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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
An Important Matter.

Many persons eat far too much flesh.
and would be the better for more copi-
GUS admixture of vegetables. Others
have too much vegetable, and especially
farinaceous food, and not enough flesh,
regard being had in either case to the
work which the individual has to do. and
to the power of digestion. Too exclu-
sive flesh diet is the vice of many rich
people, who even allow their children at
school to indulge in game pies and other
articles of the highest class, such as I'M
fit boys for plain fare, and deprive them
of the help which higher diet might
afford them hereafter in case of illness.
Too much animal food is unduly stimu-
liant, renders children restless and quar-
relsome, young men sensual and Philis-
tine, and elderly men gouty and dyspep-
tic Too exclusively vegetable or farm
aceous diet, especially if tried too sud
denly by persons unused to it, has for its
first effect to constipate the bowels,
which become loaded with masses of
undigested potato, bread or rice. We
believe that it may be laid down as an
axiom, that, other things being equal,
the more the brain is worked, the greater
need is there for animal food. Town
people must have more meat, as a rule,
than country folks; the children of pro-
fessional men more than the children of
agricultural laborers. Still rich towns
people on the whole should use less
flesh, and the poor ones more.
There are plenty of vegetable stimu-
lants, some combined with nourishment,
as in mushrooms and Onions; others I'M
combined, as the peppers and spices.
And the way to insure the greater use
of nutrient vegetables is to confer on
them some of the flavor and stimulating
properties of animal food. BY this
means the people who eat too much
flesh, and the people who cannot get
flesh enough, would each have the best
substitute. Rich people who can afford
what they like, may lessen the consump-
ton of meat by introducing various ac-
cessories-as stewed fruit with roast
meat-and by substituting the most
recherche vegetable dishes for entrees of
meat. Poor people, who wish to reduce
the quantity OF flesh for economical rea-
sons, must fall back upon the farinacea
and on vegetables generally, and ell
deavor, by appropriate admixture of
vegetable condiments to initiate the
stimulating and satisfying qualities of
animal food. In fact, puddings and
other dishes which are too commonly
eaten with sugar should be made savory
by the addition of the condiments that
generally accompany meat. ---Medica
Times and Gazcte.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
NO. 46.
A Bad Manager.

What a picture for "those about to
| marry is thus given in the Saturday
ReUie,C of wife who is bad manager:
" Her dress is always stained with the
dropplngs of her teacup, and she has no
intermediate state between untidiness
and tinery. She puts on her best clothes
for morning walk, and keeps nothing
for her visiting days. Her piano always
wants tuning, and she never remembers
the date of the tax-collector's visits. She
forgets her gloves or her card-case till
she has arrived at the hall door, and when
they are brought the gloves always want
buttons, and there are no cards in the
case. She never learns the rate of post
age, and writes her foreign letters after
the mail has gone out. A drive in cab
involves q fight about the fare, and she
brushes the muddy wheel with her dress
in getting out She expects her servants
to do everything without instructions,
and usually speaks of them as 'wretches'
While she exacts obsequiors respect
from them, she talks before them of their
shortcomings. She gives them needless
trouble by her laziness or carelessness,
and, while she does nothing for their
comfort, expects them to study hers con-
stantly. She will thoughtlessly ring
them up to the top of the house to put
on the Goals which are in the scuttle be-
side her chair, and will heedlessly send
them on three or four errands when q
little forethought on her part would have
made one enough. She never interests
herself in their welfare, hardly knows
their names, never spares them when
they are i'll, or thinks of how she may
save them trouble. She provides no
wholesome literature for their leisure
reading, and does not inquire after the
proper investment of their little savings.
Their wages are always in arrear, and she
habitually tempts their honesty by leav-
ing her purse or her letters lying about,
and yet frequently suspects them without
cause. She charges them with theft and
untruthfulness on the smallest grounds,
and constantly fancies that they are look
ing at her through the keyhole or listen
ing behind the door. She is indignant
when they give her notice, and refuses
them character when she finds that
they cannot compel her to give them
one. She knows nothing of them after
they leave her, and never concerns her.
self to get them places. She expects
them both to be up before her in the
morning and also to sit up late for her at
night. If she is i'll they must attend her
like nurses, rise to her call at all hours
of the night, and work for her in every
respect as if they loved her."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
Gold Fish.

