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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Items OF Interest.

There is a young man in Ixonia, JEFF
ferson county, Wisconsin, who IS
eighteen years old, twenty. seven inches
in height, and weighs only nineteen and
one-guarter pounds when fat. His
name is John M. Lewis.
A young lady entered a Troy music
store, recently, and, approaching the
clerk, said "Still L Love Thee" He
replied "We haven't it. 81 Gam
not Love Another" said she, and re-
ceivjng a similar answer, lett the
store.
At dinner recently given by Rus
sian lady in London, the table was en-
tirely covered with moss, and the only
evidence of white tablecloth was seen
in that portion which hangs at the sides
of the table. Flowers were profusely
introduced, and the effect was alto
gether unique.
Happy thought-That of the fashion
able school teacher who, when asked
by pupil, "Who is the present King
of Switzerland ?" said, "This is not the
hour, you know, when talking is per-
mitted. Ask me at the next session
and I will tell you," and then rushed
for the bookcase.
Always acknowledge all courtesies i'll
kindly spirit. Throw bouquet and
a card Of thanks to serenading party,
if not prepared to invite them in. If
you haven't bouquet or card at
hand, throw O bootjack, or brick, or
anything of that sort, just to show your
appreciation of the kindness intended.
Cremation does not meet with favor
in British Columbia. The Chinese
have been cremating their dead at
cemetery near Victoria, and the Inspec-
tor of Police reported to the City Coun-
Gil that the nuisance had become most
offensive to the residents in the neigh
borhood. The Council took no action.
A New Brunswick jury recently. dis
tinguished itself after having been
charged to find the value of 10000
bricks at SIS per 1000 by bringing in
verdict of 1894, 900 for the plaintiff.
After being sent back they corrected
their blunder, and the Judge said that
he had great pleasure in dismissing
them.
A shower of white toads took
place in Larimer county, Col. The
shower embraced a strip of country
ldlI Illl6 Wlu6 uuu bONOlul uliCo ALA
length. From distance the frogs, as
they bounced along the ground, looked
for all the world like hailstones. After
the storm the frogs hoped about over
the country in drovcs of ten thousand.
How to swallow pill is thus stated
by correspondent Put the pill un-
der the tongue and behind the teeth,
and let the patient Immediately take a
large swallow of water, and he will
neither feel the pill nor taste it. In
fact. he cannot tell where it has gone,
and I have seen them look about the
floor to see if they had not dropped it,"
The Newburyport Herald says an
amusing feature of the clam-bake at
Salisbury Beach was the spectacle of a
young lady and gentleman who hun
gered for the shell-fsh. The lady
hardly wished to soil her kids, and SO
while she held her mouth open the gen.
tleman put in the clans and threw away
the head after her incisors had decapi-
tated the fish.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Another Bohemian Girl.

The watering season at Newport
closes with q sensation, which may
serve as the basis of SUCH another opera
as "The Bohemian Girl" A strolling
band of Indians were encamped upon
the beach, having in their company a
little white girl named Charlotte
Wyeth. Suddenly the girl disappeared,
and all the cottagers who had become
interested in her were surprised. The
disappearance was explained the other
day, when an officer ON board n Sound
steamer bound to Providence recog-
nlzed the waif in charge of a lady who
stated she was taking her, at the re-
quest of MIR. Edward Walsh, of New
port, to lady in Providence, who had
promised to take care of her. The
child was detained, and Mr.. Walsh was
taken into custody. He explained that
in visiting the beach he had become in
terested in the child that he found
her barbarously treated by the Indians ;
and learning that she had been stolen
by them and was willing and anxious
to accept of his protection, he had de-
termined to adopt and provide for her
until he should find her natural
BudluianS' 1uo ulSiuteIeSbeu anu lou-
orable motives of Walsh were so ap.
parent that he was discharged, but the
bumptious City Marshal, thinking
doubtless that some reward would be
offered for the child, has refused to al,
low her to remain in Walsh's custody
The young man is thoroughly interested
in the waif, and is enthusiastically en-
gagged in the endeavor to learn some
thing OF her parents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
A Funeral Extraordinary,

The Pail Mall Gazette says /: GA
most successful funeral in which
woman played an important part took
place at Padua in 1913, and, indeed, in
some respects, the arrangements of this
funeral were in all ways less depressing
than the run of ordinary burials. An
eminent lawyer, by name Lodovich
Cartusius, who died in July of that
year, before his death strictly forbade
his relations to shed any tears at his
funeral, and enforced this order on his
heir by heavy penalty in case of DISC
bedience. He further directed that
fiddlers should take the place of mourn
ers on the sad occasion, and that twelve
maids in green habits should carry his
remains to the Church of st. Sophia,
where he was buried, the ceremony to
be enlivened by songs from these ladies,
who were to be recompensed for the
service by handsome sum of money
allotted for their marriage portions.
The monks of the convent at Padua,
who were invited to the funeral, were
on no account to wear black habits
lest they should throw a gloom ovel
the cheerfulness of the procession"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Why BuffaIOs Disappear.

