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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
His Patience Explained.

have heard the story of an incident
at one of the Richmond hotels, which
made me laugh, although all readers
may not see anything funny about it.
4 Boston man and two Virglnians sat
at the same table. The Boston man
was shocked to hear the Virginians
call the colored waiter "a black rascal"
and "nIgger." Sure, he thought, the
spirit of slavery is strongly upon this
people. He was careful to call the
waiter "his friend" when ordering
dishes, and to speak to him in the
kindest and most polite manner. Not
withstanding his honey speeches and
bland smiles, he noticed that The waiter
brought the Virginians altogether the
best dinner.
When the Virginians left the table,
the sympathetic, but rather poorly-fed,
Boston man, hastened to get the ear of
the waiter. "Here were those two
men, who insulted you and swore at
you, and talked rough, yet you brought
them a much better dinner than me,
who spoke to you most kindly and
politely how is this?" "Well," re-
piled the African, as he cast a sly
glance around, and wiped the perspira-
tion from his forehead with the corner
of napkin. 81 know these men talk
sorter rough like, but they gives me
money, and you don't r. The Boston
man retired with slight feeling of dis
gust.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
Jmparting Disease.

1t is not often that dogs are instru-
mental in the spreading of smallpox,
but an instance showing how the dread
ed disease was impaired in this manner
has just come to light at Yonkers, N.
Y. Not many hours subsequent to the
death of a man named Van Orden from
the loathsome malady indicated, and
which occurred in that city few days
since, neighbor's dog found its way
to the bed from which the corpse had
been removed, and INDUCED in a roll
on the covering. On returning home
the brute was fondled by it's mistress,
the result being that she soon after
wards developed unmistakable symp-
toms of the contagion. The infectious
dog was then summarily shot, and the
patient has since recovered. Another
illustration of the facility with which
the pestilential disorder can be trans
mitted may be cited in connection with
the same case. 1t seems that the wife
of Van Orden, fearing that the health
officer would order the clothing worn
by her deceased husband to be burned,
concealed bundle of it in the house OF
friend, and as consequence the lat
ter was attacked with a mild type OF
smallpox, which ultimately yielded,
however, to prompt medical treatment.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
A Rattlesnake Story.

If it will not fatigue you, will tell
you snake scene of the olden time,
said an old Tennessean. A neighbor
with wife and one child built his
cabin on fiat rock among the cliffs.
The rock furnished him with substan-
tial floor, impervious to floods but not
to snakes. Upon this rock Peter built
his cabin his winter fires were built
in the centre of the house; the chin
ney stack of rocks and mud protruded
through the roof and carried off the
smoke. The fires being kept during
the winter upon this floor, early in the
spring thawed the snakes. He and his
wife and child occupied their only bed
in corner, elevated some two feet
from the rock. Just before day he was
awakened by the crawling of snakes
over the bed, and their kissing all over
the house. He soon became satisfied
that his cabin was infested with snakes.
1t was dangerous to attempt to walk
across the rock floor to the door, as he
could not avoid being enveloped by
snakes, so he whispered to his wife to
cover up her head and that of the child
with the bedclothes, and hold them
down, and remain in that condition
until his return, as he was going to es-
cape through the roof of the house and
bring her relief by morning. He thus
escaped, and alarmed the neighbors,
who assembled at the break of day.
with guns and ropes. They examined
the situation and found that the floor
and bed were covered with snakes.
They got to the roof, made an opening,
let down ropes that had running
nooses," and after great care and diff
Guilty they were placed under the arms
of his wife, and she, holding to her
child, they were safely drawn up, and
thus saved from destruction.
The rattlesnakes herd together and
lie dormant under the rocks and cliffs,
and this rock happened to be their win
ter headquarters, and being thawed by
the fire that night, took up their line OF
march. There were upward of hun
dred slain that morning, and found
among the embers of the burned cabin.
l do not know how it is now, but ]
know that sixty years ago this was an
awful snake country. But 1 suppose
that the snake, like the bear, the pan
ther, wolf, and Indian, has retired be.
fore the approach of civilization, and is
now seldom seen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
A Startling Crime.

