gentleman O.
lady.-Frank r. Stockton, IN "Home am
Society,"" ,Scribner's for March.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Small POX-HOw to Prevent COntagiOn.

l. On the first appearance of the disease.
the patient should be placed in separate
apartment, as near the top of the house
as possible, from which curtains, carpets,
bed-hangings, and other needless articles
of furniture should be removed, and no
person except the medical attendant and
the nurse or mother be permitted to enter
the room.
2. A basin containing a solution of
chloride of lime, or carbolic acid, should be
placed near the bed for the patient to spit
In.
3. Handkerchief not to be used, but
pieces of rag employed instead, for wiping
the nose of the patient. Each piece, after
being used, should be Immediately burned.
4. A plentiful supply of water and tow
els should be kept for the use of the nurse,
whose hands of necessity, will be soiled
by the secretions of the patient. In one
nand-basin the water should be impreg-
mated with fluid of chloride, by
which the faint on the hands may at once
De removed.
5. Outside the door of the sick-room a
sheet should be suspended, so as to cover
the entire doorway; this should be kept
constantly wet with a solution OF lime.
The effect of this will be to keep every
other part of the house free from infection.
G.. The discharges of the bowels and
kidneys of the patient should be received
.ato vessels charged with disinfectants,
sucE as the solution of carbolic acid or
chloride of lime, and Immediately remov-
I'd. By these means the poison thrown off
from internal surfaces may be rendered
merit, and deprived of the power ofpropa-
= ating disease.
Z. The thin skin of cuticle which peels
off from the hands, face, and other parts of
'he body in convalescent patients, is high |
= Y contagious. Baths should be continued |
{ very day for four times, when the disin- |
lection of the skin may be regarded as
omplete. This, however, should not be |
: one without first consulting the medical
Observation-Disclosures,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Approaching Spring.

~ IN These green UNyS
Reviving sickness lifts her languid head
Life flows airesh; and young ey'd health eXalts
The whole creation round"
Thus sang Thomson and very truly, for
the human system at this season of the year
requires rejuvenatiOn, just as every portion
of natures works after period of inertion.
There is turgidity of the bowels, fullness of
habit, sluggish blood, constipation, weaken
ed kidneys, pains in the back and chest, ten
denotes to Inflammation and congestion of
the various organs, jaundiced complexion,
lack of vigor, in fact entire loss of color and
tone. This is all corrected and new life i'm
parted by using Maguire's Cundurango Liv-
er and Blood Bitters. This medicine, if TAX
en- occasionally, will prevent attacks of Spot
ted Fever and Small PoX.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

exerted to prevent tarmshing. They
must be kept perfectly bright since the
iron vessels creates only disgust, but with
copper or brass the result may be death.
This is another of the processes of max
ing sugar when only small camps are
worked. When plantations are owned
sufficiently large to warrant the erection
of buildings and batteries that will be
found the most economical. The sap may
be reduced either in open evaporators by
the direct action of fire heat, or by means
of steam coils. Filters ofanimal charcoal
take the place of strainers, and centrifu-
gal machines are used for separating the
sugar and molasses.- Western Rural.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH for March is
one of the bestnumbers yet published of this new
and popular monthly, which is rapidly growing
in public favor. This number contains Popular
Physiology and Diseases of the eye, with several
illustrations; Bald Heads on Young Shoulders;
Signs of Healthy Child; Cruelty to the Young;
Vaccination Problem; Disease and its Treatment;
Seasonable Dishes, and How to Cook Them; AL
cohol and Opium; Health of Bankers Health of
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York
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13
Tie Suns Distance.

At present the distance from the earth
to the sun is reckoned at ninety-two mil
lions of miles, with a margin of error OF
about five hundred thousand miles. 1t is
for the main purpose of reducing this
margin, by at least one half, that the OBJ
servatiOns Of the coming transit of Venus
are 10 be undertaken. In a recent lecture
on "The Constitution of the Sum-" Pro-
fessor Young made use of the following
curious illustration, in order to aid his
hearers in forming an idea of the Sans
distance. "Nou know" he states "thay,
if you touch part of the body, one does
not feel it instantly. If you touch the
hand of any one with pin, it will be an
apprcciable part of n second before he
will feel it and draw his hand back. Now,
if | had an arm long enough to reach to
the sun, and should put my fingers into
the solar flame, and burn them there, It
would be a hundred years before ! would
find it out, and another hundred years be-
fore | could remove my hand. Such is
the distahCc of the sun, and yet, across
that space, the earth responds to every
impulse of the solar surface" An illus
tration of this character, while it elicted
the applause Of the audience, failed, we
doubt not, to convey to many any more
definite idea of this immense distance than
that obtained from the simple statement
of that distance in English miles.-AppLe-
tons.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

The LITTLE CoRPoRAL.-Chapter iii.
of "Hidden Treasure" by Mary A. Denison,
with full-page illustration, and Chapter vii. of
Mrs. Miller's interesting serial story, "Uncle
Dicks Legacy" with illustration, are given in
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Added to these are several short stories, poems,
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young readers Terms $3.50 year, with two
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of 10 cents for postage. Published by..JoHN ].
MILLER, Chicago
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