Somebody has revived the stories told
by Jas. Bridger, who is, next to Kit
Carson, the pioneer trapper of all that
section of the country. One of his
favorite stories was, that in the year
1920 he was wintering in Salt Lake
Valley, when it commenced to snow,
and continued seventy successive days,
till depth of seventy feet was obtained.
The country at that time abounded in
buffalo and other large game, all of
which, perished lnthe snow. The lakes
and rivers the following spring were SO
full OF dead game, preserved in good
condition in the cold, that he was able
to stow up large stock of meat for the
next winters supply, using the brine
of Salt Lake for the purpose. He con-
cludes this tale by declaring that since
that storm no buffalo had ever been
seen west of the Rocky Mountains.
He was also fond of declaring that
"Bridger's Butte" table mountain
named after him, had steered
around" to the North since he saw it,
and that he had told General Johnson
so, who, after consulting his text books,
acknowledged that he was right
DenUer (COl.) Ne,OS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
That Monument Again.

Once more, says an exchange, by
spasmodic effort to raise money to COM
plete the Washington obelisk, that
monumental failure is brought before
the public attention. The whole subject
was carefully discussed last spring,
when q Congressional committee rec
commended that an appropriation be
made to finish the work. This unhappy
pile of stones has been too long butt
for the wits of the nation. The original
scheme is older than the Government
itself, but it was not until 184S, after a
series of experiments and failures, that
work was actually begun. The Wash
ington Monumental Society then under
took the task of raising the money and
building the monument. In about six
years, when $780, 900 had been spent
and the pile had reached the height OF
ITO feet, the money gave out and the
obelish was arresred in its growth.
Since that timer by dint of much beg
ging and dunning, four feet have been
added to the work and there it stands
an unfinished monument. An examin-
alton showed that it had suffered some
what by its long neglect, and on account
of the insecurity of it's foundation. At
one time it looked as if the work must
be taken down and rebuilt, or aban-
doned altogether. But it is now under
stood that the money and labor already
expended can be saved by somewhat
changing the original plan.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Pies an' Things.

In New York city there is one con-
cern that does nothing but bake pies,
or, as the boys call them, "pies an
things" The buildings cover six and
a half city lots, and the stables have
accommodations for fifty horses.
Thirty-seven large wagons are employed
to deliver the pies turned out daily,
and one hundred and twenty persons
are employed all the year round. 1t
has an enormous boiler, in which some
times five hundred pumpkins per day
are reduced to jelly, by steam OF course.
Near ii are two steam mlnclng ma
chimes, capable of slicing up fabulous
quantity of fruits. A little further on
is row of immense brass kettles full
of steaming berries, which two men
are stirring with gleat ladies. In the
further end of the room women are
seated in groups on the floor by heaps
of fruit, which they are sorting and
cleaning. Eighty bushels of berries a
day is the average consumption. 160
barrels of -four a week are used in
making the pies, and they use up 5000
pounds of lard, 1,560 quarts OF milk,
and 5000 eggs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Waste of Men, Guns and Powder.

The Ordnance Department reports the
following facts as to the miserable
gunnery practiced in war:
"Of the 1854 muskets picked up
on the battlefield at Gettysburg and
turned into the Washington Arsenal, at
least "a, 900 were loaded. About one
half of this number contained ta0o
cartridges each, nefourM contained
from three to ten charges each, and the
balance one charge. The largest num-
Der of cartridges found in any one piece
was taOenty-three. In some cases the
paper of the cartridges was unbroken,
and in others the powder was upper
most"
1t is seen that the effective fire of the
combatants was practically reduced by
1000 men, for $4,000 muskets were
useless, those who held them were of
course paralyzed." Or, to put it an
other way, 18, 900 men in their confu-
sion improperly loaded their muskets
and thus rendered themselves almost
useless as combatants, and probably
many of them were shot down with
out inficting any injury on their OPP
ponents.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Letter Writing.

