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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
L. II. GitESI;,

Dealer III all kinds of Cadinct ware,
wopdunL cane SCAT chairs, iiltcbun and
eNtcution tables, wood lnd marble TOP
stands, wood ond marble TOP bureaus,
what not', l00hing glasses, wood and
marble top chumher suits, mattresses,
spring bel bottoms, hcd .,tcads, cribs,
Laicrty'a metal lined wood pumps,
&c. DE. Cane seats rCplaccu Wi,h
perforated wood seat, Weed sewing
machine reduced from %J) to So. the
best machine in tie market, Und pic
large assorted stock Of ready made
collins constantly um hand atlH trim
med at shortest notice. All til" above
goods are sold at pailic prices. Ware
Rooms in masonic building, RidgWay
Pa. vJn4Gtpdapr-777
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31

THERE seems to be a little row in
the camp of the Elk county Democ-
racy. The cloud is now about the size
ofa meeting house, and no telling how
much larger it may become.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
Lodge Meetings.

Elk Lodge, No. $40, A. Y. NJ, meets
the second and fourth Tuesdays of
each month in Masonic Hall.
Elk Chapter, No. 290, r. A. NJ,
meets the third Tuesday of each month
in Masonic Hall.
Knapp Commandery, No. 40, X. T.
meets the fourth Thursday of each
month in Masonic Hall.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
Glk Aarurate,
AUGUST a1S'E., 1876.
Rates Of Advertising,

Transient advertisements per square of
eight lines, one insertion 81, two inser-
tions, $l.50, three insertions, So.
Business cards, ten lines or less, per
year So,
Advertisements payable quarterly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31

TOBUT ORK.-We are now prepared
eb w to do all kinds of JOB WORK,
Envelopes. Tags. Bill heads, Letter heads
neatly and eheaply executed. Office in
Thayer s. Hagerty's new building, MaiE
street Ridgway, PA.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
ATTENTION REPUBLICANS.

The Republicans of Elk County, Pa. are re-
quested to meet at their respective election
Districts at the place of holding the last gem
eral election on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 1875.
at Z o'clock p NJ for the purpose of choosing
delegates to attend the County Convention,
for the purpose of nominating county officers,
and all business that may be deemed necces-
sary, TO be held at the HAYES Il Wheeler Club
Room, over the Post Office, at Ridgway Pa.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 1876.
at 10 o'clock A. NJ. -
j. Ii. HAGERTY, Chairman.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
UFD.E NOGSE,
RiDGwAy, Elk CO., z

RiDGwAY, Elk Co., Pa
W II. SCuRAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore
80 literally bestowed upon him, the new
proprietor, hopes, ky paying STRICT a.,
tentiou to the comfort and convenience Of
guests, to merit Il continuance OF the
same.
oct go 1869.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
RAILROADS
Pennsylvania NAlL ROAD
Pbiladelph a x F";e K. R p,y's,ou
SUMN TINE TABLE

& m auda.ter ENDAI. JU-Y ,. l5.G
~ The iva us IN The Philade;phra
Erie Ra iroad wit run as follows
WESTWARD
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
C. G. MESSEN
{. =. XLR THY v. 2
j. $. BORU ULLL, ~ D.,

Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, has rcmov-
ed his ouice from Centre street, TO Mail ST.
nidgway. Pa, il Ihe second story OF the
new brick building Of John q. Hall, oppo-
site llyde's store,
UAiec hours:-.l to , p NJ ! to 8 ? VI
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
CHARLES HOLES.

Matchmaker, Engraver and Jeweler
Main street, Ridgway, Pa. Agent for the
Howe Sewing Machine, and Morton Gold
Pen. Repairing Watches, etc, dore with
he same accuracy as heretofore. Salts.
faction guaranteed. ylnly
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31
Digest of Election LAWS.
WHO CAN VOTE.

Polls open at A. NJ. and close at 7.
L. NJ.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-31

This is ex-postmaster General
JeWell's estimate Of the Republicans
candidate: knowing him personally
myself, / feet authorized in assuring
you that he is Il modest, unassuming
man, a. courageous as Il lion and firing
as a rock in maintaining right and dis
charging duty. Wherever has been
the post of duty there has been found
Governor Hayes, always ready to do
his part and always taking u lead for
the right. And That is the kind of u
man we want for President, who
would sooner be scalped than to leave
his post of duty, OF fail of doing his
full duty while at his post"
The Democratic managers, at Wash
ingtOn have become alarmed at the
enthusiasm with which the nomina-
tiOns Of Hayes and Wheeler have been
received by the eX-soldiers of the
Union army, and have endeavOred to
cOunteract the movement by the for
nation OF q Soldiers Veteran AssOcia-
ton, with General Hooker as presi-
dent and General Denver as chairman
Of the Executive Committee This
committee is engaged in preparing an
address in which they viii try to show
how much the Democrats care and
have done for Union soldiers, and also
try to entice into their organization
those credulOu5 ones who favor I'LL
denis election,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
THE MELON sCGIR ENrEBPBIsE.

