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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
EXpert BOatmen,

There being no keel to the Esqui-
maux kayak, and its bottom nearly flat,
the occupant would seem to make it top
heavy, but with the practice and nerve
of the kayaker, he does not hesitate to
brave a middling heavy sea, riding over
the waves as gracefully as a duck.
Armed with his rifle, harpoon, and bird
spear, all of which he very adroitly uses,
he shoulders his kayak, carries it to the
beach, and launches it. There is no
opening in it except a round hole mid
way between each end, just large enough
to admit the boatman as far as his hips.
Surrounding this midship hole is a
wooden rim, with groove around the
outside near the sealskin covering, over
which the hunter laces the lower edge
of his water-tight jacket, and thus fast
ems himself i'll and keeps the water out.
He then grasps his two-bladed oar in
the middle, propels himself along by
dipping it in the water on each side al
ternately, and off he darts Mt very as
tonishing rate of speed, until he reach
es his hunting ground. When he sights
a seal, and gete within thirty yards of
him, he throws the harpoon, and sell
dom misses his mark. As soon as the
seal is hit, it starts off to escape. The
staff is then detached from the dart to
which is attached a strand of raw hide,
fastened at the other end to a buoy or
float carried on to the deck of the kayak,
ready to cast off when the line has been
all run out, but kept sight of by the
kayaker, who soon exhausts the strength
of his victim, and then captures him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
The Largest Bee Hive in the World.

"In Los Angeles county, California,
on the eastern slope of the San Fer
nando range of mountains, and in the
immediate vicinity of the Leaning
Petroleum Company's oil region,
there is the most wonderful col
lection of wild honey in existence.
The hive is located in rift which pene-
trates the rock to the depth of probably
one hundred and sixty feet. The orifce
is thirty feet long and seventeen feet
wide with four passages. This rift
was discovered to be the abiding place
of swarm of bees, that is seen to come
out in nearly solid column, one foot
in diameter. Certain parties have en-
deavored to descend to the immense
store of honey collected by the bees, but
were invariably driven back, and one
man lost his life in the effort. Others
have, at the expense of much labor and
money, built scaffold one hundred
and twenty-five feet high, in hope of
reaching place where they could run a
drift into the rook and extract its we'll
boarded sweets, but finally ceased their
work. Within four years the bees have
added not less than fifteen feet of depth
to their treasure, as ascertained by
actual measurement, and it is thought
that at the present time there cannot be
less than eight or ten tons of honey in
the rock. A gentleman by the name
of B. Brophy lives in cabin not far
from the spot, and obtained from the
melting Of the honey by the suns heat
more than enough for his family re.
quirements. All through that region,
stores OF wild honey are found in trees,
in the rocks, in nearly every place
where its industrious manufacturers
think, (for they seem to think that il
will be secure. They consume a very
small portion, as the climate enables
them to keep up operations nearly
every day in the year, and flowers o
some sort are always in bloom. L
must be very severe season indeed
when the little fellows are not seeI
abroad in vast numbers, busily engaged
in their mellifuous work"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
Inheritance of DefOrmities.

The heredity of anomalies of organi-
zation, says science monthly, has
been demonstrated in several instances.
One of the most singular of these is the
case of Edward Lambert, whose whole
body, except the face, the palms of his
hands, and the soles of the feet, was
covered with a sort of shell, consisting
of horny excrescences. He was the
father of six children, all of whom pre-
sented the same anomaly at the age of
six weeks. The only one of them who
lived transmitted the popularity to all
his sons, and this transmission, passing
from male to male, persisted through
five generations. Mention is also made
of the Colburn family, where the
parents for four generations transmit
ted to the children what is called sex
digitism, 1. e., hands and feet with six
digits each. Albinism, halting, hare
lip, and other anomalies are in like
manner reproduced in the progeny.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
The EsQuimaux.

