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Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1874-10-18
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einen 5iemIidb itarfen Naienfiiiber, tpesbalb
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bemertt, mas auf Der giibne porsins. Ml1
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ten aerihtet, aus oenen oas NaB oes 6int.
mels trdufeIte. Ser Sropfen tommt !"
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li9e Stimmnne mars aef1eben. Inter
bomerildem Gel6dter inuBte Der Borbang
lid ienfen. Soffentlidb beftimmt bas feuht-
perfldrte Sntermejso ben @ieentbiimer oes
fraslitben Runitinititutes, oas Sans Heu
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Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1874-10-18

Bojion iii cine neue Mrt bon Rna-
benboien erfunoen iporben, rldmlidb NIT
tipfernem Gib, Rnie BON @iienble9 uno
maiieroidbte SaiGhen.
Westliche blaÌˆtter. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1865-1919, 1874-10-18

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ielie Sdnstrin III Der MniiaIt beInerlIe Nt,
|uilD ,benn ilb bIeibeu tuerbs, MOLE iie nit
mir t0n3ea. I'm jbte @espdnbtheit iii 5ei.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
Ornhan Asylum TOrtures,

An investigation of the stories OF tor
ture in the Orphans Home at Wormels.
doff, near Reading, Penn, confirms
their truth. Boys of six or eight years
old were kept shoveling coal until too
tired to continue, and then whipped for
stopping. In bitter weather they we're
kept standing berefooted Until their
feel were frozen. James E. More,
agent at the railroad station, among
other incidents related the following /.
The superintendent, accompanied by
one OF The orphan boys, came to the
station for some freight. The boy
drove the horses, and the animals back
ed pretty hard against the freight
house, as horses sometimes do even
with the best. driver. Fefryinan said
to the boy "Don't jerk the horse so :"
the little fellow simply replied "I
didn't jerk them" when Ferryman
said in an excited manner "Dont call
me a liar" jumped on the wagon and
with his fist struck the boy so violently
in the face that the blood gushed from
his mouth and nose. One of the little
fellows remarked that he had been
kicked in the side so severely that the
blood came. To the question els there
any truth in the statement that Mr.. AL
bright cut the fi1ger-ends of any of the
boYs?''' the reply was {" It is true"
"Well, how did he do it?" Here one
of the boys took knife and showed
how it was done, by cutting the tips of
the fingers in one direction and then
cutting crosswise at right angles. A
physician remarked "That was q hor-
rible punishment, as the finger-ends are
very sensitive, as you may well think,
for the blind read by the touch of their
fingers, and a person can feel the slight
est particle upon which the fingers may
rest. In January last a boy named
John Lang left the Orphans Home and
walked to Philadelphia, where his
mother is living. The constable at
Wormelsdorf was sent after the boy,
and when he met the mother she stated
that she had secured situation for her
child in factory, and begged the con-
stable, with tears in her eyes, not to
take her little son away from her that
he had come to her with ragged cloth
ing and torn shoes, and his back and
legs black and blue from the brutal
whippings, and she would rather see
him starve at home than to be taken
back and be so terribly abused at the
Orphans Home. The constable was
mohbed while on his way to the depot,
and the little boy taken from him. He
then secured tue services of Phila-
delphia policeman, who went with him
and explained to Mrs. Land that there
was no use resisting the officers of the
law, as the boy would have to be taken
back to Wormelsdorf. The little fell
low was then given up to the officers
and brought back to the Orphan s
Home. These are but specimens OF
what is being brought out by an official
inquiry now in progress.
The testimony brought out the fact
that the children were choked with
nooses for punishment, kept lashed in
boxes for hours and that the teachers
were profane and brutal. Four of the
teachers are under arrest.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
Power of the Eve.

