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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-16
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-16

THEkLlNG FEMALE COLLEtE.
The Spring Term will open
MON DAY, APRIL 10th.
This Is favorable time for new pupils 10
enter the regular School departments, or
for Music, Art, French or German.
For terms OF admission, tuition, &C., call
on or address the President,
aprll REV. W. H. MORTON.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Destruction in Disguise.

1t is a fact that mixtures of bad
liquors and acid astringents are often
given for medicines. They are potent
to destroy, and may be safely warranted
to ruin, morally and physically, any
human being that sticks to them long
enough. More drunkards have been
made by these villainous concoctions,
labeled medicines, than by the liquors
of commerce. Alcoholic poisons. ad-
vertised as remedies, are more mischiev-
GUS than tavern drams. For intermittent
and remittent fevers, as well as for all
other diseases which these fiery frauds
are falsely certified to relieve, DR.. Wal
ker's Vinegar Bitters, the ne plus ultra
OF vegetable medicines, is a positive
cure. But this is not all; the great
temperance elixir is sovereign specific
for the depraved appetite for stimu-
lants, created by the false tonics and
bogus restoratives of missionaries of
intemperance. Within the present
year many well-known citizens have
certified that course of Vinegar Bit
ters invariably obliterates the desire for
spirituous excitants.-COm.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
A Perfect Home.

The most perfect home I ever saw
was little house into the sweet incense
of whose fire went not costly things.
A thousand dollars served as O years
living of father, mother and three chill
dren. But the mother was the creator
of home her relations with her chill.
dren were the most beautiful I have
ever seen even the dull and common
place man was lifted up and enabled to
do good work for souls by the atmos-
phere which this woman created every
inmate of her house involuntarily look
ed into her face for the keynote of the
day, and it always rang clear. From
the rosebud or clover leaf, which, in
spite or her hard housework, she al
ways found to put by our plates at
breakfast, down to the story she had on
hand to read in the evening, there was
no intermission of her influence. She
had always been and always will be my
ideal of a mother, wife and home
maker. If to her quick brain, loving
heart and exquisite face had been added
the appliance of wealth and the enlarge
ment of wider culture, hers would
have been absolutely the ideal home.
AS it was, it was the best I have ever
seen.-Helen Hunt.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Wooden Suits for the Street.

While house dresses consist merely
OF q basque and demi-train, street suits
OF wool stuffs retain an ever-dress of
some kind. The long apron proves to
be the favorite style, and in many cases
this apron is extended to form a regular
over-skirt. The latest designs have a
sloped seam down the middle of the
apron, making it almost bias, as wool
goods cling moro closely and drape
better when cut bias. This seam is
elther hidden by one of many rows of
Jet galleon or of Titan braid or else bias
sllk or velvet, or perhaps the seam is
not concealed, but is ornamented by
series of four or five long-looped bows.
imported aprons of black cashmere
nave live rows of jet galloon their whole
length, while the edge is finished with
Jet fringe, crimped tape fringe, or knife
plating of silk. Striped camel's-hair
aprons of the wide two-inch stripes of
brown or gray shades now in vogue
when cut with this middle seam have
the stripes pointed to meet there, and
produce a very pretty effect; such
aprons are simply piped or corded on
the edge. The back drapery is of two
straight breadths about fve-eighths of
yard wide, corded all around. each
sewed to the belt in wide box plat,
and then Tapped from side to side or
else these breadths are gathered across
in two dropping puffs, with loops of
silk coming from below each puff the
ends hang straight and show square
corners below. Other aprons have but
one trimmed back breadth caught up
in intricate festooned puffs that defy
description. These aprons are more
bouffantly draped in the back and are
higher on the sides than those lately
worn, yet economical and practical wo-
men who like the long round over.
skirt, almost concealing the skirt be-
meath it, will be glad to know that it is
still in vogue. The cuirass basque ac-
companies aprons and over-skirts.
Polonaises in the cuirass Marguerite
shape, also those with basque backs, are
found at the most select houses.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Heart Disease.

