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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-23
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JUDGE MACKEY

4 Gis:enscr OF Justice, deserves and
N receives tie applause and upproba ton
OF iaw-abiainG citizens. The "Iudian Girl. u
as dispenser OF LUXURY, deserves and re-
celves the patronage OK all WHO like good
SMOKING nj low rates. Lovers O, the weed
recommend her emporium
TO BE THE
riace TO SO: the finest Chewing Tobacco in
the city, AND as in the campaign ior
NEXT GOVERNOR
ach party will be showing up the merits OF
their respective candidates, so all smokers
are continually putting the celebrated five
cent Cigars, sold only u. the
INDIAN GIRL CIGAR STORE,
ColurIbia Hotel Block Columtia. s. C.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-04-23

Nos Cures. Cents.
!. Eevers, CHr.c<'ion, determinations, SO
:. Worms, Worm Fc:cr. Worm Collie, so
4. Dinrrhma. Of Children or Adults. so
3 Dyssntery, Gripping; Bilious colic, 50
I. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, so
E. Neuralgia, Toothnce, Faccacl:c. so
~ lfeadnc hes, Sick Hea,!achc N.,:-o. So
10. Dyspepsin, Bilious E,o:nncl. +. 70
y. Suppressed. or Painful Periods, 30
u. Whites, too Prof,,sc Periods. 30
-. Group, Cough, Dicult Brea,h;n-.. 10
IS. Rhc,,nntisin, Hhe.in";ic P.i..s, ] 80
~. Fever nMl 4 ASuc, Ch:ll Fcyc:, A:,':rs, 80
y. Piles, b!.:,i @: b, ,-ti;Ug, 81
~. Ophti,ulan;-, G:,.i Sn:c OF Weak E!'HS, ~
10. Catorrh, As,,:. or Chronic 1n.lu"nz,, 80
~. WhnOping-C0u Violent ou3iis, 81
81. Ast.,,nn, Oppressed BycatI.inl - so
-. saros..ia. En!s,sc inis"s Glands swei:s, !' 80
II. General Debility, Physical Wt..A:icss, -
:i. Dropsy and scanty, sccrctiors. 70
2G. Sc..-sic lkness, Sickness from, R!:;., in
=. xidnoy-Disease, Gravel. -: 80
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For Ealc by all Druggists.
For sale by Goigor & McGrcgor, Agents.
Mayo tTlv
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
4 Warm Locality.

The Virginia City Nev) Enterprise
tells q round of marvellous stories, and
its last production is as follows "We
are informed that the reason why there
are no shade trees about the hotel at
the Genoa Hot Springs, and why none
can be grown there, is that the ground
is too hot for them. 1t is said that upon
digging through the thin surface soil, a
sub-stratum of hard earth-called a
hard-pan-is found. This is two or
three feet in thickness, and upon dig
ging through it almost anywhere in the
neighborhood, boiling hot water is en-
countered. On account of this subter-
ranean lake of hot water, trees of no
kind can be made to grow in the neigh.
borhood. Soil enough for the nourish-
ment of the trees cannot be collected
upon the surface, and the moment their
roots pass through the substratum they
are in hot water and are cooked. BY
sinking an artesian well in this place,
there could doubtless be obtained fine
fountain of hot water, but if it were de.
sired to surround this fountain with
trees, it would be necessary to have
them made of cast-iron."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29

Statistics presented to the French
Academy show that the marriages of
blood relations form about two per cent.
of all the marriages in France, and that
the deaf and dumb offspring at birth,
of consanguineous marriages are, in
proportion to the deaf and dumb born
in ordinary wedlock, at Lyons, full
twenty-five per cent. at least twenty
FIVE per cent. in Paris, and thirty per
cent. in Bordeaux-the proportion of
the deaf and dumb, by birth, increas-
ing with the degree of blood relation
ship. The data obtained show that, il
the danger of having a deaf and dumb
child in ordinary marriage, represented
by figures, is one, there will be eighteen
in marriages between first cousins.
thirty-seven between uncles and nieces,
and seventy in marriages between
nephews and aunts. 1t appears, too,
that the most healthy parents, if related
in blood, may have deaf and dumb
children,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
4 Boys Composition.
THE RAT,