Cooley has got new dog, says Max
Adler, and am sorry to say that he Is
exceedingly vicious indeed, that very
few of the neighbors have courage
enough to enter oooley's yard. Judge
Pitman, however, had to go
in there the other day for the purpose
of collecting bill, and he told me that
he wasn't particle afraid, because be
possessed the power of holding wild
animal with his eyes. When he looked
straight into the eyes of O dog the
brute quailed before his glance, and
skunk away. He said it proved the bli-
periority Of human being with soul
and a resolute will to the mere brute
creation. So he opened the gate and
went in. Cooley's dog heard him COM
ing, and Immediately few to meet him.
The Judge fixed his eye on the animal
for the purpose Of holding it, but the
dog didnt seem to notice the circum-
stance. But still the Judge looked,
and still the dog came on. Then 1t
seemed to occur to the Judge that per-
haps his kind OF an eye might not hold
this kind of a dog, and he suddenly
moved toward the apple-tree, with the
dog close behind him. He became
panic. stricken, and made furious eff
fort to climb up the trunk. He had
just reached the first limb when the
dog arrived, and made a snap at him.
The dogs teeth caught III the lower
part Of the Judges trouser-leg, and as
it is bulldog, he held on ; while the
Judge lay across the limb on his
stomach, out of breath, frightened and
uncertain what to do. If he dropped,
the dog would certainly eat him if he
climbed fucther up, we would have to
take the dog with him. He had just
made up his mind to stay where he was
while his strength lasted, when he
thought he heard the limb cracking,
and then he yelled for help. Then
Cooley came out, and after making the
Judge promise to take 20 per cent. dis
count off of the bill, he pried open the
dogs jaws with the kitchen poker, and
dragged him into the stable. The
Judge came down, hot, breathless and
mad and he has said to me since, pri-
vately, that the next time he wants to
hold q dog with his eye he will impale
him on a hay fork first. That is safe
way, anyhow.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
The Chicken in the Egg.

The hen has scarcely set on her eggs
twelve hours before some linaaments of
the head and body of the chicken ap-
pear. The heart may be seen to beat
at the end of the second day it has at
that time somewhat the form of a horse
shoe, but no blood yet appears. At
the end of two days two vessels of
blood are to be distinguished, the pull
sation of which is visible one of these
is the left ventricle, and the other the
roof of the great artery. At the fifth
eth hour one auricle of the heart ap-
pears, resembling moose folded down
upon itself. The beating of the heart
is first observed in the auricle, and af-
terwards in the yentricle. At the end
of seventy hours tho wings are distin-
guishable; and on the head two bub-
bles are seen for the brain, one for the
bill, and two for the fore and hind part
of the head. Towards the end OF the
fourth day, the two auricles already
visible draw nearer to the heart than
before. The liver appears towards the
fifth day. At the end of seven hours
more, the lungs and the stomach be-
comes visible, and four hours after
wards the intestines, loins, and the
upper jaw. At the one hundred and
forty-fourth hour, two ventricles are
visible, and two drops of blood instead
of the single one which was seen be-
fore. The seventh day, the brain be
gins to have some consistency. At the
one hundred and nineteenth hour o.
incubation, the bill opens, and the desl
appears in the breast. In four hours
more, the breast-bone is seen. In si1
hours after this, the ribs appear, form
ing from the back, and the bill is yer,
visible, as we'll as the gall bladder
The bill becomes green at the end 0
two hundred and thirty-six hours; ant
if the chicken be taken out of its cover
ing, it evidently moves itself. At tn
two hundred and sixty-fourth hour, tn
eyes appear. At the two hundred an
eighty-eighth, the ribs are perfect. A
the three hundred and thirty first, tn
spleen draws near the stomach, and tn
lungs to the chest. At the end of thre
hundred and fifty-fve hours, the bi
frequently opens and shuts at the en-
of the eighteenth lay, the first cry {
the chicken is heard. 1t afterward gel
more strength and grows continually
till at length it is enabled to set itse
free from its confinement,-Stu
Reflections.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
The Sun Does Not Set.