In the course of lecture recently
delivered in New York, DIR. Lyman
said: Heart disease among both
ladies and gentle men is the one most
in vogue just at present. A synonym
for pseudo heart disease is indigestion.
False modes of dress, by providing the
heart, cause it to beat irregularly.
Remedy the dress and the heart will
healthily perform its functions. The
heart is almost the last organ to be-
come diseased, because it has a great
work to do. Nature made it strong,
and supplied it with as few nerves as
possible. Women who faint, as q rule,
have too small cavities for heart and
lungs. Painting is provision of ma
ture for the reinstatement of the body,
by allowing the heart brief respite.
When the stomach is unduly distended
by food, the heart is crowded and COM
plains. Good straight shoulders are
highly essential to women. If she pos
sess an erect form, woman's heart has
better opportunity to beat healthily
and evenly.
"Many mistake palpitating sensa-
tion of the muscular wall of that por-
tion of the stomach nearest the heart
for an affection OF the heart. Adipose
or fatty accumulation around the
heart will often render its beating
labored or heavy. The heart is not,
however, diseased it is only working
under difficulties. Prostration also
affects the beating of the heart, caus-
ing it to pulsate more rapidly.
Strength will remove this difficulty.
1t is theory with some physicians
that in natural life the heart beats
only given number of times.
" If this be so, running up and down
stairs, excitement and hurry, by in
creasing the number of heart beats in
a minute, diminish the length of ones
life. 1t is a well-known fact that a
race-horse is not long lived, because
having such a demand made upon the
action of the heart, the heart muscles
wear out sooner than they otherwise
would"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Causes of Dew.

If dew fell it would fall for the same
reason that rain falls; but dew does
not fall-it is simply q deposit by
moisture, always contained in the air
to greater or less degree, and which,
when there is enough of it, will always
form on any cold body exposed to the
moist air, in precisely the same way
that cold bottle or stone, taken from
a cold cellar and suddenly exposed in
the shade to the moist, warm summer
air, will become wet. This is not
sweating, nor does this moisture come
out of the bottle or stone, as many
people believe, but from the air. 1t is
for the same reason that moisture will
condense against the window.panes
when the air is cold outside and moist
inside, the moisture slowly freezing,
while its deposits form crystals of ice,
which we so often admire in winter.
When the weather is cool enough the
moisture deposited will even freeze on
plants and grass, and then we call it
hoar frost if it does not freeze it is
simply dew. The only point left to be
explained is, why does the ground be-
come so cool during the night, so much
cooler than the air above it as to cause
the latter to deposit its moisture? This
was for many years vexed problem,
till Wells first suggested the radiation
of obscure heat, which takes place from
the surface of the earth through the
clear atmosphere in the space above,
and so causes the surface to become
much cooler than the air itself. He
demonstrated this by means of ther-
mometers placed at different heights,
and also by the fact that dew is only
deposited on cloudless nights. When
there are clouds they reflect the heat,
or prevent it from escaping. The sur
face of the earth thus being kept from
cooling, no dew is deposited.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
To Get q Light.

To obtain light instantly without the
use of matches and without the danger
of setting things afre, take an oblong
vial of the whitest and clearest glass !;
put into it piece of phosphorus about
the size of pea, upon which pour
some olive oil, heated to the boiling
point, filing the vial about one. third
full, and then seal the vial Theoretically.
To use it, remove the cork and allow
the air to enter the vial and then re-
cork it. The empty space in the bottle
will then become luminous, and the
light obtained will be equal to that of a
lamp. AS soon as the lamp grows
weak, its power can be increased by
opening the vial and allowing a fresh
supply of air to enter. In winter it is
sometimes necessary to heat the vial
between the hands to increase the
huidity of the oil. Thus prepared the
vial may be used for six months. This
prepared contrivance is now used by
the watchmen of Paris in all magazines
where explosive or infammable ma
terials are used.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Beware the Sink.