The rat should OF to foller cats in
books, wich amt so in cellers. The
rat eats chees wen he can git some that's
good, but dutch nocks him. There
was man bated steel trap with dutch
chees, and pretty soon he began to ine
ded rats evry mornin'. At the end of
weak there was ded rats evry were, but
the trap had never been sprapg. Then
he found out the rats was starved
cause they had worn their teeths off
nawin' the trap, and couldn't take their
meels. They thought the trap was the
bate and the dutch was the trap.
You know who told me that about the
dutch. Wen he comes to see my sister
he asks me how I'm gettin on with my
composition, and then he tells me things
wich may put in it, and my sister she
says shaw wat fib, and I mussent
bleeve q werd he says, and looks in his
eyes with her'n, but he amt bit
afrade. Her'n are black, but his'n is
gray, and so is rats.
Rats is long tails, and if you berry a
ded un with his tail a-stickin' out 1t
would be vine. Rats is killed by
tarriers, wich is put into pit were the
rats has been cetched and let out. Ii
it wasn't for these tarriers there would
be too many rats for any body to live.
The black -and-tan is finest to look at,
but the rats hcks 'em like smoke.
I asked my father if ferrits was good
for rats, and he says yes, that's wat
they lives on wen they can't git vegit-
tibles; but he was readin' the news
paper, and mother she says wen man
is readin' a newspaper they never knows
nothin'. My uncle Ned he spoke up
and said that was the best fraim of mine
to read the papers. Newspapers tore
up little makes a good messed for rats,
and the pufs wich wimmen puts in their
hare is called rats too, but not the
bitin' kind.
Bishep Hatto was et by rats, evry
little tiny bit up, and serve him nifty
we'll right too but they don't now
cause their is more bishops than there
is rats.
Rats is row-dents, and rat-cetchers is
row-dentists, my sisters young man SOS.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
NO. SO.
The Troubles of Wau Lee.

Mr.. William Lee, of the Ontaria
street laundry, has not left Cleveland,
although he has not appeared of late in
the newspapers. The fact is that Mr..
Lee has devoted himself strictly to
business during the last six or eight
months, and has thereby amassed
small amount of cash, which is des-
tined to be expended in carrying him
again to his native land, over the salt,
salt sea. But before leaving, it is SIM
ply an act of justice to state that Mr..
Lee has attempted faithfully TO submit
to the heathenism of this benighted
country, and if he does not carry away
fair impress of hospitality or feeling
of love toward Brother Jonathan, the
fault has not been bis, but that OF the
angular brother on whose bosom ne at
tempted to lean. But it will be simply
on act of justice to friend Wau to allow
him to explain his own feelings, as he
did in conversing with q Leader re-
porter. He unburdened himself as fol-
lows
"Me no likee Mclean man. Mclean
man comee in my laundry, spittee on
floor, chew, chew. Bringee shirtee,
say, 'Thust, Wau Lee?' Wau Lee
say, mo thust thust dead Mclean
man say, Rat eater, L punchee.'
Punchee Wau Lees head, pull his pig
tail. Wau Lee luns chop-chop head
to fleece officer. Fleece officer say,
Cheap John-one, two, three
bounce Shakee me pig tail and say,
'Olimb.' Wau Lee climbs-comee
home. Mclean man steal shirt, and he
climb too"
Wau Lee attempted to 60 to Sunday
school, and his story is as follows
"Me go on Sunday day to Joss
house. Me takee settee and Mclean
mans boyee come along. Boyee say,
Here's China More boyee come.
Pull pig tail and say, Bully foi Chi
nee man. Me get mad and swear.
Fleece officer comee long, takee me to
station. Payee fvee dolce and ixty
cents; go home to wash, wash.
me then go on street car. Mclean
woman looks at me and laughee loud.
One speakee low, Him mig One
speakee low, too, and say, Him rat
eater Me gettee mad and say, " Me
Chinaman-me washee-washee. Memo
mig. No mig. Me no rat eater. Big
lie.' Mclean woman scream. Conduc-
tor run in. Him say, Who's upT
Mclean woman say, DIRTY China
suited me- Conductor he takes my
stampees, and he say, Get Wau Lee
gets, fall on the ground, and breakee
nose; officer comes up. He says,
'Dlunk again, Chineel.' Me say, No
dunk He say, TOO thin Takee
me by collar and takee me to station.
Judge say, Here again, Chinee p Me
go out, pay ten dolce and fifty cents.
Me go home madee-red hot madee,
swear, bleak dishes, shave off pig tail,
buy plug hat, shut up laundry, and so
to China
And this was Waa Lees first deter
mination, but since then he has recon-
sidered it, gone back to his trade, and
still washes and irons as of old.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
Newspaper Life.