Campbell in his Norway travels, says:
The ocean stretched away in silent vast
ness at our feet the sound of its waves
scarcely reached our airy outlook
away in the forth the huge old sun
swung low along the horizon, like the
slow beat of the pendulum in che tall
clock of our grandfather's parlor corner.
We all stood silent, looking at our
watches. When both hands came to-
gether at 12, midnight, the full round
orb hung triumphantly above the wave
"a bridge of gold, running due north,
spanned the water between us and him.
There he shone in silentmajesty, which
knew no setting. We involuntarily
took off our hats no word was said.
Combine, if you can, the most brilliant
sunrise and sunset you ever saw, and
its beauties will pale before the gorge
GUS coloring which now lit up the
heaven and mountain. In half an hour
the sun had swung up perceptibly on
his beat, the colors changed to those
of morning, fresh breeze rippled over
the food, one songster after another
piped up in the grove behind us-we
had slid into another day.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
ReprOOf of FOpperY.

Dean Swift was great enemy to ex-
travagance in dress, and particularly to
that destructive ostentation in the mid
die classes which led them to make
their appearance above their condition
in life. OF his mode of reproving
those persons for whom he had any
esteem, the following instance has been
recorded : When George Faulkner, the
printer, returned from London, where
he had been soliciting subscriptions
for his edition of the Deans works, he
went to pay his respects to him, dressed
in lace waistcoat, bag wig, and other
fopperies.
Swift received him with the same
ceremony as if he had been stranger.
"And pray, sir, what are your COM
mands with me ?" said he. "I thought
it was my duty, SIR" replied George,
to wait upon you Immediately upon
my arrival from London" "Pray, sir,
who are you?" George Faulkner,
printer" You George Faulkner, the
printer? Why, you are the most i'm
pudent, barefaced scoundrel of any
fellow ever met with George Faulk-
ner is plain, sober citizen, and would
never trick himself out in lace and
other fopperies. Get you gone, you
rascal, or will Immediately send you
to the House of Correction
Away went George, as fast as he
could, and having changed his dress,
returned to the deanery, where he was
received with the greatest cordiality.
"My friend George" said the dean,
cordially, 81 am glad to see you return
safe from London. Why, here has
been an impudent fellow with me just
now, dressed in a lace waistcoat, and
he would fain pass himself off for you,
but L soon sent him off with flea in
| his ear"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
Fashion Chit-Chat.

All things have their day and fash
ions come and go with meteor-like ra@
pidity. -,
Thus the long black lace scarfs with
out which lady would have considered
her toilet incomplete last season have
now become too common to be worn by
the really fashionable. They are re-
placed by lace collarettes composed
generally of thread or Maltese lace
made on a silk foundation.
The latest style Of linen cuffs are
trimmed with double box-pleated ruff
the ruffle only at the back and turned
down corners in front.
Ruffles of crepe lisse are much used
for evening wear, but the high stand
ing fraise of silk and muslin is very
little seen.
Pretty ornaments for the neck and
wrists are jabotS of Maltese lace, with
colored ribbon loops between the full
ing and corresponding sleeve pieces.
Black lace capes are worn small and
without ends. They are usually of
thread lace or guipure. The little
tight-fitting black lace jackets are likely
to supersede them.
Very pretty jackets are made IN the
zouave shape of small puffings of white
Swiss muslin, divided by rows of nee
dlework embroidery. These jackets
have no sleeves and are intended for
evening wear over high. silk waists. A
still prettier zouave jacket is composed
of alternate rows of blue brocaded rib
bon and white Maltese lace insertion.
Some of the newest evening dresses
from Paris have tabliers of satin in
three pieces, each piece fringed end
| looped back to form sash. The waist
has silk sleeves, with deep satin cuffs,
and satin folds and bows trim the front.
A pale mauve satin made in this way
over black silk looks very handsome.
Birds are more used in hats than ever,
but wings are preferred for bonnets ;
they are usually placed near the face.
Fans are of white or very slightly
tinted satin, with ivory and mother-of-
pearl handles. Clusters of flowers
worked in lace are placed on the satin
with good effect. Very elegant fans
for evening wear are tipped with mara
bout feathers.
Stylish walking dresses are made of
coarse, thick Irish frieze, trimmed with
bark silk bands and bows down the
front; sometimes the waist has silk
vest.
Very little fur naturally is seen on
the fall jackets. They ere nearly ell of
black cashmere, beaded and braided,
long in the front and short at the back.
Few bonnets are entirely self-colored.
They are usually made of dark velvet
trimmed with lighter shade of silk.
Black bonnets have great deal of jet
and good many ostrich tips on them.
There has been q great change in
buttons since last winter. They are
now as plain as they were then elabo
rate. Those which are worn on wooler
walking dresses are frequently of plain
black or brown bone. Oxidized silver
buttons are seen on dark cloth polo
naises.
A new fabric, with open work stripe
is called Goaiy. 1t will be worn ovel
evening dresses, made up into over
skirts.
Some sleeves are puffed from top tc
bottom others are the straight Goa
sleeve, with deep cuff.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
A Lucid Charge.