The crime perpetrated near Henry
villc, Ind, says the New York World,
was one of the most horrible that a set
of blood thirsty criminals could con-
ceive. The victim, August Gardner,
appears to have been perfectly peace
able man. In very straitened circum-
stances, with only $5 in his pocket, he
was, according to his statement made
just before dying, walking to Louis
vile, where he hoped to get employ
ment. The three wretches who over
took him, after robbing him of the lit
tie money he had, tied him to the rail-
road track to be run over and killed by
the cars. Was not the man drunk
and asleep on the track? and did he not
invent the horrible story to excuse his
own fault and create sympathy Pare
questions which at once suggest them
selves, and they were the first ones put
to the dying man by the physician who
went to attend him. But on inspecting
the track at the spot where the man
said he was laid, the ropes were found
still tied fast to the cattle-guards, the
ends that were fastened around the rail
having been cut off by the wheels as
they passed over. The crime was per-
petrated in the middle of the dark,
rainy night, and the victim lay bound
to the rail for half an hour, struggling
and shouting for help before he ''heard
the cars whistle" Then he lay still and
"shut his eyes," His left leg was cut
of, the train passing lover the rest of
his body without crushing it. When
crime so hideous as this is committed
it seems as if the populace should not
wait for the regular authorities to hunt
down the perpetrators. Every man in
the country should come to the help of
the officers of the law.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
Crazy from Wealth.

A singular case of suicide recently
occurred in Gessenay, near Berne, in
Switzerland. The man, who killed
himself, had by immense efforts, in
which he was seconded by his wife,
who was even more avaricious than
himself. succeeded in amassing a con-
siderable sum of money. Not long ago
he was informed that legacy of 25, 900
francs had been left him. This piece
of fortune gave him the mortal blow, a
profound melancholy seized him, and
The fear of death from hunger haunted
hi N day and night. To avoid this fear
full prospect, he stealthily left his house,
went into the neighboring forest, and
hung himself TO pine branch. He
left 100000 francs.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
Night Work.

"Aye maister," said Cornish miner
in Colorado, sit be true a hard loife,
but we uns are brought up to it like,
and begout the danger we'll emile it
some loike O. you the air bout you.
Aye, it be, master, dark, but don't
think'se we cawn't tell g day from
noight. Aye, can we, and make a
moighty differ atween e noight and
day. No man can sleep e same in the
day as noight; he cawn't fix it up no.
how, an we do know when noight come
on to e. minute, when q sun go down.
But worst O. all be what we uns calls e.
dyin' hour O. the night; its fro three
or four O. mornin'. There'e best O. uns
gins e hammer a slight pop an feels
his strength goin'." Experience in
the mines proves that curious fact that
there is ''dying hour" between three
and four o'clock in the morning; and
though one would think day and night
the same in this Egyptian gloom, the
miners find vast difference.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
5wAY ELK COUNTY, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER a. 1874
A Hundred Dollar Outfit.

