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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18
Estey Cottage Organs.

Five No 1.-Two full Reeds Price $3.50
Two No. g. of Reeds Newt Case
Two No S-Two Sets of Reeds stops
No 9-Thrpe Sets of Reeds soos
Five of the Paro
l2-Fou of reeds, Church $50
No
26-Thee Of
One No. 34-Four sets of reeds stops
No
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

A"eT1Can .. N1aCh1ho8.
Two Cabinet Back-wanut Polished, 1925
One Cabinet, Black walnut Oiled, sos.
Ten Drop Leaf with Cover, s75.
Ten Base Tables with Cover, $75.
Five Plain with Cover, $40
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

HAIR SWITCHES at the New York Store
in great variety.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

DON'T fail for your life to see Kittredge's
stock of Toys.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18
ThOs. Edwards & Co
4 CHANCE TO LEARN GERMAN.
GERMAN LANGUAGE.

MIR. FRED. OFT, graduate Of the College
WI Of Bayreuth Bavaria Offers his services to
parties DESTROYS Of acquiring thorough knowl-
edge Of the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

A LARGE line of Hair Switches, just re
ceived, at Turner's. COVE
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

Will give satisfactory proofs Of his education
and capacity to teach. Address p. o. Box 81.
independence. Nov. eth. 1874. 1Stf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

KITTREDGE sells Toys the cheapest.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18

If you wish to prosper, buy your Toys
at Kittredge's.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-12-18
Rurdett ORGANS.

Whitney &c Holmes Organ
Two Style IATwo full reeds style stops, Price $3.50
Three B-Two reeds style, 225
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
A Clean Apron.

A lady wanted trusty little maid to
come and help her to take charge of a
baby. Nobody could recommend one,
and she hardly knew where to look for
the right kind of girl. One day she
was passing through by-lane and saw
little girl with clean apron holding a
baby in the doorway of small house.
"That is the maid for me-" said the
lady. She stopped and asked for her
mother. "Mother has gone out to
work." answered the girl. "Father is
dead, and now mother has to do every
thing. "Should you not like to come
and live with me ?" asked the lady.
81 should like to help mother some.
how" said the little maid. The lady,
more pleased than ever with the tidy
looks of the little girl, went to see her
mother after she came home, and the
end of it was that the lady took the
maid to live with her, and she found
what, indeed, she expected to find
that the neat appearance of her person
showed the neat and orderly bent of
her mind. She had no careless habits,
she was no friend to dirt but every
thing she had to do with was folded up
and put away, and kept carefully. The
lady finds great comfort in her, and
helps her mother, whose lot is not now
so hard as it was. She smiles when
she says, "Sally's recommendation
was her clean apron )" and who will
say that it was not good one?
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
A Lady's Chances of Being Married.

The statistician, and likewise the
average woman all the way from fifteen
years of age to the point when birth
day anniversaries cease to be time of
cheer and graduation, may take at
least passing interest in a table re-
Gently printed in England, to show the
relations between matrimony and age.
Every woman has some chance of being
married it may be one chance to fifty
against it, or it may be ten to one that
she will marry. But whatever that is,
representing her entire chance at one
hundred, her particular chance at GER
tain defined points of her progress in
time is found to be in the following
ratios: When between fifteen and
twenty years she has fourteen and a
half per cent. of her whole probability /;
when between twenty and twenty-five
she has fifty-two per cent. between
twenty-five and thirty, eighteen per
cent. After thirty years she has lost
eighty-four and half per cent. of her
chance, but until thirty-five she has
still six and half per cent. Between
thirty-five and forty it is three and
three-fourths per cent, and for each
succeeding five years is respectively
two, one-half, one-eighth, and one
fourth per cent. Any time after sixty
it is one-tenth of one per cent, or one
thousandth of her chance of chance
a pretty slender figure, but figures often
are slender at that age.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
TIE Slave Trade.

