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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Kalakaua's Kingdom.

The Sandwich Islands, otherwise called
the Kingdom of Hawaii from the princi-
pal member of the group, ought to re-
ceive little popular attention at this
time when its ruler is the guest of the
United States, the Boston journal says,
especially if it is true, as suspected, that
our government will be called upon to
ratify closer connection with those far
off isles as the upshot of the present royal
visit. The islands are twelve in number,
comprising in all little over 5000
square miles-about the size of Con-
necticut and Rhode Island. Two-thirds
of this area belongs to the island of
Hawaii, although Oahu is better known
generally from its containing Honolulu,
the capital city, which has about 10000
inhabitants. The population of the
whole group i'll 1872 was So, 897-about
the same as that of our county of
Plymouth. 1t will be seen, therefore,
that the islands are very sparsely inhabi-
ted, which is necessarily the case, owing
to their broken, volcanic surface. Noun
tains rise to the height of 14,000 feet
above the sea level, and the soil is mainly
composed of disintegrated lava and
basalt. To return to the population, it
appears by the last census of the inhabi-
tants that there were 1904 persons of
the pure native race, 2,4S5 of mixed
origin, 1,938 Chinese, $50 Americans,
619 English, and the remainder hailed
from other European countries.
The twentieth degree of north latitude
runs through the group, 50 that they are
in the same latitude as Cuba, while the
climate is said to be even more favorable
for the growth of sugar cane, cotton, and
other products of tropical character
There are good harbors, which would af-
ford convenient coaling stations for our
steam commerce with China and Japan.
Last year the islands took from us goods
to the value of 81 100000 and the year
before they sent us 80, 12S,0 900 worth.
Their export of sugar is about II, ZOO
tons, and, it is said, might be easily
doubled. Their other exports are coffee,
rice, tallow, hides, beef, mutton and ship
supplies. The government is that of u
constitutional monarchy, the people
having q voice in the choice of their
sovereign. The present king was chosen
last February. He has regular cabi-
net, all of whose members are American
or English, and council of sixteen
members, one-half of whom are natives.
The revenues in 1872 We're 1864, ,956.
There are hundreds of schools, in which
knowledge is taught both in the native
and the English tongues; numerous
printing presses at work, and half
dozen newspapers, some in Hawaiian
and some in the English languages. On
the whole, it is fair little kingdom for
the Hawaiians and other residents
whether we want it annexed to the Union
remains to be seen.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
About the Baby.

A baby is very tender thing, people
say but most of them are very far from
knowing how tender. Imagine how ner-
vous you are in certain states-when re-
covering from illness, say when the fall
OF book or the slam of a door makes you
quiver and feel faint, as if some one gave
you blow. That is the way young
baby feels at it's best. A puff of wind
will set it gasping, its little breath blown
quite away. A noise makes it shiver, a
change of summer air makes it turn
death-cold. A baby is the most nervous
of beings, and the tortures it suffers in
going to sleep and being awakened by
careless sounds when just dropping
off are only comparable to the same ex-
perience of an older person during an
acute nervous headache. Young babies
ought to pass the first months of their
lives in the country, for its stiffness no
less than its fresh air. But where silence
is not to be commanded, baby may be
soothed by folding soft napkin, wet in
warm water, lightly over the top of its
head, its eyes and ears. 1t is the best
way to put nervous babies to sleep. A
fine towel would be wet and laid over its
head, the ends twisted a little till it made
sort of skull-cap, and though baby
sometimes fought against being blind
folded in this way, five minutes usually
sent him off into deep and blissful
Slumber.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Farmers Boots and Shoes.