If the jury believe from the evidence
that the plaintiff and defendant were
partners in the grocery, and that the
plaintiff bought out the defendant, and
that the defendant paid note by deliv-
ering to the plaintiff a COW, which he
warranted not breachy and the war
rantee was broken by reason of the
breachiness of the COW, and he drove
the COW and rendered her to the de-
fendant, but he refused to receive her,
and the defendant took her home again,
and put heavy yoke upon her to pre-
vent her jumping fences, and by reason
of her yoke she broke her neck and
died and if the jury believe that the
defendants interest in the grocery was
worth anything, the plaintiffs note
worthless and the COW good for moth
ing, either for beef or milk, then the
jury must find out for themselves how
they will decide this case, fer the court
if she understands herself, and sh,
thinks she does, don't know hog sucl
a case should be decided.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
American Religious Statistics.

Americans cannot but read with in
terest the statements circulated in Eu.
rope as to the increase of religious
bodies in the United States according
to the census of 1870, 1860 and 1850.
The Methodists count 21,000, $4,000
and 5000 churches, in round numbers,
severally, at each of these dates, thus
showing an increase of eight-thirteenths
in twenty years. The Baptists count
$4,000, $4,000 and 5000, or q gain of
four-ninths. The Presbyterians, 1000,
5000 and nearly 5000, or a gain Of
about two-fifths. The Roman Catho-
lies number $500, $500 and 1900
churches at the three dates, or gain
of twenty-six twelfths. The Christian
Connection (Union Baptists) nun mber
$500, 1900 and 800, or gain OF
twenty -eighths, remarkable increase.
he Lutherans count 2,700, 2, 100 1000
churches, or gain of fifteen-twelfths.
The Congregationalists return 2,700,
2,100, LOO, or a gain of ten-seven-
teenths. The Protestant Episcopalians
1900, 2,100, 1,400 churches, or q gain
of eleven thirds, an increase to be ex-
planned partly by their missionary
movements at the West, or perhaps by
confounding German Reformed with
Dutch Reformed churches. The
Quakers, 600, 700 and 700, de-
cline of about one-seventh. The
Universalists, co., &C, 53, gain OF
about one-seventh, which may be
wrongly reported. The Unitarians,
80, 264, 245 churches, gain of 65
churches or gain of about one quar-.
ter. The Mormons are reported at III
"a and 16, gain of more than ten-fold,
and the Jews at 152, n and 36 syna'
gogues, or an increase of more than
fourfold. We have not taken these
figures directly from the census, but
from the official tables of leading Eu'
ropean Year Book, and we have only
calculated the average increase of eacE
denomination. According to this state
ment the Roman Catholics have gained
more, relatively, than any other leading
denomination, having more than triple(
their churches in twenty years. Mex
to them come the Lutherans, who hav,
more than doubled, and next come tn,
Episcopalians, who have nearly doubled
their number of churches since 1850.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
A Miraculous Escape.