TO one ignorant of their style of
dress, and the similarity of the dress of
both sexes, it would be difficult to dis
tinguish the Esquimaux man from the
woman. The man combs his hair
straight down and over his forehead,
only parting it sufficiently to enable
him to see directly ahead of him, while
the woman combs her hair in long
plait, forming it into knot on the top
of the head, which is elevated about
four inches from the scalp, and tied
with strip of ribbon either of black,
blue or red color-the widow being dis
tinguished by black ribbon, the wife
by the blue, and the maiden by the red
one. The complexion is coppery like
that of the Indian, their hair black, and
their nose fiat, while their cheek bones
are broad and prominent, nearly hiding
the nasal appendage when the profile is
presented. The kapetah, or jumper
with hood attachment, worn by both
sexes, the hood of the women's being
made larger in which to carry the young
babe, is of sealskin with trimmings of
dogskin. The pantaloons and boots are
also worn by both sexes, those of the
women being in most cases very elabos
rately and artistically trimmed. The
pantaloons of ssthe women reach only tC
the knee, while the boots made of finely
tanned sealskin, nicely crimped and
sewed with the sinews of the deer, make
them look comfortable.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
A Leper's Home.

The lepers of the Sandwich Islands
occupy what is known as the Plain of
Kolanao. The plain contains about
10000 acres, and looks like an absolute
fiat, bounded on three sides by the blue
Pacific. 1t is believed to have been
once the bottom of O vast crater, of
which the Pail formed one of the hills,
the other having sunk beneath the
ocean, leaving few traces on one side.
The whole great plain is composed of
lava stones, and to one unfamiliar with
the habits of the Sandwich Islanders,
would seem to be an absolutely sterile
desert. Yet here lived, not very many
years ago, a considerable population,
who have left the marks of an almost
incredible industry in numerous fields
inclosed between walls of lava rock,
well laid up ; and in what is yet stran-
ger, long rows of stones, like the wind
rows of hay in a grass field at home,
evidently piled there in order to secure
room in the long, narrow beds partly
cleared of lava which lay between, to
plant sweet potatoes. AS rode over
the trails worn in the lava by the horses
of the old inhabitants, says a CORE
spondent, I thought this plain realized
the Vermonter's saying abont piece of
particularly stony ground, that there
was not room in the field to pile up the
rocks it contained. Yet on this appar-
emily desert space, within q quarter of
century, more than thousand people
lived contentedly and prosperously,
after their fashion; and this though
/ fresh water is so scarce that many of
ho, +1a, Il II, ~
water at least two or even three miles.
And here now live, among the lepers,
OF rather little apart from them at one
side of the plain, about hundred peo-
pie, the remnant of the former popula-
! ton, who were too much attached to
their homes to leave them, and accepted
sentence of perpetual seclusion here,
i'll common with the ieper, rather than
exile toranother part of the island.
When we had discovered the cliff, q
short ride brought us to the house Of O
luna, or local overseer, native who is
not leper and of this house, being
uncontaminated, we took possession.
By law of the Kingdom, it is made
the duty of the Minister of the Interior
and under him of the Board OF Health
to arrest every one suspected of leprosy
and if a medical examination shows
that he has the disease, to seclude the
leper upon this part of Molokai. The
disease, when it is beyond its very
earliest stage, is held to be incurable
He who is sent to Molokai is therefore
adiudged civilly dead. His wife, upol
application to the proper court, il
granted decree of absolute divorce
and may marry again his estate is ad
mintstered upon as though he were
dead. He is incapable of suing o.
being sued and his dealings with tn,
world therefore are through and will
the Board of Health alone. In orde
that no doubtful cases may be sent t.
Molokai, there is hospital at Kalihi
near Honolulu, where the preliminar,
examinations are made, and where DIR
Trousseau, the physician of the Boart
of Health, retains people about WHOM
he is uncertain.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
Railroad Cars.