Letter writing is no longer an accom-
plishment. 1t has even ceased to be q
pastime. It has sunk of late into o
foolish habit which the discovery of the
lithographic processes has made abso-
lutely dangerous. The shrewd man
keeps his thoughts to himself or reveals
them only in words which cannot be
photographed. In setting down his Sc
cret feelings for the eye of one, the
writer can never be sure, nowadays,
that his letter may not some day be
spread with all its crooks and dashes
and blots before the eyes of thousands
for whom it was not intended. If il
contains disclosures of guilt, how ugly
they look in all their nakedness. If it
gives merely the overwrought express
sions of an excited man, how suspicious
little skillful construction can make
them. You write to a mutual friend
that your speech the night before " set
the house on fire." Years afterward he
becomes mutual friend only on one
side and prints your letter with proper
omissions and you find yourself COM
PEELED to prove that you never commit
ted the crime of arson Or perhaps
you did confess some fault or sin, and
now that private letters have ceased to
be private property, you do not know
at what hour you may become the
Prey of the printers. The old politi-
clan, who is tradition in the West,
who would never write his name on a
card for fear of committing himself to
something, and who would always
rather walk days journey than write
a note, has his like in many lobbyist
who goes to Albany or Washington at
considerable expense to say what could
be less safely said by the aid of three
cent stamp. But sometimes the men
with bad regulations are as careless as
those with good.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
Something of a Mistake.

The Morning Argus, says Max
Adeler, is a Democratic paper and the
other day the editor clipped from
Republican sheet long story about
frightful accident somewhere, and gave
i It Sc SO M happened that the other side Of
the clipping contained a snorting edi-
torial in which the Democratic party
was fercely denounced and Grants
claim to third term strongly insisted
upon. Of course the foreman gave the
clipping out with that side up, and the
next day it appeared in the paper,
looking exactly as if it was an original
editorial from the pen of the editor.
That very afternoon the sheriff with.
drew his advertising and four hundred
advertisers gave up the paper and now
the editor wants to know how long
capitalists are to suffer from the in
fernal tyranny of labor. The foreman
can't answer, for he has fed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

cit is standing rule in my church, I"
said one clergyman to another, for
the sexton to wake up any man that he
may see asleep" 81 think" returned
the other, Z" that it would be much bet.
ter for the sexton, whenever man goes
to sleep under your preaching, to wake
you up"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

Runs with a swifter current as it nears
The gloomy mills of Death.
And now, like the magicians scroll,
That in the owners keeping shrinks
With every wish he speaks or thinks,
Till the last wish consumes the whole,
The table dwindles, and again
l see the two alone remain.
The crown of stars is broken in parts;
Its jewels, brighter than the day,
Have one by one been stolen away
To shine in other homes and hearts.
One is a wanderer now afar
In Ceylon or in Zanzibar
Or sunny regions of Cathay
And one is in the bosterous camp,
Mid clank of arms and horses tramp,
And battles terrible array.
1 see the patient mother read,
With aching heart, Of wrecks that float
Disabled on those seas remote,
Or of some great, heroic deed
On battle field, where thousands bleed
To lift one hero into fame.
Anxious she bends her graceful head
Above those chronicles of pain,
And trembles with a secret dread,
Lest there among the drowned or slain
She find the one beloved name.
VII.
After a day of cloud and wind and rain
Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again
And touching all the darksome woods with
light,
Smiles on the fields, until they laugh and
Sing,
Then like ruby from the horizons ring
Drops down into the night.
What see l now? The night is fair,
The storm Of grief, the clouds of care,
The wind, the rain, have passed away;
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright,
The house is full of life and light.
1t is the Golden Wedding day.
The guests come thronging in once more,
Quick footsteps sound along the floor,
The trooping children crowd the stair,
And in and out and everywhere
Flashes along the corridor
The sunshine of their golden hair
On the round table in the hall
Another Ariadne's Crown
Out of the sky hath fallen down;
More than one Monarch of the Moon
Is drumming with his silver spoon;
The light of love shines over all,
o fortunate, o happy day.
The people sing, the people say.
The ancient bridegroom and the bride,
Serenely smiling on the scene,
Behold weli-pleased on every side
Their forms ani features multiplied,
As the reflection OF light
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

Again the tossing boughs shut out the sceno,
Again the drifting vapors intervene,
And the moons. .pallid disk is hidden quite; !;
And now sec the table wider grown,
AS round pebble into water thrown
Dilates a ring of light.
see the table wider grown,
l see it garlauded with guests,
As if faiI Ariadne's crown
Out Of the sky had fallen down;
Maidens within whose tender breasts
A thousand restless hopes and fears,
Forth reaching to the coming years,
Flutter awhile, then quiet lie,
Like tiinid birds that fain would fly,
But do not dare to leave their nests
And youths, who in their strength elste
Challenge the van and front of fate,
Eager as champions to be
In the divine knight-errantry
OF youth, that travels sea and land
Seeking adventures, or pursues
Through cities and through solitudes
Frequented by the lyric Muse,
The phantom with the beckoning hand,
That still allures and still eludes.
o sweet illusions of the brain!
o sudden thrills of fire and frost
The world is bright while ye remain,
And dark and dead when ye are lost
vi.
The meadow brook, that seemeth to stand
still,
Quickens its current as it nears the mill;
And so the stream of Time, that lingereth
In level places, and SO dull appears,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