A farmer who has been accustomed to
wear thick boots for more than forty
years past says that, before wearing the
boots, give the bottoms a good coating
of tallow or coal-tar, and dry it in; then
oil the uppers with castor oil, about one
tablespoonful to each boot; then oil them
twice week with castor oil, When one
teaspoonful will be sufficient. If the
weather should be rainy, or you are COM
PEELED to work in water during the day,
wash your boots clean at night, hold
them by the fire until quite warm, and
oil them while wet, and you will have no
trouble about your boots getting hard
and shrinking up so that you cannot get
them on. If the leather should become
red give coat of ordinary shoe blacking
before oiling. The effect of castor oil is
to soften the leather, while it fills the
pores and prevents the water from enter
ing. 1 have stood in mud and water ten
hours day for week without feeling
any dampness or having any difficulty il
getting my boots on or off.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Commissions i'm Children.

The lists of deaths of this disease are
fearful, with prospect of becoming
more fearful, as the causes multiply.
Constipation of the bowels is the univer-
sal, immediate, or exciting cause, while
the fresh fermented bread, fried meats,
or cakes, sweetmeats, confections, indi-
gestible pastry, and abominable COM
pounds of butter, lard, eggs, sugar, and
starch, called puddings, are the predis-
posing causes. have known, says the
Science Of Heath, many a robust-look-
of hearty supper of griddle-cakes soak
ed in butter and molasses, with salted
ham, or mince-pie, and sometimes the
accomplishments of pickles, old cheese,
or dried beef, retire to bed an hour later,
and die of commissions before morning.
But this is not the place to write lee
trlre against numbering the innocents. y
Tepid enemas, repeated until the bowels
are freely moved, the warm bath, fomen,
tations, and sips of cold water, are the
remedies.
Children who are predisposed to con
vulsive disease are more liable to have
them developed during the period O
dentition; but it is only necessary t.
keep the bowels open to obviate all Sc
rious consequences.
Convulsive paroxysms often preced'
the eruptive stage of exanthems-small
pox, scarlatina, measles, and erysipelas
In these cases they are not alarming, anC
need no special treatment
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago

We are SO in the habit of modestly con-
sidering ourselves the youngest of peo-
pies, says an exchange, that we continu-
ally forget it is a fault which we are every
day outgrowing. We have some towns
which could claim anywhere the honors
due to respectable maturity, and one of
these, Weymouth, in Massachusetts,, re-
Gently celebrated the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of its settlement.
Col. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., made
an admirable address on the occasion,
giving an interesting history of the place.
In his introduction he referred to the
towns contemporaries, placing it in wor
shipful company. "When the first Euro
pean," he said, "made his home in old
Spain-when the earliest rude hut was
framed ON yonder north shore of Phil
lips Creek-the modern world in which
we live was Just assuming shape. Few
now realize how little of that which
makes up the vast accumulated store of
human possessions which we have in
he1ited from our fathers-which to us is
as the air we breathe-had then exist
ence. The Reformation was then young
Luther and Calvin and Erasmus were
men of yesterday; the. life-and-death
struggle with Catholicism still tortured
Eastern Europe. The thirty years war
ill Germany was just commenced, and
the youthful Gustavus Adolphus had yet
to win his spurs. The blood of Saint
Bartholomew was but half a century old,
and the murder of Henry ". was as near
to the men of 1922 as is that of Abraham
Lincoln to US. The great Cardinal-Duke
was then organizing modern France;
Charles L. had not yet ascended the
English throne; Hamden was young
country gentleman and Cromwell an un-
pretending English squire. While men
still believed that the sun moved round
the earth, Galileo and Kepler were
gradually ascertaining those laws which
guide the planets in their paths; Bacon
was meditating his philosophy; Don
Quixote was a Dewly-published work
with local reputation; and Milton, not
yet Cambridge pensioner, was making
his first essays at verse. Shakespeare
had died but six years before, and indeed
the first edition OF his plays did not ap-
pear until the very year in which Wey-
mouth was settled"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Wasted ElOquence.