Passengers frequently grumble be-
cause they cannot ride directly from
New York to St. Louis or San Francisco
without change of cars. The reason is
that no car can be run uninterruptedly
for a long time with perfect safety.
The continual striking of the wheels on
the rails disarranges the ultimate atoms
of iron, and the wheels require rest in
order to preserve their strength almost
as much as do horses OF men. Freight,
however, is carried directly across the
continent without breaking bulk, since
freight trains run at so slow rate as
not to materially affect the strength of
their iron-work, and since an accident
to freight train is not usually attend
ed with much loss of life. The arrival
at Jersey City of forty cars laden with
tea direct from San Francisco shows
how greatly the Pacific road has facil-
itated trade between the Atlantic States
and the Pacific.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
WOman's Mission.

NJ. H. B., in writing to the Missouri
Republican of the recent Woman's Con-
vention in New York, says: "Lucy
Stone was interrupted by the entrance
of one hundred and fifty girls, the para
sol-makers of New York. Their leader,
a modest-looking young woman, with q
hectic flush on her wan face, asked per-
mission (through a gentleman to state
her case. Now here was splendid
chance for stunning effect. Had Mrs.
Stone called that woman upon the plat
form, saying the sufferiDgs of woman
and the suffrage of woman was the
same thing, spelled differently, taken
this working girl by the hand, and in
sisted that her story should be heard
first as the greatest argument the chair
had to offer, she would have made q
ten strike. But no. Mrs. Lucy pro-
ceedcd with hor diooourse, began her
collection, and paid no more attention
to the suffering umbrellamakers than
to so many flies. 1t was left for Mr..
Higgenson to accord Miss Leonard, the
umbrella orator, the privilege of speak,
ing. The poor young woman was tli-
multuously received, and spoke briefly
and simply, and to the purpose. She,
with charming naivete, said she did moi
sympathize with the object of the gather.
ed convention, as she believed the ballot
was in the hands of the strongest and
best able to take care of it; that she had
been unable to cultivate her mind fol
speech making on account of her work
ing eighteen hours day for bread bu
she wished to arouse some interest TO
the unhappiest class of creatures on th'
continent-the working-women of Ney
York. With few new facts concern
ing their wretched state she retired, ant
not q soul connected with the great sub
iect of female emancipation uttered tn
ghost of an opinion or endorsement
but the next speaker pranced up to tn
front and begged to rectify mistake
Some one had given her out as an I'LL
nois woman. She was no-such-thine
and here followed some interestin
facts concerning her nativity"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
The Price of Milk In England.

A short time ago the milkmen of Lon
don were very indignant because the
physicians had accused them of bring
ing typhoid fever into the city by adul-
terating their milk with impure water;
nevertheless the fact was very clearly
proved. Since this exposure the VEN
ders of lacteal fluid have been rather
honester in their dealings with the pub
lie, and, making a virtue of necessity,
have Dragged loudly of the purity of
their wares; now finding they cannot
sell pure milk and live in the style that
an aristocratic milkman should live in,
they have held mass-meeting at Exc
ter Hall and unanimously decided to
advance the price of milk to Sd. pei
quart.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
Sleeping In a Cold Room.

Hats Journal of Health says that
cold bed-chambers always imperil
health and invite fatal diseases. Ro-
bust persons may safely sleep in q
temperature of forty or under, but the
old, the infant and the frail, should
never sleep in room where the atmos-
phere is much under fifty degrees
Fahrenheit.
All know the danger of going direct
into the cold from very warm room.
Very few rooms, churches, theatres and
the like, are ever warmer than seventy
degrees. If it is freezing out OF doors
it is thirty degrees-the difference be
ing forty degrees more. Persons will
be chilled by such change in ten
minutes, although they may be active
ly walking.
But to lie still in bed, nothing to
promote the circulation, and breathe
for hours an atmosphere of forty and
even fifty degrees, when the lungs are
always at ninety-eight, is too great
change. Many persons wake up in
the morning with Inflammation of the
lungs who went to bed well, and are
surprised that this should be the case.
The cause may often be found in sleep.
ing in room, the window of which had
been foolishly hoisted for ventilation.
The water. cure journals of the country
have done an incalculable injury by
the blind and indiscrininate advice Of
hoisting the window at night.
The rule should be, everywhere dur
ing the part of the year when fires are
kept burning, to avoid hosting outside
windows. 1t is safer and better to
leave the chamber door open, as also
the freplace-then there is draft up
the chimney, while the room is not SC
likely to become cold. If there Is some
fire in the room all night the window
may be opened an inch. It is safer tc
sleep in bad air all night with a tenn
perature over fifty, than in pure all
with O temperature under forty. The
bad air may sicken you but cannot kill
you the cold air can and does kill very
often.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY,