And now I cit and muse on what may be,
And in my vision see, or seem to see,
Through floating vapors interfused with
light,
Shapes indeterminate, that gloam and fade,
As shadows passing into deeper shade
Sink and elude the sight.
For two alone, there in the hall,
Is spread the table round and small;
Upon the polished silver shine
The evening lamps, but more divine
The light Of love shines over all
or love that says not mine and thine
But ours, for ours is thine and mine.
They want no guests to come between
Their teSlder glances like a screen,
And tell them tales of land and aea,
And whatsoever may betde
The great forgotten world outside;
They want no guests they needs must be
Each others own best company.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
LOngfel,Ow's New Poem,
The Hanging of the Crane.

tPendre Ia cremdille'e, to hang the crane, is
the French expression for house-warmisg,
or the first party given in new house,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

As one who walking in the forest sees
A lovely landscape through the parted trees,
Then secs it not for boughs that intervene
Or as we zee the moon sometimes revealed
Through drifting clouds, and then again con
cealed,
So beheld the scene.
There are two guests at table now:
The king, dcposed and older grown,
No longer occupies the throne
The crown is on his sisters broy
A princess from tho Fairy Tales,
The very pattern girl of girls,
All covered and embowered in ourls,
Rose tinted from the Iale of Flowers,
And sailing with soft silken sails
From far off Dreamlsnd into ours.
Above their bowls with rims of blue
-Four azure eyes Of deeper hue
Are looking, dreamy with delight
Limpid as planets that emerge
Above the oceans rounded verge
Soft shining through the summer night.
;Steadfast they gaze, yet nothing see
Beyond the horizon of their bowls,
Nor care they for the world that rolls
With its freight of troubled souls
Into the days that are to be.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
THE CALENDAR.-This is the way the
people who live on the coast of Maine
describe their weather

Dirty days hath September
April, June, and November
From January up to May,
The rain it raineth every day.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Without blessed gleam of sun Il Esit9 -. = .s
And if any Of them had two and thirty
They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

The lights are out, and gone are all the guests
That thronging came with merriment and
iests
To celebrate the hanging of the crane
In the new house-into the night are gone
But still the fire upon the hearth burus on,
And 1 alone remain.
o fortunate, o happy day!
When new household finds its place
Among the myriad homes of earth,
Like new star just sprung to birth
And rolled on its harmonious way
Into the boundless realms of space
So said the guests in speech and song,
As in the chimney burning bright
We hung the iron crane tonight,
And merry was the feast and long
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22

Tho picture fades as at a village fair
A showman's views dissolve into the air,
To reappear transfgured on the screen,
So III my fancy this and now once more
In part transfgured, through the open door
Appears the self-same scene.
Seated zee the two again,
But not alone they entertain
A little angel unaware,
With face as round as is the moon
A royal guest with faxen hair
Who, throned upon his lofty chair,
Drums on the table with his spoon,
Then drops it careless on the floor,
70 grasp at things unseen before.
Are these celestial manr ers? These
The ways that win, the arts that please?
Ah, yes; consider well the guest,
And whatsoe'e 'er he does seems best
He ruleth by the right divine
OF helplessness, so lately born
III purple chambers of the morn,
As sovereign over thee and thine.
He speaketh not, and yet their lies
A conversation in his eyes;
The golden silence of the Greek,
The gravest wisdom of the wise,
Not spoken in language, but in looks
More legible than printed books,
As if he could but would not speak.
And now, O.monarch absolute,
Thy power is put to proof; for 10
Restless, fathomless and SLOW
The nurse comes rustling like the sea,
And pushes back thy chair and thee,
And 20 good night to King Canute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-13

THE clossd the direct exsulnsssOn and the
~ ss-exSminNtion Wa deferred 90 give Mr..
JChr HsiioWeli, trustee Of the church an
90 crtunity OF testify ing. He testified 20 the
y 3 reel outs Of hr. Glendennins on Thanks-
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s'res'. al q which bss already been shown hy
several witnesses. He advised Mr.. Gleuden-
a. on the night 81 the srrest q 20 cot by the
BAGS door and sycid arrest TIL The next morn
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