A distinguished medical authority
warns the drinkers of water of wells
near dwellings, to beware of the ty-
phoid poison sure to befound sooner or
later in these reservoirs, if any of the
house drainage can percolate to them.
The gelatinous matter often found upon
the stones of we'll is poison to the
human system, probably causing by its
spores fermentation of the blood, with
the abnormal heat of fever. Whcle-
some, untainted water is always free
from all color and odor. To test it
thoroughly, place in it few grains of
lump sugar, and expose it, stoppered,
to sunlight, in a window. If, even
after an exposure of eight or ten days,
the water becomes turbi4, be sure that
it has been contaminated by sewerage
OF some kind. If it remains perfectly
clear, it is pure and safe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
Bleeding from Lungs, Catarrh, BrOn-
chitis, Consumption. A Wonderful
Cure.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Jan. 18th, 1874.
Il. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Buffalo, N Y:
Dear Sri had suffered from Catarrh in an
aggravated form for about twelve years and
Tor several years from Bronchial trouble.
lrled many doctors and things with no lasting
benefit. In May, 70, becoming nearly worn
out with excessive Editorial labors on paper
IN New York City, l was attacked with Bron-
chltis In severe form, suffering almost total
loss of voice. returned home here, but had
been home only two weeks when 1 was COM
pletely Frustrated with Hemorrhage from tho
Lungs, hauing four Serere bleeding spells ,cittir
!,oo aoeekS, and first three aoithin nine daas.
In the September following, improved suf-
nclently to be able to be about, though in
very feeble state. My Bronchial trouble re-
NAMED and the CatarTh was tenfold worse
than before. Every effort for relief seemed
fruitless. l seemed to be losing ground daily.
continued in this feeble state raising blood
almost daily until about the first of March,
10, when L became 80 bad as to be entirely
confined to the house. A friend suggested
your remedies. But was extremely skeptical
that they would do me good, as 1 had lost all
heart In remedies, and began to look upon
medicine and doctors with disgust However.
obtained one of your circulars, and read it
carefully. from which l came to the conclusion
that you understood your business at least.
l nnaliy obtained quantity of DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy, your Golden Medical Dis
coVery and Pellets, and commenced their
vigorous use according to directions. To my
surprise, soon began to improve. The Dis
covery and Pellets, in short time. brought
out a severe eruption, wiich continued for
several weeks. l felt much better, my appe-
tlte s'nproued and 1 gained in strength and
flesh. In three months every vestige of the
Catarrh was gone, the Bronchitis had nearly
disappeared, had no Cough whatever, and /
had entirely ceased to raise blood and, con-
trary to the expectation Of some of my friends,
the cure has remained permanent. | have
had no more Hemorrhages from the Lungs,
and am entirely free from Catarrh, from which
! had suffered SO much and SO long. The
debt OF my gratitude 1 owe for the blessing |
have received at your hands, knows no bounds.
1 am thoroughly satisfied, from my experience,
that your medicine will master the worst forms
OF that odious disease Catarrh, as we'll as
Throat and Lung Diseases. 1 have recon-
mended them to very many and shall ever
speak in their praise. Gratefully yours,
VIM. II. SPENCER.
p. o. Bon 507, Rochester, N. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
About Fish.

Seth Green, the piscieulturist, while
exhibiting tank of fish in public, re-
Gently, made a few remarks on the
nature and habits of these animals, and
referring to tine mooted question, "Do
fish hear?" answered emphatically in
the negative. To demonstrate his
opinion he asked the band to arrange
themselves in close proximity to the
tank and blow their loudest blast. This
they did but not one of the multitude
of fishes stirred fin. Mr.. Green then
said that although fish were thus un-
susceptible to sound, they were keen
of vision and sensitive to the slightest
jar. To illustrate the latter point, he
tapped on the bottom of one of the
trout tanks with just enough force to
cause slight vibration in the water,
when every inmate of the tank darted
off like flash.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
How to be wise think that you don't
know everything.