seen and heard nothing of the two men.
The boy is sharp enough; he has his
directions, and is to bring party from
the village to this door by the same way
that took"
More than an hour passed away
then low tap was again heard, and six
men appeared, accompanied by the boy
who had been sent to bring them.
About midnight Jones opened the
shutters of easement window in the
hall and blew loud whistle the whis-
tie was responded to by another, and
two men presently appeared at the open
easement. Jones drew back into the
darkness of the ball and silently allowed
them to enter. The moment their feet
touched the hall floor they were Sc
cured.
"And where we're you, auntie ?" I
said, "during this scene ?"
eve stood in the gallery above.
The boy, who had received his direc-
tions, soon brought forward lantern,
and we also had lights at hand in the
gallery"
"Were the men tried, auntie and
what was their punishment ?"
"Yes they were conveyed to the
county prison, and on their conviction
were sentenced to transportation. The
butler, as you may imagine, was hand.
somely rewarded"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
The Grape and Wine Crop of Ohio.

The Sandusky (Ohio) Register says:
THE harvesting of grapes is about over
and the wine companies here and at the
islands are busy pressing out the new
wine. Growers have been far more
fortunate than they anticipated, and
many of them came out of the season
with nearly if not quite as large profits
as in former years. On the three Bass
Islands the yield of Catawbas has, per-
haps, been the best in this region.
average, and at the handsome price of
ten cents per pound, paid by their own
wine company on the island, have
reaped good harvest. The same is
true of the growers of Middle Bass, the
yield in the main being half, and the
price paid double that in seasons of full
yields. On Put-in-Bay many growers
have harvested from one and half tons
to two and over per acre, and realized
ten cents pound from the Put-in-Bay
Wine Company. This company is
making about 10000 gallons of wine
this season and go into the winter with
60, 900 gallons of choice old. OF the
crop on Kelley's Island we are not so
well informed, but understand that
several of the growers have had fair
yield. In this city the numerous pri-
vate manufacturers are busily engaged
making what little their crop affords,
and the wine company is pressing an
amount sufficient to enable it to keep
up a supply. The price of wine con
tinues firm at the advanced rates, and
certainly bids fair to remain SO, if, in.
deed, not advance to still higher rates
in view of thel unprecedented prices
which the companies have paid fol
grapes, and the general decrease in the
amount of new wine made this season
A prominent feature of the new wine i:
the general superior quality of the
grapes. Finer catawbas were seldom
seen."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
The Children.

When the lessons and tasks are all ended.
And the school for the day is dismissed
And the little enes gather around me
To bid me goodnight and be kissed
Oh, the little white arms that encircle
My neck in a tender embrace!
Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,
Shedding sunshine of love on my face!
And when they are gone sit dreaming
OF my childhood too lovely to last
OF love that my heart will remember
7 When it wakes to the pulse of the past,
Ere the world and its wickedness made me
Apartner of sorrow and sin,
When the glory of God was about me,
And the glory of gladness within.
oh, my heart grows as weak as womans,
And the fountains of feeling will flow,
When I think of the paths. steep and stony.
Where the feet of the dear ones must go;
of the mountains of sin hanging DER them;
OF the tempest of fate blowing wild
Oh there's nothing on earth half so holy
AS the innocent heart of child
They are idols of hearts and of households:
They are angels of God in disguise
And his sunlight still sleeps in their tresses.
And his glory still CLEANS in their eyes.
oh ! those truants from home and from heaven
They have made me more manly and mild
And know how our Saviour could liken
The kingdom Of God to a child.
! ask not life for the dear ones,
All radiant, as others have done.
But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare of the sun;
would pray God to guard them from evil,
But my prayer would bound back to myself
All seraph may pray for sinner,
Butts sinner must pray for himself.
The twig is so easily bended,
have banshed the rule and the rod
/ have taught them the goodness of knowledge
They have taught me the goodness of God
My heart is dungeon of darkness,
Where l shut them from breaking rule
My frown is sufficient corrections;
My love is the law of the school.
1 shall leave the old house in the autumn.
To traverse the threshold no more;
Nh how shall sigh for the dear ones.
That meet me each morn at the door;
Ishall miss the good nights and the kisses
And the gush of their innocent glee,
The gronp on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every morning to me.
/ shall miss them at morn and at evening.
Their song in the school and the street;
l shall miss the low hum of their voices.
And The tap of their delicate feet.
+lo To- Il IL, al
And death says "the school is dismissed -
May the little ones gather around me,
To bid me goodnight and be kissed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13
TIE CATTLE TRADE.-Kansas towns