We mentioned last spring the incep-
ton of a melon sugar enterprise on the
Sacramento river. It seems, from a cor
respondent Of the Sonoma Democrat,
that the work goes bravely on. The 10
cation is at IsIcton, six or eight miles
above Rio Vista. The company have in
corporated under the name of the Cali
fornia Sugar Manufacturing company,
with a capital stock of $4,000 600. They
have sold fifty thousand shares, and are
putting up a building one hundred and
twenty by forty-eight feet, besides the
engine and boiler-rooms, which are about
forty by forty feet. The first story is Of
brick. The machinery was purchased in
Germany for $4,000. The foundation
of the building is already laid, and the
work will be pushed tn a speedy compile
ton. 1t is the design of the company
to make some three grades Of sugar out
of the pulp of the melon, alcohol out of
the refuse syrup and parts Of the rind,
and table oil out of the seeds. The mel
ons will yield about ten per cent. Of sugar
and the seeds twenty-five per cent. of
oil. IsIeton, as the name would indi-
cate, is built upon an island. It is known
as Andres Island. 1t is composed of
slnd rescued from tie tuIeS, is rich, as
such lands usually are, and is well
adapted to tAe culture Of melons. Beets
grow to great perfection here, and it is
the design of the company to add about
$4,000 worth of machinery, which will
enable them 10 manufacture beet sugar.
Mr. Josiah Poo,e, to whom we are in
debted for the information here given,
and who is deeply interested in the en-
terprise, showed us a field of eight acres,
from which d good crop of hay had been
harvested, that now was growing beets
that would yield from thirty to forty
tons to the acre.-P1rifc R,1rH Press,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
WISCONSIN RFLTCS OF THE HOUND
BUTLDERS,

Last week a party Of scientific ex-
pIorers made some very interesting dis
coveries in the neighborbood of Milton,
Wisconsin. There are a number of
mounds, which recent archaeological in
yestigation has referred to that mystori-
Gus race which inhabited the central por-
ton Of North America long before the
present aborigjnes obtained foothold
here. Selecting the largest of these
mounds the explorers dug a trench from
its outer edge to the center, thirty feet
long, five feet wide, and at the center at
tanning a depth of ten feet. About a
foot from the bottom, at the deepest part
Of the excavation, Layer of ashes and
decayed wood was laid bare. \ few
inches below this was q hard deposit re.
sembIing mortar, and beneath were found
the remains OF four adults and two
children. That they belonged to the race
Of mounG-builders is inferred from the
fact that there had previously been ex-
humed, only eighteen inches below the
surface, a complete Indian skeleton.
The other, and vastly more important
relics, were eight and a half feet lower
down. The,frst of these, the skeleton of
a man. lay with the head to the west in a
reclining position. st the knees, near
each hand, were two ornaments, COM
posed of the teeth of some wild animal,
about four inches long, and having holes
bored through for the string which at
tached them to the wrists. Close by was
the skull, but so badly decayed as to pre-
vent removal A little to the south of
the skull were four flint arrow-heads, as
clearly cut as if the work had been done
by the best modern machinery. Lying
around and under the shoulders were
twenty beads, manufactured from
small shell, and perforated so as to be
worn az a necklace. Evidently this was
the skeleton of some famous parsonage,
for among the bones Of FIVE others no or
naments whatever were found. The
chiefs companions were arranged about
him to the west, northwest and east. In
the jaw-bOne Of one was partly devel-
Oped wisdom tooth, and most OF the jaw
bones and teeth were in good preserVa-
tiOn.-.N. Louis Republican,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
TRIPLES FOR TIE LADIES.