William Baum, son of David Baum,
of East Brandywine township, Pa, de-
scended to the bottom of thirty i've
feet we'll on the premises of Mr.. Baum,
to get an axe which had fallen in, there
being but eight inches of water in it.
When within one foot of the bottom
the wall began to cave in. A man at
the top looked down, only to see mass
of stone settling down and "literally
squashing" the pump stalk, which was
a cucumber one. After the noise had
ceased, he called to the young man to
know if he was living, to which the
young man replied, "Yes, I'm alive,
and not much hurt" The man at the
top of the we'll gave the alarm, and by
that time the young mans father was
seen coming. When help arrived they
had not the proper machinery for re
moving the stone. Messengers were
dispatched to secure wirAdlass and vel
buckets a distance of one and hal
miles. While they were gone, those
who were there removed several feet O.
stone by hand. After the machiner,
came, and while removing stone, til,
young man called to them that he haC
given up all hope of being rescued
The men encouraged him, and after fiv
and half hours of terrible labor, dur
ing which time 200 windlass buckets o
stone We're taken out, he was foun'
partially wedged among the stone
nearly frozen. Great was the Joy ant
sur prise of those at the top when tn
things reached them that Wilmer ha,
Sustained no serious injury.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08

MAKING STATEMENTS. The New York
Herald in referring to a Brooklyn
slander case says: Everybody has
made a statement about somebody else.
L, thou, he, we, you and they, he, she
and it, have or hast made statements.
There are almost as many statement
makers as there are candidates for the
Vice Presidency, and they constitute q
large percentage of the population
Now, this is our statement. Having
read all the statements of the othel
statesmen, is it not time to state thai
any further statements are q bore
We think so,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08

The most systematic method of put
ting an end to ones existence occurred
at West Troy, N. Y. A man fifty years
of age, Martin Supple, by name, left
his wife and children one evening, re-
tired to bedroom, took an old gun,
loaded it with double charge, placed
the stock in a vice, pulled off his shoe
and stocking, tied the string to the
trigger of the gun, made loop which
he inserted in his big toe, aimed the
gun at his heart, pressed his toe down.
wards, and went into eternity,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
Preparing Fish for Winter.

1t is estimated that at present there
are stored in New York city about $780,
600 pounds of valuable fish in frozen
state for next winter. These stores will
not I've touched while freshly caught
fish can be brought to market. Terra
pin is one of the luxuries of the table.
Those who catch them have to hunt for
them as far south as Galveston, and
Savannah, Ga, and Charleston, S. c.,
furnish supplies, and some very fine
terrapin are caught in the Chesapeake
Bay, and are eagerly purchased at Bal
timore, where they have been sold as
high as $45 per dozen. In order to get
anything like a supply for the New
York market, leading wholesale fish
dealer found it necessary, several years
ago, to lay in stock during the sum-
mer, at which time, in consequence of
their voracity, the terrapin are more
easily caught. As it is necessary to
preserve the terrapin alive, he caused a
large pen to be constructed on the
shore of Pleasure Bay, near Long
Branch, about 100 feet square, con-
structed with fence of planking 8
inches wide, % inches thick, and of or
dinary length. The bottom and shore
was artifcially constructed SO as to give
it gradual slope, and the shore was
made of white sea sand, while the bed
of the pen was composed of ordinary
sea mud and sand. Here for three OF
four years past the fish dealer stored
his terrapin, sometimes having as many
as 10000 terrapin in the pen at one
time. AS the food they appear most to
enjoy can be easily had, the cost ol
maintaining the pens is small while
the revenue, should the scheme prove
moderately successful, will be very
great, as even good fat terrapin bring
in this market from So to $l5 pei
dozen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08
Before The Raim.

We ERE it would rain, for all the morn
) 1T on slender ropes of mist
Was 9A eripg the golden buckets down
Into tie vapory amethyst,
eOf marshes and swsnrs and dismal fens,
Scorching the dew that lay in the flowers.
Dipping the jewels uut of the sea,
To.sprinkle them ovar the land in showers.
We knew it #oald rain. for the poplar,
showed
Tho white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shruuk in the wind--aud the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins OF rain
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-08

When man reminds you that you
owe him, Just make note of it. He
will take more interest in the matter il
you honor him in that way.