1t is not alone piety which prompts
thousands of Mohammedan merchants
annually to join the pilgrims marching
to Mecca. The charm of a profitable
bargain is not unknown to these appar-
emily righteous wanderers, and they are
by DO means overscrupulous as to the
manner in which they gain their money.
While the more devout shed their tears
and say their prayers at the shrine of
the Prophet, those who have an eye to
business capture slaves wherever they
can, in the regions of Africa through
which they pass, and sell them within
the Dominions of the Sultan of Moroc-
co, who takes one slave in twenty as
his tribute. This trade, which is car
ried on within a few leagues of the
French settlements in Algeria, is said
to be by far the most lucrative INDUCED
in by the caravans. Three thousand
slaves are annually brought down from
the Soudan, and not even the powdered
gold, the incense, the precious stones,
the indigo, or the rhinoceros horns
which the caravans sometimes get il
Central Africa, are sought for with hal
the eagerness displayed in slave-hunt
ing.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
Clothing for Cold Weather.

The usual dress is sufficient quantity,
and often good in quality, but it is very
badly distributed. There is too much
ah ut the trunk, and too little about
the lower extremities. II one Quarter
OF the heavy woolen overcoat or shawl
we're taken from the trunk, and wrap
ped about the legs, it would prove
great gain. When we men ride in the
cars, or in the sleighs, where do we suf-
fer 4? About the legs and feet When
women suffer from the cold, where is
it i? About the legs and feet
The legs and feet are down near the
floor, where the cold currents of air
move. The air is so cold near the floor
that all prudent mothers say, "Don't
lie there. Peter get up, Jerusha Ann !;
play play on the sofa; you will take
your death cold lying there on the
floor" And they are quite right.
During the damp and cold season,
the legs should be encased in Uery thick
knit wooden drawers, the feet in thick
wooden stockings (Which must be
changed every day. and the shoe soles
must be as broad as the feet when fully
spread, so that the blood shall have
free passage. If the feet are squeezed
in the least, the circulation is checked,
and coldness is inevitable. This free
circulation cannot be secured by a loose
upper with q narrow sole. If when the
foot stands naked on sheet of paper
it measures three and a half inches,
the sole must measure three and half.
I will suppose, says Dio Lewis, you
have done all this faithfully, and yet
your feet and legs are cold. Now add
more wooden, or if you are to travel
much insthe cars, or in a sleigh, pro-
cure a pair of chamois-skin or wash
leather drawers, which L have found to
be most satisfactory.
Ihave known a number of ladies af-
ficted with hot and aching head, and
other evidence of congestion about the
upper parts, who were completely re-
lieved by pair of chamois-skin drawers
and broad-soled shoes. Three ladies
in every four suffer from some conges-
tion in the upper part of the body. II
is felt in fullness of the head, in sore
throat, in palpitation of the heart, tor
pid liver, and in many other ways. II
is we'll known that hot foot.bath will
relieve for the time being any and all
of these difficulties. This bath draws
the blood into the legs and feet, re.
lieving the congestion above. What
the hot foot-bath does for an hour, the
broad soled shoes with thick wooler
stockings, and pair of flannel drawers
with a pair of wash-leather drawers
added, will do permanently; of course
am speaking of cold weather. Nc
one hesitates to multiply the clothing
about the trunk. Why hesitate to in
crease the clothing about the legs As
a preventive of many common affec.
tions about the chest, throat and head
including nasal catarrh, know nothing
so effective as the dress of the lowel
extremities which am advocating.
The bath is good thing, exercise il
a good thing, friction is good thing
but, after all, our main dependence il
this climate must ever be, during the
cold reason, sOarn, clothing. Already
we overdo this about our trunks, but
not one person in ten wears clothing
enough about the legs and feet.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
A Curious Character.

A singular trial has just been con-
cluded in New Haven, Conn. The suit
was brought by farmer against his
hired man, who claimed an offset to
more than the amount of the plaintiffs s
claim. The plaintiff, some time ago,
having lost his record books, made
notes of his business transactions on
separate sheets Of paper, which he de-
posted as fancy inclined him. Some
times they would be placed beneath the
carpet, sometimes behind desks and
doors, and wherever their secrecy was
supposed to be unquestioned. Nearly
all these papers the plaintiff brought
into court to sustain his claim. There
were such queer items as this: The
hired man did something in opposition
to the wish of his employer, the plaintiff,
or pushed him hard against a door, in
juring his feelings thereby. For some
of these episodes the hired man was
charged forty cents. For being
"liquory another charge was entered,
and for falling down stairs, and thereby
shocking the plaintiff, another amount
was asked. AS the hired man did not
pay these charges, and thought he
ought to be paid a certain amount fol
labor he performed, the suit was
brought.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
4 Rich Church.