The Baltimore Bulletin has the follow
ing "Some years ago young lawyer
of Baltimore, struggling for recognition
in his profession, and achieving no very
rapid or brilliant success in it, had case
fall into his hands that promised pretty
good fee. A gentleman's pocket had
was i'll Jail enjoying an excellent prospect
of protracted term in the penitentiary,
the evidence connecting him with the
crime being very complete. The lawyer
we might as well say who it was at
once and be done with 'it-Mr. John L.
Thomas, called on his incarcerated client
and had talk with him. Did you steal
the watch p well, no, not exactly.
You see was in the crowd that did it,
and it was passed to me. But I'll tell
you what, Mr.. Thomas, if you'll get me
off I'll give you this watch in addition to
the hundred dollar retainer you have
already Mr.. Thomas looked at the
watch and found it splendid piece,
worth $500 easy. 1t would appear that
Townsontown had gained a reputation
even in those days, for Mr.. Thomas's
first step was to change the venue to the
county. The case came up in due sea-
son, and the prisoner, the counsel, the
prosecuting witness, and all were on
hand. Somehow or other the chief
prosecuting witness, upon whose evi-
dence as the loser of the watch the pris-
oner's fate depended (while waiting for
the court to reach the case), got to drink
ing Townsontown whisky. At any rate,
when the witness got on the stand and
Mr.. Thomas got at him he was so mixed
that it was only out of Christian charity
that Mr.. Thomas was induced to refrain
from making him prove that he had
stolen his own watch himself. The cul-
prit was discharged from custody, and
he handed Mr.. Thomas the watch and an
800 besides. The emotions of the late
prisoner and his friends found vent at
the Smedley House in the appropriate
apartment, and Mr.. Thomas, feeling to a
certain extent responsible for their safe
return to Baltimore, hired an omnibus
and all drove into town in a condition of
great happiness. Mr. Thomas went
home quite pleased with the days work.
:Well, John, said one OF his family,
made big fee to-day, didn't youl'
ooh, yes, replied Mr.. Thomas, smiling
and putting his hand in his vest-pocket.
A shadow of doubt overspread his coun-
tenence; it deepened into positive alarm,
and then with look of blank dismay and
disgust he sank into chair. While
coming in the bus his rascally client had
relieved him of both watch and fee.
Several years afterwards, when Mr..
Thomas had made name in the profes-
sion and had become Prosecuting Attor-
ney, he saw among the batch Of new
cases in the criminal court the very fell
low that had served him such a trick
The man saw him, his countenance fell,
and he plead guilty on the spot, and got
ten years across the Falls. But you
should hear Mr.. Thomas tell this story
himself"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Was Not Poisoned,

DR.. Corlieu, French physician, has
Just come to the conclusion that the
eldest son of Francis l. died Of acute
pneumonia, brought on by drinking cold
water when he was hot. And yet more
than three hundred years ago the I'M
fortunate cup-bearer OF the Dauphin was
first put to the torture and then drawn
and quartered for having poisoned the
prince. The Dauphin had been playing
at tennis at Lyons, and being very hot,
told Sebastian Montecuccoli to hand him
bowl of water, which he drank Off AS
he at once sickened and died the cup
bearer was supposed, at the instigation
of Charles ", to have administered
poison. He was tortured, and of course
confessed anything required of him,
naming two of the Emperor's generals as
having been his accomplices. From Il
report of a committee of physicians who
examined the body, DIR. Corlieu says
that the Dauphin perished through his
own imprudence, and has thus removed
weight of ignominy from the memory
of Sebastian Montecuccoli, who is en-
tirely vindicated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
The Sultan and Satan.

There is an Eastern story of Sultan
who oversight himself so as not to awak-
Ell at the hour of prayer. So the devil
came and walked him, and told him to
get up and pray. "Who are you?"
said the Sultan. "Oh, no matter" re-
piled the other "my act is good, is it
notl No matter who does the good
action, SO long as it is good" "Yes,"
replied the Sultan, "but think you are
Satan. I know your face you have
some bad MOTIVE "But," says the
other, 81 am not so bad as L am painted.
You see 1 have left off my horns and
tail. 1 am pretty good fellow after all.
I was an angel once, and still keep some
of my original goodness. "Ihats all
very well," replied the sagacious and
prudent Caliph "but you are the temp
ter ; that's your business and I wish to
know why you want me to get up and
pray" "Well," said the devil, with a
flirt of impatience, eff you must know
I will tell you. If you had slept and for
gotten your prayers, you would have
been sorry for it afterward, and peni
tent but if you go on, as now, and do
not neglect a single prayer for ten years,
You will be so satisfied with yourself that
it will be worse for you than if you had
missed one sometimes and repented of
it. God loves your fault mixed with
penitence, more than your virtue sea-
soned with pride"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Trapping Grasshoppers in Algeria.