Some gloomy people look with ap-
prehension upon the prospects of new
paper, says the New York Herald, and
we hear dreary Vaccinations as to the
fate of new one. Mr.. Hudson, in his
admirable " History Of Journalism, +"
prints the names of some hundreds of
newspapers that have lived and died
and gone to rest in a silent paper mill.
And we confess that, as president OF q
savings bank or trust company, we
should prefer some other investment
than newspaper stock or, to be more
clear in meaning, stock in new news
paper. But all the same, we believe in
new journals. We should like to see
two hundred daily morning papers in
this metropolis. Think what a good
time public opinion would have under
going the process of education from
two hundred teachers In fact, we do
not see in our progress of invention
why every large firm, every dealer in
patent medicines, every politician and
opera manager should not have his own
newspaper. 1t is great discipline to
a man to be compelled to sit down and
coldly put his thoughts into print.
Then he can always do himself justice.
Nothing, as all men know, is more easy
than to edit newspaper, journalism
being the profession to which every
American is born. So that, so far from
there being no room for the new paper,
there is room for q hundred journals
like IT,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
The Temperature of the Sun.

The latest investigation on the tenn
perature of the sun by Father Secchi
has been recently published, and he
concludes that the lowest limit of this
temperature must be about 1873, 900 deg.
Centigrade. This determination he ar
rived at by a comparison of their solar
radiation and that of the electric light.
He has employed the same apparatus,
namely, the thermo-heliometer, de-
scribed in his we'll. work on the
sun. The temperature produced by
solar radiation was observed at Rome
about noon on several days in July, and
was determined to be 363 times that of
the carbon points of his electric light.
Both Secchi and Him agree that the
temperature of solar radiation may de-
pend either solely on the superficial
stratum of the sun or on considerable
thickness of its substance, according as
this latter is opaque or transparent.
Him concludes that il the transparence
were nearly perfect, the solar tempera-
ture might we'll be only few thousand
degrees; but various phenomena,
among them the observations of Prof.
Langley of Pittsburgh on the crossing
of the currents of the photosphere, show
that the solar surface is essentially
Opaque, and certainly at the best is net
completely transparent. The very high
temperature of 130, 600 deg. to 10000
deg. above given, is, therefore, not in
admissible, but must be looked upon
as at least giving lower limit to the
true value of the temperature Of the
sun.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
His Official Crook.

Sheep are an important stock with
English farmers, says the Danbury
man. The English people are fend OF
mutton as an article of food, and have
it quite steadily. When they tire of
mutton they have lamb. Beef they
never neglect. They are the most do
cile and uncomplain ing of peop' when
beef is around. Their sheep are the
best in the world, / believe. You have
seen pictures of shepherds with the
prcverbial crook in their hands. Ididn't
think party could be a shepherd with
out this crook, any more than man
could be the lead of an orchestra
without pair of pants. I was glad
that the first man whom saw ending
sheep carried one of these crooks. I
didn't know what a rook was for, but
always believed it was a badge OF the
occupation, whose origin could not
fathom, handed down from century TO
century since the time when sheep were
invented. Imagine my genuine disgust
when I saw this shepherd use the sacred
crook to capture the straying animals
by catching hold of one of their hind
legs and tripping them up. The awful
truth came upon me like flash, and !
sat down heavily, broken-hearted
man. I had thought it beautiful en-
blem, and it proves to be hind-leg
snatcher.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
Blessing the Sea.