II girl has but hundred dollars tc
get herself wedding outfit she should
buy q white muslin If it is summer, @
white alpaca if it is winter, and make
it herself. Then she should manage
out of her money one good black silk,
at two dollars per yard, or an alpaca al
seventy five cents per yard, linen OF
brege suit, a striped polonaise, and
black silk skirt and two cambrics or
for winter one dark English print and
one delaine. OF course, if the black
silk is achieved the black silk skirt is
omitted, and the striped polonaise may
or may not stand in the place of the
more useful alpaca.
The possibilities all depend upon the
cleverness of the girl, her faculty for
making little go great way, and put.
ting her own intelligence, her own
ideas, and her own fingers to use.
If she is very smart she ought to
have twenty-five dollars left for hat
(straw or felt), shoes, gloves, and out
side garment-underwear having been
previously made by her own hands.
1t used to be considered disgraceful
for girl not to have handsome stock
of underclothing, neatly stitched and
embroidered by her own deft fingers,
and there is no excuse for it now. It is
easily obtained piece by piece, is in
initely more satisfactory than machine
made and store bought, and is valuable
as giving her an experience in indus
trial art.
Five hundred dollars is the average
spent on bridal outfits, and those who
think that large sum must remem-
Der that the whole of it would not pay
for many a wedding dress, or for any
one out of dozens of articles which go
to form fashionable bridal trous-
seaur. A velvet cloak or lace shawl
might easily cost as much, and an ele-
giant India scarf Gan indispensable)
twice that sum; so that prospective
brides who have made up their minds
that five hundred dollars will buy
Everything" must be prepared to de-
eide between what they want and what
they decide to get, and not sacrifice too
much to point lace, which is only fit for
a dowager, and train which has to be
cut off at the third time of wearing.
If a sensible girl is going to settle
down into a plain farmers wife, and
does not want white dress at all, has
no use for it and does not know that
she ever shall have, she should provide
herself with nice gray or wood-brown
all wool suit-or poplin if she prefers
and can afford an Irish poplin-have
hat and gloves to match, and white
silk or crepe necktie, with a sprig of
orange blossom in it instead of
brooch. This will be tasteful enough
for the most fastidious if it is well
made, and useful and economical
enough for the most saving.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
The Wild Sheep of California.

I have been greatly interested in
studying their habits during the last
four years, while engaged in the work
of exploring these high regions. In
spring and summer, the males form
separate bands. They are usually met
in small focks, numbering from three
to twenty, feeding along the edges of
glacier meadows or resting among the
castle-like crags of lofty SUBMITS and,
whether feeding or resting, or scaling
wild cliffs for pleasure, their noble
forms, the very embodiment of muscu-
lar beauty, never fail to strike the be-
holder with liveliest admiration. Their
resting places seem to be chosen with
reference to sunshine and wide out
look, and, most of all, to safety from
the attacks of wolves. Their feeding
grounds are among the most beautiful
of the wild Sierra gardens, bright with
daisies and gentians and mats of
blooming shrubs.
These are hidden away high on the
sides of rough canons, where light is
abundant, or down in the valleys, along
laka borders and stream banks, where
the plushy turf is greenest and the
purple heather grows. Sweet grasses
also grow in these happy Alpine gar
dens, but the wild sheep eats little be-
sides the spicy leaves and shoots of the
various shrubs and bushes, perhaps
relishing both their taste and beauty,
although tame men are slow to suspect
wild sheep of seeing more than grass.
When winter storms fall, decking their
summer pastures in the lavish bloom of
snow, then, like blue birds and robins,
our brave sheep gather and go to warm
er climates, usually descending the
eastern flank of the range to the narrow
birch-filled gorges that open into the
sage plains, where snow never falls to
any great depth, the elevation above
the sea being about from 5000 to 1000
fee. Here they sojourn until spring
sunshine unlocks the canons and
warns the pastures OF their glorious
Alps.
In the months of June and July they
bring forth their young, in the most
solitary and inaccessible crags, far
above the nest of the eagle. I have
frequently come npon the beds of the
ewes and lambs at an elevation of from
$4,000 to $4,000 feet above sea level.
These beds consist simply of an oval
shaped hollow, paved cut among loose
disintegrating rock chips and sand,
upon some sunny spot commanding a
good outlook, and partially sheltered
from the winds that sweep passionately
across those lofty crags almost without
intermission. Such is the cradle of the
little mountaineer, aloft in the sky,
rocked in storms, curtained in clouds,
sleeping in thin, icy air but, wrapped
in his hairy coat, nourished by a warm,
strong mother, defended from the tai
ons of the eagle and teeth of the sly
cayote, the bonnie lamb grows apace.
He learns to nibble the purple daisy
and leaves of the white spir@a, his
horns begin to shoot, and ere summer
is done he is strong and agile, and goes
forth with the flock, shepherded by the
same divine love that tends the more
hopeless human lamb in its warm era
die by the freside.- Overland Monthly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24