Ostrich feathers, short and well curled
are worn in clusters.
There is a disposition shown to tie all
scarfs at the back,
Felt bonnets will be selected to match
costumes forsaconi- best occasions,
London ladies' dresses are called
Bulgarian, because they are atrocious
Lacing, heretofore simulated, will be
one of the features Of the winter dresses.
Winter petticoats Of dark cotors, with
gold metallic threads interviewer, are now
seen.
Very young childreu's bonnets are
made of black velvet, trimmed with mus
lin embroidery.
White roses, with dark, glossy foliage,
are largely taking the place of the con-
ven.ional orange blossoms.
While the new dresses sll fit the figure
closely, there is not the same amount Of
tying back as in the summer.
Bonnets defy description with their
unique shapes, oddly-trimmed crowns,
and brims clinging Close to the head.
That's the only wedding trip shall
probably ever take, said an old bachelor,
as he stumbled over brides train.
The bonnet is usually Of the darkest
shade, with facings and trimmings of the
highest tint, though this order is some
times reversed.
Red as a rose is She" applies now-a-
days, to every woman on the street-that
is, every woman who goes in for dress
Cincinnati Times.
The princess Polonaise, with the
breadths entire FROM neck to foot, and
the large single pockets are As much in
vogue for wedding as ordinary toilets.
The habit OF wearing a mass Of false
hair is gradually passing away, the little
that is worn is 50 arranged a. to give the
impression Of a natural growth only.
Dropping flowers, as fuchsias, are Sc
lected to form the fringe to floral dresses
which admits of ribbons only As add
tional trimmings, jewels not being per
missable.
1t is perhaps true, as the belief goes
in Boston, that women do more reading
than men, bnt it is also true that men
do more listening than women-Andrsocs'
BdzGr.
Young ladies should not be deceived
by this moderated weather into leaving
off their belt buckles. There is a damp
ness in the air which should b. guarded
against,
Ball dresses composed entirely Of
flowers are the latest novelty. A light
foundation of ribbon or gauze furnishes
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

An English hutter-maker of large eX-
perience, who is now on visit to the
United States for the purpose Of looking
over the cheese and butter diaries, gives
us the following information concerning
a method in practice among the butter
makers in England, for rendering butter
arm and solid during the hot weather.
Carbonate of soda and alum are used for
the purpose, made into powder. For
twenty pounds of butter one teasPoontul
of carbonate of soda and one teaspOOnfuI
Ofpowdered alum are mingled tOgetherat
the time of churning, and put into the
cream. The effect of this powder is to
make the butter come firm and solid,
and give it a clean, sweet flavor. 1t
does not enter into the butter, but its
ACTION is upon the cream, and it passes
of with the buttermilk. The ingredients
of the powder should not be mingled to-
gether until required to be used, or at
the time the cream is in the churn ready
for churning,-LeIi"gton Gazette.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

1t is worth while to know what to do
if a fish bone or q portion of food sticks
in the throat, for, unless there is prompt
action, life may be Ios1. A smart blow
between the shoulders will frequently
dlslodge the substance. If any attempt
to swallow can be made, large piece of
butter put into the mouth will help the
offending substance to pass down the
throat more easily. If no attempt can
be made to swallow, put the finger down
the throat as far as possible, ard en-
deavor to pull cut the bone or meat, or
tickle the throat to produce immediate
vomiting.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

Of MS place. Mr.. Terry was graduated
in the class of 1869 at Yale college.
These are the words Of ADneOf Austria
to Cardinal Richelieu: "My Lord
Cardinal, there is one fact which you
seem to have entirely forgotten. God is
a sure Paymaster. He may not pay at
the end Of the week, month or year, but
| charge you, remember, that he pays
in the end"
In the diocese Of Connecticut, during
the episcopate Of Bishop, Williams, one
hundred and twenty FIVE churches and
chapels have been built and restored !;
q, 258 persons have been confirmed; two
hundred and twenty four candidates TOR
holy orders have been ordained deacons,
and one hundred and seventy deacon have
been ordained presbyters. There are
now in the diocese one hundred and
ninety two cIergymen and 1853 COM
municants.
A meeting Of Mohammedans was held
at Calcutta recently to tender the sym
Pathy of the Mohammedan population of
India to the Turkish empire endeay oring
with energy to maintain its integrity
and independence. Also to thank the
empress OF India and the English people
for the moral support given,to Turkey.
The California Chinese mission of the
Congregationalists has maintained,for the
year past thirteen schools, in which
1,536 Chinese scholars have been enrolled.
In three years one hundred and thirty
Chinese have under instructions received
through the mission, become christians.
Last years receipts were $500, and the
expenditures $j,887.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
USLFCL RECIPE, .
To Cook Tomnh MINT.

All kinds of poultry and meat can be
cooked quicker by adding to the water
in which they are boiled little vinegar
or piece of a lemon. BY the use of an
acid there will be considerable saving of
fuel as we'll as shortening of time. Its
action is beneficial on old, tough meats,
rendering them quite tender and easy to
be digested. Tainted meats and fowls
will lose their bad taste and odor if
cooked in this way, and if not used too
freely, no taste oft will be acquired.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
NOW THE EYE BECOMES PER
FECTED.