Gen. Chanzy, this past season, issued
a circular to the generals of divisions and
projects in Algeria, directing them, in
dealing with these public pests, to adopt
the method which has been successfully
employed III Cyprus. This comprises
systematic seeking and Destroying of the
grasshoppers' eggs, and also attacking
the crickets ON the march. 1t seems that
before becoming full-blown grasshop-
pers, the crickets, about a month after
they are Matched, begin to march, and
this they do in large, compact masses
for period averaging some twenty
seven days, during which they never
sweIve from the line OF route once
adopted.
The people of Cyprus take a band of
silk from sixty'tive to seventy cent?
metres high and 100 metres long, and
this they tie vertically to poles firmly
fixed in the ground, the upper part be-
ing waXed or bordered with oil silk to
width of about ten centimetres, and the
earth so heaped up under it as to leave
no crevice between the silk and the
ground A second band is then set up,
50 as to form a sort of gallery of grad
ually diminishing width, being at the
mouth somewhat wider than the column
of crickets, but only five metres wide at
the other end, where is trench five
metres long, one and half wide, and
one deep. This forms the trap or "sys-
TEN" several of which, 100 metres long,
can be placed end TO end and transport
ed to any point threatened by the in
vaders. All that has to be done is to
wait till the column of cIickets has reach
ed the trench. Then it is covered in
with earth, and nothing more is seen of
the crickets.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
A;Spurious King Makes Lots of Fun for tho
Money Changers.

.hoHty
AS the members of the New York
Stock Exchange were pleasantly occu-
pying the time while awaiting the arrival
of King Kalalsaua by knocking off each
others hats, n cOmmotion was observed
at the door and tall, robust colored
man was carried in, borne rapidly to the
front of the rostrum and placed standing
upon the table. Everybody cheered
Justify, and report began to circulate
that the monarch of the Sandwich
Islands was present. He had new and
glossy silk hat on his head and tin
trumpet under his arm. With perfect
composure he put the instrument to his
mouth and blew n blast such as has
never before been heard in that or prob
ably any other stock exchange.
As soon as President Mitchell,
who occupied the rostrum, recovered
from his astonishment he ordered the
bogus king out, but the more earnestly
he insisted upon his retirement the more
vigorously did the bogus sovereign
sound his trumpet. He had taken off
his hat and placed it at his feet and ap-
peared to be absorbed in sort of musi-
cal ecstacy, from which he was r1ldely
awakened by half dozen brokers throw
ing their arms around him and bearing
him to the door. Other brokers, not yet
tired of the fun, resisted this attempt
and tried to replace him on the rostrlm.
The rapping of the vice-presidents NAL
let was not heard amid the tumult
When the sable visitor was finally shot
into the street, his new silk hat had been
fattened to the thickness of pancake.
The total cost OF the entertainment was
S13.25 namely, So for the hat, S025
for the trumpet, and S5 to the colored
representative of royalty, who refused to
take the risk for single cent less. 1t
is not known whether Mr.. Walter Neil
son paid the whole sum or only portion
of it.
Hardly had the members regained
their composure when from the Wall
street entrance a party of brokers were
seen advancing toward the rostrum. In
their company was an italian family con-
sisting of an organ grinder, his wife and
a baby. The itinerant musician carried
his instrument with him, and walked for
ward, occasionally Struggling his should
ers in mild protest against the manner in
which he had been torn away from his
avocation at the corner of neighboring
street. His wife was less composed, and
lamented with tears and wailings the de-
plorable fate which she evidently believed
was in store for her husband. When the
party arrived in front of the rostrlm, the
italian unslung his organ and calmly
ground out an operatic air. He was re-
warded with something more substantial
than applause, and his amazed wife
dried her tears, placed the baby upon the
floor, and going down upon her knees,
gathered up the currency that was iber-
ally showered upon her by the exhilar-
ated brokers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
Sleep On Till Day.