GoNE.-Colonel Congreve, the cele-
brated inventor of the destructive Con-
greve rocket, was a musical amateur,
and one day accompanied Nine. YES
iris, the greater singer, to view monu-
ment that had been erected to the mem
ory of Purcell, the composer. The
Colonel read aloud the epitaph with
good emphasis and modulation: "He
is gone to that place where alone his
harmony can be exceeded" Vestris
Immediately cried out, ella, Colonel |
the same epitaph will serve for you by
merely altering one word, thus "He
is gone to that place where alone his
fireworks can be exceeded"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24

"My father was farmer berore me,
and 1 thank God that 1 am a farmer
born" Such was the soft soap with
which well-known Western lawyer ex-
pected to soothe the Changers with on
the occasion of meeting them just be-
fore an election. 1t reminded speaker
of the Illinois orator who addressed a
rural audience "Gentlemen," said
he, 81 am proud to be one of you. My
father was a farmer, and am farm
er born. Yea, I may truly say was
born between two rows of corn" At
this iunctuIe a tipsy agriculturist at
the further part of the house hiccough-
ed out: ga (hic) pumpkin, by thun-
der n
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
The Canada Thistle in Missouri,

The foothold which this formidable
weed to farmers is getting in Mis-
souri,, ought to attract attention. In
England, the thistle is held to be SO
noxious, as to be common enemy to
the whole population. No farmer,
landowner, or gentleman will pass one
growing on the roadside without stop
ping to cut it down with his pocket
knife and it is the habit in some COM
munities for landowners to carry a
pocketful of salt, with which to salt
the fresh stump, as an additional Sc
curity against its sproutipg up again.
Even cutting and sailing, however, does
not always destroy the life of the stub
born plant and the only sure method
OF determination is to dig up each plant,
dry it in the sun and burn it. Flowing
under scarcely makesany impression on
it. 1t is generally said amongst farm
ers, that Judgement of the Canadian
thistle on farm, impairs it's value to
the extent of five dollars per acre.
Five years ago it was comparatively un-
known in Missouri, but now it's purple
heads and thorny leaves can be fire.
quently seen along the railroads,
mhchSO ~ 10 SOA0iauJ CrSSplHS luGO Un6
adjacent fields. When the seeds are
ripe in the fall, they are borne abroad
on the down which supports them, and
scattered far and wide. If the plant is
to be kept down-it is too late now to
keep it out-relentless war will have to
be waged against it, not only by land
owners, but by county courts, and even
by the State. The Legislature ought to
enact a law, requiring railroad COM
paries to keep the margin of their
road clear of it; county courts ought
to pass orders, instructing road over
seers to cut down or rip up all the
plants along the public highway once a
year; and farmers and landowners
ought to carry the same process into
their fields.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24

That house is no home which has a
grumbling father, a scolding mother, a
dissipated son, lazy daughter, and a
bad-tempered child. 1t may be built
of marble, surrounded by garden, park
and fountain carpets of extravagant
costliness may spread its floors pic
lures of rarest merit may adorn its
walls /; its tables may abound with
dainties the most luxurious its every
ordering may be complete but it
won't be a home"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24

At Richmond, near London, the ants,
red and black, and without wings, have
suddenly assumed the character OF a
plague.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24

A Chicago gentleman has sued the
Times of that city for $1,000 damage
to his character. The Times asks him
to knock off the cyphers, take a dollar,
and call it square.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24

Bayard Taylor writes from Iceland
that he offered an Icelander piece of
money for some small service, and the
man laughed and ran awayl
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-24
Sorrows of Werther.

Werther had love for Charlotte,
Such as words could never utter.
Would you know how first lie met her2
Slu was cutting bread and butter.
Charlotte was q ruarried lady,
And moral man was Werther,
And for ali the wealth of Indies
Would do nothing that might hurt her,
So he sighed and pined and ogled,
And his passion boiled and bubbled:
Till he blew his silly brains out,
And no moro was by them troubled.
Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before her on a shutter
Like well'co;ducted person
went On cutting bread and butter.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-05
Tobacco Prospects.