Seth Green says this as to the proper
care and treatment of gold fish, Never
take the fish in your hand. If the aqua
rum needs cleaning, make net of mos
quito netting and take the fish in it.
There are many gold fish killed by han
ding. Keep your aquarium clean, SO
that the water looks as clear as crystal.
Watch the fish little, and you will find
out when they are all right. Feed them
all they will eat, and anything they will
eat-worms, meat, fish water and fish
spawn. Take great care that you take all
they do not eat out of the aquarium. Any
decayed meat or vegetables in the water
has the same smell to a fish that it does
to you in the air. If your gold fish die,
it is attributable, as rule, to one of the
causes-handling, starvation, OF bad wa
ter
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
The Group Among Children.

This is one of the most common mala-
dies of early childhood, says Science OF
Health. Scrofulous and plethoric chill
dren are most subject to it. All "rich"
(gross) kinds of food predispose to it, as
candies, sweet cakes, greasy admiXtures,
fried dishes etc.
The early symptoms are wheezy in
spiration, with some difficulty of breath
ing, without fever, soon followed by the
shrill, ringing inspirations and oppressed
breathing, which are peculiar to the dis
ease. The patient now manifests the low,
or typhoid, form of fever, which is one
essential accompaniment. After a few
hours or days, the symptoms will gradu-
ally disappear, OF the patient will die of
exhaustion or suffocation.
The essential point in the successful
tion into the windpipe, and prevent the
formation of what is called false mem
brane, as this must necessarily be de-
tached from the mucous surface, and if
it is not expelled through the narrow
glottis, the patient must be inevitably
choked to death.
The throat must be enveloped in cold
wet cloths, the colder the better, and
often renewed until the preternatural
heat is subdued. In extreme cases,
pounded ice is better. If the surface is
hot and feverish, tepid ablutions are in
dicated, as in the hot stage of all fevers
and infammations. If the superficial
heat is unequal, and the extremities in
clined to coldness, the warm bath and
hot applications to the feet are necessary.
The expectoration of the adhesive excre-
ton may be facilitated by means of sips
of warm water, and the vapor OF steam of
hot water, The early treatment should
always be prompt and vigorous, as, in
most cases, the result depends ON arrest
ing the morbid excretion at once.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, Pa THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1875
them to sink in the hands of their

them to sink IN the hands of their
holders !"
Finally, in February, 1881, after every
expedient had been tried in vain and the
currency was hopelessly gone, Congress
appointed Robert Morris Superintendent
of Finance, and he, by boldly throwing
his personal credit into the breach, saved
the failing fortunes of the country. In
May, 1881, the Bank of North America
was chartered. with a capital of s400, 900,
and its notes payable in cash on demand
were made receivable for taxes and
duties. By the aid of this bank, and of
loans raised abroad to the amount of
$40, 100000, the war was carried on and
brought to successful termination. So
great, however, was the public abhor-
renee of an irredeemable currency that
when our present Constitution was form
ed no power was given in terms to Con-
gress to issue paper money, and it was
expressly forbidden to the States.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
Cupid Swallowed.

Tother day as 1 was twining
Roses for a crown to dine in,
What, of all things, midst the heap.
Should L light on, fast asleep,
But the little desperate elf
The tiny traitor---Love himself
by the wings pinched him up
Like bee, and in cup
VI my wine plunged and sank him
And what dye think did ?---I drank him |!
Faith, thought him dead Not he
There he lives with tenfold glee
And now this moment, with his wings
l feel him tickling my heart-strings.
Leigh HINT.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
Our Foreign Imports.