THE CATTLE TRADE.-Kansas towns
on the Texas borders thrive greatly
from the immense cattle trade of the
latter State. OF the 500,OOO head of
Texas cattle which, at $15 head, will
compose the "drive of this year, only
115, 900, it ID said, will be sent to
butchers and feeders in other States
than Kansas. The remainder will be
killed and packed in Kansas OF will be
slaughtered for their hide and talloW.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13

WHAT is JOURNALIST ?-Somebody
writes to us and wants us to give the
definition of journalist. We will do
so with pleasure. A journalist is a
man who spends some of the best days
of his life in conferring reputation upon
others and getting none himself. Ex-
changes please copy.-Boston Globe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-13

Illinois churches are raising money
by hulled- sorn-a -and-milk sociables.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-17

The WAR OF THE PuLpITs. Hyacinthe
has commenced his course of sermons in
Geneva. His congregations are crowded, and
be makes many converts to his idea of a broad
church. free from the extremist anxieties and
cavils OF the more decided sectaries. Bishop
Mermillod who has been expelled from
Geneva and the Territory of Switzerland for
his episcopal fealty to Rome, will begin to
preach in Paris on Good Friday. The exiled
Monsignor will speak with the complete ap-
probation of the Holy See and the brotherly
approval of the Archbishop of Paris, so that
il is certain he will have immense audiences
1t will be grand struggle conducted in the
name of the Lord. 1t is to be hoped that fhe
Hocks may not be plundered by the wayside
and left to the charity Of the stranger before
it, close.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-17
No Hope OF Peace with the Mohocs.

No Hope OF Peace with the M0hOss.
Captain Jack and his warriors are afraid
to trust themselves in the hands of the
Peace Commissioners and refuse to
leave the lava beds. This leaves the mat
ter in the hands of General Candy, who..
with his force of six hundred regulars, will,
no doubt, soon make an effort to forcibly settle
the difficulty. There seems to be no other
way of doing it, and as it has to be settled
the sooner it is done the better Our special
correspondent with the Peace Commissioners,
whose graphic letter on the origin of the
trouble, the efforts for peace and his exciting
and interesting interview with Captain Jack
and his chiefs We publish to-day, ex-
presses his belief that the Mo-
docs will not consent to place
themselves again at the mercy of Indian
agents. In the light of the statements made
by the Indians to the HERALD correspondent
and the facts presented we are not surprised.
Indeed, it is strange that Steele escaped with
his life when on his last visit to the
lava BEDS The Modocs seem to have been
cruelty and treacherously treated, and it is
sad that there is no way of doing them justice
consistent with the policy of the government.
Perhaps if, instead Of placing obstacles in the
way of our correspondent, the Commissioners
had permitted him to see the Modoc chief be-
fore the negotiations had been complicated by
interested parties, there might have been q
way of settling the difficulty other than 'exter-
mination." The paper Man" they were so
glad to see could have told them that the greedy
crew of spectators and rascally agents with
whom they had to do were not above the law,
and that the government of the United States,
tlVugh strong was just.