The salaries of twenty-eight prelates
of the Established Church of England
amount to e152,900 year, or nearly
eight hundred thousand dollars but to
this you must add e3S, 900 for as many
deans. The annual patronage attached
to these twenty eight dioceses is valued
at 9901, ,165. This patronage includes
canons resident, archdeacons, and
other clerical snuggeries. The value
of the real estate of the Established
Church of England may be estimated
from its revenue, which at its lowest
rate is 97,000,000, or thirty-five million
of dollars annually. The Established
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)
owns 1880 churches, educates 14O, ZOO
scholars, and raises el40,0 900 annually
for home and missionary purposes.
Within twenty years $50 parish chap
els, costing 95O0,00O, have been en-
dowed and erected.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
How He Started Out.

Henry J. Raymond, member of Con
gress, Lieutenant-G Governor OF the
State of New York, but better known
as the founder and editor of the New
York Times, was the son of poor
farmer. At the age of twenty he gradu-
ated at the University of Vermont.
His father wanted him to go to work
on the farm. But young Raymond had
no inclination for farming. He felt II
he could get start in New York city,
that he had the habits of industry and
the brains which would enable him to
do we'll.
Moved by his sons earnestness, the
father raised three hundred dollars by
mortgaging the farm, and with that
sum the future journalist went to the
city. There he studied law, taught
school, wrote for the newspapers, and
was the first person, 1t is said, to write
regular letters from New York to the
country journals.
Horace Greeley, about that time,
started the New York Tribune, and
being acquainted with Raymond, in
vited him to do his writing in the office.
For some months he wrote at his bor-
rowed desk, when, receiving liberal
offer to teach school in the South, he
determined to accept it.
Thanking Mr.. Greeley for his many
courtesies, he informed him OF his in
tended departure.
81 don't think" said the kind-hearted
editor, who, like Raymond, was then
struggling for bread and position,
"there's any particular use of your
going way down there, Henry. You
ought to do as we'll here, and New
York's a better place for you. How
much are you to get for teaching 2"
"Ten dollars week, and 1 can't earn
as much here"
so, we'll, you'd better stay. Write
for the Tribune; I'll give you eight
dollars week."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
MASKED BURGLARS WORK.
An Old Mans Hoardings of Years Stolen
E-Tbe Victim Left Bound and
Gnggedi

An Old Mans Hoardings of Years stolen
s-Tbe victim Left Bound and
Gnggedi
For many years there has lived in
Monroetown, Pa, an eccentric CID man
named Isaac Castor. He is shoe
maker aid lives alone in little house
in an out of the way SPOT. He is over
sixty years old, and for years has hoard
ed his earnings, using only enough
money to procure the bare necessities
of life. His income has never been
large, but it's accumulation for over
quarter of century amounted to
snug little competency. He always
carried several hundred dollars in his
rantaloon pockets, which fact was gen.
orally known, end it has been the stand
ing wonder here for years that he had
never been robbed.
On a Monday morning it was noticed
that the old shoemaker's shop was not
opened as usual, and that there was no
stir about the house. This was so re-
markable an occurrence that two or three
citizens went to his house and broke
open the door. They found Castor
bound tightly in chair, 30 that he
could not use his hands or feet, and O
handkerchief tied tightly over his
mouth. He was hastily released, and
as soon as he could recover sufficiently
from his excitement and alarm he told
substantially the following story
About an hour before daylight he
was awakened by a man who stood by
the side Of his bed. CAST sprang up,
but was stopped by the man, who put
q pistol to his head and told him to be
still or he would blow his brains out.
Another man, with lantern, was 60
ing about the room searching every
hole and.corner. The old shoemaker at
first thought the men were negroes, but
afterward discovered that they were
white men with blackened faces. The
one man rihed the pockets of his pam
falcons, which contained nearly $500,
but not being able to find money that
they evidently believed was secreted
about the room, the robbers told the
old man that he must tell them where
he hid his money or they would kill
him. Castor assured them that he had
no more money that his pantaloons
pockets contained all he had in the
world, and he begged them to leave
him some of that, as he was keeping it
to pay his funeral expenses when he
died. The burglars, failing to force the
old man into revealing the whereabouts
of the rest of his probable treasure,
and daylight being near, made their
victim get out of bed. They then
bound him to the chair and gagged
him, and took their departure. They
had effected an entrance into the house
through a back window. Castor said
that he could not be able to recognize
the robbers. He could not distinguish
their features, and their voices were
strange to him. The general impress
sion is that they are parties living in
the neighborbood, as no strangers have
been seen about the place. There ie
not the slightest suspicion, however, as
to who they may be. Castor says that
the robbers took every dollar he had in
| the world.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
The Exact Truth,