We give below the importations into
the United States from foreign countries
of several articles for the fiscal wears
1873 and 1874 respectively, and show the
amount of the decrease of imports and Of
duties:
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07

A Washington Judge has decided that
in the case of drawn bet, the stake
holder may either keep the money him
self or devote it to better purpose in
charity.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
And you know what the little old
woman had done to the third chair.

Somebody has been sitting in mn chair. and ba.
sat the bottom Of ii out I"
said the little, small, wee bear, in his
little, small, wee voice.
Then the three bears thought it neces-
sary that they should make farther
search; SO they went up stairs into their
bed-chamber. Now the little old woman
had pulled the pillow of the great, huge
bear out of its place.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07

STOVE POLISH AND SoAPsUDs.-
stove polish is mixed with soapsuds, the
luster appears Immediately, and the dust
of the polish does not fly around as it
usually does.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07

An Arkansas grocer has been sent to
the penitentiary for six years for shoot
ing man who "kept helping himself to
the crackers"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
Ignorance and Crime.

We doubt, says the Scientific Ameri-
can, if more striking evidence of the
necessity of compulsory education laws
and the provision of means for their rigid
enforcement could be found than appears
in a suggestive fact in the pages of re-
cent report of the National Prison Asso-
citation. This volume, which is filed
with copious statistics of prisons and
convicts in this country, deals inciden-
tally with the causes of crime, making
its deductions from the various prison
reports of the mental and social condition
of the incarcerated. Ignorance is proved
to be the worst evil with which COM
munity must struggle. Fortyeight per
cent. of all the convicts In the United
States can neither read nor write, and
only one per cent. of the aggregate have
acquired superior education. We trust
that the enforcement of the compulsory
laws already enacted in some of the
States will soon justify the wisdom that
prompted them, and lead to an improve
ment in the average education of the
lower classes.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07

The most repulsive member of the
Brighton aquarium, says the Danbury
Ne,0s man, was the octopus. 1t is diff
cult to describe it. Its body is in front
of its head, and consists of a yellowish
watery bag, like that of a spider. Its
legs, of which there are any number, are
long and Shiny, and armed their whole
length with suction tubes. Once fastened
to any enemy it would be a difficult matter
for the unfortunate to escape. An oc-
topus is the most dreadful looking object
ever saw. would rather wear earrings
than be an octopus.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
" Somebody has been sitting
in my chairW

said the great, huge bear, in his great,
rough, grutf voice.
And the little old woman had sauatted
down the soft cushion of the middle bear.
Somebody has been sit
ting in my chair =
said the middle BEAR in his middle voice.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
Somebody has been at my
porridge ~

said the great, huge pear, in his great,
rough, grlff voice Ind when the mid
die bear looked at hII he saw that the
spoon was standing ini too. They were
wooden spoons; if tlfy had been silver
ones, the naughty old woman would have
put them in her pocket.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
. Somebody has been at
my pOrridge 20

said the middle bear, in lis middle voice.
Then the little, small, wee bear looked
at his, and there was tie spoon in the
porridge-pot, but the porridge was all
gone.
Somebody has been at my porrig, and has eaten ii
GHup"
said the little, small, wee bear, in his lit
tie, small, wee voice.
Upon this the three bears. seeing that
some one had entered their house, and
eaten up the little, small, wee bears
breakfast, began to lock about them.
Now the little old woman had not put
the hard cushion straight when she rose
from the chair of the great huge bear.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
THE STORY OF THREE BEARS.
FOR LITTLE FOLKS,

iVI6 little FUIIhS,
3" A tale which may content the minds
OF learned men and grave philosophers
GAsCoYNE.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21
DeytArOuS SikhS.