A correspondent of the London
Dailv Teleqraph thus describes the
curious ceremony of Blessing the
Sea-" at Ostend, Belgium
"Ostend, an excellent bathing place,
and in other respects also q pleasant
vacation resort, is now beginning to fill
lish; and the Kursaal on the Digue
pany as the hour of one o'clock, which
had been fixed for the ceremony OF
blessing the sea, drew near. Another
altar, much more imposing than either
of those in the Place d'Armes, had been
erected on the most conspicuous point
of the Digue and hither came pro-
cession of great length, led by long
array of little girls in white muslin
dresses and wells, who strewed the
ground with flowers. Then came the
choristers, with an instrumental band ;
and then many banner-carriers, it be-
ing observable that all the inscriptions
were in Flemish, as being addressed
to the humblest and the least educated
part of the crowd, who constituted a
large majority. Under canopy, be-
fore which censers were swung, walked
an aged and venerable-looking priest,
in vestments of gold, bearing the Host.
I found on inquiry that he was not a
bishop or dignity OF his church and [
was, moreover, informed that no such
ecclesiastical authority is given to this
festival as would be implied in the per-
sonal attendance of prelate from
Bruges, or from any adjacent diocese,
for Ostend is not yet bishopric. Still,
the benediction of the sea was per-
formed in q manner as solemn as if a
cardinal had presided though there
skirts of the throng, and the company
seated in the balconies OF the Kursaal
were by no means so solemn and de-
vout as the poorer people in the crowd
near the altar. A salvo of artillery was
fired from the other end of the Digue
when the benediction had been accom-
plished and then the procession took
its way back again into the town,
through all the sports and junketings,
which were suspended as itpassed, but
only for few brief moments. The
band OF the Civic Guard played secular
tunes as it followed the priestly re-
tinue very secular tunes indeed were
some of them but the bell of the
priest went tinkling on all the same,
and even as that holy sound mingled
with the music of opera bouffe, SO did
the incense from the censers blend
with odors less acceptable. I had no.
ticed, during the service on the Digue,
many prostrations by women and little
children, and o few even by men ; but
the passing of theprocession through the
town was yet more productive of popu-
lar excitement. People rushed from
the beer-shops, in which, as I
have said, devotional tapers were
lighted, and actually threw themselves
down as an image was carried by. At
the windows above women clasped their
hands and wept. What was the senti-
ment, what the moving cause, L could
not for the life of me guess. But it was
there, beyond question and hence
forth, when I am in any mood to specu-
late on psychological mysteries, 1 shall
always remember that crowd at Ostend,
and the benediction of the sea.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
The French Bastile,

The power welded by Louis XIV,
of France, was of the most despotic
character. When the king wished to
imprison any one he wrote as follows
"It is ordered that -- shall be ar
rested and taken to the bastile. His
majesty instructs the governor to re-
tain the person in custody until further
orders" The king signed the docu-
ment, which was indorsed by any min
lister, and the arrest took place. Some
slight difference was made as to the
machinery of the arrest, according to
the rank of the prisoner. If it was
person of noble birth, file of NOUS
quetaires did the business if it was
person of low degree who was to be in
carcerated, the sergeants or archers
hurried him off without ceremony. The
prisoner was ordinarily hustled into a
carriage, and on arriving at the first
gate of the bastile a sentinel challenged
the equipage, and, on receiving the
answer, "By the kings ORDER" the
portcullis was opened, the prisoner
passed in, and was then often lost sight
of forever.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
How They Shoot at CreedmOOr.

The regulations of these matches ex-
clude all firing from crest" but this
means an artificial rest. The marks
man, however, may choose any posi-
ton or posture CT the body; he may
lie fiat, face downward, or on his back,
face upward, or take any recumbent
position, or go down on his knees OF
stand erect. he may brace his body in
any way by the use Of his arms and
legs, and may use either for "a rest y
if he can get it into satisfactory posi-.
tion. All the marksmen in the recent
match on both sides chose the "recum,
bent" position, some lying face down
wards, using their knees and elbows to
brace themselves in position some
lying on their backs, using their knees
and feet as rests, and some incline
slightly to one side, yet still on theil
backs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
The Founder of Harrisburg. Pa,