BY the end of this week the Los
Angeles Tobacco Company will have
set out about forty-five acres of
young plants. 1t is all in a thriving
condition. The earliest plants look
fine and are growing rapidly. DIR.
HOWARD, who is a stakeholder in the
Gilroy Association and is also largely
interested in the Los Angeles Tobacco
Company, returned a few days ago
from trip to Gilroy, and he reports
the tobacco here at least three weeks
ahead of that of the Gilroy Company.
Old tobacco growers and others who
have seen a great deal of the business,
all pronounce the tobacco now growing
in this valley as promising as any
they have ever seen. The opinion of
DR.. HOWARD and others of experience
that the soil and climate of this valley
is especially adapted to the growth of
tobacco is already verified, and we
predict that after this year the article
will be one of the staple products of
the valley.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-05

WE are afraid the President has de-
stroyed his chance for third term in
the nomination of RICHARDSON for
Judge of the Court of Claims. The
nomination has been confirmed by the
Senate, and thus man with record
as spotted as leopard skin, is placed
in an honorable and responsible posi-
ton. In forcing this man on the SEN
ate, the President offers direct insult
to every honest man in that body, and
in confirming the nomination the Sen
ate proves that its majority is not COM
posed of that class of men who take
affront at an insult to honesty.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-05
Pacific Slope Brevities.

At Rio Vista, May 3Oth, for license,
so; against license, so.
The Marysville street railroad will
commence operations July 4th.
The patent for the town site of
Yreka has been ordered from Wash
ington.
The road from Healdsburg to Pine
Flat is to be completed within ninety
days.
Lung fever has made its appearance
at Moore's Flat, and great many are
sick with it.
The Napa Register wants the Napa
river deepened so that large vessels cam
reach that city.
On Thursday the trial of Geo. Bush
by, for the murder of William Brady,
began at Marysville.
Reno has subscribed $3.50 toward
building road from that place to
Loyalton, Sierra Valley.
Mr.. Tunison, of Napa, is engaged in
putting up the first steam engine ever
built in Napa county.
At Vacas Station, May 30th, at the
local option election, there were so
votes cast on each side.
All the snow has left Scott mouII-
tain, and the Trinity and Scott noun
tain road is now open for travel.
The coasting steamer Eastport re-
Gently struck on Blunt's reef, off Cape
Mendocino, and received such injuries
as compelled her to put into Eureka
for repairs.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-05
SAN FRANCISCO,
A Public BenefacfOr-James Lick Gives
the People His Entire Fortume-su.
icid g. Rasseuepr List

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.-Lawrence
McNulty committed suicide to-day at
his room in a house on Jesse street, by
cutting his throat from ear to ear with
common pocket-knife. He had been
porter in the store of Solomon Gump.
No cause is assigned for the deed.
James Lick has donated nearly his
entire property to the public by deeds
of trust. He gives 100000 for the
Tahoe Observatory, 100000 to endow
school of Mechanical Artists of this
State, $4,000 for public monuments,
$l5O, 900 for public baths, 100000 for
the Old Ladies' Home, and the residue
in excess of $1,7S0,000 to the Academy
of Sciences and Pioneers.
The following the list of passengers
per Kalorama, which sailed to-day:
For San Pedro-Mrs. Kelsey, J. May
field, A. E. Moseler, l.. Mesmer and
friend, Miss Parker, b. Lafferty, H.
Mcclellan, A. M. Ellis, L. NJ. Peters,
b. &. Hathaway, Miss w. Clifford,
Theodore Springer, Miss j. Z. Ryan,
Langdon.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-05

THE lady crusaders against whisky
have adopted as an electioneering ar
gument one of the inducements which
they say entces men into saloons
free lunch. At the election in Oak
land they distributed free lunch to all
who would accept, furnished lemon
AIDE by the bucketful, and stuck bou-
quets in the buttonholes of all who
were fortunate enough to own a but
tonhole. The attack was irresistible,
and many of the strongest advocates
of license surrendered Internationally.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-06-05

DORA DARMooRE, of Oakland, is
one of the brightest and most sensible
literary women on the Pacific Coast.
Her new journal, The Homestead, has
reached the age of four months, and is
already very sensible youngster. 1T
is devoted to the interests Of woman,
favors female suffrage, and goes for
the rights of the sex, from the Queen
lady to the peasant girl.