Some remarkable feats of skill were
recently performed at Bhopal, in India,
by the Sikh Cavalry. A sheep was
suspended on sort of gibbet, and the
men were to ride past and cut at it.
Captain Butler, commandment of the
Central Indsa Horse, divided the sheep
at one single cut; but although nearly a
hundred cuts were made at another
carcass by the men at various times,
not one succeeded in severing it. Cap
tain Butler was destined to perform the
coup de grace which he did in fine
style, and, and the lower end of the car
cass dropped in one single cut with his
peculiarly shaped Sikh scimetar. After
this another very dexterous feat, which
is common to the Skins, was perform
ed. This consists in throwing circular
shaped steel quoits at anything. The
old Sikhs throw these quots with dead
ly aim, and have been known to de-
capitate scores Of their enemies at night
without making the slightest noise.
They generally throw with their left
hard, and the quot whirrs at an awful
speed with as straight and precise a
course as a bullet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21

a strange injustice toIthe real Mar
guerite Gautier-that, in fact, she,
forsaking her lover, never returned to
her old life of luxury and shame, but
true to her one love, hid herself away
and died III great want. -rarar
AS it stands, the play is simply de-
testible; it saddens and depresses to no
good purpose. It does not even prompt
us TO help unfortrnates like Camille,
for it leaves us in listless despair of any
amelioration of that nameless evil, that
CHASTITY mockery of life and love, which
has its roots so deep in the passion and
selfishness of man and in the weakness
and vanity of women-which is girt
about by the custom of ages, by social
prejudices and legal injustice. It is a
play that cheats us of our tears, with it's
unhealthy pathos and it's sham senti-
ment. Away with it!
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21

liar appearance At the first glance
they appear to be all cap. To return to
| the wedding.
When the bridal party had arrived at
the church, the principals retired to a
house near by and the rest of the party
stood about the church door, while a
deputation proceeded to h ouse not far
| off to ask the clergyman to perform the
ceremony. As he had travelled some
| twenty miles the day before for this ex-
press purpose he consented, and soon
entered the church. He wore a Ions
black gown and al EIizabethan ruff
about his neck. After the clergyman
the bridal party made their way into the
church in a rather confused manner, the
men taking their seats on the righa
hand side of the aisle and the women
and children on the left.
The clergyman having entered the
chancel-7-an octagonal space rallied off
at one end of the church and having at
the back q screen of oak, Ornamented
with several CANDY pictures-the cere-
mony began. First, the clerk sang a
very nasal solo, then there was an ex-
hortation lasting nearly an hour, then
the clergyman chanted, the clerk sang
another psalm, the clergyman joined
the hands OF the couple, placed his
right hand first on the head of the wo-
J. an, then on that Of the man, blessed
them, and they were man and wife.
The couple then rose from their knees,
and followed by the more liberal of
their kinsman, walked to the clerk s
desk on the left of the cbancal and
dropped few coins into the alms-chest.
They then walked entirely around the
chancel and behind the screen to their
original place in front of it. Then an
other prayer was made, the clergyman
first, then many of the spectators shook
hands with bride and groom, and then
all left the church. The marriage GER
emory lasted about three-quarters Of all
hour, and was rather a trying ordeal for
the many children present.
After leaving the church, the happy
pair retired to the house of a near rela-
tive who lived close by the church,
where they received the congratulations
of their friends. For three days bride
and groom are expected to receive all
corners, and to entertain them with
feasting and dancing. On the other
hand, each guest is expected TO bring
some small present, usually some food,
to be used in the wedding festivities.
At the conclu sion Of the wedding feast
the brides mother and the other
matrOns present strip her of her we'd
ding fnery. and substitute for it the
stately cap and dress Of q married wO-
man
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21

A fair correspondent Of the Boston
Globe who has interviewed Sunset
Cox, writes of the conversation as
follows: 81 meekly remarked, That
forefnger Of yours often does execu-
ton IN puncturlng your antagonist and
punctuatlng your sentences at the same
time = Did you ever notice how [ use
it?' Of course I had, but he illustra-
ted the gesture practically, and it is q
most unusual one, SO III describe 1t
here. When he rises to speak-his
desk is In the front row-he Jerks off his
eyeglasses, letting them swing by their
cord, steps back up the aisle, talkIr 6
all the time in most rapid fashion. He
throws back the skirt Of his coat on the
left side thrusts his left hand into his
pocket III the pet American style, mods
that remarkable head in emphatic bobs,
looks as if funny thought now origin
ated IN his brains, and then out goes
the right hand. Sometimes the index
finger is sharply pointed forward and
downward IN successive movements,
that made one think of the pecks a
young chicken administers to its foe,
then the arm rests minute by bis
side, then he holds the hand easily IN
an upward posture, arranging the
fingers almost exactly as a skillful boy
does when he poises his ALLEY for tel
ling shot in ring taw.' Watch the
next group of youngsters that you see
at that historic game, only fancy the
boy intends to project the marble up
wards instead Of forward, and you have
Sunset Cox's pet and peculiar ges-
ture.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21
Buying American Goods Abroad.