Two young masons were building a
brick wall-the front wall of a high
house, One of them, in placing q
brick, discovered that it was a little
thicker on one side than the other.
ellis companion advised him to
throw it out. Tt will make your wall
untrue Ben," said he.
"Pooh - answered Ben, "what diff
ference will such trifie as that make !?
You're too particular.
"My MOTHER" replied his compan-
ion, "taught me that truth is truth,
ever so little an untruth is lie, and a
lie is no trihe."
co." said Ben, "that's all very we'll;
but 1 am not lying, and I have no in
tention of doing so."
every true, but you make your wall
tell lie; and have somewhere read
that lie in ones work, like lie in his
character, will show itself sooner or
later, and bring harm, if not ruin"
"Ill risk it in this case," answered
Ben /; and he worked away, laying more
bricks and carrying the wall up higher,
till the close of the day, when they
quit work and went home.
Iue ueAt mornlug buey WeHt 10 re-
sumo their work, when behold the lie
had wrought out the result of all lies
The wall getting little slant from the
untrue brick, had got more and more
untrue as it got higher, and at last, in
the night, had toppled over, obliging
the masons to do their work over
again.
just SO with ever so little an untruth
in your character; it grows more and
more, if you permit it to remain, till
it brings sorrow and ruin.
Tell, act and live the exact truth al
ways.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
Plants.

1t is we'll known that plants sleep at
night but their hours of sleeping are
matter of habit, and may be disturbed
artifcially, just as cock may be woke
up and crow at untimely hours by the
light of a lantern. De Candolle sub
jected a sensitive plant to an exceed
ingly trying course of discipline, by
completely changing its hours ex-
posing it to bright light all night, so
as to prevent sleep, and putting it in a
dark room during the day. The plant
appeared to be mucn puzzled and dis
turbed at first it opened and closed its
leaves irregularly, sometimes nodding
in spite of The artificial sun that shed
its beams at midnight, and sometimes
waking up from force of habit, to find
the chamber dark in spite of the time
of day. Such are the trammels of use
and wont. But, after an obvious strug-
gle, the plant submitted to the change,
and turned day into night without any
apparent ill effects.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
Fish Breeding.

Seth Green, of Rochester, N. Y,
publishes the following notice: Any
parties in the United States or Canada
wishing to experiment in Matching the
spawn of the salmon trout and white
fish will be sent few hundred, on re-
ceipt of fifty cents Ito pay for the pack
age), by addressing letter. Also,
parties desiring to experiment in rare
ing the young of the California salmon
will be given few hundred by going
to the New York State hatching-house
for them, all applications to be made
during the month of December. All
kinds of fish will be distributed to the
public waters of New York State the
same as in years before.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
Went to Her Death.

The other day there was picked up
out of the Seine young woman of such
SURPRISING beauty that crowds flocked
to see her body at the Morgue, and
photographs of her were scattered
broadcast over Paris. The lovely un-
known proved to have been an italian,
by name Lucretia .Balbi, who earned
her living as model. Among the
painters for whom she had sat was
Henry Regnault, and for him the poor
girl conceived the most ardent passion.
"She never told her love-" and he
never suspected it; but from the day
of his death, two years ago, she began
to pine away in the deepest melancholy.
Her character was stainless, and her
deep sense of religion caused her long
to hesitate at suicide; but at length
her mind seems to have given way.
She left letter addressed to her broth
er, who also is model. 1t is a very
sad story, but there are no dark fea'
lures in the case. What wonderful
thing love is, even in these prosai
days
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
The President and the Horse Dealer.