How to Look Young = sixteen.-Don't
paint OF use vile II sir Restorers, but simply apply
Hagan's Magnolia Balm upon your face, neck and
hands, and use Lyons Kathairon upon your hair.
The Balm makes your complexion pearly, soft and
natural, and you can't tell what did IT, 1t removes
freckles, tan, ssllowness, ring. marks, moth
patches, etc. and in place of red rustic face, you
have the marble purity of IN exquisite belle. 1t
gives TO middle age the bloom OF pei peiual youth.
Add these effects to q splendid head Of hair pro-
duced by the Kathairon, and lady has done her
best in way OF adornment. Brothers will have no
spinster sisters when these articles are around.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05

MEMoRY.-Hammerton says There
are two ways in which the memory is
very commonly injured and ill-used.
First (the old way, by giving it no va
riety in its work, but setting it to one
little dull task forever, choosing always
some task beneath its strength. Sec
ondly (the newly invented way), by re-
fusing it oil exercise whatever, despis-
ing its services, and shutting it up
without employment until it gets sickly
and debilitated, and incapable of the
slightest exertion.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
DR.. Danr Weaver, OF Boston, fell down

DIR. Danr Weaver, OF Boston, fell down
mining shaft near Denver rs feet. He was terribly
bruised, limbs broken, and supposed to be dead.
Mexican Mustang Liniment was freely used con-
sciousness restored, his life saved, and he came
home in eight weeks. This is the most wonderful
article for Bruises, sprains, Rheumatism, Swell
inss' SPAWN, Ringbene, Sores, or any hesh, bone,
or muscle ailment upon man or beast, ever dis
covered. 1t is humanity to animals. 1t has saved
much suffering and many useless doctors bills.
1t can be had for 80 cts and soo per BOTTLE in any
drug store. But beware Of counterfeits. The
genuine is wrapped in fine steel-plate label
signed G. W. Westbrook, Chemist"
The Peoples Stamp of Value.-The Gov
ernment Endorsement, which legalizes the sale Of
Plantation Bitters, is not the only stamp axed to
that famous Vegetable Tonic 1t bears, in addi-
ton to that Official sanction, the still more valu
able stamp Of public appreciation. This inesti-
msbie voucher Of its rare properties as Tonic,
corrective and Alternative Is worldwide.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05

10 have good health the liver must be kept
In order. Sanford's Liver Invigorator has be-
come staple family medicine. Purely vegetable
-Cathartic and Tonc-for all arrangements of
Liver Stomach and Bowels; clears the complex
ion, cures sick-headache. Shun limitations.
Try Sa'Jord's Liuer Inuigorator.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05

An operator on the Paris Bourse died
with a broken heart because of his fail
ure to meet his obligation. He died
few weeks SINCE only, but he said,
" write on my coffin that 1 died on
April B.; that was the day on which 1
did not pay my differences"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05

The Narragansett Collar Company
are turning out from rs, 900 to 100, 900 Elmwood
and Warwick Collars day. This shows their
immense popularity. If you have not worn
them, we would advise you to do so.-N. Y.
Times
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05
The American Meat and Vegetable Chopper.

An Improved Meat and Vegetable Chopper to
take the place OF the old Knife and Tray in pre-
pairing the various articles of food which quire
chopplng, such as Sausage, Mince-Meat Salads,
Hash, Fish, Fruit and Vegetables of various
kinds, has come to be considered as much of
ecessity in every well-conducted household as q
Clothes Wripger or Cooking Stove, while for
Hotels, Bakeries, Restaurants and Public Iustitu-
tioI where large quantities Of food are re quired
such machine is absolutely indispensable.
OF the many inventions designed for the pur-
pose, the only one which has stood the test of time
and proved perfect success is the American"
of which more than 1900 have been sold, and FIVE
years constant use has proved their superiority
over all other Choppers. They save their cost In
labor every year, and so great hiss the demand for
them become that the annual sales now amount to
more than three times that of all other Family
Choppers combined-a fact which is uflcient
evidence of their superior merit.
Seven Sizes Sold by dealers everywhere.
For Descriptive Circular and Price List address,
ID. A. NEWTON q CO.,
ITO Chambers Street. New York.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-05

A DVERrISERs Am. Newspaper Union repre-.
IA sents over 800 papers, divided into subdi-
!, non OF paRers with combined and separate lists
p. sANBoRN, ll3 Monroe Street, Chicago, III,
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-02-26
Jim Welf and tho Tom Cts.