One sometimes meets with American
goods unexpectedly abroad. A friend
last year purchased at shop in Paris
one OF the little, gold-plated and rubber
telescope pencils, snch as are made and
sold in great number on this side Of the
Atlantic, for which he paid fifteen
francs, A few days afterwards, when in
London, he noticed the same article in
q shop window, and being so we'll
pleased with his first purchase he en-
tered the premises and bought a dupli-
cate, price 10 shillings ''This is less
than they asked me for the same thing
III Paris, said our buyer. eyes" an
swered our dealer, always ready to make
a point against his Partisan competitors;
we always sell lower in London
than in Paris" Our friend was en-
his way home, and when he got down
to Liverpool espied the identical object
OF his fancy again in a Liverpool win
dow. Let us go III and ask the price
OF those pencils here" he said to his
lady companion. They did so, and were
told, to his establishment, that the price
was eight shillings, and he was again
tempted to purchase one as a present
for friend. 3 [ thought these pencils
were made in Paris" said our friend,
. bat find the further [ go the cheaper
they are. / paid fifteen francs il Paris,
ten shilllngs IN London, and now you
sell me one for eight shillings. J"
p" Well, said the dealer, when you get
to America you'll find them cheaper
still, for they were made over there. :"
And SO it proved, for they can be
bought III Boston or New York for about
Sl5 a dozen.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21
The Follower.
b b. II. STODDARD.


We have yorngster incur house.
A little man of ten.
!. Who dearest to his mother is 81.
Of all Gods little men.
Indoors and out he clings to her;
He follows up and down;
He steals his slender hand in hers
He plucks her by the gown
:.Why do you cling to me so, child:
You track me everywhere;
You never let me be alone"
And he. with serious air,
Answered. as closer still he drew.
any feet were made to follow you
Two years before the boy was born
Another child, of seven,
Whom Heaven has lent to us a while.
Went back again to heaven. 500
He came to fill his brothers place,
And bless our failing years;
The good God sent him down III love
To dry ouruseless tears.
/ think so, mother, for hear
In what the child has said
meaning that he knows not of, Is
A message from the dead.
He answered wiser than he knew,
!" NY feet were made to follow you.
Come here, my child, and sit with me,
Your head upon my breast;
You are the last Of all my sons,
And you must be the best.
How much I love YOU. YOU NAV guess. =
When, grown a man like me,
You sit as I am sitting now,
Your child upon your knee.
Think of me then. and what / said
(And practiced when I could),
"'Tis something to be wise and great,
Tis better to be good"
Oh, say to all things good and true,
My feet were made to follow you -
Come here, my wife, and sit by nae,
And place your hand in mine,
(And yours, my child: while have you
tbs wicked to repine.
We've had our share Of sorrows, love;
We've had our graves to fill;
But thank the good God overhead.
We have each other still !
We've nothing in the world besides,
For we are only three:
Mother and child, my wife and child.
How dear you are to me!
know, indeed, l always knew,
Ny feet were made to follow you,
Harpers Magazine
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21

A MAN who was sentenced to be hung
was visited by his wife, who said, "My
dear, would you like the children to see
you executed?" "No," replied he
s'That's just like YOU said she 'syou
never wanted the children to have any
enjoyment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-04-21

THERE are many who talk on from ig-
norance rather than from knowledge,
and who find the former an inexhaust-
ible fund of conversation