Among the enterprising citizens who
contributed to the st. Louis State fair
was Mr.. Dillon, who is dealer in
Norman horses. Mr.. Dillon has re-
Gently imported number of these ami
mails from Europe, and had & "six.in-
hand" attached to a ponderous vehicle
on the fair grounds. Driving around
the course, the horse fancier met old
Sam Buckmaster, of Illinois, and in
duced him to accept seat in the cara
van. They drove several times around
the track, and were the observed of all
observers, but finally Mr.. Buckmaster,
seeing two gentlemen approaching,
said "There comes the President; [
must get out and meet him."
"The President ~ exclaimed Dillon !;
"why, that is just the man want to
see. I wanted to get hold of man
that is good Judge of horsefesh.
Which is the President ?"
"The gentleman in dark clothes
carrying the umbrella" replied Sam.
"Hallo !" cried Dillon to the
stranger "come here I want to see
you"
The gentleman with the umbrella ap-
preached smilingly and shook Dillon
by the hand, supposing that he was
some acquaintance of other times.
"What do you think of my team ?"
said Dillon.
"They do very well," said the man
in dark clothes.
"Jump in and let me show you their
pace. Bring your friends along"
shouted Dillon, heartily.
You must excuse me. l don't want
to be conspicuous, said the stranger.
Conspicuous 2' remarked Dillon.
"Get in here and let me give you q
ride behind these horses"
No-no," cried he of the umbrella
"I must be going.'
"Why don't you get in? won't
eat you ~ said the horse fancier.
At this the stranger and the friend
turned abruptly away, and were lost in
the crowd.
Well" exclaimed Dillon to Buck
master, who stood by dumbfounded,
"Just to think that the president of q
behind my team. What sop he must
be-"
President of the fair |" Buckmastel
shouted In amaze; don't you know
who that WASP"
"No," replied Dillon "you told me
he was the President.
$50 he is the President" rejoined
Buckmaster, "but not of the fair
Why, surely you knew him ?"
"Tll be hanged if I did," Dillor
said. 81 was sure he was president ol
this fair"
"Oh, this is too much !" cried Sam
"Why, that was the President of the
United States -
Dillon grew very red in the face, ant
slowly gasped forth /: Was-that-
Grant ?"
Certainly, it was Gen. Grant"
Dillon caught up his reins, dropped q
his whip and exclaimed, "Oh?"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
Mushroom Poisoning.

An interesting case was recently
brought before one of the criminal
courts of London, the grand jury
throwing out bill of indictment against
q gardener who was charged with MUIR
dering a fellow-servant by giving her
poisoned mushrooms to eat. Although
there was no reason to suppose that the
mushrooms were given with any feloni-
Gus intention, yet three persons were
actually poisoned by them, and one
died; the fungi being so much like
mushrooms that even skilled witness
saw nothing in them to distinguish
them from the genuine article of food.
1t appearing in evidence that mush-
rooms growing under trees are danger
GUS, the presiding judge gave great
emphasis to the Importance of such a
fact being widely known, and callea
attention to the following description
given by Professor Bently-though not
an unerring one-showlng the general
characters by which the edible and
poisonous species of fungi may best be
distinguished The edible mushrooms
grow solitary, in dry, airy places, and
are generally white or brownish I; they
have compact, brittle flesh do not
change color, when cut, by the action
of the air; Juice watery, and odoi
agreeable; taste not bitter, acrid, salt,
or astringent. The poisonous mush,
rooms, on the contrary, grow in clus'
ters, in woods and dark, damp places,
and are usually of bright color; theil
flesh is tough, soft, and watery, and
they acquire brown, green, or blue
tint when cut and exposed to the air
the Juice is often milky, the odor com
monty powerful and disagreeable, and
the taste either acrid, astringent, acid
salt, or bitter. These characteristics
are almost invariable.