Science gives us interesting details
about what the human eye has been and
what it may become. The Vedas of
India, which are the most ancient writ
ten documents, attest that in times the
most remote, but still recorded in history,
only two colors were known, black and
red. A very long time elapsed before
the eye arrived at the perception of the
color yellow, and a still loager time be-
fore green was distinguished; and it is
remarkable that in the most ancient
languages the terms which designated
yellow insensibly passed to the signifca-
ton of green. The Greeks had, accord
ing to the received opinion now, the pre-
ception of celors very well developed =;
and yet authors Of 3 more recent date as
sure us that in the time of Alexander,
Greek painters had for fundamental
colors only white, black, red and yellow.
The words to designate blue and violet
were wanting to the Greeks in the most
ancient times Of their history; they
called these colsrs grey and black. 1t is
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

thus that the cDIors Of the rainbow were
only distinguished gradually, and the
great Aristotle only knew four of them.
It IS a wcil-known fact that when the
colors of the prism are photographed
there remains outside the limit of the
blue and violet in the spectrum a dis
tant impression, which our eyes do not
recognize as a color. According to
psychologists, a time viz come when the
human eye will be perfected 20 as to dis
Germ this color as well as the others
-UedicaL Press and Cire'Har.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

the background, which Is hid from VII "
with Covers of one kind, or q mix. ure
Of every variety, according TO the taste
Of the Eearer.
\ festive bridal party at Mares, Hi
nois, a few days ago terminated in a sad
and tragic way. 4 hanging kerosene
lamp was knocked down, falling on and
breaking over the bride, burning her,
and probably the groom fatally, and sew
eral Of the guests severely.
\ recently married may says that if
there were ten thousand drawers in a
room, and you asked your wife to keep
one sacred and invioIate for your own
private use, that particular one would
be full Of hair-pirs, ribbons, loose hair,
discarded buttons, CATERS and old hose.
NJ, Worth is said to be Adapting the
cut and fashion of dress to the mate
rial composing it. He associates the Re
Nuisance and Maria Stuart style with
brocades, recalls the Louis XVI. style
for striped fabrics, and for thick plain
fouIarde or ribbed materials, copies the
dresses of the revolution. The vatican
is applied to lowered satins and velvets
and no embroideries.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
Good Paste.
soft COrns.

A lady of very decided taste desires us
to tell our readers of durable paste for
scrap books, which she makes after the
following fashion: Take little corn starch
and dissolve it in cold water, then pour
on boiling water, and let it cook until
of the right consistency. When it
cools spread on with BRUSH. I think
whoever uses it will be satisfied.
1t should be used within a day or
two, as it will spoil by souring if kept
too long.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

If onions are sliced and kept in sick
room they will absorb all the atmos-
pheric poison. They should be changed
every hour. In the room of 4 smallpox
patient they blister and decompose very
rapidly, but will prevent the spread Of
the disease. Their application has also
proved efectuaI in the case Of snake
hitng
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

THE WEARY YoUEG MAE.-He al
ways carries a very slender walking cane,
wears a stylish Derby hat, and sits in the
club window with a weary air, as though
the world had no charms left for him.
He assumes an owlish wisdom. and con-
siders that he's the idol of the ladies.
The poor boy doesn't mean any harm.
but unfortunately has taken a sort of
strabismiral view of life, and he can t see
himself in a glass. An idea in his head
would rattle like musket ball in a basa
drum.-Nelc Orleans BlalIctia.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21

A good set of dishes will last for ages,
if properly handled. We have heard of
an excellent housekeeper whose bridal
dishes, thirty years old, are in excellent
condition to-day, although they have
been in use every week, more or less,
during all the time alluded to. In a
common dinner service it is a great evil
10 make the plates too hot, as it inyaria-
bly, cracks the glaze on the surface, if not
the plate itself. We all know the result.
1t comes apart. Nobody broke it. 9" 1t
was cracked before or cracked a long
time ago" The fact is, when the glaze
is injured, every time the "things" are
washed the water gets to the interior,
sweIIs the pourous clay, and makes the
whole fabric rotten. In this condition
they will also absorb grease, and when
exposed to further heat the grease makes
the dishes brown and discolored. If an
old, iIl-used dish be made very hot in
deed, a teaspoonful OF fat will be
seen to exud. from the minute assures
upon its surface.-PrGjrje Farmer.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
To Test Fans.

As it is desirable in packing eggs for
winter use to put up none utgood ones,
try mine by rolling up pamphlet or
an almanac just large enough to slip an
egg in at one end. Look through this
toward the light, and if the egg is fresh
it will look perfectly clear; if stale, it
looks dark. This is an excellent test
almost untaiIing-Farmer's Wiz.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-21
To Prercmt ChGfng.

Use Iotionofalum in water, applied
with a rag before retiring. A piece of
alum as large as a hazlenut, dissolved in
a half pint of water, is sufficient. twill
quickly heal excoriated skin and
harden the unabraded cuticIe. The
use of this for years with the most bene-
fetal results, is sufficient authority for
trial 1t is good also Tor tender feet and
soft cOrns.