Oh, sleep on till day. my love, sleep on till day
No trouble assail thee, no danger ARRAY
Oh sleep Oh till day, my love, sleep on till day.
Airs round thee trembling,
Love-sighs resembling,
Lnger moment, and vanish away
Oh sleep on till day. my love, sleep on till day.
The pale stars are setting, the dawn rises gray.
The kind hours they laugh as they hasten away
They know twill be day soon the beautiful day:
Crowned tomorrow,
End of my sorrow
Meeting, with never farewell to say
Oh sleep on till day, my love, sleep on till day.
Yet life's but vision too lovely to stay:
Morn passes, noon cometh, and pleasures decay;
Soon evening approaches and closes the day.
Then laid with praises
Under the daisies,
Smiling we'll creep to one pillow Of clay
And sleep on till day, my love- sleep on till day
Miss Mulock.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
A Hard Place to Ride.

A man was found ON wheel truck of
a passenger car at Reading, Pa, the
other day, who said he had come all the
way from California, and had travelled in
that manner altogether. Such business
as that is terrible to contemplate. To
be doubled up under passenger car
and exposed to the cold air and the dust,
while being whirled along at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, to say nothing of
the noise and danger, is something ro-
mantically fearful.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14

BUSINESS PROSPECTS. tide is
turning. We have passed the point of
dead low water and business is reviving.
The Boston Post says, for instance, that
within the last month a very noticeable
change in manufacturing business has
taken place-that the classes of factories
now are those which are running ON full
time, and those which are increasing
from one-half or two-thirds to their full
production; and that no better gauge of
the manufacturing interests of New Eng
land could be found than this.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
The Bear in Winter.

A writer in the~s Popular Science
MOmhly says Zone of the most curl
ous characteristics of the bear is its habit
of alternating through the winter.
During the autumn it becomes very fat,
and about the end of October, completing
its winter house, ceases feeding for the
year. A remarkable phenomenon then
takes place in the animals digestive
organs. The stomach, no longer supplied
with food contracts into very small
space. A mechanical obstruction called
the "tappen, composed of fine leaves or
other eXtraneous substances, blocks the
alimentary canal and prevents the out
ward passage of any matter. The bear
continues in its den until the middle Of
April, in dull, lethargic condition. If
discovered and killed at any time in this
period, it is found to be as fat as at the
beginning. 1t is said, however, that if it
loses the tappen before the end Of its
Information, it Immediately becomes ex-
tremely thin. During the Information
the bear gains a new skin upon the balls
of its feet, and during the same time also
the female bear brings forth her young,
from two to four in number. The latter
act occurs generally from the middle of
January to the middle of February. The
pairing season occurs in the summer,
from June to September. The period of
CESSATION is about seven months, and the
newly born cubs are scarcely larger than
Dl1DDieS
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14

At recent meeting of English agri-
cultural laborers at which the famous
scholar, Prof. Newman, was to speak,
the farmers and landed proprietors sue
ceeded in shutting every hall, and when
the meeting was called in the market
place were, by the connivance of the
church wardens and town authorities,
allowed to ring the bells throughout the
speaking.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14

And so their strange unknown little
friend died, holding their hands in hers (;
but her prayer lived after her, and was
answered, for these two have been blessed
with perfect love and faith, in sweet
companionship.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14

A well authenticated case of death
from the sting of a hornet recently oc-
CURED in England. A woman who was
stung by one in the neck tainted imme-
diately and expired in few minutes.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-04-03

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