The founder of the city of Harris.
burg, Pa, was John Harris. His house,
still standing, was the first stone build.
ing erected in Harrisburg. One un.
happy day tribe of predatory Indians
passed down the river on q piratica1
expedition, and on their return stopped
at the Harris house. Most of them
were intoxicated, and they demanded
more liquor from Harris, which he re.
fused to give. Bearing him q grudge
as the ally of tribe hostile to them,
they bound him to a mulberry-tree, and
| threatened to burn him alive. Dry
fagots were gathered and heaped around
the stake, and one of the savages ap.
preached with lighted torch. Sud
denly there was q whoop, rustling in
the bush, and friendly tribe sprang
upon the scene, headed by a negro
slave named Hercules. The savagee
fed, and Harris was rescued from his
perilous position. The incident had q
profound effect on his mind, and there.
after he measured his actions by their
piety. The faithful slave Hercules
saved his masters life second time,
and proved his attachment to the family
again and again.
Harris still prospered and made @
clearing, and established trading-s sta
tion near the mouth OF the Juniata.
At his death, in December, 1748, he
owned about nine hundred acres OF
land adjacent TO and on the ground of
the present site of Harrisburg, two
hundred acres on the opposite shore,
and about eight hundred acres at the
mouth of the Conodoguinet creek. The
anecdotes related OF his wife have O
very romantic flavor, and some ready
story-writer may profit by the two we
transcribe here.
The few neighbors already called the
Harris house the Mansion" although
it was of the most uppretentious char
acter. The mansion-house then was
surrounded by stockade, as security
against marauding Indians. One night
an English military officer was invited
to stay with the family, and, in enter
ing the house, he left the gate OF the
stockade unfastened. While he was at
supper with his host, an indian stole
through the gate Of the stockade, and
thrust a rife through one of the port
holes Of the house. The night was
UdHp, alu lu9 Elll0 missed IRE. BE-
fore the savage had time to aim with
another weapon, Mrs. Harris blew out
the candle, and so put the room and
the company in darkness.
We have a suspicion that we have al.
ready seen the incident that remains TO
be told embodied in q thrilling sensa-
tionai sketch, but here it is, at all
events, vouched for by the oldest
records of Harrisburg, whence we de-
rive it. Mrs. Harris had an Irish girl
in her employ, whom she sent into the
store-room with lighted candle. The
girl reappeared without the candle, and,
when questioned, said she had left 1t
standing in barrel of hax-seed. The
sequel to the story you who read story
papers habitually may guess. The bar
rel contained gtnpo,Oder, not fiax-seed,
which had been negligently left uncov-
cred. Mrs. Harris arose from her
work table without word, and went
into the store-roon. She carefully
lifted the candle from the powder, blew
it out, calmly reproved the servant,
and then resumed her work,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
All! Sad are They,

Ah sad are they who know not love,
But, far from passions tears and smiles,
Drift down amoonless sea, beyond
The silvery coasts Of fairy isles.
And sadder they whose longing lips
Kiss empty air, and never touch
Thedear warm m mouth of those they love
Waiting, wasting, suffering much.
But clear as amber, fine as mush,
Is life to those who, pilgrim-wise,
Move hand in hand from dawn to dusk,
Each morning nearer Paradise.
Oh, not for them shall angels pray
They stand in everlasting light;
They walk in Allah's smile by day,
And nestle in his heart by night.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29

God. Their eyes met. Why should
not Asenath sing?
"Senath - cried the old man, out
upon the burning bricks he was now
scorched from his gray hairs to his
patched boots. The answer came tri-
umphantly:
"To die no more, no more no more !"
" Sene, little Sene!"
Some one pulled him back.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
The Wealth.

That the wealth of the United States
is passing into the hands of few is a
very common belief. In his address
before the Maryland Agricultural and
Mechanical Association, Senator Thur
man cites statistics to the contrary.
The increase of farms is greater than
that of population, and the increase of
small farms is considerably greater
than that of large ones. These are i'm
portant facts, and 60 far to justify his
hopes for the future prosperity of the
country.