That night my sister Mary gave u
candy pulin. They started us OH to bed
early, so as the company could have full
swing, and We run in ON jim to have
some fun.
Our window looked out onto the roof
of the ell, and about 10 o'clock couple
of old tom cats got to rarin' and chargin
around it, and carryin' on like sin. There
was four inches ofsnow OH the roof and
it was frozen so that there was right
smart crust Office onit, and the moon was
shining bright, aid we could see them
cats like daylight. First they'd stand
oft and c-yow-yow VOW, just the same rs
ifthcy was clssin' one another, you know
and bow up their backs and push up
their tails. and swell around and spit.
then all of u sudden the gray cat had
snatch Il handful Of fur out Of the yailcr
cats ham, and spin him round like the
button on barn door. But the yallcr
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-02-26
An Arkansas & arther's Rdsice to Eis
Son.

Bob, you arc about leaving home for
strange parts. You're going TO throw me
out of the game, and go it alone. The
odds is agin you Bob, but remember al
ways that industry and perseverance are
the winning cards; they arc bowers"
Book larnng and all that sort Of thing
will do to fill up with, like small trunrs,
but you must have the bowers to back
en-, else they aint worth shucks. If luck
runs agin you pretty strong, don't cave
in and look like i sick chicken on Il rainy
day, but hold your head up and make
believe you're flush Of trumps; they wont
play 50 hard agin you. I've lived and
Travelled around some, Bob, and I've
found out that as soon rs folks thought
yea held o weak hand they'd all buck
agln you strong. So when you're sortcr
weak, keep up 81 bold front, but play eau
tious; be satisfied with II pint. Many's
the hands I've seen euchred cause they
played for TOO much Keep your eyes
shiii'co, Dop, doh let EN- ing on you;
reccollect the game lays rs much with
the head as with the hands. BE temper
ate; never get drunk, for then no matter
how good your hand, you won't know
how to play it; both bowers and the ace
wont save you, for there's sartin to be a
'miss-dea" or something wrong And
another thing, Bob (this was spoken in a
low tonc), don't so too much on tho wo-
men; queens is kinder poor cards; the
more you have of en-, the worse for you;
you might have three and nary trump.
don't say discard 'cm all. if you get
hold of one that's a trump, its all good,
and there's sartin TO be one out of four
And above all, Bob, be honest; never
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-02-26
I.tl POElT laYj,
WHAT THEWIND-ELYEs HEARD AND SAW


THE WEST WIND:
The saddcst sound ever heard
Was the wailing plant of q mothor-birl,z = ~
For the one wee nesting that cheered her nest,
Dead, with thorn in its pretty breast q
THE SOUTH WIND: -
have known sight that was sadder still; ..
There's grave up yondcr, upon the hill, a..
And motherweeps at her poor boys name,
For his ruined SOU, and his guilt and shame.
THE WEST WIND: t''i''E
The sweetest sight that lever knew.
Was the kiss oftwolovers whose love was, tr{diea
AS they pledged themselves, come veal or voc,
One path in life they should henccforth know.
THE SOUTH WIND:
Once, when weary old man died,
l saw heavens gates swung open wide,
And his wife, who an angel long had been,
Stretched Welcoming hands and cried, H"Deor
come in"
And the look on her face! 1 was dumb with awe,
A sight that was grandcr mover saw.
THE WEST WIND:
Last night, when the stars were out in the blue
Like dead white lily kissed by dew,
l saw baby of two short years. 5
Wet with its mourning mothers tears.
THE SOUTH WIND:
1 sawa neither go in one day
Through the gates of heaven, and heard her saw
is my baby here?" And they put in her arms
A wee child, sweet with baby,s charms; 'i'.'
And she cried as she kissed it, her face aglow,
Il have found my babe This is heayen l know