THE PHRENoLoGICAL JOURNAL for
March contains good portrait and sketch of
William f. Havemeyer, Mayor of New York
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

SCREWS INSERTED IN PLASTER WALLS.
When we try to fasten brackets, strips
of wood, etc, to plaster walls by means of
screws, it is often found impossible to
make screws hold firmly. When we
turn them in, the plaster breaks out and
our labor is in vain. And yet, a screw
we'll set into plaster wall will hold very
firmly; The best plan is to enlarge
the screw, fill it with plaster of Paris,
such as is used for fastening the tops of
lamps, etc., and bed the screw in the soft
plaster. When the plaster has set, the
screw will be held very strongly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

On a recent trip through the interior of
the Western States we were surprised to
find the great demand there is for PARKER's S
COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU. At
places remote from railroad or river it is
found to meet with ready sale. The
amount of kidney diseases in a farming COM
munity is great, and the farmers have found
that no medicine is so suited to their various
wants, or gives such prompt relief as this
valuable extract. Sold by all druggists,
everywhere.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

\ UNIVERSAL REMEDY" BROWNS
BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" for Coughs, Colds.
and Bronchial Affections, stand first in pub
lie favor and confidence; this result has
been acquired by test of many years.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

A JUST man does justice to every man
and to everything; and then, if he be also
wise, he knows there is debt of mercy
and compassion due to the infirmities of
mans nature, that is to be paid and he
tina. is cruel and ungentle to SHINING
person, and does the worst to him, dies in
his debt and is unjust.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

UP to January, 1872, the New York
Central Park had cost the city twelve and
a half million dollars; but, since the park
was commenced, the taxable property in
three wards in the immediate neighbor-
hood of the park has increased in valua-
tion from twenty-six million to nearly one
hundred and eighty-siX million dollars.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

The hand is the minds only perfect
vassal, and when, through age or illness,
the connection between them is interrupt
ed, there are few more affecting tokens
of human decay.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-02-13

No Person cnn take these Bitfcrs accord.
fng to directions, and remain long unwell provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison oth,
MEANS and the vital organs wasted beyond the point
Of repair. -
Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache, Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs Tighness Of the Chest. Diz
ziness Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
IN the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Papitation OF the
Heart Inflammation Of the Lungs, Pain in the regions
of the Kidneys and hundred other painful symptoms,
are the ofsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complaints
il has no equal and bottle will prove letter guay-
antee of its merits than lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, in young or old,
married or single, at the dawn OF womahhood, or the
turn of e these Tonic Bitters display so decided an
tibe.
For Infiammatory and Chronic Rheu-
natisn and Gout Bilious, Remttent and Inter-
ment Fevers Diseases Of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Bitters have equal Such Dis
eases are caused by Initiated Blood, which IS generally
produced by arrangement of the Digestive Organs.
They are u Gentle Purgatiye as well ns
| u Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit OF acting
| as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or lnam-
nation of the Liver and Vscera Organs, and in Bilious
| Diseases. - .
| For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter Salt
Rheum, Botches, Spots Pimpes, Pustues, Bois, Car
buncles, Ring Scad- II cad, Sore Eyes, Ery-
speas Itch Scurfs, Discoloraons of the Skin, Humors
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature,
are literally dug up and carried out OF the system IN
| short time by the use Of these Btters.
| Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT.
TIERS the most wonderful lnvgorant that ever sustained
| the sinking system.
Druggists and Gen. Agts San Francisco and New York.
~ SOLD by ALL DRUGGISTS DEALERS.
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DIR. JAYNE's EXPECToRANT is both palliative
and curative in all Lung Complaints, bronchitis,
sc. 1t is standard remedy for Coughs and
Colds, and needs only a trial TO prove its worth.
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PURE instinct is but law OF Nature,
like termination there is in it only one
degree more toward life. -.
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MILLIONS ON THE STRIKE I'm spite OF
the enormous amount of capital invested
in the promotion of Intemperance, the
Missionaries of Sobriety have no reason
to be disheartened. The strike against
alcoholic drinks is not confined to the or
dinary liquors of commerce. 1t is extend
ing to all medicines of which ardent spirits
form a component part. The belief that
stimulants of this nature are sloao poiSons
gains ground everywhere. Eminent ply
siologists preach the doctrine, and the
dissecting knife and the microscope afford
post n,ortem evidence of its truth. For
tunately at the very time when our dis
tinguished surgeons were making the ex-
perimcnts which led to this conclusion, a
sagacious member of the profession, DR..
Joseph Walker of California, was perfect
ing a vegetable tonic, possessing all the
restorative properties claimed for the
spirituous astringents. and free from their
deadly sting. To those demoraliZing,
health destroying potions his famous
VINEGAR BITTERS seem to be giving the
coup dc grace. The demand for them de-
cines, while the commercial and sanitary
success of the new medicine is complete.
And we hear daily of cases of dyspepsia,
biliousncss, malarious fever, rheumatism,
constipation, general and local debility,
gout, kidney disease, etc, etc., that have
Succumbed to the great restorative after re-
SStinU all others,